hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. britain's accused of exaggerating evidence that russia was responsible for the salisbury attack. it comes after the uk government's own research centre said it couldn't determine where the nerve agent was made. an emergency meeting of the international chemical weapons watchdog has denied russia's request for a new inquiry. will bring you up—to—date on all of that. also in the programme, china says a trade war with the us is "a no—win situation" as it imposes retaliatory tariffs on more than 100 us goods. and facebook says up to 87 million people's data may have been accessed by cambridge analytica. we'll be live in new york. russia has lost its attempt to get a new inquiry into the poisoning in salisbury in southern england.

the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons already has one inquiry under way, led by the uk. russia called a meeting today of the opcw in the hague to try to get a second inquiry, with its agents involved. but they lost a vote on the issue with 15 against and only six in favour. china and iran were among the minority voting with russia. eu countries backed britain. afterwards russia's delegation complained the uk investigation won't tell them what they need to know. we are being told that we will be informed on the results of this investigation. translation: only if it is good will to do so. however, knowing our

british so—called partners, we cannot really count on their goodwill. it was going well for russia earlier in the day. the uk had to backtrack on some of its claims about the strength of the evidence that moscow was behind the attack. it started to unravel yesterday when the head of the uk's military research facility at porton down said the nerve agent had been identified, but it's source had not. we are 100% certain that this is from the military grade agent family. we provided the information to the police and government and that has been our role in this. it is not for us to advise on who made the nerve agent or where it came from. now the uk has gone further than that in in the last month, saying this was novichok and it came from russia. for example, this is uk foreign secretary borisjohnson on german television, listen carefully to

the question he's asked. you argue that the source of this nerve agent is russia, how did you manage to find it out so quickly. does britain have samples of this? when i look at the evidence, the people from porton down... they have the samples? they were categorical andi the samples? they were categorical and i asked the guys themselves, i said are you sure? and he said no doubt. the foreign office said mrjohnson meant there was no doubt it was novichok. then there's this tweet the foreignoffice sent by the british foreign office on 22nd march. "analysis by world—leading experts at the defence science and technology laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military—grade novichok nerve agent produced in russia." the foreign office has now deleted that tweet blaming human error. now so far the uk has received great support from its allies, but all that is based on them believing the uk's claims. pressure is now coming to bear.

this is a senior member of angela merkel‘s party. he's not the only one asking that question. this is one answer we've heard from the uk government. they identify the agent as being a russian military grade nerve agent. we know that russia has been stockpiling amounts of this and that russia has been investigating ways of delivering good, we know that russia has previously been willing to poison outside borders including in the united kingdom. we know that in regards ex—agents as being candidates for assassination. it is not the united kingdom alone they came to this conclusion, it was a conclusion backed up by our allies right across the world. they came to the same we did, no other plausible area that could come from. russia meanwhile is clear about who it thinks is responsible. its foreign intelligence chief gave

a speech earlier in moscow saying the attempted murders were a "grotesque provocation. one chemical weapons expert we spoke to earlier says britain should now show the world what other evidence it has implicating russia to settle the argument. it has to reveal more than a has. at the moment, you have the russians denying everything in the uk saying he has a lot of evidence pointing towards the russians, but none of thatis towards the russians, but none of that is in the public domain. people cannot make a judgement. it is one version of events of versus another. people believe what porton down have found, is set absolutely ripe laborde torah. i'm sure open cw‘s investigations will confirm what porton has said but it will not point to the source. let's turn to news breaking on the facebook data scandal. the social media giant's chief technology officer mike schroepfer has released this

statement on, where else? facebook. he reveals the company now believes the scope of data collected by cambridge analytica is much more than thought. it was initially estimated the personal information of 50 million people was improperly shared with the firm. that figure's now gone up to 87 million people, mostly in the us. but the bbc has learned around one—million of those affected are uk based. joe miller is in new york. i guess this because the problems for facebook. it really does. that because the problem. 87 million is an astonishing figure considering only behind a0 million or so voters voted in the 2006 in election and the american community survey which is the way the us government works out its policies from the data that

it has on the us population only surveys three and a half million people a gear. so the fact that cambridge analytica had data on 87 million americans really has quite a thing. but it's also interesting that in the blog post that was posted by face butjust an hour or so posted by face butjust an hour or so ago is that they really reacted to this with the first substantial i suppose crackdown on third—party apps like cambridge analytica and what they can access. i will read you some of the things that third—party apps will no longer be able to access. people's personal information, religious open to abuse, relationship status, custom friend list, education work fitness activity, but reading activity, music, news reading, and games. quite a lot of data that is now being restricted third—party apps. the problem is when mark zuckerberg goes to washington next week, he

will not be talking about what they are doing now. he will talk about what they did in the past. absolutely. the question he will be askedis absolutely. the question he will be asked is why is it taking you so long, you knew about these things, they have been raised in a such a high profile manner as in the last two weeks but they have been raised by concerned parties for many years and if you have the capability to lock down the settings and crackdown on security, why haven't you done this before? and mark zuckerberg has been giving interviews to various us media and his claims seems to be we are the good guys come if you give us are the good guys come if you give us time, we will sort this out. but it remains to be seen whether that will be bought in washington. thank you. earlier in the week we had a raft of chinese tariff hikes on us imports. now there are more from both sides. 25% tariffs hikes from china on 106 different us products. hours before washington slapped 25% tariffs on about 1,300 chinese products.

