hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. violent protests in venezuela after this call from juan guaido. the armed forces, not only in caracas but across the whole country are on the side of the constitution. now we are asking all venezuelans to ta ke to now we are asking all venezuelans to take to the streets. there was teargas and gunshots as thousands protested. the government says it's an attempted coup. president maduro insists the military remains totally loyal. this is the scene live in the capital caracas — with neighbouring countries worried — events might spiral into bloodshed. the white house has thrown its full support behind the opposition — urging the venezuelan military to join the uprising.

this is an act of bravery byjuan guaido and others, for the freedom of the venezuelan people. there have been rival pro maduro rallies broadcast on state tv. we'll bring you all the latest from caracas here on outside source. the most dramatic moment yet in venezuela's political crisis. the venezuelan government says it's putting down a coup attempt by opposition leaderjuan guaido just hours after he called for an uprising to oust nicolas maduro from power. mr guaido — who declared himself legitimate president injanuary — claims to now have military backing. the scenes on the streets of the capital have been shocking.

for the past few hours there have been clashes between security forces and supporters of mr guaido in caracas. tear gas has been fired. protesters have been throwing stones and molotov cocktails. some armed vehicles have run over protesters. these aerial shots give you a better scene of the chaos as this situation develops. thousands have been there. the situation still very uncertain. we've heard there are rallies in support of nicolas maduro in caracas too. these pictures were sent in by reuters earlier today — they're not the best quality but they apparently show tear gas being fired at mr guiado on a highway outside the military base in caracas as he called on people to join him on the streets. we've also seen the reappearance of another opposition figure leopoldo lopez — who says he's been freed from house arrest by military defectors. he hasn't been seen since 2017. he's seen here wearing a blue arm band in signal of his support of mr guiado. the clashes have been happening here at the

la carlota air base — just a few kilometres away from the presidential palace. hours earlier mr guiado posted a three—minute video on his twitter which appeared to be recorded at dawn either near or inside that base. in the video he's surrounded by uniformed men and mr lopez — who — according to the guardian, had been released to free venezuela. this was the message. translation: the definitive end to maduro‘s usurpation of power began today. we have the people of venezuela and the armed forces are clearly on our side and on the side of the constitution. loyal to the people of venezuela and their family. there have been years of sacrifice, followed by years of persecution and even fear. today, that fear is overcome. today, ias today, that fear is overcome. today, i as president in charge of venezuela, the legitimate

commander—in—chief of the armed forces have all soldiers in the military family. within the framework of the constitution. in the framework of nonviolent struggle, we have always done this, for the call is here at this moment. we've just had this update on mr lopez from our south america correspondent katy watson in sao paulo. leopoldo lopez has entered chilean embassy in caracas chile's foreign minister says on twitter that leopoldo lopez, his wife and their daughter are now under the protection of the chilean embassy in caracas." reaction from venezuela's government today has been swift. nicolas maduro insists he has the loyalty of his military. on twitter @nicolasmaduro venezuela's foreign minister

while the government's telesur network web denied reports la carlota airbase had been overrun by pro—opposition troops — calling them defected ‘rebels'. we also heard from the defence minister. translation: to position weapons of war on a busy public highway, a principal highway of the venezuelan capital. to position a group of men in vehicle stolen from the national guard with machine guns and assault rifles and guns, this is a cowardly act! a terrorist act! a coup attempt of very insignificant! this is why we have responded immediately. juan guiado has called it the final phase to remove mr maduro from power. more than 50 countries — including the united states — recognise him as venezuela's legitimate leader. this was the message from his

ambassador to washington today. this is not a military coup. this is a constitutional process led by the venezuelan people under the leadership of a civilian. the interim president of venezuela, juan guaido. he is going to the restoration of our constitution and of course, for the restoration of our democratic system. the bbc‘s guillermo olmo is in caracas. they are following mr guaido's call to put in and to maduro's to put an end to maduro's power and we saw them throwing stones, throwing bricks, groups of protesters confronting the national guard who is in charge of protecting this facility. national guard in turn has thrown tear gas and also pellets, we are also curing with seems to be curing with seems to be real

ammunition, shot in some way. in the main parts of the city, the situation seems to be calmed, but the base is turning really ugly, we've seen a lot of police tanks, we've seen a protesters ran away from these how protesters ran away from these police tanks and we have seen a lot of gas, a lot of gas in the air as the protesters tried to flee. the national guard protecting this facility. based on the reports, people that have been injured, so far we cannot confirm this information. we just know that there are clashes with the military forces and juan guaido supporters. president trump has tweeted tweet@realdonaldtrump" here's national security adviser john bolton speaking earlier.

