and, the opening ceremony of the 2024 paralympics has taken place in the centre of paris to mark the beginning of 11 days of action. we start in the middle east, where at least ten people have been killed in the biggest israeli operation in the occupied west bank for 20 years. last month, the international court ofjustice ruled that israel's continued occupation of the area, captured in 1967, breached international law. violence has been increasing in the occupied west bank since hamas�*s deadly attack in israel on october 7, with the un saying more than 650 palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers or settlers there. israeli officials say that during the same period, at least 19 israelis have been killed in palestinian attacks.

the operation involved israeli forces raiding the cities ofjenin, tulkarm, nablus and tubas, on a scale that hasn't happened for decades. lucy williamson sent this report. it was a message of force, delivered quietly at first. israeli soldiers seeking their targets, street by palestinian street. by morning, hundreds of troops backed by armoured bulldozers had arrived in the refugee camps of tulkarem, nablus, tubas, jenin. home to armed palestinian groups and unarmed civilians. at least ten palestinians have been killed. hamas says six of them were its fighters. masoud najjar said he was injured when he opened the door of his house to young men asking for water. translation: we felt - like something came down on us from the sky and there was an explosion. i was unaware

of what was going on. when i put my hand on my chest, it was all shrapnel and blood. injenin, army vehicles surrounded the city's two main hospitals. ambulances stopped and checked by militaryjeeps. israel's foreign minister has urged his government to use gaza as a model for dealing wth armed groups, here saying that iran was backing them and that this was a war for everything that israel must win. the idf and our security forces are operating in tulkarem, jenin and other places from which murderous attacks have been launched. we will fight to eliminate terrorism wherever it emerges. almost 600 palestinians have been killed in the west bank by israeli forces since the hamas attacks. but fighters here are still presenting israel with new tactics and new threats. israel's army has been

targeting the same areas in the same cities, week after week for the past ten months, determined to dismantle the armed palestinian groups based here. now it's launched a wider, more coordinated operation across the west bank on a scale not seen for 20 years. in al—far�*a camp, near tubas, mobile phone footage showed red crescent staff lined up against the wall of their compound in front of israeli troops. arriving injenin today, the west bank head of the red crescent. you've had ten months of these sorts of incursions. how worried are you by what's happening today? i'm very much worried because it seems there's a new stage. there's a new, er... they are escalating, scaling up their operation. when they talk about evacuating civilians and using the air force to bombing the camps, this reminds us of gaza.

explosion. as night fell, explosions and gunfire from jenin�*s refugee camp. dusk can be a signal to test the army's control. the war in gaza is changing this conflict. an old front creating new fears in the face of a regional war. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. our international editor jeremy bowen told us more about the escalation in the region. now, if you listen to what israel says, they say it's all about iran. iran is behind an increase in palestinian violence, armed groups. well, it's no secret that iran does support palestinian armed groups. someone has to pay for their weaponry. there's no question about that. but why escalate now when israel has been hitting these same places for months and months and months and arresting thousands

of people, killing hundreds? well, the root of it is, of course, the long conflict over control of the land between israelis and palestinians. there's politics as well. uh, netanyahu has said very emphatically, there will never be a palestinian state. the palestinians want this land and the west bank is a big part of theirs. so by i think by doing this, prime minister netanyahu is weakening the palestinian authority, which does want a palestinian state and which the americans say should be a big part of the future, not just in the west bank, but in gaza, which, again, that is something netanyahu is very much against. so weakening his enemies there in the palestinian state. and also today as well, part of the growth of violence has been the activities of armed settlers. the americans sanctioned the settler group and a notorious settler leader today saying extremist settler violence causes intense human

suffering and is bad for israel's security. now, last point, really, that the israeli government's position is that all this land isjewish land. palestinians disagree. they want it as part of their state. but what's happening right now is that it's on fire. that was our international editorjeremy bowen. we asked janine zacharia middle east analyst and lecturer at stanford university if she shared his viewpoint. i thought that he made some interesting points, but i wanted to take issue with one thing jeremy said about how basically, the palestinian authority has not been able to controljenin, this town in the northern part of the west bank, or tulkarem, the other town that israel went in heavy in for the last couple of years, hamas and islamichhad, palestinian terrorist groups under the us label are in control of that area. so if in the past you would, israel would have signalled or called mahmoud abbas, the leader of the palestinian authority, and said, we need you to take action against these

