hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency so far. two former close colleagues have been convicted of serious crimes — one is directly accusing the president of ordering him to break the law. but mr trump is having none of it. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a big thing, that's a much bigger thing. venezeula experiences its worst ever earthquake, it's heaping more misery on a country that's deep in economic crisis, and where 7 per cent of the populatoin have now fled in search of a better life and we'll be bringing you a story of great emotional power from the border between north and south korea where families separated for decades have finally been allowed just a few hours together. the drudge report called

it trump's hell hour — and it's normally on the president's side. this time yesterday — first donald trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to a range of crimes. and crucially — he claimed the president told him to break the law. this is mr cohen's lawyer. he committed a crime, he should be indicted, if you are not president, he clearly would be indicted and jailed for that crime, whether he can be indicted as president is not yet decided by the supreme court. michael cohen is guilty of serious tax evasion and bank fraud — but the focus is on his guilty plea relating to payments made to playboy

model karen mcdougal and porn actress stormy daniels. she alleges she slept with donald trump in 2006 — and we know she was paid $130,000 by michael cohen days before the 2016 election. he says that was ordered by donald trump with the explicit goal of helping to win the election — and thats a federal crime. now how we calculate the president's recollection of this depends on when we listen to him. here's mr trump on fox news earlier. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a big thing, that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they did not come out of the campaign. they came from me. i tweeted about it, i tweeted about the payments. but they didn't come out

of campaign, my first question when i heard about it was, did they come out of the campaign? because that could be a little dicey. and then this is president on air force one in april. the president's come out swinging on twitter. he might say that now — but this is a man who boasts of being a greatjudge of character — and who used michael cohen's services for many years. and let's be clear on the seriousness of the cohen accusation. this is maggie habermann

of the ny times. "trump allies and advisers privately say the office but this story was not about one trial but two. this was cbs news as the story developed. welcome to cbs this morning. back legal blows for president trump. his former lawyer in campaign chairman are now convicted felons. paul manafort — donald trump's former campaign chairman was convicted of 8 bank and tax fraud charges. he made millions working for pro—russia politicians in ukraine. but the millions weren't properly declared — manafort can expect a long jail term. despite that the president said this yesterday in west virginia. i feel badly for paul manafort. i just want to tell you that paul manafort is a good man, he was with ronald reagan, he was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that.

it does not involve me but i'd do feel, it is a very sad thing to happen. it is nothing to do with russian collusion. it started as russian collusion, this has nothing to do with russian collusion. it is a witchhunt, it is a disgrace. it's worth us pausing to think about what has happened to the men who the president surrounds himself with. his lawyer — guilty. his campaign chairman — guilty. to those two you can add. michael flynn, the president's former national security adviser. he's already pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia. george papadopoulos is a former trump campaign adviser. he's already pleaded guilty to lying to fbi agents about his contacts with russia. rick gates is a former deputy chairman of the trump campaign. he has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the united states and lying to investigators. alex van der zwaan is a lawyer who once worked closely with manafort and gates.

he pleaded guilty in february to lying to investigators about contacts with an official in the trump election campaign. a press conference was just held in washington — sarah sanders, the white house secretary was asked question after question about all this — but she kept to the white house lines — and repeated them again and again. as the president said, he said many times, that he's done nothing wrong. no charges against him and we have commented on this extensively. then why not report these payments? again, i'm not going to get into the back and forth details i can tell you as the president has stated on numerous occasions, he has done nothing wrong and there are no charges against him in this, and just because michael cohen made a plea deal doesn't mean it implicates the president on anything. you came in today and said that president trump is never lie to you came in today and said that president trump has never lied to the american people because so many people look back to that tape of him on air force one saying, he knew nothing about these payments, when in fact we now know that he knew

everything about these payments. so has he lied? i believe that is a ridiculous accusation. the president in this matter has done nothing wrong and there are no charges against him. he been many months investigating the story. i asked the bbc‘s katty kay more about the potential political fall out from all this. donald trump has, that is unlikely to crumble very far because of this, but his support amongst suburban women is declining and that could erode further because of this. because big political issues, extremely tumultuous day and what has been a very tumultuous presidency. we've talked about how remarkably tolerant republicans have been but the unique experience, you talked with republicans on and off the record, have you seen any shift in their support for president? what they're to look at is what

republican voters think and their own states and in their own districts. and so far, all of our bbc reporting shows that republican supporters are sticking by the president. we even had one woman in new york state that everybody commits some kind of crime, donald trump is only human. to some extent the president's behaviour, whether it comes to women or whether it comes to his own finances or his own political style, is baked into the equation surrounding donald trump. people know this about donald trump and therefore it is unlikely to change their mind very much. that is his die—hard supporters and that means it will be unlikely to change republican politicians very much. displayed just played a clip of the president.