people of venezuela, it's been building for a long time, if this effort fails, they will sink into a dictatorship from which there are very few possible alternatives, it's a very delicate moment i want to stress again that president wants to see a peaceful transfer of power. from maduro to guiado. that possibility is still existing if enough figures that depart from the regime and separate the opposition and that is from the regime and support the opposition and that is what we would like to see, we like to see the defence minister and chiefjudge of supreme court and the presidential guard. barbara plett usher told me how much support the us is giving mr guaido. as you heard there, he is stressing that they want a peaceful transfer of power. he mentioned that four or five times during that briefing. but it is interesting is that he said key figures in the regime had been

speaking to the opposition of the past three months and had said that they were willing to have that kind of tra nsfer of they were willing to have that kind of transfer of power, that they no longer supported maduro, and they caught them up by name, the head of the supreme court, the head of the presidential guard, they kept bringing the names of saying that they had agreed to work with the opposition to peacefully get rid of mr maduro opposition to peacefully get rid of mrmaduro and he opposition to peacefully get rid of mr maduro and he said it was up to them to step forward now and do so and he was asked about how far the us would go and how the americans have been cryptic about that, saying that all options are on the table he repeated that but he also said that he wanted to emphasise the us was very much not wanting to see any innocent civilians killed and he stressed that a number of times. imposed sanctions relatively recently imposed sanctions relatively rece ntly o n imposed sanctions relatively recently on the maduro regime, has there been any tangible results of there been any tangible results of the sanctions? while, if the tangible results are a shift in the

balance of power, that has not happened until what we have seen today, which is the administration, the trump administration has been saying that if you cut off, especially the oil which is the main revenue for the maduro government, the main cash revenue for the maduro government and the squeeze will be felt and you will be more difficult for him to keep his generals to the lifestyle that they have been accustomed to and they thought that would be something that would help the military senior members make up their minds to defect. we have not seen their minds to defect. we have not seen that for the past three months but we were told at the state department that these things will kick in more and more as time goes on and they expect change to take place, the other analysis was that mr maduro was digging in but not going anywhere and this is what mr barton was saying, this could be the moment but things change where we know who was right about the lasting staying power of mr maduro, saying that this could be a decisive moment

but it is also a very delicate one, not only in terms of who gains the upper hand but whether it will be violent or not. working lots of international reaction. mexico has warned against an escalation in violence while brazil's president has called for an emergency meeting with his cabinet, having strong words for maduro on twitter and he says that brazil sympathises with the suffering of those people enslaved by a dictator. the support the decision to live in a true democracy. the president of neighbouring columbia called on soldiers and people to place themselves on the right side of history, reject dictatorship and maduro as precipitation and we also heard from the united nations. following very closely and with concern, the latest developments of the situation that is unfolding as

we speak. we are also reaching out to the parties, the secretary urges all sites to exercise restraint and all sites to exercise restraint and all stakeholders to avoid any violence and take immediate steps to restore calm. we heard voices in latin america but how much international support is therefore maduro? he has support from places like turkey and china and russia which has sent military advisers and technicians there around 100 personnel from what we understand, as well as military planes. so he does have significant backing in terms of moral support, it is not entirely clear what that material support will be brought to bear if a find out whether he stays in power. at the moment, the russians of taken a strong stance in support of them,

saying that the opposition is trying to ferment confrontation and chaos and have called out in support mr maduro. he said that this should be a movement of the venezuelan people, not of this from the outside, but that excluding the americans as an outside force, the americans have taken a language of saying they're very much strongly supporting a democratic movement in the other supporting the other side are doing the reverse. he said the cubans and the reverse. he said the cubans and the government get support although the government get support although the russians should take care, we've made this known to the russians publicly and privately and if there isa publicly and privately and if there is a question of innocent civilians killed we would expect them to interfere —— not interfere. it is very sensitive, especially for people in the region because in the 50s and 60s and 70s during the height of the cold war where there

we re height of the cold war where there were leftist governments taking control in latin america and south america, the americans that they'll bea america, the americans that they'll be a toehold for the soviets and so they intervened in a number of countries in a variety of ways to move against the leftist government to support those who would support right—wing dictatorships actual fa ct, right—wing dictatorships actual fact, they were tacitly approving or accepted a coup attempt- came out and ca documents they came out he has bounced back in the hours but that's it backfired in the have history and states, but they have history and some members of the trump administration are conscious and careful of and they moved really to act when in opposition movement in venezuela came to the forefront with someone venezuela came to the forefront with someone they could be considered a credible leader and put their emphasis and support behind him very strongly and continue to point out to us that they are not going to

