welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's ben bland. our top stories: after north korea hails a missile test, the us, japan and south korea call for an urgent meeting of the security council. tens of thousands take to the streets in mexico against donald trump's policies on immigration and building a border wall. the worst conditions they've ever seen. australian firefighters battle blazes in record high temperatures. and he won just one grammy award in his lifetime. but a year after his death, david bowie wins five for his last album. the united states, japan and south korea have requested an urgent meeting of the un security council to discuss north korea's latest missile test.

it's expected to meet later on monday. pyongyang has hailed sunday's launch of a medium range ballistic missile a success. but japan's prime minister shinzo abe said it was intolerable, while president trump said the us would back japan 100%. this report from our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes contains some flash photography. this is the launch of a musudan ballistic missile, the same type that was fired from north korea into the sea of japan early this morning. today's launch was almost certainly timed so that north korea's dictator, kim jong—un, could crash a weekend party taking place on the other side of the world. president donald trump and japan's prime minister, shinzo abe, have been spending the weekend golfing in florida. mr abe was not amused by the north korean intrusion. translation: north korea's most recent missile launch

is absolutely intolerable. north korea must fully comply with the relevant united nations security council resolutions. in his response, president trump seemed less certain, even neglecting to condemn the north korean launch. thank you very much, mr prime minister. i just want everybody to understand and fully know that the united states of america stands behind japan, its great ally, 100%. thank you. kim jong—un recently promised to test a much more powerful intercontinental missile. president trump has vowed that will not happen, but it is not clear how he intends to stop it. north korea already has short—range missiles capable of hitting south korea, and medium—range missiles capable of hitting japan. the musudan is an intermediate—range missile, which may be able to hit us bases in guam.

the ultimate goal is a so—called icbm, able to hit parts of the united states and australia. for more than 20 years, the outside world has been trying to stop north korea, with tighter and tighter sanctions. but it has been a complete failure. the border with china remains open, and trade is flourishing. the us and its allies will now move to tighten sanctions further, and accelerate the deployment of new anti—missile systems in south korea and japan. but no—one seems to have any idea how to stop north korea from becoming a fully—fledged nuclear—missile—armed state. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. anthony ruggiero, who is a senior fellow at the foundation for defence of democracies,

and a specialist on north korea security. i asked him what's likely to come out of the security council meeting. well, it depends on what the purpose of having the meeting is. obviously they'll condemn the launch that took place sunday morning pyongyang climb. the question is are they ready to get tougher with not only north korea but countries around it. the critical question i would have is are they ready to get tough? i know china is a member of the security council but it's clear china is already violated last yea r‘s coal china is already violated last year's coal restriction that was in the resolution. so china is the one that's covering for north korea, it's allowing north korea to acquire materials for this programmes and are we going to get tougher either through the un or is the us going to get tougher with china? on that

point, given what you've just outlined, are there any indications on what sort of policy president trump may pursue when it comes to relations with north korea and how to deal with it? relations with north korea and how to dealwith it? i know relations with north korea and how to deal with it? i know there's been some press reports that there is a policy review that is ongoing, which i think is good news, because we need to determine what kind of policy we want to have, not a policy that we've really have for the last ten years. i think we need to work with our allies and accelerate like in south korea the development of the missile ballistic defences. i know we need to get tougher with china, increased sanctions on north korea, increased implementation of those sanctions and we need to be winning to get tough with north korea and tell them directly what the consequences of their action will be. some breaking news now, and officials have ordered people living down stream of one of the united states‘ biggest dams to leave the area immediately. there are fears that heavy rain

in northern california is causing serious problems for the oroville dam's emergency spillway. the california department of water resources said on twitter at around 4:30am local time that the spillway was predicted to fail within the next hour. in the last few minutes officials have been quoted as saying the erosion isn't advancing as fast as thought. the dam is just upstream and to the east of oroville, a city of more than 16,000 people. we can speak to someone living nearby. kaler, tell us what you're aware of going on, what have you seen and what have you heard? the orville spillway is actually scheduled to overflow, so they've

implemented an immediate evacuation of orville and surrounding towns. they're sending people up here to chico up north, they're sending people east and west away from the area. they're setting up shelters here in some churches and a couple of high schools and in the nearby town of paradise. as far as you're aware, people heeding the advice and fleeing the areas they've been warned to leave? they are. they have said that orville has turned into a ghost town although some people are stuck and can't get out so they sent in more ambulances from surrounding companies to help those people in need. the places, the shelters in chico are filling up rapidly. is this a problem that affected the area before or is this the first time it's happened? this is the first time it's happened, there was someone on another first time it's happened, there was someone on another local news station who has been there for 75

