french media report that pavel durov, the russian founder of the telegram messaging service, has been arrested after his private jet landed in paris. hello. i'm carl nasman. we begin with breaking news this hour — israel says it is launching strikes on lebanon to prevent a large—scale attack by hezbollah. the israeli military posted this on x, saying: these are live pictures of the scene from israel into lebanon. you can see the sun beginning to rise in the region. lebanese civilians have been warned to immediately leave

areas where hezbollah is operating. those warnings coming from the idf. sirens are sounding in northern israel. according to reporting by the us outlet axios, over the last 48 hours, the us and israel obtained intelligence that showed hezbollah was preparing to launch its attack imminently. this comes after hezbollah said in recent weeks that it was preparing to launch an attack against israel in retaliation for the assassination of its top military commander in beirut by israel. here's the idf spokesperson daniel hagari speaking a short while ago. a short while ago the idf identified hezbollah terrorist organisation appearing to fire missiles, rockets towards israeli territory. in a self defence act remove these threats, the idf is striking terror targets in lebanon planning to launch their

attacks on israeli civilians. this was more than 6700 rockets, sales and explosives fired by hezbollah at israeli families, homes and communities since eighth of october. hezbollah will soon fire rockets and possibly missiles towards israeli territory. we will shortly update the homefront and defensive guidelines for those in israel. from right next to the homes of lebanese civilians in the south of lebanon, we can see that hezbollah is preparing to launch an extensive attack on israel while endangering the lebanese civilians. we want the civilians located in the areas where hezbollah is operating to move out of arm's way immediately for their own safety. hezbollah was not owing going aggression risks dragging the people of lebanon, the people of israel in the whole region into a wider escalation.

israel will not tolerate his�*s attacks on our civilians. we are operating in self defence from hezbollah and any other enemy thatjoins in their attacks against us, and we are ready to do everything... everything we need to defend the people of israel. daniel hagari speaking there arejust a short daniel hagari speaking there are just a short while ago. a few other reportsjust are just a short while ago. a few other reports just coming in here on that breaking news. israeli media now reporting flights to and from tel aviv have been suspended. that is of course due to the security situation there, israeli military thing warning sirens have been sounding in northern israel, and more reporting, this is of course coming from the us outlet axios, we are working to verify that here at the bbc, by senior officials saying israel informed the united states in advance of its pre—emptive strike in lebanon.

tensions between israel and hezbollah have been at a recent high since israel started strikes on gaza following the attacks by hamas in israel on october 7. israel and hezbollah have exchanged fire across the israel—lebanon frontier for several months. you can see pictures here of israel intercepting rockets fired from lebanon just on friday. the raids have killed people in both lebanon and israel. thousands of people on both sides of the border have fled their homes to stay clear of shelling and air raids. israel's killing of senior hezbollah commander fuad shukr in beirut onjuly 30 further inflamed tensions between the two sides with hezbollah�*s secretary general hassan nasrallah vowing a retaliatory response to the assassination. of course we are hearing from his rather they believe that retaliation could now be imminent. we will stay on top of that breaking news for you here on bbc news. israeli air strikes in southern gaza killed at least three dozen people on saturday. that's according to palestinian hospital officials. images and videos reviewed

by the bbc confirm children are among those who were killed. nasser hospital in khan younis said it had received 33 bodies from three air strikes in the city. another hospital said it received three bodies from a separate air raid. the israeli army said it is investigating the reports. the idf also announced that four of its soldiers were killed in gaza on friday. hamas is sending a delegation to cairo, saying they will "listen in on" ceasefire talks that are resuming this week. we will have to see how this current breaking news might affect those talks. the israeli spy chief will reportedly attend the talks. major differences still remain between israel and hamas on reaching a deal. our other top story is in germany. authorities say they've arrested a man suspected of carrying out a mass stabbing in the city of solingen on friday evening, which left three people dead and eight injured. german media reports say the suspect handed himself in to a police patrol.

