welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my my name is let to sakho. our top stories: —— lebo diseko. russia's main opposition leader arrested, along with hundreds of supporters, as anti—corruption protests sweep the country. we meet two young boys in a hospital in mosul as the iraqi city continues to count the cost of the fight against is militants. he used whatsapp, then killed four people. after london's terror attack, britain says intelligence services must have access to encrypted messages. and down to earth dressing: two girls grounded by united airlines for wearing leggings. hello.

and thank you forjoining us. thousands of russians have been taking part in anti—corruption rallies across the country, in defiance of the kremlin. they included the opposition leader, alexei navalny, who called for the demonstrations in moscow. the us state department says the detention of the protestors is an affront to core democratic values. steve rosenberg reports from moscow. there were moments today when moscow resembled a battlefield. russian riot police broke up an anti—government protest, on what was a day of demonstrations across russia. in moscow, they detained more than 500 people. earlier, police had poured into the city centre, warning that the protest was illegal. still, thousands of people packed into pushkin square, to accuse the russian government of corruption. the level of corruption is too high in russia right now,

and every single citizen understands it. it's hard to live in corruption atmosphere. i have children, grandchildren, and i can't breathe in this. these people have come out to protest against government corruption, but the message which this is sending to the crowd is that fighting corruption is not a priority of the russian authorities. among those arrested, russian opposition leader alexei navalny. he says he intends to run for president next year. whether he will be allowed to isn't clear. it was alexei navalny who had called for today's nationwide protests. people took to the streets in more than 100 towns and cities across russia, in many cases defying bans by the local authorities. these were some of the largest protests russia has seen for several years. president putin still enjoys strong support, but he can't take

that for granted. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. we will have more on that later in the programme. we will be hearing from human rights watch about the protest. iraqi forces are intensifying their assault against so called islamic state, as they try to drive the militants out of western mosul. thousands of people have left the city in recent weeks. and there are conflicting reports about who was responsible for scores of civilian deaths in a single incident last week. the us says it's investigating but has stopped short of taking responsibility. with the city still divided between is and the iraqi army, our correspondent orla guerin has been to a field hospital in the south of mosul. 11 years old, shot in the leg. behind him, a boy of the same age, hit by a mortar. brought together in a field hospital by acts of war.

uday and mohammad, children of mosul. not safe at home, not safe when they flee. the beds are filling up here. ambulances have been arriving every few minutes. most of those we've seen being brought in are children. they've been injured by air strikes and also by shelling, but the staff here tell us they've also received a lot of patients who've been shot by is snipers. it is shoot to kill. isis is not messing around. they don't want people to leave, and they don't care whether it's a child, a man or an old woman. everybody is being shot as they try to escape. people are saying it takes two isis militants to really keep an area under control, and prevent civilians from going anywhere. they want the civilians to stay inside to remain as human shields. kusei tried to break free with his younger brother, but uday was targeted by an is sniper. this footage, filmed by hospital staff, shows

the anguish of abdullah. his five—year—old granddaughter, sara, is in the body bag. is shot her through the heart. but those who escaped the battlefield are bringing accounts of other innocent civilians. allegedly killed by their liberators. victims of bombing raids, by iraqi and coalitionjets. akram mahmood insists that his brother was one of them. he says hamad, on the right, was a truck driver, and not a militant, and his guide all his life. hamad died on his own doorstep, he tells me, when an air strike hit his car.

"five men were killed with my brother," says akram. "i bury them with my own hands." "the slogan from the authorities was ‘we‘re coming to rescue you, to free you from is‘." "in reality, my brother has been killed, and lots of families have been destroyed." and in the camp nearby, the broken and the displaced reach out in desperation. after years of is tyranny, and months of warfare, one more hardship for the people of mosul. orla guerin, bbc news, northern iraq. all right. let's round—up some of the other main stories. angela merkel‘s party

the christian democrats have comfortably won a regional election in germany that's seen as a test of whether she can get a fourth term as chancellor in september. the cdu took 40% of the vote in the small state of saarland. in bulgaria, it looks like the pro—european gerb party has won the parliamentary election. it's the third in the past four years. the leader of the socialist party has conceded, although official results are expected later on monday. attempts to end the political stalemate in northern ireland have reached a dead end. northern ireland has been without a functioning devolved government since january, when the power—sharing executive collapsed. if no government is formed by monday afternoon, either fresh elections will be called or britain can impose direct rule. britain's home secretary, amber rudd, has demanded access to encrypted messaging services in terrorism cases. she made the comments to the bbc after it was reported that the man who killed four people in westminster last week was on whatsapp moments before he carried out the attack. our security correspondent

