at the paralympics in paris. we report from the west bank on the third day of israel's military operation there. the foreign office says it's deeply worried by its methods. why has untreated sewage been discharged over the last week into sites flowing into windermere? and could raheem sterling be about to swap chelsea for arsenal on transfer deadline day? 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.

good evening. a london labour mp, revealed by the bbc to be renting out flats with some having black mould and ant infestations, says he's profoundly sorry that tenants have been let down. jas athwal, mp for ilford south and the house of commons' biggest landlord, owns 15 rental flats. one tenant told us that they were threatened with eviction by the letting agent if they complained. mr athwal says that he is shocked by the bbc�*s findings, that maintenance will be done swiftly, and that tenants are free to speak out. here's our political investigations correspondentjoe pike. labour promised to crack down on bad landlords, but the residents of ilford south may have just elected one. this is the bathroom ceiling of a flat owned by the area's mp, jas athwal. he has 15 rental properties. seven are above this shop, where almost half the families told me they regularly clean their bathroom ceilings to remove black mould.

when i visited, filming on my phone, i also saw evidence of ant infestations in a number of the properties. "the ants are everywhere," one resident said, pointing to insects running up their wall. "they are on my kids body and on their clothes." in the dirty communal areas, the lights didn't work and the fire alarm appeared to be broken. none of the tenants wanted their names to be used. some specifically explained this was due to a fear of being evicted. one said they'd been threatened by the letting agent that if they complained, they'd be asked to leave. i swear by almighty god... jas athwal didn't want to speak on camera. he initially said he was a good landlord, but in a second statement said he was shocked by what we found. at first, he claimed his properties had been repaired but then admitted he's profoundly sorry and maintenance will be done swiftly. he added his rents are below market rates, that properies are managed by an agency and he'd not been aware of these problems. jas athwal also initially claimed no—one had been threatened with eviction,

yet while i was at the flats, i felt there was some evidence of intimidation. it seems like the man who manages these properties for the mpjas athwal knows we're here and he knows we're asking questions. on two separate occasions, when i was having private conversations off camera with separate tenants, they got a call from the property manager. one resident who'd spoken on camera about problems with their flat later asked that we not use the interview. another asked me not to use images of the mould two days after allowing me to take pictures of it. jas athwal has said tonight he's more than happy for tenants to provide updates to journalists. i'm here at fairlop waters in redbridge with councillorjas athwal... mr athwal has also admitted his flats do not have the correct licences required under a scheme he introduced last year as redbridge council leader. he had previously incorrectly told the bbc he was in full compliance. conservative london assembly member

andrew boff has visited the flats and seen the mould. he wants labour to investigate. the labour party and redbridge council have got to ask themselves whether or not they can sustain that position, with him being a councillor and indeed a member of parliament. and is jas athwal a rogue landlord? all the evidence says yes. mps are supposed to stand up for their constituents. some are arguing tonight that jas athwal has been letting them down. i have been back in touch with some of his tenants tonight, the fact that their landlord mp says he is happy for them to talk to journalists has not changed their willingness to speak out, they still seem worried. there are wider challenges for labour after they promised in their manifesto to protect private renters, one government source told me tonight

that our renters reform bill will apply to everyone without fear or favour, but keir starmer�*s own team do not want to comment on the reporting, instead pointing us to jas athwal�*s statement which even in second, more apologetic version, does include a claim that he is a rent a's champion. and christian fraser will have more on newsnight on bbc two later on. yeah, another headache for keir starmer this evening, a decent few weeks, the riots, the crony row, concerns in some quarters that his agenda is a bitjoyless, but mps returned to westminster on monday will, we will discuss what the public are making of the changes on offer. great britain's athletes have won a raft of medals at day two of the paralympics in paris — four golds, three silvers and two bronzes. two of the golds were in the cycling at the velodrome, and the other two were in the pool, with swimmer tully kearney taking her second title of the games.

