hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. a bbc investigation reveals claims that donald trump's lawyer michael cohen was paid 400 thousand dollars to fix a meeting between the president and the ukrainian leader. petro poroshenko has responded, saying the allegations are a flagrant lie. yulia skripal who along with herfather sergei was poisoned by a nerve agent in salisbury, says she feels lucky to be alive, but would one day like to return home to russia. translation: we are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. i don't want to describe the details, but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful, and depressing. italy finally gets a new prime minister two months after elections there: he's giuseppe conte, a little—known lawyer with questions over his cv. and the american couple who won their legal battle to evict their thirty—year—old sun from their house after he refused to leave. we hear what he has to say about that.

this is donald trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen. he received a secret payment of at least $400,000 to arrange a meeting between the ukrainian president and president trump. that is the claim made by sources with direct knowledge of the matter who have spoken to the bbc. they say the payment was sent to mr cohen by intermediaries acting for this man, ukrainian leader, petro poroshenko. ukraine later stopped investigating paul manafort who is donald trump's former campaign manager. it's important to note, mr cohen denies taking the payment. there were also denials from the two men named as intermediaries, and from a lawyer for mr cohen's alleged business partner, felix sater.

the ukrainian president's spokesman declined to comment .paul wood has this bbc exclusive. donald trump's run for the us presidency was watched with alarm by ukraine's government, dismayed by his apparently pro—russian rhetoric. then trump had a setback. his campaign manager, paul manafort, was forced to resign, accused of getting millions of dollars from russian interests in ukraine. the leak that brought manafort down came from the very top of the ukrainian government, according to sources here and outside ukraine. if that is true, the ukrainians badly miscalculated, backing the losing side in the us election. so in early 2017, president poroshenko was desperate to get talks with donald trump, but he was being offered little more than a white house photo op. according to a senior official here,

who has direct knowledge of what happened, poroshenko instructed two close associates to open a back channel. that back channel, our source says, was president trump's personal lawyer and trusted fixer, michael cohen. the senior official says cohen was paid $400,000. a second source says it was more. there is no suggestion that trump knew of this. we're told cohen got help from felix sater, a convicted former mobster once in business with trump. cohen is under investigation for paying hush money to a porn actress, stormy daniels, on trump's behalf. her lawyer says cohen's bank records show he took money from us companies for access to the president. well, i think it's pretty obvious at this point that michael cohen took substantial sums of money and was selling access to the highest office in the land, namely to the us president.

we have every reason to believe there are additional payments that have not been reported yet from those with ukrainian interests. poroshenko couldn't hide his delight at meeting trump, and before russia's vladimir putin. how many minutes he'd get was still being negotiated as he flew from kiev. but this was more than just a photo op, and after poroshenko went home, ukraine's inquiry into trump's former campaign manager, paul manafort, was steadily wound down. "there was never a direct order to stop the manafort inquiry," the special prosecutor in kiev tells me. "but," he says, "in the way the investigation progressed, it was clear that our superiors were trying to create obstacles."

did president trump's lawyer ask the ukrainians to stall the inquiry? perhaps he didn't need to — poroshenko knew that to do otherwise, said one source, would be like spitting in trump's face. the us is continuing its own investigation into paul manafort and russian influence in the american election — but without help from ukraine. paulwood, bbc news, kiev. here's paul wood's article on this story. it goes into greater detail about the claims. i spoke to him a short time ago. we don't know what discussions were held in the white house all we know is that as he was on the aeroplane to washington, there was still die on the nature of the meeting. doubt. that would have been accumulating for the training leader and also he was for reasons of state, notjust

for reasons of appearance, desperate to sit down and talk to mr trump about what happened or to raise what happened in the us presidential election where if our sources are right, he intervened in the election to help hillary clinton and of course she lost, he then could not afford to have the us president as enemy. what is the law around trying to influence who does and doesn't need the president and in what way are those meetings taking place? did that thing called a foreign registration act and thing called a foreign registration actand a thing called a foreign registration act and a few lobby on the behalf of act and a few lobby on the behalf of a foreign government it has to be on the list of registered agent and colin was not. we should say though he denies doing anything like that, and the people identified to us as being associates of his, had denied it as well and his office in the past hour has put out a statement it calling the whole story lies and fa ke calling the whole story lies and fake news. so everyone has denied it and it's interesting that on a viewpoint, our sources are not going