0n the face of it, donald trump is right, it is about tax evasion, money laundering, hiding money that he got, and offshore accounts and all that predated manager during the campaign. but, this is from the ukraine, the russian intelligence would have known about this money and some people speculate what it had a hold over paul manafort, did they actually put them into the campaign? witha they actually put them into the campaign? with a pleased when he joined the campaign, but it is raised by trumps enemies. now paul ma nafort raised by trumps enemies. now paul manafort is one of five donald trump associates that have pled guilty to serious charges but he is the only one of the five not two of rolled over and signalled that he is willing to do a plea deal with the robert mueller inquiry into the trump campaign in russia. michaelz's lawyer, poses a far greater threat

to donald trump and paul manafort. how he fits into the equation, donald trump in recent months has sort of played down its significance in 2016. what is your perception of the role he plays? it all goes to the role he plays? it all goes to the heart of the question, was there collusion between the donald trump campa na russian intelligence? collusion between the donald trump campana russian intelligence? west virginia at the rally last night it appeared that there is no collusion, no collusion no one is ever found a collusion, we do not know what evidence the robert mueller inquiry may have gotten, palm for‘s business partner and ukraine was a man who was widely supposed to have been a former agent of russian military intelligence. western intelligence, saying that there is no such thing asa saying that there is no such thing as a former russian spy, always a russian spy. and i think that in another indictment that paul ma nafort another indictment that paul manafort cases more days in court in another indictment he is charged

with this man was accused or described a russian intelligence agents. 0ne actually see that the inquiry is putting in the hours there was yellow things started to go wrong for donald trump before he was elected, and it suggested that paul manafort had gotten millions of dollars that he had not declared and thatis dollars that he had not declared and that is in the whole question of links between russia and russian and ukraine started to open up. and although donald trump will be pleased by what happened to paul manafort, he's not going to give the many sleepless nights. but what exactly michael cohen can say and nobody it will be surprised if if he paid someone hush money, that would not be shocking. 0h paid someone hush money, that would not be shocking. oh what michael cohen can perhaps talk about is whether or not there is whether he

went in the summer of 2016 to meet russian intelligence agents, that is the heart of the collusion allegations damn sure that is what the robert why not report on this storye why not report on this story a few minutes on outside source, will be talking about final farewells between relatives separated by the korean war — after a brief reunion for the first reunion for the first time in more than sixty years. the site of a large—scale operation.

the national crime operations as pa rt the national crime operations as part of what they say was an ongoing operation when they heard loud bangs, what they believed were gunshots, so they were called and when they went in, they encountered three men coming out, the trio were all arrested but not before one of them was targeted with a taster. between them, to remember carrying two handguns and ammunition and they have all been charged with firearm offences, but inside there was more. the police say it was a sophisticated gun making factory, machinery and components and that the weapons were made from blue prints something be crime agency said is unusual. the white house says donald trump is not implicated

by his former lawyer michael cohen's guilty plea to charges of breaking campaign financing laws but mr cohen's lawyer says, the president instructed him to do it. a usjudge in new york sentenced the former head of football's governing body fifa in brazil to four years in prison for corruption earlier. jose maria marin, here arriving at court, was convicted of accepting bribes from sports marketing companies in exchange for contracts to broadcast major tournaments. that's on bbc mundo. most read story on the website at the moment is related to paul manafort‘s conviction on bank and tax fraud. phones weren't allowed in the courtroom, so reporters had to run from the court with details as the news broke — this journalist's sprint led to her being dubbed ‘the woman in the blue dress' on social media. venezuela's had a lot to cope with recently —

now, add to that, the strongest earthquake the country has ever had tremors were felt in many areas of the country — this was inside a supermarket. the us geological survey said the tremor was 7.3 magnitude, which is considerable. buildings in caracas were evacuated but there were no immediate reports of casualties. 0ne city landmark has been damaged this is a building known locally as the tower of david — its construction was never completed, but it stands 45 stories high, abandoned, and now home to squatters. the earthquake badly damaged it and as you can see if we zoom in the top five floors hvae been pushed sideways, leaving it leaning precariously to one side. freddy gillingham is a reporter who's been covering the story,

