i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: president trump vows to pull the us out of the iran nuclear deal and hit tehran with crippling sanctions. the fact is, this was a horrible, one—sided deal, that should have never, ever been made. it didn't bring calm, it didn't bring peace, and it never will. the eu says it is determined to preserve the agreement, but iran insists it could start enriching uranium without limitations. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: high hopes for a different nuclear deal, as the north korean and chinese leaders meet again. and indonesia's plastic problem floating into the food chain. good morning.

it is 8:00am in singapore, 1:00am in london, and 8:00pm in washington, where president trump has formally withdrawn the united states from the iran nuclear agreement. he didn't hold back, calling the deal horrible and one—sided. it means economic sanctions will soon be reimposed on tehran. only israel and saudi arabia welcomed the move. other nations have condemned it, and the european union says, as far as they are concerned, the accord still stands. 0ur north america correspondent nick bryant reports from washington. with a flourish of his presidential pen, donald trump has inked into history one of the most muscular pledges from his "america first" campaign, one that delivers a potentially fatal blow to the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor,

barack 0bama, one that could put the united states on a collision course with iran. the fact is, this was a horrible, one—sided deal, that should have never, ever been made. it didn't bring calm, it didn't bring peace, and it never will. therefore, i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. in one of his toughest speeches yet, he said he would reimpose the highest level of economic sanctions against tehran. america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. we will not allow american cities to be threatened with destruction, and we will not allow a regime that chants "death to america" to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth. today's action sends a critical message. the united states no longer makes empty threats.

when i make promises, i keep them. the nuclear deal was struck in 2015 between iran and six world powers, including the us, uk and russia. iran agreed to limit its controversial nuclear energy programme, which international powers feared could lead to the development of a nuclear weapon. in return, stringent economic sanctions were lifted, enabling iran to sell more oil to other countries and trade more efficiently. iran's president, hassan rouhani, deliberate an almost instantaneous response, saying his country was preparing to restart uranium enrichment, key for making both nuclear energy and weapons. translation: i have ordered the atomic energy 0rganisation of iran to be ready to start the enrichment of uranium at industrial levels. we will wait a few weeks and speak with our allies. all depends on our national interests.

european architects of the deal, present at its creation three years ago, tonight gave a grim—faced response. the european union is determined to act in accordance with security interests, and to protect its economic investments. the nuclear deal with iran is the culmination of 12 years of diplomacy. it belongs to the entire international community. it has been working, and it is delivering on its goal, which is guaranteeing that iran doesn't develop nuclear weapons. but praise from america's closest middle east ally. israel thanks president trump for his courageous leadership, his commitment to confront the terrorist regime in tehran, and his commitment to ensure that iran never gets nuclear weapons, not today, not in a decade, not ever. from barack 0bama tonight, a rare public rebuke of his successor. he called mr trump's decision misguided, and a serious mistake.

this will make america much safer. but donald trump is unapologetic. for him it is promise made, promise kept. for more analysis of president trump's announcement, i spoke to our washington correspondent chris buckler. if you look at the words that he has used about this agreement today, he has left nobody in any doubt about what he thinks about it. a nuclear blackmail, decay and rot, and an embarrassment — words very much aimed at americans, also aimed at israel, and actually aimed at tehran, as well. but also listening will be those european leaders who fought so hard to try to save an agreement that they feel is imperfect, has got problems with it, has got flaws, but ultimately did bring calm. now, donald trump argues very clearly that that is not the case. he says it still didn't lead to calm in the region. the reality, though, of removing this deal is it has

raised tensions there, and that is going to be a concern for all those leaders going forward, and it will ultimately be a concern for the white house, as well. what is interesting is opinion polls show that actually americans predominantly were in favour of staying in the deal. so what does the president have to gain? is he simply ripping up everything that the 0bama administration had put into place? there's no doubt that donald trump is somebody who was never a big fan of this deal, and although barack 0bama praised it very heavily, felt it was a high point of his presidency, donald trump led a campaign in which he made clear that he was going to scrap this deal if he got into power. so he is following through, in many ways, on his promises. we will have more on iran later in newsday. but now, let's see what else is making news today. the man who led weeks of protests in armenia has addressed his supporters

in the capital, yerevan, following his election as prime minister. nikol pashinyan promised that human rights would be protected, and that corruption and election—rigging would end. tens of thousands of people came out to celebrate in the city centre. the bbc‘s rayhan demytrie was among them. when the armenian parliament voted for nikol pashinyan to become this country's next prime minister, there was an explosion of happiness here in the republic square. and people now are dancing, they're waving flags, they can't hold back theirjoy. facebook has banned foreign advertising linked to ireland's referendum on liberalising its abortion laws. critics had warned that campaigns by well—funded us groups could be decisive in the vote later this month. facebook says the integrity tools can verify if the advertiser is based in the country. the english football team leeds united have arrived in myanmar for an end—of—season tour. the club are scheduled to play two friendly matches as they seek to build a fan base in the country. but they have come under intense