as far as you might imagine. they're not saying that trump knew about the arrangement, do not even saying that he asked him to kill the manna for inquiry according to our sources at least. ukraine relies on its own this is what was required. paul making reference to a statement from the ukrainian president, let's have a look at what has been said here. we now have that statement from ukrainian president petro poroshenko's administration. it says of the story: update "this is a flagrant lie, libel and a fake. this is how we view the disinformation that the meeting between the presidents of ukraine and the usa was arranged for money. we believe that the flagrant disinformation that was made public is part of a fake campaign to discredit ukrainian—us relations and also a personal attack on the presidents of ukraine and the usa." i want to bring you a few more developments on the russia investigation. paul manafort was back in court today in washington. it's his latest attempt to hinder the criminal case against him brought

by special counsel robert mueller. mr manafort says fbi agents went too far in their searches of his property. none of the charges that he faces relate to his activities also donald trump has launched another attack on what's happening. he says the problem is not that moscow meddled in the us election, but that the fbi spied on his 2016 campaign. in the latest twitter tirade he said: "they go after phoney collusion with russia, a made up scam, and end up getting caught in a major spy scandal..." the likes of which the country hasn't seen before, what goes around comes around he goes on to say and: "spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history! "

the president's been speaking at the white house. at the moment is no evidence that the fbi did spy on mr trump's campaign. the president also spoke earlier at the white house about this. everybody wants this solve, by a lot of bad things have happened. we now call it spy gate, you're calling it spy gate. what i want is i want total transparency. wait, you have to have transparency. even they probably want transparency. because this issue, supersedes the party. there's no evidence the fbi did spy on the campaign. but these attacks may be having an affect. to show you the political ramifications. a cbs news poll this month found more than half of america

believes the russia investigation is politically motivated. one person who disagrees with the president on this issue is his former strategist steve bannon. he's been talking to the bbc‘s newsnight programme. i'm in the middle of the mueller investigation, right was not the very first thing when mueller brings you in there, the first thing he wants to knows her conversation with the president. you think mueller should be fired? i do not think mueller should be fired. bob mueller is an honourable guy. he's a combat marine, you know, he served the country. i don't agree with everything that's been going on with a special counsel, but i think he's right it. i hope that sometime he does issue a report. rudy giuliani says it's going to be sometime in the fall. do you think donald trump to testify? i do not think that the president should testify ijust don't come i don't figure rises to that level, think he can answer the questions in writing to my pinky should answer the questions though.

if few more on the elements of the story remembered you to get through oui’ story remembered you to get through our new zap. yulia skripal has spoken on camera for the first time. she and her father sergei were poisoned with a nerve agent in salisbury in march. this is what we heard from yulia. translation: we are so lucky to have both survive this attempted assassination. i don't want to describe the details, but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing. our recovery has been slow and extremely painful. i'm grateful to all of the wonderful, kind staff at salisbury hospital, a place i have become all too familiar with. i also think fondly of those who helped us on the street on the day of the attack. the interview was with reuters at an undisclosed location. since being discharged from hospital, yulia and sergei skripal are still under a police witness protection programme in the uk.

but russia has repeatedly asked for consular access to the pair. here's what yulia said on that issue. i wish to address a couple of issues directly, and have chosen to interrupt my rehabilitation to make this short statement. i ask that everyone respects the privacy of me and my father. we need time to recover and come to terms with everything that has happened. i'm grateful for the offers of assistance from the russian embassy, but at the moment i do not wish to avail myself of their services. also i want to reiterate what i said in my earlier statement, that no one speaks for me or my father but ourselves. she prefers the russian embassy, and they responded saying we are glad she is alive and well however the video shown only stunned and our concern as to the conditions in which she is being held. it does not

obviously she was reading a prewritten text and more than that judging by a few of the elements, it was a translation from english and had been initially ran by a native english speaker. the statement also goes on to say the uk is obliged to give them an opportunity to speak directly to her. no prospect of that happening but that we are aware of, i've been speaking to someone, with this analysis on what we heard from her. there are several very important things that you said. the first thing is that she asks eve ryo ne first thing is that she asks everyone to respect her privacy of her and herfather everyone to respect her privacy of her and her father and she everyone to respect her privacy of her and herfather and she is grateful to the russian embassy for the offer of assistance, but she is not going to communicate with them. as of now. and she also stresses she's not under any duress and she stresses no one speaks on behalf of

me or my father, but ourselves as a she said. basically, in this statement here, she repeats the main point of the statement that was right on her behalf of the 10th of april. but of course, very significant thing of the cases that she does a impressive. there is one more significant thing to my mind that a significant at least, that on the one hand, in the statement she confirms that this was nerve agent. on the other hand, there is no, not a hint or the slightest hint as to who committed the crime. some people might say she may not have the expertise to identify that person. that's one of the arguments. what are the things we know about her she had a life in moscow, her entire life was not based in uk by any means, so life was not based in uk by any means, so is there her intention to

