live from washington, this is bbc news. the us suggests a gaza ceasefire deal could be within reach - as the united nations warns that gaza's entire population is at risk of famine. president trump says he will double tariffs on us imports of steel from 25% to 50%. ukraine accuses russia of undermining monday's planned talks in istanbul, saying moscow has yet to provide its peace terms in advance. hello. i'm carl nasman. welcome to the programme. us president donald trump says

a us-backed ceasefire deal between israel and hamas is 'very close'. the white house says israel has accepted the plan. hamas says it's carrying out a thorough review but that it fails to meet some of its key demands. the full details haven't been made public, but the bbc understands the key points include: a 60-day pause in the fighting. the release of 28 israeli hostages within the first week and 30 more after a permanent ceasefire. in exchange, more than 1,200 palestinian prisoners would be released by israel. and israel would also allow humanitarian aid into the territory - distributed by agreed organisations including the un and red crescent. while israel recently ended its total blockade, only a trickle of aid is getting into gaza. on friday, jens laerke, from the un's humanitarian office, warned virtually 100% of people in gaza are now at risk of famine. this limited number of truckloads that are coming in is a trickle. it is drip

feeding food into an area on the verge of catastrophic hunger. it's not a flood. gaza is the hungriest place on earth. and the aid operation that we have ready to roll is being put in an operational straitjacket that makes it one of the most obstructed aid operations not only in the world today but in recent history. elsewhere on friday, northern gaza's last remaining hospital, al-awda, said israeli forces were carrying out a forced evacuation of its patients and staff. the director of the hospital has told the bbc patients were evacuated after what he called two weeks of siege and that there was now no health facility working in northern gaza. israel does not allow international journalists, including the bbc, to report from inside gaza. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson sent this report from jerusalem. nothing could save al-awda hospital today. its doctors told to leave, its dwindling supplies

stuffed into bags. its ambulances blocked by the ruined road. the last hospital in northern gaza now the latest casualty of the war. this footage sent to us by its director, mohamed salah, seen here in the green shirt. sirens patients and staff were taken south overnight to shifa hospital in gaza city. relative safety for survivors of a two week siege. their hospital reportedly hit 28 times in this war. greeted with hugs from colleagues who understand. translation: this is a black day for our hospital going out of service. the israeli occupation forces clearly threatened us that if we didn't evacuate the hospital, they would invade it and kill everyone inside. today, we evacuated 82 members of the medical team and 13 patients because the occupation forces started acting on their threats by bombing

the top floors of al-awda hospital and firing directly from tanks on the hospital buildings. we put his claims to israel's army, but they haven't yet provided a response. hours after they arrived in gaza city, another air strike brought new casualties flooding in. the dust filled streets full of cries, for my dad, my son. translation: an hour and a half ago, they called us and ordered us to evacuate with the neighbours. we evacuated the whole area and they struck that house. we evacuated the camp and those beyond the camp have died. they were torn to pieces. they were children and there was no ambulance. israel says it continues to target terrorist infrastructure across the gaza strip, but with little healthcare or aid in the north, there are fears that israel is making northern gaza unliveable to push its population into the south.

that piece by piece, gaza will be evacuated just as its hospitals were. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. president trump says he will double tariffs on us imports of steel from 25% to 50%. he made the remarks at a steel plant in pennsylvania, marking a multibillion dollar deal between us steel and nippon steel, japan's largest steelmaker. mr trump said the hike on steel tariffs is intended to "further secure the steel industry in the united states". take a listen. we are going to be imposing a 25% increase. we are going to bring it from 25% to 50%, the tariffs on steel into the united states of america, which will even further secure the steel industry in the united states. nobody's going to get around that.

