doubt will be speaking about. this is a moment in american history. activism has swept america in the wake of the death of george floyd and the focus on racial injustice and despite years of police brutality and years of black people dying at the hands of police, there is now a focus on theissue police, there is now a focus on the issue in a way there never has been before and demands for police reform. already what we have seen is the end to the chokehold for example that killed george floyd and in a number of police districts gci’oss number of police districts across america. and what democrats are talking about doing now in tribute tojohn lewis, someone himself utilised by the police in 1963 when he marched in summer and spent his life trying to expand voting rights —— selma. the idea behind this tribute is to encourage americans to get out there and vote and honour the legacy ofjohn lewis. there and vote and honour the legacy of john lewis. that is a

huge cause to honour. beyond joe biden's speech when he will no doubt pick up on those themes you talked about, what else do we know that he will be mentioning, what are the other big names they will touch on? his aides say he's going to talk about how he would build back better as president. the theme of this week has been that democrats say the country is facing three crises. the crisis of the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more than 170,000 americans. the resulting economic calamity with unemployment, over 10%, means unemployment. and we saw that a further one .2 million lost theirjobs in the last week with the unemployment figures today. and also this moment of reckoning with racial justice. joe biden is going to make his message that he is

someone make his message that he is someone who can unify and empathise and hear when so many americans are grieving. this is the argument. critics would say thatis the argument. critics would say that is all a bit vague, what actually is the meat of what a biden presidency would do. he is going to seek to talk about tonight the strength and resilient of the american people. let's go to the location of the speech, you been there a few hours now. talk about the flavour of what has been happening there today. after a flat couple of days i will say, there is now an atmosphere tonight. the secret service are everywhere. there is security that has been stepped up. on the other side of the convention centre behind me you can see wherejoe biden is going to speak, there is a watch party that is being hosted by the dnc. it is a drive in it was party because of coronavirus. there is something approaching it 150 because there were supporters ofjoe biden who have come to watch him make the speech on a huge screen which has been

erected outside the convention centre. there is a party type atmosphere there but there are also supporters of president trump around the place who have been chanting usa, usa and holding posters, testing joe biden and kamala harris and saying they should be left wing and it will lead to communism and it will lead to communism and socialism in america reflected. it is quite a lively political 90 before joe reflected. it is quite a lively political 90 beforejoe biden's speaks. let's get back to you a little later. i want to bring in katy again. just for our viewers who may not have been tuning in over the last couple of days, i'm sure a lot of people know our thinking, this is the one, joe biden speaking soi is the one, joe biden speaking so i better churn end and figure out what is going on. you must say flavour of what the last couple of days have been like. do you think this format has been a success?” format has been a success?|j think format has been a success?” think the democrats are pretty pleased with it. would they have liked that the convention

in milwaukee with the balloons and the parties and the political schmoozing, of course they were, that is where they feel they would have got their energy from. i have been to eight of those political conventions now four republican a four democrat and i have to say in some ways they are quite formulaic. and there is a lot of time wasted. this one was much more efficient, they could get more speakers on and off very quickly which meant that they could have more speakers. people probably paid more attention to the actual speeches themselves because all you do is sit and watch them. they were picked up quite a lot on streaming which is useful because it means that clips get replayed and replayed and replayed. particularly something like michelle obama's speech barack something like michelle obama's speech ba rack obama's something like michelle obama's speech barack obama's speech last night. i think in some ways they are pretty pleased with it, no massive technical hitches. i spoke earlier wannabe people organising it and he said that he has had a lot of sleepless nights because he is organising an incredible

massive big television production effectively and a lot of it is live. so they feel it went off pretty well. what they missed was that the in—person energy we are missing from all of our events right now and i think thejoe biden tonight, that might be particularly important because it is very hard to give a big speech when there is no room to feed off, no audience to feed off andi feed off, no audience to feed off and i think that is a downside for him. the upside is that they can kind of control the message a lot more and they have had a very, look, compared to 2016 when there was brewing in the whole, this has been a very unified democratic message. interesting, on that. we pick up on that, katy? that idea of a unified message. because we have had this, and as we do every time with this, extraordinary attacks on personal attacks as all the different candidates for the nomination by with each other and set up on stage. they say horrible things about each other and that they all come to this time of year and all say nice things about each other.

