hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. we start in greece with the latest on the wildfires. there is a new evacuation order, this time for a seaside area to the east of athens. helicopters are back up in the air after being grounded overnight for safety reasons. that is as they try to tackle the hundreds of fires with trucks and hundreds of fires with trucks and hundreds of fires with trucks and hundreds of firefighters. european countries are sending help. firefighters, trucks and planes. so far, we know that one person has been killed in these fires. with all of the latest, here isjoe inwood. sometimes, faced with flames reaching up to 25m high, all you can do is stand and watch. but thousands have fled the wildfires that have now reached the outskirts of athens.

others, like 64—year—old anna, have decided to try and stay and protect their properties. translation: early in the morning, we were constantly receiving - messages telling us to evacuate. we were terrified. we thought the fire would go elsewhere, but suddenly it came to our homes. we panicked and evacuated then, but now we've returned to save whatever we can. greece has just experienced its hottestjune and july on record, with strong winds helping the flames spread. translation: the feeling was scary to see everything — translation: the feeling was scary to see everything go _ translation: the feeling was scary to see everything go up _ translation: the feeling was scary to see everything go up in _ translation: the feeling was scary to see everything go up in smoke - translation: the feeling was scary| to see everything go up in smoke and to see everything go up in smoke and to see everything go up in smoke and to see the final pass through and not be able to do anything. the authorities have been trying to beat them back, with around 700 firefighters, 120 vehicles and large numbers of soldiers all involved, aided by local people doing what they can to

protect their homes. 30 different communities have been messaged by the authorities telling them to leave, even though help is said to be on its way. translation: in response to our country's request for assistance, l france has sent a helicopter. italy is sending two aircraft, and the czech republic is sending 75 firefighters and 25 vehicles, including nine water tankers. and while it is greece currently suffering, extreme temperatures are an increasing problem for all of europe. a study published in nature medicine found the continent suffered 50,000 excess deaths last year linked to heat waves caused by man—made climate change. with at least one person already killed by these fires and reports of others being taken to hospital with breathing problems, the price being paid could get higher still. joe inwood, bbc news.

let's speak to kostis grimanis, climate and energy campaigner at greenpeace greece. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for coming on the programme-— thank you for coming on the rouramme. ., ~ i. ., ., programme. thank you for having me. what, in programme. thank you for having me. what. in your— programme. thank you for having me. what, in your opinion, _ programme. thank you for having me. what, in your opinion, are _ what, in your opinion, are conditions here in greece that have led to these wildfires?— led to these wildfires? before i make a comment _ led to these wildfires? before i make a comment on _ led to these wildfires? before i make a comment on that, - led to these wildfires? before i l make a comment on that, please led to these wildfires? before i - make a comment on that, please allow me to say that our thoughts are with our firefighters and volunteers and inhabitants that have been trying to deal with this horrific situation over the past few days. look, we know, we have the experience of last year where overi million acres of land were burnt leading to tens of deaths of civilians, so it is the grim reality that we have to face every year with extended heat waves,

prolonged droughts and the situation in the north and east of attica is horrific due to the strong winds that we have.— horrific due to the strong winds that we have. , ., ., ., , ., that we have. given that, how do you be . in to that we have. given that, how do you begin to try — that we have. given that, how do you begin to try and _ that we have. given that, how do you begin to try and combat _ that we have. given that, how do you begin to try and combat this? - that we have. given that, how do you begin to try and combat this? the - begin to try and combat this? the roblem begin to try and combat this? the problem is _ begin to try and combat this? tie: problem is that begin to try and combat this? tte: problem is that greece, begin to try and combat this? "tte: problem is that greece, as begin to try and combat this? tte: problem is that greece, as a country, is basically investing too much on suppressing the fires when they erupt, and basically, in our estimation, we are not doing too much as far as prevention goes on during the winter months. 50. much as far as prevention goes on during the winter months. so, what would that prevention _ during the winter months. so, what would that prevention look- during the winter months. so, what would that prevention look like - during the winter months. so, what would that prevention look like and| would that prevention look like and be? ., ., ., be? that would entail funding the firefiahters be? that would entail funding the firefighters units, _ be? that would entail funding the firefighters units, the _ be? that would entail funding the firefighters units, the forestry - firefighters units, the forestry agency with personnel, to engage in activities of clearing the dry biomass from tourists, opening up roads to the fire brigade can reach

