he'd faced mounting pressure from president trump for using expensive privatejets to travel on government business. the trips are reported to have cost the taxpayer more than $1 million. two other members of the cabinet are under scrutiny for their travel. thousands of catalan separatists have held a final rally ahead of sunday's planned referendum on independence from spain. the head of the regional government told the crowd he believed catalonia would now become a sovereign nation. madrid's trying to block the vote, claiming it is unconstitutional. the us has warned americans not to travel to cuba and has pulled half the staff from its embassy in havana, after a spate of sonic attacks. more than 20 people have suffered symptoms, including dizziness and brain trauma. the cause remains a mystery. now on bbc news, does the world have generation z wrong? generation z are those aged 16 to 22. a major survey compared their view of themselves with that of older

generations, with some eye opening results. "z—ers" may be viewed as shallow digital natives, incapable of real friendships, but they see themselves as hardworking, entrepreneurial and about to change the world for the better. who are generation z? what do they stand for and are they misunderstood by other generations? we have a newsbeat special on bbc news this week allowing 16 to 22—year—olds to discuss how older people view them. some of the highlights of that coming up. but first, let's meet a few people from generation z. my generation are always on the internet.

demanding an answer. are you a boy? are you a girl? i had qualifications but couldn't find a job. things are going badly. i think to be a young person in the uk at the moment is to be confused. you have more opportunities than you've ever seen before but you have no idea what to do with them and you have no direction in which you're going. you're also are constantly told things are going badly, so you are aware there is a housing crisis, you are aware you're going to be in debt, you are aware of all of this stuff and you have no idea how you are going to find success through that. the biggest issue i'm worried

about facing young people is mental health. older generations used to have these check marks of being successful. i'll do this, then i'll get up to uni or get a job. i want this and this and then i'll buy my own house, i'll get married or have kids. there was a really clear plan of what you needed to do to become fulfilled and successful and that's gone. please give it up, a massive welcome! i wanted to write a poem about black ghosts, whose stories never make the news. about black boys who are more likely to be sectioned. about black boys who drowned women. one of the reasons i love poetry is because it's been one of the best ways to channel loads of my insecurities. right now i'm just working on some poetry and some writing. i think since i've gone to uni, i've been feeling really inspired. i'm in a new city, and meeting new people, new adventures and new experiences.

so i've been writing loads and that's a good way of helping me cope with the stresses of being in a new environment. i wanted to write a poem about the philips and viviennes who are scared to be black and successful means you lose more than you gain. anxiety was something i knew was there but i was never sure what caused it. it's a really weird moment when they give you your uni pass for the first time. i think every fresher at the moment is feeling nervous, feeling anxious. they're excited but ultimately everybody feels quite scared. i randomly woke up and suddenly that day even though nothing is going wrong i felt really anxious about going to see my friend who i've seen hundreds of times before. you want to make it into a big deal but what makes it so bad is you are not sure what causes it. now there's people who you are comparing yourselves to. i'm not worried about the person in my class or whether i'm going to beat them. i'm worried about all

the people i see online. every time i see new young person become a millionaire and set up their business, i'm feeling like i'm not doing enough. but i guess until that happens you are home to bel—air. social media to me has given me a completely different career option. hi, everyone, i'm georgina. i started an online blog which turned into a social media business, which turned into an online magazine, and now i do all three. told you it gets noisy in this house. have to wait for my mother to go downstairs and my brother to shut up. i was in a car accident around three years ago now. i have been diagnosed with chronic spinal pain. i can't stay out for more than a couple of hours' at a time.

travelling is so painful. it's quite difficult to be a 20—year—old and not being able to do so much. i'm not actually going to get better. this is life now. social media is the only reason why i do still have a social life. it really has 110% enhanced my life and made it...and made it. my entire life is online, my entire world is online, my career is, my social life is. social media has just been completely everything for my life. i thank it for everything. so newquay is very seasonal.

