hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. the mueller report is out. it finds no criminal conspiracy between donald trump's 2016 election campaign and russia — but it doesn't clear the president of obstructing justice. this was his reaction. i'm having a good day too. it's called no collusion, no obstruction. if you were expecting clarity though — i'm going to disappoint you. there are as many questions as answers — we'll take you through it all.

we have the mueller report. here it is — over 400 pages long, and online if you want to read it all. a quicker option is to stay with me as we take you through what it's in and reaction to it. some the news lines being takes from it include: "trump we'll take you through it all. first here's the president's response. no collusion, no obstruction. i'm having a good day. there never was, by the way, and there never will be. and we do have to get

to the bottom of these things, i will say and this should never happen, i say this in front of my friends, wounded warriors, and ijust called them warriors because we just shook hands and they look great. they look so good, so beautiful. but i say in front of my friends, this should never happen to another president again. this hoax, should never happen to another president again. it's not that clear cut though. as katty kay told me in new york. i've got that whole big 400 page report too and i'm reading some of it there's one line for kids to exactly what she said. there's one line for to exactly what she said. while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him from another little bit in the report, the present‘s efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the president declined to carry out

orders or acquiesce to his request. but they conclude is that the president tried to obstruct justice, ask the people around him to do things that would've obstructed justice, but those people disobeyed him. help us through some of the details here, one crucial question from robert mueller is that whether president trump investigated the mueller investigation itself. let's take one incident, and june 2016, there was a meeting between trump campaign officials and russians, the russians were offering information on mr trump's opponent, hillary clinton. on that, while the report says president trump directed aides to not publicly disclose e—mails regarding the trump tower meeting and said the number of lawyers who had access should be limited. then there was the firing of the then fbi directorjames comey, you'll remember this, we covered it at the time. on that subject, the report says this.

so two scenarios, many others are addressed in the report. this is how the attorney general, william barr, views the issue of obstruction ofjustice. the special counsels report goes on to consider whether certain actions of the president could amount to obstruction of the special counsel's investigation. as i addressed to my march 24 letter, the special counsel did not make it traditional prosecution judgement regarding this allegation. instead, the report recounts ten episodes involving the president and discussing potential legal theories for connecting those activities to the elements of an obstruction offence. after carefully reviewing

the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, and in consultation with the office of legal counsel, and other department lawyers, the deputy attorney general and i concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction ofjustice offence. there's the reaction of the democratic senator who would like to succeed donald trump as president, by the way, she says barr is acting more like donald trump's defence attorney than the nations attorney general or you can listen to adam schiff, chairman of the house intelligence committee, also a democrat, saying the committee is formally inviting counsel mueller to testify on the counterintelligence investigation saying the public deserves the facts, not attorney general barr's political spin. lots of comments on the role of the general has played, is this an unusual performance from an attorney general? yes, the attorney general‘s role

is supposed to be the top law—enforcement official in the country. he is supposed be neutral. he is acting on behalf of the american people and american justice and is notjust the democrats eu side, there is a contributor on fox news, more conservative meaning news channel that the president watches and likes, who says after listening to the attorney general that mr barr is not acting as the attorney general of the united states but more like the present‘s on defence lawyer. so certainly, he has been in a different position from that which you might expect from a neutral attorney general and remember that donald trump nominated bill barr with the mueller report in mind. in essence, bill barr's onlyjob was to put the most positive spin possible on this 448 page document to make the president look as good as possible and critics of bill barr today said that is exactly what he did with this summary that he

released a couple weeks ago and that is what he did again with the press conference. let's return to the central issue there of whether the russians did work with donald trump or at least try to interfere the election. there is no doubt about the clarity from the mueller investigation, the russian government did interfere with the presidential election with systematic fashion and the attorney general chose to emphasise that. the report details efforts from the internet research agency, a company with close ties to the russian government to sew social discord among american voters through disinformation and social media operations. following a thorough investigation of this disinformation campaign, a special counsel brought charges in federal court against several russian nationals and entities for their respective roles in this scheme. kathy, a few viewers may be

wondering if the president try to do things but failed to do them, is that in itself not a crime? there are two different issues here, the question was whether there was collusion with the russians and that is what we have been speaking about bill barr and robert mueller came to the same conclusion that the donald trump campaign did not conclude with the russians in order to get them elected. that should be relieved of all americans, the president did not have collusion with russian operatives. the russians reached out, but the trump campaign did not conclude with them again. collude with them again. whether there was an intention to commit a crime is around this issue of obstruction of justice, once the mother report was launched, did the president obstruct justice in order to impede the mueller investigation. that is where mueller is suggesting that the president tried but those around him did not follow those orders, this now shifts the whole issue back to congress, specifically to democrats in congress who have with the congresswoman from

