welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: a bachelor no more. britain's prince harry is engaged to his american girlfriend meghan markle. they'll marry next spring. we are a fantastic team, we know we are, and over time we will try to have as much impact about the things we care about as much as possible. i am very excited about that, yeah. pope francis arrives in myanmar — the first papal visit to a country accused of the ethnic cleansing of rohingya muslims. and more than 100,000 people near mount agung in bali are ordered to evacuate. this is the volcano right now. it could erupt at any moment. hello to you.

britain is bracing itself for another royal wedding. prince harry is to marry the american actress and campaigner, meghan markle, in the spring. seems he proposed to his girlfriend of 18 months over a roast chicken dinner earlier this month. word from buckingham palace is that the queen and duke of edinburgh are "delighted for the couple" and wish them every happiness. this report from our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. finally, it's official — they are engaged to be married. prince harry, fifth in line to the british throne, and meghan markle, an american, an actress, a divorcee and, as she has put it herself, a woman who is proud of her mixed—race heritage. seldom can a royal wedding have indicated so clearly how times have changed. reporter: how are you both feeling? yeah, thrilled! i'm very glad it's not raining as well. harry was asked when he realised meghan was the one. the very first time we met. reporter: meghan, can you show

us the ring, please? yes. ah, yes, the ring — designed, it turns out, by harry, and including two diamonds owned by his late mother. harry and meghan — he 33, she 36. a happy couple who met 18 months ago, and who are now starting to plan a wedding, which will take place next spring. later, in an interview with the bbc‘s mishal husain, the couple talked about the moment earlier this month when harry proposed. just an amazing surprise. it was so sweet and natural and very romantic. he got on one knee! of course. was it an instant yes from you? yes! as a matter of fact, i could barely let you finish proposing. i said, "can i say yes now?" she didn't even let me finish. then there was hugs, and i had the ring in my finger. i was like, "can i give you the ring?" she said, "oh yes, the ring!" so it was a really nice moment, it was just the two of us. i think i managed to catch her

by surprise as well. yeah. and harry spoke of the instant impact meghan had had on him. the fact that i fell in love with meghan so incredibly quickly was a sort of confirmation to me that everything, all the stars were aligned, everything was just perfect. it was this beautiful woman just sort of literally tripped and fell into my life, and i fell into her life. and the fact that she — i know the fact that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it as well, is obviously a huge relief to me, because she'll be able to deal with everything else that with it. within the royal family there is, as you'd expect, great happiness at the news. the queen was delighted. as was harry's father, the prince of wales. we are thrilled, thank you very much. for both of them. i hope they'll be very happy indeed, is all i can say. the duke and duchess of cambridge tweeted their excitement for the couple, saying it had been wonderful getting to know meghan and to see how happy the couple were together. so now, next spring, there will be a double royal celebration.

another baby for william and catherine, and a wedding in a so—far unidentified church for harry and his bride, meghan markle. nicholas witchell, bbc news. prince harry is pretty well used to the limelight that comes with his position, and it's something meghan markle has already started to get used to, as the couple told the bbc‘s mishal husain in theirfirst interview after the announcement. i think we were just hit so hard in the beginning with a lot of mysteries that i made the choice not to read anything positive or negative, instead we focused our energies on nurturing our relationship. on us. and some of that scrutiny, you made a public statement about it, some of it was centred around your ethnicity. when you realise that, what did you think? of course it is

disheartening, you know. it is a shame that that is the climate in this world, to focus that much on that, that it would be disconnect or in that sense. but at the end of the day i am really proud of who i am and where i come from. and we have never put any focus on that. we have just focused on who we are as a couple. so when you take all of the extra layers away and all that noise, i think it makes it really easy to just enjoy being together and cheering the rest of it out. and 110w and cheering the rest of it out. and now that it is all official, prince harry, do you have that sense that the combination, with your different backgrounds, that you represent something new for the royal family? i don't know if it is something new. for me it is an added member of the family. it is another team player as pa rt of family. it is another team player as part of the bigger team. and for all of us all we want to do is to be able to carry out the right engagements, carry out our work and

