today at 5pm... funerals in gaza for the palestinians killed in the deadliest day of violence since 2014. as the burials go ahead, the un condemns the "appalling, deadly" events but the us says israel does have a right to defend itself. who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? no one would. no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than israel has. we'll have the latest on the violence and be speaking to the red cross about the situation in gaza's hospitals. the other main stories on bbc news at 5pm... the scottish parliament could reject the main uk brexit legislation. we'll explore the potential impact. doubts continue about whether meghan markle‘s father will be at the royal wedding. the family say he's been badly treated. i think my father has really suffered at the hands of the media. i mean, they've presented him in the most horrible ways, highly inaccurate, and the goal

of those photographs was basically because he was feeling defenceless. wages grow faster than inflation but the benefits might not be felt for some time. and the american author tom wolfe, author of bonfire of the vanities and the right stuff, has died at the age of 87. the it's 5 o'clock. our main story is that the first funerals have taken place for those palestinians killed by israeli troops in gaza yesterday — the deadliest day of violence there since 2014. at least 58 palestinians lost their lives and the situation remains tense. today marks the 70th anniversary of what palestinians call the catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people

fled, or were expelled from their homes when the state of israel was established. some 2,700 people were also injured in yesterday's violence which broke out at 13 locations along israel's security fence along gaza's eastern border. the un human rights agency has called for an independent investigation into what a spokesman called the "appalling, deadly violence", as our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. in gaza today fresh volleys of tear gas, another round of violence along the fence but no repeat of yesterday's huge crowds after such a shocking death cold it seems many palestinians were staying away. some we re palestinians were staying away. some were attending funerals, perhaps stunned by the worst day of bloodshed in gaza in almost four yea rs. bloodshed in gaza in almost four years. the palestinians have called

yesterday's violence a massacre of israel's use of live fire against mainly unarmed protesters has been condemned around the world. israel says it had no choice. hamas in gaza is once again guilty of inciting its people. for the past month they have encouraged residents of gaza to call the so—called peaceful protests, there is nothing peaceful about those protests, into violent clashes. i ask you all to observe a minute of silence in memory of them. at the un, a minute's silence for the dead and urgent calls for restraint. there is an urgent need, we believe, to establish the facts around yesterday's events, including why such a volume of live fire continues to be deemed justified. the palestinian right to peaceful protest is undeniable, but at the

same time, we are deeply concerned that peaceful protest in gaza have been exploited by extremist elements. so far, no israelis have been harmed. israel's tactics are once again in the spotlight. lethal force may only be used as a measure of last, not first resort. and only when there is an immediate threat to life or serious injury. across the palestinian west bank, sirens on a day of national tragedy. shops shuttered and streets silent, a general strike ordered by the palestinian president along with three days of mourning. in bethlehem and ramallah, sporadic clashes but the street had seen these scenes are hundreds of times in the past but it is, for both sides, wearily familiar. 70 years ago hundreds of thousands of palestinians fled or we re thousands of palestinians fled or were driven from their homes as the new state of israel came into being.

the palestinians call this the nakba, the catastrophe. for the past six weeks their descendants have gathered on the gaza border to commemorate the event and dream about a return. some have tried to breach the fence. that, for israel, isa breach the fence. that, for israel, is a red line. paul adams, bbc news. meanwhile, the us ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley, has praised israel for showing what she called restraint towards the palestinian protesters. this is what she had to say a short while ago. who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? no one would. no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than israel has. in fact, the records of several countries here today suggest they would be much less restrained. those who suggest that the gaza violence has anything to do with the location of the american embassy

are sorely mistaken. rather the violence comes from those who reject the existence of the state of israel in any location. that was nikki haley at the un. yollande knell is on the israeli side of the border with gaza. we were talking about tension still today, what is your reading of the situation right now? what we're hearing the past couple of hours is that one palestinian man has been killed in the centre of the gaza strip, a man in his 50s. that was by israeli fire, we understand. we are level with one of the five palestinian protest camps just across the border. you can see in the distance the palestinian flag flying. at the moment there is quite a lot of tear gas that has been fired by israeli soldiers trying to drive palestinian protest is away from the border fence area and we

have also had stun grenades fired. you can sometimes hear the sound of ambulances from the other side. we understand palestinians have been throwing stones, in previous days they have attached firebombs to kites and we surrounded by patches of burnt land. but it is a different scale protest to what we're seeing on previous days in the past six weeks of demonstrations along this border. certainly on a much smaller scale than we saw yesterday when the israeli military said about 40,000 palestinians turned out. there are several reasons being put forward, one hamas leader in gaza said that today was a day to bury the dead and we know that huge crowds have turned out for those funerals. also some speculation that, having had the hamas leader leaving for cairo for talks with egyptian intelligence a couple of days ago, we are hearing word that perhaps the border crossing with egypt from gaza could

