live from singapore, this is bbc news. king charles visits the national centre of indigenous excellence in sydney, 3 day after being heckled by an aboriginal politician in the australian parliament. another round of israeli air strikes in beirut targets financial institutions, thought to be linked to hezbollah. six new civil lawsuits are filed against sean "diddy" combs in a federal court in new york. evenif even if they don't come back to russia i will participate in the election. the widow of russian opposition leader alexei navalny tells the bbc she wants to be president of russia one day.

welcome to newsday. i'm steve lai. we begin in sydney, where king charles and queen camilla are on the final day of their tour of australia. he began his day at the national centre of indigenous excellence, with an opportunity to meet community organisers and elders. there were also performances and events held to mark the visit at the centre in sydney. later, he will be joined by queen camilla at a barbecue, before heading to a cancer research centre. the visit to the national centre of indigenous excellence comes a day after the king was heckled in the australian parliament. let's get a reminder of lidia thorpe�*s protest: applause you are not our king! you are not welcome! you are not our king! give us what you stole from us!

our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people! you destroyed our land! this is not your land! this is not — this is not your land! this is not your— this is not your land! this is not your land! you are not making! _ not your land! you are not making! you are not our king! i'm joined now by our correspondent, katy watson, who's following events in sydney. get us up to speed, has there been any fallout or reaction to what we saw transpire in parliament house yesterday? there has been lots of reaction, both here in australia and of course abroad. many people saying that it was an outburst that wasn't necessary, that it was not appropriate, but they have been plenty of people who have backed senator thorpe, saying this is a message that needed to be said, and it is a message that many people feel, first nations people here in australia, also feel. how it

was done, in front of the king, i think people here are very divided on that, but certainly the message i think is clear that there is that concern that british colonisation led to massacres, led to huge inequalities that are still very much present here in australia today, but pretty much every outlet, newspaper, australian, has been talking about it. ., , australian, has been talking about it. . , ., , about it. has king charles himself said _ about it. has king charles himself said anything - about it. has king charles i himself said anything about about it. has king charles - himself said anything about it? there was no statement that came from it, palace sources said their majesties were very pleased with the welcome that they received from australia but no, and i think that is something that has been commented on, the absence in addressing it head on. now he spent the morning and redfearn, which is the kind of heart of the civil rights movement here

in australia, it's a very important aboriginal neighbourhood in sydney. he met elders there, he watched them dance, he also had the welcome to country ceremony, which is an aboriginal ritual, welcoming visitors to their land, and in fact they said when they entered he was on gadigal land, so there are certainly efforts to make sure that on this visit he is addressing notjust the kind of classic australian barbecue, coming to sydney opera house here, but he is also meeting aboriginal communities, and talking to that. i believe there were people kind of shouting that he is not mike from redfearn, when he went into the indigenous centre for excellence, but so far, a quieter day than what we saw in canberra. get far, a quieter day than what we saw in canberra.— saw in canberra. get us up to seed

saw in canberra. get us up to speed with — saw in canberra. get us up to speed with what _ saw in canberra. get us up to speed with what he _ saw in canberra. get us up to speed with what he would - saw in canberra. get us up to speed with what he would be | speed with what he would be doing for the rest of the day, he has quite a busy schedule, the queen is well, and where will they be going next? the queen will they be going next? the 0ueen will— will they be going next? the queen will be _ will they be going next? tue: queen will be going will they be going next? tte: queen will be going to a reading workshop, then they are having a barbecue in western sydney. the king will be meeting two cancer specialists, the australians of the year specialist in melanoma, and melanoma is known as australia's national cancer, obviously here in a very sunny country it is something that is very much talked about and very important for australia, so he is meeting a doctor who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year and through his pioneering research with his colleague, they looked at treatments for him based on their own research, so that will be later. he will be coming here to sydney opera house to meet the public and then conducting a fleet review, and that will end his trip here

