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obviously there is a lot we do not know, but it fits a pattern of attacks we have seen, including last year byjihadists linked to the islamic state, which is probably the islamic state khorasan, which is in central asia, and has carried out attacks in moscow and this attack is close to their home territory. we know the sites that were targeted, two churches, one a synagogue, these are religious venues. can we make anything from that in terms of what was actually targeted? so the islamic state and individuals that follow it see themselves as part of a religious struggle. they see a western war on islam and they see a religious struggle. they say western war on islam done by christians and dues against muslims, so by striking religious targets, they believe they're defending their faith. as you said earlier, we're still working to confirm a lot of the facts here and figure out exactly who was behind this but in your assessment, do you think this has the hallmarks of an act by a group like isis or isis—k? certainly, that has to be the starting hypothesis. we have seen a script is similar attacks, we know it is active in the region. we know that russia has failed to stop this group both from intelligence and law enforcement point of view. russian likes to blame the west and others for its problems, but the script has been active for quite some time. you mention the region dagestan. what more can you tell us about this area of russia where these attacks happened? russia has been involved in fighting differentjihadists orjihadi groups in this area for decades really. if we go back to the chechen conflict, right next door, in the late 90s, that was a conflict which started off as a nationalist conflict and became much more jihadist orientated. then we saw a lot of individuals from this region go fight with the islamic state in iraq and syria. we saw continued violence in this religion, some of it trying to fuel mini insurgencies, some terrorists, but this has been an ongoing problem. sometimes it has been quite active, sometimes less so, but it has never gone away. this is, of course, happening just a few months after that deadly attack on a concert venue in moscow. that killed more than 140 people. that was claimed by the terror group, in the end, isis—k. what do you think that says about the state of readiness, maybe, by russia, and the fact we have seen a couple now of very intense and deadly attacks within the country in just a matter of months? russian intelligence has clearly failed to get a handle on these groups. they moscow attack was, of course, incredibly deadly and at the heart of the russian state, and while dagestan is less important to many russian officials, the scale of this attack, with multiple gunmen killing many policemen, targeting religious sites is a humiliation for the government. and it was a coordinated act, som many people were involved, it was notjust a few individuals acting on their own. it indicates russia's intelligence is not good enough to stop these groups. how do you think vladimir putin will respond to this attack? what do you think the russian state will do now with what we have seen from the recent attacks? it will begin probably by trying to implicate ukraine, the united states, european powers, saying somehow or another, they are involved, either directly or otherwise encouraging it. in addition to the propaganda, though, russia will often do large—scale arrests of individuals from central asia, really be willing to throw a lot of innocent people — in the hope of finding a few guilty ones — injail or harass them, then there is much more repression in the region in general. this could be use of military force, assassinations, but russia usually uses a very heavy hand in the circumstances. my my conversation earlier with daniel byman. in his first interview with an israeli tv network since israel's war on hamas began in october, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said the phase of intense fighting against the palestinian armed group is coming to an end. netanyahu said that would free up israeli forces to be deployed to the northern border with lebanon, where fighting with the hezbollah armed group has escalated. more than 90,000 israeli residents have evacuated the area amid exchanges of cross—border fire between israeli forces and hezbollah. there are concerns of a wider conflict breaking out in the region. israeli defence minister yoav gallant is here in washington to meet senior us officials. he is expected to discuss the next phase of the war in gaza and the hostilities between israel and hezbollah. mr netanyahu has meanwhile appear to change course on a us—backed deal that would end the war, and which was earlier approved by his war cabinet. he now says he's ready to accept "a partial deal that will bring some of the hostages home" while the war continues. mr netanyahu has said hamas must be destroyed before the war concludes. translation: if there . is an agreement, it will be an agreement according to our terms, and our terms are not to end the war, to leave gaza and leave hamas as it is. i refuse to leave hamas as it is. we need to eliminate it. netanyahu neta nyahu is taking netanyahu is taking in that interview on and israeli network. —— speaking. meanwhile in gaza, eight palestinians were killed sunday in an israeli air strike near gaza city. witnesses say the attack hit part of a college run by the un palestinian refugee agency which was providing aid to displaced families. in the occupied west bank, the israeli military has admitted its forces violated protocol by strapping a wounded palestinian man to a jeep during what it called a "counterterrorism operation" in the city ofjenin on saturday. a warning that viewers may find the video we're about to show distressing. the man in the footage can be seen lying on the bonnet of a vehicle as it drives past two ambulances. we've decided to blur the image. his family said he was injured during the raid by israeli soldiers. the idf confirmed the incident, saying it "violated orders", adding that it would be investigated and dealt with accordingly. sebastian usher has more. the palestinians would say what was going on in the west bank, and has continued to do so on a more intense level since war erupted between hamas and israel in gaza, is very similar in the way the israeli army acts, and they would say that what these images show, these images that have shocked palestinians certainly and have gone viral, is at best a lack of concern for palestinians have been injured. now, the man