this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. russia halts gas deliveries to germany via a key pipeline indefinitely, worsening europe's energy crisis ahead of winter. the head of the un's nuclear watchdog warns of serious tensions at ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and says its physical integrity has been violated. i was able to see — myself and my team — the impacts, holes, markings on buildings, of shells. voting closes in the campaign — here in the uk — to be the next conservative party leader — and prime minister, succeeding borisjohnson. sri lanka's former president, gotabaya rajapaksa, returns

to the island after fleeing abroad in the face of massive anti—government protests. and spectators gather in rwanda for its annual gorilla naming ceremony. hello, and welcome. it's good to have your company. the russian energy giant gazprom says it has scrapped plans to reopen a key gas pipeline to europe. the company claims it can't restart nordstream one because of an oil leak in a turbine, and that it will remain closed for an indefinite period. that will have implications for europe's energy supply this winter. the pipeline has already been completely shut for three days. moscow denies weaponising energy supplies in retaliation

for western sanctions. but that's not how the move has been seen in european capitals, the president of the european council took to twitter to express his disapointment. charles michel said... before going on to say... the bbc�*s economics editor faisal islam explained more about what russian gas giant gasprom has been saying. let me show you a map of the

let me show you a map of the pipeline, and you will see it connect is essentially germany with russia. it is a symbol of germans�* traditional dependence on russian gas, a0%, up until a few months ago. the russians claim to have found leaks in the maintenance, it was due to stop tomorrow, but many in the markets and amongst the diplomats think this is a predictable escalation of an attempt essentially to blackmail europe over supplies. the timing does seem questionable. earlier today, g7 finance ministers, including nadhim zahawi, the uk chancellor, agreed to cap the price we pay for russian oil, the world will pay for russian oil, and this seems to have an element of tit—for—tat, very serious because even during the height of the cold war, those gas supplies from russia to europe continued. that was faisal islam, our economics editor. the head of the un's atomic agency says there are serious tensions at the russian—held zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in ukraine, and the situation needs to be treated with immense caution. experts from the international atomic energy agency have carried out a second day of inspections after reaching the plant on thursday, and russia says it

will allow two of them to maintain a permanent presence. this is what the body's chief, who was among the initial inspectors, had to say. the plant is operating, there is a professional relationship between these experts. they are all nuclear experts, so they know what they are doing, they know what they are talking about. but they are human beings, and they have sides in a war that is affecting them and their families. addressing journalists after returning to ukraine. to explain more about the risk at the nuclear plant, here's our security correspondent frank gardner, who is in zaporizhzhia. this is a major breakthrough.

rafael grossi, the head of the team, has said he was able to see everything he asked to see, and that's really important he didn't spend very long there yesterday buddies left six members of his team, two of them who will stay on a semipermanent basis. this is important because there's been a lot of shelling around this nuclear plant. the stakes are very high here because it's not so much the physical damage to the reactor buildings themselves — they are well protected and designed to withstand even a crash from an aircraft. the problem is the electricity is cut off. then there's the risk of the reactors overheating and having an accidental release of radiation that could affect whole areas across europe. so that's why the stakes are high, the tensions are high, and we aren't out of the woods yet because the fact is this is zaporizhzhia, and a war zone, ukraine and russia are fighting each other and that fighting will continue.

frank gardner in ukraine. the fbi recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during the search of donald trump's home in florida last month, according to court documents made public today. the details come after president biden warned that donald trump and some of his supporters threaten democracy. reacting to that, donald trump said joe biden was unfit for office. 0ur north america editor sarah smith reports. election season has begun in america, so fun times at this wayne county fair in pennsylvania come with a serving of politics on the side. i'm voting republican. got to get the democrats out. they had a chance and they haven't done anything, in my opinion. donald trump is not on the ballot in november but he still dominates the debate. i'm definitely voting for trump again, absolutely. this guy has got to go. this whole party has got to go. they scare the crap out of me. anybody but trump, anybody that he supports, i do not. i so republicans have lost their shot at getting your vote

because donald trump has made himself front and centre here? yes, and i'm a republican. voters in pennsylvania had better buckle up. they are going to be getting a lot of attention from politicians in the coming weeks. this is one of the key states that will determine whether republicans can seize control of congress in the mid—term elections, and it will be a real test of donald trump's current electability because he has got a number of hand—picked candidates on the ballot. my wife wants some vegetables for crudite. including the tv celebrity dr oz, who is running for the senate in pennsylvania. like many of trump's inept choices, he could lose a winnable seat with clumsy campaign messages, talking about crudite. guys, that's $20 for crudite and that doesn't include the tequila. i mean, it's outrageous. we've gotjoe biden to thank for this. in pa, we call this a veggie tray. the democratic candidate, john fetterman, is having a lot

