wow, you get to watch all your favorite stuff. it's to die for. now you won't miss a thing. this is the way. the xfinity 10g network. made for streaming. ♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... george: actually, you don't need vision to do most things in life. it's exciting be part of a team driving the technology forward. i think that's the most rewarding thing. people who know, know bdo.

narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. announcer: and now, "bbc news". >> hello, i'sarah campbell. you are watching "the context" on bbc news. >> i have a ty that i will carry out to protect. it is the protection that led me to make a wrong decision. >> is in the interest of the british people that democracy is protected, as i said, the interests of the labour party are trumping democracy. >> we should never let extremists intimidate us into changing the way in which parliament works. parliament is an important place for us to have these debates. just because some people may want to stifle that with

intimidation or aggressive behavior, we should not bend to that. >> he still has a reserve of goodwill toward him. there are no labor or liberal democrats, mps questioning his position. lo of conservatives say they still have confidence in him. sarah: there is drama in the house of commons once again as the number of mps who say they have no confidence in the speaker continues to rise. we will be asking whether sir lindsay hoyle can stay in post and look at the pressure and threats they face from constituents. in alabama, real-life consequences of a court ruling on as the state's largest hospital pauses all ivf procedures for peer a prosecution. it is a i decoded, a weekly look

at the latest in artificial intelligence. this week, will ai wipe out humanity? is a universal kill switch needed to prevent an ai apocalypse? and how the technology is been used deciphers scrolls carbonized when mount vesuvius rented 2000 years ago. as if that is not enough, there is another mission to the moon due to land later this evening. we will look at the latest contender in the space race. although stories are coming up, but first, let's take you to some breaking news this evening. spanish firefighters are battling a huge fire in a multistory residential block in the eastern port city of valencia. these are dramatic pictures that we have had in that show people on the building the balconies waiting to be rescued. it is being water hosed as you

can see by emergency services to try and keep the fire at bay. these are the live pictures from the scene in valencia. let's go to our correspondent. guy, very dramatic pictures. what do we know first of all of any people who might be trapped, who might be injured? guy: we have been told at least seven people have been injured and have been taken to hospital. some of those are firefighters we are told. at least one child, nine-year-old child among the injured as well take to the hospital. those injuries were caused by burns and inhalation of smoke. that is what we've been told so far. the fear is the number of those injured or possibly killed could be much higher than that.

the local police have set up a helpline for local people in case they are worried about loved ones, friends and so on who may live in the ilding. a makeshift hospital is being set up next to the building as well. we have those seven people confirmed have gone to hospital but the fear is a true number could end up being a lot more than that. sarah: we are looking at the live pictures there, and they are incredibly dramatic. what do we know about the building? residential building, 14 stories high. do we know anything about how the fire started, how quickly it spread? guy: we know that the alert was raised mid afternoon around 5:30 in the afternoon. the police were made aware of the fire. the fire services made their way to try and put it out. we believe the fire began in one of the lower floors, either the fourth or fifth floor, according

to reports, but then spread extremely rapidly to almost the entire rest of the building, as you can see from the pictures, basically the whole building has gone up in flames. we don't know the cause of it. there was an expert who was speaking to local media who said it may have something to do with the lcadding of the building, which can cause fires to spread quickly but we really don't know yet what the cause would be. sarah: just to absolutely reiterate, because looking at the pictures, it seems incredible there wouldn't be any fatalities, but that picture isn't clear at the moment. guy: no, we don't know that yet. the fear is there will be fatalities. for now, at least, all we have heard about our seven people who have been taken to hospital. sarah: wbelieve that there. we will return if there is any further development in that story.

