this is bbc world news. our top stories: a shooting at a synagogue in california leaves one person dead and several injured. police say a man has been arrested. as the officer was placing this 19—year—old male into custody, he clearly saw a rifle sitting on the front passenger's seat of the suspect vehicle. prayers for the victims. sri lanka marks one week since the deadly suicide attacks on easter sunday. cyclone kenneth has ‘entirely wiped out‘ some villages in mozambique according to the un. thousands are living in makeshift shelters. the most comprehensive assessment

yet undertaken on the state of nature: a new report says a million species face extinction. and easter celebrations in moscow as eastern orthodox christians mark the holiest day in the church calendar. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. one person has been killed after a gunman opened fire inside a synagogue in california. three other people were injured in the shooting at the chabad synagogue in the city of poway, in san diego county. our north america correspondent,

chris buckler has the story. the attack happened as a passover celebration was being held at the synagogue in poway near san diego. elise issued a warning shortly before hand and were investigating reports armed with a gun. —— police. as this incident was unfolding, a san diego police officer, k9 officer, was en route to the scene. he was monitoring both the san diego police department's dispatch and the sheriff's dispatch, heard the call and started making his way towards this call. as our officer was exiting the freeway, he clearly saw the suspect and his vehicle. the suspect pulled over, jumped out of the car with his hands up and was immediately taken into custody by the san diego police department. the mayor of the city says one person has been killed and several others injured. the motive for the shooting is not yet known, but many synagogues in the us had increased their security following an attack in pittsburgh six months ago that left 11 people dead. and you can keep up to date with the latest on the shooting in san diego on our website.

you'll also find a feature on america's gun culture in 10 charts. that's all at bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. we just wanted to show you some pictures that came in a little bit earlier of a church service happening in colombo. all of the churches in sri lanka, many of them have been cancelled because of security concerns, but this one did ta ke security concerns, but this one did take place. it took place at saint lu cy‘s take place. it took place at saint lucy's cathedral in colombo, presided by the cardinal of sri lanka. a religious service remembering the victims, over 200 in the easter sunday attacks a week ago and he did actually say the sri lankan cardinal cold the attacks ——

cold them "an insult to humanity." it's an opportunity for people to grieve for the hundreds that died in those co—ordinated bomb attacks, more than 500 wounded. investigation still ongoing there. thousands of troops are searching for the islamist militants still at large. yogita limaye reports. the search continues for those behind sri lanka's horror. police have been carrying out raids across the country. on friday, they followed a tip—off to this house, in the eastern city of sainthamaruthu. armed men were inside who set off an explosion. a gun battle followed, and the house burned down. more than a dozen died. women and children were caught up in the violence. among them are believed to be the wife and child of this man,

zahran hashim — the alleged ringleader, he was one of two suicide bombers at the shangri la hotel. in a separate raid, police found a huge cache of bomb—making material, a discovery that reveals how grave the threat of more attacks still is. this banner of the islamic state group, which said it carried out the easter sunday attacks, was also found. several suspects are still at large. these photos were released by the government earlier this week. newly released closed—circuit tv footage shows the bomber at kingsbury hotel in colombo the night before the attack. backpack full of explosives, he checks in at the front desk, then goes to his room. in the morning, he's seen leaving the elevator on his way to the hotel's breakfast restaurant. moments later,

he detonates his bomb. people are slowly beginning to piece together what happened at all the attack locations. in this batticaloa church, half of those killed were children — young boys and girls who were attending sunday school. the bbc‘s tamil service spoke to a pastor who recalls seeing the bomber. translation: he was wearing a shoulder bag and a camera bag. i wasn't aware of his purpose at that time. many children were drinking water in the entrance of the church after their sunday school class. people and children were entering, that's when the bomb went off. workers have begun to clear the trail of destruction, and most of those who died have been laid to rest, but fear remains. there's a sense of disbelief here that such a large network of people was active in the country without being discovered by security agencies. but with search operations now becoming more intense, there is also hope that

the government will soon get a grip on the situation. yogita limaye, bbc news, colombo. let's look at some other stories in brief. at least four people have been killed in seattle and three more injured when a crane fell and crushed six vehicles. two of those killed were crane operators and two others were in vehicles below. the crane fell across a building under construction and then landed on a section of road as it broke in half. reports from sudan say that military leaders and the opposition coalition have agreed in principle on a transitional council to lead the country back towards civilian rule. further talks will be held, but negotiators say they're optimistic that progress is being made. china's ambassador in london has declared that britain can and must work with the chinese technology company huawei in developing its 56 telecoms network. the ambassador‘s intervention, in a british newspaper article, follows a report suggesting that the british government was split over whether huawei

