this is bbc news. i'm gareth barlow. our top stories: president biden tells mohammed bin salman, saudi arabia's crown prince, he holds him personally responsible for the murder of a dissidentjournalist. he of a dissidentjournalist. basically said that he was not he basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. i indicated that i thought he was. he said he was not personally responsible for it and he took action. the five candidates hoping to become conservative party leader and british prime minister go head to head in the first of a series of televised debates. record temperatures, health alerts and forest fires burning out of control: europe struggles to cope with an unprecedented heatwave. and calls for thousands of unmarried women who were forced to give up their babies for adoption

to receive a formal apology. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has told the de facto ruler of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman, that he holds him personally responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. his comments came during a visit tojeddah, the latest stop on his tour of the region. the american leader fist—bumped with mohammed bin salman ahead of the talks. it comes years after he promised to make saudi arabia a pariah over the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul. at a news conference injeddah, the president told reporters he made it very clear how he felt about the killing.

we discussed human rights and the need for political reform. as always — i always do, i made clear the topic is vitally important to me and to the united states. with respect of the murder of khashoggi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it at the time and what i think of it now. and was exactly — i was straightforward and direct in discussing it. i made my view crystal clear. i said, very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on the issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. i'll always stand up for our values. let's get some more from our middle east correspondent, anna foster, injeddah. there are many people who will see that striking image of the fist bump betweenjoe biden and the man he called essentially a pariah just a few years ago, and they will believe the very fact that this meeting happened, and the very fact that those images have now been beamed around

the world, shows that no, the us doesn't have human rights doesn't appear at the top of its agenda if something like that was able to happen. i think it's interesting thatb we will never really know the exact detail of what happened in that bilateral meeting, that working session, as it's been described. we will never know the exact wording thatjoe biden used or how forceful he was in that discussion. i've actually just come from a round table with the saudi foreign affairs minister, and he talked about a candid and direct discussion. he talked about the fact that now the two men have met, they have a personal relationship going forward and he sees that as being a good thing for both countries. but remember, joe biden had tojustify this visit in advance, didn't he? and it was only four weeks ago that he said he was coming here for the wider gulf cooperation council meeting, not to meet crown prince mohammed bin salman — and yet, that's what happened. they spent a lot of time together today. joe biden said that coming here and having that meeting was important for the stability of the middle east because he

doesn't want to leave a vacuum here that the likes of china and russia can move into. he said it was a vital meeting but there will be no doubt people who see what has happened here and they question what kind of image that creates for the us on the world stage. earlier, i spoke tojonathan panikoff, the director of the scowcroft middle east security initiative at the atlantic council's middle east program, and asked him about the criticism biden faced on his visit. i understand those criticisms but i think the move to go to saudi arabia was absolutely the right one and the president, more frankly, did it the right way. he had the meeting privately. the criticism was done privately without first telegraphing it to the press that he would be bringing it up as firmly as he did — or, at least, as it sounds like he did. and then, he pivoted — he pivoted to issues of mutual us and saudi economic and national security matters. and i think on the fundamental question of human rights,

it's really whether or not you're more likely to succeed by engaging folks or by being distant and criticising. i think the fact that there was an extension, for instance, on the ceasefire in yemen is an indication that by going, by engaging, the president made clear his concern about how saudi human rights violations are going, but did it in the right way. at the end of the day, saudi arabia is important for the us — that relationship is important. just how important? and also, vice—versa, what do the saudis get out of this? yeah, it's a critical relationship for a couple of reasons. the focus on iran is obviously correct and the threats stemming from iran to the region, to the us more broadly, to israel, but there's also issues that aren't talked about as much — protecting the maritime areas for commercial shipping, protecting for ct issues is obviously critically important.

this issue — the decision by the president to go to saudi arabia was fundamentally about making sure that there isn't a vacuum that china and russia can fill. and on the other hand, look, saudi is still very reliant on us weapon sales, on us hardware and capabilities. 80% of saudis�* weapons and missiles come from the us, and so, they can talk about turning to china but at the end of the day, the us is their preferred security partner, and that means that there's going to have to be a relationship that is symbiotic between us. one comment that the president made off the back of this meeting was that saudi arabia will open its airspace to aircraft flying to and from israel. what does that mean in practice, though? yeah, so, look, in very practical terms, what it means is that there's going to be shorter flights from israel to the east — to china and to india, because flying over saudi arabia cuts off some time.

