in a digital chat with elon musk, donald trump still bemoans kamala harris replacing joe biden. and the remarkable story of the british runner who finished the olympic marathon with a broken leg. i wasn't able to run the race i wanted to. and the pain was really bad. but ijust had to get to that finish line. i had to do the olympic marathon. and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world. hello. president biden says ukraine's surprise cross—border incursion into russia provides a real dilemma for vladimir putin. they're his first remarks since ukraine's lightning strike a week ago, and the white house says

it had no advance notice of the military operation. kyiv now claims to control more than 70 communities in the kursk region of western russia, an area of around 1,000 square kilometres. this map shows just how rapid the advance has been in the last seven days, with ukraine claiming to have taken more territory in a week than russia has all year. james waterhouse has our top story, from the front—line province of sumy, bordering kursk. we are starting to learn more and more about this operation, which has been months in the planning. the goalfor ukraine was been months in the planning. the goal for ukraine was to target a weak part of the border, make their way through and draw russian forces from other parts of the front line. that is starting to happen, but russia is still advancing in eastern

ukraine. nevertheless, in a war which has become increasingly static in the last year and a half, ukraine has used the element of surprise to devastating effect. ukrainian soldiers in western made vehicles, driving into russia, a potentially seminal sight which few saw coming. the russian guards were quickly overwhelmed. it has been a while since this border crossing was used in peacetime, and the ukrainians have not stopped here. the central square of sudzha. a ukrainian armoured vehicle drives through a russian town. it's a military inversion which has restored momentum and morale to kyiv�*s war effort. and instead of directing events in ukraine, moscow's reacting to surprises at home. more of its kursk region is falling in the most dramatic of battlefield changes. "we've just been to this russian supermarket, "and the selection isn't very good,"

remarks this soldier. slava ukraini! russia is struggling to contain this weighty offensive, but it is trying. across the border in ukraine's sumy region, evidence ukraine is deploying some of its best troops for a goal that is still unclear. military equipment is branded with a triangle, the symbol of this operation. ukraine is committing to this gamble, but success might not come here with the capturing of territory across the border. it may well come elsewhere, where russian forces might be forced to redeploy. if this gamble doesn't come off, the consequences for ukraine's war effort could be catastrophic. for the border villages habitually hit by russian glide bombs, there is no fear of what moscow's response might be. translation: i want them

to take it and do this. - translation: russia attacked first, not us. i now our guys responded, showed what we're capable of. if we had permission to do this earlier, we would have captured russia a long time ago. in the city of sumy, evacuees give their details to be rehoused. as with across the border, tens of thousands have been moved after an increase in air strikes. ukraine has benefited from secrecy, but its civilians less so. in a choreographed briefing you would usually see in moscow, the head of the armed forces, oleksandr syrskyi, tells president zelensky they are still advancing. translation: first, - i thank our guys and girls. also, i ask you not to forget to develop our important next steps. what ukraine does next will be crucial, especially with the moment

of surprise now behind it. james waterhouse, bbc news, sumy region. 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, including into allegations of sexual assault, but was never charged. he's always strongly denied any wrongdoing. aleem maqbool has the full story. and welcome to blackburn cathedral... for more than 30 years, canon andrew hindley worked for the church in and around blackburn. over that time, he faced allegations of abuse. it led to five police investigations, including two involving sexual assault, though he was never charged and has always strongly denied any wrongdoing. but several risk assessments concluded he did pose a potential risk to children and young people.

for years, the church failed to act effectively on the warnings. the first reaction seemed to be one of fear to take it on. joan, not her real name, says her relative made a complaint of sexual misconduct against canon hindley. she won't talk about the allegations themselves but says her family was deeply let down. that fear seemed to revolve around the likelihood that the church could be brought down by this. a former bishop of blackburn even suggested she and herfamily move on. well, canon hindley was suspended at least twice, but restrictions on him weren't monitored. internal church disciplinary proceedings stalled, and there were more allegations. what we now know from leaked documents was the church appeared fearful he would take legal action if he was removed. we've now discovered, when he left in 2022, it was with a payoff believed to be around a quarter of a million pounds. the church says it was made to

settle legal action by the priest. reverend julian henderson was bishop of blackburn at the time. he explains the payment by saying in a statement... "our priority was to ensure that canon hindley could never return to ministry. this was primarily to protect children and vulnerable young people from the risk he posed. this was the only option left open to us." i took a decision on conscience that i couldn't work for an organisation which put its own reputation and the protection of alleged abusers above the protection and care and listening to victims and survivors. rowena pailing was a senior blackburn cathedral priest who resigned in protest at the payoff. the message that that sends to victims and survivors is absolutely horrific, so when there were senior clergy, bishops saying, oh, this is wonderful, it's all resolved, a settlement has been reached,

