hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. mike pompeo has called the attacks on saudi arabia's oil facilities on saturdy an ‘act of war‘ saudi arabia says this is the evidence iran was involved in the attack. but tehran says they've proved nothing. the eu's chief brexit negotiator tells the uk that it shouldn't pretend to be negotiating, if it hasn't got any new brexit proposals. and remember this on monday — when luxembourg's prime minister held a press conference next to an empty podium after borisjohnson pulled out. he's been defending the move in an interview with the bbc. i thought we should go and speak to the people and tell them to have

respect and i promised borisjohnson that this was my goal. and an australian hiker who fell 6—metres down a waterfall shares his story of surviving by crawling for two days and carrying his broken leg. saudi arabia says it's undeniable that iran played a role in attacks on its oil facilities at the weekend. we're told this debris was recovered from the damaged oil facilities. it was presented at a press conference earlier where we were told these are definitely iranian—made weapons. they are trying to hide this from the component and they are mistaken. we have a lot of evidence against

them and will provided to the united nations and through the channels according to the international law. the us agrees. i have just instructed the secretary of the treasury to substantially increase sanctions on the country of iran! iran though denies any involvement. this is an advisor to the iranian president. the press conference proved that saudi arabia knows nothing about where the missiles and drones were made or launched from and failed to explain why the country's defence system failed to intercept them. iran's argument is the claims of responsibility from houthi rebels in yemen are correct. the rebels say they have new drones that can reach far into saudi arabia — and that they also intend to target the united arab emirates. but the saudis say the houthi are just puppets of iran. here's their defence spokesman again. the houthi militia, the proxy,

they're just following the order of the irgc, iran's continued aggression and sponsorship of terrorist groups represent a common threat to us all. the saudis say the attacks couldn't have come from yemen. these are the locations of the two oil facilities that were hit. there's yemen to the south, iran to the north. both the us and saudi arabia say the missiles came from the north. the saudis released this surveillance video which they say shows a missile hitting the plant. it's a little hard to make out but the red circle is where to look. they say this shows the missile coming in from the north. in other words from iran. the us secretary of state mike pompeo arrived in saudi arabia a short time ago. he's holding talks with the saudi crown prince mohamed bin salman. gary o'donoghue, washington. iamjust

i am just trying to understand the instructions from donald trump, what would the president be looking for from this visit. i think they'll be looking to try and develop a bit of a united front, a bit of a coordinated line if you like, up until now, there has been a bit of confusion at some point between what the president has been saying what mike pompeo has been saying, he is been specific and definite about the responsibility and the president was little bit more hesitant on that and we had the suggestion that they sponsored these attacks without carrying them out of their own territory. there are some differences here and they want to compare evidence and americans of already released some satellite imagery and maybe there is some photographs out there, we do not know yet, but they may shed some more light but as things stand,

senior officials say yesterday that look, it definitely came from iran and they have not produced any evidence to back that up yet. one of theissues evidence to back that up yet. one of the issues of sanctions is that there already a lot of sanctions in that threat may lose some of its bite. the sanctions of already crippled the iranian economy, is already a bit of a basket case in that regard, so what else can be imposed on another individual perhaps, other areas the economy clamped down even further on the small amount of export they are not engaged in —— they are already engaged in —— they are already engaged in. the action you can take if you don't want to take military action with a country that is pretty isolated in that sense. so we'll see if military action remains on the table there's been no immediate sign and they have said that we should

wait for and they have said that we should waitforan and they have said that we should wait for an announcement. quickly, a word about the new national security adviser because president trump has named tim, robert c0 bryden, he is not he comes in the state department meaning he has worked closely with mike pompeo and we know there are some significant differences between him and john bolton, on one hand you can see it as him getting an ally inside the white house because that is where the security council lives in the nsa is the head of the national security council and on the other hand, mr o'brien worked with john bolton on the united nations in the previous administrations, so he is playing the cards close to his chest and he was introduced to the press over in california and would

not say what device he had been giving to the president of the stage but we will see what he brings to the table, certainly the president believes that he is a decent negotiator and he could be involved in some getting some hostages out of dangerous situations. with its arms and his military assistance, but it is while all this has been happening president trump named his new national security advisor. it's this man robert c. o'brien from the state department. he's replacing john bolton who was fired last week. that's the view from washington. next this is rana rahimpour from bbc persian. they have threatened the ally in yemen which they have set a target and they say they have drones that can reach those targets in the uae

and they asked them to stop the support of the coalition in yemen on their state with the arrangement of drones. and as we know, this saudi evidence in the southeast that is been released today, the saudi spokesperson did not say that it came from iran, they said that the iranian made missile and the north of saudi arabia, they refused to say which country came from they said they either do not know or their relu cta nt they either do not know or their reluctant because that can lead to escalation. but iran has been very adamant from day one they said it was not us and they said it was houthi rebels and the people of yemen who have the right to defend themselves. and what about those

