this is bbc news. the headlines: president donald trump is under pressure from a democrat—led congressional committee, which has demanded documents from dozens of people, welcome to bbc news, including his son, donaldjr, broadcasting to viewers in north america to examine allegations and around the globe. that the president obstructed i'm reged ahmad. justice and abused his powers. our top stories: donald trump under pressure — he denies any wrongdoing. a democrat—led congressional a senior executive of the chinese committee demands documents tech company huawei is suing from dozens of people to examine the canadian authorities in relation to her arrest at vancouver allegations that the president airport last year. obstructed justice. the senior executive of the lawyers for meng wanzhou say she was unlawfully detained. chinese tech firm huawei sues canada she faces charges linked over her arrest to the alleged violation of us sanctions against iran, at vancouver airport, alleging "serious breaches" which she denies. of her human rights. the husband of british teenager after days of protests shamima begum who joined against his decision to seek a fifth term in office, the algerian the so—called islamic state tells the bbc president, abdelaziz bouteflika, he wants them to live has registered as a candidate in elections to be held next month. in the netherlands. but he's suggested he would only serve one more year when you say you are a victim —— and if he won the vote. victim, that is sickening.” when you say you are a victim —— and victim, that is sickening. i lived in miserable life. i was tortured, i live in fear.

five years after the disappearance of flight mh370, malaysia's government says it would consider restarting the search for the missing plane. hello and welcome. in the united states, the head of an influential committee in the democrat—controlled house of representatives says he wants to see documents alleging obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by donald trump and his aides. committee chairmanjerrold nadler has requested information from more than 60 people and organisations, but he says it's too early to talk about trying to impeach the president. we are starting this investigation. we will — tomorrow, we will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals, from the white house

to the department ofjustice, donald trumer, allen weisselberg, to begin investigations to present the case to the american people about obstruction ofjustice, corruption and abuse of power. so that would includejohn kelly, the former chief of staff, don mcgahn, the former white house counsel? i would imagine. i mean, i don't have the list in front of me, but we will be releasing the list tomorrow of over 60 entities, people, etc. 0ur correspondent in washington, chris buckler, has more on the grounds for mr nadler‘s inquiry. well, he says he's basing it on things that have already come into the public domain, even things that donald trump himself has said. however, you're right to point out that he says that they are not pursuing impeachment at this stage. however, when you listen to that full interview on abc tv, it was very clear that mr nadler is thinking about impeachment in the longer term.

in fact, he said, "before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the american public that it ought to happen." and what we're seeing here are democrats really trying to gather as much information and evidence as they can against president trump. so, he is talking about making requests for documents from a whole range of different people. he mentioned the white house, he mentioned the department ofjustice, but he also mentioned specifically a man called allen weisselberg. now, he's not somebody that may be known to a lot of people, but he is the chief financial officer of the trump organisation. and allen weisselberg was specifically mentioned by michael cohen during the evidence he gave last week to congress, suggesting he had information about some of president trump's business dealings, that he had some information that might be relevant to some of the inquiries they are having. so, it gives you a sense of what democrats are doing here, as they try to investigate president trump beyond just this robert mueller report,

that we're waiting to find out the details of, but actually specifically what they're trying to do in congress. several tornadoes in the united states have killed at least 14 people and left many injured. they hit the states of alabama and georgia on sunday afternoon, damaging homes, buildings and trees over a wide area. more than 35,000 people are without power. several people have been taken to a hospital with serious injuries and authorities say the number of victims could rise. a senior executive of the chinese tech company huawei is suing the canadian authorities in relation to her arrest at vancouver airport last year. lawyers for meng wanzhou say she was unlawfully detained. she faces charges linked to the alleged violation of us sanctions against iran, which she denies. ms meng was arrested at the request of the united states in december. 0ur toronto—based reporter, lee carter, told me why this claim is being brought now.

in the claim which was filed on friday in a court in british columbia, ms meng says she is seeking damages for, among other things, false imprisonment. she alleges that she suffered mental distress, anxiety, and loss of liberty. from the way she was treated, really right from the get go, when she was detained and searched and interrogated at vancouver's airport last december. she says she was held for three hours without any explanation by police officers who didn't tell her why she was being arrested. the documents also say that the arrest was premeditated and that the border guards claimed that they were just doing a routine check when instead the documents say it was a deliberate attempt to extract evidence from her. it also alleges that canadian border agents unlawfully seized her mobile phones and ipads and personal computers,

