hack involving the details of potentially thousands of officers. zimbabwe's election results have been declared, yet both candidates are claiming victory. a state of emergency is declared in 33 parts of florida as a tropical storm may transform into a hurricane. hello, i'm tanya beckett. authorities in russia have confirmed that the head of the wagner paramilitary group, yevgenny prigozhin, was killed in a plane that crashed north—west of moscow on wednesday. they say that the identities of the bodies recovered correspond with the flight�*s passenger list, which named mr prigozhin. the mercenary leader had led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. in a statement released

on the telegram channel, the spokeswoman of russia's investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. translation: as part - of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed. according to their results, the identities of all ten dead were established. they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. well, the exact circumstances behind the plane crash remain unclear. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the latest from moscow. we still don't know the cause of the crash. there's been so much speculation in recent days. was this a missile attack, a bomb on board? was this some kind of other sabotage? we don't know. the kremlin has said, "this has nothing to do with us, "we weren't behind this." that denial, though, has not removed the widespread suspicion that mr prigozhin, the wagner chief, was targeted by russian authorities as an act

of revenge for the mutiny which he organised back injune, and which was an unprecedented challenge to the kremlin. interesting, this statement that came out from russian investigators today, a very brief statement, just three sentences. mr prigozhin was not mentioned by name, but the implication of what was written was pretty clear, that, as far as the russian authorities are concerned, mr prigozhin is dead. meanwhile, one of ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots, and two other airmen, have been killed in a mid—air crash. captain andrii pilshchikov won fame taking part in close—range aerial battles over kyiv during the early phase of russia's invasion, flying under the call—sign "juice." the three pilots were killed when two l—39 combat training aircraft collided over a region west of kyiv. paul adams reports. ukraine has lost one of its most famous pilots and one

of its most visible. when russia invaded, few gave ukraine's air force much chance of getting off the ground. but from dogfights over kyiv to the interception of russian cruise missiles, andrii pilshchykov was part of an elite force, fighting against extraordinary odds. the cause of thursday's crash is still not known. two training jets colliding over a village, narrowly avoiding crashing into houses. ukrainian park via their pilots. a year and a half after the full scale invasion, their status as national heroes is well—established. —— ukrainians revere their pilots. president zelensky said the death of andrii pilshchykov and two of his colleagues was a disaster. andrii pilshchykov was due to start training on american—made f—16 jets in a few weeks, something he had lobbied hard for since last year.

he could be a hero. he could be a motivated veteran. but without the right equipment, he couldn't do anything in modern war. especially in aerial war. ukraine wishes it had the jets now, but on the ground, in the south, there are signs that its counter offensive, slow going sincejune, could be about to gather pace. some units do appear to have broken through russia's formidable first line of defences. translation: i don't want my guys to think they can relax now. - they know we are moving on to liberate all of our territories. he says he's looking forward to leading his men all the way to the sea, but that's a long way away and this fighting is really hard. success is still far from guaranteed. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv. earlier i spoke with adam makos, an author of books on aviation and military historian,

who knew andrii. i asked him more about some of those operations that gave captain pilshchikov his reputation. in the early days of the invasion he was one of those few veteran combat pilots that they had. he was tireless, i say that because injuice's case he would fly combat missions and then come down, and i knew him from thousands of miles away. i said, "how can i help you?" he said, "help us reach the western media." that was myjob, connecting him with journalists and helping get the story out. we would be talking, exchanging voice notes and he would say, "hang on, got to fly a scramble mission." there were always under the concern that russian missiles would come in at any moment. juice, when he wasn't fighting, he was trying to raise money and raise awareness of the ukrainian air force. and he lobbied hard for these f—16s in the media. he did, he was the face of the ukrainian air force, hejust had

the energy of a young person, he was a child at heart. he believed anything is possible. he was saying, "if you give us the f—16jets, give "us western jets, we can fly them." there were a lot of people saying no, that will take years, and he said, "you don't know our pilots. "put us in the cockpit, we will master this in weeks." what did he think it would do in terms of the conflict? what did he think it would achieve? it was all about the range at which they could operate. the ukrainianjets had to basically stay far from the front lines because the russian jets, russian surface—to—air missiles had a longer range, so it is like entering a gunfight with a pistol and the other guy has a rifle. you didn't stand a fair chance. they were using electronics in these aircraft that were 30 years old. the russians had topline stuff.

