we'll be looking at whether the offers will be enough to end the walk—outs. also on the programme... keeping cool any way they can — the heatwave sweeping across parts of southern europe. the chilling moment before two teenagers stabbed a 16—year—old in a case of mistaken identity — ronan kanda's killers are sentenced to more than 16 years. the hollywood actor kevin spacey denies allegations of sexual assault as he begins giving evidence at his trial in london. game, set, match, jabeur. and ons jabeur beats aryna sabalenka in a gripping match, to put her in her second wimbledon final. on newsnight at 10:30pm — we'll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today's big stories. picket line say they won't settle

for a 5% but with rishi sunak insisting the pay talks are over, what can the nhs do about it? over a million public sector workers are being offered pay rises of between five and 7% — as the government attempts to end strikes over pay and conditions. it has accepted the recommendations of independent pay review bodies to give more money to police and prison officers in england and wales, who are offered 7%. for teachers in england the offer is 6.5%. forjunior doctors in england it's a 6% rise — with a lump sum ofjust over £1,000. consultants, dentists and gps are also given 6%. and finally, armed forces across the uk are given 5%, with a £1,000 lump sum rishi sunak said the pay rises were the final offer and that they would be funded by departmental savings, not extra borrowing or new taxes.

teaching unions have urged their members to accept — and to end strike action. here's our political editor, chris mason. what do we want? fair pay! when do we want it? now! teachers protesting, education disrupted, classrooms empty. for months, pupils and parents in england have been caught up in an angry row between teaching unions and the government. but could a 6.5% pay rise, alongside this promise from the prime minister, bring an end to it? there will be more money going into the schools budget to help schools pay for these new pay awards. so they will not have to make cuts, and that was something that was rightly important to the unions and we have worked with them to ensure that the funding is there for schools. given the scale of disruption caused by industrial action this year, and notjust in schools, there is one question for trades unions tonight.

will this mean the end of the strikes? well, i think in education, we will see a 6.5% pay award, properly funded pay of art, certainly our teaching unions will be recommended to their members that they accept the government's proposals, and if that is the case, then i think that we will see the end of the strikes in education. another part of the public sector, members will be weighing up the government's offer, crucially, they will be looking for those pay awards to be properly funded. what we can't see is peter being robbed to pay paul. junior doctors in england started their longest walk out yet today over pay. here are a few dozen of them protesting in liverpool. they are on strike until tuesday. the union says the offer for them isn't good enough. so what do labour make of all of this? notably, kier starmer did not overtly criticise the government's announcement. i know that news about the pay review body recommendations will be on the minds of many public sector workers today. those recommendations will, of course, be subject to negotiation. i don't think it's helpful for me

to weigh in on that. at the heart of the government's decisions today are difficult choices, trade—offs... budgets are not infinite, when some ask for higher pay, that will always create pressures elsewhere. will you acknowledge explicitly that a consequence of your decision will mean cuts in the budgets of some key public services? this is a significant pay award. it's one of the most significant we've had in decades, and it is costing billions of pounds more than the government had budgeted for. and that has consequences. if we are going to prioritise paying public sector workers more, that money has to come from somewhere else. inflation, public sector pay, budgets. what will happen next? let me put you through some of the dilemma at the heart of all of this. the government has decided it doesn't want to pay for these pay

rises with extra borrowing. borrowing is already high and it fears it could fuel inflation. they don't want to pay for it either by tax rises. yes, you guessed it, tax it are already high so instead they are scrabbling amongst existing budgets for a bill of around £2 billion. 0ne budgets for a bill of around £2 billion. one idea which will run about half of that is to increase the surcharge for people who use the nhs, for migrants and also to increase the cost of these is, but what about the other £1 billion? they haven't been forthcoming with a long list of where money has been taken out of one pocket and put into another. the key question tonight is what does it mean for strikes? the prime minister has employed union members to do the right thing and

accept when the chance to say yes is there but some unions are still sceptical that we are not at the end of this yet. junior doctors have started their latest five—day strike today. they've been offered a 6% pay rise, but that's a long way off the 35% unions are calling for. as we've been hearing, rishi sunak has said there will be no more negotiation on pay and has urged unions to call off strikes. so what will they do? 0ur health editor hugh pym reports. an empty operating theatre, surgical robots unused, the result of cancellations caused by the strike. around half of our theatres are empty today. this is one of our robotic theatres, usually in use by our urogynaecological team or colorectal teams. the strain of repeated cancellations of appointments and operations during nurses' and doctors' strikes is all too clear. i feel frustrated and i feel anxious, and ifeel anxious on behalf of our patients and their families around the delays to care.

