hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there's been a bus crash on the portuguese island of medeira. the bus plunged off a road. portugal's national news agency says at least 28 people are dead. but there's been no official word from the police. a former president of peru has taken his own life. alan garcia was being investigated as part of a massive bribery probe involving a brazilian company. we'll have the latest from sao paulo. sudan's deposed president omar al—bashir is now in solitary confinement a maximum security prison — but the protesters are still on the streets. they are demanding a civilian government. you can see all the people in the distance here, who are coming

forward , distance here, who are coming forward, and perhaps if you look across, forward, and perhaps if you look gci’oss, you forward, and perhaps if you look across, you will be able to make out that aircraft. this is how close we are to the military headquarters. donald trump has made an important policy decision on cuba. he's lifted a ban, which will now allow us civilians, citizens i should say, to sue companies who have dealings with land, which was taken during the fidel castro regime. barbara platts usher will explain why this matters so usher will explain why this matters so much. the portuguese news agency says 28 people have died in a bus crash in madeira. the portuguese island, off the coast of morocco. the bus is reported to have been carrying tourists. these are pictures from the crash scene, you can see multiple ambulances there. local news are reporting that the majority of the victims are german.

let's talk now to alison roberts who's in lisbon. allison, what further information do you have please? the second you quoted there in your introduction, 28 dead, that was from the national news agency, who got it from the local mayor. he's the only source of information so far. as you mentioned, police have not made any public statements. he also said 22 injured, taken to the main hospital in... which is not yet giving information. we are expecting a press c0 nfe re nce information. we are expecting a press conference later from civil defence chiefs, and they will be giving us more details. as you say, the pictures that we've seen so far show a really terrible situation, the bus coming off the road and ending up on its side. it does seem that many passengers were ejected from the bus when that happened. allison, what can you tell us about the part of madeira where this is

happening? it's relatively close to the capital. it's in a fairly built—up area ina capital. it's in a fairly built—up area in a place called canico in sa nta area in a place called canico in santa cruz but is a polity. but pre—much all the islands including the surroundings of the capital are very hilly, with a lot of ravines, and indeed, that is one of the attractions of the island for tourists. any people come in order tourists. any people come in order to go walking in the interior, which is very stunning, and very dramatic landscape, and but of course it does make transport quite difficult, with a lot of pointy roads, and again with major drops off the side of the road. and unfortunately it's not a surprise that tourists were up on this bus, because tourism i assume is the number one industry in madeira. absolutely. millions of people visit the island of madeira every year from all across europe. and beyond. and large numbers of those european

tourists come from the uk. but also from germany, and it has been mentioned again, local sources saying that a large part of the people travelling on the bus were german, of german nationality. allison, thank you, do come back to us as allison, thank you, do come back to us as the hour goes on, when we get further information. of course when the press conference is held, we will bring it to you live here on outside source. now, return to south america. the former president of peru, alan garcia, shot himself today as police were on their way to arrest him. he died shortly after in hospital in lima. where he died not long after he had fired the shots. these are pictures from outside the hospital, where he was being treated. mr garcia served two terms as peru's president, most recently from 2006—11. he was accused of taking bribes from the brazilian construction company odd—e—brushed during his second term. he denied the accusations. on tuesday he tweeted..

there is no clue or evidence against him. by way of context, it's worth saying that peru's four most recent presidents are all being investigated for alleged corruption involving that same company. here are three of them, and incredibly today one of them... pedro kuczynski was taken to hospital with high blood pressure, days after his own arrest. oyanta humala is in pre—trial detention. alejandro toledo is currently a fugitive in the us. it's worth adding the case of another former president, alberto fujimori, he's serving a prison sentence for corruption in a separate scandal. daniel gayasis with us from sao paulo. people might be watching and begin what is happening in peru that so many former presidents are all connected to such scandals.

latin americans have grown used to this scandal, and many other scandals. it's quite similar to what happened in brazil, argentina, and in those countries involving different companies, but also involving that company, which is the main company now embroiled in all of this scandal in peru. end peru has seen many politicians talking, sending their condolences to the garcia family, and there is a bit of a debate beginning in peru about how far these prosecutions have been going, and how able the people involved in it are of clearing up their name, in case they are innocent of any of these accusations. and how the prosecutors are handling this case, they stressed today that they were very much following the regular protocols, and they had a solid case against mr garcia, to bring him to prison. but they are of course under scrutiny in the coming days. why is

it this one brazilian company is so central to this whole story? this company that not a lot of people have heard of outside latin america. but they build all sorts of infrastructure problems —— products in brazil, in peru, it helped build a stadium in brazil, power plants, the metro in caracas, in limon, inverness aires, trains, so it's a construction company that builds a lot of things, and an end goal and in the middle east. they are very powerful, during the boom years of latin america, it was a company that seemed unbeatable. since the 2015 scandal, people started realising that the reason they were getting all these contracts was because they had all these connections with these politicians. investigations in brazil revealed that they had payments to various different politicians across the continent.

