hello and welcome to bbc news. israel says its forces have rescued a hostage from an underground tunnel in gaza after being held for more than 10 months. 52—year—old qaid farhan al—kadi is a bedouin arab and was found in the southern part of the strip. he was abducted in the hamas attacks on october 7. israel says he was rescued in what they are calling a complex operation. lucy williamson sent this report from the soroka medical centre in southern israel. surrounded again by sunlight, by the sound of hebrew. farhan alkadi, a 52—year—old bedouin israeli, snatching a second chance at life. crouched on the floor of a military helicopter, after 326 days in captivity, a smile.

the start of his journey back home. at israel's soroka hospital, his last few moments in hiding. a wall of israeli soldiers shielding him from the world he left ten months ago. from a tunnel in gaza to an israeli ambulance in a couple of hours. his family racing the last few metres to greet him. thin and pale but staff said in a good and stable condition. translation: it is difficult to explain how it feels. - it is better than having a newborn. we thank god and we thank everyone and hope to see him healthy. we're very happy, very happy. israel's prime minister called to welcome him home, keen to be part of his release. we cannot go into many details of this special operation

but i can share that israeli commandos rescued qaid farhan alkadi from an underground tunnel following accurate intelligence. the army has described this as a complex operation based on precise intelligence but there are persistent reports here of a more nuanced story, even that farhan alkadi may have escaped his captors himself. tonight, a senior military official confirmed that troops had found him in a tunnel, alone. last week, israel brought back the bodies of six other hostages. the funeral of one, haim perry, was held in israel today. the joy of one family and the grief of another. a trickle of hostages returning as more than 100 others, and a ceasefire deal, remain stubbornly out of reach. lucy williamson, bbc news, soroka hospital,

southern israel. farhan al—kadi is the eighth hostage rescued by israeli forces since the start of the war in gaza. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said he was working to secure the release of all the remaining hostages. but a group campaigning for those still held said that though this rescue had been "miraculous," military operations alone could not free the remaining captives and that a ceasefire deal was needed. the united nations says gaza aid operations are suspended following israeli evacuation orders monday. diseases have also spread in gaza as sewage contaminates camps and coast and there are also concerns of a polio outbreak after a 10 month old baby was partially paralysed after contracting the illness. aid workers warn that with the humanitarian pause the rollout of vaccines could be hindered. joining me live is mara kronenfeld, the executive

director unrwa usa. thank you forjoining us again on bbc news. it would appear that hopes of a peace deal coming soon are crumbling somewhat. what does that mean a practical sense for the people in gaza? figs practical sense for the people in gaza? �* , practical sense for the people ingaza? ,. , in gaza? as you described, the situation is _ in gaza? as you described, the situation is prophetic _ in gaza? as you described, the situation is prophetic and - situation is prophetic and right now our colleagues on the ground at unrwa have essentially been exposed from the area, they and other humanitarian workers were in and frankly the humanitarian infrastructure in the centre of gaza has been forced out along with some 250,000 people as israel has evacuated or exposed people from these areas. when humanitarian people are removed

from the area, or the services they provide are also removed. hospitals have to bring down our health centres as well as food distribution sites, shelters and more and more we are seeing a population basically 1.7 million almost, the vast majority of the population in gaza being pushed into an area which is about 11% of gaza, with population density of some early— 40,000 per square kilometre. we are extremely worried about polio and the outbreak of other disease in what is a situation on imaginable, where sewerage is building up everywhere and you cannot even see any space on the ground, that is how dense the population is. you said your _ dense the population is. you said your team _ dense the population is. you said your team have - dense the population is. you said your team have been expeued said your team have been expelled as part of that evacuation order and they ceased operations that would have they been able to reactivate operations in other parts of gaza?—

parts of gaza? there are absolutely _ parts of gaza? there are absolutely operations i parts of gaza? there are absolutely operations in | parts of gaza? there are - absolutely operations in other parts of gaza but these 250,000 people were being served in the centre of gaza by staff from unrwa as well as other agencies and right now those activities have had to stop because the humanitarian agencies cannot simply rebuild the health centres and the distribution of food and medical supplies and rebuild shelters. this is a sandy area along the mediterranean sea, there is no infrastructure there and with sanitation, no sanitation with raw sewage, trash piling up and now with polio, we are extremely concerned for the population there and... find population there and... and when you — population there and... and when you mentioned - population there and... and when you mentioned polio, just tojump in, we have seen the world health organization organising for the delivery of well over 1 organising for the delivery of well over1 million organising for the delivery of well over 1 million vaccines. what can you tell us about the

