and a thirteen—year—old boy is in a critical condition — after they got into difficulty in the river tyne in the northeast of england. the two boys entered the water yesterday afternoon. the younger child was rescued and taken to hospital. the ukrainian boxer — oleksandr usyk — has become the first undisputed world heavyweight champion in a quarter of a century. he beat britain's tyson fury in a fiercely competitive contest in the saudi capital — riyadh which went the entire twelve rounds. let's return to what's been described as the uk's biggest health scandal. a public inquiry will announce its final report after more than 30—thousand people in britain were infected with hiv and hepatitis c after being given contaminated blood products by the national health service in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. earlier i spoke to cara mcgoogan —

a journalist who has investigated the uk blood scandal for her book, the poison line. and blood scandal victim stephen smith, who contracted hepatitis c from a contaminated blood transfusion when he was 22. he told me how the issues began after he had a blood transfusion in 1985 after losing four pints of blood when he accidentally put his foot through a glass door. i had a blood transfusion fuor blood transfusions in total and i would say probably six months after that. so probably 1986, i started some notice that my mood was changing and i was getting very lethargic. did do sport back in the day.

so ijust thought you might be sport that made me tired. so i didn't realise. and it went on for 36 years until i did find out which as a hell of a shock. well, that's an incredible amount of time to wait before you found out what went wrong. could you describe the moment you were told? i used to live in essex and i moved four years ago whilst i was in essex, having in and out. always in conversations with doctors and consultants because of the pain that eating in my stomach and in my back. and it was quite a serious pain. and my mood, my mood swings, which is uncontrollable. so i moved to cornwall to a quite a better way of life. and luckily i did, because all the tests that were going on in essex were coming up as negative. they were telling me, i've got something else and it clearly wasn't. so when i moved to cornwall

it was just the little gp in helston in cornwall, and it was during the covid time. so i had to make a phone call to change doctors ijust said the usual stomach pains, back pains, feel depressed all the time, feel tired. and he said, what was that all about and i don't know. so he decided he was the only one that decided, i'm going to give you a blood test. and it was a blood test. i didn't know what it was for, for hepatitis c. and in 2021, around aboutjune time, obviously it's a phone call after three blood tests and was told that i've got hepatitis c. what's that? i've heard about it, but i think i've been given hepatitis c. there have been spikes in in hepatitis c blood tests. now that this is being covered widely, i'm sorry that it took so long for you to find out what happened. i just want to ask,

i know this is difficult. i can tell reliving some of this is a bit difficult for you. but your wife died from liver cancer. and you've told our producer before this that you were concerned that perhaps your own diagnosis had had something to do with it. that question hasn't been answered. but i wonder, you've already you already have all this difficulty of what you've just talked about, about reliving this as well. i appreciate that. how have you come to terms have you even come to terms with that unanswered question when it comes to your wife's death? well, you just mentioned the other person that you've got coming on. when i first found out about i've got this hepatitis c, i knew very little about it. so i was advised to get in touch with the hepatitis trust that were very, very helpful.

and i was also advised to talk to a lady called cara. she explained more to me about the infected blood scandal than anybody. so i decided myself to look into it. the hystery. so the difference we've me in the hemophiliacs. the hemophiliacs. horrendous time. absolutely. it's awful. which is all going to come out in the inquiry, hopefully tomorrow. they've lived with it and understood it for the past a0 years. many have died. so i've only found out in the last three years. and one of those things that i found out is that you can pass hep c. well, if i have sexual intercourse and my wife died of liver cancer and hep c is what attacks your liver. it makes you more prone to cancer, which they tested me for as well, because it wasn't too sure if i had that or not. i am convinced i have killed my wife. they say it's a small percentage,

