Economists had already downgraded growth for the European Union, and the new duties would hit industries there especially hard. Companies are looking for ways to blunt the impact.
Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, said on Sunday that European Union officials had decided to hold off on imposing any countermeasures to the latest U.S. tariff threats.
The East of England Ambulance Service and Essex County Fire and Rescue Service were also at the scene
An aircraft has crashed at London Southend Airport, police have confirmed.
Essex Police said it was alerted to a 12-metre plane on fire at the site in Southend-on-Sea shortly before 16:00 BST on Sunday.
The East of England Ambulance Service said four crews were at the scene including a rapid response vehicle, a hazardous area response vehicle and a senior paramedic.
The Labour MP for Southend West and Leigh, David Burton-Sampson, said on X: "My thoughts are with everyone involved."
Police said, as a precaution, officers have evacuated the Rochford Hundred Golf Club and Westcliff Rugby Club due to its proximity to the incident.
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Following the crash all flights from Southend Airport have been cancelled
A spokesperson for Essex Police said: "We are working with all emergency services at the scene now and that work will be ongoing for several hours.
"We would please ask the public to avoid this area where possible while this work continues."
Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said it was called to the incident at 15:58.
The service has asked people to avoid the area if possible.
A spokesperson said: "Crews from Southend (two), Rayleigh Weir and Basildon (two), along with off-road vehicles from Billericay and Chelmsford attended.
"We are continuing to work at the scene with our emergency services and aviation partners."
Hot weather will continue across the UK on Sunday with possible highs of 31C as the country moves past the peak of its third heatwave this year.
Temperatures are forecast to dip slightly on Sunday before a cooler change on Monday that will bring "heavy spells of rain" for many areas, the Met Office said.
Amber heat health alerts remain in place for the Midlands, southern and eastern England until 9:00 on Monday.
On Saturday Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all recorded their warmest day of the year so far, while England saw a temperature high of 33.1C in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands recorded a temperature of 32.2C - the first time Scotland has exceeded 30C since June 2023, according to the Met Office.
In Northern Ireland, there was a high of 30C in Magilligan, Londonderry - the first time that temperature has been reached since July 2022, the weather service said, adding that in Wales, Cardiff's Bute Park reached 33.1C.
The amber heat health alerts have been issued for six regions of England - the West Midlands, East Midlands, South East, South West, London and East of England.
Amber alerts mean weather impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
It warns of possible health impacts across the wider population, including a potential increase in the risk to health of people aged 65 and over, or those with pre-existing health conditions, as well as a rise in deaths for the over 65 age group.
Less severe yellow health warnings are in place until 9:00 on Monday for the North East, North West and Yorkshire and The Humber.
The latest heatwave has led to hosepipe bans being declared for millions of people in Yorkshire, Kent and Sussex.
This can mean restrictions on certain activities like watering gardens, washing cars, or filling up paddling pools - and those who break the ban could face a fine.
In Scotland, an "extreme" wildfire warning is in effect across much of the country with crews battling a blaze in Perth.
Firefighters in Surrey were also battling a wildfire to the south of Farnham which had grown to eight hectares as of Saturday evening.
The Surrey Fire and Rescue Service have told the public to avoid the area and urged nearby residents to close windows and doors.
The heat has also affected sporting events, with Wimbledon fans braving close to the hottest women's finals day at the tennis championship.
Sunday's men's finals day will see a cooler shift to 29C as the intense heat begins to ease, which will make conditions more comfortable for fans and players.
According to the Met Office, "the heatwave will begin to breakdown" from Sunday, and Monday will see showers developing across many parts of the UK.
"If you're not a fan of the heat, temperatures will be falling away but also bringing some heavy spells of rain, or welcome rainfall, for many of us," Met Office meteorologist Kathryn Chalk said.
The heatwave is expected to end for most on Monday, as cooler Atlantic air brings temperatures closer to the seasonal average for much of the UK.
The changed weather pattern will also bring rain to some areas, including those where rain has been seriously lacking recently.
However, those in the south-east of England may have to wait until Tuesday for some respite from the heat, with temperatures set to remain around 27C or 28C on Monday.
While linking climate change with specific individual extreme weather events can be difficult, scientists say that climate change is generally making heatwaves hotter, longer and more frequent.
Three summer heatwaves in quick succession after an unusually warm spring suggests climate change is having some effect on 2025's weather - impacting not just humans but wildlife as well.
Tributes to Jota and Silva before Liverpool friendly
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Fans and players observed a minute's silence for Diogo Jota and Andre Silva at Deepdale
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Tributes have been paid to Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva ahead of Liverpool's first match since their death.
Portugal and Liverpool forward Jota and Silva, also a professional footballer, died in a car crash on 3 July in the Spanish province of Zamora.
Prior to the Reds' first pre-season friendly at Preston North End, there were emotional renditions of Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love and Liverpool club anthem You'll Never Walk Alone.
During the latter, a visibly emotional Preston captain Ben Whiteman laid a wreath in front of the travelling Liverpool supporters.
The away end, filled with flags and scarves commemorating the former Porto and Wolves attacker, loudly sung Jota's song as the players walked out before an impeccably observed minute's silence.
