pressure mounts on israel's prime minster to agree to a peace deal in gaza. as ai—generated deepfake technology explodes, so does the impact it's having on victims. we speak to one advocate lobbying us lawmakers to take action on deepfake pornography. hello, i'm helena humphrey. glad you could join me. people across mexico have voted in an election which is almost certain to result in the country's first female president. exit polls predict claudia sheinbaum will be the president. ms sheinbaum, who is a former mayor of mexico city, has the backing of the outgoing president andres manuel lopez obrador. the winner will begin a six—year term from 1st october, and face challenges that include tackling organised crime and violence. two people were killed on sunday, in separate attacks at voting centres in the central state of puebla, forcing the suspension of voting. 38 candidates running for various positions have been killed

during the campaign, making mexico's election one of the most violent in recent history. we can look at some live pictures in mexico city, the main central plaza in the mexican capital. there you can see supporters gathering, supporters of claudia sheinbaum, as we wait for her to take the stage. will grant, what's the latest you can tell us. �* , ., ., what's the latest you can tell us. �*, ., ., us. it's one of those situations _ us. it's one of those situations where - us. it's one of those situations where it | us. it's one of those | situations where it is us. it's one of those i situations where it is a us. it's one of those - situations where it is a little too early to say anything definitive. getting indications from both parties of victory, kind of normal at this time of the evening after a vote. i suspect we will know something more definitive in the coming hours, probably sooner rather than later. in the main plaza in mexico city, claudia

sheinbaum's supporters are convinced this is a victory. for the person who does become president, what will be the biggest challenges they will have to get to grips with? given the state of the violence in the campaign itself, it's an obvious point, isn't it? just how bad the cartel led violence has become, notjust against candidates and people involved in the election, the intimidation, but also the common criminality of these cartels, and how much it is embedded into the society, the economy. it's a huge task for whoever wins. economy. it's a huge task for whoeverwins. in economy. it's a huge task for whoever wins. in mexico, we know femicide, violence against women, is an issue.— know femicide, violence against women, is an issue. what do you think a female _ women, is an issue. what do you think a female president - women, is an issue. what do you think a female president would . think a female president would mean for the country, the ability to tackle that in a meaningful way? ability to tackle that in a meaningfulway? i ability to tackle that in a

meaningful way?- ability to tackle that in a meaningful way? ability to tackle that in a meaninuful wa ? ~ ., ., meaningful way? i think one of the benefits _ meaningful way? i think one of the benefits of _ meaningful way? i think one of the benefits of the _ meaningful way? i think one of the benefits of the fact - meaningful way? i think one of the benefits of the fact that. the benefits of the fact that there has been two women in this campaign has been the fact that that particular issue has come to the fore. many media outlets around the world focusing on it and underlining just how severe the problem is. something like 11 women and girls each day are killed in this country, a horrifying statistic. in terms of what both sides say they would do about it, it's been a bit light on detail to be honest. we know the whole crux of claudia sheinbaum's argument is continuity from president lopez obrador. galvez says she is the change that is required. we will see which of those two offers the electorate agrees with. ~ ~ . ., offers the electorate agrees with. ~ ~ , with. will, in mexico city, thank you _ with. will, in mexico city, thank you so _ with. will, in mexico city, thank you so much. - the us says it has "every expectation" that israel will accept a ceasefire proposal that would begin with a six—week cessation of hostilities in gaza, if hamas also takes the deal. but some members of israel's government are vocally opposed

to the proposals. two far—right ministers in israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's governing coalition have threatened to quit if a deal is struck before hamas is destroyed. white house national security communications advisor john kirby said on sunday that the us hopes both israel and hamas will agree to start the first phase of the plan "as soon as possible". it is an israeli proposal, we expect if hamas agrees to it, as transmitted to them, israel would say yes. it is the start of phase one, some hostages coming out, you get some more humanitarian assistance, maybe up to 600 trucks, and then the two sides can start talking about phase two. our international editor jeremy bowen says mr netanyahu is caught between a rock and and a hard place. one of the parts of that rock isjoe biden who has clearly decided it is time for a ceasefire, it

is hurting him electorally back home, facing an election this year. he said in his speech, look, hamas can't do another october 7th, it is now time to end it. he made a point of saying this is an israeli deal, but those two gentlemen, messrs smotrich and ben—gvir, have come out and said they will not support this and they will withdraw support from the government if it goes ahead, and that means there will be an election which netanyahu is likely to lose. and that's a difficult thing for him. why is this going on? partly because of netanyahu's governing style. he tends to juggle things. he tends to play off friends, enemies, allies against each other. he doesn't like to make hard decisions. but now he's being forced to make this decision becausejoe biden is saying this is an israeli offer, and if hamas accepts it, it's got to go ahead.

