suburbs of explosion in the southern suburbs of beirut as the israeli military said it was carrying out what it called "precise strikes" in the lebanese capital. police in london say they'll conduct reviews of allegations of crimes relating to sexual assault claims made against mohammed all fired. now with all the latest sport, here's sarah. hello from the bbc sport centre. the europa league continues injust a couple of hours with another nine opening round ties in the new—look competition. tottenham welcome the azerbaijani side qarabag to north london, with the spurs head coach, ange postecoglou, warning that expanding football schedule is reaching a "dangerous level" and must be addressed. its the first of their eight games in the league phase, with teams potentially having to play up to 16 matches to reach the final in bilbao in may next year. it comes just a week since manchester city midfielder rodri suggested that players could strike over fixture congestion.

i think we're getting to a real sort of dangerous level of what our expectations are around players. because instead of focusing on 1—2 tournaments, it's about the calendar year. that's more of an issue, players don't get a break between seasons like they used to. there's more tournaments, international, at a club level, continental level. so it'll get to a point where we won't have the best players out there playing, and probably even worse as them breaking down for various reasons. so it's definitely that needs to be addressed. —— something that needs to be addressed. and it's notjust the british clubs struggling. ajax take on besiktas in another of tonights europa league matches, and their midfielder jordan henderson has described the current workload on players as "crazy". something that looks neat —— needs

looking _ something that looks neat —— needs looking up— something that looks neat —— needs looking up properly. theyjust don't -et looking up properly. theyjust don't get any— looking up properly. theyjust don't get any break at all for the whole season, — get any break at all for the whole season, and then, even when it's the end of— season, and then, even when it's the end of the _ season, and then, even when it's the end of the season, they have nations league _ end of the season, they have nations league games or they'll have a tournament, then two weeks off maximum, then they'll have to do it all again _ maximum, then they'll have to do it all again. you know, maximum, then they'll have to do it allagain. you know, it's maximum, then they'll have to do it all again. you know, it's crazy. so ithink_ all again. you know, it's crazy. so i think that — all again. you know, it's crazy. so i think that really needs looking at, i think that really needs looking at. and — i think that really needs looking at, and i'm sure the welfare of the players _ at, and i'm sure the welfare of the players at — at, and i'm sure the welfare of the players at some point we'll have to come _ players at some point we'll have to come forward and first and everybody's. —— in everybody's. so here are those nine matches kicking off later. two early fixtures, rangers are in sweden to take on malmo, and fenerbah e play the belgian side union saint—gilloise. all those over on the bbc sport website. it's a big night of european football in the women's game as well, with the second round of the champions league. just a few of them there, all those are second leg ties. psg looking to turn around a two—goal defecit againstjuventus. manchester city shouldn't have too much trouble against paris, real madrid taking on sporting lisbon. british sides celtic and arsenal also look to have tricky games.

again, full details of all those on the website. alex matthews will captain her country for the first time when the red roses take on usa in their wxvi opener at bc place on sunday. the number eight, who is set to win her 70th cap, leads the starting 15 in place of marlie packer. the side also contains two international debutants in bristol bears centre phoebe murray and loughborough lightning wing bo westcombe—evans. britain's jack draper is through to the last 16 of the japan open following a straight—set win over mattia bellucci. draper, who is now world number 20, beat the italian in straight sets for his first victory since defeat byjannik sinner in the us open semi—finals earlier this month. the victory marks a return to form for the 22—year—old after a disappointing davis cup in manchester, where he lost his two singles matches. he'll now play polish second seed

hubert hurkacz on friday. and usa's ben shelton fought back from a set down to beat fellow countryman reilly opelka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. the defending champion will now face argentina's mariano navone in the second round. and in the china open, jannik sinner played his first match after winning the us open. the number one seed had to fight back from a set down to beat nicolas jarry with a 4—6, 6—3, 6—1 first—round victory. last year, the world number one, beat daniil medvedev to win the 500—level tournament. and karolina muchova eased past anna blinkova 6—1, 6—1 in the first round. she will face home—favourite yue yuan in the next match. and that's all the sport for now. stay up—to—date with all the latest if you go to the bbc sport website or download the bbc sport app.