debris that they showed, they said that it was definitely iranian missiles, presumably people in the iranian government can look and see if they think they are or not. they we re if they think they are or not. they were denied that they support houthi rebels. they say there repressed and they are at war against the saudi arabian government and where they we re arabian government and where they were launched as a different story and that is what iran is denying. donald trump says more sanctions are coming iran possible his way and there are a substantial sanctions in place, which further measures have an immediate impact? not american sanctions. presumably, in the general assembly of the un is going to try to push the europeans to take a stronger stance against iran because there were talks about opening a credit line about $15 billion through which iran can continue to at least, for a couple

of years survive under us sanctions and it is likely that the united states will put more pressure on iran's european friends but donald trump is not given the details on what sanctions iran is under, very serious sanctions already, what else is left. two of the most important players in the european union have had some harsh words about britain and brexit today. first let's hear from the european commission president jean claude juncker telling the european parliament about his meeting with uk prime minister borisjohnson on monday. here's some of it. i called on the prime minister to come forward with operational proposals in writing for practical steps which would allow us to achieve those objectives, until those proposals have been presented, i will not be able to tell you looking at you straight in the eye than any real progress has been

achieved. and this is the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier. almost three years after the uk referendum, i do not think that we should be spending time pretending to negotiate. i think we need to move forward with determination, we need to do so with ongoing cooperation and transparency. the uk is due to leave the eu on october 31, in 43 days' time. so that's not long to negotiate changes to the exisiting deal — and for those changes to be approved by all of the eu's members and the uk's parliament. and of course that's assuming the uk and eu positions can be reconciled. here's the bbc‘s damian grammaticas. are they getting more pointed? i think they are trying to send some strong messages, we are the same sort of things before but the reason for this now is what they say, i think, publicly.

is that time is getting tight, that is with this at the european parliament today. time is running out and he is worried about a no deal and particularly, he says he is worried because he tried to explain, he said, to borisjohnson earlier this week over lunch that he is not wedded to the idea of the backstop that is in the deal that mrjohnson does not like he wants out of it. with the eu needs is something to achieve the same objectives and they need something of a proposal that is legally workable and operable put on the table for the uk side that has not happened yet and they told the parliament that he could not report any progress while there was no proposal from the uk side. so those pretty blunt. equally, michel barnier saying that in his view, no reason to opt out of the eu to continue to pretend to negotiate

or to be pretending to negotiate and what they all feel frustrated about is that they are very close now, a few weeks away from a potential exit by the uk and these questions are unresolved. how does the uk think those northern irish safety net provisions could be replaced and what does the uk envisage as a future relationship? all of this is extremely difficult to conclude while there is no certainty about those things. so we are seeing the frustration. meanwhile, remember this image from monday? that's the luxembourg prime minister xavier bettel going ahead with a press conference after mrjohnson pulled out because of the number of anti—brexit protesters. he's spoken exclusively to the bbc‘s katya adler about why he made that decision. i am sad about this perceptions from people to think that i want to humiliate.

i have too much respect for the uk, too much respect for the uk citizens and for borisjohnson to think that i prepared this isa trick just to have five minutes of popularity. really? there has been quite some outrage in the uk after prime minister, following a meeting here in luxembourg with borisjohnson decided to hold a press conference. mrjohnson, he holds the future... widely criticising the brexit process in front of anti—brexit protesters after the prime minister left the building. you vehemently denied accusations that this was a planned humiliation. you are a very experienced politician, you must have realised how it would look to have an empty podium where the uk prime minister should have stood, but boris johnson wasn't there in order to answer the very emotional criticisms that you have

about the brexit process. you must of realised how that would've gone down. do you regret it now looking back on it? no, because the fact it was agreed to have this press conference together. so keen to show why he was unable to meet borisjohnson‘s request to hold that press conference indoors to avoid the noise outside of the anti—brexit demonstrators that he took me on a personal tour of his prime ministerial offices. we had no room for 120 journalists and to pickjust five or ten or 15, it was a problem. yesterday, we even had the united states ambassador to the uk in the argument saying that your treatment of borisjohnson was evidence of why the uk is right to leave the eu. i am a friend of the united kingdom, the fact that some people have been hurt makes me sad. let's look at the deal, you did sit here with boris

johnson as well as the president of the european commission, the president described the meeting as friendly, and in parts, positive. was that you are feeling as well despite, it felt like anger outside. inside, was it a constructive conversation? it was a perfect, friendly and constructive discussion and there were good proposals, time is ticking. he told me that would could be plans or ideas, but i cannot decide on ideas. it is going to be, i need legally binding texts. are you actually going to be able to find a deal by mid—october? when i have concrete proposals, i can tell you. i would hope that we will have this deal and his future relationship in the few weeks and we are able to say that they did it.