expecting me to be happy, i was devastated. the church has acknowledged huge failings in its safeguarding system, but critics insist, when risk assessments show a priest poses a threat of harm, more could and should be done, whatever the legal consequences. aleem is here. this is astonishing and i know what many viewers will be wondering, and you have been investigating this and the circumstances for some time. why didn't the church feel it could fire him? . ~ didn't the church feel it could fire him? ., ~' , , didn't the church feel it could fire him? , ,, ., didn't the church feel it could fire him? ,, ., . . him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted — him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted to. _ him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted to. what _ him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted to. what they - him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted to. what they tell - him? leaked papers show some church leaders wanted to. what they tell us i leaders wanted to. what they tell us is they couldn't, that disciplinary processes in the church failed so they were not allowed. some church leaders tried to find ways in essence the bypass there are disciplinary procedures. at one point, the archbishop of canterbury,

but the solution was to lick the story to the press. on another occasion, one church leader, in his own words, but the only way to keep people safe was to close blackburn cathedral completely, a plan that was also oked at the top. in the end they went through with the plan that ended with that financial payoff. the question is, this is all looking like a lot of dysfunctional, so the question for a lot of church leaders is, when are you going to sort it out? but there is another question being posed to the leaders of the church of england, certainly posed by the post resigned at the above that report, who was brave enough to speak to us, but it's been posed by other people, which is, when you say you couldn't remove appraised who had been assessed to pose a risk, are you really saying you are not brave enough to do that? that is the real question for a lot of people.

thank you. hopes remain that planned talks in the middle east this week could pave the way for a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas. and a deal is seen as a way of avoiding a wider escalation of the conflict, involving iran. but on the ground, the war in gaza continues, with israel claiming to have killed around 100 hamas fighters in rafah in southern gaza in recent days, and palestinian medics saying i9 people died in israeli airstrikes today, with four—day—old twins, their mother and grandmother reported to be among the dead. lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. for four days, mohammed abu al-qumsan was a father. this day will haunt him for ever. the day he left his newborn twins, ayssel and asser, at home with their mother, while he went to collect their birth certificates, and returned to find them killed in a strike on their building in deir al balah.

today, he prepared to bury them. a new parent, comforted like a child. "i didn't even have time to celebrate them", he said. gaza's health ministry says 115 infants, including ayssel and asser, have been born and killed during this war. we asked the israeli army why the twins' family home was bombed and are waiting for a response. fighting has continued across the gaza strip, with both israel and hamas under fresh pressure to agree a ceasefire deal to calm spiralling regional threats. today, hamas released this video which it said showed rockets being launched from gaza towards tel aviv. israel's army said one had crossed into israeli territory and fallen into the sea.

in the southern city of khan younis, displaced residents, not long returned, fled artillery and air strikes again. "who will breast—feed this baby?" one resident cried over the ruins of a building. "all her family were killed, even her mother." reem abu hayyah, three months old, was pulled from the rubble, bruised and battered, the only survivor of an air strike that her grandmother says killed her parents and eight siblings, along with ten other people. translation: they are the terrorists, the ones| that kill children. they are supported by america. out of 20 people, this one is the only one left. the focus on gaza now is shrinking as the threat of regional conflict grows. but each child left without a family, each father left without his children, is adding to the long shadow of this war.

lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. and katie razzall will have more on the middle east, and concern around an iranian attack on israel, on newsnight on bbc two shortly. yes, with america toss top diplomat cancelling his trip to the middle east, we will get expert opinion from washington about what happens now. is iranian assault imminent and how will israel and the world respond? that's newsnight at 10:30pm on bbc two. a 13—year—old girl has pleaded guilty to violent disorder outside a hotel housing migrants in aldershot in hampshire. she's among dozens of people appearing in court today, following widespread violence sparked by the fatal stabbing of three girls in southport. daniel sandford has more. yes, the courts are still seeing a blizzard of cases linked to the riots and disorder of the last two weeks, with more than 350 people now charged

and over 120 convicted. today's most unusual case dated to the violence in aldershot on the 31st ofjuly, at the potters international hotel, where asylum seekers were being housed. with her parents sitting in court, a 13—year—old girl pleaded guilty to violent disorder. she was not sentenced today and was given bail. the other notable cases included john honey, who among other things admitted looting a lush cosmetics store in hull, and 19—year—old drew jarvis, jailed for three years for throwing bricks and burning arrows at police, at a hotel housing asylum seekers near rotherham. this man, philip prescott, seen at the riot in southport bringing missiles in a bin and throwing them at the police, was jailed for two years and four months. of the charges so far, more than 200 have been for violent disorder, which carries a maximum sentence of five years,

