hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: this is bbc news. more than 70 mps and peers sign a letter i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 4:00pm. urging the government to ensure julian assange faces authorities in sweden more than 70 mp5 and if they request his extradition. peers sign a letter urging the government to ensure a ten—year—old boy has died julian assange faces after being attacked by a dog authorities in sweden at a holiday park in cornwall. a 28—year—old woman has been if they request his extradition. arrested in connection with the incident. a 10—year—old boy has died after being attacked by a dog the sudanese general who led a coup at a holiday park in cornwall. a 28—year—old woman has been to overthrow long—term arrested in connection with the incident. leader, omar al—bashir, steps down just 2a hours the sudanese general who led a coup after he took charge of the country. to overthrow long—term anti—government protestors continue leader omar al—bashir, to demand a move away steps down just 2a hours from military government. after he took charge of the country. doctors celebrate a new treatment called gene silencing anti—government protesters continue that's seen major success to demand a move away in treating the crippling pain from military government. caused by porphyria. doctors celebrate a new treatment, called ‘gene silencing' that's seen major success in treating the crippling pain and now on bbc news, victoria derbyshire takes a look caused by porphyria. back at some of the highlights a dutch fertility doctor is found

to have used his own sperm from her programme this week. to father 49 children, without his patients‘ consent. and a look at this week on the victoria derbyshire programme, including interviews with members of the climate change protest group extinction rebellion. over the next half an hour we will that's in half an hour bring you some of the exclusive here on bbc news. journalism we have brought you in the last week. extinction rebellion is fighting climate change and has been making headlines over the last few months. recently by stripping almost naked in the house of commons. now they are threatening to blockade london. good afternoon. late night in east london and this more than 70 mps and peers have called on the government lot are illegally flyposting. the to ensure that the wikileaks co—founderjulian assange faces justice in sweden signs are being plastered all over if the authorities there the uk this week by a new protest re—open a rape investigation group called extinction rebellion. against him, on charges he denies. the united states has already so far, they've shut down bridges, requested that the uk hand over poured buckets of blood at downing mr assange to them to answer a charge of computer

street, blockaded the bbc, and hacking leading to one stripped naked in of the largest ever leaks of government secrets. here's our political correspondent, susana mendonca. after seven years holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy, julian assange is now in the hands of british justice, but the question of where he should go next is becoming increasingly politicised. more than 70 members of the house of commons and house of lords have put their names to a letter to the home secretary, sajid javid, to request that he do everything he can to champion action that will ensurejulian assange can be extradited to sweden. they also urge him to stand with the victims of sexual violence and seek to ensure the case againstjulian assange can now be properly investigated. the swedish authorities have been pursuing julian assange for years over accusations of rape, coercion and molestation, which he denies. the wikilea ks founder claimed he would be extradited to the us if he went to sweden and instead

sought asylum in ecuador‘s embassy. swedish prosecutors stopped pursuing the case in 2017, but now they have until august next year to restart the rape investigation. at the same time, the united states wantsjulian assange extradited over hacking charges after wikileaks released secret documents including this video of a us military helicopter firing at iraqi citizens. iraqi citizens in 2007. the americans hope the home secretary will favour the request. they have chosen the lesser charge to increase the chances of extradition, but the price they pay for choosing the lesser charge is that when it comes to a comparison with the swedish charges, the swedish charges are much more severe. some, including the labour leader, sayjulian assange is being pursued for political reasons. others say he should face charges brought against him. susana mendonca, bbc news. well, susanna joined me a little

earlier, with more details about that letter from british mps urging the government to ensure julian assange is extradited to sweden. so we have got, as you say, mps and peers from different political parties, most of them are labour, but you have also got some conservatives in there, some of them from change uk, the new independent group, also liberal democreats, all basically saying that they think that if sweden were to request the extradition ofjulian assange, that's where he should be sent, rather than him being sent to the united states. that is because they feel that those accusations against julian assange, the sexual assault accusations are more serious in terms of potential criminality than the hacking charges in the united states. essentially this is what the mps are saying, they are asking the home secretary to think about the victims of sexual violence when he makes his decision. because, at the moment, there is only an extradition request from the united states.