california who sits on the committee, she recognises that this is in a sense, a poisoned chalice for democrats because there is a lot they want to investigate, mother is suggesting that a crime mueller is suggesting that a crime has been committed or potentially been committed yet democrats know that if they go down the path of impeachment, that could backfire against them because historically, the american public is not particularly rewarded parties that have tried to impeach a sitting president. let's us just further what you're saying on collusion here, some quotes from the report itself,. quotes from the report itself. the investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign coordinated with the russian

government. let's hear once more from the attorney general on this point. that is the bottom line. after nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election. but did not find that the trump campaign or other americans colluded in those efforts. when we are looking at the summary efforts. when we are looking at the summary of the attorney general a couple of weeks back, that is widely considered to be a good day for donald trump, one of the best of his presidency. how would we categorise today in political terms for the president? the president thinks it was a good day, one of the supporters i spoke to a few moments ago, was very adamant from the republican side that the president

has been exonerated, particularly on this issue of collusion and they are going to keep pushing this idea that this was a witch hunt, a hoax and are politically motivated and to some extent, they managed to dominate the headlines because bill barr said early on, his version of what the report was, if it dropped as he did today, the public perception of it would be pretty different, the democrats would be able to paint a much more nuanced picture. but he is not out of the woods because there are lines in this where clearly says that i cannot clear president trump of committing a crime. that is pretty stunning and it's going to lead to democrats carrying on their investigation, whether it is impeachment investigation or not, there will be investigations of this andi there will be investigations of this and i will keep the issue alive and cast doubt over the president possible is credibility of there being no obstruction. and you can see that in a couple of hours of outside source of beyond 100 days.

stay with us on 0utside source — still to come, we'll get more reaction from washington on the mueller report. what tactics the democrats and republicans might pursue as they try to gain political ground from this. 0ne one of the greatest mass murderers has died of natural causes, he and the movement were responsible for the movement were responsible for the death of 1.7 million cambodians. there have been violent protests in indonesia where they have gone on so for the first time, traditional leaders have expressed discussed and offices have been attacked and in place of god to hiding. as for exporting legacy, the competitors

will be chasing the best time for yea rs will be chasing the best time for years to come. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is? the newly—published report into russian interference in the twenty— sixteen us presidential election shows that donald trump tried to get the man leading the investigation fired. let's have a look at some of the other main stories portuguese officials say twenty—nine people have died after a tourist bus came off a road and fell down an embankment on the island of madeira. the vehicle was carrying a party of german tourists. 27 people were injured in the accident. you can follow more on that story

on the bbc world service. uganda's supreme court has upheld a decision to get rid of age limits for presidential candidates. good nequ for president museveni. he's 74 and now has the option of running for a six term. bbc afrique. police in the us say they've arrested a man — after he walked into new york's st patrick's cathedral — carrying two cans full of petrol and a lighter. investigators dismissed his claim that he was using the cathedral as a shortcut because his vehicle had run out of petrol. story let's return to the mueller investigation now and no surprise let's return to the mueller investigation now and no surprise to see politicians dividing down party lines as they reacted to this report. it started even before it was published. democrats were angry that the attorney general held his press conference before anyone had seen the report. here's the chairman of the housejudiciary committee. rather than letting the facts of the report

speak for themselves, the attorney general has taken unprecedented steps to spin mueller‘s nearly two—year investigation. reid wilson, national correspondent for the hill in washington. thank you for your time. what did you make of that press conference held before the press reported been released? a remarkable moment and attorney general william barr has beenin attorney general william barr has been in the spotlight since the beginning of his tenure, he has only been on thejob beginning of his tenure, he has only been on the job for a couple of months. he released a summary of the report about three and a half weeks ago when it was first delivered to special counsel robert mueller, that summary special counsel robert mueller, that summary has set the tone for an increased partisan squabble over what the report says. this is his second crack at spending what the report actually said, right before it came out, it felt to me like he

was trying to give reporters a bunch of q u otes was trying to give reporters a bunch of quotes that they could include in their stories once the report was more, a couple of things before we come back, this was donald trump's response. channeling game of thrones — he says it's game over. that tweet has caught the ire of tv network hbo — in the past hour it's asked donald trump to stop using its intellectual property. this how the press reacted to the release of mueller report. washington post: report shows how mueller team struggled on obstruction issue. ny times: mueller found numerous russia contacts but evidence of crime was not sufficient. the huffpost reporting on what the president is alleged to have said when he found out robert mueller has been appointed to investigate. and in the new york post: trump cracks term limitjoke after mueller report released — joking he was going to be in office

