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live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in the morning in singapore and 1am in south africa, where — after ten days of peace talks — a surprise deal has been reached between the government of ethiopia and rebel forces in tigray for a permanent cessation of hostilities. the african union's chief mediator — the former nigerian president olusegun obasanjo — has called it the beginning of a new dawn for ethiopia. it's almost two years to the day since a brutal conflict began in ethiopia's northern tigray region. since then, a civil war has left...

widely into the mid 30s, locally as much as 37 celsius, especially across parts of southern england. that weather warning could have impact on health and infrastructure. sharp criticism for the way police forces investigate burglaries, robberies and theft — most victims aren't getting justice, a major review says it's unacceptable tears in toronto, as serena williams says goodbye to fans in canada. playing for the first time since announcing her intention to leave the sport, she was beaten in straight sets at the canada open. a hero's welcome for rugby star ed slater, as he complet...

parts of aberdeenshire, northern ireland may be. temperatures into the late 30s, 33 or 30 full celsius in parts of the midlands and west london. it is not hot everywhere, whether friends zow towards the north—west of scotland, outbreaks of rain here overnight. 0therwise, clear skies and it is a warmer night than last night. some places a tropical night, lows of around 19 or 20 celsius in parts of south—east wales and the south coast of england. this hot air coming in from the near continent on a strengthening easterly breeze on friday. because of the easterly wind it could send l...

as the candidates to be the uk's next prime minister prepare to go head to head. welcome to the programme. we start with the extreme heat across europe. it's facing its worst drought in a long time. we'll look at that in a moment. but first the high temperatures are also causing big wildfires. let's go to france. there's a huge wildfire near bordeaux, in the south—western region of gironde. this is what it looks like at night. thousands of hectares have been burnt. 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate the area, and several homes are destroyed. it's spreading so fast because i...

the sunny weather, temperatures will lift to 27, 20 eight celsius in eastern scotland, 27 may be across northern ireland again. going to be cooler around the eastern coasts with the breeze coming in off the sea but we could see temperatures 36 celsius towards parts of the south west midlands in the afternoon and it will be hotter as we go into friday and indeed saturday. the potentially something cooler next week. thanks matt. and that's bbc news at ten on wednesday the 10th of august. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, which isjust getting...