he's quite good, netanyahu, at resisting pressure from the hostage families. big demonstrations over the weekend in israel, saying that they want a deal now. but he has not been good at resisting pressure from those right wingers, the extreme nationalists who support his government, who have said, if you agree to this kind of thing, you will be out. and that's something he does not want. volodymyr zelensky says ukraine will open an embassy in manila. zelensky accused china of prolonging the war in his country by supporting russia. speaking at the shangri—la security gathering in singapore, mrzelensky said beijing is refusing to take part in a planned summit in switzerland later this month, and is trying to stop others from attending.

we are disappointed that some world leaders have not yet confirmed their participation in the peace summit. unfortunately, there are also attempts to disrupt the summit. we do not want to believe that this is a desire for monopolistic power in the world to deny the global community the opportunity to decide on war and peace, and to leave this power in the hands of one or two. china denies taking sides in the war in ukraine, and says the lack of an invitation for russia to join the swiss summit undermines its usefulness. still, president zelensky claims at least 106 countries have already signed up to attend. the us and nato allies are helping ukraine fight back, while seeking to avoid the conflict escalating. the upcoming conference in switzerland comes as the situation on the frontlines remains dire in kharkiv. last week, the us gave ukraine the green light to strike targets within russia's borders using american weapons. meeting on the sidelines in singapore, president zelensky thanked us secretary of defense lloyd austin, who reaffirmed the commitment

to help ukraine win in its war against russia. we can go to the editor in chief of foreign policy. it was a surprise appearance by volodymyr zelensky. a surprise appearance by volodymyrzelensky. he a surprise appearance by volodymyr zelensky. he took aim at china, saying beijing was working to stop country is coming to the peace summit in switzerland. he also accused it of supporting russia and prolonging the war through supplying components used in weaponry. it's fair to say we have heard that latter point made before. do you think there is anything president zelensky can say that will change where china positions itself in this war? ., , , ., china positions itself in this war? ,,,_ ., �* war? probably not. but in the immediate — war? probably not. but in the immediate term _ war? probably not. but in the immediate term at _ war? probably not. but in the immediate term at least, - war? probably not. but in the immediate term at least, the | immediate term at least, the peace summit being hosted by switzerland, there are reports that china and russia has been pressuring other countries in asia to not attend. you

mentioned 106 countries have so far signed up mentioned 106 countries have so farsigned up to mentioned 106 countries have so far signed up to attend this particular summit, which ukraine thinks is necessary for it to push its case to try and increase and further nuclear talks to ensure it gets back some of the ukrainian children being held in russia. among other priorities that it has. ukraine says russia and china are both pressuring several asian countries to not attend this summit, which is a very important summit for ukraine in the lead up to the nato summit in washington injuly. and then other important meetings coming up other important meetings coming up later this year. for ukraine especially, this has been an important thing to try to shore up important thing to try to shore up support across asia. this is only zelensky�*s second visit to asia since the start of the invasion. this too was a surprise visit, like the last one. what he is trying to do is to shore up support, but also a

lot of sideline meetings at shangri—la, notably with defence secretary austin from the united states, where the two of them reportedly discussed the use of american weaponry to try and attack russian targets within russia that are disproportionately hurting ukrainian installations in kharkiv and other places. i want to touch on that point. as you mention, the us, washington, granting ukraine permission to strike within russia using its weaponry. we know since the beginning of this full—scale invasion, a talking point from the kremlin, repeated, is western countries would incur retaliation if they allowed that. what do you make of that? do you see that as propaganda or a real possibility that we may have to confront here? it possibility that we may have to confront here?— confront here? it could be a bit of both, _ confront here? it could be a bit of both, really. - confront here? it could be a bit of both, really. we - confront here? it could be a| bit of both, really. we won't ever know... historians will look back at this particular