stay with us on outside source — still to come. the us federal reserves cuts interest rates again — but donald trump calls the move weak. on saturday the former professional rugby player gareth thomas revealed that he is living with hiv. today, he's said he would not have made his diagnosis public if a tabloid had not made threats to publish it — and explained that a journalist broke the news to his parents before they had discussed it. my my parents are very special people and they love me. i can never have that time back, i can never have that time back, i can never have that moment back to sit down with

them and be able to explain to them why their sun is going to be ok and is going to be able to live through this and live a healthy normal life. ican this and live a healthy normal life. i can never take that moment back. that person came and took that moment away from me. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: the us secretary of state mike pompeo calls saturday's missile and drone attack on saudi arabia an ‘act of war‘ — as he arrives injeddeh. iran has denied wrongdoing. other stories around the bbc. at least 27 children have died after a fire broke out at a koranic school in libera. the blaze broke out during the night at a boarding house attached

to a mosque in the capital monrovia. according to the police only two students and their teacher managed to escape. that's on the bbc world service. the trump administration has stripped california state of the right to set its own stricter vehicle emissions standards. it's also banned other states from setting similar rules. and tonga's rugby team is probably better known for their tackles and strong defence, but theirsinging isjust as good. the national team was applauded when the players broke into song on a flight to the japanese city of sapporo, ahead of the rugby world cup. the tournament kicks of on friday. the us central bank, the federal reserve, has just announced its second interest rate cut this year, after years of ratcheting the rate up. let's turn to samira hussain in washington.

the thinking is that there are some things that are working well for the us economy, spending is up, the unemployment is down, but there are things to be worried about it and some of those things include the fa ct some of those things include the fact that we see manufacturing is gone down, exports of gone down and we are also seeing that business sentiment has gone down. the us federal reserve decided to cut interest rates, was not a surprise decision at all but what people are really focused on is what comes next, we are going to see more interest rates coming down the line and that is still a bit of an unknown. let's look at how the markets reacted, a bit up and down, frankly. there was a bit of a dip and since then, they have rallied, this is what donald trump has been making of it. let's go back to samira.

he has been a very vocal critic of the federal reserve, remember the federal reserve is an independent organisation that operates outside of politics. but the president has really ta ke n of politics. but the president has really ta ken to twitter of politics. but the president has really taken to twitter and even speaking at press conferences about his dissatisfaction with the fed, he wa nts to his dissatisfaction with the fed, he wants to see interest rates cut even lower, using and calling for them to be cut to zero and he says that would be a way to boost the economy and of course, to boost the us stock market. at the same time, if you look at what traders are looking for, they want to see whether or not there is going to be more rate cuts coming down and on one hand, yes, the fed did leave itself open to potentially being another rate cut down the line, but the policymakers are divided and it is unclear when that may come. in that way that is

what the traders are reacting to. india has announced a ban on the production, import and sale of e—cigarettes, saying they pose a risk to public health. it's the latest of several blows for the industry. earlier this month the american vape giantjuul was censured by the american food and drug administration for claiming to be healthier than cigarettes, a claim for which there is little evidence. the bbc‘s business reporter leisha sa ntorelli had the story earlier. they really gained popularity over the past two years after entering the past two years after entering the market but the global backlash has been gaining traction and along with india, we have seen 29 other countries including singapore, australia, brazil, greece and act similar legislation banning the devices of her concerns with the health impact we saw the us as well and now it is planning to crack down

on the sale of flavoured gaping products around the consensus is that too many young people are becoming addicted to it. china, the worlds biggest backer market, this week, the products are no longer be available in online marketplaces which indicate that we could see official action come from the chinese government as well as here in the uk, i think it is little more relaxed and many european countries. the european planemaker airbus has forecast a need for more than 39—thousand new aircraft over the next 20 years. this would result in a need to recruit more than half a million new pilots and 600—thousand new technicians. the bbc‘s theo leggett has been speaking with airbus's chief commercial officer — and started by asking where that new growth will come from. most of that growth is coming from the asian regions, india, china, and the asian regions, india, china, and the rest of southeast asia as well

where you have the demographic reservoir of people little by little exceeding the middle class status and they will have a propensity to travel. that isn't to say that the well—established mature markets such as north america, western europe are not growing, they still are growing, albeit at a much slower pace but off albeit at a much slower pace but off a larger base than southeast asia for example. how does that tally with climate change targets because more planes means more higher emissions we are trying to cut emissions we are trying to cut emissions of the moment. it does, but the other hand, aviation driven largely by the innovations to airbus that we have been bringing to the market has allowed us to reduce its emissions quite significantly and we are showing some numbers earlier that show that over a period of less than 20 years, the unit production

