this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm mike embley. our top stories: president trump flies to kenosha — to praise the police and condemn the damage to property. violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses, burned down public buildings and threw bricks. these are not acts of peaceful protest, but, really, domestic terror. the family ofjacob blake, whose shooting by police triggered the latest protests, spoke to the bbc and gave an update on his condition. jacob is hanging in there, he goes through some really severe struggles and still managed to turn into a great success.

we have a special report on the huge challenges faced by lebanon — as it struggles to rebuild after last month's port explosion. comrade duch, one of the most brutal figures from the genocidal khmer rouge regime in cambodia, has died in prison. and back in class. all round the world millions of children return to school despite the global pandemic. the small city of kenosha in wisconsin has become the front line in the battle for the white house — and on tuesday, donald trump himself paid a visit. he went to stress the need for law and order after days of protest — some violent. but the family ofjacob blake, the black man whose shooting at the hands of police triggered the unrest, say he was disrespectful.

they called for a president who could unite america. aleem maqbool reports. officials here feared a visit by donald trump would reignite tensions. so now you want to put him in a headlock! and as he rolled into town, people took to the streets again. and arguments flared up between black lives matter protesters and trump supporters. i was asked the other day by somebody saying, "do you think it's good that trump is coming?" i said, "yeah." they're like, "well, don't you think it's going to cause dissent?" i go, "have you seen our city? !" when he arrived, the president did view some of the damage caused during the protests, and met law enforcement agencies. he called the demonstrations "anti—police and anti—american." violent mobs demolished or damaged at least 25 businesses, burned down public buildings and threw bricks at police officers, which your police officers won't stand for and they didn't stand for it. these are not acts

of peaceful protest, but really domestic terror. my administration coordinated with the state and local authorities to very, very swiftly deploy the national guard and federal law enforcement to kenosha and stopped the violence. this did all start with the shooting seven times by an officer ofjacob blake. but his family said they didn't want to see the president. all i ask is that he keep his disrespect, his foul language far away from our family. we need a president that's going to unite our country and take us in a different direction. in any case, donald trump's focus has been law and order, looting and burning, not racial injustice. it is just a deflection, you know. it'sjust like, "oh, look at this property damage." well, look at the fact that this cop shot this man. i think what has happened over the last week has just shown how deep the racism that exists in this country is and how it shows up in any town from chicago to kenosha.

in part, she is referencing the way in which the president has defended this 17—year—old who shot dead two protesters while condemning people like her who took to the streets. four more years! what has undoubtedly been exposed by the events here has been the stark polarisation of american society. would i love to shake your hand. we did see brief moments of coming together between trump supporters and detractors, but right now, this feels like a rarity. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in kenosha, wisconsin. well, shortly after events wound up, i spoke with jacob's unclejustin blake, blake family friend tanya mclean and alvin owens, who runs a barbershop and was tear gassed while he was protesting. i asked tanya, first, how all this has been for kenosha. we are just a small town, a peaceful people, getting on with day—to—day life. nothing major happens here.

there are some issues here in our town with division, but we've never seen anything like this. alvin, you know that mr trump today called the angry protest, the violence and the property damage in the city "domestic terror." you have a business there, your barbershop i think is fine but i know you must have seen other businesses, many of them black—owned being trashed. how did you feel about that? you must understand the anger, the frustration, but surely that must have been rough. what is rough is watching a video of a black man being gunned down shot seven times. what is rough is within one week we had a fire in uptown here in our city, and then four or five days later, we had looters from god knows where that we did not recognise

tear up our city and tore down the upper half of uptown. so that is rough. however, the president is 100% incorrect and told a lie when he called protesters, peaceful protesters or nonviolent protesters "domestic terrorists." we all know in america who the terrorists are and what they are and what they do. the citizens and residents of kenosha are not that. your business, luckily is fine. are you sure that the people who lost their businesses feel the same way that you do? a few of those businesses came together, whose businesses who were burned down, and were feeding pizza and sandwiches and bringing bottled water to the nonviolent protesters to jacob blake's family just this past saturday. so that gives you an inkling of how they felt. even though they are going through... even though their

businesses have been burnt and torn down, they came out in support of jacob blake and help the community come together and heal. we are about healing in this city. what is the latest on his condition? how is he? he is a soldier. he is hanging in there. he is the epitome of blake men, going through many struggles but still turning it into great success. how aware is jacob of what happened, and also, what has been going on in kenosha since? not very aware. he is stuck in the moment before he was shot. he knows something is going on. he can feel the love. there is help from different organisations. kenosha, milwaukee,

