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live from london. this is bbc news. heatwave grips europe as the hot weather reaches its peak. temperatures in the uk could be higher than parts of caribbean today. trevor francis. i am outside madrid where the authorities are warning of the health risks, posed which the heat wave across spain and southern europe. the uk government prepares to set out the full list of concessions it has made over proposed welfare cuts. president trump says he is "not offering iran anything"', after the iranian deputy foreign minister tells the bbc it needs guarantees the us will not bomb his country, before entering any nuclear talks.
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israel's prime minister says the conflict with iran opens opportunities to release hostages in gaza, but insists the only way to end the war is to "eliminate hamas". olivia rodrigo brings this year's glastonbury festival to an end, but controversy continues over offensive chanting during bob vylan's performance on saturday. hello, i'm catherine byaruhanga. europe is currently gripped by a heatwave with some countries seeing temperatures exceeding 40 degrees as the hot weather reaches its peak. this map shows the heat with spain, france and italy all issuing warnings about the impact of the weather on health. in spain, 46 degrees celsius has been recorded in the town of el granado - the country's hottest june day ever, according to the national weather service.
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alongside increasing temperatures is the risk of wildfires. firefighters are continuing to battle blazes in the city of izmir on the aegean coast which has forced people to leave their homes. more now on the heatwave gripping europe. several countries will continue to see temperatures today in excess of 40 degrees, let's speak to our correspondent guy hedgecoe who's in madrid. how hot has it been across europe? well it has been brutally hot in the last couple of days, here in spain, there have been many areas that have seen temperatures in the low 40s you mention that record from saturday in the south of the country, where we saw temperatures of 46 celsius, setting that record for june, yesterday there was a similar the in the south, close to 45 degrees, and we are expecting the high temperatures to continue, as a similar picture
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in many areas of france, italy, portugal as well, and of course in greece where there have been wild fires in recent days and we expect these temperatures to continue, over the coming days. what is the advice from the government on the how people should prepare for this hot weather? well, it is can kind of advice you would be hearing normally in the middle of july or august, certainly here in spain which is for people to try and stay out the sun or stay inside during the holtest time of the day which is usually mid-to-late afternoon and certainly for elderly people, people with underlying health risks and small children, the authorities are saying they are at particular risk of these kinds of temperatures, over the weekend in barcelona for example, a road sweeper died after her
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shift, up in barcelona, and the authorities are investigating to see whether that was caused by heatstroke but there have been calls by labour unions demanding better protection for worker, whether it is road sweepers or construction workers with this kind of heat which has been unexpected at this time of the year. how rare are the high temperatures in europe, you know, spain, the southern spain, southern france are known for hot weather any way? yes, they are, i mean people here are not unaccustomed to thes in the high 30s or low 40s, certainly in the south of spain, that is something you would expect to happen several times perhaps during july or august, but you wouldn't necessarily expect it so early in the year, in june, that is what has taken people by surprise i think, and it surprised people in areas of france and italy, as well. what we seem to be seeing is an long
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investigation of the summer, these higher temperatures beginning earlier and earlier, 50 years ago it was very unusual to have a heat wave in june, now it is unusual, but it started happening more and more, there have been nine heat waves in june and spain over the last 25 years. guy, thank you. that is is the bbc correspondent in madrid for us. president trump said the us had totally obliterated tehran's nuclear facility, this comes as the head of it will nuclear watchdog the iaea says iran has
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the capacity to resume enriching uranium in a couple of months. lyse doucet is being allowed to report in iran on condition none-her reports are used on the persian service, this law from iranian authorities applies to all international media operating in iran. here is the report. a city in the eyes of the world. tehran. where the fragile truce holds. holds. on the streets reminders of the 12 day war, of the decades long tension with the us and israel. good afternoon. one of iran's top diplomats wants to make clear, when bombs fell they were negotiating with america, he insists that can't happen again. we are hearing from washington, telling us that they want to talk. so no date has been set. president trump
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talked about this week i am telling you, i am telling you we have not agreed to any date, we have not agreed to the no talentty, right now, we are seeking an answer, to this question. are we going to see a repetition of an act of aggression, while we are engaged in dialogue? satellite imagery shows iran's nuclear sites were badly damaged. burr iran still says it won't stop enriching uranium. why should we agree to such a proposal? proposal? but iran has paid too high a price for enriching uranium, causing suspicions everyone among your european partner, it wasn't necessary. first of all 60% is something which is being used for peaceful purposes. but it did
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create this situation of suspicion. the level of that can be discussed, the capacity can be discussed but to say that you should not have enrichment, you should have zero enrichment and if you do not agree we will bomb you? that is the law of the jungle. they would say iran has to do more to reassurance iran is not threatening we were discussing with american, we were in the middle of talks, all of a sudden, we face an act of, clear act of aggression, and those who are criticising us, they should criticise the way we have been treated. they should criticise the american, they should criticise the israelis, and if they do not have the guts to criticise america, they should keep silent. not try to justify the aggression. iranians worry, the dark of war will return. their days lived
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with no guarantee, life will get better, or worse. their lives held hostage to age-old enmities. lyse doucet reporting from iran there. here, the government is expected to set out a full list of concessions to try to win over dozens of labour backbenchers, who are still threatening to vote against their proposed cuts to the welfare system tomorrow. while some have accepted changes put forward by ministers, as many as 60 are still said to be willing to oppose the measures. the minister for women and equalities, baroness jacqui smith, says concerns voiced by labour mps have made the legislation better. what i think is important is that what we're going to be starting tomorrow is a really important reform of a broken welfare system. a welfare reform is always difficult. and i think actually the engagement that's happened with labour mps - who are rightly bringing the concerns