of c02 than 20 years, the unit production of co2 emissions for example, has been reduced by more than half since the dawn of the jet age, by 15%, there are other industries that i dare say, not any industry is achieving that. will return to the uk supreme court for two appeals, one from the english high court, the other being the court of session in edinburgh, both considered and concerned the legality of borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament and will bring you some your main clips from the proceedings and some analysis of that as well. you may have also heard about this clip that is gone viral of prime minister boris johnson visiting the hospital in london and being confronted by a father was unhappy with the treatment that his daughter is receiving. lots of different details to the clip that warned some further analysis, so we will get into that and we'll of course show you the clip in question. we will see you in

about five minutes' time. hello again. first of all we will ta ke hello again. first of all we will take a look at what is going on with hurricane humberto, it is a major hurricane with sustained winds of a miles an hourand hurricane with sustained winds of a miles an hour and a little variant in the forecast of this hurricane in the next 2a hours as it passes to the next 2a hours as it passes to the northwest of bermuda and going close to bermuda, into thursday to bring us tropical storm and having a lot of rain comes 15 to 100 mm and some large and bettering waves hitting the coastline as well, you might expect a major hurricane to cause more problems than a relatively puny depression. that might not necessarily be the case with this. this is a tropical depression. and will bring some

torrential rain, eastern texas, western louisiana picking up 152 maybe 300 or maybe 11150 mm of the next few days and so there is a threat of these issues —— 4050. some torrential rain over the past few hours, localised flooding here and some landslides in the mountain as well, torrential rain expected over the next three or four hours, but further south in india, an area of low pressure is enhancing the monsoon rains, already being a record monsoon season in mumbai but will also give much of your of the week, bringing the risk of flooding back to the city centre. from there, this area of low pressure heads out into the arabian sea and there is some computer models that do this. it strengthens and develops to become a cyclonic storm, it could track towards oman as we head into the way away. across asia, with some

heavy thundershowers in the southwestern monsoon tracking across thailand and southern parts of cambodia and samara these of vietnam and the philippines —— in some areas. a tropical depression is formed and that is like to strengthen to become a tropical storm which will head towards japan over the coming days. keeping the area u nsu btle over the coming days. keeping the area unsubtle for much western europe but a really court northwesterly wind feeding and across scandinavia and into eastern areas of well below the time of year and strong winds blistering showers and strong winds blistering showers and temperatures to 13 degrees in warsaw, 11 degrees in moscow and taking a look at the longer weather picture, and moscow, this weekend, temperatures drop even further down to around six celsius. this time the yearin to around six celsius. this time the year in september we expect this tem ptress year in september we expect this te m ptress to year in september we expect this temptress to be about 16 degrees, so it is pretty cool to stay the lease. asimilarday coming it is pretty cool to stay the lease.

a similar day coming up, this is quite sunny but across scotland and will be rather cloudy.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has called the attacks on saudi arabia's oil facilities on saturday an act of war. the iranians say nothing has been proved. the eu's chief brexit negotiator tells the uk that it shouldn't pretend to be negotiating — if it hasn't got any new brexit proposals. and remember this on monday — when luxembourg's prime minister held a press conference next to an empty podium after borisjohnson pulled out. he's been defending the move in an interview with the bbc. i thought we should go, and we should speak to the people and tell them to have respect to prime

ministerjohnson, and this was really my goal. and a report on snakebite deaths. really my goal. and a report on sna kebite deaths. the really my goal. and a report on snakebite deaths. the world health organisation because of the world's biggest hidden health crisis. tulip muzumdar has a report from the front line in kenya. day two of the uk supreme court considering whether boris johnson suspended parliament lawfully. this is a satellite picture of parliament square, the palace of westminster inside the house of commons, a very short walk across parliament square to the supreme court. let's begin with a clip of one of the government's lawyers. the prerogative power is not subject to legislative control. the start of the first session, the termination

of the current parliamentary session and the start of the new one, how sessions are to be divided and the period between them, including any extension of that period, are for decision by the government in accordance with that reservation of power and its uncontrolled nature in legislation. remember the court is hearing appeals in two different but related cases. the first is from the high court in england, which has already ruled that borisjohnson acted lawfully. campaigner gina miller originally brought that case and is appealing. separately, snp mpjoanna cherry and others took a case to a scottish court which found mrjohnson had acted unlawfully. the government is appealing this ruling. here's the lawyer representing those who argue that the scottish ruling should be upheld. in the present case, it appears that the prime minister's actions in proroguing parliament has had the

