this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines. jamie acourt, one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence, is arrested in spain on drugs charges — he'll appear before a judge today. donald trump criticises the level of knife crime in london — comparing one of the capital's hospitals to a war zone. they say it is a bird as a military war zone hospital. an erupting volcano in hawaii triggers earthquakes — including the most powerful tremor to hit the state since 1975. and... mission to mars. nasa launches its latest probe to map the red planet's interior and listen for tremors — or marsquakes. and those controversial president trump comments will be discussed by the dateline london panel. that's in half an hour — here on bbc news. good morning and

welcome to bbc news. one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence has been arrested in spain. jamie acourt, who has always denied his involvement in the death of the teenager, was one of the uk's most wanted fugitives. he was detained by armed officers after he left a gym in barcelona yesterday afternoon. he's wanted in the uk on suspicion of drugs offences — and will appear before a spanish judge today. andy moore reports: pictured shortly after his arrest, not looking too happy, jamie acourt was on the list of britain's most wanted suspects living in spain. he was captured by armed officers from the spanish national police as he was leaving a gym near the sagrada familia cathedral 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 in 1998, spitting at protestors as he left the stephen lawrence inquiry. he always denied any involvement in the stabbing, he was never charged. his arrest in spain was in connection with the alleged large—scale supply of drugs. he had last been seen in eltham in london two years ago. ian cruxton from the national crime agency said: acourt is due to appear before a court in madrid next week for an extradition hearing. the spanish police have been giving

a briefing to journalist. the spanish police have been giving a briefing tojournalist. he has been described as a top target for the fugitives team working on trying to find british criminals and alleged criminals and suspects who are operating out of spain or have gone to spain. they suggested to the journalists at the briefing that he may have been using four or five different gyms to exercise in, in barcelona. in other words, different gyms to exercise in, in barcelona. in otherwords, not necessarily going to the same place in succession. and the prosecution side of this in terms of the extradition is that he will have to appear before a judge before the high court in madrid. time is pressing in order to then see of the court will give permission for extradited to the uk. let's talk now to steve reynolds. he's the regional head of international operations at the national crime agency. you are responsible for the team who

operates in spain. tell us more about this particular investigation. well, he has been a fugitive from british justice for well, he has been a fugitive from britishjustice for some well, he has been a fugitive from british justice for some time and we have been trying to find him for a considerable amount of time together with our partners in spain. the spanish national police and the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police. the metropolitan police have an outstanding case against him for drug trafficking. a drug supply offence. when she was on our mist of top fugitives that we are working with crimestoppers and the spanish national police to try to track people like him down. we were conducting an operation with the spanish police for some time and that came to fruition yesterday with his arrest in barcelona. it will have been a surveillance operation over a long period before you felt you were in a position to arrest. we would have affected an arrest

soon as he was identified and that took place yesterday outside the gym we heard about a barcelona. it was a key issue, you've got to get the right person. what kind of direct involvement do your officers have? do they go out and work with their spanish colleagues or is it something you have to effectively direct their activities? we work extremely closely with the spanish authorities but officers have no operational powers in foreign countries so we do it through sharing intelligence, and liaising with them very, very closely. but it is a slightly more backroom role. it is the spanish national police. that is how we operate. and what happens now? is this the end of your involvement or are you actually involved in the process of trying to get brought back to this country? this is under a european arrest warrant which is designed to be a speedy process and we hope that it will be. we the nca will help to facilitate that as long with the metropolitan police. it is their

case will hand them over. the court case he's facing will take place. presumably there are issues that arise in different jurisdictions where, you know, a particular crime is not recognised in one country and therefore judges say, well, we're not sure connection died for this. here we're talking about allegations that would be recognised by spanish course just as they would be by courts here. absolutely. this is a drug trafficking offence. it will be recognised by the spanish courts and under the european arrest warrant system it should be a fairly speedy process. in terms of other cases you are pursuing what sort of numbers of people are you kind of looking for in spain? how big an operation is this? i appreciate that he is just one case, one particular case but presumably we're talking about people who accused all kinds of other activities. exactly. our campaign is working together with crimestoppers and spanish authorities. it has been

going on for 12 years. we have named 96 fugitives of which we have caught 81. so there are a number of fugitives still outstanding so it is still a place for people think they can hide among the british expat community and we are after them. this is a question for the future, almost. it might be difficult one for you to ask what do you think there are people who think, now, particularly with brexit happening, maybe things will be different. and it will be easier for us to hide maybe things will be different. and it will be easierfor us to hide in european countries than it is now. to think that would be a mistake. we have extremely strong partnerships throughout europe and whatever brexit brings, it will affect some of the mechanisms that begin currently use under the eu, and that'll be subject to negotiations. but whatever mechanisms we have will be using those to the full extent of the ball and using extremely strong partnerships across europe to ensure that are no safe havens and fugitives will not be safe and either in europe or the uk. no hiding places. no hiding places, absolutely. thank you for being with us.