they even had software built to help pay bribes to politicians, which is almost an absurd story in itself. it was a very professional way of dealing with politicians, with bribes being paid to politicians. and now this whole deck of cards collapsed when these executives started talking about how the company operated. daniel, thank you very much indeed. so we've started in madeira in brazil, next return to sudan. sudan's former president, omar al—bashir, has been moved to a maximum—security prison in khartoum. several senior members of the former ruling national congress party have also been arrested. last week mr bashir was deposed by the military — which assumed power. you'll remember, we have been about this for a while on outside source. there are plenty of people who would like to speak to him not least the international criminal court in the hague. in the netherlands bashir is accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity connected to sudanese military

action in darfur. —— in the west of sudan. he's also accused of human rights abuses throughout him time in power. from the coup he led in 1989—2011. he seized power, and for men, all the way through it to 2011, we saw a range of human rights abuses. these are pictures from 2011, marking the independence of south sudan from sudan. to be honest, despite that peace accord, the human rights has continued on either side. this is also interesting. a copyjust coming into the newsroom. the south sudanese president has offered to help mediate a political transition in sudan despite the fragile state of a peace deal with rebels in his own country. some people may see that on face value, some may see that as a political form of trolling, value, some may see that as a politicalform of trolling, because sudan and its moment of political unrest, weren't necessarily looking to its other neighbours for help. we

will have to see if that offer is taken up. well the president may be gone, but thousands of sudanese protesters want the military council that replaced him gone too. and they are camped outside the army's headquarters in khartoum. alastair leithead is there. well this is the focal point, where all the protesters have been gathering. as you can see, there are still thousands of people here, and the numbers tend to swell, as it gets towards the cooler part of the day. just look over to the side, you may be able to make it a barricade, there were four or five of those barricades up the street, before we got in, everyone being checked. this whole area, and it's a large area, has been in charge of the protesters for a long time. this railway bridge here is where people have been gathering, you can hear the banging on the drums that they've got. that's been the sound track that's been hurt here. —— heard here. you can see all the people in the distance here, who are coming forward. and perhaps even looking across, you will be able

to make out that aircraft. this is how close we are to the military headquarters, and this is how close they've been all along. the news has been coming through today, it's been that the former president has been put in prisons. across the riverfrom here, in a prison, that for seven years, -- 70 —— 70 years. has been known as a place that political prisoners go to. that's clearly designed as a message. when you talk to people here, they see the concessions that are being made by the military, and they really don't think it's enough. that's why they are refusing to move. that's why they are still here. until they get what they want, which is proof that real change is going to come to this country. on outside source, we bring you the essential information of the biggest stories in the world. next up is in washington. increased friction between the us and cuba. huge announcement today from the americans. a ban on us citizens suing companies that use properties that were seized during fidel castro's regime has been lifted. it's been in place for the past 20 years. the announcement is connected to us hostility to target

venezuela's president nicolas maduro. here is secretary of state mike pompeo saying... here's more from him. any person or company doing business inq any person or company doing business in 0 should heed this announcement. in addition to being newly vulnerable to lawsuits, they could be abetting the cuban regimes abuses of its own people. those doing business in cuba should fully investigate whether they are connected to property, stolen in service of a failed communist experiment. i encourage ourfriends and allies alike to follow our lead, and allies alike to follow our lead, and stand with the cuban people. unsurprisingly cu ba's and stand with the cuban people. unsurprisingly cuba's president is unimpressed. saying... it's against

all people of cuba. no one is going to snatch us away, neither by seduction nor by force. cubans don't give up." this is a major policy shift for the americans. it paves the way for what could be billions of dollars in lawsuits, and it could also affect european and canadian companies that have investments in cuba. for insta nce have investments in cuba. for instance here is the eu investor to the us saying... or you could listen to the canadian foreign minister, who says... needless to say there are

supporters, here is a republican and fort are saying... let's bring in barbara platt usher, from washington, barbara, it's a completed issue, just explain the circumstances in which an completed issue, just explain the circumstances in it1ich an completed issue, just explain the circumstances in it would l very in courts, i think it would be very complex, but what it does is it means that foreign companies that are doing business with cuba now, and perhaps using some of these properties are at risk of being taken to court, to the tune of many billions of dollars. that is why canada and the european union have opposed this so strongly. this has been on the books for 20 years in