recommend that life —— it recommends that life? that's what she said that in some way long—term, she plans to return to her country because she is a russian citizen at the same time yes we said that the old life ended a bru ptly yes we said that the old life ended abruptly and now she has to accommodate new conditions. another curious thing, there is no explanation whatsoever in this statement why there was such a gap between the 10th of april when she was discharged from hospital and the first statement that was read out and when she appeared in person. in this recorded statement and interview now, a month later. stay with us on outside source, still to come. we get the latest on the state of affairs of the planned summit between president trump and kim jong un. the us secretary of state has talked about it, we will play the latest

clips. here, the labour mp david lammy has said oxford university is "failing badly", after the institution revealed figures showing around a third of its colleges accepted three or fewer black applicants in the last three years. oxford agreed it needs to do more although its data also shows the overall proportion of uk ethnic minority students is actually higher than in the population. naomi kellman is the founder of target oxbridge, a programme to support black students applying for oxbridge. she also studied at oxford herself. i'm a black girl from corrigan whose parents didn't go to college. i was intimidated, i was scared. but i did anyway. it took a little bit longer for me to adjust and i think my other friends found it, just because it was really different to croydon and the buildings are fancy. you know, the work was challenging. i don't want to say anything too big a task is hard, and there's no silver bullet that will be solved next year. but if oxford keeps investing in programmes that work directly with students and invest iand

expanding working with students earlier and getting information to students and parents, think we can make strides. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: the bbc has been told that donald trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, got a secret payment to arrange talks between the president and the leader of ukraine. the turkish central bank has raised one of its key interest rates to try bolster the lira which is under severe pressure. this is one of several efforts to avoid a full—blown economic crisis ahead of elections in a few weeks. bbc turkish. nfl owners have approved a new policy requiring players to stand during the national anthem, but that allows them the option of staying in the locker room if they prefer. the sport's owners are anxious to avoid a repeat of last season's controversy when players kneeled to draw attention to racial injustice.

bbc worldservice. a german company has apologised after posting on social media an image of a chocolate—covered marshmallow sweet in a bridal dress on the day of the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. the company has since called the post "stupid and embarrassing". at the moment we're no nearer to knowing whether the singapore summit between donald trump and kimjong un will actually go ahead. the latest instalment of will they, won't they came today from us secretary of state, mike pompeo. here it is. with conversations with him, we talked about where our mutual goals are, the things that the world demands and america demands and that things north korea wants to see for itself as well. there are places where we still have lots of work to do to common ground. but he has shared, candidly, that he understands that economic growth for his people

and the well—being of the people depend on a strategic shift and we hope he is prepared to make that. there have been some other developments around this story though. a group of international journalists have started their journey to witness the decommissioning of this nuclear test site, punggye—ri. and the north koreans have finally allowed south korean journalists along for the ride, despite having previously withdrawn the invitation. he says they finally arrived and they withdrew the invitation of the last minute but that has been reinstated. he speculates perhaps that was planned all along. the trip to the test site had been slightly delayed, apparently by the weather. move before they set off — thejournalists were being hosted our colleague from cbs news,

ben tracey sent this report from there. the trip to the nuclear test site was delayed by heavy rain in north korea, so we have been here in one sign which is a city on the country east coast. the city is famous for one thing in particular, this is where north korea has launched more than a0 missiles from. so a lot of the missile tests you have seen videos of, those happen here. however, now north korea is trying to make this known for something else, as you could see, this is absolutely stunning. they're trying to turn into an international tourist destination. so when you look down here in the distance, you see buildings under construction, that will be a massive resort. you see these blue shower pillars on the beach, so someday they're hoping millions of tourist from all over the world will actually come here. of course, before that happens they have to settle this nuclear issue and i is a part of closing down this nuclear test site in northern north korea.