of fun at dr 0z�*s expense and it may cost the republicans a senate seat. president biden came to pennsylvania to launch his mid—term campaign with a dramatic warning of the threat to the soul of the nation. there's no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. unusually calling out donald trump by name, and saying he is undermining democracy. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence. they are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit ofjustice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. joe biden is telling the nation the coming elections are a choice between him and trump, between democracy and extremism. people who might have otherwise voted republican and were maybe excited to sort of send a message

tojoe biden and the democrats, now they're looking at these republican candidates and saying, "i'm not sure i can vote for them, they're so extreme." at his mar—a—lago residence in florida, donald trump has other things to worry about. the classified documents found there by the fbi are a huge problem, but won't stop him hitting the campaign trail this weekend in pennsylvania. sara smith, bbc news. well earlier, i spoke to republican pollster and ceo of north star opinion research, jon mchenry, about whether president's biden�*s recent speech could have the power to shift the dial in us politics ahead of the mid—term elections. honestly, i think the dial could shift back the way president biden doesn't want it to go. if you look back at where numbers stood in may,

republicans looked very well—poised to take the house, they looked like they would take back the senate in the midterm elections. and then you saw the dobbs decision in the us, which overturned the roe v wade abortion decision. democrats got very energised, they were more eager to go out and support democratic candidates. you saw some of the discussion of the spring and early summer around inflation give way to discussions about the papers at mar—a—lago. so things have been trending back towards democrats's advantage, orat least towards something like parity. for president biden to now insert himself when he's sitting on 42% job approval rating, which is dangerous territory for any president and their party in the midterms, it seems like it might actually help republicans by uniting republicans who have gotten a little bit splintered over whether it was ok or not for the president to have these papers in his possession, and might actually backfire on president biden. in terms of the impact the story

about the mar—a—lago raid has had, is there any sign that its weakening party affiliation towards donald trump? because i know we had a few primaries with mixed results about the kinds of republicans getting selected or winning through at the last stage. you know, we all reported the case of dick cheney's daughter, liz cheney, being kicked out because she's such a passionate opponent of donald trump, and some of the other trump backed candidates didn't do well in the primaries. is there any sense that the glue that holds the republican party to donald trump is starting to weaken? there had been some weakening throughout the year — i think in large part because some republicans, while they might not have come out and said, "i can't stand donald trump any more," they were certainly exhausted by all the drama. so we often ask the question, are you more a supporter

of donald trump, or a supporter of the republican party, about republicans — and those numbers had been 55—60% for donald trump when he was president. it's shifted back the other way within about 45—55 amongst republicans. we'll probably see a little bit of a bump in that decline for president trump, where he gains back up to 50% with peoplejust feeling like he's being singled out unfairly. most people would look at that situation — if it were hillary clinton in possession of these papers, you'd switch almost everyone in the country's position on that and republicans would say, "no, she's a traitor" and democrats would be defending her. but i think�*e will see a little bit of a rally effect around donald trump at this point, just with republicans saying, "well, this is a partisan issue." and joe biden giving a speech on this issue lends a little bit of credibility to that, whatever the legal ramifications of it actually are. now donald trump will be centre stage this weekend — he's got a rally appearance. how will he use that

opportunity, do you think? well, it's an interesting dynamic because it really seems like whichever president, biden or trump, is getting the most attention, his party suffers more. joe biden goes out, we might see more attention on his policies on inflation. donald trump going out and talking more, we'll see more democrats being fired up to go and vote against him and the people he supports. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: fears of food shortages in pakistan. the government says up to half of the country's crops have been destroyed by the floods. 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. here in the uk, voting has

closed in the conservative party leadership race. after two months of campaigning, and eight initial candidates whittled down to two, we will find out on monday whether liz truss or rishi sunak has been chosen by party members to be the next leader — and so succeed borisjohnson as prime minister. here's our political correspondent ben wright. after a long, rancorous campaign, it's now time to count the ballots. just 160,000 tory party members are picking their next leader, the next prime minister. and the challenges facing them are huge. they were spelt out today by the current chancellor. he's backing liz truss, the presumed frontrunner. there are no easy options. we have war on our continent. we've just come through a pandemic. but this economy is resilient.