the us law, and each time presidents have waived this, but this administration has a very hard line on cuba, and so it's saying, yes, we recognise that our allies are upset about this, but we want to bring justice to us cuban citizens. in the cuban regime is as oppressive as ever, and we are going to go ahead. so dippel can't delete tactical medic obligations, legal convocations come under the americans are interested injustice, probably interested in something else as well, so i they doing it now? yet, this administration as we have seen before have been very eager to overturn things that president obama has done, and of course president obama had this famous one with cuba. there's also some abuse in the administration, who believe he truly did make a mistake on this, that the cuban regime is the source of all ills, sometimes it seems, in latin america, when you listen to them talk, that's how it sounds, that's what they think. i think part of it is ideological, your rhetoric, cold war rhetoric, like the need to

vanquish communistic dictators come into feat socialism, that sort of thing. some of it is tied to venezuela, the ministry should accuses the cu ban venezuela, the ministry should accuses the cuban military of propping up the maduro government in venezuela. they are being cheered on by this, by hard—line cuban—american diaspora members in south florida, who have quite a lot of political clout. barbara, thank you very much, we will be keeping barbara busy today, because it later in the programme we will be talking to her about the story of saudi arabia. thank you to her for the about the story of saudi arabia. thank you to herfor the moment. in the next few minutes on outside source, we're going to update you on notre dame. the french government announces there will be an international competition to design a replacement spire for notre dame cathedral. the court of appeal has rejected a challenge by the royal opera house, against a previous ruling in favour of a viola player, whose hearing was damaged during a rehearsal. christopher goldscheider was sitting in front of the brass section of the orchestra.

here's clive coleman. for years there's been protection from noise regulations for workers, but there's been a sort of myth that somehow they don't apply in live music and entertainment venues. this ruling blows that myth away, it put venues like this on the same footing as perhaps a factory floor, and it ensures that employers, whether they are employing orchestra players, or roadies, or rock gigs, have to take all reasonably practical steps to ensure that they are not damage through noise, that means dynamic assessments, risk assessments, anticipating, as happened in this case, a spike in the noise levels, and if they don't do that, then they can get sued. i don't think this ruling means that music is going to be turned off, but i do think it means it will be played a lot more quietly at times. i'm ross atkins, things forjoining me on outside source.

our lead story comes from the portuguese outside of madeira. whereabouts has crashed, it 28 people are reported to have died. let's turn to some of the main stories, first of all, the opposition candidate and its temple's local election the opposition candidate in istanbul's local eleciton from two weeks ago has now been delcared the city's new mayor. it's seen as a set back for president erdogan, whose party was challenging the outcome. it's a big setback, that's from bbc turkish. the first iranian woman to compete in an official boxing bout says she's not returning home because she believes a warrant has been issued for her arrest. sadaf khadem thinks she's in trouble for breaching iran's strict islamic dress code. that's from bbc persian. research suggests even eating small amount of red and processed meats can increase risk of bowel cancer. those of you watching in indonesia on bbc world news, will know that

it's the start of the morning, and those of you getting up will be waking to the news that the president joko widodo looks likely to have won another term. he was against a former general prabowo subi—anto. a poll by the indonesian newspaper, kompas has early results showing the president ahead by about 10 percentage point. they aren't official results — they won't come through til next month — but these initial counts have a good track record. all that said, prabowo subianto says his own data shows he's winning. here he is on twitter and again, we've translated this same, the exit poll results at 5000 polling stations show that we won by 55%, he's also making allegations of cheating and corruption. translation: there is some survey agencies that we know work for one side in order to sway the public opinion, and they are saying we lost. ladies and

gentlemen, please do not be tricked, continue to safeguard the polling stations. results coming from the districts, do not let your guard down. as you'd expect — election officials are denying that. translation: first of all, there have been baseless accusations from a number of people, saying that the pollsters are lying to the public. this is dangerous. moreover, when they said pollsters are lying, they came up with their own version of pollster data. there was at least one press conference giving such information. for me this is unhealthy and unfair. according to the official quick counts, it looks like it's good news for the president. but he is still being cautious. transition translation: we have seen the results of quick count and exit poll but we need to be patient, be patient to wait for the official result from election commission. these two have gone at it before — whenjokowi won his first term in 2014.

since then economy has grown but human rights issues remain. not that its easy for mr prabowo can take a position on that. he used to be married to the daughter of former indonesian dictator gen suharto. and is accused of being complicit in human rights abuses — something he denies. whoever wins the presidency — these elections have been unique. all of indonesia's presidential, parliamentary and regional elections took place on the same day — you can make a decent case these were most complex 2a hours in election in history. there were more than 245,000 candidates. look at the statistics. 30% of them had to be women. about 6—million temporary election workers worked at 800,000 polling stations. indonesia is made up of thousands of islands, and is home to the world's largest

