i'm sharanjit leyl in singapore, the headlines: a lava flow from the kilauea volcano in hawaii reaches the coast prompting warnings of a toxic gas cloud. lava spurting into the air and you can hear it even from this distance. people who live nearby say at times their homes have been shaken by the sheer force of the eruptions. back from the brink of a costly trade war — the us and china agree not to impose new tariffs on each other‘s goods. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: the polls have closed in venezuela's presidential election where the opposition accuses the government of intimidating voters. cheering and applause the royal family thank the public for their support after thousands lined the streets of windsor to see the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. good morning.

it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1pm in hawaii, where the erupting mount kilawea volcano is posing a new threat to local residents. lava is seeping into the ocean releasing toxic gases including hydrochloric acid steam known as laze. more people are being urged to leave their homes on hawaii's big island. one man has been seriously injured. as our correspondent chris buckler reports from the island, dozens of buildings have already been destroyed. the lines of fire that scar this island are growing longer and thicker. and fountains of lava are bleeding through the cracks. the k lauea volcano is slowly eating

through the ground it once created. we are 3000 feet above big island but you can actually feel the heat of the lava and you can smell the smoke. as the lava has risen up, people have been warned to leave if they live in its path. at this shelter they are offering food, clothes and help for those who have had to evacuate their homes. but there are families who already have nothing to return to. the house burned down saturday. so you've lost your house? everything, we got nothing out. i've got two kids i've got to worry about. you know, where are we going to go from here, where are we going to rebuild from here? i mean, we lost everything. upset is all too easy to see in this corner of hawaii. and all the time, the k lauea volcano continues to threaten. for days, this has

been the spectacular sight in the skyline. lava spurting into the air and you can hear it even from this distance and the people who live nearby say at times their homes have been shaken with the sheer force of the eruptions. we do have to be ready to go with our bags packed and our masks nearby. and if the air quality gets bad or the lava gets closer, we'll go. all the indications are that the eruptions of lava are getting stronger and more violent. k lauea has left parts of this island, so often promoted as a paradise, looking more like hell. chris buckler, bbc news, on the big island of hawaii. and we'll have more from chris in hawaii in a few moments. our other top story — donald trump says he is demanding an inquiry into whether his 2016 election campaign was infiltrated for political purposes.

in a tweet the president said he wanted to know whether the 0bama administration had ordered such a move. it comes after a new york times report suggested the fbi had an informant within the campaign. staying with donald trump and the president has spoken to his south korean counterpart, moon jae—in, to discuss north korea's recent threats to cancel a planned summit with the us on the 12th ofjune. it comes on the eve of president moon's visit to washington. last week, pyongyang said it might pull out of the talks if the us continued to push for the north to unilaterally abandon its nuclear weapons. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has asked for police protection, saying he fears for his life. it comes just a day after the ex—leader complained about police searching his properties for evidence of corruption related to the 1mdb scandal. mr najib was deposed from power and replaced by his former mentor mahathir mohamad.

pope francis has announced he will create 1a new cardinals from a number of countries including iraq, pakistan and japan. making the surprise announcement during his weekly sunday, the pope said that the diversity of the new cardinals reflected the universality of the catholic church. iran's foreign minister has said that the european union is not doing enough to maintain the international nuclear deal since the us withdrew from it last week. speaking after a meeting with the eu energy commissioner in tehran, mohammad javad zarif said that there were now higher expectations on the eu in order to preserve the benefits for iran in the agreement. india's railway board has proposed to serve nothing

but vegetarian food to passengers across its network for one day a year, on mahatma gandhi's birthday. it's as a mark of respect to the pro—independence leader, who was himself a vegetarian. some are saying the railways‘ ban on meat should be more extensive but critics say they're worried about the impact on freedom of choice. the us treasury secretary has said a trade war with china has been put "on hold". steven mnuchin said the trump administration would suspend the introduction of the new import tariffs, to give time to work on a wider trade agreement. beijing will also put tariffs on hold and earlier the chinese vice—premier liu he described the deal as a "win—win choice". here's our business correspondent joe lynam. last week a delegation of senior chinese representatives visited the us to find a way of preventing a looming trade war between the world's two largest economies. president trump had announced in march that he would impose tariffs of 25% on all steel imports into the us. china responded by publishing a list of us products that would face retaliatory sanctions, but none have been put

into force on yet. now beijing said it would buy more us—made oil and gas products and agricultural commodities, but did not give any details. that appears to have done enough to persuade the us to suspend the proposed tariffs on chinese goods, which had been set to come into force on monday. translation: the strongest demand from both the chinese side and the us side is to stop the trade law and stop imposing more tariffs on each other‘s products. this time, both sides pledged to stop the trade war and develop good relations, in trade. i think this is a major demand from both countries. i am pleased to report we have made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a framework, which is important to understand. the framework includes their agreement to substantially reduce the trade deficit by increasing their purchases of goods.

