bridge in both directions. israel's pm condemned the shooting. a spanish official has confirmed that the venezuelan opposition presidential candidate — edmundo gonzalez — has landed at an airbase near madrid. he has been granted political asylum in the country. mr gonzalez challenged the incumbent venezuelan president — nicol s maduro. many western countries say he won the election. sir keir starmer has told the bbc that his new labour government is "going to have to be unpopular" in order to make necessary reforms. the prime minister said it was important not to shy away from hard decisions — if his government was to change the country. hello. i'm rajini vaidyanathan. let's get more on that story we mentioned just then.

the uk prime minister used his interview with the bbc earlier today, to suggest that the nhs is broken — ahead of a report on the state of the health service in england — due later this week. in particular its expected to highlight severe problems for children and young people getting access to care. our health editor, hugh pym, reports. within hours of forming the new government, ministers were saying the nhs was broken and the problems could not be fixed overnight. the medical expert lord darzi was asked to carry out a rapid review of the state of the nhs in england. his full report is due out later in the week, but now the first findings have been released, including that more than 100,000 infants have waited more than six hours in a&e departments last year, 800,000 children and young people are on waiting lists for hospital treatment, with 175,000 waiting 6—12 months, and 160,000 waiting more than a year for mental—health support. lord darzi says there was a relatively bigger reduction in routine nhs

operations in the pandemic than in other health systems. the prime minister put the blame on the conservative government. he's been really clear that the nhs is broken but not beaten, and the reason he identifies is because of the money taken out of the nhs, particularly in the early years of the coalition, 2010 onwards, the lansley reforms, which were hopelessly misconceived, took a lot of money and had to be then reversed. and then of course covid on top of all that, which has put us in this awful position for the nhs. the conservatives denied they had broken the nhs. so we know the pressures, the fact we're all living longer, is placing on the nhs. we know the fact we're living with more multiple long—term conditions that require care. labour promised in its first year to deliver 40,000 more

operations and appointments each week, but the nhs confederation, in representing employers, says a lot more will be needed to hit the 18—week target for people to be seen or start treatment. our analysis shows that the combination of the size of waiting list, 7.5 million people, and the growth in demand means that what the secretary of state has announced will only go a very small way to meeting his target. the labour government is facing the same underlying pressures on the nhs as the conservatives did. the question is, can they fix the problems and deliver change? hugh pym, bbc news. the first details from a new report on the nhs — led by former labour minister lord ara darzi — have shown that children's health is in crisis. he says children are being let down in several ways, including a shortage of some medicines to treat adhd — that's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. young people who have the condition say they can't

concentrate at school — and feel as if they're being set up to fail, as ben moore reports. new term, new challenges. but one thing won't change in sixth form for 16—year—old alice — her adhd medication is still in short supply. it gave me the ability to actually concentrate. like, if i hadn't had the medication, i wouldn't have been able to sit down and study, and i also wouldn't have been able to sit down and focus in my exams. alice relied on her medication to get through her gcse revision and exams and is pretty chuffed with her results. i got higher than my predictions. what sort of grades did you get? i got 75, 8s and 9sand one 6, so... but there's still a uk—wide shortage of some adhd medications, so while alice the books, her mum hits the streets to find a pharmacy that actually has stock. it has got worse rather

than better the last month, our normal pharmacist couldn't fulfil her prescription, we were unable to get anything. we have just found some from a different pharmacist which was really lucky. we feel lucky. this is a brand i have never tried before and currently i'm going to have to mix these two to make the dose i need to get. and ideally i don't want to be starting a new school year with medication i've never tried before. alice's starting her a levels making the best of what the family can get hold of. i could be getting a headache as a side effect or i could be feeling sick and that is because i'm changing medication that you are not meant to do, but i had to do it to prepare for the next few months of my life to make sure i have enough. in the uk, adhd medication can only be prescribed by a psychiatrist or a specially registered medic. the gp cannot prescribe it,

which means it is a lot more difficult to change medication brands or doses. and you can only get one month's supply as well, which means you cannot stockpile. these, the pharmacist has said you can't get in then it says maybe they are not back untiljanuary. apparently. those who have been watching the adhd meds crisis unfolds say the government needs to act. kids with these medication issues are being set up to fail. if you couldn't get your prescription for glasses, it would be right, we understand why you are struggling, your prescription is not in, let's get you one slightly difference, not perfect but it will get you through, and we can't do that.

