i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: south korea's president wraps up his landmark trip to the north. but is peace within a year really achievable? translation: chairman kim has reaffirmed his commitment towards denuclearisation time after time again. treachery against clean athletes — the furious reaction from whistle—blowers as russia's three—year doping suspension is lifted. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: britain's brexit blueprint gets a resounding thumbs—down from european leaders. they tell theresa may her plan for an economic partnership won't work. and no to dictatorship. opposition groups in the philippines call for a day of protests against president duterte‘s plans to change the constitution. good morning.

it is 7:00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 8:00am in the morning in south korea, where president moonjae—in says he has set a goal of formally ending the war on the korean peninsula by the end of the year. he made the comments after returning to seoul from the north. the two koreas are, of course, still technically at war. but there are concerns that the south korean leader is pushing too far, too fast, as laura bicker reports. the symbolism could not be clearer. this is sacred soil to koreans. they tell stories of it being their birthplace. president moon has publicly longed for this moment,

and took time to sample the clear water. he marveled at how far these two countries have come. he even asked kimjong—un not to build more cable cars, to keep the mountain pristine, saying it was his hope more people from the south could visit. singing this time last year, south korea was condemning the north's sixth nuclear test. singing now, the country's two leaders are hanging out on a mountain, as a k—pop star sings arirang, the unofficial korean national anthem. as soon as he landed in seoul, president moon addressed the press, and reaffirmed the agreement that he made with kim jong—un. translation: chairman kim has reaffirmed his commitment towards denuclearisation, time after time again. he also expressed his desire to complete the denuclearisation in the near future, and focus on economic development.

this is notjust any photo opportunity. it is a chance to convey a potent message to the korean people — that even if the united states is not on board, they'll forge ahead with their own relationship. laura bicker, bbc news, seoul. and you can find more on our website about the meeting between the leaders of the two koreas — just log on to bbc.com/news let's take a look at some of the day's other news: the world anti—doping agency has ended a three—year suspension on russia. the ban was put in place after a report found state—sponsored cheating during international sporting events, including the 2014 sochi olympic games. some athletes and other nations opposed ending russia's exile. 0ur sports editor dan roan has more. this is one of the most controversial and divisive decisions

ever reached by wada in its 19 year history, defying an outcry at the athlete and figures on the anti—doping community. it is worth remembering that russia was punished three years ago for an extraordinary state—sponsored doping scandal. they we re state—sponsored doping scandal. they were found to have sabotaged events like the london 2012 games. it spread across 30 sports, 1000 athletes but today's reinstatement of its anti—doping agency means once again it can test its own athletes, bid for events, its track and field tea m bid for events, its track and field team will be back to full strength soon, raising under its national flag. earlier this week, the bbc revealed that wada senior figures had offered compromises with the russians over two key criteria, and that enraged many athletes. now, wada insist that it still means this deal, that if russia doesn't provide key sa m ples deal, that if russia doesn't provide key samples and data from its moscow lab by the end of the year that it could be rendered non—compliant once again. but the fear, i think, is that many now feel that wada's independence and integrity has been irreparably damaged. also making news today: a tanzanian

government official says more than 200 people are missing, feared drowned, after a ferry capsized on lake victoria. 42 people are known to have died. witnesses say the ferry was heavily overloaded. the search for survivors has been paused until dawn on friday. 0ne one of the two men accused of the attack on salisbury visited britain three times in the years before the incident. he has denied being a russian military intelligence agent and said that he was just a tourist. four people have died after a woman opened fire at a warehouse complex in the us state of maryland. the woman, who is among those who died, is understood to have been a temporary worker there, and to have been acting alone. the motive is unclear,

but officials have indicated they do not think it was terror—related. christine blazey ford, the woman who has accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault in high school, has said she is prepared to testify next week before congress, but only if certain conditions are met. her lawyer has also said the conditions for any appearance must be fair. the indian airlinejet airways has suspended a flight crew and launched an investigation after a problem with the air pressure in the cabin left passengers needing hospital treatment. the flight from mumbai to jaipur had to turn back after some passengers began bleeding from their ears and noses. doctors say some of those who were on board will suffer from temporary deafness. european union leaders have rejected the british prime minister's brexit plan at a two—day summit in salzburg. the head of the european council said theresa may's proposed economic

relationship with europe will not work. with just six months until brexit is due to come into effect, mrs may had called on the remaining european nations to evolve their positions. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. in this spectacle, neither side wants to budge. brexit? there is no progress, there is only position explained. stand—off still is in place. as long as there is no deal there is a risk of a no—deal. don't doubt this is won against 27. from the german chancellor, a substantial rebuff. the french president said the proposals were not acceptable, and those who said britain could leave italy were liars. then, from the boss

