welcome to bbc news — i'm david eades. our top stories: wildfires tear through european countries — france is now the worst affected with 30 thousand people forced from their homes. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there is a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky — just look at the haze in the trees. sentencing begins for the parkland school gunman, who killed 17 people in 2018. ajury in florida will decide if it's the death penalty or a life sentence. a chinese filmmaker appears in court in malawi charged with child exploitation, following an investigation by the bbc, and here in the uk, it's whittled down to four in the race to replace

borisjoohnson as the uk's next prime minister and leader of the conservative party. in france they're calling it a "heat apocalypse". across much of europe excessively high temperatures, wildfires and now water shortages are having a devastating impact. northern spain has reached 43 degrees, and it's predicted the uk could see record temperatures on tuesday. we'll have more on that and the role of climate change in a moment. but nowhere has been more affected than south—west france where 30,000 people have been moved out of their homes for their own safety, as large areas of forest have been burned out. jessica parker has

our first report. into the forest and the front line of an exhausting battle, one that, today, we were able to witness. up in the woods, you can see guys tackling the fires. there's a huge amount of activity down here, and it is hot, it is smoky — just look at the haze in the trees. the smoke thickens the further in we go — the flames suddenly all too apparent. translation: the fire | rekindles in many places. we have to be very careful with these conditions. we're in a pine forest. the vegetation is so dry here, and with the temperatures, the fire reaches the top of the trees very quickly. flames reach up to 80 metres high. along here, we were due to reach an evacuated campsite by the coast, but we never got there. things were getting worse.

you could see it on the ground and in the sky. water bombers, one after the other, flying over our heads. they never stop here. they can't. but soon, we — along with others — are told it's time to leave. back on the main road, the thousands of evacuations were plain to see. smoke means, for many, it's just not safe to stay. here at this centre, you can at least take a moment, cool down. you can at least take a moment to cool down. translation: it was very smoky this morning. - it's very bad for the lungs. i knew there were problems coming, so i prepared a grab bag. even the medications for my dogs were ready to go. for some, it's a matter of frantic phone calls to find a place to sleep tonight. who knows when they'll get to go home? it can be in a few days, it can be in a few weeks. it's very difficult now to say. but we'll try to make people

come back to their house as soon as possible. france's wildfires seen from above are an alarming sight. winds and over 40—degree heat made for a destructive mix today. temperatures are set to drop tomorrow, and for these men, that can't come soon enough. jessica parker, bbc news, in gironde. it is pretty grim staff in france. as we said, britain is also enduring an intense heatwave with forecasters expecting a new temperature record on tuesday. monday was the hottest day ever in wales and a red alert for extreme heat is in force for most of england, warning of a danger to life. the soaring temperatures have disrupted travel, and increased the pressure on the health service. the overwhelming consensus among scientists is that climate change is increasing the likelihood of exceptional heatwaves that are more intense, and more frequent. but exactly how are the weather

patterns being affected? 0ur climate editor justin rowlatt explains. the obvious question is, why is it so hard? southerly winds are bringing hot air from africa helping drive the brutal heatwaves in spain, portugal and france. the same southerly winds have brought the blistering heat to the uk and what makes it worse is a weather system called a heat dome. it is like a heat over a pot, held in place by a high—pressure system. the sun hits and the air remains stuck and pushed back down, raising temperatures higher and higher. we are not ruling out further heatwaves. europe and the northern hemisphere is very hot. heatwaves in the united states and china and this summer will be much warmer with

less precipitation than we usually see. how does this compare with the past? 1986, the most famous _ compare with the past? 1986, the most famous heatwave i compare with the past? 1986, l the most famous heatwave with bridges heating 36 degrees. lower than today but the hot weather went on for days and days. of the top ten hottest days. of the top ten hottest days since the victorian area, seven are from recent times. the met office says it has not ruled out the possibility of a more heatwaves this year but climate scientists say we can certainly expect more heatwaves in the years to come. a little more than one degree over what it was before the industrial era began and we started boning all those fossil fuels. this

era began and we started boning all those fossilfuels. this is what the world would look like at two degrees of warming. look how much hotter much of it already is, particularly northern regions. the world is on track to get hotter than this if countries stick to commitments made to admission cuts. but if the world does nothing at all, the worse case scenario, this is how things will look. four degrees above preindustrial level and look how much more the world is significantly hotter. prince charles commented today saying it shows why cutting carbon emissions is so vitally important. the climate crisis really is an emergency and tackling it is utterly essential. let's turn to the us now, where the trial

