Police officers in Milwaukee shot and killed a man near the site of the Republican national convention on Tuesday, authorities and local news outlets said.

The officers involved in the shooting were from Columbus, Ohio, a police union statement said, adding that no officers were injured.

About 4,000 officers from other states and cities are in Wisconsin for the convention. Columbus, Ohio, provided a “police dialogue team” to work on demonstrations.

Citing law enforcement sources, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said the shooting happened near North 14th and West Vliet Streets, outside the RNC security perimeter.

The paper said the man who was shot had died.

Security arrangements for the convention have come under the microscope since Saturday, when the former president Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president in November’s election, was the subject of an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania.

The gunman used an AR-15-style rifle to shoot from the roof of a building near the stage. Trump sustained a wound to his right ear. One rally-goer was killed and two injured. The gunman was shot dead by a sniper.

In Milwaukee, news outlets reported a large police presence at the scene of the shooting.

WISN 12 News, a local ABC affiliate TV station, said witnesses described a fight between two men in the King Park neighbourhood, and said police shot dead one of the men, who was carrying a knife.

The independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr apologised to Donald Trump on Tuesday, after Kennedy’s son posted video and audio of a call between the two men in which Trump made bizarre remarks about vaccines and babies, as well as appearing to offer Kennedy some sort of political deal.

“When President Trump called me I was taping with an in-house videographer,” Kennedy said. “I should have ordered the videographer to stop recording immediately. I am mortified that this was posted. I apologise to the president.”

The call was apparently made before Trump and Kennedy’s later meeting on Monday at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, reportedly to discuss the possibility of Kennedy endorsing Trump.

The recording was posted online by Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy III, with the message: “I am a firm believer that these sorts of conversations should be had in public. Here’s Trump giving his real opinion to my dad about vaccinating kids – this was the day after the assassination attempt.”

Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday, during a rally in Pennsylvania when a gunman with an AR-15-style rifle opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing the president’s ear and killing a rally-goer.

Robert Kennedy Jr’s father, the US attorney general and senator Robert F Kennedy, and uncle, President John F Kennedy, were assassinated in the 1960s. After the Trump shooting, Joe Biden ordered the Secret Service to protect Kennedy.

The video of the Trump-Kennedy call is a little over one minute and 40 seconds long. It shows Kennedy standing close to a US flag in a dimly lit room, holding a phone and listening to Trump on speaker.

Parts of Trump’s remarks are hard to hear. But he can be heard speaking about a subject close to Kennedy’s heart: the supposed dangers of vaccinations.

A former environmental attorney, Kennedy rose to prominence before and during the Covid pandemic by spreading conspiracy theories about vaccines and their supposed effects.

Trump was president in the first year of the pandemic, a period of rapid development of Covid vaccines but also growing rightwing distrust of public health directives.

In his call with Kennedy, Trump says: “I agree with you, man. Something’s wrong with that whole system.”

Kennedy says: “Yeah.”

Trump continues: “And it’s the doctors you find. Remember I said, ‘I want to do small doses.’ Small doses.”

His words then take a bizarre turn.

“When you feed a baby, Bobby, a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines, and it looks like it’s meant for a horse, not a, you know, 10lb or 20lb baby, it looks like you’re giving, you should be giving a horse this thing, and do you ever see the size of it? It’s massive and then you see the baby all of a sudden starting to change radically. I’ve seen it too many times. And then you hear that it doesn’t have an impact, right? But you and I talked about that a long time ago.”

Trump then appears to suggest the two men work together.

“Anyway, I would love you to do something and I think it would be so good for you, and so big for you.”

Kennedy listens. Trump’s words become hard to make out. He describes the shooting in Pennsylvania, saying the bullet that grazed him “sounded like the world’s largest mosquito”.

“It’s an AR-15 or something,” says the former president, who rejects efforts for gun control reform. “That’s a big gun. Those are pretty tough guns, right?”

In posting the recording, Bobby Kennedy III also suggested Anthony Fauci, formerly Biden’s chief medical adviser, should be in prison; appeared to suggest his father should have been Trump’s running mate on a “unity ticket” rather than “JD ‘fire all the unvaccinated nurses’ Vance”, the Ohio senator named on Monday; and implied Republicans and Democrats were subordinate to Pfizer, a multinational vaccine producer.

Kennedy III added: “This is not a cheapfake or somebody doing a Trump voice. This is the real deal.”

Polling shows that Kennedy could influence the presidential race in key states. Debate continues over whether he pulls more support from Biden or Trump.

Kennedy’s spokesperson, Stephanie Spear, confirmed the two men met at the RNC in Milwaukee, claiming it was “to discuss national unity” and saying that Kennedy “hopes to meet with leaders of the Democratic party as well.

“And no, he is not dropping out of the race. He is the only pro-environment, pro-choice, anti-war candidate who beats Donald Trump in head-to-head polls.”

Three days after Donald Trump came close to being assassinated by a sniper’s bullet, the town of Butler, Pennsylvania, was attempting to return to normality as questions continue to swirl about security lapses that preceded the shooting.

It is now believed that Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old suspect, was spotted by law enforcement on the roof of a glass research company at 5.45pm, nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief and injured two others in the crowd.

According to local news reports, a police officer with the county’s emergency services warned a command center that a man with a range-finder had been scoping out the roof of building that would become Crooks’ reported firing position. The man, believed to be Crooks, later returned with a backpack.

At the time of the shooting, at 6.15pm, moments after Trump began to address the crowd, the eight-member team of snipers and spotters from Beaver county’s emergency service unit were inside the research factory when the suspect was already on the roof.

Failures in the operation to protect the former president – known to the US Secret Service as a “zero-fail” mission – is now the focus of at least three federal investigations.

