hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. joe biden makes his pitch for unseating donald trump in next year's us presidential election. if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. officials in sri lanka revise down the death toll from the easter suicide attacks by around a hundred — 253 people are now believed to have lost their lives. and cyclone kenneth makes landfall in mozambiquejust a month on from the devastation caused by another storm. we'll bring the very latest on that. it's official, joe biden‘s running

for president of the united states. and his first video attacks donald trump. i beleive history will look back on for years of this president, and all he embraces, as an aberrant moment in time. but if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. who we are, and i cannot stand by and watch that happen. the president responded... it's a crowded field here are the 20 candidates running for the democratic nomination. you'll recognise some, bernie sanders, kamala harris, elizabeth warren. perhaps some of the others not so much. marianne williamson is a best—selling author and former spiritual adviser to oprah winfrey.

and there's the new york businessman andrew yang. and here's how they're all polling. this is an aggregate from real clear politics. joe biden in green is in front — with sanders, in blue, is second. the rest of them much more closely together. now let's bring in anthony zurcher, live from washington. it's clear that he doesn't like donald trump, but what doesjoe biden stand for? that's a good question. we didn't hear a lot of that in the opening video. we heard a lot about donald trump, and if you look at his campaign website, it's pretty vague about general policies or specifics. so over the course of his career he's been on moderate democrats, moderate to centrist democrat. he supports incremental change, he supported donald trump, barack obama's change, he supported donald trump, ba rack obama's health change, he supported donald trump, barack obama's health care reform

policies, but hasn't floated endorsed his idea of medicare for all sweeping changes, guaranteeing health insurance for all americans. so we're going to have to wait how he sees and flushes out the policy positions, because of figure are a lot of democrats on the left, progressives who are sceptical that he is going to endorse the kind of sweeping changes that they think this country needs right now. stay with us anthony, let's look at biden the candidate. he's 76—years—old so if he's elected, he'll be the oldest us president in history. this is the third time he's running for thejob. this is what he thought about his chances in 1988. i honest to god think i will be the next president of the united states of america. lemat come on. honest to god. he wasn't, nor did he get the nomination. nor in 2008. that time he lost out to barack obama. of course in time, obama picked biden as his running mate — and he went on to be vice president. they famously had a pretty serious bromance going on. biden‘s life has also known great tragedy.

his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in 1972. and his son beau died from cancer in 2015. now — as i was saying he's polling well. but there are pressure points in his record. these pictures are from the supreme court confirmation of clarence thomas in 1991. joe biden was the committee chair when sexual harassment claims from a woman called anita hill were heard. critics say biden failed to protect ms hill from pointed attacks from an all—male committee. biden has since said he regretted the way he handled it. much more recently this woman, lucy flores, sastoe biden acted inappropriately towards her during a campaign rally in 2014. ms flores claims he smelled her hair and kissed the back of her head before she went on stage. this was his response.

protecting personal space has been reset, i get it. i get it. anthony do you thinkjoe biden did enough to see off the reputation of damage from those allegations?” see off the reputation of damage from those allegations? i guess time will tell. he, his initial reaction to it seemed heartfelt, but then he joked about it, and joked about appropriately touching people in the audience when he was at a speech just a few days later. i think this isa just a few days later. i think this is a different time in american politics, and particularly a different time in democratic politics, and joe biden is essentially a throwback to a different kind of politician. so one of the big questions about this campaign that's been looming over the presidential campaign for months it, as we've been waiting forjoe biden to get in, is exactly how formidable a candidate he's going to be. how he will hold up under fire in this new little environments, the term paper tiger gets thrown around a lot. well he's in the ring now, we will see if he holds on to this

topical position, and supporters stick by him. if it's real support, and notjust stick by him. if it's real support, and not just a stick by him. if it's real support, and notjust a vague idea about how great it was when biden was vice president. 0k once more and stay with us anthony, because ofjoe biden wins this democratic nomination, of course he will need a lot of tactics to take on donald trump. his campaign video hinted at some of the strategies he deploy. remember these images? this is charlottesville, virginia, in 2017. members of a white nationalist rally clashed with counterprotestors. one of the counter protestors was killed. at the time president trump didn't condemn the white nationalist.biv and in his campaign videojoe biden addressed what happened in cha rlottesville. he said there were "some very fine people on both sides" very fine people on both sides. with those words, the president of the united states assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate, and those with the courage to stand against it.

