this is bbc news, the headlines. pakistan says all of those on board a stranded cable car dangling almost 300 metres above a river have now been rescued. new claims of corruption are levelled in ukraine against defence officials running army recruitment we have a special report. and could it be your optician who spots parkinson's disease? we look at ground breaking reasearch on early detection. in pakistan all eight people trapped in a suspended cable car up of a ravine have all now been rescued. rescue attempts by helicopters were suspended due to dakrness and high winds, but other efforts to free the trapped passengers continued. you can see the helicopter with a rope connected and then the person is moved out of the cable car before being carried away. the rest on board, six children and their teachers, appear to have been brought down by the supplier. you can see from these pictures but it is now the middle of the night. these are pictures of the final two of those on board to the cable car. making a safe dissent to the ground and now of course are very warmly greeted by the rescuers below. the group became stuck in the cable car when a line snapped around seven o'clock in the morning when they were on the way to school. we are told doctors are assessing the health of all of this rescued and we have not had any more update on their health. we will of course bring you that as soon be get it. crossing live now to the newsroom. there have been such extraordinary images of the rescue. talk us through some of them. i rescue. talk us through some of them. , ., ., i. rescue. talk us through some of them. , ., ., ., them. i 'ust want to give you an idea of them. ijust want to give you an idea of the _ them. ijust want to give you an idea of the sheer _ them. ijust want to give you an idea of the sheer scale - them. ijust want to give you an idea of the sheer scale of - them. ijust want to give you an idea of the sheer scale of the i idea of the sheer scale of the operation that has taken place successfully in pakistan. here you can see the cable car dangling hundreds of metres underneath this ravine and there you can see one of the army helicopters that was helping it. ifi the army helicopters that was helping it. if i run the pictures take a look at that helicopter there you can see dangling out of that one of the army officers that was trying to get down to the cable car early on in the front rescue mission. if i can zoom in and you can see he managed to get to the cable car to give them some supplies early on in the rescue. than a few hours later we had that first rescue of a child from the helicopter. let me share those pictures. keep your eye on the centre of the screen. that is the cable car. along kerry can see hundreds of people who have gathered to watch and you can actually see the cable line here. as i run the video you will see the moment that the child, there you go, springs out and has not come out of the cable car and is hanging hundreds of metres up from the helicopter. you can imagine having been in that cable car and then you are swinging, the people who have gathered, cheer and clap as they managed to do that. then you have the fact that the helicopter had now has to get that child hanging on that rope safely to the ground. which they did, however after that rescue, night fell in the helicopter were grounded and we had to move to the ground operation. that involves a zip line. let me show you this picture here. here you can see the zip wire going along and if i run these pictures you will see the moments that you can see the rescuers actually physically moving that supplier along. we have the two final children that were on board the cable car being brought down by rescuers which you can see in the hard hats there. along the zip wire, two of the rescuers and the rest of the people down on the ground and of course lots of cheers from the people on the ground. i think that gives you a sheer sense of the absolute scale of the operation that has been successfully carried out in pakistan both in the air and on the ground via zip lines. it’s ground via zip lines. it's amazing how calm they — ground via zip lines. it's amazing how calm they looked _ ground via zip lines. it's amazing how calm they looked during - ground via zip lines. it's amazing l how calm they looked during those last few moments there as they are brought along. it really is great and happy news. thank you very much for bringing all of that and talking us through those images. we had a statement through from paxton�*s army. i can read you some, sang a highly complex and challenging rescue operation in the battagram area has been sexily completed and sing special services group team using the expertise safely rescued individuals trapped in a chairlift at a height of 600 feet also think with pakistan air force helicopter became part of the operation and talk about the pilots demonstrating exceptional skill and professionalism. they also talk about the local cable experts that were contributing to their services to ensure the successful completion of the rescue operation. the statement goes on saying that both the local and administrations of the area played a significant role in the suit difficult and dangerous operation, and operation of unprecedented difficulty. but it has now finished successfully. the latest statement we have had from paxton�*s army. defence officials in ukraine have described claims of corruption within the country's army recruitment system as "shameful and unacceptable". it comes after president volodymyr zelensky recently sacked every regional recruitment head. officials were accused of taking bribes. 