�*separatist acts'. the uk has seen its first full day of campaigning for the upcoming general election, and the leaders have hit the ground running. prime minister rishi sunak clocked up the miles in england, wales, and scotland. the opposition leader sir keir starmer headed to labour—target territory in kent. the economy and immigration emerged as the main early battle lines — with mr sunak confirming that flights to rwanda carrying people who arrive on small boats won't take off before polling day. here's our political editor chris mason. cheering placards and cheers, and babies getting attention from politicians.

keir starmer is quite the fan of visiting lower—league football grounds in places he hopes labour can win. he was in gillingham, in kent this morning. his deputy with him, too. thank you. whatever service people try and access these days, they find it's like wading through treacle. red cards aren't usually welcome for folk on a football pitch, but expect to see plenty of these in the next month or so, spelling out labour's core message. we've had 14 years of going round and round in circles, getting absolutely nowhere. chaos and division feeding chaos and division. if you want change, you have to vote for it. and if you vote labour, - it's a vote to- the chaos. it's a vote to turn the page and it's a vote to rebuild our country together. thank you very much, thank you! a general election

is about winning seats and staying in them. rishi sunakjust about managed that in ilkeston, in derbyshire, as he made the case the economy is on the up. inflation down from 11% when i got thisjob, down back to normal, just over 2%. energy bills now falling by hundreds of pounds. wages have been rising by faster than prices for almost ten months now. the conservatives and labour have a very different approach to dealing with people crossing the channel in small boats. labour would scrap the tory plan to send some migrants to rwanda, which rishi sunak claims could make a big difference. how do we stop the boats? well, i'm very clear, it requires bold solutions. that's why we need rwanda. got to make it crystal clear to everybody. if you come to our country illegally, you won't get to stay. but the prime minister told us today he didn't expect anyone to be sent to rwanda

before the election. within hours, mr sunak was at a brewery in barry in south wales, having a go with the kit. there was then an awkward moment when he said this... are you looking forward to all the football? not so much my bag. wales have not qualified for the euros, the football tournament starting next month. england and scotland have. and talking of scotland, rishi sunak completed his three nation dash today by flying to the highlands. and having a catch up with the scottish conservative leader at the port of nigg, north of inverness. meanwhile, in edinburgh today, the new look scottish national party had their general election launch. onjuly 4th, independence day, make sure your voice is heard. i expect over the next six

weeks, we'll see the tories and labour really going at it. they'll be going hammer and tongs to discredit each other. i'll also be going hammer and tongs, but not against anyone. i'll be going hammer and tongs to put scotland first. ready? right, cheering — let's go! cheering and in cheltenham, in gloucestershire, the liberal democrats were sorting out their choreography — some in party colours from head to toe. leader ed davey has a phrase we'll hear a fair bit of. a fair deal where everyone can have a decent home that is secure and clean, and affordable, comfortable retirement when the time comes. a fair deal where every child has a decent school, where they can have the opportunity to realise their potential. the next six weeks will involve a fair bit of ticker tape and assorted electioneering paraphernalia. luckily, there are those keen to pick it up.

chris mason, bbc news. we have breaking news story from spain — where a building in majorca has collapsed, killing several people. firefighters, local police and psychologists are on the scene — a popular tourist area. let's go to our reporter in the london newsroom, simonjones, who is following the story. simon, news continues to come in, what more can you tell us? it's very much a developing story. this happened at 8:30pm spanish time when part of a building on the beach side collapsed. now it was a place called the medusa beach club, and at the time there were lots of tourists eating there. part of tourists eating there. part of the roof came down, showering debris on the people below. we were told by emergency services that four people have died and many more have been injured. the

authorities say that seven people have been very seriously injured, and nine people have been seriously injured— they have been taken to hospital, and searches are continuing in the debris for people who are feared to be trapped. now we know that firefighters who are leading the operation at times have asked people in the area to be quiet so they can see whether there are any voices that can be heard, people shouting out for help as part of that rescue operation. now we know the mayor of the region has travelled to the site, and the spanish prime minister says he's being kept closely informed about what he called this terrible collapse — he says the spanish government is offering all the resources needed to the local authorities to deal with the situation. he's also expressed his condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives — four people confirmed to have died, he also wishes a speedy recovery to those who have been injured. this is a very popular area for tourists, in fact some