intent and effect of preventing parliament, impeding parliament, from holding the government politically to account, at a time when the government is taking decisions that will have constitutional and irreversible impacts. here are the thought of the bbc‘s legal correspondent clive coleman. much of the item and has been had, and lawyers from the government addressing the court from these benches have focused on the point that proroguing or suspending parliament is a political matter, is not one which a court can or should adjudicate, because there simply are no legal standards against which it can be judged. on the other hand, lawyers for the business woman gina millerand a group lawyers for the business woman gina miller and a group of 70 parliamentarians have argued that the proroguing or suspension was unlawful because its purpose was to

silence, shut down parliament, to stymie it, frustrated and some of the critical weeks of the uk leaving the critical weeks of the uk leaving the eu. well, all of the justices who have sat and listened to this case will have to decide firstly whether it is an issue that they can rule on, and if they decide that it is, they will have to come to a definitive judgment as to whether the suspension of parliament was unlawful and the behaviour of the prime minister in advising the queen was also illegal. while all of that has been happening at the supreme court — boris johnson visted a hospital in london. and it provided a moment of high tension when he was confronted by the father of a sick child. there are not enough people on this board, there are not enough doctors and nurses, it is not well—organised enough. the nhs is being destroyed. it is being destroyed and now you come here for a press opportunity. they're well actually there is no

press here. 7 they're well actually there is no press here. what = they're well actually there is no press here. what do you mean there is no press here? who are these people? we are here to find out what we can do. well, that's not going to fix things now, it's a bit late, isn't it? years and years and years of the nhs being destroyed. and you are telling me there is no press here. there are no press here? as farasi here. there are no press here? as faras i am here. there are no press here? as far as i am aware. this is a press opportunity, you didn't invite the press here? you didn't want them to come, you don't have a press manager back there? well, fine, in your la la land, believe whatever you want. several things to mention here. first, the prime minister says there's ‘no press here'. but there were journalists present — invited by no.10 to provide material to uk media more widely. in fact, no.10 sent out a press briefing ahead of the visit. if you want to read it, buzzfeed have published it.

second, the man talking to the prime minister is omar salem. a quick look on his twitter profile shows he's a labour party activist — which has drawn plenty of comment. he's responded. "quelle surprise. people will be shocked. you couldn't tell from my profile. my labour values are why i back proper support for the nhs. i am not ashamed of them." needless to say, mr salem being an activist doesn't change the fact his daughter is very poorly and did receive inadequate treatment. that's been confirmed by the hospital's chief executive who's said "occasionally — as in fact happened on this ward last night— an unexpected emergency in one part of the hospital can cause a temporary pressure elsewhere." being an activist doesn't make these facts go away. nor did omar salem know the prime minister was about to appear. nick eardley, westminister.

you can help me with a few elements of this, but first of all, the prime minister was straight wrong saying there was no press there. absolutely, quite clearly there were cameras absolutely, quite clearly there were cameras there. what quite often happens at these events is a camera goes along on behalf of all the broadcasters, you get pictures of whatever the prime minister is doing that day, that's what happened here, and he was there to talk the nhs. interesting to point out as well this is not the first time boris johnson has been heckled on the road. he has been heckled in the north of england over brexit. there have been events he has been at where people have told him he should be negotiating with the european union. there has been about four events where he has been on the road putting himself in front of the public and has been given a hard time on camera. i should also tell you borisjohnson in the last 20 minutes or so has tweeted about this. he says, i have been pm for 57 days, a reference i think to the fa ct days, a reference i think to the fact he is not taking the blame for

some of the underfunding of hospitals. as part of myjob is to talk to people on the ground and listen to what they tell me about the big problems. it doesn't matter if they agree with me. i'm glad this gentleman told me his problems. this isn't an embarrassment, this is part of myjob. isn't an embarrassment, this is part of my job. and what is striking about these series of exchanges the prime minister has had with people in the country, you expect them to talk about brexit but the issue of austerity keeps coming up too. talk about brexit but the issue of austerity keeps coming up toom does, brexit has come up but austerity is the other thing boris johnson is being held to task over by some for the conservatives's re cord by some for the conservatives's record in government ever since they entered the coalition back in 2010. i think it is fair to say austerity isa i think it is fair to say austerity is a really big issue in the uk. is it bigger than brexit? it is impossible to say. we think in the general election that will probably happen before the end of this year, i'm sure the labour party, the

others, the snp for example, will be really keen to talk about the government's record on the economy. it is definitely something a lot of people feel in their pockets and are keen to talk with their politicians about. if politics in the uk has reached a difficult place, the same can definitely be said of israel. talked about this on yesterday's programme, covered the israeli election as it was finishing. 24 hours on, 90% of the votes are counted and it looks like benjamin netanyahu will have his work cut out creating a coalition government. but so is his main rival. in fact benny gantz‘s blue rival. and white party is currently in the lead by one seat. the question now is who can form a government and how. this is how the unofficial results stand, these are not the finished results, we still expect a little movement. but the likud right wing and ultra orthodox bloc, led by benjamin netanyahu, is here on the right, with around 55 seats out of 120.

