the 650th of the city's foundation. armed officers are at the scene. it's believed the attacker is still at large. with more on this, we can cross to the newsroom and our reporterjack surfleet. what more do we know? very few details coming — what more do we know? very few details coming through _ what more do we know? very few details coming through to - what more do we know? very few details coming through to us - what more do we know? very few details coming through to us the i details coming through to us the moment. we have given gotten some details from german media. police in the area have said multiple people have been killed and others injured. we don't know the number of those killed and we don't know the number of those injured at the moment. it would be irresponsible to guess at this point. it is far too early in an incident so serious like this one. a few details i can tell you. it happens at a festival celebrating 650 years of solingen. a relatively small city but a big event celebrating the city's history.

local media are reporting that a man randomly stopped passersby at the festival. just to be clear, the bbc has not gotten this information directly and german police have not confirmed that. i want to bring you some more details coming through from social media. we are hearing from social media. we are hearing from the main area of solingen sharing a message on social media and this translate from german into english so not quite verbatim he said, everyone who turned out to celebrate the city's anniversary was in a state of shock, horror and great grief. as mrs says that the attacker in solingen break my heart. he is think the emergency services and said, there are tears in his eyes for those who have died. i pray for all those who are still fighting for all those who are still fighting for their lives. also, my greatest sympathy for all of those people who had to experience this. these images must have been horrific. that, coming from the mayor of solingen this evening. so still plenty we do

not know. we do not know the motive of the attacker. we have not heard from german police about an update of reports that he had fled from the scene so we are still waiting to hear plenty more information but of course, the result will understand we are working with limited information as we get any more, we will share it with them. we information as we get any more, we will share it with them.— will share it with them. we were “ust will share it with them. we were just looking _ will share it with them. we were just looking at — will share it with them. we were just looking at pictures - will share it with them. we were just looking at pictures of- just looking at pictures of emergency crews arriving. we had some live pictures, they are very darker, they are coming into us and via the ap news agency. you cannot see an awful lot apart from some armed police there and some tense behind will stop these are live pictures from the scene. we are also seen on the bbc news life page that the solingen local paper is reporting that many of the people attending the festival where this attack happened did not actually know about it until organisers came onto the stage about 10pm local time to make an announcement that the

events had been cancelled. here you can see a large number of police at the scene with that manhunt under way. it is dark, there's not much streetlight so that it is why it looks shadowy. but attendees of the festival were asked to leave the scene peacefully, not to panic as they departed. one witness told the newspaper that he knew something was wrong when he saw a singer on the stage with a strange expression on theirface. they are stage with a strange expression on their face. they are quoted as saying, than a person fell overjust a metre away from me. this is all been reported on the life page of bbc news. there you can see some tense being set up. i imagine part of the festival as well and where it has now been evacuated. solingen is a city in west germany around 160,000 people live there, not clear how well attended this festival is or celebrating the 650th anniversary of the city itself. it is around 15 miles a 20 month kilometres east of

the russell dourthe and north east of cologne. the german newspaper reporting that the suspect stop people at random at this festival. —— stabbed. reporting at least the three people dead but multiple people wounded but we don't have any clarification or independent verification of that. so you can see another live shot from the scene where ambulances in police vehicles on the scene. crews moving about as well. there is now a manhunt under way in the city. armed police officers in large numbers will stop we can see and i imagine in other parts of the city as well. we will bring you more on that developing story a little bit later. now let's get some other news. the world health organization has already declared mpox an international health emergency, and now a new strain of the virus is rapidly spreading across parts of africa leading

to a surge in infections. the epicentre of the current outbreak is in the democratic republic of congo and in neighbouring burundi, one of the continent's poorest nations, there's been a rise in cases. our correspondent merchuma has travelled to bujumbura in the west of the country, where public awareness of the disease is limited, and the lack of medical facilities and vaccines means the health authorities are struggling. at one of the largest medical centres in burundi's biggest city, staff here are battling to both treat the people coming into this facility, and to monitor how far and fast the mpox virus is spreading. i had swollen lymph nodes. it was so painful i couldn't sleep. then the pain subsided up here and it moved to my legs. but i am better now. they are currently treating 55 cases here. there are four suspected

cases that just walked in and their status will be confirmed after a lab result. i'm just outside the men's unit, and normally you wouldn't see this orange or red tape here, but this is a form of isolating those who are being treated and the rest of the community that may walk in to seek services in this facility. burundi is seeing a surge in mpox cases. medical officials here are concerned about limited resources. there's only one testing laboratory in the whole country, insufficient testing kits and no vaccines. access to basic resources like water is also limited. this is a real challenge. the fact that diagnosis is only done in one place, this delays detecting new cases. health centres are calling the laboratory, saying they have suspected cases, but it takes time for teams

