this is bbc news. i'm ben bland. our top stories — alex ferguson, the manager who made manchester united one of the world's great clubs, undergoes emergency brain surgery. the world of football wishes him well. as a personalfriend, it's, you know, i hope he has a full recovery. more than 1,000 people have been arrested across russia, including opposition leader alexei navalny, during protests against president putin. a leading london surgeon says the suggestion by president trump that knife crime has turned his hospital into a war zone is ridiculous we'll show you the latest pictures of prince louis — the newest member of the british royal family. hello and welcome to bbc news. sir alex ferguson,

the most successful manager in british football history, is recovering in intensive care tonight after undergoing emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage. manchester united said the operation went "very well" but that he now needed a period of intensive care to help his recovery. our sports correspondent david 0rnstein reports. this was sir alex ferguson only last sunday, in high spirits and seemingly good health. but tonight news emerged that the 76—year—old had been admitted to hospital. a statement released by manchester united read: "sir alex ferguson has undergone emergency surgery today for a brain haemorrhage. the procedure has gone very well but he needs a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery." speculation began when his son darren, manager of doncaster rovers, was absent from their match against wigan athletic today, with the club saying it was for family reasons.

sir alex ferguson retired as manchester united manager in may, 2013, after winning an incredible 38 trophies in 26 years. the scott famously won the trebble of premier league, fa cup and champions league trophies in 1999, the same year he was knighted. gordon taylor, boss of the professional footballers association said: "all our thoughts and prayers are with you, sir alex, god bless", as messages of support poured in from across the football community. i hope he is in good hands and i hope the operation is a major success, because as a personal friend, you know, i hope he has a full recovery. sir alex ferguson is one of the greatest figures the game has ever known. his success at old trafford earning him legendary status. the hope is he will win this battle off the pitch as he did so often on it. david 0rnstein, bbc news.

ade adedoyin has been gauging reaction outside manchester united's home stadium, old trafford. sir alex ferguson achieved unprecedented success here at the manchester united and messages of goodwill coming in from current and former players. united captain michael carrick says he is devastated by this news and wishes him a speedy recovery. the world of football, really, offering their m essa 9 es football, really, offering their m essa g es of football, really, offering their messages of support. la liga in spain, the bundesliga. his influence goes beyond football. nba basketball. i will leave you with one from the former united leader. " if one from the former united leader. "if anyone can recover, you can,

boss." more than 1,000 russian activists have been arrested while protesting against vladimir putin's forthcoming inauguration for a fourth term as president. among those seized was opposition leader, alexei navalny. from moscow, steve rosenberg sent this report. in moscow, this was the reaction to a protest against the president. riot police pushed demonstrators off pushkin square. the protesters had been shouting, "down with the tsar!" and demanding that vladimir putin serves his fourth term as president injail. there were protests in dozens of russian towns. police detained more than 1,000 people. crowd chanting. "do we need a tsar?" asked opposition activist alexei navalny who had organised the protest. "no", they shouted. soon after, police dragged him away too. earlier in the square, russian nationalists supporting president putin vowed to prevent a ukraine style revolution in russia.

the anti—government protesters shouted them down. on paper at least, vladimir putin has little to fear from a street protest. a recent survey found that the vast majority of russians had no desire to take part in a political demonstrations. and yet, any public display of dissent makes the russian government nervous. that is because the kremlin has seen a people powerforce political change in countries on russia's doorstep. hence, this less than subtle hint from those in power here — that critics of the authorities can expect an even tougher time in president putin's fourth term in the kremlin. officials in hawaii are appealing for anyone still living near the kilauea volcano to leave the area. tremors and eruptions continue to rock the main island

which was struck on friday by the largest earthquake in more than a0 years. the 6.9 magnitude quake sent people fleeing from buildings and briefly cut power supplies. 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 are going to get cut off i think is what's going to happen. residents rushed to flee their homes, grabbing what they could. it broke out right down the hill from my house. i smelled it and i ran to the corner and that's when i ran into a military officer that told me it was smoking and sure as heck enough, i take the turn and my entire, one of my favourite streets at least, was on fire. 1,700 people have been ordered to evacuate. those who refused 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 is heat coming up out of this. 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. earlier, i spoke to kristen hassett who lives in hawaii and had experienced one of the quakes. it was unbelievable, unlike anything i had experienced