but the more people i speak to now who have got hiv and hep c, many, many, many have passed it on. so i don't think the percentage is as small as what they're actually saying. i am now convinced that i have killed my late wife, yvonne, who passed away in 2012. so even in 2012, i still didn't know. and it took me until 2021. so we're talking nearly nine, nine, ten years after the event of my wife passing away, which that in itself was devastating. then to find out how was it made it possibly killed? i believe i have killed her. so now i've got to live with that as well. on top of everything else, it's horrendous. stephen, i'm so sorry. i can't imagine. no one can imagine what it's like to live with that question not being answered. i want to bring you in now. what stephen just described there is horrific. and your book, your reporting has described the moment when people started trying to raise

the alarm about this. how would you describe the response once companies and the governments started realizing that something had gone terribly wrong here? well, thank you. it's good to hear steven's story again. as he said, we did speak just a couple of weeks after he was first diagnosed back in 2021. and it was just such a shock that people are receiving those diagnoses this late. but the mistake started all the way back in the seventies when factor eight, this new miracle treatment for hemophilia was licensed, it was clear that it could contain hepatitis and through the seventies, a new virulent strain of hepatitis, then known as non non b. now, hepatitis c was kind of being established and they could see that patients with hemophilia were contracting this virus. then in the eighties, we have a slow response to the new aids crisis, three patients in america with hemophilia contract aids related symptoms in 1982, and it's well

into 1983 and 84 that in the uk we're still kind of slowing our response to that illness. we're saying there's no conclusive proof that factor eight could transmit aids. people with hemophilia in the uk contracted hiv. they were given their diagnoses when test became available. and a0 years on, we're only just getting the results ofan inquiry. so you can see it's been a 50 year span of kind of mistakes and cover up that have led to people with hemophilia and those who had transfusions like stephen having to fight for justice and answers. stephen, listening to cara describe that and the fact that it's taken so long for us to get a report, some answers, that's going to be tomorrow. and you heard grant shapps earlier today saying that it was a heartbreaking scandal and there was a shared responsibility to fix

and and for there to be some accountability for what's happened to you as well as others. what does justice look like to you? i've been waiting for this question because paula has asked me the same question. i've been asked that question by many people. when i first found out that i had this, i think i got the generic answer. you know, we wantjustice. we want contrition. we want an apology. of course, of course. goes without saying. but who's going to give us this apology? is is it the present government? i would presume so. and if it is the present government, we had a we had a victims and prisoners bill go through parliament and just gone in december and the majority of the conservative party voted against it. it was only because of the opposition and approximately 20

good conservatives that have got integrity. they voted it through and it went through by about three or four votes. so you listen to grant shapps and some of the other politicians that was at the inquiry. i mean, you ask grant shapps, will we be getting the conversation? it was a yes or no question. and he he... he went round it. yes, he said he's sorry. so what do i want? what do i want? yes, i want all the above. i want substantial compensation for me and everybody else. i expect us to get at least what the post office scandal people are getting, the ones that lost their liberty. as bad as what that is, or worse. i think this is another level. actions speak louder than words.

sorry is not going to cut it for me. but compensation will help pay off the debts that i've incurred because i had to pack in work. people that lost children and get them a decent headstone, a lovely headstone, and pay off their debts as well. so, yes, we're taking the apology and meaning for that will be. i also would like to see finally people come before the court. we've got certain politicians who are in charge then that have been at the inquiry that knew full well about all this. the police should go and investigate these people. i mean, one of the politicians that was there said it was bad luck. bad luck? is that what it was? all of us dying and getting hiv and having bad luck with it. the other politician, you know, we're talking about here, theyjust it wasn't me. it wasn't my fault. but that's what i'd like to see. and a reminder we will have full coverage of the infected blood scandal inquiry conclusion tomorrow here on the bbc news,

you will be able follow it live on the bbc news website and app and also on bbc iplayer. a close ally of the russian opposition leader alexei navalny, who died suddenly in prison in february, has told the bbc that the fight to change the country must continue. in his first interview since he was badly beaten in an attack outside his home in lithuania, where he lives in exile, leonid volkov backed mr navalny�*s widow yulia to lead the campaign against president putin. mr volkov was talking to laura kuennsberg. attacked outside his own home. leonid volkov�*s fight against putin was nearly a fight for his life. the close friend and confidant of the late alexei navalny was assaulted in lithuania, where he tried to find safety from the russian regime. he was not saying anything. there was no message like the message. the attack was the message.

