good afternoon. two years after the brexit referendum, thousands of people are gathering in central london to demand what they call a ‘people‘s vote‘ on the outcome of the negotiations with the eu. it comes as the german engineering firm siemens, which employs 15,000 people in the uk, called on the government to remain closely aligned with the single market. senior cabinet ministers have again said the uk is prepared to walk away from the negotiations, rather than accept a bad deal. 0ur political correspondent nick eardley reports. two years to the day of the brexit vote, visions of the future are still very different. tens of thousands are expected in central london today to call for a vote on any final deal the government reaches with brussels. that has been two years since the referendum. the government is no clearer about what it wants. it is internally divided, let in argument with the european union,

the country is very likely to end up in a bad place. we have got to stop the mess and the best way of doing it, is that when we know what the outcome is, that the public have the final say. businesses are expressing views as well. yesterday, airbus said it would reconsider its future in the uk if there is no deal. bmw called for more clarity. and today there was this reaction to boris johnson's called for a full british brexit. it is time to get away from slogans for british brexit going into combat with europe. it is incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our european partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic brexit is. the foreign secretary said the government needs to get on with it and avoid a deal that is soft, yielding and infinitely long. others say to get that the pm must be prepared to walk away if she does not get the right deal. the prime minister has always said that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and that no deal would be better than a bad deal. i think it is essential that, as we enter the

next phase of the negotiations, that european union understands that and believes it. labour say no deal would be the height of irresponsibility and as campaigners gather say the electorate should make the final decision. a reminder, if ever one was needed, that views on differ greatly. 0ur political correspondent ben wright is in central london where that march is getting underway. what do they think this will achieve? it feels like the biggest anti—brexit demonstration we have seen since the referendum with tens of thousands of people marching down whitehall to parliament and argument is that the government and also parliament is making a hash of brexit and it is time for the people do have another say also that are not asking for a rerun of the 2016 referendum but a fresh referendum on the terms of the final deal theresa

may brings back from brussels. it could be that one question on the ballot paper would be the option of staying in the eu. that is the argument they are making. 0rganisers here are clear this is about regular people and not politicians and in a way that is the problem for them. there are no labour frontbenchers here, lily no members of the government, the parties are opposed to the idea of another vote so it is difficult to see how this suggestion of another boat might work out in practice. but politics is very volatile —— another vote. warnings from business, government ministers are adamant that brexit will happen at the end of march next year and no deal remains on the table. this demonstration proves that two years on from the referendum and nine months before we leave, politics and the brexit debate it as polarised and divided as ever. thank you. turkey's president recep erdogan has called on voters to re—elect him tomorrow, with sweeping new powers —

on the final day of campaigning in the country's presidential and parliamentary elections. he's facing a strong challenge from a newly united opposition, led by muharrem ince, a former physics teacher leading the centre—left republican people's party. from istanbul mark lowen reports. tu rkey‘s turkey's opposition has finally found its voice. for 15 years it has been fractured, unable to challenge president erdogan but then came marion ends, a fiery centre—left man of the people reaching beyond his pa rty‘s of the people reaching beyond his party's elitist image and drawing enormous crowds “— party's elitist image and drawing enormous crowds —— muharrem ince. this man is giving a powerful turkish president the battle of his political life. he told supporters he would fight for the working class, challenging mr erdogan to a tv debate which he has so far refused. polls suggest mr ince could force the president into a second

round run—off after the election tomorrow and with other opposition parties win a majority in parliament. this is the half of turkey that field mr erdogan has destroyed democracy with his clamp—downs and hostility to the west. confidence is growing despite the fear of vote rigging. but the pro—erdogan side still passionately believes in him. conservative, pious turks revere him as their saviour in once secular dominated turkey. they have enjoyed the bridges and hospitals are yet built and the talk about western plot to ruin their country. the odds are still stacked in mr erdogan's faber, 90% of the media is pro—government. the kurdish presidential candidate is in prison and opposition posters are vastly outnumbered and torn down but for the first time in 15 years, turkey mightjust decide that the erdogan magic has run out. ethiopia's prime minister has survived a grenade attack at a huge political rally in the