them on time. and of course, basically all of the necessary actions needed before the fire season starts. let me point out that, as a country, greece is at the forefront of the climate crisis. we have one of the highest costs per capita linked to the impact of the climate crisis in europe, which means that we cannot be on both sides of history, meaning that we cannot be at the forefront of fighting the impact of the climate crisis and at the same time investing too much funds on fossil fuels. greece is basically maintaining a narrative on fossil gas development and on oil and gas drilling in its territorial seas, so on the one hand, we have increased temperatures ravaging every year our

livelihoods, and our lives, and on the other hand, we still invest in fossil fuels which we know are the main cause of the climate crisis. thank you very much for coming on the programme. thank you very much for coming on the programme-— here in the uk, the families of three people killed by a mentally ill man in nottingham say the services responsible for his care in the lead—up to the attacks �*have blood on their hands'. a report released today by the care quality commission says key details about the risk posed by valdo calocane were "minimised or omitted". injanuary, he was sentenced to a hospital order after prosecutors accepted a manslaughter plea on the basis of diminished responsibilty. our social affairs editor, alison holt, has this report. injune last year, valdo calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, went on a rampage through the streets of nottingham. it led to the fatal stabbings of 19—year—old students grace o'malley—kumar

and barnaby webber and of 65—year—old caretaker ian coates. three others were also seriously injured. cctv picked up calocane walking for hours before the attacks. today's report describes him as having been acutely unwell for the previous few years, but says mental health assessments missed key details and minimise the risks he posed to himself and others. the cqc says the risk assessments, whichever ones were conducted — and there were some conducted — were hopeless and inadequate. they were not conducted properly. that's the first point. the second point is just because you cannot get hold of a patient, you don't discharge them — that is utterly irresponsible. this was a person with escalating violent behaviour, non—adherence to his medication and lack of engagement with his health care. so, these are all risk factors for homicide. his risk as a danger for public safety should have been taken more

seriously and these aspects were completely ignored. the care quality commission says that over the two years calocane was in the care of nottinghamshire mental health services, there were difficulties getting him to take his medication. his aggression was increasing when he was unwell. in the community, he missed appointments, and when he was discharged back to his gp in september 2022, the risks weren't considered properly. while it is not possible to say that the devastating events of last year would not have taken place had valdo calocane received that support, what is clear is that the risk he presented to the public was not managed well and that opportunities to mitigate that risk were missed by the team. the report also says more should have been done to include valdo calocane's mother and brother in his care. they told bbc panorama they tried to raise concerns with mental health teams. later, calocane said he didn't want information shared with them. we're his family.

we're trying to help as best we can, but we're sort of like cut off after a point, and we're not told pretty much anything. nottinghamshire healthcare foundation trust says it accepts the report and that it's doing everything in its power to understand and learn from the missed opportunities. the families of barnaby webber, grace o'malley—kumar and ian coates say they want to see more accountability at the senior levels of organisations, as well as changes to systems and laws to try to prevent future tragedies. alison holt, bbc news. in the united states, an online conversation between the world's richest man, elon musk, and arguably the world's most talked about, donald trump, has taken place. 1.3 million people tuned in to mr musk�*s site x to listen to the discussion, which lasted more than two hours. it was delayed because of major technical problems,

