hello. we are going to get the latest on the wildfires in greece. there is a new evacuation order on a seaside area to the east of athens. helicopters are back up in the air after being grounded overnight for safety reasons. hundreds of firefighters trying to control them. european countries are sending help. one person has died so far. firefighters have been battling 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 winds offers hope. the main fire that was threatening athens has broken out into different hotspots now. 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 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 minimised 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. the inquest into the death of the former england cricketer graham thorpe has been opened and adjourned at surrey coroners court. the court heard that he died after being struck by a train at esher railway station earlier this month. our correspondent ellie price is at surrey coroner's court in woking for us. what did the inquest here this morning? there was a brief hearing confirming that graham thorpe was found dead at

the railway station. the inquest has been adjourned and will take place at a later date, likely to be this year. the coroner offered condolences to the family of graham thorpe, add to people who he said would have been touched by the life and career of graham thorpe. he was and career of graham thorpe. he was a distinguished sportsman and cricketer who took part in 100 tests, and 80 to one day internationals. yesterday we heard from the family of graham thorpe who confirmed that he had taken his own life. they wanted to publicise it, for want of a better word, to talk about some of the struggles of mental health that he clearly struggled with, but also open that “p struggled with, but also open that up to other people. they said they were not ashamed of anything that he had done, there was certainly no stigma attached to it, they said they would also be looking to set up some kind of foundation in the future to potentially raise awareness of the issue of mental

health. graham thorpe so strong on the cricket field but had his personal demons to deal with. he was a very certificate figure in that england cricket team. lots of people grew up watching him over the years. —— very significant figure. in the 1990s, appearances on the international stage, and a career in coaching as well. very much missed. this is the issue, taking some positivity from such a tragic end to such a celebrated life. 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, which the tech billonare blamed on a cyber attack.

the conversation touched on immigration, global politics and much more. 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 look at these things and that ensures taxpayers' money, the taxpayers' hard earned money is spent in a good way.

i would be happy to 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 you say, "you are all gone." you would be very good. you're on a path to prosperity, and i think, kamala is the opposite, that is my honest opinion. i will get attacked and i have experienced lawfare myself, but i'm trying to tell people my honest opinion and i have not been active in politics before and i am just trying to point out that my track record historically is moderate or slightly left, so this to people in the moderate camp to say that i think you should support donald trump for president. i think it is actually a very importantjuncture in the road

and we are in deep trouble if it goes the other way. 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 apparent slurring, as he discussed climate change. when asked about it, trump campaign spokesperson steven cheung said: "must be your hearing". chris vallance is our senior technology correspondent. he has been telling me about the technical problems during this interview. 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.

other scholl of thought, 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 manage 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. 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, masoud pezeshkian — and are part of a wider

diplomatic push to prevent any escalation. 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 to the region. 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 and gave us more details about the phone call between the uk and iran. 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, massoud 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. the owner of the helicopter that crashed into a hotel in the australian city of cairns has confirmed the pilot was one of their employees. nautilus aviation said

that the employee gained unauthorised access to one of their hangars where they then misappropriated one of their helicopters, they subsequently died in the crash. let's speak to our australia correspondent katy watson who's following this story. what is the latest we know here? circumstances into monday's crash are becoming a little clearer. the ceo of nautilus aviation said that he was a member of ground staff had been working at the company for four months had no authorisation to fly, did hold a new zealand pilots license helicopter but had never flown australia. more clarity on these rumours of a party, the ceo said that there was indeed a sendoff

for the pilot involved in the incident at the hotel crash, the pilot had been promoted to a member of ground staff at a number of basis that the company owned. this was a private party, nothing to do with a work organised party, and there were pilots attending that, and that was just shortly before the incident that took place, just before two o'clock on monday morning, when the employee accessed the hangar, took an authorised charge of the helicopter, and shortly afterwards crashed into a hotel. talk us through what happened with the people in the hotel. around 400 people were evacuated. two pensioners staying in the hotel were taken to hospital copper ——

hospital,, smoke inhalation. the helicopter was based on a beach promenade. apart from that nobody was injured. witnesses said they saw the helicopter flying very low, was injured. witnesses said they saw the helicopterflying very low, bad conditions, no lights, and were shocked by what happened. there was a massive, deafening explosion. they did not know what happened. now details are becoming clearer. there is still a police investigation, safety authorities, the company says it is working with the company says it is working with the authorities to try to piece together exactly what happened. banksy has unveiled his ninth animal artwork in as many days— this time at london zoo. the graffiti of a gorilla,

seal and birds is in a similar style to the artist's eight other animal works that have been unveiled across london. yesterday rhino mounting a nissan micra was revealed in charlton, southeast london. however, it wasn't long before the installation was defaced. a man wearing balackava was caught on camera walking up to the artwork and was seen spray painting it with a graffiti tag. we have been tracking those wildfires in greece. firefighters are still there. as of this morning, a new evacuation area to the north east of athens.

plenty of european countries are now sending their own firefighters there to help, planes and vehicles as well. so far it is believed that one person is known to have died. we will keep you up—to—date with all the developments there. 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. 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 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 14 degrees, but in the southeast we're looking at about 24.

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welcome to business today, i'm tadhg enright. to the us now for that interview between donald trump and elon musk. technical issues on the host platform x meant many users were unable to access the, which mr musk blamed on a cyber attack. after a delayed start, the two men talked for over two hours. our business reporter pierre—antoine denis was listening in. it took 40 minutes for the two men to start chatting after elon musk claimed there was a hacker attack, it is known as common method for hackers to flood the traffic and overwhelm the system is now we are waiting for more technical details on that fund but when the finally began it drew a million listeners on

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