changing a country's not like flicking a switch, but have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately. what a defiantjoe biden says he's "completely ruling out" dropping out of the presidential election and, israel—gaza ceasefire talks ramp up — as the humanitarian crisis on the ground, deepens. hello, i'm caitriona perry we begin in the uk where the labour party's resounding election victory has ended 1a years of conservative government. new prime minister sir keir starmer is promising to rebuild britain "brick by brick" and provide security for millions of working—class families.after a ceremonial

after a ceremonial meeting with king charles, sir keir began the process of forming a government — appointing his new cabinet ministers. laid out his ambitions. my government will fight every day until you believe again. from now on, you have a government unburdened by doctoring guided only by the determination to your interests. to defy, quietly, those who have written our country off. you have given us a clear mandate and we will use it to deliver change. to restore service and respect to politics. end the era of noisy performance, tread more lightly on your lives and unite our country. let's break down the results. the labour party secured 412 parliamentary seats in thursday's general election a gain of 211 seats on 2019 — dealing a catastrophic blow to the conservative party —

which won only 121. that's a loss of 251 seats. the liberal democrats and reform uk also made significant gains in parliament. former prime minister rishi sunak left downing street earlier — closing the door on 1a years of conservative rule. reaction to the change in leadership is pouring in from around the world. us presidentjoe biden called sir keir to congratulate him on becoming prime minister — this is a photo from that call. the two will meet in washington next week for the nato summit. and the top us diplomat, antony blinken, called to congratulate the uk's new foreign secretary, david lammy. they discussed shared commitments to reaching a ceasefire in gaza and supporting ukraine against russia. ukraine's president zelensky congratulated sir keir, and said "ukraine and the united kingdom have been, and will continue to be, reliable allies through thick and thin. he also thanked rishi sunak for his support

whilst prime minister. the kremlin meanwhile, said it's not optimistic that ties with britain would improve under the new leadership. here's what the russian foreign minister told our correspondent steve rosenberg. unlike the british government, we do not meddle with others domestic matters. do you think anything would change in uk? oh, it's you. it's me. yes. do you think anything will change in uk russian relations? diplomacy is not an art of guessing. what is it? you know the saying about the pudding? you understand that this is a pudding when you eat it. for more i've been speaking to gary o'donoghue from broadcasting house in london. well, within hours of sir keir starmer entering downing street as the new british prime

minister, heading up his centre left government here in london, that all important call took place between the white house and the new administration here in britain, uh, reaffirming the importance of the special relationship, promising to deepen it, and talking about the importance of ukraine and britain continuing to back ukraine and its war against russia, particularly with money and weapons, which has been happening for the last two and a half years. there are some key connections, if you like, between the new labour government here and washington already. the chancellor, the finance minister here, rachel reeves, the first woman to hold that post in a uk government, she has been over to washington on a number of occasions, has built links with janet yellen, the treasury secretary, and has taken some of labour's policy, economic policy and the inspiration from bidenomics. talking about building out from the middle, and rather than sort

of rejecting the idea of trickle down economics from the top. also the new foreign secretary, the new foreign minister here in the uk, david lammy, he's the descendant of enslaved people he spent a lot of time in the united states, describes himself as an atlanticist. he's been very rude about donald trump in the past. he's had to walk back some of that. he referred to him as an anti—woman, nazi sympathising sociopath. but his team have also realised that in four months�* time, there may be a different administration in washington, and that they have to be prepared for that. because if there is one thing that is true about british governments, really for the last century or so, is that their national interest, whatever their political persuasion, but they know their national interest, the british national interest lies in a close working relationship with washington, the so—called special relationship, and that cannot really depend on who is in the white house. so with an extraordinary position here, where we've got a british general election in the same year as a presidential election. hasn't happened for

for more than half a century, more than a quarter of a century, rather they're going to have to prepare, if you like, for two very different eventualities. joe biden says he's "completely ruling out" dropping out of the us presidential election, despite mounting pressure from some within his own party. president biden�*s faltering performance against donald trump in last week's cnn presidential debate has seen a number of seniorfigures in the democratic party calling for him to make way for a younger candidate. in an exclusive interview with abc news anchor george stephanopoulos, mr biden said he was thrown off by mr trump, but denied there was a wider issue there was a wider issue there was a wider issue effect there was a wider issue effect of there was a wider issue effect of the there was a wider issue effect of the matter there was a wider issue effect of the matter is that the effect of the matter is that when i looked at, he also lied 20 times. the way that they ran, not my fault, no one else�*s fault. it they ran, not my fault, no one else's fault-— else's fault. it seems like you are having trouble _ else's fault. it seems like you are having trouble from - else's fault. it seems like you are having trouble from the i are having trouble from the first question in, even before he spoke. mr biden�*s problems