At the start of the 20th minute, the crowd burst into another rendition of Jota's song.
There was a muted celebration when Conor Bradley opened the scoring for Liverpool, with the full-back looking up to the heavens as he walked back to his position.
Striker Darwin Nunez scored the Reds' second and paid his own tribute by doing two of Jota's celebrations in front of the Liverpool fans.
The match programme had a black and white picture of Jota holding the Premier League trophy and featured tributes to the Liverpool player and his brother.
Liverpool have retired Jota's number 20 shirt across all areas of the club, making the announcement at 20:20 BST on Friday.
In his first interview since Jota's death, Liverpool head coach Arne Slot told Liverpool TV: "If we want to laugh, we laugh; if we want to cry, we're going to cry.
"If they want to train they can train, if they don't want to train they can not train. But be yourself, don't think you have to be different than your emotions tell you.
"We will always carry him with us in our hearts, in our thoughts, wherever we go."
Jota scored 65 goals in 182 appearances for Liverpool, helping them win the FA Cup and League Cup in 2022 and the Premier League title last season.
He played his final match for Portugal as they beat Spain in the final of the Nations League on 8 June. He scored 14 goals in 49 internationals.
The Guardia Civil told BBC Sport that Jota and his brother died after their car, a Lamborghini, left the road due to a tyre blowout while overtaking another vehicle.
The brothers had been heading to the Spanish port of Santander so Jota could return to Liverpool for pre-season training.
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Liverpool's travelling fans paid tribute to Diogo Jota with flags, scarves and t-shirts
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Liverpool and Preston players observed a minute's silence before kick-off
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Preston captain Ben Whiteman laid a wreath in front of the Liverpool fans during a rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone
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Preston's match programme featured a picture of Diogo Jota on the cover
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Andy Robertson (third right) and Virgil van Dijk (right) were among the Liverpool players at Deepdale
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Liverpool fans sang Diogo Jota's song in the 20th minute as the big screen showed a tribute to him and his brother Andre Silva
Flood waters ripped through Camp Mystic cabins just before dawn on 4 July
US regulators reportedly granted appeals to remove many Camp Mystic buildings from official flooding risk maps years before 27 children died in severe floods.
Citing official records, the New York Times and Associated Press said maps by the Federal Emergency Management (Fema) in 2011 had initially considered the popular summer camp to be in high risk of flooding.
But they say that Camp Mystic - located in a low-lying area by the Guadalupe River - then successfully challenged those designations.
The BBC has contacted Fema and Camp Mystic, neither of which have commented publicly on the issue.
Fema describes flood maps as "a tool that communities use to know which areas have the highest risk of flooding".
Syracuse University associate professor Sarah Pralle, who has studied the Fema flood maps, said she found it "perplexing" that the riverside camp had been granted exemptions from the maps.
"I think it's extremely troubling that it's a camp for children," Prof Pralle told the New York Times.
"You'd think you want to be extra cautious - that you'd go beyond the minimum of what's required for flood protection."
Fema's official flood maps show that some of Camp Mystic's cabins were within a "floodway", a particularly hazardous area where dangerous floodwaters would be expected to flow, the New York Times reported.
It said that other cabins were within a broader zone that would also be expected to flood once every 100 years.
Those designations require the camp to have flood insurance and tighter regulations on any construction projects.
The newspaper added that the Fema maps had not been modified to incorporate Camp Mystic's written appeals.
The popular camp lost at least 27 young girls when floodwaters ripped through the premises before dawn on 4 July.
Across Texas, at least 129 people have been killed, and scores are still missing.
On Friday, President Donald Trump visited the flood-hit areas, pledging that the government would help those who lost their houses and properties to rebuild.
"I've never seen anything like it," he said.
Trump also dismissed a question from a reporter about what more could have been done to warn residents, saying: "Only an evil person would ask a question like that."
In the wake of the deadly tragedy, questions have been raised about whether adequate warnings were provided and why camps weren't evacuated ahead of the deluge.
Experts have said a number of factors led to the deadly impact of the flash flood, including the pre-dawn timing and the location of some buildings.
The EU's retaliatory tariffs on US exports have been delayed again, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced.
The countermeasures, which were due to start on Tuesday, came in response to US President Donald Trump's initial import taxes on steel and aluminium.
The EU's retaliation, which would have hit € 21bn worth of US goods, was first suspended in March. This break has been extended until early August, von der Leyen told a press conference on Sunday.
Trade ministers are expected to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss how to respond.
It comes after Trump wrote a letter to von der Leyen announcing his plans to impose 30% tariffs on EU imports from 1 August.
In a pre-recorded interview with Fox News which aired on Saturday night, Trump said some countries were "very upset now" but he insisted the tariffs meant "hundreds of billions of dollars" were "pouring in".
Von der Leyen told journalists on Sunday: "The United States has sent us a letter with measures that would come into effect unless there is a negotiated solution, so we will therefore also extend the suspension of our countermeasures until early August.
"At the same time, we will continue to prepare for the countermeasures so we're fully prepared."