he's in caracas how badly damaged is it? we're standing just below it now. we are coming here to do this interview from the west of the city and you can see a significant tilt from the top, it is believed that the first stories have collapsed just where i'm standing and you cannot see it exactly i'm standing and you cannot see it exa ctly fro m i'm standing and you cannot see it exactly from this angle but people have gathered in front of me, buses going past, people looking at the top of this very symbolic tower. it is not just symbolic for people here, it is the third highest abandoned skyscraper in the country, but it also famous for other reasons as well. american tv drama and 2013, used the abandoned building and one of their seasons and included the building one of the episodes, so is very famous structure. and we came

down here last night for a huge emergency crews were out in force. a lot of families from the area around the structure had vacated from their buildings, told to evacuate and at the moment, the streets closer by the moment, the streets closer by the tower have been cordoned off. how many people were living there when the earthquake happened?m how many people were living there when the earthquake happened? it has been less, totally abandoned, and 2014 day made a deal, they kicked out around 5000 squatters in the building but in 2014, the government could amount, —— cleared them out. theirs was to sell the building to investors, obviously that has not happened so the structure, year in and year out just sits happened so the structure, year in and year outjust sits abandoned. we have a couple of other things will like to talk to you about because

all of this is happening in the context of this desperate economic crisis, the correspondent nodes that. dark humour is at times called for in venezuela considering what is happening in the economy, the inflation has risen. the government solution has been to knock five zeros off the currency, so here are more pictures of venezuelans queuing up more pictures of venezuelans queuing upfor more pictures of venezuelans queuing up for the currency. their new currency. there were 100,000 times more than the old bolivar would have been. and many people arejust saying that we have had enough and are leaving. one of them is 100,000 times of more valuable than the old bolivar. the economic crisis is driving a huge exodus out of venezuela. map more than a million venezuelans

have gone to colombia in the past 18 months. many don't stop there. these pictures are of migrants hitching lift on lorries that transporting cars into ecuador. more than 500,000 people have made that crossing, from colombia over the border into ecuador this year. that's not the end of the journey for many of them. let me show you these pictures people walking through ecuador on the pan—american highway. they took only what they could carry and are now hoping to keep going all the way to peru. ecuador has declared a state of emergency on its border. taken in total the scale of this exodus is staggering. around 7% of venezuela's population has already left, that's about 2.3 million people according to the un. but the numbers are increasing exponentially. according to the economist, freddy, tell us, how has venezeula

itself changed as a result of all these people leaving? that thing gives that here, particularly, is the fact that this isa particularly, is the fact that this is a major big—city, this is a population of around 8 million. the most significant thing that we have noticed here is the sheer sadness of the city. this was a booming place and streets are now deserted and there is this sense of abandonment and it's a sad feeling. just on the note of migration it is becoming harder and harderfor note of migration it is becoming harder and harder for venezuelans fear to harder and harder for venezuelans fearto gain harder and harder for venezuelans fear to gain passports. it is a very complicated and difficult process, which means that more and more venezuelans are which means that more and more venezuela ns are taking which means that more and more venezuelans are taking bigger risks and going out of the country.

illegal smuggling routes outside to columbia and they‘ re illegal smuggling routes outside to columbia and they're often being put into the hands of some barely unsavoury characters. brassica and speak again on outside hopefully, it does not come down in the next few hours. back to the lead story in the donald trump administration and those who once worked with bennett. if you have any questions, —— with in it. bbc 0s or e—mail us, we are on the screen throughout. more reaction to show you. rudi giuliani is now mr trump's lawyer. he put out a statement. except there is an allegation of wrongdoing against the president. maybe worth mentioning that a few days ago mr giuliani generated a lot of publicity when he said

‘truth isn't truth‘. you can imagine what rebublicans would be saying if a democratic of publicity when he said ‘truth isn‘t truth‘. you can imagine what rebublicans would be saying if a democratic president were caught up in this. but they‘ve largely steeered clear of the white house today. mitt romney, former republican presidential candidate. strong language — though not directed at the president. a spokesperson for republican house speaker paul ryan and this was republican senatorjohn cornyn who was equally vague.

