universal forces. withdraw universal forces. spacex has successfully tested a rocket booster capable of taking off and landing and tacked back on the launch pad. the successful test brings a company closer to its goal of achieving rapid usability. more than 1.5 million homes and businesses in sao paulo are without electricity a day after the city was struck by violent storms. at least seven people are reported to have been killed by falling trees and collapsing walls. king charles has led tributes to scott and's former first minister, alex salmond, who died on saturday at the age of 69. it is understood she collapsed after delivering a speech at an international conference in north macedonia. now it's time for a look at today's sport. we start with the uefa nations league. england are looking to put their surprise defeat to greece behind them. they're playing finland

at the moment in helsinki, where with just over half an hour played it's 0—1. interim boss lee carsley has made six changes from the experimental side that lost on thursday. one of the returning players, jack grealish, has scored the early goal in that one. dean henderson replacing jordan pickford in goal. harry kane back on the side too. you can see the faroe islands are praying that you are in league see later on a ceramic. —— are playing that fear. next to the women's t20 cricket world cup, where australia and india are both eyeing a place in the semifinals. a win for australia will see them go through as group winners and they're well placed to do that, having made 151—8 from their 50 overs.

opener grace harris their top scorer with 50. india need to win to boost their semifinal hopes. chasing 152, they're currently 61 for 3 after eight overs. earlier in the day, england thrashed scotland by 10 wickets to move to the top of the other group. after winning the toss and opting to bat, scotland could only post 109 from their 20 overs. england reached their target with exactly 10 overs to spare. they next face the west indies on tuesday. kenya's ruth chepng'etich has broken the world record to win the chicago marathon. the 30—year—old clocked a time of two hours nine minutes and 57 seconds to surpass ethiopian tigst assefa's previous record by nearly two minutes. she's the first woman to run a marathon in under two hours 10. i feel so great. i am ifeel so great. i am proud of myself and humble for the victory. this is my dream that has come true.

and it was a day to remember for kenya with chepng'etich's compatriot — john korir winning the men's race with a time of 2.02.43. it's the second—fastest time ever run at the chicago marathon, and also the fastest marathon finish this year. new zealand have stretched their lead over great britain in the america's cup before racing had to be abandoned due to low winds off the coast of barcelona. trailing 2—0 after saturday, sir ben ainslie�*s ineos britannia team were penalised in the third race for failing to keep clear of the new zealand boat. a near collision there. the defending champions went on to win the race and so are 3—0 up with the final expected to resume tomorrow. the first to win seven races will win the title. novak djokovic has fallen short is his attempt to win his 100th atp tour title after being beaten in straight sets at the shanghai masters by world number one jannik sinner. onlyjimmy connors and roger federer have over 100 titles. sinner, the italian 23—years—old, edged a close

first set on a tie—break but the second was more convincing against 37—year—old djokovic, 6—3. it's sinner�*s seventh title this year, including the australian open and us open. playing against novak djokovic, it's one of the toughest challenges we have and i'm obviously very happy how i handled the situation. he was serving great the first set and i couldn't find a great way to break him and then i played a very good breaker in the first set which gave me confidence to start off well in the second set and i am very happy about my performance throughout this whole tournament, it is obviously a very special one. staying in china, aryna sabalenka has won the wuhan open for a third successive time, beating the home favourite zheng qinwen over three sets. sabalenka prevailed on what was her third match point against the chinese number one, after a battle that lasted more than two and a half hours.