it's beginning to look a lot like a trade war, not says president trump. not everybody agrees. here's the chinese response. translation: prickly speaking, the challenges we are facing today are huge for sure. because of the scale of the trade volume, however, china's sense has been clear—cut. we don't want to trade war. the result will only be a no—win situation that hurts the interests of china, the united states, and the prospect of a global economic development. now these are planned tarrifs, they take months to kick in. so emily feng of the ft can explain. this happened today is china has

said it will threaten to impose up to 50 billion us dollars worth of additional metallic or tariffs if the us indeed goes through with this tariffs. the us of about 60 days after announcing today for a comment here before they are finalised. the chinese have also built—in a mechanism that will delay the implementation of tariffs and that could be weeks until they are actually implemented. but if they are, they target very important american exports to china including things like boeing aeroplanes, soybeans, pork, beef, which was a big diplomatic way we china agreed to import some us beef. if the ta riffs to import some us beef. if the tariffs go into that, usb full be slapped with a 25% additional terror. these are things that american farmers and american manufacturers and multinationals ca re manufacturers and multinationals care about. that's 25% additional tariffs. if that her businesses. ——

it to her businesses. boeing is one of the companies singled out by china's tariffs, and already its share price is down. and then there's agriculture. us exports of beef exports and and soya beans will be affected, and they matter economically,also politically as donald trump has a big support base in farming. linda yeuh from oxford university to explain. targeting rust belt districts, that voted for trump, also targeting districts were a republican congress members were present. obviously, there is an economic damage from having higher taxes. republicans are traditionally free—trade party and in china targets members of congress in particular, they could put pressure on the president to rein back some of these measures. remember, the ability to affect trade policy is a delegated power from the legislative branch, the congress to the us president and some republicans have already said they may have to rein back from a bit because of how quickly trade is become escalated. stay with us on outside source —

still to come... we'll turn to methods. live pictures now what people are gathering to remember martin luther king. live there in a few minutes. —— we will turn to memphis. police in south east london are questioning a pensioner on suspicion of murder, after a man, suspected of breaking into his house, was fatally injured. the 78—year—old has been named locally as richard osborn—brooks. there's been a police cordon and place all day as search things go through every garden and every ban of all the houses on the streets. we do know that in the early hours of the morning, a 78—year—old man disturbed to intruders and his house. one armed with a screwdriver, forced him into his kitchen while the other one went upstairs, then there was some sort of altercation in the world we do know is that a 38—year—old man was found lying in the street behind me with a

punctured wounds to his upper torso according to police. the 78—year—old pensioner and he's been arrested on suspicion of murder and police are still searching for that second intruder. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: britain's accused of exaggerating evidence that russia was responsible for the salisbury nerve agent attack. the us president has agreed to keep american troops in syria for a little while longer to help in the fight to defeat isis, according to a senior administration official. president trump has signalled his desire to pull them out. there are about 2000 us troops in syria. the wife of a detained chinese human rights lawyer has started a 100km march to put pressure on the authorities to explain his arrest.

from bbc chinese. and you'll find this video of a shark tailing a police patrol off the coast of south australia on the bbc news app. the team were doing checks on boats in the area when they got some company. during yesterday's programme, we brought you these pictures as a shooting at youtube's headquarters in california played out. three people were injured, one critically. and the gunwoman took her own life. she was called nasim najafi aghdam. police say she was a vegan blogger. we don't know her motive but we do know she'd previously raged against youtube for what she believed was censorship of her videos. this is one of them. imean i mean this is than the stylus on

youtube. i'm not the only one. —— i am being discriminated. my videos probably get views, and my old videos stop getting views. so this is because i'm being filtered. her brother has told local media that aghdam travelled were having lunch. a gig image of the area. there's an outdoor eating area for many people were having lunch. it would finish she opened fire. she was found dead nearby a short time later. the system to people who witnessed happened. she was doing this. -- let us happened. she was doing this. -- let us hear from two people who witnessed what happened. everybody looked up and do not know what it was. i ran to the window and i saw she was firing her gun.|j she was firing her gun. i the her. she was firing her gun. i the

victim, she was in the dining room and she had a leg injury. a gunshot wound. i put like a tourniquet on her to help her. youtube is owned by google, which has its headquarters forty kilometres down the road. it's ceo tweeted "there are no words to describe the tragedy that occurred today. this is dave lee at the scene. those caught him in the pilot showed clips of themselves barricaded into the offices, though this time those employees were part of one of silicon valley's most of the companies. we are incredibly tight—knit community. we are a family. today, it feels like the entire community of you and all of the employees were victims of this crime. dramatic footage of all to

frequent shootings in america often appear on sites like youtube. staff have been left in shock or something like this could happen. in their own backyard. time for business. sir martin sorrell, the boss of the world's largest advertising agency, wpp. his company is investigating an allegation of personal misconduct against him. the board has appointed independent experts to look into the claims. he says british companies have just over two hours to submit their gender pay figures. firms with more than 250 staff must state the average difference between male and female employees. of those that have published data so far, 78% pay men more than women, 13% pay women more. and 8% said they had no gender pay gap, based on the median measure. one of the worst offenders was rya nair which reported a 71.8% gender pay gap.