try and encourage others and the younger generation to be able to see the world in the correct sense, rather than perhaps having a distorted view. so the fact that i fell in love with meghan so incredibly quickly was confirmation to me that everything, all of the stars were aligned, everything was perfect. this beautiful woman literally trip into my life, i fell into her life, and i know the fact that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it as well is obviously a huge relief to me because she will be able to deal with everything else that comes with it. but no, we are a fantastic team, we know we are and we hope overtime to try and have as much impact for all of the things we care about as much as possible. i am very excited about that, yes. much more on that, well, just about everywhere. let's take a look at some

of the other stories making the news: the white house says president trump does not plan to campaign for roy moore, the republican senate candidate in alabama accused of sexual harassment. the president has previously defended roy moore over claims he molested or harassed women and girls as young as 1a. a number of senior republicans have urged him to step aside. american prosecutors are saying three three people linked to a chinese cyber security firm hacked into the networks of several major companies to steal business secrets. according to an indictment disclosed in a federal court in pittsburgh, the men targeted trimble, which makes navigation systems, the german technology company, siemens, and moody's analytics. the virtual currency, bitcoin, has hit a record high of $9,700. itjumped 4.5% on monday. virtual currencies are largely unregulated and bypass traditional banking systems. their growth is causing increasing concern to international regulators. china and south korea have banned any new virtual currency launches and have been shutting down exchanges on which they are traded. leaders of ireland's two biggest political parties will resume talks on tuesday morning to try to avoid

a snap general election. a political crisis has erupted over the role of the deputy prime minister in criticising a police officer who alleged corruption in the force while she was justice minister. the row threatens the minority government and complicates a key brexit summit next month, where ireland will play a major part. more than 600,000 rohingya muslims have now fled to bangladesh from their homes in neighbouring myanmar because of the violence there. but for many it has not been the escape to safety they'd hoped for. they are extremely vulnerable and some are becoming victims of sexual exploitation. the bbc‘s reeta chakrabarti reports from cox's bazar. this is cox's bazar, famous for being the world's longest sandy beach, and the town that is nearest the refugee camps. it looks idyllic. but as day turns to night, a seedier side emerges. a huge and desperate new population nearby provides fresh opportunities for exploitation, and we've spoken to some young female refugees who are in real danger.

rohingya girls, alone and in their teens, are being traded by their own people and local bangladeshis. they're sold for sex, and in the case of one 17—year—old girl, kept in a hotel by rohingya men and treated like a slave. i asked her if she gets paid for any of the work she does. nothing? incredible, isn't it?

she is just a slave. another girl, who's just 15, told us she escaped by boat from myanmar after her mother was shot dead by the military. she used her only possessions to pay the boatman, who then attacked her. once she got to bangladesh, a local woman who she thought would help her, took her home. she had nowhere else to go. and now the woman forces her to sleep with several men a night. do the men pay you when they have sex with you? these two girls are now being helped by a local group, but there are many more in this town suffering the same fate.

they all came to escape the violence at home, and now find themselves in a different kind of hell. pope francis is in myanmar, amid continuing international concern for the safety and security of rohingya muslims. on monday he met myanmar‘s army chief and he's expected to meet leader ayng sun suu kyi on tuesday. pope francis is facing a diplomatic dilemma — whether or not to describe the muslim minority as rohingya. officials in myanmar have warned that if he uses the term, violent protests may result. the bbc‘sjonathan head reports from yangon. the passengers from myitkyina clank into yangon, after a journey that has lasted 28 hours. these are roman catholics from the ethnic kachin minority. they have come for a

once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to see the pope. the congregation here at st antony‘s church, mainly used by the tamil community, has suddenly swollen, the hymns lifted by extra voices. bawk san is 19, a kachin student from myitkyina on herfirst ever visit to yangon. translation: i never imagined that he would come to my country. you can see hundreds and thousands of people here, who have travelled for days by train. i never thought i would ever be in yangon. now, iam here. just look at me and all these people. this is already a sign of change for the better. i am so excited. this is a big moment for myanmar‘s small population of roman catholics, but a risky one for pope francis, in a country which has generated the largest refugee crisis this region has seen in a generation, but where there is very little sympathy for them. there have been big street protests here, but in support of the myanmar