individuals or we know there's a bomb making site here. they would have called on the pa to do that kind of work. they can't do that anymore. so we're in a new phase in that sense. overall, you're seeing a more aggressive israeli posture on all fronts. i mean, it's just a few days ago that we had israel, um, launch a massive pre—emptive strike against hezbollah in south lebanon. and now you have this operation in the northern part of the west bank, which could last a few days. i'm only speculating, and i don't like to speculate, but i'm wondering if they're trying to get a lot of this sort of unquote work done that they've wanted to do on their wish list in case, in fact, there is success in the ceasefire talks that are taking place in the region right now. i will get to the ceasefire talks in a moment. but this action that's taking place in the west bank, and the fact that the palestinian authority's authority has been weakened as well. do you see this escalating into perhaps what we've been seeing in gaza? well, i mean, there's always been a fear since october 7 that there that the west bank

is a much bigger area. right. and then as hamas and islamichhad grow in popularity, as we've seen in recent polls, and as the palestinian authority gets weaker, that the west bank could, um, present itself as a broader challenge. now, remember, you have israel built after the second intifada, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, a long barrier wall, part fence, part wall. so you have that along the west bank. um, but it could erupt. but i don't anticipate this seems to be a more localised operation following what was a botched suicide bombing in tel aviv a few days ago that was rooted injenin. so maybe a few days of this. um, but then we'll have to see. and just coming back to the ceasefire talks, then, do you think there's a realistic possibility that those could come to fruition?

this conflict in gaza continues to rumble on. hamas and israel don't seem to be able to reach any middle ground. yeah. i mean, the main sticking point seems to be, well, among the main sticking points is who's going to control the border between gaza and egypt. there's a lot of discussion about the border between gaza and israel, but this sort of eight mile corridor between gaza and egypt, egypt has proven itself unable or and or unwilling to secure that border. i myself, as a reporter for the washington post, have been on that spot and have been in tunnels that you could fit a car through. and so the way that hamas was able to equip itself to carry out the devastation and the massacres of october 7 was largely because of what was transported across that border. now, hamas doesn't want israel patrolling that border, neither does egypt. so that's a main sticking point for. and then israel wants basically to be able to move throughout the gaza strip, something that hamas won't tolerate. israel didn't want a cease fire until hamas was eliminated. hamas yehiyeh sinwar has not been captured. the military and now

political commander as well. that said, there were talks in cairo that have now moved to doha. and what's interesting about that is the qatari prime minister is a main interlocutor with iran. he wasjust in iran. and so hopefully we'll know in the next day or two whether they made any headway there. the un's world food programme has said it's pausing the movement of all its staff in gaza after one of its vehicles was shot at just a few metres from an israeli checkpoint on tuesday night. the wfp team, which was clearly marked and had received multiple clearances from the israeli authorities, had been escorting a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid to central gaza. one of its armoured vehicles was hit by ten bullets, though nobody was injured. the israeli army says the incident is under review. the fbi has released more details on the assassination attempt on republican presidential nominee donald trump. fbi officials said the gunman, thomas crooks, mounted a "sustained and detailed effort" to attack a major gathering before selecting the trump rally in pennsylvania.

crooks searched more than 60 times for information about the republican presidential candidate and his then—rival, presidentjoe biden, before registering for the trump rally in early our correspondentjohn sudworth who is in washington gave us the latest. well, the fbi has come in for intense criticism. first and foremost, of course, for its failure to protect the former president on the day of the shooting, but more recently over its handling of the investigation and the evidence. and this briefing was, in part, an attempt by the fbi to push back on some of those more recent criticisms, saying that the protocols of evidence have been followed and that it is doing all it can to get to the bottom of the motives for the attack. what's interesting, though, is that despite those hundreds of hours of video footage they have trawled through, despite hundreds of interviews carried out, despite the intense scrutiny on the social media use and the internet footprint

of thomas crooks, the gunman, they are no clearer to establishing a motive. he remains something of an enigma. they say that his social media use shows a mixture of views, no real clues there as to motive, and that although there was intensive planning leading up to the event, again, the evidence shows that thomas crooks was searching both republican and democrat events. the fbi has also put into the public domain photographs from one of the weapon that was used in the shooting, the backpack that was used to transport it, and photographs of the unexploded devices found in the gunman�*s car. and they've also confirmed some of the detail of the immediate steps leading up to the shooting. photographs of the air conditioning unit that

the gunman used to climb onto that nearby roof overlooking the rally event. and they say that a full six minutes passed before the first of the eight shots that he fired, killing an audience member, of course, and injuring donald trump in the ear. they also confirmed that two shots were fired back in return, one from a local law enforcement officer and one from a secret service sniper. it was that final shot, a direct shot to the head that proved to be fatal. the stronger type injapan just the stronger type in japan just made the stronger type injapan just made landfall. thousands told to evacuate after issuing the highest warning level for wind and storm surges possible on approach of the storm, the

meteorological office of recording gusts of over 50 kilometres an hour. fear of major disaster prompted by the tapering industry with high according to the chief forecaster with the mean fought to last until friday morning at least. japan and is cancelled nearly 185 affecting 25,000 people.