14 area for tourists, in fact some 1a million people visit the spanish island each year. this is really the start of the tourist season, it's just starting to get much warmer there, so a lot of tourists will be arriving in the area around this time. but with searches continuing for people feared to still be in that rubble. ,, ., ., ., rubble. simon, thanks for caettin rubble. simon, thanks for getting us _ rubble. simon, thanks for getting us up _ rubble. simon, thanks for getting us up to _ rubble. simon, thanks for getting us up to speed - rubble. simon, thanks for. getting us up to speed with those developers in mallorca. now, the second of our special reports from myanmar. the country is in the grip of a widespread insurgency as resistance groups attempt to overthrow the military, which seized power three years ago. as much as two thirds of myanmar may now be under the control of the resistance. some people have taken up arms against the military, but others — doctors and teachers — are supporting the insurgency with skills of their own. access to the country is difficult — but our correspondent quentin sommerville has managed to get inside and spent a month with the young revolutionaries at theirjungle hideouts and on frontlines. like a beacon in the night,

a jungle base has become a sanctuary. the final stop on a journey to freedom for young burmese who refuse to serve in the army. they were spirited here from cities by an underground railroad of agents and safe houses. to escape a new conscription law that would see them fight against the insurgency. instead, they've joined its ranks. why don't you want to fight for the military government? translation: the military is terrorising people. - they bomb using planes and they burn villages. i will never fight for their side. i will help and fight alongside the revolutionary forces. and they aren't the only ones fleeing. across karenni state, hundreds of camps for the displaced have sprung up. young and old,

they live in fear. it's a hardscrabble existence. heartbreak is a way of life here. some 2.5 million people have been forced to say goodbye to their homes since the military coup. they've left their farms and rice paddies to avoid the hundreds of army air strikes that target opposition—held territory. a relentless air campaign has civilians running for their lives. tens of thousands have been killed since the coup, many of them children. the bombs fall daily. the state capital, loikaw, is now a ruin. go, go. come, come.

we follow cobra and his best buddy sam on patrol. they were national karate champs who have taken up arms. go. move, move. peaceful protests failed, so they've been in a stand—off here with the army since november. end of this street, the burmese army there, so we need to — we have to run. this is the heart of loikaw, downtown. look at the state of it though. there is destruction everywhere. if we just look over here, look at the destruction of the buildings. this is... incendiary drones were dropped here, artillery, air strikes. we know this was the military junta because the rebels don't have that kind of weaponry.

and something else — silence. because there are no civilians here, they've fled because the junta doesn't distinguish between rebel fighters, between resistance fighters and civilians. it has labelled them all as terrorists. in fact, eight kilometres from here, just yesterday, a military air strike killed a family of six, including two children. so, wherever they attack, they turn these places into ghost towns. cobra and sam will defend these front lines whatever the cost. this is a struggle of the young against the old, a new generation battling a military elite and it's myanmar�*s youth

that's sacrificing most. this man isjust 23. he took shrapnel to his femoral artery in an attack on a military base. his comrades comfort him as much as they can. not all revolutionaries carry a gun. dr yuri was in his last year of medical school and abandoned his studies to help in this secret hospital, treating fighters and civilians alike. i just don't want to give away our location for security measures. so this is our operation theatre room. it is underground. they take every precaution here. the reason the operating theatre is underground is because if we are over ground, they can see us and if they see us, they will bomb us, so we have to go underground.

in the light blue is his fiancee, dr tracy. she, too, didn't graduate. now she's performing surgery. we've met some of the wounded here today. they are young men. very young, with their whole lives ahead of them, and they have horrible injuries. how do you both cope with that mentally? we can cry the whole day, it's ok. let it cry, let me cry, it's ok, but we have to stand up again because if we are not here, who will treat those patients? children, too, have been forced to seek shelter from the military�*s warplanes under the jungle canopy. despite the war, songs are still heard and ballads still played by these students at the golden flower

music school. this teacher's violin drowns out the din of war. some of her students are as young as ia. this is their refuge for now. we have met a lot of young people here today, some of them very young, but soon they'll have to go and fight. how does that make you feel? translation: they have to sacrifice their bodies, l their limbs, their lives. and they have to leave their girlfriends and boyfriends behind to go to the front line. that shows their dedicated heart and how strong their beliefs are. i will always respect and honour the comrades. and some might never come back. and this is the toll that myanmar�*s fight for freedom takes on her and the young.