moment. one thing has been through from the start, the us and western countries have been cautious in trying to help ukraine. and with each passing month, the more confirmation they have that a little bit of help does not mean russia is retaliating against them or escalating significantly... and of course it begs the question, how much more can they escalate except nuclear weapons? is america especially has found it can do a little bit more each time. so last year, this time, the united states didn't want to send ukraine patriot missiles or attack guns. now it is. at the start of the war, it made clear that its weaponry would never be used to attack targets within russia. now that is another bridge being crossed. so i think the us is trying to calibrate in a very dynamic way what they can do and how much they can push the envelope, to see how much is

enough, not only to help ukraine, but levels at which russia wouldn't escalate, especially to the nuclear point. especially to the nuclear oint. . ~ especially to the nuclear oint. ., ~' ., especially to the nuclear oint. ., ~ ., ., , point. talking about weaponry, continued calls _ point. talking about weaponry, continued calls from _ point. talking about weaponry, continued calls from ukraine i continued calls from ukraine with regard to the need for more and more weaponry. but if we take a look at russia, it is still managing to make a lot of weapons, drones for example increasingly being used in this war, despite the fact there were a raft of western sanctions aimed at essentially shuttering that war economy. do you think western sanctions on russia have fallen short? tiny;i russia have fallen short? they have. russia have fallen short? they have- quite — russia have fallen short? they have. quite simply _ russia have fallen short? tie: have. quite simply because russia have fallen short? ttez1 have. quite simply because they are mostly western sanctions, they don't include many countries in asia. and notably china, which is providing the vast majority of the military tools that go into creating things that russia is using in its war economy. semiconductors, for example. all the things russia needs, it

is getting from china. it has been able to sell a lot of oil from —— to china and india. but while europe has stopped buying russian oil, it must be noted that if china and india were not buying russian oil, global prices would go up quite a bit. that would come back to bite the us, which does not want oil prices to go up too high, which would have domestic repercussions among voters in an election year especially. the sanctions are targeted. they are hurting russia, but not enough to stop it from prosecuting this war. it must be noted as well, russia has transformed its economy into a wartime economy, able to sustain heavy losses and continue this war. thanks a lot. around _ continue this war. thanks a lot. around the _ continue this war. thanks a lot. around the world - continue this war. thanks a lot. around the world and l lot. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. another story making headlines now.

tributes are pouring in for the former great britain rugby league international rob burrow, who has died aged a1. he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, two years after he retired from playing for the leeds rhinos, the club where he'd spent his entire career. the prince of wales described him as a "legend of rugby league" who had a "huge heart". here are the two speaking with former teammate kevin sinfield. who scored the most tries out of you two? j him, by a long way! by a long way! i think he knows that as well! is he laughing? yeah, he is! hopefully, through the campaign we have done, we have helped to make people aware of mnd and give people and families affected by the disease some hope. we have to keep raising funds to fight this disease until we get a cure. in a glittering career on the pitch, he won eight super league titles with leeds rhinos, after his diagnosis, he dedicated himself to raising awareness about the disease. he leaves behind his wife lindsey and three children.

south africa's ruling african national congress has lost its majority in parliament for the first time in 30 years according to final results from the country's general election. south africa's president, cyril ramaphosa, acknowledged that the people had spoken as the anc suffered its worst election result since the end of apartheid in 1994. mr ramaphosa says voters want the parties to find a common ground. support for the anc dropped as voters expressed concerns overjob security, rampant inequality, and power blackouts. south africa's political parties now have two weeks to work out a coalition deal, and then the parliament will choose a new president. our africa correspondent barbara plett usher has more. this is a country at a crossroads. the historic inequalities of apartheid have not been erased and the people have had enough. last week, they went to the polls and voted for change, delivering a dramatic drop in support to the african national congress. today, the president

spoke for the first time. people have given effect to the clarion call that has resonated across generations, that the people shall govern. our people have spoken. whether we like it or not, they have spoken. the anc�*s disastrous showing has thrown competition wide open for a coalition government to replace its controlling majority. the pro—business democratic alliance came second, with an agenda of free—market reforms, but it struggles to shake the image of a party for the white minority. the former president, jacob zuma, disgraced by allegations of rampant corruption, has made an extraordinary comeback, heading the newly formed mk party. the radical economic freedom fighters want to nationalise banks and seize white—owned land. so those are the options, and we have now had the official announcement of the election