so if sweden then decides to go down that road, the home secretary would then be in a position where he would have to choose between the two of them and choose which one, i suppose, was the one that was most worthy ofjulian assange being sent back to that country. many people are saying keep politics out of this, this should be for the courts, so what are we likely to see happen next? that's certainly the remarks that we'd had from a number of people, for example, lord falconer who was in the package that we just saw there, who's a former lord chancellor in the former labour government of tony blair. he's saying this is a matter for the courts, politicians should not get involved. the court should make the decision based upon various things, for example, the time at which these cases then cease to be active. for example, with the case in sweden, it has to be acted upon by august of next year. in america, the case has a longer period of time before it would cease to be active. those types of things should be taken into account.

he is saying that we should leave the politics behind and focus on the law. in terms of what happens, it really does depend on what sweden does. at the moment we understand that they are thinking about it, they're looking into whether to take action. if they do come forward with an extradition request to the british government, then the british government will be in a position where it has to make a decision about what to do. the metropolitan police say shots have been fired at a car outside the ukrainian embassy in west london. a statement from the ukrainian embassy said the ambassador's official vehicle was "deliberately rammed" outside the front of the building this morning. there have been no injuries reported and police say the incident is not terror related. with me is our correspondent, simonjones. phil in the gaps for us. this happened at around 8:30am this morning in holland park in london outside the ukrainian embassy. police say a vehicle hit several

parked cars outside the embassy but the alarm was raised because one of those cars is the official car used by the ukrainian ambassador, she was not in the vehicle at the time. the police were called and arrived in numbers, both armed and unarmed officers. initially they try to box in the vehicle that had hit these parked cars. but then according to the ukrainian embassy, the ambassador‘s car was rammed again. police then say the police was —— the car was then driven at them. shots were fired and they used a taser. they arrested a man in his 40s. he has been taken to hospital asa 40s. he has been taken to hospital as a precaution but was said not to be injured by that and we understand none of the ukrainian embassy staff we re none of the ukrainian embassy staff were injured. police say an investigation has been launched. a quote from them in their press release has praised the quick response of officers who took, went the extra mile to protect the people of london, as is their duty. an

investigation has now been launched, given that police weapons were fired. but they are stressing at this stage they do not believe this was terror —related. this stage they do not believe this was terror -related. simon, thank you. a 10—year—old boy has died after being attacked by a dog at a caravan park in cornwall. the boy, who hasn't been named, was found dead by police at tencreek holiday park in looe in the early hours of this morning. 0ur reporter, charlotte gallagher, gave us the details. police say it was a bulldog type breed. now, paramedics went as well of course but the boy sadly died at the scene. around three hours later, a 28—year—old woman was arrested in saltash, a 30 minute drive away from the caravan park. she has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and having a dog dangerously out of control. that dog has been transferred to kennels. i spoke to the manager of the holiday park and he said they had no idea what happened this morning, they turned up for work and there were police all over the site. he told me he had not

seen this dog before. the police have not named the boy who has been killed, but say they are supporting his family. in sudan, the head of the state security service has resigned as anti—government protests continue. a general has been appointed as the third leader in as many days. demonstrators are demanding that power is given to a civilian authority. andy moore reports. a new day in khartoum and a new leader, but the protesters are still on the streets. the new man has already accepted an important resignation, salah gosh, the head of the powerful national intelligence and security service. the crowds are waiting to see what to make of the man now in charge of their country. translation: abdel fattah al burhan is the new guy but who is he and what will he say and do differently? will he chant to our slogans or not? we won't deal with him emotionally. we are waiting to hear his first address and then we will decide how to deal with him. translation: it is a great thing

for sudan and, inshallah, our hopes will be realised. we are not leaving the streets until everything goes to our advantage. sudan's third leader in as many days, lieutenant general abdel fattah al burhan abdelrahman was sworn in late on friday night. his elevation followed the resignation of the man who led the military coup to topple the president. translation: i announce as the leader of the transitional military council that i am stepping down from this position to select someone whose expertise and competence i can trust. on that basis, i have chosen the kind brother lieutenant general abdel fattah abdelrahman burhan. al abdelrahman burhan is seen as further away from the old regime. he has been seen on the streets of khartoum, engaging with protesters and trying to win them over. but, so far at least, that plan doesn't seem to be working. the demonstrators say they will stay on the streets until there is a handover to a civilian government. andy moore, bbc news.