all of this conduct looks like from what i‘ve seen so far has no relationship to the president and is related to the misconduct that has occurred outside of that should. another clip to play you — this is republican senator lindsey graham. any time your lawyer is convicted it is not a good thing. the bottom line is not a good thing. the bottom line is that i do not know what he is saying there, again, my point is that i think the essential question for me is did this campaign reach out to the russians? and co—ordinate ina out to the russians? and co—ordinate in a fashion to give them an advantage? anthony zurcher is live in washington. the republican support is been

remarkably solid throughout its cube bumps over the past months and yea rs, bumps over the past months and years, and that has nothing to shake these senators. and donald trump was ata these senators. and donald trump was at a rally in west virginia last night and the cloud was boisterous and checking for lock her up in reference to hillary clinton and what they wanted the prosecution of herfor her e—mails, what they wanted the prosecution of her for her e—mails, and what they wanted the prosecution of herfor her e—mails, and also what they wanted the prosecution of her for her e—mails, and also saying drain the swamp, they still see donald trump as a means to bring reform to washington. a comment to my twitter feed from a republican supporter of donald trump and he said, yeah, we know he probably made peace payoffs, we do not care, if the people who are in power before him had he done theirjobs, we would not have supported donald trump. they elected donald trump to blow the system up and tear it up and in their view, donald trump is still doing that. some of his supporters that said, all candidates to some degree break campaign finance rules, is that a reasonable argument? you

heard that from donald trump in an interview with fox news earlier today, citing barack 0bama‘s presidential campaign was fine bridge the deep thousand dollars for failing to disclose some campaign contributions that he received, and not returning contributions over to set legal limit in the timely fashion, but you have to draw a distinction between findings for campaignfinance distinction between findings for campaign finance violations and campaigns get into allegations that individuals within the campaign committed in legalities and that is what michael: if saying that donald trump had them do. if you have a few questions are what is happening in washington, dc, send them our way. the forecast is coming up in half an

hour but at this time of the evening we are looking at the main weather stories happening around the world. hurricanes in hawaii, two words that often go together, but they are this week is a look at the satellite view of the hurricane in the big eye of the storm here, a category five hurricane extremely unusual but also powerful in the central pacific very unusual forecast, close to the hawaiian islands as the week goes on. a lot of uncertainty and therefore impact but there will be some very therefore impact but there will be some very eventful weather in hawaii in the coming days. and then further west in the pacific, two more areas, two more cyclones, typhoons as they are called in this part of the world, this is the one, heading towards the korean peninsula, this one is going to move very quickly towards japan, and it will be very strong winds, but there will be some devastating flooding in places particularly from the slow—moving

system particularly from the slow—moving syste m o nce particularly from the slow—moving system once it makes landfall at a south korea and slowly, in no hurry to make that really heavy rain away, looking at japan, this typhoon to make that really heavy rain away, looking atjapan, this typhoon in the wings stay strong with this one and quickly moves from east to west across the area and over water but it will still be a spell of heavy rain, so we will keep you updated on both of these systems and of course what is happening in hawaii. we know there is been some horrible flooding in india and the humanitarian crisis continues even though they are just a few showers around at the moment. in fact most of the rain in india is falling further north thomas and heavy falls around new delhi and all this is tracking a bit further east, the northern parts of india seeing the northern parts of india seeing the heavier rain and the risk of flooding over the next few days. if you are in usa or canada bound there are showers around on thursday and friday but drier weather for north east of the us, the recent rain in new york expect plenty of sunshine

and pleasant temperatures before turns hotter and next week, the vancouver. and whether developments in australia, it doesn‘t look much on the big picture but an area of low pressure that is weakening, bringing some rain in parts to south australia but also into new south wales, but there is a long—lasting major drought at the moment, and thatis major drought at the moment, and that is suggesting that the rain will add up to that much but still, it is rain all the same and it will be falling into parts of new south wales and as a result it is going be welcomed. back in the uk, are whether going into the weekend looks quite cool at times it looks very changeable to and for some it is a bank holiday weekend, so there is a lot to talk about and we will do that and look further ahead here in half an hour. hello, i‘m ros atkins, this is 0utside source. donald trump is facing the biggest crisis of his presidency so far. two former close colleagues have been convicted of serious crimes. one is directly accusing the president of ordering him to break the law. but mr trump is having none of it.

