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. of the live pictures, you can see some of the damage done from this series of wildfires burning around the suburbs of athens. hundreds of firefighters trying to control them. european countries are sending help. firefighters, trucks and planes. so far, we know that one person has been killed in these fires. firefighters have been out battling these different outbreaks to the

north east of the capital since sunday. conditions are expected to remain dangerous over the next few days, but a drop in wins does offer some hope. joe inwood reports. 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 go up in smoke and to see the fire 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. kostis grimanis is a climate and energy campaigner at greenpeace greece. look, we know, we have the experience of last year where overi million acres of land were burnt leading to tens of deaths of our 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. given that, how do you begin to try and combat this? the 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 during the winter months. so, what would that prevention look like and be? that would entail funding the firefighter units, the forestry agency with personnel, to engage in activities of clearing the dry biomass from forests, opening up roads so the fire brigade

can reach there 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 in 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. 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 responsibility. 0ur 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 0'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 0'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 elon musk and 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 2 hours. it was delayed because of major technical problems. the conversation touched on immigration, global

politics. the former president also said he had plans to return to butler in 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. throughout their conversation, elon musk repeatedly came out in support for donald trump's election campaign, and he even offered to help a future trump administration. take a listen. i think it would be great to have a government efficiency commission to take a _ government efficiency commission to take a look— government efficiency commission to take a look at these things and that ensures _ take a look at these things and that ensures taxpayers' money, the taxpayers — ensures taxpayers' money, the taxpayers hard earned money is spent in a good _ taxpayers hard earned money is spent in a good way. i would be happy to help out— in a good way. i would be happy to help out on— in a good way. i would be happy to help out on such a commission. | help out on such a commission. would love

help out on such a commission. i would love it. i look at what you do, you walk in here and say, "you want to quit? i won't mention the name of the company, but you so you're going on strike and hugh say, "you are all gone." you would be very good. "you are all gone." you would be very good-— very good. you're on a path to presuaerity. — very good. you're on a path to presuaerity. and _ very good. you're on a path to presuaerity. and i— very good. you're on a path to prosperity, and i think, - very good. you're on a path to prosperity, and i think, harris| very good. you're on a path to i prosperity, and i think, harris is the opposite, that is my honest opinion — the opposite, that is my honest opinion i— the opposite, that is my honest opinion. i will get attacked and i have _ opinion. i will get attacked and i have experienced law fair myself, but i'm _ have experienced law fair myself, but i'm trying to tell people my honest— but i'm trying to tell people my honest opinion and i have not been active _ honest opinion and i have not been active in_ honest opinion and i have not been active in politics before and i am 'ust active in politics before and i am just trying — active in politics before and i am just trying to point out that my track— just trying to point out that my track record historically is moderate or slightly left, so this to people — moderate or slightly left, so this to people in the moderate camp is to say that— to people in the moderate camp is to say that i_ to people in the moderate camp is to say that i think you should support donald _ say that i think you should support donald trump for president. i think it is actually a very important juncture _ it is actually a very important juncture in the road and we are in deep— juncture in the road and we are in deep trouble if it goes the other way _ chris vallance is our

senior technology correspondent. well, this was streamed on x spaces. so it's a kind of audio broadcast feature, an audio streaming feature of the platform. you can listen in, or at least that's how it's meant to work. of course, what most people found when they tried to connect to the audio, they were just unable to do so. that was my experience, and the few that managed to get through just got hold music effectively. apparently it sounded a bit 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. not only is musk the boss of the platform, but he had been very publicly testing the scaling of it before it all started. it's also deja vu all over again, if you like, for musk, because about a year ago, he hosted a similar conversation, or attempted to, with ron desantis and again — who was at that point trying to be

the republican nominee for president — and kind of had similar problems and was mocked by the trump campaign. now, there are two explanations, if you like, for what happened. musk�*s theory is that this was a cyber attack, something called a denial, a distributed denial of service attack, which is essentially where hackers try and flood a service with so many requests it just all falls over and nothing works. he has cut the numbers of staff on x and the infrastructure of twitter. many people, remember, that that was always a bit flaky, and simply the volume of interest caused the system to fall over. now 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 this was a cyber attack. but there's a lot of disagreement about whether or not that account is right. thanks to chris for that. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

just let you know some of the dementing stories we are keeping a cross right now, the wildfires in greece, more warnings of people to evacuate certain areas just north and east of the capital of athens. we will keep across live pictures for you on that story. 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. 0ur middle east correspondent hugo bachega is in and gave us this update. it was a rare phone call between the uk prime minister and the 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 the risk of miscalculation and that now was the time for careful consideration.

