hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. president trump has backed down on his most controversial policy to curb immigration, he's signed an executive order to stop separating children from their parents at the border. these detention centres have been set up in the last month. they have become hugely controversial and widely condemned while the president says he did not like these pictures and he signed an executive order. we will be live in washington. immigration is also on the agenda in europe. hungary's parliament has passed legislation — which criminalises the work of human rights groups — that help asylum seekers. the vote defied a warning from the council of europe that the legislation breaks european laws. the search continues for survivors on the ferry that sank in indonesia, almost 200 people are believed to be missing. and we'll have the latest from the world cup, christiano ronaldo was wearing his scoring boots again earlier, and spain are in action right now. we will have the update on spain versus iran as well. donald trump and his supporters have

spent the last week saying that separating children from their parents is justified because it will help stop illegal immigration. now we have an executive order reversing the president's on policies. here he is signing the executive order a few minutes ago. let's listen to what he said moments afterwards. we are going to keep the families together, i did not like the site or the feeling of families being separated. there is a problem that has gone on for many years through many administrations and we are working very hard on immigration. it has been kids left out in the cold, and it has been not dealt with, and we are dealing with it step—by—step just like we dealt with north korea

and iran. let's clear one thing up. there is no clarity on how north korea is going to be nuclear eyes. all—america has done is pull out of the iran nuclear deal. a lot has left to be resolved. he said this has been going on for many years. and it hasn't. bbc reality check has looked at this, it's not true, there's no law that demands children are taken from their parents. this is a trump policy. over 2,300 children who've come across the border with their parents have been separated from them. that's in less than a month since the policy began. all adults now caught crossing the border illegally are arrested and treated as criminal suspects. the list of people opposed to this policy includes senior republicans, all four living former first ladies, the current first lady melania trump, the pope, the united nations, most americans according to the polls, and on and on it goes.

the pressure is coming in many forms. here's the president being heckled by democrats. we won't go away! we won't go away. mr president, don't you have kids? homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen has been strongly defending this policy. she's faced her own protest. this is a video that appears to show demonstrators interrupting her dinner at a mexican restaurant in washington, and shouting this... shame on you! shame! shame! shame! shame! these are pictures from

philadelphia where hundreds of people turned out to protest his policies. some protested with police —— were in classes with —— clashes with police. this is something that hits home. i have two young kids and i saw the videos in the photos and i imagine my own children being ripped away from me. mr trump has consistently blamed the democrats for the situation, and said that he's just enforcing an existing law. but there is no law insisting children separated from the parents. he wants his party to take action. here is the president hosting top republicans at the white house a few hours ago. he is also demanding they fix his "zero tolerance" immigration policy with new legislation. they want a bill to have funding and

the democrats are pushing back. this was nancy pelosi earlier. tuesday to the president of the united states, low can you go? it is the measure of your character in your compassion and your commitment toa your compassion and your commitment to a better america that you would advocate a policy that rips children from the arms of their parents. their mothers, and or theirfathers. and or their fathers. anthony is in washington. what do you think where the particular pressure points that made the white house reconsider this? i think first and foremost the audio clips of children crying for their parents, the stories of reporters who had been in the facilities, the reports that children as young as ten or 12 months old were being separated from their parents. i think all of that made it very difficult for the president to maintain this policy.

and he was hearing it notjust from his political opponents but also his allies, republicans and congress have to run for reelection in five months and these stories were taking a real toll on them and they were hearing from their constituents saying this has to stop. every living first lady said this was a bad policy and it has to be addressed and ivanka trompe allegedly came up and said we have to do something. that tilted the scales away from pushing for a executive action that suspends this policy. we are watching pictures of further detention centres being created close to the us and mexico border. though the president is shifting emphasis with regards to separation he is still going to keep enforcing this approach which treats anyone who comes across the border in suspicious circumstances as

criminal. exactly. the difference and if you read the text of the executive order is what it is saying is going to do is instead of separating parents the children and charging the parents with criminal violation of law they are going to keep the damn is together and charge the parents with criminal violation. these families are going to stay detained in facilities such as the one you're looking out for the entire process, whether they are seeking political asylum or they being charged with illegal injury and eventually deported. there are some court and eventually deported. there are some court cases, some and eventually deported. there are some court cases, some president that says you cannot hold children indefinitely and that is part of the reason why these children were being separated from their parents, the executive order says they should be kept together in detained as far as possible under current law and the administration should try to get those court precedents changed.

