this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: ireland votes an overwhelming yes to overturn its abortion ban. the irish prime minister says he hopes a new abortion law will be passed this year. today is a historic day for ireland. a quiet revolution has taken place and today is a great act of democracy. real madrid win the champions league, beating liverpool 3—1 in the final. these are the live pictures from madrid as fans celebrate their team's historic win. on again? a surprise meeting between the two korean leaders and now the white house says it's sending a team to prepare for a possible summit with north korea next month. hello and welcome to bbc world news.

crowds cheered outside dublin castle when the final results of the referendum to liberalise ireland's abortion laws were announced on saturday evening. they confirmed what supporters already knew — they had won an overwhelming victory. a majority — 66.4% — voted to remove the eighth amendment to the constitution that bans abortion in almost all cases. the prime minister called the result a "quiet revolution" and announced he would enact a new law later this year. but, for the defeated anti—abortion campaign, it was a terrible blow. it described the result as a tragedy of historic proportions. emma vardy reports. cheering and applause. a transformative moment for ireland. more emphatically than anyone predicted, the country has voted for change. 1,429,981.

cheering and applause. we have been working so hard for women's rights for so many years now and we can see it's finally coming true! ireland has finally grown up, faced the fact, don't shift it abroad, do it here safely, for me, for my daughters and my grandchildren. more than 3,000 women a year leave ireland to pay privately for abortions in the uk. the first feelings that we would have gone through was utter devastation at the diagnosis. gaye edwards recalls making the decision to travel. her unborn had a fatal condition and could not survive. —— her unborn baby had a fatal condition and could not survive. the fact that there was no assistance with making arrangements or no information, that made us feel veryjudged. more than two thirds of voters supported repealing ireland's controversial law. today is a historic day for ireland.

a quiet revolution has taken place and today is a great act of democracy. 100 years since women gained the right to vote, today we as a people have spoken. the government will now legislate to allow abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. but for those who campaigned to keep ireland's strict laws, this brings bitter disappointment. this result will pave the way for an abortion regime that is nothing about healthcare and everything about abortion on demand. we stand over the claims we made during in the campaign. opinion on abortion is now so strongly against the messages you are putting forward, why continue to oppose what many women want? we have a lot of supporters who have been through abortion themselves and have been hurt by abortion, and that is what gives us strength in continuing with this. today, ireland is unrecognisable from its socially conservative past. this referendum, at its heart, was about offering women a choice

but the result has brought so much more — a renewed pride and sense of optimism for ireland's future. gaining so much! we brought care and compassion home, and empathy, and we righted a wrong and we made such a huge difference today! an intense campaign at an end and ireland ushers in a new era. through the day, the bbc has been hearing voices on both sides of the debate. this is a summary of what some had to say. i think there is a lot of people out there i have met today with tears in their eyes, tears of relief and tea rs of their eyes, tears of relief and tears of attitudes that fellow citizens have said if she ever find yourself in a crisis we want to be able to support you here, i think they are the faces of the real ireland, think there are a lot of

stereotypes particular brought about a country but i think the people of ireland have had an opportunity to vote and they say we want to look after women in our own country. we are definitely disappointed with the result here today but we also realised the river large group of people who are very mobilised and very passionate about supporting women in ireland and protecting unborn children as well so we are, we are, you know, we think there is a lot of hope going forward, we are disappointed in the result to date and we will be holding a government accountable through what they have set through this campaign. we will i'iow set through this campaign. we will now be a society that values, cherishes and protects the human result of women and girls and we will celebrate that. for us this is a very sad day, we don't accept the definition of rights for women that is determined in and defined by an ability to end the lives of our unborn children. as women in northern ireland, we will continue speaking up for both lives. some opinions from ireland there. in sport, real madrid have won the champions league final, beating liverpool 3—1 in kiev.

the spanish team has now won the title three seasons in a row, making them champions of europe for a record 13th time. 0ur correspondent hugh woozencroft was watching the game in the ukrainian capital. well, the fans that poured into the big stadium here in kiev had hoped to see one of the classic european cup finals and what they got the champions league final that will live long in the memory of a 3—1 victory over real madrid which puts them into the history books, a third consecutive champions league title. for liverpool it was their first final in” for liverpool it was their first final in 11 years and things did not start well when they lost their talisman mo salah to injury, a shoulder injury in the first half after a heavy challenge from the real madrid captain. the match was goalless at half—time but a calamitous error from liverpool keeper south allowed a fortunately

for madrid which didn't last long, mane prodded liverpool level a few minutes later but if real's first goal was ridiculous, the second was sublime, substitute gareth bale with one of the greatest goals ever in the champions league final and that just minutes after his introduction. they all count though, about nightfall karius was made worse, the young german lost flight of april one flight from distance to allow the welshman to get another goal and that makes a one quarter champions league title and of course that makes the team history again, third consecutive champions league title, a 13th all in all, real madrid from spain making history under their manager is ended in sedan on a fateful night here in kiev. that victory triggered huge celebrations in madrid and they look set to last well into the night.

