after an 11—year old girl was stabbed in london's leicester square. and banksy unveils his ninth animal artwork in as many days— this time at london zoo. hello, i'm lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, a 3 hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. it was a conversation delayed by technical problems, but the world's richest man eventually had a two—hour public chat with former us president donald trump. it was broadcast on mr musk�*s social media platform, x. the discussion, which was not on camera, touched on immigration, global politics and much more. mr trump also said his attempted assassination now made him more of a believer in god. and was sharply critical of his presidential rival, kamala harris. what i can tell you is this, we cannot have a democrat. we cannot have her. she's incompetent. she's as bad as biden in a different. yeah. she hasn't done an interview

since this whole, uh, scam started. and say what you want. this was a coup. this was a coup of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave. and they said, we can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way. what was happening sort of overnight is they're rewriting history and making kamala sound like a moderate, when in fact she is far left, like far, far left. worse than bernie sanders. she is considered more liberal by far than bernie sanders. she's a radical left lunatic. i also heard people shout bullets, bullets and, you know, get down, get down. because i, you know, i moved down pretty nicely, pretty quickly. and we had bullets flying right over my head after i went down. so i'm glad i went down. the bigger miracle was that i was looking in the exact direction of the shooter, and so it hit. it hit me at an angle that was, uh, far less destructive than any other angle. so that was the miracle. that was for those people that don't believe in god, i think we got to all start thinking about that. you have to, uh, you know,

i'm a believer now. i'm more of a believer, i think. and a lot of people have said that to me. a lot of great people have said that to me, actually. mr trump also discussed his relationships with controversial world leaders. he said he warned russia's vladimir putin not to invade ukraine. well, i know putin, i know president xi, i know kimjong—un of north korea, i know every one of them. and let me tell you, people will say, "this is terrible, he said..." i'm not saying any good or bad, they're at the top of their game. they are tough, they're smart, they're vicious and they are going to protect their country, whether they love their country, they probably do it's just a different form of love, they're going to their country. but these are tough people at the top of the game. i got along well with them, i hope to get along well with them again. you know, getting along well with them is a good thing, not a bad thing. i got along well with kimjong—un. i know putin very well, i got along with him very well, he respected me and it'sjust one of those things. we would talk a lot about ukraine. it was the apple of his eye.

but i said, don't ever do it, don't ever do it. 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". i spoke to our north america correspondent tom bateman asked him about the number of people who listened to their talk. and the influence it might have. in terms of the numbers listening, because it was an audio interview on x, on the platform. certainly the live numbers were well over a million. if you look at elon musk�*s feed, there's over an hour long version of it which says it has 12 million views, which you would assume means people have watched,

seen at least part of it as it's popped up in theirfeed. so clearly, this has influenced, that was the point of it. as for that claim about a denial of service attack that elon musk gave as an explanation for why it was over a0 minutes late, he said that that was an attempt by people unnamed to inhibit free speech and to stop people listening to donald trump. although, experts quoted in the us media this morning are questioning whether or not that would have actually been the cause of this, and perhaps, it could have been that the site was just overwhelmed, along with its sort of normal bandwidth. we don't really know the answer to that. but clearly, this was, i think, an attempt really by both men, it wasn't an interview. this was a sort of exercise in mutual self—promotion, really. comfortable themes, as you say. and the hope, i think, for donald trump would have been that would have given his campaign a boost, which has flagged somewhat given the momentum and attention that kamala harris has grabbed since she went to the top of the democratic ticket. i've been speaking to makena kelly, a senior reporter at wired and i asked her about those problems with the tech. it was about 45 minutes until the call was actually able to start.

and as we approached, you know, the time that the call began, elon musk went to x and posted that the site was experiencing a distributed denial of service attack. uh, outlets like the verge said, uh, we're talking to folks at twitter, and apparently they, the twitter employees did not think that there was a ddos attack. and so, i mean, we've seen this before, it's really reminiscent. this call yesterday was really reminiscent of, uh, ron desantis campaign launch call that took place last year. and at the time, then there was about 600,000 people trying to access that call, and it was plagued by technical issues. um, there was terrible audio, times the stream just kind of like shut off. and so it's kind of known that x's servers can be overloaded and cause these issues. but it seems still this morning that elon musk is very confident in it being some kind of cyber attack, even though we haven't seen proof of that. and mckenna, elon musk is donating

