goldie fights with 19—year—old on the way to yoga. goldie dies in knife fight on the way to yoga. either way that's not going to look right! first tonight, the breaking political story. the labour mp, kelvin hopkins, has been suspended from the party after it received allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards a young woman. the labour party is remaining relatively tight—lipped about it. our political editor, nick watt is here. nick, what can you tell us? kelvin hopkins, a 76—year—old former shadow minister has been suspended from the labour party and that means the whip is suspended from him after an incident that took place in 2014 with a young labour activist and he was addressing the labour society at essex university and it is alleged that he sent a text after saying, if only i was a0 years younger and this why he has been suspended, he then allegedly rubbed himself against her. by the event in the daily telegraph

the woman reported it to the whip‘s office twice before he was made a shadow cabinet minister. so if that is to be believed, then the whips knew about this. also eva reported it in december 2015 injune hopkins was appointed to the shadow cabinet. but he had been reprimanded by the office and the leader knew. the report to the leader's office was yes, he has been reprimanded, but the matter had been settled and the only information they knew at that stage was that he sent this text saying if only i was a0 years younger. it was only today that the further information came that he sent a text

saying he wanted to meet outside the formal essex university event and crucially only today that the information came through of this very serious sexual harassment, a sexual assault, that he had rubbed himself against her and that is why the labour acted immediately. it is only after that daily telegraph produced that story that we have had that response from the labour party. so they're having to be made to react rather than being proactive. in the sun there is more on michael fallon that may give a clue to his demise. we have a story about his behaviour. this is reporting and this may well explain why he resigned so quickly, that he is alleged to have told andrea leadsome, his cabinet colleague, who complained of cold hands,

he said, i know a warm place to put them. that is deeply inappropriate and that may well explain why he resigned so quickly. but there are allegations that there are serial examples of wholly inappropriate behaviour by sir michael fallon. those allegations would have gone to the chief whip‘s office, the chief whip is no i the defence secretary. —— is now. you can look at two ways, he is a close ally of theresa may, or she didn't act with elan to produce a woman for that office. she likes to promote people she trusts. but there is fury that gavin williamson has been made defence secretary, because he was involved in the conversation with michael fallon, saying, is there anything more.

the answer meant he resigned from the cabinet. now downing street are saying that gavin williamson wasn't then involved in the next level of conversation, which is who should be our new defence secretary. but that is not how it has been seen. i have been in touch with somebody who worked close with theresa may in the past and said many say this is the biggest and probably last mistake, that gavin williamson and his deputyjulia smith are seen as parasites feeding off her weakness and using it to advance themselves. i have been looking at these issues and you see how angry theresa may is, she is has been campaigning to change the culture at westminster and now this is really sort of posing a challenge to her premiership. the dark clouds of an unlucky premiership are hovering over theresa may. there is the feel of

a prime minister struggling at times to control events. the prime minister has lost her defence secretary after he admitted that his behaviour had fallen short of the high standards expect of the armed forces. theresa may has campaigned for decades to change the habits of male—dominated world of westminster. domestic violence is appalling. many women were made to feel like they were making mountains out of mole hills. in a cruel twist the unravelling of this culture is now challenging her leadership. it is like a greek tragedy what theresa may's legacy will be. nobody doubts that theresa may hates this culture that she is having to wrangle with. nobody would deny that. but the fact of the matter is she is too weak amongst her own

people to be able to dole out the punishments i'm certain she would wants to. theresa may is so week she embarked on a minimal reshuffle. but it left a sour taste and one said it has the intrigue of the house of cards with the surreal element of the rick mayall commend. —— comedy. other tories dismiss the febrile atmosphere at westminster and say it is wrong to suggest that the prime minister is being weakened by the unmasking of a culture she has campaigned to reform. i'm astonished by this sort of narrative. she, it has been something she has been passionate about, all the equality issues,

gender issues when people in the conservative party didn't talk about it, didn't care, and i am, i don't, i'm mystified by how somebody with such integrity has the narrative has built up that it is her fault. but some of it goes back many years and will be very hard to prove. we have got to investigate the serious stuff and i'm sure she would be the first to say this and then draw a line, move on and sort the stuff out. the prime minister has led the way on this. she was clear about it on monday. in the statement she was clear at prime minister's question and she has made it clear to the cabinet and said if you believe you don't meet the standard that is to be tolerated, then you have to think about your position. —— meet.