arrange forjudges those court precedents changed. arrange for judges to those court precedents changed. arrange forjudges to change them. donald trump says there could be litigation or legal challenges to try to keep these children from being detained indefinitely for as long as these asylum processes go. one other important detail, the children who have already been separated from their parents, what happens to them now? that is an open question. there has been difficulty even when the proceedings against the parents have concluded, and they have been deported, there has been challenges locating the children and getting them back to the parents in their home country. you would imagine that some process is going to have to be set up to try to reunify these families but we heard media reports that some of these children have been shipped across the country to places like new york and michigan. they will have to be located, they will have to be returned to their parents if... or

what ever adult they were wed, identify and make sure it was the right person. we are talking about dozens right person. we are talking about d oze ns of right person. we are talking about dozens of children. it will not be an easy process but you have to imagine there is going to be some sort of process set up to do that as quickly as possible to do that now. anthony, thank you very much. international condemnation is growing. mexico's foreign minister calls child separation "inhumane". canadian prime minister justin trudeau says it's ‘unacceptable' and ‘wrong'. we've also heard from theresa may. remember donald trump is visiting the uk in a few weeks. here's the prime minister in parliament. the pictures of children being held in what appeared to be cages are deeply disturbing. this is wrong. this is not something that we agree with. this is not the united kingdom's approach. we have a long and special and long standing relationship with the united states andi relationship with the united states and i think it is right that there will be a range of issues i will be

discussing with president trump, a range of issues about our shared interests. that was the main story but we have to turn to bbc news coverage today. a56 patients died after being wrongly given powerful painkillers at gosport war memorial hospital, in the south of england. that's the conclusion of an independent panel which said it's possible a further 200 patients may have suffered a similar fate between 1989 and 2000. concerns were first raised by the daughter of one of the patients who died. it took until today to produce a report which found that at the hospital. there was a disregard for human life and a culture of shortening the lives of a large number of patients. it says there was an institutionalised regime of prescribing and administering dangerous doses of drugs, which were not clinicallyjustified. and when dealing with family members who raised concerns the bereaved were consistently let down by those in authority. the british health secretary has apologised and says criminal charges will now be considered.

our health editor, hugh pym, has been speaking to some of the families involved. morning a mother and grandmother, looking across to gosport and reflecting on their lost nearly two decades ago. i thought she was in a safe quays. being cared for. how wrong i was. and i have to live with that. shocking. absolutely shocking. her mother went to the hospital for rehabilitation after treatment for an infection. she died afterfour weeks. herfamily later an infection. she died afterfour weeks. her family later discovered she had had huge doses of painkillers. those drugs, even in their individual states, let alone given together as a cocktail were

far too high given together as a cocktail were fartoo high in given together as a cocktail were far too high in their dosage and we are talking 100% too high. far too high in their dosage and we are talking 10096 too high. report says more than 650 patients probably died at gosport war memorial hospital because opioids were prescribed for no medical reason. in the 1990s, prescribed for no medical reason. in the 19905, it prescribed for no medical reason. in the 1990s, it was said that there was an institutionalized practise of shortening lives. a clinical assistant is named in the report as responsible for prescribing practise. she was later disciplined by medical regulators. james jones who changed the mike headed the review said there was a failure of the hospital. they were prescribed and administered by nurses who would have known the effect of drugs. the pharmacist in the hospital would have known the level of old for you it's —— opioids. global institution andi it's —— opioids. global institution and i would have to say the co nsulta nts and i would have to say the consultants who would have had response ability over the clinical assistant, they knew as far as our records show what was going on in the hospital. after the report was

published, they joined other families who felt that before now they were ignored by so many in authority. we were blocked by every single one. but today, that wall has come, tumbling down. the truth is there now and we don't want this government to sit on it like any other inquiry. we want action now. the report highlights a series of warnings and missed opportunities. backin warnings and missed opportunities. back in 1991, and nurses raise concerns about prescribing. in 2001, police investigated the deaths of patients. in 2009, it ruled that some patients were given wrong medication. in the same year, the crown prosecution service said there was insufficient evidence for a prosecution. had the establishment

was sent when junior prosecution. had the establishment was sent whenjunior nhs prosecution. had the establishment was sent when junior nhs staff spoke out, had the establishment listened when ordinary families raised concerns instead of treating them as troublemakers, many of those steps would not have happened. ministers say prosecuting authorities will decide whether criminal charges should be brought. that is what the families of those who died now wish to see. if you are like further information on that story, it is available on the bbc news website, bbc .com/ news. as we do at this time around the world cup, we will talk on cristiano ronaldo scoring the fourth in the world cup, and portugal are through the next round. morocco are going on. we will have the full round—up. some british airways passengers have complained after their tickets were cancelled because the prices were too low. the airline said it sent some travel agents the incorrect fares, for flights to tel aviv and dubai.