On Tuesday, Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing calls to resign and will testify before a congressional committee on Friday, said the presidential protections agency had decided not to guard the roof because it was too slanted.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she told ABC News. “The decision was made to secure the building from inside.”

On Sunday, Cheatle sent an email to her agents praising their fast efforts to move Trump to safety after shots were fired.

Trump’s rally came at a busy time for the agency – it had just wrapped up security at the Nato summit in Washington and was preparing for the Republican convention in Milwaukee. On the day of the Butler rally, it was also detailed to protect First Lady Jill Biden in Pittsburgh, and Vice-President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia.

The Republican House speaker Mike Johnson vowed on Tuesday to discover what went wrong, a day after president Biden announced an independent investigation.

“We’ve got to get answers obviously,” the Louisiana congressman told Republican delegates in Milwaukee. “Obviously, there were security lapses there. We have a job to do, and it will be done.”

The renewed focus on security failures in Butler come after efforts to establish a motive for the shooting have come up short. The FBI has said the suspect’s cellphone yielded little, but it has emerged that 10 weapons were recovered from the shooter’s home, and he had visited a gun range south of Pittsburgh a day earlier. He had also purchased a step ladder from Home Depot and 50 bullets from a local gun shop on Saturday morning.

Crooks was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper team after he had fired about eight shots at Trump. That came 86 seconds after rally-goers first tried to alert police officers to the threat.

In the new video obtained by the Washington Post, a man can be heard to shout shouts “Officer! Officer!” as others point toward the building. “He’s on the roof!” a woman says. The video clip also shows a police officer looking up toward the roof of the building.

In Butler on Tuesday, townsfolk said they were divided over whether the officer who scaled the ladder to confront Crooks but then turned back was a hero or had failed in their responsibility.

Butler county sheriff Michael Slupe defended the officer’s decision to stand down.

“People think the officers are supermen like you hold on the roof with one hand while you are hanging on for dear life and pull a gun out. It doesn’t work that way,” Slupe said.

At a minimum, some said, the attempted intervention likely caused Crooks to panic and put him off his aim.

Ben Berry, a 38-year-old masonry worker from Butler, said the people in the audience were “disappointed” that after waiting in the heat for eight hours, Trump’s address was brutally cut short by the assassination attempt.

“It would suck no matter who you were going to see. People are upset about that but happy that he’s still alive,” Berry said.

“They could have killed Trump with all the time they lost. It’s messed up that witnesses had seen the shooter, and now the Butler police are trying to blame it on the Secret Service – and they’re trying to blame it on the local cops.”

Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger said the Secret Service had ultimate responsibility for security of the event, telling the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that “they’re in charge, so they have to make sure all the Is are dotted and the Ts are crossed”.

Three days after Trump’s attempted assassination thrust the farming community into the spotlight, residents say they’re keen to put the episode behind them.

In two weeks, the Butler farm show, which began with a plowing contest in 1947 and is said to be one of the best in country, is set to take place on the same fair ground as Trump’s rally.

“We are a farming community, and people prepare for it all summer for it, so it’s a big deal”, said Kayla Wynn, 40, who is planning to bake bread, pies and cupcakes for competition. Wynn predicted that the event would be more somber than usual. “People will put on their best face because that’s what we do around here, but it’s not going to be the same”.

Ultimately, she said, the community would rally around the local police: “We would always support our local police. We all know them, they’re part of the community. I don’t like to think they would have made a mistake – I think they startled the kid – but they’re beginning to feel some heat from the community.”

Six people have been found dead at a luxury hotel in central Bangkok, in what authorities say could be a case of poisoning.

The bodies of three women and three men were found inside a hotel suite on the fifth floor of the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel by a hotel worker late on Tuesday afternoon.

They were Vietnamese, and two had American citizenship, the Thai prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, said.

It is assumed the six had been dead for at least 24 hours before their bodies were discovered, police said, adding that the room had been locked from the inside, but that the staff member was able to enter through a separate door.

The cause of death is not yet known. However, Srettha said there was no sign of robbery or an attack, adding the cause was “presumably something related to consumption which needs to be investigated”.

Police shared images of hotel food found in the suite, which was still sealed in clingfilm and appeared to be untouched. However, six cups did appear to have been used, police said.

“The food was untouched but all six cups were used. We will check all of it. We could not find anything else around, even on the floor, but we found some kind of powder in the bottom of a cup,” said Metropolitan police bureau commissioner Thiti Saengsawang.

Srettha said he had met the Vietnamese ambassador to discuss the matter and has ordered a swift investigation into the case.

The deceased had been booked to stay at the hotel as a group of seven people, but only five checked in, police said, while six people had been found dead. Police said they were now searching for the seventh individual.

Part of the group were staying on the fifth floor, and were due to check out on Tuesday, while others were staying on the seventh floor and had been due to check out on Monday but did not do so. Images from inside the hotel showed their luggage had been packed up.

The Grand Hyatt Erawan is a five-star hotel in Bangkok’s commercial and diplomatic district.

“The prime minister has ordered all agencies to urgently take action to avoid impact on tourism,” the Thai government said in a statement.

The US State Department was “closely monitoring the situation and (we) stand ready to provide consular assistance,” a spokesperson said.

The incident comes at a time when Thailand is trying to boost its tourism industry, which was badly affected by the pandemic and is crucial to the economy.

The tourism sector has previously been shaken by a shooting at a luxury mall in Bangkok last October, in which two foreigners were killed.

Gareth Southgate has announced he has stepped down as England’s manager after eight years. The Football Association had hoped he would extend his contract after he led the team to the final of Euro 2024 but Southgate has decided to seek a new challenge.

“As a proud Englishman, it has been the honour of my life to play for England and to manage England,” Southgate said. “It has meant everything to me, and I have given it my all. But it’s time for change, and for a new chapter. Sunday’s final in Berlin against Spain was my final game as England manager.”

