i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: we will have a lot of happy people. president trump says he's ending his own policy separating migrant children from their parents. they'll be detained together instead. migration is also a big issue in europe — we'll be looking at how several countries are dealing with the crisis. also in the programme: he's the disgraced former head of world football, but sepp blatter has turned up at the world cup, raising eyebrows in russia. with warrior robots and guitar—toting opera singers — it's the hong kong animation challenging cultural stereotypes. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday.

it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where us president trump has made a major climbdown and reversed his own administration policy of separating of migrant children from their parents. mr trump's zero tolerance policy on immigration had been widely criticised after footage emerged of young children detained in cages. the bbc‘s nick bryant has more. a tent encampment close to the mexican border that has become a sweltering detention centre for some of the thousands of children taken from their parents. donald trump's zero—tolerance immigration policy has provoked outrage across america, and the world. we are going to have a lot of happy people. so today, from the president, that rare thing, a reversal and climb—down, and all it took to end child separation was the flourish of his pen. so we are going to have strong, very strong borders but we are going

to keep the families together. i didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. this was a political crisis of his own making and up until today's turnaround, this ‘america first‘ president had vigorously defended the practice. we want a great country, we want a country with heart but when people come up, they have to know they can't get in, otherwise it's never going to stop. but these images of children in what looked like cages were too much even for a loyal republican leaders to stomach. child separation had become politically untenable. democrats were winning the argument. this has gone on too long, and it must stop and it must stop now! not tomorrow, but now! last night in washington, the woman who has implemented zero tolerance, the head of homeland security, was hounded by protesters. kirstjen nielsen had been

having a working dinner at a mexican restaurant. this stretch of the rio grande river is a popular crossing point for illegal immigrants, and families are continuing to make the treacherous journey across the border. donald trump remains determined to stop them. if you are weak, if you are weak, which some people would like you to be, if you are pathetically weak, the country is going to be overrun with millions of people and if you are strong, then you don't have any heart — that is a tough dilemma. perhaps i'd rather be strong, but that's a tough dilemma. images have the power to define a presidency. these will linger in the national memory long after child separations have come to an end. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. let's get more on this. earlier i asked our washington

correspondent to explain just how much of a policy reversal this executive order was. if you look at what has been proposed here in this executive order, many of the details need to be worked out and it is not just impact on families who are continuing to arrive at the border, there is also the question of what happens to the families who are already being held separately. are they reunited 7 already being held separately. are they reunited? now we're talking specifically the settlement. that means that children cannot the held for longer than 20 days and that includes when they are being held with families. that is why we started to move in america away from the idea of holding families and starting to have a position of catch and release where, effectively, people would be taken into custody and then released awaiting a court date. donald trump says he is totally against catch and release and will not return to that. is a

question about changing that, in order to go forward, and building necessary facilities to hold families together. if you would, you mentioned children, over 2000 children now in custody. what will happen to them? they continue to be held in the shelters, as some people call them. 0thers call them detention centres. but they are not with theirfamily detention centres. but they are not with their family and that is the big question going forward. it seems no process at the moment to reunite them with their families. that means this will continue to be an issue because these pictures and stories will not stop coming from the border. also making news today: indonesian officials say at least 192 people are missing after a ferry sank in sumatra earlier this week. 0nly eighteen survivors have been found. authorities fear many people could have been trapped inside the submerged ferry. officials say the vessel was over its capacity of sixty people. translation: regarding lifejackets,

they had 45 of them. so one can imagine, if there were 200 people on board, many did not have lifejackets. errors included the absence of manifests, sailing permit and required lifejackets. flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in south asia have killed dozens of people and displaced more than a million, most of them in northeast india and bangladesh. more than 1500 villages have been swamped in india's assam state. officials say the situation is likely to remain critical. an inquiry into the deaths of elderly people at a hospital in southern england has concluded that more than a50 patients died as a direct result of being given powerful painkillers without medicaljustification. the investigation, into deaths between 1989 and 2000 at the gosport war memorial hospital, found that another 200 had probably also suffered the same fate. the european union will launch retaliatory tariffs against us

