this is the briefing. i'm sally bundock. our top story — 10 people are killed in toronto as a van is deliberately driven into pedestrians. one man's been arrested. officials say there are no wider national security implications. the events that happened on the street behind us are horrendous, but they do not appear to be connected in any way to national security based on the information available at this time. first, dinner, now diplomacy — after a lavish meal, presidents trump and macron head back to the white house for three days of talks. jubilation in armenia as people power forces its unpopular prime minister to resign. bumper profits from the parent of google that saw its strongest sales in almost four years, higher pricing for online ads and the boost from

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10 people were killed when a van was driven at speed into pedestrians on a street in the canadian city of toronto. 15 others were injured, several of them critically. the suspected driver, who's been arrested, has been named as 25—year—old alek minassian. our north america correspondent peter bowes has the latest. a trail of destruction. for more than half a mile, a trail of destruction. for more than halfa mile, a a trail of destruction. for more than half a mile, a white rental van was driven on and off the pavement in this northern suburb of toronto. office workers were enjoying a sunny lunchtime. eyewitnesses described hearing screening as a vehicle clouded —— clouded high—speed into pedestrians. it was said on medical

worker is seen of pure carnage. others described the mayhem and fear as people were run over. it was a nightmare. i saw a lady with her leg and... it is really bad out there. i couldn't believe what i saw. everybody, all these people on the streets getting hit, one by one. so many people just shouting, stop the car, but he didn't. hejust many people just shouting, stop the car, but he didn't. he just kept moving and he hit some people those people lie down and they didn't move at all. there was a stand—off with offices on the street but the driver was detained without any shots being fired. he has been named by up police as 25—year—old alek minassian. it is very clear from a general perspective to say that the actions are definitely deliberate. there is nothing on our

files, we have looked right across and there is nothing that we have on him right now. the authorities say it was a deliberate attack, but the motive for canada's worst mass killing in recent history isn't known. on the basis of all available information at the present time, there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident. the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau said his thoughts were with all those affected by the terrible incident. security in the city has been tightened and the police they are pleading with witnesses to come forward to help with their investigation. as he heard in that report, the suspected driver, alek minassian, was not known to the authorities before this tragic incident. we will be toronto later in the programme for more details. move on now to this big event.

president macron of france has had dinner with president trump at the start of a state visit to the us. he's the first foreign leader to be given the honour since mr trump took office. bilateral talks begin later today. our paris correspondent, lucy williamson, is travelling with the french president. for once, the personal warmth seemed to match the pageantry will stop a new chapter in this unlikely romance between two very different men. a certain french pragmatism. not even a european style kiss could hide another long handshake title. well, symbolically, he has already achieved quite a lot. it was mr macron that drove up here to the white house, not theresa may, not germany's angela merkel, and this is really an official recognition of his close friendship with the american leader and his new status as point man for europe. the two leader ‘s personal closeness

comes with real political differences. on iran's nuclear deal, trade tariffs, climate change and the long—term strategy in syria. arriving at the airbase, president emmanuel macron said what was necessary. translation: with the united states and france have a particular responsibility this time. we are the guarantors of multilateral and we have lots of decisions to make and prepare for. in their talks, the president will present proposals that he hoped will convince donald trump to stay in the international agreement on iran's nuclear programme. mr trump has threatened to pull out next month. but both sides are playing down hopes of a breakthrough. emanuel macron may gamble that his relationship with the us leader is valuable anyway, giving france a

boost in dealing with issues elsewhere. his presence here was enough to place tourists in washington. voters on the other side of the atlantic may want to see more. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news. the former american president, george bush sr, has been admitted to hospital in houston the day after the funeral of his wife, barbara. a spokesman said an infection had spread to the 93—year—old's bloodstream, but that he was responding to treatment. a panel of the us senate has narrowly approved president trump's pick for secretary of state, the current cia director mike pompeo. it's expected he'll be confirmed by the full chamber later this week as the trump administration prepares for major foreign policy challenges with north korea and iran. the appeal hearing by the former bosnian serb leader, radovan karadzic, resumes on later today. he was sentenced to a0 years for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during