the conversation touched on immigration, global politics and much more. the former president also said he had plans to return to pennsylvania, where he was the target of an assassination attempt last month. we're going back to butler, and even the people that put it up, they were unprepared, and they did a greatjob. they got it up immediately, fortunately. but i looked to the right, and the bullet came whizzing by, hitting my ear. it's very much, i say, an act of god. it is a miracle that it happened. following the conversation, there was much discussion on social media about donald trump's voice. including from kamala harris's campaign, which made reference to it, saying trump was slurring as he discussed climate change. when asked about it, a trump campaign spokesperson

said, "must be your hearing". let's speak to our senior technology reporter chris vallance, who is in edinburgh. there was a lot of pre—publicity about this conversation taking place on x, took us through what that means having a conversation on x and what went wrong? this means having a conversation on x and what went wrong?— what went wrong? this was streamed on x, and what went wrong? this was streamed on x. and audio _ what went wrong? this was streamed on x, and audio broadcast, _ what went wrong? this was streamed on x, and audio broadcast, a - on x, and audio broadcast, a streaming audio feature of the programme. that is how it is meant to work. what most people found when they tried to connect to the audio, they tried to connect to the audio, they were just unable to do so. that was my experience. the few that managed to get through got hold music which sounded like techno. the conversation didn't get going for a0 minutes or so. musk apologised for the delay. it was a kind of embarrassing thing to happen for x and musk, not only is he the boss of

the platform but was publicly testing the scaling of it before it all started. it is also deja vu all over again, all started. it is also deja vu all overagain, if all started. it is also deja vu all over again, if you like, for musk, because about one year ago, he hosted a similar conversation or attempted to with ron desantis, and again it was at that point when he was trying to be the republican nominee for president, and that had similar problems and was mocked by the trump campaign indeed. there are two explanations, if you like, for what happened, musk�*s theory is that this was a cyber attack, a distributed denial of service attack, which is essentially where hackers try to flood a service with so many requests that itjust falls over and nothing works. the other a school of thought is that musk has cut numbers of staff on x and the infrastructure of twitter, many people remember, was away is a bit

flaky and are simply the volume of interest caused the system to fall over. it has to be said an awful lot of services get millions of users, high—volume requests and managed to deal with it. so you can understand why musk would be keen to say that this was a cyber attack, that there is a lot of disagreement about whether or not that account is right. whether or not that account is ritht. ., ,. ., whether or not that account is ritht. ., , ' whether or not that account is riuht. ., , , ., ,, right. fascinating stuff thank you so much for _ right. fascinating stuff thank you so much for that. _ around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

let's turn to the growing tensions in the middle east now, and the uk prime minister, sir keir starmer, has urged iran to refrain from attacking israel. his comments, in a phone call with the new iranian president, are part of a wider diplomatic push to prevent any escalation of the violence in the region.

the white house has warned that iran could launch what it describes as a �*significant attack�* on israel as soon as this week. it's rushing an aircraft carrier strike group and a guided missile submarine to the region in a show of support for israel. iran and the group it backs in lebanon, hezbollah, have both vowed to avenge last month's killings of the hamas political leader, ismail haniyeh, and a top hezbollah commander. as the military and diplomatic pressure increases, the top us diplomat, antony blinken, is scheduled to travel to the middle east on tuesday. our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega, is in beirut. talk us through this phone call and what we know about it with uk prime minister keir starmer. it what we know about it with uk prime minister keir starmer.— minister keir starmer. it was a rare -hone minister keir starmer. it was a rare hone call minister keir starmer. it was a rare phone call between _ minister keir starmer. it was a rare phone call between the _ minister keir starmer. it was a rare phone call between the uk - phone call between the uk prime minister and phone call between the uk prime ministerand an iranian phone call between the uk prime minister and an iranian president. the last time a phone call between the two leaders happened was in 2021, so it shows the seriousness of the situation. the british prime