of nikolas cruz, who killed 1a students and three members of staff at his former high school in parkland, florida, has begun. this is a relatively rare instance of a mass shooting gunman facing a jury, as they often either take their own lives or are killed by police. in his opening statement prosecutor mike satz recounted how the attacker planned the shooting. the murders were especially heinous, atrocious or cruel. three days before these brutal murders, this massacre, the defendant in this case made a cellphone video on his cellphone, and this is what the defendant said, "hello, my name is nick. "i am going to be the next school shooter of 2018. "my goal is at least 20 people with an ar—15

"and some tracer rounds. "it is going to be a big event and when you see me "on the news, you will know who i am. "you are all going to die. "oh, yeah, i can't wait." 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has followed today's trial opening. clearly the focus is on this, the penalty stage of the trial. are there aggravating circumstances, factors, that justify the death sentence? or are there mitigating circumstances, that we will no doubt hear from the defence later on in the trial? the situations that they that may well justify the death sentence — and we are hearing those from the prosecution — the fact that this was clearly planned by nicolas cruz, several days, perhaps longer than that, in advance, that the brutal nature of what he did,

the fact that he went back to some of his victims repeatedly to shoot them again, to make sure that they were dead. the mitigating circumstances are likely to be accounts of his growing up, of his childhood, his emotional problems, the psychological problems, that we have already heard he suffered from as a young boy. he was 19 years old when this happened, he is 23 now. that is quite simply the choice that the jury has, either a lethal injection, the death sentence or life in prison without the possibility of parole. there are members, relatives and families of the victims. it must be so difficult. it is clear already from the first few hours of this hearing, this penalty stage, which we expect to go

on for four — five months, we know from the reactions already from some of those people, how difficult it was, once again, to hear necessarily repeated by the prosecutor as he laid out what happened, as he named all the people who lost their lives and 17 others who were injured, it was simply too much for some people and they had to leave the courtroom in tears. jury selection has begun in the trial of steve bannon, the former close aide to donald trump. he faces charges of criminal contempt of congress for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the storming of the capitol by trump supporters last year. four contenders remain for the leadership of britain's governing conservative party. after another vote by mps, tom tugendhat, who had not previously served in borisjohnson�*s cabinet, was eliminated, leaving the former chancellor of the exchequer,

rishi sunak, in the lead. his nearest rival is penny mordaunt. the winner, to be announced in early september, will automatically be prime minister. here's our political editor chris mason. all talking at once. hubbub in a heatwave? democracy of sorts at dusk. i have the results of the third ballot... round three of conservative mps deciding who they want and who they don't want to be our next prime minister. so tom tugendhat is eliminated from the election. the other candidates are able to go forward to a fourth ballot which will take place tomorrow... another defeated candidate, but this time not one willing to endorse anyone else, at least yet. thank you very much, that is the end of the road for me for this race. but look, it's been an amazing run. i'm incredibly proud of the team, i'm incredibly grateful

to all the supporters who have been with me. the former chancellor, rishi sunak, is still the frontrunner, nearly doubling his lead over second placed penny mordaunt, who actually lost a vote, compared with round two. good morning. the foreign secretary, liz truss, finished third again, narrowing the gap to penny mordaunt. and here's who finished fourth — kemi badenoch on her way this morning to try to drum up more support. i'm going to be fighting hard for every single vote and i'm not taking anything for granted. but i'm optimistic, thank you. while tory mps voted upstairs, downstairs in the commons chamber, the start of borisjohnson�*s parliamentary swansong. defeated but demob happy, pointing out he crushed labour. we sent the great blue tory ferret so far up their left trouser leg, they couldn't move. we won the biggest conservative victory since 1987, the biggest share

of the vote since 1979. we've won seats they never dreamed of losing. despite knowing that he'd been fired from job afterjob for lying, they elected him to lead their party. and he behaved exactly as everyone feared when he got into downing street. he lurched from one scandal to the next. let's reflect on a man _ who should never have been put in office in the first place. a man that simply shouldn't be here for a minute longer, - because he demonstrated no dignity in office, - in the highest - office in the land. and incidentally, what does an outgoing prime minister ejected by his own side do while waiting for his replacement? well, he appears to be enjoying some of the perks of high office, filming himself here

