this is bbc news, the headlines: a two year investigation by the us special counsel into alleged collusion between president trump's election campaign and russia is now complete. this is bbc world news, key findings are expected to stay i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: under wraps for a few days — butjustice department sources say that robert mueller‘s report does finally finished: the special counsel's report into alleged collusion not recommend further indictments. between president trump's election campaign and russia has been submitted to the department ofjustice. australia is, for the first time since 2015, experiencing two there are reportedly no tropical cyclones at the same time. new indictments but the content cyclones trevor and veronica is under wraps — how much will be are causing high winds and have made public in the coming days? forced more than 3,000 people in the northern territory australia's biggest ever to leave their homes. evacuation from a storm — it's the country's biggest ever thousands flee their homes as two evacuation ahead of a storm. powerful cyclones threaten coasts. here in britain, prime minister another twist on the road to brexit theresa may says she might not — theresa may tells mps the planned bring her brexit deal third vote on her withdrawal back for another vote, if it appears there is not sufficient support. deal may not happen. the european union has agreed to delay brexit — but only by two weeks — and the first glimpse of sperm whales hunting in the darkest depths of the ocean. if british mps reject the agreement.

hello and welcome. the moment many have been waiting for — after almost two years, the special counsel's investigation into alleged collusion between russia and president donald trump's 2016 campaign has finally come to an end. robert mueller has delivered his report to the us attorney general — but we don't yet know what's in it. attorney general william barr says he hopes to make key findings available. us media are saying there will be no further indictments recommended us media are saying there will be no further indictments recommended by mr mueller. here's nick bryant on how the process unfolded and what happens next. robert mueller is one of the most talked about men in washington. but ever since this former fbi director was appointed a special counsel almost two years ago, he has not made a single public comment about his high—sta kes investigation. donald j trump!

he has been looking into whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin during the 2016 presidential race. did donald trump know the russians had hacked the democratic national committee and given e—mails to wikilea ks to release? russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e—mails that are missing. i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. what happened at a meeting at trump tower injune 2016 between key campaign officials, including donald trump junior, and russians with links to the kremlin? did the president fire the fbi director, james comey, in an attempt to obstructjustice? the president has repeatedly claimed that it's all a part of a witch hunt. the witch hunt, as i call it, it should have never taken place. the entire thing has been a witch hunt. it's a witch hunt, that's all it is. there's already been a string of convictions stemming

from the mueller investigation. paul manafort, his one—time campaign chairman, has been found guilty of financial crimes, but not collusion. michael flynn, the president's former national security adviser, pleaded guilty of lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia and has cooperated with the special counsel. long—time adviser roger stone, has been accused of lying to congress about his efforts to get in touch with wikileaks during the 2016 campaign and michael cohen, donald trump's former lawyer has made a plea deal with the special counsel and turned on his former boss. he is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat. as well as other members of the trump campaign team, robert mueller has charged about two dozen russian nationals, including 12 intelligence officers accused of hacking the hillary clinton campaign. prosecutors in washington, virginia, and here in new york, are pursuing cases that will outlive his investigation.

raise your right hand, please. now the new attorney general, william barr, has been handed the mueller accords, it is up to him to decide what will be made public. ——mueller report. i am in favour of much transparency as there can be, consistent with the rules and the law. the president of the united states! the burning question, will it accuse donald trump of collusion and criminality? earlier i spoke to our north america correspeondent david willis in los angeles, and began by asking him when we might start to get some detail of the report's findings. the attorney general, william barr, is, presumably, burning the midnight oil in washington, dc at the justice department as we speak. he is reviewing this report, which is said to be very comprehensive, on the part of the special counsel robert mueller.

deciding what, basically, to impart about its details to senior lawmakers over the weekend. he wrote to the heads of the senate and house judiciary committees, saying he hoped over the next couple of days to at least give them the bullet points and thereafter will be sitting down with the man who wrote this report, robert mueller, and the man who appointed robert mueller as special counsel, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, to work out how much of this report should be made public. now, of course, if you ask the democrats that question they would say all of it and quickly, please. we're hearing reports that there are no new indictments, that's something that a lot of people are talking about, is that significant? highly significant, quite possibly, because there has been speculation, quite a lot of speculation over the course of the 22 months that robert mueller has been