yea rs station who has been there for 75 years and he said in all his time living there nothing like this has occurred. give us a sense of what 0 roville occurred. give us a sense of what oroville is like. is it a busy thriving town or is it a sleepy, quiet village? it's a lot of farmland. there's lots of livestock. some of the shelters are allowing people to bring their livestock with them if they've prepared for that. it's a lot of crops and growing and also it's a suburban area. it's a nice town and i'm hoping that everything goes bouquet. in terms of the emergency services, what are you seeing of their handling of the situation? -- everything goes bouquet. they are doing the best they can to send in extra units to get people out of their mac with other cars with people who are stuck their mac and some cars that aren't

working for the residents. there. they are getting all hands on deck and getting everybody out of there if they can ——. and getting everybody out of there if they can --. i don't know if you can answer this, kayla, if they can --. i don't know if you can answerthis, kayla, but if they can --. i don't know if you can answer this, kayla, but how new is the dam, how long has it been in place? the dam has been there for as long as i can remember. i'm going to say probably somewhere between at least 75 or 80 years, probably more than that. but it's never given cause for concern in this way before? not at all. are you in touch with anyone who has been affected by this, have you spoken to anyone living close to the area? this, have you spoken to anyone living close to the area ?|j this, have you spoken to anyone living close to the area? i have not, not yet. kayla fitzgerald, editor of the cure orion, thanks for speaking to us on bbc news. we can speaking to us on bbc news. we can speak to doug karlsson from the california department of water

resources “— california department of water resources —— the cure ryan. why has this problem come about? is it that the dam hasn't been properly maintained? -- the orion. we don't believe that is the case at all, several things are conspiring against us this winter. we've had more than twice the amount of average rainfall. that has affected 0 roville average rainfall. that has affected oroville very fast. we've been draining the lake from behind the dam and the dam by the way is the tallest da m dam and the dam by the way is the tallest dam in the united states. its 700 feet tall. it is 901 feet above sea level at its very top where the emergency spillway is being used. since tuesday night we have been aware of and dealing with a broken main spillway which is

capable when it's working properly to run about 150,000 cubic feet per second down at. but because of a gaping hole 300 feet long, 180 feet wide, perhaps 35 feet deep that was discovered there, water going down has had a serious degradation on the bottom of the spillway. tonight's urgency stems from the fact and emergency spillway, which has been never been used in 50 years emergency spillway, which has been nevg’? was sed in 50 years emergency spillway, which has been nevg’? was sed i in 0 years emergency spillway, which has been nevg’? was sed i in 1968, s emergency spillway, which has been nevg’? was sed i in 1968, it has the dam was built in 1968, it has been spilling water when the lake the dam was built in 1968, it has been spill two vater when the lake the dam was built in 1968, it has been spill two and when the lake the dam was built in 1968, it has been spill two and when —— ake the dam was built in 1968, it has been spill two and when —— rose elevation above sea level. —— rose to. things were going to plan i guess you could say. that has suddenly taken a turn for the worse when erosion below this never before used emergency is about 1700 feet

long, apparently the erosion started to threaten the integrity of that emergency pier. on that point, doug, the ap news agency has quoted a local official saying the erosion on that spillway is not advancing as fast as they initially thought. has that affected the advice you're giving to residents? the advice to the residents to evacuate is coming from primarily local safety officials, the sheriff of butte cou nty officials, the sheriff of butte county and his entourage. the latest information you have is also the latest i've had. there's a contingency plan put into action right now to use helicopters to drop rocks into the area of the spillway that appears to have been eroding unexpectedly. if this contingency

plan works and the helicoptered in rocks stop the flow and protect the land below the flow, then we may in fa ct land below the flow, then we may in fact escape this significant potential danger to public safety and that's certainly the hope as we go into the nighttime hours here on the west coast. it's going on 8pm. you, around 4am your time. doug, very briefly, you mention the heavy rainfall. has that stopped? very briefly, you mention the heavy rainfall. has that stopped7m actually stopped on friday and it was blue skies saturday and sunday. the concern is we have another storm arriving late this week, around thursday. the good news, if there is any at this time about precipitation falling in that area, is it's likely to fall as snow. it's a cold storm that we had last week that pushed up the level of the lake. doug, hopefully the respite in the rain will help to bring things under control. thanks very much, doug

karlsson, speaking to ask there from the area. tens of thousands of mexicans have been on the streets demonstrating to express their anger at president trump's immigration policies and his demand that they pay for a wall along the us border. protesters also criticised their own president, enrique pena nieto, after he invited mr trump to mexico during the presidential campaign. greg dawson reports. this was both a demonstration of a nation's pride and its anger at what they see as their neighbour's prejudice. the streets of mexico's capital were filled with around 20,000 protesters, and various unflattering depictions of the us president. this man shouts, "trump, we are not going to pay," a reference to the president's policy that has caused so much offence. who's gonna pay for the wall? a promise he repeatedly made... we will build the wall, 100%, and mexico will pay for that wall. ..and is determined to fulfil.

