this is bbc news. the headlines at 11pm. after a five—hour armed siege, armed police storm a bowling alley in nuneaton, freeing two hostages. one man has been arrested. he had gotten over his head like this and you're shouting, game over, get out! was screaming. we heard crying from kids. sajid javid says the government should consider borrowing more to build upto 300,000 new homes a year in england. the zimbabwean president, robert mugabe, is removed as a goodwill ambassador for the world health 0rganisation two days after his controversial appointment. lewis hamilton moves a step closer to a fourth world championship after victory in the us grand prix. and at 11.30pm, the papers, including the times, which says the chancellor faces an ambush from fellow tories ahead of the budget. that and the rest of the front pages coming up in half an hour.

good evening and welcome to bbc news. police have been questioning a gunman who held two people hostage at a bowling alley in nuneaton for several hours. the siege took place at the bermuda park retail and leisure site, which was packed with families at the time. warwickshire police say the incident was resolved and a suspect arrested and taken to hospital. there were no other casualties. sophie long has the details. panic, as parents desperately try to get their children to safety. she was very scared, because we have small kids

so very scared! like the movies. lots of arms with shells with everything, with dogs, with everything. the park, home to play areas and restaurants, was packed with families. just after half past two a man entered the bowling alley with what eyewitnesses described as a shotgun. he ran up to the door with a gun in his hand and opened the door and told me to get out of the area... these two friends were in the middle of a game. a man who was also playing bowling run across our lane shouting, get out, get out. he had a gun over his head like, he's shouting, game over, get out! everyone was panicking, screaming, you heard crying from kids. everyone was running trying to get out of the doors. pretty hectic, really. just horrible to be part of.

most made it out but the gunman held two men hostage for more than four hours. friends waited as they remained trapped inside. apparently he was taken to the door by the gunman and taken back inside. it is sickening to be honest with you — nobody should be put in that situation. in places like america, but in a little place in warwickshire, it is not right, it is quite worrying. just after half past six, police stormed the bowling alley. 45 minutes later they confirmed the incident was over. relief for families who had had to barricade themselves inside the soft play area next door. it was really scary and when we saw the police, i thought the man was in here. and then when we went outside i felt a little bit more safe. it was just so scary seeing other people's familiesjust

fleeing from the danger. it'sjust upsetting. warwickshire police say one man has been arrested. two others were led to safety unharmed. well, specialist firearms officers and police negotiators brought the incident to a successful close. we know tonight that both men held hostage here today were employees at the bowling alley. they were checked by amublance workers for any sign of shock. tonight the police superintendent said he wanted to thank all of those caught up in this very frightening incident for their patience and co—operation. he said he wanted to reassure the community that it was not terrorist related. a senior cabinet minister has told the bbc that the government should consider borrowing more money to invest in building new homes. speaking on the andrew marr show, the communities secretary, sajid javid, said up to 300,000

new homes a year are needed — a level of construction not seen since the 1960s. labour criticised the plans for not going far enough. 0ur political correspondent, ben wright, reports. everyone knows there is a housing crisis. politicians have been promising to solve it for years. now, it looks like there will be another building push in the budget next month. the budget will be covering housing, but what i want to do is make sure that we're using everything we have available to deal with this housing crisis. and where that means, for example, that we can sensibly borrow more to invest in the infrastructure that leads to more housing, take advantage of some of the record low interest rates that we have, i think we should absolutely consider that. as for how many, mrjavid said that up to 300,000 new homes are needed annually — that's double the number built in england last year. and for a family needing space in the south—east of england, the shortage of housing is a real problem.

we have four children, so trying to find something that is affordable for us is ridiculous. i mean, if we move further north then we could probably afford something that would be the right size — but, erm, logistically, it doesn't work. britain has mobilised before to tackle its need for homes. architect mr appleton asked housewife mrs appleton for suggestions... in the 1950s, the housing minister, harold macmillan, got britain building 300,000 houses, both private and council, a year. we need a national crusade to get homes built... in recent years, the government has made it easier for buyers to borrow their way into home ownership, and there have been changes made to planning laws. but ambitious building targets are hard to hit. i think that you have to work very, very hard to put in place the resources to make that happen, and i would be very surprised if we met 300,000 anywhere in the next ten years. new houses are being built, like these in south—east london.