lots of money, we know, to donald trump's campaign. the exact figures i'm not sure anyone knows. but nonetheless, there's money coming in. he's promising him real estate on x. do you think we're going to see a big return to donald trump on x like we've had before, where he used to tweet constantly day in and day out? i mean, that's what i was expecting last night prior to trump making these posts yesterday, advertising this conversation with elon musk. the last time that he had posted was his mug shot, which was last year, and before that, the last post that he made was onjanuary 8th, days after the us capitol insurrection. and so, what i was expecting going into that conversation was something about trump saying that he was going to return more regularly, but he did not allude to that. and he's still posting on his own platform, truth social, about as much as he was prior. do you think elon musk is definitely now angling for a job if donald trump gets in? i'm not entirely sure about a job. yesterday, there was

conversations about, um, a lot of different policy issues. it wasn't, you know, anything too much of substance. trump was discussing american drilling and oil production and things like that. but musk did get in to say something where he asked, uh, if trump if he was re—elected, if he would start some kind of government efficiency committee and he asked to be a part of that. trump didn't really make any promises, but, you know, basically said, you know, that would be great. uh, you're one of the best cost cutters that we have. and so, it seems like trump. i mean, it seems like musk is angling for something, but of course, you know, it seems like people who donate money to campaigns often want something in return. our bbc verify team have been looking at the conversation between the musk and donald trump, fact checking it for you. the looking at the claims of the conversation and

although the verdict of immigration figures and those who have crossed the border. it is really interesting i do look at the work that the bbc verify team have been doing around this conversation. ukraine's president zelensky says �*war is coming home�* to russia as ukraine continues its offensive. the country's foreign ministry warns the sooner russia agrees peace, the sooner the raid by ukrainian forces will stop. in moscow, the defence ministry says it has been successfully pushing back against the incursion into its territory. 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 frontline in ukraine, shown here in red, where moscow has

been making slow but steady gains. ukraine now claims to be holding a thousand kilometres into russian territory. they are being evacuated as the fighting continues and around as the fighting continues and around a hiding 80,000 civilians have so far been moved. many are shocked that russia has been invaded for the first time since the second world war. in ukraine, public morale has been boosted by this unexpected turn of events. russia still occupies nearly a fifth of the country but president zelensky is hoping that this incursion will strengthen his hand in the future peace negotiations.— hand in the future peace neuotiations. ,, ., , ., ., negotiations. russia brought water to others and _ negotiations. russia brought water to others and now _ negotiations. russia brought water to others and now it _ negotiations. russia brought water to others and now it is _ negotiations. russia brought water to others and now it is coming - negotiations. russia brought water i to others and now it is coming home. we can see how peaceful this can be. —— russia but war to others. in an -- russia but war to others. in an emergency _ -- russia but war to others. in an emergency meeting, _ -- russia but war to others. in an emergency meeting, there - -- russia but war to others. in an emergency meeting, there was i —— russia but war to others. in an

emergency meeting, there was no talk of peace early retaliation. the leader of the meeting started to discuss retaliation when he was cut off by a clearly irritated president putin. he called ukrainian�*s advance a provocation. russia have even been donated close to evacuees. few imagined that russians would be evacuees in their own country. there are --eole evacuees in their own country. there are peeple who _ evacuees in their own country. there are people who have _ evacuees in their own country. there are people who have lost _ evacuees in their own country. there are people who have lost their- are people who have lost their homes, they need shelter, they need food, they need supplies. this russian defence _ food, they need supplies. this russian defence ministry video claims that ukraine's invading forces are being beating back. but eight days into this operation, they're still there and i show no of withdrawing. with me now is our defence correspondentjonathan beale. it isa

it is a big gamble, in military terms, it is hard to see the end goal. there is no specific objective to occupy a certain bit of area but they are occupying russia. they have made an incursion, which is 32 kilometres deep. more than 800, 2000 kilometres deep. more than 800, 2000 kilometres total area and clearly, from white to be heard from president zielinski, this is about bringing the war home to russia. —— president zelensky. this is something, when i have been to ukraine, is that russia feels the war coming to it. whether that means killing as many russians on the battlefield and getting whether to ask what is going on, whether that means long range strikes and there's been a considerable uptick in long—range strikes are mounted by ukraine inside russia, often at air bases, in military bases, oil installations and then there is a logic here and that is that the

