Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he'll never be able to walk. He was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it paralysed his leg. Because of the war he wasn't vaccinated and now medical care is limited. Translation: he want to live and be treated. L he wants to live and walk like other children. I feel a lot of guilt that he didn't get the vaccination, but i couldn't give it to him because of our circumstances. Displaced five times, the baby's family now lives in a crowded tent camp in deir al—balah in central gaza. Raw sewage flows through streets nearby. Conditions are ideal for diseases to spread, especially polio, which is highly infectious. Since discovering the virus, un agencies have been racing to set up an emergency mass vaccination programme and with war raging, they've negotiated three localised three day pauses in fighting with israel and hamas. Un officials say the plan is not ideal, but it's workable. What we're aiming at is to have 640,000 children below the age of ten vaccinated in just a few days in the gaza strip. We need to reach at least 90%. Without that, there is a risk that the virus will mutate and that the transmission could continue. Children make up nearly half the population of gaza, and the past year has deprived many of their loved ones their homes and health. With no end in sight to the war, the hope is that at least one new source of suffering can be eliminated. Yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. In the occupied west bank: palestinian families are being forced to leave ajenin refugee camp, after israeli troops sealed off the town for four days during a major military assault by israeli troops. Loud explosions and sporadic gunfire could still be heard from inside the camp on saturday, as israel's helicopters and drones circled overhead. The palestinian red crescent said there are still a couple bodies inside the camp that they've been unable to reach. At least 20 people have died in recent attacks in the occupied west bank. Israel says the raids are aimed at preventing attacks. Two women were killed and children were among 10 injured after a russian bomb struck a residential building in ukraine's kharkiv region on saturday. It follows a similar attack on friday in which seven people were killed — including a teenage girl on a playground. The aerial raids come as ukrainian soldiers on the front line are struggling to repel waves of russian infantry. Russia said saturday it claimed victory over a settlement near the city of pokrovsk, a crucial logistics hub for ukraine's military. Capturing the city has been a months—long objective for moscow. 0ne ukrainian military analyst told the bbc: ukraine's president zelensky said pokrovsk region was facing the highest number of assaults and said nearly 200 battles are being fought daily along the entire front. As for the state of the russian army, a project from bbc russia and mediazona tracking russian military deaths in ukraine found that a500 more deaths were recorded in the past month. It brings the death toll of russian soldiers to 66,000, though the actual toll is believed to be significantly higher. The ukrainian army says it continues to make advances into the kursk region three weeks after invading. A ukrainian strike on the russian city of belgorod friday killed five people, injuring dozens of others. Russia's foreign ministry accused kyiv and the west of �*committing crimes' — and said a criminal case was opened into the attack. We can go live now to zach anders, a freelance internationaljournalist who reported this week from the kursk region. Hejoins us now from bucha, ukraine. Welcome, thank you for being with us. Zach, you got access to the kursk region — what were your impressions of how this ukrainian ofensive is evolving? what ukrainians were very keen to show us where the lack of damage to disability infrastructure, homes, based on their assault and that they were the ones now taking care of these civilians. They were showing the residence that stayed behind, many vulnerable elderly that are not have time to get out once people started to get out once people started to realise the fighting was taking place. The counteroffensive began on the sixth but this time we visited the still has about 600 people remaining of the original 5000 we were told. This town was not taken until the 10th. There was some time for people if they had the means to get out. A lot of the elderly were left behind. We saw ukrainian trips bringing in things like medicine, specialised supplies, aduu medicine, specialised supplies, adult diapers. Those that stayed behind r&b ukrainian managed shelter but one of the things obvious as we were shown, a relative lack of damage to homes. With a limited amount of this area. What did stand out was the russians were on the run. They were getting out there very quickly. The fighting that was taken place was limited in scope and would take place several miles later. In this ukrainian incursion. Many militry analysts have said that the response in russia has been relatively muted. From your understanding, is that a case of strategy or shortfall? and do you think that will last?— that will last? that is more emblematic _ that will last? that is more emblematic of _ that will last? that is more emblematic of how that will last? that is more emblematic of how the that will last? that is more emblematic of how the russian military operates. They are a slow grinding machine that will achieve their objectives over a long amount of time that is what we are seeing the southeast in that area. Back in february, during the anniversary period, they had taken about 15 miles to the southeast. It has been a 15 mile crawl and ijust dug it into the outskirts. It will not presumably be the same operational activity in the crisp region. As the russians are now moving resources, ukrainian say they will move some 30,000 russian troops to try and retake this area. Ukrainians are digging in, building defences, we saw open source satellite images that show new trenches are being built and based on what we saw our bolstering up the amount of resources and troops in this area in a defensive posture. They are trying to bring this fight into this area that was obviously a hope within the zelensky team that this would move resources