lam i am rajina vaidyanathan, welcome i i am rajina vaidyanathan, welcome to _ i i am rajina vaidyanathan, welcome to bbc— i i am rajina vaidyanathan, welcome to bbc news. - a desperate operation to shore up flood defences is taking place in poland, as catastrophic flooding threatens to engulf a city. the mayor of nysa has asked all a4,000 residents to leave — with 500 soldiers now being drafted in. at least 16 people are now thought to have died in the flooding, caused by a powerful storm moving across central europe. thousands have been left homeless and yet more bad weather is forecast. slovakia and hungary are bracing for floodwater moving down the river danube and its tributaries. these are the latest pictures from nysa in poland where the river threatens to burst its banks. sarah rainsford reports. i am in nysa, a few miles from where we made that report. it was a pretty dramatic night here. the mayor had given an

emergency evacuation order and a there were volunteers here all night stuffing sandbags like this and forming human chains, to bring the bags down now near to the embankment, where a section of the river bank had subsided and there was a danger according to the mayor of that river bank collapsing completely at the water rushing through into the town of nysa where we are now. you can see the wall of sandbags and the river behind. they have plugged the gap and in fact the river water level has begun to fall back. it seems according to the authorities that the immediate danger has passed. they are prepared if the water level rises again. there is talk of another problem with the embankment a little further up but after a dramatic night lots of helicopters in the skies, lots of sirens and huge numbers of volunteers to bring these sandbags to the spot to try to protect their town. it does seem like this morning the sun has come out and people are more hopeful, that

perhaps the worst has passed for this town in particular. spoke to the deputy climate minister of poland, and she said that the government priority is to ensure that civilians are on safer ground. it is a difficult time in poland and several other european countries with flooding under way, since really the beginning of the weekend. the government and prime minister havejust prime minister have just completed a crisis prime minister havejust completed a crisis management meeting in the south. there has been a state of natural disaster announced since yesterday in several regions in the south of poland. unfortunately, we have seen four casualties in poland alone so far, and about 3000 people, 3241, have been evacuated since

yesterday. so that is the state of the current situation. yesterday. 50 that is the state of the current situation.- of the current situation. your priorities _ of the current situation. your priorities and _ of the current situation. your priorities and evacuations - of the current situation. your priorities and evacuations at | priorities and evacuations at the moment, trying to get people to safer ground whilst the floodwaters potentially rise, is that the current situation?— rise, is that the current situation? ., , situation? that is right. the most difficult _ situation? that is right. the most difficult situation - situation? that is right. the most difficult situation we l situation? that is right. the l most difficult situation we are expecting tomorrow, in the city of wroclaw, the biggest city in the lower silesian region, and apparently everyone is focused on making people safe and evacuating areas which need to be evacuated, and obviously monitoring infrastructure and making sure that it is operating. making sure that it is operating-— making sure that it is oeratin. . ., ., operating. can i ask, what do ou operating. can i ask, what do you believe — operating. can i ask, what do you believe is _ operating. can i ask, what do you believe is the _ operating. can i ask, what do you believe is the driving - you believe is the driving factor behind these floods, are they normal at this time of year? they normal at this time of ear? ~ ., ., ., , year? well, no, not to this

extent- — year? well, no, not to this extent. we _ year? well, no, not to this extent. we had _ year? well, no, not to this extent. we had kind - year? well, no, not to this extent. we had kind of- year? well, no, not to this extent. we had kind of a l extent. we had kind of a reference point for us, when it comes to disaster flooding, the flood from 1997 which was of similar extent to the current flood, and it also hit the south of poland. we used to call it a flooding of millennial, that happens once every 1000 years. well, another similar extent of flooding has repeated, really, 20 years later, and that is way too soon, so, yes, ithink climate change is what is driving this, we have no doubt, and the extent we are seeing and how it impacts several countries in europe, there is a clear cost to that, and it is called

