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Hello, this is Danielle Jalowiecka with the BBC News.
There has been severe flooding in the central Chinese province of Henan. Video footage shows dramatic images of flooded subway trains in the provincial capital Zhengzhou. The number of casualties is unclear. Michael Bristow has seen these videos. It's incredible really to see those images of people in subway trains, and they are standing there quite calmly in water up to their shoulders. Other video shows people walking along subway tunnels escorted out by the fire service. And now, the whole of subway system in Zhengzhou has been closed down. Other images show cars bobbing along roads, people falling down sinkholes, others being rescued, dragged up through dangerous area with ropes by fellow residents.
A dense layer of smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada has reached the east coast of the continent. In New York, health agencies warned the air quality had become unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as people with breathing problems. The western US is enduring its fourth major heat wave of the summer.
The latest reports on the use of hacking software sold by an Israeli firm suggest current and former world leaders were among those whose phones may have been targeted. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera has more. We are learning more day by day about who is on this list of 50,000 numbers in the first wave of releases by the investigative consortium who have been looking at this. They talked about human right activists, dissidents and journalists. But now, we've discovered that on the list, there appear to be 3 sitting presidents from France, Iraq and South Africa, 3 current prime ministers from Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco, 7 former prime ministers, and even the king of Morocco. Now, these are numbers which appear on that list, but that is not quite the same as being able to say definitively that this Pegasus software was used to hack into them.
Haiti's new Prime Minister Ariel Henry has formally taken office, nearly two weeks after the country's President Jovenel Moise was shot dead in his residence in the capital Port-au-Prince. Peter Bowes reportes. Ariel Henry has been sworn in to replace the interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph who was assumed the country's leadership in the hours following President Moise's murder. Mr. Henry, a neurosurgeon and former cabinet minister, has promised to form a provisional consensus government to lead Haiti until elections are held in September. The American FBI and Haitian authorities are still investigating the motives of President Moise's killing. More than 20 suspects have been arrested, including some Haitian police officers and a group of retired Colombian soldiers.
BBC world news.