from paris, andy swiss reports. it was a day of elation and emotion — a glorious gold rush for paralympicsgb, and it began in the velodrome and with the remarkable jaco van gass. last week, van gass was hit by a car while training — he thought his hopes were over, but in the pursuit final against his team—mate fin graham, he was utterly unstoppable. here he comes over the line, gold! a one—two for the british pair, and for van gass, a former serviceman who was injured in afghanistan, a third paralympic title. and there was soon more success. lizziejordan lost her sight seven years ago after a rare reaction to food poisoning. have they done it? oh, yes, they've done it! with her pilot, danni khan, she powered to victory in the time trial. it was, jordan said,

a dream come true. the velodrome also brought two bronzes and a silver for blaine hunt. great tache, great talent. and so from the cycling to the swimming, with equally spectacular results. less than 2a hours after winning her first gold here, tully kearney raced to her second in the 100m freestyle. it's going to be a double for great britain's tully kearney! not surprisingly, kearney said she was really tired but that it was pretty incredible. and then enter maisie summers—newton. the 22—year—old has just finished training to be a teacher, and she certainly gave her rivals a lesson, as, roared on by herfans, she successfully defended her individual medley crown. she's the champion again, she has retained her paralympic title here in paris. she later said she'd been super nervous — you'd hardly have guessed it. britain so nearly had another champion,

but brock whiston was just edged out in the 100m breaststroke. a silver ending to a largely golden day, of paralympicsgb on top of the podium. yes, some stunning performances from the british team, we've only had two days of competition in paris, but britain already has some 15 medals, second in the table behind china. still a long way to go, of course, but paralympicsgb off to some starter, reeta. president zelensky of ukraine has sacked the commander of the air force after one of the f—16 fighter jets donated by its nato allies crashed on monday. the pilot of the plane was killed. the f—i6 was being used during an operation to repel a russian missile attack. it marks the first loss of its kind since the planes were delivered earlier this month. the cause of the crash

is being investigated. israel says it has killed a hamas commander injenin in the west bank on the third day of its military operation there, an operation which has attracted international criticism, including from the uk. today the foreign office said it is deeply concerned about israel's methods and reports of civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. lucy williamson reports from inside the west bank, and a warning that her report contains distressing images from the start. on a road outsidejenin this morning, israeli forces came face—to—face with the man they believe led hamas here. inside the white car, wissam khazem, shot dead by the army. and with him two other men, who tried to escape, killed in an air strike as they run. israel says all were involved

in shooting and bombing attacks. the eastern areas ofjenin and its refugee camp have both been sealed off for the past three days, and that are fresh reports of casualties, including an 82—year—old man who paramedics said was shot nine times. this morning, the army pulled out of this camp in tulkarm, the destruction there enough to remind residents of a war. this woman said the army laid wires from her home to blow up two of the houses opposite. families she's known for decades. translation: i have ten—year—old triplets, and they trapped us in a room, then they started the explosions, five explosions in total. imagine the walls shaking and your children clinging to you. it feels like we are in gaza. we met a woman stranded by the rubble that used to be a neighbour's house. translation: they told us

that we have tunnels - and we smuggled the armed groups to this house. he claimed that we have tunnels, like those in gaza. he brought a drill and dug into the floor, and only found a sewer drain. later, she shows us the broken floor. beneath it, what appears to be a drain, too small for a person to fit through. you hear a lot of comparisons here now with the war in gaza. this is still a very different situation, but almost a year of the gaza war has changed attitudes and tactics on both sides. it's changed the sense of threat israel feels from this conflict here, and many people are saying it's changing israel's response. negotiating the damaged streets, a funeral procession for a 69—year—old with a disability shot dead by a sniper, neighbours said, when he opened his window.

