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 question is will theresa may impose her regulation against the will of the scottish parliament. the latest figures show wages rise more than inflation over

year. this process is taking and go to california to find out more about the newest member of the royal family. it's a no go forjoe, misses out on world cup place in england, more funerals have taken place, for those palestinians killed, by israeli troops in gaza yesterday, the deadliest day of violence there since 2014. an emergency session of the un security council has heard condemnation of both israel and the militant group, hamas. it marks the 17th anniversary, those

we re it marks the 17th anniversary, those were expelled —— 70th anniversary. our middle east editorjeremy bowen sent this report from gaza. his report contains some distressing images. on the border, the soundtrack is anti—israel leave songs, not gunfire. 2a hours after, the protests have stopped. but palestinians looked warily towards the israeli positions. enterprise and traders brought refreshments. so what's next? the israelis deal with the international political fallout, but palestinians have 60 dead. politicians and diplomats abroad call for peace. but real peace talks ended, failed, a long time ago. with

the current generation, the palestinians and israeli leaders, there is no chance of them being revived. the israelis started firing tear gas. the cloud, biden including many families was getting too big. and the young member getting too close to the border wire. —— young man. we're not here looking to create casualties, where here to defend what is ours, defending our property and civilians in close proximity of those led by terrorists, who are trying to penetrate into israel. much of the rage is an beach camp, refugee camps

built many years ago, where palestinians were flat or forced to leave. 70% of palestinians in gaza are refugees. stuck fast in history. at the mosque, his funeral was much quieter than his death. shop for the eye during a protest. his body was wrapped in the hamas flak. israel says that it told them to stay away from the border and hamas is responsible. he had worked at the hospital without pay because of gaza's collapsing economy. and so, to the deaths of children. a family gathered for another funeral. it was

foran gathered for another funeral. it was for an eight—month—old child. she had a weak shot him when she inhaled tear gas, she died. —— she had a wea k tear gas, she died. —— she had a weak heart and when she inhaled tear gas, she died. her mother, is in a pit of grief. the main hospital, wounded men are being transferred to egypt for surgery. wounded men are being transferred to egypt forsurgery. inside, wounded men are being transferred to egypt for surgery. inside, they were still treating casualties from the protests. this boy is 16. all day i had been asking if hamas force them to risk their lives to protest. music, huw stephens. delighted to have you here. i this is the busiest time at the hospital since the 2014 war. as a human being, i speak,

it is horrible to think about. if you saw it yesterday, that situation, it is horrible. crying, bloody, pain, painful... what's happening? after the protests, it seems that many people are hoping for some kind of turning point. but the fundamentals of this conflict don't change. jeremy bowen, bbc news. jeremy wright is focusing on the hostility between israel and the palestinians, which has long since been about to land on the borders. our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, takes a closer look at the history of the continuing struggle. a history of the people on the run time and again. 19118, the

arab—israeli war and the creation of israel. tens of thousands of palestinians fled to gaza, many forced from their homes. a narrow sliver of land became known as the gaza strip. its borders defined by the positions of egyptian and israeli forces, separate from the west bank when the 19118 ceasefire was declared. and for the next 70 years, gaza's future would be shaped by its neighbours, most of all, the state of israel. in1967, in the in 1967, in the six day war, israel occupied gaza and the west bank, started building jewish settlements and the best land, including along the mediterranean. and then, decades later, a promise of land for peace. the last settlers and soldiers would

leave in 2005, proclaiming the end of israeli occupation, but israel kept control of all borders, land airand sea. the kept control of all borders, land air and sea. the people of gaza called it the world's biggest prison. but palestinian politics played its part, too. the next year elections brought the militant group hamas taupau, pushing out the main palestinian factions. —— wrought hamas to power. in pushing gaza towards a growing confrontation with israel, and a tightening blockade which created a growing humanitarian crisis. in the last ten years, three wars, and in between, efforts to ease gaza's blockades but never enough, and never enough eight. at the un security council today, this same calls for restraint and the us

stood by its ally. i asked my collea g u es stood by its ally. i asked my colleagues here on the security council, who among us would accept this kind of activity on your border? no one would. no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than israel has. the same calls to return to peace talks. we see negotiations towards the two state solution is the best way to end the occupation and to meet the national aspirations of the jewish and palestinian peoples. gaza's fate has been sealed, literary, by its borders. the only route to a better future, through negotiations, but that now further away than ever. that was our chief correspondent on the ongoing hostility between israel and the palestinians. in the day's