compiling his report, that there could be indictments, perhaps they could be indictments involving members of donald trump's own family. now we are hearing from the justice department that no, mr mueller was done insofar as indicting those close to the residents are concerned. —— to the president are concerned. he has indicted about five people, those associates of donald trump, people like paul manafort, but mainly for financial and tax crimes, not for collusion or involvement with russians to subvert the outcome of the 2016 election. it will be interesting to see what robert mueller‘s report actually says on that subject. what kind of reaction have we seen to the delivering of this report from both camps, the pro—trump and those who perhaps have been agitating for something to come out of this report against donald trump? well, it is interesting, isn't it? the president's allies are saying the very fact that there will not be

any more indictments is proof of his case that there was no collusion. president trump has insisted on that right from the beginning. he has called this a hoax and a witch—hunt. and, who knows, this could be a report which vindicates him and actually corroborates that version of events. but there are democrats who are saying this has to be released and it has to be released quickly, so that the public can actually read the full details and find out, rather than cherry pick details which the white house might like to put out, they should see the whole report, it has cost a lot of money to compile this report and there is pressure from all sides for it to be made public tonight. north america correspondent david willis, thank you very we will have more on the political

implications of robert mueller releasing his report later. aid workers are reporting outbreaks of cholera and malaria as rain, rising rivers, and broken bridges are hampering aid and rescue efforts for those affected by cyclone idai in southern africa. the death toll officially across the region is over 550, although the true number is thought to be far higher. hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced across mozambique, zimbabwe and malawi. fergal keane has travelled deep into one the worst affected areas, the district of nhamatanda in mozambique, where many people have died and thousands more are still in need of aid. the bridge on the road towards nhamatanda now crosses a river that has engulfed the countryside and severed the road that is a trading lifeline for southern africa. survivors of the flooding have found a way across the farmland that has become a swamp. and they told of many deaths in the countryside beyond. translation: a lot of people

have died in my village. we saw the bodies of 76 people, and then yesterday we found four more. we continued on foot, thanks to the kindness of locals, who want the world to see what has happened to their lives. 0n the other side, another driver to negotiate the battered road, where dozens have taken shelter under plastic. little protection from the rains, and now there are reports of cholera. disease is the inevitable consequence of so many living in such terrible conditions. this 76—year—old war veteran has come to the water to fish, his only hope for food. and while scientists assess the causes of the violent weather, he says the storm is the worst he's ever known. "i was born in 1943,"

francesco told me, "and i haven't seen a wind like this." we arrived in nhamatanda as the un was leaving. they'd just made a food drop. much more is needed in a place where they sell hundreds ——saw hundreds lose their lives and thousands are destitute. how many people are you taking care of you? speaks own language. 2000? over 2000 people in this one school? katerina goncalves was waiting in the hope of getting food. her mother was drowned in the storm. the eldest of her seven children was trying to repair the family home. katerina is a widow, and her crops have been destroyed. "the way i am now," she told me, "i don't know how i'll

survive with my children. "i have no work and everything at my farm was destroyed." and remember, they live with the trauma of losing dozens of their neighbours in the storm. then there was a glimmer of better news. some food had come. this is a supply of government food that has just arrived. you can see there are armed guards on the truck, because hunger breeds desperation. it is entirely understandable when people have gone for days without food. there are bigger questions about the causes and solutions to such disasters. but come on the ground, it is still an unfolding crisis, but on the ground, it is still an unfolding crisis, a question of survival. to australia now, where more than three thousand people have been evacuated in the northern territory to escape extreme weather. there are currently two tropical cyclones bearing down on the country. cyclone trevor has already made landfall. these pictures show the extent of the strong winds in queensland — but that system has now moved into the northern territory —

threatening dozens of remote indigenous communities. the australian army has helped evacuate thousands of families from their homes to emergency centres in darwin and katherine. noelene swanson is from not—for—profit organisation save the children, and helped with the evacuations. she gave me this update from darwin. look, they are extremely remote. they are communities that in the wet season when it rains a cut—off for months at a time. hundreds and hundreds of miles from the nearest town. these communities are also island communities involved as well, and you can imagine the isolation of those in weather like this, they are completely reliant on aircraft to get in and out. the evacuation effort has been absolutely superb. as you said, more than 2000 people have been brought into darwin and katherine and have been based in really safe environments. how difficult was that evacuation effort given the remote dose

of these communities? exceedingly difficult but handled so well. you can imagine the people living in these communities, english is not theirfirst language, and we are asking them to leave their country to come into darwin and katherine, the bright lights of the territory if you like, into a completely strange environment and large evacuation centres, but they did it with incredible courage and dignity, i must say. has this part of the territory faced a cyclone like this before? how dangerous is it? a category 4 cyclone hasn't had that region for many, many, many years. it is a very low lying region as well. the island groups in to booroloola and mcarthur river they are expecting a tidal surge up to five metres, it will come across and cover the area,