muslim population. but it has no official state religion — and that has turned into one of the big issues in this election. i asked rebecca henschke about it. so how does religion and religion and politics intertwined? in this election we saw islam play quite a key role. but they quoted the far right, the growing small, but vocal islamic groups, and that made the president worried. there was a lot of fa ke president worried. there was a lot of fake news circulating that he wasn't a true muslim, that he was teaming up with the chinese to closely, because a lot of his investments. so to shore up the islamic mode, he teamed up with the vice candidate, a conservative islamic cleric, to shore up that support, and that had a lot of his liberal, more liberal voters worried. it seems like a strategy that has worked for him. you say it's work for him, so you don't take

the opposition's concerns true strongly? know, these exit polls that we are seeing have been very accurate in the past. this is coming from a number of groups that are showing president has won this election, but that won't stop him from continuing to contest them, it may go through the courts, so we will have to wait a few weeks at least before this is confirmed as a result. it sounds like quite the operation. definitely as you said this is a huge country. 17,000 islands, and we saw some wonderful seems like today, of elephants bringing polls through to people in thejungle. boats going through rivers. so really, it's quite a successful operation today ina very quite a successful operation today in a very logistically challenging election. just quickly, when we find out who's one properly? two weeks i'd say, unless they are contested moves by prabowo. all right, good to see you thank you rebecca here in the bbc newsroom. let's finish this half—hour by talking about

outside source business. now lyft kicked off a wave of us technology companies listing on the stock market last month. it's shares have since struggled. we've got another batch coming along, going public, including including pinterest, which is due to unveil its opening share price any minute. we can cross live to new york and samira hussain. what we think is worth? yell makes a pi nte rest what we think is worth? yell makes a pi nterest has what we think is worth? yell makes a pinterest has said they're going to start praising their shares between 15 and $17. that was sort of at the beginning of what they call their road show. what it actually will price thatis that is still yet to be determined. we are supposed to hear that pretty soon. but what was interesting about that 15- $17 soon. but what was interesting about that 15— $17 per share mark is that it actually, even if they sold all the shares that they are offering at that $17 mark, it would value the company at less than $11 billion. which was less than what the company was actually valued at back in 2016. and so it's a few things. of course

one thing that it's showing is that it's being a little bit more conservative. considering what you've seen with some of these other big companies that have gone and started trading on the stock market. lift is the prime example, the limit you pointed out. started really strong but it's since dropped 20%. samara, in terms of other companies that will flow, we've only got a minute here, but as well as pi nte rest, minute here, but as well as pinterest, who else should we watch over? well certainly wilbur is the one that everyone is going to be watching for to see what happens with that, and then of course there's going to be a slew of other, of these unicorns, what they call these tech companies that are valued for over $1 billion. that are going to become and on the pipeline. so it should be an exciting 2019, if you are into ipos. which i know you will keep us updated on it. that is in your life with us from new york. now in the second half of the programme, an extended report on human rights in saudi arabia. we're also going to update you on this bus

crash in madeira, local media in portugal is reporting over 25 people have may have lost their lives. hello. unusual warmth will be a common theme in your world round up tonight. before we get to the warmth, let me take you somewhere a little bit chillier. but temperatures are on the rise, this is northern japan. look at the stunning images from the trans—alpine route in the north of the country. 16 metre high walls of snow line this route. a big tourist attraction as well, open to the public until mid—june. but it is a drive and a half, and as i said, temperatures on the rise here. the real warmth across eastern asia at the moment, is in through eastern china, and into mongolia as well. temperatures well above where they should be this time of year. shanghai, getting very close to 30 degrees over the next few days, but there are storms across the south, including hong kong. they will continue as we head towards easter weekend. now it's been very unusual warmth in the south of australia, record—breaking, in fact, night—time april warmth in the cape,

records go back your 156 years, temperatures didn't drop below 2a celsius by night, by day, we won't achieve that as we go into thursday. a weather front pushes through during today and that pushes in colder air. temperatures just 17 degrees in melbourne, for thursday afternoon. but it's short—lived, fresh or spell, much needed one at that, because temperatures are back above 30 degrees in adelaide something fresher pushing in from the west, but separating the two. this weather system, it's a tale that we are interested in, because as we finish wednesday going to thursday morning, through texas and oklahoma, severe thunderstorms and of the tornado outbreak possible. severe thunderstorms and of we severe thunderstorms and of have seen a few of th past we have seen a few of these over the past couple of weeks, and that will push its way across louisiana, towards mississippi and alabama. still separating, much more

co mforta ble still separating, much more comfortable air with some humid air towards the east, that humid air hits the likes of washington as we go through the next couple of days. 28, 20 go through the next couple of days. 28,20 nine go through the next couple of days. 28, 20 nine celsius possible here. but here, new york, and also in orlando, we will see big storms going through, dropping the temperature around 10 degrees. staying on that theme of storms, we see lots across europe, but it's beenin see lots across europe, but it's been in portugal, as we head towards easter we can, not looking great. particularly through central eastern parts of spain. on thursday and good friday, and then into saturday, easter sunday, though storms drift away southwards. for some, they could drop as much as 60— hundred millimetres of rain, that could cause some flooding. strong cold winds as well. temperatures lower than you should normally get here this time of year, and a cold when also blowing down through eastern europe, remaining in bulgaria towards greece and turkey for a few showers to go with that, for those in central and northern europe, high pressure is building, lovely sunny days, after misty starts, and temperatures are on the rice was that that includes us here in the uk, as we head towards easter. it's

