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a startling new development in the mueller inquiry into russian interference in the presidential election and whether the trump campaign colluded with russia to influence the result. president trump's former personal lawyer has now pleaded guilty to misleading congress. michael cohen has admitted making false statements about a property deal in russia in 2016. he says he lied out of loyalty to the president. mr trump's response is that his former right—hand man is lying now, to prosecutors, to win a shorter sentence. nick bryant reports. michael cohen was donald trump's mr fix—it — a centralfigure in the billionaire‘s business empire. but the lawyer who used to make mr trump's problems go away now potentially poses a huge problem himself for the president. mr cohen has co—operated. mr cohen will continue to co—operate. sentencing is set for december 12. though the fast—talking new york attorney remained tight—lipped outside court. those words from his lawyer are a startling new development. it means he's sharing information with the russian collusion investigation.

up until now, michael cohen has been prosecuted by investigators based here in new york. but what makes this so significant is that it's the first time he's been charged by and entered into a plea agreement with robert mueller, the special counsel looking into allegations of collusion between the trump presidential campaign and the kremlin. inside court, he pleaded guilty to making false statements to congress about a real estate project that would have altered the skyline of moscow — a proposed trump tower in the russian capital. talks about the project had continued well into 2016, he admitted, the year of the presidential election. donald trump had been more extensively involved. he'd also been in contact about the project with a key figure in the kremlin — the spokesman for vladimir putin. speaking in court, cohen said he'd made these misstatements out of loyalty to a figure described as "individual1". "individual1" is president donald trump, who today trashed his

former right—hand man. he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about. i mean, we were very open with it. last week, donald trump provided a series of written answers to robert mueller. and the president's legal team said tonight his responses about building a trump tower in moscow lined up with what michael cohen said in court. the president has intensified his attacks on robert mueller — "a rogue prosecutor", he says, "leading a mccarthy—style witch—hunt." but one thing mr trump might ponder on the long—haul flight to the g20 summit in argentina is how today's legal developments have made it much more difficult to fire him. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. and we will return to all that in just a moment. jjust to update you,

nick touched on it there, president trump has now arrived in argentina for a meeting of the world's leading economies, the g20. he was due to have talks in buenos aires with vladimir putin. but in a tweet, mr trump announced he's now cancelled that meeting, along with several others. the reason he's given is that russia has still not returned the ukrainian ships and sailors it seized last sunday near crimea, which russia annexed four years ago from ukraine. let's get more from our north america correspondent, peter bowes. first of all, that we can president trump, that is the official reason he is giving. there is bound to be suspicion that frankly he just has too much else on his mind with the revelations about michael cohen. yeah, a lot of suspicion because of the timing of that tweet, itjust really a few minutes earlier, as he was leaving the white house to make that long journey to argentina, he said that the meeting was still on

with president putin. something seems to have changed in a short space of time leading up to that tweet saying that he would not be meeting the russian president, certainly nothing has significantly changed regarding the situation from last sunday and those ukrainian ships, what has changed a lot in the last 12 hours or so, of course, the russian investigation and his former lawyer admitting that he misled, that he lied to congress, about a deal involving russia and his former boss, donald trump. this all relates to the timejust boss, donald trump. this all relates to the time just before the presidential election campaign, although of course, as we now know, the negotiations for that potential trump tower in moscow in fact continued up until the middle of 2016. so the timing of all this just seems rather odd. and i suppose the optics, as they say, would not be necessarily good to have mr trump

meeting president putin straight after this news has broken and yet he is right, it is true, it is not illegal to pursue business interests while you are campaigning for president. as he says, he did not know he would be president, he did not want to miss out on opportunities. well, the president's explanation that he gave left the white house to many people seems very plausible, that he was essentially a businessman, he was yes, he was standing for president but at that stage, he was free to do business and pursue his financial interest. he may not have won the presidential campaign, he may have been back doing business and building buildings around the world right now, and that was in his mind. he decided, he said, eventually not to go ahead with that because he wa nted to go ahead with that because he wanted to concentrate on his campaignfor wanted to concentrate on his campaign for president, but the optics are unusual and a lot of people saying that if he had met president putin, of course, it would have been an opportunity to challenge him, to perhaps criticise

him in relation to the situation with those ukrainian ships, something which other world leaders, angela merkel germany says she plans to do when she meets president putin. and we will return to this. for the moment, thank you very much. let's get some of the day's other news. a man already imprisoned for murder has now confessed to 90 killings in the us, across four decades. this is samuel little, he's 78 and currently serving life. he was sentenced in 2014 for the murders of three women. the fbi believe he may be among the most prolific serial killers in american criminal history. a japanese airline pilot has been jailed for being about nine times over the legal alcohol limit, just as he was about to fly a passengerjet out of heathrow. katsutoshi jitsukawa was stopped by security staff last month, in the cockpit of the japan airlines flight to tokyo. he's been sentenced to 10 months in prison. south korea's highest court has ruled that a second japanese company must pay compensation to koreans employed as forced labour in the second world war. mitsubishi heavy industries has