The 53-year-old is England’s most successful manager in terms of consistent major tournament performance. England also reached the European Championship final in 2021, losing to Italy, and a World Cup semi-final in 2018, when they were beaten by Croatia. In his other World Cup, the team were eliminated by France in the quarter-finals.

Newcastle’s Eddie Howe and three former Chelsea managers, Graham Potter, Thomas Tuchel and Mauricio Pochettino, are near the top of the FA’s shortlist to succeed Southgate. Howe, who has previously described the England post as “the ultimate” job, is thought to be open to discussions should the FA approach Newcastle. Howe loves the day-to-day coaching of club management but could view the job as too good to turn down. England’s next fixtures are against the Republic of Ireland and Finland in the Nations League in September.

“The squad we took to Germany is full of exciting young talent and they can win the trophy we all dream of,” Southgate said. “I am so proud of them, and I hope we get behind the players and the team at St George’s Park and the FA who strive every day to improve English football, and understand the power football has to drive positive change.”

Southgate signed a contract to December because he and the FA wanted to create breathing space after Euro 2024 to make a decision. But he made clear before the final defeat by Spain that he would not need long to make up his mind.

Southgate spent much of the Euros under huge pressure after poor England performances in the group stage and in the last 16 against Slovakia. He had empty beer cups thrown at him and boos directed at him after England drew 0-0 with Slovenia in their final group match.

After the Slovenia game Southgate said he understood “the narrative towards me” but that it was “creating an unusual ­environment to operate in”.

Southgate took charge of England, initially on a caretaker basis, in September 2016 after Sam Allardyce’s sudden departure. He had indicated he thought his time would be up if England did not win in Germany.

Southgate, who has worked at the FA since 2011, has admirers at Manchester United, who gave Erik ten Hag a new contract this summer. His only job in club football was with Middlesbrough from 2006-09.

Other candidates in the FA’s thinking are likely to include Lee Carsley, the England Under-21 mana­ger, and the former England internationals Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard. The hiring process will be overseen by the FA’s technical ­director, John McDermott, and the chief executive, Mark Bullingham. Pochettino has a strong relationship with McDermott from his time at Tottenham. He is understood to be considering his options but has previously stated ambitions to manage England.

“Gareth has made the impossible job possible and laid strong foundations for future success,” Bullingham said. “He is held in the highest regard by the players, the backroom team, by everyone at the FA and across the world of football.

“We are very proud of everything Gareth and Steve achieved for England, and will be forever grateful to them. The process for appointing Gareth’s successor is now under way.”

It’s a venerable football equation: English defeat = Irish glee.

Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, reflected this tradition when she posted “Olé, Olé, Olé” and celebrated Spain’s victory over England in the Euro 2024 final in Berlin on Sunday. “Felicidades! Comhghairdeas to the champions of Europe,” she added, using the Irish word for congratulations.

For many it was harmless banter and arguably restrained given Ireland’s tangled history with England – conquest and famine were mentioned.

Critics disagreed and called the Sinn Féin leader’s post obnoxious trolling that did not help bilateral relations. “This is pathetic. At a time when we need leaders to build bridges,” Pippa Hackett, a senator and junior minister in the coalition government, posted on X.

The spat prompted others to wade in on either side, some accusing McDonald of bad manners, others accusing Hackett of lacking a sense of humour.

The taoiseach, Simon Harris, who has welcomed the Labour government as a chance to reset relations between Dublin and London, steered a neutral course by congratulating Spain while commending England for a hard-fought match.

The Belfast hip-hop group Kneecap, in contrast, uploaded a video of weeping English players and shared an extract of the Pogues’ song Fiesta. “Come all you rambling boys of pleasure, and ladies of easy leisure, we must say adiós! Until we see Almeria once again.”

Lindsay Robinson, the wife of the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader Gavin Robinson, said her family received vile messages after she posted a picture of her husband and her 10-year-old son rooting for England. “I’m not a big fan of the sport but his love of it seems pretty normal to me. Some of the nasty, hate-filled responses to it are anything but normal. Sort yourselves out.”

At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, health officials have said, including in an attack on a school sheltering displaced people and another on an Israeli-designated “humanitarian zone”, as ceasefire talks in the nearly 10-month-old conflict appeared to stall again.

The Red Crescent said on Tuesday that 17 people were killed in a bombing near a petrol station in Mawasi, an area on the Mediterranean shoreline packed with hundreds of thousands of displaced people that Israel had previously declared an evacuation zone. Another 16 were killed in a strike that targeted the UN-run al-Awda school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, medics at a nearby hospital said.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Hamas militants were present at the school. There was no immediate comment on the strike in Mawasi but the army said the air force had struck about 40 targets in Gaza on Tuesday, including sniping and observation posts, military structures and buildings rigged with explosives.

The armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, said their fighters had attacked Israeli forces in several locations with anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs. Islamic Jihad’s armed wing said it had fired missiles at Sderot in southern Israel, but no damage or casualties were reported.

Over the past two weeks, Israel has hit the besieged Palestinian territory with some of the fiercest bombardments in months, the deadliest of which targeted Mohammed Deif, Hamas’s military commander, in a bombing in Mawasi on Saturday that killed more than 90 people. It is still unclear whether Deif, wanted by Israel for decades, was killed in the strike.

In a statement on Tuesday, the IDF said it had “eliminated” approximately half of the Hamas leadership in Gaza and 14,000 soldiers since the war broke out after the Palestinian militant group’s deadly attack on Israel on 7 October in which 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken hostage. More than 38,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory operation in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-administered territory, and the population of 2.3 million people is in dire need of food, water, medicine and shelter.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on Israel’s claim. Killing Deif would be a much-needed morale boost for Israel, which in almost 10 months of fighting has so far failed to take out any of the top three Hamas leaders in Gaza.