anthony, before joe biden anthony, beforejoe biden gets anywhere near to contesting donald trump, he's got to see off as other 19 contenders for the democrats. for people who are not students of the process, what happens from now april 2019. the omega we've got a long way to go before people start casting ballots in this process. the beginning of 2019 when you have the isle of caucuses in new hampshire. in the meantime, it will be a couple of months before we start having a long string of democratic debates, those will be very closely watched. of course, there is constant campaign fundraising that joe course, there is constant campaign fundraising thatjoe biden is going to have to do, like every other candidate. he's going to have to go out meet voters in all the states. joe biden‘s campaign pitch, and you can see in that video is that he is electable. he can beat donald trump. what he has to do a think is convinced the majority of democrats who view electability as the key issue in protecting their nominee that he is the guy who can go to toe with donald trump and taken down. there are a lot of other candidates who are charismatic, interesting, but untested. joe biden has to

essentially say i've been in the arena, i've been on national presidential campaigns as a running mate before. i'm ready for this. that will be the opening question, and we will see in the coming months. anthony, peggy very much, good to talk to you. of course those of you who are students of american politics, you can get plenty of analysis already on that 2020 election and through the bbc news website. let's turn to sri lanka as website. let's turn to sri lanka as we have throughout the week. the death toll in sri lanka has been revised. from 359 to 253. we're told there's been a calculation error. also, this is the uk's foreign office website. it says it ‘advises against all but essential travel to sri lanka, due to the current evolving security situation‘. note that phrase ‘ongoing security situation‘.

this is them admitting this may not be over. the sri lankan police have arrested more than 70 people. they‘ve also released this cctv footage. they say this is a suspected bomber at the cinnamon grand hotel — just by the hotel‘s restaurant. they have also released a series of stills showing three men and three women that they want to question. it is also still unclear if the suspected ringleader of the attackers is alive or dead. while police work continues in sri lanka, the government is reiterating that the attackers must have had some help from abroad. remember, on tuesday, the islamic state group claimed responsibility — though that is not confirmed. whoever did or didn‘t help, we know that the attackers were middle to upper middle class — to use the police description. two were sons of a wealthy spice merchant. here‘s frank gardner on this. certainly i think it will come as a surprise to people that yes, they

are from a quite wealthy affluent families, but that‘s not unprecedented. let‘s go right back to osama bin laden, he came from a very wealthy construction family, the bin laden group inside arabia is a legitimate construction family, originally from saudi yemen, they immigrated to saudi arabia. he chose to lead, to leave that comfortable life injeddah in the 19805 to go and fight the soviets in afghanistan. there are plenty of nhs medics, for example, who have joined al-qaeda or isis and carried out attacks. so it‘s not unusual. one of the 9/11 hijackers came from a well—to—do lebanese family, went to a french school. now inevtiably, sri lanka‘s defence secretary has resigned. he‘s maintaining he did nothing wrong — but says he‘ll take responsibility for failures to properly share and act on intelligence warning of possible attacks. here‘s more from frank gardner.

this was a pretty sophisticated well—planned orchestrated, and i hate to use those words, about something so horrific as this, but this was a very serious attack. i think this is probably the... since 2001, i would say this is the worst intelligence failure when it comes to a terrorist attack. there were so many warnings. the indian authorities alerted the sri lankans on april the 4th, on april the 20th, the guardian newspaper in britain is saying that as early as four months ago the indians warned the sri lankans that there was a terror plot being hatched. now a cache of explosives was discovered recently in northwest sri lanka, of military grade. and yet no warnings were given. churches and hotels frequented by tourists were obvious targets. if the i was aware of this, and yet because of sri lanka‘s own domestic situation, warnings weren‘t passed on.

—— the -- the fbi —— the fbi was aware of this. while the investgation continues, so many families are mourning loved ones. the bbc‘s caroline hawley has spoken to relatives of two british victims who died at the shangri la hotel. amelie linsey was 15, about to sit her gcse‘s when she was murdered with her 19—year—old brother, daniel. amelie was really the glue that held the entire family together. she was beautiful in every way, she was so smart, she had a wonderful sense of humour, and really it‘s going to be almost impossible to imagine life without her. a lovely girl, and again you expect her dad to say that, but she really was lovely inside and out. and you were having an amazing holiday with them until that moment? well they even thanked me and gave me a hug night before and said thank you very much, and you know, they were giving me food from the buffet, and the first blast went off, i hope that's not what,

you know, was a fatal blast, because we did start running out, and i don't know what sort of condition they were in, and there was another blast, they were incredibly kind. inafew in a few minutes an outside source, we will turn to the summit of kim jong—un and flattery prudent, we will hear of those discussions wins, and the commitments they are making. what do your children like to be read at bedtime?. you can think of a classic byjk rowling, orit teachers at a school in essex are also concerned that their pupils are getting a bedtime story, they‘ve decided to read to child themselves. sinead mccarthy is head of school at latton green primary academy it's it‘s really positive, we don‘t see ourselves as a school, we are very much a family. we are very much a community, and we know that the

children can only make this progress command only injury these things if we‘ve got the home—schooling. so we work together, then we can make that happen. so we wanted to be able to support the families, because life is busy. people are busy, they‘ve got older children that they have to ta ke to got older children that they have to take to clubs, they‘ve got you know, differentjob shifts, so they don‘t a lwa ys differentjob shifts, so they don‘t always get to have that family time. so we were creating that family time. a lot of them have said they sit down as a family and enjoy the stories together. the children come in each day, they do want it every day, which we had to say no. we couldn‘t do that. the staff did say well we will do it if the children wa nt to well we will do it if the children want to i said no. for their well—being i had to pull them back from that. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. i‘m ross adkins. our lead story is? former us vice presidentjoe biden has confirmed that he‘ll run for the democratic party against donald trump in the 2020 presidential election. mr biden is the front runner in a crowded field of twenty democrat candidates. here are the main strays from bbc world service. amnesty international says