we know where you live. we can kill you. the attack was just weeks after the death of navalny, the charismatic leader who'd been both critic and target of the kremlin for many years. my message? for the situation when i am killed is very simple, not give up. he died in prison after being locked up by the regime for his beliefs. but leonid says the battle for democracy must go on. he asks us to never give up and like to continue our work and to build this to defeat putin and to build this beautiful russia of the future that alexa dreamed of for so many years. is the only practical way to preserve his legacy and to make his ultimate sacrifice not to be in vain. putin is capable of anything.

the mantle to lead the movement now passes to navalny�*s wife, yulia. a job she never chose, but a role she now plays. yulia is a very strong personality and a charismatic leader. she never wanted to be in this public role, and she was always a very close political advisor to alexi and for us. as for me, navalny�*s organisation, the teams that navalny organised gathered together, it's very clear and natural that our task in this situation is just like to support yulia and all her endeavors. putin's new aggressive push in ukraine a reminder of the risk he poses. a danger some of his opponents have to live with every day. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. thousands of people in devon

who were having to boil their water due to a parasite outbreak, are being told they no longer have to. south west water has now given most homes the all—clear, after many people suffered from sickness and diarrhoea. 0ur reporter ben woolvin has the details. days after the 17,000 homes and businesses were first told to boil their water, engineers in this field near brixham are continuing their urgent investigations. on saturday, south west water said 85% of them were now safe. but 2,500 are being told to keep boiling. the important thing now is to look in the hillhead area and make sure we absolutely have confirmed the source of the issue, to fix that issue, and then to make sure that we have got evidence that supports that the water is absolutely safe to drink. it is the customers served by this water tank that are still affected by that, probably for another week. the compensation they are being

offered has increased to £215. south west water believes a damaged air valve on a pipe in a field containing livestock is how the cryptosporidium parasite, which can be found in animalfaeces, got into the system. i have never seen him that ill before. sharon is among the hundreds have had diarrhoea and were being told to drink more water to ease their symptoms. when the water company was still saying it was safe. they said you can still carry on drinking the water, but on tuesday it was a massive u—turn, it was, like, well the water. there are too many people with symptoms. who made the decision to say that the water was safe to drink while investigations were still ongoing? the decisions we made have been evidence—based and at the point that we issued the notice you referred to on tuesday, we had no indication that the water supply had signs of the organism cryptosporidium in it.

these ongoing investigations are to rule out any other possible sources of contamination. businesses say for each day this work continues they will be losing thousands. and for them, south west water says it will negotiate individual compensation offers. ben woolvin, bbc news, torbay. tyson fury has failed in his attempt to become the first undisputed heavyweight boxing champion in almost 25 years. he lost the unification title fight in saudi arabia, on a split decision, to the ukrainian, 0leksandr usyk. 0ur sports reporter ade adedoyin was ringside. 0leksandr usyk on top of the world. tyson fury, the self—styled gypsy king, dethroned. a fight for the ages which started off as a bit of a cat—and—mouse affair. both had some early success, tyson fury clearly enjoying himself. showboating as he began to find a target and take control of the contest. it looked like a man in cruise control, navigating his way

to another victory. until this massive momentum shift in round nine. tyson fury rocked to his boots and almost wilted under an incredible barrage of punches. battered from pillar to post, he looked out on his feet but was saved by the bell. he showed great resilience to go the distance, but the night belonged to 0leksandr usyk and ukraine. 0leksandr usyk made history in that ring, an undisputed cruiserweight champion, he has now done the same at heavyweight, a performance that will seal his place as one of the greatest of all times. nine months i work, i missed birthdays, my son, i missed birthday... my son as well, i missed my daughter's birthday, i missed my daughter born. all the time, training, training, training. my focus was only this fight.