even the aircraft thatjuice was flying the day he died, it was a 1960s aircraft. -- 19705. they had been flying these things again and again, sooner or later it is going to break down, or when you go up against those odds every day, sooner or later you will not come home. the f—16s are more versatile, with more capability to attack? they say it is the greatest fighter on earth. it is versatile, you can attach various weapons systems to it to extend the range. this is the kind of weapon that during the gulf war and iraq war, we americans would watch at home as these things took apart iraqi bunkers and tanks. the airto ground capability of the f—16 are incredible, they could be so useful right now to suppress russian radar, keep russian fighters at bay, and to be able to be hitting these well—placed russian troops. we need a breakthrough

in ukraine, this is the tool to get it. london's metropolitan police say they're angry and concerned after a suspected data breach at one of the force's it suppliers. names, ranks, photos and vetting levels of potentially thousands of officers and staff may have been hacked. a spokesperson for the met says the breach has been reported to the national crime agency. here'sjoe ianood. from protecting parliament to policing protests, met officers do some of the most difficult and sensitive jobs in any force. and so the news that some of their data could have been compromised has been met with fury by the police federation, their vice chair saying... and, according to a senior former officer, some will be more vulnerable than others.

if you are, for example, an ethnic minority officer with an unusual name, working in counter—terrorism, or working undercover, or perhaps working against organised gangs, you potentially could be more easily identified. now, exactly how this happened is still being established, but the met say there was a data breach at a third—party supplier that had access to information like names, photos and security clearance, but not police contact information. the force says extra security measures have now been put in place. it comes just weeks after a series of data leaks at other forces, including one at the police service of northern ireland, which saw the details of all staff accidentally published. those were human error. this seems to be a targeted attack on a third—party it company thought to be contracted by the met to make warrant cards. it's similar to the situation

british airways, boots, and the bbc found themselves in when their payroll provider was hacked. in the event of the hack, clearly there's been weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the system, whoever is managing and maintaining it, if we are indeed going off the outsourcing. so it's all good and well protecting the front end, but it's got to be the back end as well, the ones who are behind the scenes, if you like, in this instance an it company. the met police say the incident has been reported to the national crime agency and the information commissioner. there are many unanswered questions about this latest attack. who was behind it? how many officers are affected? and what might the loss of this highly sensitive data mean for their security? joe inwood, bbc news. jake moore is a global cybersecurity advisor at the software firm eset, and he gave his reaction to the suspected data breach. well, i think this is yet another worrying and damaging blunder by the organisation that's designed to protect us.

and i think, like we've been discussing, it's a supply—chain attack, and criminals have simply located that weakest link in that chain, which they're very good and getting better at doing. but police suppliers, they win their contracts and often choose the cheapest, which can potentially come with security risks and failures if that's not in the programme to start off with. right, but would it not be the responsibility of the metropolitan police to check the security standards of any third parties? it would be, but sometimes it's a race to the finish on these tenders that go out to, say, ten suppliers at once, it will come down to just a few, but often it's the cheapest that mightjust get through, and sometimes they have time restraints on how quickly they can do it. and unfortunately, it's those issues that allow these mistakes to occur. the next question of course is, what's the motivation of a hacker in using this data?

well, it's unclear whether the hackers have demanded a ransom, or whether this was purely a criminal group testing the force's security. like we've seen, a few police forces have come under a few problems recently. that doesn't mean to say it's one criminal group that's conducting this, it could just be others just testing that security. but i think what we've really got to take from that is, rather than what's happened, going forward, we need to be setting some sort of review and looking at how we can test and check how this data is stored and handled in the future. but because of the implications of the release of names of police officers, it's extremely serious. yes, it's really dangerous. police officers, most of them, apart from neighbourhood police officers, want to remain anonymous, and so they should be. so you'd hope their data was protected. but unfortunately, police data is held in multiple locations,

particularly in mergers — when you merge 2—3 police forces together, they can sometimes lose track of where that data is. and it's those types of weaknesses that criminals are very good at locating. and once they can exploit that, that's why a data leak like this occurs. a state of emergency has been declared in 33 florida counties as weather forecasters warn of a number of extreme weather events happening around the world. in the last hour, florida governor ron desantis warned that tropical storm idalia could cause a life—threatening storm surge and flooding from heavy rains as early as tuesday. our emergency operations centre will go to a level one, 24—hour around—the—clock, starting at 0700 tomorrow. please listen to your local officials. if you look at this big bend region, the models are probably more in agreement

than when we had ian last year, but these things can shift. there is still some uncertainty out there, so please just heed the warnings of your local officials, continue to watch the news. if you are in the path of this storm, you should expect power outages, so please prepare for that. there are three potentially headline—making weather events expected in the coming days. i asked our weather presenter chris fawkes to explain what we can expect, and where. we have been looking at this band of thunderstorms, at the moment between cuba and the yucatan peninsula of mexico. this has been upgraded and named as a tropical storm. what will happen is tropical storm idalia will continue to push northwards. there could be some flooding around cuba and the yucatan peninsula of mexico over the next day or so,

but as the system works over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, it strengthens into a hurricane, making landfall across florida on wednesday. the main bit of uncertainty is how quick the wind gets because the waters in the seas before it makes landfall are particularly hot, you could see rapid intensification. in europe, this area of cloud has been bringing severe thunderstorms to the balearic islands. over the next 2a hours, looking at torrential rain working across northern italy, 200 millimetres, a risk of flash flooding. some strong winds, 120 kilometres per hour gusts into the mediterranean, and could even see some waterspouts and tornadoes, so severe weather. in asia, looking at typhoon saola, near this island of the philippines, bringing flooding rain. could make landfall in south—east china in the coming days, but to the north of this we have another zone of severe weather heading into the north—east of china and north korea.

