Be. All of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air. I guess probably four or five. Shots being fired in the air. I guess probably four orfive. It guess probably four or five. It sounded guess probably four orfive. It sounded like bullets but what do i know about that? the secret services do immediately after bullets. They grabbed me and we got into the cot and moved along pretty good. I was with an agent and the agent did a fantasticjob. With sunday's attack being the second attempt on donald trump's life in a little over two months, questions over the safety of presidential candidates have intensified. Our analysis editor ros atkins looks at the level of security surrounding mr trump when he was on the golf course. The trump international golf club spreads across 330 acres, and donald trump plays there regularly. Located in west palm beach in florida, the course is a ten—minute drive from his home at mar—a—lago. The club's perimeter is more than three miles long. This is one part of it, right by a public road. There's a chain—link fence. Beyond that, you can easily see the course. And this was the route donald trump was taking during his round. He'd reached hole five. According to police, as the former president played, secret service agents walked one hole ahead, as is standard. And we're told those agents spotted a rifle sticking out of the fence. Bbc verify has concluded it was somewhere in this area, which was later cordoned off. Police say mr trump was between 300 and 500 yards away, within range of the rifle. They also released this image of a rifle fitted with a scope, two backpacks and a camera attached to the fence. These events in florida happened while donald trump's safety during this election campaign was already under greater scrutiny because of a major security failure in july. At a rally in pennsylvania, a gunman shot at trump, hitting his ear and killing a bystander. The head of the secret service resigned days later. The secret service said they had increased the amount of assets protecting donald trump, but mr trump isn't president, and that's a factor. The local sheriff says. . . This raises questions about what is possible, and if the candidates in this presidential election can be kept safe, especially in locations they're known to visit frequently. And while americans seek answers, the authorities say the threat level remains high. The acting director of the secret service says that has spoken to the president, and that he is aware that he has the highest level of protection from the agency. We constantly evaluate based on threat and yesterday what we show is our agents and protective methodologies and has a lot of tactical assets in place, things put in place as a result of what happened 60 days ago, those elements are working and that demonstrates the redundancies we have. We constantly evaluate and will look at this and see what lessons are learned from it, but as of right now we are constantly evaluating the threat and if we need to ratcheted up additionally we will. It seems a daunting challenge to secure a golf course, but chris swecker — assistant director of the fbi from 2004 to 2006 — disagrees. I don't know that it is the most challenging of environment on a golf course because all you have to do is walk the perimeter, the fenceline at least one hole ahead of the president to make sure no—one is camped out and established a sniper nest. His rallies are much greater challenges because of the number of people, that every person there is a potential threat. I am a little bit harder in terms ofjudgement on the secret service in this instance. I think it will be a very simple matter and they agreed as well. Every secret service person i've spoken to agrees. What do you think needs to happen now in order to better protect the former president? i said a long time ago every time he's on a podium he has to have bullet—proof glass on all sides of him. I know he likes to connect with the audience but this is the only way to really protect him when in public. As far as this event or any type of setting like this or settings where trump is out and about, theyjust have to be more proactive and anticipatory in predicting what a bad guy could possibly do. They need to play out in their planning, look, where is the threat going to come from? in butler it was from the rooftops. In this case it would have come from the fenceline, the tree line. I think they like to think that they are close in protecting the president instead of looking and establishing themselves in areas where the threat may emanate from, get in plain clothes and walk along the tree line or outside the fence. You don't have to wear the dark suit and sunglasses all the time, you can roll up your sleeves and do real work. In terms of the fbi investigation now into ryan routh, so much is already known so what is their priority at the moment? i think priority one is to find out how he came to be at that place at that time. Did he get inside information, did someone carelessly pass on the information or post it? was he conducting surveillance? there are lessons to be learned if that is the case. If it is the inside information scenario, then i think that implicates a third party. And that is something that is pretty scary. That is question one, we need to know the motivation but i think we know the motivation based on his social media posts, he is obviously anti—trump, who is an action guy that goes all the way to ukraine because he believes that they need help and they need extra fighters in ukraine so he travels there. Even though he doesn't have much money. He is what they call a true believer and whatever he's believing at the moment he is all in and in this case i think it was in that mode of anti—trump. And a reminder you can find out the latest on the apparent assassination attempt on donald trump on our live page on the bbc website and news app. Log on and take a look and you can download the app. Authorities in the us state of ohio