more than 1600 civilians were killed by the us—led bombing campaign to retake the syrian city of raqqa from islamic state in 2017. those figures are ten times higher than the coalition has so far admitted. that‘s form bbc arabic. emmanuel macron has set out plans to respond to the "yellow vest" protests. among various announcement, he said he‘d implement significant tax cuts for workers. that‘s from bbc world service. well here we have kimjong un and vladimir putin have met for the first time. and president putin has said that america is not offering sufficient guarantees for north korea to shut its nuclear programme. he‘s also suggesting six party talks involving north and south korea, china, japan, russia and the us. today‘s summit took place on russky island, near vladivostok.

here are some of the pictures like can middle a bit earlier. first of all there reformer talks between the two leaders, and a number of senior officials. you can see kimjong—un looking at his notes there. after that, there was a champagne reception. doesn‘t look like the atmosphere was two grades, but they enjoyed a drink together, and talked. then they exchanged gifts. president putin gave chairman kim jong—una sabre president putin gave chairman kim jong—un a sabre and a tea service that can be used on mr kim‘s armoured train. in return, president putin got a traditional korean sword. so blades all around in vladivostok. the summit did go better than that the last get together for a donald trump and better than that the last get togetherfor a donald trump and kim jong—un, that ended without agreement, but let‘s be clear, the summit had much smaller ambitions than the one in vietnam. here‘s sarah rainsford in valdivostok. the summit here at this college campus lasted a lot longer than was expected, in the mood music was extremely positive. there were warm words, a warm handshake at the very beginning. big smiles from both leaders,

as they began their first meeting here at this sports hall behind me. the talks themselves between vladimir putin and kim jong—un went on for almost two hours, and then there was a reception. there was champagne, there were toasts, there was music. a very positive image that both leaders wanted to project i think to the outside world, and particularly to the united states. a very different scene to the one in hanoi a couple of months ago, where talks between donald trump and kimjong—un collapsed over disagreement over how to handle the issue of denuclearization in north korea. i think in terms of substance, we don‘t get a very clear picture of exactly what the two leaders were talking about. we do know that the issue of the nuclear programme was very much on the table, and president putin, after he came out, although there was nojoint statements, mr putin did make a few comments in which he said, stressed one thing in particular. that while russia supports the denuclearization north korea,

he said north korea needs guarantees, of security and its sovereignty. so i think he‘s underlining the idea that russia understands north korea‘s position, and he says there needs to be a lot more trust, trust building exercises by all sides. this needs to be a gradual process. thanks sarah. now to business. some of the biggets names in corporate america reveal how much money they‘re making this week — a third of the firms that make up the s & p index in fact. they will be giving us their latest figures. online retail giant amazon, auto maker ford and coffee chain starbucks all report this evening. amazon sales rose by close to $60 billion, and it‘s benefiting not just from selling things like cds and books, but also by its cloud business, and it‘s add businesses. let‘s speak to michelle fleury come alive with us from new york. hi michelle, where to start with all of

us. michelle, where to start with all of us. how do you guide us through all of its? there are a couple of things to talk about. one of them is amazon. the only way to describe certainly the initial read is that this was a blow out company for the online shopping site. just reading the release here, you are looking at first—quarter sales up 17%, so ijust think that really satisfies, if you like, some of the doubters. because of course you may recall the last time three months ago when amazon was talking to investors they gave some disappointing guidance looking forward , disappointing guidance looking forward, suddenly the fact that you have these much better than expected numbers i think will serve the company well. again, they will have a conference call with investors and a conference call with investors and a bit, and so we should learn more. we‘ve also heard from starbucks and other company reporting, number of loyalty customers, that is coming very strongly. so that‘s been another positive. but we have some bad news out of another company, the maker of post—its and scotch tape,

they basically saw it sail plunge 596, they basically saw it sail plunge 5%, and said as a result, it‘s going to be laying off up to 2000 workers globally. that will be one story to watch going forward, to see where those job losses are going to be. why and struggling? that i honestly have not had a chance to read through the release, the numbers are literally just out. through the release, the numbers are literallyjust out. again, the sales coming up... the reason i was asking i suppose a lot of people watching wonder, we are talking about amazon just getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and becoming so dominant in the retail space, whether that has a knock on effect on other companies who perhaps wouldn‘t have been to the mac traditional rivals of amazon, but somehow end up being affected by a. i think affected by a. ithink in affected by a. i think in the case of 3m and amazon, there is not an obvious overla p, amazon, there is not an obvious overlap, and it‘s not a case of amazon trying to eat up the launch of 3m, amazon trying to eat up the launch of3m,i amazon trying to eat up the launch of 3m, i think their businesses are sufficiently different, but it‘s a valid question when you‘re talking about amazon, because of course

