wildfires rage in algeria — more than 30 people are killed and thousands evacuated. yemen's children of war — eight years of conflict and it's the young paying the highest price. we have a special report. translation: i feel scared and run. there are a lot of explosions. a new ai project offers people cryptocurrency in exchange for a scan of their eyeball. welcome to the programme. we start in greece where the island of crete has been on high alert, with a warning of an "extreme risk" of fire. wildfires are continuing to burn on several other greek islands, as well as some parts of the mainland. greece's prime minister is expected to discuss the crisis with his cabinet today. on the island of rhodes, a long

spell of dry and hot weather has made conditions extremely difficult. firefighters are dropping water from the air to try to extinguish the flames. new fires have broken out — and thousands of residents and tourists have fled the flames. and fire fighters are trying to create fire breaks —— cutting down trees and other vegetation. this satellite image gives an idea of the scale of the task. the fires have spread along the island's eastern coast, and you can see them burning fiercely both to the east and west of the scorched area in the middle of rhodes. some holiday—makers who have decided to remain on the island are now having to spend time keeping a watch on the wildfires to check they aren't coming too close. our reporter azadeh moshiri is on rhodes and sent this update. i am outside the village of masari and you can see behind me there's some charred trees. these were olive trees. there are embers to the right of me that are burning, as well. this was a firebreak

that was created to protect the village nearby. that's because these fires are spreading now across the island of rhodes. i got a call from the fire service who told me that there is still this big wildfire across rhodes and that they thought perhaps they might have it under control, it seemed better this morning, but then afterwards there was a resurgence between the towns of gennady and vati in the south because two rivers dried up and they were extremely strong winds. essentially, he was saying we are still hunting fires every day and that rhodes is still the biggest problem they're facing right now. yeah, temperatures expected to soar again today across the country. warnings of more fires and more difficulty trying to tackle them as resources are now so stretched, aren't they, azadeh? absolutely, and resources have been stretched for some time because my team and i have been here for more than a week. we were on the mainland when fires

were happening over there and even then fire services and the greek government were appealing for help. european countries sent planes. already in the last few days turkey has sent more planes and a helicopter to help the island of rhodes. we've had firefighters come from slovakia, poland, bulgaria and a lot of other countries, as well. france and italy sent planes. it's been an international effort to help the people of rhodes here and mainland greece. but it has to be said, that although officials are saying that it is going to be a difficult few days ahead, as you said, the temperatures are still going to rise and there will be a peak on wednesday and thursday, they still want to emphasise that these fires are localised here on the island of rhodes. i'm in the south. that's where these fires are happening. mainland greece, where i visited areas in the south and north of athens, those areas again are localised fires and so, in general, officials are saying it is still safe to come

to greece for your holiday. extreme temperatures are causing problems in other parts of the world. in algeria, more than 30 people have beeen killed by wildfires — including ten soldiers who were deployed to bring the flames under control. more than 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, and forecasters are warning of more extreme heat and dry conditions to come. north eastern italy has been hit by torrential rain and strong gusts of wind. trees have been blown down — and there was damage to cars and buildings. there are warnings in the areas around milan and monza that there could be more thunderstorms on tuesday. a sudden heavy storm caused flash flooding in berlin. some trees were brought down, traffic lights stopped working, and there was disruption to overland metro train services. well, a group of scientists have concluded that extreme weather events — of the type that we're seeing in greece and other parts of europe — would have been "virtually impossible" without

human—induced climate change. the world weather attribution group warns that future heatwaves will be even more extreme if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut rapidly. 0ur climate and science reporter georgina rannard gave us more details of the study. so this is a study by leading climate scientists from around the world. what they wanted to do is, they looked at this extreme heat millions of people have been suffering from in recent weeks. these heat waves were in southern europe, in the us, and in china. and they wanted to say what was the link between climate change and this extreme weather. and what they have said is in southern europe and in the us, that heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the effects of climate change. in china, the heatwave was made 50 times more likely by climate change. the way they do this is they look at a world without the impacts of climate change. they can use models to do that. and they compare that to the real world temperatures that we have been seeing. and they say this is the effect of decades of burning fossil fuels which have pumped greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

they are saying these extreme heat waves are now normal. they are no longer unusual. and we can expect more of them. yes, and they say it is going to have an effect if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut. many of us around the world are very worried about emissions, many feeling perhaps it is already too late. is that the sense you get from this report, or is still action going to have an effect? what these scientists say is this is exactly what they had been expecting. we have known from the science for years this is what is going to happen. but they also say it is not too late, this is not a case of climate collapse or runaway global warming. we still have time to implement the vast number of solutions that the world has in order to tackle climate change. but they do say time is running out and we need to move very quickly to keep those promises that governments have committed to. does the report talk about climate change preparedness, how prepared we are when we see the extremes impacting around the world,