on the left, the blue and white bloc, led by benny gantz. they have around 56 seats. 61 seats or more are needed to form a government. so they both have their work cut out. in the middle, the israel our home party, led by this man, avigdor lieberman, a former ally of the prime minister who has since broken away, who is projected to get nine seats, can decide who gets a majority in parliament. this is what he had to say today. translation: there is one and only option, a national unity government, broad, liberal government. we say this again this time that we won't need any other option. the challenge to having a unity

government is it would mean all parties working together in government, and they aren't willing to do that. abigdor lieberman wants to make sure ultra—orthdox jews subject to military service like all other israelis, so won't form a bloc with them. others are absolutely adamant that must not happen. there is not an easy way to see those two viewpoints being reconciled. benny gantz won'tjoin a unity government with benjamin netanyahu, or bibi as he is known, as the leader. today mr netanyahu made his thoughts clear. translation: after we established a right—wing bloc, only two options are left. either a government under my leadership, or a dangerous government dependent on the arab parties. at this time, more than ever, especially with the tremendous security challenges we face, a government reliant on the arab anti—zionist parties must not be formed. we will make every effort to prevent the creation of this dangerous government.

the group he is refering to are thejoint arab list, here on the left, expected to win around 13 seats, which would make it the third largest party in the israeli parliament. but mr neta nyahu but mr netanyahu won't countenance working with them. with this and lots of other rifts, it means there will be some heavy negotiating going on. let's hear from will be some heavy negotiating going on. let's hearfrom bend have an injury listen. what you have heard is very much the public statement saying the same, very much along the lines of what we heard during the campaign, mr netanyahu won't countenance any kind of deal that will bring in arab parties, butjust in the last few minutes, in fact, the jerusalem post, in the last few minutes, in fact, thejerusalem post, and it isjust one source, its sources are saying mr netanyahu is now countenancing a broad unity government with mr gantz of the blue and white party. if that does bear out, it would be a huge

shift, and really would seem to be underlying —— underlining and confirming suspicions he would like to stay in power, no matter what. there has also been talk of a rotational process, whereby one party would be prime minister at one point and then rotate through another. it could even be three parties as you were saying, mr lieberman also very much in the mix having had a pretty good showing last night, eight or nine mandates, according to different sources. so it is absolutely not clear, but there are certain subtle hints coming out that there are certainly talks going on behind the scenes. one thing that has been spoken about is whether the very good showing by the united arab list, as you say, got 13 mandates, whether that could form a bloc. we have heard during the course of the day that mr gantz, again, the head of the blue—and—white party, has been holding talks with the leader of the arab list, but the people from the

party turned round and said that is not something we are considering. as ever, not clear. we will take you through it as and when the parties decide how they will form this next israeli government. stay with us on outside source — still to come... you will be shocked to hear how many people die every year from snake bites. preparations are under way in yorkshire for cycling's road world championships, which start this weekend. it's the biggest event in the international road cycling calendar and is being held in the uk for the first time since 1982. our sports editor dan roan reports. last week's tour of britain was the latest reminder of the cycling's popularity in the perfect build—up to one of the sport's biggest events today your human ben swift found out he will carry his country's hopes in the prestigious men's road race

at his home region host the well tempered chips and in a training ride, he told me how much it meant. it's incredible, you have the tour de france and the ellerby games but the world temperatures is right up there and if you win that, you get to represent the world jersey for a year —— the olympic games. and with it being in yorkshire, 40 minutes from where i grew up, i don't think you can quite grasp it until you are in that atmosphere. the key legacy of the event is a £15 million investment into closed circuit tracks like this one in doncaster, a template for future facilities across the country at a time when safety concerns are being blamed for a drop in the numbers riding. what success looks like for us is using this amazing shop window 1982, the last time britain hosted the event, and rochdale's mandyjones becomes world champion at goodwood. 37 years on, harrogate is the focal point for an event expected to be watched by 3 million spectators. this will be the finishing straight for all the races across 90 days

of action but yorkshire will also be making history because, for the first time, it will include a mixed time trial involving teams consisting of both men and women as well as a para cycling event accompanying the main championships. and one paralympic legend competing in the race believes it could be a game changer. five years ago unforgettable scenes, now it will play host once again, its passion for the sport undimmed. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? the us secretary of state mike pompeo calls saturday's missile and drone attack on saudi arabia an ‘act of war‘ — as he arrives injeddeh. iran has denied wrongdoing. we bring you the biggest stories from outside the world. fires in indonesia have now burned