as a passenger in a war plane being refuelled mid air. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the premiere of a new film about the thai cave rescue — we hearfrom director ron howard. 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 news. the latest headlines: wildfires tear through european countries, france is now the worst affected with 30 thousand people forced from their homes. a chinese filmmaker has appeared in court in lowy charged with child export patient. he was living in malawi when a bbc investigation reported that he had used local

children to film a personalised greeting. some of which included racist content. we got the moment when he was confronted by the bbc team here, which documented how he had used those local children to film all of those greetings. runako celina who investigated this story for the bbc�*s africa eye explained how it came about. well, i mean i lived in beijing, china, for seven years. i had seen these videos for years. you know, this industry, that these videos belonged to has existed for seven years since 2015. there was bounds of roger versi about the industry. ——bouts of controversy. but it took all of this time, essentially, for the industry to be shut down. i felt quite strongly that we needed to explore what was powering this exploitation. what was happening around, and who was behind it?

so that's the origin. it took us about 1.5 years basically to investigate and find out more. it is a pretty insidious thing to do, i think that is understood. but how popular was it? you obviously saw these quite often. it is part of a massive industry. one thing that i endeavoured to show is how massive the market for these videos are. the investigation has come at a time when this industry is expanding. it is now moving into different markets across the world. you know, we have seen videos like this pop—up in germany and poland, promoted in the taiwanese market and injapan, for example. and so it is extremely profitable, lu ke himself told us one point in undercoverfootage he was charging 200 chinese yuan per video and was able to shoot 380 in one day. you can imagine with an industry that has been going on for so long how profitable it is.

and what is happening to lu ke now? so he allegedly tried to flee to a neighbouring country, zambia. we have been told as of saturday he was extradited to malawi. we are waiting to see what will happen now with the courts and the legal system over there. but this is all now part of a police investigation within malawi? that's correct. monkeypox has now been detected in close to 70 countries around the world. confirmed cases in the us have topped more than 1,800. harvard medical school professor dr ali raja told us more. the fact is that every day in the emergency department i have patients who come in, and given our experience with covid, they already have a predilection to being concerned about infectious disease, i get asked every day about how worried we should be about monkeypox. the fact is we need to be

aware of the disease so that we are on the lookout for it. if we have patients or if we know family members who have a few days of a fever and lethargy and muscle aches and then develop that characteristic rash, we need to make sure they are then quarantined and they contact their doctor to arrange for testing. so we all need to be aware of it. but it is not spreading at a rate that we need to be very concerned about and, as you just mentioned, it has a case fatality rate that is exceptionally low. soi it's not the kind of thing that is causing a lot of people to get very, very sick. what we know about monkeypox is that it really does require some sort of direct contact to spread. a break in the skin, oral contact, touching a lesion. it's probably not aerosolised. since we know that it is spread through social networks, it allows for contact tracing and it allows for vaccination of the networks around a close contact. i don't mean to downplay

the risk at all, but it is much more containable than something like covid is. back to that heatwave in europe. some heatwave in europe. parts of the world are very some parts of the world are very used to these high temperatures, while others are not. our medical editor, fergus walsh, has some tips. the uk simply isn't used to this and nor are our bodies. oh, it's warm in here, isn't it? this is the heat chamber at st mary's university, twickenham. that is warm. it's been used by sporting greats like andy murray and max verstappen. but even an amateur like me can show how heat affects our physiology. as my core body temperature starts to creep up, blood vessels near the surface of the skin open up, pushing heat to the surface, trying always to keep that core body temperature on an even keel. that can mean a drop in blood pressure as the heart works

harder. now, another key way in which my body regulates its core temperature is through sweat. exhales heavily that's why dehydration can quickly become a problem. working out in this heat is not recommended, but staying fit all year round is. people who regularly exercise are regularly experiencing higher body temperatures internally because you produce a lot of heat when you exercise. so then that leads to better preparation for these heatwaves. the elderly and those with heart and lung conditions are most at risk from extreme heat, but even the young and fit can feel the effects. too long in the sun can lead to heat exhaustion. symptoms include headache, dizziness, nausea, heavy sweating and pale, clammy skin. left untreated, it can progress to heat stroke, a medical emergency.

