hello and welcome to bbc news, i'm gavin grey. the south korean president moon jae—in says he's had a candid exchange of views with the north korean leader kimjong—un at their surprise meeting on the border. north korea said further high—level inter—korean talks would take place at the start ofjune. the white house, meanwhile, says it is sending a team to singapore to prepare for a possible summit with the north's leader. lebo diseko reports. after a week which was full of surprises, this — an unexpected meeting between north korea and south korea's leaders in the demilitarised zone between the two countries — only the second time they have met. both kim jong—un and moonjae—in keen to show they will do whatever it takes to save thatjune 12 summit with donald trump. the leaders of the two koreas say

they have agreed to meet more frequently, and the north says mr kim's hopes are fixed on that all—important meeting next month. it's not as if any more drama was needed. the story has had plenty of twists and turns. in march, the us and north korea announced the meeting was being planned to discuss nuclear disarmament. the next month, kim jong—un went to the south for the first time and met with south korean president moonjae—in. but on thursday, president trump unexpectedly cancelled that planned summit with north korea, blaming that country's "tremendous anger and open hostility". that announcement seemed to prompt a more conciliatory tone from pyongyang, and president trump suggested things might be back on again. we will see what happens, it could even be the 12th. we are talking to them now. they very much want to do it, we would like to do it. we're going to see what happens.

the white house says it is now sending a team to singapore to get ready for the possible summit. at the heart of this on—again, off—again drama, one key issue — the us insistence that north korea must commit to total denuclearisation of the peninsula, and getting agreement on that point might be even harder than fixing this meeting. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the republic of ireland has voted overwhelmingly to relax its restrictive abortion laws, in what the prime minister hailed as a "quiet revolution". 66% of voters in friday's referendum backed the campaign to scrap a ban on virtually all terminations. a strong cyclone has killed at least two people in the gulf state of oman. cyclone mekunu has now weakened to a tropical storm and authorities there say they have begun clearing operations. residents have been warned to stay in their homes as run—off from river valleys has flooded main roads.

the american astronaut alan bean has died at the age of 86. he was the fourth person to walk on the moon during the apollo 12 mission. a statement released by nasa and family members said he died on saturday in houston, after a short illness. real madrid have beaten liverpool 3—1 in the champions league final in kiev. it's the third time in a row they've lifted the trophy and the 13th time they've been crowned european champions. hugh woozencroft watched the game. well, the fans that poured into the olympic stadium championship final that will live long in the memory. a 3—1 victory for real madrid which puts them into the history books — a third consecutive champions league title. for liverpool, it was their first final in 11 years and things really 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 sergio ramos. the match was actually goalless at half—time but a calamitous error from liverpool keeper loris karius allowed karim benzema to steal a fortunate lead for madrid. that didn't last long, though, as sadio mane reacted fastest to prod liverpool leveljust a few minutes later. but if real‘s first goal was ridiculous, well, the second was sublime — substitute gareth bale with one of the greatest goals ever in a champions league final, and that just minutes after his introduction. they all count, though. a bad night for loris karius was made even worse — the young german lost flight of bale‘s shot from distance to allow the welshman to get second goal, and that makes bale‘s fourth champions league title in the last five years since moving to madrid and, of course, the team are making — as i say, a third consecutive champions league title, a 13th all in all for the club. real madrid from spain making history under their manager zinedine zidane on a fateful night here in kiev. and you can keep up to date all with the latest news, business and sport on the bbc website. for reaction

and analysis from around the uk, and around the globe, including updated live pages more now on our top story — the meeting between the leaders of north and south korea on saturday. our correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes is in seoul. one of the main things is this added commitment to try to denuclearise the korean peninsula. well it sounds like it. we have heard from president moonjae—in here in seoul in the last hour or so holding a press c0 nfe re nce in the last hour or so holding a press conference about the meeting yesterday with kim jong—un in which he said several times that kim had committed himself to the complete denuclearisation of the korean peninsula. another is this is a phrase we have heard many times before and when he was challenged on it, he said the interesting things, one was president moon said it was not a case of will north korea denuclearise out when, and while the united states give up its hostile policy and guarantee north korea's security. according to him that was