through more than 340, 000 hectares of forests — a hectare isjust bigger than a football pitch. so we are talking about a huge area. smoke from borneo and sumatra has blown across south asia, disrupting flights and forcing schools to shut. let me show you these pictures from sumatra. more than 6000 troops have been sent to try and contain these fires but they will have their work cut out. shockingly, officials are saying around 80% of them were started deliberately to make way for palm oil plantations. indonesian fires are an annual problem but this year has been worse, we are told there are over 1000 wildfires. another way of looking at the scale of it is via this nasa image released at the weekend. this was a satellite image over borneo, but it is not just an satellite image over borneo, but it is notjust an indonesian problem. lots of countries nearby are being affected, for instance merck has blown all the way to malaysia, where the air quality has dropped

significantly. so these are pictures from kuala lumpur, and you can see as well as i canjust from kuala lumpur, and you can see as well as i can just how bad it is. people are reporting dry and itchy eyes, and we are told around 1500 malaysians schools have had a close. if that is malaysia, but it's look at singapore, because it too is blanketed in smoke. here we have the national environment agency's a index of singapore currently 124, anything above 100 is classified as unhealthy. and these are pictures from singapore, and you can see how bad it is. there are concerns for this weekend's formula 1 race, that it could be affected, and tourism officials are already encouraging visitors to wear masks if conditions don't improve, though it is not the most attractive proposition if people are thinking about visiting. indonesia has arrested close to 200 people in six provinces in connection with these fires. let's hear from rebecca hence connection with these fires. let's hearfrom rebecca hence key who used to be the bbc‘s indonesia

correspondent now based here in the newsroom , correspondent now based here in the newsroom, and she is telling me about the indonesian president's reactions to this. everyone happy? given that we know this is a problem every single year, why can't the government do more about it? that is a question many are asking and criticising the government. the president said today he admits they weren't ready for this longer dry season that has seen worse fires than in previous years, but really observers say it comes down to issues like law enforcement and corruption, because these are man—made fires, and it is illegal to clear land by burning fires to create land for plantations, paper as well as palm oil, but people do it anyway. small farmers, as well as palm oil, but people do itanyway. small farmers, big corporations are out there burning land, and it isn't the law enforcement in place to stop people from doing it. and while the indonesian struggle to stop it, it is obviously a regional issue, so do

the other countries who are affected have any means by which they can influence these fires? every year they criticise in this year is particularly bad, when they see hazardous air coming into their areas in singapore and malaysia, but what indonesia will always point out is that the companies that are profiting from these huge plantations that are in some cases burning land are from malaysia and singapore. so they say they need to do more to rein in their own companies. the president debating he wa nts to companies. the president debating he wants to send firefighters to indonesia and make malaysia and companies put out the fires on their own land. there is a hayes trans—agreement but own land. there is a hayes tra ns—agreement but it own land. there is a hayes trans—agreement but it is —— it has done very little and it is quite frustrating for the people in the region to have to breathe in this haze every year. report now from tulip mazumder on snakebites. here's a shocking figure for you. around 140,000 people a year die from them every year. and nearly half a million people are

left with permanent disabilities. the world health organisation has called it "arguably the world's biggest hidden health crisis" story most victims living in remote areas of south asia and sub saharan africa. tulip has been to the east of kenya where a new team is working on getting people help more quickly after a bite. here's her report. a pilot scheme is under way here, testing out new snakebite ambulances a tense community gathers. they have spotted a cobra up a tree in the heart of their village. a spitting cobra. snake expert joffrey and his colleague from the uk, nick, are in the area trying to catch snakes. it's been spitting venom for an hour. slowly, and carefully, they uncoil the creature. and it is

captured. it has been four years since a snake slithered into marta's community. she was bitten as she worked on a farm, losing her leg and her livelihood. translation: my body was completely swollen and tender black. i was told my leg would have to be amputated or i would die.l pilot scheme is under way here, testing out new snakebite ambulances, which can get into difficult to access areas quickly. the biggest problem that leads to the loss of lives and limbs is because of the distance and the duration taken from when the patient was bitten to when they go to hospital. the race is on to get to a teenage boy bitten by a snake as he tended to his livestock. they clean the wound. he is in a state of shock. but the team carefully lift

him onto the ambulance and head to hospital. a couple of days later, cecilia visits the teenager. doctors who have seen more than 40 snake bites this year, around half of the victims were children. unlike most hospitals in kenya, this one does have a decent supply of antivenom, but there is a global shortage of these drugs, which can cost hundreds of dollars. this man has a long recovery ahead of him, but medics who have managed to save his leg and he is expected to return to school. this community is very used to living alongside snakes. how many have been bitten by a snake before? but today is a first for them. they are learning snakebite first aid. communities like this one are lucky.

