this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm: north korea claims its latest intercontinental ballistic missile test proves any target in the us is now within striking distance. universities may have to reduce benefits for its members, or increase tuition fees for students — as the pension fund deficit doubles in the last year. white house war — donald trump names generaljohn kelly as his next chief of staff after days of public in—fighting. after violence breaks out in east london — the family of a 20—year—old man who died after being restrained by police — appeal for peace. we understand your anger. the family feels your anger and frustration, too. but the family knows taking to the streets doesn't give you justice. also in the next hour — the man who attacked shoppers in hamburg was a known islamist with mental health problems german chancellor angela merkel thanked bystanders from the turkish immigrant community who stood up to the armed attacker

a tight squeeze — an american woman is rescued by firefighters after a boa constrictor latched itself onto her face good evening and welcome to bbc news. north korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile describing it as a "stern warning" for the us. the regime says the missile reached a height of 2,300 miles, before landing 47 minutes later more than 600 miles away somewhere in the sea offjapan. that was farther and higher than its previous test

earlier this month. experts have said that the missile may have a range of over 6,000 miles, which is far enough to target some cities on the us mainland. from seoul in south korea, here's our correspondent karen allen. cloa ked in darkness, state run tv captured the final moments before the missile launch. a potent symbol of north korea's defiance in the face of international sanctions. its leader kim jong—un there to witness it all. then the dramatic lift—off. and the moment that pyongyang thumbed its nose at the world. the second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in less than a month. it travelled higher and further than the missile fired before, eventually smashing down into the ocean off the coast of japan. then came the official confirmation from pyongyang.

the newsreader announcing that this test was proof that the whole of the us is now within reach. pictures show a triumphant north korean leader. in washington, president trump described the tests as reckless and dangerous. the reaction from north korea's neighbour in the south was equally harsh. translation: dashing the international community's hopes have eased inter—korean military tensions and in particular, seoul's offer of bilateral military talks. these joint us south korea military drills a response to the launch, designed to send a clear message that seoul and washington stand belligerent north korea. the us already has battleships

in the pacific ocean. now, it has promised to scale up its strategic assets in response to this latest threat. more aircraft carriers and stealth bombers could soon be on the way. a jubilant kim jong—un wants us recognition as a nuclear power. instead, in the wake of another missile test, he's likely to face stiffer sanctions with china and russia under pressure not to stand in the way. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror and political commentatorjo phillips. it's emerged that uk universities have a pension fund deficit of more than £17 billion, the largest in the uk. there are warnings that

contributions to the scheme for student tuition fees may have to rise to close the gap. now there is concern that tuition fees might have to rise again. that's because the main pension scheme for lecturers, known as uss, has posted a record black hole. waste has to be found to reduce it. universities may have a limited number of sources of income. the main source of income is obviously from student fees, and it seems inconceivable to me that student fees will not have to be averted into plugging the pension deficit. the uss pension scheme deficit almost doubled from 8,000 ashley beck 5p last year to £17.5 billion this year. that gives the scheme, which is almost 4,000 members ——

400,000 members, the dubious distinction of being a record pension deficit for this country. but the chief executive of the scheme says it is way too early to think about hiking student fees. we are not responsible for setting tuition fees but we have agreed a framework with the universities to manage the shortfall that exists within the pension plan, without putting an unreasonable burden on their business models. and we have agreed a framework for looking at how pensions contributions —— pensions, contributions and the investment risk will continue to provide quality pensions for the members of the scheme. distinguish academicjohn hardie paid into the uss scheme for 40 years. she has already been paid from that pension but is worried that a less generous scheme might deter people considering academia. evil that go into academicjobs often do it because they want to teach all go into research. —— people that go into. and they want to do that with them freedom. and that they want to

explore and investigate and understands. and the pension has historically always been something nice that goes with the job. because academics had as well—paid as all these sort of fat cats in the city. pension statements are just a snapshot of health or otherwise of schemes. they go down and, in this case, up. but everyone on uk campuses, clever solutions will have to be found for clever people. with isis crossbench peer lord adonis report who helped increase tuition fees to £3000 a year as head of the policy unit under tony blair. —— the crossbench peer. how acceptable do you think it is that tuition fees will have to be skimmed off to fill this gap? this is a very serious case of mismanagement on the bus half of england's vice chancellors. some big questions will need to be

asked about the management of the scheme, but there is no reason that stu d e nts scheme, but there is no reason that students should be that these will go up. there were range of different options for dealing with the deficit. it is a deficit concerning future liabilities, so it doesn't immediately impact the ability to pay retired academics. and there is time to work through what the solutions will be. what i do not think as an option at all is tuition fees to go up. they have already been travelled from the thousand pounds to £9,000. the government has now lynched them further to the rate of inflation, so they're heading towards £10,000. —— links them. i don't need it would be acceptable for these rise further. we welcome activities in a moment. with all this money sloshing around in universities, what has it been spent on? surely some of those tuition fees up to now could have been used for pensions contributions? it is spent on a range of things, from improving facilities, top paper vice chancellors and senior managers, sun

