spectators, and for the athletes. and a similar story, as well, for the premiership matches taking place today. very nice indeed, largely dry here. now, as we move out of sunday, into monday, a change to come. a weather front moves in from the west. it'll bring the heaviest rain through scotland, in particular, and north—west england. light and patchy into northern ireland, wales and south—west england. the best of the sunshine, really, through east anglia, the east midlands, down into the south—east corner. here, we could see highest values around 22 or 23. but, even in the cloud and the rain, we're looking at around 15 to 19 degrees. so once the rain lifts and the brightness returns, not too bad an affair. that front will still clear away. it is not going to bring that much in the way of persistent rain across the east, but it will do so through tuesday night, into the start of the day. so on tuesday it looks as though we will see a scattering of showers, but not a bad affair. 17 to 23 degrees the overall high. that front still to clear away, and then another waits

in the wings for wednesday. but, ahead of it, it stays relatively quiet, so not a bad day on wednesday. it will cloud over from the west with that rain arriving, but that is going to be the story this week. there will be some spells of sunshine from time to time, but also, we can't rule out spells of rain. this is bbc news, the headlines: one person has died and at least 19 others were injured when a car was driven into a crowd in the american city of charlottesville, where demonstrations were being held against a far—right march. officials say there have been another two deaths linked to clashes. an explosion in the pakistani city of quetta has left at least 15 people dead and 30 others injured. the pakistani military said the explosion targeted an army vehicle and several vehicles were set alight. the biggest star in world athletics, usain bolt of jamaica, has competed in his last major championship. bolt led his team in the 4 x 100 metres sprint relay, in london. but he pulled up injured in the final straight. great britain won the gold,

and silver went to the united states. now on bbc news, our world. china calls it the project of the century. as the west steps back from global leadership, this is china stepping forward — remaking the map of the global economy. with no other country offering a big idea right now, this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century. translation: i'm under a lot of pressure. a massive roll—out of infrastructure built by china. to drive trade across more than 60 countries.

translation: it's like a promised land. china's president claims it's a win—win for all. translation: we will not resort to outdated geopolitical manoeuvring. critics say the only winner will be china. translation: the chinese have done nothing. i'm setting out on a 7,000—mile journey to meet the people of the new silk road, and to understand how it will change their lives and our world. they call them the ships of the desert. for centuries, the camel trains of the silk road dominated trade between china and the west. now, china wants to build a new silk road.

china's belt and road vision is so vast, it may be decades before we can tell whether it's a worthy successor to the ancient silk road. but what we can say is that, with no other country offering a big idea right now, this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century. it's not camels this time. these containers full of chinese goods are going by train. china's grand plan is to build roads, rails, container ports, all the way across asia and into europe. it's hoping to wrap more than 60

countries in its embrace. now, that is a massive new sphere of influence. yiwu is the starting point for the train to europe, famous as the town that makes christmas, and probably many of the things in your home. oh, my gosh. that's quite a weird feeling. china ones sold silk, tea, ceramics, along the ancient silk route. now, it sells absolutely everything, and people come from all over the world to buy their goods here. i'll tell you — 7,200. 0k. nigel‘s been exporting from here for 12 years. he loves the thrill of the deal. can you do1.75?

come on, for an old friend. now he's keen to bring good back the other way. now he's keen to bring goods back the other way. ok, so you got this one... but red tape can make importing to china a nightmare. nigel, you don't import from europe back into china, do you? no. now, why is that? what makes importing to this market hard? the government can change the law at any time. for example, i was ready to import a container of wine last year — had it all ready, but i didn't push the button on it because i was worried that they might change the law once it's on the water. it's a very grey area at the moment. a potential market of nearly 1.4 billion people, and the chinese government controls access. the emperors once claimed to rule all under heaven. with the united states no

longer leading on trade, president xi has seized his chance, with a vision for land and sea routes wrapping the globe. translation: we will not resort to outdated geopolitical manoeuvring. instead, we hope to achieve a new model of win—win cooperation. applause. critics say it makes little sense to move 50 containers by rail when you can shift thousands by sea on a single ship. but it's often a mistake to underestimate chinese ambition. beijing's invested huge political and financial capital in its new silk route, and this train is an important symbol of the biggest development plan in the world right now. nearly half of the journey

from china to europe lies inside china. a lot of ground to cover, and the wealth gap between east and west a challenge as immense as the terrain. china's new silk road needs to solve china's problems — this china out here, notjust the one i've left behind in yiwu. the silk road was once unimaginably remote to most chinese. not anymore. in less than a decade, china's built twice as much high—speed rail as the rest

of the world combined, and pushed it out to the far west. using the lure of the silk road to draw the biggest tourist force in the world. china hopes its new silk road, laden with tourists, can bring wealth to the west. xinjiang is home to the uighur ethnic minority. they're mostly muslim, culturally closer to central asia, and outnumbered in their homeland.