was a threat to security. the united nations says many villages in northern mozambique have been entirely wiped out by cyclone kenneth which hit on thursday. the country is still recovering from cyclone idai, which killed hundreds of people further south last month. caroline rigby has the latest. where families once lived now stand only shells. corrugated iron roofs contorted by the wind now litter the ground. these homes were ripped apart by the strongest cyclone to ever hit this region. jamal‘s shop was just one of so many ravaged by the storm. translation: the wind destroyed the farms and the palm trees. the farms don't have anything. we lost everything. here in the village, as you see, 300 houses have been destroyed. the view from above provides some idea of the scale of the destruction.

villages completely flattened. the united nations has described the damage as "heartbreaking." these villages have been entirely wiped out. they look like they have been run over by a bulldozer. people are asking first for shelter, then they need water and purification and then they need food. almost 20,000 people are now living in makeshift displacement centre set up in schools and churches. so far five people are known to have died as a result of cyclone kenneth. three of them from the island nation of comoros. more heavy rain is forecast over the next few days. and the threat of severe flooding continues to loom large. so people here now face a daunting reality, that the worst could still be yet to come. up to one million species are facing extinction due to human activities — that's according to a new draft report from the united nations. loss of clean air, drinkable water

and c02—absorbing forests are all given as reasons for a "an imminent rapid acceleration in the global rate of species extinction". 130 countries are meeting in paris from monday to vet that report. well a little earlier i spoke to climate scientist dr peter glick, who's president—emeritus at the pacific institute and a member of the us national academy of sciences. i asked him what he made of the details in the report. this is a very disturbing report. obviously over the next week, the final wording will be revealed but the figures are already out and what the report suggests is that we are seeing a very rapid acceleration of the extinction of literally up to i million species on the planet, due to all of the things that humans do, due to the way we've developed agriculture and deforestation and overfishing and impacts on oui’ water resources. and of course now,

human—caused climate change. this is a rate of extinction we have never seen as long as humans have been on the planet, a rate of extinction we probably haven't seen for hundreds of millions of years and it's a very frightening report to me. it's really difficult for a lot of people who don't immerse themselves in this sort of science, to conceptualise these figures. to get a sense of how vast this loss can be. how can people get a sense of how serious this is? it is, it's very hard to wrap our minds around it, even for those of us who work in these fields from day—to—day. the estimate is that on the planet as a whole, there may be 8 million species of different kinds of life — of fish and animals and insects and plants. this report is suggests that as many as a million of those species may go extinct in the coming decades. it's a frightening report. it's basically talking about the devastation of the ecosystem of the planet in order to support humans.

and we're dependent on that ecosystem, we're dependent on these plants and animals for food, for medicine, for cleaning our air and water, it's one of the reasons why this report is so upsetting. one of the things that sticks out for me is what they are describing as a rapid acceleration of species extinction. are we facing a mass extinction event? is it as bad is that? yes, that's exactly what this report is saying. over time, species go extinct very slowly, but what we're seeing here is human—caused extinction. activities of humans driving species to extinction. when we tear down natural rainforest and replace it with monoculture to grow food, we're replacing ecosystems that may support literally tens of thousands of species with an ecosystem that supports only one or two species, and that's unseen, basically, throughout human existence.

but what is it going to mean for humans if there's only a few species left? will we see some plants not grow? will we see food not available? how will it affect people on a day—to—day basis? it's a little hard to know, partly because humans have become very good at manipulating the environment. we'll continue to grow food for ourselves but the loss of species means loss of the benefits that those species provide. the clean air that's provided, the food that's provided, the diversity of the ecosystems around us. it's an impoverishment that we don't understand but that unfortunately we're going to be experiencing in the coming years. so, just briefly, we talk about this a lot at the moment, but do we do? can we do anything to stop this from happening or is it too late? there are many things that we can do, that we actually absolutely

have to do. one of them is we have to change the way we deal with the natural environment. there is some talk about setting aside a vast amount of the remaining natural ecosystems as protected habitat. that's an important thing we can do. we can change the way we fish and stop overfishing some of these species. we can change the way we use chemicals worldwide that would protect some of these species. a lot of the things we hear about day—to—day in terms of dealing with climate change or dealing with environmental problems are the same things we need to do to protect more and more of the species that are vulnerable to human activities. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: 75 years on, soldiers who lost their lives in a dd rehearsal that went horribly wrong.