i expect they will be lasting well into the night. here are just some of the fans, who, as you can see, are in quite a party mood. but it's a different story in liverpool, where katy austin spent the evening watching the game at the club's anfield stadium. well, there's huge disappointment here tonight. there has been so much hope riding on the game, even though liverpool were never really favourites. there was a party atmosphere across the city — lots of red shirts, red scarves, red flags absolutely everywhere — and here at anfield, 30,000 at least fans had gathered to watch the game on big screens. from the atmosphere here, you would thought the game was being played here such was the excitement and enthusiasm at the beginning, but how quickly the atmosphere changed. after real madrid's first goal, the noise, the singing faded to silence, only to be replaced again by the cheers when liverpool equalised. and after that, well, there was shock along with everybody else at gareth bale's wonder goal, and then sheer shock at the third that liverpool conceded after that goalkeeper error.

so although liverpool fans that we spoke to who travelled from far and wide — we spoke to some who had come from essex, from birmingham, from scotland, from abroad actually, to watch the game — here at anfield, they ended up, a lot of them, leaving with ten minutes still to go. so, as i say, huge disappointment here from fans who have been here from hours building up for the match. there had been a victory parade planned through the streets of liverpool tomorrow, an open bus tour where the celebrations were expected, were hoping to continue, but there will be no victory parade on merseyside tomorrow now. as we mentioned, liverpool's star striker mo salah had to limp off the pitch injured afterjust half an hour. he suffered a shoulder injury and was treated in hospital. there will be great concern that he may now not be able to play for egypt in the forthcoming world cup. his liverpool manager, jurgen klopp, was asked if he knew how badly salah's injury was.

i think it is in the hospitalfor x—ray, that is... it is... i think it isa x—ray, that is... it is... i think it is a collarbone or the shoulder its. so... doesn't look good. that's it. jurgen klopp speaking about mo salah's injury. and you can find much more on the champions league final, including the live text commentary, on our website. if you want to relive real madrid's glory, just log on to bbc.com.news. —— just log on to bbc.com/news. more is becoming known about saturday's unannounced summit between north and south korea, with north korean media reporting their leader, kim jong—un, expressed his "fixed will" about the proposed june summit with donald trump. the korean central news agency also reports that mr kim and his south korean counterpart,

moon jae—in, had reached a "satisfactory consensus" during talks and planned to meet frequently in future. meanwhile, the white house says it is sending a team to singapore to prepare for a summit with kim jong—un, even though president trump called the meeting off earlier this week. naoko aoki is research associate for the center for international and security studies at maryland. she's been giving us more analysis on the diplomacy happening around the proposed june 12 summit. normally, i would say there would have to be at least a postponement of the meetings because of the lack of the meetings because of the lack of time and preparation needed but given the leadership driven developments we have had over the last couple of days, i would not dismiss the possibility that it will happen on june 12. past dismiss the possibility that it will happen onjune12. past diplomatic effo rts happen onjune12. past diplomatic efforts have always been bottom—up.

this is top—down. very much unprecedented. there are new element here. there has been a lot of mixed messaging from washington that has, i'm sure, confused north korea, confused american allies, and i think it is a little bit unclear what washington wants and it is going to depend on what president trump decide so we still have a lot of unknowns here. kim jong—un trump decide so we still have a lot of unknowns here. kimjong—un is very much a serious about what he wa nts very much a serious about what he wants and at this moment it looks like he has calculated that continuing this diplomatic path is good for him. so the question becomes well, how does what he want a line with what the us wants, what the south koreans want, what the south koreans want and what the other media powers want. firefighters have been tackling a massive fire at a citreon garage in the city of bordeaux in south—west france.

about 50 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, trying to stop it spreading to nearby homes. people have been evacuated from those properties. there have been reports of explosions as the fire spread, which could have been fuel tanks in the vehicles kept in the garage as they were caught by the flames. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the fourth man to walk on the moon, alan bean, has died at the age of 86. we'll be talking to a space historian in houston. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen, up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletics events to aid famine relief in africa. the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7am. taunting which led to scuffles, scuffles to fighting, fighting to full—scale riot as the liverpool fans broke out

of their area and into the juve ntus enclosure. the belgian police had lost control. the whole world will mourn the tragic death of mr nehru today. he was the father of the indian people from the day of independence. the oprah winfrey show comes to an end after 25 years and more than 11,500 episodes. the chat show has made her one of the richest people on the planet. geri halliwell, otherwise known as ginger spice, has announced she has left the spice girls. argh! i don't believe it! she's the one with the bounce, the go, the girl power. not geri — why? this is bbc news. the latest headlines: pro—choice campaigners celebrate after ireland voted by a landslide to relax its restrictive abortion laws. the final results give

