welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: president trump claims the attack on two tankers in the gulf of oman has iran "written all over it". iran denies the claims. the world health organization says it's deeply concerned about the ongoing ebola outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of congo. emergency teams in chile try to locate three miners trapped 70 metres below ground this is bbc news. the headlines: after a landslide. president trump says he's convinced that iran did carry out thursday's attacks on two oil days of heavy rain across southern tankers in the gulf of oman. china leave dozens dead, earlier, the us military released with tens of thousands forced from their homes. a video which it said showed iranian and it's paradise special forces removing for a paleontologist — an unexploded mine from one we go fossil hunting of the stricken ships. in search of the mysterious and monstrous megalodon. tehran has strongly denied any involvement in the attacks. the world health organization says

it's deeply concerned about the ongoing ebola outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of congo. more than 1,400 people have died there since august, while cases have been detected over hello and welcome. the border in uganda this week. president trump has dismissed iran's insistence it had no involvement emergency teams in chile have with the attacks on two tankers been trying to locate three miners in an important oil route who became trapped some 70 metres below ground in the gulf of oman. after a landslide on thursday. earlier, the us military released the authorities say they haven't a video, which it says shows iranian been able to talk to the miners special forces removing but have heard them an unexploded mine from one making banging sounds. of the ships. tehran has flatly denied being behind the attacks on thursday, they believe that other powers are trying to provoke trouble. here's our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. america builds its case. the us military says their video shows iran's islamic revolutionary guards removing a limpet mine from this stricken tanker.

their photos of the ship's hull point to what they say is probably that mine which didn't explode — and the damage from one which did. one of two attacks on oil tankers in the gulf on thursday, which rang the alarm about disruption of oil supplies, and the danger of war in this volatile region. others, including the un, are calling for an investigation. but this morning, president trump took to his favourite tv show to say iran's to blame. well, iran did do it, and you know they did it, because you saw the boat. i guess one of the mines didn't explode, and it's probably got, essentially, iran written all over it. tonight, britain's foreign secretary backed him up. jeremy hunt now says responsibility almost certainly lies with iran. iran denies that. at this regional meeting, its president took aim at the united states. translation: the us government has acted against all international laws

in the last two years by adopting an aggressive policy, and it poses a serious threat to regional and international stability. whoever caused these explosions knows they are playing with fire. just look at this map of the gulf region and the narrow waterways where the world's oil tankers come and go. this is where these tensions could escalate — by an accidental collision or a retaliatory strike by iran or the us and its closest partners, including saudi arabia. for now, the saudis are threatening stern action against what they see as iran's puppet — the houthis in yemen — already locked in a devastating war with the saudi—led coalition just south of here. so is there a way out? definitly, and that's through diplomacy, that the trump administration pulled out of the nuclear agreement last year, and reimposed sanctions on iran, despite the fact that it didn't violate the nuclear agreement. now we have people in the administration that are hoping

to put so much of the economic pain on society that it will lead to a regime change, and so at the same time, they are saying that they want the trump administration — that they want to talk to iran. they call me and so that's almost laughable. if iran's to blame, it may be its message, it can also inflict pain — on oil supplies, on stability. a warning, if one was needed, of the cost of confrontation. lyse doucet, bbc news. and you can keep up—to—date all with the latest news relating to tensions in iran and the middle east on the bbc website. there you will find reaction and analysis from around the world, including maps and films and other reports and articles from correspondents based in the region. that's all at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. we will of course have more analysis later in the programme from washington. let's get some of the day's other news. thousands of venezuelans have rushed to cross the border into peru hours before tough new immigration laws come into force.

venezuelan citizens will now need to produce a valid passport with a visa in order to be allowed into the country. a britishjudge has ruled that julian assange will face a 5—day us extradition hearing in february next year. the wikileaks founder is wanted in the united states on charges of publishing government secrets. mr assange spent seven years inside the ecuadorian embassy in london before being handed over to british authorities by ecuador in april. protests are taking place across brazil as part of a general strike against pension reform plans. striking workers have created roadblocks in several major cities, while some public transport has been shut down. it's the first major strike since the far—right president jair bolsanaro took office in january. the world health organization says it's deeply concerned about the ongoing ebola outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of congo. more than 1,400 people have died there since august,

while more cases have been detected over the border in uganda this week. our correspondent, anne soy is on ugandan side of the border and sent this update from kasese. the people i have spoken to here in kasese are very confident that indeed uganda can control an outbreak of ebola. they went through a major test this week after the arrival of six family members from the drc. three of them had ebola. they didn't come into an official post, they came in through a back route. but somehow they were detected. one of the children was very ill. they went to hospital. i've been to that hospital today. the health workers they were ready. they have in training for this for months. they quickly identified this in terms of ebola and referred the family to an ebola treatment unit which had been set up months in advance. uganda had trained close to 5,000 health workers in anticipation of a situation like this.

