welcome to bbc news, i'm monika plaha. our top stories: jubilation from england fans as they triumph in the battle of britain at the world cup — beating wales 3—0 and going through to the knockout stages. joy too for usa fans as they go through with a 1—0 victory over iran — much to the delight of president biden. usa! that's a big game, man! i spoke to the coach and the players, i said, "you can do this!" they went, "aah. they did it. god love �*em! the founder of the us right wing oath keepers militia group

is convicted of seditious conspiracy over last year's attack on the capitol. a warning over escalating violence from the un as five palestinian men are killed by israeli forces in four separate incidents in the occupied west bank. it is reminding people and reviving fears and memories of some of the worst years in the occupied palestinian territories and in israel. and dramatic pictures from the world's biggest active volcano — mauna loa in hawaii erupts for the first time in a0 years.

hello. to the world cup now — and the final round of group games are under way, with the results confirming which teams will play in the first knockout matches. so far we know the four teams who have progressed from groups a and b. they are the netherlands, senegal, england and the usa. here's how it happened. starting with group a, the netherlands secured top spot with a 2—0 win over qatar, who finished hosting the world cup with no points and just one goal. senegal�*s win over ecuador gave them second place in the group. and in group b, england beat wales 3—0, securing first place in the group. usa held on for the win they needed over iran to get into the knockout stage. that means the first two games in the last 16 look like this. and on saturday, the netherlands play the usa, and on sunday, it's england versus senegal. let's start our coverage with details of the

battle of britain. it's the first time two teams from the uk have ever met at the world cup final. nesta mcgregor sent us this update from the england—wales game. we can see some of the 16,000 people that were inside leaving now, some clearly happier than others. the english fans are singing at the top of their voices. as for the game, though, like you say, the first half lacked quality. england had much of the possession, and i don't even think wales touched the ball in the opposition penalty area in the first half. and listen, so many times gareth bale has been the spark that wales needed and it definitely didn't help that he didn't return for the second half. we think an injury of some sort possibly. if the first half was poor, the second half was the polar opposite. how exciting was that? straight after it, marcus rashford — a powerful

curling free kick into the top corner. a really, really amazing goal. a minute or so later, england captain harry kane down the right hand side, a low cross, and phil foden tapped home. rashford again, you know, swirling dribble and then a low shot through the keeper's legs. his third goal of this world cup means he's one of the joint top scorers as well. so england much better in the first than the second half, and it's the english fans we can hear singing right now. nesta mcgregor reporting from qatar. it was a very different story after iran lost to team usa. our correspondent shaimaa khalil spoke to some disappointed iran fans outside the stadium. a heartbreaking night for iran's team and their fans as they lose to the united states and leave the world cup. many have told me that they hoped this would be their time, this would be the world cup that they get through the group stages and into the last 16. but they just couldn't find the net in this game. inside the stadium, the fans cheered, they chanted, they roared relentlessly for their team. and out here, they tell me that they did their best.

but tonight, that just wasn't enough. i'm very sad, i cried after the game. i'm a very big iran fan, even iran versus england, i cried. iran versus wales, when we scored, i cried. i really love this team. in four years, i'll be in the stadium, i'll play for the team. i hope so one day. it was very sad and depressing because it was a very boring game and they started really well, they were on fire, and then itjust went bumph. like, of course, i'm sad. yeah, but that's life. yeah. it was very tense. i feel like everyone was trying to block the other out, but it was fun. you know, at the end of the day, i mean, ifeel like every game is like this. it's notjust because it's iran and the us. i feel like there's a bit more tension there, but it was fun for me at least. the game was so intense and so close at the end.

we could have... we could have won, but we didn't. it's just so unfortunate. so now it's only england and usa have qualifyied and not iran. they're a really good team. diplomatic relationship. they've cut ties for a0 years. they are geopolitical adversaries. and of course, all of this is going on while the anti—government protests in iran continue, triggered, of course, by the death of 22—year—old mahsa amini in custody in september. "i'm here to spread the word. he also said that they wanted the players to represent the people. and when i put it to him that this was a historic game, he said that history was actually being made in iran, those people who are taking to the streets