and a series of protests have taken place in india since the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state—run hospital earlier this month. the latest prates occurred in the eastern indian state of calcutta where police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands demanding justice for the killing. the discovery of the body of the 31—year—old on the ninth of august sparked nationwide outrage over the crisis of violence against women. for mullets because they

over to colorado and get the thoughts. specifically mentioning this case of calcutta. to instill fear of harsher punishments, is this the way forward? that is the first question to put to you about this story. prates have been put in place, laws put in place but this remains a pervasive issue. what do you put that down to? what we are seeing unfolding in india in the last 20 years, a crisis of rape. the last 20 years, a crisis of rae, �* . ., , the last 20 years, a crisis of i’a e. i . ., , , the last 20 years, a crisis of rae.�* , rape. because there is an institutional _ rape. because there is an institutional failure. - rape. because there is an institutional failure. we l rape. because there is an . institutionalfailure. we have to look at the intersection alley of cast, there is a lot of cost base violence and gender is at the crux of it. this violence we see happening to women over and over across

india has, at its base, a picture of consolidation, institutional failure and at the same time we also see there is that is the decision of failure because there are laws that are very lax because the patriarch, the holders so deep and women's are used as deaf to consolidate patriarchal values. we have seen those women have been at the base of gender—based violence for the longest possible time. we see there is a lot of uptake in reporting which is leading to more awareness around this issue. at the same time there was highlighting up certain cases and some cases are completely invisible and that is an important question to ask as to why some cases get highlighted and some cases are

completely invisible. my fear is there is the intersection alley of cast based violence because it really plays on the bodies of women. in regards to this case, it received a lot of press and there are a lot of prates going on and we have seen it happens every now and then, every decade there is a case people take up and they fight around and prates around it but again there is an institutional failure because the pgr core values are so deep that you have to play it out on the bodies of women from opera costs which most of those bodies are seen as desirable but gender—based violence against them. you have other minorities including muslim women and we have seen what happened with many of the cases

that came out where we completely see the institutional failure. completely see the institutionalfailure. on completely see the institutional failure. on the other side we also look at issues where rape was used as a policy, as a weapon of war and still is. that is invisible as well because there is less media reporting. we have seen a litany of cases that have time and again, but again the suppression is so deep and the laws are completely different. what we see as the consolidation of a pgr call at no nationalist ideology and the players out on women's bodies. that is what we see unfolding at this moment. the situation certainly is — at this moment. the situation certainly is a _ at this moment. the situation certainly is a long-standing i certainly is a long—standing one. prime minister nigel brody alluded to the violence against women and his independence day speech, did not mention the case in calcutta. his main

method was to instill fear through harsher punishment, do you think that is the way forward? i you think that is the way forward?— you think that is the way forward? ~ ., , you think that is the way forward? ~ . , ., forward? i think laws need to be stringent, _ forward? i think laws need to be stringent, need _ forward? i think laws need to be stringent, need to - forward? i think laws need to be stringent, need to be - be stringent, need to be implemented. i personally have a different take on indian laws because as a scholar, i have a different take on indian constitution. as per gender—based violence is considered, and the harsher laws, i think laws are already in place but there is something deeper going on here for gender—based violence which the current administration have used to their advantage where upperclassmen have used violence against women to keep balance and minorities in check which is also happening with muslim women. in that intersection, the uppercuts women also get caught because the cage —— patriarch is so

deep. while the laws need to be stringent, maybe there could be harsher laws, i don't know but at the same time there is something deeper that needs to happen. also there should be acknowledgement of the cases that happen then the marginalised communities and also marginalised political communities. there are mass rapes that have happened and those cases are notjust lancashire but completely invisible. i would say something deeper needs to happen at a social level within the indian norm, especially the social norm and political norm but then also, this appetite for gender—based violence, this crisis of rape also is, has been, the buyer has been set very high by what has happened in the last 30 years, especially with regards to rape being used as a weapon of war. we will leave it there, thank you for your time today.

the founder of the founder and chief executive of the messaging app, telegram, pavel durov, has been charged in france as part of an investigation into organised crime. he's been released on five million euro bail and is not allowed to leave french territory. let's get the latest from our technology editor, zoe kleinman. pavel durov is sometimes described as the mark zuckerberg of russia. he was born in the country, but he left in 2014 and these days he's a citizen of both france and dubai. the messaging app that he founded is called telegram. and what sets it apart from something like whatsapp is that these enormous groups of up to 200,000 people can share content and information on it. now, the accusations that mr durov is facing are extremely serious, and they include running a platform to enable illicit transactions by an organised gang, failing to communicate with the authorities, refusing, in fact,

to communicate with the authorities, and complicity in the organised criminal distribution of sexual images of children. now he's under formal investigation. this doesn't mean that he's guilty, or even that there will necessarily be a trial, but it's absolutely unprecedented for the founder, the owner of a social network, to be arrested like this because of the content that's being shared on his platform. and it sparked a really fierce debate online about freedom of speech and accountability. elon musk, who's the owner of x, which used to be known as twitter, has leapt to his defence. he thinks that he should be completely freed, and he says that censorship is just moderation under another name. but the president of france, emmanuel macron, said earlier this week that france remained committed to freedom of expression. the french president, emmanuel macron, has formally opened the paralympic games in paris.