been ordered to pay more than $72,000 to each of 28 victims, including five women. scientists looking at climate change say that 20 of the warmest years on record have come in the past 22 years and the research by the world meteorological organization says four of the hottest have all been in the past four years. experts calculate that reducing emissions of greenhouse gases will not be enough, because removing the gases will become ever more important. 0ur science editor david shukman investigates. every hour, all over the world, more and more carbon dioxide is being pumped into the air. and scientists say we've got to find a way of doing this. pulling the carbon dioxide back out again. watch your footing. in south wales, ijoin researchers who believe they may have found an answer. this is a slag heap, a mountain of waste left over from an old iron works.

what they've found here is that this stuff actually draws in carbon dioxide. phil renforth and his student sarah gore show me how this works. adding some slag to a bottle, and then giving it a blast of carbon dioxide. in the space of a few minutes, the gas binds to the minerals inside, and the bottle starts to collapse inwards. so could this be done on a worldwide scale? globally, we produce about 0.5 billion tons of slag around the globe and that could capture something in the order of 0.25 billion tons of c02, so it's not going to do everything, but it might do something relevant for us. just sitting here, the material doesn't absorb much of the gas. so a new process will have to be devised to do something useful. but that is technically feasible. this is just one tiny fraction of the legacy of the industrial age,

and it's an amazing thought that the iron and steel industries which produced all this stuff and generated so much of the carbon dioxide that has been warming the planet may now have a role in helping to limit the rise in global temperatures. newsreel: sheffield, capital of steel, heart of a great industry. in the boom years of steel production, what mattered was the volume of output. no—one back then worried about all the carbon dioxide being released into the air. but now at sheffield university, that's what they're trying to deal with. in an underground laboratory, plants are grown in carefully monitored conditions. instruments keep track of every detail, and mixed into the soil is a powder — it's rock that's been ground up. this is a major project to see if agriculture can help tackle climate change. these plants look normal enough, but they're part of a highly unusual experiment that

could prove incredibly useful. that's because the scientists here have worked out that adding powdered volcanic rock to the soil massively increases the amount of carbon dioxide that's drawn out of the air, and because that's the gas that's driving the rise in temperatures, anything to help get rid of it could make a difference. the world needs to wake up to the fact that we need to reduce our emissions and combine it with technologies for removing c02. and at the moment, we have no idea how to remove billions of tons of c02 from the atmosphere. and how hard could it be? it could be — it's an enormous technological challenge, that dwarfs anything that we've seen before. and all the time, the more carbon dioxide builds up in the air, the more urgent it becomes to somehow get it out. david shukman, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: how these medical students are learning about human anatomy with the help of a 3d printer.

it's quite clear that the worst victims of this disaster are the poor people living in the slums, which have sprung up around the factory. i am feeling so helpless that the children are dying in front of me and i can't do anything. charles manson is the mystical leader of the hippy cult suspected of killing sharon tate and at least six other people, in los angeles. at 11am this morning, just half a metre of rock separated britain from continental europe. it took the drills just a few moments to cut through the final obstacle. then philippe cozette, a minerfrom calais,

was shaking hands and exchanging flags with robert fagg, his opposite numberfrom dover. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: donald trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has pleaded guilty to lying to congress about contacts with russia. president donald trump has arrived in argentina's capital, buenos aires, for a high—stakes g20 summit. let's get more on the investigation into russian interference in the us presidential election and the role of president trumps former right—hand man, michael cohen. seth abramson is author of proof of collusion, which looks into the relationship between the trump election campaign and russia. he joins me now from manchester, new hampshire. thank you very much for your time.