be opened for an extended period going into the islamic holy month of ramadan. perhaps some deal is being stretched to try to quieten down the situation. here the israeli military remain adamant that they have been acting in self defence and protecting their borders. they say that about half the people who were killed yesterday were militants with hamas, the armed group that controls gaza, or another group, islamic jihad. gaza, or another group, islamic jihad. thank you very much for the latest on the israeli side of the gaza border. joining me now from gaza is alyona synenko from the international committee of the red cross. thank you forjoining us. could you give me the latest on what you're dealing with? yesterday i was at shifa hospital, the largest in gaza and ina

shifa hospital, the largest in gaza and in a matter of a couple of hours they received some 400 injured people and the situation became chaotic very quickly. the most urgent cases were rushed in and the others had to wait outside in a tent that was set up. because yesterday the capacity of the medical personnel allowed only to deal with the most urgent cases, today, although it was more quiet than yesterday, they still had a lot of people have a lot of patients that they had to attend two to try to catch up with the influx yesterday. can you tell us a little more about the kind of injuries and range of injuries you are having to deal with? i'm not a ballistic expert. what is important is that the many injuries in the limbs, like gunshot wounds, and most of these injuries require serious surgical treatment and multiple interventions and they

require the patient to stay in the hospitalfor require the patient to stay in the hospital for several months. require the patient to stay in the hospitalfor several months. some require the patient to stay in the hospital for several months. some of the injuries, some of the patient will be losing their limbs and that will be losing their limbs and that will have a long—standing consequence for their situation. and just a thought, but the age people? we are seeing some images as you are talking of people have been injured but was it a broad range of ages from young to much older? how would you describe the age range? most of the people who were coming in were young. of course there were some exceptions and the range was very broad but the overwhelming majority were. . . broad but the overwhelming majority were... sorry to interrupt, i'mjust wondering what is the level of resource you have that. looking at medicines and drugs and resources, clearly you said yourself it was quite chaotic yesterday. how are you dealing in terms of your supplies?

we were extremely relieved because we managed to receive two trucks of emergency medical supplies the day before yesterday. so we could continue making donations to the minister of health in gaza. but i think that the health care system is reaching its limits, the limits not only in terms of medical resources but the human resources because the situation did not start yesterday. there has been violence going on for the last month. and the doctors and north as are overwhelmed and tired and they have not had any respite in the last month —— doctors and nurses. right now we are dealing with the situation and we have the necessary resources but if the violence continues, the risk is very high that the medical system will just collapse. very good of you to talk to us, thank you so much, from

the international red cross in gaza with the latest details of what they are dealing with. and you can read more analysis of what's been happening there on the border, and the background to the violence, on the bbc news website. as our guest was saying it has been going on for several weeks there. you can click on the gaza section and there are several parts to it to explain what is going on. a constitutional crisis is said to be looming after the scottish parliament rejected a key part of the uk government's brexit legislation. after months of talking with westminster, the scottish government submitted a motion making clear it does "not consent to the european union withdrawal bill". the votes were 93—30. 0ur scotland correspondent, james shaw, is at holyrood. tell others about the debate and the

vote and what you make of it. —— tell us. a very lively debate and what it boiled down to was people who were against giving consent, think it undermined devolution, the fa ct think it undermined devolution, the fact that the uk government was good to ta ke fact that the uk government was good to take powers to westminster which they argued should come to scotland, that undermine the principles of devolution. 0n the conservative side of course they were saying that consent should be given for this legislation and they said the scottish government would lose no powers at all as a result of giving consent. and they also suggested there was an agenda on the part of there was an agenda on the part of the snp, the scottish government, that they want to push forward to a second independence referendum. we can hear the thinking at the start of the debate from the scottish government brexit minister mike russell. the uk government wants to take a power to restrict the competence of this parliament. it wants to be able to exercise that power even in the face

of an explicit decision from this parliament that it should not do so. this isn't about the sovereignty of the westminster parliament or giving effect to the sewel convention. this is about the uk government, not the uk parliament, for the first time being able to adjust the terms on which devolution operates through delegated legislation. and to be able to do so without the consent or actually against the wishes of this parliament. and the question now really is what does the uk government do about this. legally in terms of the constitution they do have the power to push ahead with their legislation despite the fact that the scottish government has not consented to it but that could be politically difficult all—star we have heard in the last from the secretary of state, the conservative minister, david mundell —— politically difficult. it is the first time that it has happened but it was envisaged

in the devolution settlement, that there might be circumstances where consent would not be given and that circumstance would permit the westminster government to proceed with legislation on that basis. that is what we intend to do because the bill is already in the system. obviously there will be an opportunity for further debate and discussion in parliament. but also i hope there will be the opportunity for debate and discussion between the two governments. i still think we can resolve this issue and that remained my objective. and there you have the answer from david mundell, the secretary of state for scotland, that the uk government will push a head with this legislation despite the fact that the scottish government has not given its consent. i suppose the question really for the conservatives in scotla nd really for the conservatives in scotland is what damage that might be. the leader of the tories here, ruth davidson, has been seen to do quite well in elections, gaining more support than the tories have had in recent years here. will it