support the opposition, more than 50 countries, including latin america and the european union do so as well. but they have consistently called for a peaceful transition of power and avoid a little bit about the statement by the united states that all options on the table, signalling that they do not want any kind of military intervention. . state does outside source. cambridge university is to investigate its historical links with slavery and whether it should do anything to compensate victims as a result. it's set up an advisory body to examine its own archives, and libraries to see whether any donations and investments were derived from the profits of the slave trade. toni fola—alade is on

the new advisory panel. looking at financial requests that they have received, we are also looking at the archives and museums are any artifacts that were received over that period and also looking into scholarships at cambridge that may have contributed to colonial attitudes of the time and afterwards. i think these are very difficult issues to grapple with and i think that we need to be realistic about what we can do what i think is positive is the university is taking the lead on the research that is being given. it is given a very effective system of some of the most senior academics at the university, myself as a student liaison. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? tens of thousands of venezuela ns have ta ken to the streets following an appeal

by the opposition leader, juan guaido, to topple president maduro. the president of the united states has sued deutsche bank and capital one to stop them responding to subpoenas issued by us congress. donald trump and his private company, the trump organisation, is trying stop the democrat controlled house of representatives from getting access to his financial records. deutsche bank has a long standing relationship with donald trump's real estate empire, in fact it stood almost alone in extending credit and managing money for mr trump before he became president, because of his poor track record in paying back loans. a 2017 disclosure form showed swipe president trump had at least a 2017 disclosure form showed president trump had at least $130 million of liabilities with deutsche bank. but in february bloomberg ran this story, saying that the trump organisation owes $3110 million dollars in loans, which would be

due in 2023 and 202a. and in march the new york times outlined more than $2 billion in property loans and other banking services dating back to the 1990s. donald trump's long standing business relationship with deutsche bank has been known for some time, but what is less clear, is his relationship with capital one. so far, they have yet to comment on the lawsuits. what concerns do house democrats have about the presidents business interests with deutsche bank and capital one? i think what they're looking into is they want to see if there are possible evidence of foreign influence or entanglement and donald trump's business. that is something that he was looking at on the us election by the democrats in congress want to expand that to see if there's any foreign influence of

any foreign government and perhaps the money movement that goes through these banks, they get clean him some information to confirm or exonerate the president and also it can be seen as an the president and also it can be seen as an end around, and end run to his tax returns being public. because these governments may have a not to make a lot of information on his finances or the lack that he may have. why is donald trump fighting these subpoenas so hard ? they see this is another form of harassment looking into these financial transactions of not only donald trump but his family members and his wife and they say that his overreach on the part of these committees. they say that there is a grounds to block this, although if you look at court president, he does

give congress a pretty broad power on subpoenas on any issue that they could possibly legislate over. it is basically unlimited power unless they can find a friendlyjudge to check this. now robert mueller‘s report on the 2016 trump campaign has been published, are donald trump's business interests going to be put under scrutiny? i think so. certainly for members of congress, democrats and a house of representatives where the democrats have control of these committees. also investigations being conducted by new york state, a democratic attorney general who is looking into donald trump's business empire allegations of insurance fraud or any kind of tax fraud, as a whole another area of concern, not only donald trump but his business organisations.

there are ongoing concert to my concerns there are ongoing security concerns in the west about equipment provided by chinese telecoms giant huawei. uk operators — who use huawei gear in their networks — were invited to a meeting with top american officials at the us embassy in london today. among the us delegation was deputy assistant secretary of state rob strayer. on monday he issued a fresh warning that there's no safe level of involvement by huawei in western countries' 5g networks. why the optimism? they have been negotiating for more than a year and working towards an end goal of trying to release square away and get this trade deal up and signed. and right now, we are seeing quite a lot of optimism, remembering the

past few months we have seen both delegations have come to the united states and american delegations have gone to china to negotiate this and there are several members of the white house that are saying, look, we are absolutely in the final days, that said, the big sticking point still remains and that is when the americans, when these tariffs on chinese goods are lifted and there area chinese goods are lifted and there are a lot of worry amongst the americans on how to actually make sure that they stick to the deal that they will have agreed to. how much this dedicated to their enforcement? that is absolutely another key sticking point. getting through some of the easier, less controversial issues was certainly but the two sides are able to do at the beginning, but now it is the really thorny issues, but if you