i think more importantly what it really is is a reflection that while the saudis may not be ready to establish full diplomatic relations with israel, they are on the path to normalisation. this should be viewed as part of a broader series of steps the saudis have taken, including opening greater business ties, commercial ties between israeli and saudi businesses. the issue of having moved israel into the central command area of responsibility, militarily under the us guise, israel used to fall under the european theatre, it is now where it should be in the middle east under the central theatre. and practically, there is referencing in reporting, that israel is sitting with saudi arabia, with qatar and then with the states that it has normalised relations with already. in terms of engaging on security, dialogues, issues related to iran et cetera. and that's pretty critical to have everybody together,

but is again another demonstration that they're on a path toward normalisation. let's get some of the day's other news. algeria has reopened its land border with tunisia more than two years after it was closed due to the covid pandemic. more than one million algerians are expected to enter tunisia over the next few months. air and sea links between the two north african countries were restored in june last year. the us basketball star brittney griner has appeared in court in russia for a fourth hearing on drugs—related charges. she was detained in february at an airport in moscow after vaping cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. her lawyers said she had been prescribed medical cannabis in the us. the space agencies of the us and russia have agreed to resume cooperation on flights to the international space station. it comes amid increasing tension between the two countries over the war in ukraine. under the arrangement, russian cosmonauts will be allowed to fly on us—made spacecraft, and vice versa.

the uk government has declared a national emergency after the met office issued its first red alert warning for extreme heat. temperatures could rise to a0 celsius for the first time ever in parts of england on monday and tuesday. temperatures are already soaring across continental europe with wildfires burning in parts of france, spain and portugal. strong winds and tinder—dry conditions are fuelling the flames. 281 people are known now to have died in spain and portugal due to the high temperatures. bethany bell reports. forests are aflame in southern europe. after days of searing heat, wildfires continue to spread. in south—western france, hundreds of people had to be evacuated. the countryside around salamanca in spain was on fire. in portugal, the flames reached one of the country's main

motorways. the emergency services are on high alert. in faro, in the algarve, some holiday—makers decided to go home early when the flames got too close. we are leaving because the fire was apparently controlled yesterday but it's coming very close to our house. we were renting for one week of holiday and we decided not to stay for one day with — with the risk of of fire so close to us. portugal has experienced record high temperatures this week — a grim reality. climate change is, i think, that one of the conditions that make it harder to — to firefighting this kind of fires — and they always get bigger, fire by fire — but the firefighters are making a good, very good job. this is what the flames leave behind — scorched pine groves on the very edge of the city.

this wooded area near faro is still smouldering. and there is a real danger that with the wind, sparks could fly and start another fire. it's a constant battle for the firefighters to keep this under control. after weeks of drought, the ground here is tinder dry and with temperatures rising, there are fears of more wildfires in the years to come. bethany bell, bbc news, faro. our reporter mark lobel is here. what is the latest across europe? wildfires and people being evacuated.— europe? wildfires and people being evacuated. bring us up to seed. being evacuated. bring us up to speed- these — being evacuated. bring us up to speed. these wildfires - being evacuated. bring us up to speed. these wildfires are - speed. these wildfires are coming earlier, they are more intense and frequent and longer lasting across france, spain and portugal as we were hearing there, the latest in portugal is that there are about 900 firefighters tackling around ten fires and in him now, the

