this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm rich preston. one month after the blast that claimed so many lives, rescuers in beirut think somebody may still be alive under the rubble of this building. joe biden visits kenosha, where he spoke by phone to jacob blake, whose shooting by police triggered days of unrest. south korea imposes a near—lockdown on its capital. why experts suspect some of the country's churches may have worsened the latest coronavirus outbreak. the literary race begins — we look at how the pandemic made it a tougher competition to become a christmas best seller.

hello and welcome to bbc news. rescue workers in lebanon are searching for a possible survivor from the port blast in beirut, that devastated the city a month ago. a sniffer dog alerted rescuers in the rubble of a collapsed building and the team then said their scanners had detected a pulse. they've been digging ever since and they say they'll keep going even if there's only a 1% chance of finding someone. our international correspondent, orla guerin, has been watching them work all day. hands up for silence. rescue workers and many in this battered city wait for a sign, daring to hope. and then, beeping that confirms breathing has been detected beneath the rubble. could there really be

a survivor 30 days on? rescuers from chile have been carrying out painstaking work. their key team member — a border collie called flash, who was the first to raise the alert when he detected a body at this location. night falls and floodlights are brought in, as the search continues hour by hour. some rescue workers go back in. nearby, others regroup. the rubble is being removed here piece by piece, by hand. well, they're getting set up here now to work through the night. they're setting up a tent as an operations room. and the rescue team has been telling us that they'll be divided into groups of seven — only seven will be allowed up on the rubble at any one time because they're so afraid of

dislodging any of the wreckage. they have to proceed slowly and painstakingly. translation: the dog detected something, and the technology also detected a place in the building — the same point of interest as for the dog. it's four metres deep. it doesn't mean someone is alive or dead in the building. we have to get to that point and confirm. later on during the evening, the search teams, the chilean experts, said they had to stop because they were worried one of the walls was going to completely collapse. they've pulled out their teams, they said they would now need to secure the site, secure that wall before they could continue, and they left for the night. orla guerin, bbc news, beirut. the us presidential candidatejoe biden has been visiting kenosha winsconsin, visiting kenosha, winsconsin, the city that was rocked by violent unrest last month after police shot an unarmed black man, jacob blake, in the back. mr biden called mr blake

in hospital, and had a private meeting with his family. they had refused to meet president donald trump when he visited the city on tuesday. this report from our north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, contains footage that some viewers may find distressing. a rare trip in this pandemic forjoe biden. an indication ofjust how important events here have become in this election campaign. donald trump knows it, he's already been to kenosha, where he focused on condemning rioting and lawlessness. joe biden, though, talked of racial injustice, and criticised the president for stoking troubles. i've got to defeat hate. it only hides, it only hides, and when someone in authority breathes oxygen on to that rock, it legitimises those folks to come on out.

unlike donald trump, joe biden met the family ofjacob blake — he himselfjoined by phone from hospital. it was his shooting by a police officer that started all of this. but this spot had other visitors from out—of—town — nephews of george floyd. we're out here in kenosha, showing our love and our prayers for kenosha, man. that's it. neighbours came out to meet them, and thank them for theirfamily‘s work since their uncle was killed by a police officer, who knelt on his neck. a loss that is still clearly very raw. thank you for taking yourself out of your comfort zone so we can have a voice with action. exactly. and what is that action? george floyd's family told me the most important thing now is to vote against donald trump. we demand change. so this is what's going to happen, we need to get out there and vote, vote him out. from our city officials, locals, our police officers, everybody not with this movement — you need to go. hey, get on the ground. get on the ground.

all this comes as newly—released police video shows yet another disturbing case. daniel prude was having a mental health episode when officers handcuffed him and knelt on him. he stopped breathing, and died several days later. the medical examiner ruled it as homicide. i placed a phone call for my brother to get help, not for my brother to get lynched. donald trump and joe biden have now laid out their very different stances on race and policing. which appeals the most depends on which side of this deeply divided country a voter finds themselves. aleem maqbool, bbc news, in kenosha, wisconsin. let's get some of the day's other news: authorities in germany have found the bodies of five children in a private apartment in the western city of solingen. police say they suspect the 27—year—old mother of killing them before trying to take her own life at a nearby train station. the cause of death is unkown.