and to that extents, michael fallon realised he would not cross the bar she had set. that is down to her leadership and saying, we have to take this seriously and lead. it is notjust about the conservative party, but the labour party they have something facing potential rape charges which is very serious. theresa may is soldiering on, but after her inner circle was wiped out in the general election, she will hope events don't conspire to make her an even more isolated figure. our political editor nick watt. well now to chew over the latest allegations from westminster i'm joined by the lbc presenter iain dale and the former aide to the deputy prime minister, polly mackenzie. we heard jess philips saying it is a greek tragedy. westminster is falling to bits.

we have been here in the 90s with back to basics with a weak prime minister and day after day revelations about affairs and all sorts of things in parliament. everyone thought everybody in parliament was having an affair. this is slightly different, sexual what racksment. —— harassment. this is a plague on all their houses. no one has escaped. no party escapes, it is in the lord's and the commons and theresa may has missed an opportunity to put a new broom behind cleaning this out. now the williamson, it is because she is weak that theresa may can't move to make a bolder move. but she wants to keep gavin williamson close. it is a bold move to put somebody from out side the cabinet there. is it a sign of weakness.

she is not weaker than she was yesterday. which was weak? she is not in a great position. gordon brown putjacqui smith to home secretary, margaret thatcher did it with cecil parkinson. but not in this crisis. the whip's office have been part of problem, they covered up the problem. where did this spread sheet come from. gavin williamson as defence secretary may well know about other examples of, we just don't know, of other bad behaviour that will come back to bite the cabinet. i think the reshuffle is a separate issue. what this story and it is across all parties, i don't think anyone should try to gain political capital, the complaints system does not work. people take to it the whips and it doesn't get used.

the whips office this to control mps. what people are shocked to know is that actually there has been a real culture of sexual misbehaviour and it is not about sex, but about power. yes, westminster is still male—dominated, it is older men in senior position, junior women and men... they felt uncomfortable and the men saying, i had no idea. it is not only talking of theresa may and you can juxtapose what theresa may has done with what ruth davidson said about cleaning the stable. here we have a situation wherejeremy corbyn‘s own office of whips is also possibly compromised.

it shows you that the system doesn't work and i have spoken with people in the whips office, around parliament still, the issue here and there has to be a full inquiry. what i would like the labour party to do is to appoint somebody independent to come in and look at the situation. let's look at the leadership on this. we don't know what is going on behind the scenes, but i do not know thatjeremy corbyn has been out being condemning people in the last as—hours. i couldn't agree more. there are two problems. one is sexual abuse by a small number of people and a wider culture of secrecy and cover ups. i would like to see everybody who has made a complaint make a subject request to find out what records they have been keeping.

they say they don't know. how do you have these complaints against kelvin hopkins and then the same, how could there be such a position where the woman who makes the complaints watches him walk into the shadow cabinet. he is an mp and she is not. the issue is cultural. it is women not coming forward and young men, they don't want their names splashed across the newspaper. there is no confidential way to report this and it is the power thing. a lot of people are scared. power does not create monsters, it reveals monsters. that was said in house of cards. the problem is the whips, because the job of the whips is to get legislation through the house of commons or stop it going through. anything else is of secondary importance.

there was a story condemning the 1922 committee for blocking david cameron's attempts to give the whips power to sort this out, because they knew they would cover it up. the problem is a male mp's being sleazy and abusing power. everyone thinking it's more useful to keep those things in a draw and use them as blackmail rather than sorting things out. going back to the appointment of the new defence secretary, what would have been the ball thing that theresa may could have done without the appointment? she should have an appointed and a woman, the first female... why should she have done that? just as a statement? because an opportunity was there to put a woman into a job that men have historically done, an opportunity to say that she is bringing a new broom to appointments and dealing

with sexual harassment by putting in somebody who doesn't have a history of doing it. and milton would have been a popular choice to be chief whip, she is experienced, people say she has had good experience of the grievance procedure as well so she might have signalled a fresh start. the deputy chief whip... theresa may. . .. when i saw her go into downing street eyes and dues either going to be chief whip or the new chairman of the conservative party, why theresa may did not take the opportunity to have a new party chairman i do not know because everyone knows patrick mcloughlin wants to step down. how damaging is it to the whole prosecution of politics in this country that we are having a slow drip of even more egregious and there are other things, the other night, john mann said