mounted friday, with the washington post reporting that senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner is trying to bring together fellow democratic senators to pressure mr biden to step aside. mr warner's spokesperson didn't deny those reports, which have since been confirmed by our us news partners, cbs. "like many other people in washington and across but mr biden is striking a defiant tone — telling reporters he is �*completely ruling out�* standing aside. he posted earlier on x, :i�*m not letting one 90—minute debate wipe out three and a half years of work. "i'm staying in the race, and i will beat donald trump. it's a message he repeated to supporters at at a rally in the key battleground state of wisconsin with me is bob costa, chief election & campaign correspondent at our us partners cbs news thank you forjoining us once again. we will get to the interview in a moment, but looking at that rally in wisconsin, joe biden said a line, they are trying to push me out of this race, who did he

mean by that? he me out of this race, who did he mean by that?— mean by that? he meant some members _ mean by that? he meant some members of — mean by that? he meant some members of congress, - mean by that? he meant some members of congress, some . members of congress, some democratic donors, there is a private push against some of my top democratic sources to have the president consider his options, but based on my conversations with people close to president biden, he has zero interest in getting out, he believes the media at the national level has never understated, as almost underestimated his political ability and capital inside the democratic party, and he senses allies behind—the—scenes, if you're going to push me out, it would have to be very hard, and i'm going to go to war with anyone who asserts he is not able to beat trump. he is convinced he and he alone can beat trump, the former president on the republican side, who he believes is a threat to american democracy. how high are the stakes forjoe biden and the democratic party to have these unsavoury internal wrangle going on? it is not much of a wrangle, it is

tension, but no one is actively publicly pushing him to get out at this point. we are just days away from the republican national convention and weeks away from the democratic national convention in august in chicago. there's a lot of wrangling about what happened at the debate, but you're not seen vice president harris break at all withjoe biden, or press —— jute chuck schumer, the leader of the senate democrats or the leader of the house democrats, they are trying to contain the frustration among those who thinks their seats might be underlined. jae thinks their seats might be underlined.— thinks their seats might be underlined. , ., �* ., , ., underlined. joe biden has done this interview _ underlined. joe biden has done this interview with _ underlined. joe biden has done this interview with abc - underlined. joe biden has done this interview with abc news, i this interview with abc news, the broadcast a few minutes, the broadcast a few minutes, the rest will broadcast later, what does the president need to do in that interview was mark talking to his advisers? talking to his advisers, they wants him to take command, and shrug off event, you heard it there in the clip provided by abc news. he is seen behind scenes and for and 90 minutes

on a debate stage, it was miserable for him, but he blames it on a cold, and he wants democrats to move on. i spoke to a top demographicjust —— democratjust before coming on with you this evening, and it's evident to me that even some top democrats would like biden and are ok if he remains the nominee, he leaves he needs to assert himself again again and cannotjust shrug off these concerns, because they are hearing it now from voters. this top democrat told me that during the 11th ofjuly holiday, many voters and constituents came up to this person and asked what was going on, and if resident biden was ok. that is something that's a been prevalent across the democratic party this week. at the same time, the white house believes this is the person was been in public office since 1972, he has been up and down and endured a munition in the past, and he will he do so again in their view.— their view. with this hurt democrats _ their view. with this hurt democrats in _ their view. with this hurt democrats in nonviolent| their view. with this hurt - democrats in nonviolent races?

