this is a nation that just experienced its hottestjuly on record. a body's been found we also have this very, very by firefighters battling wildfires in greece which are threatening dry fuels, which contribute northern athens. to the rapid spread of the fire and also they increase the chance of having a spot fire, generating away and quickly hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. expanding wildfire. welcome to the programme. us secretary of state antony blinken overall, i would say that it's is scheduled to travel to the middle east on tuesday — another very difficult day, and the situation right now his ninth to the region since the october 7 attacks. in terms of the fire spread and the fire behaviour his visit comes as president is extremely difficult from the point of view of controlling it. people are continuing to be biden joined four european evacuated from their homes. these scenes were filmed north of the capital as officers tried to bring leaders in urging iran residents to safety. medics are urging people to be cautious, especially the elderly, pregnant women, young children to de—escalate tensions — and those with respiratory or heart problems. high winds have fuelled these flames, and there's no relief forecast from amid fears tehran could soon the searing heat over the coming days. launch a retaliatory strike on israel. the joint statement warned of "serious consequences" thick clouds have been hanging for regional security if there were to be an attack. british prime minister sir keir over the ancient acropolis, starmer spoke on the phone to iran's new president a city under siege. masoud pezeshkian — jessica parker, asking him to refrain from attacking israel,

saying the war was not bbc news, in athens. in anyone's interest. it comes as white house national security spokesperson john kirby warned that iran around the world and across the uk. or its proxies could launch this is bbc news. a �*significant�* attack as early as this week. in preparation, the us has let's look at some other beefed up its regionalforces stories making news. over the past few days. sending a guided missile two 12—old—boys are submarine to the middle east the youngest to be convicted on sunday to support for their role in the recent israel as it braces for a potential attack. riots across parts of the uk. they cannot be named because of their age. one was caught on cctv throwing an object at police in southport and the other admitted to two charges of violent disorder here's the state department's principal deputy spokesman in manchester. vedant patel — addressing the planned ceasefire talks. a doctor who treated valdo calocane — who fatally the prime minister of israel stabbed three people in nottingham — warned three immediately welcomed this years before the attacks initiation and confirmed the israeli team will be there and that his mental illness was so severe he could "end will be prepared to finalise the details of implementing the up killing someone." deal. we are also in calocane's mother and brother have told bbc panorama that this was one co—ordination, we believe our of a series of missed partners in egypt and qatar are opportunities over three years that could have prevented the killings. emphasising to hamas that the onusis emphasising to hamas that the onus is on them to agree to a street artist banksy unveiled ceasefire. we believe that there has been headway made but new mural in southeast london — we need to finalise this showing a rhino mounting agreement, continue to close a nissan micra with a traffic cone on its bonnet. and bridge some gaps but we the piece which was confirmed believe that an agreement is on banksy�*s instagram account, marks his eighth mural

possible and this is something that we will continue to work in the past eight days. between the parties. our middle east correspondent, it comes a day after he painted wyre davies sent this swimming piranhas onto update in jerusalem. there have been increasingly a city of london credible intelligence reports police sentry box in western governments and in the region which was first spotted and perhaps an increasing expectation here that sooner rather than later iran will on sunday morning. follow through with its vow to respond against israel, either directly or indirectly you're live with bbc news. through hezbollah, for those attacks believed to have been carried ukraine's military says it now out by israel in iran controls 1,000 square and in southern lebanon against seniorfigures kilometres of russian in hamas and hezbollah. territory. if the claim is accurate, this would represent a greater surface area than major cities, like berlin or singapore. ukrainian troops, highlighted in yellow, have reportedly advanced as deep as 20 miles, or 32 kilometres inside russia. kyiv�*s incursion seems to be, at least in part, drawing russian forces away from the frontline in ukraine, shown here in red. the us has continued to show how and when those iranian its support for ukraine. responses will take place senators richard we simply don't know blumenthal and lindsey graham but the israeli government were in kyiv on monday meeting says its military is prepared for an attack. president zelensky. all of this comes against senator graham, a republican increasing international pressure for iran to pull back from the brink. and staunch backer of ukraine, the americans have increased their naval presence in the region. there's been a co—ordinated said the white house should