and demanded that she surrender her passwords. so, all of this sort of thing, the documents claim, are breaches of the equivalent of the bill of rights in canada, which is the charter of rights and freedoms, and it is really under that that the british colombia supreme court, if it hears the case, will be looking at, whether it does breach that charter or not. they are strong allegations. depending on what happens with this case, could it help her with the case to extradite her to the us, those charges that she is facing? well, i think it could delay the process. 0n the very same day, friday, the canadian authorities decided that the extradition proceedings would go ahead, i think they are going to be painfully slow. ms meng herself is actually under

house arrest at her luxury home, one of several homes that she actually owns in vancouver. she has hired at least 13 lawyers from six different law firms, so i think we are really at the beginning of this process. lee carter in toronto. an islamic state fighter who married the british teenager, shamima begum, has told the bbc that he wants to return to his native netherlands with his wife and child. the couple met days after the teenager arrived in syria to support is. yago riedijk, who's in a kurdish detention centre, faces a 6—yearjail sentence if he travels home. 0ur middle east correspondent quentin sommerville has this report from north—east syria. of course, i would love to go back to my own country, which i now understand the privileges that i lived with. you know, the privilege of living there as a citizen and, of course, i understand that many people have a problem with what i did

and i totally understand that. i have to take responsibility for what i did, serve my sentence. you married her when she was 15 years old... correct. ..how in any way is that acceptable, you were, what, 23? ithink so, yeah, i remember. and you thought that was ok? to be honest, when my friend came in and said there was a girl, she was interested in marriage, i wasn't really interested because of her age, but i accepted the offer anyways. so, it was acceptable for you to marry a 15—year—old girl? it was her own choice. she was the one who asked to look for a partner for her. when i spoke to her last week, she had just given birth. their marriage was arranged by is. they had three children,

but only the newborn, jarrah, survives. you know she has been stripped of her british citizenship, she's viewed as a danger and someone who's undesirable to britain. so, why do you think holland would welcome her? she is...i don't understand how she would in any form be a danger, when all she did was she sat in a house with three years, took care of me, took care of my children. she never had anything to do. can you give me a sense of what daily life was like inside raqqa? you must have witnessed beheadings. actually, i never witnesses a beheading, no. i've. . .actually witnessed a stoning once. and i have seen people who have been executed, not the execution itself, and that's about it.

do you realise that when you say, somebody whojoined the islamic state willingly, married someone in the islamic state, fought for the islamic state, when you say that you are a victim, that's sickening. 0k. what can i say? i lived a miserable life. i was imprisoned. i was tortured. i lived in fear... how can i see that as... it was my fault for going, yeah... but...i'm not... i'm not...i did not come out of it as a winner in any way, the last years of my life. shamima begum no longer has a passport or her citizenship. she is also without her husband. she is being held in an internment camp not very farfrom his prison. kurdish officials say there are no plans to reunite the two.

quentin sommerville, bbc news, syria. the russian government says it will do everything possible to prevent a us military intervention against president maduro in venezuela. earlier, the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido, who's in ecuador, called for new protests against the government this week. the self—declared interim president is due to return home to take part in the demonstrations on monday and tuesday. after days of nationwide protests against his decision to seek a fifth term in office, algeria's president has formally registered himself as a candidate in elections to be held next month. but abdelaziz bouteflika appears to have made a significant concession, suggesting that he will only serve one more year if he wins the vote. this report from jon donnison contains flash photography. once again, mass protests on the streets of algiers. riot police deployed to contain the crowd.

these demonstrations have been going on now for ten days. they want to see the back of this man, president abdelaziz bouteflika. his critics regard him as a dictator. he's had a firm grip on power for almost 20 years and his determination to secure another term in office in april's presidential elections is what's provoked these latest protests. these pictures are from several years ago, and these days, the president is rarely seen in public. he is currently in switzerland for medical tests, having suffered a stroke six years ago. but tonight, on algerian state television, a newsreader read out a letter from the 82—year—old leader, saying if he were to win the election, he wouldn't serve a full term and would hold a fresh vote within a year. the question is, whether

the demonstrators would accept this apparent concession. there have also been protests in european capitals. the biggest have been in france, which has a large algerian diaspora. this was paris on sunday. translation: the people who govern, we don't even know who they are. they're in the shadows, big mafia, big everything you want, so you have to stop. we need justice, we need equality, we need clarity. we need a republic, we need democracy, we need freedom. translation: there are no transparent elections in algeria. the administration does everything. elections are rigged. chanting unlike many of its neighbours, algeria was relatively untouched by the so—called arab spring. but seven years on, these algerians are ready for change. jon donnison, bbc news. estonia's opposition centre—right

