this is bbc news. i'm nkem ifejika. our top stories: romanians rally against the government for a second day, the protests pass peacefully after friday's violence. chemical giant monsanto insists its products are safe after a court orders it to payout nearly three hundred million dollars to a man who claims its weedkiller caused his cancer. british author and nobel prize winner vs naipaul has died at the age of 85. and we meet the scientists behind a new type of mosquito net that could save thousands from malaria. hello and welcome to bbc news. tens of thousands of romanians have ta ken to the streets of bucharest, for a second night running to protest against the government,

accusing it of corruption and abuse of power. many of the demonstrators returned from across europe to voice their opposition. they are particularly angry at the government's sacking of an anti—corruption prosecutor. on friday police used batons, tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowds. vlad macelaru is protester and a un youth delegate. hejoins me from bucharest. it appears as if things were much more peaceful this time around and on friday. hello, yes, indeed. today the protests were peaceful unlike yesterday night. can you understand where the government is coming from because some of the protest is tried to storm government buildings? that is true in these protests have built up is true in these protests have built up over the past months since the current government is trying to wea ken current government is trying to weaken the justice system and the

rule of law in general so overall, we are rule of law in general so overall, we a re protests rule of law in general so overall, we are protests against a corrupt government. what would you say that trying to enter a government building is justified under the circumstances? no, iwouldn't say building is justified under the circumstances? no, i wouldn't say so definitely, i don't think that was the intent of the protesters, most of them were peaceful, talking about 100,000,150000 and of them were peaceful, talking about 100,000, 150000 and we may be had 50 instigators. what happens is, those instigators. what happens is, those instigators takes the whole crowd, they were throwing bricks at police who felt they had to respond. yes, and typically the response would be to isolate the instigators and neutralise them but instead the task force decided to abuse everyone who was protesting peacefully, kids and women and elders and so on so i don't think that was the right response. this government was democratically wasn't it? why do you wa nt democratically wasn't it? why do you want it to resign? basically as i

mentioned before, they decriminalised low—level corruption offences to their advantage and they are working on weakening the justice system and pretty much ignoring the economy and the well—being of the country in general. but why not wait for new elections instead of what would be an unstable situation? we have protests, major protests since february last year and people just don't feel represented. they want the immediate resignation of the current government as well as the resignation of the de facto ruler of the country, liviu dragnea, and the social democrats. are there issues with people living better lives

elsewhere, coming back to rome mania on telling people to live their lives? —— telling people in romania how to live our lives? people want to come back and live a peaceful life and be together with their families, many romanians living abroad, and people coming from europe, across europe, the states as well, they would like to have a country functioning in a proper way, less corruption in romania and a peaceful way to live their lives. thank you very much. the pharmaceutical company bayer says its monsanto weedkillers are safe. this follows a court ruling ordering them to pay nearly 290 million dollars in damages to a man who became terminally ill after using them. dewaynejohnson, a school groundsman, alleges his cancer was caused by glyphosate in the herbicides. here's our north america correspondent james cook. for dewayne johnson, the verdict was bittersweet,

to say the least. at 46 years old, he is dying of cancer, caused — the jury found — by monsa nto's weedkillers. thousands more americans claim they too were sickened by the herbicides and their key ingredient, glyphosate. since the beginning of this case, i've received a lot of support, thank you, and a lot of prayers and everything, just getting energy from a lot of people that i don't even know, you know. i'm glad to be here to help with this situation, after i learned about roundup and glyphosate and everything, i'm glad to be here to be able to help but the cause is way bigger than me. the jury found that roundup presented a substantial danger to users. the company had been negligent in failing to put a cancer label on the

product. that is a choice that reflects reckless disregard for human health. it is a choice that monsanto made and today is the day of reckoning. every single cancer risk that has been found had this moment. every single one. where the science finally caught up, where they couldn't bury it any more. the agricultural giant strongly disagrees. it says farmers around the world were lined it and it says it will appeal, claiming its products are vital, effective and safe. it is the most widely used herbicide in the world. it's the most widely studied herbicide in the world. there are over 800 scientific, medical, peer reviewed published studies that demonstrate glyphosate is safe and does not cause cancer. and yet, world health organization scientists say glyphosate is probably carcinogenic, while the us and the eu continue to approve its use. this case by no means ends the controversy about the most heavily used herbicide in history.