effort from the governments lift restrictions on strikes of france, britain and germany deep into russia. persuading iran not to go through with an attack. in his nightly address, in the last few hours, mr zelensky has said "russia the british prime minister, brought war to others, and now, keir starmer, has spoken to the new iranian president, it's coming back home." again emphasising that level of international concern and saying that any iranian attack mightjeopardise translation: it is entirely peace talks that are meant justified to destroy russian | to take place later this week terrorists wherever they are, indirectly between hamas and israel. but it's looking increasingly wherever they launch perhaps uncertain — that those talks their attacks from. russian military airfields, russian logistics, we see the benefits this can bring in bringing peace closer. might not even take place. russia needs to be forced into peace especially if putin is so set on fighting. it's very difficult to second guess what the new hamas leader, yahya sinwar, and the israeli prime minister, the russian defence ministry benjamin netanyahu, is releasing selective want to get from those talks footage trying to convince and whether either man is prepared to make the russian public that the necessary sacrifices to achieve a ceasefire and secure the release of those hostages the situation is under control, still being held even as more than 100,000 evacuations take place from kursk. on monday, the army showcased armoured by hamas in gaza. vehicles being loaded onto a truck, purportedly heading to the kursk region. president putin has for more i've been speaking accused kyiv of "committing to ambassadorjamesjeffrey, crimes" against russian people and promised to respond. diplomat and chair of the wilson center's middle east our russia editor steve programme. rosenberg reports. we're hearing allowed a lot more diplomacy, a music video from the russian

we've heard from the us military, allegedly showing and four other european nations urging iran to it targeting ukrainian troops de—escalate tensions. is that going to make who'd crossed the border. dramatic music. it's presented a difference? like a blockbuster. in reality, this is a huge problem for russia. first of all, it's something the governor of russia's kursk you have to do in any region put it in figures. near military crisis to warn everybody he told vladimir putin that and make sure that all ukrainian soldiers had seized of the channels are open, 28 settlements in his region. and of course the new iranian president has been, the kremlin leader cut him off. "leave the numbers to from all reports, trying to urge caution so he's the military," he said. the right person to talk to, but whether or not iran translation: the main task is with our ministry _ will listen to these of defence, and that is to force the enemy calls or not, that's from our territory. still an open question. there iranians are likely to do something whether it will be the major our adversary will, of course, receive a fitting response. escalation that will require and, without doubt, an israeli and possible american retaliation, that's still on the cards. all our objectives will be met. we're hearing from the white house that that significant as ukrainian troops attack, as they've described, have moved in, could come as early residents have moved out. as this week. would the intelligence channels be able to suggest how soon it might come? because there's been

a lot of speculation now officials say that more for a number of days. than 120,000 people have been evacuated in kursk region, particularly hezbollah in lebanon, is very good at moving quickly and they and thousands more actually are the greater threat in the neighbouring to israel because they have such a large number region of belgorod. of missile systems, they can overpower simply by numbers there are fears of a ukrainian the israeli defences. incursion there too. what is happening is huge. for the first time in more than 80 years, foreign troops are fighting on russian soil. iran has long—range missiles and yet the country's but as we saw before, leadership describes this as a provocation, there are usually defeated a terrorist attack. and intercepted but if both act the kremlin still avoids using the word war, at the same time there as if to tell the people will be some signals setting up launches and that kind of thing there's no need to panic. but it will only be a few hours. on the streets so what's your sense of moscow, no shock — about how soon it might come? just resignation about my sense that something will happen in the next few days. ukraine's offensive. i believe that iran and even hezbollah will in the end blink "i'm not surprised," olga says. partially because president biden has sent such a massive "it's a border area military force into the region and this war has and he's made it clear, been going on for some time." particularly sending offensive systems such as f—22 fighter—bombers. they don't shoot things down, what we all want is peace, they blow things up, that there is going to be a massive retaliation if iran and, like, the quickest strikes seriously into israel. let's move on to the resolution of this conflict. situation in gaza. we understand there might be new rounds of talks