sarah, thank you very much. let's return to the conflict in lebanon. bbc verify has been looking at what the latest satellite imagery and video on the ground can tell us about the damage sustained in the south of the country. richard irvine—brown has more. this is kfarmelki, in southern lebanon on tuesday. this is tamra, in northern israel, same day. and this is tyre, also in southern lebanon, on wednesday. even though hezbollah and israel have traded near daily cross—border fire for nearly a year, the intensity of strikes appears to be rising, with a lot of damage in southern lebanon. so this is fire data, which has been compiled by aurora tech — they're a german—based company who use satellites, which have special infrared sensors that monitor for temperature anomalies and help detect wildfires, which they then usually report to forestry and firefighting services. in this case, they're using the very same tech to analyse the situation in lebanon. and here are those areas in lebanon for 23 september —

the latest we've got — which indicate possible damage caused by israeli strikes, as well as fires down in israel, near the sea of galilee. now, it's important to note we haven't independently verified that strikes took place at all of these locations. but if we take this data and we use it as a guide, we can start to pick out individual areas and zone in on satellite imagery. so, 12 september, before this really got started, in a small town of about 7,500 people. and this is the same place on 2a september, showing these dark, grey patches around the west and the south. those are burn marks from explosions and fires. but what does this look like for the people on the ground in lebanon? well, this brief clip we've verified shows five impacts on the southern side of the location. the earliest copy we've seen of this clip is from three days ago, the 23rd. here, a massive smoke plume — or here, near the cemetery. but we don't have material from everywhere. instead, we use satellite imagery to confirm what's been happening. so again, 12 september,

before things really ramped up, this is where we've seen some of the most notable damage — it's about a mile—and—a—half from the israeli border, and 80 miles — or 125 km — from beirut. 2a september, the latest we have data for — again, you can see those dark patches of burning and damage. we know to go looking for this from that fire data which pointed to this spot, and the fire damage done on the 23rd. now on 23 september, the idf spokesperson, daniel hagari, said hezbollah had spent 20 years hiding its equipment in those towns and villages, along the border with southern lebanon. we can't independently verify this intelligence, though. however, the situation doesn't look like letting up. on thursday morning, the idf claimed hezbollah launched 45 rockets into israel — while they struck 75 targets in lebanon. as we go to air right now, the idf is claiming it's carried out precise strikes in beirut. so we will continue to use video, data, satellite imagery to tell you what we can about that

and across lebanon. october 7th will mark one year since the hamas attack on israel. more than 1,200 people were killed and over 200 others taken hostage, when hamas gunmen crossed the border from gaza, killing indiscriminately. they attacked dozens of sites, including the nova music festival, attended by 3,500 people. storyville has been speaking to some of those who survived, piecing together what happened. some of the material we're about to show you was filmed by hamas. that footage, along with the eyewitness accounts you're about hear, is distressing. the festival itself was amazing. the energy of people just wanting to dance and enjoy themselves and then going at it with all that they have. it was beautiful.

we were all students starting our fourth year. we all liked going to parties and the second the nova tickets came out, they were really cheap. it seemed like a perfect thing to do right before the year started. i came to the nova party for work. i brought a dj from hungary. myjob was to take him to the party, let him play his set and then take him back home. the last video i took from my phone was at 6.28am in the morning. it was the last drop that he played. and the moment that i stopped filming, someone grabbed my hand and showed me the sky.

shouting we yelled into the crowd. everyone scattered. it was like a screen coming up from the sky of rockets, just like... the most rockets i've ever seen in my life. i went to the dj and i told him, "listen, there's "no time for goodbyes. "there's no time for waiting. "we're running to the car and we're leaving." we stop at the side of the road. we see a concrete structure on the side of the road that is supposed to be as close to a bomb shelter as possible. and it seemed like the smartest

move to make, to go in. explosion gunfire i looked in the back mirror, i could see the car behind me that had stopped.

the driver and the guy that were next to him were shot in the head. and i saw them slaughter people. a group of people jump out, screaming in arabic. allahu akbar, allahu akbar. and then i see anaeljust pick them up and toss him out. he does that once, and then they throw another one in. every time they threw in a grenade, he just grabbed it, tossed it out. thinking to myself, oh, my god, this kid is throwing live grenades. i don't think that i've ever heard of anyone ever doing that. there was a really big explosion and i flew back. someone flew on me.

