i had as a boy, believe it or not. welcome to bbc news. my name is nkem ifejika. our top stories: several strong earthquakes shake parts of hawaii after a volcanic eruption. hundreds are forced to leave their homes. president trump rallies his base at a meeting of the national rifle association and makes this vow. hello and welcome to bbc news. in the last few hours there have been more strong earthquakes in hawaii following the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes, mount kilauea. 1,700 residents have been evacuated from areas most vulnerable to lava flows, ash and toxic gas. federal emergency teams and the national guard have been deployed to the south side of hawaii's big island, where a state of emergency has been declared.

bill hayton reports. a roadblock, hawaii style. this neighbourhood is 2a miles from the crater of mt kilauea, but the ground cracked open on thursday and molten lava poured out. i smelt it and i ran to the corner, and that is when i ran into a military officer, who told me that it is smoking, and sure as heck enough i take the turn and one streets at least was on fire. dozens of small earthquakes left cracks in the roads. some residents described a feeling as if a giant snake was moving under the houses. you can feel the heat coming from the ground... yeah, there's heat coming out of there. there's lava there. and that wasn't the only danger. the air was filled with potentially toxic fumes. as a result, the state governor ordered an evacuation. there was little time

to gather possessions. some escaped with what they could. residents are now waiting to see when they'll be allowed home. kilauea is spewing smoke from one of its side vents, but at the moment, scientists don't believe there's a major risk of an explosive eruption. lava's been flowing from the volcano crater and cracks on its slopes ever since it became active in 1983. but with earthquakes getting stronger, no—one's relaxing just yet. bill hayton, bbc news. now for that val i promised you at the start of the programme. —— vow. president trump has vowed to defend the right of americans to own guns in a speech at the national rifle association's convention in dallas, texas. he was back among his core supporters after a tumultuous week in which he's faced growing scrutiny about his alleged affair with stormy daniels, an adult film star. at the convention he seemed to dismiss the idea of tighter gun control laws after february's

mass shooting at a high school in florida. gary o'donoghue reports from dallas. reporter: there he is. there's donald] trump. travelling to the nra's convention is becoming an annual pilgrimage for president trump, but recent mass shootings have put the organisation on the back foot. though today, the president remained staunch in his defence of them and their right onstitutionally to own a gun. your second amendment rights are under siege. but they will never, ever be under siege as long as i'm president. but after the shooting of 17 students and teachers at a school in parkland, florida on valentine's day, the mood has changed, with young people around the country keeping gun control at the forefront of the debate. my daughter has no voice. she was murdered last week. shortly after that shooting, the president seemed prepared to stand up to the organisation,

though little action followed. so let's talk about guns, shall we? cheering but there was no such tough talk for the nra today. the president also suggesting that just having tight gun laws, like those in london, did not stop people being killed in other ways, even though britain's murder rate is a fraction of that in the united states. i recently read a story that in london, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds. yes, that's right. they don't have guns, they have knives. lindsay falcon was one of those close by, urging tighter controls. her nephew, joe r perez, was one of four people killed in a waffle house shooting

in tennessee last month. please stop calling us stupid for wanting to protect our children. this was an uncompromising speech by the president. and in a year where there are congressional elections, there's unlikely to be any more republican compromise. gary o'donoghue, bbc news. chemical weapons inspectors say they've finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria. the team spent almost two weeks in the city of douma. the samples will now be sent for analysis. donald trump and the south korean president, moon jae—in, will hold talks at the white house on may the 22nd. they're due to discuss the planned summit between mr trump and the north korean leader, kim jong—un, expected to take place in late may orjune. earlier president trump said the time and place for the summit had been set, but gave