although there is some complications over that. in the meantime, these volunteers are trying to do something. in moscow, they've organised a collection of food and clothes for the evacuees. hamas wants to the existing deal that was presented by there are people joe biden earlier in the year. who lost their homes. they need shelter, israel wants to change they need food, they need supplies. some of the terms. what hope, if any, do you have for some sort of agreements to come to fruition? it was their country that invaded ukraine. russians are now having to deal with unforeseen consequences. steve rosenberg, it's all linked, as this whole conflict since 7 october has been linked, throughout the region. bbc news, moscow. hamas has been cornered by israeli military actions and the fact that their hopes that the international let's turn to some other important news community might slow israel around the world. down hasn't borne fruit. they've also hoped that the leader of a kenyan hezbollah and iran cult is on trial for manslaughter after allegedly encouraging more than 400 would threaten israel. followers to starve to death effectively israel isn't being threatened. so hamas is facing in one of the world's worst cult—related tragedies. self—proclaimed pastor paul nthenge mackenzie pleaded not guilty in a court a decision point. in mombasa on monday. the prosecution says several whether hamas negotiators will participate on thursday hundred witnesses will testify. or not, is open. they may wait to see what iran and hezbollah does. the venezuelan government says

but we're entering an endgame, that 25 people have died i think, in gaza. in protests since the contested hamas needs some kind presidential elections of ceasefire, the israelis were held two weeks ago. want a ceasefire. president nicolas maduro shared the information during a cabinet meeting discussing the crisis. mr maduro has accused the opposition of organizing the protests. there's now agreement finally between the it comes as many countries us and israel as far in the region — including as we can see on the terms — the us have rejected the official results, it's a question whether hamas saying there is widespread will take them or not. and of course hamas evidence of election fraud. now has a new leader following the killing of ismail haniyeh — yahya sinwar. could we be closer to does that change the equation much? finding life on mars? no, he was always the guy calling the shots, both scientists say they've identified liquid water in negotiations and more on the planet, deep importantly the fighting in it's rocky outer crust. on the ground in gaza. the findings come from he's been the real leader a new analysis of data from a nasa probe, that of hamas for some time, u nfortu nately. touched down back in 2018. and just briefly we know that victoria gill, has that story. antony blinken is due to return to the region. we've seen him back and forward for months now. what it do you think is the purpose of this the red planet. particular visit. it's what secretaries for years, scientists of state do. the main american move have searched for the secrets in the middle east isn't of its watery past. its surface is marked tony blinken, it's sending two aircraft carriers and a nuclear submarine to reinforce by channels what we already have there. ambassadorjeffrey there. from ancient rivers, but it's now a desert. this latest study has finally found more than 1.3 million people the planet's missing liquid water, tuned into an online chat — buried deep between the world's richest man in the martian rock. to locate it, nasa had to send elon musk, and the world's most a very sensitive piece of robotic equipment. talked about donald trump —

on musk�*s social platform x, formerly known as twitter. lift—off of the united launch the rambling discussion alliance atlas v rocket. which lasted more than and that's what they two hours was less of an interrogation, more of a sympathetic conversation between the billionaire did back in 2018... and the former president. touchdown confirmed. cheering and applause. ..when i was at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory the discussion marked as the team celebrated the successful landing mr trump's return to the social of the mars insight probe. media platform, formerly known it will be sending its data as twitter, after he was kicked off in january 2021, back here, to mission control days after the storming at nasa in california. of the capitol. it carried a seismometer — a device that picked up vibrations from in the interview, mr trump inside the planet — spoke on a wide range marsquakes. during its four years of topics — covering immigration, the upcoming of quietly listening, election and his take insight, provided scientists with a record on foreign affairs. of seismic activity, israel would have never been attacked, zero chance. and again i said to vladimir putin — and that has painted a picture i said "don't do it, you can't do it, vladimir." "you do it, it's gonna be a bad day." "you cannot do it." of the internal structure of mars. the probe recorded more than 1,300 quakes, and the researchers have now and i told him things that studied that record in detail, what i do and he said analysing exactly how mars moves. "no way" and i said "way". the vibrations reveal and you know, it was what the planet is made of, and they showed that deep the last time we ever in the rocky martian crust, there are reservoirs of water. had the conversation. he would never have done it.