but prices remain way out of reach for many first—time buyers, and there has been a historic political failure to match demand with supply. but in its readiness now to borrow for building, not only is the government moving further away from austerity, it's also fighting on the same political turf as labour. if hot air built new homes, ministers would have fixed the housing crisis by now. now, any promise of new investment is welcome, but it's actions not words that count, and we've seen under this government, spending on new affordable housing slashed and are now at a 24—year low. so, what will be in next month's budget box? today, one of the chancellor's cabinet colleagues was either giving a big house—building hint or doing some last—minute lobbying. but if the government borrows money to build on the scale suggested, that would certainly mark a new approach. the international trade secretary, liam fox, says the government won't decide how much money it will pay to the european union

after brexit until it becomes clear what trade agreement the two sides will reach. dr fox says ministers are still trying to establish what the eu wants. iam i am saying that but we will decide isa number i am saying that but we will decide is a number when we can see the final package. this has david davis in discussions with ministers across the european union, we have made very clear our position and when we said, would you simply given but before you knew the outcome, they say absolutely not. so why should why? but the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, says she thinks the uk is "heading for no deal". and despite talk of progress at the recent eu summit, the reality is that negotiations on the divorce remain deadlocked. intransigence is on theresa may's side because you does not have the strength or authority to be able to

control her backbenchers, let alone her cabinet and i think we are heading for no deal and i think that isa heading for no deal and i think that is a serious threat to britain and it is not in our interests for that to happen. we bolster that. —— we. that. the world health organisation has reversed its decision to appoint the zimbabwean president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. after a wave of criticism, the head of the who — which is part of the united nations — said he'd listened to the concerns of donor countries and campaigners. they'd said that mr mugabe's record on the zimbabwean economy and healthcare should have ruled him out. andrew harding reports. he has been in powerfor 37 years, but zimbabwe's president robert mugabe held onto his newjob for less than a week. a humiliating blow for the 93—year—old. mr mugabe was selected as a global ambassador for the world health organisation by its first african boss who hoped the elder statesman might rally other leaders in the fight against diseases like cancer. but today the who quickly

backed down after a fierce international backlash. under president mugabe's long rule, zimbabwe's economy and health system have crumbled. britain and other western governments have accused him of widespread human rights violations and targeted him with sanctions. there was delight today from a broad range of organisations which had condemned mr mugabe's united nations role as a sickjoke. there was outrage that mugabe could be appointed a goodwill ambassador, especially given the state of public health services and access to basic public health facilities. even painkillers in public hospitals. this comes as a relief that the who has seen the light. but mr mugabe is not without support, both inside zimbabwe and around the continent.

today his supporters describe the who's u—turn as yet another sign of western meddling in africa. president mugabe has yet to react in person, but few zimbabweans can be surprised about this decision. their leader may be proud of his achievements but tellingly he travels abroad for his own health care. a scottish man has been sentenced to three months injailfor touching a man's hip in a dubai bar. jamie harron, who's from stirling, was arrested injuly and charged with public indecency. he claimed he had simply been trying to avoid spilling his drink when he touched the man. japan's prime minister shinzo abe has declared victory in the general election. his liberal democratic party is heading for at least 300 seats injapan‘s lower house of parliament. mr abe is now on course to become japan's longest serving post—war prime minister. his victory may also open the way

for him to fulfil his goal of scrapping japan's pacifist constitution amid tensions with north korea. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. just a warning, his report contains some flash photography from the start. shinzo abe took a gamble and it has paid off. this summer the japanese prime minister's approval rating plunged to less than 30%. now he has won a big victory and four more years in power. this victory makes mr abe japan's most successful post—war politician. he was assisted to his win by typhoon lan, that helped keep nearly half of japanese voters at home. but by far the biggest help was division and confidence in japan's opposition parties. last month this woman, the popular governor of tokyo, vowed to take on mr abe

at the polls. but come election day, she was at a conference in paris. mr abe claims he called the election because of the threat from north korea, who said he needed a mandate from the japanese people to get tough on pyongyang and its missile programme. translation: i believe this election was firstly about the korean threat. you could say the north korean threat was the biggest ever but the issue closer to his heart is changing the constitution. japan has a modern military. but for over 70 years it has not fired a single shot in anger. article 9 of the constitution states japan will forever renounce war and the use of force to settle international disputes. mr abe and his supporters considered those words a humiliation,

forced on japan by the american victors. he now has the best chance he will ever get to remove them. the spanish government has rejected accusations from the regional authorities in catalonia that it has carried out a coup by moving to impose direct control after the disputed independence referendum. people opposed to catalan independence have been protesting in barcelona, from where tom burridge reports. this scene, hard to imagine just a few weeks ago. maybe 200 people outside a military barracks in barcelona. support for spain's civil guard police and the army inside.