and that's all the sport for now. let's turn to the us now, and with little more than three weeks to the presidential election, kamala harris has challenged her rival donald trump to release his medical records to prove he's fit for the job. the vice—president was speaking after the white house published a medical report which said she had "excellent health" and was fit for the presidency. following the releease of the medical records, a harris campaign spokesman said in a social media "your turn, donald trump". ms harris accused mr trump, who's 78—years—old, and his team of a lack of transparency. it's just a further example of his lack of transparency that, on top of his unwillingness to debate again, his unwillingness to do an interview with 60 minutes, which again is part of the norm of what anyone running for president of the united states does. and i think that it's obvious

that his team at least does not want the american people to see everything about who he is. donald trump's most detailed records came more than six years ago, in 2018. without revealing his health records, mr trump steam quoted his doctor as saying that he was in "perfect and excellent health to be commander in chief." if elected in november, donald trump would be the oldest president in us history by the end of his term. the former president has been attending a rally in coachella in california, where he criticised kamala harris. let's take a look at the latest national poll tracker. and you can see how close the race for the white house is, with kamala harris ahead in the national polling averages, on 48%, and donald trump on 46%. meanwhile, former president bill clinton is set to hit the campaign trail, stumping for kamala harris in georgia. now that's a key battleground state and one thatjoe biden won in 2020, by 13,000 votes. it's also in georgia's fulton county that alleged election

interference led to one of four criminal prosecutions against donald trump. george chidi, politics reporter at the guardian us, who is in georgia, gave us his analysis. well, i think it's interesting that he's going to be getting out the vote in fort valley, georgia, which is in peach county. it's a majority african—american county. it's in the black belt in sort of southern georgia, and it's almost exactly 50—50 republican and democrat because of turnout. the emphasis of the campaign right now isn't so much in convincing anybody to vote one way or another. it's about getting out the vote that you believe is going to support your candidate, and that's what they've sent him here to do. and how is kamala harris doing with that demographic? i know you're saying that it's about turnout, but is she polling as well as she would be hoping to at this point with black residents there?

i think she's doing as well as anybody could. i think her numbers in georgia with black voters are obama—esque or close enough. there is this emphasis in the early...before harris became the nominee, trump was trying to target black voters and particularly black men, and he was doing better than other people had expected. i think that's all been wiped away. um, i think kamala harris has as strong a support from the black community in georgia as any candidate has in the last 50 years. and, george, what do you think bill clinton's message is going to be in georgia? because, of course, he famously, with his own campaign and what he's known for is how strong he is on the economy as an issue. but that's seen as a weakness for the harris campaign, isn't it? so that's changing. the last polling results i saw showed harris and trump very close in terms of public

support for, you know, economic issues. and i think part of that, particularly in georgia, is going to be tied to how well this state recovers from the hurricanes, from hurricane helene. it's not quite fort valley, but to to the east of that point, like, crops were blown away like a third of the cotton crops gone because of helene. peanuts are gone. this is still a farming state. and i think that throws a wrench into, you know, any sort of prediction about how georgia is going to play in november in the election, because i think a lot of people are still digging out from the hurricane. and how federal response reacts to that, i think, is going to determine to some degree what happens there. and don't forget we have a special section online with all the very latest us election news in the run

up to november's vote. it includes the very latest poll tracker, which currently shows kamala harrisjust ahead of donald trump in national poll. find out more on the bbc news website or app. more than 1.5 million homes and businesses in sao paulo are without electricity, a day after the brazilian city was struck by violent storms. at least seven people are reported to have been at least eight people are reported to have been killed by falling trees and collapsing walls. the storm brought wind speeds of up to 100 kilometres an hour and torrential rain. the downpours gave some relief from a record—breaking drought across much of brazil. joining me now is mimi swaby, who's been monitoring this story. what more can you tell us about the scale of the damage? we know at least _ the scale of the damage? , know at least eight people died when storms hit various parts of brazil, but seven of them were in sao paulo, brazil's most populous state. this storm swept across the central and

south—eastern parts of brazil come up with the violent winds come up with the violent winds come up with the violent winds come up to 100 kilometres per hour, and some places had daily rainfall reaching ten centimetres. the majority of damage was caused by falling trees, infrastructure such as waltz, caused by these violent winds and really heavy rainfall. sao paulo residents have described a sudden unexpected storm is brief but really intense, so although it was a shortage has had a really destructive week, and many people are without electricity. there were protests in sao paulo on saturday?- paulo on saturday? these brackets _ paulo on saturday? these brackets are _ paulo on saturday? these brackets are hit _ paulo on saturday? these brackets are hit large - paulo on saturday? these | brackets are hit large parts paulo on saturday? these - brackets are hit large parts of sao paulo, some people took to the streets with pots and pans demanding that electricity be restored. however, there are still nearly1 million homes on sunday morning local time without electricity. the energy firm which provides a lot of the pub for that state says it hasn't got a clear timescale yet often the full service will be restored. —— a lot of the