the towns will disappear. it has passed the coast this morning and they will be going out tomorrow to do an assessment in the booroloola region. i have been advised this morning that the people who were evacuated from groote will be able to start returning tomorrow, which is fantastic news for them, you can imagine how anxious they were wanting to know if their homes had survived. noelene swanson there. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: having a whale of a time — the scientists who swam this close to sperm whales and solved one of their biggest mysteries. let there be no more war or bloodshed between arabs and israelis. very good. applause so proud of both of you. applause

with great regret, the committeee have decided that south africa should be excluded from the 1970 competition. chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. onlooker: wow! this is bbc news. the latest headlines: special counsel robert mueller finishes his two—year investigation into alleged collusion between donald trump's election campaign and russia —

the department ofjustice says the key findings will be made public. let's stay with that story and talk to eric ham. he's a political analyst and he's in washington. all we really know about this report is what we have heard, that there are no new indictments. are you surprised at that? actually, i am. and i think there are many in washington who are surprised. for one, we knew thatjerome corsi, a confidant of roger stone, who is under indictment, we know there was an actual indictment. so it is very surprising that he himself was not indicted. and also, donald trump junior was actually in the cross ha i rs junior was actually in the crosshairs of the mueller pro. and the fact that he is not being indicted is also surprising. it begs

the question, are these indictments 01’ the question, are these indictments orare the question, are these indictments or are these investigations that will continue to move forward, but with other branches of the department of justice? those with other branches of the department ofjustice? those are questions many hope that the mueller report will answer, when and if it is made public. we might get some a nswe i’s is made public. we might get some a nswers to is made public. we might get some answers to the legal questions when, as you say, perhaps if we finally see the detail, but what about politically, going forward, what are the democrats going to do and what other republicans going to do well, because this would be a political issue, i think there are many, particularly within the republican party, who will stand with this president no matter what the findings come out. president trump has already made clear that if the report is advantageous to him he will be thankful of the investigation, however, if it is not, and if it does show some kind

of wrongdoing or is demeaning towards the president, he has made clear that he will continue to go after robert mueller and the investigation. however, right now, all of these questions rest with the attorney general, william barr. we don't know how much of the information he will make public and when he talks about actually providing the principal findings, again, that's left to his discretion. so we already know that many house members are calling for a full release of the report. it is important to note that because the house does have subpoenae power they can, and if they are not pleased with what they received from the attorney general, they will subpoenae bob marley himself —— bob mueller himself. the campaign has already started already, really. it is how the voters view it. how do

you think people are doing this? an overwhelming majority of the american public would like to see this made public. i think if this is not made public there will be a large outcry. the concern will be that much of the information that is not made public will be of deep concern with the american public. that is an issue that will play very heavily heading into the 2020 presidential election. it is important to note that even though we do know that the president himself will not be indicted, the question also is will bob mueller or william barr handle this in much the same way james comey william barr handle this in much the same wayjames comey handled the hillary clinton e—mails, where he said there was no indictment, but he did actually criticise her in very start terms in how she handled that information. and so you wonder if

bob mueller will provide information so bob mueller will provide information so critical if in fact there is still no indictment of the president himself. all right, thank you so much for taking us through that. let's turn to brexit now, and britain's prime minister theresa may has told mps that a third vote on her brexit deal may not take place next week "if it appears there is not sufficient support". and so the action has moved from the frying pan of brussels with the prime minister got a short extension to article 50 to the fire of westminster where she has to work out what an earth to do with it. all day, senior politicians from different brexit perspectives were invited in for meetings. merely having a short extension, and crashing out, a complete disaster, europe realises that, we realise it here and i'm going to talk to the deputy prime minister about the possibility of a way forward.

mrjohnson, what's going to happen today? the article 50 process was always all or nothing. it's the equivalent ofjumping off a cliff and trying to build an aeroplane on the way down. all the eu's done is given us a bit more time, but there's still no sign to what the prime minister is trying to build is ever going to fly. when the downing street entourage arrived back in london, it was assumed that theresa may would attempt at least once more to get her deal through parliament. sources inside number 10 suggest they may not bring the vote back at all unless they're certain of the votes and that looks very unlikely. the dup, whose votes would be crucial in getting a withdrawal agreement across the line, put out a statement saying that nothing has fundamentally changed. so where could the votes come from? they'll need to win over quite