donald trump has said the uk's strict gun laws have led to a rise in knife crime, adding that a hospital in london was like "a war zone" because of the number of stabbing victims. the president was defending americans‘ right to own guns, which he said were "under siege", in a speech to the powerful national rifle association. gary o'donoghue reports. reporter: there he is. there's donaldj trump. travelling to the nra's convention is becoming an annual pilgrimage for president trump, 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 your president. cheering but after the shooting of 17 students and teachers at the 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. there was no such tough talk for the nra today. the president also suggesting that just having tight gun laws, like those in london, didn't stop people being killed in other ways. 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. this was an uncompromising speech by the president. and in a year where there are congressional elections, there's unlikely to be any more compromise from republicans. gary o'donoghue, bbc news, dallas. and the doctor who made the quotes about knife crime

in london hospitals trump quoted has since tweeted about the president's comments. martin griffiths says he is "happy to invite mr trump to my (prestigious) hospital to meet with our mayor and police commissioner to discuss our successes in violence reduction in london". his response to being quoted by president trump. several strong earthquakes have shaken parts of hawaii after the eruption of one of the world's most active volcanoes. people fled from buildings as a 6.9 magnitude quake generated small tsunami waves and briefly cut power supplies — it's the most powerful quake there since 1975. 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's when i ran 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 under 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. north korea has changed it's time zone to match the south, following last week's landmark inter—korean summit. the official news agency said the country was moving its clocks forward by 30 minutes — bringing it into line with its southern neighbour. president trump and south korean president, moonjae—in are to hold talks at the white house later on this month to prepare for a meeting between mr trump and the north korean leader, kim jong—un. the summit is expected to take place in late may orjune. president trump has said that a time and place for the summit have been set, but details have not yet been released. counting has now finished after thursday's local elections in england. late results saw labour take the london borough of tower hamlets from no overall control,

giving the party their best performance in the capital for more than a0 years. elsewhere ukip lost almost all of the seats they were defending, whilst the liberal democrats gained more than 70 councillors. analysis suggests labour and the conservatives are now neck—and—neck in the national vote share. our political correspondent, tom barton, is at the progress annual conference in central london. i suppose progress is a place that would normally beast progress is a place that would normally beast is critical ofjeremy corbyn's leadership of the direction he's taken the patchy. what are they making their performance? you are saying best in london for over a0 yea rs saying best in london for over a0 years but worth saying that, when those results happen back in the early 70s, that gave labour about a296 early 70s, that gave labour about a2% of the vote on projected national share and stuart has only

got 35. yes. i think it is fair to say the mood here is subdued. this is a group of people who are inside the labour party called progress. they we re labour party called progress. they were described themselves as on the moderate wing of the labour party. jeremy corbyn ‘s supporters were described them as being on the right. they are critical ofjeremy corbyn and that the labour party has taken to the left. they blame the fa ct taken to the left. they blame the fact labour has not taken big strides forwards in these elections onjeremy corbyn. just looking at the election results, yes, i can say they did take their best results since the early 70s here in london but around the country, in towns like nuneaton and derby, they really fell backwards, losing ground to the conservatives. this was an election when nobody really one overall. the tories took a few steps forwards in

some places, fell backwards and others. labour did the same bulldog in many ways, the best outcome was for the liberal democrats control for the liberal democrats control for councils, turning around usually after eight years of conservative government labour would have been hoping to make big gains. they didn't. and today, speaking to this cold fronts, alistair campbell, was explaining the reasons for that. isaidl explaining the reasons for that. i said i will be frank. and frankly, i'm finding life and politics very tough right now. i have been lucky enough to be on the winning side of arguments a lot of my life in politics. but today, with a run brexit, the direction of the labour party, the spreader populism, it doesn't feel like that any more. animals are very, very tribal person. short of putin and i said

leading a consortium to buy bernie and extolling boris johnson leading a consortium to buy bernie and extolling borisjohnson as chairman and rees mogg as manager, nothing will ever challenge my foot ball nothing will ever challenge my football tribalism. but my lifelong labour tribalism is being pushed to the limit. by the return of militant style nastiness in local politics, by my utter revulsion at the anti—semitism. by measuring that some in the leadership feel animosity towards others in the patchy. self—indulgence that does so much damage to the patchy. applause by applause by seeing how badly good people working for the party have been treated. by frankly the paucity of new ideas and thoughtful debate. by dreadful complacency about what it ta kes to dreadful complacency about what it takes to win. by foreign policy positions that have been dangerous.