many of the highest paid employees at airlines are pilots and the majority of pilots are men. some would argue that means this data isn't always helpful. was here from innocence and with a report on this. how much we earn. long been a stubborn problem between the sexes but now for the first time, our biggest employers have been forced to reveal the pay gap between their male and female workers. and the results are not pretty. now this isn't about equal pay. take bobby and laura here. they do the same job for the same pay. that's the law. the gender pay gap is the difference between average salaries of all men and women in a workforce. whatever theirjob or position. here at the tsb that gap is 2a%. not as high as some other banks, but the boss says it's going to come down. we have fewer women in senior roles.

this is the real issue for us. we need to focus on getting more women into senior roles across tsb. we think that's good for our business, we think it's good for our customers and ultimately it's good for the uk economy. lunchtime in croydon, a pit stop for workers. in every sector of our economy men get paid more than women. the construction industry has a 25% gap. the biggest, followed by finance and insurance at 22%. industries where men dominate at the top. it's the same at ryanair with its 72% gap. it says that that is because most of its pilots are men. but in hotels and restaurants there is just a i% pay gap. that's because most staff are working for the same hourly rate. in fact kfc, starbucks and mcdonald's say they don't have a pay gap at all based on the middle earners. interesting to know but you always want to know what they are going to do about it.

i'm not surprised. disappointed, but not surprised. the problem is that we've not promoted women higher up the ranks where the big gaps arise and until we do we won't create equality throughout. that is what they have managed to do at this technology services company. it is a record they are proud of. we can't get away from the fact that women are still taking time off to raise families and often women have to come back in a part—time basis. employers have to be cognisant of this and have to be much more flexible, i believe, in order to shift the dial. it's not going to be easy or quick. but with the numbers laid bare, companies will now be under pressure to do better. emma simpson, bbc news. the switch from the uk to memphis, tennessee. commemorations are taking place across the us to honour the legacy of martin luther king, who was assassinated 50 years ago in memphis, tennessee. he was shot by a sniper

as he stood on the balcony of the lorraine motel. which of the sea just here on the satellite image. earlier, we saw this rally calling for an end to racism. there have been events under way in memphis. nada tawfik looks back at martin luther king's legacy. at the mason temple church, doctor martin luther king's children, closes abydos, and in the mire us gathered to honour his life and legacy and to promise to keep his dream alive. 50 years ago, the powerful preacher spoke of the struggles to come. but also of the promised land. ijust want struggles to come. but also of the promised land. i just want to struggles to come. but also of the promised land. ijust want to do god's will. and he has allowed me to go god's will. and he has allowed me to 9° up god's will. and he has allowed me to go up to the mountain. and i have looked over and i have seen the promised land. i may not get there

with you. his daughter bernice king took to the same podium with a damning assessment of the state of the country. it is time for america to repent because... we have not come in 50 years, dealt with as that he challenged us to deal with the last vestiges of racism. doctor king travel to memphis because he saw the city in the pie as a sanitation workers as part of his larger campaign against poverty. loss prohibiting segregation and enshrining the right to vote for all lead to integration. but true equality he believed in fighting economic injustice. on the balcony of the lorraine motel, he was assassinated by a sniper. the federal shot was fired at 6:01pm. and to mark the moment, bills will

bring care and across the nation 39 times to honour the number of years doctor king lived. when reflecting on his legacy, his contribution to american history compared with the shortness of his life is striking and inspiring. let's cross over to the bbc‘s nada tawfik in memphis. and ron christine. good to see you. good to see you. ryan christie is with me. the bbc‘s political a nalysts. with me. the bbc‘s political analysts. ron, ithink with me. the bbc‘s political analysts. ron, i think everybody here outside the lorraine motel where doctor kang lost his life has really been reflecting on how he shaped the nation. i heavy doubt about how he shaped her life? absolutely. a remarkable expense for me to be here. —— heavy doubt about how he shaped - life. to think he how he shaped her life. to think he was marching for equality in trying to have people the opportunity to go to have people the opportunity to go to school for people to earn a living wage, so important it is