climate change.- to that, and it is called climate change. you are the deu climate change. you are the deputy climate _ climate change. you are the deputy climate minister- climate change. you are the deputy climate minister of l deputy climate minister of poland. what is your country doing to try and curb the threat posed by climate change? at the moment we are acting here and now and so financial aid has been directed into the impacted regions, but we are also focusing on adaptation, climate adaptation, building resilience needs to be our focus right now, and this is something that we are working on, directing already 11 billion zlotys, about £2 billion, into measures including climate adaptation, building retention, preventing weather events, and preventing the impact of weather events, as we are seeing currently. we have literallyjust as we are seeing currently. we have literally just finished as we are seeing currently. we have literallyjust finished a summer of record—breaking temperatures and, straight after, we move into extreme

flooding. this is not natural. let's speak to the marek steele, who is a reporter for the polish television tvp world, joining me live in nysa. we have been hearing from the climate minister about some of the challenges of moving people to safer areas. tell us what you are seeing where you are, and what people are telling you. and what people are telling ou. , ., and what people are telling ou. , . . , ., you. yes, i am in the city of n sa you. yes, i am in the city of nysa as _ you. yes, i am in the city of nysa as you _ you. yes, i am in the city of nysa as you mentioned. - you. yes, i am in the city of| nysa as you mentioned. this you. yes, i am in the city of. nysa as you mentioned. this is a city of around 40,000 people and yesterday an evacuation was announced here from between 5pm and 8pm, the discharge of water from a nearby reservoir was lowered to allow people to escape from this very place. today, after this action that happened during the night, the repair of an embankment of the river that was participated in ijy river that was participated in by not only do military services, fire department and

police but also regular citizens took part in this, to fix this embankment and what i have seen here today is people returning from this bridge, so the right bank, the old town of nysa was endangered by this new wave of flood. and today, you can see perhaps now cast crossing back to the old town, where water levels have dropped. let mejust remind where water levels have dropped. let me just remind you that two days ago, the embankment was broken by water rushing into the town. in several places the water reached the level of the waste and in some places even higher, but the square of the old town was spared, then. the water has left the old town and has run down, so the city seems to be in a much better position today. the water levels in the river you can see behind me are probably around 1.5 metres or

two metres lower than yesterday in the evening when we were reporting from this very same spot. reporting from this very same sot. ., reporting from this very same sot. . ., ., spot. 0k, and we are hearing that there — spot. 0k, and we are hearing that there could _ spot. 0k, and we are hearing that there could be _ spot. 0k, and we are hearing that there could be more - spot. 0k, and we are hearing that there could be more badj that there could be more bad weather to come, contingency measures are in place if that is the case?— is the case? actually, the weather _ is the case? actually, the weather forecast for - is the case? actually, the weather forecast for this | is the case? actually, the - weather forecast for this part of poland is pretty good. as you can see the sun is shining. no heavy rainfall. it is around ten metres per square metre that could be expected in the coming hours. the situation is moving down the rivers, and the bigger cities and we are hearing news of a city that has been flooded currently, and this waivers later moving on further to cities such as wroclaw. —— this wave is later moving on. wroclaw. -- this wave is later moving on-— wroclaw. -- this wave is later moving on— moving on. thank you for “oininr moving on. thank you for joining us _ moving on. thank you for joining us from _ moving on. thank you for joining us from the - moving on. thank you for joining us from the scenej moving on. thank you for - joining us from the scene and bringing us up to date with the

situation, marek steele. the man at the centre of a high— profile mass—rape trial in france has admitted to all charges in his first testimony in court. dominique pelicot, who's 71, says he was a rapist. he's accused of repeatedly drugging and raping his then— wife, gisele, over many years, and arranging for other men to also rape her while she was unconscious. dominique pelicot also accused his 50 co—defendants of knowingly participating in rape. many of the men say that they thought that they were taking part in a sex game. i'm joined now by bbc paris correspondent, hugh schofield. we've heard from dominique pelicot who has been testify, tell us more about what he has been saying. tell us more about what he has been saying-— been saying. this is the third week of the _ been saying. this is the third week of the trial, _ been saying. this is the third week of the trial, there - been saying. this is the third week of the trial, there will l week of the trial, there will be many more weeks because there are more than 50 men on trial but dominique pelicot is

