welcome to bbc news. i'm mark lobel. our top stories — gunfire. pakistan's former prime minister imran khan survives a gun attack during a protest march. we're on the front line, as ukraine makes a slow advance on the russian—held city of kherson, amid reports russia could be preparing to withdraw. they are under the russian guns. and this is what happens to them every day. that's why since the summer they've been talking about it, and it is hard to move forward. german chancellor, olaf scholz, lands in beijing, marking a turning point in relations between china and the west.

and the sketch, once dismissed by art experts as a crude imitation of a rembrandt painting, has turned out to be the real deal. the former prime minister of pakistan, imran khan, is recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg at a rally on thursday. one person died and several were injured when a burst of gunfire hit mr khan's vehicle, in the eastern city of wazirabad. his supporters took to the streets in several pakistani cities after the attack. from pakistan, our correspondent samira hussain reports. thursday's protest march started like all the others, and then this happened. rapid gunfire.

footage shared on social media, confirmed by the bbc, shows a conscious imran khan with a bandage on his right leg being taken to hospital. here, you can see a man with a gun. he was eventually caught. in a leaked video of his statement to police, he said he wanted to kill mr khan. the current prime minister condemned the attack and has called for an investigation. pakistan's president is calling it an assassination attempt. but leaders from mr khan's political party released a statement on his behalf, accusing the country's prime minister, home minister and director of pakistan's powerful intelligence agency of being behind the attack, saying they must be removed from office. just two days ago, we were with the former prime minister at one of his protest rallies, where he says the government is against him. i am a democrat. democrats always go to the people. at the moment, the establishment is against us. the entire political parties,

all of them are against us. ..imran khan! cheering. he accuses the current government of a conspiracy that led to his ousting back in april. since losing his position as prime minister, his popularity has grown, and it's why he's pushing for fresh elections he believes he can win. i have been in politics for 26 years. never in pakistan's history has a party had so much public support as now, and all along this route, you will see. it's never happened in pakistan. these demonstrations are a pressure tactic by mr khan's party to force the government to call said it would not heed. chanting. protests in several cities around the country. the apparent attempt to silence

mr khan may only serve to give now to the war in ukraine, and western officials say russian troops could be preparing to withdraw from part of the city of kherson which they have held since the start of the war. ukraine has been talking up an offensive to capture the city since the summer. but progress is slow, and so far they've just retaken some surrounding farmland. kherson straddles the dnipro river. reports suggest russian commanders may be pulling troops back to the eastern side of the river, which is easier to defend. our international editor jeremy bowen, cameraman fred scott and producer kathy long have spent the last few days travelling between mykolaiv and the front lines around kherson. in the trenches, a mile or so from the russian perimeter around kherson, soldiers from the ukrainian 63rd brigade have learnt to be cautious. they're digging

in for a long winter. "i love my dugout," he says. "it's going to be warm." this is the ground where months of optimistic talk from ukraine's leaders of a kherson offensive has collided with the stark reality of pushing russia back. translation: moving forward in a counteroffensive _ is complicated to plan for and it's a threat to people's lives. we have to take account of everything. that's ourjob as commanders, to keep our men alive. outside mykolaiv, the city facing occupied kherson, they don't believe the russians will fold. piles of used—up tank shells show how hard it's been. on the mykolaiv front, the soldiers say they don't have the combat power to match russia's numbers or heavy guns. loud explosion. translation: they've got

more military equipment, | more people. their soldiers are not trained, they just charge forward, shouting. we don't have as many bullets as they have people. you can see why the kherson offensive is taking a lot of time. it's flat, open ground. they're under the russian guns. loud explosions. and this is what happens to them every day. that's why, since the summer, they've been talking about it, and it's hard to move forward. the ruins of mykolaiv�*s regional governor's office, destroyed early in the war, are a constant reminder of what russia can do. here, as well, no one believes russia's defeat is inevitable. general dmytro marchenko, the commander credited

with stopping the russian advance, now coordinates plans to recapture kherson. translation: first of all, i we need reactive artillery that can hit up to 300 kilometres from us, and we need an air defence system — basics for any army in the world that wants to go on the offensive. an enemy who can do this, the general believes, cannot be beaten without overwhelming force, which ukraine wants but does not have. clean water is trucked in to mykolaiv because russia blew up the waterworks. in the queue, someone said, "they can't bring us to our knees." defiance doesn't stop fear or anguish. "it's painful," says oksana. "everyone here is crying inside." they are worried too about doing this in winter,

and the freeze. close by, this week, russian missiles have hit civilian houses. one of the residents here was killed. people with very little have lost everything. not much was left to salvage in this house. lyubov has two sons in the army. "the russians were saying hello," she said, "then everything fell on my head." what is so difficult for people is the unpredictability of a strike that comes in the middle of the night when they think they're relatively safe at home. her neighbour, a firefighter used to rescuing others, was rescuing himself. translation: we can't stop fighting. _ we are on guard for our country. no one but us will protect it. i've faced this so many times.