power. however, it has given many customers back to service, and it is said sao paulo residents have received a notice stating that the energy it is hoped to be back by monday, although as you can imagine two days without power, many people are not happy. there has been a record period without rain in brasilia before this. �* . ., this. brasilia, the capital, has experienced - this. brasilia, the capital, has experienced a - this. brasilia, the capital, has experienced a record| this. brasilia, the capital, i has experienced a record of more than 165 days without rain. so many welcome to this storm. the rain was so intense in brasilia that officials in the chamber of deputies were actually using umbrellas incited during their meetings as rain was seeping through the building. but people are saying this is very welcome. brazil in recent months has been experiencing its worst drought on record. it has never had a drought does but bad, and these are dry condition is a and these are dry conditions are brazil, particularly an the amazon and in the largest wetlands in the world, as well as chucking major cities with

smoke. —— chucking major cities. king charles has led tributes to the former scottish first minister alex salmond, who's died aged 69. the king said mr salmond's "devotion to scotland drove his decades of public service." salmond's succcessor as first minister, nicola sturgeon, said he had been her mentor and that "for more than a decade they formed one of the most successful partnerships in uk politics". the alba party founder and former snp leader is thought to have suffered a heart attack during a trip to north macedonia yesterday. earlier, my collague nicky schiller spoke to the first minister of scotland, john swinney, and asked him what he will remember most about alex salmond. he transformed the snp from a party on the fringes of scottish politics to becoming the government of scotland, and then he took our country so incredibly close to scottish independence. i will remember him as a significant figure who transformed our politics and the opportunities

for scotland to become an independent country. and at this moment of his untimely death, i express my condolences to his wife and family at this very sad time. what was he like to work with personally? he was a driven individual. he had a very purposeful agenda that he was pursuing, whether that was about getting us to a position where we had greater electoral success, where we could win elections, and we won an election in 2007 for the first time under his leadership, so once we got into government, he was very driven about serving the people of scotland and about advancing the arguments of independence. i certainly remember an individual who was incredibly driven around his politics, and our prospects. also someone who was a significant strategic thinker about how to advance our agenda. he did manage to do that, he took the snp from a small

party into government. that's right, over the course of alex salmond's political career, he went into parliament in 1987 when the snp had three members of parliament, and over the course of the next few decades, he led a team of us who got the snp into government in 2007, and we have been in government ever since. of course, the electoral success that we experienced got us to a position whereby we were able to force the agenda on the constitutional question and we came very close to winning independence in the referendum in 2014. it is undeniable, of course, this has come forward in all of the commentary there has been in the course of the last few hours, a recognition that alex salmond made a significant impact

on the politics of scotland, the united kingdom and further afield. because of the effectiveness of the approach that he took. in recent years, he left the snp, set up the alba party and had a rift with his successor as first minister, nicola sturgeon. all these things have taken place in what i would certainly accept is a difficult few years. there will be plenty of time to reflect on all of these issues. at this moment, it is undeniable that alex salmond was a significant figure who transformed the politics of scotland and took our country incredibly close to becoming an independent country. and i think in the aftermath of all of that, generations of people in scotland today who believe in scottish independence, who believe that is the right way forward for our country, and what is important is that those of us

who now take forward that argument have got to make sure that we deliver on that objective. and transform the prospects of scotland as an independent country. what will your abiding memory be of alex salmond? i can vividly remember driving to edinburgh the day after the 2007 election, and hearing alex salmond speaking from edinburgh where he had arrived and essentially said that because we had won the election, scotland had changed and would change forever as a consequence. i remember feeling at that moment all of the years of endeavour that we had all put in had suddenly reached fulfilment because we had the opportunity to shape the future of our country in a way that we had never had before. that is an extraordinary privilege that we are able to build on today.