alongside it, gunfire for the local leader of the armed groups here, mohammed jaber, also killed in this operation. a show of force from tulkarm's armed fighters, less than a day after israel's army withdrew. lucy williamson, bbc news, jenin. police have begun a murder investigation after a 13—year—old boy was stabbed to death at a house in the west midlands. the boy was treated by paramedics at the address in oldbury yesterday afternoon, but he died of his injuries. here's phil mackie. it's a tragically familiar scene — police tape, flowers and tears. all day, people have been coming to leave messages, and in some cases, the grief was palpable. and there's fear, too. it's a real danger around this area. i mean, it's not a really nice area to live in any more, but for a 13—year—old, it's quite sad. i've got 13—year—old daughter,

and i won't be bringing her out, i won't be letting her come out on her own. the focus of the investigation has been on the house where the boy lived and died. it's involved forensic investigations as well as door—to—door inquiries. i'm here to let the family and the wider community know that we will work with you and support you as we seek to find who is responsible for the death of this young boy. the west midlands had the highest rate of knife—crime offences in england and wales last year, and all too often it was teenagers who were the victims of knife crime. they launched something called project guardian here to try to combat the problem five years ago. but since then, the numbers have kept going up. youth worker malachi is one of the many people who's trying to help, but it's not easy. young people are in fear, because they hear stories like this and think that they need to equip themselves with a knife. so, you know, a lot of young people i mentor tell me, "i don't want to die,

but if i'm in a situation where someone's got a knife, what do i do?" the danger is if you carry a knife, you use it. and they're doing it out of fear, they're doing it to defend themselves. no young person wakes up and wants to kill another young person. the loss of another young life has once again highlighted how knife crime is devastating families, notjust here, but across the country. phil mackie, bbc news, oldbury. hospices say their services supporting and caring for terminally ill people are at serious risk of being cut because of a funding crisis, with five hospices planning job losses because of financial pressures. there are 210 hospice charities across the uk. nine out of ten of them are predicting financial deficits this year with shortfalls in their budgets. the sector will spend just over £2 billion this year providing care for adults and children. it receives some money from the government, but the bulk comes from donations and fund—raising activities. the body which represents

the sector, hospice uk, says the financial situation has never been so grave with organisations facing a total shortfall of £60 million this year alone. our health editor, hugh pym, reports. claire, a senior hospice nurse, is with tracey, recently diagnosed with incurable cancer. she's 37 and has three teenage children. when i got diagnosed and everything, it was a shock to me. it still is, to be fair. i don't think it really has properly sank in. fortunately, i'd been referred to st giles. they've given me their support and everything, and they've made things happen. claire works for st giles hospice in the west midlands, visiting patients at home. in general, it's lovely working for the hospice... but st giles, like others, is facing intense financial pressures and today announced that a0 posts would go. claire is worried. it's very unnerving.

it's very unsettling for all the staff. you know, everybody's worried about, you know, the prospect of the job, but fundamentally, we're all worried about, you know, what that means to our patients as well, really. at the hospice, andrew, who has renal cancer, is getting used to his new, calmer surroundings after a transfer from hospital. kristy, the clinical director, is reassuring him. my name's kristy, and i'm just going to have a little chat with you about how things have been. slowly but surely, we're getting on top of it. i feel like you're on my team. that's a really important feeling, because we are on your team and we're here to look after you. 0k. kristy and the senior management team are facing up to difficult decisions on cuts. i have 23 beds on this unit that i would easily fill twice over. but i cannot afford to do that, so i now have to make the decisions

and work with my teams to find out who can prioritise access to those beds and how many staff i have around me. as a nurse, and as a specialist palliative care professional for a number of years, it's an incredibly difficult and heartbreaking decision we have to make. hospices are faced with rising heating and food bills and having to fund higher wage increases, and only a third of budgets are funded by the nhs. it's an absolute scandal to see hospice services being taken away from communities at this time because there isn't enough money. we need to find a better way of funding hospice care. the welsh government has offered more money to hospices. there have been talks in scotland and northern ireland. the department of health, covering england, said the problems would take time to fix but the aim was to give everyone access to high—quality end—of—life care. hugh pym, bbc news. untreated sewage has been discharged continually for the last week into sites that flow into windermere in cumbria. the water company united utilities said the overflows are designed to work during heavy rainfall.