no further details. hundreds of palestinians have been demonstrating along the borderfence with israel for the sixth consecutive friday. reports say a number of protesters have been wounded by live and rubber bullets fired by israeli troops. israel says it uses force only to prevent damage to the fence or possible infiltrations. at least 44 protesters have been killed during the weeks of protest, marking 70 years since hundreds of thousands of palestinian arabs were expelled or fled from the new state of israel. israel has withdrawn its candidacy for its first ever seat on the un security council. elections will be held next month to appoint five new members to serve a two year term starting injanuary. israel's mission at the un said it had decided to postpone its candidacy after consulting partners and friends. the former us president george hw bush has been discharged from a hospital in the texan city of houston, where he'd stayed

for nearly two weeks. he was admitted just a day after the funeral of his wife, barbara. the 93—year—old was being treated for an infection that spread to his blood. kensington palace has released more details of the wedding of prince harry to meghan markle. meghan markle's father will walk his daughter down the aisle and her mother will also be the. the wedding will take place in a fortnight. —— there. and if you want any more on the stories we cover here, then go to our website for plenty of analysis from our correspondents and experts. you can find it all at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. the local elections in england have largely seen voters stick with the status quo

with neither of the two main parties able to celebrate significant gains. the liberal democrat leader, vince cable, said his party winning control of four councils from the tories marked the start of the party's fightback. but it was a near wipeout for ukip. here's our political editor, laura kuenssberg. there'd been a lot of tory nerves, but they held them, for the most part. congratulations, councillor. here, in a famous tory council, wandsworth, they clung on. but only just. they thought they could take control. this was one of their top targets, and they threw everything at it, but they failed. cheering the prime minister and her party are relieved to have held on in areas like this, rather than being overjoyed to be making any progress. what do you think it says

about the tories right now, that labour ran it so close, in such a traditional tory area? well, it's not surprising, there are big national issues out there, which they attempted to capitalise on. it is a cliche, bins not brexit, but that's the thing that made the difference. this shows they are all mouth and not a lot of trousers, if that's the expression! it was not a victory lap, but a tour of the ground they had held, the tories lost seats, but only two councils. by traditional standards, for a party that has been in power for eight years, you can see from their faces that is better than they had hoped. is he walking towards power, though? labourdid edge up... ..taking two councils, plymouth and kirklees, but losing three others. dramatic strides to number 10? not quite.

we're absolutely ready for it, we have members, we have organisation, enthusiasm, look at these people here, they have come out this morning having been up all night, at the count, in plymouth, celebrating. we have not seen peak corbyn then? no, no. there's much more to come, and it's going to get even better. legions of supporters agree. i'm excited for what plymouth can come up with, and what labour can do for us. thrilled about the plymouth results, absolutely thrilled, it's about time! they certainly had reasons to be cheerful round the country, pushing the tories out of power in trafford, the only patch of blue in a north—west sea of red, piling on council seats in the cities, but not enough to grab their high profile targets in london. the mayor there left before the disappointment of one of the big results. labour's hopes of capturing barnet, where there is a big jewish population, crashed, partly due to anti—semitism.

you put that down to the anti—semitism row? well... looking at how the votes went in different wards, that was certainly the biggest factor. and outside the cities, labour couldn't stop many towns from turning tory. swindon stayed blue. they took basildon, peterborough. the conservatives scooping up the most from voters deserting ukip in their droves. but the lib dems burst out of their lethargy, taking from the tories. the only party promising a public vote on the brexit deal turned pockets, like tory richmond, yellow. whether it's against labour or conservatives, in brexit or remain country, we're reasserting ourselves as a major national force, down to a lot of hard work

and effort, and just i want to thank all of you for i want to thank all of you for what you've achieved. but some of that success was down to happy greens working alongside. they gained a sprinkling of seats themselves. we're feeling incredibly positive, it has exceeded expectations, we have broken through onto five new councils, we have defended seats that were being attacked by the bigger parties. this place had almost got used to turmoil, every time voters went to the polls, but this time around, the public has chosen something like the status quo. labour edging up a little, the tories slipping slightly. but that doesn't mean nothing's changed. perhaps the lack of movement tells us both main parties are even more firmly stuck in their comfort zone. for labour, some disappointment, but no disaster. don't worry, we're gonna be here here a lot more as well. for the tories, a sigh of relief,

