this is the business briefing. i'm ben bland. financial re—charge. tesla pulls the plug on most of its stores around the world and says it will only sell cars online to help pay for a cheaper model 3. plus: not—so—open skies. hello. this is the briefing. france and the netherlands face off i'm ben bland. our top stories: the us offers a $1 million reward over the future of air france—klm. for the capture of osama bin laden‘s son, hamza. he's thought to be a key and on the markets: asian shares leader of al-qaeda. rise despite a weaker finish on wall street. they are being driven pakistan's due to release a captured by a rally in chinese markets, indian fighter pilot in a bid to calm tensions over kashmir. fresh claims of sexual abuse against pop star michaeljackson. two men tell the bbc they were targeted hundreds of times. and expected sell for more than $100 million, but is it for real? the auction that's split the art world. financial re—charge. tesla pulls the plug on most of its stores around the world and says it will only sell cars online to help pay for a cheaper model 3.

a warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. friday marks the tenth national day of unplugging in the us. we're told to switch off our phones, screens, gadgets and electronic devices. are we missing out on too much real life? have you managed to strike a balance? you can be part of the conversation. tell us what you think, just use the #bbcthebriefing. the united states is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information about the son of the late al-qaeda leader

osama bin laden. washington believes hamza bin laden is emerging as a key leader of the islamist militant group, who has made threats against america and its western allies. chris buckler reports from washington. the united states has published a wa nted the united states has published a wanted poster for hamza the united states has published a wanted posterfor hamza bin laden, and they believe this is the new face of al-qaeda. the group has been responsible for many killings and bombings, but none were more devastating than this. on september the 11th, 2001, its members flew planes into the twin towers of new york's world trade center, one of a series of murderous attacks on america, apparently masterminded by osama bin laden. almost two decades on, the us has new concerns about al-qaeda and its late leader's son. hamza has released audio and video m essa 9 es hamza has released audio and video messages on the internet calling on

his followers to launch attacks against the united states and its western allies. and he has threatened to attack against the united states in revenge for the may 2011 killing of his father. after a ten year search, osama bin laden was found at a safe house in pakistan, and killed in an operation ordered by the then president barack obama. after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. in the compound, they found letters that suggested he was grew grooming his son hamza to succeed him and our intelligence officials believe he is emerging as a key leader in the extremist group. today's al-qaeda is not stagnant, it is rebuilding, and it continues to threaten the united states and our allies. the us is offering $1 million for information that leads them to hamza bin laden. officials believe he could be in afghanistan,

pakistan or iran, but they admit they don't know for sure. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. pakistan's offer to return to india a captured pilot is expected to take place in a few hours, in what's being billed as a peace gesture. that comes after days of rising tensions involving the territory of kashmir, which both nations claim as their own. pakistan shot down the pilot's jet on wednesday, after india had launched a series of airstrikes against a militant training camp in pakistan. our correspondents yogita limaye and secunder kermani sent these reports from both sides of the line of control in kashmir. a mortar shell has hit this mountaintop, india and pakistan exchanging fire. in the fields and the forests, the bombs land thick and fast. people watch anxiously. this is one of the last villages on the indian side.

here, they are used to hearing these explosions, but the past few days have been scary. translation: there has been so much shelling. we don't sleep at all at night. we worry that a bomb will hit our house. since india launched air strikes across the border on what it says was a terror camp, there has barely been a quiet hour here. it is too risky to go any further from here. we've been hearing the sounds continuously now for the past one hour. you can't see any military installations there, this just looks like any other regular village. but those sounds tell you that you are very close to the border with pakistan. this village in pakistani—administered kashmir was hit by indian shells on tuesday. you can see the absolute devastation that's been done to the house, and look — here is part of the mortar that struck it. whenever tensions rise between the two countries, it is people living in places like this that are the first to suffer.

translation: when the shelling started, a bomb fell here. it has caused so much damage. i was hurt too. where can we find a safe place? if i could find one, sure. but who will give it to me? even before this latest spate of violence, cross—borderfiring had been increasing over the past few years, and the family's home has been hit before. 16—year—old aksar had her leg amputated after a strike last year. hospitals in pakistani—administered kashmir have been placed on emergency alert. tensions might now be easing, but it is of little use to this seven—year—old. he and his two brothers are recovering after their home close to the border was struck earlier this week. another brother and sister were killed, as was their mother,