0ur ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse sent this report. "it's ok to be scared." this is the latest messaging campaign from ukraine's military. it wants people to give their details so they can be called on if needed. but what if they don't want to? translation: the system is very outdated. _ yehor — not his real name — is one of them. he's not happy with how the army finds its soldiers. translation: it's like soviet times. recruiters using these methods now is unacceptable. mobilisation is why most men under 60 can't leave ukraine. here, drafting officers raid an arcade in the kyiv region. they hand out notices ordering them to sign up. russia's invasion means ukraine is constantly trying to replace soldiers. but with tens of thousands killed and even more injured or exhausted, the demand is not being met with just volunteers. but there are big questions over how it calls men up — with officials being accused of intimidation, and helping some escape the country for cash. there are exemptions, including poor health — but not forjust not wanting to fight. yehor watched his father suffer with mental—health issues after serving in afghanistan with the soviet army. translation: each | situation is individual. the fact it's written in the constitution that all male citizens must fight is, in my opinion, not in line with today's values. thousands of men try to avoid the draft — either through tip—offs or leaving the country illegally — unless they�* re caught. "good evening. where are you going?" said this border guard. ukrainian defence officials are usually easier to engage with. this is clearly a sensitive subject. we've been refused interviews, access with drafting officers. so we're going to go to them. at the unveiling of the defence ministry's latest information campaign, an admission of problems which need fixing. i understand that people will be afraid of fighting on the front line, but i put it to you that they're also afraid of a recruitment system that's been accused of corruption, of not always following the law. do you understand why people don't trust the system? translation: corruptionj in the recruitment centres is unacceptable and shameful. but we should not forget that, behind all that outrage — which is completely fair — there are two components of our victory. weapons and people. and the mobilisation process is what provides that. in an abandoned kyiv summer camp, civilians are trained in combat. the guns and grenades might be pretend... explosion. ..but there is a hope people like anton will volunteer for the real thing. are you scared about that idea in any way? of course, of course. every person, and i'm scared. i'm scared to hell. there is no chance i will be sitting here in kyiv if the situation is worse. the ukraine of today is fighting for its tomorrow. a country united by wanting to survive... ..but also grappling with the fact that the battlefield is not for everyone. james waterhouse, bbc news, kyiv. some breaking news from spain. king felipe has nominated the leader of the conservative people's party, to face a parliamentary vote to become prime minister. the king made the decision after consulting parties who won seats in last month's inconclusive concludes flexing, he will need the support of 176 lawmakers out of the lower houses and 350 deputies to win the premiership. and now to ground breaking research here in the uk in the early detection of parkinson's disease. a major collaboration between moorfields eye hospital and university college london has found that the eye scanners used by thousands of high street opticians could potentially be used to detect signs of parkinson's seven years before someone is diagnosed by a hospital neurologist. the process found physical differences in the eyes of people live now to west london and rory cellanjones, former bbc news technology correspondent. rory was diagnosed in 2019 with parkinson's disease. very well—placed to talk to us about this. thank you so much for coming on. this sounds rather positive, doesn't it? tell us a more about it. it's an extraordinary piece of research and we often hear about how much data that the nhs has, and unrivaled collection of data, but it is not often used in this way. what they have done is taken various sources of data, something like 20 million retinal scans, it has been doing a lot of work on that, those were linked to hospital data base linked to hospital database which basically lists everyone who comes to hospitalfor basically lists everyone who comes to hospital for whatever reason and in there it lists those people who have been diagnosed with parkinson's disease. but he did was link the people with retinal scans comparing them with people who had parkinson's disease and did not and noticed key tiny differences inside the eye which they decided amounted to evidence of parkinson's disease, a biomarker they called it of parkinson's disease. but they also do is look at another database people who had been tracked over many years and found that they could spot several people who did not yet, had not yet been diagnosed with parkinson's disease at the time, whose scans actually indicated them long before they went to hospital. so they used a eye to look through all of the data but as i said in the introduction, it is these machines that you get, normally on the high street, that we are using to look at people's eyes. the street, that we are using to look at peeple's eyes-_ street, that we are using to look at people's eyes. the interesting thing is every high _ people's