and in the past hour, president trump has commented further on truth social, saying: on the new tariff increase and the deal between us steel and nippon steel, joining me now is william chou, deputy director of hudson institute's japan chair. great to have you here. first, your reaction to the president's announcement that he is doubling the existing tariffs on steel imports to 50%. sure, yeah, it is great to be here. i think with the president announcing the doubling of the steel tariffs this will encourage other foreign steelmakers to make investments in the united states, just like nippon steel has. the us steel market is the only growing one in the developed world and our prices for steel makes it a very

lucrative market for steelmakers, albeit american or foreign. crosstalk. you think this could encourage more international investment. are there other potential companies that you could see this happening with, besides us steel? sure, well, in terms of naming specific companies, i think they do something to consider. one thing to consider is there are already a lot of foreign steelmakers already operating in the united states. i think what these tariffs are intended to do is encourage them to expand their foothold in the united states, just as nippon steel already has in terms of its prior american investments and now with its partnership with us steel it has expanded even further. the biden administration claimed that there was some national security concerns if a japanese company took control of us steel, do you think there concerns are still valid? i don't think so. i think the

biden administration's claimed national security concerns were primarily unrealistic hypotheticals. they claimed nippon steel might use us steel to dump steel from its foreign plans into the us, that they would possibly shutter us steel during a security crisis, but no wonder these hypotheticals are seriously and now that the us government has these controls in place as part of this partnership i think these concerns should be put to rest. we heard there president trump staying that allan steele and aluminium industries are coming back like never before. how much do you think this deal will do to advance the goal? will we see, do you think, the glory days of american steel manufacturing coming back's i think there certainly will be a large bump. as a mentioned earlier, the us steel market is the most lucrative one in the world. it is the largest one we have consistently high demand. the president has also laid out

a very ambitious industrial policy, and economic strategy focused on things like energy growth, ship building, manufacturing, all these things are going to require more steel. and i think this really creates an opportunity for american industry, american steelmaking production, albeit by domestic firms or foreign firms to really expand their presence here in the united states and increase american steel production. are you surprised at all the president trump went ahead with this deal? this was something he had been against on the campaign trail. welcome think it is important to note the has always really emphasised the need to strengthen the american steel industry and american - and to secure jobs for american workers. i think that was the consistent line he had been pushing ever since the start of the campaign last year when these story of the nippon steel

deal broke. i think with this current partnership between nippon steel and us steel those things will be secured because of the control mechanisms put in place to secure nippon steel's support of trade measures, as well as not closing down plans, and to protect our workers' jobs. to what extent, just before let you go, do you think this is about than just economics of bring back an industry. also something that is political for the present? we saw him holding this big rally with big she is going up when he announced the new tariffs in pennsylvania, obviously a very key political state as well. i think that certainly, look, i think the present's primary focus was to ensure that steel production and the economies and communities of pennsylvania would benefit from nippon steel's investment in us steel. certainly i think there were major political figures that he

mentioned on stage, such as sinister david mccormick and other members of the pennsylvania delegation who really supported this deal because they understood how important it was for their communities, their workers, as well as the broader economy for pennsylvania. it is important to remember that us steel itself right now provides $3.6 billion worth of economic activity for pennsylvania and for that to be lost, had nippon steel not coming with his investment, that would have been huge blow. interesting stuff. william chou, the deputy director of hudson institutes japan share, thank you very much. thank you again. more than half a million latin american immigrants in the united states stand to lose their protected status, at least for now, after a ruling by the us supreme court. more than 530,000 migrants entered the country under a biden administration policy known as humanitarian parole. the policy was open to nationals of cuba, haiti, nicaragua, and venezuela. they each required a financial sponsor in the us,

and were allowed to work once paroled into the country. but the trump administration revoked that status, and wants to deport paroled migrants out of the us if they won't leave willingly. migrants sued, and a federal court issued an injunction to keep the parolees' status in place while it decides what to do. but on friday, the supreme court reversed that injunction. the decision means parolees are now eligible for deportation unless and until courts rule the revocation is unlawful. the ruling was un-signed and did not give any rationale for the decision. but in a dissent, justice ketanji brown-jackson, joined by fellow liberal sonya sotamayor, wrote: ukraine says it's not expecting any results from monday's planned talks with russia in istanbul, unless moscow provides its peace terms in advance. kyiv accuses the kremlin of doing everything it can to sabotage the potential meeting. diplomatic efforts to end the war have accelerated in recent weeks, with both sides meeting for their first round of direct talks in more than three years earlier this month. the us president is frustrated at both ukraine's volodomyr