i've been a lifeguard for four years, but that was seasonal. i've been a receptionist, but once again seasonal for a holiday park. one minute they need me, one minute they don't. had all my qualifications but couldn't find a job. special k, 25p. i looked this up on amazon last night and it's actually £7. i sell it for £1 50. several products you can eat years past its sell by date. as long as it's sealed, kept dry, is perfectly fine. i've always wanted a career where i can help my local community.

it's nice to see families tell their children they can have whatever they want and then they can spend the other money on days out or whatever. so it's good to know you are helping other people. some people might frown on it, but this place is a godsend. she's got a kind heart and she looks after the locals in the best way possible. she's keeping them fed. i've had people spit in my face, i've had people throw products at me. i've had people completely disagree with what i'm doing, but at the end of the day, i'm helping my community and i've got a lot of support behind me, so it doesn't matter. people think if you're male, you should be one way. if you are female, you should be another. it's kind of me going, no,

i'm not either of those. i don't want to be either of those. i'm just going to be here in the middle being me. quite a fashion statement, i think. when you are in cosplay, you are someone else. like, you'll go to a convention. there'll be people who don't know you but they know your character. the best one ever made was probably handsomejack, who i had the wig for. that's my personal favourite, that's my handsome jack wig. we were referring to each other as oui’ character names and they were calling me jack and i just thought, hold on, i really like that actually. my original name, it never felt like me. it was just sort of something i had, butjack is me. like, when i think of myself as younger, that's the name i'd use, that's the name i respond to more often than not. mum and i are headed out later.

we're going to see young guns. so i'm gonna need something to wear that i can move around in but also that's going to look sharp. ‘cause that's important. one of the really good things about not being restricted about where you shop is you get a good variety when buying stuff. i quite like fun patterned shirts, as well as shirts with my name on. clothes are sorted. that was easy. now i'll choose jewellery and make up. probably not going to bother with make—up today. i'm not feeling it, but i do love always wearing jewellery. i might have lied about the whole no make—up thing. it's only powder. it's fine. i do often think to myself, oh, hey, if you are enjoying this make up, if you're enjoying dressing a certain way, maybe you're just playing it up.

it's kind of really the anxiety. there is no right or wrong way to be non—binary. the whole thing is, it's personal. we're on our way now to go and see young guns. music was quite important to me growing up, especially as a young teenager who never felt quite like i fitted in. i was definitely a massive emo. you know, they have all these songs about not being quite right, not fitting in, being the odd one out and that was quite important for me. do you remember how you first found out about the whole non—binary thing because i never felt the need to come out. it wasn't actually a thing. maybe it was something on facebook. probably a name or something. yeah. yeah, but, you know, whatever.

however she chooses to be, i have no problem with that. if one day she wakes up and says, i'm a boy today, whatever. you're pretty cool. we do cool stuff. we do very cool stuff. if it weren't for you, i wouldn't be going out to see cool bands. i'm useful in some ways. i am in a close—up. i did that. in terms of what we see of non—binary people in the media and such, i've got it easy because i do fit the whole stereotype of being white and skinny and androgynous looking. but really there is no particular way to be non—binary.

you don't have to look or behave in a certain way. if you are non—binary, you are. it doesn't matter what your race is, what your body is like. you just are. there are cases of people assuming, particularly with me, because i look more feminine than anything, oh, girl, she, miss. and some of the time that doesn't bother me, but sometimes, particularly when i'm having a masculine day, or an a—gender day, it reminds me that i am not passing as well as i did and that's not fair. i'm hesitant to say that we shouldn't have gender as a whole because i know for some people it's quite important to them and who they are, but our expectations and our roles of this is what women do, this is what men

do, we can't go outside that is, is incredibly limiting. i've definitely had drunk old man coming up to me on the street while eating a baguette. are you a boy or a girl? demanding an answer. hopefully as time passes, people will be more... i don't know whether to say forgiving or accepting. they'll understand more and then people won't be so funny about it. they'll just be, ok, that's just jack, that's the way they are. my grandad would go out of his way to do anything if you thought he could get a laugh from it. it's like watching the pictures, this. they come as one, my grandparents. it's hard to think of them as a separate parts. this is my front door and we'll go to my grandad's

