welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: the american adult film actress stormy daniels, who claims to have had an affair with donald trump, says she received threats to keep quiet. a fire at a shopping centre in siberia has killed nearly a0 people, dozens more are missing. protests erupt across catalonia, after the region's former leader is arrested in germany at the request of spain. and a crisis in australian cricket, as the scandal over ball tampering sends shock waves through the world of sport. hello and welcome. the adult film actress stormy daniels, says she has received threats to keep quiet

about the sexual relationship she says she had with donald trump. in herfirst televised interview, she claimed they had sex on one occasion in 2006, without a condom and just a year after mr trump and wife melania got married. our north america correspondent james cook's following the story from los angeles and talked us through some of the key claims in the interview. well, i mean, it is obviously difficult to say. she said she wasn't attracted to him but it was consensual i am not a victim, she said the. the motivation

for her speaking out, for which she has not been paid, has been questioned that she has raised her profile, she is making a lot more money than with a to her was a shadow of a doubt that a one, i didn't want to kiss and tell and be labelled all the things that i am being and legal, i would like to point out, career that i have worked ha rd to point out, career that i have worked hard to establish. and the family and my child exposed to all the things that she is being everything i was afraid of coming out has come

out and guess what, are president trump's are saying that they will us dollars breaks this nondisclosure agreement which she has signed she is now spectacular down to it and that one of the allegation she is making, that she makes the case she was essentially threatened and she says that happened sell her story and it happened sell her story and it happened when a man

i was iwas ina i was in a fitness class with and trump alone, forget the story and then daughter, a beautiful girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mother. you to get asa happened to her mother. you to get as a absolutely. i am going into the workout class and my hands were shaking was afraid i was go to drop are. did you see you -- i work in well, i mean, it is obviously difficult to say. king us through the revelations,

around a0 people are thought to have been killed in a fire at a shopping centre in russia. it's feared the death toll could rise with at least 60 more still missing — including many children. 300 fire—fighters were called to tackle the flames which spread quickly through the building in the siberian city of kemerovo. andrew plant reports. a fire on the fourth floor. this shopping centre surrounded by firefighters searching for survivors, trying to reach upperfloor windows, fighting the smoke billowing outside. the fire started here on sunday. dozens were evacuated, but it was clear dozens more were missing, many of them children. translation: the area of the fire is about 1500 square metres. at this moment, 288 emergency officers are working on site, as well as 62 units of equipment and an airbourne grouping

are taking part in the search and rescue operation. we are taking all necessary measures to extinguish the fire. the shopping centre has a very complex construction. there is a lot of combustible materials. people gathered to stand and stare as the fire unfolded. witnesses said it trapped people on the upper floors, and said some had jumped from windows to try to escape from the flames. an industrial city of more than half a million, it is one of russia's biggest coal producing regions, more than 2000 kilometres east of moscow. already, there are reports the fire began near a cinema and children's entertainment centre. president putin has already sent his condolences to friends and family of the victims. authorities say a criminal investigation will now begin to try to find out what caused the fire. andrew plant, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

saudi—led coalition forces say they've intercepted seven missiles launched into saudi arabia by yemen's houthi rebels. fragments of the destroyed missiles are reported to have landed in residential areas of the capital riyadh, killing an egyptian national. it comes on the third anniversary of the saudi intervention in yemen's civil war. a 14—year—old girl has been seriously hurt, after a group of children were run down by a car in glasgow. police say the car, with two men in it, was driven deliberately at the children and the attack is being treated as attempted murder. egypt's interior ministry says police have killed six militants belonging to the group it says carried out a car bombing in the city of alexandria on saturday. in a statement it said police uncovered a terrorist den and exchanged fire with those inside. two policeman died in the car bomb attack which targeted the city's head of security. he escaped unharmed. the ousted former leader of catalonia,

carles puigdemont, is spending the night in prison in germany, after being detained on a european arrest warrant. mr puigdemont is wanted by the spanish authorities for organising an illegal referendum last year on catalan independence. bill hayton reports. 0n the streets of barcelona, an outpouring of anger over the detention of carles puigdemont. independent activists tried to reach the offices of the spanish central government but were beaten back. the violence prompted this appeal from the region's most senior serving politician. translation: i share with you the feeling of indignation and, in this especially unfair situation, i call for calm and responsibility from everyone because responses must be democratic, civic and peaceful as ever from catala ns. we must not give away victories to those who do not want democracy to win.