other news... the scottish parliament has voted to withhold consent for the main uk brexit legislation the eu (withdrawal) bill. a majority of members reject a clause that would give westminster temporary control of powers that are due to return to the uk from brussels when brexit happens. the vote has raised major constitutional questions for the uk government. our scotland editor, sarah smith, is at holyrood with the latest. here at holyrood we are now in uncharted territory. this is an unprecedented constitutional conflict between the scottish and westminster parliaments. if the uk government move to impose the eu withdrawal bill, even though three quarters of the scottish parliament voted against it, it will be the first on anything like that has ever happened in the history of devolution. the regulations that govern how these cows are fed, reared and transported are currently made in brussels. after brexit, we can make our own rules on animal welfare, environmental standards and more and the need to be the same

throughout the uk. we've got a few people making big decision that's going to affect a lot of the population here. we are anxious that they get it right. the uk government say they will consult on farming regulations on the breast with all the devolved administrations but thatis the devolved administrations but that is not enough for members of the scottish parliament, who don't wa nt to the scottish parliament, who don't want to have to follow rules they might not have agreed to. so the snp, labour, the lib dems and the greens all voted together to reject the eu withdrawal bill. yes, 93, no, 30. they warned westminster not to ignore their vote. the actions of the uk government, were they to impose legislation on this parliament, would be serious and unprecedented and they would be noted here and across europe. if there is a failure after today's vote to adapt the bill to devolution it will be the uk that will be breaking trust and breaking the rules, not us. the scottish tories pointed out that the welsh

government have agreed to a deal. they think the scottish government should do the same. westminster can 110w should do the same. westminster can now impose the brexit bill, but to do so will break decades of constitutional convention and would be unprecedented. it's certainly the first time it's happened but it was something that was envisaged in the devolution settlement, that there might be circumstances where consent wouldn't be given, and that circumstance would permit the westminster government to proceed with legislation on that basis, and thatis with legislation on that basis, and that is what we intend to do, because the bill is already in the system. exactly how the rules are made that regulate the sale and slaughter of the scottish sheep may appear to be slaughter of the scottish sheep may appearto bea slaughter of the scottish sheep may appear to be a relatively minor detail in the wider brexit landscape, but it's also a matter of constitutional principle that presents the uk government with yet one more obstacle on the route out of the eu. ferus mcdonald bbc news,

edinburgh. and today, the cabinet agreed to publish a brexit paper next month, outlining the uk's future relationship with the eu, ahead of a critical summit at the end ofjune. our deputy political editor, john pienaar, is at westminster. what does this tell us about the state of this process? yet more cabinet level meetings today and we're told there will be a policy paper ahead of that junior we're told there will be a policy paper ahead of thatjunior eu summit touching on all aspects of brexit. but what a lot of mps and ministers are but what a lot of mps and ministers a re clear but what a lot of mps and ministers are clearon, but what a lot of mps and ministers are clear on, two years after the referendum is the amount of progress the government is not making an brexit. the prime minister is still struggling to get together a plan for a customs relationship. what are the options? well, and interlinked customs partnership which the brexiteers absolutely hate, or a clea n b rea k brexiteers absolutely hate, or a clean break and tracking goods across frontiers using high technology and a systems experts say would take years to set up. that is

also the idea parliament is most likely to regret, so what's an brexit is clear is theresa may may be leaning towards that partnership idea which could lead to some kind of tory civil war. meanwhile, brussels is rejecting all of these ideas out of hand. a lot of tough negotiation ahead but right now the prime minister is busy negotiating with her own side. another thing i am hearing is the idea that a 2020 may not be long enough, that is the end of the brexit transition period, may not be long enough to get the job done, to be ready for brexit but thatis job done, to be ready for brexit but that is not something you can expect to hear from that is not something you can expect to hearfrom ministers or their spokesman any time soon. they have quite enough political knots to untangle as it is. many thanks for the latest at westminster. john pienaar. north korea has cancelled planned talks with south korea in protest againstjoint military exercises being held by south korea and the united states. the state news agency called the exercises a rehearsal for an invasion and said they cast doubt overthe imminent summit between kim jong—un and president trump. our north america editor, jon sopel, is in washington. what do we make of this latest

decision, this cancellation?” what do we make of this latest decision, this cancellation? i think the americans have been caught com pletely the americans have been caught completely by surprise. the statement came in the middle of the night, korean time. there is some scrambling to figure out what it means. state department was giving a briefing at the time. they are still planning for the summit to go ahead. the pentagon has stressed this is a defensive exercise, not offensive and they thought they had the agreement of kim jong—un that this should go ahead if you look at the language used by the north koreans, it says the us will have to undertake careful deliberations about the fate of the planned north korea — us summit in light of the rockers. it is not that extreme but it sounds like it is a warning shot,