when the president says it is not illegal, he was campaigning and it was not illegal to maintain business interests, it might not have looked good he had ties with russia but people still floated for him? in fa ct, people still floated for him? in fact, it could be illegal. the buzzfeed news indicating michael cohen and an associate of donald trump were planning to give the penthouse to vladimir putin. was it also lying about unilaterally dropping sanctions on russia. none of that proven. what about this

issue, the president says michael cohen is lying about something that was no secret. in fact he has said he had no business ties to russia. he has said that consistently. michael cohen is the 20 year lawyer and fixerfor michael cohen is the 20 year lawyer and fixer for donald trump and has repeatedly praised his character. the now calling week and a liar simply means the president does not like what michael cohen is saying. if any of this is true, that people took the risk of light, what were they trying to cover up? in my book, they trying to cover up? in my book, the theory is presented as supported by media reports from around the world, it is that the reason quid pro quo in which donald trump got millions of dollars in assets from russian clients, oligarchs connected

to the kremlin, in exchange for a pro—russia foreign policy in which the us would not benefit and donald trump's administration would drop sanctions on russia over the annexation of crimea. sanctions on russia over the annexation of crimealj sanctions on russia over the annexation of crimea. i guess what the president legal team must be looking at, and the robert mueller inc are, whether the recent perjury here. whether the written testimony contradicts what michael cohen is the same. we do not have access to the same. we do not have access to the evidence and donald trump gave to robert mueller. we dip —— ready giuliani says it does not. but people said that some of giuliani's state m e nts people said that some of giuliani's statements have not proved correct in the past. we will be back to

this. thank you very much indeed. there's been a big increase in the number of cases of measles around the world, with many countries having experienced severe and protracted outbreaks last year. a report by the world health 0rganisation shows a rise in cases in almost every region of the world. caroline rigby reports. measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. for most people who contract it, it is highly unpleasant but in more severe cases it can lead to complications such as blindness, problems neurological and even death. free humanisation programmes, it is preventable. —— through. it could be life—saving. data from who points to a resurgence in measles, an increase across the world but particularly in latin america and europe. complacency and the collapse of systems in countries such as

venezuela are behind the rise as well as a worrying trend about fake news about vaccination. we are seeing in wealthy countries that there are cases of measles which are spread throughout the community and this is potentially be driven by hesitancy towards the vaccine, pa rents hesitancy towards the vaccine, parents worried about that sedating their children. many countries experience severe and protracted cases. a jump of experience severe and protracted cases. ajump of more than experience severe and protracted cases. a jump of more than 30% on 2016. but the world health 0rganization estimates the true figure was closer to 7 million cases, with more than 100,000 deaths, the majority of which were children. for years, the proportion had been on the decline but according to this latest research,

it is disappointing for a disease entirely preventable. learning the anatomy of the human body is perhaps one of the most difficult but fundamental parts of medicine. but, with a worldwide shortage of cadavers, getting access to actual human bodies is very difficult. katie silver went along to meet an anatomy professor in singapore who's come up with a novel way to allow medical students to get hands on with the human body. let's explore the anatomy of the heart... medical students attempting what many of us might see as impossible, trying to learn and memorise human anatomy. it really is no mean feat. there are so many structures in the body. the organs and the abdomen, they are relatively easy but the head and neck anatomy ifelt, is a more complex because of the intricate structures. traditionally, students have used plastic models to learn about the body but they are rigid and generally not anatomically accurate.

there are also plastinated cadavers, real human bodies injected with plasticine, but they also have their drawbacks. they are expensive, they are fragile, they are delicate. and because they are actual human bodies, they are very hard to come by. professor mogali was searching for a better way. so when i reading i learnt about 3—d printing technology has been applied and i thought we can also use this technology. others in the field had 3—d printing models of human body parts. professor mogali took this a step further. he realized, if they use multiple different materials they could make parts of the body such as the veins or bones feel different and even be different colours. here, fter 15 hours on the printer, you have an anatomically here, after 15 hours on the printer, you have an anatomically correct model of the heart. it is painstaking. now this model looks beautiful but to produce this model, there were a lot of hours behind it. for the students it

makes it impossible that for the students it makes the impossible little less challenging. for finer structures, maybe the face or the head, there's a possibility of maybe enlarging the specimens to make it more easyfor younger students to identify it. to make it more easy for younger students to identify it. relatively cheaper and easier to replicate, they can be used in countries that may otherwise, perhaps for religious reasons, not have access to real human cadavers, helping to better educate the next generation of doctors. katie silver, bbc news, singapore. it's been one of the hottest shows on both sides of the atlantic. i'm talking about hamilton, a musical about alexander hamilton, a man who migrated to america from the caribbean. he's considered one of america's founding fathers and was a close ally of george washington, the first president. victoria uwonkunda caught up with 0bioma ugoala here in london, who plays president washington. when i first saw the show on rodway,

my breath was taken away. i thought thatis my breath was taken away. i thought that is the part i want to play. as a child growing up with the cheery and father and an irish mother, how was that like? when people asked you see yourself as nigerian, as irish? is it myself almost and for more —— and mostly as a londoner. you want to embrace so many parts of yourself and so to have that defined by somebody else is always tricky. there is always this idea that you wa nt to there is always this idea that you want to self define yourself, to have the freedom to say me as a human being and all my complexities. what is it matter as an individual to speak up and make your opinion heard? at the moment people feel