getting warmer, lots of dry and sunny weather, details on that are coming up in half an hour.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. there's been a bus crash on the portuguese island of medeira. the bus plunged off a road. portugal's national news agency says at least 28 people are dead. but there's been no official word from the police. a press conference will start at any moment. a former president of peru has taken his own life. alan garcia was being investigated as part of a massive bribery probe involving a brazilian company. we'll have the latest from sao paulo. sudan's deposed president omar al—bashir is now in solitary confinement a maximum security prison — but the protesters are still on the streets. and the us is increasing the pressure on cuba.

by by lifting a ban on us citizens sitting companies that have interactions with land in cuba that we re interactions with land in cuba that were seized by fidel castro's regime. the portuguese news agency says 28 people have died in a bus crash in madeira. the portuguese island, off the coast of morocco. the bus is reported to have been carrying tourists. these are pictures from the crash scene, you can see the bus lying on its side up the hill there. information is still coming in, but local news are reporting that the majority of the victims are german. there's a news conference happening about this bus crash.

carrying details of this. we have collea g u es carrying details of this. we have colleagues who are listening across this, as he collect the latest updates on this, we will bring them to you. but in the meantime, allison is with us from lisbon, what can you tell us and what do we know about the circumstances of this crash? one thing i think it's worth saying right now is that the pricey officials in madeira and nationally, as portuguese, they expressed their condolences to the germanic governments so, it's fairly clear that as reports we had at most if not all the victims being german seemed to be confirmed on that basis, so that's one thing we now know, even though that a press conference starts, in terms of what happened, it's about 6:30pm local time that this bus came off the road. it scared the capital of

madeira, and it ended up on its side in the beginning of a ravine, in that area and it's a very hilly area had many roads are winding around with sharp drops off the side of the road of this is clearly the case here. and it does seem as though passengers who were killed as many as 28 is what local officials had been saying, to the local agencies as well, about they were projected from the bus, there terrible pictures he may have seen both of the bus and also of a number of white sheets what are covering what appears to be victims laid out. as emergency services are working away in the minutes after the crash. so, we are likely to get in the press conference, we'll get more information on the victims and also in terms of the injured, some 22 we believe had been taken to the hospital and are being treated there. allison, thank you indeed.

but allison and colleagues sharing the bbc newsroom are listening closely that press conference and the quest will be get more details we bring that to you. in the meantime... donald trump has blocked a bill which aimed to end us support of saudi—led military operations in yemen. congress had already passed it. this conflict dates back to 2014 when iran—backed houthi rebels drove the government out of the capital sanaa. in 2015, a saudi—led coalition took the side of the government. the uk, france and the us all back that coalition and have faced heavy criticism for doing so — mainly because of the number of civilians killed in coalition air strikes. here's the aftermath of one those air strikes when at least 40 children were killed in the northern province of saada. the us has provided billions of dollars of weapons and intelligence to the coalition.

opposition in congress to mr trump's policy on yemen increased after saudi agents killed the journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul last year. this is cctv footage of them in his last few hours. the president was criticised for being soft on saudi arabia over khashoggi. here's what he said at the time after a phone call with king salman. we are going to leave nothing uncovered. with that being said, the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he did not really know, maybe, i don't want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers, who knows. president trump has explained why he used his veto "this

resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of american citizens and brave service members". let's bring in barbara from washington we spoke to half an hour ago about a decision he has taken and here's another one, and question why? with motivation? is interesting because the supporters of the resolution thought he just might be with them on it because he has a well—known aversion to supporting american troops in foreign words and wanting to bring them home, but this was a resolution that is based on war—making powers, it said that the us did not have the constitutional right to support the saudi led coalition in yemen because congress had not authorised to, and president trump focused on that as part of the a nswer trump focused on that as part of the answer he said it's an attempt to wea ken answer he said it's an attempt to weaken my executive and constitutional powers i think that's a big part of it. he also said yes, you're right, great nations don't

support endless wars, which is his own quote, but he said it's not like that we had having a logistical and intelligent support and we stopped the main direct military support which was repealing the saudi plane so which was repealing the saudi plane so it's not exactly like we are fully at work here. i think another big thing with this whole issue of alliance with saudi arabia it's a staunch ally, it's the linchpin of the administration policy to isolate iran in the region, they are supporting the rebels, and any suggestion americans are pulling back from supporting saudi arabia and getting iran more oxygen does not get anywhere, particularly with certain members of this administration. so those are all reasons he is be telling this stoplight said those are reasons to carry on, but there —— i don't beat us on carry on, but there —— i don't beat us on how he wants to carry on because it is a major initiative by the saudis and supported by like six months to push the rebels back, and they have not been particularly successful, so presumably the president want to plan or timetable