them 66% of the vote. celebrations as real madrid beat liverpool 3—1 in the final of the champions league. alan bean, one of the very few humans to have walked on the surface of the moon, has died at the age of 86. he took part in the second manned mission to the moon, in november 1969, and goes down in history as the fourth of 12 men who have set foot there. he also took part in the skylab programme in the early 1970s. we're nowjoined by robert z. pearlman. he's a space history specialist and founder of collectspace. com. thank you forjoining us. the number of surviving members of that exclusive group of moonwalkers now a little smaller. indeed, only four of

the original, are their remaining testa m e nts the original, are their remaining testaments to our mankind's first voyage to another world. tell us about alan bean and his contribution to space exploration. he was a member of the third group of astronauts elected in 1963 and he flew twice to space. first on apollo 12, the second moon landing, becoming the fourth man to walk on the moon and it was the first decision landing coming down near a robotic we had sent their two years before and they were able to collect pieces and bring it back to earth. —— we had sent them out. he commissioned the second mission to skylab, the us first space station and set a record with his crew, 59 days, the longest time any humans had spent in space. one of the fascinating things about him was his

passion for arts. key tell us more about that? indeed. he hadn't interest in art long before he became an astronaut —— can you tell us more. became an astronaut —— can you tell us more. it was after he returned from skylab that his experience as walking on the moon were relatively unique and he had to be ability to express it in paint. he created an artistic record like no other of the apollo moon landings. notjust his own but all six missions to land on the moon. he would texture his ca nvases the moon. he would texture his canvases using moon boot prints and the geology hammer that he used on the geology hammer that he used on the moon and he would embed in the acrylic oils that he used little pieces of his mission patches that we re pieces of his mission patches that were stained with moon dust. while he captured these great scenes from history and scenes that could never be captured by camera and only in painting, he would also basically sprinkle them with moon dust they are at tremendous legacy for not

just him but the apollo programme in general. its other key with devoting the rest of his life to conveying what it was like up there. —— it sounds like he was devoting the rest of his life. he would say if people invited him out that he couldn't go because he had to paint. he had this drive to share what he had in his mind and in particular, notjust show the technical details which he made sure he got right but the emotion and feelings that he had while being there. he had one painting called, "that's how it felt to walk on the moon". we imagined the moon as being all great that it's very colourful. that was him. he was a colourful individual. quite beautifully put. thank you. paying tribute to alan bean. here in the uk, a report by members

of parliament has accused the government of a dismal failure in its efforts to protect civilians who have worked as interpreters for the british army in afghanistan. so far, none have been relocated to the uk, even when their lives have been threatened by the taliban. richard galpin reports. british troops were on the ground fighting the taliban in afghanistan for more than a decade. their afghan interpreters also risked their lives on the front lines. we have hidden their identities because, to this day, they face being murdered by the taliban for working with british forces. but so far, only a fraction of the 3,500 interpreters have been allowed into britain, despite there being fatal attacks on those who had connections to foreign military forces. here, there is shock. they say it is

damaging for britain. uk getting the reputation for putting these people ‘s lives at risk at the mercy of our enemies when the soldiers are no longer there to look after them, it will be very difficult in future conflicts to find people, local people, who are prepared to do that. it is now more than three years since the british combat mission in afghanistan ended with most troops being pulled out. since then, 400 interpreters and locally—hired staff have moved to britain, leaving most to fend for themselves at home in afghanistan. and yet, the ministry of defence insists its team in kabul is providing them with enough security advice and support to ensure they are safe. richard galpin, bbc news. now history and witness series. it was 30 years ago this week that lesbian demonstrators invaded a bbc news studio as it was going live on air.

they wanted to protest against a new law affecting gay people in the uk. witness has been hearing from booan temple who took part in the protest: the six 0'clock news, from the bbc. in the house of lords, a vote is taking place now on at challenge. tory rebels have said... writes for lesbian and gay people. in general, britain was quite a hostile environment in the 1980s for the lg btq environment in the 1980s for the lgbtq community first of about 70% of people come when surveyed, said it was always wrong to be gay. simply by walking down the street. if somebody identified you as lesbian or gay, you could get abuse and you could front attacks.|j