rather than celebration. are you tempted to call a snap general election, prime minister? laughter no, i think we'lljust enjoy this... voters perhaps not yet ready for that kind of dramatic change. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. as we've heard, labour held on to their strongholds in a number of inner cities including birmingham. but they failed to win some key target seats, like wandsworth and swindon, where our deputy political editor, john pienaar, has been talking to voters. we know how people voted, those that bothered, the question now is why? good morning, this is bbc five live, it's your call, we are in wandsworth, where labour didn't get over the line. but we want to hear from you, wherever you are. i didn't vote, i don't have any faith in uk politics, and i don't think there's any real leaders to vote for, so there's no point in voting at the moment. not everyone turned down all the choices on offer.

which way did you go? conservative. why? i've lived here for the last 30 years and enjoyed one of the lowest council taxes in the country throughout that period. you voted with your wallet? completely, and why would i want to vote any other way? here's pete in trafford, how did you vote, pete? i voted labour for the first time purely based on local issues. i've always been a tory voter, but living here, it put me off. these were local elections, people weren't choosing a government, and they knew that, but we're still seeing, from the results that we've got, what a divided, polarised country this is, and more so than ever after brexit. and even so, people in a local election like this one have any number of different reasons for how they cast their vote. local elections, what about you? well, in the end, i voted lib dem because i couldn't be bothered with the other two. i'm sick of them, really. honestly, i wish someone in the council would bring

through on compost bins. that's the biggest issue for you, compost bins? compost bins, yes. i don't understand why the council can't put in compost bins, so we can reduce waste. it's something other countries do. how did you vote and tell us why. i voted for labour because i believe they are still working for the people, the working—class. jeremy corbyn is a polarising figure. we got this text into the phone—in, from morris in manchester. he can be a minus at times, but labour's notjust one person. the messages from around the country showed strong feelings, deeply split. a tory supporter texted: he made this trip three times, but in swindon, labour only gained a single seat. hard effort gone to waste? party loyalty‘s often an unbreakable habit however you describe yourself. an historic conservative voter.

it's in your blood? it's in my blood. i can't ever imagine voting for any other party. i never vote. don't believe in none of them. none of them? none of them — a load of rubbish. i used to vote for conservative before. you voted conservative before, but labour this time? yes. what changed your mind? to bring somebody new to the council this time. what with brexit, internal struggles, it's harder now for any party to get to the top of the pile. not much changed in these elections. but then so many old rules of politics have ended up on the scrapheap. john pienaar, bbc news, swindon. several strong earthquakes shake parts of hawaii after the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes, mount kilauea. several strong earthquakes shake parts of hawaii after the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes, mount kilauea. president trump has told members of america's powerful gun lobby, the national rifle association, that he won't bow to calls for stricter controls. a former suspect in the murder of stephen lawrence —

who is one of britain's most wanted fugitives — has been arrested in spain. the 41—year—old from south london is suspected to have been involved in the large—scale supply of drugs. andy moore reports. pictured shortly after his arrest, not looking too happy, he was ca ptu red not looking too happy, he was captured leaving a gym in barcelona. his arrest comes soon after the 25th anniversary of the murder of the teenager stephen lawrence. he was attacked by five men at a bus stop in south—east london in a racially motivated killing. this was acourt as he left the stephen lawrence enquiry. he denied involvement and was never charged. his arrest came

in connection with a large—scale supply of drugs. he was last seen in elton two years ago. ian croxton from the national crime agency said a... acourt is due to a pot —— appear in front of a court in madrid next week. public health england says more than 10,000 calls have been made to an official helpline, since a failure in the breast cancer screening programme was revealed. 0ne charity says it's had four times the usual number of people getting in touch with them. almost half a million women were not invited for their final routine check due to a computer error. here's our health editor, hugh pym. phone rings how can i help you? hello. after several attempts helen got through to the official breast screening helpline. it was set up after catastrophic errors caused hundreds of thousands of women