a newsnight he knew of a rape at at westminster, but he did not name names, but he would not be saying that unless he had a pretty good idea. so we know more is to come and how damaging is that to the standing of politicians who are standing is already damaged thanks to the expenses scandal and so forth? all of my friends say to me you must be so relieved you never got into parliament, when i told my mother i was not standing again she cheered. what a terrible thing, she ought to want her son to go into parliament. i am glad i never became an mp. do you still want to go into parliament? not particularly, not right now, but i don't think this is the issue. about hope politicians feel about their reputation. this is about victims. watching us squabbling about who is up and who's down in the reshuffle is not the issue. the issue is people of all parties who feel they have been treated badly need to feel that they can come forward and talk about this and be believed and not victimised or which handed. thank you all very much indeed. it hasn't happened in more

than a decade, but there are no fanfares or fireworks. the bank of england raised interest rates today — signalling a change in the economic weather. is this a big moment, or time for a bit of shoulder shrugging? why has the monetary committee done it? is it because things getting out of hand and we need to tighten upa bit? well, consumers are showing a prodigious appetite for credit, creating a growing pile of personal debt. money's been very cheap for a long time. but are they borrowing because they're trying to cope with 3% inflation and near stagnant wages? if so, then they're going to get a shock, because mortgages and other repayments are going to rise and inflation is not expected to fall any time soon. as for saving, it's unlikely that a 0.25% interest rate increase is going to turn us into a nation of savers — something that seems part of a dim and distant past. our business editor, helen thomas, has been trying to make sense

of the bank of england's move. economic predictions or your average weather forecast? it is hard to see which engenders less faith. the first rise in interest rates in over ten years, it's not done too much to clear things up. usually a rate rise would reflect strength, recovery, robust growth and confidence. this time, the economic weather feels a little different. so why is the bank acting now? the obvious answer is inflation, at 3% it is well above the bank ‘s 2% target. but most people agree that a temporary problem, related to a fall in the pound. it should start to fix itself. the bank of england governor conceded the outlook is unusually uncertain thanks in part to brexit bust up still, he said, it was time to move.

in many respects today's decision is straight forward. with the economy growing and rates above its speed limit inflation is unlikely to return to the 2% target without some increase in interest rates. once upon a time the bank of england's key interest rate moved up and down with the uk economic fortunes. higher interest rates turned the economic heat down. increasing the cost of borrowing and reducing spending. these are the last four periods the bank of england was raising rates, quarterly economic growth in the year before the first height averaged 0.4%. now quarterly growth has been averaging about 0.4%. even more unusual, this rate hike comes as real wages have been falling. that is wage growth adjusted for inflation. i think they made a mistake.

i think at best the decision to raise rates today was premature and at worst could be reckless. the risk is if you raise rates against the backdrop of economic weakness it tends to frighten the horses are little and what you may see is consumers who are already running with very high levels of debt against a backdrop of pretty tough financial conditions choose to build their savings of little bit more than the bank of england would like an precipitate something of a steep slowdown than we are already seeing. so this wasn't a normal rate hike but as mark carney said we do not live in normal times. a decade of interest at virtually zero is certainly extraordinary and for some the central bank had to at least start the journey back to more conventional levels. ultra low interest rates have costs as well as benefits and if you are in a position where interest rates are expected to remain near zero for the foreseeable it creates all sorts of distortions, misallocation is of resources and so on. if you can get interest rates back to mourn over levels then you have a margin to cut

again if you need to. for example if the brexit those negotiations go badly the bank of england will have more scope to cut rates in future done if it did not raise them today at all. this only takes rates backs to where they were in the summer of 2016, before the post—referendum cut. still it all came with a gloomy outlook. in the banks view, the economy has hit its limit, the economic climate now is about as good as it's going to get. that's in part because productivity, a big determinant of economic potential, has flat lined since the financial crisis. the bank of england are taking a conservative view about the uk's potential supply growth, they have seen growth around one and a half percent as being the long—term position. i think what is important,

what businesses want to see is the right environment to invest and that we are investing in our skills and education and infrastructure and i think that is why actually what the business media wants is more action by philip hammond than mark carney and all eyes will be on the budget later this month. it's official, interest rates are rising again. but so is the pressure. well, what should we make of today's move? and is there anything in the american experience we should learn from — where rates have already been rising for a while? i'm joined from new york by gillian tett of the financial times and from florida by professor david blanchflower, looking at this side of the pond, inflation rise and an implement low, was this the right time to move, are we heading for more normal times? i am in the camp of people who think it was the right time to move