now, 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 as the solution to stopping crime and aggression, and he also said that the support of some western countries for israel is irresponsible. so some strong words there from the iranian president in that 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 lebanon that hezbollah,

the powerful militia backed by iran, could also be planning a wide—scale attack on israel in response to the assassination of a senior hezbollah commander here in beirut. so, real concerns that an escalation of hostilities could lead to a wider regional conflict. now, the americans, again, say that they're going to do everything to protect israel. they're 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 kind of major progress can be reached. thanks to hugo for that. that is the wider geopolitical situation. medecins sans frontieres project coordinatorjacob granger has this update on the situation on the ground in khan younis. the conditions in khan 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's a little bit restraining the space of the so—called humanitarian zone. so, a zone that is supposed to be safe. so, despite the status of the humanitarian zone, we observe that, one, there are some air strikes within the zone, and second, some evacuation orders shrinking the zone. 0n the shrinking of that zone, what about getting aid and supplies into those areas? for the aid, it depends on the supply, so we have a shortage of some of the items.

quite complicated to get in for many reasons, also 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 dressings. 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. and that clearly puts your staff, aid workers, under immense pressure and obviously compromises the care 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've got? yes, it's more or less the same in the whole of gaza.

what is really important to understand is that everyone is affected by this. so our staff, as the rest of the population, meaning that when there are these evacuation orders — so there was one in the eastern part of khan younis this 8th of august, and another one two or three days after the 10th of august, the two evacuation orders had consequence that a lot of people had to go west, had to be displaced. so, an estimation from the un agency would be around 70,000 on the 8th and another may be 50,000 two days after, which is a lot in this area that is already densely populated, quite small, and it has effects both on the sanitary situation in the gaza strip but also on the mental health

of the population here. that was the view from khan younis from a representative of medecins sans frontieres. 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. venezuela's president has urged the justice system to use what he called an "iron fist" to punish opposition leaders in the aftermath of the disputed presidential elections. during an emergency cabinet meeting, nicolas maduro blamed them

for the deaths of at least 25 people in the protests. he accused the opposition of financing and organising attacks in the past two weeks. the united nations and human rights groups have blamed venezuela's security forces for most of the violence. scientists have discovered liquid water on mars for the first time. new analysis of data from nasa's mars insight lander, that touched down back in 2018, found it deep in the rocky outer crust of the planet. victoria gill has that story. the red planet. for years, scientists have searched for the secrets of its watery past. its surface is marked by channels from ancient rivers, but it's now a desert. this latest study has finally found the planet's missing liquid water — buried deep in the martian rock. to locate it, researchers had to listen for vibrations

and that was the aim back in 2018. touchdown confirmed. when i was at nasa'sjet propulsion laboratory as the team celebrated the successful landing of the mars insight probe. it will be sending its data back here to mission control at nasa in california. it carried a seismometer, a device that picked 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 internal structure of mars. the probe recorded more than 1,300 quakes, and the 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 rocky martian crust, there are reservoirs of water. rest we've identified places on mars where there are large amounts of liquid water. you know, water is the most important molecule in shaping the evolution of a planet and its climate.

and we've identified how much of it is present and where it's sitting. this martian groundwater is between 10km and 20km beneath the surface. it'll 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 it, i'm lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc news. hello again. yesterday was the warmest day of this year so far. the temperature reached 34.8 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. 0ur 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 24. 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 24.

this is bbc news. the headlines: uk prime minister keir starmer urges iran not to attack israel in a phone call with iran's new president. a bbc investigation finds that a priest in blackburn who was assessed as a potential risk to children was given a six—figure pay—off by the church of england.

treasures from the deep — the bbc gets access to a trove of titanic artefacts recovered from the ship. welcome to the programme. i'm lewis vaughan jones. a bbc investigation has found that a priest in blackburn who was assessed as a potential risk to children and young people was given a six—figure pay—off by the church of england. canon andrew hindley was subject to five police investigations, but wasn't charged. he has always strongly denied any wrongdoing. 0ur religion editor, aleem maqbool, reports. a cathedral, meant to be a place of harmony and sanctuary. but at its heart a secret, kept out of the public eye for decades until now. good morning and welcome to blackburn cathedral. for more than 30 years, canon andrew hindley worked in the blackburn diocese. 0ver that time, he faced allegations of abuse,

including sexual assault. we've now discovered when he left in 2022,