ba has apologised and will provide a full refund as well as a 100—pound voucher to the people affected. jack sheldon, the founder of jack's flight club said that he was shocked british airways made this decision particularly after the media attention around ryan air cancellations in the past year. i think it is bad business and it is bad pr as well, especially. that is the reason why most of these mistake affairs happen, most airlines will honour them about 70% of the time. in cases like this one were a ticket with maybe 50% lower than it should have been, it is almost always honoured because the airline does not want the bad pr of cancelling tickets a week later. i am shocked british airways did this especially with how much attention the ryan air cancellations got a few months ago in monarch air when they went out of business. it is not good. if you see the last bit of flashing,

iam if you see the last bit of flashing, i am sorry about it. i do not think it was just i am sorry about it. i do not think it wasjust me i am sorry about it. i do not think it was just me seeing it and if you are as well, we are sorry and we are looking into it. our lead story is... president trump has backed down on his most controversial policy to curb immigration, he's signed an executive order to stop separating children from their parents at the border. day seven of the world cup, and although scored again to help defeat morocco. soares although scored again to help defeat morocco. soa res as although scored again to help defeat morocco. soares as well, that is not him, that is diego costa. let me show you all the action including soares. before a ball was kicked, rocco was trying to keep rinaldo quiet, which lasted four minutes. at his ruthless best. 85th goal in his

international career, more than any other european in history. for portable's fans that is where the excitement and eight, on the back foot for most of the game, morocco with a better side in moscow, desperate to get back to level terms to keep the world cup hopes alive, perhaps they should've had penalty. but luck was not on the african side. for all the opportunities they cannot take any of them. morocco the first team to leave russia. the africans had been rinaldo. soares has scored 50 goals for his country and against saudi arabia he was at it again. a trademark tap into mark his 100th international cap. for the saudis, the first world been one to forget. their place at cup was on the rocks after the world cup was on the rocks after a game with russia. close but not

close enough. does have americans continue to make chances but their finishing left plenty to be desired. in the final whistle they had done enough. saudi arabia heading home. the reason the picture of diego costa popped up, he scored the only one in 1—0, spain one versus iran. you can see a clip of that on the bbc sport app. let me show you another image, this is russia's deputy prime minister. the former fifa president sepp blatter. and he is banned from all football activity because of widespread bribery allegations. he is not technically breaking any rules. beazerjapanese technically breaking any rules. beazer japanese fans after japan beat columbia. apparently, this is

uncommon in in football matches, they bring it with them when they are on tour in this inspired other fa ns are on tour in this inspired other fans do follow suit. let's talk about the russians because the host tea m about the russians because the host team are the lowest rank in the world cup. but as you probably know that has not stopped them. they won the first two games and are through to the knockout stage. here is the reaction of some fans after last night bob mike windt. two games in a row. 8—0 overall. night bob mike windt. two games in a row. 8-0 overall. it was incredible! semifinal was a great result but we believe world cup champion may be. not many predicted that russia would do well but sports journalist polina kuimova did. here she is speaking to the bbc.”

think all of them just want to prove to people to fans and journalists, to people to fans and journalists, to all the people all over the world that they can do that. for country, for the fans, for the flag, for the anthem. does it feel like every russian as a football fan? it feels like we came back to 2008 when russia was celebrating the winning of the bronze medal in euro 2008. i think now we are back to that. every person on the street, it even small kids, they are saying we are the champions. back to the third game of the day, and i have not seen this disallowed goal but a lot of iranians are talking about it on twitter. definitely offsides. a very lucky spain went for diego costa.

spain still have a bit of improvement, the wonderful opening game against the portuguese in group b. 3-3 with game against the portuguese in group b. 3—3 with rinaldo hat trick. but to be decided in group b who is going to get through to the last 16, we know morocco are out. and has really been moving day on day seven because we know that two teams are through because we know that two teams are throuthuly 16 because we know that two teams are through july 16 and that because we know that two teams are throuthuly 16 and that is in group aa. uruguay beat saudi arabia so russia can now officially party, all the math goes in their favour. russia can now officially party, all the math goes in theirfavour. they go through with uruguay for the last 16 and play each other to find out who topside group. that will be quite important because they will face one of those teams, probably spain or portugal in group b. we know saudi arabia and egypt are going home along with the moroccans as well. a few things were decided on day seven. a lot more will be decided on day eight as well. we are

