The World Tonight

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a landmark address before a joint session of the United States Congress in which he enjoined US politicians to continue supporting his country's war against Hamas in Gaza and its confrontation with Iran. "When we fight Iran, we're fighting the most radical and murderous enemy of the United States of America," Mr Netanyahu said. But protesters outside the Capitol building labelled him a "war criminal" and called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

A whistleblower who released a video of Olympian Charlotte Dujardin, appearing repeatedly to whip a horse she was training, says she did so in order to "save dressage". What impact could the video have on the equestrian sport?

And we spoke to the biographer of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro, who passed away in May. Her daughter now says she was sexually abused by her stepfather, and accused her mother of turning a blind eye.

The head of US Secret Service has resigned following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump - hours after facing an extraordinary grilling in Congress. We have reaction from one of the Republican lawmakers on the committee that questioned her.

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Seven Labour MPs have had the whip suspended after voting against the government in favour of scrapping the two-child benefit cap. We have the latest from Westminster.

We hear from the husband of an American journalist who's been jailed for six and a half years in Russia for allegedly spreading "false information".

And as Team GB says it'll offer athletes military-style “decompression” counselling at the end of the Paris Olympics to help them deal with the “post-Games blues”, we speak to the swimmer Rebecca Adlington about sporting moodswings.

Nancy Pelosi has become the latest leading democrat to back Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. We ask how she could fare with voters against Donald Trump.

As the US considers electing its first Black woman as president, we get an insight into what Kamala Harris could bring to the job from the former Mayor of San Francisco who dated her when she was a young prosecutor 30 years ago.

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The Conservatives have revealed their plans for electing the party's next leader - who won't be in post until November. We have the latest from Westminster.

And, fresh from opening the Proms, the acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason on her call for the government to back music in schools.

Is it Cherio, Joe? With speculation in the United States that the president could pull out of the presidential campaign as soon as this weekend, we ask a former aide to Kamala Harris, the vice president, about what a ticket led by her could be like.

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As the world grapples with the effects of what's been called the worst IT outage ever - just how fragile is the fabric of our digital world?

A government advisor on why he's waging war on "ugly" phone boxes blighting Britain's streets.

And we speak to the 27-year-old musician who wrote the video game-inspired composition which premiered at this evening's First Night of the Proms.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC's Chris Mason he had met Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with just one request: to strike inside Russia with British weapons. Zelensky said Ukraine needed to take out launch sites for missiles which are hitting his country's civilian infrastructure. During the exclusive interview after the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace, he also said Ukraine would never be pressured by a US administration to surrender to Russia.

In the US, President Biden faced renewed pressure to end his bid for re-election. Reports claim Barack Obama has said Biden must rethink whether he can win.

And in Bangladesh dozens of people have been killed in clashes between police and students, who are protesting over a law that withholds a quota of civil service jobs for relatives of those who fought in Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan.

The King has set out Labour's plans for government at the State Opening of Parliament. But could the new government's promise to take the "brakes off" Britain's economy be jeopardised by its workers' rights plans?

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As the prime minister prepares to welcome leaders to Britain for the biggest European summit in years, is a new relationship between the UK and the EU on the horizon?

And the pet food for cats and dogs with a difference: the UK has become the first European country to approve the sale of "lab grown" meat. Are humans the next recipients? We speak live to its creator.

Vaughan Gething resigned after 118 days in the role, will his exit give Welsh Labour a chance to reset? We speak to the first Labour politician to hold that job, Alun Michael, about how the party comes back together.

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What could be in Labour’s first King’s Speech?

And, the Oscar-nominated actress who just got her first leading film role at the age of ninety four.

Two days after an attempt on his life, Donald Trump used the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to announce JD Vance as his running-mate for the 2024 Presidential election. Vance, Senator for Ohio, is a former US Marine and venture capitalist who rose to fame after writing Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about his family and white working-class background. He initially criticised Trump but has become one of his most ardent supporters.

Here in the UK the government is preparing to set out its legislative agenda in the King's Speech on Wednesday. It will include a new law to make a specific criminal offence of spiking. We speak to a campaigner and victim who welcome the move.

And a year since it was illegally felled, one artist has set out to preserve the touch of the Sycamore Gap tree.

Thousands of prisoners will be released early from September to ease overcrowding in English and Welsh prisons. The plans were announced by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who blamed the previous Conservative government for the situation, calling it a "disgraceful dereliction of duty". We spoke to one prisoner who has just been released.

US President Biden is in Detroit, Michigan for a campaign rally, having failed to staunch the tide of Democratic politicians calling for him to end his bid for re-election over concerns about his mental acuity.

And we speak to two new MPs on how they've found their first week in Parliament.

At a NATO summit, held in Washington, marking 75 years of the alliance, the focus is firmly on the health of the host - the US president Joe Biden. He's expected to speak at a press conference which is being described as a 'make or break' moment. Despite his insistence that his disastrous performance in that television debate with Donald Trump will not stop him from seeking re-election in November, there are growing voices on his own side who no longer see it that way. We speak to a Democratic pollster who worked on Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

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We reflect on the life and work of actor Shelley Duvall, who has died at the age of 75.