facebook says said it will block new political advertisements in the us during the week before the presidential election in november. the company says it will also act against posts that try to dissuade people from voting. the social network said that after the vote, it would also quash any attempts by candidates to claim false victories. the afghan government and the taliban say they've completed a controversial exchange of prisoners, paving the way for peace talks to start. the process had stalled for weeks because some of the detainees demanded by the taliban were described as serious criminals by the afghan government. the taliban is also thought to have freed afghan government captives, including commandos. more than 300 people have been arrested during a third day of climate change protests in central london. the metropolitan police said more than 200 arrests were linked to a demonstration on lambeth bridge. some extinction rebellion supporters glued themselves to the ground around parliament.

the carbon emissisons from fires burning across the arctic this summer were at record levels for a second year running. that's according to a group of scientists funded by the european union. researchers fear that so—called "zombie fires" may now be smouldering underground, from one year into the next. it is thought that almost all of the fires are in russia. south korea has been praised for its efforts to contain the coronavirus, but has now imposed a near—lockdown in the capital city, seoul, after a surge in cases. experts say the situation has been made worse by extreme evangelical churches, who've convinced many followers that the pandemic is part of a government conspiracy. from seoul, laura bicker reports. to his followers, he's an alt—right rock star. to others, this pastor and his church pose the biggest coronavirus threat this country has faced.

thousands of new cases have now been confirmed, many of them from ultra—conservative churches. some worshippers, many of them elderly, are refusing to be tested. they believe the virus was planted in the church by a government determined to silence them. i put it to this young follower that he is risking lives by failing to get a test. why are you not being tested for covid—19 after being at the rally? it's proving a huge challenge for this country's virus hunters. usually they can trace over 1,000 people an hour using mobile technology.

but hundreds are refusing to go into quarantine. as cases increase, seoul's usually neon—lit social life has been forced to fall silent. this is as close to a lockdown as the capital city seoul has had since this pandemic began. it almost feels like a curfew, because within the space ofjust a few minutes, these normally busy, vibrant, sometimes boisterous streets have come to a stand—still. translation: business is down by 90%. it feel like the whole world is falling apart. these church members once faced the wrath of the south korean people. they belong to the shincheonji church of jesus, a sect blamed for the country's early virus outbreak in february. they're now donating their blood plasma for treatment and research.

as one religious group seeks redemption, another remains defiant. threatening this country's well publicised success in fighting the pandemic. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: how the pandemic has affected the literacy race to become a christmas best seller 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. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: one month after the blast that claimed so many lives, rescuers in beirut think there may be somebody still alive under the rubble of this building joe biden travels to kenosha to meet the family ofjacob blake, and spoke to mr blake on the phone. hundreds of african migrants die every year trying

to make their way to europe, desperate to escape poverty and unemployment back home. the united nations says this summer has seen a sharp reduction in european countries' efforts to carry out search and rescue operations in the mediterranean, one of the main sea routes from north africa. it's making the crossing even harder, and many are getting stuck in libya and forced to return home, as the bbc‘s lalla sy reports from dakar in senegal. the coast is starting goes for most migrants who aspire to reach your for better living conditions. this man wanted to reach europe via libya. he left senegal and travelled to asia before entering libya. translation: i came into the house at one p.m.. there were three of them and started banging on the door. before i asked them if they were arabs oi’ asked them if they were arabs or blacks. they started

shooting with guns and i was wounded on the leg. at first he could not get medical treatment because it did not have a passport so his wound became infected in his leg had to be amputated. after spending months in hospital, it was impossible for him to find work oi’ impossible for him to find work or stay in libya so he asked to be repatriated. the senegalese to choose illegal immigration sometimes begin theirjourney from these villages, 80 kilometres from the capital, but many lose their lives along the way and with more than 5000 deaths in 2017 in africa, aggression is one of the major causes of mortality. for those who return voluntary or forcibly, local authorities us to be involved. a community

radio is based in the second most populated city in senegal. they addressed community and topics related to immigration. we talk to these young men and women and to their parents, especially mothers, against selling assets for the departure of their sons so that they can provide for their needs and put them in better conditions. this man is managing the only food shop in his neighbourhood. in his quest for survival, he might have lost a leg but has regained dignity. russia has rejected accusations that it's responsible for poisoning one of president putin's leading critics, alexei navalny.

