you're watching bbc news. i'm reged ahmad, our top stories. president trump's plan to end the shutdown: give me the money for my border wall, and i'll lift the threat to deport a million immigrants. police in northern ireland say a suspected car bomb has exploded in londonderry — there's been widespread condemnation. the constitutional court in the democratic republic of congo rejects a defeated opposition candidate's appeal. felix tshisekedi is the new president. could this break the brexit deadlock? a former british prime minister says parliamentarians should have a vote on all possible options. and the young puppeteers getting a helping hand from one of the world's masters. in an attempt to end the longest partial federal government shutdown

in american history, president trump has proposed what he's calling a compromise, on us immigration policy. speaking from the white house, mr trump said he would lift, for three years, a threat to deport almost a million immigrants. these include young undocumented migrants known as dreamers. but in exchange, he demanded billions of dollars for a security wall on the border with mexico. in order to begin building the trust and goodwill necessary for real immigration reform, there are two more elements to my plan. number one is three years of legislative relief for 700,000 daca recipients, brought here unlawfully by their parents at a young age many years ago. this extension will give them access to work permits, social security numbers and protection from deportation, most importantly. secondly, our proposal provides a three—year extension of temporary protected status or tps. this means that 300,000 immigrants whose protected status is facing expiration will now have three more years of certainty so that congress can work on a larger immigration deal, which everybody wants, republicans and democrats.

0ur correspondent david willis in washington was watching the speech. he says president trump did address some of the democrats‘ main concerns. even before president trump had made his announcement, the democrats were saying that it doesn't go far enough. but there is plenty of what the president outlined, i think, that will give some democrats pause for thought for the simple reason it contains many measures they wanted to see. investment in drug detection technology, ports of entry, more border agents and immigration judges and of course a reprieve, albeit temporary, for about a million migrants who had been threatened with deportation, and it opens the government and brings this whole crisis to an end.

the sticking point, as you say, of course, is that wall. the democrats hate any thought of that project. they believe that it is unnecessary spending, they believe it is an affront, if you like, to american values. but, you know what? the ball, really, now is in the democrats‘ court. because if they can just get past the wall thing, the government could potentially open and they could have many other things they want to see, as far as the immigration measures are concerned. he is feeling the heat, president trump. he wants to be seen to be the one who is willing to negotiate with all this. because he is copping it, as far as the opinion polls are concerned. the majority of americans polled have consistently blamed

the president more for this current government shutdown than blame the democrats. that was david willis, and we will have a bit more later on in the programme about donald trump's plan to end that partial government shut down. let's get some of the day's other news. the un says it believes that 170 migrants trying to reach europe may have drowned in two incidents in the mediterranean sea in recent days. a rubber dinghy with 120 people on board sank in the sea off libya on friday. more than 50 people are also said to have died in the waters between spain and morocco. at least 73 people are now known to have died in a fuel pipeline explosion near mexico city. the accident happened as crowds of people from a local village filled up containers with fuel to use in their vehicles or sell on the black market. there've been more clashes between the yellow vest protest movement and police in france, on the tenth consecutive weekend of demonstrations. protesters in the western city of bordeaux threw fireworks, metal bowling balls and cobblestones

at police, who responded with water cannon. skirmishes also broke out elsewhere, including in paris. protesters across hungary have taken to the streets for more demonstrations against new rules on overtime, that the opposition has dubbed the slave law. employers can ask their staff to work up to 400 hours overtime a year and defer payment for up to three years. demonstrators also complain about pro—government bias in the media and corruption. police are investigating after a suspected car bomb exploded in the centre of londonderry in northern ireland. there are no reports of injuries in the blast outside the city's courthouse. declan harvey reports from belfast. the charred remains of a vehicle, smouldering. the roof clearly blown off

by the force of the blast. local residents said their windows shook when the device exploded just after 8:00 in the evening. despite its city centre location, no—one was injured. although a busy hoteljust metres from the blast was evacuated. a large cordon was put in place as police sniffer dogs combed the area checking other vehicles for a risk of a secondary device. scenes like this are an unwelcome reminder of derry‘s troubled past and already business groups have expressed their frustration at the fresh damage done to the city's reputation. no—one has claimed responsibility for this bomb yet but it has prompted a chorus of condemnation from politicians all sides. the democratic unionist party's arlene foster described it as a pointless act of terror which must be condemned in the strongest terms. the sinn fein mp elisha mccallion said the local community is shocked and in particular, the many elderly residents who live in the area. she added that derry

is a forward—moving city and no—one wants this type of incident. mark h durkan said: "whoever is responsible for this explosion outside bishop street courthouse in derry really hasn't got the message that the people of derry do not want this on our streets". reaction, too, from the governments in london and dublin. the british secretary of state for northern ireland karen bradley confirmed she's being briefed on developments while the irish foreign minister simon coveney said he utterly condemned the attack and said there was no justification for acts which seek to drag northern ireland back to violence and conflict. the constitutional court in the democratic republic of congo has rejected appeals challenging recent presidential election results. they have confirmed the winner as felix tshisekedi, and he is expected to be sworn in, despite the challenge to the results by runner up martin fayulu.