capital, addis ababa. abiy ahmed was speaking to thousands of supporters when the attack took place. more than 80 people were injured in the blast. since taking office in april, mr abiy has criticised human rights abuses by the security forces, sacked military leaders, and begun moves to make peace with ethiopia's rival eritrea. the maritime authorities in malta have asked the charity—run rescue ship aquarius to help a boat in trouble off the coast of tunisia. last week neither malta nor italy would allow the vessel to dock, after it rescued 630 migrants off the coast of libya. italy has since banned charity and foreign flagged ships coming ashore, if migrants are onboard. the england world cup squad have been training this morning in russia ahead of their match tomorrow against panama with high hopes of going through to the knock—out stage of the competition. 0ur correspondent david 0rnstein is at the england base at repino. david.

welcome to the gulf of finland. we are about 45 minutes from st petersburg and that is the journey the team bus is on as we speak because it left here a short time ago. they will fly by private jet from st petersburg over to nizhny novgorod, about two hours, 700 miles, and the temperature is about 30 degrees there with england playing at 3pm local time tomorrow, 1pm in the uk and they will have to cope with the warm conditions. they trained to date for the final time before the flight and dele alli was involved despite concern over his thigh injury. he trained initially with the main group and then stepped aside in a preplanned removed so he must be a doubt but otherwise there isa must be a doubt but otherwise there is a clean bill of health. there has been controversy in the camp of a

potentially leaked team sheet but focus is firmly on the match. we will hear from gareth southgate and jordan henderson later and if england win that match they will be ina great england win that match they will be in a great position to win the last 16. if belgium beat tunisia today and england win tomorrow, they are through to the knockout rounds. thank you. new evidence of the devastating effect of plastic pollution on wildlife has been recorded by the bbc. a team filming on a remote island for the bbc one documentary drowning in plastic revealed seabirds there starving to death because there stomachs were so full of plastic that there was no room for food. 0ur science correspondent, victoria gill, reports. flying through the ocean in search of food, but these sea birds are all too often finding and eating pieces of plastic. tens of thousands of flesh—footed shearwaters nest on this remote island hundreds of kilometres off the east coast of australia. but even here plastic is killing them. and another. scientists are finding young birds with so much of it in their stomachs

that there is no room for food. these chicks have starved to death. but the researchers stepped in to save them and this bbc documentary crew filmed up close as the birds had their stomachs flushed out. 0h! it was shocking to see just how much would come out of a chick. i mean, we saw 90 pieces come out of one of the chicks on the second night but the scientists were telling us they sometimes pull out as much as 200, 250 pieces of plastic out of either dead birds orfrom the regurgitation. it is just one example of how our discarded plastic is damaging marine wildlife around the world, an issue that was thrown into sharp focus by the bbc series blue planet ii. efforts are under way to stem the tide of plastic. here in england's south coast, sea bins have been installed that can suck up half a tonne of plastic waste per year. there's a plastic bottle there,

that's fairly obvious, and a coffee cup lid. but there's also some smaller pieces of plastic. i think that's the lid off an aerosol and there's two cigarette buts there. there are also plastic fibres. but some parts of the ocean now contain more pieces of plastic than plankton so scientists say we all need urgently to change how we use and dispose of what has become a floating menace. victoria gill, bbc news. and you can find more details on that story at bbc.co.uk/plasticswatch. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at quarter past seven. bye for now. welcome back. is approaching

development past midday. the uk are still prepared to walk away from brexit talks without a deal. the second anniversary of the referendum vote, the international trade secretary liam fox told the bbc theresa may was not bluffing about her threat to quit the negotiations. he was speaking ahead of march by campaigners in favour of the vote on a final brexit deal. event that has justis a final brexit deal. event that has just is being organised by the group people's vote and speakers include vince cable, anna soubry and the labourmp vince cable, anna soubry and the labour mp david lammy. some of the campaigners of the march been to to the bbc about why they are taking part. the message i would would like to give to people is to pay attention to what's been on the news, the messages we are getting from business, the worries about the various agencies we have to