getting towards the business ends of these groups now when all the math sta rts these groups now when all the math starts weighing either for them these groups now when all the math starts weighing eitherfor them or against them in these 32 nations. we will talk to you tomorrow, in moscow. let's talk about the entertainment industry. more and more of us are watching tv and films online. and that's why there's a big battle going on in the entrainment industry. today disney has increased it's takeover offer for most of 21st century fox's assets to more $71 billion. it's done that because the fox board, which is chaired by rupert murdoch is also considering a $65 billion bid from us cable tv giant comcast. kim gittleson is in new york for us. i guess rupert murdoch can kick back and watch this all play out? sure. it is one of the most intriguing corporate love triangles and sometime. 21st century fox seems

inclined to except his name's operable for its sweetened the pot thenit operable for its sweetened the pot then it had to contend with a rival offer from comcast. they then it had to contend with a rival offerfrom comcast. they are then it had to contend with a rival offer from comcast. they are engaged ina bidding offer from comcast. they are engaged in a bidding warfor the majority of 21st century fox's assets and what won't be included in these sale is fox news and fox sports assets. it will be the tv studios and movie studios, and a significant stake in the who lose streaming service. the question is why the bidding war happening? a lot of the legacy media companies are worried about the technology giants like netflix, google and facebook which seems to be eating in their profitability. they are hoping by buying up each other they can achieve sale and better compete with their firms. helmi understand it from rupert murdoch, is it who ever offers most orare murdoch, is it who ever offers most or are there other factors why they

would say yes to one company over the other? there are other factors that we would be talking about, another media merger between aol and time warner, bash at&t and time warner. they two companies were able to merge over the objections of the justice department. fox prefers disney's somewhat because they think the purchase price would be easier sell to us regulators here, they are worried if comcast had the best bid they might face significant headwinds from getting us government approval. thank you. lemmy —— let me show you this quick tweet. the grocer magazine tweeted that "heineken hit by stock issues amid ongoing co2 shortage". it says the brewer is limiting the amount of beer british pubs can order. other carbonated drinks are also affected. the company which distrbutes coke across western europe

said "ourfocus is on limiting the effect this may have on the availability of our products. and before any of you get any worry, they say there has been no disruption to supply to date. it doesn't have a huge impact but it may in time. a story that has come through in the last couple of hours is that donald trump has signed an executive order which. the practise of separating children from their pa rents of separating children from their parents when they are part of families that have come across the borderfrom mexico into the us. donald trump says he wants to be strong on immigration and says that people may still be kept in detention centres but they will be kept together. will give you more details on that in the coming half—hour. hello once again and i want to bring

you up—to—date with the number of stories we have been covering in recent days across the world. let me ta ke recent days across the world. let me take you towards the great lakes, there you see them just to the north of this great stripe of cloud and down towards the shores of lake michigan after torrential downpour is through monday night into tuesday morning. this was the scene in rockford illinois, where the local high streets became something of a river. several inches of rain fell injusta river. several inches of rain fell injust a few river. several inches of rain fell in just a few hours and that is not quite the end of the story. the weather system which has been very active as it rolled down off the rockies looks as though it could have the potential to deliver at yet more flooding rains across the northern states and on its southern portion and may well be that texas very glad to see some rain but when you give it 300 mm just a very short space of time, it could be some floods. i should say at the same time there is quite a deal of heat

across the western side of canada and into the southwest of the usa where the drought persists. the monsoon is in full flow and it is great rafts of cloud here. and through the bay of bengal and up through the bay of bengal and up through the bay of bengal and up through the northern states of india andindeed through the northern states of india and indeed into the eastern end of the himalayas. we could be looking at several hundred millimetres of rain falling at several hundred millimetres of rainfalling in at several hundred millimetres of rain falling in the next four or five days. we have had another torrential downpour of rain as this great mass of cloud came to sit over average and on the southern shores of western africa. the rain just kept coming to the extent that the residents woke up on tuesday morning again to this sort of scene of devastation. cars, homes, businesses all flooded. no match for the force

of that rain as it swept through the capital. we could see more torrential downpour is through some of the west african states through the next 26 hours or so. it may well be that he could beat nigeria and ghana's turn. be that he could beat nigeria and gha na's turn. temperatures be that he could beat nigeria and ghana's turn. temperatures across the northwestern quarter are really disappointing for the time of year. ten or 15 degrees or so below what we would expect in some locations. this weather front has worked its way through the british isles in the last 26 hours, come thursday it will be all over the northern states of europe. behind it you will notice the direction of flow is northwesterly. temperatures here in the british isles push on towards the british isles push on towards the mid—20s and days. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source, and these are the main stories here in the bbc newsroom. president trump has backed down on his most controversial policy to curb immigration, he's signed an executive order to stop separating children

from their parents at the border. the controversial policy had been widely condemned. not least because of videos and audio that has emerged detailing the experiences of the over 2000 children who are caught up in this. migration is also on the agenda in europe. hungary's parliament has passed legislation which criminalises the work of human rights groups that help asylum seekers. the search continues for survivors on the ferry that sank in indonesia, almost 200 people are believed to be missing. your questions are always welcome. #bbcos is the hashtag. nearly 200 people are now missing after monday's ferry disaster in indonesia. it happened on the vast lake toba on the island of sumatra.