we could be looking at 200 millimetres of rain, again talking about the risk of some flash flooding. lots of severe weather in different parts of the world at the moment. it is concerning. but some of it is very typical for this time of year. yes, if you look at the atlantic hurricane season, the other peak season we're heading towards, there is no surprise that we see activity at this time of year. that activity is fed by the warm sea temperatures. at the moment, temperatures in the gulf of mexico, where tropical storm idalia is going, are well above average, warmer than normal, heat in the ocean powering these weather systems. that is one of the things we're watching for. it could rapidly intensifyjust before it makes landfall. two people have died after becoming trapped in their car in a flooded road in liverpool. the police say officers were called to queens drive in mossley hilljust after 9pm yesterday.

it followed reports of concern over the safety of a man and a woman who were trapped in a car that was submerged in water under a bridge. let's get the latest on this with our news correspondent ellie price. what more can you tell us? please start looking into a serious road traffic accident. they say they were called last night at around 9:20pm when they receive what they described as a report of concern for safety for a man and woman in a black mercedes that drove into a flooded area on the queens drive between north mostly hill road and the dovetail road in the city. we are told despite best efforts of passing people, police and merseyside fire and rescue, unfortunately the couple died. we understand this is a stretch of road that has been a problem in the past. last month a woman was rescued after

driving her car into floodwaters. the next—of—kin of the man and woman have been notified, formal identification process has taken place, but the names haven't been made public. police say they are in the early stages of an ongoing investigation to work out exactly what happened. they are asking for any witnesses in the area to come forward or any people who live nearby you may have cctv or door bell camera footage in case they saw anything to stop the road remains closed. britain's former culture secretary, nadine dorries, has resigned, with a blistering attack on the prime minister. she told rishi sunak, "history will notjudge you kindly". this is a big deal in the uk because it puts mr sunak under pressure, as her comments have been seized on by the opposition parties, labour and the liberal democrats, who both say they are confident of winning ms dorries�* mid bedfordshire seat in a by—election. 0ur political correspondent helen catt reports.

more than two months after she said she would resign with immediate effect, nadine dorries has now started the process of formally quitting as an mp, but she's not going quietly. she's accused rishi sunak of abandoning borisjohnson�*s election winning manifesto, and of helping to whip up a public frenzy against her. in a letter, she told him, "you have no mandate from the people "and the government is adrift." she's entitled to that view but i think people are kind of tired of raking over the coals of borisjohnson�*s government. we need to get on and govern this country properly and make people feel that progress before the next election. at the bowls club in flitwick in mid bedfordshire, players had their own views on their mp's departure. it was expected. it's been...it�*s been in the cards. people have discussed that quite often now, that they weren't very impressed by her or pleased. i respect her loyalty to boris because i think it was a hatchet job

on him, and a certain man who's in government now was one of the culprits behind it. and ijust feel that they should forget about that and just get on with what's best for the country. about time. we haven't had any involvement and no—one's come knocking - on my door from any of the parties. we've had lots of leaflets, but no information at all, i and she should have gone before. campaigning began weeks ago. nadine dorries last won here by nearly 25,000 votes, but opposition parties sense an opportunity. injuly, labour overturned a similarly large tory majority to win selby and ainsty. its party chair was out in flitwick today, aiming for a repeat. from my conversations that i've had with people, they can see that labour with keir starmer offering something very, very different. we're absolutely determined to change our country for the better. the lib dems argue they're best placed after explosive wins in places like summerton and frome. this is a seat, a rural blue wall

seat, the sorts of seats that liberal democrats have been winning. and if you look at recent byelections in this type of seat, we've won from third place. while the tories will hope that, as in borisjohnson�*s old seat of uxbridge and south ruislip, they can hold on. the exit of mid bedfordshire's mp has been dramatic and noisy. choosing her replacement might be no more peaceful. helen catt, bbc news. in zimbabwe, the country's opposition leader nelson chamisa has claimed victory after challenging the results of the election. on saturday, zimbabwe's president emmerson mnangagwa said he had won enough votes to secure a second term. mr chamisa's party, citizens coalition for change, claims there's been widespread vote—rigging, and international observers say the election has fallen short of democratic standards. we have won this election, we are in the lead. we're even surprised why mr mnangagwa has been declared the leader, because he's not.