the region has witnessed a vicious cycle, bitterness over marginalisation driving bomb and knife attacks by uighurs, and met by overwhelming force and religious repression. china is investing here — more than $250 million to build this theatre alone. and, the more china invests, the more it has to protect. but this silk road show works hard to spin a story of ethnic harmony. behind her stage make—up, buhalima is a uighur. once, xinjiang was known for music and dance, and she's sad her homeland's now more famous for violence. translation: tourists i've met

told me they heard xinjiang was unsafe, that they couldn't be sure to get out unharmed if they came here. some people did some bad things, and it's affected us all. the theatre employs 100 uighurs, and china hopes the new silk road will give more a stake in the system. the ancient story has moments of danger, and china's grand new narrative is still fraught with peril. deliver on the spin of opportunities for all, or forever scan the crowd for the enemy within. applause. a cathedral in almaty.

kazakhstan — a strategic stop on china's new silk road, but traditionally russia's backyard. many kazakhs grow up speaking russian at school, watching russian tv, even supporting a russian football team. and none of that seems to have changed, but so much else has changed with the coming of china. dosym satpayev is a political analyst. he sees the nations of central asia as billiard balls in a game between the big players, russia and china. china, i believe, will be likely some threat for our independence. why? because, for china, kazakhstan is not an equal partner. for china, kazakhstan only

is like as one of players in the big china geopolitical game. the heart of the new silk road is infrastructure. with the chinese economy slowing back home, state construction companies are put to work abroad. this engineer delivering a state—of—the—art urban railway. translation: china's advanced technologies bring in convenience and more comfort and safety for travellers in kazakhstan. if this project goes well, it will serve as a model for others. all but he tells me most of the jobs here will go to chinese workers, and the loan to build this railway was tied to a chinese

design, china using its money and its muscle to achieve its own ends. nearly two thirds of kazakhstan‘s economy is oil and gas, an increasing share in chinese hands. this was once russia's backyard, but china's now contesting that. kazakhstan is rich in energy and minerals, and it's a vital transit route — stretching all the way from the chinese border to europe. so while kazakhs may still speak russian, a lot of oil in their tanks now belongs to china. but locals here say they see little benefit. in the village of kenkiyak a kindergarten has become a hostel for chinese workers. ardak kubasheva was once a teacher here. now she fears for their future. translation: the chinese

have done nothing. there is a huge oil industry here but no jobs or facilities for young people. we want to live decently, so that we won't be ashamed of our village. she and others here complain of pollution and jobs going to outsiders. government intimidation makes many kazakhs cautious on camera, but privately several accuse chinese companies of using bribes to cut corners. china says its presence abroad is a win—win — a win for china and a win for the people in its path. but that's not the experience here. they say their oil wealth is going elsewhere, and that win—win means china wins once, and then china wins again. some kazakhs will benefit from china's plans — more on the city skyline, a commuter railway, some highways, some pipelines — but building big and fast in a developing country,

that often means corruption and crushing debt. poland has looked west since the end of the soviet bloc, but eastern europe is becoming a key piece in china's strategicjigsaw. it's already started mopping up assets, and hopes the new silk road will bind them together. stalowa wola, built 80 years ago to make steel and things that can be made from steel, like military tanks and bulldozers. in those days nearly everyone

here worked for the polish state, but who's providing the jobs now? this diggerfactory was near financial collapse when chinese state firm liugong rescued it and 1200 workers. the average salary for the assembly line workers, it's around 3800 per month. right. but he tells me this is a business, not a charity. he arrived as a manager six years ago, and he's still trying to modernise the place. their factory in china takes just seven minutes to make a machine which takes four and a half days to build here. he is a long way from home.

it's like a bachelor's life! a little bit, yeah. like in the army. so your parents are keen for you to get married so that they can have grandchildren. i mean, are they trying to help you find somebody? they really did. they tried to introduce potential girlfriends for me. could you search for someone online who actually wanted to live in poland, who even wanted to live in stalowa wola, poland? in the mind of chinese girls they don't have any idea about stalowa wola! it's notjust a wife he needs. at work the company's been struggling for orders. he needs the massive building projects on china's new silk road to boost demand for diggers and keep his workers injobs. we haven't seen a mass of orders yet. so no real difference to the bottom line yet? thanks to the one belt one road initiative i think the customers,

they really have the need for the machines, but not yet. belt and road is the official name for china's new silk road. it's got an official name because it's a government project. state construction companies, state banks — not private traders or investors. critics say this could be digging the world into a big hole. this is a plan by the state agencies, and it's going to be implemented by state agencies, so my worry is that it's going to end up with a huge amount of bad loans. with dozens of countries involved, it could be very very dangerous. where some see risks, others see opportunities. china has a growing appetite

