 Hello and welcome to Newsday here on the BBC World Service with James Copnell and Victoria Wong-Hunda. Great to have you with us. Republicans rally around former President Donald Trump with a couple of his former rivals making supportive speeches, singing his praises at the party's convention. We'll be speaking to a Republican strategist about where the party is headed. Tensions continue to simmer in the Middle East with fears the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah could escalate into an all-out war.