from the lab to deploy to where the suspected cases are to take samples, and it takes even more time to release the test results. the epicentre of africa's current health—care crisis is neighbouring drc, less than 20 miles from here. what is crucial for health officials here in burundi is that people understand the dangers of this disease, but that hasn't got through yet and it will take time. public awareness about mpox is quite limited here. most of those we spoke to do not even know what it is. those who do are not aware that it is spreading in their country. this lack of awareness means that while, on one side of bujumbura town, efforts are being made to help those affected survive and recover, elsewhere, life carries on as usual. containment is difficult,

making the need for an adequate vaccine even more urgent. merchuma, bbc news, bujumbura, burundi. a 67—year—old man has become the first person in the uk to use what doctors hope will be a revolutionary treatment for lung cancer. it's a vaccine that tells the body how to fight and kill the disease — it's based on the same technology as some covid jabs, as sharon barbour explains. janusz was having difficulty with his breathing injanuary. he thought it was asthma, but it turned out to be lung cancer. when they told me this, i asked them, "ok, what is the risk for me? what is the probability for surviving?" they said, "if you don't do anything, four months left. if you do the treatment, your chance is 35% to survive five years." he's undergone months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy for his lung cancer, which has the leading cause

of cancer deaths worldwide. but a new trial is now under way for a vaccine, which it's hoped will improve survival, and janusz was the first person in the uk to get it. experts hope the biontech vaccine will be a game changer. i'm very excited. we hope we can kick—start cancer research for lung cancer patients. going at all stages of lung cancer patients, and hopefully this first generation will kick—start many other trials coming forward. so how does it work? the vaccine contains information about several markers found on the lung cells. these should teach the patient�*s immune system how to find cancer and fight it, and the treatment should specifically target only the cancer

cells for destruction. it's a very early stage in the research, with only a small number of people taking part in the trial, and it will be some time before scientists know whether it works and is safe. but forjanusz, being the first to try it means a lot. and i talked to my daughters and they told me they are proud of me, so i am proud of myself. janusz�*s hope is that the vaccine will stop his cancer from coming back. sharon barbour, bbc news. a reminder of our breaking news this hourfrom germany where police have confirmed that a number of people have been killed in injured in a suspected knife attack in the western city of solingen. this is where it is located to the south west of berlin. we understand it happened at a festival to market the city's 650th anniversary. these are pictures live from the scene where there is an understandable heavy police presence within ambulances and police on the scene,

armed police, hunting, we understand the perpetrator behind this attack. which came as the city was celebrating its festival of diversity. the german newspaper billed as quitting the event organisers saying the event held until sunday was expected to draw in around 80,000 visitors. the area where the attack took place is here. it looks like this is the epicentre of it where the marketplace square is located in the city centre. music acts were being performed at the times. it is nearby to several restaurants along a wide straight this and located near a shopping mall. please confirming that three people have been killed. and for wounded. to support police spokesperson told cbs news, that is the bbc us partner that the least three people were killed and four others wounded and we also heard from the city's mayor tim sharing a

message on social media saying everyone who turned out to celebrate the city's anniversary was in a state of shock, horror and great grief. —— tim kurzbach. these the scenes live in this town, this city of solingen, the interior —— area where the attack took place is now being cordoned off. there is a huge amount of shock. the mayor saying he is praying for all of those fighting for their lives saying the emergency services, thanking them, adding there are tears in his eyes for those who have died and that the attacker breaks his heart. we have very little information other than that at the moment. we've had local newspapers reporting and talking to people there saying they actually did not know that the attack had taken place at the festival until organisers came to the stage and asked people to move away and to leave the scene peacefully and not to panic. so this is the latest on

this developing story in the past three hours. we'll keep an eye on that for you and bring you more details as it comes in. and of course, there is the bbc news life page that's constant updates as well. there has been flooding, power cuts and travel disruption in part of the uk because of storm lilian. strong winds of up to 80 miles an hour have hit wales and northern england causing train cancellations, and leaving thousands of homes without power. here's fiona trott. a festival fiasco. and what's happened to the owners of this tent? left high, but not dry. campers at the leeds music festival waved goodbye to their beds, and some of the acts, after three stages were forced to close. on the other side of the pennines, bolton's food and drink festival was barriered off. what's happened here?