of the european leaders club... everybody shared the view that, while there are positive elements in the chequers proposal, the suggested framework for economic co—operation will not work. theresa may could not pretend this afternoon that nothing had changed. instead, she was cross and frustrated. 0ur white paper remains the only serious and credible proposition on the table. so with the eu against your plan, with large chunks of your party at home against your plan, how can you credibly cling on to the deal you struck at chequers with your cabinet? well, look, i'm negotiating, and i'm negotiating hard, in the interests of the british people. yes, concerns have been raised. i want to know what those concerns are. there's a lot of hard work to be done, but i believe that there is a willingness to do a deal. but let nobody be in any doubt that, as i've always said,

we are preparing for no deal. have the chances of no deal just gone up? we are continuing to work for a good deal. i think you will have heard both president tusk and a number of the eu leaders saying that they are looking and hoping, working to that good deal. but there's a lot of work to be done. it certainly is, prime minister. more heat from rival voices trying to force her to ditch her plan. it is looking clear that it'll be very, very difficult to deliver a chequers strategy that will meet their requirements. so it's time for a reset, time for a rethink. the prime minister can't and won't step away from her proposals yet, but the choreography of doing the deal today has gone badly wrong. the uk is on its way out of this club, but theresa may is finding this a long and lonely way out. malaysia's former prime minister

najib razak has appeared in court charged with 25 fresh offences linked to the disappearance of billions of dollars from a government investment fund known as 1mdb. he is accused of transferring almost $700 million from the fund to his personal bank account. four of the charges relate to alleged abuse of power. mr razak denied the allegations. he was flanked by police and security officers as he arrived at the court in kuala lumpur. the latest charges also include 21 counts of money laundering. speaking outside the court, mr najib told reporters he is determined to clear his name. translation: i am translation: iam not translation: i am not a thief, and hopefully the journey in this court will end up upholding the truth. i have no problem going through the pi’ocess have no problem going through the process as long as i getjustice. i

wa nt process as long as i getjustice. i want justice so that process as long as i getjustice. i wantjustice so that i am given a chance to clear my name. if this court acts fairly, we believe that what we hoped for, the pending decision, ensure that the rule of law truly exist in our country. earlier i spoke to the political secretary to mr najib until 2011. i began by asking him about the charges. 0n the one hand, the malaysian people will clamour for very thorough, very open, very fair investigations and subsequent prosecutions into this series of alleged scandals. 0n the other hand, of course, there is this need to act very impartially, for the process. what, in terms of the investigation, how broad you think it will be? well, i think, how broad you think it will be? well, ithink, as how broad you think it will be? well, i think, as i said, both the new government as well as the voters who voted them into the position, i think they are looking forward to

indeed extremely thorough investigations, no matter how extensive this sort of networks of associates who are in a sense related to this serious scandal will be. so i think in the coming weeks you will see, for example, more figures will emerge, for example, to be investigated, to be prosecuted, and so on. so should najib's allies be worried right now? do you think they are feeling uncomfortable? well, if they did not avail themselves of the proceeds of such, shall we say, quote unquote shady dealings, then i think there is nothing to be worried about. for example, i worked for mr najib before, but if people have sort of aggressive at themselves with some of these proceeds, then of course they have to worry about that. mr razak, najib razak, has denied all

the charges and wants to clear his name. we are talking about huge amounts of money. is going to be found, ever going to be recovered? well, i think it is rather difficult to recover fully this amount of money, because, well, according to the charge sheets, according to the various investigative reports, the money has been dispersed around the world. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: activists call a day of protest against phillipine president rodrigo duterte. but can anything they say dent his popularity among his most fervent supporters? also on the programme: as the world anti—doping authority paves the way for russia's return to international athletics, we will hear from one of the whistleblowers who got them suspended in the first place. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. well, there is people alive

and there is people not alive. we just can help and give them whatever we've got. it looked as though they had come to fight a war, but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. the government's case is being forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister. he's campaigned vigorously for abolition, having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. elizabeth seton spent much of her time at this grotto, and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she's become a saint, it's expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. the mayor and local businessmen regard the anticipated boom as yet another blessing of st elizabeth. this is newsday on the bbc.

