collapsed in brazil, killing at least 110 people. around 200 more are still missing, after the wave of mud and slurry surged down the valley. the fact—checking website snopes has said it's cutting ties with facebook. media reports last year suggested that fact checkers working with facebook have been frustrated by its lack of transparency. the united states has suspended a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with russia, which has been in force for three decades. announcing the move, secretary of state, mike pompeo, said russia had six months to demonstrate it was complying. the newjersey senator cory booker has confirmed that he's running for the democratic nomination for president. he joins a list of several high profile democrats who've announced their candidacy for the 2020 race. a woman from east london has become the first person to be convicted of female genital mutilation in the uk. the old bailey heard that the accused,

who's originally from uganda, cut her daughter, who was three at the time. the woman also believed she could silence the police and prosecutors, by practicing withcraft. the girl's father was found not guilty. adina campbell reports. it is a crime that has been illegal in the uk for more than 30 years. today, a mother has been found guilty of cutting her 3—year—old daughter, the first conviction for female genital mutilation in the uk. at the heart of this case is a three—year—old girl who was caused serious injury as a result of her mother's actions. we can only imagine how much pain she suffered, and how terrified she was. during the trial at the old bailey, the jury heard the 999 call made by the girl's mother, who claimed her daughter had fallen onto a kitchen cupboard while trying to reach for biscuits. but the jury didn't believe her.

the court also heard evidence about the mother's interest in witchcraft. during a police search, two cow tongues and ingredients used in silencing spells were found in herfreezer at home, next to the names of police officers, social workers and foster carers involved in this case, and the girl's interviews were also played to the jury. she was heard telling her foster carer that she had been cut by an old lady, someone she referred to as a witch, while being held down by her mother. the girl was treated at this hospital in east london. when doctors saw her, she was lying on a towel soiled with blood. her injuries were severe, with three separate cuts on her genitalia. for legal reasons, we can't name the girl's mother. she is 37 and originally from uganda. the girl's father, a 43—year—old man from ghana, was also on trial for the same offence, but cleared of all the charges against him.

today's guilty verdict has resonated with those who have also suffered this type of abuse. hibo wardere was cut when she was six years old. translation: a lot of people are afraid because they attach it to a colour, they attach it to a religion, they attach it to different communities, and that's what we fight about. it's like, do not attach it to anything except child abuse. the girl's mother is now facing up to m years in prison. she will be sentenced next month. you can find more on that story on oui’ you can find more on that story on our website. now on bbc news a special edition of talking movies. to mark the programme's twentieth birthday, tom brook talks to the acclaimed actor and director kenneth branagh hello from new york, i am tom brooks. i met top british actor

kenneth branagh to discuss his latest film all is true and his a0 yea rs latest film all is true and his a0 years in the film business. i greeted kenneth branagh as he arrived at a new york event on an event marking the 20th anniversary of talking movies. he was a bitter mingled with the crowd and take order grass. the audience was eager to find out what he had to say. have a seat. a very warm welcome to talking movies on the occasion of oui’ talking movies on the occasion of our 20th anniversary. thank you and

happy birthday, happy anniversary. we are enjoying it. i have been looking at your work, you have a very impressive body of work, 37 films you have appeared in... crikey. some 30 films it have direct it. five 0scar nominations and you have one for baftas, your credit include hamlet, murder on the orient express, thor, a very varied group of films. did you ever think you might have a career in movies when you were a young boy? by no means. i come from of belfast family. my pa rents were come from of belfast family. my parents were not remotely connected to show business. i did not anything, anything, about how you could even get anywhere near to what was going on behind that screen. we went to the pictures a lot as a family. iam went to the pictures a lot as a family. i am 58, i started going to the pictures in the 50s to pictures

like the sound of music, chitty chitty bang bang, those kinds of movies with the family. the beatles films i remember were a big impact. my films i remember were a big impact. my film education were seeing often a black—and—white movies on a saturday morning, saturday afternoon and that is why it knew about charlie chaplin, buster keaton, laurel and hardy. to be anywhere near them professionally, you might as well been talking about going to venus. it was not until i started doing some school plays that somebody said i could be an act. what! what do you do? that everything is called drama schools, idid not everything is called drama schools, i did not know anything about those. what convinced you that you could act? was there a moment when you we re act? was there a moment when you were a schoolboy that you did a performance? i never thought that. i do know that i feel it now but i know it really, really makes me