The targeting of Deif and subsequent deadly attacks on Gaza appear to have contributed to an impasse in ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap negotiations being held in Qatar and Egypt. The talks stalled on Saturday, Egyptian mediators told local media.

Hamas has sent conflicting messages over its future participation in the talks, which were the most promising of a series of failed negotiations since an initial ceasefire and hostage release deal brokered in November. That truce broke down after a week, following what the US said was Hamas’s inability or unwillingness to release more Israeli captives.

The latest statement from Hamas’s Qatar-based political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, on Sunday stressed that the group was pulling out of the indirect talks in protest at the recent Israeli “massacres” but that the group was ready to return to the negotiation table if Israel “demonstrates seriousness in reaching a ceasefire agreement and a prisoner exchange deal”.

A Palestinian official close to the negotiations told Reuters that Hamas did not want to be seen as halting negotiations despite the stepped-up Israeli attacks. “Hamas wants the war to end, not at any price. It says it has shown the flexibility needed and is pushing the mediators to get Israel to reciprocate,” the official said.

The group has accused the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of seeking to derail a deal and an end to the war for his own political gain. On Tuesday, however, Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, still appeared hopeful, telling the families of five female soldiers kidnapped during Hamas’s 7 October attack that “this is the closest we have ever been to a deal”, according to Israel’s Channel 12.

Disagreements over the identities and numbers of the Israeli hostages and Palestinians held in Israeli jails have repeatedly scuppered truce talks. The situation has been complicated by the fact that in May Israel seized control of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, which Hamas and international delegations insist must be returned to Palestinian control.

The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, told reporters that two senior advisers to Netanyahu had said Israel was still committed to reaching a ceasefire. He also criticised the “unacceptably high” civilian casualties of the last few days.

Washington, Israel’s most important ally, has provided significant military and diplomatic cover for Israel’s war in Gaza, despite domestic blowback.

Also on Monday, the EU added to a wave of international measures against extremist Israelis, announcing new sanctions on three well-known Israeli settler leaders in the occupied West Bank and a pro-settlement group, Regavim, which was founded by the current Israeli finance minister, the far-right Bezalel Smotrich.

Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. But at the same time, the US and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to far-right groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered.

Three groups that have prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza – including one accused of looting or destroying supplies – have raised more than $200,000 from donors in the US and Israel, the Associated Press and the Israeli investigative site Shomrim have found in an examination of crowdfunding websites and other public records.

Incentivizing these donations by making them tax-deductible runs counter to America’s and Israel’s stated commitments to allow unlimited food, water and medicine into Gaza, say groups working to get more aid into the territory. Donations have continued even after the US imposed sanctions against one of these groups.

By not cracking down on these groups, Israel is showing a “lack of coherence” in its Gaza aid policy, said Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an Israeli non-profit that has long called on Israel to improve conditions in the territory.

“If you’re on the one hand saying you’re allowing aid in but then also facilitating the actions of groups that are blocking it, can you really say you’re facilitating aid?” she said.

Israeli officials did not respond to requests for comment. The US state department said it was committed to ensuring the delivery of aid, but had no comment on the fundraising efforts by the far-right groups.

Israel has said repeatedly it does not restrict humanitarian aid and that the United Nations has failed to distribute thousands of truckloads of goods that have reached the territory. The UN and aid groups say deliveries have repeatedly been hampered by military operations, lawlessness inside Gaza and delays in Israeli inspections.

The three groups examined by AP and Shomrim have slowed the delivery of aid by blocking trucks on their way to Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.

While these organizations are not the primary impediment to aid shipments, they have received tacit support from some Israeli leaders. Israel’s ultranationalist minister for national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has said aid shipments to Gaza should be blocked and he supported the right of opponents to demonstrate.

One of the groups, Mother’s March, has raised the equivalent of over $125,000 via Givechack, an Israeli crowdfunding site, the AP and Shomrim found. The group also raised some $13,000 via JGive, a US and Israeli crowdfunding site. Donations to charitable organizations are tax-deductible in Israel and the US.

Mother’s March does not raise the money directly. Instead, it works with an allied group called Torat Lechima that raises funds on its behalf.

Torat Lechima, whose name translates loosely as “combat doctrine”, is active in Israeli nationalist circles and works to “strengthen the Jewish identity and fighting spirit” among Israeli soldiers, according to its website. Torat Lechima continues to solicit funds for Mother’s March on the JGive site in the US.

Until it was sanctioned last month, a third group, Tzav 9, raised over $85,000 from close to 1,500 donors in the US and Israel via JGive. JGive said that donations made to Tzav 9 were frozen even before the sanctions were imposed and not delivered to the group.

All three groups, which have ties with Israel’s ultranationalist far right, say Israel should not be aiding the Palestinians as long as Hamas is holding dozens of people hostage. They also claim that Hamas is stealing much of the aid, though they have not offered any evidence to support that allegation.

“No to ‘humanitarian’ aid that grants fuel to the enemy who kills us! No to the hundreds of trucks that pass every day through Kerem Shalom – and drag out the war!” Mother’s March said in a recent crowdfunding campaign.

Hundreds of activists set up tents at Kerem Shalom for several nights in early February to stop the delivery of aid. The head of Mother’s March, Sima Hasson, was briefly detained by Israeli police in January after temporarily blocking trucks.

Israeli news reports have shown large convoys of cars blocking aid trucks from traveling on Israeli highways, as well as activists looting trucks and destroying supplies.

In its sanctions order, the White House accused Tzav 9 of violently blocking roads, damaging aid trucks and dumping supplies on the road. Last week, the White House imposed sanctions on the group’s co-founders. On Monday, the European Union also sanctioned Tsav 9.