how, compared to all of those, was it eight, you said you had been to over the years? how unified do you think they have managed to be this time? they are more unified than they were in 2016. i remember being in philadelphia on the opening night of the democratic convention dan and bernie sanders‘s supporters were doing from the floor and kind of dominated the whole night. there was a weird doctor position. we had just come from clevela nd position. we had just come from cleveland with the republican national convention and we had expected a lot of division there because donald trump was such a controversial candidate and actually, the republican party had pretty much fallen in line by the time of their convention and then we had the philadelphia convention where we expected democrats to be unified and they were the ones who faced a brewing stage. i think you have got more unity this time. bernie sanders seems more invested in a joe this time. bernie sanders seems more invested in ajoe biden. he likesjoe more invested in ajoe biden. he likes joe biden more invested in ajoe biden. he likesjoe biden and they work for years together in the

senate. they know each other and they are friends. he and hillary clinton didn't get on particularly well and that is a good sign for democrats going to the selection that they have the possibility of bringing in those young, bernie sanders, more liberal voters on board and there just isn't the antipathy in the party or indeedin antipathy in the party or indeed in the country towards joe biden that there was in 2016 it was hillary clinton. it is worth remembering that in some ways, hillary clinton lost in 2016 because voters, for whatever reason, just didn't like her personally. that is not true ofjoe biden. and i think what we have had this way time and again is thatjoe biden is a decent guy. i've had a few interactions with him, i know a lot of people who know him very well and time and again what you hear is he is a good guy, he's a decent guy. that makes it hard to demonise him. very interesting stuff. stay there, let's chat to maryanne marsh again now. then

i start with an apology, my surname is double—barreled and i spent most whole life with people only saying half my name and getting it wrong and i was doing that long to you earlier on so apologies to you for that. what do you make about what katy was saying they're aboutjoe biden's character. is likeable, he can't be demonised and that is such a big plus point? she is absolutely right. the real test here is that donald trump hasn't been able to do it. he has struggled to try and demonise joe to do it. he has struggled to try and demonisejoe biden today. trying different nicknames, trying to demonise him and go of his family. thus far it has failed. i do think there is a deep well of good faith and feelings towards joe biden across the poetical spectrum, biden across the poetical spectrum , across biden across the poetical spectrum, across the democratic party and even some republicans who in the private moments will tell you they would work with him. he talks about all the time. on the democratic activist side, i think everyone has seen what the cost of the last four years has been with donald trump in the white

house. they might not think thatjoe biden is regressive and offer them on the platform didn't go far enough or it doesn't look as much like bernie sanders. they know that the next four years, we have to get our country back, we have to save our democracy. they will save that fight for four yea rs will save that fight for four years from now ifjoe biden doesn't run again and there is another generation of democrats who choose to pursue the presidency. at this time, in this place, joe biden is the perfect combination of long—standing relationships, long—standing relationships, long—standing experience, coupled with a lot of friendships and the willingness for everybody to defeat trump but also supportjoe biden. let's remind people of course, hillary clinton actually did when in terms of the popular vote in 2016. she won by 3 million votes. she lost because america's complex electoral couege america's complex electoral college system. she lost particularly in three states, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. it was something like 80,000 voters. she lost really because african—american

vote rs really because african—american voters in places like milwaukee, wisconsin and detroit, michigan, didn't turn out to vote for her. can joe biden get them to turn out to vote for him? yes, and in the philadelphia area as well, those three places, 77,000 votes. that was the key focus from the election between now and november. that is getting voters out of it as a colour out. it was black women in south carolina who delivered the nomination tojoe biden. it has been black voters who have been the backbone ofjoe biden's support. and now we confront at the time when body is most important, we are confronting challenges on every front. we heard lance bottoms talk about it. we had challenges in voting machines, voter rolls, paper ballot issues, post office issues, pressings being consolidated so people have to stand in line for very long times in the midst of a pandemic. there are a lot of challenges between our november to get everybody to

turn out and actually cast a vote either by mail or in person. the most important turnout where we can really up our numbers is with black voters and latino voters, voters and latino voters, voters of colour across the board. and often times they confront the biggest challenges devoting. thank you very much mary and katy for the moment and we will be back with you a little later. and of course we will have more from the democratic national convention just a little later on including that big speech from joe biden, not long to wait now. let's bring you some of news now. one other story which is making news in the us is that president trump's former adviser steve bannon has been arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the us—mexico border. both he and three others are alleged to have defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors. paul hawkins has more.