happy. you know that thing, whatever it is, whether it is running, dancing, it could be mass, but when you find the thing... not for me, but for some people. —— mathematics. when you are simpatico with the thing itself. the india of losing a sort ina thing itself. the india of losing a sort in a character all researching a character or discovering the story behind it, that investigation, that sherlock holmes around the creation of something and then the live event, anything can happen kind of experience, and what you plan, what you hoped for, what occurred in the moment between you, the atmosphere and the audience, at its most beautiful and profound, it was electrifying to be part of. it is not happen every time but i knew when i felt it, experienced it a

little, and wanted to pursue it a lot. in many ways you made it your name making adaptations of shakespeare, henry v of may a big impact. your new film, all is true, what happened in it? all is true is the last three years in the life of william shakespeare. after his theatre burnt down during the first performance of his final play, henry viii or alternative title all is true and we take the approach that the shakespearean approach was that he knew some facts about the life of henry viii but otherwise speculated wildly about the story, he made things up. more facts than we think about in the last three years. he retired to stratford, he went back

toafamily retired to stratford, he went back to a family he left. he went back to anne hathaway, he will he was still married with, played byjudi dench. he was an absentee husband and father. anne hathaway was eight yea rs father. anne hathaway was eight years old. i have lived so long in it naturally wills, i think i have lost sight of what it is real. it is about someone coming to the evening of their life, blundering, what do i do? how do i process of time when i was away? what do my family think of me? what is this mean and add up to? it isa me? what is this mean and add up to? it is a chance to look at how what we think as genius operates in the human realm. how do we discern what is actually true in the story because the reason a lot going on. it is called all is true but it is

not all true. it is fiction based largely on fact. everything you see has some actual factual solidity or the gap, thejump we made was between... for instance, his only son died in 1596, he was 11 years old, but we do not know what the cause was. but at that time, fires ravaged stratford, the plague ravaged stratford, the plague ravaged it. so if you look at the records, they were to —— there were two child deaths in the summer, very unusual, as opposed to the dozens and dozens that died across many other months in those plague years so we other months in those plague years so we raised the question mark of whether it was the plague that took him away or whether there was

something else in the biography of the shakespeare family so we speculate on that and this film tries to somehow in to that kind of thing, with fax and imaginative lea ps thing, with fax and imaginative leaps where we can intuit them from the work of the man himself. applause. thank you. please, feel free to go and see the film and disagree with me and tidily. he backtracked and direct at the same time. how difficult is it to do that must make doesn't take a particular skill to direct yourself? it is when the process becomes something that believes one into the other. it was not something... you asked earlier about when you knew and when it came to directing, i never really knew nor could i legitimately, i thought,

consider having a directing career, so consider having a directing career, so far away, so difficult to understand but i was driven by the desire to tell stories and a love of the medium and by the time i got to the medium and by the time i got to the first film, henry v, an amount of experience of watching other people. what i used to do from the first movie was asked people, always ask questions, why are you doing that? that is the focus puller, and the tape is... generally starting to put together why they did that, what was a dolly track. before you know it, you are not deciding you are going to be a director but there was the story that had to be told and i did at this weight and i guess i am in it as well i am directing so it just sort of happened that way, one bled into the other. with henry v, isa

bled into the other. with henry v, is a specific sequence that you feel worked well and you are proud of?l magic moment when an actor i revere, paul scofield, now gone, read the first speech from the script and it was a kind of magical, magical experience. thus has the english with full power upon us and more than carefully concerned the answer royally in our defences... than carefully concerned the answer royally in our defences. . ij than carefully concerned the answer royally in our defences... i am 27 yea rs, royally in our defences... i am 27 years, schofield is a legend, he's like a years, schofield is a legend, he's likea man years, schofield is a legend, he's like a man who has walked out of mount rushmore. 0ne like a man who has walked out of mount rushmore. one of the great performances in the man for all seasons. performances in the man for all seasons. i am 27 years old and i found hard to speak in front of him because i was so in all of him. he

took the gig seriously, it was a big deal and we were rehearsing and were talking about the character king charles vi of front and he was struggling with the character. i dared to say the following as he asked me about what he is feeling... iam not asked me about what he is feeling... i am not sure but, if it is of any use, it is said that trials, who suffered that sun point from mental illness, at one point believed that he was made of glass. he said, that's enough. and suddenly, this performance was transformed and that is all he needed. whatever they did, it did the thing. in the chair, he suddenly moved with this kind of burden, that the character fell, this remoteness that the character felt, this sadness. you could suddenly start to see his body move and the performance was so beautiful