now it has come to my house. the main thing is that we are alive. everything else, we can start again. the pity of war envelops mykolaiv. the price of local victories that keep the pressure on the russians. if it comes to a battle for kherson, the price and the pity rise sharply. jeremy bowen, bbc news, mykolaiv. the german chancellor, olaf scholz, has arrived in beijing, marking the first visit by a european leader since the start of the covid—i9 pandemic. scholz is set to meet with president xijinping — who recently solidified his hold on power with a third term. the chancellor is traveling with a delegation of german leaders — in a trip that has sparked some controversy. tom brada has the latest.

receiving the red carpet treatment in beijing. travelling with several german business leaders, the chancellor commands no exception when it comes to china's strict covid rules. he cannot stay the night, so will be in and out again on the very same day. regardless, china is welcoming the first visit from a european leader in more than three years. translation: we hope that chancellor scholz's first visit | to china is a success. china and germany are all—round strategic partners. that partnership was first established 50 years ago,

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tom brada, bbc news. interests in china. it is really reflected in this sort of very high—powered adidas, the list goes on, and it is really partner outside of

the european union. you talk about them firming up links on this trip, but what about those concerns back home in germany and with the eu that germany might be compromising on some of their values, human rights and territorial integrity for example? absolutely, it is a very delicate dance for chancellor scholz. there have been growing calls from washington, from across european nations and also within his own coalition to change course on china, and while there have been some indications that germany and scholz is trying to find a new path, of viewing more as a competitor and as a rival, there also has been a very sort of muddied message, partly because scholz has emphasised several times now that decoupling

simply is not an answer, from his perspective. and of course there's that view that they might burn theirfingers again as they did on relying on russia for their energy needs. yes, indeed. i think that for many europeans and also germans of course is the concern here — economic entanglement really didn't work of course, when it came to russia, it did not ultimately influence putin's decision to invade ukraine and i think there is some fear that germany isn't reducing its reliance on china swiftly enough. we also of course have that quite controversial deal on the chinese state company buying a minority stake in one of hamburg's porch terminals. that did also draw quite a lot of criticism from germany more broadly but also from within

his own cabinet, initially. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we'll tell you why vineyard owners in spain are turning to science to help them deal with the impact of climate change. the israeli prime minister, yitzhak rabin, the architect on a historic day for australia. the monarchy would survive. of the american hostages, there was no sign. - this mission has surpassed all expectations. anywhere in the universe, and itjust seems to

keep on going. tonight, we prove once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: pakistan's former prime minister imran khan has we're on the frontline as ukraine makes a slow advance on the russian held city of kherson amid reports russia could be preparing to withdraw. the bank of england says britain is facing its longest recession since records began, as it brought in the biggest rise in interest rates for more than 30 years. the increase brings the base rate to 3%. the bank hopes that making borrowing more expensive will help tame inflation, but it will also affect

everything from mortgages and rents to the price of goods and services. here's the bank of england's governor. these are big changes. they have a real impact on people's lives. so, why are we doing it? and why are we doing it now, when so many people are already struggling with higher energy and food prices and other bills? well, quite simply, we're increasing bank rate because inflation is too high. and it's the bank's job to bring it down. earlier, i spoke to brad delong who's professor of economics at the university of california. i dragged him away from his cup of tea and asked him what his current assessment of the british economy was. well, over the past 15 years the british economy has seriously underperformed. that is, the government that came in with the coming of the great recession, they went for austerity and cuts in public investment just at the time when britain would have been able to borrow from its own people and from foreigners

at unbelievably low rates, just at the moment that it would have been a time to double down on investing in people, in technology, in infrastructure and in physical capital, to boost productivity, they were going in exactly the wrong direction. and then on top of that, you have the rather ill—advised breaking of many of britain's links with its most natural trading partners and the breaking of those links with brexit without a plan to replace them, so, britain has now had 15 years of extraordinarily slow economic growth which was capped of course by the plague, by the coronavirus plague. we are now coming out of the coronavirus plague and so far we have not just managed to have — say, have capped the deaths from the plague to perhaps one fifth of what they would have been in a worst case — which is a great achievement — but britain has also

