following the incident and been following the incident and investigating claims around the attack. and banksy unveils his ninth animal artwork in as many days, this time at london zoo. hello, i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to verified live, three hours of checking out the days main stories and the facts behind them. a week after it launched its surprise cross—border offensive, ukraine says it has no interest in occupying territory in russia's kursk region. it says the incursion will complicate russian military logistics, including russia's ability to fight in the east of ukraine. russia, meanwhile, says its forces have foiled new attacks by ukraine in its territory. russian officials also say they have opened 400 temporary shelters across the country to accommodate thousands of people evacuated from towns and cities as the ukrainian troops advance. ukraine's military says it now

controls almost a thousand square kilometres of territory inside russia, the biggest cross—border incursion by ukraine since the war began. our security correspondent frank gardner has the latest. one week into ukraine's incursion into russia, the kremlin's forces are scrambling to push back its advance. extra units have been sent as ukraine now claims to be holding up to 1,000 square kilometres of russian territory. russian residents in the kursk 0blast are being evacuated as the fighting continues. around 180,000 civilians have so far been moved, many 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 this incursion will strengthen his

hand in future peace negotiations. translation: russia brought war i to others, and now it's coming home. we can see how useful this can be for bringing peace closer. russia must be forced into peace. but in moscow at this emergency meeting, there was no talk of peace, only retaliation. the governor of kursk region started to describe the situation when he was cut off by a clearly irritated president putin. �*we will kick the invaders out�*, he said, calling ukraine's incursion a provocation. russians have even been donating clothes to the evacuees. few could have imagined russians would be evacuees in their own country. there are people who have lost their homes. they need shelter, they need food, they need supplies. this russian defence ministry video claims ukraine's invading forces are being beaten back, but eight days into this operation

, they are still there and showing no sign yet of withdrawing. frank gardner, bbc news. let's speak to olga ivshina from bbc news russian. hello to you. i wonder whether you seen any response hello to you. i wonder whether you seen any response or hello to you. i wonder whether you seen any response or reaction hello to you. i wonder whether you seen any response or reaction from this message to ukraine that it's offensive to russia will end when vladimir bagrees to peace. we have no for a while _ vladimir bagrees to peace. we have no for a while that _ vladimir bagrees to peace. we have no for a while that russia _ vladimir bagrees to peace. we have no for a while that russia has - vladimir bagrees to peace. we have no for a while that russia has been l no for a while that russia has been divided between two worlds. a sufficient number of russian people have been trying to ignore this war completely and keep on with their lives and then, there's another part of russia he feels heavily involved in now, it seems a number of those is to significantly higher because it is now confirmed that there are russian conscripts, so young men

doing national service defending the borders. as we hearfrom the relatives of those cost conscripts, dozens of those young people are currently missing. also, we had for people who are living in the kursk region or have relatives that once again, hundreds of people are unaccounted for. people can't find them any where. and today, the governor said in his report to putin that he does not know where 2000 people are. he said those in russia were more worried about the exact consequences, trying to locate people they care about and there's another part of the population that tries to ignore it altogether. find tries to ignore it altogether. and russia is said _ tries to ignore it altogether. and russia is said that its forces are now foiling new attacks by ukrainian troops inside russia. is it possible to verify that? it is troops inside russia. is it possible to verify that?— to verify that? it is very hard to verify that _

to verify that? it is very hard to verify that. we _ to verify that? it is very hard to verify that. we had _ to verify that? it is very hard to verify that. we had kenya - to verify that? it is very hard to verify that. we had kenya have| to verify that? it is very hard to - verify that. we had kenya have seen in published videos earlier suggesting which destroying public ukrainian videos, proving to be from 2023 at least. we have seen from satellite imagery and we hear from people on the ground, ukrainians are are still ukrainian —— a new still hold a significant amount of sediment and definitely, some reinforcements have arrived but how successful they are input in the ukrainians are back, that is the question to answer.— ukrainians are back, that is the question to answer. thank you very much. we question to answer. thank you very much- we are _ question to answer. thank you very much. we are seeing _ question to answer. thank you very much. we are seeing how- question to answer. thank you very much. we are seeing how you - question to answer. thank you very i much. we are seeing how you russian media are supporting the live reporting on the incursion. now, how is russian media reporting the ukrainian incursion? with me is francis scarr,

from bbc monitoring, who has been keeping a close eye on russian tv channels. he appeared quite keen to play down the significance of what has happened and we have seen russian state media, taking his lead on this. earliertoday, a state media, taking his lead on this. earlier today, a military commander was one of the popular talk shows, saying the situation was under control and that ukrainian forces being pushed out of the settlements, that they had occupied in the last week or so. and they have also painted a picture of a country really coming together to help those affected, say the volunteers have been rushing to these temporary accommodation points to help provide aid to those who have been affected. i think are the other hand, the redheugh underground is often quite different —— of the reality on the ground is often quite different, suggesting that locals have been left to their own devices and people have not been part of any organised evacuation and just been told to get out of the border