The European Commission president insisted that the EU has "always been very clear that we prefer a negotiated solution".
"This remains the case, and we will use the time that we have now till August 1," she added.
As of Saturday, the Trump administration has now proposed tariff conditions on 24 countries and the EU, which is composed of 27 countries.
On 12 April, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro set a goal to secure "90 deals in 90 days".
So far, the president has announced the outlines of two such pacts with the United Kingdom and Vietnam as negotiations with others continue.
Police launched a search and rescue operation at the River Kelvin in Glasgow
A 15-year-old boy has died in a river incident in Glasgow as police responded to call-outs on Scotland's hottest day in two years.
Emergency services launched a rescue operation on the River Kelvin, near Maryhill Road, at about 18:40. His body was later recovered at 23:30.
It came hours after a 63-year-old woman fell near Campsie Glen waterfall in East Dunbartonshire.
Emergency crews attended at 12:35, but she died at the scene. Police Scotland said neither of the deaths was suspicious.
People had flocked to beauty spots around the country on Saturday as Scotland saw soaring temperatures.
Forecasters said it was the hottest day since June 2023, with the Met Office recording the heat at 32.2C at Aviemore in the Highlands.
A temperature of 32C has only been recorded on six previous occasions in Scotland since 1961.
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The 63-year-old woman fell near Campsie Glen car park
The death of the 15-year-old boy is understood to be accidental.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: "Emergency services attended and around 23:30 the body of a male was recovered from the water.
"Inquiries are ongoing, however, the death is not being treated as suspicious."
Meanwhile, two fire engines and two water rescue teams were sent to Campsie Glen waterfall car park for the 63-year-old woman.
Police Scotland's spokesperson added: "Emergency services attended and the woman died at the scene. Her family is aware.
"The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal."
Unsettled conditions
The run of hot sunny days was officially classed as a heatwave on Friday.
Met Office criteria states that the temperature must reach 25C for three consecutive days in the same area to qualify.
Police urged people to take care outdoors while NHS Scotland advised people to stay safe by ensuring they drink water and are protected from the sun.
It comes as several large outdoor events took place around the country including the Tiree Music Festival, the Island Games in Orkney and TRNSMT in Glasgow.
Sunday has brought slightly cooler weather before more unsettled conditions move in at the start of next week.
Hundreds of thousands of fans from all over Europe have been gathering in Switzerland to cheer on their teams.
As the tournament reaches the end of the group stages, some supporters will be packing up to go home. But before they go, here's a round-up of some of the most memorable fan pictures so far.
Gisèle Pelicot waived her right to anonimity to publicly testify at her mass-rape trial
Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who earned international recognition after publicly testifying at her mass-rape trial last year, has been given France's top honour.
The 72-year-old was named knight of the Legion of Honour on a list announced ahead of France's Bastille Day.
Pelicot waived her right to anonymity during the high-profile trial against her husband who had drugged and raped her, in addition to inviting dozens of strangers to also abuse her over nearly a decade.
Pelicot was among 589 other people given France's highest award on Sunday.
She attended almost every day of the trial, which ended last December with Dominique Pelicot, 72, being given a maximum 20 years in jail for aggravated rape, after confessing to drugging her and recruiting around 50 men to rape her while she lay comatose in bed.
"I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too," Pelicot previously told reporters, adding that she wanted to make "shame swap sides" from the victim to the rapist.
US President Donald Trump has defended Pam Bondi, America's highest-ranking prosecutor, amid growing calls from the president's supporters for her to resign.
In a lengthy social media post, Trump hit out at complaints from critics who have accused Bondi of withholding more information about the death of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his so-called client list.
The mounting attacks from critics come after a memo released by Bondi's Justice Department last week failed to deliver what many had hoped would be major revelations in the Epstein case.
"Let Pam Bondi do her job," Trump wrote in all caps, encouraging his supporters to "not waste time and energy" on Epstein.
US Attorney General Bondi's critics include far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who was frequently seen with Trump on the campaign trail, and billionaire Elon Musk, Trump's biggest campaign donor.
The memo sent out on Monday, jointly released with the FBI, said there was "no incriminating client list" nor evidence to suggest Epstein had blackmailed high-profile figures suspected of being in what conservatives call the "deep state".
The government's findings were made, according to the memo, after reviewing more than 300 gigabytes of data.
The findings follow multiple pledges from Bondi to reveal potentially damaging evidence related to Epstein, including "a lot of names" and "a lot of flight logs".
Many of Bondi's past claims related to the Epstein files, and the possibility of hidden evidence, had been echoed by FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
After the memo was released, frustrations from Bongino led to a contentious meeting between him and Bondi in the White House on Wednesday, according to the BBC's media partner CBS News.
The feud highlighted what some have described as a growing division between the FBI and the Justice Department over the Epstein case.
On Friday, Loomer claimed on X that she was told Bongino was "seriously thinking about resigning".
Bongino did not show up to work on Friday, according to CBS News sources.
Epstein's sudden death aged 66 in a jail cell inside New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center has been a strong source of conspiracy theories for years.
