release a photo taken just before she took part in a taylor swift dance club — on the day of her funeral. a fire has broken out at a nuclear power plant in southern ukraine — kyiv and moscow have blamed each other for the incident. amid ongoing warnings of a wider escalation in the middle east, there's mounting concern about an increasingly unstable situation in the west bank. let'sjoin my colleague maryam moshiri for all the latest on the olympics. mariam machinery how do you top speaking to flavor flav. in 2028 the olympics move over to los

angeles at the stade de angeles france in the city's north, athletes, volunteers, leaders and fans are gathered to mark the end of these games. and it is — as it was so promised — a celebration too, of france, french culture — and olympic history. we started at the olympic flame in the jardin de tuilleries, to the tune of an edith piaf classic, �*sous le ciel de paris�*. we saw french swimming superstar leon marchand take a portion of that flame and start its journey to the stade de france once there, we welcomed in the athletes — who's hard work, dedication and pursuit of victory has entertained us all. for them, tonight, the work is done — it's time to party! but there was one last medal to be awarded — that of the women's marathon, which was run this morning. and then — the stade

is plunged into darkness. we see the golden voyager, a figure clad in head to toe gold, go through what we're told is a exploration of the history of these olympic games. an hommage to the founders of these games. and through music and dance — and some acrobatics, the olympic rings are unearthed, and raised to the sky, to a huge applause. it really was such an amazing ceremony, organised by the people who organised the opening ceremony. a called team gb's athletes an inspiration to us all ahead of the olympics�* closing ceremony. let's take a listen to that video.

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of my most memorable assignments. and of all the olympics that i did, for a lot of reasons, this might be my most favourite. abby, you've had fun? it's been amazing. i was assigned primarily to covering gymnastics, so i was covering simone biles for a majority of the time here. and, abby, it's interesting you mentioned simone biles there because i want to talk to you about this photo that you've taken of the three gymnasts on the podium, including jordan chiles in bronze place. that medal has since been stripped from her. what an iconic photograph. tell me about that moment. yeah, being there in that moment, it gave me goose bumps. i mean, honestly, i got a little bit emotional seeing that happened because i could in the moment kind of see jordan signalling to simone. i wasn't really sure what she was signalling her about, but i saw that they were kind of planning something.

so when i saw them bowing down to rebecca, it wasjust incredible. i mean, it really made me emotional. and it's just what the olympics is all about. with athletes from all over the world coming together and supporting each other. and it was beautiful and honour to see in person. david, let's take a look at one of your photos. this is an absolutely beautiful scene in a french cafe bistro. itjust encapsulates, doesn't it, what paris has become? if you walk around the city, this is what it looks like. and it has that feel, doesn't it? gives me chills. you know, myjob at the olympics is a roamer. and to be a roamer, you sort of... you float around like a butterfly and you're not assigned to any particular sport. they use you maybe one day here if they need an extra person, or they tell you to go out and just sort of capture the pulse of the city, give people a sense of place. and those are very special days when you're sort of left to yourself alone and you can just go out and capture... you didn'tjust go out, did you, david? you jumped in the water. you were in the seine. yeah. there was a photo you've taken here of the seine, but you actually went in the seine as well. what was that like? idid, yeah. and that was very challenging.

i've done three olympics now where i've photographed in the water one of the open water swim events. but this was very unusual because it was the current that was the issue, and it was just a very fast moving river. so i wasn't worried so much about the health, bacteria people were talking about. it was more that i was worried i was going to float down the river and end up in the field of play. were you ok afterwards? any tummy troubles? no, i've been fine. that's great. yeah. so as all the athletes have been pretty much. right. yeah, yeah. and, abby, let's take a look at another photo of yours. and this one is of the romanian gymnast sabrina monica voinea. i wanted to ask you, how difficult is it to capture moments like this during a gymnastics event? because they are... you just don't know what they're going to do. yeah, right. it's something that i love covering gymnastics is how the photos canjust have such a big, a different range from what you're seeing in the images. so like with this photo, ijust, i like being able to show off how flexible this gymnast is and just how incredible the moves are that we see. and i like tojust try to make photos that just look different than more thanjust the basic kind