progress of that programme? yes, so we understand there are over a million vaccines available, the problem is that vaccines have to be given twice alsop there are two dosages that need to be given and they need to be given in the midst of a relatively static population which means that there needs to be a ceasefire. that is to be a disruption in the bombardment, populations need to be able to stay put so that 1008 workers can come to where they are and provide the vaccines. if there is no ceasefire than the chance of the vaccines getting to enough people to reach herd immunity is very unlikely. polio doesn't no borders, it's up to everyone's interest to make sure ceasefire so the vaccines can get to the children who need them.— can get to the children who need them. ., ., , ., ., ., need them. how are you going to be able to — need them. how are you going to be able to deliver _ need them. how are you going to be able to deliver vaccines - need them. how are you going to be able to deliver vaccines in - be able to deliver vaccines in that way in terms of keeping track who has had a vaccine and has not had one?— has not had one? that's exactly the reason why _ has not had one? that's exactly the reason why the _ has not had one? that's exactly the reason why the population i the reason why the population needs to be static so that

these 1000 health workers can go and these are all workers from unrwa can go door—to—door, essentially tends to attend and as one central area, khan younis, where those who are not in certain areas can go to the health centre. but that is to be a stop in the bombardment, there needs to be so more forced expulsions and the population needs to be essentially reachable and accountable for this to work. mara kronenfeld, executive director of unrwa usa, thank you joining us on bbc news. here in the us, thejustice department has filed new charges against donald trump over his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. the former president has denied election interference allegations, though he's maintained — without evidence — that there was widespread voter fraud. the revised filing was made by special counsel jack smith on tuesday and lays out the same four charges

originally brought against him — though this time they relate to his status as a political candidate. that's after a landmark supreme court ruling injuly granted donald trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. 0ur correspondent carl nasman has more on how the case has evolved. what we thinkjack smith is doing here is trying to revise this case. make sure that it can be something that can hold up to that supreme court ruling that you mentioned. it's changed a bit. so if you want to see the physical results of this, this used to be a 45 page indictment. this is the new one. it's a bit thinner, only 36 pages. so what's missing? well, what's been taken out here are allegations about former president donald trump's official acts in office. remember that supreme court ruling about a month ago or so said that presidents, including donald trump, enjoy this broad immunity for things that they do in office related to their official acts. so some things have been taken out here. anything related to donald trump's conversations

or actions with the us justice department. those could be considered acts as a president. those are now gone. and when you really read this indictment, it actually is interesting to see that some of this has been recast. the narrative is a bit different here. jack smith now talking about the fact that donald trump used his private twitter account, for example, it talks about private acts. it talks about political acts, saying that he was discussing and meeting with his political running mates, of course, his vice president, mike pence at the time. so no longer about his official acts, talking about private acts, talking about political acts. and this is now going to be part of what moves forward. we'll see whether or not this is something that will wrap up or even begin before the november 5th elections — likely won't get started by then. and of course, we all know if donald trump is re—elected, it's very likely he could just take these charges and tell his justice department to wipe them aside and clear the deck altogether. kamala harris and tim walz are expected to give their firstjoint tv interview on thursday after weeks of demands

by the political opponents to hearfrom the pair. republicans have repeatedly accused vice president harris of avoiding interviews since she replaced joe biden on the democratic ticket nearly five weeks ago. the two of them will speak to cnn's dana bash, while on a campaign stop in georgia. two employees at delta airlines have been killed and another seriously injured following accident at the airline's maintenance facility in atlanta. local media are reporting that the pair were killed when a tyre on a plane exploded while it was being removed although the airline has not official commented. the airline said it was co—operating with authorities who are conducting an investigation into what happened. a few other stories we're tracking. ukraine's president has said the incursion into russia's kursk region is part of a victory plan he intends to present to president biden next month. speaking earlier volodymyr zelensky said his country's forces are reported to control