The FBI and Justice Department's memo confirmed that Epstein died by suicide, which many people in Trump's orbit had questioned.
Bondi suggested to Fox News in February that Epstein's client list was "sitting on my desk right now to review".
However, she clarified those remarks in the White House on Tuesday, telling reporters that she was commenting on the entire Epstein "file" and other files.
The president's frustrations with the ongoing public interest in Epstein were on display last week in the White House, when he responded to a reporter's question with: "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?"
Conservatives have long held the conspiracy theory that high-ranking Democrats would be implicated in a full release of the Epstein files. Now liberals are asking whether a reluctance to release the files is to shield Trump.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said she had ordered the dismissal of charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of selling bogus vaccination cards for $50 each.
Democrats are banking on backlash to Republicans’ Medicaid cuts to boost them in next year's midterms. There's just one problem: The cuts haven't happened yet.
Republicans delayed work requirements until 2027 and financing changes until 2028. They also frontloaded their One Big Beautiful Bill Act with tax breaks that voters are likely to see sooner.
“If we say ‘they took it from you,’ but it hasn’t happened yet, it just complicates it,” said California-based Democratic strategist Doug Herman.
That’s leaving some Democrats concerned that their Medicaid-focused messaging might not hit home before November 2026 — and blunt their efforts to use the backlash to President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement to fuel a Democratic wave next year.
“I do [worry about it],” said Cherlynn Stevenson, a former Kentucky state representative running for the congressional seat being vacated by GOP Rep. Andy Barr. “I think that there are some people who are like, ‘Well, I’m not on Medicaid, so it’s not going to affect me.’"
But Democrats are still forging ahead with making Republicans’ Medicaid reductions a central theme of their midterms messaging. Many have already dusted off the playbook they deployed in the 2018 midterms, when Democrats picked up dozens of House seats after running against Republicans’ near-repeal of the Affordable Care Act and massive tax cuts. This cycle, Democrats have eyed redder seats in Kentucky, Florida and Virginia as they try to push into GOP-held territory.
That's in part because, though most of the pain was put off as long as possible, some of the effects — like on rural hospitals that have to budget on longer timelines — could be felt sooner.
The seat Stevenson is aiming to win in rural Kentucky has a half-dozen hospitals that could potentially face funding disruptions that serve nearly 200,000 Medicaid enrollees. Democrats are embarking on a series of roundtables in the state to discuss the ramifications of Republicans’ health care cuts. But they know the effects will be more tangible if the cuts were already here.
“We will need to remind voters that the impact is going to kind of come in waves, and that a lot of the brunt of the damage won't be felt until next year, or even after the midterms,” Stevenson said. “We just will have to remind them that provisions of the bill are still coming, that deadlines are looming.”
But the bulk of the health care cuts Republicans built into their megabill — including reductions to the so-called provider tax many states use to help fund their Medicaid programs and new work requirements that could cost millions of people their coverage — won’t kick in until after the midterms.
Republicans have signaled they’ll use the popular parts of the legislation like a tax deduction on tips to go on offense against Democrats.
NRCC spokesperson Mike Marinella said Democrats were using “desperate and disgusting fear-mongering tactics” and added the GOP would “use every tool to show voters that the provisions in this bill are widely popular.”
Polling shows voters are receiving mixed messages on Medicaid. A tracking survey from nonprofit health policy group KFF shows 63 percent of independents said they believe the bill will strip health care coverage from people who need it, but they also broadly support adding work requirements to the program.
“If Republicans are able to characterize these changes as simply fraud and waste, there may not be as drastic political implications,” said Ashley Kirzinger, associate director of KFF’s Public Opinion and Survey Research Program.
Another potential pitfall for Democrats: States use different names for the Medicaid programs — Medi-Cal in California, SoonerCare in Oklahoma, Health First Colorado — that could leave some voters unaware that the cuts are from national Republicans.
Democrats will get a trial run for their Medicaid messaging in this year’s gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey Democrats’ nominee to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, has attacked her opponent for being “fully on board” with Republican cuts, and argued that New Jersey is “the first chance to hold them accountable at the ballot box.” Laura Matos, a Democratic strategist in New Jersey, noted that Republicans are "counting on people not paying attention" to the impact of the bill, but also warned Democrats not to get too bogged down in national issues.
"For Mikie, it's this nebulous thing," she said. "You can talk about national issues, but what she really needs to do is pivot to the things she's going to do here to improve affordability and quality of life."
But other Democrats are brushing aside concerns that voters won’t register the impacts of the bill, pointing to substantial news coverage of its cuts to Medicaid and the more immediate changes to Affordable Care Act tax credits that could dramatically increase some Americans' health insurance costs.
“It's the same cynical backdoor bullshit that we always see in Washington,” said Rebecca Cooke, who’s running in a purple district in Wisconsin. “The message, honestly, is going to be coming from voters themselves as these cuts hit.”
Republicans may also tweak their Medicaid language before it's fully implemented. Some GOP lawmakers who voted for the megabill are already pushing to stop some of the harsher provisions — like changes to the provider tax that could have an adverse effect on rural hospitals — from taking effect.
