this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the former chairman of nissan, carlos ghosn, is expected to be released from jail in tokyo. he's been granted bail of nearly $9 million, an appeal by prosecutors failed. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers he's been detained for more than three months, charged in north america with financial misconduct. and around the globe. he denies any wrongdoing. my name is mike embley. our top stories: venezuela's president nicolas maduro has called on his supporters when will carlos ghosn to take to the streets on saturday, be leaving this tokyo jail? prosecutors fail to stop bail to coincide with anti—government for the former nissan boss. rallies organised by opposition it's been set at nearly $9 million. leader, juan guiado. president maduro has called the opposition the "crazed minority" and promised they'll be defeated. venezuela's president maduro urges his supporters to take to the streets, promising to defeat an opposition he calls kyliejenner has become one of the world's youngest a "crazed minority." billionaires, according to forbes list. two young sisters from the us she is 21. the magazine calls her explain how they survived 44 hours a "selfie billionaire." alone and missing in the woods. the youngest kardashian founded her beauty products company just three years ago. she's reached the milestone earlier we found shelter of a tree than facebook founder mark zuckerberg, who made branch close to the ground the list at the age of 23. and we had my sister's rain jacket to keep us warm. and selfie billionaire — aged 21, kyliejenner becomes it's a:30am. the youngest person to join

forbes‘ billionaires list. an appeal by prosecutors has failed and the former boss of nissan, carlos ghosn, is to be released from jail injapan on bail of a billion yen, nearly $9 million. japanese media suggest he could be free as early as wednesday. he's been detained for more than 100 days since his arrest last november on charges of financial misconduct. he denies any wrongdoing. in the japanese justice system, as our business reporter mariko oi told me just now, it is unusual for someone to be released without making a confession. we were wondering whether he would be released last night, they

rejected the appeal from prosecutors. apparently he could have posted bail of $9 million as you mentioned. according to his lawyer, it is not like he can find $9 million in your pocket. it will not fit in a suitcase, he said. the course has rejected the appeal, it is possible that he could be walking out of that detention centre later today. the conditions are very tough. he is going to be under surveillance all the time. he has to visit his lawyers if he was to use a computer. otherwise, all the communications on his mobile phone as will his laptop will be restricted. but apparently he is allowed to go shopping, as long as he doesn't meet with anyone related to the case we can even travel withinjapan as long as it's not for more than three days, according to his lawyer. mr ghosn is reportedly not too happy. this is the third time his legal tea m this is the third time his legal team has requested it. at least he

has more limited freedom later today. he has a new legal team, is that thought to be significant? his new lawyer is nicknamed ‘razor‘ because of his track record of winning high—profile cases in the past. this third baik request was made by the new legal team and that's what is believed to be behind this success in getting him bail. of course, because there has been a lot of international spotlight pressure on japan's judicial system, there has been criticism, especially in france, where he was the leader of the carmaker renault, and concern over why he was held for so long before being found guilty. concern over the ruling yesterday, whether this was the japanese authorities bowing to external pressures . i seriously doubt it.

i think it is down to razor, this lawyer who has managed to come up with these very sticky conditions of bail in order to secure his release. president nicolas maduro of venezuela has launched a direct challenge to juan guaido, the opposition leader who is very publicly trying to bring him down. mr maduro said he would defeat a crazed minority and urged his supporters to take to the streets on saturday for an anti—imperialist march. coincidentally, that's also the day on whichjuan guaido has called for anti—government demonstrations. the president's comments were the first since mr guaido defied a travel ban, and returned to the country on monday. translation: while a crazed minority continues with a hatred and bitterness, that's their problem. we will not pay attention to them, compatriots. we are going to stop them in our tracks. the work on the national union. we will not pay attention to them. let the crazed minority continue with their bitterness. we will defeat them.