both bank holiday business and community life brought to a standstill. absolutely devastated. i'm not going to lie, i'm devastated. i've cried, i've cried. i've not stopped crying. the gazebos came straight through, shattered the tables. _ so i don't really know how much damage there is yet. _ damage from trees cut electricity supplies to thousands of homes. northern powergrid said more than 60,000 customers were affected in the east. electricity northwest said around 18,000 houses were hit there. 6:10 this morning there was a horrendous noise so i looked out the window and just in time to see the first part of this tree fall across the road. trains were stopped in their tracks across the north west. debris and floods affected 35 different sites. there was disruption on transpennine and lner services, too. and look at this... ..nervous drivers on the humber bridge this morning. it later closed to

high—sided vehicles. having left its trail of destruction, storm lilian has now reached scandinavia — an early bank holiday visitor we were happy to send packing. fiona trott, bbc news. weapons dealers in yemen are openly using the social media platform x — formerly known as twitter — to sell kalashnikovs, pistols, grenades and grenade—launchers. the traders operate in the capital sana'a and other areas under control of the houthis — a rebel group backed by iran and proscribed as terrorists by the us and australian governments. an investigation by the times newspaper found that several of the yemeni accounts bore the blue tick of verification. our security correspondent — frank gardner — recounted his own experiences of visiting yemen. i first went there in the 1980s and was amazed to see powerful automatic weapons from libya, russia, the

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social media from politicians, parties. social media from politicians, arties. , ., ., parties. tell us more about the ci . we parties. tell us more about the city- we have _ parties. tell us more about the city. we have 165,000 - parties. tell us more about the city. we have 165,000 peoplel parties. tell us more about the - city. we have 165,000 people living here, we city. we have 165,000 people living here. we are _ city. we have 165,000 people living here. we are in _ city. we have 165,000 people living here, we are in the _ city. we have 165,000 people living here, we are in the middle - city. we have 165,000 people living here, we are in the middle betweenj here, we are in the middle between cologne and dusseldorf. i guess there is a deep love for people from people for their city even if they are critical towards some things that are happening. that isjust are critical towards some things that are happening. that is just a disaster because everyone was like, we want to celebrate 650 years of solingen. and the event is now cancelled. solingen. and the event is now cancelled-— cancelled. clearly extremely shockina cancelled. clearly extremely shocking for _ cancelled. clearly extremely shocking for you _ cancelled. clearly extremely shocking for you as - cancelled. clearly extremely shocking for you as well. - cancelled. clearly extremely shocking for you as well. a i cancelled. clearly extremely i shocking for you as well. a few cancelled. clearly extremely - shocking for you as well. a few more details coming in. this is around the police response. we understand they deployed a0 tactical vehicles

in the hunt for the suspect according to the local newspaper. vehicles commanded by the sdk which is german for special task force roadblocks have been set up and residents are asked to stay indoors while officers carry out their search. this will be a huge police operation, won't it?— search. this will be a huge police operation, won't it? yes. there are sirens all the _ operation, won't it? yes. there are sirens all the time, _ operation, won't it? yes. there are sirens all the time, there _ operation, won't it? yes. there are sirens all the time, there is - operation, won't it? yes. there are sirens all the time, there is a - sirens all the time, there is a helicopter flying over the city, sirens all the time, there is a helicopterflying over the city, it is huge here because at least one person, obviously has not been captured yet. so there is a dangerous situation.- captured yet. so there is a dangerous situation. what kind of reaction has _ dangerous situation. what kind of reaction has there _ dangerous situation. what kind of reaction has there been. - dangerous situation. what kind of reaction has there been. i - reaction has there been. i understand you have been looking on social media as well, how have people been responding? thea;r social media as well, how have people been responding? they are sad, the people been responding? they are sad. they are _ people been responding? they are sad, they are shocked _ people been responding? they are sad, they are shocked of— people been responding? they are sad, they are shocked of course, l sad, they are shocked of course, there are a lot of rumours going on, but we don't publish that. we have to wait, what i try to report is all but we safely know right now. you

have colleagues _ but we safely know right now. you have colleagues at the scene reporting, not everyone was away this actually happened. that reporting, not everyone was away this actually happened.— this actually happened. that is ri . ht. this actually happened. that is riht. it this actually happened. that is right- it is _ this actually happened. that is right- it is a — this actually happened. that is right. it is a party, _ this actually happened. that is right. it is a party, right? - this actually happened. that is right. it is a party, right? we i this actually happened. that is - right. it is a party, right? we have some drunk people who don't want to know or don't know what's going on, i'm glad nothing happens like a mass panic. but, it took a while for everyone to hear the information. just looking at pictures from the scene, it is looking quiet there now, so obviously there is a large police presence. how large is the search area going to be, do you think, how biggest city? find search area going to be, do you think, how biggest city? and must be a few square — think, how biggest city? and must be a few square kilometres _ think, how biggest city? and must be a few square kilometres they - think, how biggest city? and must be a few square kilometres they are - a few square kilometres they are searching because we don't know. if