100 settlements in kursk. the us national security adviser is in china for talks with top diplomats in beijing as the two countries work to settle tensions. jake sullivan is holding talks with china's foreign minister wang yi — it's the fourth time in 16 months the pair have met. the last time was injanuary shortly after presidents joe biden and xijinping held their own summit to try and stabilise relations. prior to sullivan's visit, the chinese ministry of foreign affairs highlighted a number of issues expected to be discussed, including taiwan, the south china sea, ukraine and the middle east. president biden has strengthened alliances across asia to combat china's rising influence — ramping up washington's military presence. while mr biden has taken a softer stance on china than his predecessor donald trump — he did not reverse high tariffs on chinese goods implemented by mrtrump. in may, biden ramped up taxes on chinese—made products

like electric cars and solar panels. there's also disagreement between washington and beijing over taiwan. china claims the self—governing island as its own, while president biden and the us support its autonomy. and the countries are also at odds over the war in ukraine. president biden�*s secretary of state, antony blinken, accused china of "helping to fuel the biggest threat" to european security since the cold war. china supplies its ally russia with tools to build weapons it uses in its invasion. the harris campaign hasn't revealed how much her china policy would would mimic that of the biden administration. 0n the republican side, trump has already promised to impose more tariffs on china. but similar to president biden and vice president harris — he's pledged support for china's neighbours in the region under threat. joining me live is miles yu, a seniorfellow and director of the china

center at the hudson institute. he also served as the former china policy and planning advisor to secretary of state mike pompeo. thank you forjoining us once again on bbc news. a long list of achieve balls and topics for discussion from jake sullivan and the white house but what do you think is the goal of this visit? what were described as a success for the us? i visit? what were described as a success for the us?— success for the us? i think for the us it _ success for the us? i think for the us it is — success for the us? i think for the us it is important - success for the us? i think for the us it is important for - success for the us? i think for the us it is important for the l the us it is important for the white house to present to the world particularly to the voting population and the united states a sense of enormously between china and the united states. that's what joe biden�*s team want to do, they want to have a controlled competition related with china. i hope mr solomon would also be a stick to understand that china does not really intend to follow the rules of the competition, to abide by all sorts of rules that both sides would agree on. major issues on

taiwan, the south china sea and ukraine, they are willing to break the rules. we basically need to talk to china about the issues, none of them are really new, they been there for years but this is one of the regular meetings between solomon and wang yi. i don't know whether there will be any kind of breakthrough at all because the issues up endeavour along time. china basically heighten the tension is before any such war, this is the sign of what is going on. this is the sign of what is going on-_ going on. speaking of heightened _ going on. speaking of heightened tensions, | going on. speaking of. heightened tensions, a going on. speaking of - heightened tensions, a lot of the rhetoric from both parties is about how china is bad for americanjobs, bad for the american jobs, bad for the americanjobs, bad for the american middle class. how does jake sullivan count of the narrative in these meetings? first of all, american jobs have been lost to a lot of chinese competitors, and a very unfair way. that issue has been

systematically analysed and dealt with, i thinkjoe biden's team continued the trend from the trumpet ministration. china tried to use this kind ofjob narrative but everyone in washington, dc tends to agree right now that the issue is not one particular policy, its systemic and the fundamental problem is we embrace china which is a nonmarket economy into a market—driven system. that's an issue that the industry will not be able to solve. europeans yourself have said that the relationship you have with china is one of systemic. that is basically more institution than ideological.— more institution than ideological. more institution than ideolouical. ., ., ideological. from what you're sa inc, ideological. from what you're saying. do — ideological. from what you're saying. do you _ ideological. from what you're saying, do you think- ideological. from what you're i saying, do you think regardless of who is president injanuary, tariffs are here to stay? that is a policy shift now, we saw

joe biden keeping the trump tariffs and proposing new ones. we know donald trump wants more of them and we haven't heard much detail from of them and we haven't heard much detailfrom kamala harris about them but one could presume that she won't stray too far from biden presume that she won't stray too farfrom biden policies. in too far from biden policies. in a normative sense, tariffs are bad for free trade. but china is not a market economy so they cannot deal with a country that does not abide by free trade rules and still advocating for this suicidal policy of free trade without any barriers. now when the united states has this problem, europeans, canadians, everyone has the problems so they throw the tariffs on chinese goods which is heavily subsidised and not really that fair trade. that is why it is notjust america having this policy. everyone else betting this problem, the global challenge from china. we saw canada announced _ challenge from china. we saw canada announced it -