gordon corera reports. are technology companies doing enough to combat terrorism? that was the question raised today, especially when it comes to encrypted communications. khalid masood was active on the messaging system whatsapp just before the attack. the company, part of facebook, says it is helping the authorities. but they can't pass on content of the messages, since even they don't have access to the encrypted data. today, the home secretary said it was not good enough. we need to make sure that organisations like whatsapp, and there are plenty of others like that, do not provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other. it used to be that people would steam open envelopes orjust listen in on phones when they wanted to find out what people were doing legally, through warra ntry, but we need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted whatsapp. police say they are worried that technology companies are designing systems that won't allow

for traditional surveillance. at the heart of this is a stark inconsistency between the ability of police to lawfully intercept telephone calls, but not when those messages are exchanged via a social media messaging board for example. that's an inconsistency in society, it surely is, we need a solution through the appropriate legislation. but encryption is getting more popular since it protects ordinary people's data from hackers and criminals, helping preserve privacy. that makes some nervous about giving the state new powers to restrict it. they have huge powers of investigation already. there is a question of always balancing the right to know, the need to know, with the right to privacy. phones as well as messages can be encrypted. after a terrorist attack in san bernardino in america there was a row between apple and the fbi, who wanted a phone unlocked. we don't know for sure in this case

if police have been able to access khalid masood's phone yet. it may help to answer whether he really did act alone, as police think. encryption is an issue that law enforcement and government have long worried about. in the coming week, the technology companies will be meeting with officials here at the home office in a previously scheduled meeting. encryption, though, is one of the issues where the government want tech companies to do more. the wealth of extremist content hosted on websites is a high priority for the government, which fears its radicalising effect. it wants the companies to find the material themselves, and take it down, rather than wait for it to be reported to them. there's no sign of new legislation in the wake of this attack. police have just got new powers over data, but authorities may be hoping they can put enough pressure on technology companies to change their behaviour. gordon corera, bbc news.

the australian government's inquiry into child sexual abuse allegations in the country over the last 35 years is starting its final public hearing in sydney. more than 1200 witnesses have given evidence over the course of the last four years, including many former child migrants sent to australia from britain in the 50s and 60s, in the hope of a better life. the commission has received information on more than 4000 institutions and expects to have held more than 7000 private sessions by the time it completes its work. after the five—day hearing, a report, including a series of recommendations, is due in december. hywel griffith, our correspondent in sydney, explained the background to the commission. it was triggered, initially, by a police investigation into abuse alleged to have occurred a couple of

hours north of sydney in the town of newcastle. but very quickly, it emerged that it was notjust individual cases of abuse me but there was an element of institutional abuse happening. and that meant the government felt there was a reason to look across the board, not just within was a reason to look across the board, notjust within the lesion situations and schools, but it widened the scope. this has been unprecedented. it has looked right across the board. i look at the list here: 0rphanages, sporting institutions, churches. this was a difficult one. and will be heard from the chairperson at the start of the day's session was that while this looked at over 4000 institutions where abuse at had been alleged, there were some common values that they have come up with. as you say, it is unprecedented in terms of its scale. what has been some of the response from the public and the institutions that have been involved? so, many of the

institutions have been willing to ta ke institutions have been willing to take part. the catholic church very recently in accusations agreed to disclose a number of allegations. we had more than 4000 allegations just within the catholic church. they have been some people, particularly victims, who were angered that may be one institution, a school, perhaps, had not been looked at in more detail. but what we heard today was that it was too difficult to look at every institution in minute detail. they felt there was more to be gained by taking a universal approach. the two things they found common across them are the failure to report on mandatory reporting. so thatis to report on mandatory reporting. so that is something, if abuse had occurred, that there is not always a duty of care on someone to give that information to the police or the authorities. and also, the failure to compensate abuse victims. survivors of abuse who spent decades anguishing, many suffering physical

and mental health problems, and finally there has been some move towards restitution, and we understand this will come from the final report. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the backlash over united's leggings ban — is the airline's dress code sexist? let there be no more war or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. so proud of both of you. with great regret the committee have decided that south africa be excluded from the 1970 competition.