away from the russian campaign in the southeast, that they would have a long time to bring specialised equipment, perhaps armour and abc come along row take it all the way to the north. We continue to see that area be reinforced by the russian. They are putting more attention there and the units being dispatched to go in are being dispatched to go in are being pulled from other errors of the frontline. — of the frontline. Something i am curious _ of the frontline. Something i am curious about _ of the frontline. Something i am curious about is of the frontline. Something i am curious about is you am curious about is you mentioned many people had already left the region but particularly the elderly and vulnerable people left behind. It may be difficult to fully interact with some of the civilians they are but what kind of impression to get from civilians about their level of awareness is whether this was a special military operation or the fact that what has now come to their door. — to their door. One of the most remarkable — to their door. One of the most remarkable elements to their door. One of the most remarkable elements of to their door. One of the most remarkable elements of this l remarkable elements of this tour was speaking to six some of the residents, motherfirst but the second village, one woman with ukrainians brought in, first time i have seen something like this, they brought in a laptop and played a 15 minute video of the warwick to date showed and highlighted some of this a billion massacres in bucha and then would ask, some troops would show + points, point and say look at these men and women gunned down in their vehicles, these mass graves. There was one woman, one of the russian villages that made some equations and said i see the same damage to my home what about. One of the soldiers replied to her. Do they have mass graves there? she said no. The other thing that stood out was for a lot of these elderly they were telling us they don't see a lot of this. One that they are not political, they don't pay attention and they don't pay attention and they don't see this on the news, they thought this conflict was in the southeast but were not seeing, one woman said she had no idea russian troops made it to be outskirts of kyiv in the early days of the war. Really interesting _ early days of the war. Really interesting reporting. Early days of the war. Really interesting reporting. Thank| interesting reporting. Thank you for talking to us. You for talking to us. Thank ou. Unicef is ramping up its capacity to secure mpox vaccines for some of the countries worst—affected by the virus. In a statement, the organisation said it was joining forces with a number of other vaccine alliances including the who to tender for up to 12 million doses in the next year, depending on production capacity. On friday, the who director general returned from the democratic republic of the congo saying he expected the first delivery of vaccines to arrive there within days. More than 18,000 mpox cases have been reported in the drc alone — with 629 deaths. Mpox continues to spread across large parts of africa. Nigeria with at least a0 confirmed cases of the virus received its first batch of 10,000 doses on tuesday. There have also been cases identified in rwanda, kenya and uganda and as far afield as sweden and thailand. I spoke with gregg gonsalves, a co—director of the global healthjustice partnership at the yale institute for global health. I want to begin by talking about that emergency tendered from unicef to secure these mpox vaccines. How crucial do you think that is? the tender is welcome but it comes a little too late. It's like ordering fire engines for parliament on fire. This is a lingering outbreak that has now spread to surrounding countries in drc. We see cases in sweden and thailand. We're moving too slowly. We have ignored this outbreak for months and months now it is far broader and more serious than it should've been by all estimations. I wanted to ask you more about the speed of the international response. Of course health infrastructure and agencies one could argue are well practised at this sense ebola, mers, covid, a whole host of outbreaks that we have seen in recent years. We know that in drc over 600 people have already died. Why do you think we're seeing this slowness of response, in your words? remember this is in terms of covid vaccine, billions of people had never gotten a single dose when you and i probably had several already. This is parfor the course. As you said, we're moving towards 20,000 cases. Those are detected cases for the paper upwards of 50% or more undetected. We don't need vaccines, we need people to get vaccines out to world provinces where the heart of the outbreak has been in drc. We need diagnostic capacity. 50% or more may be undiagnosed. We don't have the testing facilities and equipment to be able to identify cases out in the field. We don't have the care and treatment we need for people already suffering from the disease. Whether it's supportive care for people who have serious symptoms or even some of the antibody which work for certain that works at the start to the back outbreak. An important point you make that vaccines are loans aren't silver bullets of the contact tracing, the labs, the diagnosis, edd awareness of the community as well. How quickly do you think those kinds of things can be scaled up? if there is a will there's a way. We could organise an international community to do a massive airlift of all the supplies we need. All the infrastructure needed to get vaccines out for that we can do it when we're interested in it. We simply ignored this since the 2022 outbreak that struck the us and the other rich countries around the world in which we've moved at lightning speed to make sure citizens are vaccinated. I'm not sure there's quite a will at the current moment. Yes, there is performative gestures and public health emergency of international concern, issued by who for that we need to move much more quickly and resolutely than we have so far. What do you anticipate in terms of the potential forfurther spread? it's interesting because this virus in characteristic form is not so transmissible appears in the forest and infects people on an ongoing basis and has for over 30 years. We're seeing with