this whole area is in the sun the whole time. stjohn ambulance are a familiar sight at public events in all weathers, on hand to offer help and advice. so what should you do if you come across someone with heat exhaustion? you want to bring them out of direct sunlight, somewhere cool where they can lie down, raise their legs, encouraging blood flow back to the brain. hydrate them as much as possible with clear fluids, so water. and if they're not recovering in about 30 minutes, we'd recommend phoning 111. and the health advice is simple — stay in the shade, drink water, use sunscreen and keep an eye on the vulnerable. fergus walsh, bbc news. back in 2018, the world watched on as a dramatic rescue took place in thailand. the wild boar soccer team were exploring the tham luang cave complex when they became trapped when monsoon rains flooded the tunnels.

the rescue story is now the subject of a new film as claudia redmond reports. for two years on from the dramatic rescue of the boys and their soccer coach from a cave in thailand, the story has been brought to the big screen by an academy award winning director, ron howard. 13 lies had a special screening in london on monday. it was just so intense but more importantly underneath all of it is also a very contemporary theme that we need to remind ourselves, which is how powerful we can all be, internationally or on a community level, when we pull together. you know, it is stunning, what was achieved. what are you thinking? just _ what are you thinking? just a _ what are you thinking? just a crazy— what are you thinking? just a crazy idea. - what are you thinking? just a crazy idea. colinl just a crazy idea. colin farrell, rigor mortis and they play a heroic rescuers, preparing for their roles by working with real—life divers,

richard stanton and john volanthen. who admitted they didn't know who they were. i didn't really know collombatti has done a good job, he seems very diligent, he even took up running as a method actor, as it were. he has done a really good job. the complicated rescue operation back in 2018 nearly took three weeks as the world watched on. ron howard said it wasn'tjust watched on. ron howard said it wasn't just about the heroic divers but an entire community. claudia redmond, bbc news. that was made for a movie. most of which in europe, in fact much of the northern hemisphere continues to swelter under intense heat. in south—west france, firefighters are trying to deal with firefighters that have been spreading along the atlantic coast, the west side of france. more than 30,000 people have been evacuated

already from bordeaux. large areas of forest have been utterly destroyed. we have more on the website. thank you for watching. hello there. monday's heat was extraordinary, not least because it covered a really wide area. 38.2 celsius the highest temperature recorded at santon downham in suffolk, very close to the all—time uk record. jersey had its hottest day on record. wales had its hottest day on record as well, and with this met office red warning for extreme heat still in force through tuesday, some places could see temperatures get even higher than that. because we start tuesday morning in a wedge of exceptionally hot air. this is actually the air overhead. the hottest it will have been throughout the whole of this heatwave period. so as the sun gets to work on that, after starting temperatures like these, well, those values will really start to rise very quickly as we go through the morning

where we hold onto sunshine. most of us will have a sunny start. the further east you are, you can expect to keep sunshine through into the afternoon, potentially one or two showers, but for northern ireland, for wales, the southwest of england, we are going to see more cloud, maybe some showers and thunderstorms working in here, cloud bringing some rain into western parts of scotland as well. for western parts, a little bit cooler than it has been, but for the east, still some extremely high temperatures. maybe middle 30s across parts of southern scotland. and for some of these central and eastern parts of england, temperatures could climb to 40—112 celsius. so that would be unprecedented. through tuesday night, we will see some rain across northern scotland and some showers and thunderstorms elsewhere. it starts to turn a little bit fresher from the west, so by the end of the night, temperatures in glasgow and belfast will be around 1a degrees. still very warm across central and eastern parts of england, still in the midst of this very warm air. but we do see these cooler conditions pushing

in from the west as we get into wednesday. so a different feel to the weather on wednesday. we will see some showers around, maybe some thunderstorms popping up, perhaps most especially across central and eastern parts of england as we go through the afternoon. some spells of sunshine as well, but temperatures much lower. still 28—29 celsius across eastern england, more like 19 celsius for northern ireland and the western side of scotland. we stick with those cooler conditions for the rest of the week. there will be some sunny spells, but some bursts of rain at times. some of that rain could be heavy, possibly thundery. bye for now.

this is bbc news. the headlines — europe's scorching heatwave brings wildfires to countries across the continent. france is the worst affected, where 30,000 people have fled their homes. britain's braced to break a heat record on tuesday — it's forecast to reach more than a0 degrees. the moment a chinese filmaker was confronted by bbc reporters. they'd investigated how he'd used local children to film personalised greetings, some containing racist content. he's now appeared in court in malawi, charged with child exploitation. sentencing has begun for the man who carried out the deadliest shooting at a us high school. nikolas cruz killed 17 in parkland, florida,

in 2018.