himself, a palestinian man and his family, have said he was shot and waiting for hospital treatment. the family said they were waiting for ambulances to come. the man has spoken from hospital and said he was there for an hour or two and also described and also described the pain that was caused to him when he was strapped on the front of this vehicle, saying it was in the burning heat, so he had that. also the way he was put on it made his injuries all the worst. the extra accusation that this was some form of human shield, we do not have any clarification of that, but certainly this is an accusation that has been made a lot on social media. we have had the un special rapporteur essentially accusing israel of doing this. russia says it holds the united states responsible, after a missile fired by ukraine killed at least five people in occupied crimea. according to moscow, more than 100 others were injured when missile fragments hit a crowded beach near sevastopol. the governor of crimea, which was annexed by russia in 2014, said four us supplied—missiles had been intercepted by air defences but a fifth had detonated in the air. tv footage showed people running from a beach. our security correspondent, gordon corera, has more on moscow's response. moscow is claiming that the us and ukraine are responsible for this. ukraine and the us haven't commented on that, but moscow's claim is that five ataka missiles were fired towards crimea. four of them were shot down by air defences, by russian air defences, but one, they say, detonated mid—air, raining shrapnel down on a local beach, and tv footage does show people running away, it appears, in panic from that beach. not likely to have been the target, probably a military target nearby was the intended place where those missiles were heading for. the russian authorities saying a number of children were among those killed and a large number wounded. significant, i think, that russia is trying to hold the us accountable for this and saying that it was us specialists, as they put it, who programme the co—ordinates for these missile strikes based on us satellite data. so suggesting that these are us—supplied weapons and the details of how they're used are also coming from washington and the us. even though it's a ukrainian attack, the russian authorities are saying they hold the us responsible and that they'll be raising this with the international community. but as i said, no word from ukraine or washington in response to those russian claims. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news. manchester airport says flights have resumed after a power cut caused major disruption. people waited in long lines, and some airline passengers were held on runways for several hours. some flights have been diverted to other airports. it comes at the start of the busy summer holiday season. the airport's managing director has apologised to passengers. search teams looking for a british teenager missing in tenerife have spent the day focusing on some small outbuildings near where his phone was last located. jay slater disappeared on monday while walking to his accommodation. the 19—year—old has not been heard from since he called a friend saying he was lost and needed water. scotland have crashed out of the euros, after losing 1—0 to hungary, who snatched a goal in the 100th minute of the match. the result means scotland finish bottom of the group. the hosts germany and switzerland have drawn 1—1 in their final group game. germany had already qualified for the last 16 and the result means switzerland willjoin them. you're live with bbc news. the bbc understands that the gambling commission's inquiries into alleged bets placed on the timing of the uk general election, involve more people than those publicly named so far. it comes as the labour party has written to the gambling regulator, urging it to release the names of everyone being investigated. recently it emerged a fourth senior conservative is being reviewed by the commission. the party's chief data officer, nick mason, denies any wrongdoing. here's helen catt. that is fantastic. what's been some of your highlights? rishi sunak�*s party has already tweaked its sales pitch at this election from being all about another term of conservative government to more warnings about labour winning big. but the focus is now being repeatedly pulled away from that message by fresh details about bets allegedly placed by tories on the election date. the home secretary this morning was the latest ministry to face questions about it. to your knowledge, home secretary, did any ministers put a bet on the time of the election? not to my knowledge at all. i have been absolutely clear that from what i have read, i am not in any way going to defend the actions of these individuals. but i'm also conscious that i don't have the full details, the only organisation that does is the gambling commission and it is right that they take action, whatever the appropriate action, and they have been clear that we should not discuss this. the conservative party's chief data officer nick mason was earlier identified as the fourth conservative being investigated. he has denied wrongdoing and has taken a leave of absence. the bbc understands there are more people with links to the tories and the government being looked into. labour is making sure the questions keep coming. it's now written to the gambling commission, which hasn't named anyone it is investigating, calling on it to identify them all — it says in the public interest. the issue here is whether those people who had insider knowledge of what was going on used that information in placing a bet. people across the country will place bets but i think there is genuine disgust. also in the sunday times today, the levelling up secretary explained why he thinks the investigation is damaging. he said it looked like "one rule for them and one rule for us, so if these allegations are true, it's very difficult to defend". a view echoed by the liberal democrats, who say rishi sunak needs to act. liberal democrats have already called on the prime minister to intervene personally to make sure that every single person who is being investigated is suspended immediately and that he launches a cabinet inquiry investigation. so, too, does this conservative, the former justice secretary. i am deeply, deeply hurt and rather angry that this has happened in the middle of a campaign that is tough enough without things like this to complicate it further. do you think the prime minister ought to suspend the people involved ? yes, i do. there's been a lot of