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of their constituents about how this reform is going to work - have made this legislation better. and i hope that people, given the changes that the government has been willing to make, to make sure that those people who are already, for example, receiving pip won't be losing out as a result of the changes, to bring forward the support that will actually help to get people back into work more quickly, that people will feel able to support that reform tomorrow. because at the moment, what we're stuck with is a broken tory system that is keeping people stuck out of work and is preventing them from getting the support that they need, whether they're in work or whether they'll never be able to work. and that's what we need to change. let's speak to our chief political correspondent henry zeffman. henry, how damaging has this revolt been for the government? massively damaging. massively damaging, damaging to keir starmer's authority, he approaches a year as prime minister on friday, he won a vast majority, within off the biggest in british electoral
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history, british parliamentary history at that general election, almost a year ago, and yet he had to back down because he couldn't be sure he would win a vote, in fact he looked like he was probably going to loose the vote on this, what is really damaging i think that has become clear even with the concessions we will hear the full details of today, you still have several dozen labour mps who are still opposed to the government, who belief it is unfair to have an inequality of treatment between people who might be in receipt of disability benefits in the future and people who receive them at present. it is almost certainly not enough labour mps to defeat the government, who are still refusing to support them but nevertheless, this whole episode has been the worst yet for keir starmer in his time out as prime minister. henry, thank you. that is our chief political correspondent henry
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a deal reducing import tariffs between the us and uk has come into force this morning - after president trump and sir keir starmer signed the agreement two weeks ago. it gives producers of steel and cars in the uk preferential access to the world's biggest consumer market. our world news correspondent joe inwood has more. they are flagship british brands, popular in the us but vulnerable to the global trade instability caused by donald trump. the news that, from today, 100,000 uk-manufactured cars can be sold to the us with a tariff - or import tax - of 10% has been welcomed as a win for this key sector. it's probably the headline from this us-uk deal, which is now in force. it also sees tariffs on certain aerospace products removed. in return, up to 1.4 billion litres of us ethanol could arrive in the uk tariff-free each year, along with 13,000 tonnes of us beef. the whole thing was announced at the g7 in canada a couple of weeks ago, with some enthusiasm from
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the prime minister. donald, thank you very much. this now implements on car tariffs and aerospace our really important agreement, and so this is a very good day for both of our countries. a real sign of strength. so thank you again, donald. a really important day for both of us. great people, great people. it's certainly been a smoother process than for some other us allies. over the weekend, trade talks with canada were called off, over attempts to tax us tech giants. and we have all the cards. we have all - every single one. we don't want to do anything bad, but they have, uh... economically, we have such power over canada. i'd rather not use it, but they did something with our tech companies today, trying to copy europe - you know, they copied europe. it's not going to work out well for europe, either. and it's not going to work out well for canada. the british government has previously called this a very important day,
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although there is no news - yet - on a deal for uk steel and aluminium. this is not the fully fledged us trade deal that's been spoken about for years, but it does give some sectors a bit of certainty in otherwise unpredictable times. joe inwood, bbc news. glastonbury has finished for another year but the fallout is continuing after bob vylan's controversial performance on saturday. the prime minister sir keir starmer says the bbc has 'questions to answer' after it broadcast the punk duo leading the crowd in chants of 'death to the idf' during their set, while the shadow home secretary, chris philp, says the corporation should be prosecuted. the bbc said a warning had been shown on screen, and there were no plans to make the performance available on demand. let's speak to our correspondent at the festival - charlotte gallagher. morning catherine, you can probably see behind me the party is very much over here at glastonbury. it is all being
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cleared, the litter is being picked up. some of the stages are going to be taken down and lots of people are leaving before the temperatures really start to rise, but of course, one story dominating the headlines today from glastonbury, is as you said bobby vylan, they performed on saturday at the west holt stage and the crowd was pretty much as maximum because kneecap were on next and they had been highly anticipated so thousands were in the audience at one point bob vylan led the crowd in a chant of death, death, to the idf. since then that had been broadcast live on the bbc on the bbc iplayer, now since then we have heard from the prime minister, keir starmer, who said he was appalled by what he described as hate steven speech, he said the bbc has questions to answer about why that set was live streamed, we also heard as you said, from the shadow home secretary chris
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philp who has called for the bbc and bob vylan to be prosecuted. so a lot of talk about this act today that perhaps many people hadn't heard of before glastonbury but it is dominating the headlines and kneecap of course who keir starmer asked not to be included in the glastonbury set list, their set wasn't live streamed on the bbc, it is now available to watch on the iplayer and it seems there are very minimal edits to that set, there are still anti-keir starmer chants, there are still anti-israel chants and there a speech about the uk selling weapons to israel, that set is now available to watch, this is definitely been a glastonbury that has had a fair bit of controversy catherine. charlotte, thank you. that is our correspondent charlotte gallagher at
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they accused netanyahu of prioritising military victory against hamas above the hostages. it is difficult to tell if this is a change of emphasis, because we have seen an intensification of israeli air strikes over northern girls in particular. over the weekend, the israeli army warned thousands of residents of gaza city and parts of northern gaza to evacuate homes in anticipation of the air strikes. first-hand reports
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talk about the resumption of attacks, including at a former school where hundreds of families had been sheltering from the war and they were said to be several fatalities. it's too early to time towards trying to achieve a ceasefire deal, release the hostages as he has been insisted to do publicly by donald trump or whether the israeli army is preparing for intensification and taking more land in gaza, one thing we have heard in recent days are rumours in the israeli press that some members of the military are near to thinking that perhaps they have finally achieved or near to achieving all of their military aims in guards, but the war certainly does couldn't. thank you. that is our correspondent live in jerusalem there.