“If Republicans don’t want to be accused of cutting Medicaid, it’s probably a good idea not to cut Medicaid,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Wednesday at the Capitol.
But Democrats are committed to hammering Republicans over the vote no matter what.
“People are not stupid,” said former Iowa State Rep. Christina Bohannan, who’s mounting a rematch. “People are aware of what's going on, and so we just have to make sure that people understand what's going to happen here, and to hold people accountable for these votes.”
Alder Hey said it would not officially comment on individual cases to respect patient confidentiality but the death has been confirmed to the BBC.
No details have been released about whether the child was being treated for other health problems or their vaccination status.
It is thought 17 children have been treated at Alder Hey for the virus since June.
The child is believed to be only the second in the UK in a decade to have died after contracting measles, after Renae Archer, of Salford, Greater Manchester, died aged 10 in 2023.
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There has been a spike in cases at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital
An Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said: "To respect patient confidentiality, we can't comment on individual cases.
"We are concerned about the increasing number of children and young people who are contracting measles.
"Measles is a highly contagious viral illness which can cause children to be seriously unwell, requiring hospital treatment, and in rare cases, death.".
The hospital warned parents earlier this week that a fall in MMR vaccine uptake was behind the spike in measles cases in the region.
Chief nurse Nathan Askew said he felt misunderstandings around the vaccine were to blame.
"This vaccine's been in use for well over 50 years. It's very safe, tried and tested," he said.
Patients at the site include those with compromised immunity due to other health issues "making them more susceptible to infections, including measles, an Alder Hey spokesperson said.
Watch Heidi Alexander "guarantees" electric vehicle costs will be lowered
The government will make it cheaper to buy an electric car (EV) in a bid to get more drivers to make the switch, the Transport Secretary has said.
Heidi Alexander was responding to reports suggesting the government will offer drivers thousands of pounds in grants to cut the price of buying an EV.
People without driveways will be able to have charge points fitted using "cross-pavement gullies" paid for with £25m allocated to councils, she told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
The Conservatives welcomed the investment but accused the government of "forcing families" into "expensive electric vehicles before the country was ready".
"We are going to be making some announcements later this week on how we make it more affordable for people to buy an electric vehicle," Alexander said.
When pushed on whether this would come in the form of hundreds of millions of pounds in EV grants, as reports suggested, Alexander refused to say.
"I can guarantee to your viewers that we will be making it cheaper for those who do want to make the switch to an electric vehicle, " she added.
The Department for Transport would not comment further.
It comes after Alexander told the Telegraph the high cost of electric vehicles was making people wary, saying "It was right that the government thinks in the round about what we can do to tackle both of the issues, on charging and on the upfront cost of purchase."
Richard Fuller MP, shadow chief Secretary to the Treasury, accused Labour of "forcing families into more expensive electric vehicles before the country is ready."
Alexander admitted she did not have an electric vehicle herself, adding that she lived in a terraced house without a driveway.
"I don't have an electric car... like millions of people in this country - I bought a new car about six years ago, I'm thinking about the next car that I will purchase and it will definitely be an electric vehicle," she said.
Some 21.6% of new cars sold during the first half of the year were electric, according to the latest figures from the UK motor trade association the SMMT.
However, figures remain well below the mandated targets manufacturers have been set, ahead of the ban on selling new petrol and diesel cars which comes into effect in 2030.
In April, Alexander announced manufacturers would have more flexibility on annual targets and face lower fines to allow them to manage the impact of trade tariffs from the US.
CCTV footage shows Ukrainian intelligence officer Ivan Voronych in Kyiv shortly before he was shot dead on 10 July
Ukraine says two agents working for Russia have been killed after a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead on Thursday.
Col Ivan Voronych was shot several times in a Kyiv car park in board daylight, after being approached by an unidentified assailant who fled the scene.
The head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia's security service FSB had been tracked down and "liquidated" after they resisted arrest on Sunday morning.
Separately, Ukraine's national police said the agents were "citizens of a foreign country", without giving any further details. There was no immediate response from Moscow.
CCTV footage of the incident on 10 July - verified by the news agency Reuters - showed a man leaving a building in Kyiv's southern Holosiivskyi district shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran towards him.
The SBU said on Sunday the suspects had been tracking Col Voronych's movements prior to the attack, and were sent the co-ordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a silencer.
It said that after he was shot, they then tried to "lay low," but were found following a joint investigation with national police.
The SBU mainly focuses on internal security and counter-intelligence, like the UK's MI5. But it has played a prominent role in sabotage attacks and assassinations deep inside Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Sources within Ukraine's security services told the BBC that the SBU was responsible for the killing of the high-ranking Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024.
In April, Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow - which the Kremlin blamed on Kyiv.
Ukraine's security services have never officially admitted responsibility for the deaths.
This week's deaths come after Russian strikes on Ukraine have hit record levels.
Fighting has also continued on the frontlines, with Russia's military making slow gains in eastern Ukraine and retaking control of most of Russia's Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise offensive last summer.
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the more than three-year-long war have faltered.