criticism from rights groups, who feel the visit is inappropriate given the persecution of the rohingya minority. this is picasso's le marin. it is a self—portrait which is expected to fetch $70 million at auction in new york shortly. it is just one work of art going on sale from the rockefeller collection, thought to be the biggest single private collection to go under the hammer. all the proceeds, expected to be more than $500 million, will to go to charity. voting has just got underway a few minutes ago in malaysia's general election. this is one of the most hotly contested elections in the country's history. on one side there is malaysia's scandal—plagued prime minister, najib razak, hoping to secure another term. 0n the other side, the country's ex—prime minister, mahathir mohamad, who has made a surprise return to politics at the age of 92. 0ur south—east asia correspondent

jonathan head joins me now from kuala lumpur. it looks like a very busy polling station. the storyline here is about the incumbent versus his men talk, and this is shaping up to be one of the closest fought parliamentary elections since independence. —— mental. it is hard to know how accurate opinion polls are. it has been a very hardfought race, it has become quite personal, of course, with doctor mahathir entering as the opposition candidate. a campaign replete with extraordinary irony is when you think that doctor mahathir

is linked with anwar ibrahim and is trying to unseat his one—time protege najib razak, in this area and in many urban areas there is no doubt there is a strong appetite for change, a sense that after 61 years people have been lining up here and saying this is our chance. but it is quite a different picture as you get out into rural areas, and they are overrepresented in parliament, far more seats in rural areas compared with the population. there, the government's record of supporting particularly ethnic malays and the inclination to stick with what they know may very much count on the opposition‘s flavourful —— government's favour. the opposition has made complaints about how unfair the playing field is, the way in which constituency boundaries have been redrawn and voter registration is managed. lots of complaints, we have seen six opposition candidates disqualified on what seemed like small technicalities. they believe

they are fighting an uphill battle, but there is no doubt it is a tight contest, and no doubt tighter than the election five years ago, which is already tighter than any election we have seen in malaysia. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: we travel to indonesia to find out how plastic waste enters the food chain. i, nelson rolihlahla mandela, do hereby 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 mitterrand. but the tunnel is still not yet 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 newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: donald trump pulls the united states out of the iran nuclear deal, calling it defective to its core. as the north korean and chinese leaders meet again, is the korea nuclear deal still on track? it seems everyone can't get enough

of those incredible pictures from the hawaii volcano. here is a view inside the crater itself. the story popular on bbc.com/news. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the japan times wonders if the olympics could provide a sales boost for the traditional kimono? the garment has been losing the race against modern attire, but designers hope the tokyo games will get people reaching for their robes again. the china daily looks at a group of young people who are certainly keeping their eye on the ball. they're part of a summer camp aiming to create the ball boys and girls of the future. some will even test their skills in major tennis competitions. and musicians normally hope to get you dancing not dozing off.

but the new york times reports on a concert that's putting audiences to sleep. the eight—hour lullaby was engineered with the help of scientists to offer a relaxing night. listeners are even provided with a mattress to help them snooze. that's the concert i need! what's trending, kasia? spider powers are sparking discussions online? they sure are, this will wake everybody i scientists have trained a spider tojump on demand. kim can leap six times her body length from a standing start. humans can only manage about 1.5 body lengths. unlocking the secrets of her extraordinary leaps could help build a new generation of robots inspired by nature, could help build a new generation of robots inspired by nature. there she goes! love that slo-mo

leap. as everyone had their eyes on the iran nuclear agreement, more diplomacy on the potential deal involving north korea. first news that kim jong—un had made another trip to china to meet president xi. then it was revealed the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, is once again heading to pyongyang for talks. the bbc‘s stephen mcdonnell is in seoul. i asked him if trump's withdrawal from the iranian nuclear deal could impact the negotiations over north korea. well, this has the potential to throw enormous pressure on that meeting between donald trump and kimjong—un. i'm mean, imagine you're the north koreans, you're potentially going to do a deal with the united states to give up your nuclear weapons in exchange for who knows what, and what guarantees would you have

that this government, or some future administration in washington, might renege on that deal. i think it's going to be at the forefront of the minds of the north koreans when they're going into that meeting in dalian, said to be in the coming weeks, with the united states' president. of course you also have this second meeting in china between xijingping and kimjong—un? yeah, there they were. yesterday and the day before the leaders of north korea and china... you can imagine, they knew that this announcement was coming from the united states. you can bet they were talking about it. this shows that china, unlike the situation with iran, is a major nuclear power, which is offering, i guess, a shield to north korea, and you can see here that xijingping is trying to reinject himself into this whole process and also to rebuild relations between those two countries. and you would love to know what xijingping said to kimjong—un

in terms of that iran nuclear deal and the likelihood that you could rely on the us to uphold its end of the bargain following such a deal. for example, if the us was to say, "we'll reduce troop numbers on the korean peninsular in exchange for you giving up your nuclear weapons," well, from the point of view of the north koreans, they don't care which president they'd be doing that deal with, they'd be thinking, "that's a deal i have with washington." let's go back to our main story, donald trump pulling the us out of the iran nuclear deal. live now to washington and to thomas countryman, chairman of board of directors at the arms control association. you other former you otherformer us you other former us assistant secretary of state for international

security and non—proliferation and we re security and non—proliferation and were involved in the 0bama iran deal, you know a lot about the minutiae detail of it, was it perfect or could it honestly have been improved? certainly there's no such thing as a perfect multilateral agreement. there were seven countries that were negotiating this deal. in six seeded in addressing the most immediate concern that the us had about iran, its intention to in which uranium and potentially to pursue nuclear weapons and it stop that pursue nuclear weapons permanently, not for a limited time. it did not seek to address every other issue that the united states has with iran, just as all of our long and successful arms—control agreements with the soviet union and with russia did not attempt to address every single disagreement that we had at once. it succeeded in

what it set out to do and it also laid a basis if the us and others inspected it to address all the other concerns we have about iran's unsavoury behaviour. your association has said donald trump's actions are an irresponsible act of foreign malpractice, the president has said this deal didn't bring peace in the region. he's got a point there, hasn't he? there's been no deal that's brought peace to the middle east since the camp david agreement is a0 years ago. that was not the purpose to resolve every issue at once. it was a false criticism the president has made and there is no indication iran has violated this agreement. you've got benjamin netanyahu violated this agreement. you've got benjamin neta nyahu saying violated this agreement. you've got benjamin netanyahu saying the deal didn't reduce iran's aggression, he said it dramatically increased it and we are seeing this across the

middle east. president trump is a disrupter, maybe middle east. president trump is a disru pter, maybe he's middle east. president trump is a disrupter, maybe he's going in a different direction that could actually work. what do you think? he has not laid out any kind of strategy to how to get from where we are as of this evening to where we will have a more effective agreement. what he has done is to poke the eyes out of the international atomic agency inspectors. if iran does resume uranium enrichment as a result of us action and they kick out inspectors, we will not have the capability to address any of the issues that mr netanyahu address any of the issues that mr neta nyahu was concerned address any of the issues that mr netanyahu was concerned about when he recycled ten—year—old information last week. we're not quite at that stage, though, yet, are we? iran is sounding positive about negotiating with the other countries in this deal. is it salvageable without the

united states realistically? the united states realistically? the united states realistically? the united states is one party of the seven parties to this deal and it cannot by itself destroy the deal. what it did today in withdrawing from the deal is to violate the deal. the document says nothing about withdrawal, you can either respect it or you can violate it, and the us chose to be the first country to violate it. now, that is a very severe injury to the deal. it is not necessarily fatal. it is important i think for a specially the european union parties to come together and to say, "we would have responded very strongly if iran had been the first to violate the deal. we will respond just as strongly if the united states is the first to violate the deal. " for the credibility of the eu it's important they stop, take a deep breath and

think about the best possible means to preserve all the positive aspects of the jcp of to preserve all the positive aspects of thejcp of a. to preserve all the positive aspects of the jcp of a. when we look at what donald trump is achieving with north korea, the first us leader to meet a north korean leader in such a long time and the possibilities and impact that will have on north korea's nuclear hopes and aspirations, is there a chance the president does know what he's doing with iran? i think there is little chance of that. i support the president taking the risk of meeting with mr kim of north korea. it's important that we stop and talk to the north koreans instead of continuing a sleepwalk into some kind of conflict in korea. the president has not yet done anything other presidents could have done

with north korea, other presidents turned down opportunities to meet with the north korean leader. i hope he accomplishes something. i support him in his efforts to make something positive happen in north korea. but in my strong opinion, his actions today to destroy us credibility in international agreements will not make hisjob international agreements will not make his job in international agreements will not make hisjob in north korea any easier. thomas countryman from the arms control association, thank you. thank you. indonesian scientists have launched the largest ever study into whether tiny plastic particles can affect human health. they are investigating the presence of plastic in seafood. they hope to establish if there is any evidence that ingesting small pieces of plastic is harmful. 0ur science editor, david shukman, has been to semarang on the north coast of java in indonesia, one of the countries worst hit by plastic pollution. a journey through the mangrove swamps on the coast of indonesia. plastic hangs from the branches and lies traps in the roots. indonesia sends huge volumes of plastic into the ocean. 0nly china releases more.

there's so much, itjams our boat's propeller. the problem is that when plastic flows down the rivers and reaches the ocean, it doesn't just disappear. what happens is that the plastic breaks down into ever smaller fragments, what are called microplastics. so even though there's an effort to clear up, the legacy of plastic continues. so we head to the local fish farms, because research in britain shows that microplastics can get into seafood. ijoin scientist inneke hantoro as she investigates a key question, whether eating plastic is harmful. she's working with local fishermen.

they collect samples to take away for analysis. we eat the fish every day and we don't want to get plastic into our body due to eating the fish. so we want to see whether it is safe enough to eat the fish. a microscope shows a plastic fragment found in seafood. it's a couple of millimetres long. scientists want to establish a safe level for microplastics in case we later find out that they're harmful. it's not a problem that many here have heard of. ultimately plastic is going to keep accumulating and entering the ocean u nless two accumulating and entering the ocean unless two key things happen. setting up a proper system of handling waste and also seeing a com plete handling waste and also seeing a complete change of attitude among people, businesses and the authorities. and even if the larger pieces are cleared up, the microplastics will drift around for decades. david shukman, bbc news, indonesia. that report is on the website. that's all for now, stay

with bbc world news. hello. wednesday gets off to a fine start for many of us but for some it's not going to last as we get rain heading in from the west. we saw a weather system move through on tuesday. this one here, the leading edge of cooler air so things cool down for many. not quite in east anglia and the south—east of england, but in the day ahead that process is complete. low pressure to the north—east of us and that's feeding in cooler, fresher conditions across all parts, and a bit of rain, as i mentioned, coming into the west. although most will start fine and dry for the morning, single—figure temperatures under clear skies but some in east and south—east england still with ten or possibly 11 degrees. eyes will be drawn to this weather system that will soon in the morning turn things wetter into northern ireland, into western scotland, the wind picking up as well, quite gusty into the western isles but it's really coming in very slowly so a lot of cloud increases ahead of that. many will be staying dry even on into the afternoon, particularly across eastern parts of the uk, and still some sunny spells into east anglia

and south—east england, but temperatures here down significantly compared with recent days. that's how we end the afternoon. going into the evening, some of us will be getting a wet evening rush—hour. some heavy bursts affecting western parts of scotland beginning to pull away from the western isles, patchy in nature to the east of scotland, not much into north—east england and clearing from northern ireland some will get the sun coming back before the end of the day, but more of wales and western england starting to get outbreaks of rain pushing into parts of the midlands. much of eastern england will be dry and once this weather system crosses all parts, wednesday night into thursday morning, there isn't a huge amount of rain left on it. after the heat of the recent days if you want something onto the garden, i think you're going to be disappointed. dry weather on thursday. there'll be a few showers developing, though, particularly in scotland, maybe the odd heavy one with a rumble of thunder. northern ireland and england, the rest of england and for much of wales, it is looking dry, variable cloud and sunny spells. 0n the breezy side, if anything it's a little bit cooler still and some for the rest of the week in the north—west of the uk

in particular will find temperatures below average for the time of year. another fine start for much of the uk on friday, but then we see another weather system gathering out to the west. the winds picking up ahead of that. while many on friday will stay dry, some will start to the outbreaks of rain. some uncertainty about the timing of this and the progression north—eastwards, so we will keep you updated, and temperatures still none too special. that's it for now. goodbye. i'm kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story: president trump has withdrawn the united states from the nuclear deal with iran. he called the agreement a horrible deal that should never have been done. and ignoring the pleas of some his closest allies, he said he would impose the highest possible level of sanctions against tehran. in response, the iranian president ordered his

officials to be ready to restart the enrichment of uranium at industrial levels. but he added that he would reach out to the other signatories of the deal to keep it in place. and this video is trending on bbc.com. it's of incredible pictures from the hawaii volcano with a view inside the crater itself. the evacuation zone on hawaii's big island has widened — over 1500 people have already been forced from their homes. that's all from me for now. bye bye. and the top story here in the uk: rail companies have launched a public consultation to reform the way fares are designed and regulated.