this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. leicester city players and fans observe a minute's silence to honour the club's chairman , and four others , who died in a helicopter crash outside the club's stadium a week ago. he always took the time. in bangkok, a week—long buddhist funeral is under way at a royal temple, to honour the billionaire businessman and owner of leicester city football club, vichai srivaddhanaprabha. more than 70 business people have written to the sunday times demanding another referendum on brexit and a public vote on whether to accept the terms of the uk's departure from the eu. and in the united states. president trump is on the campaign trailagain. meanwhile twitter removes thousands

of automated accounts discouraging people from voting , ahead of next week's midterm elections. coming up on sports day — how england held on to beat south africa at twickenham in their first match of the autumn internationals good evening and welcome to bbc news. a minute's silence has been held at football matches around the country, in memory of the five people who died in a helicopter crash near leicester city's stadium last saturday. today saw the first game for leicester in the premier league since the accident, playing cardiff, and members of the squad will soon head to thailand for the funeral of the club's chairman, who was among those killed.

from cardiff, here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. saturday afternoon, going to the game. nothing could appear so normal, except for leicester city right now, nothing is normal. there is consolation in a familiar routine, familiar faces. but everywhere still was the image and the memory of the man whose investment made leicester champions. all our thoughts are still with the family, the funeral is today. we have just come to support the boys because i think leicester has been through a tough week and we just want to show our love and support for leicester and the leicester team. applause the coach bringing the leicester team to cardiff stadium this afternoon was applauded by supporters from both sides. what happened last weekend in leicester has touched football as a sport, as a community. in cardiff's match day programme, a tribute to vichai srivaddhanaprabha. around the ground, supporters voicing their own. the outpouring of grief, the support for him, leicester city, and everybody connected with it,

this is no ordinary football match. of course it is there to win, but i think, going back to his memory. do you know what? he became one of us. inside the stadium, all those who died were honoured, and every travelling member of leicester city's staff and squad joined the minute's silence. these expressions don't need words. for the same man, a different ritual was unfolding in thailand. a royal temple for the funeral of vichai srivaddhanaprabha. an elaborate ceremony. in his home country he may have been perceived differently, as a skilled businessman, but a private person, successful at making political connections. the rituals there will continue and leicester players will attend. two very different cultures,

connected by football. many leicester fans in wales talked to me today about their owner's legacy. a legacy which belongs in football grounds near and far. well eleanor roper has been in cardiff, where leicester beat cardiff city , and explained what the atmosphere has been like there today. it has been a really emotional afternoon here in cardiff, but it was a goal in the 55th minute from great that took leicester city one goal up. he removed his shirt to reveal a t—shirt that said for vichai srivaddhanaprabha. the match started with a one minute silence and play his role so wearing black armbands to pay tribute to their chairman andjamie armbands to pay tribute to their chairman and jamie vardy said that ahead of this match they were asked if they wanted to get to go ahead and they said yes they did. they

felt it was really important to be a come here today and pay tribute to their chairman. we have just come here today and pay tribute to their chairman. we havejust seen their chairman. we havejust seen the team bus leaving to a round of applause and made the players now heading to thailand where they will travel to bangkok and attend the various funeral ceremonies happening over the next couple of days. they're expected to return to the uk on tuesday ahead of their next premier league match and that will be at home to burnley. welljoining us now is leicester city fan amy ginetta, who's been at today's game in cardiff. very good of you to join us on the phone. we heard there in the report that at one point it was being asked whether it is even appropriate for the team to play today. what did you make of the atmosphere? it is very emotional day. it's one where fans and players and obviously in the week leading up to it there's a lot of tributes and is the first time...

and that means a lot to everybody. and that means a lot to everybody. and in terms of paying tributes what did you feel about how you wanted to have in the match and the atmosphere of the cardiff city fans? the fans we re of the cardiff city fans? the fans were all in there and wanted the players and everybody around to see that and be together. there was lots of singing and is a real united experience. that's what we wanted to show everybody today is that we are coming together. it has been harper can but we will come through this for him to carry on his legacy. and

the wind of course was a fitting tribute. it was important to have a high point of the match today. the great scheme of what has in football is not important but it was important to him and towards that football family. it is the within of the players won the gold went in to make a tribute to him and celebrate that together and the scenes at the end werejust that together and the scenes at the end were just heartbreaking but heart—warming altogether all in one go. it hasjust heart—warming altogether all in one go. it has just been very fitting that they were able to win and those three points just for him. that they were able to win and those three pointsjust for him. the began than for people watching at home it was quite extraordinary. the player staying on the pitch for a good ten oi’ staying on the pitch for a good ten or 15 minutes talking to fans and described if you would what happened there at the end of the game. yeah, just seems to one of those natural thing that happened in the players are very good at every game coming