hear from the chief of staff who is also talking about this trade agreement, it will be very clear in the next couple of weeks whether or not we will come to a deal. you know very well whether there is a possibility of something good coming from it or if there is no possibility at all. making the point that they feel quite confident. there are ongoing security concerns in the west about equipment provided by chinese telecoms giant huawei. uk operators — who use huawei gear in their networks — were invited to a meeting with top american officials at the us embassy in london today. among the us delegation was deputy assistant secretary of state rob strayer. on monday he issued a fresh warning that there's no safe level of involvement by huawei in western countries' 5g networks. he said "having potentially compromised equipment and software

provided by vendors in any part of that network is an unacceptable risk. stephanie hare is an indepedent technology expert... we would want to understand what percentage of each operator is represented by huawei?‘ percentage of each operator is represented by huawei? , how much depends on huawei is as a big question for the united states to know because to help the united kingdom to comply with the ban on huawei how much will it cost the united kingdom to whip out huawei from its extending to make existing sg from its extending to make existing 3g network. it would take years it would delay the united kingdom being able to build a 5g network for the country. but the intelligence sharing relationship is a legacy from the second world war, the closest intelligence sharing system that we have with one of its most

important allies. as impaired taking a very important thing to give up. sharing intelligence the uk over the some of the united states seems to be taking us to the wire, the fact that these telecom operators are having this briefing and he keeps upping, the almost doubled down their rhetoric. every time. this is going to put a huge amount of pressure on theresa may and the prime minister and her government to justify the decisions they keep huawei in the network of that is the dealer they want to do. let's remind you of our main stories, what is going on in venezuela, there is a lot that is unclear at the situation because we have seen people out on the street. juan guaido was called for a final push to call for the end of president maduro. they are seen running clashes and fewer people out on the street, clashes between police and tear gas but we will be

trying to get an overview of what these protests are, katie watson in these protests are, katie watson in the next edition of outside source. hello there, let's take a look at what's going on and over the recent days, our focus has what's going on and over the recent days, ourfocus has been on what's going on and over the recent days, our focus has been on what's been going on in northern mozambique where we have the arrival of kenneth and that is brought some severe flooding to parts of mozambique by a full extent of the flooding is still yet to be fully realised. as far as the storm system goes, it has moved out of the way now, but we still have a flurry of showers moving and not just across have a flurry of showers moving and notjust across northern mozambique but also the north of madagascar and southern parts of tanzania. more showers, so not everyone will see heavy rain but more wet weather is not going to be helpful in the showers themselves could bring another 15 to 20 mm of rain at

times, but there's a tendency for the weather to become a little bit less tha n the weather to become a little bit less than settled over the next few days, so if you glimmers of hope on the horizon, we had reports seen in places of over half a metre rain, big storm surge that has led to some issues like landslides across the north of the country, but hopefully will see an improvement over the next coming days. meanwhile, will look at what is going on and this is cyclonic storm, picking up stream, still about hundred 25 mph as it continues to gradually push northwards and it will probably make la ndfall northwards and it will probably make landfall probably late friday around west bengal before moving on to bangladesh. torrential rain, public storm surge and also those damaging winds all factors but the storm system arriving. across eastern parts of canada was sons flooding

over the recent days in the car attending a car parts of the area, storms affecting parts of the united states due to the severe thunderstorm watch a little further eastwards, but would you could have some fairly large hailstorms across canada and it is more rain that is moving care of the next few days and of course that is the last thing we need, particularly in quebec after that recent episode of flooding. across the southeast, the united states is dry, and pretty warm for this time of year, temperatures up to2 this time of year, temperatures up to 2 degrees and in atlanta, you're in the uk that warm temperature is going to go on a downward trajectory and they could be some sunshine around but also since i really for the midweek onwards and the temperatures really the midweek onwards and the tem peratu res really ta ke the midweek onwards and the temperatures really take a plummet as we head towards the weekend as we get cold or northerly wind, around ten or 11 degrees, but still wouldn't it comes out, that is your

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hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. violent protests in venezuela after this call from juan guaido. the armed forces, not all in caracas but the whole country, are on the side of the constitution. now we are asking all venezuelans to take to the streets. there was tear gas and gunshots as thousands protested. the government says it's an attempted coup. president maduro insists the military remains totally loyal. this is the scene live in the capital caracas — with neighbouring countries worried — events might spiral into bloodshed. the white house has thrown its full support behind the opposition — urging the venezuelan military to join the uprising.

this is an act of bravery by guiado and others, really for their freedom of the venezuelan people. also on outside source. aid agencies say mozambique needs urgent life saving relief as the death toll from cylcone kenneth rises to a1. this from one of venezuela's top journalists who says "the operation was planned for another day and had the support of top military officers, but plan was brought forward because mr guiado's arrest was imminent and the military backed down. these are live pictures from the capital in caracas. the situation is still tense. running clashes between anti government supporters and security forces have been ongoing for hours.