nearly 11,500 competitors from around the world will take part in the next 11 days of events. the first gold medals will be awarded on thursday. the head of the international paralympic committee, andrew parsons, told the crowd he wanted the games to be an "inclusion revolution". it's that time of year, the last wednesday of august, when the spanish village of bun—yon becomes the scene of one of the world's most famous food fights. locals and an estimated 22,000 international visitors gathered to take part in this year's la tomatina festival, involving around 120 tonnes of ripe tomatoes. it's said to have originated from a spontaneous fight among villagers in 19115. it was banned in the 19505 at the height of franco's dictatorship, but survived to gain popularity across spain and further afield in the 1980s. let's hear from some of those that took part.

the whole feeling. everybody has just good energy and everything was good feeling. i love. like the energy and the crowd. and everyone'sjust like looking out for each other and it'sjust so much fun. everyone's on the same wavelength. it's so good. that brings us to a close on bbc news. see you again soon. hello again. wednesday brought us some big contrasts in the weather across the uk. now, for the north and west of the country, we did have a lot of cloud, and that brought some outbreaks of rain at times. you can see that on the combined satellite and radar picture. some of the heaviest rain went into western scotland, where we also had some of the lowest temperatures. for example, in harris, we only had temperatures of 1a degrees.

in sharp contrast to that, skipping across these various weather fronts, we actually had plenty of sunshine and quite hot weather across east anglia and south east england, with temperatures peaking at 30 degrees in cambridge. confirmation, then, that the weather did indeed look a lot cheerier for some. now, looking at the weather picture over the next few hours, we've got a cold front whizzing its way eastwards across the country. what that's essentially doing is it's bringing cooler and fresher air in across the uk, so it won't be so hot across eastern areas of england as we look at the forecast in detail for thursday. and for many of us, it's going to be quite a fresh start to the day. temperatures even in single figures across parts of eastern scotland. now for scotland and northern ireland, this weather front will bring a zone of thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain for a time, followed by some showers into the afternoon. there could be a few showers at times across the northwest of england, maybe across parts of wales, but these few and far between, i think across the midlands, east anglia, southern england, it's a largely dry day. still warm in the sunshine, 23 degrees. not bad, but it's not

going to be as hot as it was. we're not going to see temperatures of 30, for example. then for friday and the weekend, this area of high pressure is set to move across the uk. the other thing we've got to watch out for is the risk of a few showers coming up from france, but for the time being, it looks like they'll stay away. so friday, plenty of sunshine, just a few showers for orkney and shetland, where it will continue to be quite breezy. otherwise, temperatures generally in the high teens to low 20s for scotland and northern ireland, and about 20 to 23 widely across england and wales. it then starts to get a bit warmer for scotland and northern ireland as we start to get a southerly drift, so temperatures more widely will reach the 20s as we go through the weekend. there'll still be a lot of dry and sunny weather for england and wales. just an outside chance of a shower working in to the coast of southern england. our temperatures, well, coming up to about 22 in glasgow, so feeling quite a bit warmer here. and a fine weekend, sunday looks good as well. could see 25 across parts of eastern england, but then some showers around next week.

ai boom: nvidia more than doubles its second quarter revenue — but its shares are taking a hit. plus — we speak to the elderly in singapore who have chosen to keep working. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. let's begin with our top story. us chip giant nvidia has more than doubled its revenue in the second quarter, helped by an artificial intelligence boom.

the company reported a revenue of $30 billion in the three months tojuly. that's122% higher than a year ago.but its shares are taking a hit in after—hours trading in new york. the bbc�*s ritika gupta has more. the chip—maker put up a blockbuster quarter in earnings, revenues topped $30 billion, more than double what it reported a year ago and beating the expectations from wall street. 68 cents also came in above expectations. the company authorised another $50 billion in share buy—backs. but after a huge run—up in stocks, expectations were high going into the report, and investors had been looking for an even bigger revenue forecast. the outlook threatens to tamp down ai frenzy that has transformed the company into the world's second most valuable company. as anticipated, they gave an update on the production delays and design flaws on its chip, causing market volatility

several weeks ago.