—— this is bbc news. i'm james menendez. the headlines: president trump issues another sharp warning to north korea over its nuclear and missile programmes. there is a chance that we could end up there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. marine le pen vows to tackle terrorism — and make the security of france a priority on the campaign trail in the southern city of nice. protestors storm macedonia's parliament, attacking politicians after the election of an ethnic albanian as speaker. coming up: raking in the billions — another huge quarter for silicon valley's tech titans. but can the likes of google and amazon keep on growing? plus, onsumer confidence up,

business confidence up — stock markets up. how long can the trump bump last? we take stock of the president's first 100 days at the helm of the world's top economy. hello. president trump has once again warned that a major conflict could break out with north korea over its nuclear and missile programmes. he said he would prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute but that, he added, would be very difficult to achieve. as mr trump prepares to mark his first 100 days in office this weekend, he says that north korea is his biggest global concern. 0ur washington correspondent laura bicker reports. president tom says north korea is

his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn —— his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn —— concern his biggest global warrior. the us is can turn —— concern that the pace of zhong yang's nuclear programme, a dispute that donald trump hopes will have a military —— diplomatic solution but military options have not been ruled out. there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea, absolutely. the us is seeking help from china. after these talks in lorimer, it was hoped president xi would impose tougher shank —— sanctions. donald trump described the chinese leader as a good man who was working hard on the problem. china has stopped imports of north korean coal but the us says paging hasissued korean coal but the us says paging has issued its toughest warning yet to pyongyang. we know that he is -- china is in contact withjohn young.

they say the request of the raging conduct no further chests and we we re conduct no further chests and we were told by the chinese that they we re were told by the chinese that they were told by the chinese that they were told they did conduct further nuclear tests, china would be taking sanctions actions on the rome. the us says they have assessed kim jong—un as ruthless and a murderer but not crazy. donald trump said it must have been hard for the north korean leader to take over the country at 27. the us is. these military exercises just miles from the north korean border. the trumpet administration wants to force strong gang into talks but they are making kim jong—un acutely aware of other options. there's lots more on our website about president trump's first 100 days in office, including this trump tracker — which asks how much the president has achieved so far. you'll find it at bbc.com/news, or on the bbc news app. the french presidential candidate

marine le pen has said that people will be voting for or against france, when they vote in the second round of the presidential election. she's been campaigning in the french city of nice, which was hit injuly last year by a truck attack. james reynolds reports from there. this supporter, in white, wants immediate action. he was in his clothes shop when an attack killed 86 people. the 31—year—old has come with thousands more to hear marine le pen. translation: in this city, that was hit so hard by terrorism, i will show no weakness in the face of islamic fundamentalism! the audience hears her promise to deploy more police and to deport suspects under surveillance. everyone is scared now. even to come here, my family and friends spoke about maybe it is dangerous to come.

we are scared in france and we all think she is the strongest person to be able to protect us and protect france. these are the true believers, campaigning for their leader. but they alone won't be enough. in order to win the election, marine le pen must find and win over new voters. that means that she has to read the mood of the city that's still recovering. some here do want greater action, but many believe the front national is simply not the answer. 18—year—old layla fled from the attacks on this promenade. what happened here has not made her turn to marine le pen. i don't think it changes how i think about security. because i don't think we can always stop everything. i think a lot of parties just wanted to gain votes and it has really shocked me. in order to quieten marine le pen, layla and others like her will make

a simple choice. vote for her opponent, emmanuel macron. ms le pen's rival emmanual macron took his campaign to the paris suburbs where he told his supporters that he aimed to heal the divide in france. translation: france is not the narrow face of hatred that marine le pen presents. i will not let her he the face of france. i will not let her trivialise the national front party, a racist party. she puts at the helm of the party someone who expressed extraordinarily grave opinions. she herself expresses extremely grave opinions. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. facebook says it's stepping up its security to counter efforts by governments and other groups that use the social media network to spread disinformation

and manipulate public opinion. during the us presidential election campaign it said fake facebook accounts had been used to spread false news and hacked information for political ends. human rights officials in the philippines have discovered a secret lock—up cell in a police station in the capital, manila. it was hidden behind a bookshelf — 11 people were being held there. the prisoners, all undocumented, said they had been there a week. they told investigators police had locked them up to extort money. aaron is here with all the business news. hgppy happy friday, james. we are talking tech and talking about some of the world's biggest companies. that is where the tech ones are nowadays. we start in silicon valley where three of the biggest names in technology have been reporting their numbers for the last three months. we are talking about the tech titans — google, amazon and microsoft. and it seems they are just getting bigger and bigger. the figures are jaw dropping, take a look.