challenge from china. we saw canada announced it would i challenge from china. we saw- canada announced it would match america's100% import canada announced it would match america's 100% import tariff on chinese made electric vehicles. i want to talk about taiwan briefly as you said from much of these items are not new to the agenda, they are talked about at every meeting but how much does china listen to a us administration of the issue of taiwan? ., ., , �* administration of the issue of taiwan? ., ., ,�* , ., taiwan? china doesn't listen to an bod taiwan? china doesn't listen to anybody except _ taiwan? china doesn't listen to anybody except itself. - taiwan? china doesn't listen to anybody except itself. taiwan, | anybody except itself. taiwan, china was tries to present a forced narrative that there is only a small clique of diehard pro—independence separatists in taiwan is the problem. an overwhelming majority of people in taiwan for the status quo, which is to facto independence. taiwan is a country governed by itself by strong democratic laws and is clearly separate from china. by pushing forward this forced narrative that china wants to united states to give up its pledge of defence assistant for taiwan and that

has not been successful. the us policy for taiwan has been very consistent from day one, starting with thejune 26, 1950, the day after the korean war,. eversince 1950, the day after the korean war,. ever since that united sets government consistently insisted the us would oppose any attempt to use force to change the status quo has been a policy ever since.— a policy ever since. thank you for speaking _ a policy ever since. thank you for speaking to _ a policy ever since. thank you for speaking to us. _ a policy ever since. thank you for speaking to us. you - a policy ever since. thank you for speaking to us. you very l for speaking to us. you very much. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. sir keir starmer has delivered a major speech vowing to reverse what he's called a "decade of decline" under the previous conservative government. the prime minister warned the budget in october will be "painful" and asked the country to "accept short—term pain for the long—term good". i'll have to turn to the country and make big asks of you as well —

to accept short—term pain for long—term good. the difficult trade—off for the genuine solution. and i know that after all that you have been through, i know it's a really big ask and really difficult to hear. that is not the position we should be in. it's not the position i want to be in, but we have to end the politics of the easy answer that solves nothing. you're live with bbc news. doctors without bordrs says the international community should be ashamed of its response to sudan's civil war, 500 days since the conflict broke out. the humanitarian

organization said anniversary was "...a shameful moment for international "humanitarian organisations and donors who have failed "to provide an adequate response to the country's "escalating medical needs from catastrophic child "malnutrition to widespread disease outbreaks." it adds that both warring factions have blocked aid from entering the country. since fighting erupted on april 15, 2023, 10.3 million people have been forced to flee their homes. 25 million — over half the country's population — face acute hunger. the war began when a breakaway military faction, known as the rapid support forces, attacked sudanese army bases across the country, including in the capital, khartoum. in recent weeks, heavy rains nationwide have caused the humanitarian situation to deteriorate further. the us has been attempting to broker a ceasefire at talks in switzerland, but little progress has been made. for more on those negotiations, i spoke to tom perriello, the united states' special envoy for sudan.

it is 500 days since fighting began in sudan, can you realistically see any and to it coming anytime soon? you have to believe _ coming anytime soon? you have to believe that _ coming anytime soon? you have to believe that that _ coming anytime soon? you have to believe that that end - coming anytime soon? you have to believe that that end is - to believe that that end is possible because the scale of suffering just shocks the conscience is so much. 20 million people have been displaced from their homes or facing acute hunger over a million facing starvation. we made progress this week but the world has turned its back on this horrific scale of suffering and we have seen in the past few months more and more countries starting to step up more countries starting to step up and say we have to end the war, we have to end the famine and suddenlyjoe biden and antony blinken asked us to take that initiative over the past few weeks and we are seeing progress. few weeks and we are seeing progress-— progress. is there is sufficient _ progress. is there is i sufficient international progress. is there is - sufficient international focus on this crisis, given the wide scale displacement of people and the widescale hunger? we are not

and the widescale hunger? - are not even in the ballpark of enough international attention on a crisis affecting 20 million people have been displaced and facing acute hunger. many more millions have had to flee as refugees, something that bombing and shelling on a daily basis, dams collapsing this week causing over 100 deaths. we need to see that international intention, we put together the initiative onjoe we put together the initiative on joe biden we put together the initiative onjoe biden and antony blinken's push to say we have to do more for the sudanese people and with the un, the african union and key regional allies we were able to get multiple humanitarian access routes open for the first time in months. today we got the £3 million of food across in the past week and that are scratching the surface of what is needed to address the level of hunger. we are trying to get a third access route open through the south. we need more aid coming from the international community, more pressure both on the humanitarian access and action of civilians that is necessary