campaigners say storm overflows are only supposed to occur in exceptional circumstances and the system should have been able to cope with recent weather. here's danny savage. windermere on a day like today always looks stunning. for much of august, though, it's been raining here and the water company responsible for sewage in the area says that's why effluent has been pumped into this lake in recent days. unfortunately, us reporting on sewage flowing into windermere is nothing new. but what is new is that real—time data is now available showing exactly when it's happening. and what that tells us is that for the last eight days, at some points around this lake, it's been going on continuously. so this is one of the places that united utilities is allowed to dump sewage into windermere. campaigners say it's unacceptable and more information is needed. for us at save windermere, what we're calling for is

that we should have volumes monitored on these overflows because these sites have been spilling for a week straight. how much has gone into the environment and what has that damage done to england's greatest natural asset? united utilities says there's good reason why the last week's discharges have happened. when we see periods of significant rainfall, the system fills up and it has to go somewhere, and the way the system was designed back in the victorian time, them overflows operate to ensure that that water does not appear in people's houses, in the streets, it goes into the watercourse. last year's water quality measures did rate windermere as excellent. lots of people use the lake — are they concerned? i'm obviously worried about the children being in the water. they love it here, as we do, but the water quality is a major concern, then, yeah. and it's a terrible thing that people are enjoying the water and they're pumping sewage into it. earlier this week, the prime minister said he was backing tough fines

on polluting water companies. we will hear more about this in the coming months. danny savage, bbc news, windermere. delegates attending the snp�*s party conference in edinburgh have been urged by the party leadership to move forward and focus relentlessly on scotland's future and achieving independence. injuly�*s general election the snp saw its number of seats at westminster drop from 48 to just nine, it also lost half a million votes. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. the snp used to make winning look easy, but not any more. the flags not flying at half mast. but there's a sombre mood in a party that took a hammering in the general election, and behind closed doors, it's had a frank and open discussion on its losses. what was the atmosphere like? thoughtful is how i put it. you know, there wasn't a lot of finger pointing. did you have concerns?

did you get a chance to raise them? um, yeah, i had some concerns and i felt listened to. there was nothing. there for young folk. no agenda, no dream i and no future planning. the party's big hitters have been out. it's time for us to move forward. came to a halt. their mps now number in single digits, reflecting on whatjust happened to the party's support and sketching a plan for the future. trust is the main thing that went wrong for the snp. we lost. we lost it because of the public�*s perception of our priorities, because of the fact that we weren't delivering on some of the things that we said we were going to deliver on and that we now pivot and say, this is what we're going to do, right. to make sure that we change that because we've got 18 months to do things better. and if we do that, the snp will be successful in 2026. the general election was bruising for the snp. today was about the party's leadership taking that result

on the chin, saying they got things wrong. theirfocus now — uniting snp members and attempting to get voters back on side ahead of the holyrood election in two years' time. the government says badger culling in england will end by 2029. it's thought more than 200,000 thousand badgers have been culled in the past decade in an effort to prevent them spreading tuberculosis among cows. the culling will be replaced by a strategy tickets for oasis's reunion concerts are being relisted on reselling websites for thousands of pounds — some for more than £6,000 — within minutes of some fans being given access to a pre—sale this evening. these are insane prices. as you