and look at the dangers there in greece just today? what they say is almost no nation is prepared for the effects of extreme heat. it is a very deadly disaster. it particularly affects the elderly, the vulnerable. as we saw in italy last week, the heat advisory said everyone would be affected by this. and they say governments need to move much more quickly to prepare nations. we need to have cooler homes, ways of keeping cool in the summer. and i think what they are saying is we know that the problem is there, they have been forecasting this for years, and governments have made promises to radically address this problem, and they need to start doing that. to yemen now, where the long running conflict is grinding on, and children remain in the firing line. the un says 11,300 children have been killed or maimed in nine years of war in the arab world's poorest country. there's been less violence since a temporary truce last year between iranian backed houthi rebels who seized the capital sa naa in 2014 — and a saudi led coalition backed by the uk and the us —

which intervened in in 2015 trying to reinstall the internationally recognised government. )but the young can't escape the danger, as our senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports from the city of taiz. yemen's young know nothing but war. eight years on, the guns are quieter, but a generation bears the scars. and if there's one place that shows they're suffering, it's al—rasheed street, a frontline neighbourhood in the city of taiz. it's home to badr al—harbi, who's seven. he and his brother hashim were hit by houthi shelling last october, coming home from school. since the attack, the boys�* world has shrunk. they no longer go to classes. their physical wounds may have healed, but their trauma remains, like the danger. conflict echoes around them.

do you hear a lot of sounds from the war? "bullets, explosions, air strikes, shells," he says. hashim, is it very scary when you hear the explosions and the gunfire? "i feel scared and run. there's a lot of explosions." badr wants to be a doctor when he's older. he wants to help people. first, the brothers need to return to school. "i want to go back," he tells me, "but my leg has been cut off. "how can i go out of the house?" and right next door,

another little life upended. amir was maimed on the same day last october in a second round of shelling. it killed his cousin and his uncle in their own home. amir�*s father, sharif al—amri, shares his pain. he says his sleeping son, who's just three, needs another operation and has deep wounds of memory. translation: he remembers every moment - from - the shelling to the hospital. he says this happened to my uncle, this happened to my cousin. he talks about the smoke and the blood. it's always on his mind. back on the street, sharif tries to distract amir. "don't be scared, my love, you're a man."

but he's just a child who has seen too much. he asks amir what he wants in the future. "buy me a gun," he says. "i will put a bullet in my gun and fire at those who took my leg. "it will go right to them." most of the children maimed and killed in taiz over the years have been victims of the houthis. but some died in air strikes by the saudi—led coalition. if peace comes — and many yemenis have their doubts — the young will carry this war for ever. 0rla guerin, bbc news, taiz. earlier, i spoke to 0rla from taiz — she told me more about

the situation there. certainly here in this front line city, which has been a battleground for years, there is no safe place for children. we have seen since we've been here over the last two or three weeks children who have been injured by snipers, by shelling and increasingly by landmines. just to give some context, the un children's agency, unicef, this says that in the course of the conflict here 11,000 children have been killed or maimed. in the last six months alone 90 children in yemen have been killed in the conflict. there is less violence than there was before. there was a temporary truce last year. it expired. since then, the guns have been quieter. nonetheless, children here are continuing to suffer and to be maimed in the worst of this conflict. and this conflict has being going on for nearly a decade. what hopes, if any, for peace?

when you speak to people here they more or less say none. i don't think i've had a single conversation since i've arrived with anyone here who is expecting peace. there's a great deal of concern, in fact, about whether or not yemen will survive as a state. effectively, now it is no longer a state. this is a country that is controlled by different armed groups with different agendas. you have the houthi forces which control the north, where most of the population live. here in the south, you have the remnants of the internationally recognised government, but also the southern transitional council, which is secessionist and wants nothing less than a separate south yemen, as there was in the past. it wants an independent country here in the south. so this is a complex, overlapping yemeni civil war and there is no peace process in place involving all of the players inside yemen, so you don't find optimism here. you find weariness, you find exhaustion, you find fear.