but none of them know that yet. translation: she was their world. what can i do? they wanted to talk to her. i told them she is on another ward, so you can't right now. dozens of families here have left their homes. some may feel confident enough to return for now, but this border is likely to remain a source of conflict. and there's lenty more on this developing story on our website. coverage includes analysis of the situation from our correspondents and background information on the dispute between india and pakistan. head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. let's brief you on some of the other stories making the news. bangladesh has told the un security council it is unable to take in any more refugees from neighbouring myanmar. around three quarters of a million

mainly rohingya muslims have fled. bangladesh is angry that a plan to repatriate them has so far come to nothing. israel's prime minister benjamin neta nyahu has strongly denied any wrongdoing after the attorney general announced plans to bring corruption charges against him. mr neta nyahu dismissed the allegations as a political witch—hunt. he's vowed to stay on as prime ministerfor a long time to come. the venezuelan opposition leader and self—declared interim president, juan guaido, has said he will return to the country by monday despite the prospect of being arrested on arrival. he hasn't been able to return since he left for colombia on saturday, defying a supreme court travel ban. youtube says it will switch off comments on almost all videos featuring under—18s, in an attempt to "better protect children and families". several brands stopped advertising after discovering that paedophiles were leaving predatory comments

on videos of children. it said the change would take effect over several months. two men have told the bbc they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by michaeljackson when they were children. wade robson and james safechuck claim the pop star abused them for years until they were 1a. the two men will appear in a tv documentary next week. the jackson family have said there is no evidence to back up their claims. our correspondent dan johnson reports from los angeles. # ‘cause this is thriller — thriller night. # and no—one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike... he was the king of pop, a global icon and one of the most successful singers of all time. allegations of child abuse overshadowed his later career. in 2005, he was cleared in court, but now, there are new claims. i was seven years old. michael asked, "do you and the

family want to come to neverland?" two men have told a documentary maker they were groomed at the star's fairytale theme park home, neverland. michael sexually abused me from the age of seven years old until 1a years old. and the sexual abuse included fondling, touching my entire body and my penis. hello, wade. today is your birthday, so congratulations. i love you, goodbye. wade originally testified that michaeljackson never harmed him. the idea of being pulled away from michael now, this man, this otherworldly figure, this god to me, who had now become my best friend — no way was i ever going to do anything that would pull me away from him. mrjackson? james safechuck was in a commercial with jackson. he says he was abused

from the age of ten. he grooms the children, and he grooms the parents as well. so it's a meticulous sort of build—up for him to be able to do that, and it takes him a while to build the trust. michael groomed the world as well. michaeljackson‘s music is still loved, and generates millions of pounds every year. he himself always maintained that he'd never hurt any child, and some of his family members have continued to defend his reputation. why do you think they're coming forward now? money. you think it's all about money? it's all about money. it's always been about money. i hate to say it — when it's my uncle, it's almost like they see a blank cheque. this documentary is not telling the truth. there has not been, not one piece of evidence that corroborates their story. almost a decade after his death, michaeljackson‘s character remains under the spotlight. his true legacy is still being questioned. danjohnson, bbc news, los angeles.

let's turn to our top business story now: electric carmaker tesla. it has announced it will start selling its entry level model 3 forjust $35,000, finally delivering on a promise the firm made more than two years ago. but to make it happen, tesla is shutting down almost all its stores around the world and moving to online—only sales with me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates and a former director of communications at africa development bank. some might say pragmatic move, move away from the physical stores, online only, but when you are buying a car, people want to get in, sit and feel what it is like before spending all that money. that is right. the other thing is that, one,

people want to feel the car, ce fit fits and all of that. i think it is going be very difficult. —— see if it fits. you can't take the car back. you register the car. the second thing that is interesting is tesla really marketed itself out as having these boutique car showrooms where you went in and you didn't just think about the car, you have a different experience, and only recently it was opening more of these sort of showrooms, so the fact that there is this reversal shows that there is this reversal shows that really cost cutting is something that has come to the fore in the company. and it's interesting because i mean this is reflective really of the changes that we are seeing in the retail world and, you know, if a car is being sold online only, you start to wonder is this almost the... do we see online... do we see more follow suit and close physical stores and move to online

only models? the thing is, we are going to... this is a test, and we will see whether people want to buy and pay for that kind of money for something they haven't even had a feel of. and i am not yet so sure that that is... that that will be the case. i think for cheaper models of cars, perhaps, but if you're spending $35,000, you would want to at least understand more about the car. so we are going to have to see if that is the way retail is going, particularly automobiles. if that is the way retail is going, particularly automobileslj if that is the way retail is going, particularly automobiles. i mean at some point i want to find out where they have got this target figure from. because, to a lot of people, $35,000 is still very expensive, but they describe it as the affordable model. we might have to look into that another time. thank you very much for that. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: shooting hoops in style. a long shot to remember at the turkish basketball cup.

first, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. then suddenly, the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards, and it was just a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb. on a remote pacific atoll, the americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier, and so my heart went bang and bang. the constitutional rights of these marchers are their rights as citizens of the united states, and they should be protected even in the right to test them out, so that they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy, i know you don't want to say too much about it, but does it worry you it's going to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yeah. i hope everything will be all right in the end,

as they say. you're watching the briefing. i'm ben bland. our headlines: the us has offered $1 million reward for the capture of osama bin laden‘s son, hamza. he's thought to be a key leader of the islamist militant group, al qaeda. and after days of escalating tensions over kashmir, pakistan is set to release a captured indian fighter pilot. so president trump is now back in washington, having failed to reach agreement with north korea's leader, kim jong—un, at their summit in hanoi. us secretary of state mike pompeo said the north koreans wanted full sanctions relief, but were unclear on what they were prepared to offer in terms of denuclearisation. our south—east asia correspondent jonathan head is in hanoi.

hejoins as live he joins as live from there now. the north korean certainly seemed to be keen to get their side of things across as well. i do not think there is as much gap between the two sides as appears, i think both sides are trying to put a reasonably positive gloss on it, having gone very badly, having given up on the process, i think you would have expected much tougher rhetoric from the north korean foreign minister. the five sanctions that they ask the us to lift are pretty much all of the economic sanctions that have been imposed since 2016 and there are united nations security council resolutions, very hard to pass again if they are removed because of likely russian objections. he regretted that the us could not get

there. us officials have explain the difference between them was there before the summit, that the north koreans had raised this request for significant sanctions lifting and that the us had explained to them that the us had explained to them that they needed more, they needed more detail about what the north koreans were offering in yongpyong, which is quite a sprawling complex because it has a lot of different facilities, some of which have not been publicised and in effect what the us is saying is that the tone is still quite positive, it ended on a positive note but the north koreans just could not come up with the details would have needed to make the concession, that in the end they we re the concession, that in the end they were in effect offering a freeze of their nuclear of course, although existing nuclear weapons would remain in tact and that is not a situation for which the americans could give such massive sanctions relief, in the end probably neither side was that surprised. what we got from us officials was saying that the gaps were there, they had had

lots of talks, they would have hoped that when the two men in the same room, that they would have had something else in their back pocket, they could close the gap, itjust was not there and they walked away perhaps more in a spirit of regret and disappointment nanango. -- than angen here's our briefing on some of the events happening around the world later today. in poland, the world's top gamers will be vieing for $0.5 million prize at the fortnite international video game tournament. the opening ceremony of the 2019 rio carnival starts today, followed by five days of festivities. and in iceland, it's beer day. icelanders are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the end of the prohibition of beer. now, time to get all the very latest from the bbc sports centre. hello, i'm tulsen tollett and this is your friday sport briefing, where we start with the news australia smashed the world record,

winning gold in the men's team pursuit at the track cycling world championships in poland on thursday. the four—man team took victory against great britain in the final of the likm event, more than a second inside their own previous record set last year. we knew coming in we had some good form, doing good times in training and then after yesterday, the confidence was at an all—time high, almost breaking the world record even and still being able to record the fastest time after what happened with the new zealanders. so we went out there, the first objective was to win the world title, bring that back to australia. we knew if we just executed everything we had to, will be able to go out and hopefully challenge for the world record, not beat it by that much. some of the world's leading players are fearful that a new world rugby proposal to create a 12 nation tournament will create too many physical demands and will go against player welfare. it would involve playing 12 matches throughout the year, with the top two countries playing a final in december, in what is an already packed schedule of international

and domestic rugby matches. the idea of playing, for the northern hemisphere sides, playing three games in consecutive weeks, across the southern hemisphere, which is the huge geographical challenge, and then the back end of the competition as it stands involves five test matches in five weeks for the teams that make do to the final, which isjust weeks for the teams that make do to the final, which is just and ask too much for most players. valencia will face holders barcelona in may's copa del rey final, after they beat real betis 3—2 on aggregate in their semifinal. the tie was level at 2—2 from the opening match in andalusia, and rodrigo made it a 1—0 win for the hosts in the second leg at the mestalla when he scored shortly after half—time. later in the day, great britain's laura kenny will look to put the disappointment of missing out on gold at the track cycling world championships in poland behind her. kenny was part of the women's pursuit team that was narrowly beaten by australia but on friday, she goes in the omnium,