to miss their routine mammogram. helen was one of them. she was diagnosed with breast cancer in march and had a mastectomy. we're all post—war babes. we've worked all our lives probably, most of us — we're all post—war babes. we've worked all our lives probably, most of us — paid into the system. now we're in our late 60s and early 70s we're probably not wanted anymore. i feel desperately sorry and very, very angry for those who have gone on to have aggressive breast cancer in those intervening years. those aged between 50 and 70 should be invited every three years for breast screening, but it failings and other mistakes over nine years meant that some older women in england never got the letters. there are still questions over when the screening failure was first identified. public health england say injanuary 2018 they were first informed of a national problem. but in march 2017, local health officials in london and the west midlands raised concerns with

the it contractor hitachi consulting. they were told there were no software problems. it's understood this exchange was referred up to national level. hitachi consulting said it had no responsibility for the error that's led to this situation and had been engaged merely to maintain and support the system as designed. breast cancer charities, like this one, say they're extremely busy as people get in touch seeking reassurance and an explanation of what the screening errors might mean for them. hello, breast cancer care helpline. call volume here has been four times the normal level, with people raising a range of concerns. some people are angry they've been missed out and some people are reallyjust worried and want to make sure that they do the right thing for themselves, whether they choose to attend breast screening or not. they want that opportunity. helen simply wants someone to hold their hand up. i'd like to see a certain amount of compensation but certainly actually people probably falling on their swords. people at the top who are

responsible for all this need to actually admit to the problem and actually resignations probably are in order. the department of health and social care and public health england said they weren't available for interview. hugh pym, bbc news. nasa's first lander to mars since 2012 is due to launch on saturday morning from vandenberg airforce base in california. scientists say the mars insight lander, that should land on mars on 26 november, will probe beneath the red planet's surface for the first time, to uncover the secret of how it and other rocky planets formed. 0ur science correspondent, victoria gill, explains. a mission to the red planet and a journey back in time. probing beneath the surface of mars, nasa's insight mission will aim to take the pulse of this planet to work out how it formed more than 11.5 billion years ago. once it's unfolded its vital solar panels, the robotic lander will carefully put down its own scientific instruments

which will map the deep structure of the planet. these will take the temperature of mars and analyse the structure of its core. 0ne instrument, a seismometer, will pick up signals from martian earthquakes, or marsquakes. unlike previous missions, the most recent missions have been looking for water and habitability. this particular one is looking at how the planet itself is made up, how it's built. earth and mars formed at the same time, probably by similar processes, so this mission could also shed light on why the two planets are so different. mars formed about the same time, a little bit further out than us from roughly similar materials, but it is very different. it is now dead — it could have been alive 3.8 billion years ago — so we want to know why the similarities, why the differences, and particularly why mars has ended up with — not being a habitable place now. beyond a trip to mars, scientists say this is a mission to our solar system's past. peering beneath mars' surface could also help us understand how earth, the moon and even distant exoplanets around other stars evolved.

victoria gill, bbc news. if it's still friday where you are, you may not know that the date is one which star wars fans eagerly await all year. it's all about being able to utter the phrase, "may the fourth be with you." to mark the occasion, people have been getting creative online. here's laura trevelyan. in a galaxy far, far away — or rather, on twitter today — star wars fans far and wide have been celebrating. imitates lightsaber whooshing from sports teams to some fuzzier celebrities. imitates yoda: 0h! may the fourth be with you! hmm! everyone has been having a little fun with this clever play on words. and if you found yourself