say police will conduct daily sweeps of schools in springfield after a spate of bomb threats. The republican governor of ohio, mike dewine, said the springfield city administration had investigated at least 33 separate bomb threats, all of which were found to be hoaxes. Springfield has become the focus of the national immigration debate after donald trump claimed that immigrants were stealing and eating pets there. Here's what the ohio governor told reporters. We received at least 33 separate bomb threats, each one of which has been responded to. Each one of them has been found as a hoax. 33 threats, 33 hoaxes. I want to be clear. None of these had any validity at all. The united nation's most senior official overseeing aid and reconstruction in gaza says the world is collectively failing innocent civilians there after nearly a year of war. Speaking to the bbc from new york, sigrid kaag, the senior un coordinator for humanitarian actionand reconstruction in gaza, described the territory as the most unsafe place in the world to work. On monday, ms kaag presented a report to the un security council where she described humanitarian conditions in gaza as sombre and dark. She pleaded for a ceasefire and release of hostages, saying a political solution to the conflict was the only path forward. Ms kaag been speaking with our chief onternational correspondent lyse doucet in a rare interview. My main message is of a very sombre and perhaps dark nature that humanitarian conditions in gaza is well documented to be akin to a significant catastrophe that we have built all systems to be in place but there is no substitute for political will and the political choice to improve matters. The ceasefire and release of hostages is desperately needed. Not much else can be improved into a reach that point is the un failing the people of gaza? it's too easy to say we are failing. What we are doing collectively as a community, we are failing the innocent civilians in gaza. And that comes out of the political environment. The un is working around the clock, we have lost a large number of our own staff. The so—called enabling environment in gaza is counter to anything else and we have witnessed in other places. State department spokesperson matthew miller says the united states continues to work with mediators egypt and qatar to present a revised proposal for a ceasefire in the war in gaza. Mr miller told reporters he does not have a timetable for the plan, but said washington wanted to make sure it is one that can get israel and hamas to an ultimate agreement. Calls for a ceasfire deal come as the us state department announced secretary of state antony blinken will travel to egypt on tuesday where he will meet with egyptian officials to discuss efforts to reach a ceasefire and release of hostages in gaza. Israeli opposition leader, yair lapid, hasjoined world leaders in calling for prime minister benjamin netanyahu to seal a gaza truce deal immediately during his visit to meet top officials in washington. Here's what mr lapid told reporters we will do everything necessary in order to make sure there is a hostage deal. I believe that any political interest should be set aside for this. This is way more important. Israel as a nation will not heal unless we bring them back home. This is essential to our existence. I will quote antony blinken from a close meeting. I will say it is doable. We can have, we can do a deal and we need to do it. At least 16 people have died after catastrophic flooding caused by a powerful storm across several countries in central europe. The damage, from germany all the way across to romania, has left thousands homeless, and for some areas, more bad weather is on the way. The mayor of the polish city of nysa has asked all a4,000 residents to evacuate, as sarah rainsford reports, from the czech/polish border. In the flood zone of poland, there is an urgent call to evacuate. Fears that a stretch of embankment could collapse after days battered by a river swollen by torrential rain. Not farfrom here, a dam has burst. The pressure is increasing. Nysa has already flooded, but it could get much worse, so residents like teresa have been told to get out to higher ground. It's the weather, it's nature, what can you do? she tells me. But nature is powerful. It smashed up the main bridge in the next town and plunged it underwater. When the floods subsided, there was chaos. . . . . And filth everywhere. Right into their houses. How high did the water come? this man and his family had onlyjust decorated. All this was brand—new. Everything isjust. . . Damaged. Everything, money, what we have. It was repaired and now we don't have nothing. His neighbour tells me she fled when the water came rushing in. Was it scary when it was coming? yes. I'm scared. Recovering from this won't be easy and the danger still hasn't passed. Sarah rainsford, bbc news. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Let's look at some other stories making news. Former bbc presenter huw edwards has been given a six—month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after admitting having indecent images of children as young as seven. The 63—year—old will also have to complete a sex offenders programme. Edwards�*s barrister said his client was profoundly sorry. The mother of one of the babies murdered by lucy letby has told the public inquiry into what happened that she was lied to by the medical director of the countess of chester hospital. The infant's mother said she had been told there was nothing untoward about her baby's death. Letby, who was a nurse letby, who was a nurse on a neo—natal ward, on a neo—natal ward, was convicted injune 2023 was convicted injune 2023 of injecting air of injecting air into the child's stomach. Into the child's stomach. The british medical association the british medical association has announced that has announced that junior doctors in england junior doctors in england have accepted the government's have accepted the