in presenting the hard left view as labour's own that the west is usually wrong and those opposed to the west are either right or if they did something wrong it was because we prevent them, so what do we expect? we end up the leadership desperate to doubt that the russians we re desperate to doubt that the russians were responsible for salisbury or that assad asked his own people. and do not underestimate the damaged that did in the local elections as well. applause very strong views here at the progress conference but of course, labour is a big party with more than half a million members in many of those members, particularly newer members, don't share the views that are being expressed at this conference today. instead sharing jeremy corbyn's view that yesterday's result was a solid performance and a solid base for them to move towards the next general election. the headlines on bbc news:

jamie acourt, one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence, is arrested in spain on drugs charges — he'll appear before a judge today. donald trump criticises the level of knife crime in london — comparing one of the capital's hospitals to a war zone an erupting volcano in hawaii triggers the most powerful earthquake to hit the state since 1975. more than 2,500 patients with brain conditions are being recalled to special clinics in northern ireland today, over fears they were misdiagnosed by a senior neurologist. patients seen by consultant dr michael watt were contacted by the belfast trust after doctors raised concerns about the care he was giving. keith doyle reports. the first of thousands of patients diagnosed with neurological conditions will start to get new assessments from today. amid fears they may have been misdiagnosed. 200 additional clinics have been set up

in northern ireland to review patients who were treated by a consultant urologist, dr michael watt. it follows a year long independent investigation by the royal college of physicians. gillian was diagnosed with nerve damage and other conditions 12 years ago. she is one of the patients who has received a letter offering her a new appointment with a different consultant. i don't know what to expect, i don't know what they will tell me. it is very worrying. you put your life into somebody‘s hands, basically. the trust says it doesn't patients have been contacted already with more being sent letters every day. with patients records spread across the health service and private practice, this is a complex and time—consuming process. all of which, the trust admits is extremely stressful for patients and their families. nasa's latest mission to mars blasts off today with the aim

of mapping the red planet's interior for the first time. the rocket carries a robotic probe which will be dropped onto the surface to test for tremors known as ‘marsquakes‘. our science correspondent victoria gill reports. 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 a.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. one 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. 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. sport now, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's mike bushell. we're concentrating on football. manchester city champions. today it is about the fight for survival. the early kick—off these two teams in danger of the drop meeting. a stoke city victory against crystal palace we re city victory against crystal palace were not only boost their own slim hopes of staying up but would relegate west brom. lose, they will

be down. pala should be safe and managers are fully aware of what is at stake today. a really tough game. i think roy has done really well down there and it isa tough, done really well down there and it is a tough, tough match for us. we know that they're playing pretty well themselves. yes, neither team is safe anyway. whether that is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen on saturday but no matter what, we have to be ready. i think this week and the week that follows the two final games, the important thing is going to be to try and put out of our minds the fa ct try and put out of our minds the fact that we have probably done enough to stay in the league. and to make certain that we treat these two games in the same way as we would have treated them had we needed desperately to take points from those games. so, this is howard looks at the bottom of the premier league. one defeat for west brom or stoke sends them down. west brom play tottenham

at three o'clock. at swansea, travelled to bournemouth. west ham are at leicester and southampton —based everton in the late game, all desperate for a win to ease their worries. one team breathing a huge sigh of relief for brighton and hove albion. they have ensured they stay in the second season, guaranteed themselves a second season in the top division after they beat manchester united 1—0. this is the only goal of the game. and every confirmed by the new technology used the season. manchester united have a five—point lead over teams chasing second. with the final and a couple of weeks jose has questions second. with the final and a couple of weeksjose has questions to a nswer of weeksjose has questions to answer about some of his fringe players. the media ask me why always the same? while with this player, why a lwa ys same? while with this player, why always this player? oh, poor that quy always this player? oh, poor that guy doesn't have a chance to start. 0h, guy doesn't have a chance to start. oh, poor the other one who's always