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the latest headlines: prince harry is to marry the american actress and campaigner meghan markle in the spring. the prince proposed to his girlfriend of 18 months, over dinner earlier in november. pope francis is in myanmar, on the first papal visit to a country accused of the ethnic cleansing of rohingya muslims. a curious political row has broken out in washington over who is to head a federal financial watchdog. president trump overruled the initial choice and appointed one of his close aides instead. his appointee, mick mulvaney, once described the consumer financial protection bureau as a sick, sad joke. the original choice for the job, current deputy director, leandra english, is taking legal action against mr trump.

andrew plant reports. mick mulvaney, already the white house budget chief, carrying a bag of doughnuts to share with his new colleagues in his latest role as head of the consumer financial protection bureau. his arrival, though, was met by protests from those who believe his appointment by donald trump compromises the independence of what is america's financial watchdog. the consumer watchdog has done itsjob — looked out for ordinary people, given them a voice, given them a place to complain, to have their voice heard. and this consumer watchdog is just too important to let it be taken back over by politics as usual. there was already an acting head of the consumer financial protection bureau. leandra english was named successor by the outgoing director. but, a few hours later, donald trump intervened and handed the job to mick mulvaney instead. director mulvaney has ta ken charge of that agency. and he has the full cooperation of the staff, and appeared there this morning, and things went very well on his first day. both leandra english

and mick mulvaney release statements to staff indicating they are in charge. mick mulvaney has sent an e—mail to staff asking them to disregard e—mails from leandra english. ajudge is now examining the case. indonesia's largest volcano, mount agung, on the island of bali, could be about to erupt. but nobody knows exactly when. on monday, the international airport was shut and local officials have widened an exclusion zone around the mountain and are asking people living there to leave. 40,000 have already been moved. 0ur correspondent rebecca henschke is close to mount agung. mount agung is sending out thick clouds of ash, smoke and gas behind me with increasing intensity. the ngurah rai airport here in bali has been closed for a second day

because of this threat of an imminent eruption from the volcano. last night, you could see a red glow in the crater, which we are told means that the lava and the molten rock has now reached the summit. people have been told to get out of an area, a 12 kilometre radius around the volcano, but people are still staying in their homes there. 0fficials today are going to move in and forcibly take people out of this danger zone. at the moment, there are still farmers down below in their rice paddies, and the balinese are still going about their life. they revere this mountain as a sacred site, but now they are watching it very carefully, and on high alert for an imminent eruption. more on the two come. —— that to

come. it's nearly two years since a state of emergency was declared in flint, michigan, when the water supply was found to be contaminated with lead. what started as a cost cutting measure has resulted in multiple illnesses and an outbreak of legionnaires' disease that caused at least twelve deaths. but water quality remains a real concern across the us. as part of his america first series — the bbc‘s aleem maqbool sent this report from flint. it has put us just through hell. there's just no other way to say it. the only thing really unusual about what happened in flint is that the agencies responsible got caught. before she even knew about the lead poisoning, keri webber recalls her shock when she took her daughter to the hospital. they've shown me parts of her skin that you could see the bone in her wrist. and there was literally a line that was not calcified bone, and it was lead, and they were everywhere.

it is thought that high lead levels caused a spike in legionnaires' disease, infertility, miscarriages, growth abnormalities in unborn children, and behaviour problems, among many other serious effects. well, the crisis here in flint made national news because of the number of people affected in such an extreme and shocking way. but scientists are worried that millions of americans in other parts of the country are also being poisoned by the water in their homes, but simply don't know it. in fact, water has been found to contain even more poisonous lead levels than in flint in dozens of towns around the country, and it is happening, like it did in flint, because of money. we have not accepted in this country that water, affordable, safe drinking water, is a basic human right. and, if you can't afford to get clean, safe water, that's just your tough luck. the mayor of flint says he was told

the water in his city was ok because the state wanted to save money. so we needed to do more, i needed to do more, at the local level, to bring in independent expertise, people who didn't have an adherence to these old standards. and families have toxic water most in communities where so many don't have a voice. flint is poor. we didn't matter. and it destroyed every flint resident. you're looking at your kid go through this, or your spouse, or 100,000 people, and knowing that none of them matter enough. yeah, that's really hard to take. a kerry de heer in the uk has helped their mother in uganda who was