and that's a cumulative effect of the strikes over many months now. claps don't pay the bills! in scotland, a deal�*s agreed with the junior doctors' union, but in england, there's been another strike. the union said the 6% pay award wouldn't cover past inflation and strikes would continue. this dispute has to continue until this government recognises that we're not worth less than we were in 2008. are you prepared to continue for months, maybe into next year? yes. ministers said an extra payment would push the deal to 10% for some doctors, and there'd be no more talks. in this settlement, a fair and final settlement, allows us to reflect this huge contribution that doctors make, but to give them a pay rise of over £3,000 and then get back to focusing on cutting the waiting times. strikes by health workers in england

have been causing disruption since the end of last year. but before that, a backlog had been building up, leaving some patients enduring long waits for treatment. this is my... janice used to be a paralympic swimmer and has won medals. she has a health condition, meaning she's deaf—blind. she also has arthritis and needs a knee replacement. but she's already been waiting for a year. i take a lot of heavy pain relief. so i take pain relief four times a day. that includes morphine. i can even say last night, it woke me up — the pain wakes me up in the night. i then have to sort of get up, you know, the next day and really get on with life. janice says losing her mobility would be a serious problem, but she doesn't have a date for the operation. she uses her drum set to keep her spirits up, but the waiting is getting harder. hugh pym, bbc news.

a fierce heatwave is gripping parts of europe with temperatures reaching more than a0 degrees celsius. this is antibes in the south of france where tourists are being warned to take special care in the extreme heat. in greece, they've been dousing areas at risk of wild fires with temperatures expected to hit 45. and they'll do anything to keep cool in turin in italy — one of ten major cities issued with red alert warnings for severe heat. and part of what is driving these extreme temperatures is of course global warming. here's our climate editor, justin rowlatt. sightseeing was a dangerous business in athens today. tourists were given emergency water supplies to help cool down. a heatwave named after the 3—headed dog that guards the gates of hades in greek mythology is driving temperatures across southern europe to truly hellish levels. "we'll deliver 30,000 bottles of water today," says the head

of the greek red cross. it was suffocating. i mean, we're from washington, dc and we get a lot of heat there, but it's not like this. the air temperature in italy could even top the all—time 48.8 celsius record next week and this satellite map of spain shows surface temperatures have reached 60 celsius in places. and temperature records have also been smashed in parts of canada, the us and china, at the same time arctic sea ice is at the lowest extent ever recorded. and there have been terrible floods also. just look at the mayhem caused by torrential rain in india. last week was the hottest week ever recorded. climate scientists say the heat and the rain is driven in part by global warming.

this shows estimated average global temperatures over the last 800,000 years. look how the world went in and out of ice ages. now, let's add in carbon dioxide levels and look how closely they track the temperature, and just look how carbon dioxide spikes here at the end of the graph. now, let's zoom in to the last 12,000 years. look how the world gradually warms, then temperatures level out, becoming much more stable than during the ice age. we human beings, we have been around for about 300,000 years, but it's only in this period of warm and stable temperatures that we learnt to grow crops and civilisation developed. now let's look at the last 2,000 years. temperatures remain stable until just over there at the end of the graph. the steam engine was invented, the industrial revolution took off, man—made carbon dioxide emissions started to increase and just look what happened

to global temperatures. we are moving the earth into a new era where ecology, plants, animals and ourselves just can't cope. and be warned, it is going to get hotter. a weather pattern called el nino is developing in the tropical pacific. scientists say it is likely to make next year even hotter than this one. justin rowlatt, bbc news. the hollywood actor kevin spacey has told a court in london that he's a "big flirt" and was "somewhat intimate" with one of the men he's accused of sexually assaulting, but he denied behaving aggressively. mr spacey has pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to four men, between 2001 and 2013. lucy manning reports from southwark crown court. some of the jury admitted they'd watched his award—winning films. now they saw kevin spacey close up, in the witness box, at times emotional, fighting