government's latest pay offer, ending latest pay offer, ending their long—running dispute. Their long—running dispute. Junior doctors took part junior doctors took part in 11 separate strikes in 11 separate strikes over 18 months, over 18 months, severely disrupting severely disrupting the health service. The health service. Today's deal involves today's deal involves an average pay rise of 22% an average pay rise of 22% over two years. The health secretary, over two years. The health secretary, wes streeting, said this wes streeting, said this was justified by the cost of the dispute. The trust work, you're live with bbc news. You're live with bbc news. A court battle to determine a court battle to determine the future of rupert murdoch's the future of rupert murdoch's media empire and an almost media empire and an almost $20 billion family trust began $20 billion family trust began in the us on monday. In the us on monday. The case will pit 93—year—old mr murdoch the case will pit 93—year—old against three of his eldest children over who will gain the most voting shares to control news corp and fox news when the billionaire dies. For more on this trial, i spoke to paddy manning. He's a journalist and the author of the book the successor: the high—stakes life of lachlan murdoch, one of rupert murdoch's sons. Mr murdoch how exactly does of the empire once rupert dies, from lachlan and what i reported in my book was they would reassert control of the assets and do it in a way that would protect and enhance democracies around the world rather than undermine them. Without being too succession about all this, what are the dynamics within the family? what is going on? they are more deeply divided than ever. We have not set the scenes we have seen overnight all of the murdoch children turning up to the courtroom steps and for these closed proceedings, we have never seen that before. And in particular, the move by rupert to expand lachlan�*s voting power has caused a schism and the siblings have now, whose position was not clear, it was well known there was a rivalry and even an animosity between lachlan and his younger brotherjames. They competed for the succession and it was not clear what side if any the sisters would take and it seems of the move to expand lachlan�*s trading power has kinda force them into an alignment with the younger brotherjames. To iran, where new president masoud pezeshkian says he'll use his power to ensure the morality police do not bother women in the country. The reformist president was responding to a female reporter who told him she had to take various alleyways to avoid the morality police to get to the press conference. Mr pezeshkian, who replaced the ultra—conservative ebrahim raisi after his death in a helicopter crash in may, campaigned on fully opposing police patrols enforcing the mandatory headscarf. He was speaking to journalists on the second anniversary of the death of mahsa amini, who died in police custody after being arrested forfailing to wear her hijab properly. Her death sparked the woman, life, freedom protests, which led to hundreds of arrests and a large number of deaths. But women in iran have told the bbc that their safety is still at risk, saying their online activity has been spied on by the authorities, leading to arrests, threats and beatings. Bbc verify reporter reha kansara reports. And a warning — this report includes distressing accounts of violence. They took me to a room to receive my punishment. He was holding a black leather whip in one hand. That's when he started hitting me all over my body. It was very painful, but i didn't want to show weakness. This terrifying testimony comes from inside iran. For her safety, aleph has spoken to us anonymously. She's one of five iranians who've told us they were arrested by the state for their social media activity. The bbc and other independent media are not allowed to report freely from the country, and they've taken great risks speaking with us. In one interrogation, they forced me to give them my phone. They accessed all my photos and saw that i took part in the protests. They were recording me. He said, so you don't regret your actions? and i said no. Then he threatened me and said, since you're so stubborn, i'll try and get you the maximum sentence. Shortly after the iranian revolution in 1979, women were legally required to cover their hair. But the death of mahsa amini whilst in police custody in 2022 unleashed an unprecedented stream of civil disobedience on social media and on the streets. Zan, zindagi, azadi, meaning women, life, freedom, became the rallying cry for women's rights in iran. Now the movement's being met with an even harsher clampdown on dissent using state surveillance. Experts say iran is learning from surveillance states like china and intensifying its methods to catch women who refuse to wear the hijab. They have developed some mobile phone applications and other tools for the police, or those volunteers who are already vetted by the government. The iranian app nazar allows people to report women for not wearing the hijab. It's been launched on the police website and is also available on private groups and government—owned messaging apps. But activating it requires authorisation. So, they can have this application on their mobile phone, so whenever they see a vehicle is passing and the passenger or the driver is a woman who are not wearing proper hijab — i mean, whatever definition that they have from proper hijab — they can report on it. Basically, they can put the licence plate number, they can put the time, location. It's been widely reported that tens of thousands of people have been arrested since the protests in 2022. If you look at the charges, you know, propaganda against the state, what propaganda against the state? i'm saying that, you know, you did this to me. I mean, this is propaganda against the state. No, it is the truth, but the truth makes you look bad. We put these allegations to the iranian