through their front door. what you got? have you got a joke for me? to market, to market market, we'll buy a good shoe. somebody threw a tomato or two. the tomato was ripe when it come with this skin. but this one didn't, it came in a tin. you're great. cheers, mate. oh, hello. a bit of cake. are you ready? since my grandad got diagnosed, i wouldn't say my relationship with him has changed in any way.

i still see him as my grandad, how i've always seen him. say hello. hello. i see each and every one of them as role models. they are my family but they'll also my friends. he's your mate. we've all stuck together, haven't we? if he wants something doing, i'll go and do it. i'd run a mile for him. singing i would be half the man if i didn't have them. we build the annex on for mum to come and live with this when declan was three. he can't really remember not living altogether, can he? we've got three generations of knowledge. he tells us things that we don't even know. he keeps us up—to—date with the tech. i'm miles behind.

day's wasted if he doesn't make someone laugh or smile. that's what i take from that. that's my motto for the day. it makes you smile. those are few people from generation z. here are some more. an audience of 16 to 20—year—olds joined us. i am a musician. social media is integral to my career but some think it is a bad thing. i am 16 and i feel like society is making it harder for our generation by a skiing is to follow out a map to our roots. i am constantly told i need to get work experience but no—one

is willing to give us our first chance. i'm 22 and super optimistic. i worked in uni two or three different jobs and took a voluntary yeah out of unpaid work to do placements. as soon as i graduated on friday, i was in myjob on monday. congratulations. what did you study and what jobs were you doing? how did you find it coping with that? studied fashion design. i did retail, barwork, anything that would help along with my student loan. bended placements for different companies. a lot of them in the fashion industry are free. it is so competitive and you have to work for free. from thatt, i got a job with the only company that paid me.

do you feel lucky? no, because i worked hard. we work hard and it is not luck, it is grafting. i have just graduated with a history degree. i do see what you say that grafting is important. everyjob i applied for, it means experience. i want to work in politics but it is very competitive. it is not a cave everyone to live in london. i'm from newcastle and can't go and live in london forfree. for me, it was always i had to go to university to succeed. it was always shoved down my throat. by who? by teachers. what the teachers say, peers think you are not going to university. are you sure? for me, i knew what i wanted to do

and especially in the creative industry, it is an industry that you do not need a degree to have. you need experience. sometimes you have to do stuff for free and you need that experience to get into it. connections, you need to get yourself about and use the resources that you have which is technology, social media. the creative industry on social media is unbelievable. i'm 21 and i'm a blind beauty blogger. we are really not lazy. social media is a massive platform to show everyone around the world that you can be disabled, have anything wrong with you and you can do anything you want to do to stop it is empowering and i think the older generation needs to google disability and googled transgender people.

we are really conquering the world and kicking people's butts because we are amazing. what was it that inspired you? i went blind when i was 17 and i am blind now and 21. i felt alone and couldn't do it any more. i thought i can't be the only person feeling like this. i made a youtube channel. lucy edwards. i built a community and ifelt like i wasn't alone. i have built a platform i am proud of. i created a hash tag called hash tag soggy boots matter. there are a lot of young women who have saggy boots and get fun poked out of them. i took a photo of my boots and i explained the fact that i would go to places like marks & spencer and get a bra fitting. i try them on and it doesn't look

like the one on the packet because she has perfect boots. i have taught myself that we have to open up these conversations. social media is the best way to open up a conversation. anybody can get involved and access it. the idea of young people wasting time and being lazy, it is ridiculous. we are creating the change we want to see. it is hilarious that older people say we are always on our phones and social media. who do they come to when they need help setting up their phones? you are a gymnast and in the public eye. what is social media like you? really positive but it can have negatives. for our sport, competition where is very revealing.