the centralfigure, trial but dominique pelicot is the central figure, accused trial but dominique pelicot is the centralfigure, accused of having arranged for his wife gisele to be raped, for arranging for men to come and raped her while she was drunk. today was the first time he was speaking, he was due to speak last week but he was ill but today he took the stand and said straightaway he admitted the totality of the charges against him. he said, i am a rapist, as are all of the other defendants in this courtroom. this provoked a hubbub and general muttering among the other men, rapists, alleged rapists, accused in the court, because the defence as you were saying earlier is that they thought this was a game, arranged by dominique pelicot and his wife and that it was therefore something to which

she was submitting voluntarily. that is their defence. so, to be called rapists by the principle that used was for them and up front and an abridgement of their defence so they are not happy with that, but he said i'm a rapist, they are rapists, and they beg forgiveness, i recognise what i did add that what i did was unforgivable. it was a long period on the stand and there will be occasions in the days ahead when he will have to go into more detail about what he is alleged to have done what the court did ask him why did you compile this dossier, this computer hard drive full of the images of videos of what you and these are the men did and he said partly for my own pleasure and partly also, he said, in order that these men would eventually be brought to justice, and that provoked another wave of muttering among the co—defendant ofs. what the co-defendant ofs. what ha--ens the co-defendant ofs. what happens now? _ the co-defendant ofs. what happens now? this - the co-defendant ofs. what happens now? this is - the co-defendant ofs. what happens now? this is week| the co—defendant ofs. what happens now? this is week three of the trial, a high—profile one of course, and we have

already heard from a number of people including gisele pelicot, but what comes next? it is going to be along pelicot, but what comes next? it is going to be a long trial, there are 51 people on trial including dominique pelicot, the other people are people from the area around where they lived in the south of france, around avignon, two of the course of ten years, had conversations on a chatline with dominique pelicot and then into the house and did they are alleged to have done so it is a trial that would have to be taken individually, each of these defendants has a lawyer and will mount a defence so thatis and will mount a defence so that is why it is going to take a longtime as each individual case has gone through, and there will be videos produced at some point, which are the main point of evidence that identified these 50 people. even without an admission from dominique pelicot, this could last a number of weeks. —— even

with an admission. it last a number of weeks. -- even with an admission.— with an admission. it is relevant. _ with an admission. it is relevant, we _ with an admission. it is relevant, we knew- with an admission. it is relevant, we knew thatj with an admission. it is i relevant, we knew that he admitted the facts. he made a brief appearance in which he set out the general tenor of his position which was to admit the fact but now the focus will turn to what is in a way more interesting, the motivation of the 50 men, of what made them allegedly take part in these acts, to consider themselves now to be innocent, as though they have somehow been wrongly accused because they say that what they did, they thought, was done with the acceptance if not consent of the woman even though there was absolutely no evidence of that having been given, she was unconscious during these sex episodes. share during these sex episodes. are very distressing case and thank you for bringing us up—to—date with that, our correspondent, hugh schofield.

a man has been charged with the murders of a woman and two of her daughters in a crossbow attack at their home. victims, carol hunt, hannah and lisa, the daughters and wife of the bbc commentatorjohn hunt. the day after they were found, 26—year—old kyle clifford from enfield was arrested by police. he had serious injuries and was in a serious condition in hospital receiving treatment for those injuries until now, but the police force said that a crossbow had been found, but we have had a statement from hertfordshire constabulary confirming detectives from the major crime unit have now been able to question kyle clifford and last night they charged him with three counts of murder, a count of false imprisonment and two counts of possession of

offensive weapons. he has been remanded in custody and will appear at westminster magistrates' court in london later this morning. we have a statement from detective chief inspector luke gardner from the bedfordshire, cambridgeshire and hertfordshire major crime unit. he said our thoughts remain with the hunt family as they continue to come to terms with their loss, over the last couple of months we have been working hard to gather as much evidence as possible to establish the full circumstances of what happened that day. today we have managed to secure charges against kyle clifford in connection with the murders of carroll, hannah and louise. he said although it has taken some time to reach this stage, we can now move forward with thejudicial stage, we can now move forward with the judicial process and adjusters for the family. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

to the united states, and donald trump has spoken for the first time about what appears to be