Israeli police, who fall under the authority of Ben-Gvir, have made few arrests, though the group appears to have stopped its activities in recent weeks.

Tzav 9 defended its actions as “within the framework of the law, in a democratic protest”. It called the sanctions from the US “anti-democratic intervention”.

Neither Mother’s March nor Torat Lechima responded to requests for comment.

Those who violate the sanctions against Tsav 9 could have their assets frozen or face travel and visa bans.

It is unclear how effective these sanctions will be. Extremist Israeli settlers in the West Bank say similar US sanctions imposed on them have had little effect, in part because Israeli leaders helped circumvent them.

The office of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, declined to comment. The justice ministry, which regulates non-profits, said it would investigate but had no further comment.

JGive said it complies with Israeli laws. In addition to freezing Tzav 9’s donations, it noted that the Mother’s March campaign ended over four months ago.

Hary, of the Israeli activist group Gisha, said that the efforts of Mother’s March and Tzav 9 appear to have quieted down in recent weeks, but could resume activities at any moment.

“They’re getting signals from various places in the government that Gaza should be completely cut off,” she said.

At least two people died and thousands were injured after police fired teargas into crowds of protesting students, and paramilitary forces were deployed across the country.

Protests first broke out on university campuses across Bangladesh a fortnight ago as tens of thousands of students demanded an end to “unreasonable and discriminatory quotas” for government jobs.

The quotas – which reserve 30% of jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 – were abolished in 2018 but reinstated this month after a court order.

The reintroduction of the quotas provoked fury among students, who say the job market in Bangladesh is already extremely tough amid high unemployment, heavy inflation and a flailing economy. With the private sector diminishing, government jobs have become the most secure and sought-after form of employment yet are heavily restricted, with 50% allocated through quotas.

The new ruling on quotas was paused by the supreme court last week, but students said they would continue protesting until they were permanently overturned. Many blocked highways and railways and broke through police barriers to stage demonstrations across the congested capital, Dhaka.

On Monday night, the protests turned violent as police and heavily armed members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the governing Awami League party, attacked the protesting students.

In Dhaka, police fired teargas and charged at the protesters with batons while pro-government groups attacked them with machetes, bamboo rods and hockey sticks, injuring thousands. Paramilitary forces were also deployed across the country.

The violence continued to escalate on Tuesday as campuses across the country became battlegrounds, with at least two deaths confirmed by the Guardian. Local media reported that five people have been killed.

In the city of Rangpur, Abu Sayeed, a student involved in the protests, sustained fatal injuries, while another man caught up in the violence at Dhaka college was dead on arrival at hospital.

The situation was further inflamed by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who referred to the students protesting using the derogatory slur “Razakars”, meaning those who betrayed the nation by collaborating with the enemy, Pakistan, during the war of independence in 1971.

“If the grandchildren of freedom fighters don’t receive quota benefits, should the grandchildren of Razakars?” Hasina said.

Her comment angered student protesters, who accused Hasina of authoritarianism. “We are not Razakars. If anyone fits that description in this context, it is the prime minister herself and her forces who are steering this country toward a dark era,” said Rakib, 17, a student at Dhaka City College who took part in the protests.

Rakib emphasised the students were not opposed to all quotas, especially for the underprivileged, but said the current system was “profoundly unfair and discriminatory” and meant few government jobs were given on the basis of merit.

“We are fortunate to have been born in an independent country and are eternally grateful to the freedom fighters,” he said. “Yet, this does not justify granting their descendants endless, undue advantages generation after generation.”

Lamiya, a student at Dhaka’s Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College, joined the protests despite her family benefiting from the system. “I am the granddaughter of a freedom fighter, yet I oppose the quota system,” she said.

“I support this movement because my friends, many from lower to lower-middle class backgrounds, have striven for excellence in their education and aspire to serve the country. Students outside the quota categories are not any less patriotic or meritorious.”

Political analysts said the current wave of protests was a direct response to prolonged repression under the authoritarian regime of Hasina and her Awami League party, who have ruled consecutively since 2009. In January, Hasina won a fifth term in power after an election that was widely documented as rigged, with tens of thousands of her political opponents jailed.

Many protesting students said that those in Hasina’s Awami League party, which was founded by her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – who fought for independence and was the country’s first prime minister – were the primary beneficiaries of quotas for freedom fighter descendants.

Zahed Ur Rahman, a Dhaka-based political analyst, said that the protests had been fuelled by student anger at soaring inflation, a grossly ignored unemployment crisis and frustrations at the crackdown on basic democratic freedoms under Hasina.

“The Awami League had fostered an environment of fear, silencing dissent with overt force from government mechanisms,” said Rahman. “However, this repression has now backfired, and even teenage students are openly challenging the authorities.”

Amnesty International was among those that condemned the attacks on the students, calling on the government to respect “people’s rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly”.

The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said the US was closely monitoring the protests. “The freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are essential building blocks of any thriving democracy, and we condemn any violence against peaceful protesters,” said Miller.

At least two people died and thousands were injured after police fired teargas into crowds of protesting students, and paramilitary forces were deployed across the country.

Protests first broke out on university campuses across Bangladesh a fortnight ago as tens of thousands of students demanded an end to “unreasonable and discriminatory quotas” for government jobs.

The quotas – which reserve 30% of jobs for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 – were abolished in 2018 but reinstated this month after a court order.

The reintroduction of the quotas provoked fury among students, who say the job market in Bangladesh is already extremely tough amid high unemployment, heavy inflation and a flailing economy. With the private sector diminishing, government jobs have become the most secure and sought-after form of employment yet are heavily restricted, with 50% allocated through quotas.