has gone on new research. all of the range of activities that universities undertake has consumed the extra money. but one of the key things universities do is to see that they're retired members are properly looked after, and that's why the pension deficit will need to be addressed. workers work at the gap had been filled to stop it getting quite a big if not by using these increase tuition fees? there are only three ways of putting a deficit like this. i did the members need to pay more into the members need to pay more into the scheme, or the employers, the vice chancellors, need to pay more into the scheme, with the benefits of the scheme have to be scaled back. there are no further options than those. in due course, those options would need to be investigated. but the assets are huge. this is one of the biggest pension schemes in the country. if it is well managed and the vice chancellors get their act together,

but i happened up to now, they ought to be able to reduce the deficit of times of the impact will be less serious on existing future members. you mentioned how tuition these have gone up in cost over time. how much do you regret your involvement in allowing them, or encouraging them, to rival those years ago?” allowing them, or encouraging them, to rival those years ago? i think it was right to introduce a fee of £3000 which was a contribution towards the cost of education students. the travelling off the field night to £9,000, which took place when david cameron's coalition government came in, i think that was a mistake and i said so at the time. why? if that's what it costs...? a mistake and i said so at the time. why? if that's what it costs. . . ? the state made a contribution and the student or graduate made a contribution and it was a shared endeavour will stop i believe that is the case. the benefits for higher education go partly to the individual and partly to the wider community. the big mistake that was

made was to shift the entirety of the cost to individuals. i think that was unfair. it was also unsustainable because it has led to young graduates being saddled with depth of 50 to £55,000. which they simply can't repay. ultimately the taxpayer will have to pick up the tab for a lot of this financing. meanwhile students and young graduates will think they have an albatross around their neck with ever higher levels of debt. they will be ever more anxious about the future in consequence. a lot of taxpayers who didn't go to university will ask why they should be picking up the tab. which we are told leads to better incomes over a lifetime. edge of its also pay a lot more in tax. the higher rates of tax are largely paid by graduates. there is bonus to the tax system as well. it should be shared endeavour. the graduate should make some contribution and the state should as

well. because of the benefits to wider society. those who don't go to university, we need is to offer them afar university, we need is to offer them a far better deal. we need to do better as a country in providing apprenticeships, on—the—job training and opportunities for those who don't does university. there needs to bea don't does university. there needs to be a new deal but it can't be on the basis of existing tuition fees, which are already my thousand to £50. how do you see tuition fees changing in terms of the level they are set at? given all these pressures that we have been talking about top i think there's a good chance tuition fees will be abolished out right. the system has become is a controversial and difficult to sustain, with very high levels of debt and write—offs and huge political controversy, but i'm not sure they will survive. i think there is a very good chance they will go entirely because the controversy is so great. as nobody will believe, if they go back down

to three to £4000, that they will stay there. there will be huge suspicion that this willjust be a staging post to them going up again. particularly if we have crises like this one with university pensions. if the parties could agree on a lower fee, that would if the parties could agree on a lowerfee, that would be if the parties could agree on a lower fee, that would be the if the parties could agree on a lowerfee, that would be the right thing for the country. it is all very much in the balance and this is not good news for universities, north of the taxpayer. why do you see that political agreement is coming from? where is the evidence? the government should be leading. you should be holding talks between the parties on the future of university finance, including tuition fees, and seeking to reach agreement. which is what we did ten yea rs agreement. which is what we did ten years ago. you have labour proposing com plete years ago. you have labour proposing complete abolition, the conservatives trying to maintain and —— maintain the status quo and that is not good news for graduates or

the economy. thank you. president trump has described his new chief of staff, john kelly, as a true star of his administration — after reince priebus stood down from the post. general kelly has been a star. done an incredible job thus far. respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus a good man. let's talk to our correspondent in washington, laura bicker. is the ship now headed? we will find out on monday. donald trump is still tweeting. he seems a little sore from the health care defeat this week. when it comes to the loss of reince priebus, he never seems to have the confidence of the president

all along. when he started he was appointed as chief of staff because he was that republican insider. he knew how believers in washington should work. but as time or on, reports started to come from the white house that president trump out in week and said he questioned his loyalty on several occasions. as a new chief of staff, he has turned to someone a new chief of staff, he has turned to someone a bit like himself, outspoken and outside of the swap, as he calls washington. a political outsider, generaljohn kelly. as a 4—star marine general, you would expect that he would be able to kind of imposing some military discipline on what has been a to montrose white house, but he has no political experience. it will be kind of interesting to see how he steers this ship going forward. how distracting or all of these fractures within these relationships at the white house to getting on with the job of passing laws? when