chicago and beyond. as everyone knows, his children were in the car at the time he was shot. how are they? they are doing as well as somebody could be. they went through a traumatic situation of watching a father get shot seven times in front of them. i must ask you as well, what about the reports that there was a knife in the car that he may have been reaching for a weapon that police were reacting to the possibility he was going for a weapon. his mother and father, we all say he had no weapon whatsoever and it was unjustified to shoot an unarmed man seven times in the back. it could have ricocheted in the car and hurt the children. there have been more demonstrations on the streets of the lebanese capital beirut, with protestors calling for an end to what they see

as corruption and cronyism. protestors broke down gates sealing off one of the roads around the parliament before police responded with tear gas and baton charges. several people were detained. lebanon is effectively bankrupt and seems unable to deal with the effects of last month's huge explosion in beirut‘s port. from beirut, our international correspondent orla guerin sent this report. in the mountains north of beirut, locals are building a new monument. in the shadow of the cross, they will honour firefighters from the christian village of qartaba, killed at beirut port. three were members of an extended family who worked together and died together. as lebanon marks its centenary, rita hatti faces her darkest hour. she lost her son—in—law, her nephew and her eldest son, najib.

it took 13 days to find their remains at the port after tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded. the deadly cargo had languished here for six years. standing here now, what is striking is the enormity of the destruction. it is on an epic scale. vast metal structures crushed like paper, buildings shredded.

when the blast happened, the port was pulverised. now, four weeks on, there is a lebanese investigation under way and around a dozen arrests have been made. but many here fear the truth will stay buried beneath the rubble. they say the history of lebanon is littered with cover—ups. the country has been crumbling for decades under the weight of corruption and sectarian divisions, set in stone since the end of lebanon's civil war. some hope this latest catastrophe can be a turning point, like riyad al asad, a construction boss, clearing the rubble of the blast for free. this was not an explosion, this was an implosion. and this is what i see, the justice that finally, with all the destruction around me, all this despair, all this death, i see hope, i see a new country. and i see a new dream materialise, my dreams materialising.

but christina francis has lost her dream — the luxury flat where she and her lebanese fiance were supposed to live. for her, the blast is the last straw. you know, you feel like you are suffocated, especially with this government and the economic crisis that we are going through, the governmental crisis that we are going through. the only way out of the suffocation is to leave lebanon, u nfortu nately. others are determined to stay and rebuild from the ruins one more time. they believe lebanon will rise. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. the man known as comrade duch has died. he was one of the most notorious senior figures from the genocidal khmer rouge regime in cambodia, in the late 1970s. duch was the first khmer rouge commander convicted of crimes against humanity by a tribunal, backed by the un. he was jailed for life in 2012.

he ran the notorious tuol sleng prison where thousands of men, women and children were tortured and murdered. with me is rebecca bailey. as it happens we have both been there on different trips and we both remember it. it was a terrifying place. what was it like at the time? it was eerie to visit. it is now a museum and one of the things they have done is keep much of the apparatus as it were from the late 1970s so that when you go there you actually get a sense of what it may have been like. one of the first things you see there on the ground floor is a bed, a metal bedframe and you notice than that there are shackles at the end of it and incongruously next to it there isa incongruously next to it there is a school desk and a school chair because this used to be a secondary school before it was turned into one of the most notorious prisons of the khmer

rouge. when people were taken there, they did not come out. we think about 17,000 people went through the gates and less than a dozen survived. if you we re than a dozen survived. if you were there, you were gone. you could be an official from the old government, someone considered middle—class and in the later days of the regime you also had khmer rouge people suspected of disloyalty. once you were there you were forced to confess, tortured if the confession was not good enough, sometimes tortured anyway and then when they finished with you you were taken to the killing fields on the outside of the city and there you would pretty much and your days. many people know that from the film. all this in the late 1970s. many of the confessions, i think, were for fictitious crimes. many of the guards, teenagers effectively, being manipulated by him. he ran the

prison called s 21 and he had a small army of 15—19 —year—olds mostly. much like child soldiers that you hear of in modern days, they were brainwashed, essentially, and they would do horrific things to the inmates of this prison. and comrade duch did actually apologise for his part in the horrors that took place there but he undercut that later by saying he was just following orders and he would have been killed if he had not followed those orders. but he was doing exactly the same to the people who were running the torture there. stay with us on bbc news — still to come: what's in a name? controversy over the title of this german street — which will now be changed — after campaigners said it was racist.