how will they handle soaring inflation? i borisjohnson�*s ejection from office injuly triggered a stampede of wannabe successors. tory mps had the job of picking two final candidates. sunak, 137. truss, 113. leaving the former chancellor and liz truss to slug it out in front of party members. good evening. it's fantastic to be... here in darlington. it's fantastic to be... here in eastbourne. gosh, it's fantastic to be... here in birmingham. and at hustings around the country, one issue dominated. this autumn and winter, a conservative government that i'm privileged to lead will be proud not just to cut vat on energy bills, but to go further to support the most vulnerable in our society, because that's what compassionate conservative governments do. i would lower taxes. we shouldn't have put up national insurance, we said we wouldn't in our manifesto, and i will have a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy

to make sure that customers' bills are lower. she promised immediate tax cuts. rishi sunak said that would be a huge mistake. both avoided spelling out precisely what they would do in a coming budget. in downing street today, a clear sign change is coming. borisjohnson is moving out, but the two candidates vying to replace him have very different views about the departing prime minister. he's one of the most remarkable people i've met. i was very grateful that he gave me thatjob and i'm proud of all the things we achieved in government together, actually. but it got to a point where for me, personally, and these things are personal decisions and liz made a different decision to me on this, but that's understandable, enough was enough. he admitted he made mistakes, but i didn't think the mistakes he made were sufficient that the conservative party should have rejected him. borisjohnson remains pretty popular among tory party members and liz truss sounded more loyal to the outgoing leader.

she also pitched herself as a born—again brexiteer despite voting remain in the referendum. decision—making in government has been paused while the candidates court the tory party faithful. the winner will have to grip the troubles facing the country. ben wright, bbc news, westminster. sri lanka's former president gotabaya rajapaksa has returned to colombo, after fleeing abroad following mass protests injuly. sri lankans blame his government for the island's worst—ever economic crisis. 0ur south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan told me the return was unexpected. it is indeed very surprising. just 15 days ago, there were dramatic scenes in colombo at the official residence of president rajapaksa. it was outside the house where hundreds of people streamed into the building, he fled the country. first, he went to the maldives and then to singapore, where he stayed for four weeks.

from there, he sent in his resignation, and then because his visa expired, he went to thailand. many countries were reluctant to accept him because of what was going on in sri lanka. so a short while ago, he came back. his visit was postponed, his return was postponed twice because of strong opposition. now he's come back, several sri lankan ministers where greeting him, welcoming him. now he is back in the country 50 days after he was forced to flee from colombo. i spoke to a couple of protest leaders who were leading the demonstrations from the front, and they said they were not against mr rajapaksa to return to the country. they only wanted his resignation because of alleged mismanagement of the economy. now that rajapaksa has resigned, the veteran politician ranil wickremasinghe has become the president. but he's indicated to some of his close contacts that he doesn't want to get into politics immediately. so the priority for the government

would be to find a safe house for him, provided he is given security, so that he is safe, at the same time, the government also doesn't want the protests to start again. as we speak, the government has managed to ration fuel supply by giving a few will pass so that people are getting fuel, even though not to the full extent, and at the same time, food supplies are ok at the moment now. so the people are not on the streets, but if the situation is going to get worse in the coming months, then we can see more protests. but at the moment, mr rajapaksa doesn't show any interest in returning to politics immediately. there are fears of food shortages in pakistan, after the devastating floods washed away nearly half of the country's crops. so far around 1,200 people are known to have been killed — but today, unicef said many more children could die from a rapid spread of diseases like cholera and malaria. 0ur correspondent pumza fighlani is in pakistan.

meet this boy, he's two days old, her sixth child. as he sleeps under a tree that's become this family's only shelter, his mother is anxious. this is no place for a baby. translation: we don't even have a tent, just this tree. . we spent the whole night in the rain running away from the flood, trying to get to safety. when we arrived, this was the only space we could find here. it gets really hot and he starts crying and won't stop. it's very difficult. the baby was born in a nearby hospital, but she was forced to return to the river bank because she'd left her husband and five young children. hundreds of families have taken refuge along a flood wall. their homes were washed away by the floods.

this was the only high ground for kilometres. the scale of these floods is difficult to imagine. 80% of dadu district is already submerged. the families that you see around me came here hoping they'd be safe, but they now fear that things are about to get a lot worse. and with good reason — the water across this district is rising and a quarter of a million people are in harm's way. it's notjust one woman who's worried about her young family. there are children in each tent we come across and scores of pregnant women. 0n the other side of the flood wall, i meet mariam, who is due to deliver any day. her village is buried under water, 20 kilometres from here. when the floods came, all they were able to save from her old life were the clothes on their backs and four cows. translation: i've already got eight children. - look at where we live. i can barely take care of them.