from both the army and the rapid support forces and that is what we have been pushing forward this coalition. social media mogul mark zuckerberg says meta is prepared to fight back against future political coercion to influence what content is viewed across its platforms. in a letter to the republican chairman of the housejudiciary committee, the facebook founder claims in 2021 the biden administration repeatedly pressured facebook to censor certain posts related to the coronavirus pandemic. mr zuckerberg concedes it was wrong to do so. he's also said it was a mistake to demote reporting from the new york post about hunter biden ahead of the 2020 election after the fbi warned of a russian disinformation scheme. while congressional republicans welcome the letter, calling it a big win forfree speech — the white house stood firm saying it encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. the supreme court rejected a bid led by the republican attorney general to restrict communications between the white house and tech companies injune.

and injuly, the court threw out a lower—court decision that would have limited social networks' right to moderate users' posts. that is it for the moment, as always you can keep up—to—date with everything on the bbc news website. i will be back shortly but to stay with us here on bbc news. take care. hello. the weather's looking fairly promising for most of us on wednesday, with some prolonged spells of sunshine, but it won't be dry everywhere. in fact, farfrom it. we are expecting a few showers and in the morning across one or two areas it actually could be pretty wet. let me show you the big picture. here's the forecast for wednesday. a couple of weather fronts bringing showers into northern ireland and western scotland, and this one here also in the north of england, wales and stretching to southwestern areas. but whether you've got

the sunshine or the rain in the morning, it's actually going to be quite warm first thing — 17 in london, about 15 around merseyside and similar values there for glasgow and edinburgh. so showers reaching northern ireland and western scotland. and here's that weather front stretching from northern england through the lakes, into lancashire, wales. maybe the west midlands, could be some spits and spots further south, too. so for a time some of us will catch some rain here, showers there moving into scotland. and big temperature contrasts on wednesday. eastern england, east anglia and the south—east, mid—high 20s. 0ut towards the west, it's a lot fresher — temperatures of around 18 in belfast and for glasgow. now this is fresher air that's arriving off the atlantic. in fact, the fresher air will spread right across the country during the course of thursday. so no longer is it going to be so warm in the east and the southeast. temperatures here will be closer to say, around 22 or 23 celsius out in the west around 18 degrees, with that atlantic breeze coming in. just a few showers for scotland. here's a look at the end of the week. high pressure is building

off the atlantic. this azores high. showers are kept at bay across france, far away. so it's a day of light winds and sunny spells. really a very pleasant day. and for some of us, a perfect summer's day. neither too hot and not particularly cool either. and the temperatures will be around the high teens across western areas, maybe nudging up to 24 in london for the end of the week. so that's friday. how about the weekend? well, the high pressure is still with us weather fronts are trying to push in, but it's a substantial high so it's keeping things dry. maybe the weather going downhill a little bit with a few showers towards the south and towards the west as we head into next week. so here's the outlook, then. friday and the weekend looking pretty decent for many of us, with spells of sunshine looking quite warm too. and then into september, it does look as though we could catch 1 or 2 showers. that's it for me. bye— bye.

alibaba's big move in hong kong. we'll look at what lies ahead for the chinese e—commerce giant. plus, barbie mania driving a comeback and flip flumes the uk. -- comeback and flip flumes the uk. —— foot phones. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. let's begin in hong kong,

china's e—commerce giant alibaba upgraded its system to a primary status, matching how its shares are listed in york. it acceded to help the company attract investments from mainland china, the plan was proposed a few years ago by alibaba founder when tensions between the uk and china will hide in. it was approved by shareholders. timing wise, this is happening as alibaba is facing multiple headwinds including a slow in china's economy and intends competition. from the blueshirt group, said the primary listing would help alibaba. i think it's a fantastic move. here is what i think is the rationale behind it. when these companies are dual listed, and they are not the only one, there are a number of chinese companies that have adr in the us and are traded in hong kong. but the adrs are still the driving force behind their evaluation and as we all know, almost all of these companies are having terrible evaluations right now.