this is bbc news. the headlines: health officials in gaza say four palestinians have died during protests to mark the first anniversary of the weekly you're watching bbc news. demonstrations along the border with israel. israeli defense forces say their artillery has struck i'm reged ahmad. a number of hamas military posts our top stories: in the gaza strip in response palestinians in gaza hold a day to five rockets fired at israel. of protests to mark the first anniversary of weekly demonstrations on the boundary with israel — —— anniversary of weekly demonstrations on the boundary with israel. israeli defence forces the anti—corru ption candidate, say their artillery has struck zuzana caputova, has won a number of hamas military posts the presidential election in slovakia, making her in response to rockets the country's first fired at israel. female head of state. the anti—corru ption candidate, it's slovakia's first major poll since the murder of an investigative journalist, which plunged zuzana chaputova, the country into political crisis a year ago. the anti—corru ption candidate, zuzana caputova, wins the presidential the chief executive of facebook, election in slovakia, mark zuckerberg, says the internet making her the country's first needs new rules. female head of state. next steps for brexit — he's called on governments the uk's prime minister considers and regulators to take a more active bringing her proposed deal back role in controlling content, and for companies to to parliament for a fourth time be held accountable. as mps debate alternatives to her deal on monday. he's previously resisted government intervention. and facebook chief mark zuckerberg asks for government help in controlling internet content.

a bbc investigation has discovered rogue traders are selling tens hello and welcome. in the couple of hours, the israeli army says it's targetted a number of hamas military posts after five rockets were fired from gaza into israel. it comes after palestinian authorities said four protestors died on the border earlier on saturday. they were taking part in demonstrations to mark one year since weekly protests began about the declared right of return of palestinian refugees to homes that are now in israel. our middle east correspondent tom bateman has been to the border. a warning, his report does contain distressing images. he throws a rock. an israeli sniperfires back — a bullet to the leg. another palestinian joins the thousands with wounds from a year of protests

at gaza's boundary fence. week after week, they have come back here. baharand burhan got engaged after meeting at the protest last year. we palestinians have the right to live. we here in gaza, we are oppressed people. we want to live our life, we want to feed our children. the protest began over the palestinian right to return to ancestral homes in the land that is now israel, but they've become about much more — a venting of anger over the crippling state of life in gaza. nearly 200 people have been shot dead since last march. last year, an israeli soldier was killed by a palestinian sniper. the protesters are currently less than 100 metres from the perimeter fence. the israelis, so far, they've mostly been firing tear gas at the protesters, and you can see people here who are throwing rocks back, some have been burning tyres. from the snipers‘s nest, they watch.

israel deployed thousands of extra troops today. explosives and petrol bombs were thrown at them, they said. they feared attempts to breach the fence and hurt civilians. and this event today, we've had approximately 40,000 demonstrators and rioters but the key difference being, is hamas obviously making a choice here, deploying people on the ground and making sure that there were less rioters coming towards the fence. hamas is the militant group which controls gaza. its leaders were in the crowds today, its security men controlling the protesters — part of an arrangement with israel to calm tensions after fears a military flare—up earlier this week could slip out of control. the stakes are high. hamas is under pressure, israel has closely fought elections in ten days hinging on security. the tension shows few signs of abating just yet. tom bateman, bbc news, gaza. slovakia has elected a political outsider as its first female head

of state after the lawyer and anti—corruption campaigner zuzana caputova defeated her challenger by a substantial margin. caputova, who has liberal views on issues such as lgbt rights and abortion, saw off the candidate nominated by the main governing party, winning on a campaign that called for greater transparency, humanity and truth in public life. rob cameron reports from bratislava. zuza na zuzana caputova, a woman with virtually no political experience, has defied early expectations to pull off a sensational political victory. her message to voters was simple — make changes possible. translation: i am simple — make changes possible. translation: iam happy, notjust for the result but mainly that it is possible not to succumb to populism. to tell the truth and raise interest without aggressive vocabulary. this

