on child sexual abuse reveals in the last year, police forces in england and wales recorded over 100,000 sexual offences against children, that s a 57% increase in six years. experts say the rise is largely due to greater awareness, but most abuse remains hidden. 0ur social affairs editor, alison holt, has poppy s story. a few words with her dad on the phone and with her mum watching. this is a big day for poppyjust before her 18th birthday. she is doing herfirst skydive to raise money for a charity that helped her cope with the sexual abuse that devastated her early life. she is also trying to change attitudes. take away the shame. why should we be hidden? it is a crime if you look at it in black and white and you re a victim of the crime, it s as simple as that. she has set aside her legal right to remain anonymous. she hopes by speaking to me so openly it will make it easier for abuse survivors to get support. i think if people can see a face behind something so taboo, it
i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, when it comes to u.s. weather the good news says there s little relief in sight for the country. the latest on heat alerts from coast-to-coast. republican candidates, including donald trump, gather in iowa. sew how one found out the hard way what happens when you target the former president. and the other side of the debate in israel. we ll hear from those who say they support at least some of president benjamin netanyahu s controversial judicial reforms. and we begin this hour with more than 100 million people still right across the united states waking up to those heat alerts in the hours ahead. that s nearly one in three people in this country from southern california right up to the northwest and new england. but remarkable improvement from the 150 million affected yesterday. but then there s phoenix, where temperatures are expected to stay above 110 degrees right through the weekend. the scorching temperatures in the mid
have shown signs of escalating, as our middle east correspondent tom bateman reports. a journey to one of the middle east s most explosive boundaries. the israeli army is fortifying its frontier along the so called blue line. across the divide is lebanon, and the dominant armed group there, hezbollah. the wire is a hair trigger. ..and those who live up against it are seeing the signs of tension again. so this is a checkpoint of hezbollah. and you see the bus over there and all of that here above that, it s all lebanon. 48 hours ago, people were coming for stones. they re shouting at us, we will kill you. levav, who farms here, tells me hejust filmed armed men watching him. have you seen that kind of thing in previous years, or is this new? no, it s new. it s new. you don t see that before. and this is what makes me nervous a little bit. if they were shooting me, or killed me or try to, the army will attack. then we can come to a war. this was an israeli drill held a month a
football governing body has also find chelsea for breaching this financial fairplay rules as a result of , submitting incomplete financial information, i understand and believe that there is a statements we will try to bring that up on the screen in a moment, but ua for a saying that the matter relates to transactions which took place between 2012 and 2019 uefa. juventus have been fined £17.14 million while chelsea have been find 8.5 million pounds. so you can see there, the statement that has been put out. the italian club will only have to pay half of their fine if their financial records for the next three years comply with regulations. while chelsea have already agreed to pay the settlement figure. the blues have spent around £600 million on 90 new players since their new owner took charge of the club in may 2022, but a seven year period. while roman abramovich had control of the club. so that is some breaking news that the juventus football club has thejuventus footb