temperatures they're reaching 47 degrees temperature, that is a record for portugal injuly, in spain, the knot is not normally exposed to really extreme temperatures, they are seeing in the north—west temperatures are reaching up to 40 temperatures are reaching up to a0 two degrees there but in the france in the south—west around 11,000 still unable to return to their homes there because of fires, four days after those fires, four days after those fires and in morocco, north africa also affected, morocco, temperatures a5 degrees and dropped there, villages destroyed, about 1000 families affected other fires there. that's continental europe and north africa but it is coming to the uk is well with high temperatures expected at the start of the week?— temperatures expected at the start of the week? that's right and i want _ start of the week? that's right and i want to _ start of the week? that's right and i want to show _ start of the week? that's right and i want to show you - and i want to show you animation of how it is sweeping europe and the places that bethany was talking about here, as you can see. it will not sleeping on a monday. hot herbal move on from europe to central and southern and wales. —— the hot table move. in 2020

the met forecast for the 23rd ofjuly 2050, what the temperatures would look like, and they are saying that on tuesday in the uk, not the 23rd ofjuly 2050 but here in 2022, they are going to be very similar temperatures. in the atmospheric scientist doctor simon lee was saying this is not about climate change is bringing these temperatures faster than anticipated but it is an insight into the future, this is what it is going to be like about time. the previous record in the uk was 38.7 degrees. the met is saying there is a 50—50 chance that it will reach a0 degrees for the first time in the uk. will reach 40 degrees for the first time in the uk. scorching temperatures. _ first time in the uk. scorching temperatures. you _ first time in the uk. scorchingj temperatures. you mentioned climate change. it seems to be playing an ever more important and destabilising role in our lives? , , �* lives? yes, it is. and the likelihood _ lives? yes, it is. and the likelihood of _ lives? yes, it is. and the likelihood of these - lives? yes, it is. and the| likelihood of these events lives? yes, it is. and the i likelihood of these events is increasing and if i canjust show you now a couple of graphs. this one is the first, how the average maximum daily temperatures have increased over the last entry and you can see that an exhilarating upward

trajectory on that one. and if accelerating. and this is the top ten uk hottest days ever recorded and look at this. seven of them in the last 20 years. hottest days recorded in the uk. seven of them in the last 20 so that's over the last 100 years there. so the question is, you know, is the climate being affected by human influence? that's the question we've been grappling with, haven't we, for many years now? because of the chances, if you just budget on the chances of us reaching a0 celsius in the uk, this is how the chief executive of the met put it. we think that should be a one in 100-1— think that should be a one in 100-1 in_ think that should be a one in 100-1 in 300 think that should be a one in 100—1 in 300 year event in a nondisruptive claimant and we predict — nondisruptive claimant and we predict that it would be one in 15 years— predict that it would be one in 15 years or— predict that it would be one in 15 years or even more frequent than — 15 years or even more frequent than that— 15 years or even more frequent than that by 2100 and that depends on the emissions path that we — depends on the emissions path that we choose as a species. what — that we choose as a species. what she _ that we choose as a species. what she means there is that target for net zero, that many

countries are adopting a different time scales, that is negating the greenhouse gas emissions that country produces stock if it moves faster, the thought is that it is less likely will hit these peaks. mark, thank you so much. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: why slovenia is dismantling a razor—wire fence running along the length of its border with croatia. radio: i see you coming down the ladder now. i that's one small step for man... ..one giant leap for mankind. a catastrophic engine fire is being blamed tonight. for the first crash - in the 30—year history of concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner. | it was one of the most vivid symbols of the violence and hatred that tore apart the state of yugoslavia but now, a decade later,

it's been painstakingly rebuilt and opens again today. there's been a 50% decrease in sperm quantity and an increase in malfunctioning sperm unable to swim properly. seven, six, five... thousands of households across the country are suspiciously quiet this lunchtime as children bury their noses in the final instalment of harry potter. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: president biden tells mohammed bin salman, saudi arabia's crown prince, he holds him personally responsible for the murder of a dissidentjournalist. the five candidates hoping to become conservative party leader and british prime minister go head to head in the first of a series of televised debates.

