hello. this is bbc news. i am chris rogers. our top stories: the rhetoric heats up ahead of next week's midterm elections — president trump says the american economy is the best its ever been. a blistering attack on donald trump from iran's supreme leader as the us prepares to re—impose sanctions on the country. eight children have been injured and a major incident declared after an inflatable slide collapsed at a fairground in woking. and a minute's silence as leicester city play their first game since the death of the club's owner last saturday. hello and welcome to bbc world news. the economy is the best its ever been in the history of america — president donald trump

has just made that claim again, at the latest rally in america's hard fought midterm elections. it is doing well, but there have been periods when the economy in america was even stronger. the rhetoric continues to heat up as the clock ticks away. president trump has been in montana in the american west. he's keeping up his relentless campaign ahead of tuesday's vote. he's in florida now. here's what he had to sayjust after he touched down — highlighting what he called the "extraordinary prosperity" of the economy. this is one of the most important elections of our entire lives. this elections of our entire lives. this election will decide whether we build on the extraordinary prosperity that we have achieved or whether we let the radical democrats ta ke whether we let the radical democrats take control of congress and take a giant wrecking ball to the economy and to the future of our nation. america now has the best economy in

the history of our country. can you believe this? right? cheering. they said it would happen but i did know what would happen this fast. -- didn't. and he also had this to say about the us—mexican border. i saw some barbed wire going up today. but why are used properly can bea today. but why are used properly can be a beautiful thing. the bbc‘s dan johnson in washington explained the president's campaign strategy. he is determined to get out as many core republican voters as you can by using those messages around how well the economy is doing. we can argue about whether certain statistics actually are accurate or not, but on unemployment, it is that a 48 or 49 year low. so a lot to celebrate there on the economy. those messages around the economy, the threat of migrants, something he has returned

to egan and again. the trips is adding to the mexican border. it said that whole operation is a political stunt, really, to shore up that message. he talked about bob dwyer there because there is not a wall. remember all that talk about the wall two years ago? it has not been built yet. it is trips and barbed wire for the time being, even though the stream of migrants that is heading through mexico is still thousands of miles away and would not be at the american border for perhaps months, yet, and only numbers the few thousand people, anyway, but the president has talked of it as an invasion, some in will play easily to the core republican support in the states that he has mostly visited in the last few days. the piece is not slackening at all. he has a lot of people to talk to again. —— pace. the democrats are using barack obama, front and centre in theircampaign, in using barack obama, front and centre in their campaign, in the last few days, trying as much as they can to get people out, they seem confident

that they can take control of the house of preservatives, although the senate st leger will be more difficult for them. you say that it isa campaign difficult for them. you say that it is a campaign of two. both camps worried about voter turnout? —— the senate seems it will be more difficult for them. it seems that turner will be a record high of four mid—term election. already early voting has reached record numbers in some states. some people have made their minds up and have already cast their minds up and have already cast their vote. they were be swayed by whatever is said in the next couple of days. but certainly the emphasis is there from the campaigns on both sides to try and reach as many of their own natural supporters as they can with this message that you need to get out and vote. surprisingly, both campaigns are said that this is the most important election of their lifetimes. i'm sure they have said that in every other election they have campaigned in. but the message is that if you want to have your say

in the future of america— barack obama talked about this is the crosswords for the country, and donald trump has said this is an important moment that if you want to keep the democrats out of office that he can plough through his policies and reforms in future, you need to turn out and vote on tuesday, if you have not done it already. that is the message the american people, that there are still fun to make a difference, here, that they want to see as many people as possible at the ballot box on tuesday. dan johnson there. the midterm elections are on tuesday. we're going to have special coverage here on bbc news as those results come in. the best coverage here on the bbc news channel. there's also a lot of material on our website looking at the issues dominating the election, including this piece on job creation under president trump, asking how real is trump's jobs miracle. there's also a bbc reality check on all of president trump's claims — including the one on the economy. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei

has attacked the united states after its decision to reimpose economic sanctions against iran. the trump administration will reinstate all us sanctions which were removed under the 2015 nuclear deal on monday. the bbc‘s sebastian usher reports. as the hours tick away to the reimposition of sweeping us sanctions on iran, the rhetoric from the country's supreme leader has been predictably fiery and defiant. translation: the us is much weaker today than it was 40 years ago when the 1979 revolution was victorious. the power of the us is on the decline. this is the important point. most of the world's politicians and global affair analysts believe that the us‘s soft power is worn out. it is being destroyed. president trump himself was singled out by ayatollah khamenei, who described him as bringing disgrace on his country and to the very notion of liberal democracy. certainly, mr trump's aim

