this is bbc news, the headlines: democratic presidential contender elizabeth warren has called for impeachment proceedings to begin against the us president donald trump, in the wake of the mueller report release. meanwhile the usjustice department has dismissed a democrat subpoena to see a full, unredacted version of the document, which details election interference by russia in 2016. a couple from california have been sentenced to life in prison after subjecting their children to years of torture and starvation. david and louise turpin pleaded guilty to abusing all but one of their 13 sons and daughters over a nine year period. protest leaders in sudan say they will unveil a civilian government this weekend. thousands of demonstrators are continuing to demand a transition to a civilian government after the military seized power from long—standing leader omar al—bashir last week.

now on bbc news: at 17 you're not quite an adult, but way past being a child. radio 1 newsbeat has travelled the world to find out what unites 17—year—olds wherever they are — from education, friends and family, to finding fun. being 17 has never been easy. no longerfeeling like a child but technically not yet an adult. in most countries you can't drive, drink alcohol or vote. but whether it's just hanging out with friends... spending time with family... practising religion, going to school, going to work orjust having fun... three, two, one! 17 is one of our most formative years. we are following five 17—year—olds in five different countries to see how they spend a typical saturday.

the nightlife is amazing. from thailand to uganda. when you tell people that we have school six days a week they are like, "what?!" from lebanon to russia. what is it like being 17 and is it harder to be a teenager now than ever before? for lots of teenagers, saturdays are a day of rest. no school or work and a time to catch up on some much needed sleep. but for ruth, saturday is just like any other day and work starts early. she lives about a five—hour drive along the coast from the ghanaian capital accra with her five—month—old daughter.

ruth never knew her birth mother growing up and, with nowhere else to go, she moved here to live with a family friend when her father passed away three years ago. around 1a people live with ruth in this compound in the village and on cooking day everyone mucks in to prepare, cook and pack the chips ready to be sold. around 9am, it's time for ruth to leave. she will visit three markets today helping to sell enough bags of chips to support both her and her daughter.

south—east of ghana, in the ugandan capital kampala, joy has already been awake for hours. it's saturday. i'm going to school and i have maths, technical drawing and physics today. he leaves for school around 6am and it can take about an hour to commute through the heavy kampala traffic. when you go through school you are more likely to succeed in life. for example, i want to be an architect. there's no way i'm going to achieve that except if i do go through school. i do maths, physics and technical drawing and next year i will finish high school and i hope to go to university and study architecture. it starts from this top and then merges out... technical drawing is the smallest

class he has but there are still over 50 pupils. let me give you a rough example here. most people in my family are doing arts—related careers and i'm the only one doing this science—related career. so i chose it for myself. a500 miles east, there's no lie—in for ying either. she is the oldest of six, and starts her weekend by helping her parents to look after her younger brothers and sisters.

# and all the roads that lead you there are winding...# things are off to a more lively start in lebanon. it's mid—morning and tiffany is off to the beach. lebanon is the perfect mix of europe, arab — it's literallyjust a mix of everything.

among me and my friends, we always talk in english but sometimes we mix it with french and arabic and it's really common to just mix the three languages together. lebanon is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the middle east with large muslim and christian populations. i'm a christian, personally, and religion here is a really big part of our lives. it's not enforced and it's not as strict as other places. we're serious about it but it's not like in other cultures where you have to give your life to the religion. i have friends in dubai that cannot even go out with guys, but i can tell you that more than 50% of my friends are all guys. it's just really open—minded, i like it a lot. everyone thinks it's dangerous, but to be honest i'd feel more comfortable personally walking in the streets at night here than any other country.