More than 10,000 people work at the Rubaya mine digging up coltan ore
M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its vast expanse not one person was idle.
Thousands of miners dotted the landscape covered with pits and tunnels.
Some were deep underground digging up ore with shovels, others then hoisted sacks of the extracted rock containing coltan, which is used to make many electronic devices, on to their shoulders. They then took it to assembly points where others washed and filtered it with spades and by hand.
"We usually have more than 10,000 or more people working here daily," Patrice Musafiri, who has supervised the Rubaya mining site since the rebels took control of it in April last year, told the BBC.
It is tricky terrain to navigate - our team needed the aid of walking sticks, as well as Mr Musafiri's guidance, to stop us falling - yet for most of the men it is the only life they have known. It may be onerous and dangerous, but it allows them to make a small living.
"When we are deep in the mines, temperatures are very high - digging the mineral is also very hard... plus there can be other harmful gases," mineworker Peter Osiasi told the BBC.
"Sometimes cold air is pumped inside so that we can continue working," he said.
But the young man said he was grateful that since he began mining five years ago, he has been able to save a little money for a dowry and is now married with children.
"My life has really changed. Mining has really helped me."
The swathe of golden scarred earth they mine is found in the sprawling, lush Masisi Hills of North Kivu province - around 60km (37 miles) north-west of the city of Goma - and holds 15% of the world's coltan supply and half of the DR Congo's total deposits.
Little wonder that global investors have their eyes on this area.
It has provided immense wealth over the years to the various armed groups that have overseen it at different times, including the army.
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The Rubaya mine supervisor said no armed men were allowed at the vast site
We arrived at the mine, which is around 10km outside Rubaya town, several days after a ceasefire deal was signed in Washington by DR Congo and Rwanda as part of the peace process aimed at ending three decades of instability in the region.
The roots of the insecurity in the east of DR Congo are notoriously complicated.
There is an ethnic dimension, with many rebel groups operating here - including an ethnic Hutu militia linked to the Rwandan genocide of 1994, which Kigali believes has Congolese backing.
In Washington both sides committed on 27 June to disarm and disengage their alleged proxies (despite denying having any).
The M23 was not party to the deal. Mainly led by ethnic Tutsis, it controls large parts of eastern DR Congo - and since January has taken control of Goma, the city of Bukavu and two airports. Rwanda has been accused by many — including the UN — of backing the M23. However, the authorities there deny sending military or financial aid.
The US's involvement in the process seems to hinge on getting access to DR Congo's mineral resources - though nothing has so far been specified.
"We're getting for the United States, a lot of the mineral rights from the [DR] Congo," said US President Donald Trump ahead of the signing.
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Some women work at Rubaya mine site selling food and water to the miners
During our brief visit - we were allowed access for around 45 minutes - there was no hint that the chain of command was about to change.
The supervisor, appointed by the M23, was keen to explain how the set-up at Rubaya had been reorganised over the last year and how the rebel group had brought security to allow miners to work without fear - specifying that no armed men were allowed on the site.
"We have already solved so many issues," Mr Musafiri said.
"Presently we have a mining department that regulates and monitors safety issues and also resolves internal disputes within the mines. If a tunnel becomes dangerous, people are told to leave to avoid accidents.
"People from different groups come here to mine daily and others to buy the minerals and now we have a huge market in Goma where they can resell what they buy here."
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The coltan ore must be washed ready for the buyers who trade it on - and eventually tantalum will be extracted from this for use in electronic devices
In December, a UN experts' report detailed how the M23 makes hundreds of thousands of dollars each month from taxing coltan, much of it was sent directly to Rwanda - allegations both the M23 and Kigali deny.
Surrounded by his colleagues wearing jeans, sweaters and wellington boots, all of whom buy permits to work at the site, Mr Osiasi agreed that conditions were better.
"Business is going on very well here because we have at least some semblance of peace, but the pay is very low. We are paid very little money," the miner said.
Trump's second term coincided with the M23's seizure of much of North Kivu and South Kivu provinces and the humiliating retreat of the Congolese army.
Political analyst Akramm Tumsifu says DR Congo decided to use its rich mineral reserves as a bargaining chip to get US assistance - for months it had sought military support.
With a tentative peace process under way, the Congolese authorities' great hope, he told the BBC, was that American firms would be in a position to make "massive investments" in its mining sector, which is currently dominated by Chinese companies.
US companies are reportedly already looking to cash in on the opportunity to invest in Rubaya's mining sector.
The Rubaya supervisor told us investment would be welcomed, but only initiatives aimed at boosting the local economy - with jobs, schools and hospitals - would be allowed.
"Any foreign investor can come here, as long as they come with development for our people and increase daily wages for the miners," Mr Musafiri said.
Despite the country's colossal natural endowments, most mining communities have little infrastructure, without even accessible roads to the mines where the wealth is scooped from the ground.
Mr Tumsifu reckons the presence of American investors could also act as a "caution against fighting or a resurgence of other armed groups".
But it is not yet clear how or with whom an investor would do business given the M23 is still very much in control in the east.
A parallel mediation effort led by Qatar - which involves direct talks between the armed groups and the Congolese government - may yield more clarity in the coming months.