a huge fire at a residential apartment block there in valencia. clearly, worked to put it out still ongoing. investigations into how it started and also, as you were hearing from guy, waiting to hear the full count, any fatalities. no reports of any fatalities at the moment but seven people injured as far as emergency services are saying. we will return if there is any more news. another story this evening that has been developing, pictures have emerged from the white house, says that president biden has met with alexei navalny's wife and daughter in san francisco. the white house that he expressed his miration for navalny's extraordinary courage and legacy for fighting against corruption. it comes as the mother of the

late russian opposition leader says that she has finally seen his body nearly a week after officials said he died in an arctic prison. in a video, lyudmila navalnaya said investigators secretly took her to a morgue wednesday night where she was presented with a death certificate which she signed. the navalny team have since said document states that he died of natural causes. his mother accuses officials breaking the law by holding onto the body for nearly a week. she said they had hatched a plan to bury him in secret without mourners, and only then would take her to his grave. let's turn our attention now to westminster, and a story that has been holding the headlines for the last 24 hours or so. the speaker of the house of commons is facing mounting pressure to quit over his handling of a boat on gaza.

sir lindsay hoyle on wednesday departed from convention to allow politicians a vote on an opposition party amendment calling for a cease-fire in the israel-gaza war, during a debate allocated to another party. he justified his decision by saying he had allowed the boat to give mp's a chance to vote on a wider range of oppositions and to protect them from rats to their safety. all day, and peas have been signing a motion of no-confidence in the speaker. you can see it on the screen there. the cuent tally stands at 67. several conservative mps have also questioned his decision to allow the motion, arguing that sir lindsay hoyle had allowed parliament to be intimidated by threats of violence. whether over social media or email or in person, personal threats, sometimes of extreme violence, have become almost

routine against some mp's. and it is this duty of care that the speaker said influenced his decision to act as he did. let's talk now to the labor mp barry sherman. thank you for joining us here on "the context." this is an issue that you know all about, have yourself been on the and of threats and intimidating behavior. how many of your colleagues do you think are experiencing the same? >> i think it is quite common but let me say, lindsay hoyle, opposition benches, i have never seen a better speaker than lindsay hoyle. he has been amazingly supportive of me and other members of the house who have run into trouble with threats, had real trouble in terms of the kind of hate they get on social media, the threats they may have.

he is the best speaker in my experience. i hope common sense will prevail and ts nonsense of a no-confidence vote will go away. sarah: we are aware of the violence against mp's. of course, the murders of joe cox and david amos. is this level of intimidation and threat getting worse? barry: i think it is. when i was a young mp, people would wre a letter in green ink and you would say, yes. then when we got social media, you would get emails in the middle of the night. we are used to that. but now the intensity of social media allows people, very often anonymously, to tck you and threaten you. in my own case, 18 months ago, i was threatened by somebody who said he was coming down from yorkshire and sort me out, hoped

that the people at the palace were still armed. that was very worrying. i have a wife, four children, 13 grandchildren. the last thing in the world that i want is thought that there was someone out there wishing to do me harm. of course, the gentleman did come down, he was caught on camera, arrested at kings cross. a few months later, he went out, i was summoned into the house of commons, and i was told he was in london, knew where i lived. it was only lindsay hoyle who put things in motion to say that is not good enough. it is not just about -- if you look over my shoulder, you will see a screen.

the whole house is covered in cameras. my next-door neighbor, joe cox, was murdered by a strange man. to have the thought every day that you are going into the house of commons a different way, coming back a different way, trying to wear a hat that suggest that you are not an mp, or that you don't stand at the edge of the station in the tube. a great deal of thought has to go into how we better protect members of parliament. i know lindsay hoyleit has been uppermost in his mind. i am sure one of the reasons he tried so hard to please everyone -- and he has confessed he got it wrong. but behind the scenes, he is the most caring speaker i have had. certainly looked after me.