however, the problem really is across the border in the drc, an area that has seen decades of conflict. there have been decades of conflict, low literacy levels, and the community has been very hostile to health workers. they are saying they still need more international support to bring the ebola outbreak under control. emergency teams in chile have been trying to locate three miners who became trapped 70 metres below ground, after a landslide on thursday. the miners, who are from bolivia, have been heard making banging sounds. the copper mine is owned by chile's state company, codelco. gareth barlow has more details and his report contains some flashing images. rescue teams gather near the entrance of the collapse mine, 70 metres below them, three living workers trapped by a landslide. lisa and mark the rescue teams have had contact with the people asked mark translation:, they were banging on

the boxes and the miners were responding. they are not at the lowest point. with a massive rock locking the entrance to the shaft, the authorities have resorted to using explosives to try to break it up. translation: we have implemented a plan which sends a signal to the citizens that they should retreat so we can start with a series of minor detonations against the rock in hopes of breaking it apart. if this massive rock which is instruct obstructing the internal channels that would lead us to our next work. among the three, a father and a son, the third man is 62 years old. writing on twitter, the bolivian president spoke of his dismay and offered thanks to the rescuers. in chile tonight, trap deep underground for the three miners, the worst nightmare is a very real reality. gareth barlow, bbc news. days of heavy rain and flooding have hit central and southern parts of china killing dozens of people. thousands more have been rescued,

with many more evacuated from their homes. catherine karelli has this report. this is the extraordinary moment when the landslide hit a road in china's south—eastern province of fujian. rescue crews managed to free a man who was trapped underneath but he died on the way to hospital. days of relentless torrential rain have caused deadly floods, landslides and mudslides across the country. over 60 people have died. more than 4,000 people have been rescued from floodwaters. over 20 provinces have been affected, with guangdong province in the south—east hit particularly badly. nearly 9,000 homes are thought to have been destroyed by the heavy rain. millions of hectares of farmland have been damaged by the rain. in some cases, crop fields has been completely submerged underwater. the direct economic loss is estimated to be nearly $3 billion us.

during the summer, china routinely suffers from floods in the south. but the country's meteorological association said rainfall in two of the affected provinces hit record highs forjune. pope francis has criticised the world's top energy companies for searching for more fossil fuels despite the damage they are causing to the climate. he told energy bosses gathered in the vatican that climate change threatened the future of the human family. roger harrabin has more. an invitation to meet the pope at the vatican is a tough one to reject, even if you are about to be rebuked. the executives were castigated for continuing to seek even more fossil fuels when we've found much more than we can afford burn while keeping a stable climate. translation: today's ecological crisis, and especially climate change, threatens the very future of this human family, and this is not an exaggeration.

for too long we have collectively failed to listen to the fruits of scientific analysis, and doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain. discussion of climate change and energy transition must be rooted in the best scientific research available today. representatives of almost all the world's great oil firms were there for a dressing down. translation: it is not right that our children and our grandchildren pay the cost of our irresponsibility. among the ceos was the head of bp. he appreciated the pope for creating space for this unique dialogue, he said. but he insisted that all sections of society must help tackle this urgent problem. but the pressure was on. translation: we do not have the luxury of waiting for others to step forward or of prioritising short—term economic benefits. the climate crisis requires action from us here and now,

and the church is fully committed to doing its part. the pope posed afterwards with oil executives. can his moral power succeed where politics has failed? roger harrabin, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. earth's distant ea rth‘s distant past earth's distant past on display, we head to the new fossil exhibit in washington that is delighting visitors. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat government from bonn to berlin.

berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. early this evening the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. the real focus today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump says he's convinced that iran carried out thursday's attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. the world health organization says an outbreak of ebola in eastern congo should not be declared an international emergency. let's get more on our top story now.