for his innocence. the judge told the actor he didn't need to tell him to project, and mr spacey spoke confidently, mentioning judi dench, eltonjohn, john gielgud and jack lemon. but this was not about the american beauty star's career, but about allegations of multiple sexual offences. he was asked about a driver who claims he was sexually assaulted. "we had a fun time together," the actor told the court. mr spacey, who described himself as a flirt, said it did not happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way. "it was gentle and, to my mind, romantic. "it was not what has been described." asked what he thought about the man making the allegations, he replied... "i was crushed. "i never thought the man i knew, years later, "would stab me in the back." asked by his barrister if he'd grabbed the driver in the crotch so hard he almost came off the road,

he said, "that never happened. "i was not on a suicide mission on any of those years." as artistic director of the old vic, it's claimed he sexually assaulted a worker at another theatre event. but he told the jury... "it's madness, it never happened." 0n the most serious charge of an unwanted sexual act againsta man, mr spacey told the court... "in the witness box, he accused me of drugging him and "waking up to this terrible attack. "none of that was true. "we had a consensual and, i believe, nice and lovely evening. "i would never behave in the way he claimed." asked about a barman who said the actor had assaulted him, he said... "with a few issues, i have no issue with "what he testified. "we had some drinks, and i made a pass. "i'm only happy that he testified that the moment he told me "he wasn't interested, i stopped." the house of cards actor became emotional when he talked about another allegation he'd faced in a us civil court

that was dismissed last year, and how his work had dried up. and he was tearful as he recounted his decision to come out as gay. the hollywood star, who's been described as a sexual bully, will be cross—examined tomorrow. lucy manning, bbc news. two teenagers convicted of murdering a 16—year—old boy in a case of mistaken identity have been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison. ronan kanda, who had just finished his gcses, was walking to a friend's house in wolverhampton when he was attacked from behind by the two teenagers wielding a sword and a large machete. phil mackie reports. ronan kanda was just 16 when he lost his life in what police described as an unbelievably callous attack. he had no idea his killers, who thought he was someone else, were about to attack him with a machete and a ninja sword. the cctv footage is shocking.

they are monsters, they are able, their actions are evil. —— they are evil. they didn't think twice before what they did to my son. ronan was a fanatical liverpool fan. he had just aced his gcses and wanted to be a lawyer. it's destroyed his family. ronan was just a fun—loving, happy kid who was just living a normal life, yet he has become the victim of knife crime. this house was full of laughter and the silence kills me. the kandas believe the weapons that killed him should be banned and rules governing the sale of knives tightened up. veadhasa ordered them using someone else�*s id. this was him picking the sword up from the post office. again, no—one checked his age. he was able to buy and sell weapons like this, even though he was 16. this case is another instance of the national scourge of knife crime, as a result of which young lives are brutally cut short

because of the ease with which lethal weapons can be obtained and used on our streets. james brindley was murdered with a knife six years ago. his dad, mark, set up a foundation in his name which works to prevent youth violence. it's glamorisation of murderweapons, isn't it? together we looked at the website which sold the weapons used in ronan kanda's murder. mark ordered similar weapons to see how easy they were to buy. it isn't illegal to sell them to adults. yesterday, we went to see the package after it arrived. how are you feeling nowjust opening this? i'm feeling really emotional, yeah. this... if it looks anything like on the internet, is designed to cause serious injury or death. the foundation has set up a number of knife surrender bins and so we took the ninja swords to get rid of them. today, reporting restrictions

were lifted, allowing us to name name prabjeet veadhasa and sukhman shergill even though they're still 17. the judge said it would send a message about the seriousness of knife crime. we love you, ronan. 0n the wings of these doves, fly free. it was the anniversary of ronan�*s death at the end of last month. a large crowd gathered to commemorate him and reiterate the campaign against these types of weapons. i want to carry on this fight to save another ronan from going through what my son went through on this road through no fault of his own! phil mackie, bbc news, wolverhampton. chinese intelligence is targeting the uk "prolifically and aggressively" — that's what the parliamentary intelligence and security committee has said in a damning report. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood has been reading the report. what more can you tell us?