a genetic study of the remains of the explorer christopher columbus strongly suggests that he wasjewish. the finding is based on more than 20 years of research by spanish scientists. he's likely to have been born in western europe, possibly in the spanish city of valencia. it's thought colombus — whose voyages began the spanish conquests in the americas — concealed hisjewish ethnicity, or converted to catholicism to escape religious persecution. practising jews were expelled from spain in 11192, the same year columbus landed in the americas. let's speak to professor emeritus of mediterranean history at the university of cambridge, david abulafia. thank you forjoining me. are you convinced by this study? what have historians traditionally believed? the evidence. _ traditionally believed? the evidence, if— traditionally believed? the evidence, if you _ traditionally believed? tue: evidence, if you were to traditionally believed? tue evidence, if you were to go to genoa, and you can go to what is said to be his house, it was

part after he died, but you can see photographs of documents in the archives what you do refer to a christopher columbus he was born in the city, who came from a family of weavers. so, one would really need to make sure this is not the same person because it has always been assumed that it is the same person, and this genovese connection, that is his identity. connection, that is his identity-— connection, that is his identity. connection, that is his identi .~ :, , identity. what can you tell us about the _ identity. what can you tell us about the methods _ identity. what can you tell us about the methods of - identity. what can you tell us about the methods of this - about the methods of this study? because they are talking about dna samples, but it is not that straightforward. there are also matching it with records and statistics as well. yes, it is very complicated. i am not an expert in dna, but as far as am not an expert in dna, but as farasi am not an expert in dna, but as faras i canjudge, am not an expert in dna, but as far as i canjudge, a lot of the evidence is based on statistical comparisons, so you can never be absolutely sure.

and when you actually look at the historical evidence, not the historical evidence, not the biological evidence, there really are questions that arise in connection with these claims. the idea that she came from valencia... there is a real problem there because they were expelled after the programme from the earth in 1391, surface family converted then, as manyjewish families did, that would mean that he did, that would mean that he did not convert. it would be his grandfather, probably, who converted. so we would really need to dig deep into the records from valencia. that seemed to me that was a rather fantastic addition. also the fact that she wrote in spanish. many people have pointed out the why didn't she write in

italian? why isn't she writing in valencia? the dialect of catalan? that would be his native language if you came from that part of the world. but he did write always in castilian spanish, in what we think of a spanish. there are all sorts of issues here that i think we need to be sorted out before we can accept this. some fascinating _ before we can accept this. some fascinating question. _ before we can accept this. some fascinating question. briefly, - fascinating question. briefly, countries have been arcing about his heritage, his origins for some time, trying to claim ownership. for some time, trying to claim ownership-— ownership. everyone wants to claim ownership. _ ownership. everyone wants to claim ownership. of _ ownership. everyone wants to claim ownership. of course, l claim ownership. of course, nowadays he is a less popular figure, there is much more emphasis on the fact that although when arrived in the caribbean is full of admiration for the native population, later on he put them to work and exploited them in the hope of acquiring large amounts of

gold. and the aim of acquiring that god was to launch a crusade for sub so, to capture jerusalem for christendom. this rather undermines the argument that he is a secret tojoe burke. —— a secretivejew. thank you. many uk towns and cities have seen a drastic reduction in live music because bands are playing half as many gigs on tour as they did in the 1990s. new research by the music venue trust says a typical tour used to have 22 dates — now that figures is often only 11. chi chi izundu reports. # i see how this is going to go.# making the news this year has been the huge artists and their huge tours. and whilst they're being credited with bringing in billions to the uk economy, fans flocking to see top names at large venues may be

neglecting small local clubs and grassroots musicians. this pub once upon a time used to be a music venue which played host to some of the biggest names in rock — queen, the rolling stones. it was on the list for oasis's first tour 30 years ago... ..but according to the music venue trust, 23 of the 3a venues who took a punt on oasis have since closed down. it's found that, back in the �*90s, on an average tour, an artist would perform 22 dates, but that's now dropped down to 11. i know for a fact that it's going to be much harderfor me to fiscally afford to do the length of touring that i would like to do, and there's no way that i would be able to keep up with the historic touring circuit that i had the benefit of at the very start of my career. the trust now wants a £1 levy on all arena and stadium concerts to help grassroots