we are hoping that we will get on a train and headed 11 hours up towards that site and north korea is going to put on a ceremony they're calling it, to officially decommissioned that nuclear testing site. we will wait to see the journey goes ahead and as you can imagine. south koreans are watching all these diplomatic manouevres closely. our correspondent laura bicker is in seoul. as donald trump raises fresh doubt about the stomach going ahead, web and from all over the world have arrived yet south korea. they're premiering to march across the demilitarized zone and its private movement to keep the momentum of peace. with me is one of the organisers. hello nice to meet you. when it comes to this moment in time, how important is that you gather and you do this march? it's vitally important at this critical juncture where there is tremendous

prospects for diplomatic breakthrough between us and korea and ending if you divide your conflict. that's the long—standing conflict. that's the long—standing conflict. we are incredibly hopeful andl conflict. we are incredibly hopeful and i know that the peace process has been derailed a bit, but we know it'll be a long—term process and there'll be many hiccups along the way. but it's crucial that we are here, we have come here at this critical moment to ensure that there will be a peace process and the only outcome is a diplomatic one and that women must be a part of that process. us media giant comcast is in the "advanced stages of preparing" a bid for large parts of rupert murdoch's 21st century fox fox that is a huge development because it's an attempt to knock—out an earlier offer from disney. it's also the first time comcast has acknowledged the plans publicly. joe is giving us the lowdown. help

me here, are they both aiming at the same thing? they are indeed. and the reason for this is very simple. one word, netflix. whether your comcast, disney, fox you desperate for it —— desperately need to take on the might as netflix to compete in the online streaming space and you can't do it alone. which is why disney was offering that much to buy box and why comcast is now reportedly offering around 60 billion for fox, and their message to the shareholders a simple indeed. we have the money and we are very serious about this and what's more, we spoke to regulators here in the ui -- we spoke to regulators here in the ui —— united states and we believe we can make the merger happen without too much of a headache. so choose that few get more money and this will be done sooner rather than later. but why does fox help them

ta ke later. but why does fox help them take on netflix because arguably very different businesses. they are, but they are in the content business a that has a large entertainment arm and sports arm and old spur of lulu, and sports arm and old spur of lulu, and most importantly, it owns a part of sky. and they have called this quy of sky. and they have called this guy the jewel of sky. and they have called this guy thejewel in of sky. and they have called this guy the jewel in the crown of the deal, because he gives them to markets, the uk and europe and that could help them compete with netflix ona could help them compete with netflix on a global scale going from being just a us operation to being a real global media giant and that is what they are after. thank you very much indeed. reports suggest deutsche bank is accelerating job cuts, with as many as10,000 workers going by 2019, that equates to about one in ten of its employees. deutsche bank's been on the back foot for a while, here's one analyst on whether this may help. is this the answer to the problems was my fave increased the number ofjob losses from 9000 to 10,000. they've already lost 26,000 since 2015. and ultimately, for me i think this is really i think, a reshuffling of the big chairs

with the same captain at the helm. i think they're too late to the restructuring party. a lot of the us counterparts and the uk counterparts have had a head start on them. ultimately i think they don't really focus on the coherent strategy. whenjohn was in place, he was looking towards the investment banking side and that did not work simply because of lack of volatility in 2017. they have now changed their mind quickly and the existing chairman has gone through four ceos in the last six years and i think there is an awful lot of disquiet and a satisfaction about what about the way the bank is being led. ina minute in a minute we will learn about the new prime minister of italy. we are talking about the monsoon in

sri lanka that survived over the last two days, you see them coming m, last two days, you see them coming in, big thunderclouds. overthe last two days, you see them coming in, big thunderclouds. over the last couple days, we have seen around 300 mm of rain and this brought devastating flooding to parts of sri la nka devastating flooding to parts of sri lanka with the area around colombo being particularly hard hit. 89,000 people have been affected by the floods us so far, reports of around seven fatalities with another 20 or so missing in the floodwaters, so the situation is great here. the monsoon rains will continue as well for the next few days, down for focused across west and central areas where you could see another 100-150 mm areas where you could see another 100—150 mm and the monsoon itself will continue to expand on into the bay of bengal. meanwhile the he continues in pakistan, again karachi over the next 2a hours seeing that temperatures spiked over the a0

degrees mark and continue to be like that over the next few days and yes —— yet. this is a cyclonic storm out in the arabian sea, gathering strength actually and it's going to bea strength actually and it's going to be a very severe cyclonic storm before making landfall on the border of yemen and almond. we will see flash flooding in the weekends, life threatening ones, as well as that the winds will probably cost to over 100 miles an hour as it comes through there'll be a widespread sandstorm ahead of that affecting the central and eastern parts of oman as well as parts of the united arab emirates and arabia. it's a flash fighting that's going to cause concern for the life here at this weekend. meanwhile to the south of the united states, we continue to monitor the area cloud, at the moment not impressive, does heavy showers about 70 mm of rain. but the last few days, and the cayman islands, this area of low pressure