have absolute security for chavez, we will do it. for the great history of the country, we will do it. let's get some of the day's other news. counter—terrorism police in london are investigating three small explosive devices sent to two airports and a major railway station. no—one was hurt, although one device partially ignited when it was opened. police are keeping an open mind on motive. united nations officials are saying an unprecedented humanitarian crisis is developing in the west african state of burkina faso. attacks by islamist extremists and others have driven more than 100,000 people from their homes, most in the first two months of this year. at least 500,000 are at risk of food insecurity. michael bloomberg, former mayor of new york, has announced he won't be running for president in 2020. in a statement, he said he was "clear—eyed" about the difficulty of winning the democratic nomination in a very crowded field, but he would keep on trying

to combat climate change. current president mr trump will go to alabama on friday to support emergency teams coping with the aftermath of the tornadoes that left 23 people dead. seven members of one family are among the dead. teams are now going house to house, hoping to find survivors in the wreckage. a local sheriff says it's the worst destruction his area has seen in 50 years. the bbc‘s chris buckler is there. the destruction caused by these tornadoes stretches for miles and miles, and this is what you find. houses completely ruined by the high winds, that have just thrown trees right into them. you can see right into this home. it's lost its walls, and you can see just how powerful the tornado has been because this is a big tree that has been uprooted here. of course, in some places, there are no homes left. we travelled into one of the worst affected areas in beauregard with a resident.

as we drove in, you couldn't see any buildings. there was no sign of the houses that had been there until you got up closer, and you saw the debris of people's lives. there are also startling sights like a car wrapped around a tree, and, of course, in this area, there were people who died. the lee county sheriff's office has been releasing more information about the victims. the youngest was just six years old. the oldest was 89 years of age. we have one family connected by marriage, where we have lost over seven lives in one family. people keep on telling me that the whole community is heartbroken, but there are also people who are very lucky to be alive because they were inside their homes as the tornado made its way through the area. including this man, billy. he lost an entire room of his house as a result of the force of the winds.

i mean, it was — the fear, we just had so much fear that the roof was fixing to leave. i have cracks on the inside of the house. the roof came off but then it gets back down. it didn't take the roof. there are still areas deliberately closed off, with electricity companies trying to repair all of the downed powerlines. and there are still search teams working, trying to find those people who have been reported missing and still have not been found. and that's why there are these warnings the death toll could yet again rise. chris buckle in alabama for us. —— buckler. britain's most senior police officer has spoken out against the prime minister's claim that cuts in the police service are not directly to blame for a rise in violent crime. the metropolitan police commissioner said there was some link between crime on the streets and police numbers. our home editor mark easton has more details. a youth in a balaclava with a knife. the video of this incident in lancashire yesterday

quickly went viral on social media. no—one was seriously hurt and police quickly made arrests, but once again, knife crime is britain's waking nightmare. oh, my god! what else can be done? what can we do to prevent young people getting involved in knife crime? the commissioner of the metropolitan police spent the morning trying to reassure the public. "was the recent spike in stabbings down to cuts in officer numbers?" she was asked. there have been more demand for policing, and, therefore, there must be some link between violent crime on the streets, obviously, and police numbers, of course there is, and i think everybody would see that. her comments appeared to contradict the prime minister, who yesterday said this. there's no direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers. so, is that right? since 2010, the number of police officers in england and wales has fallen from around 140,000 down to 117,000 last year. at the same time, the number of violent crimes causing injury has also gone down, from about

one million incidents a year at the beginning of the decade, to around 600,000 in recent years. the figures don't offer compelling evidence that more officers means less crime. murders are up, but attempted murders are down. knife crime is up, but gun crime is down. it's not that straightforward. the prime minister told the cabinet today the government's response to knife crime went beyond the police to what she called a whole government approach. there were hints of extra resources with ministerial meetings being urgently convened. right now, there is an air of crisis. why do you think people carry knives, as a young person yourself? because there might be people after them and for protection. at the crib youth centre in north london, 13—year—old anthony is taking part in a knife crime awareness course. be honest — do you think people can protect themself with a knife? it depends on what situation they're in. they worry about cuts to police