let's speak to the bbc‘s south america correspondent katy watson in sao paulo for us. let's speak to the bbc‘s south america correspondent katy watson in sao paulo for us. what's your assessment of the latest situation and where this is likely to lead? i think when the video started seeing the video from guiado dallas a sense of change of effect and since guiado invoked the constitution and declared himself in term president in january, constitution and declared himself in term president injanuary, there was hope that things could change but as months went on, a feeling perhaps was that maduro would be stealing for the foreseeable future. when people woke up in venezuela today, people woke up in venezuela today, people felt that my change but i

think as at the day has gone on, it's not clear really how much support he has. we have seen it clashes on the streets from both sides, and we have also heard most recently that lopez, the opposition politician who appeared in the video, who had been under house arrest but said he had been freed the soldiers guarding him, so people think their questioning allegiance to military, he has now been aghast at the residence of the chilean embassy, and caracas with his family so embassy, and caracas with his family so you do question really how successful this so—called uprising has been. when juan guiado said he had the full support of the military, how much did that highlight how critical the military support is if he does not get it, then the momento simply states. absolutely, absolutely critical. the

higher up offices in absolutely, absolutely critical. the higher up offi had 1 absolutely, absolutely critical. the higher up offi had said i get in maduro, they had said i get in the defence minister said after the video was released they do remain loyal to nicolas maduro and without the people at the top who are loyal to the maduro administration i looked at them going to the other side, as juan guiado looked at them going to the other side, asjuan guiado has called for, then the regime change in that it's what it looks highly unlikely. who still supports nicolas maduro around the world? well, here in the region we had added morales and bolivia, he has condemned this queue, as supporters of madero has called it. as well as cuba. he's got very few friends here in the region. give got columbia who has received the most amount of venezuela ns columbia who has received the most amount of venezuelans who had been

fleeing the country in the past eight years. they had been a huge critic of madero as well as both scenario, the right—wing here in brazil who called an emergency meeting and has tweeted his support for venezuela. increasingly, there are many countries who had backed juan guiado as the legitimate president of venezuela, but the fact is that mr madero still remains in power and presidential palace, and it still does not look like he is going anywhere yet despite the fact that the us has keep pressure on him with sanctions and again calling for military to be able to move to the opposition, but sophia doesn't look like it's happening. stay with that for fewell, —— with us. let's take a look now at the opposition leaderjuan guaido. his election as leader of the national assembly in january reenergised the venezuelans who are unhappy with president maduro. the national assembly is a legislative body held by venezuela's opposition.

but before mr guaido was elected as its head he was relatively unknown. mr guaido was born in the port city of la guaira. he was 15 years old when mr maduro's predecessor hugo chavez, came to power in 1999. that same year heavy rains caused flash floods which swept through la guaira, killing tens of thousands of people. mr guaido and his family survived although people close to him say the government's ineffective response drove him into politics. he completed degrees at george washington university and as a student he protested against what he saw as mr chavez's efforts to control the media. in 2009 mr guaido founded a centrist political party along with caro key opposition leader leopoldo lopez. mr lopez was released from house arrest earlier today. he has taken refuge in the chilean embassy. katie, it took us back a few months and years into to have this built up

and years into to have this built up and the situation of many venezuelan people had daily life is at the moment. the past years had been increasingly difficult by talking food and medicine shortage in hyperinflation —— inflation about 10,000,000% could reach in 2019 and inflation, these are figures he can get your head around. minimum wage we are talking $5 a month. people struggling to buy a box of the eggs 01’ struggling to buy a box of the eggs or bag of meat that sort of thing. so life has become much more difficult in the past few years. adding to that more recently there have been power shortages eating to water shortages and i was speaking to somebody in venezuela a few days ago who said that in the past when they were protests on the streets, your home was their refuge, your fortress, you felt safe there but with the power shortages and electricity shortages your hub has been ravaged as well and that's really changed the dynamic i think,

in venezuela. i would there a month 01’ so in venezuela. i would there a month or so ago, in venezuela. i would there a month orso ago, and in venezuela. i would there a month or so ago, and the feeling in the beginning of this year there was a feeling of hope, move forward and change of government that things may it easier that kind of decline almost people gave up thinking we we re almost people gave up thinking we were too optimistic at the beginning of the year and change will take much longer, but of course waking up today, once again there is dramatic twist in this ongoing political saga. ifjuan guiado has gambled today and overplayed his hand and today and overplayed his hand and today has not been the final phase, mr medeiros removal, weight is this leave him? i think everyone is asking that. he's a man that many people feel and are questioning why he has not been arrested given that the government has arrested many political opponents lopez is one of