for cobra and sam, it's a price they have to pay now. they're fighting the same battles their parents fought against military rule. and tracy and yori hope it's for the last time. that their revolution means future generations, their children, might live together in a free myanmar. quentin sommerville, bbc news, karenni state, myanmar. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

china has launched two days of military exercises around taiwan, describing the exercises as "strong punishment" for the self—ruled island's "separatist acts". china sees taiwan as

a breakaway province that will eventually be under beijing's control — but the island sees itself as distinct. china's military released these images of the drills. they began just three days after the inauguration of president william lai, who won taiwan's election on a pro—independence platform. taiwan's defence ministry condemned the chinese drills as "irrational provocations", and released these images of mr lai inspecting the troops for the first time as taiwan president. mr lai called on china to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy. brian hart is a fellow with the china power project at the centre for strategic and international studies. he told me whether we can expect to see more of these drills. i think so — that's a good question. i think, first of all, the name of this exercise suggests that there may be more to follow. they call these the joint sword 2024 a exercises. so, the addition of that a at the end there leads one

to believe that there may be a b or c, or d to follow. but by and large, this is really one of the third major exercises we've seen in the past three years. and this is further evidence that there's a new pattern of behaviour from china, that any time that they see actions that they dislike strongly coming from taiwan, they use that as opportunities to to stage these la rge—scale protests. so i do think that everything points to us seeing continued exercises like this in the future. and how do you think taiwan will respond under its new president, william lai? i mean, this is an early test of his leadership. he's not even a full week in office, he was inaugurated on monday. so i think this is partly potentially intended by beijing to probe and see how president lai responds and his administration respond.

so, i think that's part of this. i think by and large, i would expect pretty significant continuity. we've already seen messaging from from taiwan's authorities saying that they're responding to this and they're monitoring the situation, but they're not trying to provoke or escalate the situation. so, yeah, ithink this, again, is something beijing wants to test and see, and that's part of their calculus for why they're doing this now. now, the us is a key ally of taiwan. do you think we might see a response from them, and what sort of response, or how would it look? the united states, even before president lai's inauguration, the biden administration was saying things like anticipating potential for china to engage in this activity — again, because china has done this multiple times now. we kind of have a sense that this is part of their response. this is part of their toolkit of how they respond with their military. and so, i think the administration here in the us was focused on putting the onus on china and saying, "if you escalate with military exercises of this kind" —

this is china being the provocateur here, and i think making that clear from day one. i think how the united states will respond long—term, ithink, again, is more long—term issue. and i think also, there's a desire by the united states to not escalate the situation further and not to give china the crisis that they want to provoke, because china has a history of using these crises to advance its interests and set a new normal in the taiwan strait. so i think washington will be trying to keep the situation from escalating and trying not to give china the big publicity that they want to win here. election campaigning is also under way in mexico, as the country prepares to vote on the 2nd ofjune — but tragedy has struck at a campaign event in the northern nuevo leon state. this is the moment the stage collapsed during high winds. nine people are dead — including a child — and dozens more injured. the presidential candidate jorge maynez managed to escape as the structure came down. mexico's president, andres manuel lopez obrador, has called

for an investigation. the state government released this drone video of the aftermath of the scene, and has committed to paying for all funeral and medical expenses. doctors in bangkok have provided updated information on those injured on singapore arlines flight 321, which was struck by severe turbulence on tuesday. here's a little of what was said. translation: of the 41 | patients, we found that 22 sustained spinal and spinal cord injuries, six sustained skull and brain injuries, and 13 have injuries to their bones, muscles, and other organs. some of the patients may have more than one injury — but we count the more severe injury as base. president macron says he will delay contentious voting reform plans for the french pacific territory of new caledonia that have led to several days of deadly unrest. speaking at news conference on the main island, the french leader promised more dialogue.

translation: i've pledged that this reform will not be | forced through in the current context, and that we will allow some weeks to allow a calming of tensions and resumption of dialogue to find a broad consensus. sub—postmasters in england, wales, and northern ireland caught up in the horizon it scandal will have their convictions quashed on friday. the public inquiry into the scandal heard on thursday that the post office dropped a wide—ranging review into their convictions overfears it would make "front page news". our business correspondent emma simpson was watching. paula, are you really- telling the truth, paula? it's day two, and paula vennells is facing detailed questions about a key moment in the scandal — when the independent investigation by second sight is under way. i was not trying to close anything down. it's really important that i say that. it's 2013, and second sight were about to issue their interim report on the horizon

it problems hitting branch accounts, and the post office is debating how to respond. the inquiry saw this e—mailfrom the head of post office communications. then, in paula's reply e—mail... you did take the advice of the pr guy, didn't you? i really don't remember it relating to the decision... groaning hang on, please. thank you. if this review had actually taken place, would it have avoided a lost decade for miscarriages of justice to be discovered? it may well have done. this is susan crichton — she was post office top lawyer