if you talk about resident biden position and how people see him, sure, it's a question important, and there's a chance that if the president showed ticket is going to go down, it will drag them down with them. if residents are sainted or local members, what is going on, should you be dealing with this, how do we deal with this, does it mean other members look weaker or is there a contagion effects? i5 weaker or is there a contagion effects? , , ., effects? is the belief that television _ effects? is the belief that television advertising, . effects? is the belief that i television advertising, social media advertising will need to pummel former president from, and if he is not made the centre of i can —— attention again and again in this campaign, tying him to charlottesville in 2016, a generous six in 2021, all of these episodes about his conduct and dealings with women's, different allegations and trials, and if that is not friends of mine for voters, democrats do have a fear that trump could sweep back into

power. they believe it is a crisis moment to a point, but because biden as president is so out of it that she's not going —— adamant that she's not going —— adamant that she's not going anywhere, my thought is it's a fluid and fragile situation, there is a beginning now to accept that biden will not go anywhere and the president wants to stay, and no one wants to have a political effort to oust him from the nomination, so at this point, if he is going to stay, they will need to bolster him and sharpen the message against trump, but that raises lots of concerns among democrats about is that all an effective way of making sure that when the chambers and when the white house. �* ., ., ., . ~ house. another dramatic week in the us politics. _ house. another dramatic week in the us politics, thank _ house. another dramatic week in the us politics, thank you - the us politics, thank you bob custer for the us politics, thank you bob custerforjoining us and bbc news. hungary's prime minister victor 0rban met with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. the visit was heavily criticised by other european leaders. mr 0rban is the eu's only head

of government to maintain warm ties with russia since its full—scale invasion of ukraine in 2022. friday's meeting was part of what mr. 0rban has called a "peace mission," coming just three days after a visit to kyiv where he met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. hungary recently took over the presidency of the council of the european union, but eu leaders stress that mr 0rban is not acting on behalf of the bloc. 0ur bbc russia editor steve rosenberg has more on the visit from moscow. well, this was quite extraordinary. just a few days after his country had assumed the rotating presidency of the eu, hungary's prime minister, viktor 0rban, flew to moscow without his eu hat on for surprise talks with president putin about the war in ukraine, sparking consternation in the european union. so the president of the european commission basically called this appeasement, and the eu's foreign policy chief said that mr 0rban had no mandate

from the european council to come to moscow. well, viktor 0rban didn't seem to care. he said that this was the second part of a peace mission. he'd been in kyiv earlier in the week for talks with president zelenskyy. translation: we need - to take many steps to move towards ending the war. but the first important step we've taken today restoring dialogue. translation: we are grateful to the prime minister- for coming to moscow. we see this as an attempt to restore dialogue for coming to moscow. we see this as an attempt to restore dialogue and move it on. once the putin 0rban talks were over, we managed to get some reaction from the hungarian foreign minister. very strong words from brussels. appeasement you're accused of. ok, so once again, we are a sovereign country and without dialogue, without discussion, without channels of communication to be kept open, there will be no solution. last two and a half years have

made this very clear. i think that moscow often looks for opportunities to drive wedges between its opponents, to sow division in the west. disunity. and the russians will be well aware of the optics here. the leader of a european country flying to moscow, holding talks with president putin at a time when much of the west has been trying to isolate russia because of the war in ukraine. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. earlier, i spoke to angela stent, director of the centre for eurasian, russian and east european studies at georgetown university. from your perspective, what you think richter or ben is doing in russia? he think richter or ben is doing in russia?— think richter or ben is doing in russia? ., ., , ., in russia? he wanted to show that hungary _ in russia? he wanted to show that hungary has _ in russia? he wanted to show that hungary has taken - in russia? he wanted to show that hungary has taken over l in russia? he wanted to show. that hungary has taken over the presidency of the european council force for six months. he has his own ideas, he has always been disruptive in the european union and nato, so he wanted to show and make his mark, and i don't think he really believes that he is going to be able to make peace between ukraine and russia.

after his talks with putin, he said ukraine and russia were very far apart said ukraine and russia were very farapart in said ukraine and russia were very far apart in the way they see things and in the possibility of an in war. he didn't need to go to moscow or kyiv to understand that, but it is showing that he is a force to be reckoned with. european leaders have _ to be reckoned with. european leaders have been _ to be reckoned with. european leaders have been at - to be reckoned with. european leaders have been at pains - to be reckoned with. european leaders have been at pains to l leaders have been at pains to point out that although hungary is holding the presidency of the eu at the moment, viktor 0rban is not speaking for them in these meetings in moscow, but how problematic is it for the eu to have him here doing this? it the eu to have him here doing this? , , .,, ., . the eu to have him here doing this? ., . , , this? it is problematic because it is disruptive, _ this? it is problematic because it is disruptive, and _ this? it is problematic because it is disruptive, and there - this? it is problematic because it is disruptive, and there are l it is disruptive, and there are some other eu members like slovakia, i would say to some extent even austria, who want a more forward—looking policy toward vladimir putin, who maybe are not as excited as voted in as much money as the eu has voted to support ukraine, so it makes things