this brings the total number of people detained in connection with the attack to three, including a 15—year—old on suspicion of having been in contact with the perpetrator before the attack. the islamic state group have claimed responsibility for the attack, but have provided no evidence, and earlier on saturday, police were seen raiding police were seen raiding a property usually a home for refugees in the city of solingen. the premier of the german state of north rhine—westphalia said the attack was an "act of terror." translation: we do not know everything yet. - we do not know much yet. but we do know one thing — this attack has struck at the heart of our country. this attack was intended to spread terror. terror among people who were celebrating peacefully together. i spoke with dw news reporter jared reed who's in berlin. he is director of research. his claims of responsibility in this attack. good to have you

here on bbc news. the islamic state planning this knife attack in germany not providing evidence. what you make of the claim itself? i evidence. what you make of the claim itself?— claim itself? i take the claim is credible. _ claim itself? i take the claim is credible. this _ claim itself? i take the claim is credible. this is _ claim itself? i take the claim is credible. this is the latest| is credible. this is the latest in a series of attacks by the islamic state given where it took place, this has emerged into something of a terrorist hub over the past year. i had a piece in welfare last week where we looked at islamic state course on recruiting heavily here, attempting to push radicalised individuals over the edge and inspire them to commit attacks in their name, and i don't want to speak to soon on the angle, but certainly islamic state is behind this and we could be heading in that direction. what heading in that direction. what ou make heading in that direction. what you make of — heading in that direction. what you make of this _ heading in that direction. what you make of this method - heading in that direction. what you make of this method of. you make of this method of attack, a knife attack on a large celebration there, if this indeed was islamic state group, does a knife attack kind of fit in with some of their

methods and ways that they carry out these sorts of terror attacks? ~ . . carry out these sorts of terror attacks? ~ u, , carry out these sorts of terror attacks? ~ , ., , attacks? we can be fairly certain it _ attacks? we can be fairly certain it was _ attacks? we can be fairly certain it was isis - attacks? we can be fairly certain it was isis that i certain it was isis that inspire this individual. it is both pragmatic given the weapons available and opportunistic and they are really seeking to capitalise, there was an arrest of a 15—year—old, when i believe he is the perpetrator but he knew of the attack, they have been going after kids that are incredibly young, 13, 14, 15 years old. some of them are radicalised from tiktok and isis is inspiring them to launch attacks. even if they are just a knife attack or the numbers are low in terms of that, that is largely reflective of the weapons that are available in germany. interestingly, the last of fact isis claimed in germany was a vehicle attack going back several years, so i think we are on the cusp of another

object right now in attack in western europe. we have seen more plotting now that the olympics are over in paris, isis will get back to continuing to try to inspire teenagers to launch one of attacks throughout western europe and north america. i5 europe and north america. is that a new tactic by the islamic state group, targeting younger kids? it seems in terms of what you are saying that they are really leveraging social media sites, something like tiktok. in social media sites, something like tiktok.— like tiktok. in some ways it is all iuite like tiktok. in some ways it is all quite new, _ like tiktok. in some ways it is all quite new, they _ like tiktok. in some ways it is all quite new, they have - like tiktok. in some ways it is. all quite new, they have always used social media platforms, they have relied on encrypted platforms to attempt to communicate with people. i think it is more of a reflection on the acts themselves that tiktok has been increasingly used by younger folks. they have picked up on that people talk about the kind of hipster where it is the preachers that are radicalised but they are also kind of speaking the language of today's youth. we have also got the israel hummus conflict that is really raising the

temperature —— hamas. that makes attacks across the west more likely because of the images we are seeing daily come out of gaza of dead palestinian civilians. ., ., , , civilians. that was my next question. _ civilians. that was my next question, how _ civilians. that was my next question, how linked - civilians. that was my next question, how linked is - civilians. that was my next question, how linked is a l question, how linked is a situation we are seeing in the middle east when it comes to the israel hamas walk to acts of terror and islamic state group? we know is the groups houthis. is that link as well? the conflict itself is an accelerant. it kind of his just fodder for accelerant. it kind of his just fodderfor some of accelerant. it kind of his just fodder for some of these other attacks, for people that have grievances, people that are radicalised or going down the path of radicalisation. it is another ember on the fire, and what we see, these images coming up daily, pretty horrific and gory images, certainly contributes to the broader sense of radicalisation when you have people that are kind of poking and prodding up young folks trying to push them