james cook, bbc news, los angeles. monsanto issued a statement after the ruling, in which it said: the nobel—prizewinning writer vs naipaul has died aged 85. raised in trinidad, he studied at oxford and worked for the bbc before becoming a prolific author. his best—known works include a house for mr biswas, the mystic masseur, a bend in the river and the booker prize—winning in a free state. he won the nobel prize for literature in 2001, for, as the award panel put it, "works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories". he died at his home in london. judy raymond has interviewed vs naipaul many times, she is the editor in chief of daily newspaper, trinidad and tobago newsday and joins me on the line. thank you forjoining us. tell us,

what kind of man was he or rather, what kind of man was he or rather, what was his relationship with trinidad? he had a very good relationship with trinidad. there we re relationship with trinidad. there were some things that he obviously loved about it or which were embedded in him from earth. and conversely, there were also things he couldn't bear. he wrote about waking up in oxford, having left the gas fire on in his room, so it got very hot. but on the other hand, he came home to trinidad regularly, as long as he was able to, and he was different, very often, so it's a kind of love hate relationship on his side and on the other side, the people of trinidad admired his life and were pleased and proud he had done so well internationally and represented the country but also

resented some of the things he wrote about it and the fact that in his later years, he was being referred to asa later years, he was being referred to as a british writer born in trinidad when a lot of the subject matter, certainty of his early work, was drawn from things that happened or could have happened or the kind of things that happened in trinidad so they felt he owed trinidad a debt that he did not always acknowledge the extent that he to have. what was it, was at a certain t? but he looks down on trinidad, the place that sort of meet him? well, he talks about when he left trinidad and reached civilisation. trinidad is not the place... in his day, it had not the place... in his day, it had no money, the oil that made it which

was not yet discovered. not any people read books. and his family, his father, who was a literate person and wanted to be a writer, which was impossible in trinidad in those days, was looked down on by vs naipaul‘s mother's family, who were in business, and they were very bright as well in that respect. but they look down on his father because his father was never really successfully financial and had mental health issues, partly, as a result. he looked up his father, who isa result. he looked up his father, who is a great influence on his career. all of those factors came into play. just tell us a bit about his literary legacy and what his writing meant to not just trinidad literary legacy and what his writing meant to notjust trinidad but literary legacy and what his writing meant to not just trinidad but the wider world. well, his early books about trinidad were received with a

lot of affection and her mother. a lot of affection and her mother. a lot of affection and her mother. a lot of his novel is based on the period when his family lived in an area called woodbrook. it was based on the idea of something he experienced while living there. this —— the suffrage of elvira was about the first elections held after universal adult suffrage. it's very autobiographical. people like those books, love those books, a lot of what he wrote about trinidad resonated with them. but they resented some of the more critical writing, the lack of civilisation, the fact that wherever you went, there was loud move —— loud music

playing, there was a party happening everywhere. all of those things. painting trinidad as backward and so on, some of the things he said about postcolonial africa and africa, all of those were deeply resented. 0k, thank you very much forjoining us, judy raymond of the trinidad tobago newsday —— the trinidad tobago newsday —— the trinidad tobago newsday newspaper. police are patrolling charlottesville in the united states where events are being held to mark the anniversary of deadly clashes sparked by a white supremacist rally. earlier, president trump tweeted that last year's violence between far—right demonstrators and their opponents resulted in senseless death and division. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: can a football match between north and south korean workers help score peace off the pitch? the big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a hugejob of crowd control.

idi amin, uganda's brutal former dictator, has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia, where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. two billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millennium. it began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later, when the sun set over the bay of bengal. this is bbc news. the latest headlines:

romanians have taken to the streets for a second day over alleged government corruption and low wages. around 40,000 protesters are estimated to have attended rallies. us authorities are trying to establish why an airline worker stole an empty passenger plane. the 76—seater aircraft belonging to alaska airlines' sister carrier horizon air took off from the seattle tacoma airport and flew over seattle. after flying erratically, the plane crashed in ketron islands, some 80 km south of the airport. the local sheriff's department said it appeared the man was suicidal. andy moore reports. what the hell? the stolen plane was filmed by shocked witnesses flying low over the islands of puget sound. oh, my god. what is happening right now? ok, but why has it gotjets? it was pursued by at least two f—15 military jets. the authorities said those aircraft escorted the plane out of harm's way