john roar concerned, the survival of his regime and the perceived hostility and desire of the usual okra for you before regime change. -- kim okra for you before regime change. —— kimjong—un. okra for you before regime change. —— kim jong—un. but then okra for you before regime change. —— kimjong—un. but then he okra for you before regime change. —— kim jong—un. but then he asked what is the denuclearisation mean to the koreans, is at the same as the americans think, but it is up to the us and korea to sit down at a working level and work out if they agree so working level and work out if they agree so he basically deflected the question so i think that question remains. are they on the same page when it comes to what is denuclearisation mean and i think the answer is no. so plenty of grey areas for them to discuss it also of course this element you mentioned of trying to secure the regime in north korea, it won't go down well in america question of ——7 korea, it won't go down well in america question of ——?|j korea, it won't go down well in america question of --? i think the us government would say if you asked them they had no intention of changing the north korean regime and they haven't for many years and they are prepared to provide security

guarantees to the north korean regime and in fact president trump the other day said it will have an agreement and he will be secure and talking about kim jong—un, agreement and he will be secure and talking about kimjong—un, and people have a prosperous country and a peaceful country if we agree a deal. the problem is america's military posture adds a lot of the rhetoric coming out of washington over the last year has been very hostile and suggested certainly the those in pyongyang that america's intend was extremely unfriendly and ultimately the americans would like the north korean regime to disappear and the country, too. another meeting between the pair and of course this will eat or what had happened on june 12 meeting course this will eat or what had happened onjune 12 meeting in singapore. —— will it or won't it.|j hesitate to make any predictions given what has happened over the last few days, we thought it was off and then on again, it looks like everybody involved, president moon, kim jong—un

everybody involved, president moon, kimjong—un and everybody involved, president moon, kim jong—un and president trump thou are all talking along the same lines that a summit needs to happen and it may happen on june 12 that a summit needs to happen and it may happen onjune 12 or at least you know in the not too distant future, that is what they are working towards, they all want it to happen. but the question is what is the shape of the agreement that will come out of this because everybody needs to walk from singapore with a wind of some sort to what is a win for president trump, what is a win for president trump, what is a win for kim jong—un, for president trump, what is a win for kimjong—un, and can those for president trump, what is a win for kim jong—un, and can those two, is their common ground there on which to work? indeed. thank you. the irish prime minister leo varadkar has hailed an overwhelming referendum result to liberalise strict abortion laws as the day ireland came of age as a country. greeting thousands of ecstatic yes campaigners at dublin castle, mr varadkar said ireland had erased the stigma and burden of shame from hundreds of thousands of women. anti—abortion groups called the outcome "a tragedy of historic proportions".

more details from our correspondent emma vardy in dublin. cheering. a transformative moment for ireland. more emphatically than anyone predicted, the country has voted for change. 1,420,181. 1,421,981. 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 facts. don't shift it abroad, let them do it here safely. for me, 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 were utter devastation at the diagnosis. gaye edwards recalls making the decision to travel. the unborn baby had a fatal condition and couldn't survive. the fact 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's nothing about healthca re and everything about abortion on demand. we stand over the claims we made during the campaign. opinion on abortion is now so strongly against the messages you are putting forward. so why continue to oppose what many women want? we have a lot of supporters who've been through abortion themselves, and have been hurt by abortion. 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. we brought care and compassion home, and empathy! we righted a wrong and made such a huge difference today! an intense campaign at an end, and ireland ushers in a new era. a report by british mps 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. this former interpreter, speaking from afghanistan, told us he feared for himself and his family. it makes me very bad because i worked with them very honestly, i put life in risk, i helped them in a bad situation in helmand province, so i feel very bad. 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.

the situation here now being highlighted by british politicians who also believe it's damaging for the uk. if the united kingdom gets the reputation for leaving those people who put their lives at risk to help our soldiers at the mercy of our enemies when our soldiers are no longer there to look after them, then it will be very difficult in future conflicts to find people, local people, who are prepared to do that. in response to all this, officials here at the ministry of defence say that they will review the commons committee report. but they insist that they are providing security advice and support to the interpreters who are still living in afghanistan to ensure that they remain safe. richard galpin, bbc news at the mod. police have appealed for information about a missing schoolgirl who left the uk on a eurotunnel train.

