this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has changed his mind about endorsing the communique issued at the end of the g7 summit which highlights the importance of a rules—based trade system. in a tweet, he blamed what he called false statements by the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau. the us president is now on his way to singapore for talks with north korea's kimjong—un. mr trump says the meeting is a "one—time chance" for a peace deal. mr trump said the north korean leader could do "something very positive for his people, for himself, his family". at least 65 soldiers and police officers have been killed in four separate attacks carried out by the taliban in afghanistan. the violence comes on the same day the afghan taliban announced it will mark a three day ceasefire over the muslim festival of eid. rail passenger groups have described the decision to award a cbe to the chief executive of network rail as a "slap in the face".

mark carne was named in the queen's birthday honours list after weeks of disruption across several rail networks, caused by the introduction of a new timetable. joe lynam reports. protesters on the march in the lake district, they are have been no trains to windermere for a week and some fear it could damage the tourist industry. it is a local issue caused by a wider shakeup of timetables in england. so what do they feel about the boss of network rail getting a cbe? it makes a mockery of the whole awards system. iama mockery of the whole awards system. i am a brit and i mockery of the whole awards system. i am a britand i like mockery of the whole awards system. i am a brit and i like to believe in it and people who get them it. but this is saying that it is not what you have done, it is who you know. whoever the queen and the government get on is none of my concern. hello everybody. this is a really exciting time to be a part of the railway...

the man at the centre of this, mark carne, was not talking about his 9°”9 carne, was not talking about his gong today, but others were.” carne, was not talking about his gong today, but others were. i think passengers who have suffered enormous disruption this week will be incredulous, possibly furious, to see mark carne being awarded a cbe. but i think it is truly important that we are not misdirected into thinking that the problems with the introduction of the new timetable are all down to network rail. network rail defended the gong and said people should look at his entire career and his commenced a tradition to the railway. here at king's cross station, some services for thameslink and great northern passengers have seemed disruption in recent weeks, as a new timetable is bedded down. things are improving, but some commuters they feel that this public reward for the boss of network rail may be a bit immature, evenif network rail may be a bit immature, even if he has devoted many years of service to the railway industry. now on bbc news, tens of thousands of children in pakistan are legally employed as domestic servants. they cook and clean

for their employers and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. but as secunder kermani has been investigating for our world, there are rarely consequences for those who cause them harm. his programme contains some scenes which viewers may find upsetting. for losing a broom, this ten—year—old girl says she was beaten and her hands were burned. this 16—year—old boy died allegedly after being assaulted again and again. their horrific stories highlight the plight of some children working as servants in the homes of the rich and powerful in pakistan. but their desperately poor families often choose not to pursue the cases... ..meaning those accused of abuse regularly go unpunished.

wherever you go in pakistan, you can see young children working to support their families. but others are less visible, working behind closed doors in upmarket neighbourhoods. tens of thousands of children are sent by their impoverished families to work as domestic servants in homes across pakistan. some of them are aged as young as eight or nine years old. and in most of the country, there is simply no law whatsoever

preventing anyone from hiring them. ten—year—old tayyaba is learning to be a child again. he is very fat... (laughs). she used to work hundreds of miles away from her family, in the home of a judge and his wife in the capital islamabad. these pictures of her taken in late 2016 caused outrage on social media. tayyaba is currently being looked after at a children's home run by a charity. sitting with her best friend and her carers, she agreed to talk to us. the couple employing her have denied

mistreating tayyaba. but she told me she was beaten by the wife just for losing a broom. the children here are divided into houses, each with a specific carer, or mother, to look after them. azmat has been helping tayya ba recover from her ordeal. tayyaba's best friend in the home

is another former child maid, fatimah. slightly older and more confident, she has taken tayyaba under her wing. tayyaba grew up in a small village about 200 miles south of islamabad. i went to meet her father to find out why the ten—year—old had to leave home to go and work for a judge and his wife. children aren't legally allowed to work in most businesses

in pakistan, but despite calls from campaigners, in the vast majority of the country there is no ban on them working inside homes. there are thought to be over 250,000 children working as domestic servants. some child maids end up working in homes alongside their mothers, orfind jobs in their own neighbourhood. but for others it is much more organised. there are employment agents acting as middlemen, and we are on our way now to meet one of them. irshad bibi runs an employment agency on the outskirts of islamabad. she has no shortage of clients looking for domestic workers, and no shortage of families volunteering their children. some people would say these children shouldn't be working,

they should be in school. amidst the tangled streets of the historic centre of lahore, we discovered one of the most shocking examples of what can happen to children who are domestic servants. 16—year—old akhtar died while working in the home of a local politician and her daughter. his uncle was the first from the family to recover the body. the home belongs to shahjahan,

a local politician from the ruling party. she, though, was never accused of any wrongdoing. also living there was her daughter fauzia. both women deny abusing akhtar and say he died from an infection. but akhtar‘s 12—year—old sister also worked there. she said she and her brother were regularly beaten by the politician's daughter. the police registered a case against fauzia for killing akhtar and assaulting his sister lastjuly. the postmortem on akhtar‘s body revealed he had been beaten repeatedly with a blunt instrument.