where dutch rider kirsten wild is reigning champion. roger federer‘s bid for a 100th atp tour title will continue later, when he plays croatian borna coric in the semi—finals of the dubai championships. now, federer — the number two seed — beat the world number 35 marton fucsovics of hungary in straight sets to progress to the last four. the 37—year—old swiss won the first set on a tie—break and the second 6—4 to seal his place in the semi—finals. —— here's what's been catching our eye on social media, and it's from the all turkish euro league basketball match betwen fenerbache and anadolu. adrien moerman scored an incredible buzzer beater halfway three—pointer for anadolu in their istanbul derby loss to fenerbache. the 30—year—old frenchman may have seen his team lose, but surely, he won the shot of the night. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett,

and the rest of the team, that is your friday sport briefing. a painting believed to be a lost work by the italian artist caravaggio goes on show today in london, after extensive restoration. it was discovered by chance in an attic in france. the louvre decided not to buy it, so it will be auctioned later this year. kathryn armstrong has the story. the moment of truth. after two years of restoration work, this painting, believed to be a lost work by the italian artist michelangelo caravaggio, has been unveiled in london. the painting, which depicts the biblical story ofjudith slaying the invading general, holofernes, was found in a leaky attic of a house in toulouse five years ago, where it had even been overlooked by burglars. scientific analysis has since dated the painting to the early 17th

century. it's thought to be worth more than $70 million. it was a very important time of caravaggio's work because that's when he leaves rome and he's really developing a new style of painting, darker, more sombre, more tragic, more dramatic, what we like. this is a crucial picture for the artist. however, there has been some debate about the artwork‘s authenticity, given that a disciple of caravaggio was known to make very credible copies. eric turquin is an expert in the old masters and is confident that it is authentic. the changes between what we see and what the radio tells us that is underneath proves that this picture is in the process of creation, with changes, variations, that is the proof that it is an original.

a copyist is painting what he sees. the painting will be on display in london for eight days and is due to be auctioned off in france later this year. kathryn armstrong, bbc news. do you try and spend less time on your device? do we spend too much time on them and lose touch with the real—world? i time on them and lose touch with the real—world ? i have time on them and lose touch with the real—world? i have got to tweet that says, i'm sorry i can't respond to i'm off—line. good. we have another that says if i had turned off all of my devices, i would not know it was national unplugging day. i started reading actual books and playing with the cats. and someone else says i have a tiny supercomputer that allows me to check my bank balance, wa ke allows me to check my bank balance, wake up on time, keep up with the news, check the schedule, pay my bills, why should i turned off? so plenty of tweets, thank you very much for those. as you can see, with

the computer, the tablet and the phone, iam really the computer, the tablet and the phone, i am really engaging technology today. stay with us, plenty more to come. well, the weather changed quite a bit, as promised, and in fact, over the next few days, we are in for some pretty gusty winds and wet weather too. the atlantic is looking very turbulent at the moment, you can see these vortices swinging around and these are heading in our direction, and friday is actually going to temporarily improve because we will be between weather systems. first thing in the morning, it is looking quiet. there's a lot of mist and murk around, but not much happening on the weather front. five, six, seven for most of us. nine degrees in london, quite a mild start. friday morning and afternoon,

there will be some sunshine developing across western areas of the uk, so i suspect cardiff, eventually plymouth, birmingham, manchester, glasgow could get some sunshine. however, most of us are stuck under the cloud. still mild, you will notice rain approaching belfast. that rain will splash its way through the course of friday night and approach many western areas of the uk, so there will be some rain around and then early saturday morning, once again looking pretty mild across the uk with temperatures of around five, six, seven degrees. now, the weekend itself is looking very blustery, some really strong winds out towards the west. there will be some areas of big low pressure on the way, lots of isobars here, that's what really is going to turn things rough around western areas of the uk. here it is as it goes through the course of saturday. the low pressure swings in, heavy rain splashes its way through northern ireland, reaches scotland, western coasts here,

could see gusts above 60 miles an hour. however, it doesn't actually look too bad across east anglia and the south—east, i think the rain will reach you a little bit later on, temperatures could reach around 1a or 15 degrees. the bad weather will reach the south and south—east on sunday. in fact, this low pressure and its weather front will swing into south—western parts of england, wales, the midlands, the southern counties, london and east anglia, and it could be a really soaking day across this part of the world on sunday, while scotland enjoys some bright weather and a cooler day, i think, for many of us on sunday. to the north, we may not even be making double figures. so it is all change on the weather front and this cooler, changeable weather continues into next week.