i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: south korea's president wraps up a landmark trip to the north. he says kimjong unis keen to de—nuclearise quickly so he can concentrate on economic growth. there's been a furious reaction from whistle—blowers as the world anti—doping agency lifts russia's three—year suspension. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. trade between the us and china leads the international edition of the new york times. there is a story about us and china trade. president trump is confident that the us is winning its trade war with china. it reports on how president trump is confident america is winning the dispute. the straits times front page covers

proposals to combat fake news in singapore. a total of 22 measures have been put forward by a select committee. and the japan times carries a story about the tokyo medical university. you may recall how it was revealed that entrance exams at the school of medicine had been manipulated to favour men. the organisation has now appointed its first female president, yukiko hayashi. those are the papers. many thanks, rico. campaigners for clean sport have reacted angrily to the world anti—doping agency's decision to lift the suspension of russia. it was banned in 2015 after a report found it had carried out a state—sponsored doping campaign. but the head of russia's anti—doping agency, rusada, yuri ganus, said the decision was a positive sign for russia's suspended competitors. translation: it is a question of

trust, lack of trust to be precise. in this regard, what we have been working on during these years was to restore the trust of the world and the system, and of our colleagues of anti— doping agencies around the world, and this is we what we will have to work on, not as only but all of the world sports system. —— not ask. earlier, i spoke with avni patel, who is a lawyer for whistleblower dr grigory rodchenkov, the former anti—doping laboratory director at the sochi 0lympics. i asked her if he was disappointed by wada's decision. saying he's disappointed would be an understatement. today's decision by wada he generally believes is a clear indication wada is not fit to be the regulatory watchdog of clean sport around the world. what about what wada is saying, the fact they wa nt to what wada is saying, the fact they want to maintain and monitor what russia is doing and the best way to

do it is to bring them back into the fold? well, wada laid out a clear roadmap last year to reinstate rusada, and there were many things that rusada needed to do. the first thing they needed to do was accept the findings and also turn over the day and the signposts for retesting. today's decision clearly indicates that wada is not requiring that transparency from rusada to go forward , transparency from rusada to go forward, but instead is saying rusada can be reinstated without that for the betterment of the athletes of russia. but the clear message wada is sending is that it ca res more message wada is sending is that it cares more about reinstating rusada for whatever potentially corrupt reason than in supporting all of the clea n reason than in supporting all of the clean athletes around the world. wada's president, craig reidy, was saying the pressure was on wada to ensure russian sport is genuinely clea n ensure russian sport is genuinely clean now. can they maintain that kind of pressure? i believe that today's decision indicates that they

cannot maintain that kind of pressure. in order to pressure rusada into compliance, they should have maintained their initial requirements, which the requirements that rusada essentially had were to prove before reinstatement that they we re prove before reinstatement that they were compliant. now what sir craig reidy is saying is that they're willing to reinstate rusada without that compliance. this week marks the 46th anniversary of the declaration of martial law in the philippines, and the rise to power of the late ferdinand marcos. thousands of activists from the country's opposition groups are expected to hold a rally against president rodrigo duterte's proposed changes to the constitution, which they say will lead to a dictatorship. president duterte has in the past defended his strongman style of leadership, saying the country would make no progress if he did not act like a dictator. church groups in the philippines are spearheading the anti—dictatorship protest. manila's auxiliary bishop broderick pabillo has supported a call for people tojoin the rallies, saying that, "in a healthy democracy,

there should be a strong opposition to abuse of power." earlier, i spoke to steve wilford, a risk analyst who's spent many years in the philippines. i asked him why president duterte wants to change the form of government. for ostensibly very sensible reasons. the 1987 constitution was... many would argue quite a rush document in the wake of the fall of the marcos regime, a sort of interim measure if you like. it created a system of government that some people describe as hyper presidential, it's very, very centralised. currently it is bicameral, you have a house of representatives and a senate and they want to shift it to a federal form of government. will that help the country? the item is a federal system will bring governments much closely to the provinces. it will bring the application of development muqqy' bring the application of development muggy, local investment much closer

to the businesses and the people in rural philippines. but a lot of opposition groups are saying that this will open up the constitution for tinkering and changes, and could lead to a duterte dictatorship. you know, rodrigo duterte isn't the first president to try to change the constitution. in fact, all of the post— marcos presidents had a go at it and they all failed, they all failed for the same reason, a large corpus of congress and the public didn't trust... so we'll duterte fail? he will, for the same reasons that there's a lack of trust, there's always a suspicion that there's always a suspicion that there's always a suspicion that there's a of —— ulterior motive behind constitutional change, that it could usher in a more powerful president rather than a more devolved country. protests will be taking place today. it is the anniversary of martial law when president marcos declared it way backin president marcos declared it way back in 1972. do you think these

protests, these demonstrations will have any effect on president duterte's policies? i don't. president duterte is obviously very single minded. he's a very populist president. he's still, i think, ca ptu res president. he's still, i think, captures the imagination of the majority, although this popularity is sliding in the polls. but these demonstrations arejust is sliding in the polls. but these demonstrations are just a reminder to the general public of the dangers of allowing presidential is to get out of control, which is exactly what happened in 1972. and there's already been two people power bloodless revolutions way back in 1986, the first one and another one in 2000, is there the possibility of another one? in our opinion, political stability risk is rising and its rising because the president's increasingly locking horns with the military. there's a