eyes. the interesting thing is every high street _ people's eyes. the interesting thing is every high street optician - people's eyes. the interesting thing is every high street optician these l is every high street optician these days has the kind of scanner that used to be in a hospital, only a few years ago. that is great but also a problem because it means that loads of false positives of potentially generated because opticians have not got the capacity to look at them properly. but this is a interesting use of that technology, combined with al to find a way of diagnosing parkinson's. whether it will actually be used in the near future for individuals, i am slightly dubious about. i think it is more about the whole journey that is going on, investigating this incredibly mysterious disease which i had and 145,000 people have which has 70 different symptoms but it is yet still not very well understood. in terms of people who may be given these tests, there are people who perhaps more susceptible or more likely to get parkinson's disease, are there not?— are there not? that is what this could be used _ are there not? that is what this could be used for. _ are there not? that is what this could be used for. as _ are there not? that is what this could be used for. as i - are there not? that is what this could be used for. as i say, - are there not? that is what this could be used for. as i say, i i are there not? that is what this i could be used for. as i say, i think it is unlikely to have an effect in the short term but it may be used for clinical trials as a way of assessing whether for instance a new drug has had any impact. and i skin is a very un—invasive way of testing someone. they're all all sorts of ways that it may be used. but what is encouraging is that there is so much panic around access to medical records and this is something that demonstrates what good could come from out of making those records available. i realise having not known anything about this that my records were probably used in this research. i am a customer at the hospital with a long—running eye condition as well. hospital with a long-running eye condition as well.— hospital with a long-running eye condition as well. thank you so much for talkin: condition as well. thank you so much for talking to — condition as well. thank you so much for talking to us _ condition as well. thank you so much for talking to us about _ condition as well. thank you so much for talking to us about it. _ around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk. i can't sit still for 5 minutes and in some ways that's probably hurt me over the years. i was feeling breathless. i kept on getting arm pains and i had a few angina attacks. i ended up going to the royal perth hospital and they came back and said, "we really can't do much with your stents, you're really going to have to go on the list for a bypass." two or three days later, the consultant phoned me and said, "do you want to try this new procedure that laser them open?" what they do, they put a pipe up there with a laser. obviously a very minute laser that goes in through your artery and it lasers the plaque and it goes to nothing. i thank them so much. they've given me my life back. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. about a thousand fires are still burning across western canada as the country grapples with its worst wildfire season on record. troops have been deployed to fight the flames, which cover an area roughly the size of greece. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. hundreds of firefighters are arriving from overseas to help with the emergency effort. british columbia has been blanketed with dangerous smoke and millions of people have been under air quality warnings. across the border in the us state of washington wildfires have also broken out, destroying homes and claiming two lives. however, in some areas cooler weather and some rain are helping to stabilise the situation. lucas brehaut a research scientist with the canadian forest service — has told me about the scale of these fires. it's important to look at the numbers for the entire fire season as it stands right now. looking at the number of fires that the provinces and territories have responded to as a total over the course of this fire season, usually starting in early may, is about 5800. a ten year average for this time of year would be about 4800. what is more interesting is the number of area burned for the entire country. as you are well aware, we have had fires from coast—to—coast and the total area burned for canada as it stands right now is about 15 million hectares. the ten year average for that is about 2.3. so as you said, roughly the size of greece. another really interesting comparative for your viewers would be england is about approximately 13 million hackers. so a significant increase in area burned. than increase in area burned. an extraordinarily large amount of area covered by these fires in as i mentioned before, the plumes of smoke that are travelling so far and making it really difficult for people. they are extending the area which is aptly affected by such an extraordinary amount, are they not? yes they are and i find no matter where you live in canada you are affected by these fires over the course of the season one way or another. whether through evacuations as we see in the northwest territories currently or earlier in the summer in the capital region of ottawa, where we had these air 0ttawa, where we had these air quality advisory statements and so on in western canada as well currently. i on in western canada as well currently-— on in western canada as well currently. on in western canada as well currentl . , , , currently. i suppose the thing is back in the _ currently. i suppose the thing is back in the spring _ currently. i suppose the thing is back in the spring you _ currently. i suppose the thing is back in the spring you had - currently. i suppose the thing is| back in the spring you had about back in the spring you had about back a drought and wildfires then, you did know this was probably coming, canada has wildfires every year. you talk on the season, is there more that could have been done to prevent all of this? that there more that could have been done to prevent all of this?