towards action, result of what we have recently in germany and several parts disrupted in europe this calendar year alone. ., ., . ., europe this calendar year alone. ., ., ., alone. you touched on some of the other— alone. you touched on some of the other incidents _ alone. you touched on some of the other incidents recently - alone. you touched on some of the other incidents recently in l the other incidents recently in europe, there is also this incident at a russian penal colony on friday that was also claimed by the islamic state group, just before i let you 90, group, just before i let you go, does it feel to you like the group has now become a bit more active in recent months? without question. the frequency, the operational tempo, we have seen some pretty high profile attacks, just again in 2024, the attack on iran, the attack in istanbul, obviously the moscow attack and then several foiled plots throughout western europe. it is isis now kind of on the move, they feel a sense of momentum and this is happening at the same time that the united states and its allies are overly focused on great power competition, china,

russia, so it is a perfect storm and i am very concerned about what we will see in the lead up to the us presidential election and really throughout the rest of the year. lei, election and really throughout the rest of the year.— the rest of the year. a quick u date the rest of the year. a quick update we _ the rest of the year. a quick update we are _ the rest of the year. a quick update we are getting - the rest of the year. a quick update we are getting in - the rest of the year. a quick| update we are getting in the last few minutes on the attack, this is coming in a joint press release from the dusseldorf list department, a major city nearby, confirming that a 26—year—old male to turn himself into the investigating authorities. that suspect that he was responsible for the attack and was arrested. this person's involvement in the time is now currently being intensively investigated. it is coming from dusseldorf. french media reports saying the tech millionaire was detained at a nearby airport. they say the tech billionaire was detained at le bourget airport after his private jet landed from azerbaijan.

there's been no confirmation from the authorities. those media reports say mr durov is accused of refusing to cooperate with investigations into the use of telegram by criminals. the encrypted messaging service has hundreds of millions of users worldwide. mr durov left russia a decade ago after falling out with the authorities and had been living in the united arab emirates. darren loucaides is a freelance journalist who has been writing extensively about telegram since 2021. i asked him about pavel durov and telegram's approach to moderation on the platform. pavel durov�*s attitude towards speech online since his early days has been that speech should not be censored. very much a sort of free speech zealot. there is not this sort of huge moderation apparatus on telegram

as there has evolved to be on meta's platgforms, facebook and instagram. they do claim when there are big breaking stories and events such as in gaza when the conflict broke out last year that they moderate channels, including hamas's channels and take down calls to violence. experts tell me that they are very slow to react to illegal content on the platform. despite claims to take down incites for violence, brazil's sao paulo state has been hit by a devastating series of wildfires that are affecting or threatening 30 cities within the region. the fires, fuelled by an ongoing spell of dry, hot weather have already killed two people. the state government has

created an emergency committee to handle the fires. our latin america news reporter mimi swaby has been taking a closer look at why the fires have been so bad. temperatures and really low humidity have been stoking these dangerous fire conditions across the state, and this is a state that has suffered a prolonged drought. officials also are concerned that forest fires will spread rapidly due to high winds, so this could really engulf and destroy huge areas of natural vegetation. the wildfires season usually peaks in august and september in brazil, however, this year, the wildfires started unusually early in late may, in the world's largest wetlands, and this destroyed huge areas of a precious ecosystem. but this is just the latest in an ongoing saga for brazil with extreme weather going from fires to recently again a few months ago once—in—a—century flooding

in the southernmost state which claimed more than 170 lives. so many different extreme weather issues which are suffocating large parts of brazil, but at this moment in time, fires are the top priority on the agenda. nasa says two astronauts stranded on the international space station after their boeing spacecraft ran into trouble will not return to earth until february 2025. sunita williams and barry wilmore will be brought back on a space x dragon capsule instead. their mission had been expected to lastjust eight days before the boeing starliner was affected by a string of problems. the stricken spacecraft will be brought back earlier without the crew. boeing released a statement, saying: "we continue to focus, first and foremost, "on the safety of the crew and spacecraft. "we are executing the mission as determined by nasa, "and we are preparing the spacecraft for a safe "and successful uncrewed return." i spoke with leroy chiao,

a former nasa astronaut and engineer. first of all, can you put us inside the heads of these two astronauts who went to space expecting to be there for eight days and now it looks like they will be there instead for eight months? sure, of course nobody likes surprises, especially big surprises like this. having said that, astronauts like being in space, and although butch and suni were looking at an 8—10 day mission which had blossomed into over two months and now it's looking like it will be eight months. having said that, they're also professionals, professionals who have flown long durations in the iss before. they know how to operate the vehicle and how to do most of the experiments, and they have already been pitching in, so essentially they are getting a longerflight. the only thing is they were not expecting it.