streaking across the sky, the white hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers in fiji. this is bbc news. i'm lebo diseko. the latest headlines. russia's main opposition leader has been arrested — along with hundreds of supporters — as anti—corru ption protests swept the country. mosul‘s civilian population is continuing to pay a high price as iraqi forces step up the fight against so—called islamic state. more now on events in russia: kenneth roth is the executive clinic at the united states have

condemned the arrest of hundreds of protesters. attlee ‘s 900 people are thought to been arrested across the country. kenneth ross is the executive director of human rights watch. he tells me why president putin would be worried about the protests. i would be terrified where i him because to see this kind of outpouring of protest, despite the kremlin‘s are the dominance of television, which is the main way that russians get news, shows that under the superficial appeal of vladimir putin there is enormous discontent. the most difficult issue for the russian government is corruption because there is massive corruption because there is massive corruption around phlegmy putin and his cronies. you mentioned 500 arrest in the last few days. that is the officialfigure. we arrest in the last few days. that is

the official figure. we get a figure closer to 930 according to a reliable local group who have been recording demonstration arrests over the years. our people on the ground noted that while the demonstration was peaceful, the authorities clearly have no intention of allowing it to go forward. as dense allowing it to go forward. as dense a bleak, the protesters were supposed to be outside the city centre. they were not going to go along with that so instead of having an official protest they had a public walk—through prominent areas of moscow and other cities, waving flags to show their patriotism was anticorruption and flags to show their patriotism was anticorru ption and carrying flags to show their patriotism was anticorruption and carrying little darks, as a protest symbol. so, that figure, is that moscow will learn all from protests all around the country? that is moscow alone.

information from a reliable local group in the city. we have reports of arrests also in saint petersburg, in douglas starman, that's what we have received so far but we anticipate receiving many more account from the protests. how concerned are you for the treatment of those people who have been detained? we are concerned about mistreatment, beatings and the suchlike. we are also concerned about charges. the last time there we re about charges. the last time there were protests of this sort in 2011, 2012, in the context of putin retaking the presidency, there was concern at that point about electoral corruption. it seems that the election was not run fairly. and lengthy prison terms were imposed at that time. we hope that vladimir putin is not so spurred by this protest that they resort to similar

tactics for harsh prison sentences. the opposition leader has been convicted on a trumped up charge which is designed to prevent him from running in the 2018 election, the one coming up, where vladimir putin is hoping for another period in charge in the last thing he wants isa in charge in the last thing he wants is a popular opposition leader. one person has died and at least fifteen others have been injured in a shooting at a night club in cincinnati, ohio. police say there were hundreds of people in the cameo club at the time. they also confirm there is no indication that the incident is terror related. saturday night is a young crowd. we have had incidents here in the past that this is the worst one by far. inside at this time, by the time individuals... when shots were fired, people ran outside served there were not a lot of people inside. there was a large crowd earlier this evening butjust a lot

of chaos, obviously, when shots were heard as people tried to get out of harm ‘s way. it's been two years since the start of a saudi—led military campaign in yemen, supporting the government against houthi rebels. so far almost eight thousand people have been killed and 40 2,000 injured. and —— 42,000 injured. already one of the poorest countries in world, the conflict has seen millions of yemenis, including children, affected by the violence. mai noman reports from aden, one of the cities that witnessed intense battles in this on—going war. coming back to aden for the first time since the war started in yemen ican time since the war started in yemen i can see the signs of this brutal conflict on the city and its people. i met this young boy. he was four when a missile fell on his house. he lost a finger and those of his legs.

his brother was also injured. after taking control of the capital, rebels from the north stormed the southern city of aden in march 20 15. a four munt vicious battle began. shortly after the fighting began, the saudi arabians were the coalition and joined the war, bombing targets across the country. now, more than two years later, the frontline continues to shift the

battles leave behind a long lasting scars on many families who have been caught in the fighting. 0ver over 10 million yemeni children have been affected by this conflict. according to unicef, there are 1.6 million children displaced, half a million children displaced, half a million at risk of starving and thousands have been injured. many children shows signs of distress. the destruction caused by this

ongoing war can be seen across the country. but for children like these two, it is the invisible skys that will be hardest to heal. —— scars. the new chief executive of hong kong says that healing divisions in the territory will be her priority. she was elected by a specially appointed committee of nearly 1200 people, most of whom were loyal to beijing. she had the backing of the chinese government and was expected to win. united airlines has faced a barrage of criticism after it barred two teenage girls from boarding a flight for wearing leggings. a third girl aged ten, also wearing leggings, was only allowed to board after she put on a dress that was in her backpack. a female member of staff told