sarah: you have certainly given him your support publicly. you have her the mp's arguing, that because mps are suffering these threats, intimidation, yesterday was a good chance for the commons to say that is not going to stop the debate happening. barry: but you realize -- i have not seen this in many years. it did into the house of commons much good. very frenetic atmosphere now. we are coming toward an election. it looks like the snp will be wiped out. half of the conservatives will be wiped out. they are, and were that night, planning to make a diversion. we should not be fooled over the antics that went on the other night, were part of a plot. i am very worried that parliament is being discredited by people who want to take

attention away from the real job of politics, holding the government to account. sarah: we appreciate your time. thank you for joining us. barry: thank you. sarah: some new developments in the israel-gaza war. the israeli government has decided to send a delegation to paris for talks tomorrow with her presented is of egypt, qatar, and the united states. let's go live to our correspondent paul adams. i know the news has just been reported, so tell us what we know. paul: this was a result of a cabinet meeting this evening here in israel in which the government decided that it would send a high level delegation to ris for talks tomorrow. there have been considerable uncertainty as to whether or not israel was willing to reengage in a process last week when there were talks held in egypt.

prime minister benjamin netanyahu declined to send a delegation. at that point, he was describing hamas' conditions for a cease-fire and hostage deal as delusional. something s changed since then. the u.s. middle east envoy was here today, understood to have told mr. netanyahu that hamas' position has softened. we don't know the extt or the details of that softening, but the government heard enough today to think it is worth sending the mossad boss and other top security chiefs to paris for those talks. that is a small sign of the possibility that these talks could yield something. this comes on top of remarks yesterday by benny gantz, senior member of internet and yahoo!'--

mr. netanyahu's government, showing signs of progress. we shouldn't geahead of ourselves, no sense of a deal being imminent, but clearly the americans are pressing extremely hard. they have made it plain they want to see a deal in place before the start of ramadan, and that is in less than three weeks time. sarah: paul adams, thank you. the israeli government had decided to send a delegation to paris for talks tomorrow with representatives of egypt, qatar, and the united states. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news. companies have been told they should make workplace adjustments for women going through menopause including relaxing uniform policies and offering working from home on warm days. the equality and human rights commission guidance also states using language that ridicules someone because of their

menopausal systems could be harassment. an inquest has heard that a grandmother attacked by xl bully dogs died from a bite wound. esther martin was visiting her grandson in essex when she was injured rlier this month. an inquest opened, police found her with on survivable injuries. epilepsy charities are warning that ongoing shortages in the supply of life-saving medication are putting patients at a higher risk of seizures. they say many more people are calling their help lines after struggling to get hold of the drugs they need. industry experts say there are also problems with the supply of other medicines. you are lie with bbc news. thank you for joining us here on "the context." this saturday marks two years since the russian president vladimir putin ordered his troops to invade ukraine.

in that time, the russian military has faced huge losses. the latest bbc estimate suggests more than 110,000 have died, while ukraine has borne the brunt of the war, russian towns have also been shelled, and hundreds of thousands of men drafted into the army. let's speak to the vice president of the center for information resilience. nina, thank you for joining us here on the coext. it has been two years. we have seen many reports come as many as we can from ukraine about the effect of two years of war on ukraine. from your knowledge, from your context, how has russia changed over the last two years? nina: certainly, russia has become more steadfast in its deliberate destruction of ukraine. we have seen russia's brought -- vast propaganda machine spinning out story after story about how this is a just war, killing and

maiming of innocent civilians including children is just somehow. excusing i would say the war crimes that russia and russia's troops have committed there. unfortunately, we see president putin also increasing his grip on power, especially with the murder of alexei navalny over the weekend in russia, in a prison camp there. sarah: what does that say about putin's position at the moment? is it a sign of his weakness that alexei navalny is alleged to have been killed by vladimir putin, or is it a sign of his strength, taking out a rival? nina: i think it is certainly sending a message to anyone who might question vladimir putin. this is a country in which you can be jailed for liking something on social media or posting something a certain way. you can be jailed for simple protest actions. when you go as far as navalny

did to challenge putin directly, to challenge the system, expose its corruptions, the consequences, according to putin, are going to be pretty severe. ordinary russians, those not involved in politics, will think twice before they attend protest actions, even those commemorating navalny. we have seen hundreds arrested forcibly going out to commemorate his life. sarah: in terms of vladimir putin and his relationship with the rest of the world, does he the moment now two years on from the you vision -- from the invasion of ukraine, how that military action is progressing? nina: just this week, the ukraine army had to give up a stronghold which they held for over a year because they are running out of ammunition, and they are running out of ammunition in part because of the united states congress' inaction, unwillingness to pass an aide to bill.

