this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 2:00pm. 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's as bad as a militarily war zone hospital. knives, knives, knives. an erupting volcano in hawaii triggers earthquakes, including the most powerful tremor to hit the state since 1975. and... we have lift off. nasa launches its latest probe to mars. it plans to map the red planet's interior, and listen for, or "marsquakes". for tremors, or "marsquakes". later this hour, witness speaks to a holocaust survivor who was a child in the belsen concentration camp. that's at 2:30pm, here on bbc news. good afternoon and

welcome to bbc news. more details have emerged about the arrest of jamie acourt, one of britain's most wanted fugitives. he'd managed to evade detection for years, before being arrested in barcelona on suspicion of drugs offences. jamie acourt was one of five people suspected of being involved in the murder of stephen lawrence in 1993, something he's always denied. spanish police sources say he used false identities. at the time of his arrest, he claimed to be an italian tourist. james waterhouse reports. jamie acourt, not looking too happy after his arrest, was on the list of the most wanted suspects living in spain. spanish police told the bbc he had

protection and help, and even claimed he was an italian tourist during his arrest. he was captured by armed officers from the spanish national police as he left this gym near the sagrada familia cathedral in barcelona. so what i saw was the convergence of the different police officers — i guess a pincer operation, to use the terminology — and the next minute they were escorting him out with his hands behind his back in handcuffs. his arrest comes soon after the 25th anniversary of the murdered 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 protesters as he left the stephen lawrence inquiry. he always denied any involvement in the stabbing, and was never charged. acourt was held as part of a joint effort by authorities in the uk and spain. this was part of a long—running

campaign called operation captura, which has now been going on for 12 years. in that time, we have named 96 fugitives that we have been looking for in spain, and we have captured 81 of them, and that's a joint campaign, along with crimestoppers and the spanish authorities. acourt is due to appear in court next week for an extradition hearing. james waterhouse, bbc news. our correspondent tom burridge is in barcelona and earlier he explained what the spanish authorities have been telling him. we've got hold of some pretty interesting details about the arrest yesterday, and the whole police operation to track jamie acourt down to this gym. i'm told by a senior spanish police source that jamie acourt was using false names. he had protection and he was moving around spain spending time in parts of the country full of tourists. one witness, a man who witnessed the arrest, said he was told there were undercover police officers inside the gym working out,

watching mr acourt, before other officers moved in. i'm told by spanish police that when the officers went to arrest him he initially tried to claim they had got the wrong man. he said, apparently, that he was an italian tourist. he'll face a bail hearing today. in the coming days he is expected to appear before spain's high court in madrid which will decide whether or not to extradite him back to britain. spanish and british police have been working for years to trackjamie acourt down. he could be extradited really quickly. but if he opposes extradition, it could be a matter of weeks. 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. there've been a series of earthquakes in hawaii, including the most powerful tremor to hit the state in over a0 years. the epicentre was beneath the erupting volcano, mount kilauea. the 6.9 magnitude quake sent people fleeing from buildings and briefly cut power supplies. residents are taking shelter from ash, toxic gas and lava flows. charlotte gallagher reports.

a ribbon of thick lava snakes through the suburban streets and forests, the molten liquid destroying anything in its path. lava has been surging across the island since thursday, sometimes shooting up to 100 feet in the air. it was really smoking bad, you could smell it in the air. we're going to get cut off is what i think‘s going to happen. residents rushed to flee their homes, grabbing what they could. it broke out right down the hill from our house, i smelt it and i ran to the corner and that's when i ran into a military officer that told me that it's smoking and, sure as heck enough, i take the turn, and one of my favourite streets, at least, was on fire. 1,700 people have been ordered to evacuate. those who refuse have been warned no one will rescue them because of the toxic smoke suffocating the area. these deep cracks have appeared on roads and streets.