did you know about the payments? later on i knew, later on. but you have to understand, what he did, and they weren't taken out of any campaign finances, that is a big thing, that is a much bigger thing. it‘s the start of hurricane season, people in hawaii are told to be prepared as a category 5 storm bears down on them, we‘ll be there live. anthony zurcher will be live with us to take your questions — 0ryou can email outsidesource@bbc. co. uk the hashtag is #bbcos. back to our top story. the growing scandal surrounding

donald trump‘s former political inner circle. this is one of anthony zurcher‘s latest articles on a question many are asking — "will donald trump remain bulletproof after "manafort and cohen?" there‘s a lot of talk about impeachment, that‘s when a legislative body formally levels charges against an official, a first step in removing them from office. "i‘m waiting for all those republicans who thought "bill clinton should be impeached for lying about sex "to weigh in on what to do about a president who allegedly "conspired to violate federal law to hide a sex scandal." as we discussed before, that hasn‘t happened yet. and without the republicans turning against their own president, there‘s still a long way to go before donald trump could be impeached. a lot of that would depend on the results of november‘s midterm elections. the democrats currently control neither the house or the senate. this is the current

makeup of the house — but in the senate, of the 35 seats that come up on the ballot this year, 26 are held by democrats, meaning the democrats are in defense mode. not all of the senate is up to grants. that grabs. it is going to be hard for the democrats to make gains. anthony zurcher is live in washington. critics of donald trump would like to mention impeachment but this is a long way away. exactly. since that bullet—proof article i have written one about impeachment. democrats and render it

right now. i mentioned the stress the democrats and because they will feel pressured from their base to address the impeachment question we had elizabeth warner is senator pushed on that she we shall wait until the probe is finished before we decide what our next debts are. but there are people who want to talk about this now. there are republicans who are welcoming this debate. you heard the white house press co nfe re nce debate. you heard the white house press conference earlier saying they wa nt press conference earlier saying they want the midterms about the democrats wanting to impeach mr trump with the republicans coming along with ideas of how to make america great again. here is a question. what is the legal status of a president when he is in office and

when he leaves? that is an open question because the federal law don‘t state whether a president can be impacted, charged while he is in office. the department ofjustice guidelines say the president should not be indicted while he is in office. the way to deal with any allegations against a president art through the impeachment process, removal and after—the—fact, after he is out of office, then he can be charged with crimes. they came up with nixon, once he resigned from office there was a question whether he could be charged with obstruction ofjustice. that is why gerald ford pardoned him and took it all off the table. it is and took it all off the table. it is a grey area and robert mueller could decide to indict the president. that would lead up to the supreme court, a constitutional crisis. general consensus is, if that is a problem with a president it has to be dealt with a president it has to be dealt with by congress, a majority in the

house of representatives have to vote. a few others would like to help with this, where 0rmsby robert mueller investigation fill in with the trial of michael cohen? exactly. robert mueller who was the one who first came across this evidence regarding michael cohen, he handed it off to federal prosecutors in the southern district of new york. those eight us attorneys working for the justice york. those eight us attorneys working for thejustice department but not directly under robert mueller‘s supervision. they investigated and reached a plea agreement with michael cohen. that is not going to be a trial on the campaignfinance and is not going to be a trial on the campaign finance and bank fraud charges because he has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors. that is handled separately and independent robert mueller. but as that investigation turned up that evidence to force him to accept a

plea that up with going to leave it there for the moment. thank you very much. he is churning out several articles in washington. you can find them all on our bbc news website. elderly people on both sides of the korean border have been saying their farewells after being reunited briefly with their relatives. nearly 90 south koreans travelled north, they spent a few days then meeting family members from whom they have been separated for very long time. laura bicker‘s report contains flash photography. this is why some call these reunions the second separation. after brief moments together, they are once again torn apart.

let‘s meet again when our countries are reunited, she says. but north and south korea are still at war. divided and look likely to remain so. earlier, the families were given one extra hour over lunch. they have had 12 hours in total together over three days. precious time for this 82—year—old to spend with her sisters. or for an uncle to teach his niece about her family tree. and for a father to hear one last story from his daughter. i hope whenever i pray for you, you will hear it, says this mother. but when they leave this resort, all further contact will be impossible. it was a moment few thought about when they

were first united. especially this 92—year—old who flung herself in her estranged son‘s arms. in the chaos they were trapped on opposite sides of the border after the war. 68 years is a long time to be apart. now, she is inconsolable. and despite this cry of hope, north korea is usually unwilling to allow more contact between these families. until that changes these first meetings will also always be their last. now, south koreans have begun to arrive back in sokcho in south korea following the meetings. kim hye—ja met her north korean younger brother and nephew.