replicate,. what are we going to achieve? what is the world queueing up achieve? what is the world queueing up to buy from us? we are an 80% service up to buy from us? we are an 80% service economy. up to buy from us? we are an 80% service economy. you don't need trade deals for services. brexit is not what people expected and what they voted for. and we can't keep going into this disaster without thinking about whether we want to do this. that some of the views being expressed ahead of this lunchtime is about. earlier i spoke to the director of the uk change in europe and ask whether anything is actually changed in terms of public attitudes towards brexit in the last two yea rs ? towards brexit in the last two years? what the opinion polling shows is there has been a slight small shift towards people thinking that we shouldn't have voted to leave but it's a very marginal thing and what the polling also shows is the shift has happened largely because people who couldn't vote in 2016 now say they would vote remain. there's been little switching from

both so the country remains divided down the middle. we are two years into the three—year process but it clearly becoming a much longer process than perhaps the supporters of brexit had originally hoped would be. i don't think that is ever going to be easy. with an organisation as complicated as the eu, and was a lwa ys complicated as the eu, and was always going to be very hard. i think what's happening now is the government is finally reaching a decision, government ministers have come to realise that the kind of deals they thought the eu would offer them isn't going to be on the table so now they have to make some fairly stark choices and that's why we're getting rhetoric about whether no deal would be bearable or not. the point liam fox was making there in the interview with laura kuenssberg if it would be unwise for the europeans to assume theresa may was bluffing, that this is decision time in terms of the position that

the british government adopts. the foreign secretary borisjohnson writing in a typically colourful style in the sun today, said people don't want some bullock —— baulk role brexit. for a lot of the public it confusing as to what stage we have reached and how things will be different after march 2019, as compared to now, and how they could be different again at the end of 2020. firstly i think the public should sell themselves this is complicated for government ministers, so it's just complicated for government ministers, so it'sjust complicated. what the foreign secretary i think we re what the foreign secretary i think were saying in his article using is typically colourful language was brexit needs to be done properly. he doesn't want a brexit which means we remain in the customs union and the single market. he doesn't want a brexit but is hard to distinguish from membership and that the battle

going on in the cabinet at the moment. some people say we need to remain as close as possible to the eu otherwise it would damage the economy, and others like the foreign secretary said it would be brexit in name only and that's not what we want. we want a proper break and over the next few months, that debate will become very, very focused. the prime minister will have to make a decision to go one way or the other. a decision it's ha rd to way or the other. a decision it's hard to see everybody could live with. yes, ultimately, there's a real danger. the cabinet is divided down the middle. theresa may has proven itself to be a prime minister that does not like to alienate anyone but there's a choice to be made. yes, someone is going to be unhappy. in terms of alienating people, public opinion has not changed very much, that would suggest politically and electorally she is damage to sublet it she alienates the remainders and those who regret the decision. i'm not sure that is true. the real problem,

the catch—22, the population is divided. there's no obvious stable majority of public opinion for any brexit outcome which means doing it would be a nightmare for any prime minister even if they had a massive majority. this is just minister even if they had a massive majority. this isjust very, very ha rd majority. this isjust very, very hard given the complexity of the task and the degree the british people divided down the middle. let's ta ke people divided down the middle. let's take the headlines now on bbc news. it's just after 1215. anti—brexit campaigners prepare to march in london to demand a vote on the final deal on the uk's departure from the eu. but two years since the eu referendum cabinet ministers insist the uk is prepared to walk away from brexit talks without a deal. president erdogan of turkey is making a final appeal for votes ahead of tomorrow's general elections, in which he's facing a strong challenge. the pentagon has cancelled two joint marine—training exercises with south korea.

it follows the decision earlier in the week, to suspend a majorjoint—military exercise between the two countries which was planned for august. the pentagon said the move was part of the agreement reached between president trump and the north korean leader, kim jong—un, in singapore earlier this month. 0ur correspondent sophie long is in seoul. when donald trump announced he would be stopping joint military exercises in his press conference after the june 12 summit, it came as a surprise to some people and particularly the language used. he called them provocative, expensive war games. thesejoint called them provocative, expensive war games. these joint military exercises have always been referred to by the us and south korea in the past as defensive measures necessary to maintain military parent must. in terms of the statement we heard from the pentagon today, we heard that the pentagon today, we heard that the us defence secretary james matters had decided to postpone indefinitely two korean american exchange programme exercises due to ta ke exchange programme exercises due to take place over the next few months.