government, but they did not respond. Though mass demonstrations have come to a halt, people are protesting in more subtle ways. And this movement that's led by women and driven by a right to life and freedom, shows no signs of stopping. Reha kansara, bbc news. Let's turn to some other important news around the world. Firefighters have been battling a pipeline fire in the us state of texas. Video footage shows the blaze shooting a pillar of fire tens of feet into the sky, igniting a park and power poles nearby. Residents have been urged to evacuate. The cause of the fire remains unclear and authorities say no injuries have been reported so far. Us social media platform meta announced it's banning russian media outlet rt and other state—run media outlets. The biden administration has accused the outlet of acting as an �*arm of moscow's spy agencies,�* carrying out covert information warfare operations. The administration is currently imposing sanctions on the state—funded broadcaster that oversees the rt outlet. A public inquiry has begun in the us, looking into the titan submersible disaster last year in which five people lost their lives. The vessel — owned by the us company 0ceangate — imploded on a visit to the wreck of the titanic prompting international search and rescue efforts. As many as ten 0ceangate employees are expected to testify over the next two weeks before the coast guard's marine board of investigations. Rapper and producer sean �*diddy�* combs has been arrested by federal authorities in manhattan after a grand jury indicted him on unspecified charges. The arrest comes six months after the fbi raided mr combs�*s homes in miami and beverly hills. A us attorney for the southern district of new york said that the indictment against sean combs is expected to be unsealed tuesday morning. In a statement, mr combs�*s lawyer said the arrest was disappointing, claiming the rapper is an imperfect person, but not a criminal. Mr combs has previously denied all alleged wrongdoing. A rare yellow—eyed penguin, also called hoiho, took the crown in new zealand's bird of the year competition. More than 50,000 people voted in the competition to give the penguin its second win since 2019. Thought to be one of the world's rarest penguin species, only around 4,000 are believed to be left in the world. Stay with us here on bbc news. Hello. On monday, we had an area of high pressure establish itself across the uk, and with that came plenty of sunshine. For example, here in capel curig, and just to the south in ceredigion, we had the day's highest temperature — up to 22 degrees in the warmest spots. Now, you'll notice a bit more in the way of clouds towards the northwest, and, indeed, over the next few hours could see some splashes of rain work into shetland for a time. Quite breezy conditions here. Watch out for a few mist and fog patches over the next few hours forming across parts of northwest england, wales, the west midlands and southwest england too. Visibility could drop down to about 100m in the densest of those fog patches. So, it's quite a chilly start to the day with temperatures down at around 5 degrees in the coldest spots. The high pressure, though, is here to stay for the next few days. Now, starting off on tuesday, a bit of rain clearing away from shetland, might see a few patches of cloud across east anglia first thing, but it should brighten up with some sunshine here, and any mist and fog patches clearing to reveal another beautiful day. Plenty of autumn sunshine and those temperatures very similar to those on monday — high teens to low 20s. One of the warmest spots could end up being northern scotland with highs here of 22, western counties of northern ireland, 21. Middle parts of the week, perhaps a bit more in the way of cloud just to start off across parts of england, east wales that will thin and break with time, and there will be more of a breeze blowing for east anglia in the southeast of england. Quite breezy for the far north of scotland too, but otherwise, it's another beautiful day. After a chilly morning, there'll be loads more sunshine and temperatures 23 there for northern scotland, a 2k in southeast england. These temperatures are quite a bit above average for this time of the year. It's a case of spot the difference, really, for thursday. Again, a few mist and fog patches, a few patches of cloud initially, but loads and loads of sunshine to come as we go on through the afternoon. Top temperatures — 2a again around london, a 22 for western scotland, and we're still around 20 degrees or so for western counties of northern ireland. It will feel warm in that september sunshine. We do, however, start to see some signs of a change in the pattern through friday and into the weekend as low pressure starts to threaten from the south. This looks quite likely to bring us some heavy, thundery showers or some longer spells of rain across england and wales. But at this stage, it looks like scotland and northern ireland, probably northern england, should stay fine well into the weekend. Voiceover: this is bbc news. We'll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. Welcome to hardtalk. I'm stephen sackur. Vladimir putin talks of restoring greatness to what he calls the russian world — an expansive territory which, as ukrainians know to their cost, stretches far beyond russia's current borders. Putin's expansionist nationalism requires military power, but it's harnessed the cultural spiritual authority of the russian orthodox church, too. My guest, andrey kordochkin, was a russian orthodox priest who spoke out against the ukraine war and the putinisation of his church. But is he swimming against an unstoppable tide? andrey kordochkin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. It's a great honour and privilege to be here. Well, it's great to have you in the studio. Let me take you back to february 2022. Putin orders an all—out invasion of ukraine. Within days, you, a priest in the russian orthodox church,