of gymnastics photos of someone doing stretching on the beam. but i like to really create images that show off how incredible these athletes are. gorgeous. you can't see part of her. itjust kind of looks quite mysterious. yeah. and david, there's another photo of yours, which i absolutely love, and that is of the iconic balloon. the cauldron, the flame cauldron. the colour of that sky. i've seen a few sunsets like that in paris over the last three weeks. how was that for you? you've got the lamp in front of it. it's just beautiful. yeah, that was also a very special moment because i hadn't planned on covering the cauldron. that was the first night after the opening ceremonies, and i photographed the lighting of the cauldron the night before. and this, i'd just happened to stumble upon hundreds of people gathering at the tuileries garden, waiting to see this thing go up. and there was this real moment of community and anticipation. and i love the guyjust standing, clinging to the lamp post, trying to get a view of it before it goes up. and when it did go up, there was this collective like, "ah", moment. i wish i could see that. i wish i could go and watch that. yeah, it was very special. it was a really, really special moment to be part of. now, you told me earlier,

you've done five olympics, you've done three. how does paris compare in terms of organising sports? everything. you know, the whole feel of it. how does it compare to the ones you've done before? abby, if i can ask you first. it's been really special, seeing the amount of unity between the athletes. so specifically, like with that photo of mine with simone, andrea and jordan just seeing everyone coming together, especially after the last two olympics having been impacted by covid—19, i think it's been really special to see all the fans come together too and to really add to the atmosphere and to reallyjust make this a special one. fantastic. for me, this is a very special olympics. i mean, it's an iconic city. it was beautiful. everywhere you looked was a postcard. i think they did a terrific job of organising it. i was a little bit worried that there was no media transportation, but that forced me to rent a bike for a month. and basically i spent a month biking around the city, taking pictures. was it one of those electric bikes? no it wasn't. i wanted to get some exercise. so you're super fit now, then? i hope so, but we'll see. now, we've been enjoying the olympics here in paris — and we've enjoyed sharing it

with you here on tv too. and through the power of social media, paris 2024 is finding a whole community online, too. content creators are sharing viral moments, powerful performances — and revealing the unique stories that we might not get to hear about. i've been speaking to coach jackie — with more than 500,000 followers on tiktok, she's one of the biggest names in this space and has been in paris for the games. she talked me through some of her most—watched videos of the olympics. ijust posted one recently about the beach volleyball match. between brazil and spain. there was a bit of a fight at the net in the middle of the match. the dj over the speaker played imagine byjohn lennon. and it was so funny. and everyone put hands in hearts and it was a really cool story.

there was a story about a bmx racer who won gold... her brother had a really bad crash and suffered a traumatic rain injury. she goes to the 2021 olympics and has a crash... and comes out in 2024 and does so well and wins every race and eventually the gold. and there is another one who did well, an american, who was only set to do the indoor track cycling at this olympics and then at the last minute one of the road cyclists dropped out... she only started cycling seven years ago, she was in the middle of the pack in the race and in the last few minutes she took the gold in a race she wasn't even supposed to be in.

those are moments that really make an olympics. what do you think it has been like in france? what how have the olympics been for you? it's really something to be in a place where people are all cheering for the same thing. i was watching where we were all cheering for our country and in the end it was a stadium of thousands of people cheering for one quy- those moments have been incredible. all the videos posted online. we

spoke to two other content creators. super fans arejess and harry. back in london now and i spoke to some a little earlier and asked them what their highlights had been. we went down to see _ their highlights had been. we went down to see the _ their highlights had been. we went down to see the sailing _ their highlights had been. we went down to see the sailing and - their highlights had been. we went down to see the sailing and the - down to see the sailing and the women's football. we saw the semifinal of the men's football. we were came up to paris and we saw the swimming and the athletics. the whole journey has been an absolute blast hasn't it? we can't believe it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best _ it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best bit? _ it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best bit? i _ it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best bit? i would - it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best bit? i would say i it's the closing ceremony. what's been the best bit? i would say it| been the best bit? i would say it all the countries _ been the best bit? i would say it all the countries coming - been the best bit? i would say it| all the countries coming together been the best bit? i would say it - all the countries coming together to celebrate sport. all the countries coming together and sort of i can't get my words out. the whole thing has beenjust brilliant. what