13—year—old serena alexander—benson left her home in wimbledon yesterday morning, telling herfather she was going to school. the police believe she probably boarded the train "in the company of an older person". some tsb customers are still having problems making online payments five weeks after the bank first reported problems. the problems started when the bank switched its it systems. a number of current account customers and some business clients are unable to fully access their accounts online or via the mobile app. the bank has also admitted to the bbc that there has been a rise in fraud incidents. this is bbc news. the headlines: the leaders of both koreas have held face—to—face talks to discuss how to keep a potential summit between donald trump and kim jong—un on track. ireland's prime minister says he hopes a new abortion law will be passed by the end of this year after more than two thirds of voters in the country chose

to overturn its abortion ban in a referendum. let's return to the champions' league final, that ended in a 3—1victory for real madrid over liverpool. andy beatt reports. two giants of europe, head to head for the most prestigious prize in club football. 63,000 fans crammed into kiev‘s olympic stadium. back home, thousands more had journeyed to both bernabeu and anfield, expectations high. a bright start for liverpool, with early chances. then a devastating blow for egyptian magician mo salah, falling heavily under a challenge from ramos and suffering a suspected dislocated shoulder. the team talisman, who scored 43 goals this season, exiting in tears. lallana took his place, but as the balance of the game

shifted it soon got worse for the reds. a horror show from goalkeeper karius, throwing the ball straight at benzema and the ball rolling into an unguarded net. madrid gifted a goal. their lead lasted just four minutes as a corner brought hope for liverpool, sadio mane meeting a header from lovren to knock the ball home. parity restored, but only briefly, with a moment of brilliance from super sub gareth bale. two minutes after coming on to the pitch the welshman stunned the stadium with an audacious overhead kick. one of the best goals ever seen on this stage — real now in the driving seat. the tide of the game had turned. liverpool increasingly locked out of the game. with less than ten minutes left, bale hit a hopeful shot from 25 metres to see it slip through karius' fingers. 3—1, and a night to forget for the german keeper.

in the dying seconds, cristiano ronaldo could have added a fourth. but as he burst goalwards, he was distracted as a fan ran onto the pitch before being stopped by security. no matter. it was real madrid's night, and a historic win for football's most successful club and its manager. translation: it's not at all easy to do what we have done, what these players have achieved. tonight there are no words to describe this. this is the most amazing thing about this squad, they simply do not have a ceiling. with celebrations set to continue through the night in kiev and madrid, few would bet against the spanish side adding to their third straight champions league crown in years to come. as we mentioned earlier, the american astronaut, alan bean, has died at the age of 86. shuba krishnan looks back at his life. in november, 1969, alan bean became

just the fourth man to walk on the moon. together with his apollo 12 commander, charles pete conrad, they landed their vessel on the ocean of storms, and took those historic steps on the lunar surface. they extensively explored the area, collecting rocks and soil for study back on earth and installing the first nuclear powered generator station on the moon. he then returned to space four years later, where he commanded a flight to the space research centre, skylab. he spent 59 days in space, which was a record at the time. alan bean was a man of many talents. the native texan received a degree in aeronautical engineering from the university of texas before spending time with the us navy as a test pilot. after he eventually retired from nasa in 1981, he turned his attention to painting.

he devoted his time to creating an artistic record of humanity's i was giving up a lot to decide to become an artist. about half of the astronauts thought it might be a good idea, the other half thought it was crazy. he often used elements from his space missions in his creations like his astronaut suit patches stained with moondust. they gave me the flag that was on the left shoulder of my suit. this nasa patch was right here on my suit. apollo 12, right here on my suit. and then this name tag was on my remote control unit. i think probably i am the luckiest guy you have ever met or any of your viewers have ever seen because i lived my lifejust doing things which i thought were the most fun to do. 30 years ago this week,

a group of activists invaded a bbc news studio as it went live on air. they were protesting against the introduction of new uk laws to limit lgbt rights. booan temple told our witness team why she got involved. announcer: the six o'clock news, from the bbc with sue lawley and nicholas witchell. in the house of lords, a vote is taking place now on a challenge to the poll tax. tory rebels have said... we're protesting about rights for lesbian and gay people. in general, britain was quite a hostile environment in the 19805 for the lgbt community. about 75% of people, when surveyed, said it was mostly or 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 be