president trump dismissing around's insistence that isn't involved in those oil tanker attacks in the gulf of oman. that's go live to washington and speak to a defence expert at the centre for strategic and international studies and a former first of all, eran insists it is not to blame, why would iran do this, if only to make the situation worse for itself? —— iran insists. and to turn other countries which might have been sympathetic towards it against it? iran might be doing two things. they might be making a point to their own population that they are fighting back against the pressure the united states is putting on them. the other thing is, they may be trying to put pressure on some of the countries around the world that get oilfrom the the countries around the world that get oil from the middle east to have them put pressure on the united

states to ease some of the sanctions and allow more of their oil to be shipped. there is an awfully risky game for eran to play. —— iran. shipped. there is an awfully risky game for eran to play. -- iran. it is, but iran has played this game before. in the 1980s they mind the persian gulf. the united states caught them and had some convincing evidence and retaliated, and sank half the iranian navy. so there is some history here. if it is not iran, if wejust give some history here. if it is not iran, if we just give them the benefit of the doubt for a moment, who else could it be? it is very ha rd to who else could it be? it is very hard to say. it could well be an iranian proxy, somebody who may be iranian proxy, somebody who may be iran has been arming but is not directly controlled by the iranian government. the houthis, for example, have done things like this. there has been a discrepancy in the reports, as well, from those who we re reports, as well, from those who were on the tankers. some saying

they saw rockets instead of mines. i mean, this isn't as straightforward as us paints it, is it? well, there isa as us paints it, is it? well, there is a lot of forensics that needs to be done, lots of statements that need to be taken. experts need to look at the damage. very often there will be fragments from the weapons that can be traced are analysed. —— oi’ that can be traced are analysed. —— or analysed. it may take some time. but looking at the pictures that have been made available so far, it is consistent with the limpet mines people have been talking about. a limpet mine is a small, hand placed mine, may be placed from a boat, and that looks like the kind of damage that looks like the kind of damage that has been done. i am sure you have seen the footage the us has been talking about, of what looks like people trying to remove a mine from the ship. does that look like the iranian revolutionary guard to you? does

the iranian revolutionary guard to you ? does it look like the iranian revolutionary guard to you? does it look like any familiar state actor? it certainly would be consistent with the iranian guards. they have lots of small boats in that area. they could have been taking a mine off the ship, but of course that is not the same as placing a mine. there needs to be lots of forensics before the global community can be sure that in fact it is iran that is doing that. and there is a pretty high bar here. there are two things in the background that are on people's mines. one of course is the run—up to the iraq war, where the intelligence turned out to be incorrect. the other is the beginning of the vietnam war where there was an incident in the top —— gulf of tonkin, and the way that was portrayed by washington turned out to be not quite accurate. so with that in mind i think there is a high barfor proof in that in mind i think there is a high bar for proof in this instance. where are we headed now? there is

lots of animosity coming from the us towards iran, and vice—versa. it is a heated situation. what do you see happening next? i think there is going to be some sort of defensive operation. i could imagine some sort of escorts for ships, some sort of monitoring of the golf to make sure incidents like this do not happen again. —— gulf. if there is another attack, i think that tensions will rise and that the allies will be may be more willing to take action. i am very concerned that there might be another attack. there have been to already, and there seems to be perhaps a pattern developing. —— two already. mark, thank you for your analysis. all eyes are on what happens next. protesters in hong kong say they will go out on the streets again this weekend if the government refuses to withdraw a controversial extradition bill. if it became law, it would allow people in the territory to be sent

to china for trial. hundreds of thousands of people were on the streets last weekend, and there were clashes with riot police on wednesday in the worst unrest there for decades. our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes has been talking to some of the protesters. crowd chants. "withdraw the bill, withdraw the bill." it is the chant that has echoed across hong kong this week. "evil police" is another. this level of hostility is something new for hong kong. the activists are younger, more determined, and more prepared to use violence than their predecessors. this young man is one of them. he's asked us to hide his identity. we have already know that if we just sat there doing nothing the government will not listen to us. even i feel thati million people protest, the government still does nothing, that is the thing, so we believe that we need to use more violent or aggressive ways so that the government

will listen to us. these tactics may be working. one senior government adviser today told me he still supports the bill, but the violence means it's time for compromise. we maintain a different system and we have a different and independentjudiciary to deal with these things, and this bill will not enable the things which happen in china happen in hong kong. so if it isn't an issue, a legal issue, it is then a political issue, and this is about political discontent? that's exactly the point, so if we were to push ahead the voting on the bill as we already originally planned, i fear there would be more street violence. it's a long way from the day in 1997 when hong kong was handed back to china by britain. then, many here felt a surge of patriotic pride. 68—year—old ivy has copies of every hong kong newspaper published that day.