there in the cloud computing business. they are talking about setting up and getting deeper and deeper into the kind of retail experience when it comes to clothing. they are obviously, as we know, going more and more after the streaming video service, so they are definitely in lots of different areas, i think in the case of 3m, it‘s a somewhat different story to understand what‘s driving those sales lower, whether it‘s structural, whether it‘s demand for their products, that‘s the problem, 01’ their products, that‘s the problem, or whether it‘s costs are going out. i‘m sure you will tell us a good time. a shall thank you for taking us time. a shall thank you for taking us through that. let‘s switch from america to india. remember it‘s the indian election going on at the moment, and what happens is hugely significant, because this is one of the worlds fastest growing economies, but there is one issue where it lags behind a great many countries, and that‘s the number of women in work. female participation in the workforce has actually been declining in india and the opposition congress party says one

third of governmentjobs will go to women, if it wins the next election. it's women, if it wins the next election. it‘s rush hour in india‘s most popular state. very few women are going to wear, and there are many reasons for that. the law firm based in delhi requires a legal... i‘ve seen so many similar kinds of ads these days. 23—year—old is a trained lawyer. she graduated a year ago, but still hasn‘t found a job. this is a very big law firm. she says that law firms openly mention in theirjob adverts that they prefer men. she attended a few interviews, but was rejected. despite india‘s economic growth over the last few decades, women are dropping out of india‘s workforce. its largest problem across indian cities, the situation is the same. in rural areas like this. women are

getting better education in rural areas, but there are very fewjobs that match the qualifications. she graduated from university a few yea rs graduated from university a few years ago, but after struggling to find suitable implement near her home, she took up a job at this embroidery workshop. both the leading political parties and the ongoing election have promised to tackle this issue head—on with the main opposition party, the indian national congress, promising to reserve 33% of jobs for national congress, promising to reserve 33% ofjobs for women in the public sector. experts say that private companies need to play a role too. in the private sector, this is happening at the top. but probably the trickle down needs to be faster and stronger. in the next decade, india will grow to have 1 billion people in its workforce. the largest in the world after china. but if the country wants to realise his dream of becoming a negative exhibit power, policymakers will have to take concrete steps to create more jobs

will have to take concrete steps to create morejobs for women, especially in rural areas, where most of the population lives. facebook contunies to make money and grow. a lot of pr problems, but it continues to make an awful lot of money. it‘s reaped revenues of $15 billion in the three months to march. that‘s up 26% on the same period last year. it‘s seeing a surgeon period last year. it‘s seeing a surgeon add spending, growth and instagram, otherfactors surgeon add spending, growth and instagram, other factors as well. here‘s samira hussain. there are two big takeaways from these earnings. one, facebook teams to be taking privacy much more seriously than it had before. and two, despite all of those privacy issues, facebook is still able to get more people to sign onto the platform, and continue to engage people on the site. now back in march of this year, facebook ceo, mark zuckerberg, said that the future of the company will really be in private encrypted services. it‘s a recognition that social media companies, a lot of them, notjust

facebook, have really eroded the public‘s competence that they are able to keep people‘s information say. now facebook has said its legal battles with american regulators have not yet been resolved, and it is unclear how long it will take. now after we‘ve taken a short break, we will get you a lot more information on cyclone kenneth. we talked about this yesterday, and this is a satellite image. ta ken this yesterday, and this is a satellite image. taken 36 hours ago. the cyclone hasn‘t moved onto the coast of mozambique and the coast of tanzania, will show you in a bit more detail here for the north of muzzy bay, the toe to the next out of tanzania are the two areas bearing the brunt, very high winds, very heavy rain, the storm surges are there as well. we will have the latest from bbc weather coming and of course the context here is that around a month ago, cyclone idai also brought devastation here before. wasn‘t because having an awful time of it either moment, we will bring you back up—to—date how those in the middle of the situation are coping. speak to you you in a

second. hello, your next uk forecast is coming up in half an hour. at this time in the evening, we take a look at some of the big weather stories happening around the world. none bigger at the moment then cyclone kenneth, hitting northern mozambique. the potential for a weather disaster to unfold over the next several days, as it makes landfall, you can see it on the recent satellite picture, and an eye developing on the coastline, it has been strengthening on the approach to the coastline. it is north of west where cyclone idai struck, it‘s this druggist the system that‘s been recorded this far north end mozambique. so it‘s not exactly an area prepared for something like this. strong winds, storm surge, and then it could well be several days of heavy rain. this forecast is taking us through the weekend, even into sunday. it may still be raining

over the same areas, although the system will be weakening. it‘s still a prolific rainmaker for several days to come. some spots from cyclone kenneth here into northern mozambique could get up to a metre of rain. a storm surge, the amount of water above tied level hitting the coastline up to five metres in places. both of these are a recipe for catastrophic flooding. let‘s not forget the winds as well, destruction for wins that were estimated while approaching the coastline of gusting to around 300 kph. now as we take a look further to the eastern and indian ocean, you‘ve got another tropical cyclone. this is not affecting land, but to the north of that, watching the system just starting to take more shape, and could well be starting to drift shape, and could well be starting to d rift northwest shape, and could well be starting to drift northwest towards as well, and developing into a tropical cyclone. that could affect parts of sri lanka and india in the coming days, there isa and india in the coming days, there is a lot to play for, and exactly what‘s going to happen with us, and where it‘s going to be going. we will keep you up—to—date on that. winter is back. not exactly, but we have taken the middle step backwards