and now more from the situation on the ground in sudan. tagreed adbin has been going to the protests in the capital khartoum and spoke to us earlier. we have been resisting for a very long time. it has just gained some type of visibility over the past few months. but the fact that the sudanese people have been resisting for years. we have lost many martyrs, many people have fallen. the fact is that everybody is fed up, with the mismanagement, the corruption and the utter humiliation that the regime rained upon people. what made it different this time with people going out, we had reached a point where people really had nothing to lose because even sick people didn't have access to medicine, people didn't have access to their own assets. it was a case of people kept saying, we are dying anyway, so we might as well die with honour.

president trump has confirmed he wants to send people detained in his immigration crackdown at the mexico border to so—called "sanctuary cities". they're areas of the united states — usually under democrat control — that don't cooperate with the detention of undocumented migrants. the remarks made on twitter followed a speech mr trump gave earlier in the day, in which he first discussed the plan. we will bring the illegal... i call them the illegals. they came across the border illegally, we'll bring them to sanctuary city areas and let that particular area take care of it, whether it's a state or whatever it might be. california's always saying, we want more people, and they want more people in their sanctuary cities? well, we'll give them more people, we'll give them a lot. we can give them an unlimited supply. and let's see if they are so happy.

they say they have open arms, they are always saying they have open arms. let's see if they have open arms. in response, many democrats across the country have condemned the plan, accusing the trump administration of using migrants as "political pawns". the governor of california gavin newsom dismissed the plan as "insulting". it's not serious. it lacks any rationale. it's insulting to the american people and to the intelligence of the american people. it's un—american, it's illegal, it's immoral, it's rather pathetic. i don't know what more i can say. i don't know what more i can say. for more i'm now joined by our reporter in washington dan johnson. this comes from the context of the president having declared a national emergency on the border. he was visiting the border in california la st visiting the border in california last week and looking at facilities there, stating again how stretched things are because of the number of migrants and asylum seekers coming

across. the president has now said we can't hold all these people at the border. we don't have enough space in detention centres. the reality is that after so long being processed they are released to wait for a court date to establish their immigration status, but that can ta ke immigration status, but that can take years, so the president is saying, let's disperse people around the country. if these sanctuary cities, as they have declared, really wa nt cities, as they have declared, really want to welcome people, then they can do that. the logistics of that are almost impossible to organise, to get your head around, because it would mean sending thousands of people thousands of miles right across the us. i think that's why the governor of california there has said this is not a serious plan and will not happen. he's probably right. it's a threat to the president is making to try to subdue criticism that has come from democrats and the leaders of sanctuary cities. he is saying, if you think you can solve the border crisis then you can play your part, but i don't think it will happen, there is no way of getting

people to those places and what would you do with them? how do you keep track of people? it highlights the numberof keep track of people? it highlights the number of people coming across the number of people coming across the border and what happens to them then. at the moment, most of them are having to stay in border towns. that's where the pressure is felt. so at the moment they are being held around the mexican border? what tends to happen is they will spend a week or two tends to happen is they will spend a week ortwo in tends to happen is they will spend a week or two in detention while they are processed and details are taken and then they are released. really it's up to them where they go after that. if they have an asylum sponsor then often they go to that city to be close to that person, probably a family member. the reality is a lot of people just stay in the towns close to the border because they don't have the means to travel much further. it means those towns have the burden of this pressure and have those people, and they can be waiting two or three years to actually get before an immigration judge to get their status confirmed. some never even make it to that stage because they disappear through