i'm sure it impacted some other part of their lives. but they are adjusting very well and i think they will do great. you wonder if anybody left a carton of milk in the refrigerator or something like that! just going back to the spacecraft itself, we heard the statement from boeing, and nasa has spoken about it as well. what do you make of the decision here to essentially keep the astronauts there until a different spacecraft can come and get them? is this being overly cautious or do you think it is the right decision? i think it is absolutely the right decision and nobody in the business is surprised by that. starliner has been behind schedule and have a lot of technical and budget problems, finally got into space and then suffered these failures on the thrusters, they seem fairly minor. testing — they were unable to come up with a root cause, they saw some disturbing problems related to overheating and apparently parts of the spacecraft around the propulsion system are getting hotter than they had expected and so it is causing some potential problems with the seals.

so this was the right decision. so this was the right decision. in an emergency, you would do in an emergency, you would do that risk—to—reward that risk—to—reward and, of course, try to and, of course, try to bring them down on starliner. bring them down on starliner. although now the decision has although now the decision has been made that they will wait been made that they will wait and prepare the dragon and prepare the dragon that is up there, that is up there, the spacex vehicle to come back the spacex vehicle to come back with six instead of four. with six instead of four. in this period of time in this period of time between when the starliner between when the starliner is undocked in september is undocked in september to come down without people to come down without people on board on board and then the crew 9 comes and then the crew 9 comes up, which will also be will still happen. up, which will also be the vehicle that brings the vehicle that brings the astronauts down the astronauts down in february. in february. i have a question about the starliner — i have a question about the starliner — it will go back it will go back to earth unmanned. first of all, how to earth unmanned. is that possible? secondly, i know everyone was secondly, i know everyone was excited because the starliner excited because the starliner was going to make a different was going to make a different sort of landing sort of landing from what you usually see. from what you usually see. is it still going to happen, is it still going to happen, will they get the chance will they get the chance to try that out? to try that out? yes, starliner will land yes, starliner will land in utah at the landing zone in utah at the landing zone there on the ground there on the ground

and so i believe that and so i believe that will still happen. it took them literally a while, i mean, two months to come up with a software patch, upload it and test it on the vehicle because previously it did not have the capability to come down autonomously. but now they believe they can bring it down. so the plan is to undock the starliner some time in september and go ahead and bring it back probably for that land landing. this was the first attempt for boeing for a crewed mission and it has not exactly gone according to plan. where do you think this leaves boeing now and its attempts to catch up to spacex and get its own space programme going? no question, a big black eye for boeing. they are behind schedule, over budget. boeing to date has spent about $1.6 billion of its own money to keep the starliner and get it going again to where it is now.

now, they will have to try to fix the problem, it will undoubtedly involve some redesign, they will have to shoulder the bulk of that cost. and nasa may contribute a little, but by and large they're on the hook with a contract to develop a working vehicle and nasa wants starliner to be successful because nasa wants more than just one source or one provider to bring astronauts to and from iss. spacex has been successful, almost four years in doing that. nasa is eager to bring starliner online as well. turning to the breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. israel says it's launched a wave of air strikes against hezbollah in lebanon after detecting plans for a large—scale attack. hezbollah says in a statement that it began attack on israel with a large number of drones in response israel's killing of a top commander in a beirut suburb last month onjuly 30/

these are live pictures of the scene from israel looking into lebanon. this is a view of southern lebanon. lebanese civilians have been warned to immediately leave areas where hezbollah is operating. we know the airport authority is saying the international airport has temporarily suspended its operations. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is expected to convene the security cabinet at 7am local time — that is in around half an hour's time. the context to all of this, you may recall, is that tensions escalated sharply after israel killed a hezbollah commander in beirut almost a month ago. i want to repay for you now, this is just i want to repay for you now, this isjust coming in i want to repay for you now, this is just coming in a i want to repay for you now, this isjust coming in a matter of minutes ago. the idf spokesperson daniel hagari speaking on the situation. a short while ago, the idf identified hezbollah terrorist organisation preparing