during spring. this is spain a couple of days ago. some heavy snow particularly in higher elevations. so while some parts of europe, including the uk, have had some record warmth over the easter weekend, it has been quite chilly in places. it‘s still not particularly warm into iberia as we look at the forecast for friday. the heat has moved away from the uk, pushed further east. near 30 celsius in warsaw for friday and the sun shines. as we look at what is happening in the weather in terms of cloud and rain, its clue he turned more unsettled across western parts. sunshine though developing through spain and portugal. lifting the tempter a little bit during saturday and into the weekend. eventually, we will lose the warmth from eastern parts of europe. with the main thing for the uk is the arrival of storm hanna on through friday night and into saturday with some very strong winds on the way. articulate across parts of wales and southern england. so we give you more detail about that coming up in half an hour with our weather for the week ahead, and of course we will take —— look into

next week‘s weather that‘s all for me thank you. bye—bye.

hello, i‘m ros atkins, this is outside source. joe biden makes his pitch for unseating donald trump in next year‘s us presidential election. hello, i‘m ros atkins, this is outside source. if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will for ever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. officials in sri lanka revise down the death toll from the easter suicide attacks by around a hundred — 253 people are now believed to have lost their lives. and cyclone kenneth makes landfall in mozambiquejust a month on from the devastation caused by another storm. we‘ll bring the very latest on that.

the un says cyclone kenneth could cause a humanitarian catastrophe. map it‘s heading towardstanzania and mozambique. and is bringing winds of 200kmph and torrential rain. people in southern tanzania and northern mozambique have been told to take shelter on higher ground. take a look at these pictures. here you can see hundreds of people on the move in the mtwara region of southeastern tanzania. this is a picture from mozambique‘s institute of disaster management showing people taking shelter. and remember, this was mozambique when cyclone idai caused hundreds of deaths in mozambique, malawi and zimbabwe. cyclone kenneth hit the island nation of comoros on wednesday night.

at least three people died. irc africa the international red cross has volunteers on the ground. it says "homes and roads are damaged and destroyed, telephone poles and trees are down." and these are local people talking about what happened. we spent the night with fear in our stomachs, we could not sleep. we did not know where to go in the dark. you see this mango tree, we used to sit under it to rest and it was simply uprooted. we were up until 11 o'clock last night when things got out of hand. it was the neighbours who came to evacuate us. next here‘s more form pumza fihlani in johannesburg. the key problems with the country like mozambique is that it‘s largely rural, especially the area northeast of mozambique where the cyclone is hitting and for people of the infrastructure and homes for example are as are as basic as mud huts and even shacks and that‘s not something expected to be able to withstand the force of it like this coming. for lots of people, that fear is that it‘ll very much be a

wait and see the game, that they will have to brave the cyclone from their homes and hope that once the storm has passed, help will get to them at a faster speed to avoid the loss of life. we know of course that with cyclone idai that hit over a month ago, more than 1000 people were killed when that disaster struck. for the latest update on where the storm is now i spoke to sarah. kenneth has made landfall now and it looks like it‘s not only the furthest north of this intensity ever made landfall, it‘s also the strongest cyclone to ever make landfall in mozambique. so how does it compare with cyclone idai and the problems that came with that? i think it‘s going to be a similar situation of course it‘s a different area, so cyclone idai was further south, but this one is much further north near that northern province. in terms of rainfall amounts i think it‘s

similar to what we saw with idai, about 600—800 mm of rain expected as this storm system becomes really slow moving in the next few days. so to put that into perspective for you, is part of mozambique and a whole year would expect about a metre and a half worth of rain. we could see up to a metre which is about two thirds at the annual rainfall in just a week or so. i was going to say, from what you‘re saying this will go on for a number of days before it cleared at all. that‘s right. so although it‘s not yet made landfall and the wind is easing away so it‘s no longer technically a tropical cyclone, but what we will see is the rainfall, just really continuing for the next four or five days at least, shifting further north into southern tanzania as well, so the levels really are going to be increasing quickly over the next few days and i think catastrophic flooding could well be an issue. more important developments in sudan. two weeks ago the president was overthrown by protests and a military council took power. now three generals

on the council have resigned — again after pressure from protesters in the capital khartoum. these are the latest pictures from khartoum. hundreds of thousands of people have been out on the streets. they want a civilian government. all three generals who resigned were allies of caro president omar al—bashir. and as such didn‘t represent change to the protestors. here‘s mohanad hashim in khartoum. this professional association has called for a million marks today and you can see the crowds behind me. they came from all over the country to hear to press the transitional military counsellor to give them what they want to, which is a civilian government. last night, three of the controversial figures with islamist leanings who were pro—bashir, turn in their resignations from the transitional military counsel and these crowds are here to put more pressure on the transitional military counsel. earlier, i walked among the crowds and i asked a few of them what where