in australia, before he heads to samoa tomorrow.- in australia, before he heads to samoa tomorrow. katy watson following the royal visits in sydney. to the middle east next, where a fresh round of israeli air strikes hit the lebanese capital, beirut. these are recent pictures out of baabda, lebanon, a suburb of beirut, where mutiple air strikes have been reported on targets the israeli army claims are linked to hezbollah. one site was near a main government hospital. at least four people have reportedly been killed. it comes after israel's army issued fresh evacuation orders for civilians in the capital city's southern suburbs. israel earlier warned of further strikes on hezbollah�*s financial infrastructure, after targeting more than a dozen bank branches in beirut. the israel defense forces says it's targeting the lebanese bank al-qard al—hassan to stop large funds flowing to hezbollah and financing the militant group's operations.

but the united nations special coordinator for lebanon told the bbc her office considers the israeli strikes punitive, as lebanese people also use the banks for everyday funds. hezbollah launched 170 projectiles and rockets in retalation, according to the idf. our senior international correspondent, orla guerin, is following the latest developments from beirut. well, israel has expanded its list of targets now and is effectively blowing up a bank, a bank linked to hezbollah, a financial institution that has not only branches here in beirut but in the south of the country and in the east, where hezbollah would have strong support. now, the warnings were issued, we saw some signs of panic in the centre of beirut, people trying to get away from branches of this financial institution. there were streets jammed with cars. then the explosions began, sending dense, dark, black smoke into the night sky over beirut, now

a very familiar sight. we know from what israel is saying that this institution was funnelling money to hezbollah, which israel says came from iran, and this money was being used to buy weapons, to fund weapons storage facilities, and to set up weapons launch sites. now, israel has not produced proof of that. it says it will reveal in the coming days how all of this has been happening, and how hezbollah has been using civilian institutions and charities as fronts for what israel calls terror financing. worth remembering, i think, that it is now a month since israel went toward here with a massive campaign of air strikes that was followed a week later with a ground invasion, which is continuing. at least 1,800 lebanese people have been killed in that time, and day after day hezbollah is still able to fire rockets into israel.

bbc verify�*s nick eardley has been looking at social media footage from the beirut strikes, including widely shared fake ai—generated images. yes, israel has struck a number of bank premises in lebanon as part of the ongoing offensive against hezbollah. let me show you where some of the strikes were in the capital, beirut. you can see a couple here down in the south, within a couple of kilometres actually of the airport. there are more up here. there were more strikes as well, but these are some of the ones we've been able to confirm and verify. let me show you some of the footage, which has also been verified by the bbc team, starting with this one from southern lebanon. you can see two buildings are on fire. not this one, but this one here is a bank building. there is another video here where you can see a big

fireball. in that building, there. both of these locations are registered sites of the bank, and israel says it is targeting the bank because it is used by hezbollah, it says the bank was touring france for hezbollah, which were being used to buy weapons and pay its military. but one expert from a defence think tank, said this to us. this risks setting a dangerous precedent. they also said it risks blurring the line between military and civilian infrastructure, and the un also raised concerns that residents were only given a brief warning to evacuate. so there is a lot of verified material out there. there is also some fake imagery doing the rounds, which we wanted to show you. some of it has been used —— viewed thousands of times online. this is one of them. it supposedly shows a plane landing in beirut airport. this is coming up

under search on expert it is not of the international airport, if you look at the background, it is not the same as the pictures we have of beirut airport. the plane, if you focus in on it, is also distorted, so that image is false. we showed you this one earlier. we thought it had been ai generated, but we've kept analysing an hour actually not so sure. we think it could be a real image with some odd features, which could be to do with how the photo was taken and saved. it is quite a complicated one but we will keep analysing this sort of image to build up a picture of what happened. meanwhile, in gaza, israel's military operation against hamas continues, with ground raids in the northern jabalia area. the un's human rights office said the idf�*s security operations in gaza are forcing mass displacement of civilians there, and aid groups say all three remaining hospitals in the north are running short of supplies and fuel, after israel paused the delivery of humanitarian aid for the first half of october. while aid is now being allowed in, following a us warning, the white house says,