The new ruling on quotas was paused by the supreme court last week, but students said they would continue protesting until they were permanently overturned. Many blocked highways and railways and broke through police barriers to stage demonstrations across the congested capital, Dhaka.

On Monday night, the protests turned violent as police and heavily armed members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the governing Awami League party, attacked the protesting students.

In Dhaka, police fired teargas and charged at the protesters with batons while pro-government groups attacked them with machetes, bamboo rods and hockey sticks, injuring thousands. Paramilitary forces were also deployed across the country.

The violence continued to escalate on Tuesday as campuses across the country became battlegrounds, with at least two deaths confirmed by the Guardian. Local media reported that five people have been killed.

In the city of Rangpur, Abu Sayeed, a student involved in the protests, sustained fatal injuries, while another man caught up in the violence at Dhaka college was dead on arrival at hospital.

The situation was further inflamed by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who referred to the students protesting using the derogatory slur “Razakars”, meaning those who betrayed the nation by collaborating with the enemy, Pakistan, during the war of independence in 1971.

“If the grandchildren of freedom fighters don’t receive quota benefits, should the grandchildren of Razakars?” Hasina said.

Her comment angered student protesters, who accused Hasina of authoritarianism. “We are not Razakars. If anyone fits that description in this context, it is the prime minister herself and her forces who are steering this country toward a dark era,” said Rakib, 17, a student at Dhaka City College who took part in the protests.

Rakib emphasised the students were not opposed to all quotas, especially for the underprivileged, but said the current system was “profoundly unfair and discriminatory” and meant few government jobs were given on the basis of merit.

“We are fortunate to have been born in an independent country and are eternally grateful to the freedom fighters,” he said. “Yet, this does not justify granting their descendants endless, undue advantages generation after generation.”

Lamiya, a student at Dhaka’s Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College, joined the protests despite her family benefiting from the system. “I am the granddaughter of a freedom fighter, yet I oppose the quota system,” she said.

“I support this movement because my friends, many from lower to lower-middle class backgrounds, have striven for excellence in their education and aspire to serve the country. Students outside the quota categories are not any less patriotic or meritorious.”

Political analysts said the current wave of protests was a direct response to prolonged repression under the authoritarian regime of Hasina and her Awami League party, who have ruled consecutively since 2009. In January, Hasina won a fifth term in power after an election that was widely documented as rigged, with tens of thousands of her political opponents jailed.

Many protesting students said that those in Hasina’s Awami League party, which was founded by her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – who fought for independence and was the country’s first prime minister – were the primary beneficiaries of quotas for freedom fighter descendants.

Zahed Ur Rahman, a Dhaka-based political analyst, said that the protests had been fuelled by student anger at soaring inflation, a grossly ignored unemployment crisis and frustrations at the crackdown on basic democratic freedoms under Hasina.

“The Awami League had fostered an environment of fear, silencing dissent with overt force from government mechanisms,” said Rahman. “However, this repression has now backfired, and even teenage students are openly challenging the authorities.”

Amnesty International was among those that condemned the attacks on the students, calling on the government to respect “people’s rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly”.

The US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said the US was closely monitoring the protests. “The freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are essential building blocks of any thriving democracy, and we condemn any violence against peaceful protesters,” said Miller.

The high-profile California Democrat Adam Schiff told donors Joe Biden remaining on top of the ticket for November would cost the party the presidency and probably the House and Senate too, the New York Times reported.

“I think if he is our nominee, I think we lose,” Schiff told donors in East Hampton, New York, last Saturday, the paper said, citing “a person with access to a transcription of a recording of the event”.

“And we may very, very well lose the Senate and lose our chance to take back the House.”

According to the Times, Schiff spoke before Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally.

As the paper noted, Democratic calls for Biden to stand aside, stoked by concerns about his age and cognitive fitness for office, surged after a disastrous debate with Trump in Atlanta last month but have dropped off since the Trump shooting, in which one rallygoer was killed and two injured.

Nineteen House Democrats and one senator have publicly called for Biden to quit.

Schiff is not among them but he is an influential voice in the party, a former House intelligence chair who led Trump’s first impeachment, sat on the January 6 committee and is now a candidate for US Senate.

The Times said the fundraiser was in support of Schiff’s Senate campaign and those of Elissa Slotkin (Michigan) and Angela Alsobrooks (Maryland), who both face competitive races.

“At least one donor … left dejected,” the Times reported, “believing that Mr Biden’s chances of winning were now slim and that they should concentrate giving their time and money to down-ballot candidates in the hopes of salvaging something.”

Schiff did not comment. Biden’s campaign told the Times he “maintained strong support from members of Congress”.

Biden remains defiant, telling NBC on Monday: “Look, 14 million people voted for me to be the nominee in the Democratic party, OK? I listen to them.”

He also attacked NBC and other outlets for their coverage of Trump’s debate display, asking, “Why don’t you guys ever talk about the … 28 lies he told?”

Regardless, Biden’s party remains in turmoil.

On Tuesday, Axios reported a move by the Democratic National Committee to conduct a virtual roll call, the process by which the presidential nominee is confirmed, before the party convention in Chicago next month.

Politico then reported a draft letter in which dozens of House Democrats opposed the plan.

The virtual roll call was “a really bad move by the DNC”, Jared Huffman, a California Democrat who has not called publicly for Biden to quit, told the site.

“Somebody thinks it’s a clever way to lock down debate and I guess by dint of sheer force, achieve unity, but it doesn’t work that way.”

Viktor Orbán has claimed that Donald Trump has “detailed and well-founded” plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine in a letter to a top EU body which is likely to inflame tensions about the Hungarian prime minister’s diplomatic freelancing.