these are some of the latest pictures. only 18 survivors have been found, and only three bodies. unfortunately, it's certain many more will follow. indonesia's presidentjoko widodo said, "this disaster is a lesson for all of us to be always careful and vigilant. for all boat owners to comply with all existing regulations, of the national meteorological office around possible bad weather." it has 17,000 islands, and many people use boats to get around. that means that there are many boat accidents. 40% of those are caused by human error, and 12% are by bad weather. the wooden boat that sank in this picturesque volcanic lake when it hit bad weather is believed to have been three times over capacity.

authorities say it was operating illegally, and didn't hand out tickets to passengers. so there are no details about who was on board are how many people. authorities are having to go off families coming forward and reporting their missing loved ones. search teams are still coming the lake looking for any survivors. they say they will do that for the next seven days at least, and an information centre has been set up on the site of the lake for desperate families seeking news. this is a very popular time to be travelling in indonesia, as millions head home to celebrate the islamic festival of the deed. this would be indonesia's worst maritime accident for years, but they are not uncommon. in the last week, there have been four boat accidents. officials have admitted to the bbc that they are struggling to enforce even basic safety standards across

this vast archipelago of more than 13,000 islands. survivors have talked about not enough life jackets onboard, and how they had to scramble to grab one as the boat went underwater. we will update that story for you tomorrow. the british government has seen off a challenge from pro—eu rebels within its own party in parliament today. the would—be rebels wanted to ensure mps had the power to stop the uk leaving the eu without a deal. but after a compromise, the government won narrowly, by 319 votes to 303. our political editor laura kuenssberg has been watching developments at westminster. a small but noisy group of tory mps have been pushing the government on what happens if parliament says no to the final brexit deal that's negotiated with european union. they wanted a legal guarantee they'd be able to send ministers back to the negotiating table to try again. theresa may and her ministers were adamant they need the option of no deal, of walking away. this fight‘s been about who's really

in charge, parliament or number ten? last week, the prime minister and her team swerved a defeated by promising to listen again about what should happen if there's no deal. secretary david davis. but only a last—minute statement from from her brexit secretary gave an escape route for both sides to walk away from a serious clash. we debate, argue, make our cases with passion, but we do it to a purpose, and that is to deliver for our people, not just to please ourselves. they decided to leave the eu, and whatever the eu think about that, we will do it. it is unthinkable that any prime minister would seek to force through a course of action with significant consequences for many, many years which the majority in this house did not approve of. would mps be able to stop that happening? in the bottom left—hand corner, you see government whips in charge

of discipline whispering about a compromise. then, the chief whip a little later gets up from his seat and give a quiet thumbs—up. enough rebels were willing to compromise, if not exactly gladly. i am prepared to accept the government's difficulty and support it. i have to say there's enough madness around at the moment to make one start to question where the collective sanity in this country has disappeared. it was not comfortable. one unwell labour mp in a wheelchair on morphine was forced to come and vote. the noes have it, the noes have it! but enough mps believed assurances they'd have a real say. there were some procedural changes today, but there was no change in the fundamental issue here, which is the government cannot be forced by parliament to negotiate something that the government doesn't want to do. and that's the key as we move forward. hopefully now, this takes the whole brexit debate into a new place. it's not over, though.

the bill goes back to the lords, where objections linger. and still close, even after compromise, the government can't sit comfortably tonight. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. immigration is shaping politics in europe as well. it isa it is a dominant issue in american politics, as well as european politics. this is a recent cover of spiegel. it says "the german question, how do we deal with migrants"? it's a question horst seehofer is asking a lot. he's one of angela merkel‘s close coalition partners, and he wants migrants who have already registered elsewhere in the eu, to be turned away at the german border. mrs merkel does not. here's the chancellor talking earlier. translation: we stand by our humanitarian responsibility to protect people fleeing from war and terror. and we also stand by our

responsibility for european unity. both go together because no matter which way you look at it, migration is a european challenge. perhaps right now, our biggest challenge. there are multiple challenges here for angela merkel. support for the government has fallen below 50% in recent opinion polls. so if the coalition collapses, there's no guarantee another election would give her a stronger hand. for more, here's damian mcguinness in berlin. here in berlin, it's by no means sold, because mr seehofer has said he will give miss merkeljust over a week to come up with that pan—european solution. that's why there are meetings in brussels this weekend between european leaders, and the pressure is now on, because if mrs merkel can't come