we've identified places on mars where there are large amounts i get along well with him. of liquid water. i hope to get along well with him again. you know, getting along well with them is a good thing not a bad thing. you know, water is the most i got along well important molecule in shaping the evolution of a planet with kimjong—un! and its climate. and we've identified how donald trump speaking there. much of it is present and where it's sitting. mr musk has endorsed trump this martian groundwater for president and has been is between 10 and 20km involved in fundraising efforts beneath the surface. for the republican presidential it'll be difficult to reach, nominee. for more, i've been speaking to our us national digital but it could guide scientists reporter mike wendling. i began by asking him to another promising target in the ongoing search for signs of life on mars. about those tech issues. for now, though, this has uncovered a secret about the history of the red planet that has been buried for billions of years. so, elon musk says that basically twitter victoria gill, bbc news. came under attack. stay with us here on bbc news. ddos attack is an attack hello there. when a large amount it's been a very dramatic start to the week, of traffic is sent to a website what with the thunder in order to shut it down and lightning and the heat and humidity, so that nobody can and it was hottest access that website. we don't have any verification across east anglia, the south east and lincolnshire. of that that is what he says temperatures widely over 30 degrees. happened. but it was in cambridge similar gremlins delayed the start of where we set the highest his conversation with ron desantis last year. temperature of the year so far. this is unlikely to be an interrogation given how much elon musk those temperatures are ebbing away. is a supporter of donald trump we'll be turning cooler

and he has come out through the rest of the week, and endorsed him and while there'll be some sunshine at times, there'll also be in this election some spells of rain. these are the temperatures campaign as well. early in the morning, let's talk about the still quite warm platform x across southeastern areas, but elsewhere a more comfortable 10 or 11 degrees. in a bit more detail. and there is cloud and rain coming into western areas by the morning, and this rain will push first of all, of course, very slowly eastwards. you may remember, it was back moving away from northern ireland, in january 2021 that we'll get some sunshine. donald trump was kicked off the site when it was formerly known as twitter. that was after the storming of the capitol. he's now been allowed back on today. just remind us a bit we'll see the rain pushing about the controversy eastwards across scotland, around all of that. moving further into yeah, to sort of give northern england, wales you the timeline, after and the southwest. but across the midlands, elon musk bought twitter, lincolnshire, east anglia and the southeast, it's dry. as it was then called, a little bit hazy he unbanned donald trump — — with the sunshine perhaps, the previous owners of twitter especially in the afternoon, had deleted— sorry, not deleted but very warm once again. but banned his account temperatures 27 or 28 degrees. after the capitol riots not as hot or as humid injanuary 2021, as you say. as it was on monday. he has not used this but there is cooler air coming into the northwest. it follows that weather front that's bringing the cloud and rain. site very much. that meanders down towards the southeast. it brings a very different look to the weather across the east midlands,