more difficult. it causes more dissension within the eu. poland has also sharply criticised what 0rban has just done, unlike the previous government that had a rather good relationship with hungary. it is not with the change eu policy, but itjust is much more disruptive for them. what would president _ more disruptive for them. what would president putin - more disruptive for them. what would president putin take - more disruptive for them. what would president putin take from the whole thing? he would president putin take from the whole thing?— the whole thing? he was sick from it that _ the whole thing? he was sick from it that she's _ the whole thing? he was sick from it that she's doing - the whole thing? he was sick from it that she's doing quite well from dividing the alliance from these issues. here you have a eu and nato ally willing to meet with him, who as we know has been indicted as a war criminal, and to talk about peace with ukraine and have a press conference where putin accused ukraine of not being interested in peace, laid out briefly his own peace plan, which of course involves ukraine accepting all the loss of territory, which the russians have demanded they do, so he can come away from this

satisfied that he doesn't have any united west against him. viktor 0rban has said he is on a peace mission, though he has said ukraine and russia are far apart, but do you think he thinks he can make peace there? i doubt he does, i'm sure he understands he cannot make these therapy because of the white —— because of the wide gulf between the countries, but he wants to show he is a legitimate eu leader to stop he wants to get some brownie points for it, you might say, some countries the stuff i doubt he believes he can really make peace between russia and ukraine, just as i doubt all the other countries like china, who presented their own peace plans, understand they cannot either. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. the uk's most prolific child—killer — lucy letby — has been sentenced to another whole life term for trying to murder a premature baby girl. the 34—year—old former nurse is already in jail after being convicted last year

for the murder of seven babies — and the attempted murder of six more — at the countess of chester hospital betweenjune 2015 and june 2016. thursday's general election has seen sinn fein become not only northern ireland's largest party at westminster, with seven seats, but also the fifth biggest party in the uk. its leader, mary lou mcdonald, says it's time to "prepare for a new future together on this island". it was a disappointing night for the democratic unionist party — which is down to five seats. wimbledon is using artificial intelligence for the first time to protect players from online death threats and abuse. abusive messages online that are directed at players will be flagged by the tournament's ai tool , and can be used by police to catch online trolls. high—profile players are often targeted via social media , naomi 0saka was subjected to 32,000 abusive media. you're live with bbc news. efforts to secure a ceasefire deal and a hostage release

in gaza are gaining momentum, after weeks of stalled negotiations. the head of israel's spy agency mossad returned from qatar's capital doha on friday after an initial meeting with mediators. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office says indirect negotiations with hamas will resume next week. 0ur middle east correspondent sebastian usher has the latest from jerusalem. we've heard little from what came out of those talks but we have heard from israeli payments or benjamin netanyahu that officers would be sent again, but we also heard from the prime ministers office that gaps remain, before the air israeli officials left the said there should be low expectations. those expectations. those expectations rose when the response from has mass have been given to israel to look

at. now, a significant breakthrough would essentially be an agreement by hamas to drop its key demand that there must be a permanent cease fire at the start of any process, which is not in the biden deal that was set out, which would allow the process to begin and then moves towards a permanent cease fire would happen after that. if that is the case, then that would be a major shift and it would put the ball very much in israel's court. the palestinian health ministry says israeli forces killed seven people on friday after it raided a refugee camp in the occupied west bank. the israeli military says the raid was carried out to find militants involved in an attack last week in which an israeli captain was killed. hamas says five of its members were among the dead. the military said there was a gun battle in thejenin refugee camp , after surrounding a building it said militants had barricaded themselves in, while an air strike �*struck several armed terrorists�* in the area. in gaza — civilians are facing terrible conditions,

after nearly nine months of war. the united nations reports that about 1.9 million — or nine out of every ten people — have been internally displaced in gaza at least once since october. the staggering numbers come after the most recent israeli evacuation order. on monday, the military ordered an estimated 250,000 palestinians to evacuate from the southern gaza city of khan younis. i spoke about the humanitarian crisis with sam rose, director of planning at unrwa — the un agency that supports palestiniain refugees. we have very little, there is little we have been able to bring through the crossings since the beginning of may, so the displacements that happened from khan younis, we were able to attribute some flour, we have some of those supplies in stock, but otherwise very very difficult. we have hundreds and