for the next ten to 14 years. this is the reaction from two top democrats. and here's the response from a top white house aide. honestly, it's time to move on. total exoneration, president's in a great mood and i think it is incredibly important here is that democracy in the worlds greatest country, greatest democracy flourishes. we don't need to collude with the foreign government, you don't need to get information from wikileaks, you can win elections fairly and squarely. from the washington newsroom, let's talk about the first read. some

difficult decisions on what to do next. they do and they brought this up, there is a risk in breaking up the aspects of impeachment because it will be seen as a political spectacle no matter how this happens. the last time a president was impeached, when bill clinton was impeached, that did not go well for them, they ended up losing seats on them, they ended up losing seats on the subsequent election. but there's a significant amount of pressure for the base, they want their elected officials to bring up president trump's impeachment charges and get to the heart of this investigation. but we will see is robert mueller testify a nd but we will see is robert mueller testify and i'll be an incredible day here in washington, dc, almost unprecedented and we are going to see a much fuller version of this report, eventually there's stuff there will be redacted, dozens of ongoing investigations, a little bit more information as the days go by

and the fact is, democrats are going to bring this up on capitol hill, they might not bring it up on the campaign trail, but the people who have not been talking about, the russian investigation are the democrats who are running against him in 2020. a quick word about donald trump is any politician, 400 page of this kind of stuff put into the public, good categorise that as a bad day but here he is very much wrapping up his support and categorising it as a very one. that is pretty much the only thing president donald trump can do at this moment, cast this as some kind of victory, it is not, it is a pretty damning report that the details of his efforts to end the investigation on at least ten different instances as well as some pretty intense context between his campaign and agents of the russian government even though those particular incidents were not seen as illegal collusion, the fact is, he's got to spend at the way he is

going to spend it and they're going to believe anything he says as opposed to what robert mueller says it is 440 page report. there are not many minds to be changed about president trump, he is not going to see his approval rating far too much father —— fall too much farther, but there are those who disapprove of his performance, this will do nothing to persuade them. time yesterday we were talking about the pricing of shares in pinterest, the online scrapbook company. they had their debut today on the new york stock exchange and surged. but they were put in the shade by shares in another tech company which listed on the nasdaq and almost doubled in price. samira hussain in new york: $19 and then trading, markets have

just closed up on just about 24 and a half dollars. that is pretty good. but it really pales in comparison to another company that started trading publicly and that is zoo, that is a video conferencing company. still within the tech world, what their share price soared almost 80% in trading today and analyst are taken away from that is investors like the idea of the potentialfor away from that is investors like the idea of the potential for revenue or the potential for gains as you can see with companies like pinterest, but there are companies that know how to make a profit and that is what we are seeing. it connects businesses through video conferencing. that is exactly right and clearly there is a big interest for that, it really does and what you see for that, it really does and what you see a for that, it really does and what you see a lot of people that are working remotely and on different

countries are different parts of the country, this video conferencing system really enables people to sort of work together despite being in different spots and that has been a real key for success in this company is clearly marked by its debut on the trading platform of the us. will talk next week, next, remember a while back and we talked about the affordable phone. well tech reviewers have now had the chance to try it out and there have been a few issues, to put it mildly. the bbc‘s technology reporter chris fox got his hands on one but only briefly for filming before samsung took it away again. here's his verdict. it isa it is a very sturdy device, long and thin, much thinner than a regular smartphone, screen on the outside lu type on that, the keyboard is very small, so it's very fiddly to type on it but the unfolded like a book and there's a bigger screen inside

and there's a bigger screen inside and there's a bigger screen inside and there is a bit of a wow moment when you open that up, it certainly catches your eye and it's very impressive, technically the screen, this bit of a crease down the middle where you open it up and you can see the crease other not necessarily if you're looking at it head on, what reviewers have found is that the screen is broken. so there's two different problems, the screen is plastic you can't have glass on there because got a forward because ofa there because got a forward because of a plastic coating and instead, and you have to peel the plastic off, they thought this was to appeal this plastic layer off because is coming with the corner, you were not supposed to peel it off, you torn out and integral part of the screen. for two of the others though, the screens broke by itself, they weren't doing anything particularly unusual with it, this must be able to open this thing at least 200,000 times but that is of course and a lab times but that is of course and a la b test. hundreds of employees of india'sjet airways have been out on the streets of delhi to protest about not being paid,