started in the local election, was confirmed in the presidential election, and i believe the european election, and i believe the european election will confirm it as well. zuza na ca putova election will confirm it as well. zuzana caputova says one of the reasons she ran for office was the murder last year of jan kuciak, reasons she ran for office was the murder last year ofjan kuciak, a journalist killed as he was looking into links between corrupt slovak officials and organised crime. her opponents campaign was stymied by association with the party that nominated him, the party led by robert fico, a man forced to resign last year in the wake of the killing. so ultimately this political newcomer for off one of the country's most experienced politicians, maros sefcovic, but liberals are celebrating the result is proof that the virulent nationalism in this country is ebbing. turnout was low, meaning

illiterates —— literally thousands of slovakian ignore the message. the country like many of its neighbours isa country like many of its neighbours is a country riven with divisions and the new president will have her work cut out, ringing it back together. rob cameron, bbc news, bratislava. at least 32 people have been killed in flash floods in western afghanistan. the national disaster management authority said heavy rains have destroyed hundreds of homes and floodwaters swept through makeshift shelters housing displaced families. seven provinces have been affected, with faryab, badghis and herat worst hit. the floods have worsened the plight of tens of thousands of people in the region who had to move last year because of severe drought. afghan officials say the country's vice president, abdul rashid dostum, has escaped unhurt from an attack that killed one of his bodyguards. they said the attackers ambushed mr dostum's convoy in northern afghanistan. several others were wounded in an hour—long battle. the taliban said

it carried out the assault. the latest assassination attempt comes eight months after mr dostum avoided injury in a suicide bombing at kabul airport. mr dostum, a powerful ethnic uzbek leader, is a controversial figure who is accused of torturing and abusing a political rival. prime minister theresa may is understood to be considering asking mps to vote for a fourth time on the withdrawal agreement she negotiated to leave the european union. on friday, her deal was defeated by 58 votes. on monday, the house of commons will test whether there's support for alternative brexit plans in a second round of what are called ‘indicative‘, or advisory, votes. 0ur political correspondent alex forsyth reports. there is clear frustration in westminster, still on show the day after mps rejected theresa may's brexit plan — again. the question now is what happens next? as yet, members of the government

can't give any real clarity. i think what we have to do is to make sure that we deliver on the will of the people at the referendum. we have to keep trying. some still argue the prime minister's brexit deal is the best option. it's obviously very disappointing that the government lost yesterday. i think that's, you know, put the country in some difficulty and i think the best way forward is the prime minister's deal, but we'll see what the options are. so, will she put her deal back again? well, we'll see. obviously, the cabinet will need to consider what the next steps forward will be. the ayes to the right, 286. the noes to the left, 344. yesterday's rejection of the brexit plan was smaller than the two previous efforts, but still substantial. on monday, mps will vote on alternatives to the prime minister's plan. last time, parliament could not agree on any one option, but having another public vote or keeping close to the eu in a customs union proved most popular.

the government's waiting to see if mps can agree a way forward, but isn't clear if that will change its direction. the customs union doesn't actually reflect or respect what was in our own manifesto, but we've got to look at what parliament coalesces around next week. but i think the best way to go forward is to be looking at getting that withdrawal agreement approved. but the labour leader, campaigning in newport today, is holding firm against the prime minister's plan, calling for further compromise or an election. the absolute priority at the moment is to end this chaos that this government has brought us to by their endlessly running down the clock and basically bullying and threatening people. the bullying hasn't worked, the threats hasn't worked. it's time now for the sensible people to take over. today, there were protests along the irish border by those concerned about brexit and what it might mean here. at the same time, elsewhere, others are pressing the government to walk away without a deal. two weeks until the uk's new planned exit date, and finding a solution

seems as hard as ever. alex forsyth, bbc news. it's no surprise that brexit and conservative party infighting is dominating the sunday newspaper front pages here in the uk. let's take a look at a few. the sunday times is focusing on the split within the cabinet. they say both leave— and remain—supporting ministers are set to abandon theresa may over brexit. the observer is reporting that may is also facing a rebellion over a potential snap election. the sunday telegraph front page follows that thread. their headline reads "snap election under may would annihilate tories." the mail on sunday headline — "no 10 at war over ‘suicidal election'," reporting the results of the paper's own polling, which now givesjeremy corbyn‘s labour a 5—point lead over the conservatives. earlier, we spoke to james rampton, features writer for the independent. he explained what options parliament would look at again on monday.