—— the day. nothing, it seems, was too big to withstand the force of the tornado. the extent of the devastation will lead to renewed calls for government to build better government housing. internationally, there have already been protests. sweden says it received no warning of the accident. indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. only when radioactivity levels began to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. for the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. this is the end of a 12—year war for them. they've taken the capital, which they've been fighting for for so long. it was 7 o'clock in the morning, the day when power began to pass from the minority to the majority, when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony.

this is bbc news. the latest headlines: a shooting at a synagogue in california has left one person dead and several injured. police say a man has been arrested. and there are ongoing security fears across sri lanka, with church services cancelled a week after the easter sunday bombings. voters in spain will be heading to the polls on sunday for one of the country's most divisive elections in decades. there's a chance the result could lead to a fragmented parliament, in which the far—right could gain a sizeable presence. tim willcox has been speaking to voters in madrid. a beautiful early summer's evening here in central madrid. i'm outside the former post office building that was built in 1907 but tonight, the eve of what some people are describing as the most important and divisive spanish general elections since the death of franco in 1975 and the return to democracy.

the old 2—party system has fragmented. now five parties, potentially, have a shot at being in power and they include one party which is very much to the hard right. "i think the people are very undecided," she told me, "because there are new political parties, there are many extremes. and so the things people are most concerned about is employment in the cost of housing and what to do with the household budgets". "we're between ciudadanos the partido popular" he says. speaks spanish. his wife is saying that when she gets up in the morning she'll decide with her heart how she wants to vote. "i wouldn't vote for a party that has a coalition with vox, the hard right party." "for me, catalonia forms a part of spain and i don't conceive

of spain with autonomous separated communities." and that goes to the heart of the dilemma facing voters. whichever bloc, left or right, tries to form a government, they will need the support of smaller parties that, for many, are deeply unpalatable. thousands of protesters have marched in cities across france, in spite of plans announced by president macron to answer their concerns. rahuljoglekar reports. the macron government may have thought it is slowly building a bridge over troubled waters in france, taking control. but that was not to be. this weekend, like many others since november last year saw the yellow vest protesters out once again on the streets. the numbers have dwindled significantly from the highs

of 300,000 last year but as the haze of teargas lifted, a grim reality. the anger, and thousands of protesters, are here to stay, despite the government's announcements. translation: he has done nothing. what has changed? things will change for two or three households, two or three retirees. that is not what it takes. we need real measures, not small ones. translation: his announcements were empty promises. nothing is based on numbers, nothing is for sure. from strasbourg to paris, the man facing the music is france's youngest president, emmanuel macron. he has tried everything, tax cuts, higher pensions, civil service reforms and a charm offensive on television. the latest proposals come on top of changes announced in december at a cost of 10 billion euros.

money can buy you many things but securing the peace on the streets of france, for now, just is not on that list. millions around the world may have already celebrated easter, but for some it's onlyjust begun. orthodox christians in europe, africa and the middle east mark the holiest day in the church year sunday. why? because they use a different calendar. andy beatt reports. easter, orthodox style. russian patriarch kirill marking midnight the start of the key festival in the christian calendar.

joining believers celebrating the resurrection ofjesus christ in moscow's magnificent main cathedral, russia's president, vladimir putin. perhaps his second easter celebration. the orthodox church tied to the ancientjulian calendar whose longer years put it several days behind other churches and countries around the world. central to the tradition, candles lit by the holy fire. a spark carried in a very modern way to orthodox communities everywhere. this special flight touching down in romania. others conveying the flame across europe and america. for the holy fire's origin, though, look to the birthplace of christian faith. jerusalem's church of the holy sepulchre. built, say believers, on the site jesus was killed and buried. once a year at exactly the same time, sunbeams are said to ignite a lamp in what's hailed

an easter miracle. a single flame soon spread by the devout to torches and candles injerusalem, bethlehem and beyond. a shining symbol, they say, of resurrection and the defeat of sin and death. andy beatt, bbc news. ‘exercise tiger‘ was the code name for a large—scale, military rehearsal which took place 75 years ago, ahead of the allies' d—day invasion of normandy. unfortunatley the run—through went disastrously wrong and several military personnel lost their lives. robert hall has been to slapton sands in devon, where a special memorial ceremony will take place. slapton sla pton sands, popular today slapton sands, popular today as a nature reserve at 75 years ago the setting for a dress rehearsal that went disastrously wrong. in 19114, allied commanders matched this wide