for now mr puigdemont is being held in this prison in northern germany. he was arrested as he crossed the borderfrom denmark, on sunday. on monday, a judge will decide whether he should remain in custody while spain seeks his extradition — that might take two months. mr puigdemont‘s lawyer says that this case is a question of human rights. in spain there is no more democracy because they put their political opponent in jail, the elected people are put in jail. that's a dictatorship. last year, mr puigdemont organised a referendum on independence for catalonia, the north—eastern province of spain. that was declared illegal by the central government and he fled into exile. most of his fellow separatist leaders are also facing charges. but farfrom ending the campaign for independence, the detentions

are giving it continuing energy. bill hayton, bbc news. world cricket's governing body says the sport needs to take a hard look at itself, after the ball tampering scandal that's engulfed the australian team. the captain, steve smith, has been banned from playing in the final test match in south africa after he admitted knowing about a plan for a team—mate to manipulate the ball in a way that is against the rules of the game. australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull has said he's "shocked and disappointed". there are still questions for the wider —— leadership of the team. james knight is in sydney and has been writing about australian cricket for more than 25 years. he says australian cricket's image has been irrevocably tarnished. we've seen a lot of unsavoury

incidents throughout the series that pushed us closer to the edge of the cliff and this is the one that's pushed us over. so no, i don't think it's an overreaction, of course ball tampering isn't new to world cricket, it's like the elephant in the room, we know it's done and done on a lot of levels, but the way it was done this time was so calculated, it was the australian captain and the so—called leadership group, asking the mostjunior member of the team to do it. it's very... in typical australian fashion, un—australian, it's not how you do it, mate! the incident itself has been widely criticised, but is there a context to it? this particular competition with south africa has been described as ill tempered, there's been a lot of incidents leading up to it, can that explain perhaps some of the behaviour of the australians, even though it can't necessarily be excused 7 it's an interesting point. i think the australian cricket team is the team that many australians now love to hate, and that may be strong, but there's a bit of tall poppy syndrome there,

where we like to bring down the most successful players. but importantly, i think the australian cricket team is a very good example of a professional team living in a bubble, and they really have a disconnection with the greater public, in this case the australian public and on a world scene as well, and they probably believe they can behave in a way that they really don't have to be accountable, but this time they certainly do. it's been around a day since the incident happened, can you tell us more about the players involved? we've heard a lot of recriminations but steve smith, bancroft, as players, what are their characters like, what do we know about their past behaviour? there's going to be a lot of mudslinging and some of it will stick. steve smith is an ultra competitive player. his success... his record speaks for that, he's one of the most successful batsmen in the world and typical of the australian sporting culture and typically of the australian

sporting culture, he wants to win. but no, he's a good person, he's a good bloke, what pushed him over the limit, i put it back to being in that bubble again. cameron bancroft, from all reports, he's a junior member of the team, he's finding his way, so there's no skeletons in closets or anything like that, it's just for whatever reason, cometh the hour, cometh the moment and this is what we're dealing with. can you tell us more about the australian action? we're hearing one legendary cricket commentator seem to cry on air when talking about this incident. it's been taken very personally in australia. we're talking about the great abc commentatorjim maxwell there and it is woven into our fabric, cricket is woven into our fabric and although we're changing culturally and we've got a more diverse culture in australia now, it still is a very traditional thing to do, to follow the fortunes of the australian cricket team. it's been well said that the captain

of the australian cricket team has the second highest profile only behind that of our prime minister, i don't think that's quite right but nevertheless we still embrace the values of what our australian cricket team has done over the years. but the world is changing, australia is changing along with it, and the behaviours of yesteryear are now put more so under a microscope and as a result we are not perhaps as tolerant of them as we should be, and that really has lit the wick for quite an extraordinary reaction in australia right now across all the media, it is wall to wall... in my time following cricket in australia, i have not seen a reaction quite like this and that goes back to the underarm incident with the chappell brothers way back nearly a0 years ago, this is a quite extraordinary moment. james knight there talking about that incident.

stay with us on bbc news. still to come: tributes to the man who provided free music education to thousands of children in venezuela's shanty towns. let there be no more wars or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. i'm so proud of you both. with great regret, the committee have decided that south africa should be excluded from the 1970 competition. chanting.

streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. woman: wow! this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the american adult film actress, stormy daniels, who claims to have had an affair with donald trump, says she received threats to keep quiet. a fire at a shopping centre in siberia has killed nearly a0 people, dozens more are missing. he was affectionately known as "maestro abreu". venezuela's music visionary jose abreu has died at age 78. his scheme, known as el sistema, provided free music educatiosn in venezuela's shanty towns.

three days of national mourning have been declared in the country. tiffany sweeney reports. fighting poverty through music — that was the idea behind jose abreu's revolutionary music project, bringing mozart, beethoven, tchaikovsky to the poorest areas of venezuela to make a young generation appreciate them, and escape a life of poverty and crime. el sistema spread across the world, and was used by thousands of students, many from disadvantaged backgrounds. it was heavily promoted by the socialist government of former venezuelan leader hugo chavez, becoming one of the country's best—funded social programmes. but maestro abreu told the bbc in 2009 that he was less interested in politics than in helping young people. i think it's important because it

will spread the ideas which constitute a fundamental project — solidarity, social actions through music, and understanding between peoples. tributes have been paid, including venezuelan president nicolas maduro. translation: we are deeply moved by the passing of maestro abreu. he leaves behind a great legacy of morals, ethics and culture, as expressed through the orchestral system. to the simon bolivar 0rchestra, i pass on my condolences. his students include the musical director of the simon bolivar 0rchestra, renowned venezuelan conductor, gustavo dudamel. he expressed his sadness to his beloved maestro.

he was an economist, politician and activist, but it was as an educator through music that maestro abreu pulled thousands of venezuelan children from crime and poverty. his legacy lives on. tiffany sweeney, bbc news. after a week in which the pressure on facebook affected shares in other tech giants too, google has put more money towards its collaboration with the news industry, including trying to combat misinformation and fake news. although google's dominance of online advertising revenue has put many news organisations under pressure, the company says working with them is the key to the future. 0ur media editor amol rajan reports from inside the google campus in silicon valley. for the past decade, the news business has had a fractious relationship with the internet.

many journalists accuse technology firms of having a free ride at their expense. while thousands of reporters have lost theirjobs and publications closed as the old business model collapsed, google has grown dizzyingly rich. many news providers today think of themselves as being at conflict with google. they say this company is gobbling up precious advertising revenues and dominates the means of distribution. but here at google's headquarters, they see things rather differently. they say the open web has democratised news and information, making it near—universally available, and that that's a good thing for all of us. at the top of the company, there is frustration at being lumped together with facebook and cast as an enemy of media. 0n the contrary, senior executives argue, while facebook pulls back from the news business, google wants to make friends. what we tell publishers is build a service that is good for your users and that will be good for the web. if you do that, that will end up correlating with all of the signals

we develop, notjust today, but for the future. the old mantra that content must be free saw advertising as the principal source of revenue, but as spotify and netflix have shown in their fields too, audiences will pay for content if it's unique, personalised and good enough. the chief executive of the new york times company, who has championed paid content online, welcomes support with subscriptions, but wants google to do more. a lot of the news that's going to be consumed on their platform is going to be free to use. and both they and we need to find a way of getting some of the value which is expressed in advertising potential, again flowing back into the production of high quality journalism, and that's the next thing we want to talk to them about. some publishers feel they are being offered morsels when google has stolen their lunch. but in that phrase beloved of american journalists, google is certainly reaching out

to a news industry that could do with a little help. amol rajan, bbc news. the metoo movement, which has helped highlight sexual harassment and abuse across the world, has swept through south korea with surprising speed. hundreds of women say it's helped them to find the courage to come forward, in a deeply conservative society. from seoul, laura bicker reports. young women in south korea are fighting for a new future. the metoo movement has taken hold in this socially conservative country, and these university students are hoping to see changes in this male—dominated society. is it difficult for women in korea to speak out? i think it's more difficult who have only been in korea because there's, like, a traditional criteria that woman has to be quiet and,