but were not instrumental in bringing it down. what the hell is this guy doing? whilst he was performing aerobatic manoeuvres, the 29—year—old man at the controls was talking to air traffic control. the man piloting the plane said he would perform a last barrel roll and then call it a night. he crashed into a sparsely populated island, causing this fire. there was the loud boom, and i looked at her and said, "what, did they drop a bomb over there?" and that really must have been it. our information now is that there was only one person on the plane, and that was the person flying the plane. there is no indication that this person who was flying the plane was trying to damage anything or attack anything. that man said himself he was not a qualified pilot, but he had enough knowledge to take a plane and fly it for some time, before bringing his journey to an end. andy moore, bbc news. scientists working to stop the spread of malaria have developed a new net which could save more than a million lives.

treated with insecticides, they reduce the lifespan of mosquitoes carrying the disease. a trial of the nets has already reduced the number of children catching malaria in west africa. megan paterson reports. after two decades of decline, malaria rates in some parts of sub—saharan africa are rising. mosquitoes have become resistant to existing insecticides. that is where this new net, treated with different chemicals, will help. it looks like an ordinary net, but it's robust, and most importantly contains the insecticide inside the fibres. and it leeches it out slowly over time. so you can wash this net 20 times, but it still has insecticide on it. it's still protective, it still will protect people against mosquitoes. so this is a very sophisticated piece of equipment. it doesn't look it, but it is.

and for you, that would cost about $2 a net, so it is very cheap. the bed nets have already been tested in burkina faso, where they reduced clinical malaria cases by 12% in a group of 2,000 children. we're comparing the old net with the new net, with two active ingredients, and what we show is that the new net works better than the old net. so we've got something which is a potential game—changer. it at least gives us a step forward for malaria control. the latest figures from the world health organization found 216 million people were infected with malaria. the biggest number of victims — children underfive. the scientists hope these new nets will stop increase of the disease and help in its eradication. in 1988, a huge wave of popular demonstrations gripped myanmar, then known as burma, against the ruling military dictatorship. but the protests were violently suppressed, and over the course of the year, thousands of people were killed in what became known as the burmese uprising. it was at that time that aung san suu kyi emerged as a national icon. the bbc‘s witness programme has been speaking to ma thida,

who was then a young doctor in yangon. archive: the main cause of the rioting is burma's economic crisis. the demonstrations are led by students demanding economic reforms and a return to democracy. at that time, i was in my final year of medical school. it was like the whole country is in the mood of the protest. today, there have been more clashes with troops in the suburbs of rangoon. several times, troops have opened fire on the crowds... the way the government took action against this was very violent, very militant. some students have been killed. one of my friends was shot. the medical professionals, they were taking the lead, and then

the rangoon general hospital became the central place of the protests. it was a very big rally inside the rangoon general hospital, and the truck arrived, and the government army shotjust randomly into the hospital. we tried to help some injured people. i never treated a gunshot wound patient in the past. it was shocking to treat gunshot wound injured people. so, so many patients at the same time, it's a little bit difficult to handle. newsreel: at rangoon general hospital, aung san suu kyi addressed tens of thousands of people who were gathered. at that time, aung san suu kyi was not well known by the international community. a woman who, for the last 20 years, has lived in england. her father was assassinated

when aung san suu kyi was just two. she'd returned quietly to burma in april, after two years away. that was a very emotional moment. her speech was really groundbreaking, i think, her commitment and her vision for our country. with the army on the streets, there is a mood of fear in rangoon tonight. the situation after the crackdown in september was even worse than the situation before the protests. it does seem most of the army is backing the coup. i have no choice. i already believe in the revolution, i couldn't stop anymore. i expected one day i might be arrested. i was arrested in 1993. it was a couple of days just before my 27th birthday,

and i was a little bit excited to be in prison, because i really wanted to write my own prison memoir one day. i spent five years, six months in prison, in solitary confinement throughout the prison term. after i was released, i went back to the hospital. then, a quite unforgettable moment. aung san suu kyi, a free woman, walking to meet her people. we're all having such a high expectation to aung san suu kyi. i want to run for president, and i'm quite frank about it. if we go back 20 years ago, the situation really was bad. the current situation is still not yet enough, so we're still hoping. workers from north and south korea