she received the nobel peace prize for her work with the poor and the dying in india's slums. the head of the catholic church said mother teresa was a wonderful example of how to help people in need. we have to identify the bodies, then arrange the coffins and take them back home. parents are waiting and wives are waiting. hostages appeared. some carried, some running, trying to escape the nightmare behind them. britain lost a princess today, described by all to whom she reached out as irreplaceable. an early morning car crash in a paris underpass ended a life with more than its share of pain and courage,

warmth and compassion. welcome back. very glad to have with us on bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump has visited kenosha, the scene of violent unrest after a black man, jacob blake, shot by police. the president accused protesters are behaving like domestic terrorists. jacob bla ke's family insisted they did not want to meet mr trump, saying they wanted a president who could unite america and take it in a different direction. let's stay with that story now. samara klar is an associate professor at the university of arizona school of government and public policy. she spoke to us about the possible political ramifications of the kenosha protests. so what we have seen is republicans largely supporting donald trump and his measures to try to quell the protests and democrats

expressing even stronger opposition in supporting their candidate, joe biden. the republicans have been pretty smart, though, haven't they, in focusing the issue on law and order, rather than, say, the pandemic, and the current state of the economy? that is right. donald trump is trying to calm the protests and trying to assure people that he can maintain law and order. meanwhile, joe biden is — has a sort of needle to thread here in terms of coming protests while also assuring his base that he supports the black lives matter movement and the mission. this one is tricky for joe biden, isn't it? we have been hearing from people who are not fans of donald trump, in kenosha, but saying thatjoe biden should have been here long before. i think thatjoe biden has you know, he has to limit his travel, given the pandemic, and decide what is best for him. i think right now he —

he probably thinks the best strategy is to let president trump lead the way here, as the supporters ofjoe biden seem to really just be driven further towards the democratic party with everything that donald trump does. i also spoke to democratic strategists who are pretty nervous. this is a major swing state, wisconsin. in 2016 hillary clinton was ten points ahead. i thinkjoe biden is now about four points ahead. there is a lot to lose here. surely the danger for the democrats this would be people who just stay home. absolutely. and wisconsin is a battleground state for the 2020 election. both parties will aim for high turnout so they can rely on that state in november. do you have a sense of how this will play out in nine weeks' time? we are seeing polarised responses. republicans are showing strong support for their candidate. democrats are showing support

for their candidate. there is fierce opposition to how donald trump is dealing with the situation. it looks as though donald trump's response is not persuading people to support or oppose him. americans are pretty well decided and how they feel about these two well—known candidates. the question is whether it will affect enthusiasm for candidates in the long run. associate professor samara klar, there. australia is officially in recession for the first time in 30 years. the economy shrank by 7% in the april—to—june quarter as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit. the country last fell into recession in mid—1990. it was the only major economy to avoid that fate during the 2008—2009 financial crisis, thanks chiefly to demand from china for its natural resources, especially iron ore. the french satirical magazine charlie hebdo says it is re—publishing cartoons of the prophet mohammed to mark the start of this week's trial of people suspected of being part of the deadly attack on its offices in 2015. 12 people died in the raid. the gunmen were shot dead, but 1a people are accused

of being accomplices. lockdowns have just been reimposed around glasgow and western parts of scotland as coronavirus cases rise. the first minister nicola sturgeon announced the move after 66 new positive tests were recorded in the nhs greater glasgow and clyde area. restrictions on visiting other households will apply to people living in glasgow, west dunbartonshire and east renfrewshire. in many countries, the beginning of september is the start of a new school year. the pandemic has meant major changes to school procedures. all nurseries and schools in the chinese city of wuhan, where the pandemic began, have opened, with children having to wear face coverings when travelling to and from school. they also have to wash their hands and disinfect shoes. in hungary, pupils queue to get into schools, which are disinfected daily. class sizes are being reduced to help with social distancing. where schools have opened in cuba, hands are sanitised and face masks have to be worn on the property by both students and teachers. students are seated

a safe distance from each other. and in vietnam, children have their temperature checked as they arrive and hands sanitised. where social distancing can't be observed, masks are worn. in russia, schools and colleges have reopened, just as the number of confirmed cases there is expected to pass one million. staff have been tested, contact between different year groups, is being kept to a minimum, and the traditional start—of—year celebrations have been cancelled. sarah rainsford has been to one school in moscow. september 1 is traditionally a daily of celebration right across russia as children go to school for the very first time. and here in moscow, even in the midst of the covid—19 pandemic, authorities are trying to keep things as normal as possible. so this is russian—style back—to—school. singing from the markings on the floor to all

the other measures here, clearly all the proper precautions are in place. but, as i have seen over the past few months, while the rules and russia are strict, people are not that great at actually sticking to them. and as the weather here does to get cold again and life goes back inside, this would become a problem. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. after a seven—year battle, the authorities in berlin have agreed to change the controversial name of one of the city's streets. mohrenstrasse, or moor st, is considered outdated, named after a medieval term for people from north africa. campaigners say it will help decolonise the german capital as the bbc‘s tim allman reports. one word, 12 letters, decades of controversy. mohrenstrasse, or moor st, runs west to east through the heart of berlin.