you know, nice and kind and stuff. protesters rip through a poster littered with phrases blaming the victims of abuse. these shows of solidarity are giving young women the confidence and courage to come forward with their stories. many fear losing their jobs and public humiliation if they complain, but there is a pioneer who led the way. lee eun—eui complained about a boss at samsung electro—mechanics who'd harassed her for years. she wasn't believed, she was made an outcast and given no work, but she eventually won her case and now helps others. translation: i'm very happy when people who come to get advice from me tell me that i'm their role model. then i think it was really worth fighting for. it took four long years of not giving up to beat the corporate giant. translation: in the beginning i said, "the bigger the fight, that's a motto i apply to all aspects of life but in truth, the lawsuit

was a very lonely and difficult process, however, after going through the hardship and when it all ended well, i realised that it was a fight that i had to do. "the days of discrimination and sexual assault are over!", they shout. they'll have to keep up the momentum if they're to make real change. south korea is ranked one of the worst places for working women amongst the 29 advanced nations. i think most of all the corporate culture should be changed. the south korean corporate culture is characterised by old boys' networks, very close relations, they excluded women's voices and other diverse voices from management, so that must be corrected. some have described it as man hate and the metoo movement

is a witch—hunt. but there's quiet determination, especially amongst young south koreans, to change what they know is wrong, and sweep away the pillars of this once patriarchal society. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. a reminder of our top story. the adult film actress stormy daniels says she has been threatened and intimidated to keep quiet about a sexual relationship she says she had with donald trump. ms daniels has described having unprotected sex with mr trump on a single occasion, at his hotel after a celebrity golf tournament in 2006. to the to the to the story. to the

website about hello once again. i hope at least at some point during the course of the weekend you managed to get to see some sunshine, because it may well be in the forthcoming week that that is in short supply for some areas, especially the northern parts of scotland. all of us will notice it turning a little bit colder, because initially there's some warmth to be had, especially across the southern half of the british isles. but as i move you through to around about wednesday, well, those yellows have moved away. we've tapped into some cold air yet again from scandinavia, for the northern half of britain. to the south, well, there's an incursion of milder air, but it comes at something of a price, and some of you start paying that as early as monday afternoon, because the cloud and rain begin to push in towards northern ireland, the west of wales, down into the south—west of england. elsewhere, after a chilly old start, the temperatures pick up quite nicely — ten, 11, 12, 13, something of that order. but that may well be the last

that you see of those, because from monday night on into tuesday, so we push this low so we push this low pressure closer to the british isles. that in turn pushes this weather front ever further towards the north and the east. does the rain get away from the eastern side of england during the course of the day? well, it's a pretty close call, and it's certainly there to be had across the eastern side of scotland, where it's going to be the last of any semblance of warmth is there to be had across the southern counties of both england and wales. from tuesday on into wednesday, that weather front is stuck across northern parts of scotland. the cold air flooding in, remember, from scandinavia. so we'll see, particularly on the hills, the grampians, the snowfall totals really beginning to mount up. in the south, it will just push some areas of cloud and rain ever further towards the east, and following on behind,

we've got a bright and blustery day. some of the showers really quite sharp, maybe a wee bit of hail in there, as well, as we see the first signs of that colder condition just beginning to seep its way into the southern half of britain. and then, from wednesday on into thursday, that weather front is still there across the eastern side of scotland, so the snowjust keeps on coming to the higher ground. and by this stage, things may well be cooling off enough just to drag some of that snow to a slightly lower level. further south, a bit of a lull in proceedings, and then we'lljust push another area of low pressure in, with its attendant cloud, and some sharp bursts of rain as well. and at this stage, it really will feel cold and miserable, across the eastern side of scotland particularly. further south, temperatures just about getting to around about ten or 11 degrees, and just in time for the easter weekend, low pressure is very much the dominant feature. take care. this is bbc news. the headlines:

the adult film actress stormy daniels, says she was threatened to keep quiet about a sexual relationship she says she had with donald trump. in an interview with the american network cbs, ms daniels has described having unprotected sex with mr trump in 2006. mr trump has denied any relationship with ms daniels. at least 37 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping centre in the siberian city of kemerovo. dozens are still missing with many of those caught up in the fire feared to be children. russian media say the fire started in one of the cinema halls. the ousted former leader of catalonia, carles puigdemont, is spending the night in prison in germany, after being detained on a european arrest warrant. his detention brought thousands of people onto the streets of catalonia to demand his release. mr puigdemont will appear in court later on monday. now on bbc news, it's time for dateline london.