for milk from where the grass is greener. wieslaw inherited this land from his father, and he'll pass it on to his son. they want to expand the farm and the business. he says china could be part of their future. translation: china is a very big and interesting market for us, and we want to try it. it's like a promised land. we are daring to think of doing new things now. but will china be happy to just purchase the product? in some of poland's neighbours, it's buying farmland and setting up its own fast dairy herds. say i'm a chinese investor and i come and knock on your door and i say, "i've got a lot of money — i want to buy yourfarm. you can just sit and take it easy." translation: no, thanks. i wouldn't sell it to anybody. it is my father and grandfather's land and i want to have my touch

on this farm. i don't want to sell it and have only money. it's a long way from this milking parlour to the breakfast table in beijing. europe complains of chinese import barriers. it sells only half as much to china as china sells here. and europe worries that beijing's learned the art of divide and rule, to force a path through europe for its new silk road. shall we have jam first or clotted cream first? what's the right answer? there's no right or wrong. lessons in the british tradition of afternoon tea from a chinese citizen. the lovely sweet jam. .. tingting plans to take her pitch from an essex tearoom to china. a communist state perhaps, but one with a healthy appetite for the rituals of the

british ruling class. herjam is with berries straight from the tiptree farm. china's consumers getting choosy about food quality. a huge market but hard to stand out. i think we're still at the beginning of thejourney. we are starting small by introducing new things, and a few things... i mean, the chinese are a curious country, 01’ cui’ious consumers — they always surprise us. i have never seen so much jam! it is, a world ofjam. so these are all bound for china? mm. but china's a long way away, and shipping by sea can take two months. no wonder the uk currently sells more to the tiny republic of ireland. tingting hopes the new train service will help. once a symbol of british empire and engineering, now it's china's great age of the railways, carrying uk hopes for post—brexit markets. from one end of the new silk road

back to its start. three weeks later and those british goods from the train are on display at a chinese trade fair. no one but me showing an interest. it's a local stir—fry which captures the crowd. so how are other european exporters doing? there's certainly a lot of curiosity about the european products in there, but i didn't overhear any huge deals being done. i think there's still a long way to go. the ancient silk road was driven by private traders from many countries.

the new version is chinese state money and muscle. china has the most ambitious plan for our century. if it succeeds, it will make china superpower again, even mightier perhaps than the empires of old. but if it fails, it'll leave a legacy of bad blood which poisons china's future, and taints even the grandeur of the past. good morning. well, despite a few nuisance showers across north—east england, for many of us, saturday was a promising day. and a ridge of high pressure continues to build through the night, so clear skies here, withjust a little bit more in the way of cloud across the essex and kent coasts, with the legacy of those saturday showers.

but, generally speaking, it is quiet start to sunday. it will be a chilly one, not necessarily in towns and city centres, but in rural spots, expect low single figures to greet you first thing this morning. but there will be a light breeze, and with those clear skies comes lots of pleasant sunshine. so not a bad start to the day. as we go through the afternoon, cloud will start to bubble up, and we'll see a few isolated showers, but hopefully they'll be few and far between. favoured spots likely across scotland and northern ireland. if you dodge the showers, with light winds, 17 or 18 degrees will feel quite pleasant. certainly a better day through the borders, north—east england, down into lincolnshire, in comparison to yesterday. fine, dry and sunny. yes, the risk of an isolated shower further west, into wales and south—west england. but again, you'll be unlikely to catch those, so highs of 19 to 20 degrees here, and low 20s quite possibly, again if we get the sunshine continuing. so, if you're heading off for the final day of the world athletics championships, whether it is the morning or the evening session, perfect weather conditions for those

spectators, and for the athletes. and a similar story, as well, for the premiership matches taking place today. very nice indeed, largely dry here. now, as we move out of sunday, into monday, a change to come. a weather front moves in from the west. it'll bring the heaviest of the rain through scotland, in particular, and north—west england. light and patchy into northern ireland, wales and south—west england. the best of the sunshine, really, through east anglia, the east midlands, down into the south—east corner. here, we could see highest values around 22 or 23. but, even in the cloud and the rain, we're looking at around 15 to 19 degrees. so once the rain clears through and the brightness returns, not too bad an affair. that front will still clear away. it is not going to bring that much in the way of persistent rain across the east, but it will do so through tuesday night, into the start of the day. so on tuesday it looks as though we'll see a scattering of showers, but not a bad affair. 17 to 23 degrees the overall high. that front still to clear away, and then another waits in the wings for wednesday. but, ahead of it, it

stays relatively quiet, so not a bad day on wednesday. it will cloud over from the west with that rain arriving, but that is going to be the story this week. there will be some spells of sunshine from time to time, but also, we can't rule out spells of rain. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: one person dies as a car ploughs into a crowd of people in the us state of virginia after a day of racial violence. the state governor has strong words for the far—right groups involved: our message is plain and simple, go home. you are not wanted in this great commonwealth. the attack followed earlier clashes between far right and anti—fascist protestors — president trump calls for calm. we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. an explosion in the pakistani city

of quetta leaves at least fifteen people dead and thirty others injured.