reform party is on course to win sunday's general election after votes from around 90% of districts have been counted. the party has taken a strong lead over centre—left prime minister's party. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the ancient burial site that is one of the seven wonders of the middle ages. how egypt has saved these catacombs. 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, bang, 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. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: donald trump is under pressure from a senior democrat us congressman who is investigating whether the president and his aides obstructed justice. a senior executive of the chinese tech company huawei is suing the canadian authorities in relation to her arrest at vancouver airport last year. lawyers for meng wanzhou say

she was unlawfully detained. almost five years after malaysia airlines flight mh370 disappeared, the malaysian government has said it is open to continuing the search. the plane vanished in 2014, but the mission to find the wreckage was suspended indefinitely last year. sylvia lennan—spence reports. a memorial to mark the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight mh370. family and friends of the passengers marked the occasion by lighting candles and planting trees. 239 people were on board the boeing 777 when it vanished en route from kuala lumpur to beijing. so far, two wide—ranging search missions exploring the seabed of the southern indian ocean have yet to find the missing aircraft, and the last hunt was suspended in 2018. now, the malaysian government says it is willing to explore further options. if there are any credible leads

and any specific proposals, especially from ocean infinity, we are more than willing to look at it, and we are prepared to discuss with them their new proposal. only a few fragments of mh370 have ever been found, all of them on western indian ocean shores. the long—awaited final report into the disappearance failed to come up with any firm conclusions, leaving the families of those on board angry and disappointed. there is no closure until the plane is found, until we exactly know what happened to the aircraft, and to our loved ones on board. we have absolutely no idea why it disappeared, and where it is. and that's not a happy situation to be in, for you, for me, and for anybody in the world, and for everybody who flies to their destinations, day in and day out. now, malaysia will wait for firms to come forward with new leads and proposals, sparking hopes from relatives that one of the world's biggest aviation

mysteries can finally be solved. the british government is continuing its efforts to win round brexiteer politicians, including the ten democratic unionist mps from northern ireland. their leader at westminster, nigel dodds, has said his party must see significant change to theresa may's proposed withdrawal agreement regarding the so—called northern ireland backstop. that is the measure designed to prevent the return of physical border checks in ireland if talks on future trade fail. and the importance of the backstop has been highlighted by northern ireland's most senior police officer. in 1998, the signing of the good friday agreement brought a measure of peace to the british province, but chief constable george hamilton says politics is now more polarised and more entrenched than 20 years ago. as part of the bbc‘s crossing divides season, our home editor mark easton reports from belfast.

rebecca is from a protestant area in belfast. naomi lives in a catholic district. but, like 93% of children in northern ireland, to this day, they go to segregated schools and they live in segregated neighbourhoods. until recently, neither girl had any friends from the other side of the wall. hi. i think she's just so funny! like, she'sjust, like, such a friendly person. you wouldn't normally think that, when you look at her. it's not often that two people from two different communities would be able to come together and have such a good friendship. i was in belfast to report on the signing of the good friday agreement, 21 years ago, a time of hope that the sectarian divide which scars this beautiful land could be healed. but there are now more walls like this than there were back then, and they're longer and

they‘ re higher than ever. the work to bring true and lasting peace to northern ireland remains urgent. i'm going to squeeze, and you're going to pass that squeeze on. in recent years, hundreds of millions in eu funds have been spent supporting peace projects, focusing on northern ireland's children. most of the teenagers on this course have never had a meaningful encounter with someone from across the religious divide. oh, it came back! it came back, yay! we're all the same, one way or another. it's just the way they were brought up, and the way we were brought up. i was always told that, like, catholics were, like, bad people compared to protestants. like, i never spoke to anybody from the other community, and now i do, like, i speak to them everyday. what can be done to change the narrative, to change the story, rather than instilling fear into your children? in londonderry, parents are taught how to avoid passing on unconscious prejudice to the next generation. one of my first things, obviously,

being from a catholic background and community, is we shouldn't — like, protestants are different, they're from this side of the wall. this is our chance to try and break the mould, you know, open them up to different cultures and stuff like that. the history of the troubles is not generally taught in northern ireland schools — too provocative. but confronting events like bloody monday, the claudy bombing in county derry, is now seen as important for true reconciliation. there's glass, there's chaos, there's people with bandages. oh, my god! doctor deacon looks at my ankle and he says, that's a hospital case. half the cast of this production at the derry playhouse have close personal links to the deaths of children in the troubles, their testimonies weaved into a performance hailed as a cathartic event for them and the wider community. for the first time i was able to tell what happened, to me, and to catherine and others in claudy, 31july 1972. if you can change your mindset about the troubles,

and their actions, then we might have a chance of having a peaceful time, a peaceful life. oh, my god... helping cross the divides of northern ireland is more than just bringing people together. no, it looks really scary! it is about seeing the world through the eyes of the other. it takes effort, it takes courage. mark easton, bbc news, northern ireland. i don't even like that! an award—winning greek photojournalist with the reuters news agency, yannis behrakis, has died of cancer at the age of 58. in a career spanning 30 years, mr behrakis covered conflicts around the world. he captured kurdish refugees fleeing near the iraqi—turkish border in the 1990s. more recently, his photos of syrian refugees crossing into europe won a pulitzer prize. egypt has completed its restoration of the kom el—shoqafa catacombs.