The M23, which is part of the broader Congo River Alliance, said the Washington-backed deal had fallen short of addressing the causes of the long conflict. It maintains it took up arms to protect the rights of the minority Tutsi group in DR Congo.
While the belligerents try and hammer out their preferred pathways to peace, local people at the Rubaya mine, like elsewhere in eastern DR Congo, only hope for a definitive end to the fighting and bloodshed which has seen hundreds of thousands of people flee their homes.
"My appeal to fellow young men and our leaders is to keep and maintain peace in our area," said Mr Osiasi.
As he prepared to go back to hours of more digging, he added: "I also appeal to the owners of the mines to increase our pay because it's very little."
Additional reporting by the BBC's Robert Kiptoo and Hassan Lali
Valery Gergiev seen conducting an orchestra at Moscow's Red Square in 2018
Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been barred from European stages ever since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A close ally of Vladimir Putin for many years, the director of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Russian state theatres has never spoken out against the war.
But a region of southern Italy has now invited Gergiev back to Europe, signalling the artist's rehabilitation even as Russia's attacks on Ukraine intensify.
Vincenzo de Luca, who runs the Campania region, insists that the concert at the Un'Estate da REfestival later this month will go ahead despite a growing swell of criticism.
"Culture… must not be influenced by politics and political logic," De Luca said in a livestream on Friday. "We do not ask these men to answer for the choices made by politicians."
The 76-year-old local leader has previously called Europe's broad veto on pro-Putin artists "a moment of stupidity – a moment of madness" at the start of the war and announced that he was "proud" to welcome Gergiev to town.
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Russia's President Putin (R) pins a medal on conductor Gergiev (L) at the Kremlin in 2016
But Pina Picierno, a vice-president of the European Parliament, has told the BBC that allowing Gergiev's return is "absolutely unacceptable".
She calls the star conductor a "cultural mouthpiece for Putin and his crimes".
Ukrainian human rights activist and Nobel laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk said the invitation by the regional government was "hypocrisy", rather than neutrality.
Russian opposition activists have also condemned the director's sudden return. The Anti-Corruption Foundation, of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, wants his concert cancelled and is calling on Italy's interior ministry to ban Gergiev's entry to the country.
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Valery Gergiev has been shunned by European orchestras since the full-scale war began
Before Russia's full-scale war in Ukraine, the virtuoso Gergiev was a regular visitor to stages in Italy and across Europe, despite his closeness to Putin.
His long and illustrious career includes stints at the London Symphony Orchestra and Munich Philharmonic.
But the invitations to Europe stopped abruptly on 24 February 2022.
Hours before the first Russian missiles were launched at Ukraine, Gergiev was on stage at Milan's La Scala opera house. Urged then by the city's mayor to speak out against the war, Gergiev chose silence.
He was promptly dropped from the bill.
Abandoned by his manager, despite calling Gergiev "the greatest conductor alive", he was then fired as chief conductor in Munich and removed from concert schedules across the continent.
That's why the invitation from Italy is so controversial.
Pina Picierno, who is from the Campania region herself, says her call to stop the event is not Russophobic.
"There is no shortage of brilliant Russian artists who choose to disassociate themselves from Putin's criminal policies," she told the BBC.
The European MP, who says she has received threats for her work exposing Russia's hybrid warfare, warns that allowing Gergiev to perform would be both wrong and dangerous.
"This is not about censorship. Gergiev is part of a deliberate Kremlin strategy. He is one of their cultural envoys to soften Western public opinion. This is part of their war."
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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (centre) welcomed Ukraine's president and first lady to a conference in Rome last week
The cultural controversy erupted in a week when Italy was hosting heads of state from all over Europe to reaffirm their support for Ukraine and discuss how to rebuild the country once the war is over.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been a strong and consistent critic of Vladimir Putin from the start. But her culture ministry is one of the backers ofUn'Estate da RE, which has invited Gergiev.
A senior MP from Meloni's Brothers of Italy party, Alfredo Antoniozzi, has described Gergiev as "simply a great artist".
"If Russians have to pay for the mistakes of their president, then we are committing a kind of cultural genocide," he argued.
Last month, Canada formally barred Gergiev from entry and declared it would freeze any assets.
But the European Union has shied away from formal sanctions against the conductor, who has avoided voicing open support for the war.
Gergiev has been a vocal supporter of Putin since the 1990s, later campaigning for his re-election and backing Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
He was handed management of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, in addition to the Mariinsky Theatre, taking over from a director who signed an open letter against Russia's war.
Gergiev is a state employee, but in 2022 an investigation by Alexei Navalny's team uncovered properties in several Italian cities that they say he never declared.
They also alleged he used donations to a charitable fund to pay for his own lavish lifestyle.
The activists argued that was Gergiev's reward for his public loyalty to Putin.
The BBC has so far been unable to reach the conductor for comment.
A spokeswoman for the European Commission, Eva Hrncirova, has clarified that the Un'Estate da RE festival is not receiving EU cash: it is financed by Italy's own "cohesion funds".