Orbán, who met Trump at his Palm Beach compound last week, said in his letter to the president of the European Council, who organises meetings of the bloc’s 27 national leaders, that the Republican presidential nominee was ready to act as peace broker “immediately” after his election.

The “likely outcome” of a Trump victory meant that the EU should reopen “direct lines of diplomatic communication” with Russia and “high-level political talks” with China, Orbán wrote in the letter addressed to the council’s president, Charles Michel, which was first reported by the Financial Times. The Guardian has seen a copy.

The Hungarian prime minister said Trump’s expected victory would mean that the financial burden of supporting Ukraine’s war effort would shift to the EU.

“I am more than convinced that in the likely outcome of the victory of President Trump, the proportion of the financial burden between the US and the EU will significantly change to the EU’s disadvantage when it comes to the financial support of Ukraine,” he wrote.

Orbán also said that after his recent talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, “the general observation” was that “the intensity of the military conflict will radically escalate in the near future”.

European strategy, Orbán wrote, had “copied the pro-war policy of the US”. He called for a discussion of “whether the continuation of this policy is rational in future”.

In response, Michel reprimanded Orbán, saying he had no mandate to engage in international talks on behalf of the EU. “I made this clear even prior to your visit to Moscow and this was subsequently reiterated by High Representative [Josep] Borrell,” Michel wrote, referring to the EU’s top diplomat.

Michel rejected Orbán’s claim that the EU had “a pro-war policy”, adding: “Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is the victim exercising its legitimate right to self-defence.”

“No discussion about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine,” he added, repeating the widely held EU position.

The exchange of letters emerged after the European Commission took the unprecedented decision to boycott meetings organised by Budapest as part of Hungary’s EU presidency.

A spokesperson for the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Monday: “In light of recent developments marking the start of the Hungarian presidency the president has decided that @EU_Commission will be represented at senior civil servant level only during informal meetings of the council.”

That means neither von der Leyen, nor any of her team, including Borrell, will attend “informal” EU meetings in Hungary, although formal meetings in Brussels and Luxembourg are expected to continue with the usual attenders.

The unprecedented snub follows apparent decisions by some EU member states to send lower-level officials to EU events in Hungary.

The commission also cancelled a visit to Budapest from von der Leyen and her team of EU commissioners that was expected to have taken place in the first few days of July.

Soon after Hungary took over the rotating presidency of the EU council of ministers on 1 July, Orbán visited Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing, Azerbaijan and the US in a tour he described as a “peace mission” that has provoked deep anger among other EU leaders.

The EU presidency gives Orbán no formal role to speak for the EU. Other European leaders have sharply criticised the visits, in a near-unanimous chorus of disapproval. Slovakia, led by Orbán’s ally Robert Fico, was the only EU member state that did not speak out against him at a meeting of senior diplomats last week.

Responding to the leaked letter on X, the Hungarian prime minister’s political director, Balázs Orbán (who is unrelated), doubled down on the message bound to provoke Hungary’s EU partners. “Instead of copying the pro-war policy of the US, #Europe needs a sovereign and independent strategy with a focus on a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations,” he wrote.

Separately, he offered congratulations to JD Vance, the hard-right Ohio senator who was selected as Trump’s running mate on Tuesday and is a leading opponent of aid to Ukraine. “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other,” Vance said on a podcast last year.

Balázs Orbán tweeted: “A Trump-Vance administration sounds just right,” accompanied by a strong-arm emoji.

In an interview with the pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet, Balázs Orbán claimed Trump was “committed to peace” and “will soon create peace himself” if he again became president of the US. “If Europe wants peace and wants to have a decisive say in the settlement of the war and an end to the bloodshed, it must now work out and implement a change of course,” he wrote.

And in a statement likely to deepen alarm in EU capitals, he added: “We are convinced that – in political terms – we should use the entire period of Hungary’s EU presidency to establish the right conditions for peace negotiations.”

An Iranian television presenter, who was attacked in London by men believed to be acting for the Tehran regime, has moved abroad, saying that he no longer felt safe in the UK.

Pouria Zeraati said the UK’s approach to the threat posed by Iran on British soil could not guarantee his safety.

Zeraati, a presenter for Iran International, a Persian-language news channel, was stabbed by a group of men outside his home in Wimbledon, south London, in March.

Leading up to the attack, the London-based channel received repeated threats from Iran, with UK intelligence services foiling at least 15 plots to either kidnap or kill employees of the TV station.

Now, reluctantly, the 36-year-old has left London with his wife, saying the UK government’s strategy towards the Iranian regime meant that it felt able to strike on British soil with few repercussions.

Speaking from a location he did not want to publicise, Zeraati said: “The place I live right now is a little safer.”

Officers from SO15, the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command, have briefed their counterparts in the undisclosed country of the risk posed to Zeraati by the Iranian regime.

“There have been communications between the UK police and the police here,” Zeraati said. “They know about my situation and have taken extra measures to make sure I’m safe.”

Before his move, SO15 officers had told Zeraati that he would be secure in the UK. “The police said, ‘You are safe right now. You are living in a safe country, there is no severe and imminent threat.’ But I replied that there was no imminent threat against me before the attack.”

His move will raise fresh questions over how safe the UK is for dissidents targeted by foreign states.

Counter-terrorism police are continuing to investigate the attack, with one line of inquiry being that the group who attacked Zeraati belong to a criminal gang from eastern Europe.

The Iranian regime has used criminal proxies to target critics on western soil previously – hiring individuals with no apparent link to Iran makes it harder for police to counter a potential attack.

Less than four hours after stabbing Zeraati in the leg, three suspects flew out of Heathrow airport. Zeraati said a Met officer had warned him that a follow-up attack might be fatal.

“One of the officers involved in the case said what they did to me was a warning shot. When criminal gangs warn someone before killing them, they stab them in the back of the leg. It was a very clear message: ‘We will kill you next time.’”