kind of prominent examples the most kind of prominent examples of that. but the us is also backed juan guiado from the very beginning, getting in confidence and protection if you would like because the uss that if maduro touched juan guiado there will be consequences. the us has been very clear that all options are on the table and a lot of courses lighting —— leading people it could be military intervention, which here in this region is deeply unpopular. in fact, today brazil who isa unpopular. in fact, today brazil who is a massive critic of nicolas maduro said that will not happen. the feeling is that there needs to be resolved peacefully and resolved with venezuelans be resolved peacefully and resolved with venezuela ns and be resolved peacefully and resolved with venezuelans and military intervention at any site is not welcome, certainly from people and countries in this region. katie, thank you very much. katie monitoring events in sao paulo. aid agencies say the situation in mozambique is "significant and life threatnening" after last week's massive storm. 41 people have been killed and that

number's expected to rise. cyclone kenneth hit last thursday but torrential rain is expected in the next few days. pemba is the worst hit area. the capital of the cabo delgado state has had more than two metres of rain and flooding and around 200,000 people are in danger in this area alone. further north — macomia is considered critical. here are some of the scenes from mozambique. urgent humantiarian aid is needed and will need to scaled up. here's the devastation in macomia. houses have been completely destroyed and palm trees flattened. tropical cyclones are not uncommon in this area but there have been two in a quick succession. these are scenes in pemba. flooding has been made worse as it's the end of the rainy season and river levels were already high. the fast—changing weather has left agencies scrambling to deliver aid to the remote regions. thousands have lost their homes and have been left with nothing. our correspondent lebo

diesko is in pemba. this neighbourhood is a residential neighbourhood, but you see behind me a lot of it totally underwater. it looks like a lake. really difficult to get around. people here will have spent years and years building homes for their families and now, so much of that has been destroyed. lots of people who lived here had been taken to local schools. which had been used as shelters as authorities try to keep people safe. this school is where some of those from here were taken. classrooms serve as kitchen, clinic and bedrooms for our round up a thousand of people. many of the families have to sleep eat and live with people they may not even know. this woman told me she has four children with her. translation: the water got into my house and then

the tree fell on it, the house was completely destroyed. authorities are struggling to help them. there is no water, there has not been firewood until today and we have not eaten today. this is the centre of the government relief operation where aid is brought in and sent out to those who need it. but with many areas it so difficult to reach making sure it gets to those who are needed and it's going to be difficult and it's likely to take quite some time. meanwhile in asia, in the bay of bengal, surrounding countries are on high alert and preparing for cyclone fonny. i've been speaking to bbc weather forecaster, darren bett. here it is on a satellite picture a big win as you see lots of clouds swirling in the centre and if in a bad thing down, it strengthened and

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the storm surge because at this is going all the way with that c track all the way up to bangladesh, the low line and lots of low—lying land, the storm surge will be huge and because lots of coastal inundation. because of the way it is, at how low the bad thing about it. you're looking at a storm surge of 1.5 metres above normal sea levels, it's coming from a long way south and with that sort of track and i could change though but with that it's almost worse case scenario as far as bangladesh and storm surges on the coast our consent. we will keep you up—to—date with that. stay with us on outside source — still to come... the battle for power in libya intensifies, as rival forces compete for control of the country's oil supply. the welsh health minister has ordered a health boards maternity services to be put into special measures, after dozens of serious incidents at the royal glamorgan, and prince charles hospitals.

a major independent review has found there was a "blame culture". sian lloyd reports. macy was born in when at that maternity units a lot —— identified in this report and placed in special measures. she died 19 days following applications of breeding. her mother jessica has questions about what has happened during the birth and about the care she received. understaffed because i was induced and we were all induced and they were inducing lenin in the women were going into labour too fast. there's not enough staff to deal at that. one lady gave birth next to me because there was no staff or delivery word as she was in the induction word. this boy provides care, and at the prince charles hospital. today the report found a number of serious failings described as taking place from the board to the word. someone then received for care not meeting standards expected. significant