before because i come from the mainland in florida where it is flat and we had zero earthquakes over there so having to experience this at such a magnitude of 6.9 was unreal. presumably, you and others have had to leave your homes. what are things like in terms of provisions and shelters for you? we have a couple of shelters around, some of the gymnasiums, it is only some parts of the island that have had to evacuate. i am 45 minutes from where the eruptions are happening so we didn't have to evacuate at all. that is good news. i suppose, though, people will have friends and relatives in other parts of the island. in terms of communications, are those functioning normally? can you text and phone

and check on people? everything is working fine and people have been able to keep in touch with their families affected by this. what has been the advice from the authorities, in terms of what to expect in the coming days and weeks what has been the advice from the authorities, in terms of what to expect in the coming days and weeks and potential further earthquakes? hopefully that it will be small but there is no telling. i'm not too sure, personally. but we are prepared for it if it does happen again at that strong magnitude. you said you moved to hawaii from the mainland, from florida, do you ever kind of think to yourself, was it the right move to go to somewhere so close to one of the world's most active volcanoes? i have no regrets and moving out here. this is a beautiful island and yes, it does come with some crazy action, but it is well worth it. france has protested over comments by donald trump suggesting the 2015 attacks on paris that killed 130 people could have been stopped by giving people guns. here in britain, a london hospital has criticised mr trump after he appeared to compare them

to war zones because of the levels of knife crime. simonjones reports. can we have some quiet for the handover, please? 0k, 20—year—old male, victim of a street robbery. this is the hospital it's believed donald trump has likened to a war zone. the royal london. bbc cameras recently saw how it treats many of the capital's stabbing victims. the patients we are seeing now have more severe injuries, they have more injuries per person and they are getting younger. dr martin griffiths told the bbc recently how some of his colleagues had likened their work to being in a military hospital. it appears that may have come to the attention of the president at the national rifle association convention in texas. 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 warzone for horrible stabbing wounds. the hospital has hit back, saying it is proud of its excellent trauma care. a senior surgeon insisted that gunshot wounds are twice as lethal as knife injuries and some mps watched president trump's words with dismay. he shouldn't have said it. it's really a disgrace to compare our admittedly increasing levels of knife crime, and the government needs to tackle that, with the astronomical levels of gun crime that you see in america. donald trump will visit the uk injuly. he has been invited to go to the royal london hospital himself to see what they are doing to tackle violence. simon jones, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. at least 16 mineworkers have been killed in two separate accidents in western pakistan. 12 died in a gas explosion and at least four remain trapped. pakistani mines have frequently been criticised for their poor safety

standards and bad ventilation. and rescue workers in southern poland are searching forfive miners missing underground after a 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck a coal mine. two miners have been found injured and four more made their own way to safety. youtube has removed hundreds of videos following a bbc investigation. the videos, which had contained adverts for edubirdie — a ukranian coursework and essay—writing service — had been criticised by the uk universities minister, who claimed they promoted "cheating on an industrial scale". one of britain's most wanted men, arrested friday in barcelona, has been denied bail by a judge in spain, ahead of extradition proceedings. jamie acourt had evaded the police for two years. mr acourt, who's wanted for alleged drugs offences, was one of the original suspects in the infamous murder, 25 years ago, of a black teenager, stephen lawrence. he's always denied involvement. from barcelona, tom burridge

sent this report. he was a top target for spanish and british police. today, jamie acourt is finally in police custody. he was arrested at this gym in central barcelona. spanish police tell me that when officers moved in, mr acourt claimed he was an italian tourist. simon macdonald was at the gym. the story, the gossip is that that there were actually police officers working out in the gym, to keep an eye on him, to make sure that he did not run away. undercover? undercover, yeah. he saw the police operation happen. so, what i saw was, a convergence of the different police officers. i guess, a pincer operation, to use the terminology and then the next minute they were escorting him out, with his hands behind his back, in handcuffs. was there any drama at all?

no, no drama whatsoever. in fact, it was very silent, a little bit eerie. the gym is near the sagrada familia cathedral. police think he was living nearby. there are few places in spain better than central barcelona if you are a foreigner and you want to blend in. i am 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. mr acourt was trying to keep a low profile in spain, obviously. he knew he was wanted and he has been trying to keep a low profile. we have been on his trail, using intelligence methods. jamie acourt was one of the original suspects in the murder of stephen lawrence. the teenager was stabbed to death in an unprovoked racist attack in 1993. five years later, mr acourt, seen here in a black suit and sunglasses, gave evidence at a public enquiry. he has always denied he was involved. tonight, jamie acourt is in custody in spain after he was denied bail. he is suspected of supplying drugs on a large scale. stay with us on bbc