and we have had extraordinarily abnormal times for the best part of the last decade. the ultralow interest rates were introduced initially as an emergency response after the financial crisis. that was a long time ago. i personally think getting back to a more normal world is healthy and it is something america has been doing now for 18 months, over 18 months. so far the markets have absorbed it fairly calmly. are we nowjust going to accept in this country at least that growth is sluggish, growth is reasonably sluggish in the states, there is an acceptance that that indeed is the norm, that even in that position you raise interest rates and it looks like america will raise them next month even though growth is not that strong. essentially what the central bank of america is trying to do is exactly what mark carney is trying to do, it's like the pilot of an aeroplane trying to lose altitude very slowly over a long

period of time. they are trying to return slowly to a more normal world without anybody noticing. let's keep this in perspective, it's not exactly a dramatic rise. the rate rise we have seen in the us have not been dramatic either. but it's a sign the central bank is moving into a slightly more normal world and as helen says, they are creating a reserve firepower for themselves to use if there is another crisis. let's talk about that reserve firepower. we are joined by the former member of the bank of england monetary policy committee david blanchflower, is it necessary to create firepower or will it create firepower? no. i don't normally disagree with my friend gillian, but i'm afraid this looks to be a big mistake to me. the way you create firepower is not to create a recession yourself. people want to raise rates so when a recession comes you can cut rates. this looks like an enormous mistake.

there is nothing in the data whatsoever to sustain it. it looks to me like the rate rise which was done in july 2007 that i actually voted against. it was returned a few months later and then we went into recession. i think this is a huge mistake. the reality is there is absolutely no data that says you should do it now. with the uncertainty over brexit, the uncertainty over the fiscal position of the government this looks like a big mistake. not only do you have sterling on the floor, the uncertainty of brexit, in the states you have a president who says he's going to cut taxes and simplify taxes would perhaps leads to more optimism but you don't necessarily have that coming out of philip hammond's briefcase. right. what you have in the us is talk about the huge fiscal cut, huge stimulus going into the economy which is pushing up, growth is double what it is in the uk, real wages have risen in the us over the last for five years and they are down, be aware of the us is the slowest

growing economy in europe, growth is going to slow on any measure this looks disastrous. real wages are down and there would you are going to do is raise the cost of borrowing to people not only to homeowners but firms who are going to cut their dividends. this looks like a huge mistake. gillian, on the basis of the 0.25% increase your not going to have consumersjumping up and down and saying we are going to save because the debt mountain is growing so much we will have an increased tomorrow in mortgage rates and the apr and credit card will go sky—high? it's not exactly sky—high, let's keep this in perspective. the question i would put to daniel is what you make of things growing sharply in the uk, does

that not concern you? how do you make sure consumers do not take a huge amount of credit david blanchflower? you can deal with that, the fpc can deal with, the likelihood is retail sales are falling, they are about to plummet as people realise they should not have been saving so that will fix it. we have already seen that. this will make it much worse, it will lower output. that seems a really crazy way, you will force yourself into a recession. yes it's a small mistake but it's better than making a big mistake. but i would rather not mistake at all. yes credit is rising, it's been a surprise to the central bank but pretty dancing that. because people's real wages are falling. so what you are arguing is you would like to create more of a consumer credit bubble even

as the underlying fundamentals in the uk are not so healthy? that is simply eating yourjam today and creaking more problems in the future? well i mean the economy is being held together by the stimulus from the central bank. if you want to deal with the credit problems deal with that through credit restrictions or whatever but think about the streets of hartlepool, blackpool, wakefield, do you think there is a credit boom going on? i don't think so. people are struggling, why do you think in those places people voted for brexit? not because there was a boom going on and they were doing great. that's not true. the economy is basically flat, there is some credit going on, people have been spending more than they should