from the moment he pulled the us out of the nuclear deal has been to exert maximum pressure on iran, notjust to curtail what he sees as its continuing quest for nuclear weapons, but to rein in its involvement in conflict across the middle east. at this year's un general assembly, mrtrump rammed home that message once again. all us nuclear related sanctions will be in full force by early november. they will be in full force. after that, the united states will pursue additional sanctions, tougher than ever before, to counter the entire range of iran's malign conduct. any individual or entity who fails to comply with these sanctions will face severe consequences. the sanctions are hitting iran's most vital source of income, oil.

the trump administration has said it wants to reduce its output to zero but it has already given waivers to eight countries, allowing them to continue trading with iran in diminished quantities. the other signatories of the iran deal have said they will still honour the agreement and are setting up ways to do so. but iran's businesses are already in dire straits. the currency has been in freefall for months. anti—government protests have sporadically taken place across the country since the start of this year, fuelled by the failings of the economy. this is the vulnerability of iran's political leaders that the us is hoping to exploit. in his customary style, president trump is presenting his iran policy as if it were a prime—time tv drama. but, on the streets of iran, the latest showdown with the us is a bitter finale to the hopes for a better life raised by the nuclear deal in 2015. sebastian usher, bbc news. a major incident has been declared after eight children

were injured when a fairground ride collapsed ahead of a fireworks display in woking in south east england. air ambulance crews transferred some of the children to major trauma centres in london with ‘potentially serious injuries'. the fireworks display was cancelled and people were told to return home. andy datson was at the fireworks event. he told us what he saw. there were three or four children that i can see on the floor, there we re that i can see on the floor, there were eight, but i could see three or four. they were being treated by a emergency personnel. there was — then that can i came over and asked people to leave, to evacuate, tha nkfully people to leave, to evacuate, thankfully woking park has a few exits, so we were able to do that. but there were at least nine or ten

ambulances, dozens and dozens of emergency personnel, and it was very, very clear that it was a serious situation. leicester city players and officials are flying to thailand to attend the funeral of the club's owner who died in a helicopter crash. the team beat cardiff i—o in their first game since the crash, which also killed four other people. it was an emotional day at the stadium, with many players and fans in tears. joe wilson has more. 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. and everywhere still was the image and the memory of the man whose investment made leicester champions. all our thoughts are obviously 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, 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. of course, it matters to fans that leicester city won a close, competitive match here this afternoon but, beyond that, today's game proves that leicester city football club remains, after everything that has happened, just that. a club proudly playing football. that was a tough game, notjust on the pitch but i think mentally it was a tough game for all of us. you know, i think there is a lot of exhausted people in there now. but, yeah, i'm immensely proud of this team, i'm immensely proud of this club.

the way everybody has handled themselves has been unbelievable. remember, leicester city's triumph was built on a bond between players, supporters and owner. after a week of despair, that bond remains. and maybe it is actually deeper than ever. joe wilson, bbc news, cardiff. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: facebook apologises for approving an advertising campaign aimed at people interested in a genocide conspiracy theory favoured by white nationalists. the israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin, the architect of the middle east peace process, has been assassinated. a 27—year—old jewish man has been arrested and an extremistjewish organisation has ta ken responsibility for the killing. at polling booths around the country they voted on a historic day for australia.

as the results came in, it was clear — the monarchy would survive. for the american hostages there was no chance, they are being held somewhere inside the compound and there have been threats that should the americans attempt rescue they will all die. this mission has surpassed all expectations. voyager one is now the most distant man—made object anywhere in the universe, and itjust seems to keep on going. tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the rhetoric heats up ahead of next week's midterm elections. president trump claims the american economy is the best its ever been. and there's been a blistering

attack on donald trump from iran's supreme leader, as the us prepares to re—impose sanctions on the country. island's prime minister has warned britain's planned departure from the european union undermines a long—standing peace deal that ended decades of violence in northern ireland. negotiations between the eu and uk have stalled about how to avoid the return of a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. chris mason says there is concern that a hard border could signal a return of violence to northern ireland. border, yes, and a border that is visible, but which can ultimately be crossed a very, very easily. the

