Hello, and welcome. President trump has dismissed irans insistence it had no involvement with the attacks on two tankers in an Important Oil route in the gulf of oman. Earlier, the us military released a video, which it says shows Iranian Special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the ships. Tehran has flatly denied being behind the attacks on thursday. They believe that other powers are trying to provoke trouble. Our washington correspondent Chris Buckler reports. America claims this video is proof of irans involvement in explosions in the arabian gulf. The us is pictured are members of the countrys revolutionary guard, removing an unexploded mind from a tanker, and attempt they say to hide evidence after several attacks. Mine. They have left ships damaged close to one of the worlds most Important Oil shipping routes. Certainly president s cup has little doubt about who was responsible. Well, iran did do it, and you know they did it because you saw the boat. I guess one of the mines didnt explode and it has probably got, essentially, iran written all over it. Iran furiously denies that. Ata summit over it. Iran furiously denies that. At a summit in kurdistan, the iranian president accused america of unwarranted aggression, and of threatening stability in the region with his asians. But the uk is one of the countrys backing the us. In a post on twitter, British Foreign secretaryjeremy a post on twitter, British Foreign secretary jeremy hunt condemned a post on twitter, British Foreign secretaryjeremy hunt condemned the attacks, and said the uks assessment had concluded that responsibility for the attacks almost certainly lies with iran. With russia putting its support behind iran, the un is making no secret of its concerns. The un secretary general is calling for a full, independent investigation. wa nt to full, independent investigation. want to say how worried i am with the recent developments in the gulf. We believe the truce truth needs to be clearly established in relation to this responsibility needs to be clearly defined. And as isaid, the needs to be clearly defined. And as i said, the world cannot afford a major confrontation in the gulf. The latest attacks are similar to explosions that damaged four vessels one month ago. A preliminary report given to the United Nations concluded that the expertise, resources and intelligence needed to carry out those early operations meant a state actor was likely to be involved. But it didnt name iran. In sharing pictures and details of the latest damage, the us is wasting no time in pointing the finger of blame. We had to be big push in the last 2a to get information out, to continue to share intelligence. 24 continue to share intelligence. 2a hours. And you will continue to see work to do that as part of building the international consensus. What is adding to the heightened tensions are appearances that the us is prepared for conflict. It has moved an Aircraft Carrier into the arabian sea, because of concerns about attacks by iran, and fears they could be attem pts iran, and fears they could be atte m pts to iran, and fears they could be attempts to disrupt the supply of oil. But all sides know the cost of confrontation and there are many effo rts confrontation and there are many efforts being made internationally to avoid it. Our correspondent mark lowen is at a port in the United Arab Emirates on the gulf of oman, and has this assessement. Tension was already very high after tankers were attacked off this port last month. It has eased since then, but now that tension has rocketed back up with the attacks on these two tankers yesterday. One of these two tankers, the japanese owned one, is currently being tugged here where it will be assessed when it reaches port. Even before that assessment, these barbs and accusations of lying between the two sides. What this has exposed very clearly as the deep chasm, deep divisions in this region. On the one side you have the uae and saudi arabia, backed by the us. On the other you have iran backed up by russia and turkey, and caught quite literally in the middle of the worlds oil industry. About one fifth of the worlds crude oil passes through these waters. Today, the Worlds LargestShip Owners Association warns tension in this region is now as high as it gets without being at actual armed conflict. Thousands of venezuelans have rushed to cross into peru, hours before the introduction of tougher migration laws. Theyll need to produce a valid passport and a visa to be allowed into the country. Numbers of migrants fleeing venezuelas crisis have now reached unprecedented levels, as andy beatt reports. Time running out to enter peru. These venezuelans with just hours before new immigration controls curb access to what has been one of the worlds most welcoming countries. Translation i arrived here at dawn, around 4 30 am, a lot more are on their way, around 4 5000. More than 4 Million People have fled venezuela since 2015. The economic and humanitarian crisis fueling the biggest migration in the regions recent history. At this border town, nearly 6,000 entering peru in a single day. Just two years ago, perus government introduced a range of measures to help accommodate migrants. Now, claims they are driving down wages and fuelling crime are prompting a clampdown. Translation weve opened our arms to more than 800,000 venezuelans. I think its completely logical and justified to ask them to bring visas to ensure better control of who enters. For many poor venezuelans, obtaining a visa is virtually impossible. Some whove spent weeks crossing colombia and ecuador, forced to abandon hope and head back home. It has already been far too many days without sleeping or eating, its exhausting. Just imagine how much longer it would take. Next week, the un high commissioner for human rights is launching a diplomatic drive in venezuela, holding separate meetings with Nicolas Maduro and juan guaido. But for the thousand stuck in limbo or on the long return journey, there seems little hope of a breakthrough. Andy beatt, bbc news. Lets get some of the days other news. Protests are taking place across brazil as part of a general strike against pension reform plans. Striking workers have created roadblocks in several major