when i got on the bus, my brother cried a lot waving his hand. i felt really bad. my nephew cried too. 0n the other hand, i was very happy to see them. happy enough to dance. we are separated again, i'm looking forward to meeting them again. and 76—year—old south korean lee young—boo met his north korean nephews and niece. i couldn't leave them, i tried to hold back tears. but i cried. a second round of reunions is set to take place over the coming weekend. don‘t forget you can get much more detail on our top stories on our website. there is full coverage on bbc.com/news. facebook and twitter say they have suspended or removed hundreds

of accounts linked to iran. here‘s facebook‘s official newspage. the company says here that it identified over 650 pages and groups showing "coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated "in iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the middle east, latin america, uk and us". meanwhile twitter said it suspended 284 accounts. here are some examples of the targeted accounts. they featured content about middle east politics written in both arabic and farsi as well as accounts which shared content about politics in the uk and the us. both facebook and twitter said they also suspended or removed accounts linked to russia. yesterday, microsoft said it had thwarted russian cyber—attacks

against us conservative groups. russia is nothing if not consistent, it‘s denied all allegations. here‘s kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov. translation: we do not understand what russian intelligence has to do with this. where facebook got this information from, what they based their decisions on, and how this has any relation to us. for more on the iranian perspective, this is behrang tajdin from bbc persian. it seems like for the first time this report by the cyber security firm and facebook shows on top of its official english—language, arabic language and spanish language channels, the iranian state broadcaster seem to be using pages in facebook to convey its message. it is a counter narrative to the western narrative when it comes to

issues such as the conflict in the middle east all the us foreign policy, etc. basically, what this shows is that iran is using as facebook put it, inauthentic ways of spreading this message. it‘s inauthentic because it‘s not labelled as being from iranians media. exactly. that is the reason why facebook says it is closing these pages. this comes after a lot of other reports that we have seen from cybersecurity firms about the activities of iranians hacking groups connected to the iranians state, for example we have seen hacking groups that are connected to iran have trying to hack into the online accounts of many foreign

politicians, academics and even journalists including our colleagues in bbc persian. on top of that, even iranian officials including the foreign minister. when you saw these claims from twitter and facebook and you are sitting in the bbc persian newsroom, were any of you surprised? not really. we know that iran, for many years, have been trying to kind of put forward counterarguments to what it sees as the western view of the world and foreign policy in issues such as iranians nuclear programme or iranians ballistic missile programme. so what we can see now is, it seems part of the iranian state is trying to use over ways of putting forward this narrative that we haven‘t seen before.

forgive me, isn‘t every country in one way or another trying to put forward its perspective to persuade the world that its perspective is correct. in some ways, this does not seem particularly unusual. no, it doesn‘t. it seems like at least for many people in iran, especially the media outlets close to the hardline of iran, facebook is using this findings to kind of shutdown iran‘s freedom of expression and freedom to put forward its ideas and viewpoint. it seems like it is a little bit different from what we have seen in these stories regarding claims that the russians are trying to influence us politics. this is completely different about. it is not about fake news,

it is about comments. ina minute in a minute will be going to hell i would first to zimbabwe. a constitutional court in zimbabwe has been hearing a case challenging the result of last month‘s election. lawyers for the opposition mdc party, led by nelson chamisa, told the court there was a massive cover—up and doctoring of results. the party wants to get president emmerson mnangagwa‘s victory overturned. but government lawyers say that while there may have been minor clerical errors there was no large—scale rigging. outside the courtroom, harare residents are hoping whatever the outcome, life can get back to normal. everyone must be satisfied after the ruling of the court. no matter which party is it, no matter which candidate is it, no matter anything that has been happening before, i think we are expecting everything

to be free and fair. translation: the people of zimbabwe have huge expectations from whoever the court will decide is the winner of the election. the economy is struggling and all we want is the restoration of good governance. our reporter shingai nyoka has been following proceedings at the court in harare for us today. the movement for democratic change lawyers have been giving evidence from about ten o‘clock local time and what they are saying is they have proof that some of the figures were inflated to favour president mnangagwa. they have said they have, what they call, v11 forms which are the verification forms that were given out at every polling station. they say some of these were doctored, that others were unsigned. that also essentially some polling stations had more votes cast than the