regions and away from kursk. it is regions and away from kursk. it is havin: regions and away from kursk. it is having any — regions and away from kursk. it is having any impact on the opinion of ordinary russians? we having any impact on the opinion of ordinary russians?— having any impact on the opinion of ordinary russians? we have seen some videos on social— ordinary russians? we have seen some videos on social media _ ordinary russians? we have seen some videos on social media of _ ordinary russians? we have seen some videos on social media of people - videos on social media of people complaining as the authorities. in russia, it is very important to draw a distinction between popular unrest towards your authorities and popular unrest towards putin, they are often not the same thing. people have been complaining about the local authorities and how they've been organising the evacuation and the provision of age whilst not actually drawing a connection between this and the invasion of ukraine, launched by their president two and a half years ago. and without this, the situation never would have risen. . ~ the situation never would have risen. ., ~' ,, the situation never would have risen. ., ~ i. the situation never would have risen. ., ~ . it was a conversation delayed by technical problems, but the world's richest man — elon musk — eventually had a two—hour public chat with former us president donald trump. it was streamed on mr musk�*s

social media platform, x, around what's known as prime time in the us on monday evening. the discussion, which was not on camera, touched on many topics including immigration and global politics as well as the attempted assassination of mr trump, which he said had made him more of a believer in god. he was also sharply critical of his democratic 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'. a man has been charged with attempted murder after an 11—year—old girl was stabbed in london's leicester square on tuesday. 32—year—old ioan pintaru appeared in wesminster magistrates' court earlier today and was remanded in custody before going to crown court on the 10th of september. pintaru is a romanian citizen and is not believed to have known the girl who was with her mother at the time of the attack and remains in hosital with serious but non—life threatening injuries. here in the uk: a review into the care of a man who killed three people in nottingham last year has found what it called �*a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements' in the way he was treated. valdo calocane was psychotic and suffering from paranoid delusions, and the care quality commission says if the system doesn't change, there's still a risk to public safety. 0ur social affairs editor alison holt reports. 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 0'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. barnaby webber�*s mother says the report shows gross systemic failings. it's so clear that there are so many missed opportunities, so much bad decision—making. i would say it's inevitable that had people done theirjobs properly at numerous different stages, not even just all of them,

even just one, then there's a very strong chance barnaby would be alive today. the care quality commission says 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 those opportunities to mitigate that risk were missed by the team. i want to extend to you my condolences, my thoughts and also my willingness to work with you. when he was in opposition, sir keir starmer met the families and committed to a public inquiry.

we've had 19 years of emotional investment. grace 0'malley—kumar�*s parents say they've been told the prime minister remains committed to a judge—led inquiry and they see it as important in holding people to account. as yet, the scope and the nature of the inquiry has to be confirmed with us and i suspect that might depend on some of the outcome of ongoing investigations and inquiries. we would like the scope to be as wide as possible and we would like it to be a statutory public inquiry led by a judge and one that has real teeth to make a difference. nottinghamshire health care foundation trust says it accepts the cqc report and that it's doing everything in its power to learn from what happened and to improve. alison holt, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

let's turn to the continuing tension in the middle east now. the military wing of hamas said it targeted the israeli city of tel aviv with two rockets. explosions were heard but there were no casualties reported, according to israeli media. it was the first attempt by hamas to hit tel aviv since may. meanwhile, 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 are part of a wider diplomatic push to prevent any escalation of violence. america's top diplomat anthony blinken is also travelling to 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 middle east 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. the reuters news agency says that iranian officials have told it that only a gaza ceasefire deal, at talks which it's hoped will take place this week, would hold it back from direct retaliation against israel. let's have more from gaza now, and following an israeli strike on a school building in gaza city at the weekend, the bbc verify team have been analysing videos from the incident to investigate claims around the attack. bbc verify�*s reporter merlyn thomas has more. here is bbc rare fire, we have been managing strikes in gaza and found that 14 managing strikes in gaza and found that 1a school buildings have been targeted since the 6th ofjuly —— mackie at bbc verify. these strikes have also been mentioned in official statements in the israeli miley.