opened so many barriers to entry for people like me and generations will follow them. he also really knew, it wasn't just about integration, follow them. he also really knew, it wasn'tjust about integration, but having to equality. that meant tackling economic injustice. 50 yea rs tackling economic injustice. 50 years on. what is your assessment of the set of the country. years on. what is your assessment of the set of the countrylj years on. what is your assessment of the set of the country. i think we have come a long way but they still had a lot more to go. you see a lot of processes is a day, black lives matter, a lot of people protesting inequality in so many different ways. as a country we have grown and had our first african—american president, we still have a long way to go. to meet his shoe dream of true equality. when i was speaking with some of his closest advisers, he heard from doctor kang's children themselves, they say he was such a progressive leader, he giving you credit for how radical his ideas were. and back then he was really criticised. from those who didn't wa nt to criticised. from those who didn't want to see that change. i wanted out when you look at the athletes

taking a knee, protesters calling out against police brutality, do you see parallels to how the still is resista nt? see parallels to how the still is resistant? i do. he saw the rise of the black power movement, malcolm x, they really wondered if the nonviolence way the right way to go. iwe nonviolence way the right way to go. i we see nonviolence way the right way to go. iwe seea nonviolence way the right way to go. i we see a sensitivity now and maybe we need to raise the volume up. that is what you see somebody so more protest. here at 6:01pm, they will bring the belt, 39 times, the number of years that doctor king lift. i have to say, it is going to be a poignant moment here because he did achieve so much in that short lifetime. thank you both forjoining us. the covers will continue in the coming hours. iwill see us. the covers will continue in the coming hours. i will see you us. the covers will continue in the coming hours. iwill see you in us. the covers will continue in the coming hours. i will see you in a couple of minutes' time. —— the coverage will continue in the coming power. went to refuse to let go as grep

across northeastern parts of the united states. —— went to refuse. was i heavy disrupt us know early on in the week in the new york area, and the last 2a hours we've seen disruptive snow across parts of ontario and quebec. and this deberry a low pressure. blizzard conditions, freezing rain, causing problems as we had until wednesday and thursday. to the south, this active when the firm has by severe thunderstorms from texas to pennsylvania. they pull of cold air to begin behind this area of low pressure, as it continues to move its way eastward. temperatures well below the seasonal average across some of the central and northern plains. across the west coast, unsettled weather getting them towards washington state and oregon for wednesday onwards and heavy rain pushing and distance in northern california. very wet in vancouver and seattle for the next five six days. across the northeast

it does remain cold and there will be further snow and a risk of bias as well. due south asia, was seen violent thunderstorms breaking out across the eastern side and india to bangladesh. thursday, heatwave conditions continue. wanting to remain in force. the areas could see temperatures ranging the mid—a05. nothing unusual this time of the year. thunderstorms we could see across parts of bangladesh and selected could be violent, frequent lightning a very large hail. mumbai stay sunny, dry and hot as you can see. crossing to australia asia, keeping an eye on this, tropical, cyclone, continuing to meander around an open waters. it will go heavy showers into the coast of queensland, could even affect the gold coast at times. heavy torrential downpour. most of the brand will be further north. we

could see some showers further south with could interrupt some of the commonwealth games. into europe, heading into a more quiet to spell of weather towards the end of the week. a big area of high pressure building to allow temperatures to rise across spain and portugal come on france. eventually pushing them towards the british area. low— pressure towards the british area. low—pressure system is never too far away and will make inroads by the end of the weekend. you can see springlike temperatures across it was inside of europe. it means the weather for us is looking was inside of europe. it means the weatherfor us is looking much quieter, still a little bit of rain, but good sunny periods at times and it will feel warmer across central parts of the uk. stay tuned to this channel. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom: the uk government's on research

centre is saying and have established the type of nerve agent —— and a region used in the poisoning but it cannot establish where it came from. but an emergency meeting of the international chemical weapons watchdog has denied russia's request for a new inquiry. facebook has said in the last couple of hours the number of users who's data was improperly shared with cambridge analytica may have been as high as 87 million, with most of them being in the us. also in the programme, china says a trade war with the us is "a no—win situation" as it imposes retaliatory tariffs on more than 100 us goods. every day outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. —— 40 —— a0 languages. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag. the brazilian supreme court is expected to rule if former

president luiz inacio lula da silva can remain free while he appeals against a corruption conviction. it matters notjust he wants to stay out prison, but because he's standing in the presidential election in october. his supporters were at the supreme court — there is a divide here. this was a large demonstration demanding that he should be jailed immediately. that's bringing katie watson live from sao paulo. there must be a challenge for the courts here to say about the incredibly potent politics all around. indeed. i am about the incredibly potent politics all around. indeed. iam at about the incredibly potent politics all around. indeed. i am at the union outside sao paulo, very much the heartland and people here are watching. you can see going on there as thejudges voting watching. you can see going on there as the judges voting one by one. there have been three who voted so