but the economy is hurting. thank you both very much indeed. never before in the history of the eu have a group of elected members of any government — regional or national — been clapped in jail without trial, but a spanish high courtjudge has imprisoned eight members of the former government of catalonia, believing them to be a flight risk. the precedent being the former leader carlos puigdement and four the president being the former leader carlos puigdement and four members of his sacked cabinet who are in belgium. it looks as though a judge is about to issue a european arrest warrant for their return after they failed to appear in court in madrid today to answer charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds. today they were protests against the arrests in barcelona. but catalans are divided. catalans are divided over whether puigdemont acted precipitously in leaving so what will he do next and how will his eu hosts, belgium, respond to the warrant? joining me from brussels is mark demesmaeker from the flemish nationalist party, the new flemish alliance. good evening. tell me, what do you think carles puigdemont and his four colleagues should do — should they return to spain

if the arrest warrant is issued? it is not for me to tell what they should do. i understand why they're in belgium, they're here to denounce this political trial... in front of the international community. they have used their rights as a european citizen to travel to belgium and to stay here. but of course, because they did that, of course the others in spain are being detained as a flight risk, what do you make of the arrests? it's not because of that, but what we have seen in spain the last few weeks is outrageous. it is a shock for every democrat in the eu, it is a shock. this is obviously a political trial. jailing, imprisoning elected members

of a government is unprecedented, it is disturbing and unacceptable in the eu. that is my reaction. it looks as if there is going to be a european arrest warrant and spain are going to ask for the extradition of carles puigdemont and the four others, perhaps as early as tomorrow. do you think belgium should comply with that as an eu member? well this is something for the judge in belgium to decide, politics doesn't interfere with this. so there is a procedure for that. it can take a while. and as i have understood, carles puigdemont has a got flemish lawyer who can assist him through this. but it is up to the judge to decide.

so i have good faith in the belgium judicial system. which cannot be said of spanish highly politicised system. so it is likely the judge will comply with it in belgium? i can't decide on that... would you be campaigning against the extradition and throwing your weight, you are, your party is part of coalition government, do you feel, would your party's position be that carles puigdemont should be extradited, should be returned, after all what he did was unconstitutional under spanish law? again this is not nor a political party or the government to comment on. it is a matter for thejudge to decide. there is a procedure and will follow it. what we have seen in other cases is after first hearing the defendant...

was released. and certainly when there is no... there is no terrorist allegation or something like that, which is not the case here, but we will see. it is up to the judge to decide. do you think we should have heard more from jean—claude juncker and the eu should have weighed in on this? yes of course the eu is silent and this is a disgrace. it is a shame for the whole of the eu. the eu should not stick its head in the sand any more and should speak up. this is about a fundamental democratic values which are at stake. if the eu fails to defend our rights as citizens and democratic values, then our democracies will crumble and... thank you very much i'm afraid i have to stop you there. the dj and producer goldie is considered one of the pioneers

of dance music in this country. now 52, he winningly describes himself as ‘the doris stokes of drum ‘n' bass‘. he says it's because he likes to channel the spirits of his favourite musicians into his own records. in his new memoir, ‘all things remembered', goldie recounts his progress from care homes and fosters parents to life on the streets as a graffiti artist — to the nation's embrace with roles injames bond and ‘strictly‘. goldie's been talking to our culture correspondent, stephen smith. beware some flashing lights in the film which, of course, befits the star. goldie, it's very nice to see you again, thanks for coming to talk to us on newsnight. yeah, i love your office! producer, dj, actor, reality tv veteran — goldie's used to having his name up in lights, but in the beginning it was about seeing his name up in paint. does graffiti still excite him? if we were to erase, let's erase graffiti.

let's erase it from the face of the earth. some people will applaud it, "great stuff". it's going to be a very grey journey on the way to work. but some people would say it's very kind of solipsistic — you put your tag up, you don't necessarily put, you know, "end poverty," although some people do. some people may think it's all part of this kind of narcissistic culture we are in. i think the difference is that that's a social media, which is a finger at the end of a button — people liking and social media and emojis and everything else. people physically making an effort to go and paint something physically and go through the physical process is very primal. spaces like this — youth clubs, opportunities for the young, are vital, says goldie. if we don't have that backdrop, if we don't have certain places for young people to express themselves, it will only be a boiling point.

you look at the effects of what grime music has done. there's a place for young people within this grime thing to have their own voice, which has become the voice of uk all of a sudden, because of influx of different urban people. goldie backs the mayor of london's plans to invest £a00,000 in regeneration projects to benefit young people among others. i had a meeting with sadiq three months ago. and i saw the cultural plan, which a lot of people conservatively are against. "why are we giving these kids somewhere to paint? why are we giving them somewhere to do music? because music's not going to run the government." well you haven't done a very good job of it so far, have you? it's time to change the way we look at it. even if you're not an aficionado of drum and bass, you may know goldie from his appearances on reality shows like maestro and strictly come dancing.