over the ones that have played but the whole squad was there and eve ryo ne the whole squad was there and everyone came over and sang a lot of the songs to each one of the players. the players were able to touch the badge and waved and clapped. it was a moment to everybody could share. cardiff were brilliant in that have been brilliant in that have been brilliant all day. it was a really nice time and how much it meant to them that we were all there supporting them and supporting the boss. absolutely. really good of you to ta ke boss. absolutely. really good of you to take time—outs to tell us that. thank you very much. more than 70 business people have written to the sunday times demanding another referendum on brexit. the letter has been coordinated by the people's vote campaign, which is pressing for the public to be given a say on whether to accept the terms of the uk's departure from the european union. the letter says the business

community was promised that, if the country vote to leave, there would continue to be frictionless trade with the eu despite the prime minister's best efforts, the proposals being discussed by the government and the european commission fall far short of this. we are now facing either a blindfold or a destructive hard brexit. our political correspondent, chris mason is with me. how significant is this? but it's one of those things that was inevitable at this age the process. love the signatories here are long—standing opponents of brexit andy reid stating that opposition. not to undermine the significance of what they're saying, they say that's stewart was one them tonight and he says he gets that many people will have been motivated to vote leave

noneconomic reasons and this whole argument around 70 and his entrance running the book shop that he is the boss of that's a definite economic consequent to so far in a tux but the uncertainty of party talks but the uncertainty of party talks but the uncertainty of party talks but the uncertainty putting people off wanting to spend money but also does not wanting to see the insane the danger in the long—term. i said what does it have on a guy who is flogging books? he said every but the results printed on paper that is imported. a lot of it relies on these so—called is just in time production make it methods where things happened quickly. he fears on some of the uncertainty he says is experiencing as a businessman now that there is the consequence he fears if there is not a brexit deal they keep stray flowing that would have a definite impact on the raw materials that his industry is reliant upon. now does this change this fundamentally? i don't think it does. with the letters of this type

including signature is very similar to this three years ago before the referendum itself. demonstrators sang tonight that interview does not change and that there was a people's vote to use the slogan that the campaign group use and that was in june 2016 at there will not be another referendum. nevertheless the campaign has been becoming more prominent so they have been campaigning hard. doing and how things stand as they would say among the general public aside from these business leaders? read or write a noise that the campaign is making. they know they have this relatively narrow window at the moment to really make their argument and they are finding every mechanism they can to articulate that. whether it be that his international newspapers or opinion poll work an opinion poll that the cafe and have had conducted for them this weekend which they say suggests that there is support particularly in labor constituencies

for another referendum, and clearly they hope that that will put pressure on labour mps tojoin they hope that that will put pressure on labour mps to join those who called for another referendum. the roadblock they run up against at the moment is, as i say, the com plete the moment is, as i say, the complete opposition of the government and the fact that the labour party whilst it is toying with the idea of backing another referendum, they say their are ruling nothing out, they're not wholeheartedly endorsing it either. i think what those hind the campaign vote are aware of is that the fluidity of politics at the moment if you were to arrive at a situation where the prime minister came back with a deal that was then rejected by the house of commons would be in such a kind of unprecedented situation that it would be possible and at that point they would step up this campaign. that's one of the reasons why they want to make as much noise as they're making now because they don't know victor cabrera to end up in a couple of months. the lawyer representing a christian

woman in pakistan who was cleared of blasphemy charges after eight years on death row, has fled the country in fear for his life. saif mulook said he had to leave so he could continue to represent asia bibi, who was convicted in 2010 of insulting the prophet muhammad, but acquitted by the supreme court earlier this week. violent protests by hardline islamists followed the ruling, but the government has since reached a deal with them, barring ms bibi from leaving pakistan. we can speak now to madiha afzal, nonresident fellow at the brookings institution think tank and author of — pakistan under siege: extremism, society and the state. she joins us from washington. could you so much for making time to speak to us here on bbc news. talk us speak to us here on bbc news. talk us through where we are because we think it's still in prison but

awaiting release? yeah, so the federal government is the one that is responsible for placing people on an exit control list and that is why the deal that it has reach with the hardline the deal that it has reach with the ha rdli ne protesters the deal that it has reach with the hardline protesters from the pakistan and so where the events that have led to this sort of moment are that these southern protesters actually threatened the three justices who reached the ruling, they threatened the army chief and pakistan puzzler prime minister initially took a very strong line against the protesters, but since then he has been in china attending and investor conference of the army has stepped back and said it will not use force as the representatives of the government have reached this deal in which the key elements that