in ukraine, russia's defence ministry has denied targeting civilians in a missile attack that hit a city south—west of kyiv, hundreds of kilometres far from the front line of the fighting. at least 23 people, three of them children, died in the strike in vinnytsia. here's the bbc�*s zhanna bezpiatchuk. this is what is left after the russian missile hit the clinic in the city centre of vinnytsia. two health workers were killed here, two doctors now in a critical health condition, one of them has double amputations, and their patient, a child, were killed there. just next to the clinic, there is a nine—storey office block, well known in vinnytsia. normally in the morning, it's full of visitors and workers, full of life. just across the road, there is the concert hall and dance clubs,

also hit by two russian cruise missiles, in the square in the city centre of vinnytsia. the city which has been considered to be quite safe compared to other places in ukraine, and many people found here refuge, safety escaping the other danger zones, in the east and south of ukraine, much closer to the front lines. the feeling that there is no more safe place in ukraine has been just reinforced by these strikes carried out by the russian army with the help of cruise missiles. and here, in the square of the big ukrainian city, you can see the crater caused by the russian missile. the united states says it will seek the immediate extradition of a mexican drug lord who's just been captured in mexico. rafael caro quintero,

one of the country's most wanted men, was detained by the mexican army in the northern state of sinaloa. in the operation to capture him, an army helicopter crashed, killing 1a military personnel. mr caro quintero was released from prison nearly a decade ago, but he still faces numerous charges in the us. the five remaining candidates in the conservative leadership contest have taken part in a live debate before further rounds of voting next week when tory mps will whittle them down to the final two. then it'll be up to conservative party members to decide the new leader and british prime minister. here's some of what they've been saying — they were each asked whether they thought borisjohnson was honest. ah. . .sometimes. laughter is boris johnson honest? again, i think he is. somebody who has... just yes or no will do. no, i'm not doing a yesj or no because i think... you don't know?

it would be wrong to do that. there have been - some really severe issues and i think that he has paid a price for that. l i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt for as long as possible and, ultimately, i reached the conclusion that i couldn't, and that's why i resigned. so he is not honest — that's the question. yes or no, is he honest? there were a number of reasons that i resigned, but trust and honesty was part of that. liz truss, is he honest? he has been very clear himself that he made mistakes in government, - but he had a huge range of achievements... - is he an honest man? brexit, dealing with covid — well, he himself had said that some of the statements issuedm _ crosstalk. ..were not 100% accurate, i so i take that as face value. tom tugendhat, is borisjohnson an honest man? no. applause staying with the united kingdom. hundreds of thousands of unmarried women across the uk who were forced to give up their babies for adoption should get a formal apology from the government. so says a cross—party group

of uk politicians who've been investigating after a series of reports by bbc news uncovered harrowing stories of cruelty towards women who had children outside marriage. duncan kennedy reports. this is the moment one group of birth mothers and adoptees heard about today's report. "an official apology should be given in recognition of lasting "suffering caused by adoption practices." cries. that's brilliant, really brilliant. decades after their forced adoptions, they are still broken. really brilliant. cries among them, judy baker, who became pregnant in 1967. she was pressured to give up her baby daughter for adoption, simply because she wasn't married. 5a years later, she still can't understand why. how can you do that to a teenager? and to an innocent baby?

how can you part them? simply because i was unmarried. in post—war decades, some of the pressure on the women to give up their babies came from parents and churches. but today's report makes clear it was also state employees like social workers and nurses. the enquiry was given harrowing evidence. one birth mother said she had her baby "pulled out of her arms." another said she "screamed and hung onto her baby "like a woman possessed." even during delivery, one woman was told she "deserved all the pain she got." i think the least the government can do is recognise that this shouldn't have happened then and it would never happen now, and it is right for the government to apologise. the government said it would "consider the report's findings," and offered its "deepest sympathy to all those affected "by historic forced adoption."