stock shortages and some staff did not behave as they should have towards patients. deep—rooted cultural failings towards patients. deep—rooted culturalfailings and towards patients. deep—rooted cultural failings and leadership we re cultural failings and leadership were identified and systemic failings in the investigation and reporting of serious incidents. 43 cases will be re—investigated to consider whether women and babies we re consider whether women and babies were harmed in the welsh health minister says incidents going back 2010 will be looked at.|j minister says incidents going back 2010 will be looked at. i think the board recognises the seriousness of this report. and the fact they need to build trust and confidence within the organisation and staff and crucially with the public that they are serving. the health board apologised for its failings and fed it has made changes but recognises that more needs to be done. macy's family welcomed her apart, but still have questions that they would like answered.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... tens of thousands of venezuelans have taken to the streets following an appeal by the opposition leader, juan guaido, to topple president maduro. let's take a look at some other stories from around the bbc newsroom. the trump administration says it will designate the muslim brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. egypt's president sisi asked for the move on a recent visit to the white house. president sisi ousted egypt's elected leader, mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood, in 2013. more on that story on bbc arabic. the indian army has been at centre of some jokes on social media after they tweeted about finding footprints of a yeti in the himalayas. the mist of the giant ape like creature is strongly believed but there's no evidence that it exists. twitter users pointed out that there was only one set of prints and asked if the army had

discovered a one—legged yeti. more on that story on bbc.com. the battle for power in libya goes on, and it is increasingly embroiling the country's oil supply. there is a front line surrounding libya's capital, tripoli, where the internationally recognised government is based headed by prime minister fayez al saraj. tripoli is under attack from forces loyal to another, parallel government based in benghazi, in the east of the country. those forces are called the libyan national army, commanded by this man, general khalifa haftar. he controls most of libya's oil infrastructure, including the el—sharara oil field, which was attacked yesterday by an armed group, of unknown allegiance, apparently exploiting a vacuum left when haftar‘s forces moved north to attack tripoli. that oilfield is operated by state oil company, the national oil corporation, or noc, which has tried its best to stay out of the conflict,

but is finding it hard to do so. noc‘s oil revenues go to libya's central bank, which is based in tripoli, the city controlled by prime minister sarraj, which khalifa haftar has been unable to take by force. costs for the offensive on tripoli are piling up as ammunition and other supplies have to be brought over from benghazi. there are reports general haftar has been meeting with executives in recent days, trying to gain their support. meanwhile, the un has called for humanitarian corridors to be opened up in tripoli, to allow civilians to excape the fighting. here's un human rights commissioner michelle bachelet. there is an urgent need to create safe humanitarian corridors for trapped civilians. so i want to call for immediate cease—fire and the resumption of political talks. earlier i spoke to our middle east analyst, sebastian usher, and asked why general haftar is so determined to take tripoli.

he's got to take and a way because if he does not at all the damage is nh as if he does not at all the damage is nhasa if he does not at all the damage is nh as a strongman or if you're against in the war lloyd, who's made his way across eastern libya and you know he set himself up as the magic and ran the country together under his control and his military control, now the oil is interesting subject and that he basically controls the oil he controls the oil field the facilities, but does not control revenue can make us directly from national oil company into the central bank. he has tried before, to ta ke central bank. he has tried before, to take and sell the money away from the national oil company, but it's been rejected internationally. the un stopped it. he could also have chris stop at the to bring a massive economic crisis for the gna, which it depends on that money for survival. what can be you and do if

anything about putting humanitarian corridor is in place out of tripoli? is hard at that moment and extends the fighting and front lines had not changed much in the past three and half weeks, but it's intense and partly to chaos and the sense that there is no clear line established by now is does not seem to be the time for anything like that to happen, does not seem like that kind of control. the un call before for short cease—fires in order to get the wind it out to get help but that has not happened. ramadan is starting shortly, that macy had been mission —— a diminishing of the fightings and the fighters who are not on either side from some central controlled army actually holding back themselves up for a time. that may settle things down a little but obviously only and a temporary way. we have seen so much instability and conflict there, can agreement

between that and put an end to all of that? it was an agreement that they were after and pushing for, and they were after and pushing for, and they were after and pushing for, and they were bringing the leader of government at the time more and more, but he had a sense and a green light from the most powerful supporters who have been backing that uae egypt and france and some extent the us it's interesting what the trap administration has been doing, it's similar to that way it's reacted to many other conflicts in the middle east getting up to contradictory signals. the state department is still essentially sticking with the idea that all sides restrain themselves and move to all violence is against their interest, but president trump has had a phone call would have to and even though he has not given support he has been a blessing that he is carrying out their work of fighting against that he is carrying out the work of fighting against the jihadistand work of fighting against the jihadist and terrorist. that if grace is a very complex and moot

point anyone can send both sides are plenty of them on both sides were seen as plenty of them on both sides were seen as terrorist. japan's emperor akihito abdicated today. in more than 200 years. emperor akihito was given permission to abdicate after he said he felt unable to fulfil his role because of his age — he's 85 — and declining health. the ceremony took place at the imperial palace in tokyo. this was the moment emperor akihito gave his last public address as monarch, in which he thanked the public for all the support. earlier, he'd taken part in a shinto ceremony to report his plans to the mythological ancestors of japan's imperial family. he now hands over power to his sun, crown prince naruhito who takes over in a new era — called reiwa — meaning order and harmony. the emperor's popularity means that thousands of people braved the rain to watch a live stream of the ceremony in central tokyo.