after the results were announced, president mnangagwa held a press conference where he was asked about concerns over the integrity of the vote. the elections have come and gone. i am humbled by the trust and confidence that you, my fellow countrymen and women, have imposed on me once again to stand as president of our great country zimbabwe. i am so happy that the vote was won fairly in broad daylight. police have been giving more information after three people were killed in the us state of florida in what authorities are calling a racially—motivated mass shooting. the attack took place in the city of jacksonville at a dollar general store.

the city's sheriff says the suspected attacker was a white male in his 20s, who turned the gun on himself. he killed two women and one man, who were all black, with no other injuries reported. the gunman also authored several manifestos for media, detailing his hatred of black people. the shooter was 21 years of age when he committed yesterday's atrocities. he lived with his parents in orange park, in clay county, florida. to our knowledge, he had no criminal arrest history. and as i did say yesterday, he did have a baker act petition from 2017. this petition occurred in clay county, and it appears that the shooter was held for 72 hours under the baker act provisions, then released without further involuntary commitment. a p&0 cruise ship has broken free from moorings during a storm in the spanish island of mallorca, and collided with a freight vessel. passengers described "being pushed ashore by tugs" after the incident, in which a walkway fell away. p&0 said a small number of people sustained minor injuries.

aston villa's team bus has been hit by a brick after the club's win against burnley in the premier league on sunday. the brick was thrown at the windscreen of the bus from a footbridge on the m65 motorway as the side were travelling back to the midlands following their 3—1 victory. burnley says it's saddened and dismayed by the incident. lancashire police has confirmed nobody was hurt but says it's good fortune no—one was seriously injured or killed. the force says it's determined to find those responsible. the notting hill carnival is taking place in london for its 55th year. sunday is the children's day parade, a bit more relaxed than monday's main event. the carnival is europe's biggest street party, and two million people are exepcted to join in to celebrate caribbean culture in the uk. for the first time ever, bbc news will be live—streaming notting hill carnival. viewers in the uk can watch live

coverage of the carnival parade on bbc iplayer, from 1pm on bank holiday monday. now, a rather magical record—breaking event which took place in hamburg in germany, where more than one thousand seven hundred harry potter fans gathered — in costume — to celebrate the fictional wizard. there were plenty of wands on display — plus of course the scar on the forehead — at the event which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the publication of the first harry potter book in germany. in case you are wondering, the previous record for a gathering of harry potter lookalikes stood at 997. hello there. i have seen quite a lot of these, funnel cars, the latest spotted

between boroughbridge and harrogate around the north yorkshire area, but seen if you, this one when the wind bashed together, opposing winds helping to create some of this spin that created that funnel cloud in the first place. right now they showers have long since cleared out, just a few patches of rain working from west to ease, many of us will have a dry start to the day on monday, tim says holding up in double figures. 0verall monday, tim says holding up in double figures. overall the bank holiday monday will be for many a better, drier day. we have this week range of high pressure building in. would be totally dry, isolated showers but nowhere near as many as the weekend. the greatest risk of seeing showers will be across the north—west, the emphasis on drier weather with spells of sunshine, tensions high teas to low 20s, feeling warm in the august sunshine. tuesday, another area of low pressure starts to move in from the

north and so we will get outbreaks of rain moving into scotland. a few patches of rain, showers really unless weather front, as patches of rain, showers really unless weatherfront, as it patches of rain, showers really unless weather front, as it works outwards across england and wales. many of you will still have spells of childhood tent sunshine. tempted similar, 18—20, warm in the sun, feeling cooler across the north of scotland. tuesday into wednesday, the century of works into the north sea whilst weakening, and we're looking at a day of sunny spells and showers. this time big thunderstorms affecting northern and eastern scotland and down this eastern side of england. some conversion winds, you might see another funnel cloud if you're lucky. western areas staying dry with sunshine, south—west england bright for northern ireland as well. it won't last, thursday and friday, another area of low pressure, rain affecting

areas further southwards. particularly for wales, south—west england and northern ireland, a speu england and northern ireland, a spell of rain clearing and we're back together showery conditions as we head off into september. goodbye.

this is bbc news. the headlines... russian officials have confirmed the death of the wagner group mercenary boss, yevgeny prigozhin, in a plane crash near moscow earlier this week.

two people have died in liverpool, after driving a car into a flooded area under a bridge. the incident happened on saturday evening — police are investigating what they say was a tragic incident. police in lancashire have launched an investigation, after a brick was thrown from a bridge over a motorway, damaging a bus carrying the aston villa football team. it happened after the premier league match against burnley — no—one was injured. the spanish island of mallorca has experienced a severe storm — causing some flooding and damage to buildings. a cruise ship was pulled from its moorings, colliding with a freight vessel. the operator, p&0 says some people suffered minor injuries. now on bbc news — this cultural life: tim minchin.

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