news, still to come — 200 years since the birth of karl marx, we discuss the relevance of the german political thinker who still divides people even today. i, nelson rolihlahla mandela, will hearby swear to be faithful to the republic of south africa. after six years of construction and numerous delays, the channel tunnel has been formally opened by the queen and president mitterand. but the tunnel is still not ready for passengers and freight services to begin. for centuries, christianity and islam struggled for supremacy. now the pope's visit symbolises their willingness to coexist. roger bannister became the first man

in the world to run a mile in underfour minutes. memories of victory as the ve celebrations reach their climax. this night is dedicated to everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the most successful manager in british football, sir alex ferguson, has undergone emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage. more than 1,000 people have been arrested across russia, including opposition leader alexei navalny, during protests against president putin. nasa's latest mission to mars has blasted into orbit.

the insight lander will dig into the red planet to investigate its core for the first time. it's due to land on mars at the end of november. the rocket carrying it was launched from vandenberg air force base in california. professor tom pike is a member of the scientific team behind the insight mission. he was watching the launch and described the moment it took off. well, "watched" i'm afraid is a little bit of an exaggeration. one of the problems of a west coast launch, in fact, this is the first launch to come up from california, is that at this time of year, the coastal fog tends to roll in, and it was very thick. we didn't see a thing. but we did have a live feed from the control room. we saw that it went as smoothly as a launch can go, and we now know that we've set off on our trajectory towards mars.

and why the excitement around this particular mission? this is the first one that we are really going to look inside of the planet. previous missions to mars or orbiter missions to other planets have looked down from on top. this is the first time that we are going to get the instrumentation down on the ground, literally, to get good contact with the planet, and from that, we are going to really have the first look inside of another planet. apollo did that on the moon. we have spent the last 100 years doing it on earth. and now it is time for mars. in so many ways, mars bears similarities to earth. do we have any idea, what do we expect to discover is going on beneath the surface when they dig deep into the core of the red planet? well, only figuratively digging.

we have a german mole that will go down maybe five metres and that will tell us how much heat is coming from out of the planet. that is the seismic data which will really tell us the layering. the critical point is that we know the planets form and differentiate into a core, a mantle, and a crust, but the thicknesses of those, and also the state, is the core still liquid? did it have the possibility for having a stronger magnetic field, for example? and does the crust have the plates that we see on earth? we see the earthquakes coming from the margins as those move around. that internal activity of a planet is very much to do with the long—term habitability. we would have to go back to early mars when it was warmer and wetter. but did the planet itself have the sort of activity, the plate tectonics, the magnetic fields that we will be

looking for in a planet like our own to be able to sustain life? of course, landing on mars presents its own challenges. how hopeful are you that this mission will be successful and what are the timescales for it? we are goingto be landing at the end of november. we have a relatively quick six—month cruise phase to mars and that is the high risk part of the mission, in terms of getting there. we've got the engineers, we've cut down the seven minutes terra to six and a half minutes but we've got to get down from our cruising velocity of 111,000 miles per hour to five miles per hour, and that has been the struggle. we lost the last european lander on mars. and that is where probably i am going to feel the most nervous about the mission.

when we are on the ground, the great uncertainty is going to be just how seismically active mars is. we have sensitive instruments that we hope will have the resolution for all of the activity that is going on, notjust from the planet but if a meteorite hits, and then there will be the question of picking those up from the instruments we have on the surface. that was professor tom pike, speaking to me earlier. britain's data regulator has ordered the parent company of cambridge analytica to hand over all the data it holds on a us citizen. all the data it holds the political consultancy dissolved itself this week, after months of scrutiny about how it used facebook data of nearly 90 million people. the move could open the floodgates for millions of other similar requests. today marks 200 years since the birth of karl marx, the german thinker who came up with the theory of communism. to mark the event, a statue of him was unveiled in his home town, trier. the huge bronze cast was a gift from china, whose leader xijinping has described marx as the greatest thinker of modern times. not everyone was in a mood to celebrate — the unveiling in trier was met

by a counter—protest, and the far—right alternative for germany party said the statue was a slap in the face to the victims of communism. i've been speaking to the political theorist maurice glasman, a labour life peer in the house of lords, about why marx provokes such strongly different reactions. it is the mark of, in a way, the greatness of the thought that it generates an enormous polarisation still. there is a huge split in europe between east and west. there isa europe between east and west. there is a revival of marxist thought in the west as we live through the concentration of ownership, the forming of global markets, which may bea forming of global markets, which may be a loan from the time marx predicted, but on the other hand there is the legacy of inhumane mass murder and oppression which is still