he was one of the president's closest advisers. steve bannon appearing in a new york federal court pleading not guilty to charges of fraud. he was released on bail of $5 million. four years ago, he was a key architect of donald trump's 2016 presidential election victory. his right wing anti—immigration ideology fueling the president's ‘america first‘ campaign, part of which included... we're going to build the wall. build a wall. we're going to build a wall. we have to build a wall folks. with the president short of federal funding for his wall, steve bannon set up a website for private donations which raised $25 million. we do the areas private inland that the army corps of engineers has said too hard. this, all the way from here to that river, is nothing but those types of mountains and desert. if it's privately built, you can't have 3,000 miles of it. that's why trump got $2.5 billion from the defence department. but today, on this chinese billionaire's yacht, he was arrested and charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in connection to the fundraising website. he's also alleged to have pocketed $1 million, at least some which he's alleged to have used on personal expenses. he was involved in our campaign, he worked for goldman sachs. he worked for a lot of companies

and was involved likewise in our campaign, for a small part of the administration, very early on. i haven't been dealing with him at all. i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like what i read about it. i didn't like it. i said this is for government, this is not for private people. leaving court, steve bannon called the charges a fiasco to stop people who want to build the wall. he pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on bailfor charges and was released on bail for $5 charges and was released on bailfor $5 million. he's the president's 6th former senior aide to face criminal charges. paul hawkins, bbc news. russia's most prominent opposition figure is tonight fighting for his life in hospital. his spokesperson thinks he has been poisoned. alexei navalny was on a flight to moscow when he fell violently ill. his team suspects that poison was slipped into a cup of tea he drank at the airport before boarding his flight. navalny is president putin's most famous critic and a thorn in the kremlin's side. the bbc‘s sarah rainsford has more.

this was alexei navalny, minutes before boarding his flight. soon after that cup of tea, he collapsed. a fellow passenger filmed this as medics came to his help, capturing the groans of agony. groaning. by the time he was stretchered off, the biggest opposition figure in russia was unconscious. those close to him believe he was poisoned deliberately. from moscow to siberia, his wife, yulia, rushed to his bedside. as doctors revealed they were working to save his life. these are the last images alexei navalny posted from his trip. he was in siberia to help these young activists preparing to take on pro—kremlin politicians at local elections. translation: alexei is now in intensive care, in a coma, and on a ventilator. we still do not have a diagnosis.

i will pass on any new information as soon as we get it. i ask you not to trust other sources. earlier, from the hospital corridors, his aide posted this picture, of police and investigators. translation: of course, poisoning is being considered as one of the possible causes, but apart from that, there are many other possible conditions which could come on suddenly and show the same symptoms. shouting. with a huge online following, alexei navalny has the power to bring big crowds onto russia's streets, protesting against the politics of the kremlin. he has been arrested for that multiple times. and his anti—corruption fund has been raided repeatedly by police. it digs into the private lives and finances of the powerful here. plenty would like that stopped. the kremlin has warned people not to jump to conclusions over what has happened,

but if alexei navalny has been poisoned, and the question must be not only who did that, but how russia has become a country where attacks on prominent critics, is not only possible, but increasingly regular now. alexei navalny has been attacked before. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. yemen's brutal civil war aided by outside powers, has dragged on for more than 5 years. at least a 100,000 people have died and the conflict has sparked the world's biggest humanitarian crisis, with children often suffering the most. our international correspondent orla guerin reports now on the remarkable story of one little girl's survival in a city on the frontlines. you may find some of the images in her report, distressing. this is taiz, called "the city of snipers." in a battle—scarred country, it is one of the most dangerous corners, especially for the young. ruida is wounded, but alive, minutes after a sniper shot her in the head.