exports on friday. it's a response to us duties on european steel and aluminium imposed earlier this month. eu officials said they will target american exports such as blue jeans, motorbikes and bourbon whiskey. new zealand's prime ministerjacinda ardern has been admitted to hospitalfor the birth of herfirst child. the 37—year—old is set to become the second world leader to have a child while in office — the first being pakistan's benazir bhutto in 1990. deputy winston peters is now acting prime minister. many countries across europe are facing difficult questions over how to deal with migration. three countries in particular where the issue made headlines recently are italy, hungary and spain. so here's a snapshot of the different ways those countries are responding to the challenges, with gavin lee, on board the rescue ship aquarius off the coast of spain,

nick thorpe in budapest and james reynolds in rome. in recent years, more than 500,000 migrants have made it here to italy. many of them passed through this, rome's main train and bus station, on their way to the rest of the continent. italy's new populist government is now taking tough action. it's already closed its ports to foreign—flagged rescue boats, it now demands that the rest of the eu share the migration burden, and in the long run it wants to shut down for good the migration route across the mediterranean. here in budapest, the hungarian parliament has just voted to create a new criminal offence. it's called facilitating illegal immigration, and it targets human rights groups which work with asylum seekers. the government argues that it's necessary in order to prevent hungary from becoming what it calls an immigrant country. from now on, human rights activists and lawyers could be imprisoned

for printing leaflets — or even for meeting with clients. the political clash between european countries over the continuing illegal migration to europe has played out on board this ship, the charity—run aquarius, over the past few days. a week long, thousand—mile journey has taken 630 migrants from off the coast of libya here to spain, because italy refused to take them in. now the ship is returning off the coast of libya to take and rescue migrants from rubber boats. we'll be on board for the next seven days, and until there is a resolution between eu leaders, then there's no sense of knowing what will happen to those migrants on this ship and where they'll go. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: with warrior robots and guitar—toting opera singers, it's the hong kong animation challenging cultural stereotypes.

also on the programme: ronaldo continues doing what he does best, and blatter is back. we'll have a round up of all the world cup action — both on and off the pitch. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat of government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old, and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home.

early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. the real focus of attention today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife, it would be a good idea, if i could, to get her to go up there for a little while. welcome back. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: president trump has signed an executive order to end his administration's controversial practice of separating migrant children from their parents. there's been condemnation of harsh new immigration laws approved by the hungarian parliament. let's now take a look at some front pages

from around the world. we start off with the china daily, it talks about how relations between china and north korea appear to have hit new heights, as the latest round of talks between the country's two leaders ended. xi jinping saying that he and his north korean counterpart are "making history", while kim jong—un says he will spare no effort to improve relations with china. meanwhile, in the south china morning post, the fears of a trade war between china and the us continue to mount, despite assurances from the chinese vice—premier. he's been meeting the us treasury secretary to try and iron out the key sticking points. and finally, the international edition of the japan times reports

on how football fever is spreading, following the samurai blues' shock win over colombia at the world cup on tuesday. a television ratings agency has revealed that almost half the country was watching the game and organisers of public viewings were overwhelmed by the fans. to the stories —— to the papers. —— those are. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? british airways has cancelled tickets, the company has said that it was a mistake as the tickets were sold to cheap and that it will refu nd sold to cheap and that it will refund passengers. more than 2000 people will be affected by the company's —— more than 2000 people will be affected by the company's decision.

now by the time a refugee arrives in a camp, they've already encountered a huge number of obstacles, from political instability, civil war, perhaps religious persecution and famine. but some rohingya refugees in bangladesh have lost their lives from something that you may not expect — wild elephants. this is because the cox's bazar refugee camp lies directly in the path of the migration route of asian elephants, who are making their way from myanmar to bangladesh. so what can be done? raquib amin is the country representative for international union for conservation of nature. hejoins me from dhaka in bangladesh. thank you so much forjoining us. more than1 thank you so much forjoining us. more than 1 million of these rohingya refugees directly in the path of the migration route of asian elephants how serious is this problem? thank you, good morning, it isa problem? thank you, good morning, it is a very serious problem u nfortu nately, is a very serious problem unfortunately, the migratory route has been blocked between bangladesh and myanmarand we has been blocked between bangladesh and myanmar and we have counted about 35 to 45 animal, elephants, have been trapped on the western side of the camp, and in the process