let's kick off with google. along with rival facebook it dominates online advertising. but it's still managing to grow very fast. its holding company alphabet saw revenues jump by almost a quarter on last year. up 22% to $24.8 billion. remember that is just three months worth of sales. five and a half billion of that was profit. it's the same story with amazon. it's the world's biggest online retailer — it dominates online shopping but still saw sales grow over 22% to almost $36 billion for the three months to march. three quarters of a billion of that was profit. amazon has been growing sales in double—digits for 20 years

microsoft too is raking in huge sales. many people wrote it off as a victim of the decline in pcs and the rise of tablets and smartphones. but it has become a leader in cloud computing. it made revenues of over $23 billion — although they were only up 6% and that was less than wall street was expecting. but are these tech titans — the likes of google and amazon. too dominant — simply too big — and too powerful in their respective industries? we will be asking if the likes of google and amazon are too powerful, too dominant, in about 20 minutes' time. we are also talking about president donald trump because as you've been hearing,

saturday marks the 100th day of his presidency. 0n the campaign trail mr trump made some big pledges on business and the economy. so how is he doing? for now — consumer and business confidence is up and stock markets are still riding high on a wave of optimism — the so0called trump bump. but how much will he be able to deliver? we'll have a report from our new york team in 20 minutes time. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter, i'm @ bbcaaron. police in macedonia have used stun grenades inside parliament to end chaotic scenes which erupted after a vote to elect an ethnic albanian as speaker. protesters in skopje stormed the chamber and attacked mps after a coalition of parties backed talat xhaferi for the role. they fear moves to improve the status of albanians threaten macedonian unity. sarah corker reports. around 200 nationalist protesters, some wearing balaclavas, used chairs, tripods and other furniture as weapons to attack mps inside parliament.

in the press room, a fist fight broke out. with blood pouring down his face, opposition leader zoran zaev was among ten people injured. the violence erupted just moments after an ethnic albanian was elected as parliamentary speaker. protesters oppose a coalition between mr zaev‘s party, the social democrats, and ethnic albanian parties, which they perceive as a threat to national unity. localjournalists say there's been months of political deadlock since an inconclusive election. the elections were in december, now we are end of april and still no parliament, functional parliament, no parliamentary speaker and no government in macedonia. and this caused tensions to rise high. 0n social media un commissioner johannes hahn wrote: the secretary general of nato,

jens stoltenberg, wrote: riot police tried to block the entrance to the parliament and eventually had to use stun grenades to restore order. the president has called for calm and has said he will meet with political leaders on friday. sarah corker, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: after 2,000 years of maritime tradition — is hong kong calling time on the chinese junk? nothing, it seems, was too big to withstand the force

of the tornado. the extent of the devastation will lead to renewed calls for government to build better government housing. internationally, there have already been protests. sweden says it received no warning of the accident. indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. only when radioactivity levels began to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. for the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. this is the end of a 12—year war for them. they've taken the capital, which they've been fighting forfor so long. it was 7am in the morning, the day when power began to pass from the minority to the majority, when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony. this is bbc news.

the latest headlines: president trump has said a "major conflict" with north korea is possible, but he'd prefer to find a diplomatic solution. marine le pen has vowed to tackle terrorism and make the security of france a priority, on the campaign trail in the southern city of nice. more than 40,000 migrants have crossed the mediterranean already this year. many of them, from syria and afghanistan, are fleeing war, but a huge number are not. nigerians are now the third biggest group of migrants trying to reach europe. with many taking a route from benin city through niger and then to libya before crossing the mediterranean. 0ur correspondent martin patience travelled to the nigerian city of benin, where many of these young people start their journey. this ancient city was once famed for

producing bronze sculptures. but today benin is turning to another export, people. it's nigeria's main trafficking hub, where people start their dangerous journey to europe. this man was among them. after reaching libya, europe wasjust this man was among them. after reaching libya, europe was just a boat ride away. ijust had the belief that i would get there. that was my belief. he travelled with his sister, august in. forced onto separate boats, a boat ran into trouble. kelvin was rescued by it augustina drowned after her boat capsized. she left behind a young daughter. she was a student. she