far out of the leaven. everyone is watching this very closely because as you said that divides brazil. people who feel that he is a saviour, he changed brazilfor the better, other people who feel he is the symbol of corruption at the highest level so everyone has their eyes on brazil today. highest level so everyone has their eyes on braziltoday. help highest level so everyone has their eyes on brazil today. help us understand how it is even possible that someone with a conviction facing the prospect of going to prison could still be in with a chance of being president, in most countries that would be a knockout blow. i think a lot of people here find it quite hard to believe as well. brazilian politics is a soap opera, this isjust the well. brazilian politics is a soap opera, this is just the latest chapter in that soap opera. at the moment he said he wants to run for president he has a big problem, which is the fact that he has to have... he is not allowed to run for it if he has a criminal conviction. a decision will not be made until august when the applications for the candidates are put in and add a

decision is made in september, the latest month until we have a decision on whether or not he can run, but certainly the feeling is that he will find it very difficult to be able to be a candidate. nevertheless the polls show if he wa nts to ru n nevertheless the polls show if he wants to run he was the be the frontrunner and that is why so many people wanting to stand for president once again. it looks like it is pretty busy where you are and ican it is pretty busy where you are and i can see all of the tripods the cameras behind you. tell us what is happening. we are at the meta lworkers happening. we are at the metalworkers union, he used to be the president of the metal workers union, he is the first working—class president of brazil, a real man of the people. he is in this building but we have not seen him, but all of his fans are there and supporters and a lot of media interest. when the votes come through for the judges, depending on you can tell which way they voted by the response, the firstjudge voted against him in the second voted for him. i thought the whole thing was over, the celebration, thejoy him. i thought the whole thing was over, the celebration, the joy here certainly, the noise, the drums, but

it is onejudge certainly, the noise, the drums, but it is one judge who voted in his favourite so every time that happens —— voted in favour every time that happens watch and listen what happens. the support here for lula is very strong. thank you very much. keep us posted. more developments in robert mueller‘s russia investigation. this washington post article reports donald trump is being investigated by the special counsel — but is not currently considered a criminal target. mr mueller is also reportedly preparing a report on mr trump's actions during his time in office — including any possible obstruction of justice. that might be an indication the investigation is looking at the president's firing of the fbi directorjames comey. the president admitted the fbi's investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election was part of the reason for sacking mr comey. we also know the president thinks all of this is a witch hunt. anthony is light with us from

washington. what did you make of these reports, the latest development? i think it is interesting, seeing that he is a subject of the investigation but not a target. that is a little different. there is an open debate right now about whether the president can be a target or not of a criminal probe, whether he can be indicted, that even legally possible -- if that indicted, that even legally possible —— if that is legally possible. i think the more interesting thing is that report that will come injune orjuly. now we finally have a timeline to look at for some soda product of this investigation. there is also a question about whether or not that report will be made public or not. there could be a big fight in congress over whether or not i get out into the public or trying to keep it from coming out. get out into the public or trying to keep it from coming outlj get out into the public or trying to keep it from coming out. i suppose it would be understandable if some of the reacting to this thinking it would be strange if robert mueller did not look at the president given that he is looking at whether there we re that he is looking at whether there were connections between the

president's campaign and russia. it does not mean anything, it is a natural thing to do. right, exactly but you remember donald trump time and time again said i'm not the target of an investigation. they're not looking at my actions. here, we finally have revelation from the independent counsel's office saying yes, they are looking at his behaviour, particularly any possible obstruction of justice. behaviour, particularly any possible obstruction ofjustice. that will undercut one of his talking points, although he may try to draw that line between the subject and a target. don't go anywhere, anthony. stay there even though it is pretty windy because i want to bring up this. these are pictures of paul manafort. he has been charged by the mueller investigation — but has been challenging the special counsel's powers. he tried to convince a federaljudge the russia probe has overstepped its mandate. it didn't go well. judge amy bermanjackson told mr manafort‘s lawyer: "i don't really understand what is left

of your case." which i guess means that was that for paul manafort. it is certainly not good news for his attempts. that a lwa ys not good news for his attempts. that always was a bit of a hail mary on his part, the idea that he could get this case thrown out, because usually when the justice department appointan usually when the justice department appoint an independent counsel they have fairly a broad power. for a judge to come and say that is not the case, i think it does not formally kill it, but it's going to make it a lot more difficult. the reality is paul manafort is going to have to face a real trial unless he reaches some sort of plea negotiation like his assistant rick davis did, but given that he is facing so many years in these criminal indictment, i think he's going to take his chances and roll the dice. thank you very much, anthony. i will let you get out of

the wind. anthony live with us from washington, dc. the duke of edinburgh — the husband of queen elizabeth — has undergone a successful hip operation today. the duke is 96 — is likely to remain hospital for several days, but buckingham palace is saying he is "comfortable and in good spirits". from outside the hospital — here's our royal correspondent sarah campbell. prince philip was admitted here yesterday. we were told for a planned operation on his hip and as you say in the last hour buckingham palace has released in a statement saying this was indeed a hip replacement operation. the statement goes on to say he is progressing satisfactorily and is comfortable and in good spirits. prince philip retired from royal duties last august, but he was expected to attend to accompany the clean to three recent events and he did not appear. it subsequently emerged he had been suffering from problems with his hip for the last month or so. hip replacements are a common procedure, more than 800 of them we re procedure, more than 800 of them were carried out on people over the