a bit careful about the way you proceed from that maybe it is north korea flexing their muscles. did we really expect this summit between these two extraordinary men would go ahead without a hitch? there is still quite a long way to go between 110w still quite a long way to go between now and june 12. thank you. the pressure on earnings appears to have eased with new figures showing that wages grew faster than inflation in the three months to march. wages increased at an annual rate of 2.9% — the highest since 2015 — compared to inflation at 2.7%. unemployment fell by 116,000 in the same period, as our economics editor, kamal ahmed, reports. britain received a pay rise today. thank you. it was modest but it marked the end of a year—long income squeeze. price rises have eased, wages are up, but that better news comes after yea rs of weak income growth. here in cardiff, they still are feeling the effects. food is becoming really, really, really expensive. everyone i know is really, really struggling and i, you know,

and i'm talking about people who actually have jobs and have kind of security. we're public servants, or civil servants in old money, and we haven't seen a wage rise for a good number of years. i don't want to say, like, it's not improved at all. you can say slightly improved, but not how it's supposed to be. let's look at that income squeeze. over the last year, the rising prices, the blue line, has been above the increase in our wages, the red line. now they have crossed, meaning an end to this most recent squeeze on living standards. but if we go back over ten years, look how often inflation has been higher than the rise in our incomes. on average, people are earning £730 a year less today than they were a decade ago. i think it will take time before people really start to feel more confident. overall, they're a very good set of numbers. we saw very substantial numbers ofjobs being created in the first few months of the year.

the unemployment rate is still at its lowest level since the 1970s and we've seen a pick up in wage growth, as well. that wages are up and employment is high are certainly to be welcomed, and those are trends that are likely to continue. but there are caveats to that better economic news. the bank of england has warned that inflation could rise over the next few months, as oil prices and energy bills go up, and there's that productivity problem... our ability to create wealth for every hour that we work. that figure has dropped sharply. and that means it might be sunny today, but if we can't turn around our productivity problem, our wages will keep lazing in the slow lane. kamal ahmed, bbc news. the half—sister of meghan markle has expressed her concern for their father's health, as a result of allegations that he staged press photographs of himself. samantha grant said thomas markle

had agreed to the pictures only because he felt under attack. there's still doubt about whether mr markle will attend his daughter's wedding to prince harry on saturday. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell is at buckingham palace. have we learned anymore today on the plans? the picture really is absolutely unclear tonight. a few hours ago the celebrity gossip website tmz, tonight it was reporting that he had changed his mind and wanted to come to the wedding after hearing from his daughter. there was one major problem and that it is reported that he is in hospital, that he has experienced chest pains. he suffered a heart attack and is undergoing medical tests. it is suggested he

may be having surgery tomorrow. if thatis may be having surgery tomorrow. if that is correct, it would rule out him being at st george ‘s chapel on saturday. i think meghan markle, as much as she has wanted her father to be there, to walk her down the aisle, her major concern is for the health and well—being of her father. tonight, the question, will the father of the bride get to the church on time? there is still no definitive answer. thank you for the latest at buckingham palace. and later in the programme, we'll have a report from los angeles, taking a look at what made meghan markle and we will be speaking to some of those people who know her well. a second british amateur rugby player has died on tour in sri lanka. tom baty, who was 26, had been in a critical condition after a night out in the capital, colombo. his team mate, thomas howard, who was 25, died on sunday. durham city rugby club says the players were admitted to hospital with breathing problems, not related to rugby. the new home secretary, sajid javid,

has revealed that 63 people, who were part of the windrush generation could have been wrongly removed or deported. mrjavid was giving evidence to a parliamentary committee about the scandal. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here. he has more details about this. what can you tammy about the latest revelation by the home secretary? as the windrush scandal has unfolded, we have heard about people losing homes, losing access to the nhs and being put in immigration detention centres. until now we have not heard anyone had been thrown out of the country. today sajid javid believes they were 63 cases where it may have happened. that is 63 cases where people have been either told to leave the country or been forced out of the country. these were people who were para being commonwealth

citizens arriving before 1973 and they had as much right to live in britain as anyone else. of those, 30 we re britain as anyone else. of those, 30 were ones who had been told by officials they had to leave and left in quotes voluntarily. another was forced to leave. the others were more complicated. they had served time in prison. it is still not clear about whether they should have been allowed to remain in britain although there may be less sympathy for them. the scandal is getting worse for the government. they have not started to look at how many people spent how many nights wrongly imprisoned in the immigration detention centres. thank you. facebook says it's removed nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech all in the first three months of the year. the company made the revelation in an unprecedented report after data privacy scandals led to calls for greater transparency. our media editor amol rajan has more details. perhaps no company has been