these usually contain large compounds and... nearly 85% of schools in gaza have been directly hit or damaged. they estimated that they will require either full reconstruction of major rehabilitation work in order to be functional again. rehabilitation work in order to be functionalagain. here rehabilitation work in order to be functional again. here are the locations of the 1a schools that have been targeted. israel claims that each of the school buildings have been used by what they call terrace. the most recent strike was on this building saturday. part of these complex, israel says, was used by a hamas members. we can show you this, but we can't verify this. this video was shown by a palestinian paramedic. you can hear him crying out to god and shouting out to see if there are any survivors. the footage pans around a woman were a number of victims are laying on the ground. we know it was taken as the

particular school because be compared to the builders between archive photos online. in a video, there appears to be an older woman who says she is with her injured granddaughter. what some of the images has been blurred by the paramedic who uploaded it in order to hide some of the graphic images. they told the bbc on monday, when they had hit the compound, there were no women and children present. the israeli army says that... there are also told us shortly before going on air that hamas uses children, women and civilian if the structure as shield. the israeli army posted this on x, naming 31 people who they say when terrace eliminated in the strikes. we find social media post that suggests that

two of this men died before the strike took place. 0ne post on facebook suggested that this man was dead two days before the israeli strike on the 8th of august at 1609 bst and there was another faced the live post on facebook that says that this man was dead a day before the strike, on the 9th of august. we are not able to independently verify when or if these two men are dead ourselves. we contacted the israeli army about how these men were killed in the stroke but they have not replied yet. the death toll from the school stroke is also disputed. hospital officials in gaza say that to 70 people have been killed on the track as i did it. an israeli spec person and say that these figures are inflated. bbc rare for cannot independently verify this but we did talk to several experts, who showed us images including fragments of

munitions at the team. a specialist company which specialises in military analysis says that the debris recovered at the site matches are those of a small diameter bomb. it is a 250 guided munition which uses gps for navigation according to the us air force and when asked to assess the statutory figures, a former un weapons inspector, says giving the idf confirmed, it is indisputable that they would have been significant civilian casualties. the israeli army says that her mass systematically rallies international law and operates from within civilian infrastructure and shelters and uses the civilian population and seditious as shields for the terrorist activities. 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 lond 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.> (pres)0ur reporter hary low has been down at london zoo today, and sent us this report. i have of activity as you can see. this arrived here at a zoo overnight, we did not see that the people who did this, of course banksy works with a closely guarded secret to a spencer locals is that it does happen overnight but of course the stuff as you said they were incredibly surprised when i turn up this morning to see this mural on the shutters. this would have got up this morning. but they didn't because people were so keen doing that in that there is as you

say. every appropriate place for this to turn up of course given that banksy has been spluttering his animals throughout london over the past nine days and of course, people are very concerned about where the vandalism of server that's reason, those who has been here. we had two security guards, we had the measuring tapes out long —— but not long after doubts and as you can see, the prospect is being put over that. i have asked the zoo about plans to preserve this but they say they do plan to preserve this, as well as these measured, to preserve this in some way in the future. we are not sure what they are going to do, they may move this mural inside. if you look around here this morning and it's afternoon, many people have not been put off by the fact that this mural has arrived. actually, we think that it mightjust be the last of the nine that he has posted. these other animals have appeared oval or round london, and many people have rushed down and back have not commented at all. the post

that confirmed they are original banksy have me left without comment. much excitement but sadness to perhaps that man is more like disrupting the rest of the week. from the painting of a gorilla to a live one. the berlin zoo has announced that one of its giant pandas is pregnant again, months after her previous cubs were sent to china. there were celebrations when meng meng gave birth to germany's first ever pandas in 2019. but the twins were taken away in december under an agreement with beijing. china loans the animals to other countries as part of a policy known as panda diplomacy. meng meng's new arrivals are expected at the end of this month. an incredibly detailed and well preserved roman mosaic has been uncovered by archaeologists in shropshire. it was found during a dig at the site of wroxeter roman city, which was once as large as pompeii. it shows dolphins and fish

in a pattern of red, blue and yellow tiles and archaeologists said the mosaic would have been commissioned by someone �*wealthy and important�*. today, a number of ruined buildings are the only remains of the city above ground. what a fabulous discovery. do 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 weatherfront, 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 underneath this rain band. a few showers. they 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 and 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.

starbucks jolts the markets by replacing its chief executive, poacahing the boss of chipotle to revive its fortunes. google prepares to launch a new ai powered smartphone and take the leading spot in that market. bridging the divide — we take a look at the world�*s newst and highest railway bridge in kashmir. welcome to business today. starbucks has announced it�*s

replacing its chief executive. the world�*s biggest coffee chain has poached brian niccol, who�*s been running the mexican inspired foodchain, chipotle. the new chief executive is credited with reviving chipotle�*s fortunes after its reputation was devastated by an ecoli outbreak. niccol takes over from laxman naraishman, who began work in april last year with a mission to reinvent starbucks but his performance disappointed investors. starbucks shares jumped after the announcement and chipotle�*s have dropped. market analyst victoria fernandez told us that illustrates the esteem in which investors hold the new boss. we see from the stock reactions of those two companies exactly what the market thinks about this move.

and you have brian niccol, who has done tremendous work at chipotle.