managed to get a great deal of the people unemployed during the plague back to work and to make it what will in retrospect look like a very sharp brief but minor economic disruption. the problem is now that britain has inflation, and that britain has inflation springing not only from the reopening of the economy and the discovery of all the supply chain bottlenecks that were created thereby, but also because of vladimir putin's attack on ukraine and the consequent disturbances in a grain and oil markets, from which britain is suffering substantially. not as substantially as germany and definitely not as substantially as egypt and nigeria, where there may be famine, but it is suffering and the suffering is taking the form of the inflation that the bank of england does not believe it can tolerate.

how do you think that handling compares to how other countries have handled their economies such as the us? the us is lucky because we are self—sufficient in energy now and we are very far away from russia and we are not facing the enormous upsurge in heating bill for the northern hemisphere winter that britain is about to see, and we also have maintained all of our trade links and have done a significantly betterjob over the past 15 years in investing in our people, in our technology and our infrastructure. we thus have about one third of the inflation problem that britain appears to have now and we are much better positioned in order to deal with it, without undergoing a long

and deep recession. thanks very much to the professor for that. let's get some of the day's other news. the husband of the us house speaker, nancy pelosi, has been released from hospital after being attacked in their san francisco home last week. in a statement, mrs pelosi says he remains under doctors' care as he continues to recover. a man has been charged with attempting to kidnap nancy pelosi and assaulting her husband. four people are reported to have died in iran after clashes between anti—government demonstrators and security forces. three deaths were in the town of karaj, where thousands had walked along roads to reach the grave of a woman shot dead while protesting. it marks a0 days since mahsa amini's killing which has sparked widespread unrest across the country.

this summer was longer, hotter and drier than ever in spain, which is not good news for wine makers who are really struggling to deal with the impact of climate change. now vineyard owners are turning to science to solve the problem, as wendy urquhart reports. spain is the third largest wine producer in the world after italy and france and the leading exporter, but extreme changes in the weather are not only affecting production, they could jeopardise the character of the wine that vineyard owners have spent decades perfect thing. translation: , ., translation: the vines are bein: translation: the vines are being planted _ translation: the vines are being planted higher- translation: the vines are being planted higher and - being planted higher and higher, that it is raining less and less every day, so the plants need more water. winters are getting warmer and the snow is less, so they need more water than as well, so we need to set up irrigation, but that requires more money.- to set up irrigation, but that requires more money. more than 500 wineries _ requires more money. more than 500 wineries in _ requires more money. more than 500 wineries in the _ requires more money. more than 500 wineries in the of _ requires more money. more than 500 wineries in the of spain - 500 wineries in the of spain and between them they produce

350 million bottles a year. but in the last four years, reduction has dropped by 5— io%, reduction has dropped by 5— 10%, specifically because of io%, specifically because of the extremely hot weather. to find a solution, the vine and wine research institute is studying the genomes of the most common grapes in the famous region of spain, where wine has been made since the middle ages. wine has been made since the middle aslee— wine has been made since the middle ages. once we identify the attributes _ middle ages. once we identify the attributes of _ middle ages. once we identify the attributes of interest, - the attributes of interest, like the adaptation to climate change, we can ensure we are growing the clone that is more adaptable to climate change conditions.— adaptable to climate change conditions. , ., ., ., , conditions. they have already determined _ conditions. they have already determined advise _ conditions. they have already determined advise that - conditions. they have already determined advise that are i conditions. they have already i determined advise that are more than 35 years old cope better with climate change because they are more genetically diverse. but it is now taking a look at vines that are more than 100 years old, with a view to crossing them with different

varieties of grapes and planting them in areas of lower rioja which are colder to see if that makes a difference. wendy urquhart, bbc news. it's been a case of is it or isn't it, but after two years of study, a disputed oil sketch in the netherlands has been found to have been painted by rembrandt. over the years, art experts had dismissed the sketch as a "crude imitation." emer mccarthy reports. the knife what is one of rembrandt�*s most famous masterpieces. long on display at antonin broz mcgregor museum, it is one of the most famous paintings of the dutch golden age. the anatomy lesson of doctor nicholas talk is another. rembrandt painted this when he was just 25 years old. and now after languishing for a century in a forgotten corner of the museum in the hague, it has been confirmed that this oil sketch is indeed one of the