the bosnian war in the 1990s. his lawyers say his trial was unfair. profits at google owner alphabet jumped 73% in the first three months of this year as revenues from internet advertising soared and president trump's tax reforms started to kick in. oliver cornock, editor—in—chief, oxford business groupjoins me now. nice to see you. we were expecting good news. it is quite a way beyond that. when you factor in the big reduction in corporation tax in the us, that has a big difference. yes, it is undoubtedly in large part due to this reduction in tax, it was one of his flagship policies that came into effect injanuary

of his flagship policies that came into effect in january this of his flagship policies that came into effect injanuary this year. a lot of these figures coming out now are going to reflect this. markets are going to reflect this. markets are factoring those in, but there are factoring those in, but there are other things in this story, alphabet, certain parts of its business, the high—tech business that has shares and ownership within some digitally destructive companies such as uber, companies like that. they have all posted huge growth recently. there is a lot of scrutiny under tech companies now, and if you think about google search, the data held by companies such as google, look at the facebook story, can't help but wonder whether this is a sweet moment because costs have soared and i would argue. the ad space at the likes of google and facebook dominates. more than 80% of advertising is found there. many argue that the monopoly and therefore there could be regulatory

issues with regards to that as well. it is interesting that the dominance of these two companies, it has gone unchecked and uncommented on. we could think of the merge as a monopoly commission now, it would definitely come up as a factor. scrutiny in the medium term, but success in the short term. thank you very much indeed for now. oliver will be back for our news briefing. we have asked for your thoughts lots of issues including the new name for the new prints. we have oliver mmx from our guests. —— oliver in the mix. let's move into other stories. in armenia, the annual commemoration of the ottoman massacres takes place just a day after huge crowds were seen celebrating, dancing and waving flags on the streets of the capital, yerevan. those celebrations came after the prime minister serzh sargsyan said he would resign following days of mass protests against him.

from the capital, yerevan demytrie reports. a day ofjubilation for the armenian nation. people are celebrating their own victory over and unpopular leaderfor many own victory over and unpopular leader for many here, own victory over and unpopular leaderfor many here, this is own victory over and unpopular leader for many here, this is what democracy is all about. translation: the people have one. it has to be recognised without any preconditions. after 11 days of protest against the ex—president and minister, serzh sargsyan, he gave into people ‘s will and announced his resignation. i am very happy to celebrate this day as an independent, new independence. we celebrated today, we created a new armenia today. translation: we recognise the new leader and he will

do everything for our people do not live in poverty. the dramatic events on monday on folded after the release of the project leader who was detained the day before. despite his arrest, but demonstrations continued, even the soldiers in unit terms took part in the protest. —— in uniforms. after his release, he made it straight back to the republic square and was greeted like a hero. but this was only the beginning. shortly after, prime minister serzh sargsyan announced his resignation. people couldn't hold back theirjoy. the is a street party in the square tonight. there is a unifying feeling among all these people will stop of course, they feel the joy,

among all these people will stop of course, they feel thejoy, but among all these people will stop of course, they feel the joy, but they also feel that people's power, because for the first time in armenia's history, these people have managed to bring about change through peaceful protest. there is a lot for armenia to go through in the days to come, but for now, people just want to enjoy the hard one taste of freedom. stay with us on the briefing. also on the programme, how this hand—held robot helped a young fan with severely reduced mobility join his football heroes on the pitch. the stars and stripes at half—mast outside columbine high, the school sealed off, the bodies of the dead still inside. i never thought that they would actually go through with it. some places have already

had nearly as much rain as they'd normally expect in an entire year. for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions, a national day of mourning next wednesday sitting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and lift—off of the space shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope, our window on the universe. you're watching the briefing. our headlines: emmanuel macron is set to start three days of talks with president trump on his state visit to the us.

a van has ploughed into pedestrians at high speed in toronto, killing 10 and injuring 15 more. officials say the incident was deliberate, but there are no wider national security implications. let's stay with that now. let's go live to the scene. salmaan farooqui is a journalist in toronto and joins me now. salmaan, what's the latest, what's going on? we had a news conference that happened with the mayor and the police chief in toronto and the latest news is the death toll got increased to ten people, it was originally nine, now it is ten people and 15 injured. we've also heard there is no terrorist links that have been found so far, but they aren't ruling anything out right now, but they are saying