zelensky and russia's vladimir putin for not having struck a deal yet. and on friday us envoy to ukraine keith kellogg said that russia's concerns over the expansion of nato are fair. russia has continued to make billions from fossil fuel exports to the west, helping to finance its full-scale invasion of ukraine. that's despite kyiv's allies vowing to impose tough economic sanctions. data analysed by the bbc suggests that some spent considerably more buying oil and gas from moscow than they did supporting ukraine. bbc monitoring's russia editor vitaly shevchenko has more. three years into russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, russia is still making billions out of oil and gas it's exporting to the west for that ukraine's own allies are still paying russian more thoroughly given ukraine in aid. just last year eu member states paid russia 22 billion euros, that's four billion euros more

than they've given ukraine. the eu says it is taking steps to completely stop gas imports from russia by the end of 2027. in the meantime some missiles and drones russia has been using to attack ukraine have been paid for ukraine's own allies. meanwhile on the ground in ukraine the war continues. as does the desperate job facing the country's firefighters. they're tasked with saving those who become trapped under the rubble after russian strikes, in addition to their usual work tackling fires. bbc ukrainian's zhanna bezpiatchuk has spent time with firefighters in kharkiv - one of the cities worst-hit by the war. a warning it contains some distressing details. fires caused by a war that shows no sign of letting up. rescue workers battle to save kharkiv, which has been under near-constant russian attack.

for the last three years, sasha has been documenting his efforts as a rescue worker. the gamble taken by rescue workers is vital for those trapped under the rubble. of the many rescues sasha has led, this one has never left him. at the time, it felt almost impossible to free the man under the rubble. but then...

..a miraculous recovery. tola was night manager, working an extra shift at a hotel. we tracked him down. a year on, tola is fully recovered and the two are meeting again.

the story of sasha and tola is not unusual. the rescue workers of kharkiv continue to risk their lives to save others, acting as a last line of defence against russian missiles and drones. zhanna bezpiatchuk, bbc news, kharkiv. the 53-year-old man accused of driving his car into a crowd of people after liverpool's victory parade has appeared in court. paul doyle, a former royal marine, faces seven charges, including causing grievous bodily harm with intent. 79 people were injured in liverpool city centre on bank holiday monday. danny savage has more from liverpool. wearing a black suit and grey tie, and emotional looking paul doyle sat and stared at the floor during this morning's

magistrates hearing. is accused of deliberately driving a car into people, causing many injuries. the district judge said this was an exceptional case which had shocked and outraged people in liverpool and the world beyond. in a short hearing, paul doyle spoke only to confirm his name, address, and date of birth. he listened as the seven charges were read out. they include one count of dangerous driving and four relating to grievous bodily harm. the charges relate to six alleged victim terms, two of whom are children. mr doyle arrived at court this morning from custody. he later appeared before a crown court judge for a further hearing. a provisional trial date was set for november. it is estimated any trial would last between three and four weeks. the hearing was told there is still a great deal of cctv to be analysed from monday. a huge volume of evidence from the

time leading up to and during the incident has been a re- occurring theme over the last days. the legal process will continue for the next few months. no application was made for bail and paul doyle remains in custody. danny savage, bbc news, liverpool. now to canada, where wildfires are burning through two central provinces. thousands have evacuated their homes and canadian officials are warning of tough days ahead with hot and dry weather forecast into the weekend. the entire city of flin flon stands empty, except for firefighters and support workers. see that incredible image there. we are getting the very latest now. i'm joined live by wab kinew, premier of manitoba. what's the latest you can tell us right now about efforts to get those fires under control? well, when we're talking about the firefight it has been another challenging here in manitoba in the northern part