he even played a baddie in a james bond film. i see you later, mr bond. so you put your money where your mouth is. if it all goes wrong tomorrow, at least i'll stay injames bond every christmas for the next how many years. you know what i mean? that is in itself a great experience. he has come a long way from his childhood in care. i was saved by social workers. underpaid. long hours. i think the care system for me, it was a really important place they learned about other cultures. knowing that the colour of my skin is what it is — whatam i? who am i? trying to find identity was really important. i think those halfway houses have become very sterile and the aspect of red tape now, well you can't call them aunts and uncles, because they aren't related. i didn't mind calling them auntie and uncle, because it gave me a sense of family. and i think the people that write the rules of all that stuff forget they were young.

one phrase in particular that really leapt out at me from your book, given what's happened this year, is where you say, "god forbid we'll have to be on fire before we make the right change in the housing situation. and stop making rabbit burrows full of speed bumps and bollards to stop everyone getting out of there." you can't read that after grenfell without. .. making a connection. totally. what can you say about that? you know, you're stacking these people on the edge of a borough that's 20 times richer than it. we're looking at the short—term, aren't we? in society, we are tapping into not even 3% of what we should be doing for tomorrow's children and i have said what we do today creates tomorrow. and what was done in those days, when you look at grenfell and that

situation, the atrocity it has caused, the heartache, people will never recover from that — young people in that situation will never recover. they will need mental help and help for a very long time. those estates, those places, the youth clubs, the organisations around it, are important. now in his 50s, goldie's living in thailand with his young family. he has released an album this year and his new memoir is the work of a man who says he counts his blessings. whisper it, but goldie may be mellowing. yes, it has been hard and there's always going to be challenges — i was challenged yesterday. we're always going to be challenged. you were challenged to a fight, effectively? yeah, effectively challenged to a fight by a teenager who was angry, barges past you. i get it. you're an angry young man, but you know what, have a nice day. because an older version of me

was, a, that kid and, b, i've got a choice here. i'm on my way to yoga. imagine that headline — "goldie fights with 19—year—old on way to yoga. goldie dies in knife fight on way to yoga!" either way, that's not going to look right. bite your tongue, getting your head down and realising i had a choice and going to yoga. when i came out of that yoga session, i felt like that's a beautiful day i've just had. tomorrow's front—pages, two on the sleaze story. and the fallon story, one says, i was a victim of fallon. the leader of the commons complained to theresa may about vile language used by sir michael and also that he was tactile and put his arms around her in unwanted attention and made comments of a sexual nature. the guardian has more

on williamson's promotion. that is all we have time for have a good evening. good night. i hope what is coming up in the next few minutes will not be astonishing, incredible or unbelievable. concerns about tomorrow morning because there will be some dense fog patches across southern counties of england. some did not clear way on thursday. fog reported throughout the day. it

is there to be had now and for the rush hour. a cool start to the day. from east of devon to the west country area, central southern england. further north, some brightness to be had at where the cloud against a spot of rain. the a new set of weather fronts coming in from the atlantic. rain gradually making progress through scotland and western isles. elsewhere, a pretty reasonable day. hints of brightness. top temperature of the day at about 15. others closer to ten. the feature easing further south but will develop almost in situ a new

area of rain. don't hold me exactly to the timings of the fronts moving away but eventually things will turn colder across all parts of the british isles and the many northern and western parts, a weekend of sun and western parts, a weekend of sun and showers. but we need to get rid of these weather fronts before ushering it in. the rain is going to ta ke ushering it in. the rain is going to take its time. quite how long is still open to some debate that it could well be the middle part of the afternoon if all quitting the scene. following behind, the temperature is tumbling a way. sunday will be, he spins it, a bracing gay. if you missed the showers, a half decent date for a walk in the afternoon.

more details on the website. i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore. the headlines: donald trump is coming to asia for a five—country visit. his message? "time is running out for dealing with north korea." protests as spain holds eight members in the catalan government injail on charges of rebellion and sedition. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: detainees who refuse to leave the camp in manus say they have to dig for water after australia closes the centre. just discovered but already endangered. a new species of orangutan is found in indonesia's remote sumatra jungles.