you can't go and get the alternative medication for adhd so people are unable to focus and learned that way, they are being set up to fail right now. the department of health and social care told us... alice's mind is now on sorting others last—minute bit of kit she hasn't seen since before summer, but looking at the long—term, she has a message for the government. i don't take economics but sorting up medication shortages will allow people to work harder and work better and concentrate more to improve maybe the economy. ben moore, bbc news. more on that story if you need any more support and information on the bbc website. sudan has rejected a proposal by a united nations team that peacekeepers should be deployed to the country immediately to protect civilians. a un mission said it had uncovered evidence of atrocities which it said "may amount to war crimes". but sudan's foreign ministry dismissed the recommendation, calling the un mission political and illegal. more than ten million people have fled their homes since civil war broke out in april last year between sudan's army and the paramilitary rapid support forces.

earlier, i spoke to the un population fund's regional director laila baker in port sudan. and she explained what the agnecy is trying to do the agency is trying to do to help those on the ground. for unfpa, ourjob is twofold — one, to ensure that where we have internally displaced people and those in need, particularly girls and women, to ensure that we support all of our partners who can provide those vital services, getting the care that women need to have a baby, making sure that if you're exposed to sexual violence that you are notjudged, but you can get the counselling and medical care that you need. those are the things that we will focus on, and we will hope that all of the partners that we work with can build a new sudan when the future brings a little bit more hope. in the meantime, we need to focus on those who are most in need right now, and that is half of sudan's

population, whether that's access to food and clean water or shelter or protection from all of the climate change elements like floods that we've been seeing, as well as access to services for health care and protection from gender—based violence. now to the us. donald trump has said he's "very offended" after vladimir putin endorsed his rival kamala harris for the us presidency. speaking at a rally in the key swing state of wisconsin, mr trump told supporters he didn't believe mr putin was serious and insisted he was the toughest candidate in his approach to moscow. russia would have never happened if i were president. attacking ukraine would have never happened. i knew putin, i knew him well. and, you know, he endorsed, i don't know if you saw the other day he endorsed kamala, he endorsed kamala. i was very offended by that.

i wonder why he endorsed kamala. no, he's a chess player. he endorsed kamala. should i be congressman? should i be upset about that? no. huh? was it done with a smile, ron? was it done with a smile? i think it was done maybe with a smile. i don't know. who the hell knows? his comments follow remarks by mr putin at the eastern economic forum in vladivostok, when he said kamala harris was russia's preferred choice for the next us president. translation: she has such an expressive - and infectious laugh. it shows she's doing well. i mean, trump has imposed more restrictions and sanctions on russia than any president has ever imposed before. and if mrs harris is doing well, maybe she will refrain from doing something like that. the next big moment in the race for the white house comes in a

few days' time on tuesday with that first televised debate between donald trump and kamala harris. you will build to watch rolling coverage on that abc news presidential debate right here on the bbc news channel on tuesday. we will be having special coverage which begins from 8pm on the east coast, thatis from 8pm on the east coast, that is 1am uk time on wednesday. king charles has arrived at crathie kirk near balmoral on the second anniversary of the death of his mother, mother, queen elizabeth. the queen was a regular worshipper at that church. the king could be seen in the back of his bentley limousine, with queen camilla at his side as they headed to the church for a service, which also marks two years since his accession to the throne. now, to new york. britain's jack draper has been reflecting on his gruelling match in the us open semi—finals. he lost in straight sets to the world number one, italy's yannick sinner — putting in so much effort that he vomited on court three times. he's been talking to our sports news correspondent laura scott.