i think the one that has the most chance — two or three will be brought back in by the speaker at his behest, which ones are allowed through — the one that has most chance, that is the customs union. that only fell by eight votes last week. ken clarke brought in, a veteran euro filed tory mp. and i think if they have another heave at that, that might well go through. again, it is only an indicative vote, an advisory to the government. if parliament wants to make it law, it will have to legislate. that will be a longer, more byzantine process. however, there will be fierce opposition from the hardline brexiteers who have proved so difficult for the government in this process. it is interesting that the tories seem to be in terror of a general election. many with marginal seats are really, really worried that they would be wiped out if there were a general election.

i think there's a backlash against what's seen as the self—indulgent psychodrama that's been gripping the tory party and many electors are fed up with the way in which the conservatives have seemed so self—absorbed about that. and the mail on sunday is saying that some within the party are saying that it would be suicidal to call an election, that they would be completely annihilated, and the irony is that there's no way of mrs may getting an election unless she asked labour to bring in a vote of no confidence against her and asked her party to vote for that. the irony, yeah. and that's a completely bizarre, unprecedented situation — it shows the completely uncharted waters that we're in now. the state department says it's ending foreign assistance programmes to el salvador, guatemala and honduras, as directed by president trump. announcing that he was ending the payments, mr trump insisted that the three central american countries "hadn't done a thing" for america.

democrats say the move could make immigration problems worse and are threatening to try to block it. ambassador roger noriega is a former assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs. he's in washington. ambassador, thank you for your time. you are an experienced diplomat formally with the state department, what do you think really is behind these planned cuts? it is difficult to say exactly what president trump is thinking here. he has made certain commitments to help in latin america, much more than other presidents have in the past, but something clearly got into his head about whether or not central americans were doing enough to stop the flood of migrants to this us southwest border. as a matter of fa ct, southwest border. as a matter of fact, this is a problem but you do

not address this problem when someone not address this problem when someone is to convince the president of this, you cannot address this problem if you don't have partners not only in central america but in mexico and dissing them, disrespecting them in this way and cutting off funds, when they have been trying to co—operate, does not engender confidence among the partners there in central america. these foreign assistance programmes to these three countries, is there evidence that it was helping to stem migration, to stop it being perhaps greater than it is at the moment? well, quite frankly, there is a flood of migrants coming toward the border and it is being induced precisely by people smugglers. and the president is reacting obviously to the huge numbers coming across the border and in particular families that present a particular problem to our enforcement measures. and those that are applying for

political asylum. and he says coached to do so. but the fact is, these countries are making an effort. and the programmes that were supporting in central america don't go to governments to spend, they go to organisations that are directed at particular programmes that are to dissuade people from migrating to create economic opportunity for them, to encourage better governance and more security for central americans they feel safe staying in their own country, so these countries are run by us professionals and have suppressed the numbers but nevertheless, very difficult to overcome the flood that has been driven out quite consciously by people, people smugglers who are garnering vast sums of money precisely to carry

people to the us southwest border. we need to address that and understand as well if this location, the poor governance and the central american countries is precisely because of the drug consumption in the united states that feels translational crime and gang violence and undermines quality of life and security of central americans. ambassador roger noriega, formally with the state department, thank you so much for your time. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: famous landmarks across the world descend into darkness for an hour to highlight the urgency to fight climate change. the accident that happened here was of the sort that can, at worst, produce a meltdown. in this case, the precautions worked, but they didn't work quite well enough to prevent some old fears

about the safety features of these stations from resurfacing. the republic of ireland has become the first country in the world to ban smoking in the workplace. from today, anyone lighting up in offices, businesses, pubs and restaurants will face a heavy fine. the president was on his way out of the washington hilton hotel where he had been addressing a trade union conference. the small crowd outside included his assailant. it has become a symbol of paris. 100 years ago, many parisians wished it had never been built. the eiffel tower's birthday is being marked by a re—enactment of the first ascent by gustave eiffel. this is bbc world news. the latest headlines:

palestinians in gaza have held a day of protests to mark the first anniversary of weekly demonstrations on the boundary with israel. israeli defence forces say their artillery has struck a number of hamas military posts in response to rockets fired at israel. the anti—corru ption candidate, zuzana caputova, has won the presidential election in slovakia, making her the country's first female head of state. facebook chief mark zuckerberg says the internet needs new rules. in an article for the washington post, he says it's time for government and regulators to take an active role to balance freedom of expression while protecting society from harm. it comes two weeks after a gunman used facebook to livestream his terror attack on mosques in christchurch, new zealand. laurence dodds is the telegraoh's silicon valley reporter. hejoins us now from oakland california.

thank you so much for your time. it is quite surprising to see mark zuckerberg basically ask the government regulation. is he admitting defeat? i don't think he is exactly but it is surprising. it is exactly but it is surprising. it is one year ago that mark zuckerberg was briefing to various people that he was not sure that facebook should not deregulated. it would have to be the right regulation, and he preferred broad guidelines to strict rules. facebook also has a long history of lobbying against regulations, some of which sound similarto regulations, some of which sound similar to what he is proposing. i don't think it is quite an admission of defeat. i think it is true facebook thinks further regulation is inevitable in its most lucrative markets in the first world. in the usa, if congress does not pass a new privacy law by the end of this year, facebook will have to follow california's privacy law, which will come into force at the end of the year. california is so big that

facebook will just have year. california is so big that facebook willjust have to year. california is so big that facebook will just have to follow year. california is so big that facebook willjust have to follow it anyway. it knows the regulation is coming, and now mark zuckerberg wa nts to coming, and now mark zuckerberg wants to try and shape the process better to be involved in that process and to be seeming to set the direction rather than reacting to what politicians do. he talks about a lot of points, he has a few ideas he has gone through. do any of them threatened the facebook funding model the way they make money with advertisers? i don't think that they do. let me see. the hate speech stuff certainly does not. facebook acknowledged long ago that it does its interests lie in policing at that form, policing people's free speech if you like in deleting some stuff and down ranking some stuff that it finds to be undesirable. rather than taking a maximalist position where anything anybody says to each other is great because it is more activity. they made that choice a long time ago without further regulation so that

is not a huge change. it has only priced in europe and although gdp are seem priced in europe and although gdp are seem to lead to a small decline in its european users, which led to a stop price drop, it has been able to recover from that pretty well. no, i don't think there is anything there that would seriously threaten its revenue. some of the things he is talking about is a global standardisation. that is unrealistic, isn't it? in some ways, it is unrealistic. it is notable that in mark zuckerberg's piece, he mentions data localisation laws, which are a big problem. very often, they can be a tool of authoritarian regimes to make sure it isa authoritarian regimes to make sure it is a be for them to access holes. they don't want to be in that position of, you gave this data to nasty people. it is not something facebook wants to be into. 0ut nasty people. it is not something facebook wants to be into. out of this is trying to get the western and first world in general to

coalesce a little bit. there is a risk that a splinter net broadly speaking, facebook is never going to achieve any kind of regularisation between the usa and china or russia, which are both fully trying to create their own independent internet. as far as the first world goes, this is facebook‘s most lucrative markets, there are some potential. many countries have said they want to copy gdp after brexit, and in the usa, a lot of discussion around whatever privacy regime eventually emerges is looking at gdp are and saying why don't we do it like that? in the end, is the way to really do this, and i'm sure facebook does not wa nt this, and i'm sure facebook does not want this to happen, facebook is a media company and it needs to adhere to the rules that the traditional media countries have to adhere to when it comes to content? that is another important bit of content that is another important bit of co nte nt for that is another important bit of content for what mark zuckerberg is talking about. he talks about hate speech and controlling harmful content. he is proposing self—regulation in which all editions celtic companies what they