But she added that the commission urged European stages not to give space "to artists who support the war of aggression in Ukraine".
In Campania, the artistic director who crafted this year's festival programme declined to comment. A spokesman was confident Gergiev's performance would go ahead, though – despite the controversy.
"Yes," he assured the BBC. "For sure."
Additional reporting from Rome by Davide Ghiglione.
In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system arising.
Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say.
Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat's al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people, seven of them children, according to a doctor there.
Eyewitnesses said a drone fired a missile at a crowd of people queuing with empty jerry cans next to a water tanker in the heart of the al-Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Israeli military has been asked to comment.
Unverified footage shared online after the strike showed bloodied children and lifeless bodies, with screams of panic and desperation.
Residents rushed to the scene and transported the wounded using private vehicles and donkey carts.
The strike came as Israeli aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip have escalated.
A spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defense Agency said 19 other Palestinians had been killed on Sunday, in three separate strikes on residential buildings in central Gaza and Gaza City.
Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
At least 57,882 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Most of Gaza's population has been displaced multiple times.
More than 90% of homes are estimated to be damaged or destroyed. The healthcare, water, sanitation and hygiene systems have collapsed, and there are shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.
This week, for the first time in 130 days, 75,000 litres of fuel was allowed into Gaza - "far from enough to meet the daily needs of the population and vital civilian aid operations", the United Nations said.
Nine UN agencies warned on Saturday that Gaza's fuel shortage had reached "critical levels", and if fuel ran out, it would affect hospitals, water systems, sanitation networks and bakeries.
"Hospitals are already going dark, maternity, neonatal and intensive care units are failing, and ambulances can no longer move," the UN said.
CCTV footage shows Ukrainian intelligence officer Ivan Voronych in Kyiv shortly before he was shot dead on 10 July
Ukraine says two agents working for Russia have been killed after a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead on Thursday.
Col Ivan Voronych was shot several times in a Kyiv car park in board daylight, after being approached by an unidentified assailant who fled the scene.
The head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia's security service FSB had been tracked down and "liquidated" after they resisted arrest on Sunday morning.
Separately, Ukraine's national police said the agents were "citizens of a foreign country", without giving any further details. There was no immediate response from Moscow.
CCTV footage of the incident on 10 July - verified by the news agency Reuters - showed a man leaving a building in Kyiv's southern Holosiivskyi district shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran towards him.
The SBU said on Sunday the suspects had been tracking Col Voronych's movements prior to the attack, and were sent the co-ordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a silencer.
It said that after he was shot, they then tried to "lay low," but were found following a joint investigation with national police.
The SBU mainly focuses on internal security and counter-intelligence, like the UK's MI5. But it has played a prominent role in sabotage attacks and assassinations deep inside Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Sources within Ukraine's security services told the BBC that the SBU was responsible for the killing of the high-ranking Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024.
In April, Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow - which the Kremlin blamed on Kyiv.
Ukraine's security services have never officially admitted responsibility for the deaths.
This week's deaths come after Russian strikes on Ukraine have hit record levels.
Fighting has also continued on the frontlines, with Russia's military making slow gains in eastern Ukraine and retaking control of most of Russia's Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise offensive last summer.
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the more than three-year-long war have faltered.
A man has escaped a French prison by hiding in the bag of a fellow inmate who was leaving prison after serving their sentence, officials told local media.
The prison service has launched an investigation after the man escaped from Lyon-Corbas prison in south-east France on Friday, according to broadcaster BFMTV.
He "took advantage of the liberation of his fellow inmate to hide himself in his luggage and get out", the prison service said in a statement to AFP news agency.
French media have reported that the escaped prisoner was serving several sentences and was also under investigation in a case linked to organised crime.
A judicial investigation has also been opened into possible "escape as part of an organised gang and criminal conspiracy", according to local media.
Last month, the Lyon Bar Association expressed alarm about overcrowding at the Lyon-Corbas prison.
As of 1 May 2025, around 1,200 people were detained in the prison, which has capacity for 678 places, BFMTV had reported.
Doctors also rallied and went on strike over the proposed government plans last year
Thousands of South Korean medical students are set to return to classes after a 17-month long boycott, the Korean Medical Association has announced.
Trainee doctors walked out to oppose government plans to increase medical school admissions, arguing it would lower the quality of the education they received.
No timeline for their return has been provided by the association, but the group has urged the government to restore the academic calendar and improve training conditions.
Prime Minister Kim Min-Seok welcomed the end of the boycott, describing it as a "big step forward".
"It's time to take a deeper look at the medical field, the Congress, and the government, so that citizens can help solve problems," he wrote in a statement on Facebook.
The Korean Medical Association said "we will place our trust in the government and parliament and commit to returning to school to help normalize medical education and the healthcare system," in a reported statement issued jointly with the parliament's education committee and other lobby groups.
The government wanted to increase the annual admittance of medical students to universities from around 3,000 to roughly 5,000, saying more staff were needed to meet demand.
It went back on its plan in March 2025.
Yonhap News Agency reported that 8,305 students will be subject to grade retention, requiring them to repeat the same academic year, according to the education ministry.
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