violently attacked, just for being. i obviously don't want children taught that the gay and lesbian lifestyle is natural or normal. it is not, it never has been and never will be. my overriding concern is the promotion of positive images of homosexuality in schools, from primary school, right through and that is what is causing many parents real offence. there was a catalyst moment where a book was published called jenny lives with eric and martin about a girl who lives with her two dads. it sort of kicked off a moral panic in parliament. what we were told we were doing was destroying the heterosexual family. that lobby grew to get this clause enacted. section 28 banned local 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. newsreel: actor ian mckellen was at the head of a procession that stretched nearly two miles. a group of lesbians chained themselves to buckingham palace gate dressed as suffragettes. a group of lesbians abseiled into the house of lords. through all of the campaigning prior to the enactment we could not 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 the news by being on the news. we met outside television centre, we managed to get through the security. the whole thing was timing, really. as soon as the lights changed, we barged into the studio. the whole place went mad, i got smacked to the ground by i 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. sue lawley carried on trying to read the news. i do apologise if you're hearing at a lot of noise in the studio at the moment. i'm afraid we have rather been invaded. in the footage, it all got muffled. you can hear little muffled shouts of, "stop! section 28!" eventually, we were all arrested. it got huge media coverage and the headlines were all about loony lesbians. but over time and beyond that, i've heard from quite a lot of people what it meant to them as young lgbt people, knowing they were gay and they felt a bit empowered by it. here we again at television centre again, 30 years later.

clearly, things are a lot better than they were in the 19805 but it hasn't 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. i'm glad we did it. the fact we are here today means the story's being remembered. it's the end of an era for an iconic part of the bbc. for nearly 75 years, staff have been listening in to some of the world's most seismic events from an old mansion near reading. since 1943, caversham park has been the home of bbc monitoring, a service that's played a vital role in britain's security. as staff head for new offices — david sillito has been to hear their stories of listening to history in the making. translation: this is moscow. i have, today, been informed... welcome to caversham. and this is?

the listening room. this is where you listened to the world. it was indeed. and i would sit in a position over there to do spanish and i would sit over here to do french. so, were you a spy? not at all. open source broadcasting. radio: the listening post at caversham are a major source of news and inspiration. what they were doing was listening to the world's new broadcasts, gathering to information vital for newsrooms and government. this is a transcript that confirms the end of the second world war. the cuban missile crisis came to an end after monitors here heard a speech from the soviet leader, nikita khrushchev. linda ebherst began working here more than 50 years ago. and in the days before computers, telling the world a major news story had broken came down to fast typing, carbon copies, and a hand—cranked pulley. so, you've got the three copies, what do you do? well, you need to take the flash for the newsroom first.

so you would come out through the door into the hall, through there, into the newsroom. and then? and then you've got to give a copy to the americans. where are they? top floor. how'd you get it up there? you had a little table with a rope pulley and two wooden boxes and a bell. a rope pulley to announce major news stories to the rest of the world and america? yes. so you'd press a button, and up it would go. chris mosely started working at caversham in the 1980s. it was a building with a mood. it was a mix of aristocratic splendour and civil service tea trolleys. the atmosphere was very much the cold war atmosphere, i'd say. we were running on adrenaline in some ways. today, it is almost deserted.

the last few monitors are preparing to go. but this abandoned floor has a particular memory. 1986, we're talking about. radio: there has been an accident... he was listening to swedish news and heard mention of radiation, radiation coming from chernobyl. so, outside of sweden and the soviet union, you were the first person to know? yes, i think i was. mps on the defence select committee have voiced concerns about monitoring leaving caversham, but the bbc says time has moved on. it is the end of an era. it is a great shame. monitoring has been here since 1923. this is the 70th anniversary of monitoring at this site. very sad. but life moves on. david sillito, bbc news, caversham. weather now with philip avery. 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 unstable across iberia, biscay, into france. we have seen the first signs of this wanting to drift north across the british isles as we get into sunday. a muggy start here, fresher further north, sunshine around, that's the shore. after the fresh start, look how that recover. 22, 23, quite widely across parts of england scotland. maybe 21 in northern ireland, 25 in the south and feeling close. we see the threat of showers. you can see the storms

become fewer and further between and are still close night in the south. the two ridges dribble away well down into single figures. many of us, as we start the new week, are still being influenced by the continental air with the moisture being supplied and the low pressure from biscay and from the atla ntic pressure from biscay and from the atlantic as well. fair amount of cloud are around but not without the prospect of a decent, hazy sunny spells. we could see another spiral of cloud and shower activity on in the afternoon on monday. it will still be on the humid 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, 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 too literally because there is still the close, muggy feeling about proceedings. temperatures in the 20s. still the prospect of one or two thunderstorms.