the party had asked for it is of the government exercises power to place asia on and exit control list and so what they will try to do is try to appeal the ruling of the supreme court and try to get her convicted again. or appeal her acquittal. and of course it throws up all kinds of issues but the balance of power in pakistan between the hardliners, the party as you mentioned and to the ruling party. the fact that they seems to be such an amount of leverage that they have that they can broker this deal. and the key thing to remember here is that this isa thing to remember here is that this is a party that is literally coming into existence the last two and a half years. they really came into being as a group not actually a particle party and came into

national prominence in early 2016 when the man who had killed a governor, the assassin of the governor of punjab would actually have been defending a jet back in 2011 when she was first put on death row and that man again the landmark modern mentaljudgement by the supreme court was, his death penalty was upheld and he was hanged for assassinating the governor whoever it was and he was an anti—blasphemy, working against path and the harsh blasphemy laws. the producers to the streets at that point since then the government has capitulated to them multiple times in 2016 and 2017 and now it in 2018. in 2018 and became a political party register with

election commissioner of pakistan and does it did not win any seats in parliament they garnered more than 2 million votes out of 50 million votes that were recorded in pakistan. so they are not a significant force when it comes to being part of all actual early but they're able to exercise a huge amount of street power that's the mainstream political parties and in particular the incumbent government is always very afraid of. and just briefly a final thought for her who was awaiting release and make clear she thought she probably needed to leave the country and option now closed to her. the government is saying they will take all steps necessary to ensure her safety but there will be huge concerns for her as she leaves prison. absolutely. the big responsibility of the government here is to protect her and took by putting her on the exit

control list they cannot guarantee her protection because pakistan is still a state run security at the particular is a concern and so they had her leave the country don't have a guaranteeing her security in a way that they cannot do if she stays in the country. thank you very much for your time here on bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. leicester city players and fans observe a minute's silence to honour the club's chairman, and four others, who died in a helicopter crash outside the club's stadium a week ago. more than 70 business people have written to the sunday times demanding another referendum on brexit — and a public vote on the terms of the uk's departure from the eu. broadcaster paul gambaccini receives a pay—out from the crown prosecution service — over its handling of unfounded sexual assault allegations against him. just days before crucial midterm elections in

the us, two presidents — past and present — have been dominating the campaign trail. on friday the former president, barack 0bama, launched a scathing attack on donald trump , accusing his successor of fear—mongering over a caravan of migrants travelling towards the united states , and calling the current president, a liar. what we have not seen, at least in my lifetime, is an approach in which folks in the highest levels of office, folks who we thought our children should be looking up to, will just blatantly... lie! . . repeatedly. . . boldly, shamelessly, lie. just make stuff up. just say things that they know are not true.

and theyjust keep on doing it. but to speak to our correspondent in washington. we see two big beasts essentially now out of the trail and just days to go, how are things shaping up? you could be forgiven we we re shaping up? you could be forgiven we were re—routing alleged from times past even those not to determine who's at the white house it's the president and the former president we re president and the former president were leading the campaign trail and its all gearing up in the last few days before the midterm elections happen for real on tuesday. all other has been unprecedented numbers of early voting and so some people have already made their minds up and what you receive may campaign strategy is that both the main parties are appealing to their core supporters. the president certainly

has been talking about those key m essa 9 es has been talking about those key messages that he has gone back to time and time again about immigration, the threat of migrants coming to the truths he is now sending to mexican border and the positive messages as well about the state of the economy and abroad jobs that have been created. the president said that a republican congress would be morejobs president said that a republican congress would be more jobs and president said that a republican congress would be morejobs and less crime. these are the democrats in control of the house of representatives would mean exactly the opposite. we're watching the pictures of him speaking live in montana and florida is also on the agenda today. the file —— the people a lwa ys agenda today. the file —— the people always make in these instances and of course busy doing the math meanwhile and trying to work out how things might work out for congress. yes, president, speaking last night ata yes, president, speaking last night at a rally seemed to admit that it was likely the republicans would lose control of the lower house, but they seem confident they can cling onto the senate. it's harder for the

democrats to win power there and so it's very much the strategy seems to be appealing to the core support on either side to make sure that people turn out to verdict and if they do the numbers that are expected to the president trumpeted the republicans should be able to cling onto the senate and more difficult for them in the house of representatives, so there is this frantic campaign path now across the country with president trump addressing these huge rallies able to draw those big crowds to get his messages and he has got plenty more people to speak to speak to in different states across the eastern side of the country. he tends to be going to states that voted for him in the presidential election last time the muppet where he thinks he has got a chance of turning over democratic senate seats and so that shows you the hope on the republican side that the hope on the republican side that the democrats openly criticising his record. that's unusual for an ex—president like barack 0bama to actually name the president and criticise his policies. that shows you how fierce and bitter this