alive in the hearts of people who lived under that system. if marx was around today what you think he would have made of the forecasts he made back then, and what he sees now?|j would back then, and what he sees now?” would imagine he would be quite pleased with himself, because it was this notion, not simply that capital concentrates, that it moves towards monopoly oligopoly, but the key phrase is that everything sacred is profane, everything is solid melts away, globalisation itself creates a single global market, and then there is an enormous sense that religion, nationalism, they are all the state politics democracy, they are all subordinated to money. that said, evenif subordinated to money. that said, even if his prediction on that measure has largely proved to come to pass, his solution to it, communism, in the biggest test of it in the soviet union, failed. but

from his point of view, this was the ultimate form of european modernity. so he expected revolution, example, in either germany or britain. certainly he had quite high hopes for the united states, as far as he was concerned, with the teleology and her theory that he had. russia was a very backward country. china. so what he saw, capitalism, integrating into the world, he did have a strong view of advanced and developed countries. if karl marx was around now he would probably say we have the revolution in the wrong country, that's the problem. what do you think he would have made of the rise of china? i think that would have been a challenge to his theory, essentially. he put china under the block of asiatic despotism. and i don't think that such a bad way of characterising the chinese regime. there is no democracy, there is no liberty, there's a concentration of power. i think in the marxist frame,

he would put china very much within the frame of the beginnings of primitive capitalism. and before we go, let me just show you some pictures of the latest member of the british royalfamily. it is of course since louis. pictures of his first days at home, including that photo there of the royal baby being cuddled by his big sister. those photos have been released by their proud parents. the new baby is officially known as his royal highness prince louis of cambridge, and he is fifth in line to the throne. he was born at 1101 pm british summertime on monday the 23rd of april at the window wing of st mary's west but all in london. very sleet. don't forget, you can get in touch with me on twitter. i'm @benmbland. hello there. saturday was a glorious

day for much of the country. we saw some fine sunsets up and down the uk, like this one here in wakefield and west yorkshire. not all areas, though, were sunny and warm. coastal path along the irish sea were disappointing, around cornwall and devon and into western wales, south—western parts of scotland as well. this weather front has been plaguing the north—west corner of scotland, bringing strong winds and out wrecks of rain. as we start sunday morning, there should rarely be any rain here, just a bit of cloud. elsewhere it is a clear start, quite chilly across eastern parts of england. sunday promises to be another glorious day for much of the country once again. sunshine from the word go. a bit of cloud across scotland. i think we are looking at a better day through the central belt on sunday afternoon. top temperatures reaching 2a or 25

celsius, so another old warm day on the cards. even warmer hair is imported off the continent on bank holiday monday. that will much temperatures into the upper 20s celsius, potentially being a record—breaking maybank holiday. we could still see a little bit of low cloud and some merc in the irish sea. maybe the odd shower across the northern half of scotland. that said, most places will be dry and sunny. a bit cool across the north—east of scotland. that cool air moving up towards aberdeen. this is likely to be the high temperature on bank holiday monday. it may very well break the last bank holiday record, achieved in 1999, that was 24 record, achieved in 1999, that was 2a degrees in hampshire. tuesday, we start to see some subtle changes. this area of low pressure will bring cooler air into the western side of the uk. a weatherfront cooler air into the western side of the uk. a weather front which will be very weak, bringing outbreaks of rain to northern ireland, western—style and could —— western

scotland. the eastern side of england, another warm day on the cards. we could be looking at 27, maybe one or two places seen 28. a cooler and fresher feeling further north and west. next area of low pressure m oves north and west. next area of low pressure moves in for wednesday. this one will have more to it, stronger winds, that will make things very wet in western ireland and northern scotland. still some sunshine across southern and eastern parts of england. a relatively fine day here. temperatures typically 20 degrees. but a much cooler and fresher feel out west. this is bbc news. the headlines — the most successful manager in british football, sir alex ferguson, has undergone emergency brain surgery. the club says the surgery went very well, but he now needs a period of intensive care to recover. more than 1,000 people have been arrested across russia, including opposition leader alexei navalny, during protests against president putin. police used teargas to disperse protesters, some chanting "down with the tsar."

officials in hawaii are appealing for any remaining residents living near the kilauea volcano to leave the area. tremors and eruptions are continuing to hit the main island. and new pictures of the british royal baby, prince louis, have been released. the pictures show louis by himself, and also with his sister, princess charlotte, on her third birthday.