the second attempt on his life in as many months. speaking in a social media livestream, on x, the former president described hearing shots ringing out as the secret service opened fire on the suspected gunman. the suspect, ryan routh, has appeared in a florida courthouse. he was detained after agents spotted an assault rifle in bushes a few hundred yards from mrtrump, who was unharmed. the white house said president biden had also spoken to donald trump on the phone where the two men had what was called a "cordial" conversation. here's our north america correspondent, peter bowes. keep walking! this is the moment ryan routh was taken into custody. keep walking! this is the moment ryan routh was taken into custody. the 58—year—old was arrested shortly after fleeing from donald trump's golf club in west palm beach, florida. what's your name? ryan. ryan? less than 24 hours later,

he was in court, dressed in a blue prisonjumpsuit and facing multiple firearms charges linked to an alleged attempt to assassinate the former president. this is where he was confronted by a secret service agent while donald trump was playing a round of golf. all of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. and i guess probably four orfive. and it sounded like bullets but what do i know about that? the secret service knew immediately it was bullets. and they grabbed me, everybody, just, we got into the carts and we moved along, pretty good. i was with an agent and the agent did a fantasticjob. the agent fired at what investigators say appeared to be a rifle poking out of trees near the edge of the course. cellular data shows that the subject was in the vicinity of the golf course roughly 12 hours before the engagement with the united states secret service. investigators say they're still working on whether ryan routh was acting alone.

kamala harris said violence had no place in america, and she was relieved her election opponent was safe, but mr trump blamed what he called her and the current president's "rhetoric" for what happened on sunday and two months ago. take a look at what happened... the former president first survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open air rally in pennsylvania. since then, security around him has been tightened. but the secret service says it needs more resources to do itsjob. president biden says he's looking to see if further measures are needed to ensure the safety of mr trump. i've always condemned political violence, and i always will in america. in america, we resolve our differences peacefully at the ballot box, not at the end of a gun. the white house says mr biden has spoken to the former president to convey his relief that he's safe. mr trump later said they had a very nice call about secret service protection.

officials say security around donald trump's mar—a—lago home is now as intense as when he was president. there are seven anxious weeks to go until polling day. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. let's speak to rachel kleinfeld, senior fellow in the democracy, conflict, and governance the real issue is the atmosphere that has been created that has normalised violence, since the 2016 campaign, when he first saw hate crimes and violence against local officials, violence against local election officials go up in america. the president already has a vast apparatus of security, and so do presidential candidates. it is actually the local elected officials and local election officials who are getting huge numbers of threats and do not have that

security so, whilst we need security for presidential candidates, what we need to do is change the atmosphere in which state officials and school board officials and many others are also facing threats. how do we do that? no one could do more than trump himself, but he has not taken that stance, but if he stood up along with democrats and third—party candidates and said, enough is enough, we need to stop the normalisation of violence, condemn political violence, and demonisation of our enemies, there is research showing that no one can bring violence down more quickly than statements from the leaders of the group themselves, and so the fact that president trump hasn't taken those opportunities, despite being targeted himself twice now, is really disappointing to those of us who research this sort of thing. he has so much power to stand

with harris, biden, kennedy and other third—party candidates and bring this noxious moment to an end. getting back to my original point, there have been two apparent attempts on his life, pretty terrifying for him. do you think the secret service needs to review the way that it protects people like him, and that he should get full presidential level security because i think it is being discussed now, isn't it? it would be great to give him full presidential level security of course will not stop the problem. this problem has been going on in our country since 2016 when he was first president, and it is caused by the level of political rhetoric that has been allowed in our country, unfortunately mostly by the republican side, often against other republicans.