damage the conservative party? that isa damage the conservative party? that is a question we will have to wait for the arm to do. will it increase support for a second independence referendum? again, that is something we will hear from nicola sturgeon about later this year. many thanks, james. doubts about whether meghan markle's father will walk her down the aisle continue with only days to go until her wedding to prince harry. this morning, meghan's half—sister, samantha markle, said theirfather had faced an "unbelievable amount of stress" following accusations that he posed for photographs for the paparazzi. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, reports. she is said to have a close relationship with her father, and has been looking forward to having him at her side for the wedding ceremony. that, though, is now very much in doubt. it was this security camera footage obtained by the mail on sunday

which showed a freelance photographer allegedly colluding with mr markle to take a set of pictures of him which were sold to newspapers around the world. and all of this at a time when kensington palace was appealing to the media to respect his privacy. ms markle and prince harry were said to have been taken aback last night when reports emerged that mr markle had decided not to attend the wedding. he was quoted as saying he wanted to avoid causing the couple any embarrassment. kensington palace issued a statement saying this was a deeply personal moment for ms markle, and asking for understanding and respect to be extended to mr markle in what they called "this difficult situation". this morning, mr markle's daughter by his first marriage defended what he had done. i think my father has really suffered at the hands of the media. they have presented him in the most horrible ways, highly inaccurate, and the goal of those photographs was basically because he was feeling defenceless. they had the advantage of both portraying them however they wanted, which was entirely inaccurate.

and i think a person has a right to say, wait a minute, enough is enough. whether kensington palace could have done more to guide mr markle is open to debate. he is a private american citizen living thousands of miles away, but it is clear there have been concerns at the palace about his vulnerability for some weeks. in windsor, preparations for the wedding are gathering pace, with a question mark over whether the father of the bride will be there. meghan markle, by all accounts, is still hoping very much that he will. nicholas witchell, bbc news. with me is someone with a very interesting perspective on some of these stalls and not least the challenge of marrying into this kind of amazingly prominent position. julie montagu is married to viscount hinchingbrooke. she grew up in a small town in illinois in the us and became viscountess hinchingbrooke in 2004. it is lovely to have you with us. i

hope you don't mind me calling you julie! no disrespect intended!e i'm american, you can call mejulie! talk us through some of the challenges that this run of events has now thrown up, from your own perspective, the kinds of things that need to be confronted in a very high—profile union of this kind. that need to be confronted in a very high—profile union of this kindm isa high—profile union of this kindm is a very high—profile union but if we backtrack a little bit, meghan is american and she is a bride, and you normally get married in your hometown, in your home church. she is not only transplanting herself to the uk but she is having her whole marriage here in a foreign country, not in her hometown. that is number one. and not having herfamily around, in particular herfather which i know she has spoken of

highly, having a wonderful relationship with them and i think thatis relationship with them and i think that is very difficult. i know when i married into the family i married into, they have an estate that is open to the public, the church is their right on the estate and i got married there because that is what was expected of me. but it was very ha rd was expected of me. but it was very hard for me because i was away from my entire, your grounding points when you are an american, you want to get married in america but you ta ke to get married in america but you take this role on and you say, this is what is expected of me so i will marry you here. that is difficult. how much of a challenge was that for you? it was a big challenge because not all of your friends can fly over. i guess the royal wedding is a bit different and i am sure they are all making an effort to fly over, but not being surrounded by all of yourfamily is but not being surrounded by all of your family is very, very difficult. and all of yourfriends. your family is very, very difficult. and all of your friends. and your family is very, very difficult. and all of yourfriends. and having it shown on tv to whatever the number is,i

it shown on tv to whatever the number is, i billion, is enormous. and marrying... in st george's, which isjust for and marrying... in st george's, which is just for royals, and marrying... in st george's, which isjust for royals, it and marrying... in st george's, which is just for royals, it is quite daunting by anybody‘s standards, but possibly not having her father there is standards, but possibly not having herfather there is going standards, but possibly not having her father there is going to standards, but possibly not having herfather there is going to be incredibly difficult. i empathise with her because i know what it is like moving over here, married an english man married the aristocracy. and having to really abide by its formality and manners but also not marrying in my home country, it is difficult. you mentioned the father, clear today that there are still doubts about whether he will come. most people seem to assume that he will not be able to. not that he does not want to, but there are health issues and the rest of it. from her point of view is a big challenge to still be in a position to enjoy the day, to show she is enjoying it, to not what that in any way to overshadow the day and yet it will be on people's minds. it will

be on everybody‘s minds if he decides not to come. this is her big day, it is your wedding day, it is you're everything. luckily she had the love of her life, prince harry, who will be her rock throughout this period but having the lead up to your wedding, four or five days before and this comes out it is not something that any bride wants. but on the other hand, it is families, and when this story broke, it made me feel a bit like, 0k, and when this story broke, it made me feela bit like, ok, the and when this story broke, it made me feel a bit like, ok, the royal family, they are relative all. i can relate to that because i know go into any wedding you have family stuff! it makes them much more related book. and thought when your background, i am wondering, it is a bit of a cliche, this huge interest in this in the states, and if you see the american division presence in windsor it tells you something,

but this is not an exception, this event —— american television presence. it has gripped imaginations. number one, it is an american marrying into the royal families and the last time we had an american love interest was wallis simpson and king edward had to abdicate which was not good for us as americans but i always say there isa as americans but i always say there is a silver lining to that, because without wallis is and we might not have queen elizabeth. but now we have queen elizabeth. but now we have this wonderful, amazing, passionate, sophisticated, intelligent meghan coming in and i just hope her dates is not ruined because as a bride, number one getting married is quite stressful and numbertwo, getting married is quite stressful and number two, getting married getting married is quite stressful and numbertwo, getting married in a foreign country, and number three getting married into the royal family, i can't imagine. thank you very much for your time and for coming in. 24 minutes past five.

the year—long pay squeeze appears to be over. wages have risen faster than inflation for the first time in more than a year. pay went up by 2.9% in the first three months of this year, a period when the rate of inflation was 2.7%. andy verity reports. it used to be normal for people to get pay rises to beat inflation, but not for the last year, or for that matter, the last seven. now the average pay rise is finally beating inflation, are we feeling it? no, everything is far too expensive and pay is not enough. not really. no, it is not. definitely not, no. no, not at all. yes. the number ofjobs in the uk has hit a new record, as it has each month for years. some are well—paid, enough to support a family, but many are low—paid service jobs filled by workers from countries such as poland or romania which joined the eu after 2004. productivity, the amount produced per worker, hasn't grown much and neither, in real terms, has pay.

this is the sort of economic growth we once used to expect. investment in new technology that saved labour so more could be done per worker and that meant employers could afford to pay inflation—beating pay rises. but this is the sort of economic growth we have been used to recently. new services businesses that don't require much investment, just a plentiful supply of people willing to work hard for modest rewards. 0n official estimates, there are now 32.3 million people in work and for the first time in eight years, the number ofjobs filled by eu nationals is down. those from countries such as poland or the czech republic who joined the eu in 2004 are down by 91,000. that's offset by an increase in workers from romania and bulgaria. so, what sort ofjobs market do we now have? we have seen another record when it comes to employment rates, 75.6%. unemployment still at a 42—year low.

the number of women in work again a record, 7i.2%. and in fact, the number of unemployed young people has also gone down. bigger pay rises are sustainable if more can be produced per worker. 0n the latest figures, productivity is falling. productivity is a real puzzle to policy makers. it has been very weak for a very long time and unfortunately, it does mean it will be difficult for wages to accelerate rapidly. as long as we see weak productivity growth, wage growth will remain relatively subdued. the squeeze on living standards may be over for now, but unless the amount that can be produced per worker improves, the risk that it might return can't be brushed aside. andy verity, bbc news. this week is mental health awareness week. this year, the focus is on stress and how to cope with it. research has shown that two thirds of us experience a mental health

problem in our lifetimes, with stress being a key factor in this. the former premier league footballer and professional boxer leon mckenzie is with me. he set up the organisation mind reposition to help broaden understanding of mental health issues throughout the uk. fantastic to have you with us. pleasure. tell me about mind reposition and what you're trying to achieve with it. from my own experiences, suffering from depression for many years, the best pa rt depression for many years, the best part of my two careers combined together, i got in a situation where i wanted to give something back. it started with a simple website, mind reposition, and i what i put into it was a availability of people that might be suffering and not knowing where to go as such, easy access to the charities like calm and mind. i

wa nt to the charities like calm and mind. i want to start giving back and to put mind reposition in the forefront to where i could go out and do speaking all over the country if not outside it. this is the week of the big launch for you? yes, mind reposition is where i am really progressing the whole company in itself. the night i had my first event which i'm very excited about. —— tonight. it is to spread awareness. that is the main issue we have notjust in sport although i have been a sportsman, it is in society and that is my main goal, to get people to speak more. you are getting a lot of support and that i think reflects the fact that people have respect for what you have achieved and got through but also the fact that people recognise that you have a strong message to offer people. where is the resistance? what is the resistance to speaking out about this, given

that in the last two or three years at, and maybe you might disagree, but people have been much more ready to embrace this is a public issue and some think they can debate?” think it is all about small steps and progression. for me, it is not a good day every day. i have to be honest with everyone. when i speak, imight be honest with everyone. when i speak, i might be having a good time at that particular time and i think it is the best way for myself, to be honest and speaker from the heart. and that way there is a therapeutic message in that. so when you do speak and you push out that constructive message, because the people that do suffer and there were many forms of mental health illnesses, but the ones that do suffer, i know what it is like to be in that very dark place. to be able to step forward and to be brave and speak is very commendable. you make it pretty dramatic transition from

the premier league football to boxing at an age, if i might say so, when a lot of people would knock on the plate it because it is such a tough transition to undertake. what was that about? what were you doing then? again, there were certain transition i did not deal with. retiring from professional football idid not retiring from professional football i did not cope with wealth and i went through a lot of bad times and i'm very lucky to be speaking to you right now. that is the reality of that. off the back of that, i have an everything in my camp in my power to move forward positively —— in my power. although that year when i did turn professional at the age of 35, it was probably the worst year of my life. although not everyone can jump into a boxing ring and do well, what i was trying to do for myself was literally hold on to life. i have beautiful children and everything to live for all stop because my way of

fighting back, literally, and that is what did. and you had a rich family heritage in boxing as well which you could draw on. but you mentioned it, for those people who cannot access that kind of intense achievement in sport, for example, what are the tools you can offer people and the avenues you can offer people and the avenues you can offer people thought ways out of depression in this case, there are other conditions we know, but taking the pressure is one. what other avenues are there which may be mind reposition can point people towards? i'm at ambassador for calm who are an amazing charity. i also do other projects with a company called thrive who go on the basis of maybe not doing things where you have to ta ke not doing things where you have to take medication and i believe that because i never did take it so i

believe that you are able to do it. but that is not saying it is right or wrong, that was just what happened with me. i think fitness is a massive positive for anyone that is dealing with mental health and i honestly believe that. i'm not necessarily saying you have to go and compete at elite level like i did, to make it ok, but fitness is a massive thing that i will be incorporated into mind reposition and other projects where i will be doing workshops and we have spoken about doing some programmes that we can put on courses, thrive do a six—week course and i would love to incorporate fitness in that for people to come down and make them feel good. to make them feel good about themselves and again and bring confidence back into their lives and to fight. a very positive message at a great privilege to talk to you. mind reposition is being launched tonight. yes. good luck.

time for a look at the weather. here's louise lear. good afternoon. sunshine tends to help lift the spirits and we have had plenty of that day with temperatures across england and wales widely into the low 20s. so beautiful day for many for the quite all, this area of cloud moving into the north west and will continue to move south and east overnight. we will see some patchy rain drifting across the borders and perhaps heavier for across the borders and perhaps heavierfor a time in north—west england and wales. to the south of that moore ploughed through the night. and to the north actually start to wednesday. but that is where we have the best of sunshine.

a glorious day to come with lots of sunshine coming through. the cloud thick enough some drizzle and also feeling quite fresher across the country. this is bbc news — the headlines. the first funerals have taken place for those palestinians killed by israeli troops in gaza yesterday — the deadliest day of violence there since 2014. the scottish parliament has rejected a key part of the uk government's brexit legislation. it passed a motion stating it does not consent to the uk government's eu withdrawal bill by 93 votes to 30. doubts continue about whether meghan markle's father will be at the royal wedding. reports from the us say he's been taken ill after allegedly staging paparazzi photos of his preparations for the wedding. so let's catch up with this sports

news today. former aston villa playerjerry lloyd news today. former aston villa player jerry lloyd samuel news today. former aston villa playerjerry lloyd samuel has died at the age of 37 following a car crash in manchester this morning. he also had spells at cardiff city and chillingham. the emergency services we re chillingham. the emergency services were called just before the crop of this morning to a collision involving a fan and a car near warrington and they say that sadly jerry lloyd samuel who was driving the car died at the scene. now he was born in trinidad and tobago but grew up in south—east london and first played for charlton as part of their youth setup. he then moved to aston villa and that really was where he made his name. for he spent time at bolton and also cardiff but he played for the england under 21 side. he never played for the senior

tea m side. he never played for the senior team but towards the end of his career he decides to play for the country of his birth trinidad and tobago with a couple of international appearances for them. already tributes coming in aston villa have said we are deeply saddened to hear of the death of former player, our players will wear a black armband tonight as a mark of respect and our thoughts are with his friends and family at this difficult time. also stan collymore has just tweeted this is devastating news, he was a fantastic young throat and i know many of the club will be truly distraught today pulled up rest in peace. he said. elsewhere joe hart looks elsewherejoe hart looks set elsewhere joe hart looks set to elsewherejoe hart looks set to miss out on the england squad for the world cup this summer. he featured in the last three major tournaments for scotland —— england put up a number of media reports suggested today he will not be in the 23 man

squad named tomorrow by gareth southgate. frank lampa rd squad named tomorrow by gareth southgate. frank lampard says to leave joe hart at home southgate. frank lampard says to leavejoe hart at home would be a mistake. i would have him as part of my three because of his experience and then pick two of the young lads, lam thinking and then pick two of the young lads, i am thinking pickford and rutland. it is for gareth to make the decision but i think he needs to look at the character and form and fitness. it is such a specific position. we need to get behind whoever starts that first game because there will be intense scrutiny. and england have called up uncapped somerset the lead done best for the first test against pakistan. the site will be captained byjoe root and also includes a recall for joss butler who is in the squad for the first time since 2016. he has not played first class cricket this year but has been going well in the ipl. meanwhile ireland had been beaten in their first—ever test

match losing by five wickets to pakistan in dublin. having been made to follow—on after their first innings the hosts were looking to make an incredible comeback. paxton looking in trouble in one stage but the tourist steadied themselves and they had an unbeaten run and reach their target with five wickets in hand. simon yates has tightened his grip on the pinkjersey at the gerald italia after the longest stage in the race, stage ten. the 25—year—old finished safely in the main group and has now held the leaderjersey forfour main group and has now held the leader jersey for four stages. main group and has now held the leaderjersey forfourstages. chris froome is two and half minutes behind him. that is all the sport for now. much more on the bbc sport website. some breaking news from westminster, the cabinet which met this morning agreed to publish a

brexit white paper outlining the uk and its future relationship with the eu next month in advance of that big summit at the end ofjune. let's go to our chief political correspondent vicki young is at westminster. well there are all sorts of documents and papers already floating around whitehall covering all sorts of aspects of brexit but this seems to be an attempt to create some momentum. the eu set out what they want broadly from the future relationship back in march and winning the uk has had a gaping hole about what they want to achieve. so this is to try and fill that hole before it that critical summit as you say injune. there is still a problem of course and that is the deadlock that there is within cabinet over what kind of customs arrangements we are going to have after we leave the eu. that so—called subcommittee met again today for a couple of hours, trying today for a couple of hours, trying to work through options and come to some kind of conclusion but still

not managing to do so. they have been divided into groups that they have to do work and all that, downing street say they want that to be completed as soon as possible but i think the idea of a white paper is almost to try to set their own deadline, try to galvanise people and make them think about some kind of deadline so they have something to go to the european union with and negotiate with. so really all an attempt to try and break the deadlock and show exactly what the uk wants to get from these negotiation. and does it provide the kind of clarity, is it likely to provide the kind of clarity that theresa may has been repeatedly asked to give. this is partly what yesterday was about when theresa may brought dozens of conservative mps into downing street especially on theissue into downing street especially on the issue of customs to show them the issue of customs to show them the complexity of it and make them all the complexity of it and make them a ll start the complexity of it and make them all start to think about how they are going to try and find some kind of compromise. if you're going to have a white paper you need something to put in it, compromises must be found. what they're talking

about is agriculture for example, pharmaceuticals, financial services, aviation, all those kind of things which could be put into a white paper but still they are going to have to get to the very centre of all this and the customs arrangements. we know that brussels is demanding some movement about how they solve this issue of the border between northern ireland and ireland, they want something to do movement on that by thisjune summit. we will have to see if the thought of having to put into writing will make them focus their minds and come to some kind of compromise. thank you. much of the debate recently has been about how open borders will be after brexit. technology could help limit disruption at borders — but there may well still be delays. here's chris morris from our reality check team. as we have often reported,

one of the most difficult issues in the entire brexit process is how to ensure there is no return to a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic, once this becomes the external border of the european union, the single market and the customs union. that is what has been promised — no physical infrastructure or checks of any kind at the border, so that it continues to look much like this. so, what can we learn from other eu external borders around europe? first of all, let's head north to the border between norway and sweden. sweden is in the eu, here in blue, norway isn't. it is part of the single market, but not the customs union. now, this is one of the simplest customs borders to cross in the world and lorries only ever have to stop once. at the main border crossing, svinesund, norwegian customs say they deal with about 1300 lorries every day, which is less than a tenth of the number that pass through dover.

the average time from when a lorry arrives to when it leaves here is about 20 minutes. impressive, but certainly not entirely frictionless. next, we go south to the border between turkey and bulgaria. again, bulgaria is in the eu and turkey isn't, but turkey does have a customs union with the eu for most manufactured goods. here, though, the delays are much longer, huge queues of lorries are normal. it takes hours for goods to cross the border and sometimes drivers have to wait for more than 24 hours. so being in a customs union does not automatically make your border with the eu disappear, if you are outside the single market and its common set of rules and regulations. then our third border, right in the middle, between france and switzerland. france, of course, is a founder eu member, while the swiss are not in the eu but are part of the single market, thanks to a series of bilateral agreements.

again, though, they are not in the customs union. this is often held up as an example of what could be achieved in ireland, but here too there is physical infrastructure at all the main crossings. it is still a hard border and the average waiting time for lorries carrying goods, according to the international road transport union, from 20 minutes to more than two hours, if full inspections have to be carried out. in other words, technology is improving things and streamlining customs procedures at borders, and it will do more of that in the years to come, but if the uk leaves all the eu's economic structures, there is currently no example anywhere around europe, orfurther afield, that can keep the irish border after brexit as open as it is now. the new home secretary says his department's identified up to 63 people who could have been

wrongfully removed or deported — as part of the windrush scandal. sajid javid is giving evidence to mps on the commons home affairs committee about how he's handling the crisis. he emphasised that there's no final number — as thousands of records are still being examined. we found 63 cases where individuals could have entered the uk before 1973. , individuals could have entered before 1973. in total 8000 records that came up of deportation records that came up of deportation records and of that number so far there is a focus on 63, there's something in a record that indicates that they could have been in the uk before 1973. the then removed or

deported? removed or deported. the americanjournalist and novelist tom wolfe has died at the age of 87. the author's agents confirmed he died on monday. his most famous books included "bonfire of the vanities", "the right stuff", and "the electric kool—aid acid test." he pioneered a literary style which was loved by some of the time and not by others. but a major figure. 0ur media and arts correspondent david sillitojoins us now. for those not familiar, how would you introduced tom wolfe? is the man in the white suit, urbane, southern, the man who essentially transformed what we think of as journalism. journalism before him was largely he said this, she said that and you

stood back and your opinions did not come anywhere near it. he was there right on the bus and he was there for a long time and essentially if you want to boil it down to three things, three decades, the 1960s, 19705 things, three decades, the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. you have the electric kool—aid acid test, in on the bus with ken kesey and the pranksters, and i met him just before he died and he told me essentially tom wolfe invented him. he said no one would have known anything about him that he was there with allen ginsberg, timothy leary, the whole thing. this one book and there is tom wolfe and whenever we talk about the 1960s we go back to these references and if you go back and realise you are talking about tom wolfe. in the 1970s he broke this fantastic essay, the me decade which she links together with everything and he said what he wa nted everything and he said what he wanted to do given a choice when it

first began a journalist, do politics as all the posh guys wanted to do, but he said no i'm going to do all the things that people do not write about, see those little details. and write the beginning of this me decade this great essay that tells you all about the me generation, the religious cult scene, linking jimmy carter to meditation and everything. and he said the lowest paid worker in america in the mid—19 70s and about $8,000, that was roughly the same amount in and buy a columnist on the uk newspaper and he said you must remember it was based on wealth. and you suddenly think yes, that is what it is all about. and then he has the bonfire of the vanities, it is a novel at exactly the same. he is the most and writing about every detail, howard links together. it starts with essentially a car accident, a

man is run over, you have a bond trader enormously powerful and you know that you're reading dickens, zachary. that is what he wanted to do and essentially if you're going to send i want to understand the 19th century you would read dickens and thackeray. if you want to understand the 1970s and the 1960s, the baby boom generation of america, you read tom wolfe and they still stand up to date can you still go my goodness. it seems now like a farmland and fair one man to have left that kind of legacy is extraordinary. fantastic interview, bullet. and if people had never read any of tom wolfe, you are directing them towards what is an introductory visit customer i think the me decade, it is one of those things that has not been endlessly read and very red and there are details in their way you think the world feels

familiar but slightly unfamiliar. fantastic, thank you very much. facebook says that it removed nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech — in the first three months of the year. the company has revealed the information in an unprecedented report — following calls for transparency after the cambridge analytica data privacy scandal. 0ur correspondent dave lee reports from san francisco. he built a company with more than 2 billion users but mark zuckerberg has been under increasing scrutiny to keep the worst element of that community in check. so now, for the first time and under pressure from multiple governments around the world, facebook is releasing its own internal data to show the scale of abuse on its network. in the first three months of 2018, the volume of violent content being removed from facebook increased by nearly 200% compared to the end of 2017. of the violent material it found, 86% was detected

by facebook‘s automated systems. automation also spotted 21 million posts of sexual content, 837 million spam posts and 1.9 million posts of terrorist propaganda, blocked or taken down before any users ever saw it. experts say this automation will help the company while it is learning to get on top of some of the problem areas. i think they're taking the right steps to clearly define what is and what is not protected speech on their platform and i think it is promising to develop machine learning tools that they can use to better equip them to handle and moderate and remove the content before it circulates. but there are clear limits to facebook‘s technology. when it comes to hate speech, facebook equalled 38% of the posts that they took down. —— only caught.

the overwhelming majority needed to be spotted and reported by users. in fact, facebook‘s system is struggling to detect hate speech so much the company admitted it does not know how much hateful content is on the network. that is because what constitutes hate speech changes dramatically in different contexts. facebook also hasn't shared how often it makes the wrong decision and members of more vulnerable groups feel particularly poorly treated. i am a gay, jewish lady speaking from a white, gay perspective. i am running out of sympathy. this is hard because it is really not new and they find time to release dating apps and find time to attach to my bank account but they don't find time to figure out who their users are. it is clear dottie and other people like her don't think facebook is getting anywhere close to solving this problem, in fact, facebook‘s own data suggests

it is only finding a tiny fraction of all the abuse on its network. the truth is nobody, not even facebook, knows how big this problem might be. just some breaking news, we have some more news coming in from gaza, two protesters have been killed today. killed by israeli gunfire in the protests alongside the border with the east of the refugee camp in central gaza strip. thisjust coming in from one of our colleagues there in gaza. two protesters have been killed today. killed by israeli gunfire. but news just in. police forces are being urged to stop using facial

recognition technology. a report by the civil liberties group big brother watch — claims the technology is inaccurate in more than 90 per cent of cases — though police forces say it is improving. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports. champions league final in cardiff last year and south wales police are trying out a new way of monitoring the crowd, but the facial recognition technology isn't a great success. it ends up wrongly identifying people as being on a police database 93% of the time. at the notting hill carnival, the same technology has performed even worse for the metropolitan police, with a 98% failure rate in identifying people on a watchlist. now a civil liberties group says the whole experiment should end. what we are building is essentially a mass surveillance system that can biometrically track, locate, identify, or misidentify people everywhere they go. and i think we need to stop and ask ourselves the question, is this something that we want? technology to identify faces

in the crowd is pretty hit and miss at the moment, but it is making rapid progress and the police say they need to work out whether it could help them protect the public at major events. we're just we'rejust going to we're just going to downing street. a news conference has just begun between theresa may and present one. we need to work ever more closely together to make people safer and more prosperous. i would like to start by addressing the troubling situation in gaza and the west bank. which president are one and i have discussed today. the loss of life we have seen is tragic and extremely concerning. such violence is destructive to peace efforts and we call on all sides to show restraint. there is an urgent need to establish the facts of what happened yesterday through an independent and transparent investigation including

why such a volume of life i was used and what role hamas played in events. palestinians have the right to protest but these protests must be peaceful but we are concerned that extremist elements are seeking to hijack legitimate protests to further their own objectives. and while we do not question the right of israel to defend its borders the use of live fire and the resulting loss of life is deeply troubling. we urge israel to show restraint. it is in everyone's interests for peace and stability to prevail in israel and stability to prevail in israel and the occupied palestinian territories. the discussions we had today have covered the breadth and depth of our relationship. allow me to say a few words on each of the key topics were discussed. firstly we are nato allies and remain firmly committed to the alliance is the best way to guarantee our collective security. since my visit to ankara injanuary security. since my visit to ankara

in january last year both turkey and the uk have suffered grievous attacks by terrorists. as daesh is defeated militarily we are aware of the risk of foreign fighters dispersing from syria and iraq. to counter this we have today agreed to ta ke counter this we have today agreed to take concrete steps towards measures that will formalise our information sharing. 0ur that will formalise our information sharing. our intent is to agree that when turkish authorities return a british citizen suspected of terrorist offences to the uk they will do so with vital evidence such as media taken from mobile devices and transcripts of interviews. this will support our efforts to secure the convictions of those who seek to do us harm. we've also reaffirmed our commitment to deepen cooperation between the home office and the turkish ministry of the interior. this commitment means that we will look at how our police, border, customs and coastguard agency ‘s can share information more easily in order to tackle the terrorists and organised criminals involved in

money laundering, drug smuggling and people and arms trafficking. turkey is another mind of many vital issues for the uk particularly inferior where it is an important member of the global coalition against daesh. today resident erdogan and i reaffirmed our commitment to defeating daesh and the need for a political settlement to end the war and provide stability for all of syria, turkey and the wider region. we also agreed on the need to ensure humanitarian access inferior and on the importance of compliance with international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians by all sides. we reiterated our condemnation of the terrible chemical weapons attacks in syria and salisbury and while these incidents differ in terms of magnitude better part of a pattern of disregard for the global norms that prohibit the use of chemical weapons. today present erdogan and i agreed on the importance of restoring the international that the

use of chemical weapons is abhorrent and can never be acceptable for that i underlined once again the uk position that the attack notjust an attack, an act of attempted murder in salisbury not just attack, an act of attempted murder in salisbury notjust an act against the uk russia it an affront to the rules —based system on which we all depend. the conflict in syria has led to the displacement of millions of people both within syria and beyond. i pay tribute to turkey and its extraordinary generosity and hosting more than 3 million syrian refugees and educating more than 600,000 syrian children. the prime ministers speaking in downing street. coverage continues a little bit later on the bbc news channel, the prime minister describing the loss of life in palestinian protest is tragic and very concerning and urging israel to show restraint. more to come on the bbc news channel later on. goodbye for now. reports suggest thomas markle

has been taken ill. there are allegations he staged paparazzi photos of his preparations for the wedding. the royal couple have now asked for "understanding and respect" to be shown to mr markle. we'll have the latest from kensington palace. also on tonight's programme: palestinians bury their dead, after yesterday's clashes with israeli forces on the border with gaza. politicians and diplomats abroad call for peace. but real peace talks ended — failed — a long time ago. 30 million posts containing inappropriate material, including sexual images, have been taken down by facebook