it's been a big breakthrough in the big apple forjack draper. having had some time to reflect after his semifinal defeat... yeah, i've had a bit of time to rest... ..he told me he woke up determined to push himself further. i wanted to give more, but it was tough in that situation last night. but overall from last few weeks, i've taken so much learning, a lot of confidence. it seems like mount everest to climb when you are going through all the lower levels and travelling, all this type of stuff. when i got injured last yearfor a while i took a look at myself and began to just really lock in on everything i needed to do, whether off court, on court and since then my consistency�*s been great. so i think having the injuries i had, and having the time i had away from the court, really helped me to gain perspective and realise that if i put the work in and work hard, good things

can happen quickly. it's been a good example that hard work does play off. facing the world number one, italy's jannik sinner, in the most important match of his life, draper found it hard to keep things calm and down. he vomited three times. how keen are you to focus on addressing that? i'm definitely going to go home, this has happened a few times now in different situations for me. i'm going to really look into it. i push my body to the limit all the time in training and my mindset. i don't have to worry about not doing enough because i am. which points to the fact a lot of the issues i have are mental. i have to work on that and understand it and make myself better in order to compete at these highest levels. this season has bought his first atp tour title — a victory over wimbledon to champion carlos alcaraz, the british number one mantle and now, this run in new york which will see him climb into the world's top 20. his progress has led to many comparisons with his idol, andy murray. there's obviously a lot

of narrative around me being the next andy murray, the next whatever, i just want to be jack draper, i want to achieve what i can achieve. my number one goal is to reach my potential as a player whatever that looks like. after a fortnight that has both energised and exhausted him, draperflies home, believing his career is only just taking off. laura scott, bbc news, new york. let's look more now on the impact of russia's continued attacks on ukraine where they having intense pressure on the country's air defences. let's now get an update on efforts to help, here in the uk. and russian air strikes are once again putting intense pressure on the country's over—stretched air defences — and the teams whose job it is to man them. today, in an effort to raise funds to support these teams, there men here in the uk are running 60 kilometres across london. their route includes the sites of bomb and rocket

attacks on london during world war two. let's find out how they're getting on and speak to andrew macmillen, the air defence marathon co—organiser and runner. we are 20 miles into our 37 hourjourney. we are in the london area. we are a little bit over half way, it's going well and we hope to finish in about four hours.— well and we hope to finish in about four hours. you've got a lona about four hours. you've got a long way _ about four hours. you've got a long way to — about four hours. you've got a long way to go _ about four hours. you've got a long way to go then. - about four hours. you've got a long way to go then. how - about four hours. you've got a long way to go then. how did l long way to go then. how did this come about then? it came about because _ this come about then? it came about because the _ this come about then? it came about because the three - this come about then? it came about because the three of- this come about then? it came about because the three of us| about because the three of us are all keen runners, we are all supporters of ukraine and you may remember there was a terrible attack on the children's festival in kyiv and we felt we had to do something. combining our support for ukraine without interest in running and today is actually the 80th anniversary of the first hypersonic missile attack, the bead to deadly weapon which first struck london on the 8th of september 1944. so we thought it was a

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there was plenty of action this morning, including the men and women's marathons. and the closing stages of wheelchair basketball and powerlifting are also being held. lauren rowles has become the first woman to have won a rowing gold at three paralympic games — she told me how the experience this year has been. you can probably hear he noise of the closing ceremony about to build into this evening now here in the paralympic village. and what a games its been from the fans that have turned out. the stadium's packed out that we've had to all of the volunteers, everybody that's come and, you know, supported and volunteered. they've been incredible and so friendly. and it's just been amazing, honestly, to have that support from people that live here in paris and people that have come to watch us as well. the home crowd, i think half of our actual rowing venue was packed out with just british people. so it's just been incredible indeed. and of course, this isn't the first time you've won a gold, which is so remarkable. i mean, it's yourthird, right? yeah. third paralympics, third gold and first ever athlete, male