0rla, you've travelled into yemen seven times over the years. what risks are there and why do you feel it's so important to report from there? well, the greatest risks, of course, are for the people who live here, particularly the civilians. in a city like taiz, they're basically trapped. there is only one route out of here. it's a five—hourjourney over a mountain pass because you can't use the main road because it's controlled by houthi fighters. it's always difficult to get here for any journalist. you have to go through a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of paperwork. you apply to the yemeni government for a permit to come here, but in fact we know final approval is given by saudi arabia. if you want to travel to the north, which is houthi—controlled, you need an entirely different set of permissions. we obtained those permissions before travelling to yemen, but once we were in the country the houthi authorities revoked that permission,

so we have not been able to travel north to report on the situation there. there is still instability here. just last friday, an official from the un's world food programme was gunned down after friday prayers. he was standing outside a restaurant in a city about two hours from here. that has caused great concern for the ngos who are trying to work here in very, very difficult conditions and facing a lot of obstacles. some arrests were made after that killing, but we still don't know who was behind it or what the motive was, but it has certainly had a chilling impact on the aid agencies that operate here. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from around the uk. all the plastic that has ever been created still exist in some form

because it takes so long to break down. leading to pollution like this. but a new invention might be able to help. this may look like a normal plastic bag but there is something quite different about it. it dissolves in water, in boiling water this process takes about a minute. i caught up with the australian company's co—founder at the bupa ecodisruptive live event start—ups to find out more. these bags look like plastic but they are not, what is the magic ingredient? 0ur magic ingredient is the cassava plant. more specifically we use the starches. what is the advantage of these over plastic bags in terms of sustainability? there are no microplastics when it breaks down and no toxins as well. it can dissolve in hot water in under 60 seconds. and it will compost in 16 months. for more stories across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news.

doctors across israel have started a 2k hour strike in protest againstjudicial reforms that curb the powers of the country's supreme court. 0vernight police clashed with demonstrators after parliament passed the first in series of laws that have sparked deep divisions. security forces used water cannon and made dozens of arrests. the demonstrators see the reforms as a power grab by the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu — but he says the change was necessary to correct an imbalance of power. let's bring in amir fuchs of the israel democracy institute. thank you for being bad as, what impact has a vote last night had across the country today? today country is taking in what happened yesterday. we have to understand in israel our system of checks and balances was very weak. we don't have two houses of parliament, we don't have a president with a veto power. we don't have a strong constitution. and therefore our basic law which is

our quasi constitution can be changed easily. we have very little checks and balances. 0ne changed easily. we have very little checks and balances. one of them was the judicial review that we have over the decision of the government and of the ministers. and a very important grounds of this judicial review is a reasonable standard. this is what was taken away from us yesterday. the protest was at its peak yesterday and i think that today we will have more time to think about it and to think how we are going on with it. the government and benjamin netanyahu argue the reforms are necessary to correct an imbalance of power which it is claimed the courts are using to intervene in political powers, is that the case? i totally do not agree. although we can disagree with some decisions of the court over the years, this is

basically throwing the baby out with the water. there were a lot of suggestions which were milder to alter the power of the court or have some kind of compromise that would entrench the way judges some kind of compromise that would entrench the wayjudges are being appointed, and our basic laws. basically our constitution. and to have some kind of changes, fine tuning with the power of the court. but what they did with yesterday's amendments to the basic law judiciary is very extreme, and to take away a very important check that we have on the power of the executive. they will have the power to fire or appoint the attorney general, the gatekeeper, which is supposed to be strong and autonomous institutions. so what could happen next, there is speculation the supreme court could intervene, is that likely? yes. i don't know if it is likely

but it is a possibility. 0ur court never did something like that, has never did something like that, has never striped down a basic law. but it said in extreme situations where there is a basic law that goes against the court values of israel as a democracy, they might strike down such a law. i think there are grounds here because this takes away, the first thing, the separation of powers and checks and balances. and also the rule of law. because our rule of law is in the hands of the attorney general and if they will have the power, the government will have the power which is unrestricted to fire and appoint the attorney general, it will be a serious affront to our rule of law. thank you. a project has been launched offering people cryptocurrency in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.

artificial intelligence entrepreneur sam altman, who runs the company behind chat—gpt — is offering people £40 worth of a new digital currency to visit physical scanners in cities. more than two million people have volunteered so far for the project — which aims to help confirm if someone is a human or a robot online. with more on this here's our cyber correspondent, joe tidy. this is a very remarkable and unique project. most cryptocurrencies, in order to be a part of the cryptocurrency network, you just buy some coins in yourself. you spend your own money. but this is a project that is paying people to be involved. you have to go and find one of these silver orbs that are in 35 different countries around the world. i went yesterday to a pop—up site in london. yesterday was the full launch of the cryptocurrency coin. and you look into the silver orb and it scans your eyeball and proves you are a person. then you have to link that up with your mobile phone to make sure that you are a human and not a robot.