challenging the government. this all highlights the difficult position that they are being asked to do more, to show more support for the protesters, but anything they say or do may on that game to deliver a historic win. but tonight, theyjust couldn't do it. shaima khalil in qatar. now, there's been a mixed response to iran's defeat from some parts of the country, with reports that some anti—government protestors let off fireworks to celebrate the american victory. and at least one protestor was arrested by stadium police in doha. witnesses said he was wearing a t—shirt with the words "women, life" freedom' written on it. but members of the russian activist group pussy riot did

manage to get some of those t—shirts into the ground. they had names of people killed in iran written on the back. a member of the group said they were politely escorted out of the stadium after the match. well, back to team usa now — and their good news came while president biden was at an event in michigan. this was his response. usa! that's a big game, man! i spoke to the coach and the players, i said, "you can do this!" they went, "aah. they did it. god love �*em! anyway, just thought you might want to hear. let's catch up with how some of the fans reacted now. starting in west africa.

there were scenes of celebration in the senegalese capital dakar. it's only the second time the country has made it to the knockout stages of the world cup. but for every winner there is a loser — and in ecuador, the fans were a bit more long faced. there wasn't much to cheer about in quito. moving on, the netherlands were always favourites to make it through today. these fans near eindhoven still thought it was worth and in the battle of britain now — you can see how disappointing it was for wales. they needed to beat england by at least four goals while for england's fanshere in london, quite the opposite with plenty to cheer about. it's not clear if they

had their waterproof and while soccer may not be the biggest sport in america, our correspondent nomia iqbal was in washington with another group of us fans as the final whistle blew. ano usa jroup of us fans ano usa has p of us fans ano usa has p of us iran. 249, here.

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iqbal for the first time, a woman will referee a match in the men's world cup finals. stephanie frappart will lead an all—female team of officials for the game between germany and costa rica. she's already refereed matches in france's ligue 1, and the champions league, and she took charge of the women's world cup final in 2019. coming up in qatar on wednesday, groups c and d take centre stage. any of the four teams could still go through in group c — although mexico will need other results to go in their favour. and in group d — only france have guaranteed their place in the knock out stages, with australia best placed tojoin them. don't forget there is much more on our website in our special just log on to bbc.com/news. or you can use the bbc app.

and exchanging flags| with robert fagg, his welcome back to bbc news. turning to the us now — and stewart rhodes, the leader of the group of militia members called the 0ath keepers, has been convicted of seditious conspiracy. it's in connection with the january the 6th storming of the us capitol in washington. rhodes, who is 57 years old and a graduate of yale university, was accused of master minding the 0ath keepers participation on that day. another member of the group was also convicted on the same charges. they could face up

to 20 years in prison. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes has been following the case, this was a case — seditious conspiracy was the charge, which is a rarely heard charge, in large part because it's a difficult charge to prove, so it's not often brought before a court. and essentially what it means is that the allegation was that he and others had attempted to stop the peaceful transition of power after the 2020 election. so the transition of power would have been between donald trump and joe biden, and the allegation being that it wasn't just something that happened on the day, the storming of the capitol building, but something that stewart rhodes and others had planned in advance, that this had been a plot. and in fact, prosecutors talked about a text message that he'd sent to some of his supporters just after the 2020 election, saying that "we're not going to get through this without a civil war".

and clearly that was ringing in the ears of the jury members. that was the heart of the allegation from the justice and the jurors believed the prosecution, at least there were three others as part of the group who were found not guilty. now, before the verdict came in, the bbc spoke to some members of stewart rhodes family in the state of montana, and they talked about what it had been like to grow up with him. from early childhood on, there was adoration towards my father that slowly eroded away. i lived absolutely under the thumb of an emotional terrorist. stewart's obsession with preparing for the apocalypse was his only hobby, his main purpose in life, and consumed our lives entirely. i had a childhood set of body armour.