a day after the struggling carrier grounded all flights. jet airways has debts of $1.2 billion and failed to secure emergency funding earlier this week. the bbc‘s devina gupta was at the rally. jet airways is operating nearly 120 plans at 600 flights daily. and now with over $1.2 billion in debt, they've done to correct been demanding the —— they have been demanding their salaries. they are selling the car,. we do not know where to go from here basically. i believe that we are going to get there, but the government believes in us and make

the billing process as soon as possible. and is notjust these employees, but thousands of passengers are grounded, they are in a precarious position. it is election time here and it cannot afford a sinking business that is impacting thousands of jobs afford a sinking business that is impacting thousands ofjobs that may lead to negative voter sentiment. the airline has invited investors to pump in money and revive it, but until then, these employees and theirfamilies are until then, these employees and their families are staring at an uncertain future. here's some more online reaction.tweet @brhodes author ben rhodes wrote a book on the 0bama white house.

good evening. for the extended easter weekend, but the forecast is coming up and let's take a little bit further, this area of claudia running to the himalayas now has produced some deadly storms of the past few days and people have lost their lives and understandable when you see the ferocity of some of the storms. this images were captured in northwest india in the past 24 hours alone, weather conditions have improved in the northwest, still a few storms, bangladesh, some developing across the south of india and sri lanka, but it has dried and on the forecast year, with the storms did do but the drop of the heat. new delhi and very close to 40

degrees and not higher. some areas warm in the united states, the orange colours in the hermas chart but that precedes a very active storm, but i could deal with parts of louisiana and mississippi a titanate of louisiana and mississippi a tita nate and then of louisiana and mississippi a titanate and then to alabama and georgia is that storm continues and the good friday, it could produce damaging rain and all the way northwards towards washington state, new york as well, as well as parts of quebec but we could see some snow fall. a pretty warm and humid across eastern areas in florida on friday, for easter, well, it could be quite stormy and it will turn drier and brighter, even if it is a bit cooler in new york and washington as well. showers and rain return to new york into next week. if you're celebrating the easter break and parts of spain and portugal it is looking good particularly across the

southern areas, relentless rain to the east and toward some central parts of spain and showers into the end of easter sunday, across many eastern and southern parts, strong winds and high seas core conditions as well, as he finished the weekend, but elsewhere good friday across europe we have a chilly breeze coming down across eastern areas right through in to the agm, keeping temperatures suppressed here in storms around bulgaria and isolated showers but much essential northern europe here in the uk, high pressure is in charge and the warmth of his building. and that continues into saturday after some morning mist and fog, parts of finland to the baltic states in eastern poland down towards more cloud into saturday and on the cool side here in saturday with southern parts of spain and portugal to the stormy weather. temperatures in paris, 26 degrees and we could get to that here as we

go to the next few days, drier in many areas to the weekend and all the details in half an hour.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. the mueller report into russian meddling in the us election has finally been released. the two year investigation finds no criminal conspiracy between donald trump's 2016 election campaign and russia but doesn't clear the president of obstructing justice. president trump still insists the report's findings totally exonerate him. i'm having a good day too. it was called no collusion, no obstruction. we'll bring you the key details from the muller report and all the reaction.

as you can see from this picture some people have chosen to print the whole report out. it will take you a while, it's over 400 pages long, if you'd rather have it digitally, it's available online, anyone can download it, or stay with us on outside source in the next few minutes coming we will take a few more elements of this story. if you weren't watching earlier, these are some of the mains lines that have come out. actually that's first of all not one of the main lines, but hbo has asked donald trump to cease using its intellectual property. that's because donald trump tweeted out a game of thrones inspired comment to say game over. more significant news lines are that mr mueller declared there was evidence ofa criminal mueller declared there was evidence of a criminal conspiracy between russia and the term campaign, but on theissue russia and the term campaign, but on the issue of obstruction ofjustice, it concludes that well, it's not able to draw a conclusion. this is the presidents response. no collusion, no obstruction.

there never was by the way, and there never will be, and we do have to get to the bottom of these things, i will say. to get to the bottom of these things, iwill say. this to get to the bottom of these things, i will say. this should never happen, i say this in front of my friends, wounded warriors, and i just call them warriors, because we just call them warriors, because we just shook hands, and they look great. they look so good at, so beautiful. i sat in front of my friends, this should never happen to another president again. this folks, this should never happen to another president again. well let look at how all this began? a date it's two before the election. fbi investigations started even before donald trump won the 2016 election. during his campaign for president, fbi was concerned about a number of people on the campaign with connections to russia . paul manafort was campaign managerfor a while, and his links to russian 0ligarchs