attacked with a machete by her husband. —— a charity here in the uk. just one year ago, this peasant farmerfrom uganda uk. just one year ago, this peasant farmer from uganda was uk. just one year ago, this peasant farmerfrom uganda was in pain. she was subjected to a vicious machete attack by her husband who was angry that she had dared ask for a share of their harvested crop. she lost both hands and an ear and was pregnant at the time with her third child. fast forward to today. a charity called suffered knowledge for change heard about her plight due to its work at a local hospital. it helped raise funds so she could smile and have hope of looking after her children again. it has been a difficult process. prosthetics have not been developed in uganda so we

used our undergraduate student programme to link students here in salford without team of biomedical engineers in uganda and working between the two of us we manage to eventually unsuccessful it's to provide her with functioning williams. i was involved with this side of things. i was at the university and so when we receive the casts we formed the shape of a cast that will fit on her arm. it was interesting. a project we would not normally get to see in the uk just because of cultural differences. we took the casts and we sent them back here. they made new arms for a sat here and sent them back and then we help with the rehabilitation process. months were spent painstakingly recreating a set of hands. 0ne spent painstakingly recreating a set of hands. one is fitted with a robotic sum so she can grip objects.

they will be no substitute for the real thing but it is hoped that this new pair of prosthetic hands will go some way towards repairing the damage from the attack. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, i'm @bbc mike embley. hello there. monday brought some of us something a little bit milder. that is not a sign of things to come. during tuesday, and indeed the rest of the week, we are back into this feed of northerly winds, all the way from the arctic. cold air sweeping southwards right across the country. quite a few showers, as well, and where those showers have been falling through the early part of the morning, there is certainly the risk of some icy stretches across parts of northern ireland and into scotland. take it easy on untreated roads and pavements. some of the showers across scotland will be wintry. some rain, some sleet,

some hail, and some snow, the snow mostly over high ground at this stage. showers beginning to push into the east coast of england. but, through north—west england, down into the midlands, a dry start, yes, a cold and frosty start in places, with temperatures ofjust one or two degrees at 8:00am in the morning. showers continuing to feed across west wales, into devon and cornwall. most of these showers will be falling as rain. a few showers across dorset, perhaps into hampshire, as well. but for east anglia and the south—east, a dry start, yes, but a chilly one — three, four or five degrees. a lot of crisp sunshine, then, to come during the day on tuesday, but the showers continue to feed in across eastern areas, drifting that bit further south, perhaps into east anglia, parts of the east midlands, as the day goes on. these showers wintry, particularly over high ground. a few showers out west, as well. even in the sunshine, feeling cold — five to eight degrees. now, as we go through tuesday night, the showers continue to feed in across eastern areas. these showers wintry, mostly over high ground, but perhaps starting to turn wintry to slightly lower levels at this stage. temperatures hovering around freezing, or a touch below. there will be frost for some of us

on wednesday morning. so this is how the weather pattern looks. high pressure to the west, low pressure to the east. that is what is feeding the northerly winds down across the country. strong, biting winds on wednesday, particularly towards the east, where there will again be plentiful showers, and late in the day, we may even start to see some sleet and some snow to pretty low levels. some sunshine, too. not as many showers at this stage in the west. three to seven degrees, that is your lot. thursday a similar day, but if anything, a colder day still. some snow is possible to fairly low levels in the east. a few showers in the west, as well. plenty of sunshine in between. but add on the strength of the wind, this is what it will feel like, many places feeling sub—zero during thursday. so, for the rest of the week, a cold wind. yes, some crisp sunshine, but some wintry showers as well. this is bbc news, the headlines: prince harry is to marry the american actress and campaigner, meghan markle, in the spring. the prince proposed to his girlfriend of 18 months, over dinner earlier in november.

buckingham palace has announced that the queen and duke of edinburgh are delighted for the couple and wish them every happiness. pope francis has met myanmar‘s military chief, on the first papal visit to a country widely accused of the ethnic cleansing of rohingya muslims. general min aung hlaing has claimed there is no religious discrimination in myanmar. officials are watching closely to see whether the pope even uses the word "rohingya" — they've warned him not to. the bbc has spoken to young rohingya girls who've become victims of sexual exploitation as refugees in bangladesh. more than 600,000 rohingya muslims have now fled across the border, from the violence in myanmar. now on bbc news, the travel show.