we sporadically attended tacticaltraining, especially when stewart got fully sucked into 0ath keepers. he made his family the centrepoint of this cult of personality that he wanted to build for himself. we were completely isolated. the kids couldn't have friends. they weren't even allowed i to play outside half the time. and it wasjust so intolerable. it was just a dark and depressing existencej and very hard to remember that there was life - outside of that house. getting out was terrifying. heart pounding, i adrenaline racing. getting out was... ..was one of- the hardest things, and really up until we got out, we did not know if we were allj going to get out alive. it's a difficult situation - all the way around, but it's a much, much better situation with him in prison. _ i'm safer, the kids- are safer, and the rest of the country is safer

with him in prison. i now, at this stage, it isn't known how long stewart rhodes will spend in prison. he'll be sentenced at a later date. but on just the one charge of seditious conspiracy — that carries up to 20 years behind bars. amount of time in prison. as far as the broader case is concerned, this isn't the end of the matter. we know that some 900 people since 6th january of last year have been arrested and charged. some have been convicted of offences relating to the storming of the capitol and other cases are still pending. and as far as the 0ath keepers are concerned, there are at least two more trials still to start.

in fact, starting next monday, four members of the group will go on trial, and i'm sure officials at thejustice department will be analysing the decision made by thejury, perhaps deciding on how to move forward in terms of their legal tactics with the cases still to come. peter bowes, our north american correspondence _ peter bowes, our north american correspondence there. _ there's been a breakthrough in the battle to slow the progression of alzheimer's — the brain disorder which can destroy memory and thinking skills. from eisai and biogen can slow down cognitive decline. the medicine, called lecanemab, is being praised as the first drug to slow the destruction of the brain in alzheimer's. the drug, an antibody administered by infusion, works in the early stages of the disease. but there will be further study to check if there is any risk of side—effects. five palestinian men have been

killed by israeli forces in four separate incidents in the occupied west bank. the un has warned that the israeli palestinian conflict is "again reaching a boiling point" after an escalation in violence in the west bank and israel. 0ur middle east correspondent tom bateman has the latest from jerusalem. well, the two palestinian brothers shot dead were thafer and jawad rimawi. they were in a palestinian village in the occupied west bank, close to the city of ramallah, and palestinian sources tell us that there was the throwing of stones and some petrol bombs towards the israeli soldiers, and the soldiers responded by opening fire at the palestinians. the two men were killed. they were brothers, as i say, both students at a nearby university. that happened during the night, monday into tuesday. then within a few hours of that, further south near the city of hebron, another incident, similar circumstances, and another palestinian man shot dead by the israeli troops.

then in the day on tuesday, in another village, video shows what appears to be young men, possibly teenagers, again throwing stones towards the israeli soldiers, who again opened fire, the use of live ammunition, and another palestinian was killed. now, the israeli army describes all of these events as "violent riots". but they haven't — and they virtually never — explain why they resorted to lethal force rather than other means. so we have those four palestinians killed, palestinian officials describing it as, in their words, "executions". then in the day on tuesday as well, a palestinian man drove his car towards an israeli soldier, ran her over. she was left seriously wounded in that car ramming attack. an israeli police officer then pursued him and the palestinian man was shot dead. so five palestinians killed in the space of 2a hours, and all of it coming in a year of escalating violence. more than 140 palestinians

killed in the occupied west bank this year. they include civilians and militant gunmen. and more than 30 israelis killed this year, most of them in a spate of gun and knife attacks. it's all reminding people and reviving fears and memories of some of the worst years in the occupied palestinian territories and in israel, and all coming in a year of very volatile politics. the palestinian authority has been losing control of some palestinian cities in the west bank to young militant gunmen who are tending to fire at the israelis when they carry out these search and arrest raids. and now we have the likely inauguration in the next few weeks of the most nationalistic government in israel's history. it's going to contain a very powerful far right element and they are calling for much tougher security operations. and so you have in a year where things have already been the worst in terms of the death toll in many years,

far greater fears now of escalating violence. that was tom bateman there. nato says it will help ukraine repair damage to its energy network caused by russian missile strikes. at a meeting in romania, the alliance also promised to provide more weapons. secetary general of nato, jens stoltenberg had a united message for russia — that it won't back down in its support for ukraine. and he accused moscow of trying to "weaponise winter" by targeting ukraine's power supplies. russia is using brutal missile and drone attacks to leave ukraine cold and dark this winter. president putin is trying to weaponise winter to force ukrainians to freeze or flee. russia has also commented on the possibility that nato could supply ukraine