there is at least one suspect that fled the scene at around 1030, it must be a huge area.— fled the scene at around 1030, it must be a huge area. thank you very much forjoining _ must be a huge area. thank you very much forjoining us _ must be a huge area. thank you very much forjoining us in _ must be a huge area. thank you very much forjoining us in updating - must be a huge area. thank you very much forjoining us in updating us. much forjoining us in updating us there on what you know about the unfolding events there in solingen tonight. thank you. more details coming in about the number of people killed. police have confirmed to cbs news, a bbc news us affiliate that three people have been killed and four injured in the suspected knife attack and the western german city of solingen. celebrations were under way to mark the 650th anniversary of the city's foundation when this attack happened in the evening. the local mayor has reacted saying, he is in a state of shock, horror and grief as i was just reporting. police have deployed as we understand it a0 tactical vehicles

as they search for the sub suspect in this attack reported by the german newspeople are locally. there's a special task force now in operation and roadblocks have been set up and residents are urged to stay indoors. the attacker is believed to have fled the scene and there has been no arrests at this stage. the attack happened in one of the towns marketplace wears known as micro to located in the city centre. the musical act was performing at the time a busy area, even despite this festival anyway. you will keep across that on the bbc news page. do you stay across that if you would like updates. i am samantha simmons. this is bbc news. thank you for watching. time for a check on the weather picture, here is staff. hello there. the weather's looking very mixed this weekend.

yes, there will be some rain at times, temperatures a bit disappointing, but things are set to warm up as we push into next week, especially for england and wales. so we will have some rain around at times this weekend, mainly across northern and western areas, though for saturday, it's the south which will bear the brunt of some of the wettest of the weather. will be quite mild to begin saturday in the south, a bit cooler further north where we have more clear skies, but outbreaks of heavy and persistent rain affecting much of the channel islands into central and southern england, southeast wales, up into the midlands and across into eastern and southeast england. we have a met office yellow warning for the far southeast of england because we could see in excess of a couple of inches of rain here that could lead to some localised flooding. some standing water on the roads. has been very dry across the southeast though for all of august, so this is very much needed rainfall — a good drink for the gardens, but it will be very wet through the morning. eventually, it clears out into the afternoon and we should see sunshine and some heavy, maybe thundery showers moving in, too,

but it does brighten up elsewhere across the country. it's a bright day from the word go with sunshine and showers, but disappointing temperatures —16—18 celsius. that is below par for the time of year. saturday night's dry, quite cool, chilly — for many, single digits across the board, but it will be turning a bit milder, wetter and windier out west as the next weather system starts to make inroads for sunday. and you'll see more isobars on the chart. so it will be a breezy, blustery day on sunday, with most of the rain in the north and the west. so, quite a wet day, i think, for northern ireland, increasingly so for scotland, northern and western england and wales, maybe a few showers getting into the midlands. but i think the southeast quadrant tending to stay drier, closer to high pressure to the south, so could be up to 20 degrees given some brightness, but rather cloudy skies and again disappointing further north — mid—teens. that system moves away during sunday night into monday. it's a bank holiday monday for many. a ridge of high pressure will start to build in a bit more strong, stronger across the south, so i think england and wales largely dry. we should see some sunshine around, but another area of low pressure will bring more of a breeze. cloud outbreaks of rain to the far west of the uk, but temperatures responding up to 23 degrees in the south.

and that's the sign of things to come for this upcoming week. it looks like summer will make a return, especially for england and wales, where it could be very warm indeed, with one or two spots in the southeast perhaps touching the 30 celsius mark.

live from washington, this is bbc news. german police are looking for an attacker who killed three people and wounded several

others. the independent candidate for the us president has suspended his campaign given his backing to donald trump. authorities in russia say they've killed four inmates after a rebellion with four prison guards dead. aid agencies are demanding access into gaza as concerns rise about a potential outbreak of polio. hello, i'm carl nazanin. we start with some breaking news from germany. three people have been killed and at least four others injured in the southern city of —— western city of solingen. the attacker is believed to have fled the scene.