the seven—year—old left lying like a broken doll. it was her brother, omari, who rushed to her side and managed to drag her from the line of fire. he is only ten years old. ruida is now in intensive care at a local hospital, where staff are attending her around the clock, but she probably owes her life to her brave big brother. translation: i was going to get water. we pulled the bottle to the pavement and i went to play. then, as i was going home, i heard a gunshot and i saw her in front of me, lying on the ground. i ran to pull her. who pulled the trigger, ruida's family have no doubt. they told the bbc huthi rebel snipers were to blame and it is not the first time they have

targeted innocent children. ruida's surgeon, doctor abd al—kubati, says she arrived in the emergency department unconscious. he operated to stop internal bleeding and she is now stable. this is how childhood looks in yemen, a generation stunted by war, menaced by malnutrition, and now by the coronavirus. but even those who know yemen's suffering all too well are shocked by what happened to ruida. doctor, you have been on the ground in yemen for more than two years and you have seen a lot of tragedy in that time. how were you affected personally when you saw these images? i was devastated, because i have a daughter, too. and it was truly moving to see

those images, shocking. it is simply unacceptable. ijust don't understand how people could do this to a little child. but this is, sadly, a story that is repeating in many locations across the country. and who will remember yemen's children now, with global attention fixed on covid—19? ruida and many others may be quietly forsaken. orla guerin, bbc news. back to the uk now and a court has sentenced the brother of the suicide bomber who carried out an attack in manchester to a minimum of 55 years in prison. a life sentence couldn't be imposed because he was under 21 when he committed mass murder. 22 people were killed in the bombing in may 2017. our home affairs correspondent,

daniel sandford, has more. the bereaved family said it showed what a coward he is. addressing the empty dock, justicejeremy addressing the empty dock, justice jeremy baker gave him 21: life justice jeremy baker gave him 2a life sentences and said he should not even be considered for release for 55 years. are still grieving families welcomed what was a record—breaking minimum term. we would like to thankjudge jeremy bakerfor we would like to thankjudge jeremy baker for imposing the biggest sentence ever in these circumstances. however, as the families of chloe and liam, no sentence will ever reflect the loss we feel each day without them. because he won't really be serving the sentence that we are. because abedi was under 21 at the time of the bomb, he couldn't be given a whole life order which would have meant he could never be released. the relatives of those he killed

had told thejudge relatives of those he killed had told the judge how their lives had been turned upside down, and described the gaping holes left behind and their families. martin hat had a huge, vivacious personality, and now he's just gone. huge, vivacious personality, and now he'sjust gone. like an a byss and now he'sjust gone. like an abyss of grief. there is no bottom to it, no end to it whatsoever. it's a forever grief, and just because i don't publicly cry, doesn't mean i am not completely distraught and destroyed, actually. abedi's brother, salman, killed himself when he detonated the bomb. but thejury decided the when he detonated the bomb. but the jury decided the brothers had worked together, driving around manchester, ordering and storing chemicals and shrapnel for the device, though both we re for the device, though both were equally guilty. ahmed grew up were equally guilty. ahmed grew up with them in manchester and

said he can't believe what they did. is gonna sit in that cell and saying, why is this happening? why did they make the, why did they take this decision? it will be for the pa role decision? it will be for the parole board to decide after 55 yea rs, parole board to decide after 55 years, whether hashem abedi is fit to be released back into society. but justice fit to be released back into society. butjusticejeremy baker made it clear today that in reality, he may never be released. more british holidaymakers are facing an anxious decision about their travel plans tonight after the latest set of quarantine restrictions announced by the uk government. anyone arriving from croatia, austria and trinidad and tobago from saturday, will now have to quarantine for 1h days when they reach the uk. the bbc‘s danny savage reports. lunchtime today at manchester airport, where travellers were soon to hear about more countries being added to and taken off

the list for uk quarantine. this jet2 fight was from croatia. on board were the wood family. they had got wind of the fact that quarantine was imminent here for people returning, so cut their holiday short. we should have been coming back on sunday, so we have changed our flight to come back today so we don't have to quarantine and be affected, because it will affect our business. well, it's very annoying because my dad lives in croatia and we went out to see him. i haven't seen him for eight months. so it was tough but you've got to do what you've got to do at the end of the day. there has been a significant rise in coronavirus cases in croatia. the 14—day cumulative number of infections is 37.7 per 100,000, compared to 21 in the uk. so i'm in croatia at the moment, the north—west of the country, in pula. so from early on saturday morning, in come restrictions for people