on the bench. you know why not. and record crowd of a0,000 fans are expected at wembley this evening for the women's fa cup final. it is an all london affair as well and a repeat of the 2016 piece for arsenal beats chelsea bounced to this goal. chelsea are fighting on two fronts. a victory for arsenal would be their 15th in the competition. i'm expecting a very good game as always. it always is with arsenal and chelsea. one of game, one of occasion. history doesn't necessarily matter that day. it is whoever turns up, whoever wants of the most. it is all a difficult game, doesn't matter who's buying who's not playing. it is arsenal, chelsea, always a big game. always expect from. like you say here in england, it is a cup game and everything especially the cup game. and i know arsenal has a big history. i have huge respect

for arsenal and what they've done in the history of women's football. and i know they really want to win titles and they still have the chance in the league but it is may be easier for them to win one game against us to win the fa cup. so they are going to come at us. you had, i think. the may day bank holiday means the final stages of the world snooker championship. the semis will play to a conclusion today. this is the first of those. a close one this is turning out to be. 2013th analyst against the two—time champion mark williams. he has been fighting back after going 10—7 down earlier today. it is now 10—9 and you just want the latest frame. it is the first to 17, remember. so it is very tight now. of williams can continue the momentum they will be all square, but too early to tell in this frame. that is now all the sport. let's get the weather with sarah. let's get the weather with sarah. the bank holiday weekend is upon us.

and the weather is looking really promising across most parts of the country. we got high pressure very much in charge of things that is leading to glory seems out there taken by our weather watchers such as this one. we've got beautiful crystal clear there and that's the way it looks for many of us. not everywhere. high pressure keeping things largely dry with spells of sunshine and certainly quite a bit warmer than it has been. we have a bit of a troublemaker. this frontal system moving into the north—west of scotla nd system moving into the north—west of scotland which will bring some cloud must rain in windy conditions at times to north—west scotland. elsewhere it is right high—pressure dominating. at times that will lap onshore to western parts of wales, the isle of man for instance as well. sunny spells with the rest of the country, lifting temperatures nicely. around 18—22d from those places. cooler and breezy across the

far north—west of scotland, the western isles and northern isles in particular. drizzly rain continued tonight but a fine evening and remaining dry overnight two. we have clear skies will fall quite low at thinking monetary spots. just for degrees in norwich first thing. a fresh start on sunday morning but the temperatures will will sit up quite quickly when sunshine gets going. that will lift most part three sea mist and fog early on but we could see a little bit of low cloud and blogging isjust lingering once again around these irish sea coast. through the day in sunnier spells will be probably a degree or so warmer than saturday so highs of 2a celsius towards the south and east. elsewhere, very pleasant 18-21d. is east. elsewhere, very pleasant 18—21d. is looking fine and dry and the stampeders will continue to rise as we look through into bank holiday monday because we are during in this easterly flow of air. warm air coming in from the new think it will be particularly the southern have that will see that warm air during the bank holiday monday. further north a bit cooler for scotland was

cloud drifting in of the north sea but more sunshine and lessen the of low cloud and fog around for the irish sea. an improved day for wales. temperatures likely to reach around 17—26d for most of us. 27 celsius monetary spots making of the warmest early may bank holiday on record. enjoy. hello and welcome to dateline london, i'mjane hill. this week we discuss just how welcome donald trump will be in the uk in a few weeks' time after his inflammatory comments about knife crime in the capital, and how strong is theresa may's position going into the next brexit talks, given the election results in england this week? my guests this week — the times columnist david aaronovitch. .. the north american writer and broadcaster jeffrey kofman. .. marc roche from le point, formerly london correspondent

of le monde... and the italian writer and film maker analisa piras. welcome to you all. good to see you. president trump has been defending the use of guns in america — that in itself, not surprising. but this time he's done it by comparing a london hospital to a war zone because of knife crime. he told the national rifle association that the restrictive gun laws here in the uk have failed to stop a spate of stabbings leading to "blood all over the floors". he also said the terrorist attacks in paris in 2015 could have been prevented if more people had been armed. donald trump is due to visit britain injuly. jaffrey, he was talking to the nra, very much appealing to his base? well, it doesn't have any voters here, at least not a consequence, a few americans over here. we can deride him as much as we want, but

trump does know that if he plays to