registered voters. of course, this is hugely important because president mnangagwa won by a narrow margin. he avoided a run by 37,000 votes. the zimbabwean electoral commission over the last week has revised downwards its presidential result by 1.1% and these are some of the issues that the opposition has raised. they said after that it‘s not clear what the actual presidential result is. to saudi arabia now. the public prosecutor has reportedly sought the death penalty for five activists, including a female rights defender called israa al—ghomgham. this is a picture of her when she was younger, it‘s been released by her supporters. the whole group is accused of taking part in a protest in qatif region of the country. this area has seen a number of demonstrations by the minority shia muslim community. the charges are not believed to relate to violence

in any way and they come less than six months after billboards like these appeared in london proclaiming a new era of "change" that‘s being delivered by crown prince mohammed bin salman. these changes includeallowing women to drive and allowing cinemas to open in the kingdom. here‘s rothna begum from the human rights watch. the saudi authorities‘ public prosecution is demanding the death penalty for charges that relate directly to peaceful activism. so they are participating in peaceful protest, taking videos of protests, they are all related very specificly later peaceful activities. that is quite unique about this situation, it‘s the first time we are seeing the saudi authorities not only going after the death penalty but doing so directly for peaceful activism. they have executed many people in the

past including shia citizens. in 2016 they executed four shia men including the prominent sheik, nimr al—nimr, for inciting riots but in that time they were still trying to connect him to violence, even if his family have insisted he was always a peaceful man and promoted peaceful activities. when you talk about peaceful activism, what do you actually mean? simply participating in protest, peacefully. as we have seen in the eastern province of saudi arabia, the shia community have many, many grievances, discrimination against them as a community. many of them have taken to the streets in protest. there has been some rioting but the vast majority has been quite peaceful. the saudi authorities in this regard in actually referring to trial, six activists, five they have tried to appeal for the death penalty, and now they are saying even these peaceful activities will not, won‘tjust go away but they will actually go after them with the death penalty itself. how do you explain this

story to viewers who have followed some of the reforms in saudi arabia, particularly around women driving and cinemas being allowed to open? does this fit? on one level it obviously doesn‘t but how do we understand the dual approach we‘re seeing here? just to clarify, the saudi authorities have always prohibited protests. but the irony is this time around the authorities are going after a campaign of reform, they are going to the world saying this is an era of change in saudi arabia. yet, this is also the era of the most oppressive time we have ever seen for human rights activist, for political activists as well as women‘s rights activists. it is the first time we are seeing a female human rights activist being punished with the death penalty. the public prosecution is going after her for death itself. help us understand the process. lets now go to hawaii — hurricane lane is bearing down on it

— it‘s about 650km southeast of honolulu early on wednesday — with winds of up to 160 mph. this graphic released by the us national weather service shows that winds of around 110 mph are expected to impact the islands of molokai, lanai, maui and oahu. a hurricane warning is in effect across hawaii — and as you can see here people are being advised to stock up on essentials, such as food, water and batteries — and to stay indoors. the governor of hawaii tweeted this picture earlier today, pledging to provide support to anyone impacted by the weather. here‘s the governor speaking earlier: we do see impacts to the state beginning late wednesday evening and into thursday morning. only four named storms have made landfall in hawaii since 1959. the bbc‘s weather team have drawn attention

to the severity of this particular storm, noting that "it is the strongest hurricane ever to endanger hawaii." we can now speak senator mike gabbard who is speaking to us live from the island of oahu in hawaii. thank you for your time. please tell us more thank you for your time. please tell us more about the preparations that are in train to make sure the safety of hawaiians. currently the federal agents, they are the ones who are making preparations, making sure that the impact is going to be, the red cross is helping out here, our governor has been very much involved issuing the emergency proclamation. quite frankly, the lines of the

doors and supermarkets are extremely wrong as well as the gas stations. they are buying of two supply that has been recommended, as well as water. some of my constituents were complaining that one hour after the store opened they were out of water. i wanted to mention that back in 1992, it was when another hurricane hit it as a category four hurricane. it did over $4 billion worth of damage. we take this very seriously. we will have to wait and see what happens. we have had a volcano on the big island. extreme flooding on the big island. extreme flooding on the island of hawaii. we‘re looking at another emergency situation here. we have only a minute left. there