but 22 years later she no longer looks at them with any sense of pride. translation: i'm chinese, but i'm not communist. we have become a chinese colony. that makes me very sad. we thought when we went back to china we'd be happy, but now we are more and more unhappy. some of these young people are now calling for hong kong independence. it is a naive fantasy, but it shows how far beijing has gone in losing the hearts and minds of its hong kong citizens. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in hong kong. spain's supreme court has ruled that a member of a catalan separatist group can not take up his post as a member of the european parliament. orioljunqueras is in prison in madrid, awaiting a ruling on charges of rebellion and sedition — for his alleged role in catalaonia's failed

independence bid in 2017. where can you meet a t—rex, a freeze dried bison and the earliest forms of life on earth? jane o'brien has been on a fossil hunt to find out. this cliff is a cross—section of an ancient seabed. 10 million years ago, this part of the chesapeake bay was under the ocean. you just find these exquisite fossils, just sitting here and for a palaeontologist, this is about as close as it gets to paradise. but we're not in seashells. kirk and i are looking for evidence of the megalodon. this is what we are looking for. this animal had massive bite force, like eight whales. scientists have created a life—sized model of what they think the megalodon look like and millions of years ago it probably swam right here when the site of the national museum of natural history in washington was

part of the seabed. its return is a bit of a homecoming and there are other monsters waiting to be discovered in the museum's new possible stop exhibits tell the story of our planet from first signs of life through mass extinctions to the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and our own age of humans. just 28,000 years old, this extinct species of bison is one of the youngest fossils in the collection. it doesn't look like the other specimens because it's freeze—dried. we are lucky to have a specimen with such complete structure to it. almost all areas of the body represented and accounted for included some of the original horn material, the the skin and muscle tissue and some of the fur as well. and like all fossils, it tells scientists about the environment it lived in and the impact

of climate change. they were gradual changes that life essentially had time to make adjustments to. what we're seeing with the modern period of climate changes is this is happening quickly but the geological record offers us the best evidence as to how life will be able to adapt or not. that is a story still unfolding on the chesapeake. check this out. oh, you've got one. a little tiny one. lots of different kinds of sharks here, notjust the big ones butjust for a comparison... i'd rather meet that than that. this is an example of a five foot long shark, not a big deal. but this is an example of... same age, same sea, different shark.

now let's take a look at the three games that have been played in the world cup today. england have booked their place in the knockout stages after beating argentina. the winning goal of the lionesses came courtesy ofjodie taylor in the 61st minute. meanwhile scotland's hopes hang by a thread after they lost tojapan 2—1. consecutive defeats leave scotland bottom of the table without a point and needing to beat argentina in their final game forjust the chance of making the knockout stage. and in the final game of the day, italy booked their place in the last 16, after beating jamaica by a staggering 5 goals to none. don't forget, the world cup goes on. games on saturday. all the details on our website. there it is. you can see what is coming up on saturday,

netherlands versus cameroon and canada versus new zealand, all schools and all the analysis and write—ups of the game. —— all the scores. hello. the weekend isn't looking as wet as it's been, particularly in those areas which have had a soaking in the past week but there will still be some rain or showers around and the reason why low pressure is still close by towards the north—west of the british isles, around that we're seeing weather disturbances moving through, with either some rain at times, very least getting showers from west to east. still fairly unsettled this weekend. it won't be wet all weekend long. some sunshine occasionally, looking breezy this weekend. still not particularly warm, though feeling a bit warmer than it has done for the past week. it looks like quite wet start to saturday morning in northern ireland after rain overnight. it peps up at the end of the night. some rain too towards western scotland, wales and western parts of england. this is that first weather disturbance coming our way, slowly moving eastwards, reain becoming more patchy, showery in nature but still one

or two heavy showers. ahead of that, some sunny spells, maybe a shower, brightening up. the chance of catching a shower on a breezy saturday with temperatures close to 20 in the warmest parts of eastern england. most of us will fall a few degrees short of that. saturday evening, this first area of showers will push away. we could see more coming in towards south—west england and wales on through saturday evening and pushing a bit further northwards as we go through the night. clear spells too — the chilliest spots into single figures maybe towards mid single figures in one or two areas, certainly prolonged clear spells overnight and onto part two of the weekend, look familiar? deja vu. weather disturbances moving around the showers at times could be heavy and possibly thundery. we'll start off with a batch of showers, close to northern england on sunday, especially north—west england. south—west scotland pushing northwards across scotland as the day goes on. sunshine, one or two showers elsewhere and the potential for some heavier downpours to come into northern ireland through the day, into parts of wales as well. still some sunshine occasionally, not everywhere will be wet. maybe not many showers at all towards east anglia. close to 20 in the warm spots. it looks like a similar picture on monday. showers in northern ireland and scotland. she rain and a few showers affecting parts of england and wales, south—east of that, it could be a bit warmer

into the low 20s and for many, it will start to feel a bit warmer. monday to tuesday. right now, tuesday is looking mainly dry. so the story of next week's weather is something drier, a bit warmerfor a time at the start of the week. i think it looks like it turns wetter again around 00:28:14,432 --> 2147483051:50:51,931 mid—week and it starts to turn 2147483051:50:51,931 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 cooler once again as well.