and 30 have been for allegedly assaulting police officers. of the more than 50 sentences passed already, the average length has been two years, with the highest three years, four months. and remember, those arejust the cases where people have pleaded guilty. people who are contesting the charges will get significantly longer sentences if later found guilty by a jury. a 32—year—old man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder, after an 11—year—old girl was stabbed in london's leicester square. ioan pintaru, who's a romanian national of no fixed address, is alleged to have held the girl in a headlock and stabbed her eight times. he was remanded in custody to appear at the old bailey next month. a review into the care of a man who killed three people in nottingham last year has found what it calls "a series of errors, omissions and misjudgments" in the way he was treated.

valdo calocane was psychotic and suffering from paranoid delusions. the care quality commission says if the system doesn't change, there's still a risk to public safety. calocane admitted fatally stabbing ian coates, barnaby webber and grace o'malley—kumar lastjune, and is serving an indefinite hospital order for manslaughter. here's alison holt. for the families of those who were killed by valdo calocane, the aftermath has been grief—stricken and raw. it's been impossible to understand what happened. i can't even comprehend how i'm going to deal with it. and all they were doing was walking home. they wanted answers, and today's report finally sets out the failings in calocane's care that led to that terrible day in nottingham injune 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. barnaby webber�*s mother says the report shows gross systemic failings. it's so clear that there are so many missed opportunities, so many... so much bad decision—making. i would say it's inevitable that, had people done theirjobs properly, then there's a very strong chance barnaby would be alive today. the son of ian coates also believes better care might have changed what calocane did. ifjobs were done properly and these opportunities weren't missed and were dealt with properly and he got the help he needed at an early stage, it might have gone in a different direction. 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, i and that opportunities to mitigate. that risk were missed by the team. i 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 o'malley—kumar�*s parents say it is needed to hold people to account, and today the health secretary confirmed that the prime minister

remains committed to a judge—led inquiry. 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. - nottinghamshire healthcare foundation trust says it accepts the coc report, and that it's doing everything in its power to learn from what happened and to improve. alison holt, bbc news. the democratic nominee for the white house, kamala harris, is preparing for her party's national convention next week, and is hoping for a further boost to her campaign. her rival donald trump is coming under increasing pressure, to find a way to slow her momentum in the race, and last night spent two hours in conversation with fellow billionaire, elon musk, on his social media platform called x,

whoich was formerly twitter. which was formerly twitter. sarah smith has that story. this technical fail for over a0 minutes was a poor start for a candidate badly in need of a hard reset. for the last three weeks, donald trump has struggled to adapt his campaign to his new opponent, kamala harris. he clearly wishes he was still running againstjoe biden, whom he repeatedly accused of being senile, and now he's complaining about him being removed as the democrats' candidate. 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." mr trump insisted america needs a tough and intimidating leader, suggesting that would have stopped president putin from invading ukraine. and again, i said to vladimir putin, i said, "don't do it. you can't do it, vladimir. you do it, it's going to be a bad day. you cannot do it." and i told him things that... what i'd do, and he said,

"no way," and i said, "way". donald trump did describe kamala harris as a radical left lunatic, who he says is soft on crime and immigration, but he's not yet settled on a consistent line of attack. i call her laughing kamala. have you ever watched her laugh? she's crazy. lying kamala is also a total radical. he's been questioning her racial identity instead of discussing her policies. she was always of indian heritage and she was only promoting indian heritage. i didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. she has in fact always called herself black, and this was reminiscent of the lies mr trump directed at barack obama when he was running for president. kamala harris is currently enjoying a significant surge in the opinion polls, overtaking donald trump nationally and in key swing states. this remarkable and fairly surprising political honeymoon may not last all the way until the election, but it has certainly wrong—footed donald trump for now. and when we fight, we win!

god bless you, and god bless america. vice president harris is so far playing it safe on the campaign trail. there are no radical policy ideas — it's all uplifting slogans and optimistic promises. but it does seem to be working for voters who wanted a fresh choice and see her as a candidate for change. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. in india, thousands of doctors have taken to the streets in a strike over workplace safety, prompted by the alleged rape and killing of a young female doctor in a hospital in west bengal. thousands of medical appointments have been put on hold, and the strike action could spread nationwide. from dehli, umang poddar reports. chanting: we want... justice! _ out on the streets after launching an indefinite strike — doctors protesting in response to the alleged rape and murder of one of their colleagues, a 31—year—old trainee doctor at a hospital in the city of kolkata in west bengal.