thing has been 'ust brilliant. what are the thing has been 'ust brilliant. what the things — thing has been just brilliant. what are the things that _ thing has been just brilliant. what are the things that have _ thing has beenjust brilliant. what are the things that have done well on tick—tock? we are the things that have done well on tick-tack?— are the things that have done well on tick-tock? ~ , ., on tick-tock? we were in the stadium when leon marchand _ on tick-tock? we were in the stadium when leon marchand won _ on tick-tock? we were in the stadium when leon marchand won his - on tick-tock? we were in the stadium when leon marchand won his gold - when leon marchand won his gold because _ when leon marchand won his gold because they actually paused the athletics — because they actually paused the athletics because everyone was cheering — athletics because everyone was cheering leon marchand. that was amazing — cheering leon marchand. that was amazing. we went to the semifinal with morocco versus spain. and the moroccans— with morocco versus spain. and the moroccans welcomed us in like we were _ moroccans welcomed us in like we were one — moroccans welcomed us in like we were one of— moroccans welcomed us in like we were one of them. we went to see the swimming _ were one of them. we went to see the swimming so _ were one of them. we went to see the swimming so we actually saw leon marchand — swimming so we actually saw leon marchand swim. it hasjust been amazing _ marchand swim. it hasjust been amazing we — marchand swim. it has 'ust been amazinu. ~ , ., ., , ., ., amazing. we 'ust want to shout out to the

amazing. we just want to shout out to the volunteers _ amazing. we just want to shout out to the volunteers and _ amazing. we just want to shout out to the volunteers and the _ amazing. we just want to shout out to the volunteers and the police. i to the volunteers and the police. they was brilliant.— they was brilliant. you're so riuht. .. they was brilliant. you're so right... tell— they was brilliant. you're so right... tell us _ they was brilliant. you're so right... tell us about - they was brilliant. you're so right... tell us about the i they was brilliant. you're so i right... tell us about the closing ceremony... right... tell us about the closing ceremony- - -_ right... tell us about the closing ceremony... we've 'ust watch the athletes come i ceremony... we've just watch the athletes come out... _ ceremony... we've just watch the athletes come out... and - ceremony... we've just watch the athletes come out... and now- ceremony... we've just watch the j athletes come out... and now the lights have been dimmed and were going to go into something quite extraordinary. we've been looking out for my friend who i went to school with, he is in the closing ceremony, he is representing france. it'sjust ceremony, he is representing france. it's just mind blowing. ceremony, he is representing france. it'sjust mind blowing. i grew up in france and i am so cloud of the country i grew up in, that raised me. because they have really done this olympics so brilliantly and

really done itjustice. it's an honour to watch and to have been a part of. honour to watch and to have been a art of. , , , honour to watch and to have been a art of. . , , ., honour to watch and to have been a artof. ,, ., ., , honour to watch and to have been a art of. ,, ., ., , ., part of. jess and harry who were watchin: part of. jess and harry who were watching the _ part of. jess and harry who were watching the closing _ part of. jess and harry who were watching the closing ceremony l part of. jess and harry who were i watching the closing ceremony from london at the moment the head of the olympic committee is on stage giving a speech we also have on the stage six olympic medallists representing five continents and the refugee team. a very symbolic moment happening now as we've been saying, as the party in paris wraps up, we turn our attention now to the next summer olympics — we're going to hollywood, of course! official handover events are under way la 2028 — and rapper flavour flav is at one of those handover