of our province, in that city of flin flon that you made reference to. late this afternoon the winds changed and started to blow that joan blazed back towards the city. and they guess it was the weather forecast predicting it would happen that led to the evacuation. i had a chance to speak to the mayor and other leaders there in town just as they were about to pack up and, you know, sort of last person standing, as it were. there are some other first nations in the north, where we have activated the canadian armed forces, the military, to help with the evacuations. of course there are firefighters on the ground there, water bomber's flying overhead, helicopters dropping buckets of water bucketing the blaze, if you will. but at the same time all the smoke in the air is making the evacuation effort that much more

difficult. in one area we were using fixed wing aircraft and so we're using to transport people out. meantime back here in the capital, winnipeg, we have established sheltered facilities with thousands of people. as we speak this evening there are probably about 17,000 manitoba and sue have been forced out of their homes by wildfires. they are making their way south to communities like winnipeg and others. and we are rallying together to help manitoba's. i am struck by the number. 17,000 people trying to get away from this was. what have they been saying, however they been holding up, this must be a very scary situation. i took some time to speak with evacuees at some of the reception centres and people are tired. by the time they make it to winnipeg, you know, our provinces here in canada are immense. by the time somebody makes it to winnipeg some of them have been on the road overnight. had to be on a flight for a few hours, then a

bus several hours after that. so, in addition to the stress and the uncertainty of not knowing what's going on back home with their houses and the lives that they were leading before they were fairly abruptly told to leave and find their way to save do you have that additional layer of just being up all night and being put into a new environment, into a congregant living facility. wholesale spaces at a premium our province right now because this situation did unfold very quickly -- hotel space. america will be sending some firefighters to assist with battling the blaze, in the meantime some of the more hopeful positive stories involve the fact that thousands of manitoba and have opened up their own homes to provide shelter for friends and family and many more are donating to

the canadian red cross. just briefly, if you don't mind, we only about 30 seconds left, but 2023 was the worst while fire season i believe in canada's history, now we are seeing more buyers again at the summer, do you see a way of addressing this more long-term? well, the climate is clearly changing. just for our province's history typically would have wildfires in one region, see east, west, north, this year it is in every region and at the same time, and you zoom out nationally not just our province, is saskatchewan, alberta, ontario. going forward we are going to have to scale up our wild firefighting efforts as well as talking about mitigation within the context of a changing climate but, of course, being there for one another comes first. absolutely. wab kinew, the premier of manitoba, our thoughts are with you and those who have had to evacuate their homes. thank you for your time. thanks so much. let us check on other stories

making headlines of the cell. emergency officials in nigeria have confirmed that flooding in niger state has killed more than 100 people. two districts were hit. most residents were sleeping when torrential rains began early on wednesday. many homes were submerged and swept away. local officials say it's the worst flooding in the area for decades and many more people remain at risk. nigeria's meteorological agency has warned of potential flash floods in nearly half the country's states. sudan's paramilitary rapid support forces launched a drone strike on a hospital in the strategic city of el-obeid on friday, killing six people and wounding twelve. an army source said the militia also attacked residential areas of the city with heavy artillery. actor, comedian, and brodcaster russell brand has pleaded not guilty to five sexual offences, during a court hearing in london. he's charged with rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. the offences are alleged to have taken place in london and bournemouth between 1999 and 2005. he'll stand trial in june next year.

the former us president joe biden says he's feeling good and that the prognosis is good in his first public comments since being diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. mr biden says his expectation is that he'll be able to quote beat this. taylor swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums, ending a long-running battle over the ownership of her music. the us singer lost control of the master tapes six years ago when a record executive, scooter braun, took over her former label. swift objected to the deal, accused braun of bullying and began re-recording her own versions of the albums. an investment firm - which reportedly bought the originals for $300 million - has now sold them to swift for an undiclosed amount. she said her greatest dream had come true. i'm carl nasman here in washington. thanks for watching. lot more coming up at

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