they called for the catalan needed to go to prison, and these people support the move by madrid to scrap catalonia cillilers devolved government and take control. they want independence and i tried to talk to them but they are like a wall. two sides, two visions of a catalan crisis, neither listening to the other. the atmosphere today in catalonia is febrile. people are outside a military barracks calling for catalan politicians to be arrested, and calling for action to be taken against catalonia's public radio and tv. madrid accuses catalan public tv of propaganda, which spanish officials claim has fuelled the pro—independence cause. in a highly controversial move,

madrid might try to exert control over their programmes. i think it would be terrible, because we are doing ourjob, we are journalists, we are here to explain the things that happen here in catalonia, in spain and in the world. and i think that they are violating one of the principal rights of freedom of speech. and the spanish state has jailed susanna's husband, the leader of a prominent organisation accused disorder during a demonstration, a charge he, his family and supporters strenuously denied. translation: he is a political prisoner. he is not a politician but he is in jailfor defending his ideas. the spanish government denies that

susanna's husband and another activist who has been refused bail as well,... but she has no confidence they will get a fair trial, when the political climate in spain is as it is today. the headlines on bbc news... after a five—hour armed siege, police storm a bowling alley in nuneaton and free two hostages, arresting one suspect. sajid javid says the government should consider borrowing more to build up to 300,000 new homes a year in england. lewis hamilton has moved a stepped closer to a fourth world championship after victory in the us grand prix. sport now and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. lewis hamilton missed the chance

to wrap up a fourth formula one world title despite victory at the united states grand prix, as sebastien vettel kept the drivers' championship alive. hamilton was beaten off the line by his championship rival sebastian vettel who led after the first corner, but hamilton reeled him back in and retook the lead on the sixth lap. from there the result was seldom in doubt, leading home vettel and kimi raikkonen. hamilton needed to win and vettel to finish sixth or lower to win the title. now he just needs to finish in the top five in mexico next weekend, and he will be crowned champion. tottenham manager mauricio pochettino says his team are starting to feel at home at wembley as they beat liverpool 4—1 in front of a record premier league crowd of almost 81 thousand at the national stadium. harry kane scored his side's opener after four minutes and sealed the win in the second half, punishing a poor defensive performance from liverpool,

as spurs move level on points with second—placed manchester united. we created chances and we scored. this is important. but only to play well. to be in front of the goal. and today, both things in the first half, we showed a great performance. the everton manager ronald koeman believes he can turn his side's poor run around, despite overseeing another defeat, this time at the hands of arsenal, a result that leaves his side in the relegation zone. 5—2 it finished at goodison park — mezut ozil grabbing his side's second, one of his side's best. alexis sanchez also on the scoresheet — this, though, everton's fifth league defeat of the season. it isa

it is a really tough time, the team is not performing well, the position on the table is not the position that everton should be on. everybody knows that. even after today, i see a lot of positives. how difficult it is. it is a negative situation for the team. and then everything is negative. but i am not like that. motherwell have booked their place in the scottish league cup final for the first time in more than a decade, louis molt with a stunning goal in a 2—nil win over rangers. the englishman lit up this match, as motherwell through to next month's final where they meet the holders, celtic. for everybody involved in the club, there have been dark days and people have struggled and it is nice to

repay the faith they had on me and give them something to cheer about so give them something to cheer about soiam give them something to cheer about so i am chuffed to bits to be associated with that football team. wasps got their european champions cup campaign back on track, with a 41 points to ten victory over harlequins. christian wade scored his second try of the game, and the last of the match, his interception putting the gloss on an impressive display, that moves them up to second in the group after defeat in their opener. a much needed win with back to back matches against pool leaders la rochelle to come. exeter produced an equally impressive performance to beat the big spending french side montpellier in france to make it two wins from two, but ulster were beaten by la rochelle. 0n the final day of the european track cycling championships in berlin, great britain picked up another gold medal — bringing their tally to three golds. this one came in the women's madison. the duo of ellie dickinson and elinor barker took the title on the very last sprint. it's barker's second medal of the championships and britain's fourth in total. that's all the sport for now. ending child marriage is one

of the united nations' sustainable development goals. but it's a problem that doesn'tjust affect developing countries. in america, in 25 out of the 50 states there is no minimum age for a marriage to be legal. every year, it's thought that thousands of girls, some not even teenagers, get married in the united states — often to older men. 0ur north america correspondent, aleem maqbool, reports. what happened to angel here in america may seem unexpected. she feels her childhood was torn away from her at the age ofjust i3, she says her mother forced her into a marriage. i would love to go back to school... after years of feeling there was no way out, she finally escaped, and is speaking out about her child marriage for the first time. i was a slave to my ex,

i was a slave to this idea that my mother wanted us to all be together and for me to have kids so young. and to do all of that, i still have all of this emotional baggage of wanting to have done something with my life by now, but haven't been able to, because i was too busy taking care of kids. it is really... all the time that i think about what i could have done, or could have been. angel's marriage fits an international pattern of child brides being far more likely not to get an education, and to face violent abuse. we might be talking about angel's story here in rural idaho, but this is a national problem, because children are permitted to marry across this country, with some states having no set minimum marriage age at all. we extrapolate from the data and estimate that in all 50 states, including the 12 states that don't