their aspirations and what they wanted. most people seem to agree that what they want is a civilian administration to oversee the transitional period. it‘s their responsibility of the city needs professional association and the forces of change to avoid any splits or divisions. we are in the middle of a historic moment for our nation. any divisions will break the back of sudan. we just want a government that is qualified and does notjudge you on religion or age or any other personal characteristics. it should just be judged on how you do your job. if you are created in your field, you should have a chance. the military counsel is simply wasting time hoping we'll get disappointed and go home, but we still had demands. we had been here for four months

already, we can wait for 100 years until we get what we want. now the ball is in the opposition court, the pressure they have mounted has led the military counsel for this controversial figures to resign, the challenges with the opposition be able to come up with a list of nominations and that figures that can oversee a civilian transitional administration. if you‘d like more context to what‘s happening that you can find it through the bbc news website. we try to bring important stories from all around the world in whatever form they come in and we are going to talk about the world‘s second largest colony of emperor penguins has vanished. it happened after thousands of the colony‘s chicks drowned in 2016 when severe weather affected the brunt ice shelf. that happened in halley bay

in the weddell sea in antarctica. scientists from the british antarctic survey noticed the disappearance when they studied satellite pictures. this one‘s from 2015 — the brown on the ice is the animal‘s excrement — there‘s a lot of it. it‘s visible from 800kms above the earth, it‘s used to estimate the size of the colony. then this one‘s from 2018, the brown is gone. heather lynch from stony brook university in new york has been studying the disappearance. help us understand what happened please. i was not involved in this particular study, but what the authors found was that there was almost complete reading failure over three consecutive years in this particular colony, and not surprisingly the adult penguins had

decided to pick up and move and most if not all of them had shown up in a nearby empire penguin colony. would it be normalfor penguin nearby empire penguin colony. would it be normal for penguin colonies to evolve in this way. we don't know actually, it‘s only been in the last few years we had studying emperor penguins using satellite imagery so we don‘t know whether this is par for the quest for them or whether it‘s a significant advantage that could have long—term repercussions for their survival. some viewers may be surprised if you look at the excrement that penguins from 800 km away and the accurate assessment. absolutely, it‘s one of the biggest advances we have had in penguin science in the last decade, and it‘s really allowed us to study penguins like the emperor penguin that are brooding —— being remotely that the scientist can rarely get there. in terms of the rows of the adult penguins playing in the colonies, would they had known that chicks had been lost are made they had taken a

wild to realise the type to be played out. while adults were probably back and forth to see quite a bit to provision the food for the chicks i think as soon as they would have come back they would have realised the colony had broken up and certainly looks like over years of breeding failure most of them have abandoned our night and trying to breed in this colony. the ice shop is still there so there‘s a possibility that penguins may return at some point. may be they might, these are very dynamic landscapes and the emperor penguins may choose to return once conditions become an animalfor breeding, to return once conditions become an animal for breeding, but they may not they may decide to stay in the colony where they live too, so we won‘t know we have to wait and see if you you. thank you for taking us through. stay with us on outside source — still to come... new worries for our planet as researchers say twelve million hectares of tropical forests were lost last year —

the equivalent of thirty football fields every minute. the cast of the 25th james bond film has been announced, with oscar winner rami malek confirmed as playing the villain. it was revealed at the goldeneye estate injamaica, where ian fleming wrote the 007 novels. lizo mzimba was there. like any good secret agent, daniel craig says he‘s less interested in the past and his time as bond, and more focused on the job in hand, the new film. this is my fifth and it‘s been a long time but it‘s been an amazing time, and i‘m just terribly excited about getting going. and we‘re launching it here, at goldeneye in jamaica, so things aren‘t that bad really. here injamaica is where the first film, dr no, was shot back in the 1960s. a lot has had to change since ursula andress emerged from this ocean,

particularly the way female characters appear in the movies. the women in this film are very interesting, complicated characters. is it particularly important to take that approach after the events of the last few years in the industry and wider? absolutely. i think the metoo movement has had a huge impact — rightfully, thankfully, on society. and these films should reflect that. but you‘re kind of dealing with a character who is flawed, who has issues. of course we wouldn‘t be movie—makers or creative people if we didn‘t have an eye on what‘s going on in the outside world while doing our work. skyfall put bond on top of the world, making more than $1 billion, but perhaps now the franchise‘s success could be in danger from the likes of the marvel universe. blockbusters now mean this huge, interconnecting web of different franchises which are across film, which are across television, which are consumed in different ways, which have lots of different characters. and bond just seems an anachronism.