minister saying that there was a risk of miscalculation and that now was the time for careful consideration. there has been a response from iran this morning, the iranian state news agency reported that the iranian president masoud pezeshkian told the prime minister that iran sees a response to the assassination that happened in iran assassination that happened in iran as the solution to stopping crime and aggression, and he also said that the support of some western countries for israel is irresponsible. some strong words there from the iranian president in a phone call that happened yesterday with the british prime minister. again, part of this huge coordinated diplomatic effort from western countries to try to de—escalate tensions with iran, iran has promised to retaliate following the killing of ismail haniyeh, the hamas

political leader in tehran, two weeks ago. both iran and hamas blame israel for this assassination. as you said, there are concerns here in 11 on that hezbollah, the powerful militia backed by iran, could also be planning a widescale attack on israel. in response to the assassination of a senior hezbollah commander here in beirut. real concerns that an escalation of hostilities could lead to a wider regional conflict. the americans again are saying that they will do everything to protect israel and are sending more military assets to the region. and the hope here is that a ceasefire in gaza could help de—escalate tensions here. talks are expected to happen on thursday, but i think there is very little hope that any major progress can be reached. that any ma'or progress can be reached. ., ., ~ , ., that any ma'or progress can be reached. ., . ~' , ., , reached. 0k, hugo, thank you very much for that. _

reached. 0k, hugo, thank you very much for that. you _ reached. 0k, hugo, thank you very much for that. you go _ reached. 0k, hugo, thank you very much for that. you go mentioning l reached. 0k, hugo, thank you very i much for that. you go mentioning the war in gaza that there are. we will get an update on the situation in khan younis. let's get an update on the situation in khan younis from medecins sans frontieres project coordinator, jacob granger. thank you for coming on the programme. wejust thank you for coming on the programme. we just touched thank you for coming on the programme. wejust touched on thank you for coming on the programme. we just touched on the wider geopolitics in the region, but we want to get a sense of what is happening on the ground. what are the conditions, for example, in khan younis? _, ., , . younis? the conditions in khan younis? the conditions in khan younis are _ younis? the conditions in khan younis are quite _ younis? the conditions in khan younis are quite bad, - younis? the conditions in khan younis are quite bad, needlessj younis? the conditions in khan i younis are quite bad, needless to say. forseveralweeks, younis are quite bad, needless to say. for several weeks, there have been more and more evacuation orders that have been issued by the israeli forces, and it is a little bit restraining the space of the humanitarian zone. a zone that is supposed to be safe. so despite the status of humanitarian zones, we

observe that there are air strikes within the zone, the second, some evacuation orders shrinking the zone. fin evacuation orders shrinking the zone. , ~' evacuation orders shrinking the zone. , ~ ., ., zone. on the shrinking of that the zone, zone. on the shrinking of that the zone. what _ zone. on the shrinking of that the zone, what about _ zone. on the shrinking of that the zone, what about getting - zone. on the shrinking of that the zone, what about getting aid - zone. on the shrinking of that the zone, what about getting aid and| zone, what about getting aid and supplies into those areas? for the aid, it supplies into those areas? for the aid. it depends — supplies into those areas? for the aid, it depends on _ supplies into those areas? for the aid, it depends on the _ supplies into those areas? for the aid, it depends on the supply, - supplies into those areas? for the aid, it depends on the supply, sol supplies into those areas? for the i aid, it depends on the supply, so we have a shortage of some of the items. quite complicated to get in for many reasons, the reason of the security situation within the gaza strip. then for the aid, we are trying to develop some coping strategies. for example, for the dressings, we are going to reduce the number of dressing. instead of doing two every four days, we are going to do only one change of dressing every four days, this is