we re we have only a minute left. there were concerns about the federal response to the herrick and in puerto rico, are you set aside with a the federal assistance you are being given? yes. it is a team kind of thing with the fights and the state and private organisations, nonprofit organisations. everybody working together. that is a bit of, not his d—day, because of past experiences with hurricanes here in hawaii, the devastation —— not hysteria. we are making sure people got supplies. how is the weather at the moment? that is the thing, right outside my door the sunday shining, there is a bit of wind. the storm is about 400 miles from the big island. it is

about 305 miles for the big island and 400 miles from oahu. it is creepy because people are out playing tennis and golf! knowing full well that by tomorrow it is going to be a totally different story. senator, we wish you well. perhaps we can speak as this plays out. thank you very much for your time on such a pressing day. see you tomorrow at the same time. goodbye. hello. the next few days will bring a significant change in the way the weather feels. some of you may be wondering where summer has gone. we‘re going to find lower temperatures by day and by night and

there is still the chance of catching some rain at times as well. the cooler is coming in behind not one but two weather fronts. it is about the second one we get the cold air. ahead of the first one, this is where we have had all the high humidity. it is getting pushed away to the continent and on that more southerly weather front here in the south—east, we have got cloud and outbreaks of rain. behind that we have a spell of sunshine, the second weather front brings ragged have a spell of sunshine, the second weatherfront brings ragged rain. the hind that, this is where we get the chilly air temperatures 15—17. in early 22 in the south—east that even here temperatures will be dropping. as the second weather front heads, it doesn‘t bring any rain but as it moves through we will end up in the same boat by the time we get a friday morning. temperatures will be quite a bit low in the south—east, it will be a more co mforta ble in the south—east, it will be a more comfortable might for sleeping. no

heat, humidity like we‘ve had. a lot of showers to come on friday particularly feeding in on that north—westerly breeze. it‘s notjust bringing in showers but cooler and fresh air. we may not hit 20 degrees anywhere on friday. fewer showers but southern parts of england and wales. as we head into the bank holiday weekend, we find high pressure trying to build in from off the atlantic. what that does, it pushes away the heaviest of the showers out into the north sea and the coolest of the wind as well. lighter winds, more sunshine, fewer showers but still no better than 20 degrees. as that high—pressure continues to build in dealing the evening and overnight it squashes the showers, drops the temperatures in the chilly air. the next with the system in the chilly air. the next with the syste m co m es in the chilly air. the next with the system comes in from the atlantic. some early sunshine but it a cloud

over. and for western part of the uk we will find rain put up temperatures will be pegged back under the cloud to about 16 that up still cloudy start on monday. a week weather front across the uk, that will mean if bit of rain in the south—east. we will get more of a south—westerly breeze rather than a north—westerly so we should start to see the temperatures rising. for tuesday, another friend comes see the temperatures rising. for tuesday, anotherfriend comes in from the atlantic responsible for this rain here. another one in the north—west is weakening for them but thatis north—west is weakening for them but that is a great deal of uncertainty about that rain, the position on tuesday and the uncertainty continues later into next week. our main computer model shows lower pressure coming in from the atlantic and this is quite a big era of low pressure pushing away across the uk. that looks quite extreme and it could be that we still have the higher pressure across the azores, that will push its weight across the southern part of the uk. further

north later on next week we have still got lower pressure so it will be cooler. in the south it doesn‘t look as bad. the story could change over the next two days. one of the most turbulent days of donald trump‘s presidency — the pressure intensifies as two former members of his inner circle face jail over fraud. the president reacts defiantly after his former lawyer michael cohen claimed he‘d told him to break us campaign laws during the 2016 election. michael cohen has pleaded guilty

to charges including paying hush money to women who say they had affairs with mr trump. but the president insists campaign funds weren‘t used. they weren‘t taken out of campaign finance. that‘s a big thing. that‘s a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn‘t come out of the campaign. they came from me. we‘ll have the latest from washington and find out what the president‘s supporters make of these latest allegations. also tonight... the home office apologises to more than 1,000 children of eu nationals who‘ve lived here all their lives — after they were told their passports couldn‘t be renewed. police uncover a suspected gun—making factory in east sussex.