a lot of labour mps. they've only won three on the meaningful vote to select means perhaps ten, 15, 20 required and even then i think she will need to win quite a significant chunk of colleagues who simply say, with the mess that we had during the negotiation on the withdrawal agreement, we can't have the same bunch of people negotiating the future trade arrangement. we willjust end up in the same mess again. what's happening? the chief whip, whose job it is to deliver the prime minister a majority, looked troubled and was saying nothing. on monday, it seems very likely mps will pass a motion allowing the house of commons to seize control of the parliamentary agenda from the government. mps can then schedule a series of votes designed to see which if any option can win a majority. sir 0liver letwin is one of the senior mps behind the plan. we believe we have the numbers

to pass the amendment on monday and thereby guarantee the votes on wednesday. is there any sense in your mind about what the outcome of that process is, where is the mind of parliament right now? if i knew that, i would be very much a wiser person than anyone on earth and i'm not. that's why we have to have the vote, to find out whether the mind of parliament is. so the potential for confusing chaos is obvious or should i say, even more confusing chaos than we've got. there is no majority for anything in parliament. it's quite likely any number of resolutions could be brought forward, motions brought forward and there may not be a majority for anything and what you will see is a mess that makes what happened until now seem like it was almost organised. so i'm very cautious about this and urging colleagues not to make something of it they might regret. so where is britain's relationship with the eu heading? almost nothing seems clearer. everything is still up in the air.

the first glimpse of sperm whales hunting in the darkest depths of the ocean has been captured by film makers off the coast of dominica. eliza philippidis has the story. this is the largest of the toothed whales. until now the feeding habits of these magnificent sperm whales have been a mystery. the giant mammals dive to depths of more than 1,000 metres to hunt forfood but we have never seen how they do it because cameras were not strong enough to withstand the pressures of that much water. but cameras have changed. there is the calf! it is hitting our camera. new technology has been developed that can record in total darkness and under extreme pressure so this filming team got to record the first pictures and sounds of a sperm whale on the hunt.

there's the first clicks. now. she's starting to echo—locate. she is flattening out. this clinic is her looking for squid, 3000 feet below the surface. the camera allows the scientists to follow every moment of the chase. look! whoa! what was that! it looks like a patch of ink just flew past her face. that has got to be what it is. wow. no—one has ever seen a sperm whale hunting at depth. whales use clicks for navigation. when the sound waves bounce off an object, they return to the whale, allowing it to identify the shape of the object. scientists say we currently know more about the moon and mars than we do about our oceans but today we've got a much closer look at the underwater world. eliza philippidis, bbc news. you can reach me on twitter —

i'm @regedahmadbbc. hello, welcome to a weekend which is going to deliver some dry weather though there will be blustery showers, particularly in scotland and it is going to feel cooler than it has done recently. we've seen this weather front move on southwards, coolerfresh air moving on behind, but it's clearer too, and more of us will see sunshine over the weekend. this is how we start saturday, a touch of frost possible in parts of northern england, scotland and northern ireland, still cloud through parts of southern england and towards the south coast in particular, it may hold on through the day and where you have that, don't be surprised if there is a little light rain and drizzle. elsewhere across england and wales, high cloud. any sun is going to be quite hazy. sunny skies in northern ireland and scotland though cloud producing a few showers here and there, and they are very blustery showers in scotland.

these are average speeds — gusts are higher, the northern isles could be gusting between 60 and 70 miles per hour initially before the wind eases later, and showers moving into scotland are going to be wintry on the hills. temperatures mostly at around 9—12 degrees. saturday evening and night, further showers coming into scotland. that means a bit more snow to the higher ground. that may be the far north of england. still some cloud into parts of england and wales. maybe a little drizzle but where you are clear, hints of a touch of blue on the chart, you just get a bit of frost, particularly on the ground as sunday begins. early on sunday, there could be a longer spell of wet weather moving into the far north—west of scotland and that will move on southwards with more showers following on behind to northern ireland and maybe northern england later. in scotland blustery showers. elsewhere across england and wales, sunny spells. temperatures are fairly similar for part two of the weekend. highs of around 9—12 degrees. so that is how the weekend is shaping up. let's just take a look into next week and high pressure is back with us, looks like it will be moving right across the uk. moving very very slowly. just a few weak weather fronts into the far north—west of scotland. most places with high pressure are going to be dry. variable cloud, some sunny spells, the risk of a touch of frost

overnight but other days we go deeper into the week, temperatures look like they will be going up a few degrees. that is next week covered. let's just recap the weekend weather. rather cool, chilly nights, some decent sunny spells around. you may catch a shower mostly in scotland, blustery showers 00:28:13,189 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 at that, and wintry on hills.