age of 90, the latest figures for 2016. we know his was carried out under general anaesthetic and the statement from the palace says his royal highness is likely to remain in hospitalfor a few royal highness is likely to remain in hospital for a few days. the queen has remained throughout windsor castle but she has been kept fully informed as to her husband's progress. the family no doubt will be hoping that he is fully recovered by may 19, the wedding date of prince harry and meghan markle. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site. there's all the latest on the russian spy story including the leaders of russia, turkey and iran have been meeting to talk about syria. president erdogan is the host — there he is with president rouhani and putin. there's been talk of achieving a "lasting ceasefire" in syria. that feels a long way off —

remember russia and iran are backing bashar al assad while turkey is allied with opposition fighters and wants assad gone. the situation is further complicated by turkey's offensive against syrian kurds which is taking places in the north of the country. they've driven them out of the city of afrin which is now under turkish control, and the government has said it plans to advance to take another town tel rifaat. president ergodan however said he was committed to ending hostilities. despite those military activities within syria. turkey will not rest until syria gets peace. we had a border spanning 911 km and family relations. for this reason syria has a very

important place on our agenda. as guarantor states we are in agreement over syria's territorial integrity, stomping the bloodshed and the reconstruction of the country. mark lowen has been watching events from istanbul. here is his analysis. they call for a lasting cease—fire still and they talked about the need to preserve as they put it syria's territorial integrity, although many would argue that a united syria really was destroyed years ago at the start of the uprising and that the civil war. and some would accuse turkey even of violating syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty by having forces in northern syria permanently based they are now fighting kurdish fighters. and they talked about the need to board made the operation against terrorist groups, but in the word terrorist organizations they disagree with what they mean. turkey is focus on the kurdish militia which is used as a terrorist group in russia and iran to the rebel fighters that turkey is backing as

terrorists themselves. that shows you that the differences there are between these different countries and yet all three have managed to come together and increase their cooperation and that i think it's a sign that western governments influence in syria have severely waned as they have been unable to halt this war and that has allowed turkey, russia and iran to fill the void in syria, particularly so as donald trump repeated this morning that he wants us troops to return home soon. so, really now russia and iran and turkey increasingly calling the shots. this was the second summit of its kind between this group — the last one was in russia — the three presidents says they'll next meet in tehran. some people would see given the involvement of these three countries in syria is the best chance of some negotiated end to the syrian war. but we probably need to factor in one president who is missing was not invited. that is president donald trump and here he is yesterday. this was president trump yesterday

when he made clear his desire to bring us troops home from syria. this though is in the context of president trump seeing iran as a threat to regional stability. that needs to be managed also from the american‘s perspective. he also wants to tear up the deal on iran's nuclear programme. he said so many, many times. bbc arabic‘s hardtalk programme has been speaking to the iranian foreign minister on this. isa is a multilateral agreement. united states has been a party to it. it is country, member of the security council, which sponsored the resolution that contains the nuclear deed and was unanimously adopted by the security council. so, it is a valid international agreement. but, a valid international agreement does not mean that all parties will abide by it and the us has a track record of not abiding by its international agreements. look at the paris

climate agreement., so what is happening is the united states was true with —— if it goes there with president trump's desires, it will show that it is not a reliable partner in breaching international agreements. and now that u nfortu nately agreements. and now that unfortunately the track record of the united states over the past two yea rs has the united states over the past two years has made it rather unsustainable. the deed? yes. even without the president trying to pull out. what is important for the eu right now is to try to persuade the united states to abide by its commitment. let's talk about sport. commonwealth games have opened on the gold coast in australia. the prince of wales and the duchess of cornwall attended the opening ceremony.

natalie pirks is there too. front and centre, australia's indigenous culture was the focus of an opening ceremony themed around reconciliation and friendship. the parade of nations that followed was as colourful as it was celebrator rate. it now gives me the greatest pleasure —— to declare the 21st commonwealth games open. pleasure —— to declare the 21st commonwealth games openm pleasure —— to declare the 21st commonwealth games open. it isn't -- it has not been all fun and games. critics here have copies the stolen wealth games in the sport has been described as a poor man's olympics. but not for the greatest sprinter in history. usain bolt will be here to cheer on the jamaicans and in europe before the games began he told me he still believes in their importance. it isa still believes in their importance. it is a child —— it is a

championship. if you go you have to ta ke championship. if you go you have to take it seriously. i think you should never go to a championship or anything and say it is the commonwealth. it is a competition. here on the gold coast around a.5 thousand athletes will in 18th board, seven of which have paire events. they have come from 53 countries making up a third of the world's population. they don't have do have historical links stupar britain and organisers are keen to move on from the idea of an empire. is absolutely crucial that we tackle the uncomfortable history of colonialism and empire in a very open and engaging way. through the medium of sport to be a force for good. that certainly was the case for weightlifter precious mackenzie. popular and remarkable little figure of forget to leave a forbidden to up in south africa because of his colour he moved to england and one