very nature of brexit is about rias to shooting borders. taking back control, to use the slogan of the leave campaign in the uk. yet both sides of the negotiation are committed to keeping this border open. but the uk wants to go its own way once it leaves the european union. that is the sticking point in trying to arrange this divorce deal between the eu and the uk. i think what was striking in this interview that leo varadkar gave to irish radio was that he could have done what politicians often do when they are asked questions about relationships with a near neighbour which might be a bit tricky, and just be very diplomatic about it. instead he was the opposite. he was very candid. he said brexit undermines the good friday agreement and is fraying the relationship between the uk and ireland. anything that pulls the two communities apart in northern ireland, those who are loyal to the uk and those who are drawn towards the republic, undermines the good friday agreement. why do you think he did that, then, when tensions are still there in northern ireland, we have

been experiencing peace for a long time, but why, potentially, trigger that again? with a statement like that? firstly, i think, that again? with a statement like that? firstly, ithink, because that is his honest view. and secondly because he is well aware ofjust how exposed island is to brexit, and in particular, to a no deal brexit. —— ireland. the situation when, next march, the uk leaves without a withdrawal agreement with the eu. he said, as the british government says, that there will be a deal. but crucially, they have not yet arrived at this thing called backstop, an insurance policy to ensure that that border remains open if there isn't a trade deal negotiated in the medium term, which ensures that it does they open anyway. and the eu is insistent that this absolutely has to be the case, an insurance policy which both sides agree upon. at the moment they both have an idea for insurance policy cannot agree on one. very briefly, where are we with the negotiations? they are slogging

on. the referendum in the uk was over two years ago now. it is written into law in the uk, that brexit is due to happen at the end of march next year. there was talk that there would be a summit to sign off the agreement at the end of next month. it is not yet in the diary. could it happen before christmas? possibly. facebook has apologised afterjournalists were able to run paid promotions targeting people who may have an interest in a genocide conspiracy favoured by white nationalists. the news site the intercept says its request to start the campaign was approved by a member of facebook‘s advertising department. our business correspondent joe miller has the details. it hasn't got a great track record when it comes to approving these ad campaigns. just to take you back a little bit, the reason why facebook makes so much money from advertising is that advertisers are able to go on facebook and choose specific audiences to target their ads. and you may remember about a year ago, facebook getting into trouble for propublica, which is a journalist organisation, being able to target people who had self—described

asjew haters and now, just 13 months later, another website, the intercept, was able to target 168,000 facebook users who expressed an interest or like a white genocide conspiracy theory. there is a crucial difference between this case and the case that happened around a year ago. the one year ago was people who self—identified asjew haters or in other offensive terms. this was an algorithm. voters in the french pacific islands of new caledonia are taking part in a referendum could remain part of france or become independent. the vote was promised as part of a deal three decades ago following a violent campaign by separatists from the indigenous kanak people. the world's largest nickel mine cited new caledonia's main island. 0ne summer in the early i980s two friends — one a wall street banker,

the other an outdoorsman from new hampshire — argued about who could survive better in the wild. to try and settle the matter, they got two agricultural paint guns, shot at each other, and paintball was born. the bbc‘s witness has spoken to charles gaines, the outdoorsman who co—invented the game. between myself and my best friend. paintball originated with a night in and between myself and my best friend. he was a very successful stock trader on the new york stock exchange. he believes the capacity to survive and do well is an inherent, inborn talent. he would argue he could be a survivor anywhere. i spent my life in the

woods hunting and fishing. i argued, on the other hand, that survival is more a function of learning certain behavioural tactics. and that they are environmentally specific. and i said to him, if you came up to new hampshire and went out in the woods with me, you wouldn't have a chance. a friend of mine sent me a catalogue that had in a tape is still, and it shot a little ball of paint about this big, and it was used by foresters to mark trees to be cut down and so forth. and i had one of those eureka moments. to make things come together. i called him up and i said, ifigured out how we come together. i called him up and i said, i figured out how we are going to prove this argument one way or another. so i ordered two of these guns and a bunch of the pallets and he came up to my house and we decided we would test these guns out, because as far as we had known,

nobody had ever shot a person with them. he shot first and he missed. and i shot him right in the butt. and i shot him right in the butt. and it hurt. so then, what we did, we went out into 40 acres of woods, and he went at one end and i went out the other and we hunted each other. within about 20 minutes i came around a big maple tree and he was sitting on a rock and i walked right up behind him, put the barrel of the gun right on his neck and said, all right, i don't want to shoot you. who wins? we had so much fun doing this that we decided we didn't want to just drop it there. what we would do, we would invite ten other people who had a demonstrable survival capacity, who had distinguished themselves by succeeding in whatever chosen line of work they got into more than