what happens is the elephants are just trying to find their way and i have encountered the ringgit people —— rohingya people. have encountered the ringgit people -- rohingya people. so what can be done to reduce this human, 11 conflict? personable, repatriation of these people to myanmar. -- first of these people to myanmar. -- first of all. secondly, it will take some time we need to improve the habitat this elephant and reforestation of the deforested forest, and reduce the deforested forest, and reduce the contact between the elephants and the rohingya people this is what we are doing we have teams working to find the elephants where they are approaching the camp and when they find elephants the camp, they safely return the elephant back to the forest. so is this initiative

proving to be successful? this is proving to be successful? this is proving very successful. seven times the elephant response team has responded and safely return the elephant back to the forest. and of course, people are going to the forest for collecting firewood, we have to work on that. any were also teaching these rohingya refugees to interact with the elephants? the elephants are coming inside the camp, we are coming inside the camp. —— and you are also. camp, we are coming inside the camp. -- and you are also. thank you so much forjoining us. spain has survived a scare from iran

in the world cup. earlier, i got the very latest from 0lly foster in moscow, where they have been celebrating making it into the last 16. the russians have been passing the 24 hours anyway, they do like a party, they were as good as through after beating eejit up in st petersburg 24 hours earlier. but they were waiting for all the months to come into place and that happens when saudi arabia beat uruguay —— egypt's. two wins out of two, which means that saudi arabia and egypt will be playing each other in a dead rubber and then off they go, but russia and uruguay can get very excited now about getting through to the last 16 in group a. all of the

matches we had today were 1—0, not a great day for goals because we are getting through to the second round of matches, they are important results because we suddenly find out which teams can get to all these groups, the group suddenly start to make more sense. suarez getting that uruguay winner, winning his 100th cap as well. we will have russia and uruguay at facing each other in a couple of days to find out which pa rt couple of days to find out which part they take to get to the last 16. that will be fascinating. portugal all but with ronaldo doing what he does best. you know, it is going to really tight actually. yeah, ronaldo got that opener in their first match against spain. they were playing at the national stadium in front of 80,000, just the one goalfrom ronaldo, it takes in

the four. he leads the race for the golden boot in those goalscoring charts. it was a bullet of had a very early on against morocco but they could not another one, the portuguese coach was not very happy with them at all, says they should more intensity and more goals but good enough to put them towards the top of the group with spain. spain, who played a little bit earlier, and they got a very lucky winner actually from diego costa against iran. it kind of ricocheted off his shin and went into the bottom left—hand corner, so spain getting their first as well. run very unhappy, they felt they should have had one of those decisions go their way for a possible penalty but they did not get any luck at all but a rival could still get to from that group as well. spain will be playing

morocco. it could all go down to the in group b, so it is going to be very interesting indeed. that is the drama on the pitch, off the pitch sepp blatter was there, what is going on? is not meant to be there. well, he is serving a ban from football activity for giving that payments, all those corruption scandals that enveloped eva on his watch also in his watch, qatar won the world cup, russia won the world cup, so vladimir putin invited him, so sepp blatter was here. he was watching cristiano ronaldo, he is allowed to watch foot wall, just not allowed to watch foot wall, just not allowed to watch foot wall, just not allowed to do things around the business and any more. olly foster there speaking to be a little earlier i love harry says about ronaldojust earlier i love harry says about ronaldo just the earlier i love harry says about ronaldojust the one earlier i love harry says about ronaldo just the one goal, it is as if we are expecting it to come up with loads of magic moments every game. so far, he is a top scorer

four goals in two games in this world cup it is getting very exciting i have lost a lot of sleep. i would like to beg your indulgence if my energy levels are low, ijust really excited watching these world cup games. so there is a lot of excitement there? lots of excitement, especially for the next in the match against panama and i'm sure you are looking forward to the game between poland and colombia this coming sunday. devastated poland senegal, senegal a brilliant victory for them but yeah, very, very upsetting for the polls. in terms of the energy and who we could potentially see in the final four, who do you think? well, i'm still predicting england versus poland in the finals. well, look. i'm going to stick to my prediction but i do hope