worked in the supermarket and the hospital. the salary she was receiving their mother still refuses to accept that augustina is dead. for people heading out the journey normally starts here, at a local bus stop. and if everything goes smoothly they can be in europe in just two weeks. most leave here because they think they have absolutely no prospect. nigeria's

population is expected to double in the next 30 years and unless things change radically the number of migrants will almost certainly keep on growing. and this man should know. he once worked as a people smuggler. he says he helped smuggle dozens smuggler. he says he helped smuggle d oze ns of smuggler. he says he helped smuggle dozens of nigerians into europe. my last trip to libya i came across a number of graduates on their journey. graduates? yes, like me. what's going to end this flow of people? despite the dangers, many are

prepared to risk everything. as nigeria struggles, the attraction of europe will always be strong. martin patience, bbc news, benin. on saturday, all the eu leaders except the british prime minister theresa may will meet in brussels to agree on a common position ahead of brexit negotiations. the 27 remaining member states have made clear that they stand united and will speak with one voice to the united kingdom. 0ur europe editor katya adler has travelled to lisbon to speak to the portuguese prime minister antonio costa. the anglo portuguese alliance is the world's august still in existence and the uk remains important to portugal nowadays too in reason and trade. when i met prime minister costa he told me hundreds of thousands of portuguese national slip in britain. but he said there could be no specialfavours

slip in britain. but he said there could be no special favours when slip in britain. but he said there could be no specialfavours when it comes to brexit. translation: i think it would be an enormous illusion to define a negotiating strategy like that. the uk isn't going to have 27 separations, 27 bilateral agreements. going to have 27 separations, 27 bilateralagreements. britain going to have 27 separations, 27 bilateral agreements. britain is negotiating with the eu as a whole. i think that it is clear by now that no one has a punitive vision of this negotiation with the uk. i think we all have the intelligence to find ways of overcoming difficult moments and concentrating on what is essential and what is essential, taking into account the uk decision to leave, is for us to end with the best possible relationship after the separation. how difficult though, prime minister, realistically speaking, will it be to —— maintain is united front? winnowed eu, it is fractious, a fractious union. it fights between the states of the migration and subsidies. surely that unity is going to come under strain? translation: no, the eu will

negotiate in a united fashion. that is not negative for the uk. the single market only exist as a whole. so the eu has a single voice. to return to the 29th of april, do you believe it will be a simple meeting, every one of mind? translation: i think it will be a relatively simple meeting. we have been discussing this whole process a lot for several months now. we've had the opportunity to align our positions andi opportunity to align our positions and i don't expect any major disagreements on saturday. you are in agreement with this idea of a staged negotiation? so to make progress on the divorce before you can talk about trade, for example? yes, because if there is no agreement on the divorce there won't be at agreement on the relationship after the divorce. each is a phase of negotiation and the second one depends on the first. i would also add to wish that at the end of this

negotiation we have because it possible relationship with the uk, in security and defence, trade and in relations between our peoples. that was the portuguese prime ministers speaking to our europe editor. sport, now and, in the english premier league, the local derby between manchester city and manchester united ended in a goalless draw. the main talking point was the sending off of united's belgian midfielder marouane fellaini. conor mcnamara reports. there were no goals here at the etihad stadium, but no shortage of incident either. sergio aguero should have scored in the first half. he cannoned a ball at close range. there was a chance for manchester united's strike. but he headed off target. the big talking point of the game was the red card shown to the belgium international marouane fellaini. he got a yellow ca rd marouane fellaini. he got a yellow card for a rough challenge on sergio aguerojust moments card for a rough challenge on sergio aguero just moments before and within seconds he was involved in

another tussle. therefore it is clashed. the referee said it was ahead but. and he showed a straight red card. manchester united finished with ten men and they became very defensive. manchester city put on another player in substitute. he got the ball in the back of the net, but his header wasjudged to be offside. soa his header wasjudged to be offside. so a share of the spoils which will now leaves manchester city inside and champions league laces and man united are out by the top four at the moment. —— places. we controlled totally and quite easily. defensively the game was totally under control and we were always dangerous. we almost scored. mkhitaryan, marcus rashford — big problems. in the second half, no. wooden chinese ships known as junks used to be the defining image