have played each other in a football match in seoul. the game, aimed to cement ties between their peoples, follows a meeting of their political leaders in april, and the game was good natured, as rhodri davies reports. a simple game of football. but it has been a while since these neighbours, from north and south korea, went for a kickabout. here in seoul, workers from the north, in red, played counterparts from the south, fulfilling on their three—day trip perhaps every amateur football player's dream — to play in a world cup stadium. the message all around it — "red unification", and the friendly game is part of an objective to improve korean civilian exchanges, born from the leaders' summit in april. and, while political tensions persist, here there was only

sporting goodwill. translation: i hope there will be more events like this, even if they are not organised by the government, but rather by civilian groups. i hope we will soon achieve independent unification, so that the south and north can be together. as you can see, i came here to cheer them on. tens of thousands of spectators gave similar messages. this sign reads, "we are one." and, after six decades of separation, the neighbours were close enough to touch. translation: being able to shake the players‘ hands here, so close up, really gave me the impression they are so far away, and so close at the same time. and the symbolism of two sides, technically still at war, holding hands, with banners raised of a unified peninsula, and opposing delegates sitting

together, will raise more hopes for more talks between the countries. this as both sides' officials meeting next week, planning a possible summit in the autumn, and one suspects the leaders were looking on here. officials stressed that this match wouldn't have a victor, and although north korea's team did win 3—1, perhaps a feeling of togetherness came out on top. asa as a famous british nigerian philosopher once said, balls, not bombs. thank you very much for watching. hello. it stays fairly changeable

over the next few days, and as a general rule of thumb, if you saw some sunshine on saturday, like here in north yorkshire, there's a good chance you'll see a bit of rain around on sunday. and it's all connected to this area of low pressure to the west of the uk, which through the early hours of sunday will continue to push fronts and outbreaks of rain eastwards through northern ireland, england, wales, into southern parts of scotland. clearing fairly early on on sunday morning from northern ireland, so after some initial rain here, turning brighter, some spells of sunshine. outbreaks of rain working their way eastwards through england and wales, replaced by sunny spells, but also some sharp and maybe thundery showers. the rain slow—moving on itsjourney northwards through scotland. so here we are at a:00pm on sunday afternoon, and we've still got some outbreaks of rain across southern england with sunny spells following on behind. but yes, still potential for some showers which could be heavy and thundery. still some showers for northern ireland and the far north of england but here,

the best of the sunshine and mainly dry in the afternoon. meanwhile across scotland, although turning drier through dumfries and galloway and the borders. further outbreaks of rain for central and northern scotland. far north into orkney and shetland mainly dry and the best of the sunshine here. quite breezy for the western isles, and a noticeable wind as well for south—west england. elsewhere, a gentle—moderate breeze. in the sunshine, we'll see temperatures getting up to between 19 and 21 celsius but they may struggle around 15 or 16 celsius across central and northern parts of scotland, where that rain is somewhat stubborn to go. but, through sunday evening, slowly we'll see the rain pushing its way northwards across scotland, with some late spells of sunshine and southern areas of scotland. meanwhile, across england and wales, watch out for further heavy and maybe thundery showers slowly clearing their way eastwards. through the early hours of monday morning, still some showers around, and another fairly mild if not warm and muggy night, with lows between 12 and 16 celsius. so, on monday, we still have our area of low pressure clearing the eastern side of the uk. so that means we're still going to see some showers anywhere

from the east coast of scotland down through north—east england, east anglia and south—east england through monday morning. again, still heavy and thundery. as they clear eastwards, behind it, across much of england and wales and northern ireland, we'll see some spells of sunshine, but it looks like scotland will always keep a bit more cloud and some showers for the western isles. 16—18 here on monday. getting up to 2a celsius across central and south—east england in the best of the sunshine. so, looking ahead to tuesday and wednesday, always the chance we could see some showers, some longer spells of rain across scotland and northern ireland. meanwhile, for much of england and wales, drier, brighter and feeling warmer. bye— bye. this is bbc news, the headlines. the pharmaceutical giant bayer says its monsanto weedkillers put up to 100,000 to the streets in

romania, leaving people needing medical attention. but they say critically to the pharmaceutical giant bayer says its monsanto weedkillers critically to are safe, after a us court ordered it to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to a man who claimed his terminal cancer was caused by the ingredient gly—fa—sayt. —— was caused by the ingredient glyphosate. act and he trinidad author vs naipaul has died, working for the bbc before becoming a political.