of success here. what the administration officials constantly say is that needs to be a negotiated solution to this conflict, and they support the un efforts to get the rebels and bees saudi led coalition, that supporting the deposed government to come together and reach agreement on a solution and there had been various confidence building measures around access to the point which has gone up and down, and the americans had very much supported that process, but what the critics argued including those in congress, is that the military support or support for the military support or support for the military effort, still gives a green light to the saudis and still gives them that what means that atrocities continue not because they are deliberate but because of the kind of ways saudis and mris are fighting in yemen, and it means that it's more difficult to stop by stop the suffering of the people. for the second time, barbara thank you.

the bbc‘s steve rosenberg in moscow often tweets videos about what's in the russian newspapers. he found himself right let —— looking to the videos. here's he is today. "after a new survey finds that 51% of russians now have a positive view of dictator josef stalin, today's russian papers discuss this "record—breaking love for stalin". one paper calls the poll results "a psychological shock for opponents of stalinism." #readingrussia". here are the results, from the independent levada centre in moscow. people were asked their personal feelings towards stalin — he was the communist dictator who ruled from the 1920s until 1953. this is the first time a majority have had a positive view. here's steve going

through the papers. the headline... stalin superstar. according to the writer, the poll results reflect less what russians think of stalin, and more their view of what's happening in russia today. society understands that something is wrong. but he does not know how to put it right, so it takes consolation in delusional memories of a time when everyone respected and feared i said. he agrees. the main reason for the rise in style and popularity is dissatisfaction with the living standards and poverty, helplessness, the overall situation in the country. the headlining comes from moscow and arrived today saying a record—breaking love for stalin, sociologists say attitudes towards his style and will continue to improve if the state does not express a clear position about the figure and he had been triggered his actions. leonid ragozin, journalist based in moscow. "russian communist party leader reacts to poll by saying that stalin was an "epitome ofjustice".

this may all come as a surprise. millions of people died during josef stalin's dictatorship — because of deportations, famine, executions and prison camps. but every year on the anniversary of his death, there are scenes like this in moscow — with people paying tribute to him. the levada centre also polls on president putin's popularity. here are the march results. a 64% approval rating — that's among the lowest he's experienced in nearly 20 years. i've been speaking to olga ivshina from bbc russian and asked her if these polls can be believed. philosophical question, because it depends basically on two things. how honest people are when they answer their questions and second, what is the way you count. what's the way you phrase the question. and these two are equally important i think. so in the first one, where whether people are afraid or not to talk openly,

it's hard to tell. but of course, you know, there are lots of cases where people went to jail or got some sentences forjust posting pictures or criticising putin, so there are concerns people may hide their real thoughts because they're afraid. on the second bit, the polling stations than selves faced trouble. for example, there are ones that don't have troubles and independent ones, it got its status as a foreign agent a few years ago and the status basically means you are trouble because he can face setting checks and you have troubles with financial organisation of your work, and etc, and they got the status, you know, right after they published a few ratings, which really did not and they were bad news for the kremlin. theresa may, donald trump, nathaniel macron, anti—western leader would be

delighted to have the approval rating in the 60s, but i would put in view this? is actually really love for him, it's as low as 2011 which is not a good yearfor him, and a few years ago about five years ago, his approval or reading —— rating was 86, it was like that for a few years now it's gradually declining and declining and definitely a can be good news for the kremlin. and of course, it is connected to the current situation in russia, it reflects the mood of the people not only towards their leader, but the situation in the country on the whole. as he arrived, isaid to country on the whole. as he arrived, i said to you style and popularity is back and you said it's never really got away, how do we understand the relationship between russians and stalin? honestly, in the beginning, it was roughly equal, said 50% thought he was positive and 50% by he too is negative, but since

then he's approval has come his approval rating has grown steadily and from 2014, by coincidence was a year russia attacked crimea, and got more than roughly 70% of russians to think he generally was a positive figure and a respect and. thank you to all that. we turned back to paris and a few minutes to update you with the situation of notre dame. the french government has announced an international competition to design a replacement spire for the cathedral. universities are being accused of using "gagging orders" to stop bullying, discrimination and sexual misconduct allegations becoming public. dozens of academics have told the bbc they were "harassed" out of theirjobs and made to sign non—disclosure agreements after making complaints.

