,- might he was blessed in the chapel — might he escort his new daughter to the altar? we will know tomorrow. that's a summary of the news. newsday is coming up at midnight. now on bbc news, it's time for newsnight with kirsty wark. almost a year since the grenfell tower fire, a tragedy we now know was caused in part by flammable cladding. today, there was shock when the independent report did not ban combustible materials from any future building. even the architects who normally want complete freedom wanted a ban. why would you put something that could catch fire and might catch fire on the outside of a building where people sleep? so that has to go, we have to have noncombustible materials. also tonight... gunfire strabane at the height of the troubles in northern ireland, back in the days of the hard border. peter taylor reported from there in 197a. three weeks ago a bread van was hijacked and parked in the main street, there was a bomb in the back of it. when it exploded, it destroyed the grocer‘s

and the insurance broker's... he returns more than a0 years later. how vulnerable is peace and prosperity on the irish border today as we prepare to exit the eu? the strabane you saw in 1974 wasn't a nice place, now it is pretty hopeful, we have come a long, long way, there is still a road to go, and we'd hate to see brexit putting us back on our knees. and... women need a seat at the table. they need an invitation to be seated there. and in some cases, where this isn't available, well, then, you know what? they need to create their own table. what are the chances of meghan markle continuing to speak out for feminism human rights and racial equality after she says "i do"? we'll be discussing that tonight. good evening.

it's not far off a year since the grenfell tower fire killed 71 people. in the days and weeks after it, cladding entered the national consciousness. newsnight brought you a series of revelations about how the institutions we trusted to protect our safety had colluded in the flouting of regulations. today, we got damejudith hackitt‘s review of those building regulations. it was a review that stopped short of proposing a complete ban in the use of combustible materials in future buildings, a verdict that united architects, insurers and grenfell survivors in their dismay. hours after the backlash, the government announced that it will consult on banning flammable cladding after all. so what did the report actually say? here's our policy editor, chris cook. england has had building regulations to protect citizens from fires

since the 13th century. throughout our history, though, there's been one clear pattern. our most important fire safety decisions have always come at moments like this, at times of grief, of loss. this is the monument. it's in the centre of london, and it commemorates the great fire of 1666. shortly after that conflagration, parliament passed new building regulations, and they were very simple. they simply stated that buildings in the city had to have walls made of stone or brick, because they don't transmit fire. you could only use wood for windows, doors and shop fronts. an advantage of those rules was that they were simple. everyone could understand them, and you could see if your neighbours were following them, but they were what we would call today prescriptive rules.

they said what you could and couldn't do very bluntly. in her review of building regulations, damejudith hackitt has gone a different way. her review proposed that builders should use whatever material they please, so long as they can prove it's safe to a new, beefed—up safety regulator. her report was clear — there's no need to bring in bans on building materials such as combustible cladding. my concern is, if you simply ban cladding, given that people are already putting material on there that is not compliant with the current regulations, if you just ban it, who's to say they won't still use it? unless we put a system in place that really does stop them from cutting corners and taking chances, the ban will have no impact. but here is the new housing secretary, an hour or so after that interview. having listened carefully to concerns, the government will consult on banning the use of combustible materials in cladding systems on high—rise residential buildings.

even architects, who traditionally fight against prescriptive rules, want this one. i think the easiest way to make sure people are safe is to give them very simple, clear rules. my expert panel has been working for 11 months now, here at the riba, and we do not believe that you should have materials of any combustibility on the outside of buildings at risk. why would you put something that could catch fire, and might catch fire, on the outside of the building where people sleep? lots of the report is uncontentious, like the new super—regulator, tidying up regulation, clear rules on who is liable for what. but there are holes. for example, one way to prove cladding designs are safe at the moment is this. it's a so—called 8414 test. if you want to use combustible cladding, you can use it if it survives this process.

but there is enormous scepticism that these tests are useful. the test sample will typically be designed to pass the test. so it will have extra detailing in it. it will be riveted, generally. it will have extra fire barriers in it. in reality, those details don't exist. so the fpa has run its own tests using real world installers, fitting the materials as they would in reality, and treating them to wear and tear. they find that cladding designs may be a lot less safe than tests on pristine, perfect, overengineered test installs suggest. dame judith's proposals also permit desktop studies. that's when you don't have an actual test, but pay an engineer to write a report stating their opinion that the design is safe. a desktop study is not an actual test. it's just somebody sitting at a desk, looking at statistics and making something come out at the end of it, which perhaps is right.