rapper and producer sean "diddy" combs has been arrested in new york city. the specific charges have not yet been confirmed. a number of women have accused him of sexual assault and abuse. he was taken into custody yesterday evening based on a sealed indictment. they expect to unseat it this morning. so we will learn more about why he was taken into custody but this is in connection with an ongoing homeland security investigation, the charge is not known at this point but he has been the subject of a months long federal probe led by the department of homeland security since last year in march last year eight raided his home is in la and miami in connection your possible sex trafficking probe. no knowledge of exactly what this arrest is in relation to, we are learning

more about that hopefully at some point this morning. and this follows other controversies surrounding mr combs, tell us about the controversy this sits in. over the past _ controversy this sits in. over the past year _ controversy this sits in. over the past year or _ controversy this sits in. over the past year or so, - controversy this sits in. over the past year or so, he - controversy this sits in. over the past year or so, he has l the past year or so, he has faced a number of allegations including lawsuits alleging things ranging from physical abuse and violence to sexual abuse and violence to sexual abuse and violence to sexual abuse and sexual misconduct. he and his legal team have said he is innocent of all of these. they put out a statement yesterday, his lawyers, saying they expect to move forward with this but saying that he is an imperfect person but not a criminal. they say that he has been cooperative with the investigation that has been going on so far. they are urging people to reserve judgment until they have all of the facts. because this is playing out notjust any court of public opinion but now through the legal processes,

lawyers are being incredibly careful with their language, not just careful with their language, notjust in how they careful with their language, not just in how they are speaking about this latest development, in this fascinating situation. stay with us here on bbc news. the fine and quite weather conditions continue in the uk at the moment are in for a few days yet. dry and reasonably sunny for the vast majority today, starting on a chilly note with some mist and fog around and pick a cloud in the north and west of scotland. in the bigger picture, residual flooding in central and eastern europe and the focus of the heavy rain switches to italy, low pressure there, high pressure here, which is keeping things generally dry. 0n the edge of it, we saw that cloud in northern and western scotland, breaking up through the afternoon, some sunny spells, cloud through east anglia and the south—east and four robberies compared to yesterday. temperatures here at if not down a little bit on

yesterday's values, but a warmer day for scotland and the west of northern ireland, with temperatures around 22 celsius. the cloud in northern ireland and scotland continues to thin and scotland continues to thin and break across eastern wales and break across eastern wales and central and eastern england, we will see more mr low blow developed so it will not be as cold across southern areas compared with last night. in scotland and northern england at northern ireland, some of them down to around four celsius but lots of sunshine in these to start tomorrow, mist and fog patches clearing, the mist in east wales and central and eastern areas breaking up in the early afternoon, with one of you patches remaining around the coast. for most, sunny afternoon remaining on wednesday and 24 degrees potentially in the north of scotland, 25 and ten across some southern counties. temperatures widely in the low to mid 20s. thursday, more and we have low cloud, extensively across the country, central and

eastern areas in particular, lingering war across eastern parts of the thursday afternoon, but then sunshine again developing. not as warm and scotland but still 22 in the west, 20 degrees in northern ireland, 24, 25 in the south—east of england. from thursday night and into friday at the weekend, things change. low pressure in the bay of biscay drifting northwards. it will be slow progress stop foremost on friday it will still be mainly dry with sunny spells, some showers breaking out across england and wales later but into the weekend, showers and thunderstorms will break out more widely and temperatures will start to drop just a little bit. that is how it is looking. see you soon.

this is bbc news, the headlines... a man has been charged with the murders of three people in a crossbow attack at their home in hertfordshire. a 22% pay rise forjunior doctors in england to bring an end to the 18—month—long dispute, the government says the deal is vital for the nhs. the liberal democrat party conference closes in brighton later today with a key note speech from leader sir ed davey. meet nazare, the injured turtle washed up in cumbria, now making waves in the warmer waters of the azores. junior doctors in england have warned ministers they expect above—inflation pay rises in future years — or they would face "consquences".

the warning comes a day after they agreed a 22% pay rise over two years. the health secretary, wes streeting, said the agreement was crucial for the nhs. here's our health editor, hugh pym. it began in march last year. striking junior doctors on picket lines in england and demanding a pay rise of 35% to be phased in, which they said should compensate for inflation over more than a decade. what do we want? pay restoration! when do we want it? now! some talks took place with the conservative government, but that didn't stop 11 rounds of strikes over a total of 44 days. soon after the election, the labour government made an increased pay offer, which the doctors union, the bma, put to members and they voted to accept. this is the first step towards restoring pay, towards restoring the value, which is all that doctors have wanted since the beginning of this campaign.

as you will know we have had huge pay cuts since 2008