cities, while some public transport has been shut down. Its the first major strike since the far right president Jair Bolsanaro took office in january. A britishjudge has ruled that Julian Assange will face a five day us extradition hearing in february next year. The wikileaks founder is wanted in the United States on charges of publishing government secrets. Mr assange spent seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in london before being handed over to british authorities by ecuador in april. Emergency teams in chile have been trying to locate three miners who became trapped 70 metres below ground, after a landslide on thursday. The miners, who are from bolivia, have been heard making banging sounds. The copper mine is owned by chiles state company, codelco. Gareth barlow has more details and his report contains some flashing images. Rescue teams gather near the entrance of the collapse mine. 70 metres below them, three living workers trapped by a landslide. Translation the rescue teams have had contact with the people, they were banging on the boxes and the trapped miners were responding. They are near the top of the shaft, they are not at the lowest point. With a massive rock blocking the entrance to the shaft, the authorities have resorted to using explosives to try to break it up. Translation we have implemented our plan a, which sends a signal to the citizens that they should retreat so we can start with a series of minor detonations against the rock in hopes of breaking it apart. Its this massive rock which is obstructing the internal channels that would lead us to our workers. Among the three, a father and a son, the third man is 62 years old. Writing on twitter, the bolivian president spoke of his dismay and offered thanks to the rescuers. In chile tonight, trapped deep underground for the three miners, the Worst Nightmare is a very real reality. Gareth barlow, bbc news. The World Health Organisation says its deeply concerned about the ongoing Ebola Outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of congo. More than 1,400 people have died there since august, while more cases have been detected over the border in uganda this week. Our correspondent, anne soy is on ugandan side of the border and sent this update from kesese. Well the people i have spoken to here in kasese are very confident that indeed uganda can control an outbreak of ebola. They went through a major test this week after the arrival of six family members from the drc. Three of them had ebola. They didnt come into an official post, they came in through a back route. But somehow they were detected. One of the children was very ill. They went to hospital. Ive been to that hospital today. The Health Workers they were ready. They have in training for this for months. They quickly identified this in terms of ebola and referred the family to an ebola treatment unit which had been set up months in advance. Uganda had trained close to 5,000 Health Workers in anticipation of a situation like this. However, the problem really is across the border in the drc, an area that has seen decades of conflict. There have been decades of conflict, low literacy levels, and the community has been very hostile to Health Workers. The community has been very hostile to Health Workers, and they are saying they still need more International Support to bring the Ebola Outbreak under control. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come earths distant past on display. We head to the new fossil exhibit in washington thats delighting visitors. There was a bomb in the city centre. A code word known to be one used by the ira was given. Army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. The South African Parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. Germanys parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat government from bonn to berlin. Berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. Just a day old and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. Early this evening the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. The real focus today was valentina tereshkova, the worlds first woman cosmonaut. What do you think of the russian woman in space . I think its a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. This is bbc news. The latest headlines President Trump says hes convinced that iran carried out thursdays attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. Thousands of venezuelans have rushed to cross into peru, hours before the introduction of tougher migration laws. Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have been at events to mark the two Year Anniversary of the disaster. Relatives and friends of those who died also attended. 72 people were killed when a fire in a flat at the tower block in west london engulfed the building. Its emerged that more than 300 high rise buildings in england still have cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower. Our special correspondent lucy manning reports. In the shadow of grenfell, a community that fire ripped apart came together. Tonight, grenfell marched silently. Appropriately, given they feel no one has been listening. The day had started as it finished, with remembrance. Ijust lift my head up to the sky and say help me to be strong ijust cant give up now. Zainab choucair. Mierna choucair. 