from that point onwards and he was very, very grateful for this titbit which suited him. forhe for he has read out of that bloody screen that haunted us in our familiar paths will stop witness out too much memorable shame, when battle fatally was struck. too much memorable shame, when battle fatally was strucklj too much memorable shame, when battle fatally was struck. i was proud of that and i was proud of the battle sequence in the movie, which was much inspired by 0rson battle sequence in the movie, which was much inspired by orson welles. you will have worked with a lot of very illustrious is, and i wondered what your views were on at this, you worked with ian mckellen and judi

dench in all is true, you have worked with kate winslet and emma thompson, and i came across a interesting quote, i saw it online. .. it interesting quote, i saw it online... it must be interesting quote, i saw it online. .. it must be true. interesting quote, i saw it online... it must be true. it is about actors, and you say "actors are like kids, when they are good they are very good, when they are bad, they are very naughty." who did you have in mind when you were saying that? i think that was a confessional remark there, i think. i think there is... there is a certain kind of bravery required for acting, that some people find bogus, because they assume actors just love getting up and showing off and having the attention and all the rest of it, because that is what they see actors lucky enough to work experiencing. but the exposure, the emotional exposure that can come with it means that people can be sort of raw and vulnerable, and i

think that, insecure and frightened sometimes, as everyone else in life can be, but because they are in heightened, extreme versions of that, and being asked to reveal that kind of thing in front of the camera 01’ on kind of thing in front of the camera or on stage, i think it can mean that with that capacity can sometimes... a dangerous, sometimes dangerous as self—involvement, and other times incredible generosity. you are very accomplished as an actor, but do you suffer from banks over the work you do? are you up all night learning your lines sometimes? —— thanks. night learning your lines sometimes? -- thanks. i try to leave the work as the office as it were, walk the dog, has an air blow around the experience, but sometimes there is a sort of... i did a show called conspiracy to hbo, where i played one of the executors of the final

solution, they had zyklon b, stanley two she had this chilling line, he talks about as though we were at a planning meeting for some marketing campaign, he says "we found this quite useful place in upper silesia, it is called auschwitz, he goes through the details, and he says, we can get up to speed, we think we can do 11,000 an hour"... he talks like that, and that piece which was reconstructed from accounts of the meeting them self... it was so all pervasive that that was... that was thejob where i pervasive that that was... that was the job where i was sort of a manned by the connection with the dark material —— unmanned. in that case i

so material —— unmanned. in that case i so struggled with my character, if what i was in catherine was a man without a soul. and in trying to get near that, it threw me, to be so close to, was removing my faith in, as it were, the essential goodness of human beings. —— encountering. com pletely of human beings. —— encountering. completely different subject, one of the things i have noticed is that you make very different kinds of films. you make arthouse films like all is true or hamlet, and then you make the big commercial lock busters, like thor, which made $a50 million around the world, cinderella did really well as well. why not kick to one kind of film?|j did really well as well. why not kick to one kind of film? i think from that same cute who have a family and belfast, ifelt from that same cute who have a family and belfast, i felt there was... “— family and belfast, i felt there was... —— that same kid. they need the rear distinction between what you might call high and low art. i

come from a very class ridden country, and if i don't care far art reinforcing those kinds of barriers. that is not to say that you dilutes complex art to try and make it populist, nor that you try and make pretentious, commercial work. but that you approach them all seriously, in as much as you would like to make a great, popular comedy the best it possible it can be, or a so—called highfalutin shakespeare play mozart opera best that it can be in it different way. has your personal vision being compromised when you have made a big budget film? well... you have got to be careful about the vision thing. it is just... careful about the vision thing. it isjust... if someone careful about the vision thing. it is just... if someone writes a cheque for 100 squillion dollars,

and these movies cost a lot of money, i was in one of the harry potter films and went on to the set and got given the crew list, which was an interesting document, to see how many names. they were something like 1500 names on the crew list of harry potter, it was the biggest collection of folk i have ever been involved with in the movie business. that is a lot of money, it is a lot of people. it is probably 1500 smart, creative people. in all their varying ways, large and small, they will be some kind of contribution. and you will want to, if you are clever enough, you will want to include that as you guide the things, as you steer the ship. sometimes those contributions can be clashing, and sometimes they can be noisy, and sometimes they can be not a lwa ys noisy, and sometimes they can be not always expressed in ways that give you pleasure. so i think, you have to acknowledge that... it is all