metals before winning another for his second adopted country. now he's back up again to present a metal. on my deathbed i will never forget england because they are the ones that gave me the opportunity. england is the only country that took me with open arms, accepted me for what i was, not for what i'm not. the way to perhaps describing the commonwealth games, not perfect, not the olympics, but confident of its unique place in the board. —— in sport. lots of commonwealth games coverage. barcelona have the room in the champions league and the most astonishing result of the evening liverpool paris, manchester city zero in the first leg of their tie. still 90 minutes to go but not many people would have seen that one coming. next on outside doors will turn to austria. —— outside source. austria says it plans to introduce

a ban on headscarves being worn in school for girls up to the age of ten. it was announced by chancellor sebastian kurz. he's in a coalition with the leader of the far—right freedom party, heinz—christian strache. these pictures from 2015 are relevant. they show a centre for migrants in salzburg. austria took in migrants totalling the equivalent of more than 1% of its population. that made it a potent political issue — and mr kurz won last year's election partly by taking a hard line on immigration. he's told a local radio station today: "our goal is to confront any development of parallel societies in austria. girls wearing a headscarf in kindergarten or primary school is of course part of that." it's not clear how much of an issue this really is though. headscarves are rarely worn by girls under ten anyway. here's the bbc‘s bethany bell in vienna. the details of this law still have

to be worked out, and it is thought that for some aspect of this law the government will need the support of the opposition parties. opposition parties themselves are split when it comes to a possible ban. as for austria's muslim community, they say that any ban would be counterproductive. they say that a few little girls wear headscarves in this age group and they have also urged the government to have dialogue. let's return to the commemorations honouring the legacy of martin luther king, who was assassinated 50 years ago today. we have a live feed coming in from those commemorations. let's have a listen in. # amen. # amen. a little earlier i spoke

to taylor branch, the pulitzer prize winning author of a landmark narrative history of the civil rights era, america in the king years. i asked him what stage of his life dr king had reached back in 1968. martin luther king reached a point after the settlement of 1965 when he wa nted after the settlement of 1965 when he wanted to try to draw america's attention to the fact that he was trying to redeem the soul of america might, notjust trying to redeem the soul of america might, not just from trying to redeem the soul of america might, notjust from racism but also from war and poverty which he said we re from war and poverty which he said were interrelated. violence of the flesh and beard and he had gone to chicago to show it was notjust

southern and he came out against the vietnam war and then he launched a poor people's campaign to take the poor people's campaign to take the poor to washington and tried to get another gei bill the way the government had done after world war ii. that brought him here to memphis because of the sanitation strike. in a way, what we are hoping 50 years later is that the focus on doctor king shifts to those issues of poverty, race across the country and warand poverty, race across the country and war and instead of just poverty, race across the country and war and instead ofjust the eye of —— i have a dream about degradation, which has passed —— i have a dream about segregation. we have two get to his real quest on issues which are still as contemporary as they we re are still as contemporary as they were then. at that time in 1968 is it reasonable to say that doctor king was out of sync with some african americans who believed that a more militant approach was necessary? absolutely. just the finished work on an hbo documentary king in the wilderness about how he

was isolated, not only from the new york times and washington post that condemned him for criticising the vietnam war but from many silverlight —— civil rights leaders either commit pulley criticising for... his point was that nonviolence was a leadership doctrine to try to move the world toward democracy and that making it violent was not only suicidal, but that it will lost its moral impact, so that is a debate that is where we are continuing today, what is the role of violence and nonviolence in any quest forjustice? when we look at the undeniable gains the civil rights movement made in the 19605 do you those involved would have been disappointed to look forward 50 years and see where america is today? well, i think people from the civil rights movement would be amazed at the miracles that the

civil rights movement helped set in motion for women, black people, a black president, games and lesbians, we re black president, games and lesbians, were beyond their imagination that they would be very dismayed that we are ina they would be very dismayed that we are in a period of senegal politics thatis are in a period of senegal politics that is about the promise of government to tackle problems like that. we are at a very interesting stage in history where we have a lot of liberation, a lot of problems but our politics are trapped in cynicism and doctor king never get into cynicism. he had a furnace in his voice and always found hope. today i5a voice and always found hope. today is a day for all americans to reflect on what margaret —— doctor king achieved but do you think aside from special days americans are more co mforta ble from special days americans are more comfortable talking about race? no, i don't think americans are very co mforta ble i don't think americans are very comfortable talking about race. mo5t conversations are comfortable talking about race. mo5t conversations a re really comfortable talking about race. mo5t conversations are really looking for a quick way to get out of it. race i5a a quick way to get out of it. race is a continuing wonder, it's always been at the core of our democratic promise about how we are moving