and pro—russia politicians in ukraine are deep. and then there was wikileaks. as we've been hearing, some parts of hte report have been redacted because of ongoing criminal prosecutions. one of them concerns this man longtime trump confidante roger stone, who is due to go on trial in november on charges of lying to congress about his contacts with wikileaks during the trump campaign. remember, it was wikileaks which released thousands of hacked emails from the democrats during the campaign. this comment from donald trump aroused suspicion. russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e—mails that are missing. i thank you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. another target of investigations was michael flynn, a defence department official who joined the trump campaign, here he is next to russian president vladimir putin, at a dinner in moscow

in december 2015. the following year michael flynn was made national security advisor in donald trump's administration. as president, donald trump is accused by this man fbi directorjames comey, of asking for investigations into flynn and other campaign officials to be pulled back. trump fired comey in may 2017, and eight days later deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, apparently worried the investigation was in danger, appointed robert mueller, a former fbi chief, to lead the investigation. and since then, president trump has made his view of the investigation clear. fake news and the russian witchhunts, we've got a whole big combination. where is the collusion? you know they're still looking for collusion, where is the collusion? find some collusion. the entire thing has been

witchhunts, and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself, and the russians, zero. and i have this witchhunt constantly going on for over 12 months now, and actually much more than that. you could say it was right after i won the nomination, it started. so far we've been focusing on how the mueller report is being received in washington, but it has a few readers over in moscow too. the kremlin spokesman says "we must leaf through it and determine whether there is anything deserving of analysis" "for us this is not a topic, this is not an object of our interest, not an object of our concerns". here's one intelligence official from the us that takes a different view. so this systematic effort on the part of russia to disrupt and

influence us elections in favour of a particular candidate, who they could easily manipulate and control, mission accomplished. the effort of russia to so the seeds of distrust, and make us feel insecure about our institutions, mission accomplished. the goal of russia to myer us in political debate and distract us from the larger issue, that a foreign entity, foreign intelligence interfered with our elections. and that's really the threat that we have to be about more than anything else. so one thing that we failed to do as a country is admit that there's a problem, because we've become, we have an administration who has discredited our own intelligence community, and that is very much part of the russian effort, that was part of their aim as well, to discredit our intel community, to make us lose faith in the cia and the fbi coming in thejustice department. you can see that happening.

so i feel like we are not as prepared as we should be, and this should be a huge wake—up call to us, beyond that, beyond the culpability within this country, there is culpability from outside intelligence services, and that is something we have to be aware of, and we have to be proactively fighting against, and preparing for in the next election. in every election. that's one perspective from washington, here's another from moscow. i spoke to the bbc‘s steve rosenberg in moscow. it's interesting, russia as a country refuses to admit it did anything wrong, and for two years, the russians have been batting away every accusation, every piece of evidence that suggests that moscow meddled in the 2016 us presidential election, and very early on today, it was clear that 400 pages from robert mueller wasn't going to change anything. you've already given us the quotations from dimitri paske vladimir putin press secretary,

who said we are not interested. this is not a thing of interest to us. we are not frightened of this at all. that was reflected by russian television news bulletins tonight i was watching russian tv news, and ones turned face announcer said —— stern faced announcer. this, she said two years and tens of millions of dollars have been wasted in america, there is no evidence to suggest that russia meddled. that has been russia's position all the way through, and it's not changing it now. and if the media is saying this is a nonstory, do russians largely go along with that, or do some people think, well hold on, have we been doing this? some people do think that, but you know, to be quite honest, russians have other problems. you know, life is quite tough, the economy has been stagnating, real incomes have been going down five years in a row. it's these kinds of things that russians think more of on a daily basis, and not about whether their government meddled in the us election or not. steve, we like your round—ups of the russian

papers, we played one of them yesterday on the programme, would this be considered front—page news, what it even get that far? it's interesting, i'm going to be interested tomorrow to look at the russian papers and see where it is. interestingly, the story was playing very low down in the russian tv news bulletin, it was sort of half an hour in, not, it didn't get much mention at all. so it'll be interesting to see how the russian papers cover it tomorrow. ina in a moment we will update you on what north korea has been doing, among a couple of actions which will wind up the americans. they said they don't want mike pompeo involved in any more talks around their nuclear weapons. three days of mourning have been declared on the portuguese island of madeira, after 29 german tourists were killed in a bus crash. the vehicle veered off the road and came down an embankment, landing on the roof of a house just

outside the capital fun—shal. 0ur reporter in lisbon, alison roberts, has more. it was in the hills surrounding medeira's capitol, fun—shal, a tour bus carrying german tourists came off the road and flipped over as it plunged down a slope, killing most of its passengers. two dozen injured, including a driver and a tour guide were taken to the island's hospital. translation: the information we have is that the bus was relatively new, about five years old. what i can say is that every tourist vehicle, and all vehicles in the tourism service on it madeira's roads are properly inspected. the cause of the crash, it's premature to talk about that. the accident took place at around 6:30pm on wednesday. emergency services were quick to arrive, but with many of the victims apparently having been thrown from their seats when the coach came off the road the number of dead was high.