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the jury in the trial of an australian woman accused of murdering her relatives with a lethal dose of toxic mushrooms have ended their deliberations for the day and will resume on tuesday morning. they have listened to more than two months of evidence. erin patterson denies murdering her in-laws don and gail patterson, and gail's sister heather wilkinson. she faces three murder charges, and one of attempted murder. our correspondent katy watson has morepatterson, 50, it is more than 50 witnesses, and now, the judge gave his final directions to the jury, earlier today, it has been about a week of him giving the directions to the jury, he laid out both the defence and the prosecutions argument and the prosecution's argument is that the number of lies that erin patterson told in the run-up to the lunch, a cancer diagnosis was one of the lies she app, she got her relatives to come
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for that lunch and talked about a diagnosis which turned out to be a lie, but the lies after that lunch about having foraged for rooms, ability a dehydrator she used to dry them, and that is one of the prosecutions main arguments of the number of lies she told, now, the defence have said, she was a woman who panicked, that realised the severity of what happened but she was responsible for the deaths of her family members and she panicked about the implications and the defence outlined the fact there was no motive that she loved her family, they were doting grandparents of heifer children, she had no motive to kill them, so these prosecution and the defence arguments have been laid out to the jury, and then earlier today, a couple of hours ago they started deliberating. when can we expect that verdict to come through? everybody wants the answer to that. the jury will take its time and
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they need to come to unanimous verdict, that is the, one thing that the judge made very clear, they have to all be in agreement and they can take as long as they need to be able to come to that agreement. now they will be sequestered throughout their delabourrations and they means they will come into the court in working hours and deliberate and at the end of the day they will be taken to a hotel where they will rest for the evening before coming back the following day to continue, and the judge has made very clear they must not discuss this case with anybody outside of the jury, anywhere outside the jury room. this is the such scrutiny round this trial, the judge made very clear throughout this trial how serious that is, and they won't be able to go home until they have come back with a verdict.
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brazil's former president, jair bolsonaro, has called for an amnesty for hundreds of people currently in prison for their involvements in the riots and the attempted military coup following the 2023 inauguration of his successor, president lula da silva. thousands of his supporters took to the streets of sao paulo where mr bolsonaro was speaking at a rally. he is currently on trial for his role in the alleged coup. now it's not uncommon for a car to break down. less common for it to happen in mid-air. stop. stop, stop, stop. that's exactly what happened to beyonce who had to pause her homecoming show in houston on saturday after the cadillac she was sitting in, suspended from the ceiling, started to tilt to one side, leaving the singer clinging
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to a flag pole for support. the problem was later blamed on 'a technical mishap'. beyonce was later lowered to the ground and continued the latest concert in her cowboy carter tour. let us just show you what is on the website the moment. this is the live page we have at the moment, looking at the heat wave that is happening here in the uk, but also, happening across europe as well, so we have updates there from the weather teams and also our correspondent. and we also have statement that has come in from the head of the un, antonio guterres, saying he urges an surge in the world of climate chaos raging conflict. so he is urging for more aid as a result of the hot weather that we are seeing a the moment. where many conflicts are happening in the middle east, in africa and other parts of the world. we will have the very latest for you on the hot weather and developments in the middle
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this is bbc news, the headlines heatwave grips europe as the hot weather reaches its peak. temperatures in the uk could be higher than parts of caribbean today. two firefighters have been shot dead after being ambushed, as they tackled a wildfire in the us state of idaho. authorities say the suspect's body has been found. as president putin suggests a new round of peace talks could bring a long-awaited ceasefire, we hear from ukrainians living in mariupol, about their daily lives under russia's control. the uk's covid inquiry resumes to examine the impact of the pandemic on care home residents. it's the first day of wimbledon this year, with the tournament replacing line judges with electronic line calling.
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