this is bbc world news, the headlines: a man has ploughed a van into a busy street cafe in the german town of muenster, killing two people. more than 20 people have been in the attack. german media reports say the suspect was a german citizen with psychological problems and no apparent links to militant groups. in canada, at least 1a people have been killed in a crash between a truck and a bus, which was carrying the humboldt broncos‘ ice hockey team, with player ranging in age from 16 to 21 years old. and supporters of brazil's former president, luis inacio lula da silva, appear to be preventing him from handing himself over to the police so that he can begin a 12 yearjail term for corruption. he maintained his innocence. at ten o'clock, clive myrie will be here with a full roundup of the days news.

first, ben zand has travelled to guatemala to investigate claims of miracle healings and giant vegetables in the second part of cults, gangs and god. i'd made it to guatemala, the home of mayans and volcanoes. as well as having big problems with poverty, corruption and crime, it's also got one of the highest populations of portesta nts and evangelical christians in the whole of latin america. it's a pretty religious place. it also has these — ginormous mega churches. i'd been hearing a lot about evangelical pastors and one name kept coming up — cash luna. ask anyone here and they'll know who he is. not only does he claim to be in direct communication with the big man himself, but he's also a multi—millionnaire

and has one of the biggest churches in the world — casa de dios, or house of god. which can hold over 11,000 people. i was on my way to visit him. that is one big church. looks like an alien spaceship. there we go. let me just remind you, this isn't anfield. this is a church and it's just a normal sunday ceremony, it's rammed. oh, my god, look at it. it's like a theatre or something. hello. i've been to a few churches in my life and they're usually quite solemn places, quite dark, quite old looking. this one looks more like somewhere i'd see mariah carey perform! cash luna is a superstar here, with thousands of adoring fans who come each week. he isn'tjust one of the most famous men in guatemala, but he's famous all over central and latin america. we're up again.

and he knows how to put on a show. the church has a dedicated band and its own theme tune. during each congregation, the donation baskets come out and people give all they can in the hope a sickness will be cured or they'll get richer. this is often called the prosperity gospel. this message resonates well in a country where over half

the population is below the national povery line and 23% live in extreme poverty. what's more impressive though is he says he has the ability to heal people through god. there was even a video playing at the congregation where they claimed a woman had been healed of hiv due to attending the church. i was amazed.

this was a man who said to cure people of hiv through the power of god. i wanted to talk to him and as soon as the congregation finished, i got my chance. hello! hello, how's it going? nice to meet you. this is very nice. ijoin cash luna for breakfast with his family. it was amazing to see you up there, so experienced at talking to people. i try not to use religious language when i speak. so if somebody who knows nothing about what you teach, it is jesus. you saw the testimony of this lady with. .. she got cured of hiv. yes. by god? yes, we have many of them. cured of hiv?

yes. a lot of people would say that isn't possible. many people... that's the amazing thing, to experience impossible things for the rest of the people. is there a limit to the things he can heal? if i broke my leg? hiv, he can do, sorted. a broken leg... you tell me. i don't know. you tell me, if he can cure the vha, he can heal your knee or your leg or... you think so? i believe, i believe so. everything can be healed. everything. why is everybody not healed of these things then? i really don't know. people say, "you don't get healed because you don't have enough faith." i don't want to say that because i don't want to condemn nobody. it's safe to say i was sceptical people had been cured of hiv due to attending casa de dios. the only evidence i'd seen seemed to be a video that played on repeat during cash's congregation. i wanted to ask about money. he's a millionnaire and it seemed like he was preaching the prosperity gospel, telling people that if they gave his church money,

god would make them rich like him. do you see yourself as a rich man? are you a rich man? not like a rich man, blessed. to be blessed is different to being rich. 0k. the bible says that god can give you riches without sadness. are you saying you're rich and really happy simultaneously? no, what i said is i am blessed with riches or without riches. are there misconceptions about you? people were telling me you have a privatejet. no, i don't. a rolex. the church has a private jet, a smalljet. oh, the church does. it's for six people. it is an incredible place. i have never seen a church like this in my life. it's amazing. yes. was this made on people's donations? yes. how much did it cost to build? millions. 45. when you got 45 million, did you think, maybe i could build ten hospitals? sometimes we have more people getting healed here than in hospital. so we are healing.

i had seen one video online i was particularly amazed at. it showed cash luna using the power of the bible to take over people's bodies. i'd heard it got him a lot of attention, so i wanted to ask about it. there's an amazing video. you lay down a bible and there's people walking and then they... yeah, this is one of the more polemic videos. it's amazing. explain how god comes through. this is like a wall, look. if you see the video and you weren't there, you will not understand nothing at all. 0k! can we walk with you? yes, yes.

it'd be nice to see. it was time for cash to head back on stage. it's really not hard to see why he does this. he's got thousands of adoring fans, he owns one of the biggest churches in the world. he's got a private jet. and this alljust shows you how big evangelism is here, this is just one church. my time with cash hadn't worked out like i hoped. he seemd a bit annoyed by my interview. maybe he didn't like the questions i'd asked. and he didn't want to meet again a few days later as we'd originally agreed. but cash luna isn't the only pastor like this. guatemala's full of these people. and pastors from all over are trying to follow in cash's footsteps. there was one place i'd heard of that was known around the country for not only being evangelical but also for being the spot of the biggest miracle of all — god had blessed it with giant carrots. yes, giant carrots.

and now it was enjoying an era of prospertiy. one of the most influential and ambitious pastors in the town was pastor sanchez, an avid follower of cash luna. it's an honour to meet you, sir. gracias. i recognise this man here. this is cash luna. si. he's very famous in guatemala. oh, that's in miami. in miami, florida. wow. do you talk to him quite a lot, do you phone him? i heard a bit about your personal story with god. has god said anything to you whilst we've been filming? is he actually saying that everybody

who watches this film will then believe in god? you're confident that's going to happen? you're not even remotely concerned that it might not? you arejust certain that will happen? there's a chance that if this gets view by enough poeple, this film could literally cure the world of everything.

are you feeling god as we speak? is there any way you can display for us now on camera what god is telling you, what he's doing? so it's just gone in those few seconds that i asked that question? these are the carrots. they've got the carrots, it's our first taste of carrots. wow, they are pretty hefty carrots. muy grande. that is a pretty big carrot.

i didn't expect it to be so big. it's bigger than my foot. wow, incredible. the story of almolonga goes like this — the people here used to believe in other gods and so they were punished. the crops were small. they had problems with alcohol, poverty and loose morals. but since they started to believe in the god of people like pastor sanchez, it all changed. they call it the transformation. why do you think that, out of all things, god decided to give almolonga really nice carrots? he could have, you know... money could have rained down on the city, he could have gave everyone fantastic health. these are tiny carrots.

what happened to these carrots? it's a scam, it's all a lie. small! i was admittedly amazed at the size of almolonga's carrots. but something told me there was more to the story than the divine power of god. i arranged a call with a woman named yulia, who was doing a phd on the miracle of almolonga. she said she could give me more clarity on the giant carrots. hello, yulia. i've just been to almolonga and i saw some giant carrots. are they from god? the carrots are legitimately massive. i was genuinely amazed. why are they so big? yeah.

what are the health risks? would you say that almolonga is using too many fertilisers, too many pesticides? yulia told me almolonga did have good conditions for growing vegetables, but that the overuse of chemicals was worrying. i wanted to know if the people working in almolonga's farms knew of these risks or whether the apparent presence of god made them feel protected. nicholas has been spraying agro chemicals on his crops for years and was happy to talk to me about almolonga's carrots. what are the names of these things? it smells very strong.

i have a bit of a headache. has anybody ever told you these chemicals might have adverse side—effects? a lot of people tell me it is god that makes the carrots big, but it seems like if you didn't use the fertiliser, surely the carrots would be very small? so do you think that maybe this idea that god has made them huge maybe it's not entirely true? do you think god protects almolonga and the people here, so everyone will be ok? i was surprised by what i'd found.

i wanted to speak to pastor sanchez about it so i headed back to meet him. it was the day of his congregation. hola, pastor sanchez. nice to see you. thank you very much. i decided to wait until after the event that evening to ask about the carrots. there was a lot he'd planned to show me and he'd invited me to his house. that's a fancy car. off—camera, pastor sanchez told me he actually ran a trucking company, transporting vegetables all over central america. so as well as being a pastor, you also work in the vegetable business. so i suppose you're very lucky then that god blessed this area and gave it big carrots? because i suppose you make more money from that. ok, let's do it.

look at that. looks like a rock star. yeah, it's very big garage, isn't it? you don't see much of these in almolonga. are you the only guy with a bmw? what do you think people see when you drive round the streets with your nice jacket, your bmw? what do you think the population are thinking when they see you fly by? as night time hit, i made my way to the congregation.

i've only really got one question i want to ask him now — which is about the carrots and whether they in fact come from fertiliser and not god. i'm a little bit nervous to ask him about it. it was clear pastor sanchez was a popular man. the church was packed and even had its own tv show. but there was something very familiar about what i was seeing. then right in the middle of the ceremony, i was called on stage. the whole town had heard i was at the congregation and they had a gift for me. that is...

it was a bag of giant carrots. this isn't a carrot, this is a small child's leg. this is awkward now, i have to ask him about the carrots in front of everybody. thank you for the carrots. this is actually ridiculous. i had one question about them. maybe it's not so much god that makes them big, but it's because people are using a lot of fertiliser? have you ever heard of that before? no. you definitely have some good land here, but i've been told that to get this big, people need to put quite a lot

of fertiliser on that can be bad for people's health. no, no, no. these chemicals, they can increase diabetes, cancer risks, all sorts of diseases. no, no, no. people would be scared if it was true to tell people because the town would lose a lot of money, people like yourself wouldn't make as much money? so would they even want to tell people if it was true? thank you very much. thank you. i don't quite know what i was expecting pastor sanchez to say, but that was a very difficult conversation to have. religion is so important to almolonga and these carrots are so important to almolonga. so ijust felt like i was destroying their most famous story. there is a reason the carrots are massive but something tells me it's not because of god,

but for people like pastor sanchez, the truth is bad for business. so i can't see it changing any time soon. hello, there. we kicked off the weekend with the warmest day of the year so far, 19.1; celsius reported in gravesend in kent. it will stay mild this week. saturday was a predominantly cloudy day. we've got an area of low pressure swelling out towards the south west. patchy outbreaks of rain working their way

north. clouds in the north and east, a cloudy at day in the south—east on the way tomorrow. some mist and fog to start the day on sunday, central and eastern parts of england fairly cloudy with patchy rain. south—west england, the risk of one or two showers. it will lighten up with sunny spells. the risk of one or two showers. in the south—east, it will yield cooler than it did on saturday. many of us seeing sunny spells before the sun sets, fairly cloudy for central and eastern parts of england with shower every outbreaks of rain. that is thanks to this weather front sitting across the south—east that will work back towards the west as we move through the day on monday so monday is fairly cloudy in the south, some showery out breaks of rain for central and southern parts of

england. brighter and dry in the north with sunny spells further scotla nd north with sunny spells further scotland and northern ireland and northern england, one or two showers possible still. as we move into tuesday, we've still got an area of low pressure in the south. milder air sitting low pressure in the south. milder airsitting in the low pressure in the south. milder air sitting in the south but we will pick up easterly winds in the north and that will bring the temperatures down in the east as we move through the week. tuesday, cloudy with outbreaks of rain, working north, how far north of rain will yet, some uncertainty. the best of any sunshine for north west scotland and northern ireland. temperatures on tuesday at a maximum of 15 celsius. into wednesday, low pressure still in the south, the east early wind is still there and the patchy rain will work further north so for wednesday, cloudy day in the north, out breaks of rain, drierand brighter cloudy day in the north, out breaks of rain, drier and brighter in the

south. england and wales seeing the sunshine and in the sunshine we could see temperatures up to 17 celsius. a touch cooler in the north—east, seven or eight celsius. thursday, the easterly wind will bring mist and fog and low cloud coastal regions. the best of any brightness over in the west, temperatures in the south still not doing too badly, the maximum of 16 celsius. towards the end of the week, it does look like we will see any significantly cooler air so temperatures staying fairly similar and it will be fairly cloudy so through this week, we will see rain in the forecaster times, not a total wash—out by any means, plenty of cloud around at some brightness and sunny spells, too, and it'll be fairly mild for most, away from eastern coastal areas. temperatures starting to drop down a touch. that is your forecast.

this is bbc news. the headlines: two people are reported dead and at least 20 injured after a van runs into crowds of people in the german city of muenster. police say the driver of the vehicle killed himself at the scene. german police have raided a property in the city — believed to be that of the attacker — who may have had a history of mental health problems. translation: this horrible act here in the historic centre of muenster has deeply appalled and alarmed me. tributes are paid to 11! people from a junior ice hockey team killed when a bus they were travelling in collides with a lorry in western canada. 300 hundred extra police officers are on patrol across london. it comes after six people are killed in shootings and stabbings in the last week.