criticism of rishi sunak�*s decision to call this election in the rain, but as it approaches the closing stages, it's the drip—drip of allegations that's doing more damage to the tories' campaign. helen catt, bbc news. to kenya now, where the country's president william ruto has said he will engage with young protestors opposed to the government's plan to hike taxes. the demonstrations, largely led by young people, caught the government off guard. two people died and dozens were injured during thursday's protests in nairobi and several other cities across the country. the government plans to raise $2.6 billion to finance its budget and reduce its debt. more than 100 million americans remain under heat advisory alerts, as temperatures remain stubbornly high across much of the country. this is a heat map from the us national weather service — you can see areas with high temperatures coloured in orange and red spread from coast to coast. a recent analysis of us government data by the associate press showed that 2300 people who died in the us last summer had excessive heat listed on their death certificate — the highest number ever recorded. the advice from authorities is to seek shelter, ideally with air conditioning. but for the hundreds of thousands of americans with no place to call home, that isn't always an option. i spoke earlier to donald whitehead junior, executive director of the national coalition for the homeless. he explained why heatwaves are so dangerous for people living on the streets. we appreciate you being first of all here. why are these particularly dangerous, these heatwaves, for the unhoused? there are a number of reasons why they are dangerous. the population of unsheltered individuals is actually predominantly people who are 55 years of age. and so people at that age level often suffer from respiratory issues, they suffer from insomnia, a number of really, really important and sometimes life—threatening issues, and so there is no protection from this heat. most of these communities who are facing this are not facing this kind of heatwave are very consistent time, so people are getting heat burns, heat exhaustion, third—degree burns and a number of really serious issues. we are not prepared for it. although we have seen it coming for some time. when we talk about _ coming for some time. when we talk about these _ coming for some time. when we talk about these kind _ coming for some time. when we talk about these kind of - talk about these kind of temperatures we are seeing in parts of the united states right now, upwards of getting into the 30s celsius, over 100 fahrenheit, how difficult is it for somebody who is living on the streets, may be any temporary kind of shelter or tent, how hard is it for them to stay cool in temperatures like that? it to stay cool in temperatures like that?— like that? it is virtually impossible _ like that? it is virtually impossible for - like that? it is virtually impossible for them i like that? it is virtually impossible for them to like that? it is virtually - impossible for them to stay cool unless there are other resources that communities make available. so most of our homeless population in this country is in urban settings. 70,000 plus people in california and large populations in new york and other cities. so in urban communities, you do not have vegetation or shade from trees or other other kinds of shade that would allow you to have a bit of a respite from those kinds of temperatures, so very, very hard. we don't have outdoor drinking fountains so dehydration becomes an issue. so so it is a really, really critical issue that people on the streets of our country are facing in a year when we have had the largest increase of unsheltered homelessness in our history. unsheltered homelessness in our histo . ., ., , ., history. you mentioned they are that it really _ history. you mentioned they are that it really is _ history. you mentioned they are that it really is crucial _ history. you mentioned they are that it really is crucial to - that it really is crucial to have some sort of outside help, then. what are organisations like yours may be doing during these times, these heatwaves to make sure that people can stay cool make sure that people can stay cool, can survive, really, when they are living on the streets? we advise our street outreach workers to make sure they carry water and other kinds of liquids so people can be hydrated during this time. but the biggest thing we are doing is advocating for brilliant housing with supportive services so that people do not have to live on the streets —— advocating for supportive housing. we have the resources available to be able to do that, wejust available to be able to do that, we just need to gain the political will to make sure that people do not have to sleep on sidewalks and in parks and abandoned buildings and cars. we need to do a better job of providing those of resources. that is what we are advocating for every single day. advocating for every single da . , advocating for every single da. , . ., advocating for every single da. . ., day. of course, climate change will only make _ day. of course, climate change will only make heatwaves - day. of course, climate changel will only make heatwaves hotter and longer lasting. our cities and longer lasting. our cities and countries ready for this? i don't think so. i happen to, prior to coming to the national coalition, i worked with greenpeace for several years, and we saw this coming decades ago. not only is there the issue around people living outside in unsheltered locations, we have a low income housing on floodplains, we have low income housing next to factories, so climate change is a really a very serious issue for our population. i don't think many of our elected officials really pay enough attention to it or make enough resources available, so we are ready. we should be treating this like any other natural disaster. we should have housing available, trailers, whatever we can do to make sure people are not enduring these elements. we know that more people are dying because of heat —related issues than they are for other weather—related issues, so we have to do a betterjob. several buildings were set on fire overnight in the french overseas territory new caledonia.— new caledonia. independent activists linked _ new caledonia. independent activists linked to _ new caledonia. independent activists linked to last - new caledonia. independent j activists linked to last man's deadly protests were charged and these follow controv

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