moves islands, this area of low pressure m oves over islands, this area of low pressure moves over warm water in the gulf, around 20 degrees, it could strengthen to become a depression and then maybe a rare bay tropical storm. that is still possible. if it happens, it'll become slow moving across the south of united states which could pose a threat of flooding here on it's which could pose a threat of flooding here on its next week, so keep an eye on that story. though high—pressure continues to dominate the scandinavia, with lower pressures out we increasingly see stars of break—out in central europe and the storms moved across parts of germany, belgium, luxembourg, netherlands, and parts of england and wales. we expect to see heavy downpour thursday, meanwhile in europe, some lively hailstorms mixed in. so heavy downpour to come over the next two days. that should latest weather. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom a bbc investigation reveals claims

that donald trump's lawyer michael cohen was paid a00 thousand dollars to fix a meeting between the president and the ukrainian leader. petro poroshenko has responded, saying the allegations are a flagrant lie. yulia skripal who along with herfather sergei was poisoned by a nerve agent in salisbury, says she feels lucky to be alive, but would one day like to return home to russia. translation: we are so lucky to have both survived this attempt at assassination. i don't want to describe the details, but the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing. italy finally gets a new prime minister two months after elections there: he's giuseppe conte, a little—known lawyer with questions over his cv. and the american couple who won their legal battle to evict their thirty—year—old son from their house after he refused to leave. we hear what he has to say about that.

a couple of hours ago, giuseppe conte was confirmed as the new prime minister of italy. here he is arriving at the presidential palace, where it's fair to say the president has been taking his time over this decision. mr conte spoke not long afterwards. the need to confirm the role, it will be put to the test from the very beginning from the current negotiations on the european budget. the asylum law and the completion of the banking union. remember, giuseppe conte isn't an elected official, he's a law professor.

he was the choice of luigi di maio, leader of the anti establishment five star movement and matteo salvini, the leader of the far right league. and these two populist parties won most seats in the election over two months ago. a little earlier i spoke with bbc journalist sara monetta about the new prime minister. he hasn't been in the public eye at all. as you have said, he is a lawyer and a professor, and the first time we heard about him was when he was presented before the election. these people are going to be part of my cabinet before the election, and he was supposed to be the justice minister. election, and he was supposed to be thejustice minister. and in the election happened, the agreement between the first movement and the

league, and none of the leaders agreed on who was supposed to be prime minister. so they picked, because as the largest party, and he isa because as the largest party, and he is a member who is, they think that he isa is a member who is, they think that he is a political man but is not really. so many cms a puppet in the hands, and this is why for instance, he has kept him for so long. their meeting has lasted almost two hours. it is quite unusual. if their legitimacy in the eyes of italians, given that he has such a low profile and served as an elected official? of course. you need to consider that, italians are now used to having prime ministers who are not erected we are running the elections, but he worked at the

european commission, this has been heavily criticised because it is com pletely heavily criticised because it is completely lack of experience, political experience. they say he has been a member of the movement, therefore he deserves a chance. remember the billboards in london when saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman visited in march? here's one of them, they were part of a huge pr push to tell us he was changing saudi arabia. some things it seems aren't changing. three more women's rights activists have been arrested, 11 in total have been detained since last week. most of them campaigned for women's right to drive, which in theory is going to arrive in a few weeks' time. loujain hathloul is one of them, she has a big social media presence in the country. @ana3rabeya nora abdulkarim, a saudi—american activist, has highlighted the front page of okaz newspaper,

it had a full—page feature of arrested saudi women's rights activists, branding them as "traitors" with "no place among us". it states that sources predict sentences up to 20 years for what it says are 6 violations of a royal decree. it's worth noting these activists are also opposed the male guardianship system, where women have to be accompanied by or receive written permission from a male guardian if they want to travel, work or access healthcare. here's hanan razek from bbc arabic. voicing concern over these latest arrests. either they're fearing a

backlash of the movement all happened almost exactly next month from now as they will lift the driving ban on women. or, that they are actually concerned about more and further changed that they will be calling for. but the plan is still, for women to be a to drive next month. next month, women will be allowed to drive. picking up on surprising about this, is that, saudi arabia is putting so much effort into its international pr and telling us that saudi arabia is changing. these arrests don't really play into that narrative, do they? and our world, if we want to give a title, and saudi arabia, it's the year of so many firsts. it is the first time to see women attending