now... iam happy. it was what it was. i will not cry about spilt milk. i have plenty of victories. i have this one loss with a close fight in a good fight with 0le ksandr usyk. i had a lot of fun actually. i don't know if i look like it, but i was playing around, hands behind my back, i was enjoying it. it was a good fight. i hope you guys enjoyed it as much as i did. it was brilliant and brutal. there is a rematch clause in the contract, so their rivalry may not be overjust yet. ade adedoyin, bbc news. earlier i spoke to boxing editor at sporting news tom gray and started by asking him how big this win was, for 0leksandr usyk. he's established himself as an all—time great. he's a fighter that's done absolutely everything, through the amateurs into the professionals, olympic champion, undisputed

cruiserweight champion, undisputed heavyweight champion. he's made history for his country. he was absolutely out of this world. and, tom, tyson fury seemed to have a few little gripes but largely was very magnanimous in that defeat. what does this mean for him now? because we did hear about those potential clauses in their contract. yes, i mean, there's a rematch clause in the contract. immediately after you've gone through a fight as tough as that, the last thing you want to talk about is having another one. so tyson was non—committal, but i think that after some time has elapsed, you know, it's the first loss of a 16—year professional career. he's going to want to run it back. plus, he has the incentive of making a tonne of money again, right? so there's no other option, really, for him other than the rematch at the minute. i think that will be the direction that he goes. and, tom, what did you make of the match itself? it did feel like the momentum shifted. i thought tyson fury had tactical superiority through six rounds, i had them way in front,

but, and i've not heard that mentioned, the feeling at ringside was that he got tired, and i'm talking he got tired before the knockdown in round nine when usyk turned up. when you're a big man like tyson fury and you're 19 stone, it's very difficult to constantly move around the ring and keep the same energy levels. and usyk, with his feet, gradually wore him down, because even when there's no punching, he's constantly applying pressure, and tyson felt the brunt of that. and i think it was a fight of two halves, usyk completely bossed the second half. all right, and, tom, finally, when you look at at this match, what it represented to you, how huge an occasion was this in the history of boxing? well, i like to class myself as a heavyweight historian, but i've never attended an undisputed heavyweight championship fight, so it was a terrific experience, a terrific fight that boxing needed. the heavyweight division is the lifeblood of the sport. when that's thriving,

then the sport is doing really well. and i think both men covered themselves in glory, but the night belonged to 0leksandr usyk. i had him winning, he was a worthy winner, he was fantastic, but the event was out of this world. it's been almost 60 years since british hydro—plane pilot donald campbell was killed in a crash on coniston water — in the lake district — during an attempt to break the 300—mile per hour barrier. in march, the bluebird returned to coniston for the first time, after being lost for many years — and has been attracting record crowds. rogerjohnson reports. even on a weekday morning in may, bluebird draws a steady crowd. over 10,000 people coming through the doors last month. it's been people from all over the country. we even had people from different parts of the world come to see it. it has been fantastic. miriam and her husband have travelled from nottingham to see bluebird.

i have read about it and seen on the tv, but to see it in real life, that is what i wanted, see it in real life. what do you think now you've seen it? fantastic. would have loved to have a go in it. anyone old enough to remember 1967 will remember this. 0h, he's... oh, god. donald campbell's fatal crash at nearly 300 miles an hour made headlines around the world. in a post—war era of swashbuckling adventurers, campbell's movie star looks and his insatiable quest for speed records on land and water had made him a household name. neal ashworth travelled to the museum from stockport. he worked for bae systems, so he knows a thing or two about engines. what they were trying to do, from an aerodynamics point of view, is really risky. the technology they had to analyse everything,

they did not have any of that. a lot of it was hand calculations. now you have computer—generated stuff to help work out what is safe and what is not. nowadays this will not have got off drawing board? these guys were brave and you see around the exhibition the risks that they have taken, it is astonishing. the scenes that greeted bluebird's return in march after she had been restored will live long in memory. more than half a century since herjet engine roared on the lake but she is putting a rocket under the local economy. it has been good for the economy. the last couple of years we have had covid, everything has been on a downturn, things seem to be picking up now. it is good for the village and the economy. there are plans for a new car park near the museum and the aspiration is to fit an engine before getting bluebird back on the water in 2026. that really will draw a crowd.