the system. the president wants to highlight these issues and the pressure there is, and he's turning it back on some of his critics saying, if you can solve the problem and deal with these people, then you are welcome. the criticism has been that he is using the people in the syste m that he is using the people in the system as political pawns, playing games with their lives and immigration status. president trump has been quite busy on twitter. he has been quite busy on twitter. he has also been responding to kim jong—un's request, saying america has to change their attitude if they are going to move forward with discussions. what has trump said in response? he has actually been very upbeat, not taking kimjong—un's approach to criticisms of the approach to criticisms of the approach to criticisms of the approach to north korea positively. he says, i agree with kim jong—un that our personal relationship remains very good. perhaps the term excellent would be even more accurate. he says he's looking forward to a third summit that will

help establish exactly where everyone stands. he hasn't announced any change of policy towards north korea, the sort of change of attitude the north korean leader said was needed, but he has dangled the carrot again of the possibility that if nuclear weapons can be removed then sanctions can be lifted. president trump says north korea can then become one of the most successful nations of the world. so he is still optimistic about the future of those talks but the north korean leader has said he wants to wait a few months, possibly to the end of the year, to see if tactics change. thank you. the headlines on bbc news... more than 70 mps and peers sign a letter urging the government to ensure julian assange faces authorities in sweden if they request his extradition. a 10—year—old boy has died after being attacked by a dog at a holiday park in cornwall. a 28—year—old woman has been arrested in connection with the incident. the sudanese general who led a coup

to overthrow long—term leader omar al—bashir steps down just 2a hours after he took charge of the country. anti—government protestors continue to demand a move away from military government. and in sport, tottenham are back up to third in the premier league after beating already relegated huddersfield 4—0. lucas moura scored a hat—trick, the first to be scored in their new stadium. max whitlock has won gold on the pommel horse at the gymnastics championships in poland. fellow brit ellie downie took bronze in the vault. valtteri bottas will start on pole position in the ioooth bottas will start on pole position in the 1000th formula i race, ahead of his team—mate lewis hamilton. a quick update on some of the premier league matches. bournemouth beating brighton, burnley beating cardiff, fulham and southampton also winning. we will be back with sports day at

6:30pm. british steel is in talks with the government about a loan of £100 million in order to meet eu emissions rules. newly—issued free—carbon permits could have been used to settle the compa ny‘s pollution bill for 2018. but the steel maker has been affected by a european union decision to suspend uk firms' access to free—carbon permits until a brexit withdrawal deal is ratified. earlier i spoke to our business correspondent rob young who had more on the story. what we know is british steel is involved with talks with the department for business for a loan of about £100 million in orderfor it to meet the eu emissions rules. every year, each large company has to pay for the amount of pollution that they emit. ordinarily, a company can pay the bill for the previous year with the next year's allocation of free carbon permits, but uk companies have not yet been

given this year's allocation of those free carbon permits because the withdrawal agreement has not yet been ratified, britain's relationship with the eu has not yet been settled and that is why there seems to be their shortfall of £100 million or thereabouts at british steel. as well as officials, i'm told the business secretary greg clark is aware of the situation and british steel have said in a statement today that the department of business has been extremely responsive and supported to date but that is not the same as saying they will get this loan. how likely is it that this will get sorted out eventually? it could just a short—term problem, if mps approve the withdrawal agreement at some point soon, the eu may well say for example the date that this payment is due can be kicked at some point into the future, resolving the problem for now. or british steel may well get the money to pay the bill. either way, sources say there is no threat to any

british steel sites or to jobs, the company employs 5000 people directly, many more in the supply chain. the company says that it's made significant progress in recent years and is looking at expanding. but this is an interesting corporate wrinkle, if you like, in the ongoing political debate about whether or not we should approve the withdrawal agreement between the uk and the eu. rob young there. doctors have used a new type of treatment called "gene silencing" to reverse a disease which leaves people with crippling pain. the condition, acute intermittent porphyria, can also cause paralysis and is fatal in some cases. the treatment works by fine—tuning the genetic instructions locked into our dna. experts say the same approach could be used in previously untreatable diseases. james gallagher reports. and the cows, look, moo! sue has endured pain few can imagine. she used to take strong painkillers every day

due to a disease called porphyria. sue needed hospital treatment if she had a severe attack but even morphine didn't stop the pain then. i've had a child, i have done child labour but itjust feels like it's never going to end, it is so, so intense, so strong that it's in your legs, in your back and itjust resonates everywhere. it's really, really unbearable. but sue's life has been transformed by a monthly injection of a new type of medicine called gene silencing. this is how it works. inside our cells are genes. they send out messages containing the instructions for running our body but in porphyria an error leads to a build—up of toxic proteins. gene silencing intercepts the messenger, disabling it and restoring the correct balance of proteins. the study showed gene silencing cut attacks by 74% and half of patients were completely freed from the attacks needing hospital treatment.