growing body of people who are disgusted with the way he's executed this anti— drugs campaign. all these factors a re this anti— drugs campaign. all these factors are coming into play. but will this culminate in mass protests and removalfrom will this culminate in mass protests and removal from power? will this culminate in mass protests and removalfrom power? the answer is not as we see it right now. the coalition of forces to bring that about are just not in place at the moment. risk analyst steve wilford speaking to rico. it's one the wonders of the world and a british cultural icon. more than one million people visit the neolithic site stonehenge every year and take millions of pictures. now members of the public are being asked to share their old photo of this world heritage site to celebrate a century since it was given to the nation. duncan kennedy reports. he's got one... she's getting hers... and she's not leaving without one. photographs. millions of them, taken at this extraordinary monument. and now this monument wants yours. bob heyhoe came as a teenager in 1960, and returned again this year to the exact same spot.

sue lane was just four when she walked among the stones in 1966, and also came back to the same place. whilst jane vellender was a little girl in the late 1960s on a visit from bristol. and today, she came back in person as well, to the very same stone, all to join a new project sharing personal memories of stonehenge, 100 years after the site was gifted to the nation. i was about five, and i vividly remember coming here and being wowed by how big the stones were, and how old, even though i was only little. the project once any photo from anyone from anywhere at stonehenge. stonehenge has about 1.5 million tourists a year, and everybody takes a photograph. with this new project,

it doesn't matter how old the photograph is, or weather the photograph is black and white or colour, the aim remains the same, to personalise this ancient monument. a digital photo album is a great way to create almost a national photo album of stonehenge. archaeology meets photography in a unique digital album set in stone. duncan kennedy, bbc news. beautiful stonehenge. you've been watching newsday. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. rico, i've never been to stonehenge, can you believe that? we end the programme on our favourite subject, these are little puppies, theyjustjoined favourite subject, these are little puppies, they just joined as favourite subject, these are little puppies, theyjustjoined as new recruits fighting crime when they have grown up as part of the police force. hello again. friday is set to be

cooler and fresher with sunshine and blustery showers. before then, storm prone has been packing a punch in england and wales, a good couple of inchesin england and wales, a good couple of inches in places, flooding and squally winds of 60 mph or so. squally winds on that cold front as it moves from the south—east. the centre of the storm is out into the north sea but still windy conditions early in the morning across the coasts of north—east england. the rain pushes away and then we left with this north—westerly wind, meaning sunshine and blustery showers. quite heavy showers from time to time and maybe some thunder in their two. may be into southern parts of england but the bulk further north. the temperatures back down again, numbers falling across england and wales, cooler and fresher everywhere. the wind is lively as well, easing down as we had through the evening and overnight. lots of the showers fading away, a few going in the far north of the land cloud increasing

in the south—west, but on the whole a chillier night with widely temperatures in the mid single figures. into the first half of the weekend, wetter weather in the fa north of scotland with showers and then slices of sunshine but the cloud is increasing in the south—west with outbreaks of rain into the south—east of england, wales and the south—east may be in the afternoon. temperatures are disappointing to say the least. 13-15 at disappointing to say the least. 13—15 at best. second half of the weekend, still lots of uncertainty. looks like we'll see an area of quite deep low pressure pushing across the country, could be further north. the winds could be further north. the winds could be further north as well but at the moment it looks like england and wales will get the worst of it. heavy rain pushing across england and wales and very strong winds, particularly as the rain starts to clear. as we move into monday, that wet and windy weather should have pushed into the continent, leaving us with much drier conditions. showers around, still windy in northern and eastern

areas, lighter winds towards the south—west and perhaps a top temperature of 15 or 16. big changes on the way for next week. instead of the jet stream being on the way for next week. instead of thejet stream being right on the way for next week. instead of the jet stream being right over the uk driving in all these storms, it gets pushed further north and that allows high pressure to build in. that's what's settling things down and certainly changing the look and feel of the weather as we head into next week. so tuesday, a lot of dry weather. by this stage, it won't be as windy. light winds for the most part. those other temperatures, 15 to perhaps 17 degrees. it will be quite a bit cooler at night. i'm kasia madera with bbc world news. our top story: south korea's president, moonjae—in, says he has set a goal of formally ending the war on the korean peninsula by the end of the year. his comments come at the end of a ground—breaking trip to north korea. he says kim jong—un wants to denuclearise as fast as possible and concentrate on economic growth. sport's world anti—doping agency paves the way for russia's return

to international athletics, provoking a furious reaction from whistleblowers over drugs in sport. and this video is trending on bbc.com: it shows the newest recruits to chile's police force. these puppies are just 45 days old. they are golden retrievers, and they are the youngest members of the canine training unit. when they are fully grown, they will be catching criminals. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news, it is time for hardtalk.