i am still shaking, actually. i can't believe that i've got this report in my hand. birth mothers and adoptees like liz harvey have welcomed today's report. liz was taken from her mother and says she's always struggled with her identity. she believes a government apology is vital. we never thought this day would come. we hoped it would, but it means an awful lot to everybody involved in the awful, shameful historic practice of forced adoption. it will mean a great deal to people today. forced adoptions have reached out across history. other countries have already said sorry. these women say their suffering deserves recognition too. duncan kennedy, bbc news. the razor wire along slovenia's border with croatia, which was designed to keep out refugees and migrants, will soon be consigned to history, but critics say it's a mistake to get rid of it while the war in ukraine is going on, and at least one

of slovenia's neighbours is unhappy. wendy urquhart reports. it's a historic day for slovenia as soldiers start to dismantle some of the 51 kilometres of razor wire along the country's border with croatia. hungary closed its border with croatia in 2015 to stop droves of migrants and refugees from the wars in afghanistan and syria from entering the country. that forced hundreds of thousands of people to detour through croatia and slovenia in a bid to start a new life in the european union. to control the steady flow of migrants, slovenia installed razor—wire fencing along its border with croatia. but the slovenian interior minister claims the fence did nothing to stop illegal immigration. translation: these fences and this razor wire _ have caused many tragedies. people have gone around it and tried to avoid it

and died the river. we understand that there are challenges before us, but we have the will and a way to make slovenia secure. slovenian troops are planning to rip out around 200 metres of fencing a day with the aim of dismantling the whole thing by the end of this year. but sceptics have warned that removing the fencing is unwise when the war in ukraine is still raging and hungarian officials are absolutely furious. wendy urquhart, bbc news. don't forget — you'll find lots more on the stories we're covering on our website, including the wildfires and extreme temperatures affecting many parts of europe. to read them, just head to bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @garethbarlow. let us leave you with these images of central london. the

sun is rising over the river and the iconic london eye. wishing you a very good day. hello. it's looking likely the uk will see its highest temperature on record at the start of next week. it's more likely than not that somewhere, we'll see a0 degrees celsius for the first time in the uk. that's why the met office has a red extreme heat warning in force on monday and tuesday. widespread impacts and disruption. do take a look at these warnings and what it means for you, and prepare for what's coming at the start of next week. this is the area covered by the red extreme heat warning on monday and tuesday, a large part of england. notjust a london thing — manchester, leeds in that as well with exceptionally high temperatures. all of england, wales and into southern scotland sunday to tuesday covered by a met office amber extreme heat warnings. widespread impacts in these areas as well. we've seen record temperatures, spain and portugal, this excessive heat

lifting north through france and into the uk as the weekend goes on. a natural weather pattern to get heat from the south into the uk over summer, unnatural to see such high temperatures. the reason — climate change. now is the time to bring as much cool air into the house as possible with some temperatures in single figures as saturday begins. a good time to open up the windows if it's safe to do so. there'll be a bit of rain early on with a stiff breeze in northern scotland. that will move north across the northern isles. elsewhere, a lot of sunshine to begin with, though for northern ireland and scotland, cloud will increase more widely during the day and especially the afternoon goes on, we'll start to introduce some patchy outbreaks of rain. for much of england and wales, it'll be a sunny day, though cloud increasing also in northern england going into the evening. it'll be warmer. temperatures for england and wales low to mid 20s. midlands, centraland south—eastern parts of england, we're looking at highs of around 26—29 degrees celsius. now, overnight and into sunday, we'll take some outbreaks of rain through parts of scotland, northern ireland and into northern england as well. clear spells to the south of that.

it will be a touch warmer as sunday begins. and then early on sunday, on the damp side early northern ireland, northern england. that rain clears. scotland still seeing some rain in the far north whereas elsewhere, by the afternoon, there'll be a lot of sunshine around and it's hotter at this stage. very warm across parts of scotland, northern ireland, but hot, england and wales, more places getting above 30 degrees celsius and, of course, the heat surging even more into monday. a very warm, perhaps record—breakingly warm, night on monday night. heat again on tuesday before, thankfully, it turns cooler from midweek.

this is bbc news, the headlines: president biden has said he told saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman that he thought he was personally responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. mr biden said the prince denied ordering the killing in his country's consulate in istanbul four years ago. fires are continuing to burn out of control, as parts of europe endure record breaking temperatures. in france, thousands of people remain evacuated from their homes, almost a week after the first blazes broke out. in portugal the entire country has been put on alert. the five contenders in the contest to be the conservative party leader and the next british prime minister have taken part in theirfirst live televised debate. the candidates were asked a range of questions

from a studio audience on issues including tax