campaign has gotten. a sign of how angry american politics is at the moment everybody waiting to see exactly what happens we start getting results on tuesday night. meanwhile, twitter has removed around 10,000 automated accounts that discouraged people from voting in next week's us midterm elections. most of the accounts were posing as democrats, the social media company said. we can discuss this with filippo menczer — professor of information and computer science at indiana university. hejoins me via webcam from bloomington. thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for being with us here on the bbc. what do you make of the significance of this move to delete all of these accounts? well, let me start by saying that we are very happy that the platforms are taking action. in this case we understand from media reports that these accounts were flagged using so

these accounts were flagged using so the tools we in our lab to detect social box and understand the spread of misinformation. in terms of the significance it's hard to tell. 10,000 accounts might have reached very few people with them i have reached millions and we don't really have the data yet to do that. in any other piece that we also don't know is if he wants somebody is reached by these kinds of misinformation what are the chances he will affect their actions and keep them from going there for example? it's the researchers in our lab and many other places that are trying to understand. it is not only about twitter and is the same kind of abuse and regulation on social media using automation to have platforms as well using facebook pages and on platforms like what sap or snapchat which it's very difficult to know what's going on because the data cannot be accessed. it's going to be

a challenge ongoing elections and all kinds of different areas of life as well with advertising and so what we talk about automated accounts or bots basically do we know about where they're coming from and how they work? we don't know who is behind them, it's impossible to know and in terms of how they work there are many different kinds of bots. bots can be written to achieve many different types of goals to make it look like people are talking about some subject and in this way manipulate public attention towards that subject to make it look like many people have a certain topic in favour of a candidate or against a candidate or to spread misinformation or to make it look like somebody is more popular than they are through fake followers or fa ke they are through fake followers or fake retreats or fake lakes. and there's a market for all of these things. we observed bots of all kinds of sophistication and some are

very easy to detect. theyjust co nsta ntly very easy to detect. theyjust constantly repeat messages in favour of one candidate or another. we concede that those are very active right now talking about the us in the midterm elections and we have tool that visualizes what the bots are saying. the other tools are more sophisticated. they follow other people and penetrate groups of honourable citizens who are vulnerable because they're very partisan as they may only be exposed to one kind of message. therefore they are easy to target automatically these messages are easier to spread within those communities within immune to counter m essa g es communities within immune to counter messages like debunking and fact checking information for example. so some bus can be clever in penetrating those communities and friendly people and then replying to specific messages on topics with links to misinformation. they can target highly influential users and they can amplify the visibility of

they can amplify the visibility of the message and they can do lots of things that can be automated and in this way they can exploit for abilities of the platforms but also people with their social and cognitive vulnerabilities and to the algorithmic vulnerabilities of platforms that tend to give more attention and amplify and give more visibility to things that appear to be popular. in just visibility to things that appear to be popular. injust a visibility to things that appear to be popular. in just a final point, we said this is twitter who have taken this action but you mentioned the platforms of course finding similar issues and how serious they are they taking it and how much pressure of the under to deal with this? the other quite a bit of pressure but there's been plenty of evidence the platforms can be manipulated. so they are aware of problems and they are taking steps to most major platforms especially facebook and twitter have taken several steps to counter this abuse. but we can see very clearly that

these efforts are not enough because there's so much that we don't understand yet. like i said before it's not really clear the impacts or effects of this misinformation campaigns of social box. 0ur research suggests social but can be very effective and very active. platforms have some tools in place to try and detect them but very often they are not enough. in this case it seems that these bots spreading misinformation about voting where they are flagged by a political organisation and not initially identified by the platform. even though our tools could detect them apparently. so there's a lot more work it needs to be done in building better tools to detect these kinds of abuses and is a hard research problem and the platforms cannot do it alone. so we would hope that we could have more collaboration between researchers

outside of the platforms and also frankly more government research funding to support this kind of research because it really was the platforms is limited what can be done and so it's a big problem. thank you very much for providing your analysis professor. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. thank you very much. very good evening to you and plenty of fireworks displays going on out there this saturday night. 0therwise it's a mixed picture pony of dried places and one or two damn squids out there as well. all because of this world of cloud that shows up nicely here on the satellite picture. the area of low pressure and this stripe of cloud here has a brace of rain and increasingly to the northwest the skies have been clearing and so this is how the day and did in east sussex. this is how it looks across the scottish highlands and if you could look at

the radar picture shows for the rain has been falling and over the last few hours you can see this stripe of wet weather has been staggering its way south east into these are the places we have soggy weather out there into the southeast and northwest it's dry across the board and as we go through the night we push this further south and for most of us sylvia miles na and distal of the chilli across the front that ceased. we get into tomorrow and have the strip of cloud and patchy rain to contend with. not moving anywhere quickly and perhaps drifting for the north and west as a going through the day. to the north of that much more dry data we have had. a few showers and northwest is you can see from these black airasia will be gusty across the northwestern corner and for most places the wind is not as strong as they have been. though