— to prevent all of this? that is a treat to prevent all of this? that is a great point _ to prevent all of this? that is a great point to _ to prevent all of this? that is a great point to note. _ to prevent all of this? that is a great point to note. wildfires l to prevent all of this? that is a great point to note. wildfires a naturally occurring disturbance on our landscape. a lot of are for its require fire to regenerate to ensure we have healthy forests but in terms of this year's skill of this, largely this year is fully related to those drought periods that we had. we saw in the spring there was a very early snowmelt that happened in eastern canada, the sled, followed by a period of drought which resulted in those ignition events that we saw in nova scotia and quebec as well. very similar in quebec later on in the summer and now we are seeing it in western canada. there are a lot of public information campaigns that are out there that have really shown success in decreasing the amount of human caused fires, but really this year it is largely related to the dry conditions that are trying out this course. spain's acting prime minister, pedro sanchez, has said that the apology from the president of the spanish soccer federation over a kiss to one of the players is "insufficient". mr sanchez has asked for more than just an apology. you may rememberg that spain's women's world cup success has been marred by the forced kiss on the lips that the president of the federation gave to player jenni hermoso during the medal ceremony following the final. he first downplayed the incident, but he later apologised for kissing the player. well, the spain's victorious football team have been enjoying a welcome reception — hosted by the prime minister. the team lined up to be greeted by pedro sanchez in madrid. those winners medals were all on display, as well as the world cup trophy itself. a great moment for them and, it must be said, for mr sanchez, you are watching bbc news. over the last few months, the saudi pro league — also known as the spl — has shaken up the global football industry. a host of high profile players from european leagues have been signed in record transfer deals. saudi clubs have collectively spent over $650 million during the transfer window on foreign players. 0ur middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi sent this report 0ur middle east business correspondent sameer hashmi sent this report. a rapturous welcome for neymar at his new club, al hilal. a volley of fireworks was followed by a drone show projecting the brazilian player's face in the sky as the star footballer was unveiled in front of thousands of ecstatic supporters. al hilal is one of asia's most successful clubs, but for many fans, neymar�*s arrival marks the beginning of a new era. it means a lot for us. neymar is a megastar player, a brazilian leader, and he will bring a lot of fans to al hilal. translation: we are so happy that stars like cristiano and neymar are playing here in saudi. we hope that the saudi league will become as good as the other leagues in europe. the ambitious project to make saudi arabia a football powerhouse started with the arrival of cristiano ronaldo at al nassr last year. this was followed by another record deal when karim benzema moved to al—ittihad from real madrid injune. since then, there has been an influx of foreign players. a couple of months ago the top four saudi clubs were bought over by the pif, which is the country's sovereign wealth fund. what it has done is, it has enabled clubs like al hilal to offer eye—watering salaries to attract some of the biggest names in global football. sports is one of the main pillars of the country's vision 2030 economic diversification programme, which aims to reduce saudi arabia's reliance on oil revenues by building new industries and attracting foreign companies. in line with that objective, the saudi pro league plans to continue spending big to sign more international players. we have a commitment to support this for however long it takes. however, the responsibility that we have is that that commitment is to also take that commercialisation element of the strategy and start increasing that so that we can be responsible for our own financial growth in the future and not to be wholly dependent on the government. saudi arabia's aim is to elevate the spl in the world's top ten in terms of revenues by 2030. it's still early to judge whether these bold investments will pay off in the long run, but the strategy has demonstrated the gulf state's ambition of becoming a major international football hub. researchers say using mri scans to screen men for prostate cancer could reduce deaths "significantly". prostate cancer is the most common cancerfound in men, and is highly treatable if caught early. but in the uk, 12,000 men die every year — the uk's death rate is twice as high as the us, spain, or italy. mri scans have been found to be more effective than the current blood tests which can be unreliable. it's hoped thousands of lives could be saved. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh has been finding out more. paul rothwell feels fortunate. his prostate cancer was caught early at london's university college hospital, after he took part in a trial using mri scans. the 62—year—old's cancer would have been missed if he'd only had the standard psa blood test, which came back as negative. if ijust had the blood test, i would be carrying on life as normal, walking around unaware that there was some sort of ticking time bomb inside me of a cancer slowly growing. and by the time i then did find out, presumably, it would have been much harder to treat and much more dangerous to me. we don't see any sign of cancer recurrence there, so... paul was among 300 men aged 50 to 75 who took part in the trial led by university college london. of the 25 men whose aggressive cancers were picked up via mri, over half, like paul, had negative blood tests. we think these are really significant results. what we see is that a short ten—minute mri scan, used as a screening test, can selectively pick up significant cancers in a much more effective way than the psa blood test alone. that'll help us to diagnose the important cancers early, when they're curable. this is what men over 50 can request from their doctor — a blood test for the protein psa. high levels can indicate cancer, so it's a useful test, but unreliable, as it's not always accurate. after he developed prostate cancer, errol mckellar started offering men discounts on their mot if they got themselves checked out, and he now runs a charity to raise awareness of the disease. when prostate cancer turns up at your front door, it doesn't care whether you're black, whether you're white, it doesn't care about your wealth, it doesn't care about you. what it will do, if you ignore it, it will kill you. larger trials will be needed to confirm the value of mri scans, before a national screening programme for prostate cancer could be set up, which may take up to a decade. fergus walsh, bbc news. that's all for me today. the context is coming up but first here's the weather. good evening. well, it's been a day of sunshine and a few showers around, and the weather won't be changing in a hurry over the next couple of days. so a bit more of the same tomorrow, some sunshine around — warm sunshine in the south, and a few showers mostly towards the north and the west, too. now, here is the position of thejet stream at the moment — it's curling around in the atlantic and heading its way through central parts of the uk. to the north of thatjet stream, slightly cooler and more breezy conditions, whereas further south, we've got that warmer air affecting southern parts of the uk — but certainly affecting much of central and southern europe, with that hot air drifting in from the south. we have got red alerts for those high temperatures, really from parts of portugal, spain, through southern france, northern italy, towards croatia, as well. so intense heat wave through the middle of the week, still ongoing for southern parts of europe. but closer to home, here is the satellite and the radar from a little bit earlier on — you can see we've had some showers for northern ireland and scotland, blown in on this briskjet stream that we've got flowing across the uk at the moment. further south, it's mostly dry as we head through the evening hours, and actually, most of the showers will fade away tonight. but there'll be a bit more low cloud working in through parts of the irish sea, wales, as well, a few splashes of light rain here, and a bit more cloud and a few showers for northern ireland and western scotland. but most of us, still mild, 13—14 celsius, a bit fresher across parts of central and eastern scotland under those clearer skies. so a fresher start to wednesday than we had on tuesday. through the day, fair amount of dry weather with some sunshine, as well. there will be areas of cloud, particularly through parts of wales, northern england, the odd spot of rain, and a few showers further north, but not as many as we've seen of late. the warmest weather, again, will be for southern and eastern parts of england, 25—26 celsius. typically, though, the high teens further north. now heading into thursday, low pressure is sitting across the uk, so that'll bring a bit more of an unsettled picture. not too many isobars on the chart, so not a particularly blustery sort of day, but there'll be some showery rain pushing across parts of scotland, and we could well see some sharp showers further south across some central and southeastern parts of england, for instance, could be the odd rumble of thunder. but still warm in the southeast, 25 celsiusor so for thursday, but those temperatures starting to come down, so the high teens for most further north. looking further ahead, there will still be some dry weather with some sunshine around, but a bit of a drop in those temperatures as we head through the bank holiday weekend. a few scattered showers on the cards, too. bye for now. hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. we have nowjust had confirmation that all of these individuals, six children and two adults have now been brought safely back down. see the moment, that you can see the rescuers actually physically moving that zip wire along, and we've got the two final children that were on board the cable card being brought down by the rescuers getting between from one area to the other area children to school.