in the wake of the accident, portuguese officials expressed their condolences to the families of the victims, and to the german authorities. both the regional and the national governments have declared three days of mourning. germany's government has thanked portuguese officials for their efforts, and announced plans to send a team of doctors and psychologists to help those affected. madeira is a popular tourist destination, with germans the single largest group among the million or so holiday—makers who arrive each year. prosecutors have opened an investigation into the accident. the company that owned the boss said that it's committed to determining its causes. alison roberts, bbc news, lisbon. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is..

the newly— published report into russian interference in the twenty— sixteen us presidential election shows that donald trump tried to get the man leading the investigation fired. let's have a look at some of the other main stories. pakistan's prime minister, imran khan, has condemned a militant attack which killed 14 people. gunmen stopped several buses on the highway between karachi and gwadar. that's from bbc urdu. police in the us say they've arrested a man — after he walked into new york's st patrick's cathedral — carrying two cans full of petrol and a lighter. he said he was using as the cathedral for a short cut, because his vehicle had run out of petrol. now north korea is stoking tensions with the us. it's done two things. 1) it's tested a new weapon. and 2) it says it won't deal with us secretary of state, mike pompeo any more because he ‘talks nonsense' and is ‘reckless'. to the test first.

it was on wednesday. and according to state media such as the newspaper rodong sin—mum — kim jong—un was there to supervise. we're told it was a ‘tactical guided weapon' — that means it can only travel a short distance. but this is still worthy of note. it's the first weapons test since kim jong un and donald trump met in hanoi in february. remember that meeting didn't deliver — and they couldn't agree on north korean denuclearisation. go back further to april last year and the first summit between them. this tweet after the first summit in which he said... this test that's happened this week doesn't break that comitment. laura bicker in seoul. those weapons that he's promised not to fire and not to test our long—range intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of reaching the united states, and also

nuclear weapons. so he's gone right up nuclear weapons. so he's gone right up to the line, probably as far as to the line as he could go it to perhaps provoke a reaction from washington, and provoke some thought within the oval office, without breaking his pledge. but all of this will be giving washington pause for thought, as they try to figure out their next move with north korea. it reminds them that north korea remains a nuclear armed country. that they are continuing to build and make weapons, despite being under heavy sanctions. so that's the test, next to mike pompeo. this is north korea's official news agency. it carries a quote from a senior north korean official saying quote he says... he also says if mr pompeo stays involved, "the table will be lousy once again and the talks will become entangled." an attack on mr pompeo is significant, because he's been right

at the heart of these negotiations. these are all pictures of different visits he is paid to pyongyang the last year. he travelled to pyongyang four times last year. but north korea blames him for the abrupt end to the hanoi summit. that abruptly ended, at the time north korea accused pompeo of adopting gangster —like behaviour. more recently, last week he indirectly called kim jong un a ‘tyrant‘. that may not have gone down well. i spoke to barbara plett—usher at the state department in washington. there has been very little discussion about this here publicly, mr pompeo ignored questions that were shouted at him about it at a recent camera spray, and the state department had just put out basically one line answer saying we remain ready to engage with north korea on constructive negotiations. i think the north koreans were particularly angry about mr pompeo's remark at a senate briefing last week in which he did refer to kim jong—un as a tyrant, that seems to be the reckless comments to which the north korean official

was referring, but yes he has been criticised throughout the past year, after the first meeting after the singapore summit in july. he was criticised for making these gangster —like demands, and then after the hanoi summit, he was said to have created a hostile atmosphere, a mistrustful atmosphere. so for his response when we asked him about it has been to sort of player down. he said look, i was there, i didn't create a hostile atmosphere, my conversations with my counterparts have been professional. he continually emphasizes that president trump wants a diplomatic outcome, wa nts to pursue a diplomatic path, but there's no question he has been quite tough and demanding that the north koreans de— nuclear rise before they get sanctions relief. while mr trump emphasises his good relationship with kim jong—un, so there does seem to be a little bit of a good cop bad cop thing going on it, at least in perception. when we were in vietnam, when mrtrump came out and said, well we couldn't do a deal, he also had mr pompeo there to explain why.