72 names, many, whole families. Bassem choucair. Ive come so far from where i started from. The pain hasnt subsided, its just lasted for longer and the sense of injustice has grown. We dont want to wait for justice, i dont know, certain years, so its still not possible we get the justice. Two years on, no one held responsible, no one charged, no outcome to the delayed public inquiry. Marcio gomes and his pregnant wife escaped that night but his son, the youngest of the 72 victims, killed two months before he was due to be born. Lots of emotions. Crying, anger, love, forgiveness, everything. And two years on has enough changed . No, no, not nearly enough. A lot more needs to be done. People need to feel safe at home. The grenfell families were promised everyone would be rehoused within three weeks. Two years on, and 17 households still havent found permanent homes. The country was promised every high rise building would be made safe. Two years on, 328 buildings are still with unsafe cladding, with tens of thousands of people still living in them. The families feel that not enough has been done two years on, many people are still living in unsafe buildings. Whats your response . Well, today is very much a day for reflection and all of those whove lost their lives, and i very much recognise the calls for more action and thats what i think does need to happen. So im proud to be supporting this cookbook. Survivor Munira Mahmud has raised money with a grenfell cookbook, but cant find peace. Its two years on and no one has been charged yet. They are walking freely, sleeping nicely, you know, and we are in a nightmare, the families, we lost families, we lost friends, we lost neighbours. They are dignified, they have refused to give up, but are still waiting. Lucy manning, bbc news. In the United States, the democrats have announced their line up for the first president ial candidate debates. Across two nights in latejune, a record 20 candidates will face each other at the start of the process that will end with one of them being chosen to take on donald trump in november next year. Eric ham is a political analyst and author based in washington. He outlined how the Democratic Party is trying to ensure theres a fair debate process. All you have to do is look about how they went about actually putting in place the protocols on how each candidate would be selected. To actually appear in debates. And also, one other key issues are to be Democratic National committee took on was to actually make sure to look very closely at how super delegates are allocated. Clearly much of this was done to appease bernie sanders. In fact, he took he had a great role in actually determining how the plans would operate this time around. So many of his supporters will actually believe that he will get a much fairer shake this time. In fact, he is on the debate stage with frontrunnerjoe biden. So this appears to be setting itself up between a clash of two very top heavy democratic heavyweights right now in the upcoming debates. It is reallyjust the beginning of the process. We are not even in the year 2020 yet. But what will you be looking out for when these debates begin later this month . Well, many are looking at former Vice President joe biden and of course hes the frontrunner right now. In fact, you hear President Donald Trump actually playing to him as if he is the frontrunner, and so, joe biden, he has actually been very much secluded throughout the campaign season. Much like how we saw Hillary Clinton when she started her campaign back in 2016, not doing a lot of press, not engaging, doing the retail politicking of interacting very closely with the voters. And so Whenjoe Biden gets on that stage, the question he will have to answer is, can he engage . Can he take on a lot of the incoming fire that will be directed at him . And does he actually have the wherewithal to compete, not only at his age, but also at a time when we just have not seen much of him on the campaign trail . That leads me to the point i am really interested in. Whether these candidates are going to start attacking donald trump, or whether they are going to attack each other . Thats a really good question. Becausejoe biden is in fact the frontrunner, and not only is he the frontrunner but he is leading by such a large margin, you will seejoe biden actually not really engage with his counterparts on the stage. In fact, i suspect you will see him speaking very much about donald trump, much like we see him doing now. However, many of those on the stage are going to be going Afterjoe Biden. Joe biden has the biggest target on his back right now any candidate in this race. And there are 2a of them right now. So the question will be, can he actually handle so much of the incoming fire that will be coming at him from those others on that stage . Namely bernie sanders, who has already gone Afterjoe Biden and has no compunction about doing so. Pope francis has criticised the worlds Top Energy Companies for searching for more fossil fuels despite the damage they are causing to the climate. He told energy bosses gathered in the vatican that Climate Change threatened the future of the human family. Roger harrabin has more. An invitation to meet the pope at the vatican is a tough one to reject, even if you are about to be rebuked. The executives were castigated for continuing to seek even more fossil fuels when weve found much more than we can afford burn while keeping a stable climate. Translation todays ecological crisis, and especially Climate Change, threatens the very future of this human family, and this is not an exaggeration. For too long we have collectively failed to listen to the fruits of scientific analysis, and doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain. Discussion of Climate Change and Energy Transition must be rooted in the best Scientific Research available today. Representatives of almost all the worlds great oil firms were there for a dressing down. Translation it is not right that our children and our grandchildren pay the cost of our irresponsibility. Among the ceos was the head of bp. He appreciated the pope for creating space for this unique dialogue, he said. But he insisted that all sections of society must help tackle this urgent problem. But the pressure was on. Translation we do not have the luxury of waiting for others to step forward or of prioritising short Term Economic benefits. The Climate Crisis requires action from us here and now, and the church is fully committed to doing its part. The pope posed afterwards with oil executives. Can his moral power succeed where politics has failed . Roger harrabin, bbc news. Where can you meet a t rex, a freeze dried bison and the earliest forms of life on earth . Well, the answer is the fossil hall at the National Museum of Natural History in washington. Its just opened after a five year facelift and the exhibits take visitors back to our distant past. Jane obrien has been to investigate. This cliff is a Cross Section of an ancient seabed. And you can see the layers of fossil shells up there. 