it's not enough. that number must first increase over the coming week, and we are grateful forjordan�*s leadership in organising these deliveries. we also call on all parties to cooperate in distributing the many hundreds of truckloads now on the gaza side of the kerem shalom crossing. seven new sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against sean "diddy" combs in a federal court in new york. four men and three women accuse the hip hop mogul of sexually assaulting them at various parties in los angeles, new york and las vegas. in one of the new lawsuits, a plaintiff said she was 13 when mr combs drugged and assaulted her at a party in new york in 2000. as he awaits his may 2025 trial, the rapper remains

in custody at a brooklyn jail. he's facing separate federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering and denies all wrongdoing. our la correspondent, emma vardy, has more on those new cases. like most of his accusers, they retain their anonymity, but we had the seven new civil lawsuits that have now been filed, and the lawyers representing these victims say they expect to file more each week that goes by. one of the key significant parts of this new tranche of civil lawsuits and these accusations against sean combs is that other celebrities are mentioned within them, specifically in one allegation there is the alleged victim, who says she was 13 years old when she was sexually assaulted by sean combs at an after party that he was hosting, and she alleges there were two other celebrities present at that time, and that one of those celebrities also sexually assaulted her too. now those celebrities aren't named in this lawsuit. of course we imagine that between the alleged victims and lawyers that the names of the celebrities are being discussed there but haven't yet been mentioned publicly, just called celebrity ain celebrity be in the lawsuit, but of course this now takes that into even more

different territory. there had been speculation for a while as to who was surrounding sean combs, and who else, what other names might be brought into this as facilitators or people who took part as well, so i think we are now starting to see that in the latest set of lawsuits that have been filed. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. british transport police say a man has died after a crash between two trains in wales. 15 others have been taken to hospital with non life threatening injuries. all passengers have been evacuated from the trains, which collided in powys. authorities say the low—speed collision happened at around 7.30pm. the first minister of wales says his thoughts are with all those involved. harrods says it's settling more than 250 claims for compensation brought by women who allege sexual misconduct by its former owner, mohamed al fayed. the luxury department store says the women have come forward to them since the release of a bbc documentary last month.

the investigation exposed allegations over decades of serious sexual abuse by the former harrods owner. people are being encouraged to put forward suggestions about how to improve the nhs in england, as the government opens a consultation on the health service's future. proposals including making full medical records, tests results and letters from doctors available in the nhs app. the government want to publish a 10—year plan for changes to the nhs by next spring. you're live with bbc news. brazil's president luiz inacio lula da silva is said to be doing well, according to one of his top advisors, after suffering a head injury, in an accident at home over the weekend. the injury forced the 78—year—old to cancel a trip to russia for the brics summit. he posted this photo on x on monday, writing that he was discussing national and international politial agenda for the coming days with advisors. the brazilian president will participate in summit meetings via video link after doctors advised him to avoid long distance travel.

delegations from 36 countries are set to attend the brics summit in the russian city of kazan, which takes place from tuesday to thursday. the event is seen as an alternative to the g7 group of advanced economies. leaders from india, china and south africa will be in attendance. russian president vladimir putin will hold meetings with india's prime minister narendra modi and china's president xi jinping, as well as united nations secretary general antonio guterres on the sidelines of the event. the russian president says hosting the bric summit shows that western efforts to isolate him over russia's war in ukraine have failed. for more, i'm joined by amitav acharya, the unesco chair in transnational challenges and governance and a distinguished professor at american university's school of international service. thank you for your time today and talk about this topic.