we also discussed very important structural issues in that they are going to make in their economy to make sure that we have a fair ability to compete there and also protections about technology which have been very important to the president. mr trump has long been critical of america's $335 billion trade trade deficit with china. 0n the campaign trail two years ago, he accused china of raping the us through its trade policies and stealing american intellectual property. although if flatly rejects such accusations, china is keen to avoid a trade war which the world trade organisation say would have a severe impact on the global economy. joe lynam, bbc news. let's get more now on our top story — the volcano in hawaii. 0ur correspondent chris buckler is travelling with a national guard convoy which is monitoring the flow of lava. he described to me the latest situation.

i've just returned with the national guard from being at the volcano, which is why i'm standing holding a gas mask. down there, close to the ocean where the lava has now reached, there is a wall of lava. that is the only way to describe it. this big, black mound that really just covers the road and it remains extremely fiery hot. people will have seen those pictures of the lava gathering and this slow—moving stream. well it's made its way across the land and its now reached the water and that has led to a huge plume of steam, which you can see for miles around. we are about four or five miles from some of the fissures from where i am standing now, cracks in the ground, the volcanic vents where those fountains of lava have been springing up. even at this distance in the last couple of minutes, we have heard the sound of that magma and gases being released and there is real concern about the gases and about people who live in those areas. i just wanted to ask you specifically about this news that you've just mentioned,

the toxic gas cloud featuring hydrochloric acid, how dangerous is that? you're not wearing your gas mask but people behind you aren't, so i'm wondering how close it is to where you are? i have to say we are some eight or nine miles may be away from there. we had to travel a long distance in with the national guard. there is concern about vog, as what it's called. essentially the air—quality is extremely bad but it depends very much on the wind. when we were down at the mound of lava and the steam was coming off it, carrying some of those gases concerned some of those particles that can damage people and their health, it was moving out to sea. i have to say though, with the national guard, they made very clear they were concerned about the wind changing direction at any time. that is why they made us stand with gas masks and they were watching the entire time, just monitoring the air—quality.

that is why they want to get people out and the concern is, if the wind was to change and it was to move those toxic gases or indeed that vog in this direction, that could change things and that's why people in homes who live in the evacuation area, who haven't left yet have been told, it is time to go. some extraordinary pictures. polls have closed in venezuela after a controversial presidential election boycotted by most opposition politicians. europe and the us have dismissed the election as a ‘sham'. president nicolas maduro is almost certain to be re—elected despite the oil—rich country being in deep crisis, with people going hungry and thousands fleeing every day. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson reports from caracas. the likely winner cast his vote and cast aspersions on his biggest critics. translation: there

was ferocious pressure from the government of donald trump to stop the elections in venezuela and they could not do it. we hope the people express themselves and that the will of the people is respected here throughout the world and in venezuela. campaigning is banned on election day, not that the government respects all the rules of democracy, and several hours after the polls opened, down came posters of hugo chavez telling people to vote. he is the man credited with the socialist revolution that mr maduro insists on continuing. this part of town is very pro—government and wherevere you go chaves used to vote with thousands coming to support him and the queues would be down the street, but this year feels different. we were in this same polling station last year and it was packed. mr chaves looked on. you wonder what he would make of the country venezuela has become. some people still have hope. translation: mr maduro has

guaranteed social protection for us and i am voting in defence of my country and neither spain nor the us have anything to do with our internal affairs. he is going to fix the problems with the grace of god and the spirit of hugo chavez. he is the son of hugo chavez. that is why we love him. down the road, the queues were longer for buying chicken than at the voting centre with people having better things to do looking for food. what we are voting for is a farce and i don't agree with the elections and nothing will change. all that will happen is life will get tougher for the people of venezuela. it is getting worse. venezuela is going backwards, not forwards, it is dreadful. we have no chance of anything getting better. across town, in the opposition led areas, people turn to god for answers, not politicians. venezuelans are in a situation where they have been kidnapped and candidates are able to run but people cannot choose. you cannot protest on the streets because you will go to prison. that is the struggle we are in, trying to be free from the kidnap situation.