i'd rather suspect mr pompeo would wear that as a badge of honour though, being seen as a bad cop on denuclearization issues, but that doesn't really get us, tell us what's going to happen next in terms of this friction between the north koreans and mr pompeo. i was going to ask you, whatever crops they are being, they want to diplomatic outcome, but where have we got to in that process? yeah, it's at an impasse really. it's a good question ros, because you have the north koreans, as we saw at the summit, wanting fairly substantial sanctions relief for the steps that they've taken already, and the steps they said they would take. then the administration saying that's not enough, and unless you are quite committed to denuclearization, we are not going to get rid of any sanctions. so mr pompeo has told us that they are still in talks, again, totally unclear in what capacity. he won't elaborate on that. so they don't seem to involve him, at least from what we can make out. they don't even seem to involve his steve biggins since the summit,

again we are not sure, because we haven't been told. we are not aware of any talks at that level. certainly the north koreans, by making these statements, perhaps also by this weapons test are saying they would really like to speak to mr trump at another summit. they want to go straight to the top. and trump has said he's open to a summit, as i mentioned, he continues to talk about his good relationship with kimjong—un, but presumably he wouldn't want to walk away from another high—level meeting that had a failed again. so it's really hard to see where things go from here. thanks to barbara, every day on outside source we bring you the essential information on the biggest stories from around the world. we go to india next. india's into the second phase of its election. india is the seventh biggest country and it has 900 million eligible voters. which makes this the largest election in history. here are the 13 states and union territories where polling began on thursday and these are the areas which voted during phase one last week.

there are seven phases in total — and the whole thing takes just over a month. we'll then get the results in late may. and these are the contenders. prime minister narendra modi leads the hindu nationalist bjp. he won a landslide five years ago. his main opponent is rahul gandhi fron the congress party — he's got political pedigree — his father, grandmother and great—grandfather were all indian prime ministers. let's get more on todays polling from divya arya in delhi. we heard 60% polling including bengali, which sees a high turnout. that aside, malfunctioning voting machines was an issue that came up in the first phase of voting, and today it's the same, it's not widespread, but it is a cause for concern and opposition parties have flagged it yet again, another sad insta nce flagged it yet again, another sad instance was one pole officer was attacked, her vehicle was attacked

in eastern state, it is an area which is affected by the insurgency, and she died in that attack. the voting went on even after that incident. earlier in paris, more than 300 firefighters were invited to the presidential palace for a ceremony with president macron. this time three days ago they were battling the fire at notre dame. in a tweet, mr macron called their actions exemplary — and said they'd receive gold medals for courage and dedication. here are some pictures from a little bit earlier, these 300 were all dressed in ceremonial attire, their meetings with the president were behind closed doors. so we can show you that. this new video released by the fire service, shows how dangerous the conditions were on monday. and while the fire is out, the government's warning that parts of the building could still collapse. work is being done to address that. a little earlier, a ceremony took

place outside notre dame — here's the bbc‘s lucy williamson. across the riverfrom notre dame outside the town hall, crowds gathered this afternoon for a service of thanks. translation: i feel gratitude to the fire brigade, by risking your lives, you've saved part of ours. after the service, the crowd walked down to notre dame, just as thousands did on monday night. standing with the cathedral in its hour of need, the mayor explained, as notre dame has for centuries stood with us. let's look some more at the mueller report which was made available to the public today. it is online, you can read it now, 448 pa g es it is online, you can read it now, 448 pages of it. the whole thing took 23 months, it involved 2300 subpoenas and 500 search warrants.

we still haven't seen the whole thing, because some of it is redacted. here's us attorney general william barr. the report contains limited reactions limited to four categories of information. those categories are grandjury of information. those categories are grand jury material, information that the ice believes, would disclose sources and methods, information that would impair the investigation and prosecution of other cases that are under way, and finally information that implicates the privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties. the bbc tells us hear the reactions are colour—coded, so you can look her up to get the full rundown. but for instance... so on. so there are different reasons for

the reactions, and in some cases, whole pages of the reports have been com pletely whole pages of the reports have been completely blacked out. the reductions weren't requested by trump's legal team we should say, here's the attorney general again. earlier this week, the presidents personal counsel requested and was given the opportunity to read a final version of the redacted report. before it was publicly released. that request was publicly released. that request was consistent with the practise followed under the ethics in government act, which permitted individuals named in a report, prepared by an independent counsel, the opportunity to read the report before publication. the presidents personal lawyers were not permitted to make, and did not request any reductions. now the report may have come out today, but the investigation has already had many consequences, led to over 30 people being charged with over 200 criminal offences. paul manafort has gone to jailfor tax fraud after violating his plea bargain.