and when i finally got up, i remember, um, anael wasn't standing any more. he wasn't with us. they came back in... ..and then they started shooting everyone inside. they left and i thought everyone was acting or playing dead, so that they wouldn't get kidnapped. but after a minute or two, when people weren't lifting their heads or waking up, i realised that i was sitting in a pile of bodies.

gunfire we both got into an army jeep and they told us to put our heads down. but i couldn't look away. i've kind of understood that i'm never going to be the person that

i was before the 7th of october. and i'm trying to figure out who i'm going to be now. every single person that i lost on that day would have made the hell out of this life. i close my eyes for a moment and i picture my friends that aren't with us any more and hoping that, that, wherever they are, they're partying like crazy. for our viewers in the uk, the full documentary, "storyville: surviving october 7th: we will dance again," will be on bbc two tonight and is now on bbc iplayer. the film forms part of a group of programmes marking one year since the 7th of october attacks

and the war in gaza. a bbc storyville: life and death in gaza, will be broadcast in october. later on thursday, the uk prime minister will address world leaders at the un general assembly. he's been holding meetings with physics executives in new york. here he is visiting the nasdaq stock exchange. it comes ahead of the uk's international investment summit in october which the government hopes will attract hundreds of leading executives and financiers. elon musk has given a scathing response on x after the bbc revealed he hadn't been invited to the summit next month. he said he didn't think anyone should go to the uk when they were, as he put it, "releasing convicted paedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts." he didn't cite any evidence for his claim. faisal islam has more

on this. . ., ., , for his claim. faisal islam has more on this. .., ., , , on this. the context of this is the international _ on this. the context of this is the international investment - on this. the context of this is the | international investment summit, on this. the context of this is the - international investment summit, for the government it's absolutely essential in terms of their agenda, which is to get loads of investment in the industries of the future. times are tight in terms of public money, you deathly need international investors, there will be 300 them in the uk in the middle of october. you would think that in the sectors they are particularly focused on, electric vehicles, ai, it may be a bit of space industry too, elon musk is the leading entrepreneur in the world. he'd be a leading candidate to attend — indeed, he was invited to attend the same summit by the previous government and took a starring role in the ai summit hosted by rishi sunak, and sunak end up interviewing him actually for youtube. so this is a tricky one when the same guy that does that then post a whole load of inflammatory comments on his own website that he owns, on his own personal site in the middle of some serious social disorder and rioting

in august. and my understanding is that there wasn't an invite, and it was connected to those series of posts, itjust wasn't was connected to those series of posts, it just wasn't for thinkable that he could be at the summit and that he could be at the summit and that he'd be a distraction. so we reported that, he's responded in typical elon musk fashion by doubling down on some of what he said over the summer and saying," "no one should go," suggestive of a boycott and boycott. this is tricky in terms of the government's decision — on the one hand, it's the same old spat, on the other hand, it goes to the heart of when you are so dependent on investment, where are the red lines? there'll be people from governments with human rights records that will be a welcome with open arms to the uk, and whose investments will be welcomed. but on this occasion, no invitation. on the

other hand, i'vejust this occasion, no invitation. on the other hand, i've just been contacted by the former chancellor, jeremy hunt, who assures me — it could be said that elon musk has no intention to invest in the uk, so no great loss. butjeremy hunt spoke to me and said that when he last spoke to elon musk at the last summit, he did say he was going to invest in a second european tesla giga factory for vehicles and batteries after he'd built his last one, and the uk was a top candidate. so this is pretty tricky stuff. we note that hasn't come out of the wash that he's been invited to the summit — but it shows there's some jeopardy and decisions made here. thea;t but it shows there's some “eopardy and decisions made here. they were wronal let and decisions made here. they were wrongly let out _ and decisions made here. they were wrongly let out under _ and decisions made here. they were wrongly let out under the _ wrongly let out under the government's early release scheme. 32 of the 37 are now back in jail. one of them went on to be charged with a new offence. hannah miller is our political correspondent in