opponents of mr tshisekedi claim he made a deal with outgoing presidentjoseph kabila. the bbc‘s louise dewast is in the capital kinshasa. a short time ago she told me what the judges had to say. the constitutional court in this country has never overturned election results, so this decision was somewhat expected. tonight, they announced that they were rejecting two appeals, the first from the runner—up, martin fayulu, who got 34.8% of votes, but he claims he got 60% of votes and asked the court to consider a recount. the other challenge was from another candidate, theodore ngoy, who asked for a cancellation of results due to the exclusion of 1.26 million voters in four constituencies. so, after deliberating for eight days — for several days, the court announced tonight that they were rejecting those challenges and confirmed that felix tshisekedi won with 38% of votes and we expect him to be sworn in within ten days. now, we have seen some reaction from martin fayulu

since this ruling has happened. what has he had to say? so, felix tshisekedi, when he becomes president, will face legitimacy concerns, because even though he's from the opposition, an opposition party, there are claims from his opponents that he made some kind of backroom deal with outgoing presidentjoseph kabila, who they say helped him rig the results in exchange for letting kabila and his party remain influential behind the scenes — claims that tshisekedi denies. but the question now is — what will martin fayulu say? he already issued a statement this evening calling on his supporters and the international community not to recognise felix tshisekedi as the winner of these elections. the other question, of course, is —

what will the international community do? the african union, who usually stays on the sideline, so to say, when it comes to elections, issued quite a strong statement a few days ago, saying that there were serious doubts about the conformity of the vote and asked the authorities in this country to postpone the final proclamation of results. 0bviously, that hasn't happened. but the african union is sending a delegation to kinshasa, the capital, here on monday. it's unclear what exactly they will be able to achieve because the court's decision is irrevocable. as you say, martin fayulu not very happy, he's declared himself the president. are we going to see protests on the street now? well, just before the announcement, the court's announcement, with the brexit deadlock continuing, the former british prime minister, sirjohn major, told the bbc that the house of commons should be given a vote on all brexit options.

the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, said only two "credible" options remained: close ties with the eu based on a customs union, or another public vote. 0ur political correspondent, alex forsyth reports. the charred remains of a vehicle, smouldering. on all sides but. .. . ., some think one way through would be a series of votes in parliament testing the different options to see if mps can get behind one. the prime minister still needs a deal. if she cannot deliver one that parliament accepts, then she needs to become a facilitator and mediator to find out what parliament will accept. i personally would hope she would put down a series of motions so that members of parliament can indicate their preference. in here there is deep division about what should happen now theresa may's plan for brexit has been emphatically rejected. 0ne mp is trying to force

the government to let parliament indicate its view with a series of non—binding votes. the key thing is to bring into play what has not been brought into play up to now and that is, does the house of commons have a view on the direction the government should now take? some mps are trying to seize control of this process from the government to give parliament the power to force a delay to brexit if no consensus can be reached. his party must consider giving the public another say, upping the pressure onjeremy corbyn to back another vote. a public vote has to be an option for labour, it has to be an option for labour. after all, deeply embedded in our own values are internationalism, collaboration and cooperation with our european partners. that is what we are about. so far, the prime minister has

been against that option and during the brexit debate earlier this week, some in her own party warned against backtracking or delay. with my heart and soul, i vote for the promise of brexit that must be fulfilled. back brexit and make sure we leave, lock stock and barrel. now is the time to walk away from this european union. on monday, the prime minister must make a statement signalling her next steps but despite talk of compromise, it is not yet clear who is prepared to budge. alex forsyth, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, the young puppeteers getting a helping hand from one of the world's masters. donald trump is now the 45th president of the united states.