it is all the leotards. i have had things where people see you grow up from when you start competing. you're aged ten stop you grow up and change to a woman. you get a couple of comments like she looks a bit overweight and try and put you down a bit. i had one this year after my european championships. first british gymnast to win all—round gold in an international, by the way. someone had put a video of my floor routine online and this woman thought she would make it obvious that she was saying i had put on weight. she doesn't know me, doesn't know the journey i went through from post—olympics to now. in my opinion, she can't really comment. this is a big thing for me.

the first time i have admitted it in public. i am bisexual. i think it has been really difficult for me to come out of this stage, especially to people at school because there is so much stereotyping. so many presumptions around it and people assuming you are a certain way because of how you act and who you are attracted to. in reality, it is not something you can control. they think it is a sin. i am hard wired that way and it is something that i truly believe was the way i was born. i'm sick of people telling me i have to be a different way because that is not how it should be.

you are telling us you are bisexual and your family and friends are hearing this for the first time. how do you think they will feel? i'm hoping they'll be ok with it. it's going to be really awkward when i get home. i think this is the easiest way to do it. having that conversation face—to—face is really difficult. maybe i have taken the coward ‘s way out, i don't know. hope you enjoyed that. the lives of generation z were a big part of our coverage on radio one this week. you can find more online and searching for news beats. hello. some of us may get off to a fine start on saturday morning, but by looking at the big picture you can work out why that is not going to last.

several weather systems queueing up in the atlantic to come our way, so we will all have rain at some stage of the weekend and the winds will be picking up as well. this is how it looks for early rises. wales and north—west england with cloud and outbreaks of rain. a lot of cloud in the rest of england. showers spreading east as the day goes on. a lot of fine weather in northern ireland, with variable cloud and sunny spells. after morning showers in scotland, the afternoon looks drier, with fewer showers, more sunshine. there's your fine weather in northern ireland. some sunny spells in northern england as well. but for the midlands, east anglia, south—east england, likely to be a fair amount of cloud around and an increased chance of showers spreading east in the afternoon. for wales and western areas of england, we keep a lot of cloud throughout and the rain gathers again by late afternoon and into the evening. another spell of wet weather moves in and covers much of the uk as we go through saturday night and into sunday morning. the wind picking up as well. in northern ireland we have some

especially heavy rain coming in by the end of saturday night. a mild start to sunday and a mild sunday to come. it won't feel like that in the wind. cloud around. a wet morning in northern ireland. heavy rain spreading across scotland. for the rest of england and wales there will be some outbreaks spreading eastwards as the day goes on. of course it is windy on sunday. coastal gales in the west. the wet weather clearing through much of scotland and northern ireland as it brightens up. a few showers around, but the wind will get even stronger, especially in scotland. so it will be very blustery in scotland for the great scottish run and expect a lot of rain in the morning, clearing in the afternoon. there will be some rain, although not as persistent as the rain in scotland, but some outbreaks moving through during sunday. but it's close to this low pressure going into monday where we expect some really nasty wind for a time, especially in parts of scotland. the further north you are, severe gales, up to 70 mph. gusts in the northern england could be up to 50—60 mph,

so that could be disruptive. showers towards the north—west and some spells of persistent rain into northwest scotland. so the weekend starts on a fine note for some, showers towards the north—west and some spells of persistent rain into northwest scotland. so the weekend starts on a fine note for some, but we will all have rain moving in and the winds picking up as well, especially sunday and into monday. hello and welcome to bbc world news. i'm tom donkin. president trump has accepted the resignation of his health secretary, tom price, who had come under pressure after it emerged he had been using expensive private jets while travelling on government business. mr trump had said he was disappointed in mr price. mr price is the latest on a growing list of administration officials

to resign or be sacked. the bbc‘s laura bicker has the latest from washington. donald trump pledged to his supporters that he would come to washington to drain the swamp, to end politics as usual.