moqtada al—sadr, who opposes iranian and american influence in iraq, has claimed victory for his owne's refused to work with any of his rivals, making it impossible to build a new governing coalition. richard galpin, bbc news. the bbc�*s world affairs correspondent, mike thomson, has more on the political deadlock. the deadlock is all about the two groups can't agree on a prime ministerial candidate or a presidential candidate. and, so, neither one has given way and last month, mr al—sadr�*s group walked away with 73 lawmakers with the idea, i think, of stirring up protest outside the parliament and thereby forcing the opposition, mainly aligned with iran—aligned opposition groups, to cooperate with him. but that hasn't happened, so now he has gone in there to say, "look, we are in a minority, because they put more lawmakers in to cover for us and now they could elect a prime minister we don't want." and they're there to stop any form of election going on. the caretaker prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called on everyone to be calm and not let the situation slide into violence

i do think it's purpose was just to show the political elite that moqtada al-sadr is able to mobilizerotests and to be able to signal to him that he still has a voice in what happens politically in a rack though he with grew -- withdrew his parliamentarians a few weeks ago from parliament. there wasn't much resistance to them entering, and i think one of the reasons that happened is no one wanted to risk escalating into violence. a lot of groups in iraq are armed and any violence against a group associated with the particular party or movement risks creating generally civil war in the country. so i think people are very wary when any violence occurs in their country, but i also think that because we had seen this kind of behavior before and we are also during the face of government formation, rather than there being -- it was a bit difficult to mobilize and respond to this. ♪ >> u.s. secretary of state antony lincoln's has a substantial offer will be made to secure the release of basketball or brittney griner and a former u.s. marine, both detained in russia. he will speak to his coun

moqtada al—sadr, who opposes iranian and american influence in iraq, has claimed victory for his ownichard galpin, bbc news. the british ambassador to ukraine has called for an investigation into an explosion at a jail in the country's east in which dozens of ukrainian prisoners—of—war were killed. more than 50 people died while they were being held at a detention centre in the russian—occupied part of the donetsk region. these are pictures of the rocket attack, which is thought to have lead to the prisoners' deaths. ukraine and russia have accused each other of carrying out the attack. ukraine says moscow is trying to cover up evidence of torture and war crimes at the site. spain has announced a second death from monkeypox, one person has also died in brazil — these are the first known deaths outside of africa. there have been more than 20,000 cases recorded worldwide in the current outbreak. last week, the world health organization declared monkeypox a "global health emergency". a ticket holder has come forward to claim the us megamillions $1.2 billionjackpot — that's a billion pou

moqtada al—sadr, who opposes iranian and american influence in iraq, has claimed victory for his ownvals, making it impossible to build a new governing coalition. richard galpin, bbc news. a major disaster has been declared in the us state of kentucky, after floods caused at least 25 deaths. president biden is back in isolation after testing positive for covid—i9 for the second time in nine days. pope francis says he can no longer keep up his busy international travel schedule, and has suggested he could step down due to problems with his health. the announcement came on his return flight from a week—long trip to canada where he met indigenous people to apologise for the catholic church's role in the residential schools scandal. let's have a listen. translation: i don't believe i can travel at the same pace | as before and i believe that at my age and with this limitation, i have to save some energy to be able to serve the church. i think about the possibility of stepping aside. with all honesty, it's not a catastrophe, you can change your pope, it's not a problem. our religion edito

prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called for calm after supporters of the powerful cleric, moqtada al—sadr in its nominee for prime minister. in the czech republic, rain and poor visibility are preventing aircraft from taking off to help put out a forest fire that's been raging for almost a week on the northern border with germany. almost 700 firefighters are trying to douse the flames in the bohemian switzerland national park. day two of the commonwealth games in birmingham and there was plenty of action. chetan pathak has a round—up of the winners. another action—packed day here. plenty of drama too on day two, not least in the marathon races which were the first events to get going this morning. and let's start with the women's race which was won by australia's jessica stenson, third in glasgow in 2014, third again in brisbane four years later, but this time she left her competitors trailing in her wake as she took gold. i spoke to her after the win and she said she was doing it for the mums. in the men's race, uganda's victor kiplangat won gold, despite at one point going the wrong way

prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called for calm after supporters of the powerful cleric, moqtada al—sadrweek. the protesters want to stop the iran—aligned opposition voting in its nominee for prime minister. in the czech republic, rain and poor visibility are preventing aircraft from taking off to help put out a forest fire that's been raging for almost a week on the northern border with germany. almost seven hundred firefighters are trying to douse the flames in the bohemian switzerland national park. pope francis has said that he might step down, if his health deteriorates, to the point that he feels he can't carry out his duties properly. the comments came on his return flight from a week—long trip to canada, where he met indigenous people to apologise for the catholic church's role in the residential schools scandal. mark lobel reports. as the pope departed canadian soil, apologising for his church's oppressive and unjust policies, he raised his own departure on—board the papal plane. translation: i don't think they — plane. translation: i don't think they can _ think they can keep t

prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called for calm after supporters of the powerful cleric, moqtada al—sadrn a week. the protesters want to stop the iran—aligned opposition voting in its nominee for prime minister. in the czech republic, rain and poor visibility are preventing aircraft from taking off to help put out a forest fire that's been raging for almost a week on the northern border with germany. almost 700 firefighters are trying to douse the flames in the bohemian switzerland national park. president biden has tested positive for covid—19 for a second time and is returning to isolation. but his white house doctor says the president "continues to feel quite well". the 79—year—old returned the positive test on saturday morning, after four consecutive days of negative results. doctors believe biden is suffering a rare case of rebound positivity experienced by some coronavirus patients. earlier i asked dr peter hotez, co—director of the texas children's hospital center for vaccine development how a covid rebound infection comes about. well, what happens is, you know, you take a course

prime minister, mustafa al—kadhimi, has called for calm after supporters of the powerful cleric, moqtada al—sadrn its nominee for prime minister. search and rescue crews continue to look for survivors in the us state of kentucky, where record flooding has wiped out entire communities. at least 25 people have died — although the state's governor warned the number could rise. president biden has declared the floods "a major disaster" — and there's a warning of more rain on sunday. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, has the latest. flowing water, powerful enough to sweep away entire homes. torrential rain has wreaked havoc. some areas received more than 20 centimetres in a 24—hour period. swollen streams and mudslides have torn through several communities with devastating results. people have lost theirjobs, can't get to theirjobs. this is probably the worst devastating i have ever seen. the worst devastating i have ever seen, ., ., , the worst devastating i have ever seen. ., ., , . the worst devastating i have ever seen. ., .,, ., ' . ., seen. some areas are difficult for rescuers to _

worshippers from across the country answered the call of moqtada al-sadr.ential shiite cleric's faction won last october's elections, but resigned after failing to form a government. residents of a city in central ukraine spent this day grieving for 23 people killed in a russian missile strike. dozens more were wounded in thursday's attack. today, police took dna samples from the rubble to identify victims. survivors struggled to understand why they were targeted, including a woman whose four-year-old niece was killed. >> i don't understand why there is such hatred toward us. we didn't do anything to anyone. we never attacked. we lived peacefully and worked. we, ukrainians, are hardworking people. we love to work. we never threatened anyone. why so, why did russia do this to us? i simply cannot explain it. william: the attack was the latest in a series of deadly russian attacks on civilians in ukraine. health officials across southern europe sounded the alarm today over fierce heat waves. spain alone reported at least 84 suspected heat deaths in the last 3