with patriut missile defence systems. the former president, dmitry medvedev, said nato had become a criminal entity for delivering weapons to what he said were ukrainian fanatics. some spectacular scenes at the world's biggest active volcano — mauna loa in hawaii — which started erupting on saturday. but despite advice to local residents to wear face masks, there's said to be no imminent threat to any individual or community. wendy urquhart reports. mauna loa has been belching smoke and ash since sunday and fountains of red—hot lava can be seen spouting up to 25 metres high on the slopes of the volcano. the last time this happened was in the spring of 1984, so naturally tourists and locals are keen to take a closer look, but they are kept well away from dangerous areas. right now, the lava flows are

not a threat to property and experts on the ground are already determining how much lava has erupted so far and where it might go next. as plumes of smoke from mauna loa towards nearby communities, residents are being advised to wear facemasks to protect against volcanic smoke and carbon dioxide. the governor says monitors are being used to detect air quality. we says monitors are being used to detect air quality.— detect air quality. we have a series of— detect air quality. we have a series of air _ detect air quality. we have a series of air quality - detect air quality. we have a series of air quality monitors around the island so we are certainly encouraging those who have respiratory challenges to be mindful and stay away from the summit and the fissure are where the eruption is occurring.— where the eruption is occurring. where the eruption is occurrina. ., ,, ., occurring. he has also issued a proclamation — occurring. he has also issued a proclamation to _ occurring. he has also issued a proclamation to allow - occurring. he has also issued a i proclamation to allow emergency services to respond immediately if the worst happens. and he has instructed residents to be vigilant and ready to evacuate at a moment's notice if the

lava flow is a changed direction. but for now, they are just enjoying direction. but for now, they arejust enjoying mauna loa's spectacular show. when urquhart, bbc news. you're watching bbc news, thanks for watching. hello again. yesterday we had some pretty big temperature contrasts across the uk. western areas had the mildest weather, with temperatures reaching around 12 or 13 celsius with some bright skies. meanwhile, across parts of england, we had low cloud and mist linger all day and that's kept the temperatures pegged back at three. however, i think we've got a much bigger change in our weather patterns taking place over the next seven to ten days. we're going to lose the influence of the atlantic southwesterly winds. and instead we've got a big area of high pressure that's going to build across greenland into next week. and what that will do is it will drive these bitterly cold polar winds across the uk towards the end of next week. and with that comes the threat for some snow, particularly across the hills of northern scotland, so we'll be watching

out for signs of a change. it is seven to ten days off, but it looks like it could get quite cold next week. before we get there, the immediate concern that we have right now is mist and fog. it's certainly quite murky through the welsh marches. across north—east england, visibility has dropped to 100 metres and it's very murky too for parts of scotland, notably around the central belt. for many of you, starting off the day on a frost—free note, but cold for northern scotland where we start off with temperatures around five or six celsius below freezing. now, bear in mind, with that mist and fog around, you might need to leave a little bit of extra time for your early morning journey. and just like yesterday, some of this low cloud and fog willjust lift into mist and loiter across eastern areas. where that happens, temperatures probably staying at around four or five degrees. still for many of you, the weather will brighten up as we head through the day. the mildest weather again across western areas. temperatures again reaching double figures here. now we'll take a look at the weather picture into thursday.

we've still got high pressure dominating the scene across england and wales, but these weak weather fronts just bringing the threat of some rain into the far north—west. some damp weather for mainland scotland. the heaviest rain will be across 0rkney and shetland during thursday. otherwise it's a largely dry picture again with some mist and fog patches to start the day with poor visibility, and things generally turning a bit brighter as we head into the afternoons. temperatures — england and wales about seven to ten celsius, but the mildest weather for west scotland and for northern ireland, 11 or 12 degrees here. however, through friday and the weekend it starts to get cooler, but the really cold air starts to arrive towards the end of next week. we'll be keeping a close eye on developments here.

this is bbc news — the headlines. jubilation from england fans as they beat wales 3—0 at the world cup — going through to the knockout stages. joy, too, for usa fans, with a 1—0 victory over iran — christian pulisic scoring the winner to set up a last—16 tie with the netherlands. the founder of the us right—wing 0ath keepers militia group has been convicted of seditious conspiracy over last year's attack on the capitol building in washington. stewart rhodes was accused of masterminding the 0ath keepers' participation on january the 6th. five palestinian men have been killed by israeli forces in four separate incidents in the occupied west bank.

the un has warned that the israeli palestinian conflict is "again reaching a boiling point" after