president zelensky believed that if you inflict pain on russia, the same pain that has been inflicted on ukraine, may be the war could turn. that is a hope, not a military strategy though. the element of surprise and made a significant incursion into russia itself. yes, it has changed morale but these are all ephemeral, they could all disappear. i think in terms of military objectives, the biggest success this would have is if it forces president putin to pull off troops from the front line in the east where he's been making slow gains and to then use those to protect the border. in other words, to thin out the line, in the same way that we saw in kharkiv, when the russians did their second counter offensive into kharkiv and then they were trying to pull ukrainians of the east front line to try to protect the city of kharkiv. maybe,

that will be a success in military terms but would it make russia change? when its make bchange the course of the war? i think probably at the moment you have to say not. —— will it make bchange? fire at the moment you have to say not. -- will it make bchange?— -- will it make bchange? are we seeinu -- will it make bchange? are we seeing evidence _ -- will it make bchange? are we seeing evidence of— -- will it make bchange? are we seeing evidence of the _ -- will it make bchange? are we seeing evidence of the assault i -- will it make bchange? are we i seeing evidence of the assault slow in? ., ,., , ., seeing evidence of the assault slow in? ., , ., in? there are reports that some russian troops _ in? there are reports that some russian troops have _ in? there are reports that some russian troops have been - in? there are reports that some - russian troops have been redirected, i think most of those other and hugger out who are taking part of the offensive still going on. there so physically on kharkiv. i think there is little evidence at the moment, that it has stopped repeating in taking more ukrainian territory in the east and putting more ukraine is under pressure. you have to see what will happen over time. it is too early to say that ukraine is not achieved that objective. at the moment, they have got the upper hand, but this could all be reversed.— all be reversed. what kind of numbers _

all be reversed. what kind of numbers are _ all be reversed. what kind of numbers are we _ all be reversed. what kind of numbers are we talking - all be reversed. what kind of| numbers are we talking about militarily? how many ukrainian ships are the? is militarily? how many ukrainian ships are the? , ., ., are the? is a battle hardened troo s. are the? is a battle hardened troops. there _ are the? is a battle hardened troops. there have _ are the? is a battle hardened troops. there have been - are the? is a battle hardened l troops. there have been some evidence reporting on the grounds that people have been pulled off from one battle and built into another battle. it has of numbers, ukraine has had thousands of troops, we know from imagery that we are seeing on social media that they have put some of their western equipment. but armoured vehicles for example. a lot of armoured vehicles and they've got electronic warfare is to counter russia's drains and they are drat backing it up with artillery —— to counter russia's drains. this is not a massive military operation. this is a big incursion, they have been enclosures incursion, they have been enclosures in the passenger russia which the ukrainians have always kept distance from. this one is more serious, but whether it is time the course of the war, i think it is highly unlikely.

but we will see the next few weeks happens. but we will see the next few weeks ha ens. . ~' ,, , but we will see the next few weeks hauens. . ~ , . happens. thank you very much, jonathan- _ here in the uk, a 32—year—old man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder and possession of a knife, after an 11—year—old girl was stabbed in london's leicester square yesterday. our reporter nickjohnson was at westminster magistrates court for the hearing. london's leicester square, usually the side of hollywood film premiers. but yesterday, they will cause other reports of a stabbing leicester square. they allege that a 32—year—old man, a romanian national, allegedly approached two people, to tourists, an 11—year—old girl and her mother before placing that a leather in your old go in a headlock and then stabbing her eight times —— matt placing that 11 yours go in a headlock and stabbing her eight times. members of the public

then detained the suspect, stopping him from continuing the attack before the police arrived. the court say that it was on the police is arrival that they allegedly found this knife that the suspect had been allegedly carrying. now, that ii—year—old allegedly carrying. now, that 11—year—old girl remains in hospital. we understand that she sustained serious, but non—life—threatening injuries. booth court said that it is very likely that she is going to have to undergo plastic surgery as a result of those injuries. the suspect, dressed in a grey tracksuit, spoke through a interpreter to confirm his name, his date of birth and the fact that he is of no fixed abode. he spent the majority of the hearing, looking away of the court room, he has been remanded in custody and is due to a bit in the central criminal court, the old bailey in central london next month.