figures show uk universities have spent at least £87 million on payoffs since 2017. rianna croxford reports. i've been bullied for six years across two universities by the same man. once designed to protect trade secrets, now creating a culture of silence, nondisclosure agreements are keeping allegations of misconduct in the dark — feeling trapped but desperate to be heard. after i complained, i was advised to sign an nda and leave. i ended up hundreds of miles away at a new university, only for the bully to follow me and continue his harassment. i'm depressed and it's crippling my career. the bbc has spoken to dozens of people who say they felt pressurized into signing an nda. many had faced racist and sexist bullying. others describe being groped and harassed. one woman said she was disciplined for not being at work on the day of her miscarriage. and this academic has decided to break her nda. it's actually been super—helpful...

she signed one during ongoing grievances relating to her disabilities, teaching and research role, particularly following her cancer diagnosis, that she felt had not been fairly addressed. we need to be a community, even if we don't know each other. we need to know that there are other people out there who have been the university of liverpool said... the government is trying to tighten the rules on what ndas are used for. these women hope breaking their silence will stop them being misused. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... a bus carrying tourists has crashed in portugal — it's reported that 28 people have

died, many of them german. back to france. bells in cathedrals across france have been ringing to mark two days since the notre dame fire. bell tolls. the most pressing job at the moment is to make sure the cathedral is safe. fire crews have been putting out hot spots and removing anything that may fall. also today, we've started to hear their first—hand accounts of what happened on monday. we could not predict what could have happened for example why did the whole roof was going to collapse. when he spire collapsed of christ we pulled our man back in as you can

see in the media, we used automatic cranes from outside and we saw the roof was gone and could no longer recovery, roof was gone and could no longer recovery , we roof was gone and could no longer recovery, we decided to stay on the bell tower is to make sure they were not going to disappear do. the french government announced there will be international competition to design a replacement spire for notre dame cathedral. the heads of britain and france's central banks have warned that climate change poses an existential threat to the global financial system. this is their open letter published in the guardian. it says that unless major companies invest large amounts of their captial to bring down emissions they will cease to exit. the two central banks — and lots of others — are part of what they're calling the network for greening the financial system. its first report says ‘since the 1980s, the number of extreme weather events has more than tripled.‘ they also refer to a report from the insurance group munich re, saying ‘natural disasters in 2017 caused overall

economic losses of us$ 340bn — the second—highest figure ever. insurers had to pay out a record us$ 138bn in losses.‘ london's banks had another reason to think about climate change today. the protest group extinction rebellion has been demonstrating all week across the city — its demanding urgent action on climate change. it staged a demo in canary wharf, which is a majorfinancial district in london. two protesters glued themselves to the top of a train carriage. here's the mayor of london's response to what's been happening. the issue about the protesters it's important, we face a climate emergency government is too slow to act, but what i say is that you have to make sure you are safe and make sure you're not causing a danger to

others but also, you don't want to inadvertently cause problems to the public transport which is what we are encouraging people to use, when we face a climate emergency and i'm worried that protesters are targeting public transport because i wa nt to targeting public transport because i want to encourage more of that because it's good for the environment. hundreds of protesters have been arrested in london this week. today the group said thousands more were ready to follow suit. we'll see their government response. here's a lawyer who protested outside shell's offices yesterday. all of these movements at some point have to take massive or disobedient action when the political system itself is broken, the political syste m itself is broken, the political system here if you ask poll after poll you discuss it on many different news channels, it's utterly incapable of solving long and short—term problems at the

moment and we are asking people to become aware to that. and this is a method beaches because waiting for the next round of elections by lobbying and peace, that's been gone now but should stop, it's necessary, but it's not necessarily getting the results as fast as we need. one of extinction rebellion's demands is that the uk reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2025. that's far far more ambitious than the current plan. either way, this is the challenge. this graph shows the increase in average global temperatures in the last few years. this increase is linked to inudstrial emmissions such as co2 which trap heat in the atmosphere. the concentration of co2 in our atmosphere is higher than at any time in at least 800,000 years. and it's connected to human actions. if the temperature goes up, sea water expands and ice melts — both factors cause sea levels to rise.

it also melts the ice in the earths poles. this is footage from greenland, if the ice shelf there were to melt entirely it would raise sea levels by six metres. and both the arctic and antarctic ice caps are shrinking. the effect of higher temperatures and higher sea levels is more extreme weather, and more flooding. this is footage from texas when hurriane harvey hit in 2017. repairing the damage is very expensive, but so is the work needed to prevent the situation getting worse. so more needs to be done, and now central banks are getting involved. there is talk of x essential threat to the current financial model on which the world is based, how does that work, what the nightmare scenario here for the colleagues?m