result, confirming what we already knew. that means the anc has two weeks to form a coalition with parties which have very different visions of the country. faced with that uncertain future are these young people injohannesburg, the generation for whom most is at stake. nearly 50% are unemployed. if we get somebody young, fresh, young blood, yeah, we're going to... i'm very much optimistic. it's going to be a beautiful country. i hope the ruling party is shaken as we want them to be. we just need the basics, like, just take care of the people. and to stay on their promises and keep their word, you know. we know they want to tell the money, let them tell the money, but let them at least do what they promised to do and then maybe tell the change. the votes may have been counted but nobody knows where they will lead. barbara plett usher, bbc news, johannesburg.

artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly easy to access and use, but now a growing number of people are having their lives devastated as their likeness is used in ai—generated sexual imagery shared online, more commonly known as deepfa ke pornography. the vast majority is made, published and shared without the consent of those it purports to show. women, girls, and those in the lgbtq+ community are disproportionately targeted. here in washington, congress continues to weigh legislation on how to best tackle it. the most recent is the disrupt explicit forged images and non—consensual edits act of 2024, also known as the defiance act. introduced in the house by new york representative alexandria ocasio—cortez, the bill would allow victims to take civil action against perpetrators. but while the bill has bipartisan support, lawmakers have struggled to agree on who should be held accountable. democratic representative ocasio—cortez, who shared that she had also been the target of deepfake pornography, spoke about what is fast becoming an emergency.

since the public release of ai tools, out of all the images and video that a! has generated, over 90—95% of it has been nonconsensual deepfake pornography. and over 90% of that targets women. i want you to think about how crazy that is. over 90% of all the images and video being developed by ai right now is sexually exploitative, nonconsensual and targeting women. i spoke to omny miranda martone, founder and ceo of the sexual violence prevention association which has urged lawmakers to pass a bill to penalise those who make and share deepfake pornography. i know that people have been reaching out to you if they have been the victim of deepfake pornography. how have those numbers of complaints growing? yes, we have seen nonconsensual deepfake pornography skyrocketing in

the last two years. before, they were usually of celebrities and public officials, people in the public eye. i'm not saying that's ok, it's absolutely not ok, but it was not very common, because to create it, people needed a high—powered computer, notjust a laptop or smartphone. they needed good technical ability, to understand coding and ai, make the algorithm, and they needed hundreds of photos usually, at least 100, of their victim's face. that was going to be easiest with a public official. now anybody can make it on a smartphone or laptop, it is on apps and people can do it in seconds. they only need about one or two photos of the victim's face, which they pull from linkedin. that is very scary. talk to us about the impact, the consequences and the emotional impact that comes

with this as well. absolutely, there is immense emotional impact, it is a form of sexual violence, traumatising, a very big mental and emotional element. it's a violation of consent, autonomy and pride of these. considering how much of our lives is online, it's very scary. in addition, there are other consequences, victims of nonconsensual deepfake pornography experience much higher rates of stalking online and offline. higher domestic and sexual violence. and a lot of loss of employment as a result, as well as consequences of a damaged reputation. consequences across the board in addition to the trauma there. you just laid out all of the consequences. in terms of recourse, justice for those people on the other side who have been targeted, right now options are few and far between as i understand it. you have been working and speaking to lawmakers to get the defiance act passed.

tell us how it would work. the goal with the defiance act, which is a bipartisan bill. it would create a civil right of action for victims to seek justice. it covers the creation, distribution and receipt of deepfa ke pornography. the creation, distribution and solicitation. what would that mean exactly? does it mean opening the way to sue, litigation? yes, it would open the door for civil liability, a civil lawsuit for victims. right now, that is often not available to them, it's not adequately covered under defamation or tort law. our advocacy for this started because we had a victim come to ask who had gone to a lawyer and was told, verbatim, this was legal, there's nothing you can do. that was a year and a half ago, almost two years ago.