there's no threat to safety. the suspected driver, 25—year—old alek minassian, tell us what you know about him. he's in custody at the moment, isn't he? there's not a lot we know about alek minassian right now, we do know there was video posted on twitter of his arrest and what was peculiar is he was asking for police officers to shoot him before he was arrested so he was trying to bait them. there's not much besides the police have released and they aren't answering any other questions right now. eyewitnesses described horrific scenes, the van going at 70 or 80 mph along the pavement or the sidewalk, however you describe it in canada, an awful event which is so unusual in toronto. it is unusual and lots of the eyewitnesses were very shaken up but there was a definite response from bystanders who tried to resuscitate and

administerfirst aid who tried to resuscitate and administer first aid to as many as they could, but it's definitely not something toronto is used to but i would say toronto is handling it well. afterwards a lot of the people in the area were walking about calmly and even now i was at a sports bar watching the toronto maple leafs hockey game and people we re maple leafs hockey game and people were cheering right beside the crime scene as happily as ever. you are near to the crime scene, it is cordoned off, and of investigation clearly under way, what are they saying as far as that is concerned and when the new day starts for you in canada, what might that mean for those living there? they have said we can expect this crime seem to be closed off possibly until tomorrow as well, maybe even later, and it is quite large, three kilometres in length and it's one of the busiest roads. definitely causing disruption but that will be the case for maybe a few days. salmaan, thank you for your time. salmaan farooqui, a

journalist at the scene of the crime in toronto's. so much detail on the website. if you want more information then do ta ke you want more information then do take a look. here's our briefing on some of the key events happening later. in istanbul, the trial resumes on terror charges against 17 current and former writers, cartoonists and executives from the cumhuriyet newspaper. then later in westminster, the developer of a controversial app accused of harvesting facebook users' data, aleksandr kogan, will appear before a parliamentary committee. and in london's parliament square, and in london's parliament square, a statue of suffragist leader, millicent fawcett, created by the artist gillian wearing will be unveiled. now it's time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. hello, i'm tulsen tollett it and coming up in your tuesday sport briefing. we look forward to a big night of uefa champions league

action as liverpool play romain of first leg of their semi—final. nba champions golden state look to close out their series against san antonio and it seems everyone in egypt wants to look like mo salah. —— roma. the countdown is on to tuesday night's uefa champions league semi—final first leg between liverpool and roma at anfield and the five—time winners, liverpool, are attempting to reach a champions league finalfor the are attempting to reach a champions league final for the first time since 2007. mo salah scored 33 in 83 for the serie a club before joining liverpool at the start of the year and this game will be the first time he has faced his former colleagues. he had a fantastic time there, he became the player there that we now have the. big credit to all the staff and the players at rome —— now have here. they are all part of his development. rafa nadal is a strong favourite this week as the clay—court season

moves from monaco to barcelona. he beat kei nishikori in straight sets on sunday to win a record extending 11 the monte carlo masters title. next up, it is the barcelona open. yeah, here i am. barcelona again is a tournament i know very well. i feel a little bit like home, even though my home is majorca, i am from this club and i enjoy the fact i can play the in front of my people. the cleveland cavaliers and golden state warriors have met in the last three nba finals and cleveland are locked 2—2 in their series with the indiana pacers and the warriors suffered a setback of sorts on sunday after they lost in game four of their series against the san antonio spurs, kevin durant scored 34, antonio spurs, kevin durant scored 3a, he will hope to continue that form in front of the home fans when they play at home tomorrow and try

to book a place in the western conference semifinals. in case you missed it, theo walcott scored the only goal for everton as they beat newcastle 1—0 at goodison park but the story was how one boy enjoyed the pre— match spectacle via technologies. everton captain phil jagielka brought on a specially designed robot on to help the child too sick to go to the match in joy the experience. jack midson and suffers from multiple illnesses but he could watch the pre— match up close via his tablet. another top seed has fallen in the first round of the world snooker championship in england. shaun murphy, the 2005 champion, was beaten byjamiejones on monday. he was trailing eight —5 but forced the match to a deciding frame and then the number eight seed murphy came up short whilejones will claye wilson in the second round. —— will claye wilson. not

many people can argue liverpool is like a many people can argue liverpool is likea mo many people can argue liverpool is like a mo salah is the man of the moment, he received the pfa player of the year award on sunday and the egypt international has been making waves in his home country. 65 civil engineering senior students from ports i.e. university showing their admiration for salah by wearing a liverpool shirt and curly haired wigs. he re—tweeted a picture of the group's impersonation on his official twitter page. —— ports i did. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. thanks very much, tulsen. the french sculptor, auguste rodin, who created some of the greatest and most innovative works of the modern era, visited the british museum regularly in his later life. an exhibition at the british museum suggests that he took great