so why do tiffany and her mates think lebanon gets a hard time? civil war between 1975 and 1990 defined the country for a whole generation. and further violence in 2006 means that for many it still has a reputation as a troubled nation. i always wanted my children not to go through this but it seems we are never going to find peace in this region. but it's how close to syria and israel it is that many people find worrying now. in truth, lebanon has been largely peaceful for over a decade, and the capital beirut is trying to claim back its reputation as the paris of the middle east. with the warm mediterranean sea down the coast and a bustling nightlife, many visitors see it as a perfect mix of cultures. it hasn't been completely without trouble, though. the murder of british embassy worker rebecca dykes in 2017 made many foreigners in the country feel uneasy and there

are some areas along the border with syria where the british foreign office advise against all travel. one, two, three! i think people that have never come to visit lebanon has a very bad idea because of what they have seen on the news. when people come here their whole idea changes. it's late morning, and the last 17—year—old to be up and about is katya in moscow. katya has organised a gig for this evening and her friends

are the headline act. the band have travelled overnight on the train from st petersburg and are keen to see the moscow sights. russia is the largest country on earth, home

to 142 million people. and it's had a turbulent relationship with the west for a long time. for seven decades it was a communist country, and russians had very little contact with people outside. communism ended in 1991, but adapting to a capitalist society has not been an easy transition. still now, fewer than a third of russians have a foreign passport and you don't have to look far to find negative stories about russia in the world's media. more is now known about the substance involved in the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. vladimir putin has been the political face of russia either as the president or prime minister for nearly 20 years and that means for teenagers like katya, he's the only leader they have ever known. katya's day may be just starting, but forjoy, halfway through the school day, it's break time.

i have school six days a week. i would love to do other things on saturdays of course, because you love to have that break, but the only break i have is sunday and sunday is also a busy day. sunday is a church day. if i could have a saturday to myself to hang out, yeah, that would be good. i've gotten used to it. it's not so bad. by mid—afternoon all across the world it's lunchtime and whether that's fast food on the beach in lebanon, a burger king in moscow, street food in bangkok, or a school lunch in kampala, everyone is tucking into something to eat. well, almost everyone. for ruth, she is still out selling.

sadly, at the moment, the chips aren't selling very well either. her daughter stays at home with her adoptive mother whilst ruth is working.

20 cedis isjust under £3, or about $3.80. it means she's earning more than the official absolute poverty line of $1.90 a day, set by the world bank, but she is still very poor. around a quarter of the people in ghana live below the national poverty line. but ghana is considered to be one of the more stable countries in west africa. and was the first black african colony to declare independence in 1957. and it's a young country. of the 25 million people living here, 57% are under 25. english is the official language, but other african languages, like twe, akan and the language that ruth and her family speak, bantu, are all common. eventually, for ruth, business starts to pick up. but despite a few sales her takings

today are still low. ruth is no longer with her daughter's father. she says he has never seen his daughter and in her community it's not uncommon for people who have a child outside of marriage to suffer stigma. 0k, three, two, one, go! as the sun sets, tiffany and her mates move to a restaurant overlooking the sea. for dinner, we have tabbouleh, hummus and fatoush, that's usually the lebanese starters. and then we've got lebanese and fish, it is a mix. the lebanese are definitely the most open—minded. i can say that definitely.

0n the news, how they show our country is not how it is. they show violence, we are not violent at all. conversation moves on to how lebanon compares with other countries. the foundation of everything is family here. that's what they focus on. that's very true. here, people are still 25 and living with their mum and dad. and it's not a problem. and if they get married the wife will usually still live there until they get a house. personally, i had a talk with one of my friends recently about, for the future when we get married and have kids, would we like to live somewhere else or in the country? i pick in the country because we are used to how we were raised here and we know how things work. ijust think that it's the best here. you can do everything. you can have lunch in nature and then go and party in beirut at night. you can do everything and everything is easy and fun. we are very western, i would say.

open—minded. i've met people from other countries and they would say, oh, you know drake in lebanon? you listen to music? they think we ride camels and stuff. when i moved here, they asked if we would have internet and light or live in tents. i moved from australia and they could not believe it. as night falls, 8500 miles away in bangkok, ying is also spending saturday night with her friends.