the summit comes at a time of trouble for global governance — the conflict in the middle east, the russia—ukraine war. how will that play out at the summit? thank you very much for having me. first of all, the brics is not going to solve conflicts. it is basically an effort to improve the states of these countries. about specific conflicts like gaza and ukraine, ithink conflicts like gaza and ukraine, i think the problem is that many of the key players in the conflict are not members of brics, they are not going to be in russia. however, generally it will help russia to bring out of isolation, isolation of the region after the invasion of ukraine, and also pursue some of its agenda, for example creating an alternative payment

system. but i don't think it will solve the problems of the world, and especially what you said the major conflicts going on in the world today. you mentioned _ on in the world today. you mentioned about - on in the world today. you mentioned about moving away from the us dollar, talk to us a bit more about that and elaborate if you can on what moscow is trying to do here and if other countries are actually on board with this? t if other countries are actually on board with this?— on board with this? i think there are _ on board with this? i think there are many _ on board with this? i think there are many countries. on board with this? i think i there are many countries who would like to reduce if not eliminate their dependence on the us dollar, and also the payment system, swift payment system, which is pretty much controlled by the west, and this is notjust russia, i think it would be also the goal of china, india, even saudi arabia to some extent. but that's a very long term goal, that's a very long term goal, that's a very ambitious goal, but if they can find a way to create at least kind of a minimal system that bypasses

the swift or the payment system, and in the long term through both bilateral and multilateral currency cooperation that reduces that dependence on the us dollar, then i think that will be a very significant achievement for the brics, but we're not looking at the end of the dollar dominance quite yet. trims? dollar dominance quite yet. now brics is brazil, _ dollar dominance quite yet. now brics is brazil, india _ dollar dominance quite yet. now brics is brazil, india china and south africa. other members are keen tojoin, it and south africa. other members are keen to join, it seems. what do you make of this grouping growing?- what do you make of this grouping growing? brics is now five -- is now— grouping growing? brics is now five -- is now ten _ grouping growing? brics is now five -- is now ten countries. - five —— is now ten countries. it will be egypt, ethiopia, saudi arabia, united arab emirates and of course, most controversially, iran. argentina was supposed to join but it pulled out, because of the new government of argentina did not want to identify with the brics, which is seen as an

alternative to the western led international order. the basic idea here, the basic impact of the brics, they will be a significant pressure group but they are not going to replace they are not going to replace the current system of global dominance and world order, because again, as we said, there are many other players that create and constitute part of global government. the main problem of the brics is some of the leading members are not friends with each other, india and china, the two leading brics members are nearly at war. iran and saudi arabia, a very divided group, and different and political and ideological positions among the brics, for example india and saudi arabia are close to the us, iran and of course is close to china. so these differences

will prevent them to replace or significantly delete the current international order. however, that will make a difference, it will attract more members, so there are other countries lined up, like indonesia, malaysia, and as it expands, the brics will increase its influence in global affairs, without necessarily creating a parallel or alternative world order. this summer runs for the next two days so we will have to wait to see what comes out of it, thanks for your time today. thank you very much. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. the latest un summit on biodiversity has opened in colombia, with the hosts warning there is no time to lose to protect the natural world. colombia's environment minister said the cop16 conference would seek the protection of 30% of the continental land of each country. tiktok owner, bytedance, says it has sacked an intern

for "maliciously interfering" with the training of one of its artificial intelligence models. the firm rejected claims about the extent of the damage though, saying they contain "some exaggerations "and inaccuracies". the chinese technology giant's doubao chatgpt—like generative ai model is the country's most popular ai chatbot. the wife of the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, who was imprisoned and died in a penal colony in the arctic earlier this year, says she intends to run for president of russia when the time is right. currently, yulia navalnaya faces arrest if she returns to russia. she's now published the memoir that her husband was writing before his death, which include his diaries from prison, and has been speaking to our culture & media editor, katie razzall. if i will come back to russia,