so why was emperor akihito so popular with the people — here's laura bicker. when he offended to the throne he was crowned emperor of the country many believe we become a new superpower. years later, the economy crashed. then came disaster. an earthquake in 1995. a more powerful quake and tsunami hit the northwest in 2011, leaving almost 16,000 people died. and akihito and his wife addressed those suffering and sat with them. royals injapan were once as descendent gods and to see it by seeing and hearing made in human and they loved them for it. he was also the first in the first to marry a commoner, his constant companion. the empress. as pacifist, they travelled the world to seal the wartime reputation of japan.

they travelled the world to seal the wartime reputation ofjapan. that aside, the crown prince, will become emperor at midnight. beating the country into a new era, which many hope will build on his father's legacy. laura with report i will be back with the same time tomorrow. hello there time to ta ke take a look forward at the weather forecast tying in with the bank holiday weekend and what we are thinking at the moment. we are thinking at the moment. we are thinking it's shaping up fairly decently but between now and then we had a few things to happen for the start of the weather find advancing into the start of the week and western areas to the question of wednesday making further progress east. i had, foggy again, and then the fog lifts, the cloud on the what a front brakes and we end up with a dance tiny spouse and showers, heavy showers at gusty winds and hail and

thunder thrown in there as well. let's assigning her for not an island would not rely showers but if he is quite warm. it'll fade away through wednesday night to a certain degree, but by the time we get into thursday, we are starting to find a change taking place in the north with the northwest when setting in. i had with the northwest when setting in. ihada with the northwest when setting in. i had a back, a day of sunshine and flowers for the start of may, so we get the patient‘s —— shallots, but by the end of the day, and here is that cold air we have been talking about and it looks set to occur later for the estate, but tomorrow that's on thursday, arctic blast and temperatures pegged well below they should be for the start of may with prospects of wintry showers over the house, so another shadowy day on friday as we approach the weekend and even that's site notices a child, but in the night five or 6 degrees bearing in mind monday and tuesday has seen ten in the high teens low 20s and the highlands of

scotland, only getting to five or six of the thermometer, feeling a lot colder because of the storm —— a strong wind. big changes but looks like it'll be a short cold snap for most of us, as a bank holiday weekend starts on a chilly note because he had night—time frost around on saturday sunday morning but otherwise it looks fine because onceit but otherwise it looks fine because once it is clear is not cold air introduced we still have a breeze for the time in the east but high pressure comes off that arctic air flow and quite tense that's quite tense down, still that key northern wind as a start saturday, bringing showers in eastern price at both england and scotland so the left will be best for lighter wind in my sunshine, but it is still quite nippy for the sunshine, but it is still quite nippy for us! sunshine, but it is still quite nippy for us because the wind stay with us because the wind easiest a saturday and sunday night and we strive sunday morning at saturday morning what they ground frost and air frost in a few places

as well so gardeners beware. 90 had been out planting delicate plants. signed a very similar and that we are losing that key northern lean with fewer showers more dry weather it'll with fewer showers more dry weather it‘ ll start with fewer showers more dry weather it'll start to feel a little bit warmer, but always risk of weather i flirting with north of scotland introducing more cloud and patchy rain that elsewhere variable amounts of cloud meaning dry and finally assigning spouse temperature is about 16 or 17 and prolong sunshine on monday when we left that wind. beyond that quit that ——, then we see the precious come in and started to whether they go the south are not that you can't escape, what it means if the weather turns unsettled and we get more rain in forecast as we go into the middle part of next week the temperature is recover after the chilly snap later this week and as i read there is more on our website.

tonight at 10: some of the victims of the worst scandal in the history of the nhs have been giving evidence at a public inquiry. thousands of people were infected when they were given blood products in the 19705 and ‘80s. many have died, thousands of others could be undiagnosed. the blood products supplied by the nhs infected people with hepatitis c and hiv. one man described the pain he'd endured. i was told i had about a year to live and i was told not to tell anybody... ..including, excuse me, including my family and my parents. we'll be hearing from more of those affected, as they gave their heart—rending evidence to the inquiry.