10 million years ago, this part of the Chesapeake Bay was under the ocean. You just find these exquisite fossils, just sitting here. And for a palaeontologist, this is about as close it gets to paradise. But were not interested in seashells. Kirk and i are looking for evidence of the megalodon. This is what were looking for. This animal had massive bite force. These big sharks were animals that ate whales. Using information gleaned from scientists have created a life sized model of what they think the megalodon looked like. And millions of years ago it probably swam right here when the site of the National Museum of Natural History in washington was part of the seabed. Its return is a bit of a homecoming and there are other monsters waiting to be discovered in the museums new fossil hall. The exhibits tell the story of our planet from the first signs of life, through mass extinctions, to the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and our own age of humans. Just 28,000 years old, this extinct species of bison is one of the youngest fossils in the collection. It doesnt look like the other specimens because its freeze dried. Were lucky to have a specimen with such complete structure to it. Almost all areas of the body represented and accounted for including some of the original horn material, the skin, the muscle tissue, and some of the fur as well. And like all fossils, it tells scientists a lot about the environment it lived in and the impact of Climate Change. They were gradual changes that life essentially had time to make adjustments to. What were seeing in the modern period of Climate Changes is this is Climate Change happening quickly, but the geological record offers us the best evidence as to how life will be able to adapt or not. Thats a story still unfolding on the chesapeake. Hey, check this out. Oh, youve got one. A little tiny one. Lots of different kinds of sharks here, notjust the big ones butjust for comparison. Id rather meet that than that. Yeah i know. This is probably some little five foot long shark, thats no big deal. But is that the same age as that 10 million year. . Same age, same sea, different shark. The megalodon will never return to these waters, but has Climate Change causes sea levels to change again, who knows what else may one day emerge from the deep. Who knows . Jane obrien there. Dont forget you can get all of the latest stories on our website as well as background on our top story this hour, those attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of the mine. Iraq says it didnt do it but donald trump has pointed the finger at iran. Trump has pointed the finger at iran. Iran. You can reach me on twitter, im regedahmadbbc. Hello. The weekend isnt looking as wet as its been, particularly in those areas which have had a soaking in the past week but there will still be some rain or showers around and the reason why low pressure is still close by towards the north west of the british isles, around that were seeing weather disturbances moving through, with either some rain at times, very least getting showers from west to east. Still fairly unsettled this weekend. It wont be wet all weekend long. Some sunshine occasionally, looking breezy this weekend. Still not particularly warm, though feeling a bit warmer than it has done for the past week. It looks like quite wet start to saturday morning in Northern Ireland after rain overnight. It peps up at the end of the night. Some rain too towards western scotland, wales and western parts of england. This is that first weather disturbance coming our way, slowly moving eastwards, rain becoming more patchy, showery in nature but still one or two heavy showers. Ahead of that, some sunny spells, maybe a shower, brightening up. The chance of catching a shower on a breezy saturday with temperatures close to 20 in the warmest parts of eastern england. Most of us will fall a few degrees short of that. Saturday evening, this first area of showers will push away. We could see more coming in towards South West England and wales on through saturday evening and pushing a bit further northwards as we go through the night. Clear spells too the chilliest spots into single figures maybe towards mid single figures in one or two areas, certainly prolonged clear spells overnight and onto part two of the weekend, look familiar . Deja vu. Weather disturbances moving around the showers at times could be heavy and possibly thundery. Well start off with a batch of showers, close to Northern England on sunday, especially north west england. South west scotland pushing northwards across scotland as the day goes on. Sunshine, one or two showers elsewhere and the potential for some heavier downpours to come into Northern Ireland through the day, into parts of wales as well. Still some sunshine occasionally, not everywhere will be wet. Maybe not many showers at all towards east anglia. Close to 20 in the warm spots. It looks like a similar picture on monday. Showers in Northern Ireland and scotland. She rain and a few showers affecting parts of england and wales, south east of that, it could be a bit warmer into the low 20s and for many, it will start to feel a bit warmer. Monday to tuesday. Right now, tuesday is looking mainly dry. So the story of next weeks weather is something drier, a bit warmerfor a time at the start of the week. I think it looks like it turns wetter again around mid week and it starts to turn cooler once again as well. This is bbc news, the headlines President Trump says hes convinced that iran did carry out thursdays attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman. Earlier, the us military released a video which it said showed Iranian Special forces removing an unexploded mine from one of the stricken ships. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement in the attacks. Thousands of venezuelans have rushed to cross into peru, hours before the introduction of tougher migration laws. Theyll need to produce a valid passport and a visa to be allowed into the country. Numbers of migrants fleeing venezuelas crisis have now reached unprecedented levels. Emergency teams in chile have been trying to locate three miners who became trapped some 70m below ground after a landslide on thursday. The Authorities Say they havent been able to talk to the miners but have heard them making banging sounds