here, and cuts to youth services, but they also worry that the wider community is not taking its responsibility. yesterday we were called to an area where a young person was getting jumped and beat up. we ran out and went to that area. and there were people in the area, other adults in there, just standing around, and there is a group of about 35 young people around one child. it's our responsibility as well, notjust to stand there and let these things happen. left, right. the mayor of london — at a youth forum today — and the home office, are both looking to fund the front line. both advocating a public health approach to knife crime, treating it as you would an infectious disease. some go further, arguing we need to provide therapy to vulnerable young people. knife crime and youth violence is a communication to society that something is not working. it's really about understanding the young person from their perspective and really holding in mind that also they're perpetrators, but they're also victims.

and i think when you hold those two positions in mind, you can develop a sense of empathy and understanding, which allows you to go forward in a different way. as police in east london search for clues to the apparently random stabbing of a 17—year—old jodie chesney, family members today backed calls for longerjail terms for carrying knives. people want it to stop, but experience tells us there are no quick and easy solutions. mark easton, bbc news. bmw, makers of the mini, have issued a warning about the impact on its production here if the uk leaves the european union without an agreement. the german motor manufacturer says it will have to consider moving production away from its current base in oxford. and the japanese carmaker toyota has warned that a no—deal brexit would make it "extremely complicated" to build new models in the uk. our business editor simonjack has more details. cowley in oxford is the home of the mini. and although it's now german—owned as a model and as a brand, it doesn't get

much more british than this. a new mini drives off the production line here every minute. but bmw warned today that moving production out of the uk was an option in a no—deal brexit scenario. the key in these times is definitely flexibility. we are prepared for a lot of scenarios. we are very flexible in the production, we've pulled forwards some production interruptions, but we also have a plan b if things are changing. so, we will see what the outcome is, but bmw will answer with flexibility. this isn't the first warning from mini's owner, bmw, but it's perhaps the starkest language, the strongest tone we've heard from this company about the potential consequences of a no—deal brexit. it won't be news to the government. the business secretary has continually warned that that outcome would be ruinous for the entire industry and the government stresses it's an outcome they are still very keen to avoid. the amount of money invested in the uk car industry in recent years tells a pretty grim story. in 2015, over £2.5 billion was invested.

that has fallen every year since to just under £600 million in 2018. that's a total fall of 80% injust three years. the alarm is industry—wide. the head of toyota's european operations said a bad brexit result could jeopardise future investment at its uk factory near derby. if it becomes more difficult, in terms of duties or hurdles in trading, then it is very difficult to think about the future. of course, short term, we can overcome, if there's problems with logistics or whatever, but we need to think about what is the long—term effect if this is not materialising correctly? today's warnings are further body blows to an industry reeling from honda's recent decision to close its swindon factory. nissan reversing plans to build an additional model in sunderland and jaguar land rover laying off thousands of workers. they all pointed to factors beyond brexit. but bmw and toyota

are clear that for them, the chance of a no—deal brexit is the issue putting their uk future at risk. simon jack, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: how did 21—year—old kyliejenner become the world's youngest billionaire? a forbes editor explains how she made their list. 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 that it's going to boil up when you get to the states? well, it worries me, yes, but i hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: carlos ghosn‘s expected to be leaving this tokyo jail. prosecutors fail to stop bail for the former nissan boss. it's been set at nearly 9 million dollars venezuela's president maduro urges his supporters to take to the streets, promising to defeat an opposition he calls a "crazed minority." a man has been mauled to death by a lion at his family home

in the eastern czech republic. michal prasek kept the nine year old big cat and another lioness for breeding, in home—made enclosures in his back yard — even though he'd been denied planning permission and fined for illegal breeding. ramzan karmali has the story. police shooter at the residence of michal prasek, a 35—year—old man mauled by his pet lion. he bought the lion in 2016 and bought a lioness in order to breed them. his father found the body on the lion's cage which had been locked from the inside. local police said they were forced into drastic action. in the morning, an incident between the owner and the lion he kept occurred, resulting in fatal consequences. in order to reach the man, police had to reach shoot the lions dead. they made international news injune