he was a campaign manager for he was a campaign managerfor donald trump for he was a campaign managerfor donald trumpfora he was a campaign managerfor donald trump for a while. michael cohen, donald trump's former peronal lawyer, is in prison forfraud and campaign finance violations. michael flynn is convicted of lying to the fbi about conversations with with the russian ambassador to the us. another is roger stone, a long time advisor to donald trump, who is charged with obstructing the mueller investigation, lying to congress, and witness tampering. let's hear more from mrtrump on from mr trump on that. i feel very badly from mr trump on that. ifeel very badly for from mr trump on that. i feel very badly for paul mann affords, again, he worked with bob dole, he worked with ronald reagan, he worked for many people. i feel very badly for paul man affords, i think it's been a very tough time for him, but if you notice both his lawyer, they are a highly respected man command a very lawyer, they are a highly respected man command a very highly respected judge, thejudge says man command a very highly respected judge, the judge says there was no collusion with russia. that's it for today's programme,

thanks for spending it with me, we will see you next week at the usual time bye—bye. good evening. our weather has undergone something of a transformation in the past couple of days, just in time for the long bank holiday weekend. now on thursday some spots in southeast england saw temperatures reach highs of 23 celsius. making it the warmest day of the year so far. and as more —— there's more where that comes from over the next few days. high—pressure income charge, over scandinavia, so it's a settled story. we are drying up warmer air from central europe. helping to give our temperatures a boost. now we may start good friday with some low cloud mist and fog around through eastern england and scotland, but that will burn back quite quickly so you quickly. we are in for a lovely day, lots of sunshine, blue skies will rule for most of us throughout the day. later winds as well for

north sea and channel coasts. here it should feel a touch warmer, although sea breezes may develop, and temperatures widely reaching highs between 22 celsius. we could see 23 in some spots. a financial the day with some evening sunshine around, but this trip of cloud as our weather fronts that will start to edge a little closer to northern ireland and western branches of scotla nd ireland and western branches of scotland before the night is out. but most places once again remaining frost free, some spots hanging onto double digit temperatures. so another cold night there by any means. saturday the heat will build particularly down toward southern england, where we could see highs of around 25 celsius, look how that co m pa res around 25 celsius, look how that compares with some of europe's's favourite resorts. 19—18dc for parts of spain, and it remains cool and u nsettled of spain, and it remains cool and unsettled in the eastern mediterranean. so back home, and here's our strip of cloud, our weather front, for northern here's our strip of cloud, our weatherfront, for northern ireland, western branches of scotland, mostly

dry, may produce drizzle at times, lots of sunshine elsewhere, once again. asi lots of sunshine elsewhere, once again. as i say, the heat is really building, highs of 24 possibly 25 celsius on saturday. now that weather front, as we work our way into easter sunday, we'll just weather front, as we work our way into easter sunday, we'lljust work its way a little bit further southwards into parts of northern england initially, but then it sta rts england initially, but then it starts to retreat, pushing back up into northwest scotland, parts of northern ireland, once again, mostly dry. it could just produce one or two specs and spots. once again, for most of the uk, it will be another fine dry day, with lengthy spells of sunshine. we still have high—pressure sitting out over so this weather front wheel tried to make inroads on easter monday, but it doesn't make very much progress at all. so once again from easter monday looks like a fine dry day, lengthy spells of sunshine, and temperatures still doing well across the board. it's a very similar set up the board. it's a very similar set up as we head into tuesday. lots of sunshine, and a for a financial

right perhaps a little bit more cloud for parts of northern ireland, western fringes of scotland as well, but away from that, i find looking day once again with temperatures widely 20—22dc. looking a little bit further ahead than that, it looks as though we are going to see a little bit of a dip in thejet stream as we head through next week. that may allow a low—pressure system to develop to the south and west of the uk. turning things perhaps a little bit more unsettled from the south and west. at the moment, it looks as though there will be a lot of fine dry weather around, still above average temperatures for the time of year. there is a chance that that low— pressure year. there is a chance that that low—pressure system could send up one or two which could be funder he in nature.

it's revealed that president trump feared an investigation into his links with russia would end his presidency, and tried to get the man in charge of it fired. but he was all smiles today, as the long—awaited mueller report concluded there had been no collusion with russia ahead of the 2016 presidential election. they're having a good day, i'm having a good day too. it was called no collusion, no obstruction. but the man behind the report — special counsel robert mueller — failed to reach a conclusion on whether or not the president had tried to obstruct the investigation. even in its incomplete form, however, the mueller report outlines disturbing evidence that president trump engaged in obstruction ofjustice and other misconduct. we'll be live in washington and moscow with reaction.