normally. the first official game of paintball was played injune of 1981. the original game required four flag stations and those flag stations were marked on a topographic map and each competitor was given, along with a gun, i think we gave them ten pallets, a pair of goggles, a compass and this map. so that name rewarded stealth, would skills, strategy. —— game. we started up a company called national survival games, and set up franchises. and what we quickly found out was that what people wa nted found out was that what people wanted to do was shoot. we had fields all over the country. the idea of running through the woods, competing and, in a way, sort of

symbolically surviving. those go way back into our genetic development. always leaves me with bruises. now, it sounds almost impossible. being able to create music without hearing it. but it worked for beethoven's now it is working for a londoner, kevin walker. he goes by the name of sign kid, and his story is inspiring others, and not just sign kid, and his story is inspiring others, and notjust those with hearing impediments. kevin was 11 years old when he realised music was his passion. he had already seen michaeljackson videos and he says he could feel the beat of the music through the moves. he studied a course at a special music school in hackney, called its deaf rave. i think one of the

advantages of music production is it is very visually base. you can see a lot of what it is you are doing. he isa lot of what it is you are doing. he is a natural beat maker. the lyrics he writes about, well, he is very much reflecting on life, his experiences, the way he sees things, and here's a very tuned in individual. soon kevin was performing his own music in front of thousands of people and he explains how his attitude helped achieve his ambition. don't forget, you can see much more stories like that on the bbc news website. many thanks for watching. hello there. the weekend so far has

brought a real mix of weather. dry for some, wet for others. faure few, very wet indeed. this is the satellite picture. look at this beautiful swirled of cloud. a deep area of low pressure just hear drifting to the north—west of the british isles. this band of cloud, eight pontal system which has brought quite a lot of rain in some places during saturday, and is still sitting in place for the first part of sunday. the rain fizzling away, at least for a time. patches of rain across lincolnshire, the midlands, east wales as we start the country —— start the day. sunny spells throughout the day, parts of the south—east getting away with a com pletely south—east getting away with a completely dry we can. and further north, sunshine and a much drier and brighter day across scotland on sunday. lots of sunshine to be had. the odd shower in the north—west. black winged arrows indicate wind gustin black winged arrows indicate wind gust in excess of 40 miles an hour. wind still quite gusty across the

north—west. 12 degrees in belfast, a nice looking afternoon for northern ireland. a bit more cloud across england and wales, with the odd spot of rain. east anglia and the south—east escaping dry and fine. this rain pushing into the far south—west of england, likely to turn heavier as we get into the first part of the evening, drifting into western wales. maybe getting a bit further east. i think for most places, if you are off to a fireworks display on sunday evening, it be dry and relatively mild as well. that sort of thing continues for bonfire night itself. let's pick up for bonfire night itself. let's pick up the story weatherwise as we go through late sunday evening into the early hours of monday. rain fringing across western parts of the uk. further east, largely dry. the odd patch of mr round, and those temperatures not dropping fast. while they're continuing to come in from the south. this is the pressure pattern on monday morning. another area of low pressure, and you want, developing to the south—west. this front just grazing its developing to the south—west. this frontjust grazing its way across western parts of the british isles.

parts of south—west england, west wales, particularly northern ireland and western scotland. we could see a bit of rain through the day, that rain coming and going, not raining all day long. further east it will be dry with spells of sunshine and very mild indeed, 15 or 17 degrees. really, it is more of the same on tuesday. bands of rain scraping their way into western parts of the uk. further east, largely dry with some spells of sunshine and, wherever you are, once again, it will be mild. mild as the big theme to ta ke will be mild. mild as the big theme to take us through the week ahead. wind and rain at times. not all the time. this is bbc news. the headlines: in the last weekend of campaigning ahead of tuesday's mid—term elections president trump focused on economic growth and his hard—line stance on immigration. democrat leaders have warned the character of america was at stake. polls suggest the democrats may win control of the house of representatives. iran's supreme leader has attacked the united states after its decision to reimpose

economic sanctions against iran. the trump administration will reinstate all us sanctions which were removed under the 2015 nuclear deal on monday. ireland's prime minister has warned that britain's planned departure from the european union has undermined the long—standing peace deal that ended decades of violence in northern ireland. negotiations between the eu and the uk have stalled over the irish border issue. now on bbc news, some of the world's most important news