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firefighters in greece are racing to extinguish as much of a huge wildfire as they can before an expected resurgence of high winds later on tuesday. the blaze, which started on sunday north—east of athens, killed at least two people, a firefighter and a moldovan woman in her 60s, before dropping in intensity. but smaller fires remain and many people have lost their homes or can't return to them. the greek government has announced compensation and relief measures for those worst affected. the eu says it's mobilising support for greece. senior health officials in africa are declaring a continental public health emergency over a new outbreak of mpox. cases of the highly infectious disease, previously known as monkey pox, have spread quickly this year. data released in recent days by africa centres for disease control and prevention

show at least 887 new confirmed and suspected cases of mpox have been reported in the past week. that takes the total for the year to 15,132. 16 african countries have reported cases, including the democratic republic of congo, which has more than 90% of infections. 461 people in africa have died from mpox this year. burundi, kenya, rwanda and uganda have reported their first cases of the disease, and the world health organization is considering whether to declare a global emergency. mpox was first recorded in humans in 1970. it's a viral disease and causes painful rashes and flu—like symptoms such as fever, headaches and body aches. it comes from the same family as smallpox. and spreads from person to person and from animals to people through direct contact. there are vaccines on the market, but only 200,000 doses are available in africa and the demand is for

at least 10 million. doctors at government hospitals in several indian states have gone on an "indefinite" strike in protest of the sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor on friday. the woman's body was found with multiple injuries in a state—run hospital in west bengal�*s kolkata, where she was a resident doctor. the demonstrations, demanding justice and better workplace security, have now spread to other parts of the country. local media reports say a man, who worked at the hospital, has been arrested in connection with the case. archana schukla reports. demands of... demands of better security for health care workers at their workplace is at the core of the protests. the gruesome rape and killing of a junior doctor in a government hospital, doctors say, has shaken their trust that even hospitals are not a safe place. thousands are out on hospital premises staging in protest, saying if there is no safety, there will be no duty. junior doctors association has demanded that the country's top crime agency investigates the killing.

there is speedyjustice for victims and that a central law to kerb attacks and violence against doctors be enacted. junior doctors are the main workforce handling patient loads in india's overcrowded hospitals and as they stopped work, hospitals in west bengal state have taken a hit, paralysing outpatient services, elective and non—emergency services as well. the protest has rippled nationwide. now more than 8000 government doctors in the western maharashtra state have stopped non—emergency work. even doctors in capital new delhi sat in protests, and doctors in many other cities and states in the country have sat in protest. long queues are seen in the hospitals across the country, senior doctors substituting their junior colleagues handling the influx of patients for especially outpatient services. reports suggest the number of daily surgeries at india's top government hospital, ames in new delhi, is down 80% and admissions down by 35% since doctors started

this indefinite strike. 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 artists' eight other animal works that have been unveiled across london. yesterday, an eighth artwork by the elusive artist featuring an rhino mounting a nissan micra was revealed in charlton, southeast london. let's speak to our reporter harry low who can speak to us from london zoo— and banksy�*s new artwork. harry, what's the latest? of course, there are fears they may be a repeat of the activity last week in peckham where the artwork on a satellite dish was taken within an hour of it being picked up. this arrived here at the zoo over night, we did not see the people he did it. of course, banksy up work so wary guide a secretive team. we spoke to

localhost who said it did happen overnight and the staff at the zoo said they were incredibly surprised when it turned up this morning to see this year on the shutters. the shutters would have normally got up this morning because people are so keen to check out the ninth in nine days, as you say, a real appropriate place for this to turn up given that banksy has been splattering animals throughout london throughout the past nine days. for that reason, the zoo has been here first thing, we have had two security guards all day and the measuring tape. as you can see, the prospect is being put over the top. i have the sea, over plans to preserve this. they say they do you plan to preserve this in some way over the future. they may move this mere inside, but there's absolutely no question, if you look around here this morning, that many, many people have not been put off by