lesbian or gay, you could get abuse and you could front attacks. i don't wa nt and you could front attacks. i don't want children taught that the gay and lesbian lifestyle is natural or novel. it is not, it never has been and never will be —— natural or normal. images of homosexuality in children's lives, that is what is causing parents concerned. children's lives, that is what is causing parents concernedm children's lives, that is what is causing parents concerned. it was a ca ta lyst causing parents concerned. it was a catalyst moment were a book was published about a girl who lives with her two dads. it sort of kicked offa with her two dads. it sort of kicked off a moral panic in parliament. what we were told we were doing was destroyed the heterosexual family. but lobby group to get this clause and acted. section 28 band authorities from promoting homosexuality. the second part of it banned the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality in schools. basically it meant the closing down of services. young

people became very vulnerable particularly and schools couldn't protect people from being bullied. all kinds of groups, all over the country, began to protest. actor ian mckellen was at the head of a procession that stretched nearly two miles popular mac a group of lesbians change themselves to buckingham palace gates. --a group of lesbians. through all of the campaigning prior to the enactment we couldn't get the media to understand what the impact was going to be on our community, on our children. so really, the only thing left was to actually be venues by being on the news. we met outside television centre, we managed to get through the security and the whole thing was timing, really. as soon as the lights changed, we budged into the lights changed, we budged into the studio. the whole place went mad, i got smacked to the ground by a don't know how many people. one of oui’ a don't know how many people. one of our members managed to handcuff

herself to a camera and the other one got behind the news desk where she was quite violently subdued by nicholas witchell who has since apologised. they carried on trying to read the news. leigh i do apologise if you are hearing at a lot of noise in the studio at the moment. --i do apologise stock we have been inundated. into footage, got muffled. you can hear marvels of, "stop! section 28!" eventually, we all got arrested and the headlines were all a bout the lesbians. —— loony lesbians. i heard about young people knowing they were 93v about young people knowing they were gay and they felt a bit empowered by it. here we are a television centre again, 30 years later. clearly, things are a lot better than they we re

things are a lot better than they were in the 1980s but it has com pletely were in the 1980s but it has completely changed and there are a very dangerous and serious pockets of homophobia. we have to be in solidarity of all the communities worldwide who are in daily fear of their lives. glad we did it. the fa ct we their lives. glad we did it. the fact we are here today means the story being remembered. that was from our witness series. a bottle of wine dating back to 177k has sold at auction in france for a record $120,000. the bottle of vin jaune, or "yellow wine" comes from the easternjura region and is considered one of the oldest wines in the world. it doubles the previous record set by a similar bottle seven years ago. two other bottles also went under the hammer, each fetching just under $90,000. the weather behind me looks dramatic

but not everybody is going to encounter this risk of thunderstorms. we have already seen some of them across the southern counties of england. that is because you are a little bit closer to the main area of activity, a big area of low pressure and it could be u nsta ble across low pressure and it could be unstable across iberia, is gay and france. —— biscay. it wants to drift further north across the british isles as we get on into sunday put up isles as we get on into sunday put upa isles as we get on into sunday put up a muddy start here, fresher further north, sunshine around, that's the shore. —— muggy. after the fresh start, look how that recover. 22, 23, quite widely across parts of england scotland. baby 21

in northern ireland, 25 in the south and feeling close. —— maybe 21 in northern ireland. you can see the storms become fewer and further between and are still at close night in the south. the two bridges dribble away well done into single figures. many of us as we start the new wheat are still being influenced by the continental air —— temperatures. that amount of cloud are around but not without the prospect of a decent, hazy sunny spells. we could see another spiral of cloud activity later on in the afternoon on monday. it will still beyond the human side widely across the british isles. temperatures again it well into the teens if not the low 20s. perhaps a greater chance, we think, at this range, of seeing more and where showers across

southern counties of england further north, some low cloud coming back to plague the northern and western isles of scotland and again, the temperatures pushing on a degree or two back on where we have been for the first part of the week. into the middle part of the week, we are still having the low pressure driving the showers at us but no signs of cold air. the jet stream is well north and the separation between the milder air to the south and the cooler air to the north. here we are on wednesday, a similar sort of pattern. don't take the distribution of showers to literally because there is still the close, muqqy because there is still the close, muggy feeling about possessions. still the prospect of one or two thunderstorms. this is bbc news. the headlines: the referendum on changing the laws on abortion in ireland has been won by the yes campaign. two thirds of people voted to end the ban. new laws are expected to be drawn up later this year. the south korean president says there were candid exchange of views with his north korean counterpart at their surprise meeting. north korea's kim jong—un says he is "fixed" on a meeting with president trump next month.

real madrid have won the champions league final, beating liverpool 3—1 in kiev. the spanish team has now won the title three seasons in a row, making them champions of europe for a record 13th time. the fourth man to walk on the moon, alan bean, has died at the age of 86 after a short illness. he was part of the apollo 12 mission which reached the moon in november, 1969. now on bbc news, a special investigation into the secretive