that inspired us to start taking action on this issue. eventually we had an open letter, we sent it to congress members, and we had a meeting with them, and it was lindsey graham's team and aoc�*s team... those teams were like, ok, we will work with you and make sure it is something we can make a priority. there is a conversation in terms of people who make it and share it, but also the platforms that host it. do you think they should be more accountability when it comes to tech companies and websites? accountability is good for when these things happen, but we should also involve them in the conversation for prevention. ourfocus, prevention needs to be multipronged. there is something to be said for what a! platforms need to be doing and social media platforms, search engines, the places these things are being posted. we often talk about creation

and distribution and solicitation, which is really important to cover. the creation is a great place to start, the ai platforms, work on how to prevent it before it even happens. but then sharing them, we saw this with pretty much every high—profile case, the reason it becomes high—profile and has such an immense impact is because it was shared so widely. that is happening on social media platform, google and other search engines. we need to include these companies and media sites in the conversation. and lastly when it comes to your bill, how confident are you that it will pass and be put into law swiftly to provide that accountability for people who have been targeted? we're pretty confident. we are very balanced, it's a bipartisan bill. sometimes people say a bill

is balanced, and have like 10 people and one from the other party, but we are fully balanced, and from the very beginning it was written with both parties involved. it was super important, it has been experienced by people on all sides, all walks of life. so many people in the us, it has to be bipartisan because that is a reality. congress members on both sides have been victims. of course it's a bipartisan issue. because of that, and because we were really careful and precise about making sure free speech rights were top of mind, we feel confident this can pass and it will pass. thanks for your company, more at the top of the hour. hello there. we saw some pretty decent weather over the weekend. saturday, scotland, northern ireland saw the warmth and the sunshine. it was england and wales on sunday which saw temperatures reach 2a celsius in a few locations. this upcoming week, though, will be rather disappointing for many. it'll turn a lot cooler for earlyjune — sunshine

and showers, and nights will become chilly. gardeners and growers, do beware, could see a touch of frost at night from tuesday onwards. now, this area of high pressure, which brought the fine weather at the weekend, just retreating back out towards the atlantic, allowing some weather fronts to start to work their way down from the north. one such weather front will bring quite a bit of cloud across the country through the day — holes appearing in it, some sunny spells here and there, spots of rain over some western hills. best of the sunshine across northern scotland, but there'll be maybe a few showers across the north. quite blustery here, and turning cool already — but top temperatures, 19—20 celsius in the warmest spots elsewhere. as we move through monday night, we see the cloud coming and going, there will be some clearer spells. a few spots of rain just pushing into the northwest of the country — that's a sign of things to come. and most places will be fairly mild. but it's all change tuesday onwards, these cold fronts will bring outbreaks of heavy rain, some heavy showers — and behind it, that colder arctic air spills its way southwards across the whole country through tuesday and wednesday, and hangs around

for the rest of the week. so we could see some heavy, maybe thundery showers across the northern half of the uk. some wintriness over the high ground, some hail mixed in, a few showers getting into england and wales, and it'll also be quite blustery. there will be sunshine in between, but it's a much cooler air mass — the low—to—mid—teens in the north, could just make 19—20 celsius in the warmest spots across the southeast. a bit cooler still for all areas on wednesday. further showers across the northern half of the country, the odd one just getting into the midlands and perhaps eastern england. but tending to stay dry here — top temperatures 17—18 celsius. 10—14 celsius across the north of the country with these heavy showers, which will be blustery at times. little change as we head into thursday and friday. that area of low pressure sits to the north of the uk, feeding in this cool northwesterly breeze with plenty of showers, mainly to the northern half of the country. and that's how it looks to end the week, and indeed, into next weekend, where it will remain quite cool. further showers here, best of any dry and bright weather will be towards the south.

but pretty disappointing temperatures for the time of year.

hello and welcome to unspun world. thank you forjoining us. britain heads into a snap election. will its position in the world change? international politics is becoming far more fluid, and in that context, the uk potentially has advantages to gain because of its unique relationship set around the world. iran will soon hold an election too, but is there any possibility its rulers can win back popular support? the majority of the people have been disillusioned with this regime. they have taken to the streets time and again asking for regime change. and we look at the new shape of the middle east with security correspondent frank gardner.

there have been discussions about how to share the middle east, essentially.