2018. his line attacked a cyclist while being taken for a walk by the breeder. back then, police deemed it just a traffic violation. local residents had repeatedly voiced their concerns. he kept the lions in home built pens and did so without getting the appropriate pens. that's repeatedly give —— didn't give him permission to breed. he had been fined a number of times and authorities had been left powerless after he refused anyone onto his property. a lack of alternative facilities or any evidence of animal cruelty meant the lines couldn't be forcibly removed. the singer r kelly, who's facing charges of sexual abuse, has angrily denied the allegations in an interview with cbs tv news. he was arrested in chicago last month and faces four charges, three of them related to underage girls. gayle king asked him if he had ever held anyone against their will. i don't need to. why would i? how stupid would that be

for r kelly, with all i've been through in my way, way past, to hold somebody, let alone four, five, six, 50 you said... how stupid would i be to do that?! i didn't say you were holding... that's stupid, guys! is this camera on me? yes, it's on. that's stupid! use your common sense. don't...forget the blogs, forget how you feel about me. hate me if you want to, love me if you want, butjust use your common sense. how stupid would it be for me to — with my crazy past and what i've been through — oh, right now ijust think i need to be a monster and hold girls against their will, chain them up in my basement and don't let them eat and don't let them out unless they need some shoes down the street from their uncle! robert... stop it. quit playing! i didn't do this stuff! this is not me!

kylie jenner has become the world's youngest self—made billionaire at the age of 21. the reality television star and entrepreneur has joined the exclusive rich list published each year by financial magazine — forbes. she founded her beauty products company — kylie cosmetics — just three years ago. earlier, i spoke to kerry dolan, assistant manager for forbes financial magazine. she is one of two editors who compiles the billionaires list. i asked her how kylie jenner has done it. she did it her own way, she started out being famous because of course she was on this show, keeping up with the kardashians. for those who are not experts on the kardashian—jenner relationship, she's part of that clan. and she had 110 million instagram followers about six months ago. she's got even more now. she has a very shoestring company, she outsources production of her cosmetics, she uses her

instagram and other social media to, essentially, do all the marketing and she takes beautiful pictures and puts them online, and young buyers of cosmetics flock to her products. she's done brilliantly well in financial terms, you can't begrudge her or deny her, obviously, and she's been a very adept businesswoman, she's really leveraged this brand. but you know, a whole load of people are taking exception on social media to the term you use, "self—made". she built on the royalties from the tv show that her family started, and she was still a child then. the money and the connections were already there, weren't they? i'm just looking at — one person on twitter has said, "congrats to her, i admire her work ethic, especially at 21, but she stepped through a diamond—studded door that was already open." 0h, agreed! we are not saying that she did it alone, we are not saying that she started our poor. —— started out poor.

what we mean by "self—made" is that she did not inherit the business. so forbes divides — we do these broad divisions of the people on our billionaires list — self—made, inherited or some people inherit fortunes and then expand them. she neither inherited — she did not inherit kylie cosmetics, she founded it. so, yes, we know that she came from a wealthy family, yes, we know that her connections helped her get noticed for her products, but she owns 100% of the company, she used $250,000 from her modelling to start the company, and by forbes‘s definition, she is self—made. what do you expect her to do — what are her other ambitions, do you think, from here? oh, i'm assuming she's going to want to keep expanding her cosmetics line. so, it was all online until — except for a few pop—up sales — until november last year, and then she started putting it in this chain of cosmetics stores here in the united states and it sold like wildfire, and that's actually what helped her get onto the billionaires list is this additional boost in sales