residents say it felt like a giant snake was moving under their houses. you can feel the heat coming from the ground. yeah, there's heat coming up out of there. there's lava under there. this is where the lava is coming from. the kilauea volcano. normally tourists can go right up to the rim. today it's only safe viewed from the air. much of the landscape is now scorched earth with homes, businesses and forests destroyed. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. i'm joined now from our birmingham studio by dr dougaljerram, an earth scientist from the university of oslo and the one show‘s "dr volcano". thank you forjoining us. should the

residents affected by this volcano be worried? this is a fascinating eruption. it's occurred in the middle of a housing estate, effectively, erupting through the roads. magma shooting 30 metres into the sky. the eruption itself was preceded by a number of earthquakes. about 600 in total that were a record of the magma moving up through the crust which eventually erupted through the surface. through the crust which eventually erupted through the surfacem kilauea the type of volcano that will blow? i'm thinking about the eruption we normally associate with volcanoes. not normally. kilauea, like iceland is associated more with runny laver like iceland is associated more with ru nny laver flows. like iceland is associated more with runny laverflows. i'm like iceland is associated more with runny laver flows. i'm sure like iceland is associated more with runny laverflows. i'm sure many viewers have seen oceans of laver dripping into the sea. it's a case

of the dangers are really to do with the danger to heinz, the lava flow in golfing behinds, but toxic gases. there had been concern that some of the lava was flowing back underground. a volcano guide said watts goes down or have to come up and there is concern the fence could collapse. yes, the 1700 people evacuated have been evacuated for a good reason. the magma is clearly close to the surface and the cracks are accommodating some stress is close to the surface where it's pushing up. clearly it has erupted and sometimes it subsides and things can collapse. the danger not only of the lava itself but also the land collapsing is a real and present threat. what are the us authorities watching for? one of the indications you can get from these eruptions if

their movements underground. looking at the seismic tremors, your reports indicated the 6.9 magnitude earthquake and it tells you something big is happening underground at this location. 0bviously, underground at this location. obviously, the activity we are seeing with kilauea is bad for humans but ultimately that is why hawaii is where it is. exactly, hawaii is where it is. exactly, hawaii is where it is. exactly, hawaii is a volcano above a hotspot. if you imagine a box bunsen burner underneath the pacific plate, you get these islands popping up. the big island is where that hotspot is heating the ground and causing volcanoes at the surface. the islands themselves owe their existence to the volcanoes. you've got the lava, the sulphur, it's some pleasant. but i suppose the risk is sulphur dioxide and the dust. what other dangers are there? exactly. people have reported gases coming

out of the cracks in the road. sulphur dioxide is toxic and can come from such eruptions. i hear some roads have been cut off not because of the danger of the eruptions themselves but because of the gas. also it's a wooded area. you get burning trees. basically the air quality can be a problem around such eruptions. how long is this going to last? in 1955 a similar eruption lasted for three months so it could be similar amount of time. thank you. 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. despite success for labour, who gained more than 70 councillors

and had their best results for decades, some old party faithfuls are not so impressed. speaking at the annual conference of the labour group, progress, who aim to promote progressive politics in the party, the former downing street communications director, alistair campbell said he no longer knows the party he once loved. i said i would be frank, and frankly, i am 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, whether on brexit, labour vs tory, the direction of the labour party, the spread of populism, it does not feel like that any more. i am also a very, very tribal person. short of putin and assad leading a consortium to buy burnley and installing boris johnson as chairman and rees—mogg as manager, 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 my feeling that some in the leadership feel much greater animosity towards other labour supporters than they do to tories, by seeing in powerful positions people whose self—indulgence did so much damage the party neil kinnock's era... 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 takes to win, by foreign policy positions that have been a mix of naive and dangerous, because 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 provoked them, so what do we expect, we end up with the leadership desperately doubt that the russians were responsible for salisbury or that assad gassed his own people, and do not underestimate the damage that did in the local elections as well. that was alastair campbell. a 17—year—old boy is being questioned by police after a woman was attacked with an electric drill in strabane in northern ireland. the 38—year—old victim suffered a "very serious" head injury and is in a critical but stable condition in hospital. police are appealing for witnesses to the incident which happened in the early hours of this morning. police in paris are deploying in large numbers for mass protests called ahead of the anniversary of president emmanuel macron‘s inauguration. authorities are hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence and damage that scarred may day protests in paris earlier this week. 0ur paris correspondent,

hugh schofield, says there's growing opposition to macron‘s reforms. we have seen in the last few weeks a series of protests about the railways. the railway workers protesting against his planned reform of the railways. we have seen the students staging sit inside universities against his planned reforms of the university system worries trying to introduce selection. there are at air france, strikes at hospitals and the justice system. in many sectors of the senate —— french economy villas disgruntlement and we have seen demonstrations in support of those causes fairly regularly in the last few weeks. today is an attempt to bring all together, the initiative ofa bring all together, the initiative of a young man who is one of the leading lights of the far left grouping in parliament, who wants to try and harness what he would see as this latent energy against the government across different parts of