the ancient burial site, whose name translates as ‘mound of shards,‘ for the pieces of terracotta visitors leave behind, had been threatened by rising water. kim gittleson reports. this is one of the seven wonders of the middle ages. a multi—storey network of catacombs near the egyptian city of alexandria, at risk of being permanently destroyed due to flooding. it was discovered nearly a century ago, when a donkey accidentally fell down into its depths. ever since, archaeologists have fought to preserve its unique mixture of egyptian and greco—roman architectural styles from rising water. translation: the kom el-shoqafa area is a unique antiquities area that has suffered from groundwater contamination since it was discovered in the beginning

of the 20th century. there have been a lot of attempts to prevent the water from entering, the most important of which was in 1995, but unfortunately the water rose again. but now, after a two—year, multimillion—dollar effort, funded in part by the us government, egyptian authorities have said the site will now be protected. translation: we drilled six wells, each 42 metres deep, to gather all the underground water, to transfer it to a nearby canal, and then to the sea. this is how we got rid of the water. the effort is part of a larger bid to boost tourism to egypt, which has been hurt since the 2011 arab spring. now, the hope is that fans of ancient history will be able to tour the depths of egypt's largest burial site for many years to come. kim gittleson, bbc news. thousands of dancers have taken to the streets of the brazilian capital, rio de janeiro, for the annual samba competition, a highlight of the city's carnival celebrations. 1a samba schools are participating in this year's festivities,

hoping their choreography, costu mes a nd extravaga nt floats will earn them the top award from judges. the performances are all themed, with some paying tribute to key figures who have fought for the country's marginalised black and indigenous communities. carnival lasts until wednesday, when lent begins. and, before we go, we would like to show you these pictures of six baby tigers in china. the cubs, three male and three female, were born to two mothers in january. multiple births of the endangered species are very rare in one zoo. according to keepers, they are all in good health and are fed six times a day. they are getting lots of exercise and are very spirited. it is hoped they will be able to meet the public in about a months time.

stay with us on bbc news. go to our website for all of our top stories. hello again. we had a stormy end to the weekend. in fact, storm freya is still across our shores, so there's still the potential for the next few hours of hazardous conditions for travelling, because we've got the heavy rain, some snow, especially over the hills, but even to some lower levels, and those gales really packing a punch, perhaps some severe gales in places. this is that tell—tale area of cloud, storm freya, which is going to move out quite quickly through the early hours of monday into the north sea. but as i say, before it does clear out the way, we've still got the remnants of the rain in the south, the strong and gusty winds, very lively winds, even inland, and we've seen it fell trees as well. then we've got that heavy rain and gale force winds driving down

the north sea coast again. and it's pretty chilly behind it, with frost in northern and western areas, so i suppose the potential is there for a bit of iciness first thing. but otherwise, a much brighter start than we had on sunday. that sunshine continues, although with it there'll be the increased risk of showers developing into the afternoon, and that will obviously temper the way things feel. plenty of showers for the northern and western isles, coming into mainland scotland eventually, into northern ireland and across england and wales. just the potential, then, that they could be wintry over the hills, certainly hail and thunder. if you shelter from the breeze in the sunshine you will start to feel the effect of that strengthening march sunshine. lots of showers continuing through the coming night. in fact, we could see lengthier spells of rain, hill snow too. because it is quite chilly air. in the countryside, sheltered, we will see a touch of frost, but fairly localised. low pressure dominates the weather

as we go into tuesday. there's storm freya, well and truly off into parts of scandinavia. but, with low pressure close by, it will be still keeping things unsettled. there will be showers or longer spells of rain, centred across northern parts of the uk. hill snow as well. they will tend to ease in the south ahead of this next area of rain, which is our next area of low pressure. so midweek looks set to turn very much more unsettled once again, with more widespread rain or heavy showers, strong winds for a time, and yes, a more lengthy spell of snow, potentially, as it comes — that weather system comes into that cold air across the northern half of the country. so that's something that we'll keep our eye on. much milder airfollows on behind, with heavy showers, hail and thunder and gusty winds as well. so a tale of two halves, really, on wednesday. so it does look much more unsettled than last week. they will be chilly weather towards the end of the week when that quietens down, but for the meantime, the warnings are on the website.