that piece they hide in the guardian newspaper, they did warn about the possibility at a climate driven minsky moment, it's a reference to an american economist who had some ideas about the way in which you can get snowballing losses of confidence and particularly financial markets that lead to a sudden catastrophic collapse. there was that hint of that going on in the financial crisis about 11 or 12 years ago, so the concern is if you get something like that happening as a result of large—scale investments having been made in sectors where suddenly their products are no longer want to because the whole world is shifting away from completely cold use and oil and so forth, you might get a major upset in the financial sector. at the question of painting a kind ofa at the question of painting a kind of a worst—case scenario and looking

at things that can be doing now to ensure it doesn't happen. you mention 2008 when the banks were left exposed i want to talk about insurance because presumably climate change could take us to a chant —— a point where insurers are exposed to a cost they can't bear. there are a few issues there, very mind press about insurance as those providing policies for people and business, they also are big investors, they invest the premium income they get. there is always danger that some of the investment will end up being badly allocated and exposed to those kinds of rigs i was talking about like the financial asset losing lots of money, as things change in the next two decades. but, yes there are specific insurance related risks they are worried about and that's they are worried about and that's the increasing fear is an severity of very disruptive major weather events, hurricanes, heavy rainfall that kind of stuff. i could leave

them facing losses they can't recover from. i'll see you tomorrow the same time. goodbye. hello there. well if you've got friends and relatives this easter, that have gone hunting for the heat in europe, well maybe a steak asian would've been the thing to do. because this weekend, we should see temperatures climb to 25 celsius. across parts of the south of the uk. we can pare it pretty well with the temperatures for the south, 18 for example on saturday in barcelona. a measly ten and istanbul. so 25 does look pretty toasty. now before we get there, we've got high—pressure still with us today. around that high pressure, where feeding and the winds from the southeast, those winds are good to be quite brisk around some of our eastern coasts. so that will have an impact on the temperatures around the north sea coast later in the day. that said, we start off with some patches of low cloud, there will be patches of mist and fog around as well,

some of them can be quite dense, but they should all clear pretty quickly through the morning. we'll be left with fine weather into the afternoon. and the sunshine, we are looking at temperatures hitting the 20 degrees mark in both cardiff and london, but around the eastern coasts of england, the eastern coast of scotland, little bit cooler and fresher, given those brisk onshore winds. those winds continue to blow as well through thursday evening and overnight. bringing with it, perhaps, a little bit more patchy cloud across eastern areas of scotland, but otherwise, it's not too cold overnight with clear spells. temperatures into the first part of friday, starting off the day at around 6—10dc for many of us. quite a mild start to the day. now friday, good friday, looking like a good day as well. high—pressure still with us. notice though, the winds are going to be quite a bit later coming across the north sea. that's going to have an impact on the temperatures across eastern scotland in eastern areas of england. it is going to be a warmer kind of day. temperatures, 21 celsius in edinboro, 21 as well the height in birmingham, london, and cardiff. things are warming up in northern ireland too. with some sunshine here,

70 degrees in belfast. now about the weekend, well we are going to continue with this fine settled weather for most areas. we could see some rain and skirting into the far northwest, the western aisles, but even that is open to a bit of doubt. away from the northwest corner though, it's sunny, and its warm as well. the temperatures climbing to 25 celsius, making it the warmest day of the year so far on saturday. now we may well start to see some changes in the weather forecast on sunday. the weather front could move in across parts of scotland, but there is some uncertainty with the detail of that front. it probably would be quite weak if it does make its way in, further south across england and wales, that's more likely where we'll keep the dry weather and the sunshine. still warm for the time of year, 18 in edinburgh, still into the 20s further south. what about easter monday? well there is the potential of seeing some rain across western areas, again, open to a lot of uncertainty. it could be that the dry weather just holds on all easter weekend

for the vast majority of us, it stays dry and sunny, with the winds still coming in from a southerly direction. it's another warm one for the time of year, 18 or so in edinburgh. 23 on the cards, potentially towards london, in the southeast. now i mentioned the uncertainty in the forecast through sunday and monday, and that continues into next week. it's all to do with the jet stream, and this dip in thejet stream, we've got something potentially called a cut off low, and that could change the winds in the whole of the atmosphere, which changes the direction that our weather comes from. and that is really crucial, that's what's causing the uncertainty, but it looks more likely as we head into next week, there will be more of a push of the jet stream that will bring some rain across the uk, temperatures will tend to ease, but the timing of the change still is uncertain. the high—pressure could yet last a little bit longer. that's your weather.

church bells ring out across france to mark the exact time notre—dame went up in flames, as firefighters describe their nine—hour battle to save the cathedral. from marseille to strasbourg to chartres, at 6:55pm this evening, cathedrals all over the countryjoined in to show solidarite with notre—dame. more footage of the damage inside the cathedral, as firefighters who risked their lives spoke for the first time. translation: i went up into the towers. it was only when i got to the top that i saw how daunting it was. at some point we heard an enormous noise which must have been the spire falling down.

we will have the latest from paris.