he was sworn in before several hundred thousand people on the steps of capitol hill in washington. it's going to be only america first — america first. demonstrators waiting for mike gatting and his rebel cricket team were attacked with tear gas and set upon by police dogs. anti—apartheid campaigners say they will carry on the protests throughout the tour. they called him 'the butcher of lyon'. klaus altmann is being held here on a fraud charge in bolivia, but the west germans want to extradite him for crimes committed in wartime france. there, he was the gestapo chief klaus barbie. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: president trump has proposed a compromise to end the longest ever us government shutdown. if he's given the money to build his border wall, he'll lift a threat to deport a million immigrants for three years. police in northern ireland say a bomb has exploded in londonderry. politicians of all parties there have condemned the attack. let's return to our top story now.

that plan for the government shutdown. mark krikorian is executive director of the center for immigration studies. hejoins me from vienna in virginia. thank you for your time. donald trump has made his offer to the democrats but they are not writing. why is that? this isn't really a dispute over policy. his border security package, which is more than just the wall and has been clear all along, there is more elements. the package overall is really not all that remarkable. it is the kind of thing that democratic residence in the past would have an impact did propose that the dispute is more a political one. the democrats are determined to prevent the president

from getting a win on this, his marquee issue. and so it almost doesn't matter what he offered. if he insisted on funding for the wall but was willing to give them everything else that they wanted, literally, they still wouldn't agree to it because this isn't about policy, it's purely on the part of the democrats, purely about politics. is that a fair assessment? the offer donald trump has made is something that has only been rejected by the democrats. isn't he trying to deflect a bit of that pr towards the democrats so the democrats are playing for the shut down? any kind of government shut down, and remember this is only about 25% of the federal government, any shut down is reallyjust a blame game, a public relations game which is to say which party, which side is seen as

is to say which party, which side is seen as being more responsible and therefore more likely to end up surrendering. and so part of this of course is to put the onus on the democrats. the president has made what frankly is a pretty reasonable offer, and they are saying it is dead on arrival. well, it's going to come up for a vote in the senate at some point in this coming week. that is part of what the president said. it will need some democratic votes to pass. if it doesn't get those votes, then it exactly quite plausible to say that this is the schumer shut down as it were, in other words blame the democrats for continued intransigence. presumably the president probably knew how the democrats might receive his offer. if he was really serious about offering them a carrot, one of a settle m e nt offering them a carrot, one of a settlement for the dreamers, both migrants that arrived as children illegally and are still in america?

because full legalising them, they are already legalised in the centre work permits and social security numbers, but making them permanent, making them regular immigrants, in other words giving them green cards, thatis other words giving them green cards, that is the short hand term, would lead to future problems. it doesn't fix anything. all it does is create an incentive for sharp illegal immigration. this way, by simply extending current status that they have for three more years, it allows congress and the president to try to work something out and there will be another election as well which, often is necessary for this sort of thing. it is actually, i mean, many people on my side are stronger on immigration enforcement issues dismiss this proposal out of hand right away just like the dismiss this proposal out of hand right awayjust like the democrats did. buti right awayjust like the democrats did. but i have to say i think it is

actually a not unreasonable proposal and both the hard—core immigration restriction stands well as well as the democrats i think are making the mistake by insisting that this is dead on arrival. meanwhile, the partial shut down goes on. mark, thank you very much for your time. thank you. poland has bid an emotionalfarewell to the long—time mayor of gdansk, pawel adamowicz. he was stabbed to death on stage last week at one of the country's biggest charity events. police say around 115,000 people turned out for a funeral mass at the city's st mary's basilica with many more watching on giant screens outside. the bbc‘s adam easton was there. pawel adamowicz‘s death has been felt deeply and is being mourned farfrom this 14th century basilica. he was proud to be from gdansk, the city that gave the world

solidarity, without shedding a drop of blood and led to the fall of the berlin wall. solidarity‘s leader and former president lech walesa was among the mourners. mr adamowicz was mayor here for more than 20 years. he was so popular, he was re—elected five times. t'”:ee‘£?"'fe%"e‘§he§:"§‘3’= to try to get into the church for the funeral. gathered in the streets outside the church to watch on large screens and bid farewell to their mayor. in his time, gdansk transformed from a dull, grey port town into a modern and dynamic european city, one that he'd opened to migrants and minorities. that made him a hate figure for many on the right. but what has so stunned poland was the manner of his death. at poland's biggest annual charity event,

he had just thanked a crowd for giving so generously when his assailant rushed him. just out of prison for armed robbery, his attacker, who reportedly has mental health issues, said he blamed the mayor's former party for his incarceration. his death has begun a debate about hate speech in a country where labelling political opponents as traitors has somehow become acceptable. more than 20 people have been arrested in the last few days for making death threats on social media. president andrzej duda has called on poles to unite despite their differences. the tragedy for poland is that it took the death of the mayor for that call to be made. adam easton, bbc news, gdansk. a strong 6.7—magnitude earthquake has hit northern chile. the quake struck at a depth of 53 kilometers, some