just an example. bud dressing every four days, this is just an example.— dressing every four days, this is just an example. and that clearly uts our just an example. and that clearly puts your staff. _ just an example. and that clearly puts your staff, aid _ just an example. and that clearly puts your staff, aid workers, - just an example. and that clearly i puts your staff, aid workers, under immense pressure and obviously compromises the care of that people can receive. what about, as far as you know, in the rest of gaza? is it similar challenges, basically having to be sparing with the supplies that you have got?— you have got? yes, it is more or less the same _ you have got? yes, it is more or less the same in _ you have got? yes, it is more or less the same in the _ you have got? yes, it is more or less the same in the whole of. you have got? yes, it is more or i less the same in the whole of gaza. what is really important to understand is that everyone is affected by this. our staff, as the rest of the population, meaning that when there are these evacuation orders, there was one in the eastern part of khan younis, this 8th of august, and another one to three days after the 10th of august, the two evacuation orders had as consequence that a lot of people had

to go west, had to be displaced. so in estimation from un agency would be around 70,000 on the eighth and another may be 50,000 two days after. which is a lot in this area which is already densely populated, quite small, and it has effects both on the sanitary situation in the gaza strip but also on the health of the population here.— the population here. thank you so much for coming _ the population here. thank you so much for coming on _ the population here. thank you so much for coming on the _ the population here. thank you so i much for coming on the programme the population here. thank you so - much for coming on the programme and talking us through that, explaining the circumstances under which you are operating there in khan younis and across gaza. thank you. you are welcome. the washington post says the fbi is investigating the alleged theft by iran of data from the two rival us presidential campaigns. according to the newspaper, staff on both the trump and biden—harris campaigns received phishing emails injune. the messages were aimed

at giving the sender access to the recipient's communications. investigators found no evidence that the attempts were successful. in a separate incident, the trump campaign said it had been hacked and that its vetting records for donald trump's running mate, senatorjd vance, were leaked to reporters. without naming iran, the white house press secretary, warned that there would be consequences if any entity interfered with the november presidential elections. we've said many times that this administration strongly condemns any foreign government or entity who attempts to interfere in our electoral process or seeks to undermine confidence in our democratic institution. and so we take this type of reports of such activity extremely seriously. we will head to is now. it's been quite a discovery on mars, as scientists say they've identified liquid water on the planet,

deep in its rocky outer crust. the findings come from a new analysis of data from a nasa probe, that touched down back in 2018. victoria gill has that story. the red planet, for years, scientists have searched the secret of its watery past. its surface is marked by channels from ancient rivers, but it is now a desert. this latest study has finally found the planet's missing liquid water, buried deep in the martian rock. to locate it, nasa had to send a very sensitive piece of robotic equipment. sensitive piece of robotic equipment-— sensitive piece of robotic equipment. sensitive piece of robotic ea-uiment. y ., equipment. lift off of the united atlantis five _ equipment. lift off of the united atlantis five rocket. _ equipment. lift off of the united atlantis five rocket. that - equipment. lift off of the united atlantis five rocket. that is - equipment. lift off of the united atlantis five rocket. that is what j atlantis five rocket. that is what the did atlantis five rocket. that is what they did back— atlantis five rocket. that is what they did back in _ atlantis five rocket. that is what they did back in 2018. _ atlantis five rocket. that is what l they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed- _ they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when _ they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when i— they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when i was _ they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when i was at - they did back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when i was at nasa'sl confirmed. when i was at nasa's laboratory _ confirmed. when i was at nasa's laboratory as _ confirmed. when i was at nasa's laboratory as the _ confirmed. when i was at nasa's laboratory as the team - confirmed. when i was at nasa'sl laboratory as the team celebrated the touchdown of the probe. it was in its data back here to mission control at nasa in california. it carried a seismometer, a device which picks up vibrations from inside the planet. mars quakes.