westminster.— our political correspondent in westminster. ~ , ., westminster. when the government introduced its _ westminster. when the government introduced its early _ westminster. when the government introduced its early release - westminster. when the government introduced its early release scheme, etc has no choice to do so because otherwise prisons would run out of space. but some prisoners were not supposed to be eligible, including those convicted of breaching restraining orders which was listed as an offence under the sentencing act of 2020. but amari ward, whose 31, had had his case brought to the courts under older, out of date legislation — and that meant that when it came to working out who could and couldn't be released, the system didn't flag up that he was ineligible. he was let out and allegedly, then on the same day, allegedly, then on the same day, allegedly went on to commit sexual assault. he's been charged and is due to appear in court next month. but when officials were looking into what happened around his release and circumstances of it, that's when they discovered that there could be

other people in the same situation. 37 prisoners in total who were released when they shouldn't have been, 32 of them, the ministry of justice say, are now back behind bars. their convictions remain valid and the ministry ofjustice says they are working urgently with police to get the remaining five behind bars as well. we are told that all the victims who were affected have been told and the crown prosecution service and government said they are taking steps to ensure this doesn't happen again. now, it's fair to say that there's been a lot of interest in all things lunar in the last few weeks. a little over a week ago, a supermoon lit up the sky across the world — and that coincided with a rare partial lunar eclipse. and now, there's more. earth is about to get a second moon, scientists are saying. the mini—moon will be around from this weekend, and will be here for a couple of months before escaping from earth's gravity again. well, drjennifer millard, who is an astronomer, joins us now to tell us a bit more

about this tiny second moon. so what exactly is a mini moon? good to have you with us, jennifer. how small is a mini?— small is a mini? very happy to be with ou. small is a mini? very happy to be with yom so _ small is a mini? very happy to be with you. so it's _ small is a mini? very happy to be with you. so it's about _ small is a mini? very happy to be with you. so it's about ten - small is a mini? very happy to be| with you. so it's about ten metres across in this case, so it's not the smallest asteroid out there but it definitely isn't the biggest either. think a double—decker bus, that sort of size. our environment is very busy, it's not something you see in diagrams on the solar system, but there are tens of thousands of asteroids that orbit in a similar space to our planet, and sometimes these orbits end up being quite similar to these orbits end up being quite similarto our these orbits end up being quite similar to our planet. and if these asteroids are moving slow enough compared to earth, then they could be temporarily captured by our planet's gravity, and they might enter orbit for a few months or a couple years, then they carry on their way around the sun again. so this one won't orbit our planet completely, it'll slingshot by our

planet, then carry on as it was before. and we will get another visit in three decades i before. and we will get another visit in three decades i understand this one was _ visit in three decades i understand this one was predicted? _ visit in three decades i understand this one was predicted? exactly, l visit in three decades i understand i this one was predicted? exactly, we think these happen _ this one was predicted? exactly, we think these happen every _ this one was predicted? exactly, we think these happen every few - this one was predicted? exactly, we | think these happen every few years, but there's only a few recorded incidences of this happening. so the fact we've been able to predict it happening — so we've discovered the asteroid before he got to earth, because it was only discovered in august this year, and we've been able to monitor its progress, it'll stick around for two months, and that's a great opportunity for us to study and asteroid and a bit more detail because we don't get this happen very often. so for the science, it's absolute fantastic. so if you're an amateur astronomer, will that be able to see this mini moon? or do you need something much more heavy in terms of kit? if you more heavy in terms of kit? if you do need something _

more heavy in terms of kit? if you do need something on _ more heavy in terms of kit? if you do need something on the - more heavy in terms of kit? if you do need something on the more l do need something on the more professional end, it's too much for back yard telescopes. but we do have a comet coming up in october, so it's visible at the minute in the southern hemisphere, just about hitting a naked eye visibility. and by mid october, we expect it'll be visible from the northern and southern hemispheres. you can't see this first base fog, but there's a wonderful bit of space to be coming out that we can see. taste wonderful bit of space to be coming out that we can see.— wonderful bit of space to be coming out that we can see. we seem to be livin: in a out that we can see. we seem to be living in a particularly busy - out that we can see. we seem to be living in a particularly busy time - living in a particularly busy time for conversations and what's happening, which is fantastic == happening, which is fantastic -- sace happening, which is fantastic -- space debris. this is twofold — we are seeing lots more space activity, especially the moon, which is fuelled by a nasa's artemis programme, it hopefully in just a few years' time, and i think we live in a world of social media where we know what's going on around so much easier than we always used to be able to. so i think that combination of having the information available and so much more leisure activity