like we do not have a voice and they feel what is the point and that is the scary thing because when people feel so disempowered — i don't mind who people vote for—as long as they are engaged. it is important to empower people and make them feel like to have a voice and it is necessary to them to be heard and to tell politicians, hear me, because otherwise you may not get voted in next. how engaged you with the nigerian politics and the upcoming elections? i am upset when i think about some of the global politics andi about some of the global politics and i would love to be in a world where people felt, politicians felt, that they could make the right decision for the good of the country, that it was not short—term. the nigerian election... it is something... it is interesting

because it has been so long and eve ryo ne because it has been so long and everyone waiting in the wings thinking maybe it will be this year. how are you preparing to the yacht last curtain call? not thinking about that just yet. what we agreed is to take it step by step. and... i think it will be emotional. it is such a joy to come into work every day and i still wake up in the morning and, go, yes, iwill day and i still wake up in the morning and, go, yes, i will be in hamilton this evening. there have been celebrations in jamaica and at a unesco meeting in mauritius, after reggae music was put on a list of global intangible cultural treasures. this was the moment the announcement was made. let's get together and feel all

right. modern love, modern love, let get together... unesco said reggae contributed to the international discourse on issues of injustice, resistance and humanity. too right. also added to unesco's list is the art of water measuring in algeria, hand puppetry in egypt, and traditional massai male rites of passage on kenya. very small on all the news, any time on the website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team. on twitter — i'm @bbc mike embley. that it for now, do come again. bye— bye. hello there.

yesterday was a really dramatic day of large and crashing waves and some very strong gusts of wind. the top gust was recorded on the western edge of the isle of wight, at the needles — a gust of 82 miles an hour recorded here. 72 in plymouth, 72 as well in capel curig, in conwy in north—west wales. there were a number of sites that got into the 60s too. the area of low pressure that brought those strong winds was this one just heading to the western side of norway at the moment. the main parent low was still to the north—west of scotland and that is what is continuing to bring these strong winds. at the moment we are seeing a number of heavy showers flowing in to the western side of scotland and it will stay very windy here. windy too for northern ireland, north—west england, even further south. the winds are noticeably brisk, although continuing to gradually ease down. there's still some showers coming in to southern wales and southern counties of england. not entirely dry but, if you're heading outside over the next hour or two, it's not particularly cold. temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees for many of us. those strong winds will continue

to push in across scotland, particularly the northern isles, actually, where i think we could gusts as strong as 50—60 miles per hour, perhaps even a touch stronger than that in the northern isles, for a time. band of rain pushes through here, followed by plenty of showers. so that's how things will start off, with those brisk winds continuing to blow the showers in for much of the day. good news though, with those strong winds is the downpours do not last too long, they move across the sky pretty quickly, with some brighter spells interspersed. showers continuing for wales, north—west england. still a few across southern counties of england, although these will probably get a bit rarer as we head into the afternoon, the weather becoming a bit drier. mild for most. temperatures reaching a high of 12 degrees towards the south. and then we'll take a look on into the all—important weekend forecast. we're looking at this next area of low pressure bringing another bout of rain across england and wales. that rain is going to be very slow to clear its way eastwards. across east anglia, south—east england, it will be raining for much of the day. the rain quite slow to ease up as well, across northern counties of england, once its set in here. further north, for scotland and northern ireland, there will be some sunshine around but we are into the cooler air here. temperatures between 6

and 8 degrees celsius. still pretty mild though further south reaching a high of around 13 degrees. more rain in the forecast for sunday. clearing away quickly across eastern areas with some sunshine following. it will be very windy. uncertainty at how far north this band of rain will reach. could push well into scotland as we head into sunday so there could be some rain around at times. temperatures on the mild side, looking at highs of around 111—15 degrees. that's your latest weather. bye for now. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump's former personal lawyer has pleaded guilty to misleading the mueller investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. michael cohen admitted making false statements about a project to build a trump 0rganization skyscraper in moscow. the president says mr cohen is a weak man, who is lying now to get a reduced jail sentence. president trump has touched down

in argentina's capital, buenos aires, for the g20 summit, where he's expected to have tense trade talks with china. the gathering of world leaders is being held at a time of growing differences over trade, climate change and global security. the world health organisation is warning of a global resurgence of the highly contagious disease measles. the who is blaming a sharply lower uptake of childhood immunisation for the increase in cases. a report by the organisation shows a growth in cases in almost every region of the world. it's just after 2:30am.