sometimes, we don't eat for days. i'm worried notjust about my health but about my unborn baby. i don't even have money to go to hospital. if i get sick here, i wouldn't know what to do. uncertainty surrounds the families marooned on this sliver of dry land. not even the next meal is promised. whatever little there is has many hungry mouths waiting, and as always, there isn't enough for everyone. pumza fihlani, bbc news, dadu. people injackson, mississippi are struggling to cope with the ongoing water crisis there. it's now the fifth day they've been forced to live without clean running water. more than 150,000 people in the state capitaljackson, which has a predominently black population, have been affected — after flooding disrupted a water treatment plant. our correspondent chi chi izundu reports. i don't want no brown water,

i don't green water. there's me and six kids here, and i remind them, do not brush your teeth with that water, do not wash your face with that water. this is currently life for most of the 200,000 residents injackson, mississippi. queuing for basic human necessity, water. have a good day. all right, man! thank y'all for everything, man! the residents in this majority black city have said for years, they have been dealing with problems with their water supply. this time, a pump failed after recent flooding. schools have been forced to switch to online learning because toilets wouldn't flush. officials here are asking for more support from central government. president biden says he will do what he can. we've offered every single thing available to mississippi. the governor has to act, there's money to deal with this problem. and that help has come in the form of the national guard supplying people with bottled water they can drink, wash and cook with.

it has been terrible. it is so terrible and i really fault our governor, our officials, period. i really fault all of them because all of them should work together and solve this problem. it shouldn't have just started now, it should've been fixed years ago. this isn't a quick—fix problem. the roots lie in years of underfunding and infrastructural neglect. but residents don't have that kind of time to wait. they need clean, usable water now. chi chi izundu, bbc news. before we go, rwanda has held its annual gorilla—naming ceremony. it's the 18th time the event has taken place, aiming to protect the endangered species and promote tourism. about 20 baby gorillas were given names, mainly in the kinyarwanda language. the ceremony was held in the foothills of the apes�* habitat — the volcanic mountains that border uganda and the democratic republic of congo.

we all need a name, don't we, and a birthday? have a great weekend, that's bbc news. hello there. september can often be a contrasting month, as the battle between summer and autumn really take shape. in fact, on friday, we saw a high of 27 celsius — 80 fahrenheit in suffolk. it was pretty humid, as well. but out to the west was a different story — and as we head through the weekend, we will see heavy, thundery rain with the wettest of the weather continuing out to the west, and the winds strengthening to gusts in excess of 40mph at times. so this low pressure not really going very far, very fast, and it will flick these frontal systems in an anti—clockwise direction around that low — that's where the heaviest of the rain is likely to be. take a look at the accumulation totals as we go through the weekend, take a look at northern ireland

and parts of southwest scotland — the darker blues, the brighter greens suggest that we could potentially see as much as 50—100mm of rain before the weekend is through. so that's where this relentless wet weather is likely to be, but elsewhere, we will see some sunshine. and if you dodge any showers and keep that sunshine, once again, you could get some warmth. some of the showers merging together in organised bands up through parts of east anglia towards northeast england, cut with the sunshine, we could see highs of 2a celsius. through saturday night, into the early hours of sunday morning, as the low shifts position a little, we might see a squeeze in the isobars with this next pulse of wetter weather — that suggests that we could see those winds gusting in excess of a0 mph. and some of that rain, again, quite heavy — the brighter greens suggesting that, across northwest england, southwest scotland and, at times, parts of northern ireland. there will be showers elsewhere, but not everyone

will see the showers. it'll be a slightly windier day generally, but the wind direction still coming from the south, we could see some more persistent showers arriving across the channel coast by the end of the day. but again, those temperatures may well peak at 211—25 celsius — that's still into the high 70s. early into next week, that low pressure really stays with us, so we will continue to see frontal systems moving in across the country. it won't be consistent in terms of where the showers are likely to be, but some of us will see showers on and off throughout the week, and some of them could be heavy.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kevin schofield, who's political editor at huffpost uk, and the columnist for the article, ali miraj. a for the article, ali miraj. columnist with the article bring a columnist with the article. let me bring you and then up with the front pages as we have them so far this evening. with the conservative leadership contest drawing to a close, the is headline — tories fear the wrath of voters if they fail to help households with their energy bills. the daily telegraph says the front runner, liz truss, may set out her plans to tackle the energy crisis from day

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