arriving here from there. there's more cases where i live in oxfordshire than there is where i am at the moment, which is the most annoying part for me. unless i take a 7—hour coach journey over to venice and then get a flight home over the weekend to get around it that way, it is nigh—on impossible for us to get home. we came on holiday, so we understood the risks and we will have to quarantine when we get home. i know everyone is going to think we are silly coming out here when this was all going on, but, um, last week, the cases were 7.8 for every 100,000, so we took the decision. we have been out here a week, had a great week out here but we've got to fly back tomorrow. for british visitors heading to croatia, they might still be welcome, but the now familiar dilemma is, should they still go or cancel? germaine burton was flying out this afternoon. we have been looking at flights potentially to actually go out and probably come back tomorrow. we are still undecided when we get there whether we will doa u—turn

and come straight home. travellers from trinidad & tobago and austria will also face quarantine when entering the uk from saturday. at the same time, though, portugal will be removed from restrictions. but it is holidays in croatia's adriatic coast which suddenly come with a lot more baggage. danny savage, bbc news. let's ta ke let's take you back to the democratic national convention, let's just show you the live feed that's coming out there. at the moment, who is speaking as doctor vivek, he is the one that has been advising joe biden on how to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, as overshadowing everything. the democratic national convention is due to run for another couple of hours, we have about an hourorso couple of hours, we have about an hour or so before joe couple of hours, we have about an hour or so beforejoe biden himself takes. before that, lots of speakers and films will

be played out. we are waiting to hear from pete be played out. we are waiting to hearfrom pete burchett, bloomberg among others and you can see them here. right, that's it from me. i'm lewis vaughan jones and you that's it from me. i'm lewis vaughanjones and you are watching bbc news. in the last day or so, we've had some very windy weather across western parts of the uk. a storm swept across ireland, but on friday, it is going to be blowing a gale across many parts of the uk, certainly wales, england, southern parts of scotland as well. and all because of this low which has decided to park itself very close to the uk, and it will be with us until around about saturday night. eventually on sunday, it should finally pull away into scandinavia. but until then, blustery conditions expected throughout friday. on top of that, some heavy showers, thunderstorms are possible, too.

the heaviest of the showers will be across more western and northern areas of the uk. but let's focus on those winds because they will be hazardous. in fact, strong enough to take branches off trees, and even this time of the year, 50—60 mph winds are capable of bringing down weaker trees. so, some really nasty conditions for some of us. the funny thing is it's actually going to be a mostly sunny day, particularly across many eastern and southern areas of the uk. yes, with a few showers, but predominantly bright or sunny, and the temperatures will get up to around 25 degrees in norwich. obviously a lot fresher around western coasts where we'll see those howling gusts of wind. now, friday night into saturday, the low pressure is starting to pull away, but it's still very much in charge of our weather. so, saturday, once again it's going to be a blustery day across the uk. the gusts of wind won't be quite as strong, but strong enough. on top of that, we've got further showers in the forecast and thunderstorms as well. i think the winds will be gusting

more like 30—110 mph on saturday, so not quite as strong as the ones on friday. temperatures despite the wind still managing to get up to around 22 degrees in london and norwich, and not far off 20 for our northern towns and cities as well. now, sunday, the low pressure has actually by this stage pulled into norway, and the winds are falling lighter across the uk. still a few showers in the forecast carried on a mostly north—westerly breeze. temperatures in the north dipping down to around 1a degrees, so a bit of a chill in aberdeen. but in the south, still making around 20 degrees celsius. so, once again, a very blustery day on friday. saturday's going to be quite windy, too. and then from sunday, it is going to finally calm down.

welcome to a bbc news special on the final night of the democratic national convention. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our main story: it's been a democratic party convention like no other. on the final night of this virtual event, the party waits forjoe biden to set out his vision for america, as he prepares to accept the nomination as presidential candidate. joe biden, my name is. look me over, will ya? he's tried twice before, but never been this close. we look at the journey that got joe biden one step away from the presidency. we'll be live injoe biden's home—town of wilmington, delaware and in washington. also coming up: the convention is hearing from everyday americans, and some of those — including pete buttigieg and michael bloomberg —

who ran in the