what if it isn't? there's a big intellectual question here too. damejudith thinks our building industry isn't up to standard, but she proposes a system built on their professional discretion. her proposals will not be the final word on building safety that some were expecting. chris is here now. why didn't she just ban combustible material? the small answer to that is that these plastic installation foams do have advantages over old —fashioned heavy mineral wool. —— insulation. for a very thin slice, you can basically have the same thermal efficiency as a bigger wedge of mineral wool. the long answer is the she doesn't want to stifle innovation, and she has this idea that if you have these very prescriptive rules, 17th century style, you would end up with basically no innovation in building, and that would mean more expensive buildings, and she also worries about a tick—box culture that might take over building,

people worrying about the letter of the law. let's move onto another story that you have brought to newsnight, there have been developments in it tonight. so a few things, the telegraph reporting thatjohn bercow yesterday said in the chamber that andrea leadsom was a stupid woman, and that she was effing useless, and this comes after allegations of him bullying two secretaries, which he denies. it comes after the committee on standards in parliament decided not to pursue an investigation into him. but he is not in a good place at the moment. we should point out he denies bullying his secretaries but says that yesterday was a very stressful day in parliament. he doesn't deny what

happened yesterday? quite. chris, thank you very much indeed. in a little over 36 hours' time, meghan markle will walk down the aisle and when she emerges again into the throng at windsor, she will be a member of the british royal family. but when she emerges from st george's chapel will she be the same feisty campaigner she has proved herself to be for more than 20 years? the dress. maybe a tiara. the flowers. the open carriage. it all fits the image of a fairy—tale royal princess. but stop for a minute. meghan markle is not from that mould. she's a successful leading actor and comes to the royal marriage fully formed, with a voice that speaks up for women's equality, for the me too movement, and for human rights. i am proud to be a woman and a feminist. cheering women need a seat at the table.

they need an invitation to be seated there. and in some cases, where this isn't available, well, then you know what? they need to create their own table. she is no ingenue like princess diana. diana was just 20 on her wedding day. meghan markle is 16 years older. she'll bring something entirely new to the royal family. the first self—declared campaigning feminist and a businesswoman who also has a firm sense of injustice. and she started early, encouraged by herfather to protest. this is meghan at the age of 11. 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. she's a woman of colour — "biracial" is the term she prefers, and she has talked openly about the difficulties of growing up

in a white neighbourhood in la. "what it was not was diverse, and there was my mom, caramel in complexion, with her light—skinned baby in tow, being asked where my mother was, since they assumed she was the nanny." in an essay for elle magazine in 2015, she wrote that she is both biracial and black and takes great pride in her identity but it's not always easy. you are likely to hear, if you are in a room full of white people who don't know you're black or biracial — or both, which is really the truth — you can hear all sorts of unsettling things are said. you can also be resented by darker skinned black people who know the privileges that your light skin gives you, and who resent it. so it's complicated, it is a lot of navigating, and she writes very honestly about that, which i appreciate. it's a win for the royal family, but what will the deal be

after the royal wedding? will she be constrained by being the partner of the sixth in line to the throne, or will she blow a fresh wind through the royal corridors and continue to speak her mind? after all, isn't that one of the things that attracted harry in the first place? now the royal family has another opportunity to make new and deeper and more meaningful connections with the people of these isles. and she starts with a good deal of sympathy. and meghan‘s father thomas has also had to endure the paparazzi staking out his house and being chased in his car in a horrible echo of past tragedy. now we know that, owing to ill—health, he will not walk his daughter down the aisle. it will be interesting to see whether meghan markle will have a steely way of dealing with the excesses of the press when she joins the firm. one of america's most famous writers has this message for the new royal. continue to think well of yourself, um, as a collection of attributes,

accomplishments, achievements, principles that you were working on before you met or became engaged or plans to marry prince harry. continue to envision a life that is complete in and of itself, an inner life. well, as we approach the big day, i'mjoined byjessica huie, mbe. she is the founder of a multicultural greeting card company and as it happens, spent some time working for markle during her time in suits, helping to introduce her to a uk audience. kehinde andrews is associate professor in sociology at birmingham city university — his research specialism is race and racism. suzannah lipscomb is a british historian, academic and television presenter. also here, thejournalist and author sir simon jenkins.