they now have a dedicated team ready and waiting to help them. if this pilot scheme is a success here, the snakebite squads could be heading to other parts of kenya very soon. we will finish with this extraordinary story. an australian hiker who fell more than six metres down a waterfall says he had to carry his broken leg for two days while he waited to be rescued. that was with a broken arm. neil parker was bushwalking alone near brisbane when this happened. i was climbing up, so i started looking down, ijust started sliding down the face of a rock, and i slipped about 20 foot, cartwheeled, slammed into the rock and then landed ina slammed into the rock and then landed in a creek at the bottom. straightaway i thought i am now in a lot of trouble, because no one knows where i am, i don't have a personal location beacon, but that was two days of lifting my leg. i had a

bandage round my elbow, so i could use my elbow and just basically scrambling, lifting inch by inch. he knows what he's doing, he is an experienced bush walker, he had bandages with him and use them along with hiking sticks to create a splint for his broken leg. he also had painkillers and water but limited food. here he is again. my wrist in here straight through as well. so it made it very hard on one side to have both injuries on one side, because i had to carry my leg, and legs are very heavy when they are not connected to anything, and trying to pick it up and get it over rocks, and then use this elbow and this arm and just constantly struggling. i'd get about a metre, a metre and a half each time before i had to stop and take a break. what a remarkable man, we will see you tomorrow at the same time. goodbye. hello. thanks for joining

hello. thanks forjoining me for our weather for the weekend ahead —— for the week ahead. we will take a look at the outlook to the next ten days or so. at the outlook to the next ten days orso. in at the outlook to the next ten days or so. in the shorter term, which are looking nice, light went and dry conditions thanks to this area of high pressure. we have seen a warm weather front running across the top of the high in the last 24 hours, bringing more cloud and rain. the rain will sit across the northern isles on thursday, still some cloud in northern scotland but sunny spells developing through the course of scotla nd spells developing through the course of scotland —— through the course of day. much warmer by a factor of five or6 day. much warmer by a factor of five or 6 degrees in aberdeen. to the south, still the most extensive of the sunshine, and after any early morning mist and fog clears we will see that sunshine pushing temperatures up into the low 20s. there into friday, there is the high not moving anywhere in a hurry but just drifting slowly eastwards. that puts us on the westward flank and if you follow the isobars, that taps us

into a south—easterly airstream, pulling warm air across the uk from the continent. we also lose the cloud from scotland for friday and it looks like some spots in the north—east of scotland, a bit of phone effect thanks to the mountains, highs of 24 degrees. to the south 23 to 24 possible. the warmest day looks like saturday. again that higher drift further eastwards, notice how the isobars line up from south to north, pulling the air across us straight from france, and that will raise the temperature quite significantly, and the humidity though for the start of the humidity though for the start of the weekend, because we also have an area of low pressure trying to come from the west. for saturday however, a lot of dry and sunny weather around, a light southerly breeze and it will feel unseasonably warm for this point in september. temperatures, 21, 22 across southern scotland, perhaps 25 or 26 further south. but if you had your eye towards the west you may have noticed some rain already through saturday afternoon trying to get

into the south—west of england and wales. the low pressure will start to come into play overnight saturday into sunday, and meeting up with that warmth, it just into sunday, and meeting up with that warmth, itjust injects energy into it, and it means the rain we see is likely to be heavy and thundery for sunday. still very humid, we are still in that southerly airstream so the temperatures don't fall away like a stone with the change in weather, but it will look very different and i think feel very different thanks to the presence of that rain. possibly a bit brighter in the west, though, later on in the day. once that weather system is true, we move into the early part of next week, and we face this area of low pressure, ex—hurricane and berto has a lot of tropical air tied up in it, lots of energy, potential heavy falls of rain but also some strong winds, potentially quite widespread gales to the north of the uk, particularly for scotland. we may see even some warnings issued for those early next week and some of the rain will be quite persistent too. it looks like that flow will pull away into the north sea and

wea k pull away into the north sea and weak and quite quickly but then we are weak and quite quickly but then we a re left weak and quite quickly but then we are left with a lingering low to the north of the uk for the remainder of the week, so that will continue to feed bands of shower and rain across us, definitely a much more unsettled picture in contrast to this week. what we have managed to do, though it will be cool of course than the temperatures we will see through the weekend, its hold on to some relatively mild air, so an unsettled outlook as we look further ahead, but our temperatures still a little bit above average for the time of year.

we have a special report on the plight of thousands of vulnerable teenagers in england and wales. they live in what's called supported accommodation, where they're at risk of abuse and exploitation, with not enough support or protection. we talk to some of those affected, as 14 local authorities investigate standards of care. living here was a punishment. he was actually petrified. he'd grab his head, he'd pace. i was always just running away, trying to get away from the home. we'll have an exclusive report, based on a year—long investigation. also on the programme... following the weekend attacks on oil facilities in saudi arabia, the authorities there claim they have definitive proof that iran was responsible. at the supreme court today,

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