in the headlines this year as much as facebook. a privacy scandal, prompted by the leak of millions of users' personal data, has led to unprecedented scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators across the globe. facebook has long championed openness and today, for the first time, it published a report on how it enforces acceptable behaviour on its platform. in the first quarter of this year, facebook removed or flagged 3.5 million instances of violent content. that's a 183% increase on a similar number of posts they took action on in the last quarter of last year. and, through automation, facebook removed 21 million instances of adult nudity or sexual content and 1.9 million instances of terror content. that's before anyone actually saw them. the issue for facebook is that its algorithms are so much better at detecting some kind of harmful content than others. so, while the technology is usually effective at finding spam

or terrorist propaganda, it's less effective at finding hate speech. that's partly because one person's hate speech is another‘s fair comment. clearly then, automation has its limits and there's still a place for old—fashioned human judgment when it comes to cleaning up the web. facebook is yet to say how often it made the wrong decision on removing posts that violate its policies. there are also many areas, such as the exploitation of children, where data remains unforthcoming. that suggests that when it comes to being completely open, facebook still has some way to go. amol rajan, bbc news. the new film by the american film—maker spike lee, called black kla nsman, was given a standing ovation at the cannes film festival. it is a satirical work about the ku klux klan, set in the 1970s, which lee says is about the "deadly racism that is still prevalent in the united states." and in cannes today, he launched a sustained attack on the policies of president trump. mr lee has been speaking to our arts editor will gompertz.

welcome to cannes, long considered to be the most glamorous place on the french riviera during the film festival, except this year. there's a feeling that it's lost its mojo, that it's become a little bit dull. well, that all changed today when the american film director spike lee came to town to promote his new film, black klansman. this is ron calling. who am i speaking with? this is david duke. grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that david duke? the movie tells the unlikely but true story of a black police officer who infiltrates the ku klux klan. since you ask, i hate blacks. i hatejews, mexicans and irish. it's set in the 1970s but spike lee considers it a wa ke—up call for today. i'm screaming at the top of my voice. if you think this film was just about the united states of america, you're missing the point. brexit. notjust the united kingdom but this upsurge, all this right wing phenomena, this

is happening all over this god's earth. it's a global issue. it's notjust america. we're the best in the business. number one. america first for racism. america first for sexism. america first for homophobia. let's push that aside. this film is dealing with a global problem. there's never been a black cop in the city. we think you might be the man to open things up around here. are you comfortable being an african—american? you are marked. i mean, there's a... you could know that something can go wrong very quickly and it's for no other reason that you're a black male. that's it.

we have targets on our backs. the president of the united states, when given a chance, did not denounce. he did not denounce alt right. he did not denounce neo—nazis. he did not denounce the kkk. he said, they are the good people on both sides. do you think there is a role for the arts, a role for film, to make the change? my fellow arsenal supporter, i will go to my grave believing that when it was done well, by masters, whatever craft it is, art can impact on the world for good. i believe that. spike lee. thank you very much indeed. thank you very much. take care. spike lee speaking to our arts editor, will gompertz. the american author, tom wolfe, whose novel, the bonfire of the vanities, was one of the defining works of the 1980s,

has died at the age of 88. the novel is an attempt to portray new york high and low today. i figured that one of the likely areas where the high and low can gather involuntarily, albeit is in the courts. in the 1960s and 70s, tom wolfe was a pioneer of newjournalism, using a subjective standpoint and rejecting the more traditional detached style. his other works of fiction included the right stuff and the electric kool—aid acid test. the editor of the new york times book review described wolfe's death as the "passing of an era." more on this saturday's royal wedding. before her engagement to prince harry, meghan markle was known for her acting career and her humanitarian work. but, according to time magazine, she is now one of the top 100 most influential people in the world,as she prepares to embark on a very different life. our royal correspondent, daniela relph, has travelled to los angeles to find out more

about meghan markle. my name's meghan markle, i'm12—years—old... it was her television debut, on a children's news programme. after seeing a tv ad she thought was sexist, she wrote to the company that made the product. they changed the ad. if you see something that you don't like or are offended by on television or any other place, write letters and send them to the right people and you can really make a difference, for not just yourself but lots of other people. that campaigning streak was cultivated at her first school, the private hollywood schoolhouse. her headteacher then, debbie wehbe, still has photos of herself with her star pupil and praises meghan markle's family for the support they gave. there's certainly a lot of credit that has to go to her parents, for how they have raised her and what their belief systems are and what they've encouraged in her. there's no school system that does it all by itself.

acting was an early love. endless school productions, including this one of annie. in the programme was a message from her father, signed off with, "break a leg! love, tom markle (daddy)". as a 17—year—old, she starred in oedipus. in her final year at school, casting her was an easy decision. the way she enters the room, it'sjust, you're kind of... 0k. there's character right away in her presence, and i think that's what it was. she entered that door and started speaking and she was in the moment. we can get it out of the way that i am not interested... the legal drama suits was her biggest professional role. it brought some extra interest in her personal life,