jessica, from the dealings you had with meghan markle, one would do think expectations will be of her role? from the short period i worked with meghan, i expect she will want to continue to be the woman that she is. this is a woman who was voluntarily using her platform and her voice to talk about the things which had a meaning for and that was about her search for and exploration of her identity and feeling like other, as she described it. her mother's experience of racism, the unrest in america, she is not shy about using her platform to make a difference and to shed light on the issues which are of importance to her. so she will want to continue to do that. when barack obama went to the white house,

there was this expectation that the lives of americans were going to change. do you think similarly there will be expectations meghan markle will be a new champion and a new voice in the uk? if there is, it would be just as misplaced as it was with obama. we are talking about a firm, as you put it in the video, an institution which may be the premiere symbol of whiteness in the whole world. it has a platform which is about colonialism and british identity and could never allow one black woman, however well—intentioned, to make any difference to what it does and what it represents. so you think her voice will be more or less silenced, except in acceptable campaigns? well, we have already seen — no social media accounts. this is what the royal family does. it provides you with a limited platform to say limited things, and anybody who expected to be

a champion black people in britain has literally lost their role model. it's not unheard—of people entering the royal family from it's not unheard—of people entering the royalfamily from different areas ring the new perspective. throughout history, we have got examples. prince albert is a good case. anne boleyn, queen charlotte, wife to george iii. along the line, we have many examples through history where somebody coming in has made a difference either in terms of their own beliefs or in the impact they have had on the person ruling. obviously, we are talking about a situation that is six removed from the crown, and that makes a massive difference because it does create space for someone who is very unlikely to inherit the throne for harry and for meghan to become queen, to be able to speak out more. i am hopeful, as you said so brilliantly in your video, but the very thing that attracted harry will not be the thing that is silenced after this point. the very thing she is being praised for now in the tabloids will not be the thing that she is condemned

for at a later point, which is speaking her mind. what do you think? i agree. outsiders havejoined the royal family frequently, usually from other royal families. but the pool is not so big any more. and now we turn to america for a second time. the last time was catastrophic. ijust think we don't have a clue. the wedding is a ceremony, an english ritual that we did fa ntastically well, but we do it our way. it is very specific. it is classically staged and makes everyone feel good and no one mentions brexit. it will be a terrific 24 hours where no one mentions brexit. it will be great, but we can't predict how she will respond to these pressures. jessica, kehinde talks about the fact that we are deluding ourselves. what is your answer to that? we have to acknowledge that meghan is not a black woman. she is a mixed heritage woman, and there is a difference. my experience as a mixed heritage

woman is not the same as that of my girlfriends who are fully black. particularly if they are darker skinned. there is a privilege that comes with having a lighter skin. so therefore we have to acknowledge that. she cannot be the champion. privilege is an interesting way of putting it, a privilege to have a lighter skin. that is an ideology which has been passed down through many generations, and it has no use to any of us. but it is in existence. let's talk about the wedding for a moment. kehinde, are you suggesting to me that just say that her mother walks the aisle, a divorced black woman, that will not have a resounding impact? no, i think the impact could be negative. we see these images and these symbols, similar to barack obama, but he actually had some powers.

and we all say, hasn't it got better? but if you are black in britain tomorrow, you are still likely to be poor, you are still likely to be harassed by the police and your life will not change. but she is a clever woman. she knows that and i would be very surprised if she wasn't able to make any kind of contribution to the debate. it's interesting, because that comment that she is not black — my mum is a similar colour and is mixed in the same way and has never referred to herself as biracial. she's a black woman and she stands for black people. so when you said, "i am biracial," you are saying a particular thing. it is recognising that it is a mixed experience. it is not the same. when i talk about privilege, it is an invisible privilege. itjust makes a difference. you are not received in the same way as when you are fully black. there are benefits to it,

and that is something which has been passed down through history. susannah, do you think it is acceptable to the establishment in a way, and as kehinde says, it will make no difference. the establishment will celebrate a perfect english wedding and nothing will change? let's remember, this hasn't been set up for pr purposes. this is just two people who have fallen in love. the royal family is symbolic. the role it can have with her coming in is symbolic, but perhaps there can be consequences that are greater than that if she can speak up. interestingly, the royal family is symbolic and enduring and by having commoners and by having biracial or black people within the family, does that give it a longevity of more years because it is seen not to be quite so distant? well, this shows that the royal family is reflecting modern society. forget the royal family.