british doctors who took part in the clinical trial say the impact was amazing. these are very difficult patients to treat and they've had a very difficult time and i'm surprised, genuinely surprised how well it works in this condition and i think it offers a lot of hope for the future. sue is now enjoying life without pain but the implications of this study go much further than sue and porphyria. experts say gene silencing is an exciting new area of medicine with the potential to work in diseases that are currently untreatable. james gallagher, bbc news. a dutch fertility doctor has been confirmed as the father of 49 children. dna tests revealed that jan karbaat — who died two years ago — impregnated their mothers at his clinic near rotterdam. the results were confirmed, afterjudges allowed their release. anna holligan has more. jan karbaat called himself a pioneer in the field of fertilisation,

he was first taken to court in 2017 by a group of donor children, including joey, suspicious they were related. i remember watching these young people in court, sitting shoulder to shoulder, clearly sharing some of the doctor's distinctive physical features, but uncertain as to whether they were among brothers and sisters. dr karbaat‘s family had initially objected to these paternity tests, but the court agreed to harvest his dna in case the children won their case in the future from his hairbrush and toothbrush, and that was then locked kept in a safe, and then one of his sons came forward and agreed to provide his dna. that matched some of these children who call themselves the donor kids and then the paternity tests were allowed because, the court said, the children's interests should come first.

the results confirmed he used his own sperm at the clinic and exceeded the limit of six children per donor. translation: this result means that the larger group, 49 children in total, now also have certainty because their dna can be linked to each other. and joey says the results meant he could focus on the future. translation: it means a lot, and at last we can close this chapter in peace, and i can carry on with my life now. this search took 11 years. a procedure is under way to compensate the donor kids who left court with what they came for, the truth about where they came from. india is observing the centenary of the amritsar massacre — one of the darkest incidents of its colonial history.

british troops opened fire on a peaceful protest, killing hundreds of unarmed men, women and children. today, the opposition leader, rahul gandhi and britain's high commissioner, have laid wreaths at the site of the massacre. theresa may has stopped short of offering a formal apology. she described the events as "a shameful scar on british—indian history". a historian believes he's pinpointed the location of the london home where william shakespeare wrote some of his most popular works, including romeo and juliet and a midsummer night's dream. evidence suggests the bard took up residence in the parish of st helen's bishopgate, in the late 1590s. theatre historian, geoffrey marsh, cross—referenced various official records to find the exact location. it's been known since the 1840s that shakespeare lived in this parish, but the company of letha cellars, they bought this huge property in 1543 they bought this huge property in 15113 and they still own it. so i

started combing through the leases and remarkably they preserve them. there isn't shakespeare's lease is in there but there is the lease of two people who must have lived next door. we can locate those, but can work out within a few yards where he was living. —— leather sellers. time for the weather with thomas. the weather mostly behaving itself today apart from a few showers in the south—east and east anglia. but the south—east and east anglia. but the weather is deceiving, blue skies and the weather is deceiving, blue skies a nd fluffy the weather is deceiving, blue skies and fluffy clouds but it's nippy out there, and it'll be a chilly evening in very cold tomorrow. this evening temperatures only around eight celsius, some rain to the rest of our neighbourhood, trying to nudge into northern ireland and may be the tip of cornwall. probably won't. the vast majority of the country title have clear skies, and here is the extent of the frost. you can see in

major towns and cities it will be freezing and slightly below. tropical in plymouth, six celsius. a weather front trying to move in tomorrow but it can't, stalling to the west of us may be with thicker cloud and spots of rain to the west. overall the weather is looking bright and still nippy tomorrow with highs of 7—10.