said, these are insane prices. as you said. there _ these are insane prices. as you said, there was _ these are insane prices. as you said, there was a _ these are insane prices. as you said, there was a presale, - these are insane prices. as you said, there was a presale, so i these are insane prices. as you - said, there was a presale, so some lucky fans that enter the ballot were able to get the first batch of tickets. we understand that presale came to an end at 10pm this evening. within minutes, tickets were being relisted on resale sites for more than £6,000. now, that is over a0 times the listed price for a standard ticket, if you are going to go to one of the oasis concerts, a standard standing ticket will set you back around £150. tonight, preferred have issued a statement saying they noticed what is going on and they have urged people not to resell tickets at inflated prices on websites not linked to their promoter and said that they would be cancelled, they also say that tickets can only be resold at face value by ticketmaster and, and the terms and conditions are that reselling through unauthorised platforms will breach the terms and

conditions, and there tickets may be cancelled. 1.a million tickets are going to be made available for the concerts next year, and the general sale begins tomorrow morning. new zealand's maori king tuheitia has died at the age of 69. a powerful advocate for maori rights, he had been in hospital recovering from heart surgery. king charles said he was profoundly saddened to hear of his death. katy watson has sent this report. king tuheitia was seen as a unifying force, a leader who represented all maoris, and all of new zealand, too. in the past few days, he'd been celebrating 18 years since his coronation. a former truck driver, he became the maori king when his mother died after a a0 year reign. king tuheitia was the seventh monarch in the kiingitanga movement. the role, which was largely ceremonial, was created in 1858, to unite the maori tribes and prevent the loss of land

in the face of british colonisation. the country will be in mourning. he was a fantastic king with a great sense of humour and a good man who was interested in making sure that people treat each other with respect, and that will be his legacy, as we go forward from here. but, in recent months, new zealanders protested against the prime minister's policies, that, critics say, erode hard—fought indigenous rights in the country. the best practice we can do right now is to be maori, to be who we are, to be our values, to be maori. every day, all day, we are here, we are strong. king tuheitia travelled for king charles' coronation. the two leaders had also previously met in new zealand on a visit. the king and queen camilla said they were profoundly

saddened by his death. as new zealanders mourn the loss of the maori leader, he is expected to be buried later next week. new zealand's maori king tuheitia, who has died at the age of 69. in less than a5 minutes, the football transfer window closes with some possible last—minute signings. transfer window. they spent £1 billion over the past few winters, they have a large squad and they are trying to get rid of some players. one of those is raheem sterling. he trained away from the main group. in

the last hour, we have learned that he was in talks with arsenal about joining them on loan. he knows the manager there well but one of the stumbling blocks is whether they can find an agreement about his large wages. there are deals going on across london, ivan toney the brentford striker is in talks with the saudi club al—alhy, there was talk of him joining a bigger premier club, but it looks like he's going tojoin the saudi pro league to play in the same division as cristiano ronaldo and neymar. there have been moves for aaron ramsdale, and one of the largest and longest transfer sagas of the winter, involving marce guehi, but newcastle have not been able to meet crystal palace's £70 million valuation.

and there's a transfer deadline day special of the football news show live over on iplayer now. england's cricketers have dominated the second day of the second test against sri lanka. look closely. even with hair lightened — that's notjoe root. gus atkinson is here to bowl, primarily. his batting flattened sri lanka's mood and made anything seem possible for england. atkinson had never scored a hundred anywhere before. well, there he'd done it with a flourish at lord's, ben stokes—style. england made a27. well, just behind me there is the ground where the match is played. here is the nursery, where the teams practice, and that tall, pale building over there is a hospital. it's where they inserted screws into the vertebrae of ollie stone. all so he could bowl again — fast. gone. after so many injuries, you can appreciate the joy here, but no relief for sri lanka. england's bowlers kept coming. matthew potts and now gus atkinson.

yep, he takes wickets too. shoaib bashir, perfect. gone. eight down there. it's been a tough test for england's stand—in captain, but when ollie pope took aim here his throw was delayed and true. a run out, and sri lanka's day felt like that. england were batting again by the close, 256 ahead. and that's ben duckett, batting like gus atkinson. joe wilson, bbc news, lord's. this programme continues on bbc one.