the girls that they could not proceed while wearing spandex, which the airline deems inappropriate. caroline davies reports. it is the online argument that has been called leggings—gate, and this was the tweet that sparked it. shannon watts, a campaigner in the united states, saw two girls banned from a united airlines flight because they were wearing leggings. she tweeted the incident to the airline. this was their response. and it led to a tirade, with some celebrities joining in. comedian sarah silverman said she would not fly on united airlines. model chrissy teigen said she would try wearing onlyjeans and a scarf next time, and actor keegan allen called it petty. united clarified their position in a later tweet, explaining they were pass riders, a ticket for eligible dependents which does have a dress code,

and that excludes wearing lycra. but that hasn't quietened the twitter storm entirely, and shannon says she still thinks the policy is sexist. before we go, we would just like to show you these photos of four white tigers born at a zoo in central poland. two females and two males we re poland. two females and two males were born five days ago. as you can see they seem like they have been taking an easy day. white tigers are rare and they get their appearance from a recessive gene. the private safari zoo which specialises in breeding animals rarely found in the wild. you can get in touch with me on twitter. hello again.

it is not often that we get the best of the weather over the weekend, but that seems to be the case this time round. on sunday, we had a temperature of 20 degrees in highland scotland, aviemore, for example. but, for many of us on sunday, the skies were not quite as blue. we had some high cloud contaminating things. now, there is some cloud coming up from nearby france, but we are also filling in the north sea with low cloud, and it is that that's heading our way right now, particularly into parts of northern england, down into the midlands and wales. still got the high pressure in charge at the moment, and it is going to be pretty chilly, despite a bit more cloud. temperatures a bit lower across the southern half of the uk, where that stronger wind has now finally relented. any frost in the north will tend to lift fairly quickly, i think, across mainland scotland. one or two mist and fog patches, perhaps, but the sunshine coming through. a little bit more cloud by morning, perhaps, in northern ireland, and a change for england and wales, where we will start off a bit grey, misty and murky across the likes of north—east england,

perhaps into the midlands and into east wales. this is the main area of low cloud, spilling in from the north sea. south of that, the odd patch of mist or low cloud, but some sunshine as well, and most of us will see the sunshine burning through that cloud. it does take a while, though, where it has moved in off the north sea, and the odd patch may linger through into the afternoon, especially across the north—east of england and south—east scotland. so here, that low cloud will peg back the temperatures. 0therwise, with some sunshine, the numbers are similar to what we had on sunday. highest temperatures again in highland scotland, and this time in the south—east of england, where we don't have that cold, easterly wind. over the week ahead, though, we are going to find more cloud arriving, and the chance of some rain, especially in the north and west of the uk. but southerly winds, mind you, so still decent temperatures by day, and it won't be as cold at night, either. but the high pressure is shrinking away into the near continent. instead there is a massive area of low pressure out in the atlantic, and that will dominate our weather, to bring with it showers or longer spells of rain.

and the first signs of rain really arrive on tuesday. a bit of a dull start, ahead of the showers moving into the south—west, wales, northern ireland, later the midlands, northern england, and eventually southern scotland. north—east scotland still rather grey and cool, with the onshore breeze. maybe one or two showers in the south—east and east anglia, but some sunshine here as well, and this is where we will see the highest temperatures, and many places will be dry. and it could be that way again on wednesday. weather fronts coming in around that big area of low pressure threaten to bring more organised rain into the western side of the uk, but ahead of it, still largely dry and warm in the south—east. the latest headlines from bbc news. i'm lebo diseko. thousands of russians have taken part in anti—corruption rallies across the country, in defiance of the authorities. the biggest protests were in moscow, where activists say eight hundred people were detained — including the opposition leader, alexei navalny. mosul‘s civilian population is continuing to pay a high price as iraqi forces step up the fight against so called islamic state. thousands of people have left the city in recent weeks, and there are conflicting reports about who was responsible for scores of civilian deaths in a single

incident last week. britain's home secretary, amber rudd, has demanded access to encrypted messaging services in terrorism cases. she made the comments to the bbc, after it was reported that the man who killed four people in london last week was on whatsapp moments before he carried out the attack. now on bbc news, dateline london.