orfemale, to ever win three back—to—back titles in the sport. so, um, itjust, you know, it's been one of the things that i've been, you know, that goal in mind that i've had for such a long period of time now and since i started the sport and when i first started rowing nearly ten years ago, i sort of looked around the rowing lake and looked at some of my idols, you know, helen glover, katherine grainger and and thought maybe one day that could be me and enter into their league and last week, exactly one week ago actually today i hopefully entered that league with them and into that legendary status. yeah. i mean, we're all proud of you. and of course, you know, just tell us what sort of work it takes. i mean, of course, you know, you've been training for years to get to your third, butjust what does that involve on a daily basis when you're in the lead up to the paralympics? oh, the paralympics, you know, obviously like the olympic games, it's a full timejob, a commitment. and we're really lucky to be supported by the national lottery. and everybody that plays the lottery in order so that we can do this as our dayjobs. and i think we, you know, we're so incredibly lucky because of that. and, you know, we have to put

in, you know, 25 to 30 hours of training a week. and we're really lucky as the paralympic group in rowing that we actually are fully, um, you know, involved with our 0lympic programme as well. so we train with them every single day at our national training centre in redding. and that's incredible for us to have that level of integration as a paralympic programme. and we will know soon who topped the paralympic tables in medals as the games wrap up shortly. we've all heard the saying "cheap as chips" — but prices for the humble potato is set to rise. farmers say it's due to extreme weather and high production costs. in east kent, the last remaining potato grower is calling for more support, as jadzia samuel reports. it's day two of the potato harvest on this farm in east kent. so far, their crop is looking pretty good. but 0liver furnival�*s farm only one of only a few left growing potatoes in the area. he is one of many hoping for more support in the industry. they are doing some grants towards solar and other schemes, just things that can

help mitigate some of the rising costs, and also, to try and help slightly negate the impact of climate change. the actual potatoes would cost in the region of sort of £3,000 an acre to grow pre—covid, and now, they are up to three times that amount. it's fairly challenging with the weather windows that we now seem to get, and the financial implications, if it goes wrong, are fairly huge. this field is one in around 370 acres of land all growing potatoes here on this farm. on a hot and dry day like today, it makes for pretty good conditions when it comes to harvesting. but weather is unpredictable. usually, 0liver would be hoping for 6,000 to 7,000 tonnes of potato. heavy rainfall in autumn and spring made for late planting so these crops haven't been in the ground for all that long.

but it's still a race against time to get the potatoes out of the ground before the weather turns too wet again. some businesses fear the potential impact of a tough crop this year. i try not to pretty it up, but we have no choice, my customers are. . . i have the best customers so they won't say anything. they are willing me to put the prices up a bit more, but... it's not just potatoes. generally everything has gone up. we're still eating lots of potatoes, the brits love their spuds and, increasingly, we are importing them mainly as frozen chips from belgium and holland, and that trade is worth over {1.2 billion and has increased by about 30% or 40% over the last two or three years. oliver is feeling fairly chipper about his crop, but with increasingly unpredictable weather and rising costs, he says change is needed soon to keep the humble spud on the table.

many of us will have learned about castles while we were at school — but 60 children in devon can go one better than that. they're currently having all their lessons in a castle. kenton primary school is closed for repairs so the earl of devon has opened up powderham castle for them to use this term. janine jansen's been to see how they're getting on. powderham castle — a stunning setting fit for an earl. but never in their wildest dreams did the children from kenton think this would be their new school. i thought the teachers were joking. they couldn't wait to enter with fantasies of harry potter and the hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. i love it, i love really old furniture. it really brings it into character. i like that we've moved to a castle. it's really exciting. this time last year,

flooding hit kenton, and their beloved school was a complete mud bath. to see what we're left with is heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking. first, they shared with their neighbouring school at ken. then they moved into this church in dawlish. the children really have been on quite a journey. i really miss kenton school, but i love being on the move sort of. the earl of devon is fantastic. he's been so supportive of kenton primary school. he really is such a lovely chap. it really feels quite surreal to come to school, down the drive, up through past the deer park, into the castle. it really has been an amazing experience so far. everywhere you look, there are castles and turrets. the best thing is probably the playground. we can play football and fly tackle without hurting