he put one tweet lincolnshire, east anglia on around the time of and the southeast of england on wednesday. one of his court cases. much more cloud around, today he returned in a bit of rain and drizzle a little bit more earnest. he posted several campaign at times, although it videos throughout the course does become drier later. of the day, pretty basic but it's across the rest campaign advertisements. of the uk that we've got what we don't know is if he the fine weather this time, will continue using the site and it should be in the future. and of course, during his a fair bit of sunshine too. administration and during his not that warm, very first presidential perhaps making 20 degrees run this was the place at best in scotland and northern ireland. where he loved to a little bit warmer communicate directly across england and wales. with the public. but it is turning cooler because we're seeing atlantic air coming our way, and that's going to bring with it some rain. the next weather system arriving overnight and moving down into the uk on thursday. some stronger winds he put all sorts of with that rain messages on there and in scotland and northern ireland. it's moving more was really sort of like to go slowly southwards now, so it's going to be later to account to know what was in the day that we get some going through the mind sunshine in the northwest. of donald trump right then and there. may well stay dry he has another social media through the midlands, account on his own east anglia and the southeast, truth social site. and actually quite warm here, and there are some legal temperatures 26 degrees or so. and business, technical reasons why he may not be but it is cooling down a touch using x instead of that site for scotland and northern ireland. that rain does eventually move in the future but it southwards overnight. is really sort of it may take hard to tell whether this a little while to clear coming together of mask away from southeastern and trump means most parts of england on friday, he will start to but otherwise following that, use his twitter we've got some sunshine, account once again. i remember covering 2016, a day blustery wind in the northwest will blow in some more showers into parts of scotland,

where temperatures are still only 17 didn't pass when we didn't see or 18 degrees, further south, 23 or 24. a statement from donald trump and often they made the news. let's talk a little bit about x as well. since elon musk has taken over the side it has been wrought with more controversy, more accusations it's become a platform for misinformation and false is. we have seen elon musk post lot himself recently and get involved in a lot of politics including the other side of the pond, in the uk. he was in a spat with the british prime minister keir starmer over the british legal system and the root causes of those violent riots. he has gone on a political transformation in the last few years and the way people have explained it to me is that he is, for whatever reason, clung on to what you might call the anti—woke activism train. that has caused some sort of — an interesting meeting of the minds, you might say, because it broadly aligns with some of donald trump's policies.

it leads to a lot of, i suppose, you know, more conservative policies that elon musk has advocated for. it's useful to remember now that musk and trump were not very good friends. in fact trump called him a liarjust two years ago. he used a much more profane term actually to call him a liar. since then, obviously they have been very warm and this conversation between them is kind of the culmination of a slow and steady dance that ended up shortly after the assassination voice-over: this is bbc news. attempt last month. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight

0k. elon musk endorsing trump. mike wendling there. after this programme. thousands of residents have been evacuated from their homes in greece as wildfires raging north of the athens approach the city itself — welcome to hardtalk. burning less than nine i'm stephen sackur. kilometres from the centre. some great writers one person is believed to have died. this satellite image shows thrive on distance. wind blowing smoke from distance from the people, the wildfires over the city. some residents have reported place and culture difficulty breathing. into which they were born. authorities say half the country will be in a others stay rooted "red zone" of dangerous weather and observe from within. my guest today is an acclaimed novelist of the latter type. anne enright has lived conditions in the coming days. in and around dublin, part of a close—knit family, for almost all of her life. she is undoubtedly one of ireland's greatest living writers, but to what extent has a drop in strong winds has offered hope to firefighters her country shaped her fiction? battling the flames. greece has appealed to the eu for help. several countries immediately responded including spain, italy, turkey, canada, france and the czech republic. in total, more than 700 firefighters, as well as waterbombing planes and helicopters, have been sent to battle the fires. 0ur correspondentjessica parker is in athens and sent this report. through the dense smoke, they battle a blaze that's reached the outskirts of athens.

a path burned from the north and east, towards the greek capital. homes, businesses, even hospitals have been evacuated. translation: it hurts. we've grown up in the forest. we feel great anne enright, sadness and anger. welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. well, it's great to have you here. now, to an outsider, the fight against the expanding you do seem like a deeply rooted writer. blaze comes from the sky and from residents on the ground. people who've had to flee tell of their terror. translation: the flames - surrounded me, i couldn't see. i hit a pine tree and this happened. greece is no stranger to wildfires, but scientists warn things are getting worse 00:15:40,975 --> 4294966103:13:29,429 because of climate change.