events in los angeles. he told me how he feels about the games coming to la. i'm very excited, you know what i'm saying. i have a very, very amazing experience. i'm not quite sure are going to get the same experience when the games come to la. i'll be sponsoring the water polo team for the next five years. you guys are gonna be seeing me. that's fantastic who are gonna see flavor flav at the olympic games. that's it from me the closing ceremony is still closing. it was

supposed to close a while ago but these things are often delayed. president zelensky has tweeted that a fire has broken out on the site of the russian occupied zaporizhya nuclear power plant. he went on to say that radiation levels are normal and accused russia of using the facility to blackmail ukraine. meanwhile the plant's russian management have said the fire has no impact on the site's safety and blamed it on ukrainian shelling. amid ongoing warnings of a wider escalation in the middle east, there's mounting concern about an increasingly unstable situation in the west bank. 615 palestinians have been killed since the start of the war in gaza — according to the palestinian authority health ministry. many are armed fighters but others are civilians. in one recent incident, the focus fell on the killing of a young palestinian customs officer by an israeli undercover unit — an episode recorded on cctv.

the bbc�*s diplomatic correspondent paul adams has been to the west bank town of tubas, where it happened. a quiet morning in a west bank town. an anonymous white van pulls up next to a palestinian customs office. a guard, abdul nasser sahan emerges to see what is going on. an israeli soldier in plain clothes shoots him dead. soon, the streets are swarming with other soldiers. the following day, a makeshift memorial at the spot where abdul nasser fell. the guard posts and walls riddled with bullets. the israeli army says it came to tubas to arrest two wanted men. abdul nasser, it says, was killed and an exchange of fire, but that's not how this happened. it was just after six o'clock in the morning and abdul nasser and a colleague had just come on shift.

the white van drew up just across the wall. the driver got out, said hello in arabic. abdul nasser walked out to greet him. seconds later, he was shot. he fell right here. translation: this rings a warning bell, especially for us _ in the security services. how can we enforce law and order and offer services to the people and protect them while you are obstructing my work and killing my officers? the shooting in tubas is part of a much, much bigger problem. with all eyes focused on gaza, and that the war is raging in the west bank. the israeli military cracking on armed groups it says are being bankrolled by iran. from one city to another, one refugee camp to another, the brush fires are burning. more than 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank since last october. as many as 10,000 have been arrested. some fear this could erupt into a full—scale uprising. if it goes into an intifada,

this is much, much bigger problem. this is much more complicated problem to solve. militarily, we handle things. but when it goes into a civil rubble or intifada, it is a totally different story. and it might go there. and at a refugee camp on the edge of nablus, abdel nasser�*s family is grieving. drawing their own conclusions about the action of the israeli army. he coming to kill, just to kill. mohammad can barely comprehend the loss of his son. the idf saying it's still looking into what happened. it did not, we were told, go as planned. the funeral has been held for alice da silva aguiar, one of the three young girls killed in a knife attack at a dance class in southport. family and friends were among the hundreds who gathered to mourn the nine year old at st patrick's catholic church.

alice's parents paid their own moving tribute, describing her as their "perfect dream child". fiona trott watched the service. alice's father held her on his shoulder. but few fathers or mothers have the strength to speak on a day like this. you moved our world with your confidence and empathy. being around you was a privilege. we cherished every milestone. you completed us. you were taken away

from us too soon. and we often ask why? why here? why us? why you? we wonder if you ever thought of us. called for us. we wondered if you felt any pain. we hope not, my darling. little alice knew nothing about politics and division. how confronting it was acknowledged here today. you have shown great courage in asking me to be here today, to speak, to give a message from you, alice's family, to say that you do not want there to be any more violence on the streets of the united kingdom, in the name of your daughter. i am ashamed, and i'm so sorry that you had to even consider this in the planning of the funeral of your beautiful daughter, alice. this is the last photograph taken of alice the moment she went into the taylor swift dance class that day. but it's her love of dance, her outgoing personality that people are choosing to remember now.