he's never going to get near the throne. forget the fact that she is partly black. she's a very, clever, bright and ambitious woman, and it would be better if it was discussed in terms of a celebrity wedding in which i think, and i don't know the participants at all, but i sense that she will be a very strong member of this partnership. i wouldn't be at all surprised if she didn't decide it would be nice to go to america for a while. he is the spouse of a strong woman. that is the important thing. i wouldn't be surprised if meghan markle didn't find herself in politics, and i love the idea of meghan markle running for president against ivanka trump. she is a strong woman, possibly stronger than her husband to be. but because there is a great deal of empathy

with harry in this country, actually, harry could dictate that she gets more freedom. i think this is a genuine mistake in the whole conversation. i think the assumption is still that the man is dominant and that the woman is graciously admitted into the royal family. those days are over. forget race, forget family, forget royalty. you have a strong woman with a probably weaker partner who may dominate their relationship. on the question of family, we know that the extended markle family is complicated and the royal family is complicated and a lot of families in the uk are complicated. that is another point of connection. from the moment that clarence house put out that statement, coming to the defence of meghan and the way she was being treated, it called out racism. there was a shift in tone which i think illustrates...

is this wedding going to make a difference to race relations on the ground, to the fact that mental health hospitals and prisons are disproportionately full of black people? no. but behaviour doesn't change and to perceptions and perspectives shift, and for that to happen, we have to have people in the room with that experience who reflect realities. that is part of the problem. we should be talking about dealing with the problems of racism and celebrating an interracial relationship, which is nothing new. they have been around as long as white and black people have had contact. nothing has changed, and to pretend that it has makes racism worse because we are not addressing the problem. but there is this extra point that simon has raised which is about the potential for a moment here that could possibly be a watershed moment. maybe she won't make any difference to race relations. but i do think there's a possibility that she might have an effect

on relations between men and women, on feminism. i think the fact that she might lead the way, she might be the first woman in modern history in the royal family who speaks her mind. you saw that when they met together at the royal foundation, by comparison to the lovely and demure kate middleton. it seems that meghan markle is more likely to say what she thinks. but she is marrying a man, this patriarchal tradition. this is what could change. that clip we saw at the beginning, she looked very impressive. i couldn't imagine prince harry giving that speech. if she is the woman she appears to be, ijust sense that she could literally be the dominant party. she's an american citizen. if she decides, "my future lies in america, would you like to come

back to america with me?" for a while. or maybe for a long while... would that be britain's loss? what is interesting here is that that would be fantastic, because it would illustrate that some of these old ideologies and ways of doing things are changing. and we need to do that. if an institution or family or a person doesn't from time to time reflect on their ways of behaviour and their rules and then update them, they become completely ineffective and out of touch and irrelevant to a modern—day society. thank you all very much indeed. all this week, newsnight has been bringing you a series of special reports on brexit and the irish border. in a moment, we'll conclude our coverage with an examination of what brexit could mean for the people of the border town of stra bane. but first, we're going to briefly return to the thorny issue of customs arrangements and cameras potentially being deployed at border crossing points. this is what northern ireland's most senior policeman told us

earlier this week. i think the uncertainty around brexit and the border, you know, is a concern, certainly from a policing perspective. we wouldn't want to see anything that looks like physical infrastructure at the border, primarily because we assess that that could symbolically become the focus of attention and targeting by violent dissident republican groups. our political editor, nick watt, is here with more on this. following those remarks by george hamilton, the northern ireland secretary said yesterday there would be no new cameras on the border, no new infrastructure. and she cited security concerns. i have learned the calculation that have informed her and george hamilton's thinking. this is that the secretary of state has been told that there would need to be an additional 1000 or more police officers just to police the most minimal level of extra infrastructure involving cameras.