up with some sort of solution, at least a temporary one for now, mr seehofer is threatening to unilaterally imposed border controls on the southern border of germany. if he does that, that would be insubordination, and mrs merkel might fire him, which could bring down the government. so the stakes are very high in berlin politically, in particular for mrs merkel. hungary's parliament has passed a package of laws on immigration. they include prison terms of up to a year on lawyers and organisations who try to help illegal immigrants claim asylum or apply for residence. condemnation has duly followed. amnesty in hungary tweeted, "the government is trying to target the very ethos of human rights work. but there is support for these types of measures. only five lawmakers voted against the bill, 159 voted for it. here's nick thrope. the government passed easily, with a strong two—thirds majority

for the governing party, these new measures. effectively they target not only the organisational activities of ngos, but also their campaigning, their advocacy work, as well. so it's very hard to imagine how they will be able to work in the future without risking prosecution, although these human rights group, led by the helsinki committee, have pledged they will carry on. in terms of how this puts them into a collision course, the council of europe, the venice commission of the council of europe, which assesses the legal atmosphere and terms of legislation, they have submitted a draft opinion. it's expected to be approved on friday, but the bbc have seen a copy of this and it basically accuses the hungarian with this look legislation with breaking the rights to freedom of expression and the right to freedom of association. these two men are at the heart

of south sudan's civil war. president salva kiir, and rebel leader rek ma—shar. they're due to hold their first face—to—face meeting in two years. mr machar flew into ethiopia's capital, addis ababa, where the meeting will be held earlier today. it's no easy task ahead. remember, south sudan gained independence from sudan in 2011, it's the world's youngest country. but civil war broke out two years later. since then, all attempts at negotiating an end to the conflict have collapsed. that five—year conflict has wreaked havoc on the country. south sudan creates the third largest number of refugees in the world, after only syria and afghanistan. and the un says the humanitarian response in general is severely underfunded.

anne soy has been to south sudan recently, she sent this report. preparing the ground for next year's harvest. one they may not live to see. few are left behind tending to theirfarms. it's a choice they've had to make between dying from the bullet, or hunger. translation: we form, but we have to run to the bush to hide sometimes. our neighbours have all run away. some were killed. we don't know what to do. most of the people have fled to the village centre. they feel safer together, but they've lost everything. christina kaku tells me that her sister was killed, and all the food they had harvested looted.

the mother of four has not enough vegetables to feed her family. this land is so fertile, the people here can grow food here the whole year round. but now, theyjust aren't able to do that because of conflict, and even the farmers are starving. children suffer the most. malnutrition rates are soaring. few can get the hospital. this woman says her husband is a mechanic. he used to make enough to feed his family, but now south sudanese money has lost value. a nurse's salary is now only worth a dollar a month. and the conflict shows no sign of ending. we've seen a house of that have been burned down, people have been burned inside them. stories of women who have been

raped, often gang—raped, children who have been raped. our message is to stop fighting and allow humanitarian work to go on. millions of south sudanese have fled to the camps here and in neighbouring countries. the world's youngest nation has brought more misery to its people. but everywhere they look, a tucked richness. if only the conflict could end. anne soy, bbc news, juba. inafew in a few minutes, jonathan amos will update us on a story we covered before. an effort to collect space junk to create a new tool. jonathan will tell us how it's going. lord sugar has apologised after being accused of racism in a tweet in which he compared a picture of senegal‘s world cup squad to beach sellers in spain.

the mocked—up photo showed the team next to an array of sunglasses and handbags. lord sugar, who hosts the apprentice on bbc one, later deleted the post and has apologised, but the tweet‘s prompted a storm of criticism, as frankie mccamley reports. the british billionaire—turned tv star of the apprentice. lord sugar, synonymous with these two stinging words. you're fired. support here, he fires the shot, and it's deflected! but following the senegal—poland world cup match, match tweeted to compare senegal‘s national team to the beach vendors in spain, posting an image of sunglasses and handbags underneath. the comment prompted hundreds of people to show him the red card. the mp dawn butler wrote that she was troubled after seeing lord sugar‘s racist week. following the criticism, he tweeted to say, "i can't see what i have to apologise for, you are ott". we've tried speaking to lord sugar,

but he wasn't available. despite him not speaking to us at his home in essex today, lord sugar has tweeted an apology. "i misjudged me earlier tweet. it was in no way intended to cause offence, and clearly my attempt at humour has backfired. i have deleted the tweet and am very sorry." sir alan michael sugar, knight. the bbc press office also commented on lord sugar‘s actions, saying it was a seriously misjudged tweet. it continued to say that it's right that he apologised unreservedly. despite the comments off the pitch, senegal claimed their victory on the pitch with a win over poland. and even the fans were praised for cleaning up the stands afterwards. frankie mccamley, bbc news. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom.