the fact that this muir has arrived. actually, we think that it might just be the last of the nine that he has posted. all these other animals have appeared all over london in the past week and many people have rushed down. bachmann has not committed at all. all of the press that he has made on instagram, banksy has been left without comment. much excitement here, but perhaps a little esk excitement here that we may not see more like this through the rest of the week. people are standing — through the rest of the week. people are standing there, _ through the rest of the week. people are standing there, taking _ through the rest of the week. people are standing there, taking photos. i are standing there, taking photos. what is their reaction? do they like the artwork?— the artwork? actually, one of the --eole i the artwork? actually, one of the peeple i spoke — the artwork? actually, one of the peeple i spoke to _ the artwork? actually, one of the people i spoke to described - the artwork? actually, one of the | people i spoke to described treaty as incredibly unpleasant and a scourge on society but, he was very much the exception. almost everybody else that i have spoken to is incredibly happy to see this. there are actually people from all over the world here. banksy is one of the those items, this big into artistic

artists in —— artistic directors and galleries. they say that banksy is one of those artist that has international attention. they are delighted to see this more slice of history here in the capital. haee history here in the capital. have ou, history here in the capital. have you. thank— history here in the capital. have you. thank you _ history here in the capital. have you, thank you so _ history here in the capital. have you, thank you so much - history here in the capital. have you, thank you so much and - history here in the capital. have you, thank you so much and to| history here in the capital. have you, thank you so much and to see the work being preserved behind harry. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. good afternoon. we've got quite a bit of cloud around today, particularly across the north and the west of the uk. a weather front and even following a few showers, the east stays mostly fine and dry, but actually even here it'll be a little cooler as we go through the rest of the week. this is the rain band i talked about, our weather front quite tightly packed isobars giving some unusually windy weather for the time of year across the north and west. but we've actually had some fog in shetland through the morning. it's lifting now, but you can see the rain. it's only moving slowly eastwards, but nevertheless it's going to give

quite a damp afternoon through wales, the south west northern england clearing scotland, but showers follow on here. a scattering of showers as well for northern ireland. some sunshine too and a fresher feel, but still very warm where we keep the sunshine in the midlands. east anglia, the south east 28, possibly 29. but as we go through this evening and overnight, that rain band slowly pushes eastwards. so less chance of seeing the aurora borealis or indeed the perseid meteor shower here, but clearer skies further north and west, and a better chance here. and a fresher night. actually, it'll be a slightly warmer night than last night for the south and east because of the cloud cover, which will still be with us tomorrow morning. could be a bit misty and damp as well underneath this rain band. a few showers there could be sharp or thundery through this evening and overnight. easing away tomorrow. but the cloud takes its time. much, much drier though, as you can see for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, wales and the southwest. yes, a fresher feel, but in that sunshine feeling pleasant enough, quite warm despite the cloud further south and east. now, as we go through wednesday, there's that ridge of high pressure that starts to topple away. so it's a dry spell in the north

just for a day, because more rain on this weather front is coming in for thursday. so it does look really quite wet for parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england again, parts of wales, pulses of heavy rain along that weather system. it does brighten to the north later and it may well stay mostly dry, bright but increasingly cloudy further south and east and warm still. again, we'rejust tapping into some warmer southwesterly winds rather than the atlantic westerly, and that rain could still hang around across southern areas into friday. in fact, we could see some heavier rain, a few showers to the north, but actually again further north. mostly fine and dry on friday and feeling pleasant enough in the sunshine as ever. you can find out more on the website. but from me, bye bye for now.

valdo calocane killed three people in nottingham last summer. today the families of those killed by him at say the service is responsible for his care in the lead up to his attack have blood on their hands. report released by the care quality commission says key details about the risks posed by him were minimised or emitted by nottinghamshire health care nhs foundation trust. yesterday the panorama programme revealed warnings

you throw before the attack —— years before the attacks were so severe that he could kill. this lunchtime the health secretary says he expects services to learn from the review into the case. over the next 25 minutes we will hear from the families of those who have lost loved ones and discuss the important issues that have emerged from the terrible attacks injune last year. first our social affairs editor has this report. for the families of those who were killed by valdo calocane, who've been campaigning for answers, today's report finally sets out the failings in his care that led to that terrible day in nottingham in june last year. the morning when calocane fatally stabbed 19—year—old students grace o'malley—kumar and barnaby webber and 65—year—old caretaker ian coates. cctv picked up calocane walking the streets for hours beforehand. the report found he was acutely unwell with paranoid schizophrenia but mental health assessments missed key details and minimised the risk he posed to himself and others.