from having her goods in stores. so, who knows, maybe she is going to go global. i don't know. she hasn't said, but she's certainly got a lot of — got a big platform from which anything she decides to do, she can put out an instagram post and 128 million people will see it and she'll have a great way to communicate her next step. i have to say, i had a slight suspicion that you kind of knew that that expression "self—made", a lot of people would take exception to that, and you knew it put a rocket under the story, that social media would go crazy, and it has. a little bit cynical, that one? you know, really, it isn't. it's really how — we've been doing the list of the billionaires since 1987, and we've had these broad categories since then, so she fell into the self—made category. we put her on the cover of forbes back injuly and we got a lot

of pushback on the self—made then, so we weren't surprised by the pushback we got on social media today. but, yeah, people can disagree with our definitions, that's fine, but we feel like we're sticking with our traditional definitions. we have an update on a story we've been covering. it's about two sisters who went missing in woodlands in the us for two days over the weekend. well, they've been found safe and well. eight—year—old leia and five—year—old caroline were discovered huddled under a bush, having survived drinking water from huckleberry leaves and eating cereal bars they had brought with them. it was starting to drizzle so i knew we had to find shelter fast. we forgot that no—one should pass that marker, so we just wanted a little more, but i said to go a little further.

we found shelter of a tree branch close to the ground and we had my sister's rain jacket to keep us warm. we turned it sideways, so each of us had an armhole that we stuck our arms into so we wouldn't get separated. they did the right thing. i mean, they might have wandered off, but they stuck together and they pulled themselves through. they saved each other. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbc mike embley.

hello there. all our weather is going to be coming in from the west over the next few days. there's a really strong jet stream tracking right the way across the atlantic and that picks up areas of cloud. this one here will arrive on friday to bring some rain. this one here has already brought some rain across most of the uk. it's around that area of low pressure. those weather fronts are taking the rain further north into scotland. we are also seeing some really strong winds, especially in wales and the south—west of england. it's been another cold night across northern scotland, a touch of frost even by the morning. much milder elsewhere, but very windy, especially in wales and south—west england. but gusty winds will continue with these bands of showers. and we've got the wetter weather getting stuck across scotland and northern ireland, notjust rain, but some snow over the high ground. let us have a closer

look at those showers — they are in bands, really, pushing their way across england and wales. some sunshine in between. a bit of warmth, actually, 1a, maybe 15 degrees, south—east england, east anglia, and also lincolnshire. but these showers will be heavy and potentially thundery. and we're much colder as you move into scotland and northern ireland. and north of the central belt, we're going to find that wet weather continuing with some snow over highland and grampian. stays wet in scotland overnight and increasingly back into northern ireland and into northern england too. further south, i think we lose a lot of those heavy showers and temperatures will dip away to around 4 or 5 degrees. it will feel colder, though, as we head into thursday. let's trace where our air is coming from, all the way from the arctic, a cold north—north—westerly wind is going to be wrapped around the area of low pressure, which, by this stage, is out in the north sea. but around the edge of the low, where we're packing in a lot of wet weather into scotland, especially eastern scotland, northern england, down into east anglia too,

some more snow over the high ground and a few wintry showers will be following in behind. probably the best of the sunshine and the dry weather — southern england and south wales, 11 degrees here. but a chilly 6 or so, i think, in northern scotland. as we head into the end of the week, well, that area of low pressure is moving away. it's taking away those cold winds. clearing skies, light winds means friday could start with a touch of frost, and some sunshine too. but it's going to cloud over. we saw the cloud earlier on coming in across the atlantic. this is bringing the rain into northern ireland, into wales, and the south—west of england and ahead of that, those temperatures may get to 9 or 10 degrees. even into the weekend, though, it stays very unsettled, some more rain, some more snow over the hills. it will be very windy. as a result, it is always going to feel on the chilly side.