they are angry and want action. translation: our first demand is that there should _ be a judicial inquiry. the culprits should be arrested. there has been one arrest, but we don't have any further updates. and whether there were any others involved along with him. the demonstrations are spreading. they demand justice and better workplace security. many say they don't feel safe doing theirjobs. translation: whether it is this | hospital or any other hospital, | you will see the same scenario, that of an unsafe environment. we do our duties despite the unsafe environment. so far, police have arrested one person. i visited three big government hospitals in delhi and spoke to a dozen female doctors and nurses during the night shift. all of them said that hospitals were an unsafe space to work, especially at night. they complained that anybody could walk into the hospital without any security checks, and patients and their families sometimes turn violent. opposition leaders have demanded an independent investigation into the incident.

across india, queues are growing, with some now calling for a total nationwide shutdown until their concerns are addressed. umang poddar, bbc news, delhi. the huge wildfires in greece that have been threatening the capital, athens, have been brought under control. at least one person has died, while dozens have been injured and thousands of have had to leave their homes. here's jessica parker. shadows in the night as this monster blaze ripped into the outskirts of athens. whether a firefighter, soldier or citizen, they tried to contain the flames. now, with daylight, this is what's left. thanassis, a stone merchant, leafs through the scorching hot wreckage of his business. he fears there's up to £25,000 worth of damage.

translation: the fire | passed through and burnt all the wooden pallets. everything that was here is now useless. pallets, marble, tiles and even further beyond. everything is garbage now. as water bombers work to douse hotspots from on high, on the ground, there's anguish. and while everything was happening, even our school burnt down. all of our memories were there. it'sjust a couple of metres down the line. marina despairs that greece goes through this time and again. the fire department is so underfunded. it has nothing to do with personal responsibility and everything to do with how the government is handling this. and the answer is that it's simply not. it's not handling it. the authorities say their response was rapid in the face of extreme conditions, including drought. down there, you can see the path of the fire as it burned its way to the city of athens, the heat and high winds the perfect conditions to allow

the blaze to spread. this is a city that, over decades, has sprawled its way into the hills and forests. unwise, say some, in an area populated with highly flammable pine trees, while countries like greece also grapple with rising temperatures. the whole mediterranean is a hotspot of climate change. we have an estimate that more than 100 square kilometres were burned by this fire during the last two days. i think it is among or maybe the largest wildfire in the greater athens area in the last ten years. as layers of ash blanket the ground, the fire service says there are now no active blazes here, but the wildfire has left fresh scars on this landscape that mark a familiar agony for greece. jessica parker, bbc news, in athens. running was just a lockdown hobby for rose harvey from worcestershire.

but her passion took her all the way to the olympics in paris, competing for team gb in the marathon on sunday. but it wasn't to be a dream ending to herjourney, with the 31—year—old now revealing that she ran with a broken leg. here's sophie raworth. this was not the way rose harvey wanted her olympic debut to end. her training had been going perfectly, she was in the best shape of her life, but three weeks ago, her hip suddenly felt tight, and despite treatment, it didn't get better. it was going to get worse in the marathon. we knew that, we knew the risk, but there was a good chance that it would get me through and i would be able to run a pretty decent race and actually do my training justice. so that was the glimmer of hope that i was holding onto going into the olympics. ..as the women's olympic marathon gets under way. two miles in, it started to hurt. by six miles, rose was

falling behind the pack, and she was on her own. already, rose harveyjust dropping off that group, that big group there. just kind of seeing your dreams slip away from you, it literally feels like it's slipping through your fingers as they go on. any other race, i would have stopped, because i wasn't able to run the race i wanted to, and the pain was really bad, but ijust had to get to that finish line, i had to do the olympic marathon. that's it, girl! out on the course was rose's fiance charlie, who was urging her on. less than 2k left now. i know it hurts. it hurts, but you're good. every mile, ijust thought, "right, just run to charlie. run to when i can see him next, when i can see my friends and family next." i knew deep down, if i stopped, i would always wonder, what if ijust could have run an extra mile? and i wouldn't be able to live with that. she crossed the finish line in two hours and 51 minutes on what turned

out to be a broken leg. i'm not sure it's the sensible thing to do, to run on a fractured leg, but it's just different for the olympics. we're going to have charlie and rose enter the venue and then also to the church... her next big challenge is very soon. she and charlie are getting married at the end of august. it might be charlie walking down the aisle at this rate! you'll be at the altar? yeah! and as for her running, she'll be on crutches for a while, but rose says she'll be back next year stronger and faster. incredible determination. in case you missed it, there's another chance tonight to see one of the night sky's most beautiful sights. this was north yorkshire last night, when the perseid meteor shower and the northern lights combined to dramatic effect. the meteor display will be active until august 24th.

plenty of time to catch it. time for the weather. here's darren.