A recent report – based on testimony from dozens of exiled Iranian journalists living in the UK – revealed that the level of transnational threat they are facing is “unprecedented”. Almost 90% of journalists from the country surveyed by the press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders confirmed they had experienced online threats or harassment in the past five years.

Last year, staff at the BBC’s Persian-language news service in London told the Guardian that they were terrified of walking alone after being harassed by the Iranian authorities.

Despite such levels of intimidation and signs that Iran was prepared to orchestrate physical attacks on UK soil, Zeraati said the UK’s approach meant the Iranian regime was able to act with near impunity.

After revelations last December that Tehran was plotting to kill two other Iran International journalists in Britain, the Foreign Office announced sanctions against members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

However, Zeraati – who said he had recovered physically, though not mentally, from the attack – said the sanctions were too obscure and did little to punish Tehran.

“They were nonsense sanctions,” he said. “The attack on me happened about three and a half months later. That shows the policies are not working.”

Instead, he said, the UK should hurt the Iranian regime by targeting their assets and showing there was a “financial consequence” for committing criminal acts on British soil.

“If there is some sort of consequence like that, the Iranian regime will reconsider acting like this,” added Zeraati.

Zeraati is among many calling for the British government to proscribe the IRGC, an arm of the Iranian state, as a terrorist organisation. The previous UK government’s position was to swerve the issue to maintain direct diplomatic relations with Iran. The new Labour government is reported to be unlikely to rush into a decision.

Iran International says it provides independent coverage of events in the country but the regime in Tehran has declared it a terrorist organisation and said its workers would be pursued by its security services.

The Iranian chargé d’affaires in the UK, which serves as the head of its diplomatic mission, has denied any link between the Iranian regime and the attack on Zeraati.

The Metropolitan police has been contacted for comment.

Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, have been released by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of a river close to where logging companies have concessions.

The reclusive tribe has been sighted coming out of the rainforest more frequently in recent weeks in search of food, apparently moving away from the growing presence of loggers, said the local Indigenous rights group Fenamad.

The Mashco Piro were photographed at the end of June on the banks of a river in the Madre de Dios region in south-east Peru near the border with Brazil, Survival International said as it released the photos.

“These incredible images show that a large number of isolated Mashco Piro live alone a few kilometers from where the loggers are about to start their operations,” said the Survival International director, Caroline Pearce.

More than 50 Mashco Piro people appeared in recent days near a village of the Yine people called Monte Salvado. Another group of 17 appeared by the nearby village of Puerto Nuevo, said the NGO, which defends Indigenous rights.

The Mashco Piro, who inhabit an area located between two natural reserves in Madre de Dios, have seldom appeared as a rule and do not communicate much with the Yine or anyone, according to Survival International.

Several logging companies hold timber concessions inside the territory inhabited by the Mashco Piro.

One company, Canales Tahuamanu, has built more than 200km (120 miles) of roads for its logging trucks to extract timber, according to Survival International.

A Canales Tahuamanu representative in Lima did not respond to a request for comment.

The company is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, according to which it has 53,000 hectares (130,000 acres) of forests in Madre de Dios to extract cedar and mahogany.

The Peruvian government reported on 28 June that local residents had reported seeing Mashco Piro on the Las Piedras river, 150km from the city of Puerto Maldonado, the capital of Madre de Dios.

The Mashco Piro have also been sighted across the border in Brazil, said Rosa Padilha, at the Brazilian Catholic bishops’ Indigenous Missionary Council in the state of Acre.

“They flee from loggers on the Peruvian side,” she said. “At this time of the year they appear on the beaches to take tracajá [Amazon turtle] eggs. That’s when we find their footprints on the sand. They leave behind a lot of turtle shells.”

“They are a people with no peace, restless, because they are always on the run,” Padilha said.

Jack Black has put his rock duo Tenacious D on hold following an onstage comment made by his bandmate Kyle Gass, which seemed to support the assassination of Donald Trump.

Gass was celebrating his birthday during a concert in Sydney on Sunday, with a cake presented to him on stage. Black told Gass to make a wish as he blew out the candles, and Gass responded, to audience laughter, “Don’t miss Trump next time” – a reference to the failed assassination attempt by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at a Trump rally the previous day.

Black continued with the concert following Gass’s comments, but has now put out a statement:

I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form. After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.

Tenacious D had been due to perform four more dates across Australia before travelling to New Zealand.

An Australian senator, Ralph Babet, had called for the band to be removed from the country, saying on Tuesday: “I call on the prime minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the immigration minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately. Anything less than a deportation is an endorsement of the shooting and the attempted assassination of Donald J Trump.”

Gass made his own statement on social media, saying: “The line I improvised Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake. I don’t condone violence in any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened [the shooting] was a tragedy, and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement.”

Tenacious D have spliced together comedy and classic rock for over 30 years, with the creative partnership of Black and Gass dating back even longer, to the mid-1980s when they were both performers in the Actors’ Gang theatre troupe. They began writing music together, gave their debut performance in 1994, and became much-loved by the rock bands they somewhat lampooned, earning support slots with Tool, Foo Fighters and others.

A crossover into TV was short-lived, but as Black’s acting career took off, the band were signed to a major label and released their self-titled debut album in 2001, which gradually became a platinum-selling success in the US (and two times platinum in the UK). Their second album The Pick of Destiny was paired with feature film Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, and the band have released two further studio albums. 2012’s Rize of the Fenix was their biggest chart hit, reaching No 2 in the UK and No 4 in the US.

Prior to their Australian tour, Tenacious D played arenas across the UK earlier this year. The Guardian’s Dave Simpson gave their Manchester concert a four-star review, calling it “a parody of a rock show that’s a great rock show in itself”.