in exchange you get 25 of these coins called world coin. and at the moment they are worth something, about $2 per coin. we don't know if that will go up or go down. because like most cryptocurrencies they are floating in value. and often quite volatile. as i say it is a strange and almost dystopian idea you have to do this to get cryptocurrency coins but people are doing it. i met lots of people yesterday, most of them, in fact all of them were men, in their 20s and 30s, who wanted to be a part of this, probably incentivised by the money, of course. but also by the idea. sam altman, the creator of chatgpt, says this isn'tjust about the crypto coin, that is just the incentive to get people signed up. this is about proving you are a human in order to live your life online, so people know you are a person. you can prove your person—hood as is the phrase. instead of an ai chat but which of course we know are becoming more lifelike. a 48—hour strike by nhs radiographers in england has begun this morning. it is expected to disrupt patients waiting for

x—rays, mri and ct scans. staff at 37 nhs trusts are expected to walk out after rejecting the government's pay offer of a 5% increase plus a one—off payment. 0ur health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. scanning for problems, it is estimated the vast majority of nhs patients undergoing tests or therapy with a radiographer while being treated, including mri, ct, ultrasound and radiotherapy. i qualified in 2017 and since then 20% of my class has left radiography after doing a degree for three years specifically for radiography. that is a great shame. 30—year—old john kelly worked as a radiographer in liverpool but he still lives with his parents because he says he can't afford to move out. he insists the pressure on the job and poor pay have made it intolerable. not being able to give the care you want to patients, the uk lags behind a lot of other countries in ct

scanners but we don't have the staff for them. that is where we need to invest in radiographers which is why people are going on strike. this two day strike follows a series of walk outs by nhs staff, radiographers have rejected a 5% pay increase for this year plus a one—off payment, but ministers say the rise is reasonable and are calling for an end to the disruption. so the nhs can focus on cutting record high waiting lists. delays in appointments particularly for patients with cancer who know how vital it is to be treated quickly, can cause huge anxiety as centres like this know only too well. ~ , ., , , ., well. meeting people sneeze in a timely and _ well. meeting people sneeze in a timely and organised _ well. meeting people sneeze in a timely and organised fashion, . well. meeting people sneeze in a. timely and organised fashion, that doesn't change. it is critical to people feeling they have confidence in their clinical team, people feeling they have confidence in their clinicalteam, in people feeling they have confidence in their clinical team, in the cancer outcome, and they can get on and face the life—changing challenges cancer causes for them.

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with rain or showers and windy by the time we get to the weekend. today is no exception to that. sunny spells and scattered showers sums it up quite nicely. the showers particularly heavy across parts of scotland and later north—east england, but they are quite well scattered, we won't all catch one, and in between them there will be some sunshine. we're also pulling in this keen north—westerly breeze, which will accentuate the cooler feel to the day. temperatures this afternoon ranging from 13 in the north to 21 in the south, so just a little bit below average for the time of year. as we head on through the evening and overnight, there still will be some showers. if anything, our weather front sinking south will pep up across the north coast of northern ireland, south—west scotland and also northern england. 0n either side of that, we're looking at some clear skies. it will be chilly in sheltered glens. 0vernight lows here three or four degrees, but in our towns and cities we're looking at between seven and 12 degrees. that leads us into tomorrow. tomorrow, we've got this weather front, a warm front, coming our way.

ahead of it we've got a ridge of high pressure. behind it, we're going to be in muggier conditions. that weather front�*s going to be bringing us rain, as well. so we start with our overnight showers. there will also be some clear skies, there will be some sunshine, but the cloud will continue to build through the course of the day and then in comes the rain. the wind will have changed direction to have more of a southerly component in it. we're looking at temperatures 1a to about 23 degrees. alongside this rain will follow the muggy conditions. as we move from wednesday into thursday, there go our weather fronts crossing the uk. we've got the remnants of them across the english channel and also north—east scotland, so here we will hang on to the rain. we start with quite a lot of cloud and murky conditions, especially so on the coasts and the hills, but through the day we should see a little bit of brightness break through, but it will feel muggy. temperatures 15 to about 23 degrees. beyond that, the unsettled theme does continue. as we head through friday into saturday, we have some showers, some of those heavy,

potentially thundery, especially so across the north of the country. then we have a windy weekend, with some rain coming our way.

thousands of holidays cancelled or disrupted as the heatwaves continue across europes. we'll look at your rights if you are affected. spotify raises it prices for the first time in a decade, but will the move be out of tune with its subscribers? welcome to world business report. i'm ben thompson. we start in greece, where wildfires have swept across the island of rhodes. airlines and holiday companies are scrambling to bring back those affected, while some flights to the island have been cancelled. up to 10,000 british tourists are there, with many more booked to travel in the coming weeks. with more record temperatures forecast, there are renewed travel alerts and extreme weather warnings, but the uk government has, so far, not issued guidance against all travel to the region,

meaning insurance companies are unlikely to cover the costs