track the data, approximately a quarter of a million children were married in america between 2000 and 2010, and again, if we look at the data that we do have from the 38 states, we know this is overwhelmingly girls to adult men. fine, how are you...? sherryjohnson is trying to convince politicians in her home state of florida to change the laws that allowed her to be forced to marry — at the age ofjust ii. i got married to my rapist. erm...the guy that raped me. actually, my mother saw fit for me to marry him to make the situation of me getting pregnant... i can say, to make it look better overall. and so, versus putting the handcuffs on him at 20 years of age, they actually put the handcuffs on me at 11. for many, it is shocking to see those numbers in black—and—white on an american marriage certificate.

shocking still to know that in much of the country, there is nothing to stop it happening again today. the songbirds ofjava in indonesia are facing extinction because of huge demand for them in wildlife markets. they're trapped and sold to buyers who prize their musical sound, but some species may disappear within the next ten years, unless urgent conservation action is taken. victoria gill reports from java. the steep slopes of mount mala bar, west java. our guide knows this lush forest inside out. it's where he made his living. this isjust showing me how you make a bird trap out of some sticks from the trees around us and a piece of string. aye...and then it's caught.

yeah. where would those birds go? he no longer hunts here. he's now a conservationist. but in forests across java, songbirds are still trapped in vast numbers. pramuka injakarta, the largest wildlife market in asia. up to 16,000 birds can be found for sale here in a single day. the vast majority of those will have been caught in the wild. it's that constant harvesting of wild birds by their thousands that's really driving this extinction crisis. the bitter irony of the destructive trade is that the demand is driven by a national passion for songbirds — something on full display at this bird—singing competition. but it's now reached a tipping point. this bird may be the only one of its kind left on the planet. this bird in here could be the last of this kind of bird? yeah.

the rufous—fronted laughingthrush is one of 19 species identified by a global assessment to be on the brink of extinction. that's why british conservationists are at this centre as part of an international effort to save some of the world's most critically endangered songbirds by taking them out of the wild and into captivity to breed. if we do nothing, these species will all go extinct within the next decade, there's no doubt about that. but we're going to do everything we possibly can, we're going to fight to save these species. the search is now on for safe habitat to release these birds. this small flock is being set free in a private safari park. but with some species now down to fewer than 100 individuals, their long—term future depends on human intervention. let's get the weather forecast.

susan, what is being held off by the warm weather? looking better than it has done. two big storms in the last week, 0phelia and brian and the prospect for the week ahead is driven by low pressure, this impressive swirl in the atlantic but the centre will stay there, so not the centre will stay there, so not the strong winds we have had and as you said, it will feel warmer. especially for the latter part of the weekend, pulling in warm air for the weekend, pulling in warm air for the south. quite chilly outside at the south. quite chilly outside at the moment across northern and eastern areas with clear skies and light wind and could be patchy grass frost across scotland and northern england first thing. generally, for monday morning this weather front courtesy of the low pressure were contending with and cloud and rain, heavy rain from northern and western scotla nd heavy rain from northern and western scotland and let the very brightest

in the east, enjoy that. northern ireland, the worst rain getting out of the way quickly so brightening up maybe by the end of rush hour. gloomy across northern england and the midlands, wales and the south—west and low cloud across the hills with murky conditions and not great for the dry to work. further east it is drier as the day starts andi east it is drier as the day starts and i might even be early brightness. but it will be short lived as this will come piling over through the morning. as it works eastwards, it makes way in the west for brightness to spread in so by the afternoon it is also looking brighter across scotland, northern ireland was sharp showers and lovely sunshine for the second part of the day from northern england, wales and the midlands. southern and eastern areas lumbered with thicker cloud but 17 in london, an indicator of the milder air that could get pulled oui’ the milder air that could get pulled our way. as you move through tuesday, war fronts coming our way. as you move through tuesday, warfronts coming our way, rain at times across england and

wales, but skies for the far north of scotla nd wales, but skies for the far north of scotland and mild air across the south of the british isles on tuesday. despite the gloom, temperatures up to 18 or 19. and we carry on with this weather front straddling the british isles through the middle of the week, uncertainty as to how far north and will push on wednesday, perhaps it looks like more sunshine for the north and from northern england on wednesday and for the south, even though cloudy, 18 or 19 degrees. and we continue pushing that weather front around the british isles for the rest of this week. changeable prospects but overall light wind, rain around and the biggest thing is the fact we're moving into some warmer weather for many of us through the ahead. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines.