hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. thousands of palestinians turn out for the funerals of 60 people killed on the border with israel, the worst clashes there in four years. the un security council meets, after international condemnation of yesterday's violence. the use of lethal force must only be a last resort. the casualty figures on both sides see that it is not being used as a last resort. north korea has cancelled at the last minute a planned summit with the south in protest over military exercises seoul is conducting with the usa, that's according to south korean media. and, we'll be looking at how facebook is cleaning up its act, removing millions of offensive posts on its platform, and deleting fake accounts. we'll begin in gaza, where funerals have been taking

place for some of sixty palestinians shot dead by israeli troops during clashes along the israeli gaza border on monday.

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have been marking the 70th anniversary of nakba, the displacement of their people when israel was created. sirens sounded across the west bank. shops remained shut to mark the anniversary. there have been six weeks of demonstrations leading up to today. today is expected to be the last day of protests. and it has been quieter than the deadly scenes we saw yesterday. these are pictures from those clashes. and israeli forces using live rounds and drone to drop tear gas. along with the sixty—killed. two—thousand seven hundred palestinians were injured by israeli forces during the demonstrations. one of the things that they were protesting against was this: the opening of the new us embassy injerusalem. a decision by donald trump to shift the embassy to the city claimed as the capital by both israel and the palestinians. here's the reaction of one

palestinian doctor to the number of dead and injured. asa human as a human being, this is horrible! if you see, yesterday, the situation! it's horrible! diene! the pain! painful! what's happening? palestinian leaders have called monday's events a massacre. israel says it was acting in self defence. here's what idf spokesman lieutenant colonel yohana—tan conricus told the bbc. yesterday, we saw unprecedented levels of violence, instigated and controlled, by the terrorist organisation that runs gaza. and yet two separate incidents where the terrorists used ak—47s, firearms and would dojust behind me, not far

from where we're standing and there we re from where we're standing and there were six terrace and one squad that attacked an israeli patrol, and the southern part of the strip, we had three terrorists that try to put in an ied, a bomb on the fence in order to blow it up for other terrorists to blow it up for other terrorists to bea to blow it up for other terrorists to be a would infiltrate and go inside. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been speaking. he has blamed hamas for the deaths of civilians. here he is speaking to american network, cbs. they are pushing civilians, women and children, and to the line of fire. we checked in we try to minimise casualties in order to put pressure on israel, which is awful. i don't know of any army would do anything different. the un security council has been meeting in new york. this is what the palestinian representative had to say. what this is, is a war crime. a

crime against humanity. in accordance with the statute that created the icc. we have come to the security council many times asking for immediate action to stop the israeli aggression against our arms people. palestinian president mahmud abbas has withdrawn his top representative to the united states. there's been widespread international condemnation of the violence in gaza. here's britain's ambassador, karen pierce. there is an urgent need we believe, including why such a volume of blind fire continues to be considered

justified. palestinian peaceful protest is undeniable. at the same time, we are deeply concerned that peaceful protests in gaza are being exploited by extremist elements. our correspondent nada tawfik has been watching events in new york. a short time ago i asked her what else we've been hearing at the security council meeting. well, we heard is very divided council in terms of all . the well, we heard is very divided council i‘ states of all . the well, we heard is very divided council i‘ states against | the well, we heard is very divided council i‘ states against the 5 well, we heard is very divided council i‘ states against the united member states against the united states. the united states ambassador said that she believed that israel showed an extreme amount of restraint, that any other country there on the council would have actually used more force if they we re actually used more force if they were in the same position. and she really hit back at criticism that the united states opening of the embassy in jerusalem the united states opening of the embassy injerusalem really led to a lot of the violence. those who thought so were sorely mistaken that the embassy opening was a cause for

celebration. she said that the blame really echoing israel's position was on hamas, and she included iran and the consummation of the violence. so an unshakeable the consummation of the violence. so an unsha keable defence the consummation of the violence. so an unshakeable defence of israel. but on the other side, we had every other council expressing how shocked and outraged at the high number of palestinian lives lost in israel's use of live ammunition. and in fact, the majority of the council supported a call for international and independent investigation. the united states blocked that. secure leading a draft resolution, would you think is proposing? he wa nts to would you think is proposing? he wants to have an international force provide protection to palestinian civilians. he says that israel has not really ta ken civilians. he says that israel has not really taken up its job to protect palestinians, so he wants

the security council to intervene. that force, would really look to the secretary—general and bring forth some kind of representation for what that force would look like. it would bea that force would look like. it would be a complete peacekeeping force, but nonetheless they feel it was time to provide some protect protection for the palestinians. and though hold negotiations come but it is unclear at this stage if the united states would support that. some developing news now. north korea has cancelled at the last minute a planned summit with the south in protest over military exercises seoul is conducting with the usa, that's according to south korean media. there was some initial suggestion the north koreans might also cancel the historic summit with donald trump later this month, but we've just had this update from the us state department. update: state department says it is operating under notion that kim-trump summit will proceed as planned why would think the north to step is

with a stop in protests over military exercises, the us state department is still operating along the lines at that historic summit in donald trump and kim jong—un will go as planned. iran's foreign minister, mohammad javad zarif is in brussels to discuss how to save the nuclear deal with his european counterparts. the iran nuclear deal was brokered in 2015 between iran and six world powers, the us, russia, china, the uk, france and germany. it lifted international sanctions in exchange for a limit on iran's nuclear activities.

but last week president trump withdrew the us from the deal. here is mr zarif earlier today meeting eu foreign policy chief federica mogherini. it's the final stop on his global tour to rally support for the deal, he's already spoken to china and russia. here he is a short while ago. you'll see the political will that has been expressed by the participants and see it translated into specific action and you will see that. thank you. the foreign ministers of the three eu nations party to the deal, france, britain and germany, are also there. here they are in a photo op ahead of their meeting with mr zarif. the uk‘s foreign minister boris johnson spoke a short while ago. we think it has value and continued to move to america to walk away, and

a package of measures as europeans, we will encourage the iranians to stay in. we are under no illusions about the stuff that iran gets up to in the region in the middle east. we have no illusions about iran's disruptions. we can tackle those in other ways. iran has a lot at stake with the deal. its economy's been growing since the agreement came into effect in 2016. but so do the europeans. last year the eu sold almost 13 billion dollars‘ worth of goods and services to iran. but now the us is also looking to impose sanctions on foreign businesses doing deals with iran. this means they could be forced to choose between the us and iran. in this article in the german newspaper bild, the new us ambassador to germany says he wants quote german company bosses who want to do business with the mullahs in iran to stand up and be counted. james landale is in brussels.

i don't think you're going to get a grant blueprint tonight from these ministers meetings talking about their iranian counterparts, added their iranian counterparts, added the drying from the nuclear deal. we will see an initial discussion, a show of unity of what the europeans wa nt to show of unity of what the europeans want to say to iran, saying that we are united and we want to keep the deal alive. but they also want to get a sense of the iranians of what you need from us to keep that deal alive. as you said, the difficulty that the european governments and now and is bad can they do enough? can they come up with enough measures to give businesses in europe, the confidence to continue trading with iran as not risk those american sanctions? because the foreign secretary said, if i can

live wire the american financial system. the minute you touch, is a risk of the other businesses getting caught up by bad regime. bohn the sta kes caught up by bad regime. bohn the stakes really are high. there are literally billions of euros or pounds at stake here. yes there is a huge amount and terms of money, because if the european firms can no longer do their business, someone is going to have to do it. in the expectation in europe is certainly bad russian companies and chinese companies will come in and clean up. but there is also much more stake strategically. because of this bill does collapse in iran blocks away, then they said they are going to start enriching the uranium again. the nuclear fuel. and start enriching the uranium again. the nuclearfuel. and some start enriching the uranium again. the nuclear fuel. and some officials have been saying that they will try to enrich it. to a greater degree than before the deal came into force in 2016. so there is a huge amount

at stake. because of her honest seem to be repowering itself with nuclear energy, and of its neighbours in the region and stop believing their buddy is that nuclear energy for military means and notjust for power means, then what response is israel going to make to that? saudi arabia? the israel going to make to that? saudi arabia ? the strategic israel going to make to that? saudi arabia? the strategic consequences to this are huge. stay with us on outside source, still to come... a chinese pilot has safely landed a plane after the window of his cockpit blew out, and his co—pilot was partly dragged out. it's still unclear whether meghan markle's father, will attend her wedding to prince harry on saturday. thomas markle is due to walk his daughter down the aisle, but reports from america suggest he's been taken ill. as allegations were made that he'd 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, who's thought to have suffered a heart attack. everything always appears to goes smoothly, because they're so well organised and it's something that we very good at. but there are often lots of problems behind the scenes. so this is something that they would com pletely so this is something that they would completely understand, and be incredibly sympathetic with. but obviously, it would be useful to know if mr markel was coming or not, because then they would be able to alter the arrangements. maybe the prince of wales would be an escort her downor maybe her mother? this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story there has been international condemnation at the united nations

of the killing of 60 palestinians by israel. the palestinian president is recalling home his top representative to the united states. other stories from around the bbc right now india's ruling party the has failed to win a majority in important local elections in the southern state of karnataka. the bjp emerged as the single largest party in a hung assembly. it's a slight setback for narendra modi's party, which holds power in most of the other states. bbc hindi. the pope has started three days of meetings with chilean bishops. they were summoned to the vatican to discuss whether the church covered up incidents of child abuse. the pope himself has apologised for previously dismissing accusations against priests as "slander". against priests as slander. the meetings are going on behind closed doors, these pictures are from earlier in the week. bbc mundo. the german football federation has criticised two of its international players mesut ur—zil and ilkay gunder—wan, who are both of turkish origin, for posing in photos with turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. one of them gave him a signed shirt

with the inscription for my honoured president, prompting some german politicians to question their loyalty to german democratic values. facebook is often criticised for not doing enough to remove offensive or hateful content posted on its site. today it released this web internal data showing for the first time exactly what it has been doing. in three months facebook removed 3.4 million items of violent content. that's a big increase on the period before that swipe up nearly 200%. before that up nearly 200%. the explanation, recent events in syria apparently: whenever a war starts, there's a big spike in graphic violence" the vast majority of those posts were identified and removed story automatically, by facebook‘s algorithms. automatically, by facebook‘s algorithms. but it's a different story with another category of nasty, hate speech.

facebook removed just 2.5 million posts there, but of that number only 38% were taken down automatically. how much is this facebook responding to recent pressure and closer scrutiny? yes, i think it has. there's certainly under a lot of pressure to be more transparent about how they deal with this type of content and the sheer amount of content that is on the network. what is striking about this report is at first, they say of several that will come out about this proper, people, the deal they had was quantifying the amount of abuse of facebook. graphic violence or sexual content or hate speech, they've really found it hard to count how much of it there is. of the stuff they have found, the story

is that automation is working very well for some types of content. like violence, nudity and sexual content. failing very much a finding hate speech, which is a much more nuanced thing the spot. one word in a certain context must could behave more and other weight for things like hate speech, is relying very much on human report users, seeing something he reporting it to facebook and then a moderator looking at it and deciding whether 01’ looking at it and deciding whether or not to take it down. so gently and task —— an enormous task. how important is it to get algorithms doing this effectively, rather relying on human beings, given the enormous amounts the current figure that they're giving us for how many people are working in moderation is 15,000. the

aim is to get that to 20,000, because there's so much content posted on facebook it single day, 20,000 to be anything like me are enough to solve the problem. the european union failed to withdraw illegal subsidies granted to the aerospace giant airbus, potentially paving the way for billions of dollars worth of punitive tariffs by the united states. kim gittleson is in ny, this is a ruling from the world trade organisation that's taken 1a years, tell us how we got here? it's been going on for quite a long time. in 2004, the us got to the world trade organisation against the eu, and illegal $22 billion subsidy. they built and invested in at

in 2011, they tentatively ruled in the us‘s favour, but in the interim, the us‘s favour, but in the interim, the eu product lawsuits of the us saying that they also gave subsidies. if you're confused by all of this is probably because it's quite a confusing lawsuit. but today, and the ruling of the us is favour, the drug administration gave god a temporary -- it —— it could possibly the us is allowed to retaliate in kind and impose tariffs on imported goods of the european union that might not just be, as long as it compensates the us are the same amount of money in the subsidies. officials from the world's two top economies, the us and china,

are in washington today to talk trade. the us treasury secretary steve mnuchin is hosting china's vice premier lioh huh. now, tensions could be easing after president trump's reversal regarding struggling chinese telecoms giant zte. he banned american firms from selling components to it, because it sold goods to north korea and iran, but he's now willing to support the firm. marianne petsinger is a trade expert from chatham house, here's what she expects. you might see in this grand bargain that tromp hopes to reduce the trade deficit, it may be a deal, the olive branch extended for the chinese branch, lowering the barriers of trade. so it might be a minor step towards just having a better relationship with china on that

front and not going overboard. uk fashion chain new look is to review its pricing after customers complained that some larger sized garments were 15% more expensive than smaller sizes. one customer noticed these trousers were $31 and these smaller ones $27. corrine mensah is the winner of miss curvaceous 2018, and says brands risk alienating some customers with these kinds of practices. using more material. but that, we are all ladies, want to shop in the pit. if you're not going to cater to us, how are we going to shop? are we going to come to your brand to spend oui’ going to come to your brand to spend our money? it's going to want us to withdraw. i'll probably just our money? it's going to want us to withdraw. i'll probablyjust by two items and i would leave the shop with ten items. but if you're not going to cater to us, it's with ten items. but if you're not going to cater to us, its is going to make us redraw back. now the hurricane season for the us

and the caribbean doesn't usually start into the 1st ofjune and storms have in may, are very rare occurrence, on the track in the 1851. but we're keeping a very close, a very close eye on these bits of white. this is developing into something, something to watch over the next few days. could it be a named storm? even without that, we are certainly pushing in lots of humidity across the eastern us, somatic downpours, thunderstorms, affective and the knights of washington. , quebec, here we see in the storms clear by wednesday, is

going to be a little brighter and sunnier. but a little bit cooler. they'll find a drop in temperature on wednesday afternoon, around 15 degrees compared to what you'll see this afternoon. to the west of the a bit cooler, a little more inland. that's stormy theme, we've talked about the past two nights, some the storms and dust storms that will be causing all sorts of havoc across the country, border, on thursday, or on the far northeast, bangladesh, long—held damaging winds, but we'll see some pretty nasty monsoons towards the south and some gusty winds towards pakistan in western india which could see some nifty dust. a stark contrast to europe, temperatures and france barely above 20 degrees on monday, 15, both saw temperatures of 26. the heat continues across parts of

scandinavia, a little warmer but they are our regions were cold air can produce an snow over the top of the mountains on wednesday. lots of showers heading in this direction and towards italy and towards italy as an severe storms drifting their way north towards poland as a going to the day. that could cost planting. trying to to the west, ta ke planting. trying to to the west, take us to wednesday night and into thursday, this area of stormy weather continues to circulate around through poland, so they went to keep our on and for the storms developing to the east into northern italy and across the balkans. still in parts of europe, though the warmerfor in parts of europe, though the warmer for those in parts of europe, though the warmerfor those in spain and portugal, but complied pushing out of northern africa to bring a few showers towards. in the uk, tomorrow is not going to be a kind of day, but cooler windier, and scotland and northern ireland. more details in half an hour. there are also some murmurs,

circulating, these links to russia are what hangs over this presidency. don't believe that brexit isn't going to happen, i do not think the uk is going to change its mind. so interesting, a year of trump gives us interesting, a year of trump gives us lot to discuss. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom thousands of palestinians turn out for the funerals of 60 people killed on the border with israel, the worst clashes there in four years. the un security council, after international condemnation of yesterday's violence. the use of lethal force must be a last resort, and you have to look at the different casualty figures on both sides to see that it is not in

use as a last resort. north korea has cancelled at the last minute a planned summit with the south in protest over military exercises seoul is conducting with the usa, that's according to south korean media. every day outside source features bbc journalists working in over 30 languages. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag. we start with some developing news. north korea has cancelled at the last minute a planned summit with the south in protest over military exercises seoul is conducting with the usa, that's according to south korean media. there was some suggestion the north koreans might also cancel the historic summit with donald trump but we've just had this update from the us state department spokesperson. kim jong—un had said

kimjong—un had said previously kim jong—un had said previously that he understands the need and utility of the united states and the republic of korea continuing in its joint exercises. there are exercises that are legal. we have not heard anything that we would not continue conducting these exercises or not continue planning for our meeting between president tom and kim johnson next month. prince harry and megan markle are getting married injust four days time. but it's still not clear whether megan's father thomas markle will attend the wedding. it comes after the release of this security footage obtained by the mail on sunday. it shows mr markle apparently colluding with a freelance photographer to take pictures of him choosing a wedding suit. they were then sold to newspapers around the world, just as kensington palace was appealing to the media to respect his privacy.

meghan markle is said to be close to herfaterh, you can see them pictured together here. and she is said to be "distraught" that he might not walk her down the aisle, although the latest reports say he may have changed his mind again about that. however meghan‘s half sister, samantha markle, has been defending him on the good morning britain tv programme. he was living a very quiet, peaceful life, not as a recluse, not as a, you know, he is a very intelligent man. he has been gregarious and worked in entertainment for 40 years. he wanted peace and quiet. he was avoiding the media. he had spoken with press and was doing just that, but when he called me, panicking, on a freeway, because he is in a dangerous situation, being followed by seven or eight cars, how... think there have been examples in history, of how dangerous that can be. and so he was so stressed out, they rented the house next to him in mexico, four or five of them. he cannot open his blinds, he cannot go anywhere without being

followed, and really, it is quite atrocious and intrusive, and i think it is highly unethical. joining me now is george danby, who calls himself the best paparazzi photographer. you could possibly hear what she was saying. had he responded that? at the end of the day, he has been approached, he has been money and he is staged some photographs with a photographer who knew what he was getting into, and thatis knew what he was getting into, and that is what he did. the footage shows clearly that they were setting up shows clearly that they were setting upa set shows clearly that they were setting up a set of pictures together and maybe he has been a little bit naive, because he does not deal with the media on a big scale, but at the end of the day, he could have said

no. obviously he is not here to defend himself, but how much would you say of what we see in the papers is actually staged. in your experience, how much is staged?” can tell you from my personal experience, probably 90% of the pictures aren't set up. we take celebrities abroad on holiday, and the first aid is ours. we get them to dress up in seven or eight sets of bikinis or hairstyles, and we can shoot them photographs and sell them every six weeks to all the magazines. and say we have such and suchin magazines. and say we have such and such in monaco, and another set with a blue bikini, and then we got her somewhere else. it is all set up. all the papers have been setting up pictures for years. and now it is come to fruition and people are starting to realise what happens with pictures in the celebrity

magazines and the tabloids. but what you are describing is effectively lying to the public. yes. basically, thatis lying to the public. yes. basically, that is what newspapers do. on a daily basis. there is no secret behind it. the funny thing is when they video the alleged set up that took place, it is quite funny that the footage that date wit and afterwards and got or bought from the hotel, that actually sold for more than the photographs, because it is dirt on meghan markle. they would not want evidence of anyone else doing setups. they only wanted to get the evidence because it is her dad, and it would make world does cormac, world news. white neck are there rules against

this, that means newspapers and magazines cannot do this sort of stuff? not. what happens is if i am setting a set of pictures when i set up, iam setting a set of pictures when i set up, i am selling a set of pictures and this is someone in a bikini on holiday. if i then say in another ten months this is them in another bikini on another holiday, they are still pictures. there are still pictures people want to see and people want to pay for, and pictures that the celebrities themselves want to be traded, because they want to be in the media and be in the public spotlight. has anything changed since the days of princess diana and the outrage there was over the weight she was treated by the paparazzi? the only thing that has changed is there is not so much chasing about and following people and stalking people. most of it is all done by prearrangement. pictures are set to the papers, a lot of them are set to the papers, a lot of them are set to the papers, a lot of them are set up but they are not bothered, because they are getting

what they want for the readers, and the readers are getting what they want. it is a big circle. that is the way it works. thank you very much indeed. paparazzi photographer there. very honest indeed. the co—pilot of a chinese passenger jet has survived being partly dragged out of the window of the cockpit after the windscreen blew out. these are the pictures on chinese tv earlier. you can see the hole in the windscreen. footage from inside the plane shows the oxygen masks came down as the plane rapidly descended. the flight was en route from chongqing in southern china to lhasa in tibet. the captain told chinese media there was a loud bang, then "when i looked over to my side, half of my co—pilot‘s body was hanging out of the window" he made an emergency landing, the 119 passengers unhurt. this article on our website talks about the huge response on social media in china to these events, helier cheung wrote the story, i spoke to her earlier.

yes, social media is completely calling him a hero, saying he should be awarded, and is not surprising, given that he had to land the plane in such stressful circumstances. the plane was at 32,000 feet when the windscreen suddenly broke, and the copilot was half sucked out of the plane, but luckily, because he was wearing the lower half of a seat belt, he could pull the backend and the pilot says that the cabin pressure was dropping, things were flying everywhere, and he could not even hear what was on his radio, because it was so noisy, but incredibly, he managed to stabilise the plane. it did fall 8000 feet, but then it stabilise, and luckily, he did land in nearby, and none of the passengers were hurt. two of the crew had some light injuries, but nothing life—threatening. does anybody know why the windscreen broke? is not clear at this point. investigators from airbus and france and also chinese investigators are looking at it. windscreens do crack on planes sometimes, due to lightning strikes or birds hitting it, but for a whole windscreen to go is unusual.

on social media, people are praising the pilot, but people are also saying are also saying we have to figure out what happened. so it is worth bearing in mind that the airline has quite a good reputation overall. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site there is full coverage on the website. the developing situation as north korea cancels its planned meeting with south korea tomorrow. the british government is still holding internal debates about the kind of customs relationship it wants with the european union after brexit. a lot of it boils down to how open borders can be once the uk leaves the eu customs union and its single market. chris morris from our reality check team has been looking at some options. democrats about let's head north between the border of norway and sweden. sweden is in the eu here in blue, norway is not. it is part of the single market, but not the customs union. this is one of the

simplest customs borders to cross in the world. lorries only ever had to stop once, and the main border crossing, and cousins faked a guilt about 1300 lorries every day which is less than ten of the numbers that passes through dover. the average time for when a lorry arrives to when it leaves is about 20 minutes. impressive but certainly not entirely frictionless. next we go south to the border between turkey and bulgaria. again, pulled area is in the eu and turkey is not. turkey does have a customs union with the eu for most manufactured goods. here the delays are much longer. huge queues of lorries are normal. it ta kes queues of lorries are normal. it takes hours for goods to cross the border. sometimes, drivers have to wait for more than 24 hours. so being ina 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 eu disappear. if you are outside the single market, and it is common

set of rules and regulations, been our third border right in the middle, between france and switzerland. france is a founder eu member why the swiss are not in the eu but are part of the single market, thanks to a series of bilateral agreements. 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 crossing. it is still a hard border. the average waiting time for lorries carrying goods, according to the international road transport union, from 20 minutes to more than hours if full inspections had to be carried out. in other words, technology is improving things, and streamlining customs for teachers at borders, and it will do more of that in the years to come. but if the uk leaves all the eu economic structures, there is currently no example anywhere around europe or further afield that can keep the

irish border after brexit as open as it is now. the taliban have launched a coordinated attack on the provincial capital of farah in western afghanistan. a bbc investigation from earlier this year revealed taliban fighters are openly active in 70% of afghanistan. indeed, kabul has seen an increase in bombings and other attacks since the taliban announced the beginning of their spring offensive on april 25. here's auliya at—rafi from the bbc‘s afghan service. since the withdrawal of international forces in 2014, farrahl will be the second provincial capital after kunduz. where the insurgents manage to penetrate the provincial capital. farrahl has been the subject of taliban attacks since the start of the taliban's summer offensive for 2018. and last night, it managed

to enter the city with strike speed. it seems the insurgents wanted to capture important government institutions and most importantly, to free the prisoners from the localjail. but the fight proved harder for the taliban, as after 15 hours, there were still fighting going on in different parts of the city. the shooting created a rare panic amongst the locals, as people were trying to leave the city at the first opportunity. this incident shows that the afghan security forces still need more time and more support from the international community to at least safeguard provincial capitals. take a look at these pictures. yes, that is russia's president

vladimir putin starting up that lorry, he was officially opening a bridge to road traffic. it's notjust any bridge. that's because it's between the russian mainland and the crimean peninsula. you'll remember russia annexed it in 2014. this image from state broadcaster russia today shows its scale, it's the longest bridge in europe, spanning 19 kilometres. here's bbc russian‘s yuri vendik. is 19 km long, and it is built under a difficult situation, as we have been told during these three years, the construction, very complicated sea beds, the geological structure of it, and very complicated weather conditions. because there were attempts to build the

bridge before, comparatively, relatively successful attempts back in 1944. the soviet military engineers build a bridge, but the next winter, it was swept away by ice and currents. so it is difficult, but now russia has a very important task to build this physical connection between the mainland and crimea, because before that, there has only been a ferry connection, with much lower capacity than the bridge and very often in wintertime, due to weather conditions, this is very important to russia both politically and economically, and logistically and everything. so it is clear to see why president putin wanted to make this very public drive across the bridge. yes, definitely. president putin always wants to be associated with positive events in his country. and this is definitely, in the eyes of the majority of russians, it is positive because as

far as we can judge by the opinion polls, the majority of russians do approve of the annexation of crimea. what has been the reaction from outside russia to seeing this? obviously, from the point of view from the ukrainian point of view, and the point of view of the vast majority of countries, all countries in the world, this is illegal, both annexation and construction of the bridge, and even today, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine has made a statement against the insane is illegal, and the european union will, they have also supported ukraine in this matter, but the reaction was quite predictable. they have been saying all this time, all these four years. we have had some more reaction from

washington. they have condemned the opening of this bridge between russia and crimea. the alliance led by this man, the shia cleric moqtada al—sadr is looking likely to win iraq's elections. reports show that al—sadr‘s alliance won more than 1.3 million votes. that translates to the greatest share of seats in parliament with some votes still yet to be counted. iran—backed shia militia chief hadi al—amiri's coalition is second, while prime minister haider al—abadi's coalition, once seen as the frontrunner, came in third. now, al—sadr has spearheaded fights against us troops and campaigned against iranian influence. put simply, he believes iraqis should run iraqi affairs, not washington, not tehran and not their proxies. so where does this election leave iraq ? i spoke to hadya al—alawi from bbc arabic. this was probably an unexpected result from many iraqis, although he is a very popular shia cleric in iraq, he is also, he was not really expected to win this election.

probably the bids were going to the current prime minister, especially after all the conflict that he actually managed to get iraq out of with isis, so this is quite a change on the same, but it shows that iraqis are quite fed up with the system and the way it is working right now. the government, the corruption, and having all these problems not solved 15 years on, after the war started in 2003. he was quite a name in headlines, a decade or so ago, just tell us about him. what does he stand for? as i mentioned, he is a very popular shia cleric and he has always been against the us, what he calls the us occupation of iraq. he has also against iran, so he has been running

on the lines of anti—corruption, of the government, but also anti—iran during this campaign. you mentioned although he is a shia cleric, not in favour of iranian influence. this is something he has actually campaigned against. that is very true. unlike other alliances, who have been quite influenced by were very happy. i did not know if you remember, but in the last years, there was a lot of demonstrations in iraq, especially in baghdad,. the power behind these demonstrations. most of his supporters were going out on

demonstrations against the government, so i think although i see it as quite a shock result, i think it is an oversight that many people, including myself and other people, including myself and other people who look at this result is something completely unexpected, it is not completely unexpected because he isa is not completely unexpected because he is a popular cleric and he fought against the united states since 2003, he has had a reform and a change and now he has come out with a new brand that he is trying to be there for the rockies. , iraqis. now to a country we don't talk about very often. belarus. it's a place often described as europe's last dictatorship. it's also the only nation in europe still to use the death penalty. the bbc‘s hugo bachega has been looking into what we know about it. the answer is not much. here he is explaining. the way his executions are carried out is at oconee in, they are never

told when the executions are going told when the executions are going to ta ke told when the executions are going to take place. they're taken from the sales, told that the appeals for clemency had been rejected and in minutes, they are executed by a shot in the head. the relatives are also never told when the executions are going to take place so they are never given the chance to say goodbye. sometimes it takes weeks for them to get a confirmation for the government that the executions have taken place. the box bo) is; " as, location e f where g " as, location e f where the " as, location e f where the bodies location e f where the bodies are - location 3 where the bodies are buried ation g where the bodies are buried is on g qe 4:2“; so you . . . ~ 4:12";er you liaise . . ,, 4:12“; so you haye human . . not disclose, so you have human rights campaigners, criticising the government for the executions and the un representative even said the secrecy around the executions amount to torture. we don't know precisely what belarussians think of capital punishment. in a 1996 referendum, 80% said they were against its abolition.

but the result wasn't recognised internationally because of claims of widespread violations. recent polls have suggested a downturn in support, but it's believed between 50% to two thirds of people still favour it. in terms of the number of executions, amnesty international say they believe two men were executed in 2017, and four in 2016. they included this man, gennady yakovitsky. here's hugo again. most of the cases have been handed out to those who have been accused of committing murder with aggravating circumstances, so we have the case of this man, who was accused of murdering his partner, but activists and his family say that there was no evidence that he was the one responsible for this crime. that puts the spotlight in a different problem, as activists say

many of these cases, there is a lack of evidence and there is no fair trial and thejudges of evidence and there is no fair trial and the judges are influenced by the media coverage and by public opinion, and that tends to be against all those people. women, interestingly, are not allowed to be executed. the country law says a woman cannot be sentenced to death so if this is the case, only men can be sentenced to death and be executed. you have not been able to getan executed. you have not been able to get an official comment on what is going on, despite trying very hard. it really shows how much the government tries to keep all of this asa government tries to keep all of this as a secret. i have tried for weeks, and we had reporters trying to get a confirmation from the government but all our calls, e—mails, letters have been ignored. just time to give you an update.

the pentagon on tuesday played down ongoing military exercises with south korea, saying they were routine and defensive in nature after north korea blamed them for its decision to suspend high—level talks with seoul iam back i am back at the same time tomorrow. that all came about because we were that much closer to the weather front which over the next 24 hours will continue its journey away towards the continent, assuring and as it will do a fresher feel as you will see, that many enjoyed across wales across tuesday, the meetings

will be closer to the mark. after a chilly start, a cloudier day, but still with the odd spot of rain across parts of england and wales. you see what i mean about those temperatures tumbling away. the frontal system complete this journey. behind it, because across many parts of the british isles. it will be feeding a pretty chilly northeast wind across the coastal areas, coming off a cold north sea, centimetres along the coast are around 11 or 12 degrees. you'll have to be away further towards the west to be away further towards the west to see something like 16 or 17. a lot of dry weather and we continue that as we push on into friday, when a high—pressure so although i show

you the sort of same figures, the day feeling a little warmer, still a fairamount of day feeling a little warmer, still a fair amount of cloud rolling off the north sea and that could well be the combination that greets the royal wedding on saturday there is just the outside chance because the high pressure is moved off towards scandinavia and we are relying on the ridge of high pressure to settle things down for most, and we suspect at this stage that any of the showers that drift away into the north sea will stay in the north sea rather than coming ashore on rather more gentle northeasterly breeze. as a consequence, it isjust more gentle northeasterly breeze. as a consequence, it is just recovering a consequence, it is just recovering a touch as we have shut off that straightforward northerly, but as we get on towards the latter part of the weekend, into the start of next week, the high—pressure very much over scandinavia, and these frontal

systems coming from the atlantic, just seeing the chance to make a little bit of progress towards the western side of scotland through northern ireland as well, so the first signs of rain here that some areas will have seen for a good few days. still doesn't showers there is other parts of the way of breeze, feeling very pleasant, and the upper teens or early 20s. the jet stream, if it were pointing directly at us, would be firing low pressure after lopressor, but you see it as more of a glancing blow for these northwestern parts and that is about as far as the attending weather front made progress towards the british isles, a little central of low pressure just dragging its way towards the near continents, so that is where we will see the bulk of the showers, for us the high—pressure just grows through to join one of your, keeping us pretty settled in the coming week. good night. funerals are held in gaza

for the palestinians killed in the deadliest day of violence there since 2014 we report on the hospitals and the pressure in gaza as the international community calls for an end to the violence. diplomats abroad call for peace but real peace talks ended, fail, a long time ago. let the latest in gaza and not today's emergency meeting of the un security council. the scottish parliament, the big