during its four years of quietly listening, insight provided scientists with a record of seismic activity, and that has painted a picture of the structure internally of mars. the probe recorded more than 1300 quakes, and researchers have now studied that record in detail, analysing exactly how mars moves. the vibrations reveal what the planet is made of, and they showed that deep in the rock and marshy crust, there are deep reservoirs of water. we marshy crust, there are deep reservoirs of water.— reservoirs of water. we have identified — reservoirs of water. we have identified areas _ reservoirs of water. we have identified areas of— reservoirs of water. we have identified areas of liquid - reservoirs of water. we have i identified areas of liquid water. water is the most important molecule shaping the evolution of a planet and its climate, and we have identified how much of that is present and where it is sitting. this martian groundwater is between ten and 20 kilometres beneath the surface. it will be difficult to reach, but it could guide scientists to another promising target in the ongoing search for signs of life on mars. for now though, this has uncovered a secret about the history of the red planet that has been buried for billions of years.

victoria gill, bbc news. that is just about it from me. i will be back with the headlines in a couple of minutes. plenty more on the website and the bbc news app. for the moment, i'm lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc news. hello again. yesterday was the warmest day of this year so far. the temperature reached 3a.8 celsius in cambridge, but as we go through the rest of the week, it is going to turn that bit cooler. there will be rain at times. it will be unseasonably windy at times as well, but there will still be a fair bit of sunshine around. now today, we've got this weather front bringing in some rain, and if we follow where it wraps around across the northwest, here we'll see a return to sunshine and showers later, but unseasonably windy across the northwest with gales across the outer hebrides and the isle of skye today. our weather front continuing to drift eastwards through the day.

ahead of it across central and eastern parts of england, staying dry with some sunshine. and, in fact, temperatures in norfolk and suffolk could get up to 30 degrees. but fresher conditions in the north and the west. through this evening and overnight, our weather front continues to drift eastwards as a weakening feature. not getting into the far southeast, where it could well be preceded by some showers, but some clear skies and the winds easing. in sheltered parts of the northwest, temperatures could fall away to 5 or 6 degrees, but still quite warm in the south at 15 or 16. tomorrow, then, we start off with the cloud. some spots of rain initially, that will tend to fizzle, but as we move west through south west england, wales, the midlands, northern england, scotland and northern ireland, lots of dry weather, a fair bit of sunshine but the winds strengthening later on in the day out towards the west with more cloud building. temperatures — 15 to about 2a. then as we move from wednesday into thursday, well, we've got this next clutch of fronts connected to this area of low

pressure coming our way. and if you look at the isobars, it is going to be quite unseasonably windy across england and wales ahead of this weather front. so after a dry start, the cloud will build as the rain continues to push southwards across scotland and northern ireland into northern england and also wales. brighter skies follow on behind and temperatures 15 to about 26 degrees. then, as we head on into friday, we've got the remnants of that weather front to clear away from the southeast and the english channel, channel islands. what you'll find is behind it will become drier and brighter, but also some showers being driven in on a blustery wind across the north west. here we've got highs of 1a degrees, but in the southeast we're looking at about 2a.

this is bbc news. the headlines: firefighters and soldiers battle the flames in greece — which have reached the outskirts of the capital, athens. ukraine's military says its troops now control a thousand square kilometres of russian territory. treasures from the deep — the bbc gets access to a trove of titanic artefacts recovered from the ship. hello, welcome to the programme. i'm lewis vaughan jones. ukraine's air force says air raid sirens have been activated

across the country following reports of russian air strikes. the military said it had shot down 30 russian drones and two missiles in overnight attacks in several parts of ukraine. energy infrastructure was targeted. meanwhile, president zelensky has said ukraine's latest offensive in russia is aimed at forcing president putin to make peace. over the past week, ukrainian troops have crossed about 30 kilometres into the neighbouring kursk region of western russia. thousands of people have been evacuated from russian towns and cities as the ukrainian troops advance. ukrainian troops, highlighted in yellow, are reportedly as deep as 32 kilometers inside russia. ukraine's plan seems to be to draw russian forces away from the front line in ukraine, shown here in red, where moscow has been making slow but steady gains. president putin vowed to kick ukraine out of russia. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. a music video from the russian military, allegedly showing it