Explosion we understand that he was unharmed. Lets speak to Michael Bociurkiw a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council welcome to the programme. I want if you can talk us through the scale of this russian attack ... the scale of this russian attack . H,.. the scale of this russian attack .... ,. the scale of this russian attack . ~ attack . Good to be with you. A very massive attack . Good to be with you. A very massive one, attack . Good to be with you. A very massive one, yesterday i attack . Good to be with you. A l very massive one, yesterday was one of them are silent days since the start of russias full scale invasion, we are talking about 200 incoming, a mix of missiles and iranian built drones, far to the west and north as well but especially here in kyiv as well. Just in the past few hours and the past hour or so a loud explosion was heard here in kyiv. I dont know if there was a defence striking a Russian Rocket in the air or a direct hit but we do know that Critical Infrastructure has been hit very hard, in fact one of the optics struck yesterday was a 408 are what kyiv hydroelectric power plant, hence we have most of the day no power than with power. It doesnt look good at all for the winter. Doesnt look good at all for the winter.. ,. the winter. Obviously they are tar etin the winter. Obviously they are targeting those the winter. Obviously they are targeting those key the winter. Obviously they are targeting those key energy. Targeting those Key Energy Infrastructure areas as you outlined. What about travel . For example getting weapons and troops to the front line. How has that been disrupted . The amazin has that been disrupted . The amazing thing has that been disrupted . Ila amazing thing is the has that been disrupted . Ii2 amazing thing is the ukrainians have really done an awesome job transporting weaponry and troops. Why do i know that . I travel a lot in ukraine and we hardly see Military Convoys or anything like that so they do it very stealthily. The problem is that the russians feel free to strike things like childrens hospitals and churches and places where civilians are and claimed that these are places where the military stores things. That is definitely not the case. I dont think the strikes are i think rather the strikes are more targeted at civilian infrastructure and trying to wed people down and disrupt business by cutting power and that sort of thing. I business by cutting power and that sort of thing. That sort of thing. I suppose this is messaging that sort of thing. I suppose this is messaging coming i that sort of thing. I suppose i this is messaging coming from moscow following ukraines incursion into russian territory. But on monday, we heard from Volodymyr Zelensky again appealing to his western allies to allow him to use those long range weapons to strike deeper into russian territory. How is that likely to be received by his allies . We are about to see him in a few hours at a Press Conference i hope to question him more about the strategy of going into kursk because what we are seeing is a direct retaliation to that. What we are seeing in using western kit to strike inside of russia, they adopted the attitude of saying it is here to ask for forgiveness than permission. Rightly so, because the strikes that i happening right now and happened yesterday are coming from inside russia, some areas deep inside the country and ukraine has a legitimate right to strike at them because we are finding out is they are simply not enough air, or defence system to protect even cities like kyiv. This is a strategy they have to pursue. Thank you very much and i apologise if i mispronounced your surname, thank you for that update. Ma; your surname, thank you for that update. Your surname, thank you for thatudate. Y ,. ~ that update. My pleasure, thank ou. Just to remind you was the Breaking News over the last few hours is what has been described as one of the largest strikes of this war, russias war on ukraine. More than 200 missiles including Cruise Missiles including Cruise Missiles and drones were used to target key ukrainian Infrastructure Park its primarily energy structure. In much of the country under blackout. We will bring more on this as and when we get it. Lets turn to the middle east now. The United Nations says its had to halt its humanitarian operations in gaza. It comes after the Israeli Military issued a new Evacuation Orderfor the area where aid workers were operating from. The un is the primary aid distributor inside the territory, which has been devastated by 10 months of war between israel and hamas. The un agency, unrwa one of the key humanitarian groups working in gaza spoke earlier on the deteriorating situation. This space that people have been confined to is so minimal, there are tanks in areas that used to be designated as safe areas. This isjust another testament to their being no less safe in the gaza strip. There is no where to find safety, has limited access to humanitarian resources because the humanitarian operations are also being displaced within these Evacuation Orders and the humanitarian response here is being completely strangled and limited with our ability of what we can do. A,... what we can do. Mohamed taha will cive what we can do. Mohamed taha will give us what we can do. Mohamed taha will give us an what we can do. Mohamed taha will give us an update. Away from gaza at least 5 palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an israeli drone strike on a refugee camp in the occupied west bank. The Israel Defence force confirmed the strike in nur shams camp, east of the city of tulkarm and said that its target was what it described as a command room of a terror cell. Palestinian officials later said that a 40 year old palestinian man was shot Byjewish Settlers in the wadi rehal village, south of bethlehem. Violence has spiked in the west bank since the gaza war began last october. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. I wonder if we can pick up first off on that point that i was just discussing, the strike on the occupied west bank. Any more to add to that . More to add to that . Indeed, the situation more to add to that . Indeed, the situation in more to add to that . Indeed, the situation in the more to add to that . Indeed, the situation in the west more to add to that . Indeed, | the situation in the west bank is getting really escalating and after that because the ocean in cairo collapsed, the war is in a full force in all fronts in the west Bank Negotiations in cairo. This strike on the west bank has happened with a Drome Targeting what the Israel Forces described as fighters of hamas, five people were killed. Apparently four of them were fighters of hamas and one civilian was killed. The Drone Strikes on the west bank is a bit unusual, that Israeli Forces used to get into the west bank by their forces to do some operations against militants that. On the top of that, there were attacks from areas that killed one of the stinear in. This is continuous on settlers from the palestinians on the west bank and as we saw recently in the bbc documentary by isabel yang how the west Bank Situation is dangerous, as more than 50 of the west bank is occupied by on settlers and if the situation in the west bank would be escalated, the situation would be really dangerous. Be really dangerous. Talking about the be really dangerous. Talking about the situation, be really dangerous. Talking about the situation, lets be really dangerous. Talking | about the situation, lets turn to gaza. We heard unrwa speaking earlier on an update on the situation but on twitter Louise Water Edge said all of Thatis Louise Water Edge said all of that is left is the sea in terms of evacuation and whether are going. How detrimental is the situation and the loss of aid from the un . Ii the situation and the loss of aid from the un . Aid from the un . If you remember aid from the un . If you remember you aid from the un . If you remember you and aid from the un . If you remember you and me | aid from the un . If you remember you and me were talking about the Evacuation Orders may be yesterday that this is a humanitarian crisis in itself. The latest Evacuation Order would ask more than 250,000 palestinians in gaza to move to somewhere where they do not know. The area was they do not know. The area was the headquarters of unrwa so they had to move the headquarters, that is why they halted the operations in gaza. The Polio Vaccines we understand that it arrived in gaza and should be circulated now. How the children in gaza will be getting their vaccines in the continuous evacuations order, now 2 million palestinians in gaza are living actively in tents. This Evacuation Order that the israeli issues each day is making the life impossible for the People Living in gaza. And as i said by the collapse of negotiations in cairo and these people were really hoping for a ceasefire to happen at the end of the war, the evacuations are adding more suffering to these people. Adding more suffering to these eole. A,. Adding more suffering to these eole... adding more suffering to these neole.... ~ adding more suffering to these neole. ~ i people. Mohamed taha, thank you very much lets get some of the days other news now. The World Health Organization has announced a six month plan to curb the spread of mpox. The Director General said the plan included recruiting more Healthcare Staff and enhancing surveillance and response strategies. Tedros ghebreyesus said the plan which would begin in september, requires 135 million in funding. Parties on the left in france have reacted angrily to president macron s assertion that he wont agree to a Government Led by them. The new Popular Front which won the most seats in last months inconclusive elections called for his impeachment, as well as street demonstrations. Plans to build a Tennis Centre near andy murrays canada says it will impose a 100 Import Tariff on imports of china made Electric Vehicles, after similar announcements by the us and european union. The country also plans to impose a 25 duty on chinese steel and aluminium. China has called the move trade protectionism. We will have more in that story in the business use after the half hour. With two weeks to go until the first president ial debate between donald trump and Kamala Harris thereve been disagreements over the program format. Democrats want both candidates microphones to be live throughout the full broadcast on abc on september 10. While mr trump has said it doesnt matter to him either way, the Republican Campaign are reported to want him to be muted unless its his turn to speak. When President Biden was the democratic candidate, both sides had agreed