and that is because there would obviously be targets on the border. we put this to the police service of northern ireland, and this is what assistant chief constable stephen martin said. he said the psni has not proposed any figure to the secretary of state. while it is likely that we will require additional resources, we are currently assessing the potential implications of brexit and developing options. so confirmation of additional resources. on the point about not putting any figures on the table, i understand it is a scoping exercise, so you will not have formal figures at the moment. thank you. and now, how will brexit affect the people in the border town of stra bane? the documentary maker peter taylor was reporting from the border town of strabane 44 years ago during the troubles. now, as the question of what to do about the irish border reaches crunch time, he's been back to stra bane. a lot of people have

moved on from the 1970s. they don't want to go back to the bombings and shootings, people don't want that anymore. people in the town of strabane, to me, have had enough of it. the irish government are clamouring for no return to the hard border, and stirring up fears that there may be a hard border. we've come a long, long way. we've still a road to go, and i would hate to see brexit putting us back on our knees. strabane is a small border town at the very edge of the united kingdom. the irish republic is on the other side of the river. three weeks ago, a bread van was hijacked

and parked here in stra bane's main street. there was a bomb in the back of it, and when it exploded, it destroyed mcgoldrick‘s the grocers and mckee's the insurance brokers. mcguinness's the opticians and gray's the printers, mcrory‘s the drapers and a supermarket. it also smashed deery‘s windows for the 14th time. i first went to strabane nearly 45 years ago in 1974, one of the bloodiest years of the conflict. the town is mainly nationalist and had been reduced to rubble by the ira. it was bombed a few times, but it survived. that would have been a bomb site too when you were here last. this was...? it was the cinema, the commodore cinema. i member the big sign, the commodore. that was about all that was left.

but it's taken a long time to build it back up, hasn't it? still building yet, you know, we're not there yet. i suppose, because we were so close to the actual army monitored border, it probably wasn't a good spot for investment, so because that's all gone now and the troubles seem to be over us, people are investing in the town now, so it's a good sign — in a way. to what extent would brexit threaten all this, all this economic development? i'm hoping that it won't affect it too much, but if i'm being realistic, it probably will. we get a lot of cross—border traffic here. if they were to put up a hard border again, it would drive us back to the old days. gunfire 1974 — we were filming at an army checkpoint at the border when it came under attack.

it was an almost daily occurrence. green t—shirt, grey slacks, 16 years old with an armalite. these were the days of the hard border — and the target it presented. the drumrallagh estate on the outskirts of strabane was a notorious ira stronghold. one of its volunteers, eugene devlin, was shot dead by the british army. so this is where my father and the other man were coming across, with guns, and both of them got ambushed then by the british soldiers, and this is the spot that he died on, yeah. eugene had been living in america with his wife and, not wishing to fight in vietnam, had returned to strabane to fight. i interviewed his

widow carmel in 1974. well, when i came back from america, i was pregnant. and eugene already had his mind made up about the provisionals, joining them, like. so, um, iwas... me and him talked about it, like. i told him i was worried about where the baby was concerned. so he says, "well, that is why i'm doing this, i want a better future for the baby. " and the baby was you. yeah, it was me. well, that was actually very bittersweet for me, as my mother passed away 25 years ago ago. in my life, i've never, ever seen it before, so it was nice. did he make a better country for it?

well, at the time of me growing up, nothing much had changed. but now, with my own children, it is a lot better. it really is a lot better. he mightn‘t have made it better for me at that time, but he's made it better for his grandchildren, which is a good thing. this is martin gallen‘s dayjob. besides being president of the strabane chamber of commerce, he makes uilleann pipes entirely on his own. the strabane you saw in 1974 wasn't a nice place. the people are the same, the people are still the same — resilient, bullet—proof people that,

no matter what's thrown at them, they'll get up and go about their business. but the town, there was no investment, there was very fewjobs. the place was bleak, a very bleak place, and now it's pretty hopeful looking. we've come a long, long way. there's still a road to go, and i would hate to see brexit putting us back on our knees to that stage that we were at then. many unionists live in outlying villages, like castlederg. many have been murdered by the ira, in particular those who were members of the police and the udr. some belonged to the band. those memorials represent four members of this band who were murdered by the ira. many victims don't have memorials, other than their own headstones. roughly how many victims are there

from within your community around here? there are around 30 victims of ira terrorism in this area. people really want to pursue justice for their loved ones, because they feel they have been left behind by the whole political process over the last two decades. brexit has rekindled memories of a dangerous and divisive hard border. so we're now... we're now in donegal. in the irish republic. simple as that. so we've now crossed the border, and there's no sign that we have crossed the border, is there? it's just as easy as what you've just seen, no checkpoints, no anything at all. there would have been a customs point up here. the prospect of new controls haunts martin gallen. because my work crosses the border so many times, if i'm hit with a tariff each time i cross the border, then i've two options.