had to do and that companies do it. rather than tech companies being directly responsible. that would entail the repeal of safe harbour laws which basically say tech companies are like phone companies are not responsible for what you say over the phone. there is clearly a strong case for that. i would say that comes with huge risks as well because what it would do is incentivise all the tech companies, google and facebook, to be more sincere. if they are sued for everything you say to them, then we would be king into a new world where even more that is already the case, facebook is having to use ai and human moderators to scan what we say to each other and take it down regardless of whether there is a case to answer potentially. tech companies will be incentivised to err on the side of caution. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your time. thank you very much for having me on. mickjagger says he on. mick jagger says he is devastated to let down fans after the rolling stones announced they we re the rolling stones announced they were postponing a tour of the us and

canada. the band say their frontman needs medical treatment. but this isn't the first time a tour like this has been hit by illness as ramzan karmali reports. he may seem full of energy and ever youthful, but 75—year—old mick jagger had to put off his hands north american tour. in a statement on twitter, the band said: the european leg of the tour had been seen by over 1.5 million fans and made the band an eye—watering $237 million. a decision like this couldn't have been taken lightly, but it isn't the first time they have pulled out of the tour. they cancelled their australian and new zealand tour following the death of mick jagger's then—partner, scott. they received a pay—out

from their insurance company. just last month, former black sabbath lead singer ozzy osbourne cancelled a number of gigs after being hospitalised with pneumonia. and younger performers are not immune either. # never mind, i'll find... adele cancelled the final two shows of her world tour after damaging her vocal cords. pop starjustin bieber cancelled the last 14 shows of his mammoth world tour in 2017, saying he wanted his mind, heart and soul to be sustainable. the stones began their no filter tour in germany in 2017 before travelling throughout europe over the last two years. the north american leg was set to start in miami next month and finish in canada injune. mick jagger expects to make a full recovery and told fans to keep hold of their tickets as he hopes he can provide them with satisfaction in the near future. touring can be a tough business.

stay with us here on bbc news. hello again. we've got quite a change in our weather compared with yesterday, when temperatures reach 20 celsius in kew in greater london. the wind of change is blowing, and that is going to be blowing some cooler air across england and wales, such that temperatures will drop by about 9 degrees in the capital, highs of 11 degrees or so. the change is brought about by this area of cloud, this cold front that continues to journey southwards, still bringing the threat of perhaps a little bit of patchy rain over the next few hours across wales, midlands, east anglia into south—east england as well. further north, if you are heading outside, there is certainly a chill in the air with a widespread frost developing in the countryside, particularly in scotland, where we're looking at temperatures getting down to about —4 degrees celsius.

if you are heading out the next hour or two, also wrap up warm, it will be cold. plenty of sunshine across northern areas of the uk, through scotland, northern ireland and northern england. that is probably where the best of the weather will be. across wales, the midlands, east anglia and southern counties of england, more cloud than we had on saturday and a chill easterly wind as well, temperatures of 11 celsius in london compared with the 20 we had yesterday. you will notice that change for sure. looking at the weather picture through sunday evening and overnight, the skies will tend to clear and the winds will fall light. a recipe for things turning cold once again. patchy frost developing in the countryside, so a chilly start to the new working week. on monday, we have a lot of dry weather to come across england, wales and eastern areas of scotland too. there will be some change in the weather to the north—west where cloud will thicken, outbreaks of rain moving into northern ireland and western scotland and turning progressively heavier

as we go through the day, it will be cold enough even for some snow over the hills in scotland. moving southwards, the wind coming up from the south, 13 or 14 degrees celsius, probably not feeling too bad. but things get much colder as we head to tuesday, a cold front swinging eastwards across the uk, taking a band of rain with it and introducing these bitterly cold north—westerly winds. the rain clears to a mixture of sunshine and showers on tuesday, the showers could be heavy, thundery and potentially wintry. yes, we could see a litle bit of snow across some of the hills, particularly in the north and west of the uk. and it will be cold, just 6 degrees celsius northern of scotland, factoring in the wind it will feel like quite a cold april day. that's the latest weather. just a reminder — if you haven't already done so, the clocks go forward to british summer time on sunday.