he‘ll soon be exiting the world of 007, hoping, at least when it comes to inclusivity, to leave it properly and firmly in the 21st century. lizo mzimba, bbc news, jamaica. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... former us vice presidentjoe biden has confirmed that he‘ll run for the democratic party against donald trump in the 2020 presidential election. there‘s been a resurgence of measles. it‘s being blamed on a drop in vaccination rates. this report from unicef says that between 2010 and 2017 more than 20 million children missed out on the measles vaccine. and that‘s having consequeneces. measles is a highly infectious viral illness that affects the lungs, eyes and brain. and babies are most at risk. they can catch it before they are

old enough to be vaccinated. here‘s one expert from the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. i think the problem is partially related to the fact that people are no longer confronted with the affect of the disease. so in the days when we did not have a vaccine, one in 5000 people would die of it. in resource poor countries is still one in 100. so it‘s clearly a very infectious disease. in fact, measles is more infectious than ebola. except the death rate of christ is not as high, but that does not mean we do not need to aim for a 95% of the population being immunised because one person with measles can potentially infect 90 other people. it‘s particularly common in groups that had decided not to have vaccines, because they make themselves and their immediate environment incredibly vulnerable. and for us as people who travel widely across the world with our children, it‘s not just a question of making sure your own child is vaccinated, but actually to make sure your environment has what is called community immunity or shield of protection and we all need to gather momentum to achieve

that for up to 95%. measles remains a lethal disease if not prevented and people need to realise that their perception of risk as may be changed because they are not seeing the disease anymore and to some degree, that is destroying the success of the immunisation programme. well that community immunity that we heard about there, happens when a high percentage of the population is vaccinated. it means the disease can‘t spread. but if fewer people get vaccinated, then it doesn‘t happen. so why the drop in vaccinations? here‘s helen donovan from the royal college of nursing. the anti—vax propaganda and the stuff you see on social media is something we need to be aware of. and we cannot become complacent about it. but there are sort of practical logistic issues we also need to tackle and that is from a general practise, all the way to any other opportunity that health care professionals see patients and

parents to remind them to have the vaccine, because children under one years old, are too young to have the vaccine but obviously they can still contract the disease. we know there is a cohort of children certainly you are now coming into their teenage years, who were little at the time of the controversy which has now been completely disproved and contrave nted. but the vaccine itself they have not had, so those children in their teenage years, we need to make sure they have opportunity. these ten countries have more unvaccinated children than any others in the developed world. the us tops the list. it has more than 2.5 million missing their first vaccine.

france and the uk are second and third in that list. if you want a measure of the resurgence of measles — in the first three months of 2019 more than 110,000 cases have been reported worldwide — that‘s three times higher than this time last year. so what should people do? back to the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. who is an expert? who do you trust these days? you have all sorts of expert opinions flying around for all the wrong reasons. people are claiming they can get an opinion on something about which they know very little. i think it goes to the question of trust, who do we trust in our society? do we trust the person who gives a quick information on social media or do we trust people who are otherwise our best advocates. doctors, public health assistance, we are there to help people stay well. we are not there to inflict damage on populations. a new report details how 12 million hectares of ra i nforest were destroyed last year. that‘s the equivalent of 30 football

fields every minute. the report is from global forest watch. almost a quarter of that loss were forests that had so far been untouched by human activity and are critical for sustaining biodiversity and regulating climate change. here‘s a list of the countries with the greatest primary forest loss with brazil at the top and the drc in second place. these trees are being cleared for commerical or agricultural interests. ghana and the ivory coast had the biggest increases. this is due to cocoa farming and small—scale mining. brazil also had its largest loss in a decade.

this is because of farming and illegal logging. and just hours ago — brazil police arrested more than 20 people in a major operation against illegal logging in the amazon. here‘s bbc brasil‘s nathalia passarinho on what impact brazil‘s new president has had on deforestation. the president took office in january this year has always been very clear on his view that the economy should be first when dealing with environmental protection. he has repeatedly defended to relax environmental laws and has been very sceptical of challenges and risks of global warming and also very vocal against wiki because industry of fines, meaning he wants to reduce financial fines on people that violate environmental laws. he himself has been fined in 2013 for illegal fishing when he was a congressman and more recently, when he visited

the united states after meeting with president donald trump, he gave a radio interview saying he will consider a partnership with the us to better exploit the richness of the amazon. tell us more about that, what are the arguments for the afforestation? well he says that brazil has to develop the amazon, he resents for instance developed countries saying that they should not pressure brazil to protect the amazon it they themselves, the rich countries, had destroyed their own forests. and what he says is that brazil‘s focus right now has to be in the economy and that‘s because brazil has been through a very serious economic crisis in the past years. the amazon of course home to lots of brazilians, what does the report tell us about the impact deforestation has on dan?

yes it has a huge impact around 20 million people read in the amazon today, and i think the most impacted are the indigenous communities, the report tell us that much at the area that suffered with the station was indigenous land and reserves, and another research that was presented this week and a you and by a brazilian anthropologist shows that there are 185 isolated tribes in the amazon, but most of them to be precise 119 are at risk of being extinguished because they are surrounded by a legalfarming activities and logging activities. lots to be concerned about, is there anything in the report we can say is goodness? i think there are some good news in the report, one comes from indonesia, which was capable of reducing 40% deforestation in the past year, compared to 2017 and in comparison with the previous years, and when we looked at that brazil