it comes to the likes of health care, it has been ratherfrustrating for donald trump and the republican party. i have travelled the country, and when you speak to people, the first thing they bring up as health care, because those who have no longer can't afford health care rely on the free health care that they got through president 0bama's measures. those are middle class, middle incomes to work really hard and are now seeing their premiums shooting up because they have to pay for those health measures. they also wa nted for those health measures. they also wanted abolished. nothing seems to be getting done. republicans say the president did not own this, he didn't take leadership. the president this morning is blaming the senate rules. he is also saying the senate rules. he is also saying the republicans, certainly the renegade republicans who voted it down, are to blame. we are seeing a dividing gap between the republicans and their president. the trump white house is looking slightly more adrift from the republican party

thanit adrift from the republican party than it has done. it is entirely distracting for everyone involved. just as they go on recess. donald trump is trying to press the reset button, though when it comes to resetting his own staff and getting his house back in order, a lot depends on it. a lot of journalists today saying the white house is now more interesting than love islands, which is something! thank you. the headlines on bbc news: north korea says its latest missile test proves the whole of the us mainland is within range of its weapons. the main pension scheme for universities has doubled in 12 months to a record figure of more than 17 billion pounds. president trump names retired military generaljohn kelly as his new chief of staff after reince priebus stood down from the post. let's return now to the news coming out of north korea

about its latest missile test. let's speak to a nuclear security a nalyst. let's speak to a nuclear security analyst. shejoins us now let's speak to a nuclear security analyst. she joins us now via what can france manchester. from what you can france manchester. from what you can tell, what was different about this test compared to those we have seen this test compared to those we have seen before? this was the same missile that was tested on us independence day on the 4th ofjuly. it is just the way it was tested was different. north korea demonstrated yesterday that this is a missile that can hit the continental united states. that was something that the russians had thrown into doubt because they assessed earlier that the missile was actually one with a more limited range. yesterday north korea really ruled that assessment

out of the water. how much of an advanceis out of the water. how much of an advance is this? north korea demonstrating a functional intercontinental missile capability isa intercontinental missile capability is a significant advance. it does mean now that the us, when it contemplates any kind of action against north korea, or threatens military action, has to think about whether or not it is willing to lose aus whether or not it is willing to lose a us city in the process. that kind of deterrent capability for the north korean is to possess is one thatis north korean is to possess is one that is significant in terms of the geopolitical relationships between these countries. donald trump has said that various things will never happen, must not be allowed to happen, must not be allowed to happen, yet we see that very thing happening. where is the consensus going to come from over what to do in response? you are right. donald trump said that a north korean icbm would never happen, and it has now happened twice. the heart of the question is how to build a consensus

between the us and its allies, and indeed with the countries in north korea's own region, over how to move forward , korea's own region, over how to move forward, and being realistic, we are going to have to think of a strategy that involves managing a world in which north korea does have a nuclear deterrent capability for the foreseeable future. why is it so important for north korea that it is acknowledged as a nuclear power, particularly by the us, and how likely is that to happen? north korea believes its regime survival depends on the settings where weapons, and the capability to keep other more powerful countries away from the korean peninsula. it looks at examples like libya and the fall of gaddafi, and iraq where it assesses that if those countries had had a nuclear deterrence, they probably wouldn't have ended with the leader ‘s demise in the way they did. andrea, thank you very much for

your time. thank you. two men have been arrested by police investigating two separate rape attacks on a schoolgirl. the 14 year—old was assaulted in a secluded part of birmingham's witton railway station on tuesday night. when she flagged down a passing carfor help, she was attacked a second time. the family of rashan charles, who died in hackney in east london after police apprehended him last weekend, have appealed for calm after a night of violence there. bottles and fireworks were thrown at police following a demonstration. the independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of mr charles, who was 20 years old. richard lister reports. the tension had been building all afternoon. a peaceful protest about the death of a young man in police custody in east london beginning to turn into something else. the police were out in force trying to maintain calm,

but it didn't last. by ten o'clock, a fleet of police vans was facing a burning barricade and an angry crowd. fireworks and bottles were thrown. hundreds of officers trying to keep people back. move away, the dogs are coming out. police in full riot gear repeatedly tried to clear the street. mounted officers were brought in too. it took at least another hour for some kind of order to be established, debris still smouldering on the streets. the confrontation was sparked by death of rashan charles. he was chased into a shop by police a week ago. officers say he tried to swallow something. there was a struggle and he became ill. just over an hour later, rashan charles was declared dead. he was 20. he is the third young man to die after being stopped by police in london injust over a month. it has stirred up

long—standing grievances here. we understand your frustration and anger at the family go back to. the family knows that taking to the streets doesn't give justice. the council has been cleaning up and trying to move on. it spent the week trying to ease concerns in this community. we made sure the ipcc came down and spoke to people, listens to people but my concerns. that process has to continue. the ipcc says it will seek to a nswer continue. the ipcc says it will seek to answer the questions from rashan charles's family about his death, and will follow the evidence wherever it leads. the german chancellor, angela merkel, has offered her "deepest sympathy" to the relatives of a man who was killed in a knife attack at a supermarket in hamburg.