i will participate in the elections. as a candidate? as a candidate. yulia navalnaya told me she wants to be president of russia. butjust like her husband, the russian opposition leader alexei navalny was, she has been charged with extremism, and faces arrest if she goes home. what it means is that you can't go back while he is in power. yes, i will be imprisoned. alexei navalny took on president putin. poisoned with the nerve agent, novichok, in 2020, and treated in germany, he traced that to russia's security service, the fsb. after he recovered, despite the dangers, the couple returned home. alexei, are you worried now? are you nervous? no, not at all. at the airport, navalny was arrested and jailed. he died three years later, a political prisoner in a siberian penal colony. the russians claim he died of natural causes. yulia says he was poisoned, on the president's orders. i believe that vladimir putin is answering for the death and for the murder

of my husband. we do have some evidence. what evidence do you have? i would like to come with the whole picture, what happened, notjust with random documents. yulia navalnaya is now publishing her husband's memoir, called patriot. the book includes never before seen diaries that reveal the extent of the harsh treatment he endured in prison, including 295 days in solitary confinement. "it is so hot in my cell, you can hardly breathe. "you feel like a fish tossed onto the shore, "yearning for fresh air. "most often, though, it is like a cold, dank cellar. "there is often a puddle of water on the floor. "it is torturous to be kept here for long." he was tortured, he was in awful conditions in prison, and he was starving.

chanting yulia couldn't return to russia for her husband's funeral, but thousands braved the authorities. i am very grateful to all of these incredible people who obviously shared his views. my message for the situation when i am killed is very simple — not give up. do you have a message for the russian people? yulia navalnaya has taken up her husband's fight, but told me she can only stand in elections when vladimir putin is gone. for now, she is a politicalfigure in exile and a widow keeping her husband's name alive.

katie razzall, bbc news. business today is next. hello. tuesday is going to bring sunshine, a few showers, too. but i want to show you the big picture, the satellite image, and the recent rain clouds, but it's all about the high pressure over the next few days, and here it is. the azores high, building in off the atlantic, spreading across france, and then centred across the heart of the continent to the middle of the week, and then around that area of high pressure, we have milder air spreading in from the south, so we've got some pretty decent temperatures on the way this week. but with the nights getting a little longer, and all of the moisture we've had recently, all of that rain, we are going to have some mist and fog overnight,

especially midweek. so here is the forecast, then, for the short—term, some quite sharp showers through wales and parts of northern england, but big gaps in the cloud, too, and our temperatures around nine in cardiff, eight in belfast, nine there for glasgow and edinburgh. so expect those showers across central uk for a time on tuesday morning, possibly even into lunchtime in the south east, but then it's sunshine all around, just scattered fairweather clouds, and the temperatures, 16 to 17 in the south and the south east, fresher in the north of scotland, ten or 11. now, wednesday morning, watch out for the thick fog across central and southern england, which should clear away through the morning into the afternoon, and then we are left with fine weather, it could be a little cloudy and damp in the western isles. highs, 1a in glagow, 17 or 18 in london, we could actually get 17 or 18 around the moray firth, with the southerly winds, which are still with us on thursday. but a weather front is approaching, which spells rain for much of ireland and western scotland on thursday, but the further east you are, the drier it will be on thursday, and still really quite mild,

15, 16, 17, and then it all changes, because that weather front is over us on friday. not only that, an area of low pressure forms, with showers circulating around it. so i think temperatures will ease in the west, with all the cloud and the rain, 12 in belfast, but hanging onto some milder air across east anglia and the south east. wednesday and into the weekend, the weather goes downhill through the week. so some rain on friday, and the weekend, at this stage at least, is looking quite rainy for some of us. bye— bye.

hong kong relaxes mortgage rules to revive its property sector. optimistic about its property market, telling the bbc ends are icing up. australia is right to disconnect law has been impacting culture. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. hong kong and china markers havejoined the trading hong kong and china markers have joined the trading day with the index and composite trading mostly flat at the moment. authorities in hong kong have been looking at ways to revive the city's property market. earlierthis to revive the city's property market. earlier this month that is to mortgage rules on homes but have these been enough? the

chairman of the