this comes after of course last week we had that operation freedom guardian had been cancelled. that's one of the three majorjoint military exercises which takes place in south korea every year. in terms of south korean reaction i'm actually standing outside the former north korean labour party building, a number of young south koreans were here today for a music festival called the dmc peace train festival and many of them we spoke to are full of hope. and hope concessions like this and events like this cultural event which took place so close to the demilitarised zone will help to maintain this momentum we seem help to maintain this momentum we seem to have currently towards proper lasting peace. however, older people, more conservative leaning people, more conservative leaning people, and much more sceptical. for them, they say we have been here before and they want to see some parliament concessions from north korea. in terms of official south korean reaction, we heard a statement from the south korean defence ministry earlier this afternoon and they said they

confirmed this announcement from the pentagon and also went on to add there additional measures should date say korea follow suit with productive cooperation. i think certainly at this stage, the ball now is very much in north koreas park. plans to house tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in detention centres on remote american military bases are being drawn up by the us navy — according to a time magazine report. the department of defence reportedly wants to build facilities on abandoned airfields, in a bid to meet president trump's zero—tolerance policy against unlawful migration. 0ur north america correspondent, chris buckler has more. just inside america's border, only miles from mexico, this is one of the shelters where children are being held. and from the air, you can see young people being ushered between the makeshift structures in what is being called a tent city. the pictures of cages and crying

that have emerged from texas over the last week led donald trump to reverse his policy of separating migrant parents from their children. he has given every indication that he did so against his natural instincts, and the president returned to arguing for tougher laws as he shared a platform with families who have had relatives killed by immigrants. they are not separated for a day or two days. they are permanently separated because they were killed by criminal illegal aliens. these are the families the media ignores. they don't talk about them. but there is no denying the anger felt in parts of america over the country's current immigration policies and there is confusion over how and when the more than 2000 children separated from their parents will finally be reunited with their families. the president knows this border divides, but he believes his supporters will be on his side as he pushes once again for illegal

immigration to be tackled. there are reports that the us navy is currently working on new plans to build what have been described as temporary and austere detention centres. it is claimed the facilities, on abandoned airfields, are being designed to hold up to 25,000 migrants. translation: it's not ok what they're doing because you're treated like a criminal when all you've been doing is working there. i don't take drugs or anything like that. i've just been working. it is not fair what they're doing with us. there is unlikely to be any letup in the pressure at the border and with congressional elections only months away, there will remain a focus on how america deals with the problem on its doorstep. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. two—thirds of drivers are not aware of the penalties for using a mobile phone at the wheel more than a year after tougher laws were introduced in england, scotland and wales. a poll by the rac found that only 36% of the 2,000 uk motorists asked knew offenders face six

penalty points and a £200 fine for breaking the rules. some 41% believe more visible law enforcement is needed. whilst 18% of drivers backed the blocking of mobile signals within cars. earlier i spoke to rod dennis from the rac who explained what their survey of drivers had revealed. despite the penalty is being increased over a year ago, six points and a £200 fine if you are caught using a mobile phone of the wheel, awareness of those penalties still seems remarkably low, so fewer than four still seems remarkably low, so fewer thanfour in still seems remarkably low, so fewer than four in ten people we spoke to about it, 2000 motorists across the uk, could tell us what the penalties were. there might be a number of reasons for this. it could well be down to just the sheer lack of enforcement of the lawful to be know it's a very difficult law for the police to enforce and perhaps there's a feeling amongst drivers they won't get caught doing this sort of thing. and things like

speeding, where people talk about speeding, where people talk about speeding points, the same as that happened when it comes to mobile phones, so it's remarkable still that the proportion of people up at where it is seemingly so small. what is the record in terms of prosecutions? tens of thousands, which is very, very low given the number of people who come to us and say we think this is a problem. we do an annual study some of the rac report on motoring, which looks of a wide range of motoring issues and it showed last year drivers concerned about other people using a hand—held phone at the wheel was their biggest concern out of more than 20 different things, so the concern is clearly therefore that the police force the difficultjob enforcing the law but the focus needs to be there from speaking to motorists in there from speaking to motorists in the research this morning, there's a lot of support for more great targeted enforcement and that something clearly the government needs to look at more seriously. increasing number of vehicles allow people to use a mobile phone without actually having to physically handle