of hong kong. but since the 1970s, their numbers have shrunk, replaced by more modern vessels. for years, there were only two chinese "junks" regularly seen in hong kong harbour. now, there's a third. but the father and son team who built the ship fear it may well be their last. the bbc‘s hong kong correspondent juliana liu went along for the maiden voyage. a celebration of the chinese goddess of the sea. crews of ships from all over hong kong, to pay their respect and ask for protection. traditional chinese junks, with their distinctive sails, have been plying these waters for nearly 2000 years. they still take pride of place at annual festivals, but in this day and age they've lost that status as working ships to modern vessels. decades ago hundreds of wooden chinese ships regularly crossed victoria harbour. they were the lifeblood of the city.

now, the aqua luna ii, here on her maidenjourney, is one of only three junks left in hong kong. she was completed at this shipyard. her creator has been making ships since he was 16. now 86, he says this junk will be his last. translation: in hong kong there are only a few people making wooden ships. it's because the raw materials are too expensive and there are too few technical staff who know how to do this kind of work. the aqua luna ii took more than two years to build and cost more than $1 million. it is entirely made from wood in the traditional way, which means no nails were used. after a career spanning seven decades, mr wai has passed his skills to his son, who loves making traditional wooden vessels, but says the lengthy government approval process hinders his work. translation: the most important problem is the strict rules from the hong kong

marine department. so many restrictions. so at the moment i really don't plan to make another one. after this trip, the aqua luna ii will be taking visitors on daily tours. mr wai is proud of his lastjunk. there's no question that the old traditions are fading. but this ship will be a permanent fixture in victoria harbour, reminding everyone of hong kong and china's rich maritime heritage. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter — i'm @james menendez. i will be back with headlines and then world business report coming up just after that. hello.

as we've been finding out recently, spring can bring such a variety of weather and sometimes we try to cram it all into one day. that was the way of it on thursday. at its best, glorious. 15 degrees and plenty of sunshine, thank you very much, in fife. elsewhere, quite a bit of cloud. eventually the cloud was thick enough for there to be some showery bits and pieces of rain. as we start friday they are tending to transfer away from the eastern side of the british isles and move over towards the west. so perhaps you'd think my next phrase will be about frost. that was the way of it on thursday morning, but with more in the way of cloud around i suspect friday we will start in positive territory in many parts of the british isles. the thicker cloud, drifting from east to west, is very much tied in with his weakening weather front, but it's still got enough about it in the first part of the day to be producing a scattering of showery bursts of rain.

not much more than that. if you are still desperate for rain, as many are in central and southern parts of the british isles, this is not the feature for you. it will dampen the ground, but not much more than that. generally speaking, a lot of dry weather. not much of a breeze. so the temperatures may not be much better than 8—10 degrees, but somewhere on the south coast perhaps we will get about 14—15. wherever you are, given the absence of a breeze, not bad at all. however, we turn on the fan towards the bank holiday weekend. breezy fair — windy across some western parts. we see that manifesting itself first thing on saturday. there will be some rain in the forecast, but this is not the day either. saturday looking to be a half decent day. a scattering of showers, no great organisation. it's on into sunday where we start to think about that combination of wet and windy weather for some. i have to say straightaway that there's still some uncertainty about exactly where that low pressure is going to throw the rain

in from south—western approaches. wales and the south—west look favourite at the moment. check on the forecast over the next couple of days if you've got some serious plans. with the breeze in the south—east i think the north—west of scotland fares nicely. ahead of the rain we can push the temperatures up to 17—18 in the south. eventually the rain clears away for monday, leaving many areas fairly cloudy but dry. this is bbc world news, the headlines. president trump has warned that a major conflict could break out with north korea over its nuclear and missile programmes. he said he'd prefer a diplomatic outcome to the dispute —— that would be very difficult to achieve. marine le pen has vowed to tackle terrorism — and make the security of france a priority — on the campaign trail in the southern city of nice.

little more than a week before the presidential election, polls suggest emmanuel macron‘s lead is shrinking. protestors have stormed macedonia's parliament — attacking politicians — in protest at the election of an ethnic albanian as speaker. police used stun grenades inside the parliament building to bring chaotic scenes under control.