15km south—west of coquimbo. thousands of homes lost power, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. the duke of edinburgh has been seen driving again just two days after he was involved in a serious accident. prince philip, who's 97, was seen by several photographers entering the queen's sandringham estate from the main road in his new car. 0n on thursday he was involved in a crash where his vehicle overturned. how to pass on a lifetime's experience as a puppeteer? nigel plaskitt is doing just that after decades working on productions like the satirical tv show spitting image and the muppets. ah, an afternoon alone with my favourite book, broadway musicals of the 1940s. # but now it's time to go home!

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what's going to pull the audience's focus is the eyes. but what you have to do is you have to learn that halfway house where you're not doing too much work with your face otherwise you'll pull focus from her. hi, i'm cecily redman and i play the part of kate monster and lucy the slut. trying to get both synced at the same time is difficult and it's definitely been a skill to kind of get your head around. but eventually, actually, you kind ofjust start speaking for the puppet as if it'sjust kind of second nature, so it does come eventually, but it's taken a bit of time. me love tv. yum yum yum! the british comedy actor windsor davies, who starred as the sergeant major in the bbc comedy it ain't half hot mum has died at the age of 88.

he became a star of the show. he quickly became a star of the show as he bullied the members of an army concert party in wartime india. davies also topped the pop charts and appeared in several carry on films. much more coming up on bbc world news. do stay with us. hello. the prospect of brighter skies for some of us for part two of the weekend after what was a rather grey, cold start to the weekend. a very wintry feel and look to things for some of us. here's one weather watcher view from the lake district. and we are starting with a frost across particularly parts of scotland, a sharp frost in places, down to —7, —8, so parts of east anglia could be down to —6 as well in the countryside. we've had some cloud overnight into sunday morning. temperatures just above freezing. and there is a weather front moving down across scotland and northern ireland as we go on through sunday.

that has then an area of cloud, rain, hill snow especially in scotland as well, so bear that in mind if you're venturing to higher ground. that will slowly move on through. brighter skies follow. breezy with a few showers in north—west scotland. light winds for england and wales. still a fair amount of cloud around, maybe still drizzly, one or two spots. may catch a shower the far west of wales and into cornwall, looks like a brighter day, though for east anglia and south—east england compared with saturday, and temperatures topping out at around 4 to 8 celsius. now, that weak weather front will be across northern england into parts of wales on through sunday evening, moves further south on sunday night, barely any rain still associated with that. some clear spells around as well, so you try your luck with those early on monday if you're viewing the total lunar eclipse, and a rather more widespread frost as well as monday starts. so then, into monday, we look at the big picture here. there's a little nose of high pressure keeping things reasonably settled across much of the uk. this weather front, though, will show its hand into parts of scotland and northern ireland as we go deeper into the day. now, what we'll notice

from that is a cloud increasing, the wind picking up as well. in fact, could see some gusts in the western isles deeper into the day up to around 60 miles an hourorso, and then here comes the wet weather. some rain, some hill snow associated with that, especially into scotland. whereas much of england and wales with variable cloud and sunny spells, will stay dry, and temperatures still on the chilly side at around 4 to 8 degrees. as we go on through monday evening and monday night, this area of wet weather, some rain, some hill snow, maybe a bit of wet snow on the back edge, all sweeping its way southwards, clearing away from the far south—east on tuesday morning. following on from that, on tuesday will be some sunny spells, some showers on the north—westerly wind pushing into western parts of rain, sleet, hail, some snow to the hills and it will feel chilly on tuesday and particularly in that north—westerly breeze. and beyond that, as we go deeper into the week, it stays chilly. some frosty nights around. one or two showers particularly across western parts of the uk, but actually a fair amount of dry weather with variable cloud and sunny spells.

this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has proposed what he's calling a compromise to end the longest partial shutdown of the federal government. he said he'd lift the threat to deport almost a million immigrants for three years. but in exchange, he demanded billions of dollars for a security wall on the border with mexico. politicians in northern ireland have condemned a bomb explosion near the courthouse in londonderry. the democratic unionists leader called it "a pointless act of terror". the local republican sinn fein mp said the incident had shocked the community. there are no reports of any injuries. the constitutional court in the democratic republic of congo has upheld the victory of felix tshisekedi in last month's presidential election. the court ruled there was not enough evidence to justify a recount requested by the runner—up, martin fayulu. now on bbc news, inside out is back with more untold stories

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