our lead story. president trump has backed down on his most controversial policy to curb immigration, he's signed an executive order to stop separating children from their parents at the border. he said he didn't like the pictures, missing the point that the only reason the pictures were coming and we re reason the pictures were coming and were due to an at best a policy his administration brought them. an update on unrest in nicaragua, at least three people were killed as government forces launched an operation to regain control of the western city of masaya. around 180 people have died during two months of anti—government protests. that's from bbc mundo. the un says war crimes were committed in the battle for eastern ghouta in syria. investigators said syrian pro—government forces deliberately attacked hospitals, bombarded residents' homes and denied them food. but they also accused rebel forces of committing a war crime by indiscriminately shelling civilians in damascus.

that's from bbc arabic. it won't surprise you that a story involving baby animals is doing well on our website, this litter of four female mountain lion cubs has been found hidden in a den in southern california. officials in santa monica had been tracking the mother since january. we have to see donald trump's decision to change his policy in terms of the midterms. the us midterm elections are in november. they will decide the make up of congress, and some of the seats in the senate. as this article by bloomberg points out, a record number of women are running. they have this graphic. it shows the number of female candidates dating back to 2000. you can see the increase this time round. but hundreds more men are running too. the increase is not as much as it

first seems. many women say they've been inspired to run by the me too movement. our north america correspondent rajini vaidyanathan has travelled to pennsylvania to meet two of them. here's her report. i was iwasa i was a victim of campus sexual violence when i was in college, going through the criminaljustice system as a victim was one of the worst expenses of my life. i've certainly experienced my share of sexual harassment. it's something that most women experience, and i think at this point in time, we are fed up. this is what democracy looks like! discrimination, sexual harassment, and equal pay, some of theissues harassment, and equal pay, some of the issues that have women talking in the last 12 months. and for many, the only way to change the status quo is by running for office, which is why there are a record number of female candidates in this year's

midterm elections. the meat to movement relates to my own personal journey. i wanted to become a special victims prosecutor to make sure that no victim was treated when i was. unfortunately, sure that no victim was treated when iwas. unfortunately, i ended sure that no victim was treated when i was. unfortunately, i ended up battling cancer, which made me realise that life is short and i wa nted realise that life is short and i wanted the ability to effectuate greater change. the area of pennsylvania where i live has been represented until recently by a congressman who was also implicated iname congressman who was also implicated in a me too movement. pat meehan has resigned effective immediately amid misconduct allegations. resigned effective immediately amid misconduct allegationslj resigned effective immediately amid misconduct allegations. i have been a civil rights lawyer for more than 30 years in this area. and under this of menstruation, i've seen things i'd been fighting for challenged every single day. what is staggering about where we are, and pennsylvania, is that not a single woman represents the state in congress. one thing is for sure. with these two women running

head—to—head, the state of pennsylvania will send at least one woman to congress. we've seen plenty of kim jong un in the last couple of weeks, but we still know very little of north koreans. this report by the un children's charity unicef helps. it's been to north korea to investigated the impact of poverty and malnutrition. and, at its request, the north korean government gathered information from 8,500 households. that data revealed that that 20% of children had stunted growth. in pyongyang, where presumably access to food is easier that figure is 10%. in some rural areas it's over 30%. we also learn that a third of household drinking water is unsafe. these figures are shocking, but it's worth noting they have improved since the last study in 2012. here's what we've heard from unicef. 98% of households have a tv.

in the cities, 77% of households have a mobile phone. but, only 30% have a fridge. almost all of them have a television. and hardly anyone is on the internet. here's imogen foulkes in geneva with more on these findings. we know north korea is a very closed society. it was north train officials primarily who gathered this information. and we know for example, that human rights investigators say there are very large camps for political prisoners in north korea where whole families are housed. it is maybe unlikely that data was gathered from those areas, so perhaps we aren't getting the full picture. nevertheless, i think unicef working with the government of north korea, releasing these figures together with

pyongyang is trying to show pyongyang is trying to show pyongyang itself, traditionally close to eight, that this kind of low—level intervention can work and save children's lives. it's also trying to show the community is international community that it's worth it. aid has dropped to north korea. i think unicef warned earlier this year that children faced starvation possibly because of the sanctions. and let's not forget north korea had a massive famine in the 1990s, where millions of people are estimated to have died. agencies would like to prevent that, because they say that whatever we may think about north korea's nuclear ambitions and its human rights record, children should not suffer because of those things. space, the clue is in the name, is normally pretty empty. but it's a lot less so around our planet. tens of thousands of

