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. i'm kasia madera in london. 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 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8 in the evening

in washington where president trump has signed an executive order ending the separating of migrant children from their parents at the border between the united states and mexico. mr trump's ‘zero tolerance‘ policy on immigration had been widely criticised, after footage emerged of young children detained in cages. 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. i asked our washington correspondent chris buckler to explain the impact of this executive order. will

if you look at what has been proposed here in this executive just the 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 now we‘re talking specifically the flores settlement. that means that children cannot be 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. it‘s 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 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. 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 half a million 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, 1000 milejourney 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. 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 deaths occurred between 1989 and 2000, and it‘s believed that another 200 people probably suffered the same fate. our health editor hugh pym reports. mourning a mother and a grandmother, ann and bridget looking across to gosport and reflecting on their loss nearly two decades ago. i thought she was in a safe place, being cared for. how wrong i was. and i have to live with that. shocking, absolutely shocking. her mother, elsie devine,

went to the hospital for rehabilitation after treatment for an infection. she died after four weeks. the 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 in their dosage and we‘re talking about 100% too high. the report says more than 650 patients probably died at gosport war memorial hospital because opiods where prescribed for no medical reason. it says in the 1990s there was an institutionalized practise of shortening lives. drjane barton, the clinical assistant, is named in the report as responsible for prescribing practice and was later disciplined by medical regulators. bishop james jones, who chaired the review, told me there was a collective failure at the hospital. these drugs that were prescribed were then administered by nurses

who would have known the effect of those drugs. the pharmacist in the hospital would have known the level of opioids, that he or she was being asked to supply. the whole institution including, i have to say, the consultants who had responsibility over the clinical assistant, they knew, as far as our records show, what was going on in the hospital. it's got to stop. after the report was published, theyjoined other families who felt that before now they have been ignored by so many in authority. we were blocked by every single one but today, that wall has come tumbling down. and now we want answers. the truth is there now, and we don‘t want this government to sit on it like any other inquiry. we want action now. cindy and debbie‘s father went into the hospital to recover after a stroke but within a couple of weeks after medication, he died. he deserved to get better,

come home and be a dad and be a granddad for many years to come. today, she told me, she felt the report was a big step forward. mixed emotions today. heartbroken, but with a sense that actually we were right all along and eventually somebody has listened to us. 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. 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. this is newsday on the bbc. 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 take a look at some front pages from around the world. in the china daily — 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.

chinese premier xijinping says he and his north korean counterpart are "making history", while kim jong—un says he will spare no effort to improve their relations. meanwhile, in the south china morning post — 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 the japan times reports on how football fever is spreading following the samurai blue‘s shock win over colombia at the world cup on tuesday. a television ratings agency has revealed that almost half the nation was watching the game and organisers of public viewings were overwhelmed by fans. what stories are sparking discussions online?

it‘s frustration and disappointment. they thought they had found the deal of a lifetime, flights to tel aviv and dubai forjust over a dollar. but now british airways has cancelled the tickets. the company says it was a mistake as the tickets were sold ‘too cheap‘ and that it will refund passengers. more than 2,000 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. raquib amin from the international union for conservation of nature told me what can be done about this loss of life. raquib amin is the country representative for international union for conservation of nature. it is a very serious problem. unfortunately, the migratory route has been blocked between bangladesh and myanmar and we have counted

about 35 to 45 animald, 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 have encountered the rohingya people. so what can be done to reduce this human, elephant conflict? first of all, repatriation of these people to myanmar. secondly, it will take some time. we need to improve the habitat for these elephants, and reforestation of 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 in the camp, they safely return the elephant back to the forest. so is this initiative

proving to be successful? this is proving very successful. seven times the elephant response team has responded and safely returned the elephant back to the forest. and of course, people are going to the forest for collecting firewood. we have to work on that. time for the world cup now and uruguay and russia are the first two sides through to the knockout stages of the tournament. that‘s after uruguay beat saudi arabia one—nil with a goal from luis suarez.

in other matches, morocco were knocked out after losing to portugal, and spain survived a scare from iran. earlier i got the latest from 0lly foster in moscow where they have been celebrating making it into the last 16. the russians have been passing the 2a hours anyway, they do like a party, they were as good as through after beating eejit up in st petersburg 2a 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 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 goal from 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? he 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 do things around the business and any more. 0lly foster there speaking to be a little earlier. funny how he is the one got the one goal. he has four goals in two games and he‘s the top score of this world cup. when somebody scores a goal and says goooaaal! i love this world cup, staying up till three in the morning and their newsday with kasia madera, it is fantastic. from the

world cup to animation. 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. you have been watching newsday. and before we go, let‘s take a look at these lovely creations. a selection of exquisite gowns chosen for their workmanship, originality and beauty. made with glue, tape, thread and toilet paper. it‘s the 14th annual toilet paper wedding dress contest held in new york — the top ten dress designs have been competing for top roll — narrowed down from 1,500 submissions. 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 a scorcher on 21 june, 2017. however, for us, things will turn notably fresher today as we have a north—western flow driving that humidity away to the near continent. wind swinging around that high, coming through the north—west. that is going to make it feel noticeably fresher out there. close to 19 hours of daylight. get out and enjoy it if you can. a scattering of showers and some gusty winds gusting in excess of a0 miles an hourfor the northern isles. a little bit of cloud developing. generally speaking, it is a quiet day. 1a 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. lowerfigures in more rural spots, so again a comfortable night for sleeping, a chilly start to friday morning. but there will be 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 along that east coast. we see the best of the sunshine, lighter winds, and temperatures will start to respond — highs of 22 degrees. what is in store for the weekend? not much change, in fact. we will hardly have a breath of wind on saturday. maybe the chance of a few showers just brushing the extreme north of scotland and a little more cloudy but generally speaking, maybe some hazy looking skies but a pleasant 16 to 2a, 75 fahrenheit. warmer still on sunday, still have those winds, high pressure centred right across the uk. very little in the way of rain for the gardens. if you‘re a gardener or grower out there, that will be a little frustrating, but plenty of warm summer sunshine to look forward to. if you have outdoor plans on sunday, you will not be disappointed. guess what? there‘s more of the same to come right throughout the next week. if you have outdoor plans

on sunday, you will not be disappointed. guess what? more of the same to come right throughout the next week. warming up with temperatures likely to peak in the high 20s. enjoy. i‘m kasia madera with bbc 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 that he says will end the separation, but the children will now be detained with their parents instead. there has 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 for just over $1

were cancelled by the airline, after it admitted they had been sold "too cheaply" by mistake. that‘s all from me. stay with us here on bbc news. and in the uk: an official inquiry has found that hundreds of elderly patients at a hospital in hampshire died because of an institutionalised