to fire missiles, rockets towards israeli territory. in a self—defence act to remove these threats, the idf is striking terror targets in lebanon planning to launch their attacks on israeli civilians. this follows was more than 6,700 rockets, and explosives fired by hezbollah at israeli families, homes and communities since 8 october. hezbollah will soon fire rockets and possibly missiles towards israeli territory. we will shortly update the homefront and defensive guidelines for those in israel. from right next to the homes of lebanese civilians in the south of lebanon, we can see that hezbollah is preparing to launch an extensive attack on israel while endangering the lebanese civilians. we warned the civilians located in the areas where hezbollah is operating

to move out of harm's way immediately for their own safety. hezbollah�*s ongoing aggression risks dragging the people of lebanon, the people of israel in the whole region into a wider escalation. israel will not tolerate hezbollah�*s attacks on our civilians. we are operating in self—defence from hezbollah and any other enemy thatjoins ready to do everything...everything we need to defend the people of israel.

attack, which it says has that attack, which it says has begun to take place today. israeli media also reporting flights to and from tel aviv have been suspended. warning sirens have sounded in northern israel, we know the feminist netanyahu will be ordering a security cabinet meeting in a matter of minutes. israeli defence minister has also now declared a homefront emergency and we have also heard from hezbollah saying it will take some time to complete its response. that is later is now coming from hezbollah. we will hand over to our colleagues in london. they will have the letters on the developing story for us right here on bbc news, so stay tuned. hello there. it looks like it's going to get warmer next week, particularly for southeastern parts of the uk. quite cool, though, for these areas in particular on saturday where we had the cloud and rain. a weather front has taken the wet weather away, but there's more weather systems to come in from the atlantic to bring some rain in from the west,

together with some stronger winds on sunday. it's quite cool air still, so temperatures are going to be on the low side to start with. some early sunshine in the east, it does cloud over, though, from the west, with some rain coming in mainly for the northern half of the uk. briefly some rain in wales and the southwest before it clears up in the afternoon. not much rain heading into the midlands, it should stay dry towards the southeast. the winds will pick up a bit. not as strong as they were a few days ago, but gusts of 40mph — wales, the midlands and northern england. and whilst it's going to be a bit warmer than it was on saturday in the southeast with some sunshine, further north, those temperatures really will struggle under the rain and quite a poor day here. late in the day, that rain will start to ease off a bit, and then we look out into the atlantic, more weather systems to arrive much later on monday. so, on the whole, monday looks a better day. we want to see early showers in the southeast and still some cloud left for northern england,

northern ireland and scotland with one or two spots of rain. but many places will be dry, there'll be some spells of sunshine, probably not quite as windy, i think, on monday either. and so it's going to feel a bit warmer. temperatures will be a bit higher. nothing startling, but still could make the low 20s across eastern parts of england. and then these weather systems will bring some rain into the northwest overnight. we'll keep some wet weather going into tuesday, but the rain isn't going to move very far. it's getting blocked by that large area of high pressure, and that will allow the temperatures to rise ahead of the weather front, which is bringing the rain. there will be some rain, though, on tuesday for scotland and northern ireland — could be a bit heavy over the hills as well. slowly, that rain will push its way over the irish sea into northern and western parts of england and wales. but ahead of that, the midlands, towards the southeast, dry, some sunshine. here, it's starting to warm up with temperatures back into the mid 20s, but where we've got cloud and rain further north and west, temperatures will be pegged at 18—20 degrees. and those numbers won't change here on wednesday. we've still got the rain around, it's not moving very far,

but it allows the heat to build across the midlands and some eastern parts of england. voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour,

siren wail it was the worst rioting for more than a decade. chanting: get this | scum off our streets! get this scum off our streets! a week of mayhem in our towns and cities. # tommy, tommy, tommy robinson! mobs whipped up by the far right on social media. you've allowed people into our towns and cities that are raping their way through our towns! they're murdering our kids left, right and centre! so, why did so many take to the streets? you can have just a rip in the social fabric and everyone's anger and frustrations come pouring out. it just takes one person to pick up a brick. and how can the government stop it happening again? it breaks my heart that, - once again, i am having to make the case for why. this is my country.

southport, three weeks ago — a scene of unimaginable horror. my officers were called to reports of a stabbing. multiple people, many of whom were children, had been subjected to a ferocious attack. a teenager armed with a knife attacked a taylor swift dance workshop. he brought one of the girls out the building and she didn't look good at all. poor kid. three children — bebe king, elsie dot stancombe, and alice da silva aguiar — were killed. eight other children seriously injured.

two adults stabbed trying to save them.