for katya and her friends, it's nearly time for the gig. seeing her friends from st petersburg has made katya reflect on how different life

is for russians living outside of moscow. by the end of the school day, it's rush hour again in kampala. joy and his best friend mark are walking straight to band practice. their band is called ypf, which stands for youth passion fellowship and is attached to the church. at the moment in the band we are doing mostly covers, but i'm working on some original music. over the years uganda has changed. right now there's more opportunities for women in school and workplaces. writing music is fun for me,

and i hate being bored so i do all these things to keep active. the church and my spiritual life are very important to me. # me love the way you handle me # me love the way you fight for me. # me love the way you do all the things for me. # i love the way you handle the situation # i love the way you fight for me # i love the way you handle my situation... # i love the way you handle the situation # i love the way you fight for me the vast majority, around 85%, of ugandans are christian and spending a lot of time at church is by no means unusual for a lot of teenagers here. since its independence from britain in 1962,

uganda has endured a military coup, a brutal military dictatorship and a five—year war that saw the current president, yoweri museveni, take power in 1986. it means, for many ugandans including joy, he's the only leader they have ever known. often called the pearl of africa, around 1.3 million tourists visit uganda each year. many come to see the wildlife and go on safari. in recent years the country has been praised for its campaign against hiv and aids but also received a lot of negative international press for taking a hardening stance against the lgbt community. nearly 4000 miles away, music is very important to katya as well. slightly different genre, though. rock music plays.

as katya's gig carries on into the night, all over the world saturday night is well under way. even though she's already allowed to ride a motorbike, ying is hoping her dad

will allow her to get a car license when she turns 18. an ambition joy shares. once i'm 18 i will be able to drive legally. in ghana, ruth is hoping she can soon carry on with her education. as the night sets in, for most, saturday is almost over, but in lebanon the night is still young. usually here in lebanon the night life is amazing, so we won't even get back home before two or three in the morning. this is how we wrap our day. we alljust come here and take some drinks and chill, relax by the beach. it's amazing. the vibe, the people, the music, it's all really good.

five teenagers, all on the brink of becoming adults. all from different places, all leading very different lives. but, when it comes to priorities, teenagers around the world maybe aren't as different as it first appears. i would like to go and study abroad. i will visit other countries. but then eventually i would come back here, come back and stay in uganda. my plan, and i'm pretty sure that most of my friends' plans, is to go to college. here in lebanon, it's not common for us not to go to college.

hello there. the start of the easter weekend certainly brought us warmth. good friday eclipsed the thursday before it to become the warmest day of the year so far. the warmest weather was on the south coast, gosport in hampshire had blue skies overhead lifting temperatures to 2a degrees. other places in england, wales, and northern ireland were not too far behind. a bit chilly for some eastern coasts. i'm hopeful that through saturday it won't be quite as breezy for those eastern areas, so it might feel a little less chilly. certainly high pressure

remains in charge. one fly in the ointment, a frontal system wriggling around to the north—west, likely to introduce some cloud and more outbreaks of rain. really only over the far north—west of the uk, the western side of northern ireland and the west of scotland. elsewhere, from eastern scotland down into england and wales, we are looking at blue skies and sunshine once any early fog has cleared. less chilly than it was on friday for the north sea coast. 21 degrees in hull. the highest temperatures towards the south—east 25, maybe 26. there could be the odd patch of mist flirting with some eastern coasts of england. all the while we will have clouded outbreaks of rain across the far north—west of scotland. it could pick up for a time on saturday night into the early hours of sunday. elsewhere it is dry with clear spells again. one or two fog patches here and there leaves those temperatures in between 7 and 10 degrees. easter sunday, we do it all again. one or two patches of fog if you are out and about early, but the majority will once again see sunshine. could be wispy high—level cloud

making that sunshine a tad hazy. across the far north—west, frontal systems are wriggling around close to the western side of northern ireland and northern scotland. 12 degrees in stornoway under that extra cloud, but elsewhere, once again, temperatures in the 20s. if anything, those weather fronts plaguing the far north—west should retreat into the atlantic, we suspect, as we get into easter monday. high pressure still dominates so more of us will see dry weather and sunshine. even those western parts of northern ireland and north—western areas of scotland which will have been cloudy should be bright on monday with spells of sunshine. the small chance of a shower breaking out late in the day towards the south—west. it is a small chance. quite breezy on monday, you will notice that, but it should still feel warm with those temperatures in the high teens or the low 20s. things do begin to change as we head through next week. quite a slow process but the increasing chance of seeing showers and it will eventually turn a bit cooler.

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