it is a struggle that divides. whilst most of the opposition stayed home, others felt they needed to do something. i don't know how to use a gun but my weapon is to go and vote. it is my way of defending democracy. with the government accused of dirty tricks, few people have faith in democracy. mr maduro is assured of another victory so change is unlikely to come soon. also on the programme. the secret surrounding that dress. the designer behind meghan markle's wedding gown says even her own family didn't know she had created it. this morning and indian airforce plane landed in delhi carrying mr

gandhi's body. ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage. it is the first country in the world to approve the change in a national referendum. it was the extraordinary funeral given to a pop singer. it has been a peaceful demonstration so far. police are tiered gassing the crowd, we don't know why. the prelaunch ritual is well—established here. she is in good spirits, but a little apprehensive. in the last hour, east timor has become the world's newest nation. the challenges ahead are daunting, but for now at least, it is time to celebrate. this is newsday on the bbc. our top stories.

a lava flow from the kilauea volcano on hawaii's big island reaches the coast prompting warnings of a toxic gas cloud containing hydrochloric acid. the united states and china have agreed not to impose new tariffs on each other‘s goods easing fears of a costly trade war. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. we start with the japan times which looks at the us alternative to the iran nuclear deal. the paper says secretary of state mike pompeo will unveil a new diplomatic ‘road map' on monday. the front page of the philippine daily inquirer reports on president rodrigo duterte insisting the philippines does not have the military muscle to assert its sovereignty in south china sea. and it shows a picture of a taiwanese fighter jet flying next to a chinese bomber in the luzon strait earlier this month.

and finally we turn to the international edition of the new york times which takes a look inside one of largest centres moderating facebook content. which is focusing on the work of employees at the berlin centre, trying to keep up with germany's new law on hate speech. raja ampat is an archipelago of 1500 odd islands scattered over 40,000 square kilometres off the indonesian coast of west papua. these waters are home to more marine species than anywhere else on the planet. there are single reefs in raja ampat that contain more species than the entire caribbean. but as word of its unspoilt beauty gets out, and visitors swoop in, locals and scientists are striving to protect their slice of paradise. mark erdmann from conservation international is one of the scientists who helped

to establish the whole archipelago as a shark and ray sanctuary. his mission is to seek out new species there. hejoins me now via webcam from auckland in new zealand. it is one of the most bio diverse of areas in the world so what makes it so areas in the world so what makes it so diverse and with marine life? the mind blowing diversity of habitat in raja ampat. each has their own pseudo— species. additionally, raja ampat said at the crossroads of the pacific and indian oceans so you get this real melting fog of different species. he said every time you go there you seem to discover a new species, tell us about the species

you saw, have you got any favourites? the last trip by did was in february and march and we were looking for a new species as well as manta rays. on that trip we found two new species of gobi. over the last 15 years we have nearly 90 ‘s new species of fish ranging from walking sharks, a full sweep of beautiful fish. how is this one discovered difference and how will you start to protect this environment from potentialfishermen 01’ environment from potentialfishermen or tourists who are now obviously flocking there? this particular gobi we're looking at is called the silhouette gobi. it is a different head shape as well as the colour. in terms of the work we are doing to

preserve the raja ampat we have been working with local communities and governments since 2000 to put in a network of eight different marine parks around raja ampat, so the majority of the area is protected from fishing, especially commercial outside fishing. but what we are facing is a tourism in flux, so we are working hard not to spread the tourism pressure around raja ampat. he said it was rife with coral reefs and a lot of the fish feed off them, what is being done to protect them because elsewhere in the great barrier reef we are hearing a lot about coral bleaching? certainly, we are lucky in the sense that raja ampat is resilient to coral bleaching. it does occasionally happen but the reefs are able to recover quickly. part of that is because we have good water quality and we have been working hard to maintain that in the sense of preventing mining happening on these islands, no major agricultural

imports or anything like that. the communities are committed to protecting these reefs within the marine park. thank you so much for joining us. that is all we have time for. the bbc understands that chelsea football club's owner roman abrammovich has experienced delays in renewing his visa for the uk. his office said it doesn't discuss personal matters with the media. but a source close to mr abramovich suggested he was in the process of renewing his visa and said it was taking a little longer than usual. the woman who created meghan markle's wedding dress has i know what you did this we can because i was watching you and your other bbc colleagues andy were in windsor at the incredible wedding between harry and meghan markle. we know it was a gorgeous day, but what was it like being there on the