to the muting of mics. Live now to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. Hello to you. Microphones, why is this becoming an issue . It may seem like a very petty issue but it is clearly very important to both sides. During the debate between donald trump and joe biden, the microphones are muted when the other person was speaking. Ifjoe biden was speaking than Donald Trumps microphone was muted and vice versa. The idea behind that was to stop some of the crosstalk that often happens during these debates when they get into intense discussions, one may interrupt the other and there was a consensus it seemed that the debate would be better Wonder Microphone is metred. Nowjoe biden is out of it and, harris is in it and it would seem like both teams wanted to be live all the time. Donald trump doesnt seem to mind either way even though his campaign say that the rules should be the same as last time with the muting of the microphones. One theory here is Kamala Harris, her history is as a prosecutor. As an operator in a courtroom, she is used to interrupting people. She is used to asking questions and sometimes quite pointed questions in a courtroom situation. It may well be that her team at least want her to have the opportunity to do that when donald trump is answering a question and perhaps she believes he is saying something thatis believes he is saying something that is not true. That is not true. Questions also possibly that is not true. Questions also possibly facing that is not true. Questions| also possibly facing donald trump with the Special Counsel being asked or seeking to restart a particular case. What can you tell us about this . This is the document case, a couple of years ago now the fbi executed a Search Warrant at Donald Trumps home in florida and it led to some 31 counts on allegations against the former president that he had at his home any boxes of top secret classified documents that officials said he shouldnt have in his possession. He was also accused of trying to thwart attempts of Government Officials to get those documents back. He was charged on multiple counts and pleaded not guilty but then the case was thrown out of court by a judge who said the Attorney General in this country didnt appoint a Special Prosecutor in the correct manner, the correct authority wasnt used so it went away. Another Special Prosecutor is attempting to have that reversed. Suggesting there is precedent in the way he was appointed and it was aboveboard and he believes the case could still go ahead. Peter bowes, thank you very much indeed. The british Prime Minister sir keir starmer has been putting the finishing touches to a major speech he will deliver this morning in which he plans to address some of the underlying causes behind the summer riots. He will lay the blame for the rot within british society, at the door of the last conservative government. And there is a warning in this speech that things will get worse before they get better. That is a pretty candid message for a Prime Minister to deliver just several weeks into office. And, if youre watching in the uk, we will have full coverage of the pms speech at 10am. You get time. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. The un Secretary General Antonio Guterres has told the bbc that the small islands in the pacific were facing an enormous environmental injustice. Mr guterres is in tonga to attend the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting. His warning came as the World Meteorological organisation said the Pacific Islands were facing a Triple Threat of warming waters, a rise in sea levels and growing acidity because of carbon dioxide. Lets speak to marian kupu, abc tonga reporter. Hello and by the programme. To start off with, how dire is the situation in the Pacific Islands . It situation in the Pacific Islands . Situation in the Pacific Islands .. islands . It is so dire that we are also happy islands . It is so dire that we are also happy and islands . It is so dire that we are also happy and thrilled l are also happy and thrilled that the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, is actually here amongst the Pacific Island leaders to actually physically endorse and support the importance of Climate Change to the Pacific Islands. It is described the Pacific Islands. It is described as the Pacific Islands. It is described as one the Pacific Islands. It is described as one of the Pacific Islands. It is described as one of the worlds most vulnerable to Climate Change. Has anything been done . We heard about a lot of these islands that are at risk. What needs to be done . Islands that are at risk. What needs to be done . There is a lot of things needs to be done . There is a lot of things that needs to be done . There is a lot of things that need needs to be done . There is a lot of things that need to needs to be done . There is a lot of things that need to be | lot of things that need to be done. Particularly the presence of Antonio Guterres on the major polluters and the developing nations that of australia to cut emissions and phase out coal and gas and also take responsibilities to the Pacific Island nations who are the victims of Climate Change. Antonio guterres means business and being here, he actually wants to assure that there is going to be worked on, action, no more thoughts. He means ac