concerts, attending games, covering the first fashion week in saudi, and next month we are expecting driving a, the driving ban lift, and there are so many changes happening on the ground. those changes are real, we should say? and when you go there, you can see the change. for example, after limiting the powers of the religious police, now is a woman, i can walk and saudi arabia, a lot more relaxed, wearing, i don't have to cover my head for example. it's more relaxed than it used to be. but there's a big question, one of movement like this happens, those activists who have been very vocal when it comes to women's rights, on how far the change can actually go, and it isn't because of a fear of the conservative powers who might not be very happy with the changes

happening, and this is also real. when you talk to people in saudi arabia, the people are so, there is a group of the society that are not very happy with the changes. and he wa nts very happy with the changes. and he wants saudi to stay the same. as it was before. how far those changes can go and how welcome they would be by the society? a couple from new york have won a legal battle to evict their 30—year—old son from their home after he refused to leave. here's michael rotondo in court. he moved back home 8 years ago, but his parents said he had not contributed to household expenses or with doing the chores. they took him to court after he ignored multiple written notices to leave, starting in february, they even gave him $1100 to leave. but mr rotondo said he needed more time before he could move out. here he is. ever since i got the february two

notice, however you want to characterize that notice, i have been trying to distance myself. i'm trying to make it so that i can get out of here. so i do expect to be a buddha do that, but, within three months or so. —— to be able to do that. don't forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our web site. there is full coverage on, our website, that's bbc.com/news and our app. two police forces in the united states have been using facial recognition technology provided by amazon. according to the american civil liberties union this has happened in florida and oregon. the aclu is impressed, it's statement says the user guides for amazon's rekognition softwarer "reads like a user manual for authoritarian surveillance".

dave lee. good to have you on the programme. tell us how the software works, please. bought this software is powered as if it were, aws, it is not in the industry. the cloud computing platform and what they're going to do with that is stored an immense amount of information and computed extremely quickly. in this case, for police in oregon, they we re case, for police in oregon, they were getting mugshots and using that system to quickly identify people using facial recognition via a mobile lab. the system recognition, this is a major leap forward for law

enforcement being able to identify people in minutes rather than days. the flip side is the american civil liberties union, they are really concerned that this technology may be used for other purposes, one of them particularly, but the political climate identifying undocumented immigrants automatically and quickly and the street using the technology. there is a high amount of concern that the uses that it's being used for today, our kind of what could be used for and therefore the aclu is saying that this technology being rolled out by law enforcement, across the country, needs to be much firmer rules in place on how to abuse. is the aspiration of the authorities in the us to and dealt with an enormous database with everyone's faces and it? that would be an incredible encouragement on

privacy, encroachment. going to the courts, and the others that impacts the movement. what we're saying here is pictures that have been taken of criminals that are already in databases criminals that are already in data bases and mugshots. criminals that are already in databases and mugshots. which are public by the way, you can see online. at this stage, as far as the police say they're going to take it, but one of the perhaps more long—term thinking that has people worried is places like china, recently three people were arrested by chinese authorities when they attended a pop concert, security forces had been using facial recognition. when that facial recognition. when that facial recognition is spotted, three people we re recognition is spotted, three people were wa nted recognition is spotted, three people were wanted by police, and form the police and they were able to be arrested at the concert. that's the kind of thing that this technology is capable of. and that's what some people are worried about. thank you for explaining us.

—— this. on friday, ireland will choose yes or no. yes will repeal ireland's 8th amendment, which gives an unborn child the same right to life as its mother. no, rejects the idea. today is the last day of campaigning in the referendum. one core part of the debate has been what are termed the hard cases, here's one doctor explaining what we mean by that. fundamentally, it means he can only perform termination of pregnancy, if there is a risk to the woman's life. we cannot terminate in cases of rain, termination of pregnancy if the woman has a fatal foetal abnormality, if it has no hopes of survival. she's made to carry it. the no side say the issue of abortion is not only about medicine,

but it's also about human rights. this barrister supports no. it's not simply a woman's issue, or an unborn issue or a man's issue. collectively it's about the society that we want and the values that we espouse, it's a question of what do we wa nt espouse, it's a question of what do we want as a society deceit. do you wa nt we want as a society deceit. do you want human rights protected? or do we wa nt want human rights protected? or do we want one type of human being to be taken under protection. and that's what people are being asked to vote no on friday. ireland is a catholic nation, and reproductive rights have long been a contentious issue. this is one historian's perspective. the foundation of this has been a silencing of anything to do with sexuality, women's bodies, fertility. and over the last almost