hey guys. today is me. i got my makeup on to test my teacher. and now, guys. but thank you for watching all my videos. mr bowen was alyssa's favourite teacher. we are letting you go dancing now, alice. teach those angels a few dance moves. keep daydreaming, alice. it's a magical place to be in your own thoughts. let your beaming smile guide you, alice. and shine brightly on us all. who would have imagined the tragic event that brought them all together? alice's life was too short,

but it was celebrated here today. fiona trott, bbc news, southport. let's get some of the day's other news now. bangladesh's interim government says it has grave concerns about attacks on hindus and other minorities since the former prime minister, sheikh hasina, was ousted. hundreds of hindu demonstrators took to the streets on friday to protest against attacks on their properties and temples. the new cabinet — led by the nobel peace prize winner, muhammad yunus — said it would consult widely on how to prevent such violence. the number of people confirmed dead after the collapse of a huge rubbish dump in the ugandan capital kampala has risen to 12. fourteen others have been taken to hospital. rescuers are using excavators to search for survivors beneath mounds of waste, which engulfed homes on the edge of the site on friday following torrential rain. greek residents of a village north of athens have been forced to flee their homes, in the face of a wildfire which has rapidly taken hold, with flames as high as 25 metres.

parts of the greek capital have been left under a cloud of brown smoke. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. it's been a very warm day today for all of us, but tomorrow some parts of the country could get even hotter. and i'll show you where in a moment. it won't be for northern areas, because here tonight and tomorrow morning we've got the threat of heavy rain, thunder, lightning and even some large hail that could bring some disruption further south where it's going to be dry. well, this is where we've got the core of the heat and high humidity. and tomorrow afternoon in cambridgeshire, perhaps temperatures could reach 35 degrees. that'll easily be the hottest day of the year so far

through this evening. in the first part of the night, many places still dry with clear skies. few thundery showers are beginning to break out, running northwards, but the really wet weather, gusty winds, thunder and lightning sweeps into northern ireland later in the night and towards western scotland by tomorrow morning. eastern scotland a little bit cooler the rest of the uk. it's an uncomfortably warm and muggy night for sleeping, but we soon see the back of the rain from northern ireland. sunny skies follow. this heavy rain and thunderstorms pushes across scotland, perhaps northern england, to clear away during the afternoon, with some sunshine following on behind. further south, the threat of storms is much, much lower. there'll be a lot of sunshine around and this is where we've got the core of the heat and humidity. midlands parts of eastern england, temperatures in many places getting over 30 degrees further west and further north. things are going to be quite a bit cooler and it will feel fresher, particularly after all that wet weather sweeps through. now this sudden surge in the heat has come up from spain and from france. but all that heat is getting pushed

eastwards across europe this week, and even the whole of western europe will turn cooler over the coming few days as we get atlantic winds arriving as well. and those atlantic winds are steering in this weather system from the atlantic. that area of low pressure actually contains a little bit of what's left of tropical storm debbie. that brought all the rain in the eastern side of the us. we're going to see some lighter, more patchy rain coming into western areas on tuesday, the winds picking up a bit as well. but ahead of that rain the midlands and eastern england still dry, still sunny, not as hot or as humid as monday, but it is going to be a very warm day on tuesday. but after that noisy start to the week with all those thunderstorms and heavy rain and the heat and humidity, things get back to normal. the temperatures gradually slip away over the rest of the week, but it's still unsettled.

this is bbc news, the headlines. the closing ceremony of the paris olympics is under way in the stade de france, bringing to an end more than two weeks of sporting drama that have thrilled the host nation and audiences around the world. the family of nine—year—old alice da silva aguiar, one of three young girls killed in a knife attack in southport — release a photo taken just before she took part in a taylor swift dance club — on the day of her funeral.

the un's nuclear agency says there's been no reported impact on nuclear safety following multiple explosions at ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant — kyiv and moscow have blamed each other for the incident. in his first television interview since ending his re—election campaign, president biden says the need to defeat donald trump drove his decision to drop out. welcome. let's turn to the olympics with the closing ceremony is under way to mark the end of the games. i want to bring you a video now. the prince and princess of wales were among those to congratulate team gb on their performance at the olympics.