figures, we can also see light at the end of the tunnel, we saw that brazil reduced deforestation from 2017 two 2015 and 70%, the number is had worsened significantly to 2016 on, but i think it shows that political well and public policy have an important impact on this. extinction rebellion staged its eleventh and last day of climate protests in london today — it targeted financial hubs. they returned to canary wharf station, and stood on top of a train there as they did a few days ago. one protester glued themselves to the train.oov 2here they are group staging a protest at the london stock exchange and blocked roads outside the bank of england. they also blockaded the entrance to the treasury. they also

chained themselves together outside the european headquarters of the investment bank goldman sachs. here the police are cutting the chains that bound them together. the day‘s protests ended with a closing ceremony in hyde park. david shuckman was there. whether you admire the passion of the people here, or resent the disruption they‘ve caused, it‘s clear that we had seen in recent days in a very original process. this series of nonviolent often good—humored protest, involving a very wide range of people including lawyers and pensioners. more than a thousand of the people have been arrested, most recently in the city of london today as you mentioned, the demonstrations targeted banks and other financial institutions. for their support for fossil fuels, which is driving up the rise the demonstrations targeted banks and other financial institutions. for their support for fossil fuels, which is driving up the rise

in global average temperature, so where does this leave us? what does this all achieve? well the protesters want to see a cut to zero in britain‘s carbon emissions over the next six years and most experts i have spoken to say that that is totally unrealistic. but there is a talk of a meeting between the organisers and ministers in the coming days. that‘s obviously a hope of shift in government policy whatever the result of that, this series of events has definitely raised the profile of climate change. something that climate scientists for years have said is urgently needed. a reminder of the lead story, joe biden spent eight years as barack obama‘s vice president and now he wa nts obama‘s vice president and now he wants the top job he‘s throwing his hat in the ring and the democratic ring, he asked it when that nomination if he sees off the other 19 contenders it‘ll be his chance to ta ke 19 contenders it‘ll be his chance to take on donald trump in november of 2020 but there is lots of water to

go under the bench. thanks for watching. hello. we have seen a significant change in the weather across the uk in the last 2a hours. it‘s cooler and showery too, that‘s the story really for friday and the start of the weekend potentially wet and windy day for some. sunday onwards, looks like things calmed once again. find whether to come we never get back to those quite exceptional temperatures. friday, that sunshine first thing in east. towards the west, cloud and rain piling in the morning migrating north through the second parts of the day. then thunder moving in to the southwest. the sunshine, perhaps east anglia and northeast scotland. hi is 16 or 17 and the best of the brightness. all eyes to the last for friday, this tightening snail shell

curl here is a deep low pressure centre. they named storm hannah, giving you that it means business, it looks like it could bring potentially damaging lands especially to the southwest at the uk through friday evening overnight and into saturday. last weekend, we had 25 degrees and sunshine. for some of us in the weekend ahead, we will be lucky to get temperatures higher than double figures. certainly saturday looks like some pretty significant rain to time as the area of air pressure goes across the uk. the worst of it really for the southwest england in terms of wind also strong wind pushing further east affecting south wales, but that rain pretty widespread across england and wales through saturday, also into something scotland. to the north, sunshine and also northern ireland but look at the temperatures, some spots struggling to get into double figures. sunday, a kinder affair, the low way to the

east average pressure starts to build lighter wind and dry story. cloud around but also brightness perhaps drizzling rain in the last and temperatures around average values. 13—14d so a better story for anyone running the london marathon. here is the high, it‘s building from the south as it looked on to the following week, notice also weather friday trying to come into play from the atlantic, monday it gives a split with the east dry and bright and west more cloud, a bit of debate on how the quick rain will fringe into the rest of the uk there monday at the moment looks like it‘ll be cloudy and largely dry in the last two but the model fluctuates and we sometimes see rain moving and further. but tuesday at the moment, looks like western areas could had a rather my shower every story but in the east like the sunshine, where we keep high—pressure in place and through the course of the middle part of the week, it‘s the high that‘ll come to win out and as it does so, it a weekend away

and the weather front so remaining underneath its access if you like, you can see blue showing up here and the picture me basically the hide does away with that and any remnants of any fronts by the time we get to the end of the week and that we which is a bank holiday weekend, so high pressure looks like a pinata settled weather but what you can see is we are pulling the air on the eastern flank of the hi frank, with the north and basically average temperatures plunged into the south through the easter weekend and the sahara bringing warm conditions but not looking bad for a bank holiday weekend nonetheless should be lots of dry weather around and most of us hopefully see a little bit of sunshine.

tonight at ten, the foreign office advises against all but essential travel to sri lanka, after sunday‘s devastating bomb attacks. with concerns about further attacks in tourist locations, the advice is for british visitors to make timely plans to leave. tributes today to two british teenagers, among those who lost their lives, from the relatives who survived. they were getting me food from the buffet when the first blast went off. i hope that‘s not what, you know... was the fatal blast because we did start running out and i don‘t know what sort of condition they were, and there was another blast. tonight, police in sri lanka issue wa nted tonight, police in sri lanka issue wanted posters for a number of suspects linked to easter sunday‘s bombings. this is a country still on high alert. we‘ll have the latest from sri lanka, where there are some 8,000 british tourists

at the moment.