then, but she was sent out from the board meeting that soon followed. she had been due to present a paper about past prosecutions. what would you say to the suggestion that this is the executive team shielding the board from the executive team's dirty laundry? i'd say it was completely wrong. and then questions about the mediation scheme to help the victims and what it was going to cost. why did you write an e—mail which says, "when we discuss this, the hope of mediation was to avoid or minimise compensation"? because that was what we discussed. right, good — that was easy, wasn't it? sorry, but not as the purpose of doing it, but one of the aspects. the hope, the hope? possibly, yes. she'll face the postmasters�* lawyers tomorrow. emma simpson, bbc news, at the post office inquiry. finally — a man renovating his wine cellar in austria has made an extraordinary discovery. it wasn't a vintage red

or white — but the remains of prehistoric mammoths. the winemaker came across several huge bones, buried deep in his cellar in a village west of vienna. that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello there. conditions look a lot better for the next couple of days. we should see more sunshine around, lighterwinds, so it should feel a bit warmer as well. friday, it's an improving picture — we should see sunshine breaking through across many areas. and for most areas, it should be dry, just a few showers across northern areas. now, areas of low pressure is continuing to weaken, and the rain is fizzling out, so there'll be barely anything on this weather fronts across scotland, northern england, as we move through friday morning. should see plenty of sunshine developing across southern areas, and some holes appearing in that cloud further north. just the odd shower dotted around, but many places will stay dry. temperatures responding, as well — lighter winds, more sunshine, i9 celsius, maybe 20 celsius, in the south, high teens further north.

as we head through friday night, it looks like skies will clear pretty widely, so it will turn chillier. just the odd shower across scotland, a bit more cloud here — so i think double figure—values in much of scotland and northern ireland, single figures for large parts of england and wales. so into the bank holiday weekend, it's starting off fine and settled on saturday for most areas, and then, we'll start to see sunshine and showers through sunday and bank holiday monday. we've got this weather front encroaching in slowly during the weekend — but ahead of it, plenty of sunshine around. will be a chilly start, a little bit of mist and fog around. this feature moving in from the continent could bring some cloud and rains east anglia, eastern england, and then, later in the day, this weather front moves its way into southwest england. but plenty of sunshine across the country, just the chance of a shower. a much warmer 2o celsius for many areas, up to 22 in the southeast. now, as we head into sunday, this weather front starts to cross the country, destabilising the atmosphere. it'll be one of sunshine and showers, i think — and through the afternoon, some of these showers

could turn out to be heavy and thundery, some local torrential downpours in places. temperature—wise, because a bit more cloud around and some showers, i think we're looking at highs of 18—19 celsius. and then, through bank holiday monday, again, sunshine and showers — probably the heaviest of the showers on monday will be across the northern half of the country, a bit more of a breeze as well coming in from the west. so, temperatures 16—17 celsius i think for many places. and then, for the upcoming week, i think it stays fairly unsettled — low pressure always close by, showers or longer spells of rain. however, there will still be some decent spells of sunshine at times. take care.

the usjustice department is suing live nation, alleging the ticketmaster parent is suffocating competition. formula e, the fi of electric cars, returns to china this weekend. we speak to the ceo just ahead. as unrest continues in new caledonia, hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. to our top story today — entertainment company live nation's stock slipped nearly 8% on wall street after the us department ofjustice sued the parent company of ticketmaster, calling it a monopoly and accusing it of

violating antitrust laws. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has all the details. 14 1a years ago, us government approved the merger with ticketmaster. since then, live a nation has grown into a powerhouse, but a hound now the government is calling it a monopoly to squash competition. in a press conference thursday, merrick garland pointed to the absorbent fees and failures that have angered concertgoers and artists and call the company's conduct illegal, compa ny�*s conduct illegal, saying company's conduct illegal, saying it was time to break it up. saying it was time to break it u -. saying it was time to break it u . _ . ., , ., saying it was time to break it up. our complaint makes it clear what _ up. our complaint makes it clear what happens - up. our complaint makes it clear what happens when . up. our complaint makes it clear what happens when a | clear what happens when a monopolist entrenches its power and insulates itself from competition, ratherfrom and insulates itself from competition, rather from an investing _ competition, rather from an investing in better products and — investing in better products and services. we allege live nation — and services. we allege live

nation has illegally monopolised markets across the life contrast industry