i can either raise my prices or move all my operations over the border. i'll have no option — i'lljust have to up sticks, head for the hills. contingency plans are also being made by the biggest employer in strabane, o'neills, ireland's largest manufacturer of gaelic football shirts. the factory employs over 600 workers. half of them commute from across the border in donegal. if there's a hard border and there's tariffs, that could have a major impact on our bottom line, because our garments and other fabrics will cross the border up to eight times, so if there was duties and tariffs, it would just be a major disaster for us. we do have a plan b — we have an option to buy five acres of land from donegal county council. it is only a mile from where we're standing at the moment and, you know, if there was a major problem, we would have to look at relocating

most of our operations there. kieran kennedy, like most other businesses in northern ireland, is waiting for a decision from the government. to me, there's only one answer, and that is for northern ireland and maybe the rest of the uk to remain in the customs union and the single market. like, i don't think there's any other ways around it. and that is what we need, and we need to avoid at all costs a hard border. on the site of the old border checkpoint now stands a sculpture to peace. another option is to give the north a special status, with northern ireland remaining part of the customs union whilst the rest of the uk does not. i put this to the dup leader, arlene foster. no, it's not acceptable at all for us, it's notjust about the constitutional position of northern ireland within the union, it's also

about the economic position of northern ireland, and it would be economically catastrophic if we had a border down the irish sea, which is what was being talked about in terms of northern ireland staying within the customs union and the rest of the uk leaving. although all sides of the argument insist there will be no hard border, the possibility of there being some kind of infrastructure cannot be ruled out. the stakes are high. the devastation stra bane suffered during the troubles is a dire warning. so far, almost 1000 people have died in the troubles of northern ireland, and there will be more. after i made that film, almost 45 years ago,

i watched the death toll climb to over 3600. the fear is that brexit could unravel all that has been achieved and consign northern ireland and strabane to the dark days of the past. that's all we have time for. emily's here tomorrow. good night. hello there. what a glorious day it was up and down the country today. it was a bit chilly because we started off on a very chilly night with a touch of frost in places but for some the sun came up and brought those temperatures up as well and we saw lovely weather watcher pictures coming through with a flower of fields and gorgeous sunsets captured by weather watchers, like this one in sutton coldfield in birmingham. you can see from the satellite, barely clouds in the sky, but a veil of cloud rolling into western part of cloud rolling into western part of the country off the atlantic and that will bring a less cold night to parts of northern ireland and much

of western scotland, more of a breeze here, but elsewhere quite a chilly night, you can see the minty green indicating lows and of figures, even in towns and cities, and perhaps below freezing in some places with a touch of frost. we've already got temperatures down to two oi’ already got temperatures down to two or three degrees in the northern half of the country. a chilly start to friday certainly. lots of sunshine about, though, particularly for england and wales and eastern scotla nd for england and wales and eastern scotland for a time but that veil of cloud will spoil things for northern ireland and much of scotland and maybe some rain in the far north—west impacting the temperatures but further south—east we should see highs of 19 or maybe 20. a touch warmer than yesterday... than today, sorry. high pressure still dominant as we head to the weekend and we've got pretty big football match is going on top and tail of the country. looks like it will be fine and settled for the sunshine further south and the big day on saturday, the royal wedding in windsor, the chilly start will

mean temperatures will rise, 20 or 21 into the afternoon with lots of sunshine. this is the picture on saturday, a chilly start but lots of sunshine across the country. a bit of cloud in the far west of the hebrides, where it will be cooler and breezy, but we could see 21 or maybe 20 to somewhere in england. high pressure still with us for most of us into sunday but these weather fronts will move in from the atla ntic to fronts will move in from the atlantic to spoil things for northern ireland and northern and western scotland. heavy bursts of raymonda is weather front for northern ireland and pushing into western scotland. good move south—east into the far north—west of england and southern scotland later in the day but for england and wales, for most, anotherfine later in the day but for england and wales, for most, another fine day with top temperatures of 22. that fine weather for most will continue with us into next week, although the far north—west always seeing more cloud and outbreaks of rain. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: hawaii's mount kilauea

volcano explodes, sending ash soaring into the sky. residents have been told to seek shelter. donald trump tries to put his summit with kim jong—un back on track by reassuring north korea. if we make a deal, i think kim jong—un is going to be very, very happy. jong—un is going to be very, very happy- i jong—un is going to be very, very happy. i really believe he is going to be very happy. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: one year into robert mueller‘s investigation into russia meddling into the us presidential election, many questions remain unanswered. and, with