at london's heathrow airport today, you might have found some, well, stellar destinations on the departures board. even the franchise's stars haven't been able to resist. 0h, hi, will. hi. um, i was wondering if you would, ah, if you would remind me what the date is. oh, i know what you're doing. 0k, very clever. i don't think so! but, if you could just say the — just say what the — what the date is. just tell, i can't...|'m having a really hard time remembering. i'm not not going to give you the phrase but i will say the day because i don't want to hear the phrase. 0k. may the fourth. be with you! 0h! and while it took mark hamill, aka luke skywalker, a bit of time to warm up, he's fully embracing may the fourth and is clearly hoping you do too. laura trevelyan, bbc news. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, i'm @nkem|fejika. apologies to those of you who do not know or care about star wars. out of

story. mount kilauea is on hawaii's main island where dramatic video showed laba main island where dramatic video showed la ba bursting main island where dramatic video showed laba bursting up from under a road and streams of molten rock consumed trees. the state of emergency has been declared. the state of emergency has been declared. hello there, good morning. don't expect too much and you won't be disappointed — that's normally what most people say about the bank holiday weekend weather. this weekend, though, could be very different. we saw a fair bit of sunshine around on friday, notjust in york but far and wide, and there will be more to come this weekend. apart from the far north—west of scotland at times seeing some rain, it should be dry and getting warmer and warmer as well. not surprisingly, high pressure is in charge of our weather. we are drawing in warmth from the near continent. as that builds, keeping these weather fronts just almost at bay, occasionally brushing the far north—west of scotland, the outer isles as well.

some patchy cloud across scotland, northern ireland and into england and wales but there will be some sunny spells, too. and if anything, temperatures probably a bit higher than they were on friday, so getting up to 20 degrees in north—eastern scotland and low 20s in the south—east of england. there's that rain in the far north—west of scotland. it runs away towards the northern isles then peters out. still could be quite misty across the irish sea here. it could lap up onto some of those coasts once again again but generally clear skies. a bit chilly in east anglia, the south—east of england, generally eight or nine degrees and soon warming up in the sunshine on sunday. again, some stronger winds in the north—west of scotland probably tending to push that rain away once again. some more sunshine for scotland, northern ireland. increasing amounts of sunshine for england and wales. some mistiness through the irish sea that could be heading up towards the north channel. temperatures continuing to rise, getting into the low, perhaps even mid 20s at best. and more sunshine to come on monday, too. again, some stronger winds in the far north—west. a few spots of rain not far away.

but generally, a lovely day. not quite as warm in the north—east of scotland and in the north—east of england on monday but inland elsewhere, temperatures at least around 20—23 degrees or so. and we could get 27 to the north—west of london on bank holiday monday — that would make it the hottest early bank holiday monday on record. now, things will start to change after monday. high pressure that has been drawing in this atlantic influence retreats to scandinavia. things start to turn in from the atlantic with pressure falling. we get weaker weather fronts approaching into western parts of the uk. but further east, it will still be dry on tuesday. there will be sunshine and still very warm across the midlands and eastern parts of england. those temperatures into the mid 20s or so. cooling off a little further north and further west. and with the atlantic winds pushing in across the uk, there won't be much rain,

apart from in the north—west of the uk. temperatures will be on the slide. this is bbc news — the headlines: dozens of people in hawaii have taken shelter from ash, toxic gas and lava flows from the mount kilauea volcano. at least two homes were destroyed when lava bubbled up through fissures in a residential area. several strong earthquakes have shaken the southeastern region of hawaii's big island. president trump has addressed the national rifle association and vowed not to tighten us firearms laws — despite suggesting after the florida school shooting that he was prepared to take on the gun lobby. he also repeated a call for teachers to be armed. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons said their samples from douma will now be sent for analysis.

for the first time since the second world war there will be no nobel prize for literature. the swedish academy which uses the winner of the award is caught up in a crisis of allegations of sexual assault, around the husband of one of the academy'sjudges. the around the husband of one of the academy's judges. the academy has now decided that the damage to its credibility was so serious it would have no choice but to cancel the awards. churchill, steinbeck, dylan. for more than a century, the nobel literature prize has been