as well as demonstrating their opposition to a wall, marchers voiced their anger at donald trump's plan to deport millions of undocumented mexican migrants. translation: i say that he is insane. mexicans have heard all that he has done, and we are against the wall, and deportations, and against all he is doing to mexicans over there, like they are enemies. 55-1 119155111115152 5. 51 enrique pena nieto may have cancelled a planned trip to the white house in a stand—off over that wall, but many mexicans accuse him of being too weak, and doing little to address the corruption in their country. similar rallies were held in at least 21 other cities across mexico. organisers were keen to stress this wasn't a protest aimed at all americans, but a demand for respect from the man they elected. greg dawson, bbc news.

stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the seven—time grammy award—wining s aljarreau has died. we look back over his long career. and back there's mr mandela. mr nelson mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah khomeini, has said he has passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks shergar was driven away in a horse box the thieves brought with them. there stepped down from the plane

a figure in mourning, elizabeth ii, queen of this realm and of all her other realms and territories, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. this is bbc news. i'm ben bland. the latest headlines: the united states, japan and south korea have requested an urgent meeting of the un security council, following north korea's launch of a ballistic missile on sunday. a record—breaking heatwave in new south wales in australia has produced the worst conditions ever seen for local firefighters according to emergency services. homes and livestock have been lost to the flames. as david campanale now reports. ideal conditions are in place for these bushfires. temperatures in new south wales have

soared to record levels of more than 45 degrees celsius. fanned by strong winds, the fires are raging across the state, and here in dunedoo, are threatening homes and closing roads. more than 2,000 firefighters, many of them volunteers, are battling over 80 fires. the rural fire service in the state has issued a warning of catastrophic fire conditions, declaring this to be the worst day seen in the history of new south wales. we have got reports across a number of the fire grounds, particularly those that are subject of emergency warning, that we are seeing property impacted, and we're expecting to see property lost. the areas hit by fires are a long distance from sydney, the state capital, where thousands of people have flocked to the beaches to cool off. while bushfires are not uncommon in australia's arid summer, climate change has pushed up average land and sea temperatures over the past century. australians are seeing a rising

number of extremely hot days and severe fire seasons. but for this week, at least, they're hoping new, cooler weather fronts will give some urgent relief. but the romanian foreign minister has told the bbc that his government won't give in to pressure. nick thorpe has more. playing bartok on a sunday afternoon in bucharest, sa nziana dobrovicescu and her younger brother niki are students at the romanian music academy. they are also regular participants in the daily anti—government protests. i think i'm backing the protest because in 1989, in our revolution, a lot of people died from defending our democracy, and from being in our country, the democracy. and i don't want to think they died for nothing,

and it is myjob to protect democracy in my country. both their parents were active in that revolution. their mother, maria, comes with them to the protests now. but their father, mircea, stays at home. he is suspicious of the new movement. translation: i am not against the protests, but i believe they cannot see the whole story. i'm afraid that the people on the streets are being manipulated. the truth has been distorted. setting out for the protests, niki bears the flag his parents carried in 1989. it is a family heirloom. they are trying to oust the new government. but, after some early successes, it is not proving easy. this government has no intention whatsoever to resign. we will do ourjob. if we are...

if we get a non—confidence vote in the parliament, we will go home. but, until that moment, we will do ourjob. after days of dwindling numbers, they came here in their tens of thousands, to prove to the government that they are still a force to reckoned with. but they are still waiting for the government to resign. the government, though, is standing firm. it says it wants dialogue, but who with? the dobrovicescu family and their friends believe it is too late for that. nick thorpe, bbc news. it's one of the biggest nights of the year for the stars of the music industry with the 2017 grammys, taking place in los angeles. peter bowes spoke to us from la about the singer david bowie winning four posthumous grammys. yes, posthumously, five wins, five grammys tonight for david bowie, for black star, his final album, released two days before his death last

year at the age of 69. this is even more remarkable when you consider that he only ever received one competitive grammy while he was alive. he also received a lifetime achievement award. but now his tally stands at a total of six grammys, at least competitive grammys, for this album that was universally, i've got to say, well—received by critics. it has some pretty dark lyrics in there, but there was also a lot of humour. it really showed bowie still at the top of his game. you mentioned the performances. it was pretty impressive. yes, and often i think the grammys are probably remembered better for the performances than the awards themselves, which sometimes seem to take second stage to the actual performances. and we are looking forward to, for example, lada gaga performing with metallica. of course, fresh from that

performance she gave. she gave a flawless performance at the super bowl last weekend. let's see what she manages to do on the grammys stage. and we have seen an incredible, glittering performance, probably the best way to describe it, a very colourful performance by a pregnant beyonce, and it was adele that opened the show. and peter, just very briefly, even before the show started, some awards were being announced. explain how that came to happen. well, yes. there are more than 80 categories at the grammys, more than you can fit in one show, and the show itself is over three hours. so they have a pre—show, which is not televised. there is a small, local audience there for that. that lasts a couple of hours and that is when 90% of the awards are handed out. and they leave the top categories, the ones we have just been talking about, for the main show, which is airing across the world right now. and that is because, as we have just indicated, they really want it to be about the performances, and notjust the awards and the grand finale.