very low—budget, very short schedule, but there are people like ian mckellen, judi dench, numerous other actors and technicians who worked on it, and they all have something to say. 0n the big films, people in big positions have big things to say, and you have got to not yet too worked up, you've got to listen and not think you are giving something up. you have to put your ego at the door sometimes. and you find that way to bend with the wind, and if there is a better idea you wa nt to and if there is a better idea you want to hear it, and in my experience it is better to have the better idea then have my idea. you learn to try and be a bit smart like that. i mentioned at the beginning of our conversation that you had earned five 0scar nominations. will you not feel complete as an actor and director and till you win an 0scar? and director and till you win an oscar? (laughs). | and director and till you win an oscar? (laughs). i think and director and till you win an oscar? (laughs). ithinkl have had

so oscar? (laughs). ithinkl have had so many blessings, so many blessings and prizes, and the big prize, it sounds like a cliche, but the big prizes and audience. it always is. i discovered a long time ago, it you have got to mark your own scorecard. we are so lucky that we are in an industry, partly for commercial reasons, but partly for genuine reasons, but partly for genuine reasons of artistic appreciation, that we have this incredible focus on the work that we do. my brother used to say to me, he is a wonderful fellow who worked in all sorts of different areas of business, and he said people would ask him, are you jealous of your brother? he said no, he said what i do think would be nice is that you are in a business where there are all these awards, and you come on and people applaud you, and people in other areas of life don't have that attention. if we get the attention of an audience, thatis we get the attention of an audience, that is the prize you want, that is

really the prize you want. and then maybe, and it is true of a film like all is true whatever should you care to see it, it you may think about it, and what the world may think about it, to me the film is a very personalfilm, it about it, to me the film is a very personal film, it was a miracle to get made, and it is a film of such creative importance to me, that i am so thrilled just to have made it, and the making of it and the re— engagement with shakespeare and the attempt to tell the story as we do, produced such profound creative satisfaction, that that is definitely prize enough. we have to stop, thank you so much for the interview, you are very generous. thank you audience. (applause). do you want to be a writer? and

speak to others and for others? speak first for yourself. search within. consider the contents of your own soul. your humanity. and if your own soul. your humanity. and if you are honest with yourself, then whatever you write, all is true. friday was another day with some severe transport disruption, across central and southern england that had the worst of it, the billy stretch is of the m3 towards the basingstoke area. we also had troubles around the m2 in kent as well late in the day. this in kent as well late in the day. was one of our wea pictures this was one of our weather watch pictures from friday showing the scene overlooking the m3 around junction 5, nick grey well in hampshire. we had some horrendous

conditions with no covering the carriageway on the m3. transport is likely to continue to be affected into saturday, snow and ice still a factor in the forecast. so increasingly will become confined to south—east england and kent in particular before easing away that they will be some wintry showers for eastern scotland, eastern areas of england, and as the showers coming to land their is a risk of widespread ice. as we start the day on saturday, wintry showers down the east coast, will have more in the north—west, and perhaps a band of showers still attesting —— affecting western wales into the first part of saturday morning. 0therwise western wales into the first part of saturday morning. otherwise a cold and frosty start of the day, quite cloudy across the south—east but things will turn bright later on. the best of the sunshine further north and west but it will be a freezing cold start to the date and we will have some of those wintry showers around our coasts. perhaps a bit of rain around coastal areas, but a bit of sleet and snow mixed m, but a bit of sleet and snow mixed in, we could see a centimetre or two accumulating. it will be other cold day, tim bridges around 3— four

celsius, for many of us through saturday afternoon. —— temperatures. through saturday night time, clear skies, it is going to be another very cold night. in the west we will see another weather system approaching and we will see cloud and rain spill into northern ireland, eventually that will start to lift temperatures later in the night full of the weather system is this one here coming in off the atlantic, that will bring cold air, so on sunday we are likely to see some snow, high ground in northern ireland, but it will be lower levels for a time ireland, but it will be lower levels fora time in ireland, but it will be lower levels for a time in northern england and scotla nd for a time in northern england and scotland where we could see up to six centimetres of snow. that will tend to transition back to rain at lower levels, as milder air continues to work in full top six in belfast through the afternoon. next week it turns milder, it will be pretty wet and pretty windy. hello and welcome to bbc news.

we begin the programme with dramatic footage showing the moment a dam burst in brazil, releasing millions of tons of mining waste that engulfed nearby buildings. at least 110 people are now known to have died in the disaster, which happened in the state of minas gerais last month. hundreds of people are still missing. 0ur science editor david shukman reports from the site of the dam in south—east brazil. first, a long cloud of dust, then a nightmare vision