venues and artists thrive. others in the industry have other ideas. the biggest single thing the government could do to help us to make those shows more viable is to reduce the 20% rate on vat that we have on tickets in the uk, and that reduction would put more liquidity into the sector, would keep venues open, would make more shows in more towns more viable, and stop us from sort of following a path where actually the only way to guarantee you're going to have a profitable tour is to restrict yourself to the major cities. last week, the culture secretary, lisa nandy, said music venues were absolutely the top of her agenda and the industry should expect to hear from the government within the next month. chi chi izundu, bbc news. natives of the japanese atom bomb survivors organisation, who were awarded the nobel peace prize, have paid their respects at the piece per model in hiroshima. the centre wanted

to bring news of the nobel win to bring news of the nobel win to the predecessors in the fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons. the memorial works for the bomb fell on the japanese city, killing at least 140,000 people. the group is a coach outlet lovers and a note promising to continue their work. —— the group of�*s co—chair. please stay with us on bbc news. plenty more to come on oliver top headlines. hello there. sunday developed into a rather cool and cloudy story pretty much across the country, and there's some rain that's going to push in and some of that turn quite heavy across southwest england. this frontal system, though, is also starting to introduce some milder air, and it's going to push that cooler northerly flow we've seen just recently out

of the way. so as we go through the week ahead a change is coming. yes, it might not suit all of you, but it looks likely that for the rest of this week it's going to be a milder story, and there will be some heavy outbreaks of rain around at times, particularly from midweek onwards. so let's take a look at the details, then. here's that frontal system. during the early hours of monday morning, drifting its way steadily eastwards, probably by the early morning rush hour, it will have cleared away and leave a trail of cloud in its wake. northern england, northern ireland and scotland largely fine and dry, some scattered showers moving their way across the northern isles. top temperatures between 10 and 12 degrees here, 13 or 14 elsewhere. but look at this — 17 in the southwest, tapping into that milder air already. we could see some sharp, possibly thundery downpours developing on tuesday as that milder air continues to move through. quite a lot of cloud and murk around potentially on tuesday, but a good deal of dry weather.

the showers potentiallyjust staying across the southwest and running up through wales and running up through wales and into the irish sea. here we'll see highs generally between 12 and 17 degrees once again. but it's wednesday when the winds will strengthen further, still from the south. but we could see a spell of very wet weather. a lot of uncertainty as to where that rain will be sitting at the moment. heaviest bursts potentially look likely to be along the west coast and then moving its way steadily northwards with gale force gusts of winds in scotland. but if we continue to see some breaks in the cloud and some drier weather in the southeast, that wind is tapping into some very warm air. we could get highs of 21 degrees, 70 fahrenheit — way above the average for this time of year. little ridge of high pressure keeps things quiet on thursday, before the next area of low pressure threatens to bring yet more gales pressure threatens to bring yet more gates and another speu more gates and another spell of heavy rain. so if you're lucky enough to have the drier weather on thursday, make the most of it because we close out the working week, potentially, with more wet and windy weather to come.

live from jerusalem, this is bbc news. the main headlines at this hour. un peacekeepers have demanded an explanation from israel after they say is tanks forcibly entered a un position in southern lebanon. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has told the un

secretary—general it is time to pull with the un peacekeepers out of southern lebanon and out of hezbollah strongholds. in london, in other news, a spectacular moment for spacex as it achieves a successful launch and return of its starship rocket booster. president biden in florida where he is expected to announce more than half $1 billion of funding for energy grids damaged by hurricanes. tributes paid to alex salmond, scotland's former first minister who has died at the age of 69. you join us on a night when the tensions between israel and the united nations seem to intensify by the hour. in the last hour, un peacekeepers have

demanded that israel provide an explanation for what they called