but it is a name that some believe is racist, symbolic of a time that has long passed. translation: what we wanted to achieve was to dismantle discrimination in public spaces. we want it so that black people who are walking down these streets are not constantly confronted with not only the discriminating effect of this word but the history that's behind it. it's very important to create an area that is free of discrimination and colonialism. the street has always been an interesting place, where business deals were done, where lives were led — karl marx stayed here as a student in the early 19th century. there's also an underground train station which shares the same name. the signs will have to be changed here, too, but some feel it's all a little unnecessary. translation: to try to construct this into something negative is just unscientific.

there are no streets that i know of, at least not in berlin, and i think not in the world, that you would them after someone you don't like. mohrenstrasse will soon be known as anton—wilhelm—amo—strasse, named after a ghanaian philosopher and the first black african to study at a german university. tim allman, bbc news. just finally before we leave you, some works of art are designed to last for centuries. but here is one that is not likely to survive the next heatwave. it's a sculpture made entirely out of butter. the work, entitled nourishing our future, is on display at the new york state fair in syracuse, and has, as you might suspect, been sponsored by dairy producers. it shows a family using a laptop for some distance learning while serving up some butter—based meals. it's a strictly look—but—don't—touch attraction. there is much more on all the news for you on the bbc website

and our twitter feeds. that news for you on the bbc website and our twitterfeeds. that is it for now. thank you very much for watching. hello there. the first day of september was dry for most of us, but the second day of the month looks a good deal wetter. we'll see some outbreaks of pretty heavy rain moving eastwards through the day and with that, it will be fairly windy. now, if we look at the recent satellite picture, we can see this area of cloud heading in our direction. this is a frontal system which is going to bring some outbreaks of rain. it's all tied in with an area of low pressure drifting to the north—west the british isles. you can see quite a few white lines, quite a few isobars squashing together on the chart, that shows that it will be fairly windy, and we will see a break of rain pushing from the west toward the east. now, the rain will be moving quite erratically eastwards. it will be quite sporadic, quite on—and—off in nature, but some of it will be pretty heavy, particularly across some parts of south—west scotland, where there is the risk

of some localised flooding. brisk winds, particularly up towards the far north—west, those are the average speeds — we could see gusts of 45—50mph for very exposed spots in north—west scotland. it will be a little bit warmer than it has been lately, 15—20 degrees. and it looks as if the rain won't get into east anglia or the south—east of england until quite late on in the day. but we will see some splashes of rain here as we go through wednesday night and into thursday. the outbreaks of rain increasingly becoming confined to england and wales. some clearer skies developing, still with one to two showers for northern ireland and scotland, and it will be milder than some nights we've had recently. so we head into thursday, and our frontal system will still be in place. this front is going to take a little while, i think, to clear away from england and wales. so, we're going to see a lot of cloud here. it could be quite a murky start in places, and there will be some outbreaks of rain moving quite slowly south—eastwards. but the further north and west

you are, there will be sunnier skies, some showers, some of which will be heavy. another windy day, and another slightly warmer one than we've had lately, 17—21 degrees. now, by friday, it looks as if our weather front will still be lingering across southern england in south wales. so, further pulses of rain here — but for north wales, northern england, northern ireland and scotland, it's a day of sunny spells and heavy showers, and those temperatures start to come down once again — things turning cooler as we head towards the weekend. for the weekend itself, there will be some showers at times, a fair amount of dry weather, but some rather cool days and some fairly chilly nights.

this is bbc news, the headlines: president trump has said he'll rebuild the troubled city of kenosha during a brief visit in which he described several nights of violence there as domestic terror. mr trump ignored pleas from local democrat leaders to stay away, amid accusations that the trip was an election stunt. the president did not visit the family of an unarmed black manjacob blake who was shot and paralysed by a white police officer last month — the event which triggered the violence. mr blake's family say they need a president who will unite the country. the man known as comrade duch has died. he was one of the most notorious senior figures from the genocidal khmer rouge regime in cambodia in the late 70s. duch was the first khmer rouge commander convicted of crimes against humanity by a tribunal,