pieces of space junk, everything from nuts and bolts to old rocket parts, is spinning round earth, and could smash into other spacecraft. so scientists have created a space—junk catcher, and today astronauts on the international space station launched it. here's our science correspondentjonathan amos. they will do four main experience —— experiments. they will release an object can track it, because in order to be able to approach something and track it, you need to track it. they will not throw a net out over the object and try and grab that. they will also extend on a very long pole a target, a plate, and firea very long pole a target, a plate, and fire a harpoon at it, just to see how projectiles work in microgravity. it's weightless up there, and if you are going to harpoon debris in space, you must be sure that it will work. and it has this big membrane that will unfurl, bringing the whole experiment back down to earth. but in the future, we will probably get companies who will go up,

will probably get companies who will go up, get contracts from other satellite companies to go and get stuff and bring it down. donald trump's signed an executive order to reverse his own policy on certain —— separating children from their parents. mcbride tweeted this... a large number of white men all discussing family does —— separation. we also have this from barack obama, separation. we also have this from ba rack obama, saying separation. we also have this from barack obama, saying it, are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents's arm the arms? or are we a nation that values families and works to keep them together? these are issues being passionately described as discussed by americans. goodbye. as you probably already heard, we've got a hot spell on the way next week. but this time last year, we

we re week. but this time last year, we were in the middle of our were misspelled of the year. five consecutive days, we saw temperatures above 30 degrees recorded. and on 21june, we saw temperatures above 30 degrees recorded. and on 21 june, we saw the warmest temperature of the year, just shy of 35 degrees at london heathrow. a certain degree of irony, this time things are turning fresher. northwest winds will push through the night into thursday, clearing away the humid air as this ridge of high pressure pushes through the west, which will be our friend for some time. it is at this time on thursday, the summer solstice, just shy of 19 hours of daylight in shetland. elsewhere it's the longest day of the year as such, and there'll be plenty of sunshine to go with it. but this despite the fa ct we to go with it. but this despite the fact we have that fresh start, lots of sunshine around, a few showers to the day in shetland, the far north and east of scotland, but most of those will fade later on. for the vast majority, it's a day of long and sunny spells. strong sunshine

overhead, temperatures signe feely down in the south compared to recent days, mid—teens elsewhere. that northwest wind will make itself known in the evening. it will ease overnight into the morning, clear skies all around on friday morning, temperatures well down into single figures. mid to low single figures for some in the countryside. high pressure is still with us, but that will nudge further eastwards. a noticeable breeze to shetland down through eastern parts of scotland and england, confirming west winds will be lighter. the temperatures will be lighter. the temperatures will start to nudge up once again. day by day at this stage, very pleasa nt day by day at this stage, very pleasant and that sunshine, strong at this time of year. setting up stall into weekend, most will stick with that strong sunshine overhead. on saturday, bringing some patchy rain and drizzle, that board rain,

temperatures across wales getting into the low 20s, other teams across scotla nd into the low 20s, other teams across scotland and northern ireland. temperatures will climb further as we get into sunday, than i is still cooler, but the even by night, temperatures will start to rise. blue skies on sunday almost uk wide by this stage, some gentle sea breeze developing around the coast. mid—teens here, but scotland and northern ireland are into the 20s by the stage by my mid—20s towards the southeast corner. as we go into the new working week, we could see a few weather fronts hitting... new working week, we could see a few weatherfronts hitting... but generally high pressure dominates. clouding over from the northwest late in the day with one or two showers, but the vast majority will have a scorcher of a day as temperatures continue this —— to climb at this stage across england and wales. high pressure across scandinavia will continue to feed in to get more work next week, temperatures can creep up above 13

degrees. a look into next week, almost right uk wide. temperatures wide into the mid—20s, and one or two into the low 30s. by the end of the week, just a few signals that we could start to see a few thunderstorms around the bay of this cake, dripping northwards, but for the time being, no guarantee of rain. tonight at 10pm — hundreds of patients, at a hospital in hampshire, died prematurely, because they were given dangerous doses of drugs, for no medical reason. an official report names 1156 victims, as the authors blame an ‘institutional regime', of prescribing opioids, with no medicaljustification. i thought she was in a safe place being cared for. how wrong i was. and the report states that the families of those affected, were badly let down by the authorities. had the establishment listened when

ordinary families raised concerns instead of treating them as troublemakers, many of those deaths may not have happened. we'll have details and reaction, and we'll be asking what the wider lessons are. also tonight —