inspiration from the greek art on display at the museum. the bbc‘s will gompertz visited the exhibition where the works can be seen side by side. the we know about auguste rodin. he's the 19th century french sculptor who gave us this, the kiss. the man who reportedly said, when asked to describe his technique, "i simply choose a block of marble, and chop off what i don't need." he made his name with the age of bronze, a sculpture so lifelike he was accused of simply making a plaster cast of a human body. it was controversial for some, but not the radical rodin, who headed across the channel to make an appointment with history. auguste rodin first came here to the british museum in 1881. he'd just turned a0 and had his first major commission from the french state, so he was established. but he knew as an artist, if he was going to take sculpture into the future, he was going to have to look back

at least 2,000 years. and this is what he found, the parthenon marbles, conceived by the great greek sculptor phidias around 435 bc, reimagined by rodin over 2,000 years later. the parthenon sculptures had a profound and enduring effect on him and his work. rodin really saw the power that a fragment could evoke, and this inspired him and gave him courage to present his own work in a fragmentary status, and he turned the headless, limbless torso into a new genre of art. the greek government want the parthenon sculptures, generally called the elgin marbles, returned to athens. it's a request that has long been refused but, in a changing climate, might the british museum's position soften? what i can see is new and more intense partnerships, and how these are going to be spelled out, i think that will be one of the great and beautiful challenges that we could, we should and we must joyfully, gladly pick up.

hmm... i think he's saying they're staying put, for now at least. will gompertz, bbc news. we asked for your suggestions for a name for the new prince for william and kate, who may well be watching now given the fact they have a brand—new baby who could be up at all hours. mark adams says albert given the fact they were in germany around nine months ago. mark doing some calculations. albert is a name of german origin, meaning noble and bright and we have another suggestion from a viewer called michael o'leary, not the ryanair boss, who says philip for me, we've had many. let us know your thoughts. use #bbcthebriefing. aisle seat you in a moment for all

of the business stories. —— i'll see you. for many of us the week started on a cloudy note, cool out there as well. there's a lot more cloud and outbreaks of rain to come this week but it won't be too bad, in fact the weather will be changeable. we'll see some sunshine around as well. let's summarise the rest of the week from tuesday onwards. remaining cool and fresh, sunny spells and blustery showers on the way middle part of the week and thunder and lightning should make a return. here's the latest satellite image, lots of cloud from the atlantic streaming in our direction, lots of cool air so the low to mid teens possibly. the rest of the night, fairly cloudy in southern areas, that will stop the temperatures from falling too low as we head towards dawn. probably holding around 12. whereas to the north, where we have clearer skies,

maybe six, a bit more nippy across scotland. then the forecast for tuesday itself, there is an area of rain heading in our direction, probably reaching wales later in the morning and then moving to the peak district and maybe some rain around the midlands. then that rain should make its way into parts of yorkshire as well, possibly into the north midlands as well and east anglia. to the north of that, a mixture of sunshine and showers in scotland, 12 degrees expected in edinburgh, whereas in the south, 13—15, no more than that. tuesday night into wednesday, that weather system moves away and this low marches in, sending showers in our direction so wednesday might start quite sunny but then those showers get going and there will be a whole rash of them, as we often say, across the country, these blobs of blue are individual downpours carried by a brisk wind, could be hail and thunder as well

and in the sunshine temperatures could get to 15 in the south, ten in the north. you see the cool air over us the north. you see the cool air over us and that will stay for most of the week with the warmth being pushed towards more southern and south—eastern parts of europe, with temperatures in the high twenties. on thursday another showery day with sunny spells, hail and thunder possible, most of the showers in northern and western areas and the further east you are, the brighter or the sunnier the weather will be. goodbye. this is business briefing. i'm sally bundock. bumper profits from the parent of google that saw its strongest sales in almost four years, higher pricing for online ads and the boost from president trump's tax reforms. and as the world goes high—tech, more of the silver generation are picking up a brand—new language — coding. and on the markets: you can see it is a day of gains so

farfor you can see it is a day of gains so far for asia you can see it is a day of gains so farfor asia despite a you can see it is a day of gains so far for asia despite a flat finish on wall street.