the award—winning jazz singer aljarreau has died in los angeles, just days after announcing his retirement. he was 76. tim allman looks back on his life. # i'll be singing you favourite song. ..# aljarreau always looked at home on stage. a performer of versatility, humour and style. a smooth voice, a huge talent, and there was never any doubt about his first love. if there's any music that is really kind of our own, it's this stuff that we call jazz. i mean, we've got blues and country, too, butjazz is a very special thing that is ours and embraced all over the world. although he sang as a child, he did no release his first album until he was 35. he soon made up for lost time — one of the few artists to win grammys forjazz, pop and r&b.

# some walk by night # some fly by day...# one of his biggest successes came in the mid ‘80s, with the theme tune to the hit television show, moonlighting. he didn'tjust sing it, he wrote the lyrics too. in recent years, ill—health forced him to slow down, only finally retiring just a few days ago. aljarreau was once described as the greatestjazz singer alive. one tribute compared him to a force of nature, a beautiful human being. # ..moonlighting strangers # who just met on the way...# al jarreau, aljarreau, who has died at the age of 76. you're watching bbc news. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @benmbland. for now, though, thank you gééégffié for now, though, thank you

fifffii good for now, though, thank you fir-cw lil“; good morning. | for now, though, thank you fir-cw til“; good morning. i am sure watching. good morning. iam sure it, like me, many of you will be happy to see the back of last week. it was cold for many, there was a lot of cloud around. and we closed out the second half of the weekend on a similar story — a brisk easterly wind, plenty of cloud. just the far north—west of scotland seeing the best of the sunshine. even through that cloud we had further snow showers, particularly across the peaks and pennines. this was the scene in west yorkshire during sunday and i am sure it was a beautiful scene but cold out there. temperatures struggled on sunday, generally at around three degrees but something a little more springlike arrives through the middle of the week. more sunshine and warmth, with double digits quite widely. in fact, we will start to see the first signs of the warmth first thing in the morning. these will be the temperatures at dawn. but the wind will still be with us that's going to make it feel still pretty disappointing if you are out and about.

but the wind will help to break up the cloud across central and southern areas, something we've not seen in recent days. and perhaps in sheltered western areas we'll see some breaks in the cloud and some sunshine coming through. windy in the far south—west. the best of the sunshine across western scotland. to eastern scotland, along with the northern isles, the cloud thickening and the odd spot or two of drizzle — 5 degrees here and 8 on west—facing coast. not bad into northern ireland. we should see some sunnier spells across north—west england and wales, stretching down into the midlands and further south. now, i know on the face of it the temperatures will be higher — seven, eight degrees in some spots — but add on the strength of the wind, even with those double digits down in the south—west, it is still going to feel pretty disappointing out there so you will need to wrap up warm. gales, severe gales are likely for a time through the latter stages of the day and as we go through tuesday night and with the isles of scilly and maybe the far south of cornwall, we could see some rain from the weather fronts just brushing here. so it stays windy. the winds will start to pivot

around to a southerly and that is going to help drag in slightly milder air. and on tuesday, on the face of it, predominantly dry, with just some showery outbreaks of rain across the south—west and maybe into northern ireland. but the cloud starting to break up, and we'll see 11 degrees likely down into the south. so there is always the risk, tuesday into wednesday, of these low pressures out in the atlantic trying to make their presence felt. really just showers out to the extreme west. the further east you live, you should see some better weather. so 12 degrees is quite likely in the south—east on wednesday, with some sunshine. some outbreaks of rain into northern ireland. milder by thursday again but i think there will be a little more cloud around on thursday. but if you haven't already got the message, things are certainly the latest headlines from bbc news. i'm ben bland. the united states, japan and south korea have requested an urgent meeting of the united nations security council to discuss north korea's latest missile test. the pyongyang regime hailed the test a success and said the missile was capable of carrying a nuclear

warhead and had a new solid—fuel engine. tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in several mexican cities to protest against president trump's immigration policies and his promise to make the country pay for a border wall. protesters also criticised their own president, enrique pena nieto, who they accuse of being too weak. the record—setting heatwave that's spawned 200 bushfires in the australian state of new south wales has abated but firefighters are still tackling about eighty blazes. but firefighters are still tackling about 80 blazes. the head of the fire service said it was remarkable no lives were lost. now on bbc news, it's dateline london.