happening means we are hearing all about it all the time.— about it all the time. thank you for bein: with about it all the time. thank you for being with us _ about it all the time. thank you for being with us on _ about it all the time. thank you for being with us on the _ about it all the time. thank you for being with us on the programme. l about it all the time. thank you for i being with us on the programme. no chance of us seeing the mini moon by the sound of things, but there is that comet coming in october to look out for. stay with us here on bbc news. will be back with the world today — but from me for the moment, it's bye for now. don't forget you can catch up with all the day's main stories with lots of updates on the bbc news website and app with the life page they're on a number of stories. hello there, good evening. well, we've seen a lot more wet weather around again today. in fact, some spots, particularly for central areas of england, have already seen more than three times the average september rainfall. there has been some sunshine today in between those heavy, thundery downpours, but the ground is saturated, the rivers are full and there are flood

warnings still in place. these are the areas of most concern overnight tonight. there's an amber weather warning issued by the met office valid until 6am on friday morning. now there could be some very heavy downpours within this zone. be prepared for some more flooding. we'll see showers merge together, perhaps as much as 30—40mm, falling within just three hours — double that within six hours. these showers gradually pushing further southwards and eastwards as we head through the night. the skies clearing behind the rain, and we'll see a chilly northerly wind take hold too. so really quite cool out towards the far north and the west, but still the legacy of cloud and rain across parts of east anglia and south east england, where it's feeling milder into tomorrow. now you can see the winds turn more northerly tomorrow as that front starts to clear, and the colder air seeps down from the north too, pushing those milder yellows and oranges out of the way. so things are going to be turning colder, but at least drier into the weekend.

but on friday morning, still that cloud across east anglia, southeast england, that moves away, as does the rain, and across the flood affected areas too. and we are expecting a largely dry day this time. some showers running down through coastal areas across the far north of scotland too, but temperatures for many will be a lot lower — 8—11; celsius north to south, with quite a chilly northerly wind blowing as well. and then, as high pressure starts to build in from the southwest, the winds are set to lighten, and it could be quite cold and frosty for some, particularly across the north on saturday morning. a localised frost too further south. there'll be some brightness and some sunshine around on saturday. a much drier—looking day all in all, with some showers affecting the far north and west of scotland, and down through the irish sea coasts, perhaps. but temperature—wise, just 11—15 celsius, so cooler than it has been and generally a different feel to things, too, over the weekend. on sunday, it turns a bit milder

again as the southwesterly wind starts to develop. a bit more in the way of cloud, wet and windy on sunday night.

at six — police reveal that 19 women made allegations against former harrods boss mohamed al fayed in the past 20 years, but no further action was taken. multiple women say they had sexual health tests when they worked at harrods. tonight, one of the doctors denies it.

did you carry out std tests on harrods — did you carry out std tests on harrods staff _ did you carry out std tests on harrods staff members? - did you carry out std tests on harrods staff members? no, i did you carry out std tests on harrods staff members? no, i did not. also on the programme tonight, israel's prime minister tells the army to fight on. i will be live from lebanon, where a further 26 people have been killed today in israeli air strikes, raising questions about whether a mooted ceasefire from world leaders at the un can really be achieved. the uk covid inquiry — a senior doctor breaks down in tears as he describes about what he called scenes "from hell" in hospitals during the pandemic. naomi campbell is banned from being a charity trustee after a watchdog finds funds were spent on spa treatments and cigarettes. and the tale of greg james and long boi — why the radio 1 star ended up spending the morning in york unveiling a statue of a duck. and coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news — another busy night of europan football with tottenham one of the british sides in action as they prepare to play their first

match in this season's europa league.