an asian team makes it the last or even the quarter—finals or semifinals. the pen has the chance, they won their match against a ten man columbia team. sojapan, they won their match against a ten man columbia team. so japan, good luck and all the asian teams, i hope you make it to the last 16. good luck to everybody. exciting world cup action. now, let's move on the developments here in asia. it's got flying warrior robots, guitar—toting opera singers, and a chinese emperor that won't die. an upcoming hong kong animation called dragon's delusion aims to break stereotypes of chinese culture, and its producers are now completing the film after a successful crowd —funding exercise. exciting times in the entertainment industry in china. you have been watching newsday. rico hizon in singapore. coming up, a bidding warfor 21st rico hizon in singapore. coming up, a bidding war for 21st century fox. disney has now out did, cost with a $71 billion offer. com cast offered

$65 billion last week for the assets of 21st century fox. let's see who wins. we will indeed. we will see you ina wins. we will indeed. we will see you in a moment. you thought we finish with weddings, of course we had that royal wedding hear me uk. here's a selection of exquisite gowns chosen for their workmanship, originality and beauty mightjust have a closer look, they made with blue, tape, thread and toilet paper. this is the 14th annual toilet paper wedding dress contest, held in new york. the top designs have been competing for the £10,000 prize, which went to this man. good morning. it is the summer solstice today but ijust want good morning. it is the summer solstice today but i just want to cast your mind back to this time last year when we saw a high of 35

degrees. it really was scorcher on the 21st of june, degrees. it really was scorcher on the 21st ofjune, 2017. however, for us, things will turn notably pressure today as we have a north—western flow driving that humidity away to the near continent. the wind swinging around that high, coming to the north—west. that is going to make it feel noticeably pressure out there. closer to 19 hours of daylight. —— close to. get out and enjoyed if can. a scattering of showers and some gusty winds gusting in excess of 40 miles an hourfor gusting in excess of 40 miles an hour for the northern gusting in excess of 40 miles an hourfor the northern isles, a little bit of there were the cloud developing generally speaking it is a quiet day. 14 to 18 degrees quite widely. might see 21 in the south—east corner if we are lucky. as we move out of thursday, we keep those clear skies with us and temperatures will fall away perhaps into single figures to start our day on friday. lower figures

into single figures to start our day on friday. lowerfigures in more rural spots, so again a comfortable night sleeping, chilly start to friday morning. but there will be plenty of dry weather and an area of high pressure is just plenty of dry weather and an area of high pressure isjust starting plenty of dry weather and an area of high pressure is just starting to nudge a little bit further eastwards, which means we lose that north—easterly flow with the exception perhaps the long that east coast. we see the best of the sunshine, lighter winds, and temperatures will start to respond, at the height of 22 degrees. what is in store for the weekend? not much change, in fact. will hardly have a breath of wind on saturday. maybe the chance of a few showers just brushing the extreme north of scotla nd brushing the extreme north of scotland and a little more there we re scotland and a little more there were cloudy but generally speaking, maybe some hazy looking skies but a pleasa nt maybe some hazy looking skies but a pleasant 16 to 24, 75 fahrenheit. warmer still on sunday, we still have those winds, the high pressure centred right across the uk. very little in the way of rain for the

gardens if you are a gardener or grow our there, that will be a little frustrating but plenty of warm summer sunshine to look forward to. if you have plans outdoors on sunday, you will not be disappointed. guess what? there is more of the same to come right throughout the next week. warming up with temperatures likely to pick in the high 20s. enjoy. i'm kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story. a reversalfor the us president on his policy of taking migrant children away from their parents. more than 2000 have already been separated donald trump has signed an executive order he says will end the separation. but the children will now be detained with their parents instead. there's been angry reaction to hungary's approval of a controversial package of laws that penalises non—governmental organisations that help migrants. and this story is trending on bbc.com: british airways has disappointed travellers who thought they found an incredible deal on flights to tel aviv and dubai. more than 2000 tickets —

booked forjust over a dollar — were cancelled by the airline, after it admitted they had been sold "too cheaply" by mistake. that's all from me now. now on bbc news it's time for hardtalk.