putin sees the coalition, the very strong coalition that supported ukraine these past two years, beginning to fray. he sees domestic grievances and vulnerabilities that he can needle at, which is what russia is extreme he practiced and skilled at. we will continue to see that until hopefully congress comes through and passes this aid package. sarah: thank you for joining us "the context." nina: thanks for having me. sarah: a privately owned spacecraft is on course to make history as it attempts to land on the moon. if it is successful, the odysseus would become the first commercial craft to land on the lunar surface, and the first american vessel to do so since the final apollo mission more than 50 years ago. let's speak to our science correspondent jonathan amos. always good to talk to you.

there have been a lot of space missions over the last few months. what is particularly significant about this one, and where are we? i know the landing was pulled back, maybe in the next few hours, but pushed back again. jonathan: we are sort of back and forth a little bit this evening. currently, the projected time is 23:24 gmt, about three hours from now. they are making doubly sure they have this craft, odysseus, in the right order to begin the descent to the moon. that will start about one hour and a quarter before the projected touchdown time. there is a lot riding on this, as you alluded to, sarah. this is an attempt to make the first commercial landing on the moon, private companies, although it is carrying six nasa instruments, intuitive machines. the houston-based company is in

charge, it has built the lder, bought the rocket. mission control is in houston and it is in charge. nasa is a customer. paid intuitive machines $100 million to get its instruments to the south pole. we have not seen the americans in any guise, commercial or government-backed, put down on the lunar surface softly since apollo 17. extraordinary really. december 1972. the americans have not been back since. there is quite a lot riding on this. sarah: what is the significance, what are they hoping to test out, show, explore in this mission? jonathan: the key thing here is they are going toward the sample. they are going to about 80 degrees south. no one has put anything down that far south before.

we had the indians had a fantastic landing august last year. they went to about 69 degrees south, but this will be the furthest south anyone has been. it's a really interesting part of the moon, very rough, lots of mountains, but there are craters there that are permanently shadowed. sunlight in some places have not fallen on the bottom of those craters for certainly hundreds of millions of years, maybe billions. at the bottom of those craters may be water ice. if we are going back to the noon with -- moon with humans, it is the plan, they want resources, and water ice is the best they could have. you could use that for drinking, sanitation, you could split water to make breathable oxygen, even rocket fuel. this is part of the big return to the moon, human return to the moon, that we expect this decade. sarah: extraordinary to think

that the americans have not been to the moon since 1972. once again, we are due to land how long? what should we be looking out for, is everything going ok so far? are we able to see how it is going? jonathan: intuitive machines brought the landing time forward and then they pushed it back. they didn't expand why. maybe they just wanted to dot the i's, cross the t's before they start the effort, because when they start the dissent, they have to go with it. it will be knuckle time. it is not easy to land on the moon. half of all attempts fail. even if you consider the modern era, this century, we have had 11 attempts this century. six of those have failed. so, it is tough. sarah: fingers crossed, jonathan. i know that you'll be watching

intently and will bring us the expert analysis of how it's going. thank you for keeping us up-to-date on this so far. after the break, we will be talking everything about artifici intelligence. stay with us for that. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: "usa today" calls it, "arguably e best bargain in streaming." that's because the free pbs app lets you watch the best of pbs anytime, anywhere.

♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... george: actually, you don't need vision to do most things in life. it's exciting to be part of a team driving the technology forward. i think that's the most rewarding thing. people who know, know bdo.