ourselves on the tarmac. we also see deer day to day and i've seen three buzzards flying around. today we saw some geese. going back in time is clearly a novelty. just love being in the victorian classroom. there's lots of old tables, which it's really cool cos l you've got a section underneath to put l all your stationery. well, they're really weird cos some stuff slips off and falls! yeah, and the seats are really uncomfortable! yeah! they've just found out they've got funding to build a brand—new school in the village. but the question is — after the magic of powderham castle, will they ever want to leave? janine jansen, bbc news.

a bit of hog what style magic there. sir alan bates — the former british sub—postmaster who successfully campaigned forjustice in the post 0ffice horizon scandal, has married his partner susan sercombe. they had the weddding at sir richard branson's private island. the virgin tycoon invited the couple to the island after reportedly reading a comment sir alan made in an interview with the sunday times — �*if richard branson is reading this, i'd love a holiday.�* last month the 70 year old and the new lady bates took to the british virgin islands where none other than sir richard branson officiated the ceremony. it comes after a massive year for sir alan who fought to clear the names of hundreds of subpostmasters wrongly accused of theft and false accounting. we just heard that china has closed with the most medals with great britain following in second and the us coming in third. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello there.

for part two of the weekend, a thundery low sitting across england and wales, generating heavy rain and also some thundery downpours through the afternoon. further north, the more dry it will be, scotland and northern ireland, but quite a bit of cloud. cooler than of late, north—westerly winds starting to set in across the north—west, whereas low pressure means warm and humid air. the weather front across southern scotland, north—east england, through north—west england, wales and the south—west, could bring persistent heavy rain. further east, the sunshine could trigger some heavy thundery downpours. cloud in scotland and northern ireland, winds in from the north—west. cooler across the north than the last few days, but still fairly humid with some warmth across england and wales, especially the east. thunderstorms this evening across the south—east. the weather front in the west pushing eastwards. a legacy of cloud across large parts of england and wales, keeping temperatures up, not falling below 11—12, but it will be chilly in scotland and northern ireland, under clearer skies. monday, in between weather systems, high pressurejust coming in to turn things drier. a bit of cloud and rain across eastern areas, the weather front eventually into the north sea. plenty of sunshine in england and wales, but more cloudy skies in scotland and northern ireland, with rain in western scotland. a cooler and fresher day across the board, mid—to—high teens. big changes from tuesday,

this area of low pressure moving down from the north, parking itself across northern scotland, into the norwegian sea. that will open the floodgates to an arctic north/north—westerly wind, turning much cooler for all areas on tuesday. the cold front spreading southwards, squally rain. behind it, brightening up, plenty of sunshine but blustery showers as well, they may be heavy and thundery across the north—west. a windy and blustery day especially across the north—east. cold and windy with sunshine and showers. temperatures in the low teens in the north, the high teens further south. it stays pretty chilly for the time of year for the upcoming week.

it will be cold at night, most showers in the north and west, staying drier the further south and east.

live from london. this is bbc news. jordan launches an investigation into the killing of three israelis at a border crossing to the occupied west bank. sir keir starmer tells the bbc his new government is "going to have to be

unpopular" if it wants to change the country. fleeing venezuela — the man many in the west believe won the country's presidential election arrives at an airbase near madrid. a renowned children's hospital in london is carrying out an urgent review of more than 700 patients — as concerns are raised about one of its former surgeons. and a final chance for glory at the paris paralympics, with the last few medals up for grabs today. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan. israel has closed all its land border crossings with jordan after three israeli civilians were killed in a shooting at the border crossing betweenjordan and the occupied west bank. israel's prime minister said it was a "hard day" and sent his condolences to the victims�* families. the attacker — reported to be a jordanian truck driver —

was shot dead by israeli security forces.