ground? it was pretty chaotic for us in terms of broadcasting role that we had. we were in position along the long walk alongside tens of thousands of other people. having said that come it was fantastic excitement. these are a couple of pictures i took. that was gored in the director who took part of me getting ready to film the crowd as they are seeing meghan and harry passed by in the carriage. we interviewed lots of guests as you have seen on bbc world news. we had a specialfor have seen on bbc world news. we had a special for the royal wedding where we went through the analysis of what the service was about. there was a shot you sort earlier of me and lucy watching the service. a few tea rs and lucy watching the service. a few tears down our eye is of course. especially when we got the glimpse of the dress. everyone is talking about it and who created it. we caught with the designer and she told all about it. it was the big reveal, the first

sight of the wedding dress. and behind the bride, straightening the five metres of veil, is clare waight keller, the british designer of the dress. she had kept fashion‘s big secret. givenchy was not widely rumoured to be the fashion house to win the coveted project. the aim was to always design a dress that was simple, sharp, and timeless. i think with meghan, she's so modern and fresh and i think that is part of what she wanted to be. it really wanted to represent her. i wanted her to feel absolutely incredible in the dress and i also wanted her to feel like it was absolutely right for the occasion as well. forfive months, the dress was made in paris by a small team of people, many of whom who did not even know who the gown was for. all of those who worked with the bride yesterday described her as relaxed and unfazed by the scale of the event ahead of her. most beautiful moments. she is just so easy on that level,

a loose kind of style and easy and not contrived, so. one of the most watched tv events of the year. a peak audience of 13 million watched the bbc coverage. it is thought more than a billion watched globally. after sharing so much of their wedding day, the evening reception was a private affair. the couple drove through the grounds for a black—tie party nearby. the bride wore a new piece of jewellery, an emerald cut aquamarine ring, a gift from her husband. it had come from the jewellery collection of his mother, diana, princess of wales. the fireworks over the castle last night, one of the few clues as to what was happening inside. further hints came via social media. tennis player serena williams posting this video of herself on route to the party. the duchess of sussex now has her own page

on the royal family website. she describes herself as a feminist. the new duke and duchess of sussex will carry out their first public engagement as a married couple on tuesday. they will attend a garden party here at buckingham palace to celebrate the work of charities supported by the prince of wales. this afternoon, the bridal bouquet was laid on the grave of the unknown warrior at westminster abbey, a tradition dating back almost 100 years, after what was the most modern of royal weddings. you have been watching newsday. thanks for being with us. like there is more warm and sunny

weather to come, there will be miss nancy froch. a wet day in stornoway and more rain here to take us through the first part of monday. this weather front developed further as we go through the night. heavy rain coming to take as through dawn. another fresh start to monday morning. particularly across eastern pa rt morning. particularly across eastern part of england where there will be missed and low cloud and become more dominant pushing through the north sea in the night. that will come back to the coast in the day. lots of dry and sunny weather elsewhere. dry in the western part of wales. the north west of scotland london to northern ireland, further outbreaks of rain which will fizzle out a bit into the afternoon. across the south we could see more sporadic showers and the odd rumble of thunder in

north—east england, the midlands and maybe the south—west. most places will be dry sticking with the sunshine. temperatures in the low 20s. cooler where we cc fraud linger. pleasant day the scholar. —— sea fog. further outbreaks of rain for the hebrides, the highlands and shetland. the rain will fizzle out as we go through the night and into tuesday morning. a little bit chilly with clear skies developing. further missed and sea fog rolling back and across parts of scotland and eastern england. but not as cold as it has been. on tuesday morning, low pressure a cross been. on tuesday morning, low pressure across western europe which inches northwards on tuesday. high pressure builds around the north. patchy rain and drizzle across northern parts of scotland, but for orkney, shetland, the hebrides is a brighter day. brighter day from

northern ireland and feeling warmer. plenty of one in the sunshine for england and wales but see 12 isolated showers. into wednesday, high pressure has more of whole. for some it will be a struggle to brighton but most will have another dry day and lots of sunshine row. a few showers edging towards the channel but pleasantly warm under the strong sunshine. that is the story for the week. there will be showers and thunderstorms in southern areas but most places will be dry with a bit of sunshine and warmth. the stream of lager from the stream of lagerfrom kilauea has reached the east coat and cut off a key evacuation route —— lather. china and the us have agreed not to impose new tariffs on each other‘s goods. the trump administration suspends the talks to work on a

wider trade agreement. the royal wedding is still trending online. the duchess of sussex has followed royal tradition by laying her bouquet on the tomb of the unknown warrior at westminster abbey. the royal family thanked the tens of thousands of people who travelled to windsor for the wedding on saturday. more to come here later on bbc world news. first, it is hardtalk.