mrs merkel promised the incident yesterday, during which six other people were injured, would be fully investigated. officials have confirmed the knifeman — a palestinian who'd come to germany from the united arab emirates — was on a database of known islamists. 0ur berlin correspondent damian mcguinness reports. this mobile phone video shot by an eyewitness shows a group of local residents trying to stop the attack are hurting anyone else. they were ina are hurting anyone else. they were in a nearby cafe when he ran past, attacking people on the street with attacking people on the street with a large knife. the men grabbed chairs to bring him under control as he tried to stab them. chancellor angela merkel has thanked them for their courage. a woman ran and shouted, there is someone with a knife. people got up, there was panic on the other side of the street. 20 or 30 people fleeing

before the attacker. some people are in themselves with cherries and try to stop him, to surround and chase him. at the crossing, he stopped briefly. he waved the ninth and shouted alan akbar. german officials say the attacker came to germany in 2015 as an asylum seeker. his application for asylum was rejected, but he was and because he had lacked the necessary id documents. he was known to be an islamist but wasn't considered dangerous. at the moment we can say that the perpetrator‘s motive was on the one hand connected to religious motives, islamist motives, and on the other hand there is also evidence of mental instability. we are assuming it is a mix of both. it is not yet clear what his primary motive was. the attack happened on friday afternoon. the man went into this supermarket, grabbed a large

kitchen knife from a shelf, and start a nearby 50—year—old man to death. he then attacked other people in the shop before running outside. it was thanks to these local man, now being called the heroes of hamburg, that more people were injured or killed. —— weren't injured or killed. —— weren't injured are killed. a woman awoman in a woman in norfolk has died after a collision with a police van that was called up to find her. she was taken toa—— called up to find her. she was taken to a —— taken to hospital in announcements. police were responding to a 99: raising concerns for the safety of a woman who had gone missing. the collision happened here on maybe wrote at about 1020 pm on thursday evening. the pedestrian struck by eight marks police van turning out to be the woman officers we re turning out to be the woman officers were searching for. she was treated by paramedics in a nearby field for severe head and leg injuries. the

airambulance severe head and leg injuries. the air ambulance responded and transported her to addenbrooke's hospital in cambridge in a critical condition. norfolk police confirmed that the woman died earlier this morning. she has not yet been identified. the force has referred the incidents to the ipcc, which has begun an investigation. a 60 metre crane has fallen over onto an old primark store in reading. police and fire crews attended the scene and there are no reported injuries, but there are road closures reported in central reading as a result. publications are an identifying whether there is any damage to the gym. if there is, there will be an increased time frame on the recovery process. if everyone is looking down on us process. if everyone is looking down on us and everything goes to plan, it is that way a case of getting the crying to an upright position and thenit crying to an upright position and then it will has itself, so we can

put itself away. we are meeting with our colleagues every half hour, based on information, so they will go based on information, so they will 9° up based on information, so they will go up and assess the situation. paramedics have had to cut the head of the boa constrictor after it wrapped itself around the face of a woman. the woman he owned 11 states survived the encounter with the fight at animal which had latched onto her nose. let's listen to her call to emergency services. the dispatcher is passing on the call to the emergency services. that brings up so many more

questions than it answers! but ponder why we listen to the weather forecast. there is always an animal story before the weather! but i don't like that one. i'm not very keen on snakes. we have got some not particularly great weather at the moment, particularly across the southern parts of england and wales were the rain has been setting in. the wind is picking up out these and the weather moves northwards and he's ripped through the evening and overnight. many parts of it when wales with astala brain. further north, showers continue in the north—west of the uk. showers developing widely on sunday. 0nce the rain clears, it shouldn't hang about and should be gone by the time most people around. sunshine for a while but the showers come rushing in on while but the showers come rushing inona while but the showers come rushing in on a pretty brisk wind. some showers will be happy with some hail and under. some sunshine in between the downpours on in the south—east corner of england's and may stay dry

with some sunshine. more sunshine from the beginning of the week but more showers as well. more slow—moving showers in scotland and northern ireland. 0n slow—moving showers in scotland and northern ireland. on tuesday, prospects look a little better with showers during lighter and feeling warmer.