1200 years, women have been put and institutions, women were pregnant, and homes, and it was all about marginalizing and keeping secrets that others are considered shameful. this is an article written by a lecturer at oxford university, about how their student's union voted to provide money to any of its irish students wanting to travel home to vote. the unions of two other uk universities, birmingham and nottingham have done the same thing. nuala mcgovern is a bbc presenter, and dublin is her home town. she got back there today. you know, it's really quite something. this is something that i remember, the last significant referendum back in 1983. i was 11 years of age. it was talked about in school by the nuns that taught us at the

time. this is a very different time, but some of the issues that come up are the same. when we talk about the catholic church for example, that informed it so much back in 1983 that is largely absent, if people can believe that, in ireland right now. what has happened instead is that there is a conversation taking place that is not taken place before as far as i can remember, between women. women are talking about their experiences, perhaps the first time really, over the past few months of abortions at the past. and perhaps that they felt were needed, and other women speaking about abortions that they regretted, those women would be on the no campaign. and what it's all about is this legislation of whether the language that was inserted back in 1983 should be repealed. that amendment, known as the eighth amendment, gives the same rights to the unborn as dust of the mother. so what you've got now the moment is, every street lined with posters saying yes and no.

and in the past week also, people begin to wear the badges on their lapels, showing which side of the debate that they are on. that i never would have seen before. it's even, to be honest now, you might not even bring up with close family and friends and asked him, up with close family and friends and asked them, what way they are voting but there are definitely people within the city at least that are emboldened to wear a yes or a no on their body and tell people what they are planning on doing come friday. of course, just a couple of days until the referendum takes place. i think also, when we look at it, there are a lot of people that are undecided. the yeses and the noes, and there are people that will probably tip the balance if they decide to go to the polls on friday. because i think a lot of people are worried about the turnout. also i talked about women that are talking to,

talking one another. there is a lot of men that i feel frankly looking at it, seemed to be of left out of this debate. there've been debates to try to get the men involved, celebrities that are speaking out, saying it's about you too. but i would be very interested to see exactly what the turnout figures are and then, that is just the referendum. there still has to be legislations after that if in fact, it is repealed. i'm interested that you highlighted the fact that women are taking centre stage in this debate. i guess we'd expect that but, through the week on outside source, we been hearing about rural and urban divide, by one of the suggesting that women may go one way or the other, while men had in a or the other, while men head in a different direction? no, i do not think of that. i think the rural and urban divide definitely, people of talked about that. it's probably more a traditional ethos within the countryside as opposed to dublin, which is a capital city of over a

million people in a country of about about a million people. so i think what you'll find in a digital age is that that rural urban divide isn't what it used to be perhaps back in the day. also what i'm finding earlier, speaking to two women, older woman and a younger woman. the older woman voting yes. the younger woman voting no. so i've seen a lot of young people coming out and deciding that in fact they decided, that they believe that the human rights issue and that they believe that the foetus or the pregnancy should be protected. older women, some of them saying, i've lived through this, been here through the 60s, 70s and 805. they feel that ireland has a bad history of how they treat women. and now the time for change. the believe generational and i don't really believe gender wise, and urban rural is not what i think it once was. oxford university is under pressure to improve its student diversity. that's because the institution has

revealed around a third of its colleges accepted three or fewer black applicants in the last three years. the uni itself says it needs to do more. here's professor irene tracey. we have a range of different methods in place for us to improve the diversity profile and i think it's clear from that that we are making progress. oxford university has also apologised to british politician david lammy after retweeting this, a tweet sent by a student labelling his criticism of the university as bitter. that was in response to this. a tweet from mr lammy saying oxford was "a bastion of white, middle class, southern privilege". here's mr lammy‘s response. look, i'm pleased that oxford have apologised. i'm certainly not bitter. but the reason i do this is because it's important to ask the question, why, despite getting the straight a's, if your northerner, you're less

likely to get in than southerner? and why, if you're a black young man, glowing up in tottenham, despite getting those a's, you're less likely to get into oxford? the university of oxford doesn't break the overall "black and minority ethnic group" down further in its figures, but the higher education statistics agency does. it's found in 2016—17 on average 8% of first year undergraduates across the uk were black. 1.5% of the university of cambridge's intakes was black. and it falls to 1.2% at oxford. elaine dunkley has the story. oxford university is steeped in tradition. but when it comes to admission, there are calls for change.

it's students are still overwhelmingly white, affluent and from the south. those least likely to go to oxford are black students and those minorities. these students in the third year, say there has been some progress, but more needs to be done. i joined the programme and i was in year 11, and that helped me to see myself in this space, fitting in. at kenton school in newcastle, aspirations are high, but the numbers applying for oxford are low. they're good universities close by and perception is a big factor. you never hear anyone from newcastle has gone there, you don't hear about it. it's always areas close to there, from wealthy areas. the fact is they are not choosing to go to oxford, but other places this head of sixth form says it is the university that isn't doing enough. a lot of it is interview based and perception based. if you are not used that sort of questioning, that you might have a tutor that works with you on a more one—on—one basis.