the working classes. bring it all together and have a big demonstration today, which will be a catchall for the protest. more broadly, there is an attempt by him and his supporters on the far left to challenge the government, to force it to change its direction and show that it is in the country a big majority, as they would see it, against what he is doing. i would say that so far this attempt has failed. there are sectoral disputes and disgruntlement and unhappiness among many people, that is clear, but i do not detect this having the kind of effect, the coalescing of fa ct, kind of effect, the coalescing of fact, that it would need to if it was really to murder challenge to macron. there is unhappiness and today we will see many people on the streets protesting against what they would see of his policies in favour of the rich, and that is the slogan, a president for the rich. but macron

is in a president for the rich. but macron isina a president for the rich. but macron is in a pretty safe place for the time being, as he pushes on with his very rapid and comprehensive programme of reform. that was hugh schofield. 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 earthquakes, including the most powerful tremor to hit the state since 1975. the russian opposition politician alexei navalny has been detained after leading what he says are nationwide protests against vladimir putin's re—election as president. mr navalny, who was banned from running against mr putin after being convicted of corruption, has accused the president

of behaving like a craven old man, who thinks he's a tsar or emperor. russian police are reported to have made several arrests and are now clearing anti—putin protestors from moscow's pushkinskaya square. north korea has changed its 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. 0ur correspondent stephen mcdonell in seoul — he explained the significance behind this development. it sounds like it is nothing, the

north koreans have changed clocks, move them forward by half an hour to bring that country in line with their southern neighbours, but it is quite significant because, you can imagine the administration of kim jong—un will have to explain to all north koreans why they are doing this. if this is a goodwill gesture towards the south, that is expressing to everyone in north korea this goodwill. it is interesting, because the times in north and south korea were previously aligned, and north korea changed it because it was seen then asa changed it because it was seen then as a symbolic shift because the time that we have here now was put in place by the japanese when they occupied the korean peninsula, at the beginning of the 20th century. symbolically, pyongyang decided to change the time. now it has had to symbolically change it back again, so while it sounds like nothing, it

actually is quite something. it is interestingly one way that we know that everybody in north korea knows something is going on right now in terms of relations between north and south korea, two countries which are technically still at war. a giant bronze statue of the communist philosopher karl marx has been unveiled in the german town of trier where he was born. the installation, a gift from china, marks the 200th anniversary of marx's birth. the european commission president, jean—claudejuncker, was among those invited to speak at the unveiling. demonstrators reportedly heckled the ceremony. up to one in five children in the uk have been exposed to domestic abuse at home, according to figures from the nspcc. now a new project between the police and schools means that teachers are alerted to any incident that involves violence, so that children receive support. headteachers want the project to be compulsory. 0ur education correspondent elaine dunkley has more.

he would storm off shouting and slam the door and i would flinch, and i would check on the children. they would be hiding in their rooms. for years, this mother and her children suffered domestic abuse. like many, she kept it secret. before the school knew, a couple of times i had sent them into the school upset and had to tell the teacher, it has been a rushed morning it has been difficult at home, and that is all i said. but that has changed thanks to 0peration encompass, a phone call by police that alerts teachers to an incident of domestic violence. how important was that first conversation with the teacher? it felt life—changing to me when i made the decision to be open and poured out my heart. i often said to the children if we had a difficult weekend or were feeling sad, i would often say, you can talk to your teachers,

that is a safe place, they don't have to tell mummy or daddy — that was reassuring to me. 0peration encompass was set up in plymouth by this headteacher, elizabeth, and her husband david, a former police sergeant. she was frustrated that often teachers were not notified of incidents of domestic abuse until months later. i know before that child even steps through from the pavement into the school gates, it means we are prepared. there is no point sitting them on the carpet and saying, "we're going to learn about adverbs today," when they are anxious about what's happening at home, anxious about going home. the first thing we need to do as a school is make sure that child is in the right physical and emotional state to access their learning during the school day. it is estimated that one in five children have been exposed to domestic abuse in the uk, and 130,000 children live in households where there is violence and high

risk domestic abuse. the 33 police forces that are part of operation encompass make on average over 1,500 calls a day. something as simple as a phone call has changed the lives of many children, but 0peration encompass has also shown that there is scope to do much more. the next step would be to look at how we can expand it to cover other types of environments. it could be early learning settings such as nursery or child care environments, to make sure we are not excluding those groups of children from the protection that this scheme offers. headteachers are calling for operation encompass to be compulsory for all schools and police forces in england and wales. a conversation which means children don't have to suffer in silence. a record crowd of over 40,000 is expected at wembley over the next few hours ahead of the women's fa cup final. its a london derby between arsenal and chelsea asjo currie reports.

the decision to move the women's fa cup final to the home of football four years ago is certainly paying off. in 2013 less than 5,000 fans turned up to watch at doncaster‘s keepmoat stadium but since relocating here crowds have not dipped below 30,000 people. and this year's showpiece is expected to be the biggest yet, with over 40,000 tickets already sold. playing in the big arenas, on the big occasions, it takes some time to get used to it, getting control of your emotions to be able to do what you do on the training pitch, to be able to do the same no matter where you are and how many people are watching. and it's not just the crowd that can make history today. arsenal are looking to claim a record 15th title. commentator: what a fantastic goal from dan carter. against the team they beat in 2016, chelsea. i can't even put into words what it felt like to win. i don't know if it was because it was chelsea, winning at wembley or a combination of everything.

arsenal—chelsea is always a big game, always expect drama. today's showpiece event comes at the end of another encouraging 12 months in the women's game. england reached the last four of euro 2017, appointed phil neville as their new manager and two english teams made it to the semifinals of the champions league. there is now even a women's only subbuteo set. it is something i played with when i was younger, but it was the male set so to have the female set now launching just before the women's fa cup final it shows the growth of the women's game in this country at this moment in time. whether it is a flick, fluke or a fine finish, whoever wins the trophy later will do so in front of the biggest crowd the women's final has ever seen. yes! well, jo is at wembley for us now. so what can we expect from the two teams? these finals, historically, on

occasion, have been one—sided. last year, manchester city at thumping birmingham 4—1, but you will get excited about today's final because these are two world—class teams at these are two world—class teams at the top of their game. arsenal going for that record women's15th fa cup title. they have already won the league cup this year so that could be an historic double for arsenal. last week chelsea were playing in the semifinals of the women's champions league. they have an excellent opportunity to win the women's super league title, the divisional title, this season. there are currently second in the table on goal difference bank man city. the fa cup could prove a double for both teams. there are plenty of players who have played for both sides in these teams, there will be rivalry, and keepa these teams, there will be rivalry, and keep a night for the chelsea ladies manager, emma hayes. a few months ago she mentioned she was pregnant with twins. my understanding is she is due next

month, so today, possibly sensibly, she has decided to take a step backwards, take away some of the stress. she will not be leading out herteam, she stress. she will not be leading out her team, she has left that to a numbertwo, her team, she has left that to a number two, paul green. her team, she has left that to a numbertwo, paulgreen. emma hayes says she wants to sit back and enjoy the final, but she is very loud, and she will be in the dugout and you will be able to hear her on the touchline. it is very sunny and hot at wembley so it may not be a bad idea, her sitting down for some of the game at least. remind us where you can watch this match and what time is the kirchhoff? if you're not one of the lucky 40,000 expected to come down to wembley, do not worry. we have the match in phil on bbc

0ne. we have the match in phil on bbc one. if you want to listen, it is on bbc five live. kick—off is at 5:30pm. thank you, lucky lady. nasa has launched its latest mission to mars. a rocket carrying the insight probe blasted off from an air force base in california a short while ago. it's due to touch down on the red planet in november, and is designed to detect tremors or mars—quakes. and is designed to detect tremors or earthquakes. 0ur science correspondent victoria gill reports. three, two... zero. right on time, shrouded in fog, at 4:05am local time the atlas 5 rocket, carrying nasa's mars insight lander, launched from vandenberg air base on the californian coast. current velocity, 4,542 mph. this, the us space agency says, is notjust another mission to the red planet, but a journey back in time. probing beneath the surface of mars, nasa's insight will aim to take the pulse of this planet, to work out how it formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. continues to look excellent at this point. 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 is 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. this is bbc news, coming up in the next few minutes: witness speaks to a holocaust survivor who was a child in the belsen concentration camp.