there've been international demands for a full and transparent investigation, after germany said it has proof that mr navalny had been poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. mr nevalny is still in a hospital in berlin, where he lies in a coma, as steve rosenberg reports. moscow is under growing international pressure to answer one question — who ordered an attack on the kremlin's most vocal critic with a chemical nerve agent? alexei navalny has been a thorn in president putin's side for years. an anti—corruption campaigner who claims that russia's leaders are thieves. last month, he fell ill on a flight from siberia to moscow. in a coma, he was eventually airlifted to a hospital in berlin. the german government now believes mr navalny had been poisoned with novichok, the same type of nerve agent used against former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter — suggesting the russian

state may be involved. and how does russia respond to that? "there are no facts. there's no evidence," says the foreign ministry spokesperson on russian tv. "it's an information campaign against moscow." and today, the kremlin had this message for its critics. "don't rush to blame us, or put new sanctions on russia. we're not to blame." the trouble is, under vladimir putin, the kremlin always says it's not to blame, even when the evidence suggests it is. and the international community is losing patience. the russians really don't care. they're not too bothered about collateral damage. sanctions, again, don't seem to mean an awful lot to the russians, but i think what we must do is carry on with sanctions, particularly financial ones. if russians, key oligarchs and supporters, start losing their money, i expect that probably will mean more

to putin than anything else. some kremlin critics are calling on germany to halt this gas pipeline project with russia. that would send a strong message to moscow, but the problem is much of europe relies on russian energy. meanwhile, alexei navalny remains in a serious condition in hospital. expect moscow to continue to deny everything. but if mr navalny was attacked with a chemical weapon, the questions to the kremlin won't be going away. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. almost six months after it was scheduled for its cinematic release, disney's live action remake of the film mulan is out on friday, but you won't find it in the cinemas. instead it's being released exclusively on disney plus, the company's own subscription streaming service. and with the film industry looking for ways to show theirfilms in a post—covid world, could it be a viable way

forward ? joining me now isjulia alexander, a reporter for the verge and author of musings on mouse, a digital newsletter that focuses on everything going on in the world of disney. thank you very much forjoining us. thank you very much forjoining us. the hollywood premiere for this was back in march. as a disney aficionado you must be thrilled that you are going to be able to see it soon.|j thrilled that you are going to be able to see it soon. i am extremely excited to purchase at. i haven't seen it yet, i didn't look at any screeners, and more importantly i am excited to see how this plays out for disney. this is one of the biggest films they've done ina long the biggest films they've done in a long time. before covid-19 big cinema releases were reserved for the big screen, has that now changed post coronavirus? things are changing and the way that studios are now looking to innovate, so the big question with disney as can a $200 million blockbuster film like

mulan perform as well on a strictly premium video on demand service as it would theatrically? this is an experiment for disney in a number of different ways. but what the company is looking to do, really, is held the streaming service so what they are asking you to do is spend $30 in the united states, believe it is a little bit cheaper in parts of europe, $30 to rent the movie. then, in order to keep that movie the next few months before it becomes free to all disney plus subscribers, so they asking you to not cancel your streaming service. cannot help build disney plus, one of the company's disney plus, one of the com pa ny‘s key disney plus, one of the compa ny‘s key streaming initiatives, key services, one of its only profitable sectors right now, while also making money? and the other thing to mention that kind of get lost

is, this is a disney plus exclusive in territories where disney plus exists, but this movie, mulan specifically was a lwa ys movie, mulan specifically was always intended to play well in china and chinese box office over the last few weeks has been pretty good in terms of what you are looking for when you want to release a movie like this. another big movie due out this week is tenet, is that going to make the money it wa nts that going to make the money it wants with the post covid restrictions in place? it's not gonna make the kind of money that warner brothers was expecting in february that they we re expecting in february that they were hoping it would make. is going to be profitable? i think so, and part of that is because it is going to get a big release overseas where people are going to theatres more often. when we look at the united states, it's going to go city by city, state by state, and they are looking at this as and they are looking at this as a long game. they are not looking at this is the traditional three—week main window where your movie is gonna make a lot of money at the box office. is more

theatres open are more people wa nt to theatres open are more people want to get out, can tenet be the movie they want to go see? warner brothers is controlling more theatre spaces, they are the biggest presence so it could work out for them. but warner brothers and want a media are also looking at disney and mulan and how this plays out. could this be something they do at their next big film, wonder woman? but we are expecting that as numbers come out, because disney doesn't have two release numbers, but as we see how mulan performs, that is going to give its competitors an idea what they might want to do with their own film. julia alexander, thank you very much for joining alexander, thank you very much forjoining us. they call it super thursday, the unoffiical start of the literary race to see which books will be best sellers come christmas time. this year, the field is even more crowded, since many publishers delayed book releases because of the pandemic. our arts editor will gompertz reports.