someone who can build up your confidence in those settings more readily, it makes it more difficult for students to advance themselves. in the last three years corpus christi college had just one black student despite attracting a dozen such applications. london and the south—east made up nearly half of all uk applications whilst the north—east that accounted for just 2%. at the heart of this issue, are britain's top institutions closed to talented black candidates and those from poorer backgrounds? unless the status quo changes, social mobility will stall. more to show you on the volcano in hawaii. these are some of the latest pictures. we're still getting see explosions at its summit. some of the fountains of lava are spraying into the air though fissures in the ground. and they're reaching as high as 50m in the air.

toxic fumes created by the lava hitting the saltwater the sea toxic fumes created by the lava saltwater hitting the and they're reaching as high as 50m in the air. there's still warnings about toxic gases being produced where the lava meets the ocean. and inland, molten rock is burning through jungle. and methane explosions are hurling boulders. map this is where this is all happening, and chris buckler is there for us. you can see how deep the cracks go, all of this road completely split apart asa all of this road completely split apart as a result of the power of the law. —— lava. and therejust apart as a result of the power of the law. —— lava. and there just all of this toxic smoke going into the air. the wind direction is going towards away will not be affected. but we have tapped gas masks. —— to

have. that is if their homes are still standing. i have friends who have lost everything. to see their pain is... it'sjust devastating. there have been further eruptions at the summit. but the real danger is from the lava still rising from the ruins. we will be back at the same time tomorrow. goodbye. may has been pretty kind to us with dry and sunny weather, it could be the late holiday could be another fairly sunny one but it could be some showers in the forecast. so

stay tuned. this is the pressure chart for thursday. across the south, there is more cloud and the risk of some showers, possibly some thunderstorms as well. heading towards wales. some plenty of sunshine, effecting the eastern coast there, so will be quite cool. isa 22, maybe 22 degrees. a bit more humid across the south. onto friday, it looks like many parts of the uk, area of high pressure will be dry and sunny. bad weather front will be moving farther —— that weather will be moving further northwards. towards northern england and much of wealth as well. sunshine returns to the south, it'll be quite warm and humid, plenty of sunshine across, the north sea coast. as we head on

into the bank holiday weekend. high pressure to the north, to the south, you can see this moving near the continent. northern areas will hold onto the sunshine and dry weather, again, giving quite cooler on the coast, to the south in particular the southwestern quadrants of the country, it could be a risk of seeing showers and thunderstorms and it could be quite intense. those temperatures creeping up though, potentially 22 to 25 celsius. warmer still, on a sunday, again the majority could be dry and because of that high pressure. western parts of the country, towards northern ireland as well, could see showers and thunderstorms, feeling warmer than the afternoon. we could be looking at 26 celsius in one or two places. as we head on into the bank holiday, a pretty similar setup with high pressure affecting much of the country, the northern side of the country, the northern side of the country that is, and that will be the bank holiday monday, a lot of

that sunshine through central and northern parts of the uk, it could be quite disappointingly cool along the eastern coast, and the south, there can always be the threat of showers and thunderstorms. but it will be very warm, we could see 26 to 27 or maybe even 28 celsius. treating us to a top temperature of 2996. treating us to a top temperature of 29%. we could be looking at highs around this figure. if you needed more humid particularly in the south. on the bank holiday, we hold onto this area of low pressure, threat of showers and thunderstorms some could be slow—moving, but then it eases down as high pressure begins to topple from the north in the west. it stays pretty warm as well, temperatures and west. it stays pretty warm as well, temperatures in the low 20s for much of the following just getting into the north briefly. citing the main message is, we will be starting on that warm and thundery note, most of

the shot was will be across the south, and then as we head through the week, high—pressure begins. so subtle, intricate turn a little less warm than it starts off. tonight at ten — yulia skripal, one of two victims of a chemical attack in salisbury, makes her first broadcast statement since the poisoning. she and her father survived an assassination attempt, blamed on russia, in early march this year. today, she spoke of the "devastating changes" they'd suffered when they were poisoned. translation: we are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. the clinical treatment was invasive, painful and depressing. but the russian authorities say yulia skripal is being held by the uk against her will. we'll have the latest. also tonight... the new customs system, favoured by some ministers, could cost business up to $20 billion a year, according to tax officials.