it. they do it through voice control at the wheel of their car. is this a problem in a sense technology will solve, even if human behaviour still puts lives at risk? that's a very interesting point for the technology can be part of the solution here, not just the can be part of the solution here, notjust the problem. we are used to touchscreens, iphones, android devices, we are used to using those and as soon as we get into the car, we are in a very different environment where we need to resist them but technology can play a big pa rt them but technology can play a big part in trying to turn that around and there's all sorts of interesting technology being trialled, in the usa, the touchpad system which they are devising for that you will still have your eyes on the road there will be able to use a finger to scroll through a menu and remove you engaging than i parred in the middle of the cupboard can be enormously distracting soap technology a big pa rt distracting soap technology a big part to play. announcing anything to suggest that simply increasing the

penalties would make people more likely both to be aware and therefore to change their the behaviour? penalties have an important role to play in terms of deterring people, but the problem is if people don't fear they will get caught in the first place, we could a lwa ys caught in the first place, we could always do whatever we like with a penalties and not make any difference. there remains a hard—core of drivers who continue to believe using a hand—held phone while driving is actually something they can do successfully and safely and all the figures and data and the tragic stories we hear in the newsroom on a regular basis shows otherwise so it's something all of us as otherwise so it's something all of us as drivers have a responsibility towards ourselves, our passengers and other road users, in thinking about what really can't wait. why'd we need to use our phone at the wheel? it's something that was all to think carefully about. let's get more now on the story about plastic pollution in our oceans and seas and after the response to the issue which was featured on "blue planet 2", the bbc is launching more programmes to try to help people

reduce their plastic footprint. let's talk to lisa svensson who heads the un's 0ceans programme, she joins me via webcam from near gothenburg. thank you very much for being with us on thank you very much for being with us on the bbc news this afternoon. and spending some time over the weekend to talk about this hugely important issue. what impact that programme made internationally? we have talked on this programme about the impact in the uk, but what impact did it beyond our shores?” think it was a tremendous, very fantastic impact on so many parts of the country and the world. it drew the country and the world. it drew the attention to the importance of the attention to the importance of the ocean and also what we have done with the ocean. the ocean for many people around the world, who do not live close to the shore and can see the ocean, it's so far—away and

could be perceived as disconnected and what blue planet ii, the big success with that was to bring a piece of ocean into everybody‘s living room, to be able to connect to what's happening but also be affected, that we want to be part of the solution and also the fantastic initiative, even though we are very small, we could be part of this global solution and effort. when you look at all the challenges protecting the ocean ‘s fate, where do you place the kind of environmental impact of plastic?” think it's an urgent key issue and it says a lot about our society on how we live our lives and the dependency on particularly plastic in this case. plastic in itself is also a sign of what we do with the ocean and the way we live our lives. how we're not doing well but our

sewage system. how we are producing single use plastic, and easy material to spread, and not really taking care and thinking about what's going to happen to this when it's been used for some it tells a story about our modern society but also crucially we have to change the way we live and also consuming and producing products in a totally different way. that's part of a broader picture that this issue of plastic tells us. it's a very visible. when we see those pictures we all understand, no matter where you are, what culture, it is so telling. this is really wrong. there's no doubting the powerful impact these images have had. the survey released today suggesting that two thirds of people who would the series in the uk wanted to know what they could do to reduce their

impact on the oceans. but i wonder whether you have alluded to something in your previous answer thatis something in your previous answer that is quite important, and arguably a really big challenge, and thatis arguably a really big challenge, and that is getting changes in the economy and in production methods that reduce our reliance on plastic. how difficult is it going to be to persuade people and they realise for example a lot of the cheap plastics make the products that they like affordable. yes. this is of course a huge challenge and we need to have everybody on board and the government view is they have a responsibility to set rules and regulations but we know it takes so much time, a long time to get governments on board, and we do not have that time. in ten years we will double the amount of plastics, and that's why we need to work with the private sector server products and services we use our redesigned and we can reuse the plastics and the way we use plastic in particular,

how we can sort it and then reuse it, recycle it to new products and that's what we referred to as the circle economy, trying to see the materials we are producing as a part ofa materials we are producing as a part of a broader chain, so the corporations can take action and they have to be powerful because multinational corporations are all over the world. they produce in various parts and they have a strong responsibility but also a strong interest in this and this week, the first car