25 injuries. the lawyer who represented his father claims the evidence was clear—cut. he agreed to take on the case for free, as long as akhtar‘s father promised to pursue a trial and not take an out—of—court settlement. before the trial had even really started, akhter‘s father announced he no longer wanted to pursue the case. most criminal cases in pakistan aren't filed by the state but by the victims or theirfamilies. that means they have the right

to drop the charges and to reach a settlement. all they have to do is tell the court that they forgive a suspect in the name of god. usually the real reason, though, is that they are being paid off. i visited akhter‘s family home last october. they were building an extension — according to some relatives with money from a settlement, though they deny receiving everything. at the time, they refused to talk to me. but now i am my way back to meet the head of the village, who says he was a witness to at least some negotiations. muhammad ali claims representatives of fauzia's family came to see him and akhter‘s father. it is hard to pin down exactly what happened next.

different people allege different things about who received money to drop the case. but none of it can be proved, and fauzia's family deny paying anybody anything. i wanted to speak to akhtar‘s father directly. this is where akhtar‘s body now lies, largely forgotten amidst the negotiations, squabbling, and accusations of money. it would be easy to blame these families for seeming to give up on the chance ofjustice for their dead children in exchange for a few thousand dollars. but when you see the kind of poverty that they live in, then perhaps it becomes completely understandable. the problem is that if no one is ever punished for these crimes, they'll never stop.

i wanted to ask about fauzia about the allegations against her myself, but couldn't get an answer. fauzia livesjust up the road here. we have had no response to our allegations. we have been told that at the time of akhtar‘s death, fauzia was working as a some sort of teacher. and now because there was no conviction, there is nothing preventing fauzia from working with children again. fauzia's mother, who we've been told that with her at the time — even though she was not accused of any abuse — is still a member of the regional assembly. i managed to track her down. so she was just saying that

she's out of breath, that she's a heart patient and can barely breathe. 0bviously didn't want to enter our questions. but it is really hard to understand how she could live in the same house as her daughter and his young boy akhtar and not know what is going on. that is what we wanted to ask her about. in the case of 10—year—old tayyaba, there was a conviction. maheen zafar was accused of assault and her husband, judge raja khurram ali, of cruelty to a child. before the trial, tayyaba told the police that she had been beaten. when she came to give evidence, she initially confidently repeated the claims, but under cross—examination, tayya ba

contradicted herself and then withdrew them. the court apparently noticed a change in her behaviour. in the notes here, it says that whatever the defence lawyers were asking her, she responded with a simple "yes sir." tayyaba's father, withhelp his lawyer, had tried to get the charges dropped. but in this instance, the court refused to allow them to do so. as long as there are poor families in poor villages, there are likely to be child maids. ushad bibi and one of the agents are going about four hours south of islamabad to meet potential recruits. this family say they want to send their ten—year—old daughter to work in islamabad. a few weeks later, i get a call

from tayyaba's father, and says he wants to tell me the truth. tayyaba's father claims his lawyer was paid for by the suspects and convinced him to try and drop the case. it is hard to tell what really happened, but his account was corroborated by a second source involved in the negotiations. tayyaba's father's former lawyer says the claims are completely untrue and that tayyaba's father testified in court that he was not under any pressure. the lawyer representing ali

and his wife said the claims were malicious and false. there were convicted of neglecting an injured child, and each was sentenced to one year injail. they were acquitted of all other charges, including assaulting them. there remain free was the appeal the verdict. but there is a chance for a happy ending. when tayyaba grows up, she wants to be a teacher, because she says children should be in school, not working. hello there. today is looking pretty similar to yesterday and that is lots of dry weather with warm sunshine but also the risk of further showers and thunderstorms. most of these will develop across parts of scotland and northern england. starting the morning off on a bit of an disappointingly cloudy one for some. central, southern, eastern areas, but the strong sunshine will get going in burning back the cloud. sunny spells developing widely and as temperatures rise, we will start to see the threat of showers and thunderstorms again. namely central, eastern scotland

into northern england and maybe the high ground of wales and the south—west of england. elsewhere, pretty warm with temperatures reaching 23—25 celsius. during sunday evening, the showers and thunderstorms begin to fizzle away and most places will be dry again as we head through the course of the night. this is the pressure chart for monday. high pressure dominating the scene. subtle changes, more northerly winds beginning to build in and that could introduce a bit more cloud to parts of scotland and northern ireland through the day. much of england and wales should stay dry. sunshine from the word go. pleasantly warm into the afternoon. just the threat of a thunderstorm pushing into the channel islands off the near continent. the temperatures range from the high—teens in the north to the low to mid—20s further south. 0n into tuesday, picking up more than a northerly breeze. across—the—board, it will feel a little bit fresher. more cloud around. again, some holes appearing to allow some sunny spells in the afternoon. temperatures a bit lower. 16—20 celsius. into wednesday, we lose the northerly wind and will start to pick up some south—westerlies. a ridge of high pressure so most

of us, another fine day with spells of sunshine. changes taking place across the north—west of the uk. an area of low pressure which will be increasing wind and outbreaks of rain to northern ireland and western scotland. something we haven't seen for a long time as the jet stream begins to fire up and it starts to send areas of low pressure into our way. from thursday onwards, more unsettled and wet and windy for a time across the northern half of the uk with the rain spreading its way southwards and eastwards. for the week ahead, starting off with conditions we are have been used to for a while, dry and warm, and then it turns unsettled from the weekend onwards with some wind and rain and it will feel fresher. finally some changes taking place with the weather. welcome to bbc news.

broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is nkem ifejika. our top stories: the us president is now on his way to singapore for historic talks with north korea's kim jong—un. president trump abandons a joint statement issued at the end of the g7 summit and slams the canadian prime minister as ‘weak and dishonest‘. more than 65 dead after taliban fighters launch a series of attacks on afghan forces, hours after promising a rare ceasefire for the muslim holiday of eid. back in germany, a 20—year old iraqi suspect is extradited to face