forward , promise about how we are moving forward, but also how we are not moving forward. i think americans have reason to be more comfortable about race. we are far more involved with one another acro55 boundaries of international boundaries and racial boundaries and ethnic boundaries than we were, but we are still boundaries than we were, but we are 5till uncomfortable to talk about black and white in america. today we visited memphis and new york, although australia, austria, brazil and the netherlands. we will be back of the same time tomorrow with all the big stories broadcasting live from here in the bbc newsroom. you can be in touch with us —— with us through our #. until tomorrow, goodbye. i think we are all do a bit of a breakfrom i think we are all do a bit of a break from the rain and snow clouds and a little 5un5hine back in our live5. even on wednesday while

there'll be snowfall acro55 part5 live5. even on wednesday while there'll be snowfall acro55 parts of scotla nd there'll be snowfall acro55 parts of scotland this was the scene a stone's throw away from edinburgh. a little further north acro55 stone's throw away from edinburgh. a little further north across the highlands and the islands we were bathed in spring sunshine, a cracking here in the isle of skye and it is those clear skies which will be with more of us for the day ahead. with more of us for the day ahead. with more of us for the day ahead. an area of low pressure that brought the rain and snow acro55 ahead. an area of low pressure that brought the rain and snow across the uk on wednesday clearing up into the north sea thursday, a legacy of crowd bur5ting east anglia and the southeast, frosty start acro55 crowd bur5ting east anglia and the southeast, frosty start across the north but temperatures rising quite nicely. a few showers to come across north ireland. mo5t places with this quys north ireland. mo5t places with this guys overhead. sun5hine turning heavey in the west later but compared to what we have had a very pleasa nt compared to what we have had a very pleasant day with temperatures in the double figures for quite a few of you. with that strong 5un5hine and light wind that will feel proud to lead by the crowd will —— all linked into an area of low pressure out of the atlantic. slowly creeping towards a spring weather fronts

which will introduce range of the west but also bringing up 5outherly wind. we will see a boost in temperature. a lot of sunshine acro55 eastern wales, central and eastern england and at times eastern scotland. cloudy in the west bringing wayne alito going to ireland, temperatures are still in double figures, good at 15—16d toward the south east corner and warm air never too far away on the eastern side of the weather front giving us a few issues i suspect acro55 eastern england into the weekend. we will still see that milderair weekend. we will still see that milder air close by but that bush is a bit further off it and were germany and denmark. that weather front will meander around acro55 pa rt5 of central front will meander around acro55 parts of central eastern england on saturday, looking wettest in the morning trying out a bit into showers in the afternoon but as we get cloud breaks temperatures will boost, 16, 17, may the 18th degrees but further west later when, isolated showers, mo5t but further west later when, isolated showers, most with a fine day feeling warmer than last week

in. the same into sunday. not many isobar5, not much wind so a bit of a murky start, a lot of mi5t isobar5, not much wind so a bit of a murky start, a lot of mist and fog around breaking up sunny spell5 for the vast majority but that weather front will linger around acro55 east anglia in the southeast threatening rain later on but by and large what we have had compared to the week so farand we have had compared to the week so far and last week at temperatures for all in the double figures, it should feel quite pleasant. we 5tay with that fairly benign set up as we get into monday. we will see mi5t and fog clearing sunny 5pells, get into monday. we will see mi5t and fog clearing sunny spells, the more cow tipping and off the north sea a5 more cow tipping and off the north sea as an easterly wind developed and that will bring a bit more rain acro55 before money is out and temperatures are to drop away a little acro55 temperatures are to drop away a little across the north back down into single figures acro55 little across the north back down into single figures across the northern and eastern parts of scotland. her next week we have the jet stream acro55 scotland. her next week we have the jet stream across the atlantic leading into and eight keeps up into a block pattern. nothing changes much throughout next week. high—pre55ure developed for the northeast, low pressure toward iberia. the problem will become how

close and how much one dominates over the other. that is the main uncertainty for next week but northern areas closer to the area high—pressure, mo5t northern areas closer to the area high—pressure, most likely to be tried throughout. sun5hine by day after morning mi5t but some overnight frost al5o. southern uk at the greasy or, little milder, could bring milder air at times and the threat of one or two showers. tonight at ten: relations between britain and russia take another turn for the worse following the spy poisoning in salisbury. four weeks after sergei skripal and his daughter were attacked, russia is now calling for a line to be drawn under the global row that's developed. translation: we're not waiting for anything. we're waiting for the common sense to ultimately prevail, so that international relations are no longer damaged in the way they have been, as we saw recently. as government scientists say they can't confirm the source of the posion, ministers say they're still sure that russia was to blame. we know that the russians designed

it and we know that the russians were the only people to make it and stockpile it. so it very quickly eliminates most of the other suspects potentially. but labour'sjeremy corbyn says that evidence of russia's involvement may have been exaggerated. we'll have the latest. also tonight: