this is bbc world news today. i'm kasia madera. our top stories. praise from the british prime minister — as commonwealth leaders choose prince charles to take over from queen elizabeth as theirfigurehead. his royal highness has been a proud supporter of the commonwealth for more than four decades and has spoken passionately about the organisation's unique diversity and it is fitting that one day he will continue the work of his mother, her majesty the queen. the us democratic party files a lawsuit against russia, president trump's election campaign and wikileaks — accusing them of conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 election. should they be forgiven? as basque militants eta issue an apology — we hear from the widow left with young children when her husband was shot dead. and swedish dj avicci, who has collaborated with the likes of madonna and coldplay, has died in oman at the age of 28. prince charles has been

approved as the next head of the commonwealth. the leaders of 53 member states have been gathering in england to choose who will succeed queen elizabeth as the head of the group. the role is non—hereditary so it's not automatically passed on when the queen dies, though she had expressed her "sincere wish" that prince charles would take over. countries also agreed to tackle the deadly disease malaria, and committed to increase inter—commonwealth trade by £2 trillion by 2030. the bbc‘s james landale was in windsor for the summit, he gave us this report changing the guard at windsor castle. only today, it wasn't just the soldiers. world leaders gathered beneath

the battlements to decide who should replace their host as head of the commonwealth when her reign ends — a role that's never been hereditary. last night, the queen treated her guests and herself to a much—needed drink, and gently reminded them she had a son who could take on the job when the time came. and today, she gave them the run of her castle for their private deliberations about her and their future. i'd like to thank her majesty the queen for her generous invitation into her home. and the first time, i think, a heads of government meeting has been held here. they expressed their gratitude by agreeing formally that the prince of wales would indeed one day become their symbolic leader. but this summit wasn't just about agreeing the future leadership of the commonwealth. it was also about agreeing its future role. so amid all the grandeur, the leaders also made plans to boost trade and cyber security, protect the world's oceans

and support the international rules—based order. and zimbabwe's foreign minister was told by borisjohnson that britain would support his country rejoining the commonwealth if it embraced free and fair elections. so a picture of the commonwealth's future is emerging. the task will be to keep it in focus. james landale, bbc news, at the commonwealth summit. earlier i spoke to tom bower, who has recently published an unauthourised biography of prince charles, called rebel prince. he gave us his view of how charles came to be nominated as the future head of the commonwealth. it is the culmination of a 15 year crisis which was in the end resolved probably in the last 18 months by the queen personally taking a very direct line in appealing to the commonwealth leaders to support her son as her successof commonwealth leaders to support her son as her successor which until about a year ago was in doubt

because prince charles in the last 15 years has shown a marked lack of interest in the commonwealth and he refused to travel at the request of the secretary—general of the commonwealth, of the foreign office and other nations, to countries which he did not quite like. he liked going to canada and australia and new zealand but not to kenny and nigeria and pakistan. he showed a lack of interest in the commonwealth —— not to kenyatta. that manifested itself in the previous summits. and so itself in the previous summits. and so the queen, very very directly intervene, she summoned him to buckingham palace and told him he had to improve his attitude otherwise the succession would by no means be a foregone conclusion and encouraged him to take a far greater interest. was there anyone else who could realistically do this? your

unauthorised biography, you paint prince charles as a cold character and you say that he is not as engaged with certain countries as some of those that he likes, but given that he is the king in waiting and he has been waiting for such a long time, it is a difficult position that he is in. you think it's difficult, others will think it is rather privileged, but he is where he is. i don't think he's cold. he is a convicted person. —— conflicted person and also rather indulgent. as far as the commonwealth is concerned he was told in 2003 by the secretary—general of the commonwealth back then, that there was a major problem, and the problem was a major problem, and the problem was that tony blair was not interested in the commonwealth and did not put much pressure on prince charles. that changed after david cameron and the tories came in but

really it was the queen who said to charles that he must take an interest, but the problem is this, the commonwealth is a diverse club and it requires a lot of great personal relationships and the only way to establish that is by travelling and taking huge interest in each country which the queen magnificently did. charles is interested in other things, the environment and farming and architecture, but he hasn't been that interested in foreign affairs. especially the commonwealth. he has been very interested in his charitable work, though, the princes trust is greatly respected and there is interest there now that he will be named as the successor as the head of the commonwealth, surely that interest might possibly be reignited? i agree, not reignited, but started, and i agree with you, his charities have got a lot of

praise in britain but the problem is he is now on probation. he has a period to show that he is the right person to lead the commonwealth, he has learned his lesson, diplomacy has learned his lesson, diplomacy has done the trick and he should show the same eagerness in the commonwealth as in his other interests and stop he has got to be uncontroversial. he cannot make speeches like he has many of his pet projects about the commonwealth, he has got to show remarkable interest and impartiality and wisdom. he has got a share wisdom about, that is the key factor now. tombola, the author of the unauthorised biography of prince charles —— tom bower. the us democratic party has filed

charges to sue russia, saying that they conspired to disrupt the 2016 us presidential election. and in the last few minutes the trump campaign has denounced the lawsuit, saying it is completely without merit and it will be dismissed in due time. nick bryant is in washington for us. this was no sopranos? yes, some people think this is a publicity stu nt people think this is a publicity stunt by the democratic committee —— this was no surprise. they have a large that the trump campaign was pa rt large that the trump campaign was part of a racketeering committee which involved russia and wikileaks and they have also named individuals in this civil nonsense, including the son of the president and also his son—in—law the son of the president and also his son—in—lanared kushner —— this civil law suit. foreign governments are generally given immunity in

american courts and that is why many legal experts to not think this case is going anywhere. can you even sue a country? they are given sovereign protection and it is highly unusual that that is overridden. it can happen, but not expected to happen in this instance. the democratic national committee have argued that russia should not be given immunity because this involved a break in of their computer servers and that was trespass and because of that america should not be giving them immunity and parallels are being drawn with a lawsuit, a civil case, launched by the democratic national committee in the democratic national committee in the 70s, in the watergate era, they sued successfully be the publican, richard nixon's re—election campaign. parallels are being drawn with that but although that was a

success , with that but although that was a success, many legal experts did not think this will be a success. thanks for joining think this will be a success. thanks forjoining us. the swedish dj, avicii, who was one of the world's biggest dance music stars has died in oman at the age of 28. avicii — whose real name was tim bergling — had been nominated twice for grammy awards, for his hits levels and sunshine. someone who knows a lot about avicii's music is the former radio 1 dance music dj, judgejules. hejoins me now. you had performed alongside avicii and you knew him. tell us about his contribution to the dance scene and how he transcended it through to pop music and breaking in the united states. there are djs who have been superstar djs and dance music is a global phenomenon that is worth a lot of money, but there are very few genuine megastars from my world and

avicii was one of a handful. with a really distinctive melodic sound, a classic journey up from really distinctive melodic sound, a classicjourney up from the underground to the extremely mainstream, very much responsible for the breaking of dance music in the one territory where it simply could not get a foothold prior to his success, and that is north america. not only does he leave behind a fantastic music legacy but the achievement of breaking dance music in a territory where ultimately people were doubtful it would ever be equally as popular, is something that is part of his epitaph. what was it about his music that was so popular? 11 billion hits on line. he started out as a producer, more instrumental —based tracks, and he was basically finding the magic track. many people spend

hours trying to achieve it but very few do, simple melodies, interesting sounds, and the sort of instrument of records that even those people who prefer vocal tracks, they came out of clubs, humming along with it, and then he evolved into a very interesting combination of sounds where he almost took country and western sounds and merge those with dancing is a and have a vastly successful album doing that —— merged those with dance music and have a vastly successful album. merged those with dance music and have a vastly successful albumlj imagine have a vastly successful album.|j imagine the life of a dj is very glamorous, but it is gruelling?m really is. sometimes you get scared simply saying that because it is a lifestyle that hundreds of thousands of —— if not millions of people aspire towards, but for every couple

of hours of glory behind the ten —— turntables, there is a lack of sleep and a lot of travelling, similar to the life of a band, and it is far from glamorous. if you want to succeed like avicii you need to be able to go to the nth degree in terms of being just absolutely crazily motivated and having a desire to succeed that very few other people will. he certainly have that desire and drive but in 2016 he was unwell and he announced that he was unwell and he announced that he was retiring at the age of 26. in terms of the loss to the dance scene and also the wider music scene, what will be the impact? since his last album he had just begun to release new material and there was a recent track with rita ora which was picking up where he had left off in terms of commercial mainstream chart

success. he was being played on all the radio stations. very much not only taken away in his prime in terms of his age but also in terms of his musical output. tell us about why he said he was going to retire from touring. i don't know the back story but i know what it is like and how very intense it is. for example, for a number of summers he did a weekly residency in ibiza and sometimes he would fly in from the us to lay a huge pool party in ibiza. —— playful dog travelling across “— ibiza. —— playful dog travelling across —— play a huge pool party in ibiza. travelling across continents, ifibe ibiza. travelling across continents, if i be something people dream of, but it is very tiring on the body ——

it might be something people dream of. yes, the reality of that, no doubt. a real tragedy that he has died at the age of 28, thanks for joining us. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. police in armenia have detained more than 230 people during the eighth day of protests calling for the long—standing leader of the country, serzh sargsyan, to step down. on tuesday, mr sargsyan took over the newly—enhanced role of prime minister, having just stepped down after two previous terms as president. mourners are paying their respects to the former us first lady, barbara bush, who died on tuesday aged 92. her husband george bush senior was there to greet them. the public lying—in—repose is taking place at a church in houston, texas, ahead of a private

funeral on saturday. thousands of students across the united states are walking out of their classes to call for tighter gun—controls — on the 19th anniversary of the columbine high school massacre. it's the latest in a series of recent protests triggered by another mass school shooting earlier this year at parkland in florida. one of america's biggest banks, wells fargo, has been fined $1 billion by us regulators to settle claims of misconduct including overcharging mortgage customers and miss—selling car insurance. wells fargo apologised last year for charging hundreds of thousands of car loan customers for insurance they did not need. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. he became one of the greats of the game but after two decades as arsenal's coach — arsene wenger is calling it quits. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines. commonwealth leaders have agreed that prince charles will, one day, succeed the queen as head of the organisation. the democratic party in the united states has filed a lawsuit accusing russia, the trump election campaign

and wikileaks of conspiring to swing the 2016 presidential poll in donald trump's favour. an apology from the basque militant group, eta, has been criticised by victims groups in spain who say it's insulting and an attempt to whitewash history of ‘the terrorist group's criminal past‘. in its apology statement, eta said it had caused irreparable harm and asked forgiveness from the innocent victims caught up in the conflict. a short time ago i spoke to barbara duhrkopf. her husband, enrique casas vila, was a socialist politician shot dead by eta in 1984, this was her reaction to the apology. my my initial reaction is that it's late but it's there. and then i think we should welcome that something has come positive, even if

the convocation they gave his ambiguous in part —— complication. that is something we will analyse later. today, the communication, they have said they will dissolve themselves, that is the real news, and have got to look back at history and have got to look back at history and see what we do after this. after the death of your husband you were left with four young children and the youngest was 18 months, can you forgive them for what they have done, eta? no, i couldn't, buti have to separate my personal feeling, and every human being who has gone through this would say it's impossible to forgive murder, you have deprived your children of having a father, and now my husband will never be a grandfather. this is unforgivable. but standing beside my

heart and looking at this in a political way i think what we shall do is to take this opportunity to come down and sit down and see how we can write history in the right way, coming out of this, that is much more important right now, because just to prevent younger generations to fall into the same trap as these young people who were the eta murderers. over 40 years of conflict thousands of people were wounded and more than a people killed. —— 800 people. do you think the family of those killed will share the same view as you? every

victim is... we all have different personalities. but this is only way to react for me because what is done is done, you can't get it to comeback, will not come back, so the only way to look with a positive note is to say now it is the beginning of something which we can construct together and mainly with this young generation who have never experienced that. they should see what they should avoid for the future. and now we have all the sport. i suspect you will be talking about arsene wenger. we're starting with more reaction to the news today that arsene wenger is stepping down as the manager of arsenal. after 22 years at the club, in which he's won 3 premier league

titles and a record 7 fa cups, wenger will leave at the end of the season, a year before his contract expires. arsenal can only finish 6th in the table — their worst position under wenger although they are in the semi—finals of the europa league. the club's chief exectutive ivan gazidis has just finished speaking at a press conference and it was clear wenger is going to be very difficult to replace. arsene wenger change the game and he set a totally new standard, a new ambition. the ambition notjust a win but to win while achieving perfection, to make art out of football, and he was always brave enough to be true to that extraordinary ambition. incredibly, he achieved it with arsenal's invincibles season. two players synonomous with different wenger sides — robert pires and ian wright — both gave us their memories of working with the outgoing arsenal manager.

he made me think about football in such a meticulous way that every single thing i was doing that wasn't right is harming me. and everything that i was doing that was the right thing to do, in respect of sleep, drinking water, training, resting, was benefiting me. i genuinely believed it, he made me think that. i thought like that until the end of my career. commentator: bergkamp has gone to the right, ljungberg. perez! it's difficult to win the premier league because you have to fight against manchester city, manchester united, chelsea, liverpool, tottenham. when you won the title but unbeaten, it is an unbelievable trophy. so that's why, i have a lot of great memories with arsenal, and of course with the teacher, arsene wenger.

so who will will succeed wenger as arsenal manager? one man who's climbed—up the list with the bookmakers this afternoon is celtic boss brendan rogers who's previously been in charge of liverpool and swansea. celtic have said today they won't stand in rodgers' way if he's approached by arsenal. former captain patrick viera is also linked to succeed wenger. he's currently manager of new york city fc. other names in the frame are former dortmund boss thomas tuchel, germany coach joachim low and former chelsea manager carlo ancelloti. rafael nadal has thrashed austria's dominic thiem to reach a record 14th monte carlo masters semi—final. the world number one is bidding for his 11th victory at the clay court event. he won 6—0 6—2 injust over an hour. thiem beat former world number 1 novak djokovic in the last 16 yesterday. nadal will play grigor dimitrov tomorrow. that's all the sport for now. a reminder of our breaking

news this hour — president donald trump's election campaign said a lawsuit launched by the democratic party on friday "completely without merit and will be dismissed in due time." the lawsuit alleges a conspiracy by the trump campaign, wikileaks and russia to carry out a wide—ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 us presidential election. president trump's administration have dismissed that lawsuit as com pletely have dismissed that lawsuit as completely without merit. and for now, from me and the whole team, goodbye. it may not have been quite as hot as yesterday but for many it has been another lovely day, with a few exceptions. the sunshine was with us for most but there was also low

cloud around. the gradual cooling down will happen over the weekend. the coasts near the irish sea have been plagued by the low cloud. under the starry skies it will turn quite cold, down to 3—4 in the glens of scotland. tomorrow promises to be misty in places, and then we have sea fog, the irish seacoast, but not as widespread. we still have the heatin as widespread. we still have the heat in central and eastern areas and a good day also for parts of scotla nd and a good day also for parts of scotland and northern ireland. on sunday, through saturday evening, and overnight, a few more rumbles of thunder and heavy showers around at the weather front bringing cooler weather across the whole country eventually. now we have a story about parents struggling to cope with the challenging behaviour of children. as the number of children diagnosed

with autism rockets, more and more families are desperate for help. behind any door in any street you might find one of the thousands of families in scotland struggling with autism. i've been speaking to families across the country whose day—to—day lives are so much harder than you can begin to imagine. i'm talking when he was eight or nine. and i'm taking a kicking. that's what's happening, i'm curled up in a ball. all i knew was my baby was at the front. and the minister was passing her into god's hands i suppose. i meet the parents begging for help from a system they feel doesn't understand them or their children. right now though i've no parental control. overjack. none.

young people speak up for themselves. every now and then they'd come over and, like, open the top of the door and look in at me. close it and leave again. it was terrifying. because i was, like, five. and locked in a room by myself. i don't blame them for seeing me as a bad kid, i know i'm not a bad kid, but it'sjust i know they don't understand it. that's very charitable view. i'm trying to be very patient. and those inside the system revealed the reality of mental health services. dude you have the resources you need to do the job properly? no, i don't think that we do. tonight families all around us are asking, help me save my child. i'm starting in a quiet village in the stirlingshire countryside.

i'm here to meet a family that have been through the toughest of times. this is tina and jacob. he's 15. jacob's problems started in primary one. he was lashing out, he'd hide, just be totally