bay with the beach in normandy codenamed utah. sla pton‘s bay with the beach in normandy codenamed utah. slapton‘s geography was perfect for landing craft, tanks and thousands of troops to practise their assault. the exercises were held in total secrecy. residents from all villages nearby had been moved from their home. pam hill remembers the day she was filmed watching the removal men losing her family's furniture into lorries as the first americans arrived full of she also remembers an april morning when rumours began to spread that something very bad had happened out at sea stop they knew something had happened because the number of ambulances going up the lane here. we knew there was something wrong. as huge tank landing craft made

their way they had been attacked by german e boats armed with torpedoes. two vessels were sunk, to more badly damaged. official counts at the time we re damaged. official counts at the time were well over 700. many bodies washed ashore but dozens more were never found. to stand there and look at the english channel and wonder where my uncle ‘s body was. he is still with his ship. for decades, no—one knew what had happened here. partly due to the security around the d—day landings. but this weekend, families across the atla ntic weekend, families across the atlantic come to remember young man. my father described the water as he jumped in on fire. this woman's father was badly injured but he survived. she has brought his uniform to be placed

ina has brought his uniform to be placed in a local museum. i feel now that meeting with these people that it was a shame that these men did not get recognition for their lives. every visitor pays tribute to dean small and his local volunteers. dean's father raised the sunken tank that now forms a permanent memorial. the incredible sacrifice of the local people who gave up their land and theirfarms local people who gave up their land and their farms but at the same time this horrendous disaster that took so this horrendous disaster that took so many lives. on the beach below, 749 pa i rs of so many lives. on the beach below, 749 pairs of footprints. a powerful way to remind us of the loss of life that far exceeded the number of deaths on the real utah be a month later. much more coming up later including

more on the commemorations happening in sri lanka as the country marks one week since those devastating bomb attacks on easter sunday. hello there. the second half of the weekend promises to be a lot less turbulent than the first half was, because, we're saying farewell to storm hannah which brought a gust of wind of more than 80mph in north—west wales. significant rainfall as well. you can see the swirl of cloud on the satellite picture. a deep area of low pressure which is now very quickly becoming less deep and less threatening as it slides out into the north sea. high—pressure building in from the south—west. this means a much more settled day on sunday. not completely dry, some showers around. some sunny spells though and crucially, less windy. so a much quieter start to the day. one or two showers, as you can see, including close to the london area, and it is a big day in london because the marathon is taking place. there is likely to be a lot of cloud

overhead with the cloud producing one or two showers at times. predominately, it should be dry with some sunny glimpses and crucially for the participants, a comfortable feel. temperatures even by the afternoon only up to 14 or 15 degrees. for the rest of the uk, one or two showers first thing across north—west england, east wales and the midlands. some showers continue across parts of eastern england through the day and cloud will be trying to bring patchy rain into northern ireland, west wales and the far south—west. in between, lots of dry weather, some good spells of sunshine, the winds much lighter than they were during saturday so with the lighter winds and some sunshine, it is going to feel quite a bit warmer — temperatures topping out between 12 and 16 degrees. as we go through sunday evening into the night, this cloud and patchy rain will try to move further east but it won't get much further than northern ireland, western parts of wales, devon and cornwall. elsewhere, a dry night with clear spells, some fog patches starting to develop, and with light winds, temperatures will dip away across eastern areas.

some spots could even see a touch of frost. high pressure very much in charge of the scene as we get into monday morning. not many white lines on this chart, not many isobars, that's why we will see mist and fog patches. frontal systems trying to put in from the west but at this stage, making very little progress. most of us dry during monday. early fog should tend to clear and then we'll see sunny spells. always more clouds as those weather fronts try to put into northern ireland, west wales and the far south—west. most places will be dry. best of the sunshine across scotland where temperatures could get up 18 or 19, possibly across the north—west highlands, all the way up to 20 degrees. there is plenty of dry weather in the outlook for the week ahead but always the potential for some rain at times, especially in the north and west.

this is bbc news. the headlines: a woman has been killed and three people injured in california after a man opened fire at a synagogue north of san diego. police said a nineteen year old local man had been arrested. president trump offered his sympathies to those affected and said the shooting appeared to be a hate crime. sunday church services in sri lanka have been cancelled, amid fears of more attacks, one week after the easter sunday bombings. the country's president has used new emergency laws to outlaw two islamist groups suspected of carrying out the attacks. the un says some villages hit by cyclone kenneth in northern mozambique have been "entirely wiped out." a senior official described the level of destruction as "heartbreaking" and said many people would need assistance in the coming days. thousands are living in makeshift shelters.