it is an absolutely scathing 200 pages in this. it says the british government has no strategy on china, let alone an effective one. that it has failed to think long term, unlike china. what it does it set out what the chinese government is accused of doing. it says they have whole of state operation, whether using intelligent services, their citizens and economy to strategically target the british economy, the british society. it picks up three key areas, academia, where universities turn a blind eye, take money in exchange for giving away secrets. the tech and industry are being a boat up, key areas, and the nuclear industry is being purchased or invested in and that gives the chinese government leveraged. the government has responded and said this report is welcomed but out of date. they say the evidence is a couple of years old and there is a new national security act which does address some of these questions. but the words really are very, very severe. they

say without swift action, this report says there is the potential of china to pose the next essential threat to the liberal democratic system. threat to the liberal democratic s stem. . ~ threat to the liberal democratic s stem. ., ~ system. 0k, thank you. joe inwood there. the former england footballer, dele, has revealed he was sexually abused when he was six — and started dealing drugs when he was eight. the everton midfielder, once seen as one of football's brightest young talents, also said he'd struggled with his mental health and recently spent six weeks in rehab because of a sleeping pill addiction. i was winning the fight. you know, going in to training, smiling, showing that i was happy. but inside, i was definitely, you know, losing the battle. the united nations says that at least 87 people — including women and children — have been buried in a mass grave in sudan's darfur region. it says it has �*credible' evidence that the paramilitary force — the rsf — was responsible for the deaths. the rsf has been in conflict with sudanese armed forces since april, but it has denied

responsibility for the deaths in darfur. this report from the bbc world service's merchuma — from neighbouring chad — contains images you may find distressing. a helping hand at the end of a long journey to safety. carrying what little they have, these families have just crossed the borderfrom sudan to chad. they arejoining over 170,000 refugees who are living in camps along the frontier after fleeing ethnic fighting that has erupted in dafur. among them, this man — too scared to reveal his identity, who has evidence of one of the most shocking incidents of the conflict. pictures taken on his phone before he fled dafur show dead bodies scattered in streets. many appear to be civilians who have been burned. aid agency facilities wrecked and, perhaps most disturbingly, bodies dumped from a lorry into a mass grave.

he says he was part of a group that removed corpses after fighting saw the rapid support forces seize control of parts of the city of al—junaynah. we removed the bodies of the dead who were killed by the rsf or the arab militias backed by the rsf. we went towards the forest graveyard to bury the bodies but the rsf refused to bury the bodies there. under the orders of the rsf, the driver of the truck dumped the bodies in the pit. he says the decision to dump the bodies in a mass grave was a deliberate act of disrespect. these people were muslims who should have been buried in a graveyard with all the rituals but unfortunately the rsf — you could see desire for revenge in their eyes. in april, fighting erupted in sudan as a power struggle within the country's military leadership pitted the army against the paramilitary rapid support forces. rsf has its origins in the arab militia that brutally suppressed

a rebellion by black african groups in 2003, resulting in accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide. the recent fighting has allowed the conflict in dafur to reignite. the violence doesn't appear to be random. members of the black african groups, like this sheik from the masalit group, say arab groups have systematically attacked them. this is a genocide because all the masalit leaders have been targeted. the lawyers, teachers, doctors. members of black african communities say attacks like these against both community leaders and ordinary people are why tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting. refugee camps like this one in chad are just a symptom of the violence that is happening across the border in dafur, sudan. we have heard stories of targeted killings and robberies, official buildings being burned down and looted, and this isjust the latest episode of ethnically

targeted violence in a long—running crisis that has seen years of death and destruction. i hope that the international community is not keeping silent and seeing dafurian people's killing without doing nothing. even the security council also doing nothing. why? merchuma, bbc news, on the chad—sudan border. actors in hollywood are due to go on strike tomorrow, joining writers in the first industry—wide shutdown in 63 years. it comes after their union failed to reach a deal with big studios over pay. they're also seeking reassurance that actors won't lose work because of artifical intelligence. sophie long is outside the union's headquarters in west hollywood. what's the impact of this likely to be?

their stakes are high and the impact is likely to be huge. the last time both the actors and writers were on strike at the same time was in the 19605 strike at the same time was in the 1960s when ronald reagan was president, not america but of the screen actors guild. the writers strike has a ready put a to many productions. when actors walk out, it will bring a halt to the rest when production stops it's notjust the actors and writers who are not working but directors, camera operators and thousands of people working on adjacent industries. that will cost the californian economy tens of millions of dollars every day. it will mean financial hardship for many people working in industry is still recovering from the pandemic and it will cause a major delay to the release of films and television series. the organisation representing the studios has said that the negotiators here have walked away from an historic offer on pay and a ground—breaking proposal that would protect actors from artificial intelligence. but in

a news conference in the last hour, the president said that the only historic thing about the offer from the studios was that it was disrespectful and disgusting. the two sides remain far apart after weeks of negotiations. these are hard times in hollywood and the repercussions are likely to be felt around the world.— around the world. sophie, many thanks. sophie _ around the world. sophie, many thanks. sophie long there. - to wimbledon now — and it's been a thrilling women's semifinals day. when for 0ns jabeur and the unseeded marketa vondrousova. andy swiss has been following it all for us. ready for another shot at glory. the amazing 0ns jabeur, last year's runner—up, into another final after the most epic of struggles. that's a great shot. 0h! belarus' aryna sabalenka won the first set and she led in the second. but from the brink of defeat, what brilliance. it's one set all! how's that for entertainment? jabeur firing up the fans

and come the decider, her momentum was unstoppable. soon she was into the final, in style. game, set, match, jabeur. the crowd favourite and now also the bookies' favourite after the toughest of triumphs. it was very, very difficult accepting her serves and her shots, so thank you guys for cheering for me till the last moment and believing in me. cheering and applause. well, 0ns jabeur faces an unlikely opponent in saturday's final — the unseeded marketa vondrousova, after she put an end to the feel—good story of these championships. ukraine's elina svitolina carried the hopes of a nation on to centre court, watched by ukrainian fans here, as well as back home in kyiv. but her opponent had no time for sentiment. wow.

0h! vondrousova's run here has been so unexpected, her husband stayed home to look after their cat. but she says she's now found a pet sitter after a straight sets win. game, set, match, vondrousova. vondrousova the first unseeded women's finalist here for 60 years. well, afterwards, a tearful svitolina thanked ukrainians for their support. it's unbelievable that they have been there with me all the way and hopefully they continue. an emotional exit, then, but her run here will long be remembered. andy swiss, bbc news, wimbledon. time for a look at the weather now. here is chris. southern europe might be havin: here is chris. southern europe might be having that _ here is chris. southern europe might be having that developing _ here is chris. southern europe might be having that developing heatwave, | be having that developing heatwave, particularly next week but our weather is nothing like that. we are in the midst of really unsettled

weather. we had loads more showers around today but we are swapping those showers for something a bit wetter and windierfor those showers for something a bit wetter and windier for tomorrow. this area of cloud that is working towards our shores. it is an area of low pressure that will continue to deepen quite quickly through friday and saturday to bring wet and windy weather our way, with the risk of gales, the risk of some localised disruption. as we head through this evening and overnight, we will see a bit of rain the northern ireland getting into western areas of scotland but later in the night we see the rain start to arrive across wales and south—west england. it is a relatively mild night, 12—15 celsius and tomorrow we are looking at the strong winds, initially arriving across wales and south—west england, gusts of wind running at 50 mph. wins this strong strong enough to bring down some tree branches and perhaps in weak trees. there is some risk of seeing some quite localised disruption as well as the strong winds we have the rain that will pour eastwards across england and wales, reaching northern ireland where it looks particularly heavy on the far south of scotland through

the far south of scotland through the course of the afternoon. quite a cold winter in northern scotland