dutch master's. the oil sketch is indeed one of the dutch master's.— dutch master's. the quality of the detail— dutch master's. the quality of the detail is _ dutch master's. the quality of the detail is so _ dutch master's. the quality of the detail is so marvellous, i l the detail is so marvellous, i think, i am convinced it is rembrandt.— think, i am convinced it is rembrandt. ., , ., rembrandt. the raising of the cross from — rembrandt. the raising of the cross from the _ rembrandt. the raising of the cross from the 16 _ rembrandt. the raising of the cross from the 16 40s - rembrandt. the raising of the cross from the 16 40s was - rembrandt. the raising of the l cross from the 16 40s was long thought to have been the work of a follower of rembrandt. one of a follower of rembrandt. one of the main arguments for this gasping and was the seemingly un— detailed brush strokes on the canvas. i un- detailed brush strokes on the canva— the canvas. ithink it is, but ou the canvas. ithink it is, but you have — the canvas. ithink it is, but you have to _ the canvas. ithink it is, but you have to realise - the canvas. ithink it is, but you have to realise it - the canvas. ithink it is, but you have to realise it is - the canvas. ithink it is, but you have to realise it is an i you have to realise it is an oil sketch, so you have to look at it in a certain way. you will not wrecking guys the refinement. but may be very carefully. there is even, discover, a self—portrait in the painting. discover, a self-portrait in the painting.— discover, a self-portrait in the painting. experts say that research will _ the painting. experts say that research will now _ the painting. experts say that research will now be - the painting. experts say that research will now be done - the painting. experts say that | research will now be done into what the purpose of this sketch was. but, for now, it will take centre stage at the radius, ready for its close—up. emer mccarthy, bbc news. that is all from us for now. we can get more on all our sozer

bbc.com/news. from me and the rest of the team, thanks for watching. goodbye. hello. it's been a wet start to november and, as a result of half a month's worth of rain across some south—eastern areas, still flood warnings are in force. but it looks like a window of drier weather for the day ahead before we look to storm martin out in the atlantic, which is going to throw these weather fronts our way — here it is, that storm system — and then plenty of showers follow behind. the concern, again, is, though, that this weather front will become slow—moving across southern and eastern areas. and even ahead of that, there are still, through the remainder of the night, a few heavy, thundery downpours to contend with, in southern areas in particular, and gusty winds as well, so lots of spray and standing water on the roads if you're out in the next few hours — those gusts up to 50—60 mph — but high pressure's building in and the showers will dampen for many. it's a cold start this morning. a touch of frost across northern areas, grass frost in the south

and even a little bit of fog because the winds are falling lighter here. so, what's left of that showery rain scoots away very quickly. we've got a weak weather front introducing showers in the north—west, perhaps some patchy fog to clear away, possibly through the central belt, one or two patches elsewhere but otherwise, it does look like the driest, brightest day of the week with some good spells of sunshine coming through and lighter winds generally. 10—14 celsius is just around the average for this time of year. but that window of drier weather doesn't last. we've got, behind me, gathering some more rain and that moves in through friday night and saturday — some quite heavy bursts of rain for a time — and then it slows progress down as it reaches southern and eastern areas. brighter skies certainly following, with one or two showers. 11—14 — on a par with those of friday. but to say that weather front could become slow—moving once again across southern and eastern areas. the ground saturated, we still have flood warnings in force. and it's bonfire night, so it could be that we have quite a lot of cloud in eastern areas, showers and blustery winds elsewhere, but some clear spells around, as well. but there's uncertainties, as i say, through the forecast, through the latter part of the weekend, given the amount of rain that could fall in southern and eastern areas, and also because of the fetch

from that storm, we could have some really large waves saturday night into sunday around the western coast — 5 or 6 metre waves, potentially. lots of blustery showers, heavy and thundery, rolling in behind our weather front. a distinctly unsettled—looking picture. you can find out more about the warnings and the flood warnings online.

this is bbc news. the headlines — the former prime minister of pakistan, imran khan, is recovering in hospital, after being shot in the leg at a rally on thursday. one person died and several were injured when a burst of gunfire hit mr khan's vehicle, in the eastern city of wazirabad. western officials say russian troops could be preparing to withdraw from part of the ukrainian city of kherson, which they have held since the start of the war. ukraine has been talking up an offensive to capture the city since the summer, but so far they've just retaken some surrounding farmland. the german chancellor, olaf scholz, has arrived in china, starting the first visit by the leader of a g7