some of the sexually transmitted diseases the possibility of human—to—human transmission which is more worrisome. We're seeing it spread throughout eastern africa and south africa, one in sweden, one in thailand. Unless we scale up to the necessary level of response that is required we're going to see continued throughout the region, potential sporadic cases popping up around the world. Not taking this as seriously as we need to put that yes the who the tender today is important but we really need to get this outbreak under control. Talking about trying to get it under control, if there is not significant scale up of response, i know it can be difficult to put a timeline on these things, epidemic how swiftly could this be extinguished? remember, this is an endemic disease in many places in western several africa. It's been there for many years. We're not sure what the reservoir of the disease. We don't know what animal species is responsible lots of complications for how we could eradicate this. We've controlled the current outbreak if we've had subjects to vaccines, notjust vaccine but the vaccination which can include testing, getting out into rural areas and making sure people get both doses of vaccine. The vaccine is pretty pricey. We're restricted by how many vaccines they can afford to buy. Whether it could be $200 per dose in the context of it circulating in the united states, for instance. The us vice president, kamala harris, has accused her republican rival, donald trump, of disrespecting sacred ground during his recent visit to arlington national cemetery, where more than 400,000 military veterans are buried. In a post on social media, the democratic presidential candidate accused mr trump of carrying out a political stunt. Trump's visit on monday was filmed and used on social media for election campaign purposes. The us army has already criticised his campaign team. It said one of mr trump's staff had pushed an official trying to enforce rules barring political campaigning at the site. With more on this, here's our correspondent in washington, jenny kumah there's been a huge uproar about this. This started on monday when donald trump made that visit, and there were reports of an altercation. He was there with relatives of some of the 13 service members that were killed during from the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan. In response to those reports issuing a report unnamed health officials suffering from a mental health episode tried to block president trump's team. The army statement saying a cemetery official was pushed when trying to enforce rules, basically campaigning on the site. Photography is also banned. Today we had a response from harris writing on twitter, she says that. . . Trump's team today have been hitting back at kamala harris blaming her and joe biden for the deaths of those service members and blaming them for a chaotic withdrawal of us troops from kabul. They also say they were there with the permission of the family. This isn't the end of it. We understand that democratic lawmakers has risen and asked for a full account of what happened and for a response by september 9. Brazil has begun blocking elon musk�*s social media platform, x, in a dispute about the spread of disinformation. The ruling was made after the company missed a deadline to name a new legal representative there. A supreme courtjudge ordered the immediate and complete suspension of x until it complies with all court orders and pays existing fines. X removed its legal representative from brazil, claiming thejudge had threatened her with arrest. Several major telecoms carriers said they would comply with the ruling. If users try to dodge the ban by using virtual private networks or vpns, they risk fines of almost $9,000 a day. Elon musk says: �*free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo—judge in brazil, is destroying it for political purposes. I spoke with bbc brazil reporter leandro prazeres. To begin with, what is the status of the website right now? can you access it with vpn for example?— for example? currently, access is currently _ for example? currently, access is currently offline _ for example? currently, access is currently offline in for example? currently, access is currently offline in brazil. Is currently off—line in brazil since the early minutes of the saturday and be situation has not changed since then. It is possible, yes, to access this platform by using a virtual private network. But as you said, there is a fine for people if they try to do it. There are a lot of people in brazil that have been using vpn for a number of reasons. The problem is there is this fine so it has not been an easy task for brazilians to get access to x at the moment. I wonder how people are reacting to this and how do brazilians feel about elon musk and whether they see him as this kind of axis of politicians and celebrities. They have made headlines of the most important brazillian newspapers since yesterday. News that have been attracting a lot of attention in brazil. Brazil has at least 21 million x users so when we talk about roughly 10% of brazil's population. Usually people, there has been initially immigration towards different social networks. Today for example blue sky, another social network, reported it gained more than 1 million brazilian users in the last two days because of this crisis involving x recently. When it comes to how they see elon musk at the moment, it depends on the political spectrum. 0n the right elon musk is seen as being close to brazil's former president. He came to brazil in 2022 to pay a visit to brazil, the then brazilian president. But then on the left musk has not been seen as a good figure, seen as the one enabling this misinformation in his social network. We have about 30 seconds left, any chance of it being reinstated? no indication it is going to happen in the next few days. The situation can change rapidly. There is no indication elon musk is going to step back and comply with supreme court orders. If something like that doesn't happen, the supreme court will have no other reason to reverse its strong ruling. Power has been restored across venezuela after a massive blackout on friday plunged much of the country into darkness. Officials say the problem originated at the guri hydroe