hundreds of containers stuck in egypt, and trapped at the border in kerem shalom, and as long as the access constraints persist at that border, it would be very difficult for us to get food in. there are some commercial supplies on the market. there are some rush food and vegetable, but very difficult for regular people to afford that. prices of his and considerably since the start of the conflict, and people are not working so they have no means to secure them, so while some commercial applies are coming, which is a good thing, they don�*t help us meet the needs of the vulnerable. it�*s a similar situation in the north. we have been able to get food in the northern gaza, some supplies are no coming, so with the displacement from eastern gaza cityjust a few days ago, we were able to provide food. we were able to provide some water. this is unrwa in

cooperation with other humanitarian partners, but supplies are running extremely low. it�*s a battle and struggle every day to being things in, bring supplies in, but also to bring supplies in, but also to bring fuel in and get supplies around and navigate safe pressures across checkpoints, and through what is increasingly squeezed space in gaza. new evacuation orders issued in khan younis a few days ago cover a quarter of the entire land area of the gaza strip, so this is space we were operating is becoming increasingly squeezed into the central area of the gaza strip. let�*s turn to some other important news around the world... vote counting is under way in the iran�*s run—off presidential election. the vote comes after no candidate in last week�*s general election was able to secure 50% of the vote. the race is now down to ultraconservative saeed jalili and the reformist dr masoud pezeshkian. a final result is expected on saturday. thousands of people have retunred to their homes

in northern california in the us after wildfires swept through the area burning more than 800 acres of land and destroying 7a structures. 0fficials warn that residents should brace themselves for the fire season as excessive heat and dry weather feeds the wildfires storm beryl is passing over mexico after bringing strong winds to southern jamaica. it has weakened to a tropical storm, with sustained winds of 70 miles or 112 kilometres per hour. officials say that being over land will continue to weaken beryl. however it�*s expected to regain strength once it clears mexico, and again become a hurricane as it heads towards southern texas. stay with us here on bbc news hello there! friday was another pretty unsubtle day, but at least many areas saw at least some sunshine for a time, and through the afternoon didn�*t look too bad here in flamborough

in east yorkshire. some hazy sunshine, a bit of high cloud, and the seas looking quite calm. won�*t look like that, mind you, for saturday because further southwards we ended friday with a band of rain moving in, and this area of rain is actually going to develop into a whole new area of low pressure. so that�*s notjust going to be bringing some wet weather our way, but also it�*ll be quite windy at times as we go through saturday, particularly for england and wales, where we�*ve got the tightly packed isobars with us. so next few hours are quite a heavy rain across england and wales, there�*ll be some heavy showers for northern ireland, and another zone of quite persistent rain setting up across northern areas of scotland. 0ur temperatures to start off saturday morning, generally around about double figures about 10—13 for most. but as we start off saturday, there will be these areas of heavy rain associated with this developing low pressure system. gusty winds running into the 30s of miles an hour, knocking the edge off the temperatures. and even as the rain clears through, showers will follow. sunshine and showers for northern ireland, some persistent rain

for northeast scotland —that could cause 1 or two issues here. and look at that, just 12 degrees in aberdeen, certainly a lot colder than it was on friday. now, the second half of the weekend on the whole looks like being the better of the two days of the weekend, but it�*s all relative, really. we start the day on a dry and sunny note, but showers become pretty widespread through the afternoon, some of those turning heavy and thundery as well. temperatures for many areas, still generally mid to high teens. could be a few areas that sneak a 20, but i suppose where thejuly sunshine comes out it won�*t feel too bad. next week, if you�*re hoping for signs of change, you can forget that, we�*ve got low pressures coming our way from the southwest. now, monday is another showery kind of day, so most areas will start the day dry with sunshine, the cloud then develops late morning into the early afternoon, and then we start to see some showers and thunderstorms break out in places. could be a few areas that miss those — maybe east anglia, south east england seeing largely dry weather. and a little bit warmer here as well, temperatures could get into the low 20s for a time, but overall next

week it is looking pretty unsettled, with rain or showers around and temperatures still a little below average for the time of year. bye for now.

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