that was rogerjohnson reporting. just time to bring you some pictures from indonesia. where a volcano on the remote island of halmahera has erupted in spectacular fashion, spewing ash four thousand metres into the air, as lightning flashed around the crater. the inhabitants of seven nearby villages have been evacuated after mount ibu erupted on saturday. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt hello. a fine sunday for many, but there will be some big weather and temperature contrasts across the uk today. where we've got some of that lingering fog into the afternoon, particularly around some north sea coast temperatures will probably hold at around 12 celsius. but with some longer spells of sunshine, a sunnier day than yesterday, some of the warmest weather, 25 degrees, will be found across parts of south england and southeast wales. here, certainly more sunshine than yesterday. we will see a few isolated showers pop up, lots of low clouds lingering towards the north and the east.

here's the details for the afternoon, though. mid—afternoon, those lively showers, quite pokey ones across some southern counties and south wales, but nowhere near as extensive thunderstorms as we saw through yesterday. that low cloud, probably around the coast of yorkshire northwards. a few heavy showers and thunderstorms, though, around the southern uplands and the cumbrian fells, 20 to 23 here, down a bit on yesterday, but always cooler compared with recent days across the far north of scotland. now, into tonight, mist, low cloud will roll in more widely across the eastern half of the uk. could come as far west as the midlands, maybe getting into parts of western scotland, too, but some clear skies in the west. but even here the odd fog patch possible, temperatures similar to recent mornings. it does make for a bit of a grey and a bit of a slow commute for some of you on monday morning. a lot of that low cloud, though, breaking up quite quickly here in the morning. they will see patchy still across some northern areas. a heavy shower to the west of northern ireland into the second half of the day. but it's here the highs of

the temperatures up to 23 degrees. elsewhere, down a little bit on what we've seen this weekend. a few isolated showers towards the south east later on and a greater risk of showers on tuesday. starting to see the weather change after this warmth of the weekend. showers and thunderstorms more widely, scotland, northern england and across ireland. there'll still be some longer spells of sunny weather across parts of england and wales and still warm in that sunshine, too. but the big change really comes late tuesday into wednesday, gathering in the near continent, an area of low pressure, more extensive rain. how far north that goes and how quickly it moves across the country, a bit of a question mark at the moment. but it's certainly going to bring windier conditions compared to what we've seen this weekend and into the start of the week where we'll still have some sunshine quite widely. outbreaks of rain then developing from tuesday onwards and, as i said, it will start to feel a little bit cooler compared to this weekend, too. bye for now.

live from london, this is bbc news. president biden�*s national security adviser heads to israel — in the latest attempt to halt the fighting in gaza. a 14—year—old boy dies after getting into difficulty in the river tyne in the northeast of england. a 13—year—old remains in a critical condition. and auf wiedersehen jurgen. 0n the final day of

the premier league season, there'll be an emotional farewell at anfield. hello, i'm azadeh moshiri. welcome to bbc news. president biden�*s national security adviser is due in israel to hold talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. that meeting is the latest us initiative to try and halt the fighting in gaza after the failure of negotiations involving israel and hamas. earlier, jake sullivan held talks with saudi arabia's crown prince in the in the saudi city of dhahran. in the latest violence, at least 28 palestinians are reported to have been killed, most of them in a strike on a house in nuseirat in the central gaza strip. there are signs of splits in israel, benny gantz, a member of the war cabinet has threatened to withdraw his centrist party from the coalition unless prime minister benjamin netanyahu sets out a post—war plan for the gaza strip. we can go live tojerusalem,

and our correspondent danjohnson. what is the latest we