"there was something mythic, something almost ghostly in the name by which miss jane dean had become known in bath. "she was described as the angel..." dame rose tremain reading from her latest novel, islands of mercy — it is one of thousands of new books being published this autumn in a series of so—called super thursdays when publishers release books en masse with the hope of at least one of them becoming a christmas hit. it is a case of throwing mud against a wall and seeing what sticks. i think there has been an element of that, of publishing too much because nobody is making the right aesthetic judgments about what is really good and what isn't really good. i am all for new voices being encouraged and debut writers, as they are called, but i think there is this kind of mid—list where there is a lot of mediocrity. there is certainly too

much publishing and not all books will succeed, but on the other hand the sheer richness of what is being published allows book—sellers to sift amongst them and curate amongst them and to read. there have been many great novels where the author has not been expecting success, so in that respect, the more, teh merrier. ruthjones made her name as the co—writer and co—star of gavin and stacey. i didn't know i had a red sharpie in my bag. ..before becoming a bestselling author whose second novel was one of the many books chosen to delay this spring due to covid. it nowjoins the ranks of the other hopefuls. i think it is glorious so many people are producing so much

stuff to read because, for me, i think reading is a transportative to experience and it isjust the best place to escape into a novel. when bernadine won the booker prize last year, she became... the first black woman to win this prize. ..highlighting what many have seen is a lack of diversity in publishing and possibly also a turning point. if that is the case, this new publishing company has been set up to make sure it's a permanent change. what we found is there has been almost a cycle that happens in various industries, especially in literature, where we get this diversity trend. suddenly it's in to have these exotic books, but i think what the world really needs is a lot more publishers who approach a trend but is a necessity. online sales helped the publishing industry to weather the covid storm. the role of super thursday is to tempt some of the readers away from the classics to try something new. will gompertz, bbc news.

that's it from me for now, you can reach me on twitter. i'm @richpreston. hello there. looks like we are all in for a dose of cooler, fresher weather over the coming few days. could be perfect weather for seeing some rainbows, just as we saw on thursday here by a weather watcher in scotland. further south, it's been milder and quite muggy for a while. temperatures ahead of the cloud and drizzle were as high as 23 celsius in the southeast of england. it's a cooler start to friday, temperatures in the clearer skies, typically 9—11 celsius. some more blustery showers in northern scotland, then towards the southwest, this cloud never really clears away. it comes back into the southwest of england and south wales — pushing eastwards towards the midlands and south east england. that will bring a bit of light rain and drizzle. further north, some brighter skies, some sunshine and some showers. those showers turning more widespread in scotland and northern ireland, pushing into the far north of england.

disappointing temperatures, 17—18 celsius, fairly typically, could make 20 in the southeast ahead of any rain that arrives during the evening. as we head into the weekend, high—pressure is close by, but it's towards the southwest of the uk. it leaves us with a run of northwesterly winds. that's going to drive in cooler air, and temperatures on saturday could be even lower during the day as well — it will be a chilly start to the day too. so, a cool weekend ahead. there will be this mixture of sunshine and showers continuing. as we look ahead to saturday, most of the showers will be in the north and west of the uk. quite a few showers, actually, across northern scotland, quite a few showers for northern ireland. those will stream over the irish sea into northwestern parts of england and wales. so, for the south and the east, it should be largely dry, some sunshine at times, those temperatures could be even lower, making 1a celsius at best through the central belt of scotland — 18 in the south of england. some more showers continuing overnight and into sunday. should be a drier day though for northern ireland, a drier day for scotland. most of the showers across england and wales, some of those could be heavy as well. temperatures will be pegged

back in those showers, but probably a degree or two higher than saturday across scotland and northern ireland, but still only making 16 celsius. those showers do move away during the evening as we head into the early part of next week. we've got lower pressure to the north of the uk, some weather fronts on the scene, higher pressure into more southern areas. so, that means for the first few days of next week, it's going to remain unsettled for northern areas. there will be some stronger winds, some rain from time to time. further south, it should be largely dry and warmer — temperatures into the mid—20s.

this is bbc news, the headlines: search teams in the lebanese capital, beirut, say they have found possible signs of life in a collapsed building — a month after the huge blast which destroyed parts of the city. rescuers said they'd detected a pulse 2 metres deep in the rubble in a residential area joe biden, has spoken by phone to jacob blake, the black man whose shooting by police in wisconsin sparked days of unrest. in a speech in the city of kenosha mr biden accused president trump of legitimising the dark side of human nature. south korea has now imposed a near—lockdown in the capital after a surge in cases. experts say the situation has been made worse by extreme evangelical churches, who've convinced many followers that the pandemic is part of a government conspiracy

researchers have found that children