hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. britain's defence secretary gavin williamson is sacked over a leak of information from a national security council meeting. the labour party calls for a criminal inquiry. with the prime minister is saying that he's breached the official sequence that i breached the official sequence tobacco secrets act. that's a very serious allegation. william barr defends his handling of the inquiry into russian interference in the us 2016 election. venezuelan opposition protests take over the streets of caracas. the united states criticises russia for backing the venezuelan leader, nicolas maduro.

and which one of your facebook friends fancies you 7 you might find out sooner than you think. that's all coming up on outside source. here in the uk the defence secretary gavin williamson has been sacked, after an investigation concluded he was behind a leak from a meeting of the country's national security council, where they discussed a possible role for the chinese company huawei in developing the uk's 56 mobile network. theresa may has written him a letter it's been released by downing street. the prime minister writes it is "an extremely serious matter and a deeply disappointing one". earlier i spoke with our correspondent rob watson who's been following the latest developments.

theresa may says all the other people at this meeting... your conduct is not been the same as others. i put the latest information from the investigation which provides compelling evidence... again, even by the topsy—turvy world of modern british politics, this really is in extraordinaire development. and if you think about this, the sacking of the defence secretary for leaking from the absolute holiest of holies, and if you'd like to compound it, he's denying it all. what could be the possibly possible implications of it? given this is the official secrets act here in the uk? and opposition politician has called for that, downing street has been saying this is the end, as far as they're concerned. but i think this raises a couple of important issues. the first one is one about britain standing in the world, can trust be

restored in britain's senior ministers to keep hold of very important information? because this was the real holy of the holies. the second point is one about british politics, and i think it's very hard not to see this whole episode as further example of what i guess you would call the brexit malaise, the breakdown in discipline among senior government ministers, and the regular leaking of very important information from what is supposed to be private meetings. what if we heard from gavin since this news broke? he continues to deny it, saying it is nothing to do with him oi’ saying it is nothing to do with him orany of saying it is nothing to do with him or any of his officials. he hopes it will restore some trust in the national security council, but he's basically saying it wasn't him, theresa may has the wrong man. how much of a headache is this for theresa may at this moment when she's got her head on other matters?

i think it's a tremendous headache, and againi i think it's a tremendous headache, and again i go back to this point that adds to this sense of malaise, a government struggling on domestic issues to have any kind of an agenda. and again, i think most seriously, this idea that the normal discipline you expect from senior members of government, the way they conduct themselves in the ways in which they don't leak information, all of that has broken down in the post referendum world. up to this point, how loyal a cabinet member was gavin williamson? he certainly had his enemies. i think it's important to say in this country, a lot of people could say gavin who? he's not a household name. he had a lot of enemies because a lot of people thought he simply wasn't up to thejob, this people thought he simply wasn't up to the job, this was a way too senior and that his ambitions

massively outstretched critics would say he was extremely gaffe prone, if you remember at the very start of his time as defence secretary, he asked, why doesn't russia shut up and go away? and i think a lot of people in his politics and western security circles thought, who is this guy? he's now britain's defence secretary? the us attorney general has appeared before congress where he was grilled by the democrats about his handling of the special counsel's report into russian election interference. they're angry because they think he tried to put a postive spin on the findings of the report in a summary he released before the report itself was made public. here's some of what william barr had to say. we prepared the letter for that purpose, to state the bottom—line conclusions. we used the language from the report to state those bottom—line conclusions. i analogize

it to announcing after an extended trial, what the verdict of the trial is. pending release of the full transcript. that is what we are trying to do, notify the people as to the bottom—line conclusion. we we re to the bottom—line conclusion. we were not trying to summarise the a10 page report. today's testimony was in part because of this letter. it's from special counsel robert mueller to mr barr in which he expresses his frustration at the attorney general‘s summary of his work. he said the summary "did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office's work and conclusions". the democrats on the committee pressed hard on this subject. what really struck me was that mr miller wrote that your letter threatened to undermine his department appointed to special counsel. he assured full confidence in the outcome of the investigation.

why did you testify on nine april that you did not know of the concerns expressed by robert muller's team? when you had heard those concerns directly from mr moeller two weeks before? as i said, i talked directly to bob muller about his letter to me and specifically asked him, what exactly are your concerns? are you saying that the 24 march was misleading or inaccurate, or what? he that the 24 march was misleading or inaccurate, orwhat? he indicated that it was not, he was not saying that. attorneys don't put things in writing unless they're pretty serious about them. there's an old rule in politics, a good politician doesn't write a letter or throw one away. so i have to ask you, if he putsit away. so i have to ask you, if he puts it in writing, his concerns, you couldn't recall that when congressman chris asked to that questions a few days later? no, i'm saying this... the 24 march letter

stated that robert muller did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. and it had the language in there about not exonerating donald trump. my view of events was that there was a lot of criticism of the special counsel for the ensuing few days. and on thursday, i got this letter. and on thursday, i got this letter. and when i talked to the special counsel about the letter... my understanding was that his concern was not about the accuracy of the statement of the findings in my letter, but that he wanted more out there to provide additional context to explain his reasoning on why he didn't reach a decision on obstruction. the mueller report was an investigation into claims of russian interference in the 2016 us election and alleged collusion between the trump campaign

and russian officials. this is it. a redacted version was published a couple of weeks ago. reacting to today's testimony, some in the legal fraternity are simply baffled by what the attorney general had to say. here's one lawyer we spoke to earlier. attorney general william barr is not trump's lawyer, but the head of the department ofjustice. and that's not how he's sounding to me in his testimony today. he's taking fairly extreme positions that sound like an advocate for a person, and not the defender of the law. earlier i spoke danjohnson at capitol hill about what we can take away from today's proceedings. obviously very strong in his action —— defence of his actions. the conclusion that he put out, and the decision not to take any further action against trump. but he's been under sustained and intense

questioning particularly from the democrats on this committee who feel ‘ some democrats on this committee who feel — some of them have accused him directly of acting against the interests of the american people, of acting in the interests of trump and being his personal lawyer, and doing whatever he needed to do to downplay the findings of the mueller report to give people the impression there was nothing to see here, that they could move around the micro along without needing to worry about any of the implications of mueller's report. and we learned last night was that robert muller was himself to satisfied at the way his own report was being characterised in the press, and the reporting in the immediate aftermath of that letter that william barr issued. stay with us that william barr issued. stay with us if you will. let's show you a tweet, the grilling continued even after the testimony, this is from senator durbin...

so continuing worries and concerns, dan, being expressed about william barr's objectivity more widely? indeed, there have been calls for him to resign. today, last night, when that letter from robert muller appeared, and issue was called into question whether he could be trusted in office, whether he's acting in behalf of trump or whether he's acting in behalf of american people. he will face more questioning tomorrow he will face more questioning toitioi'i'ow across he will face more questioning tomorrow across the house of representatives and the judiciary committee there is even more strongly in favour of the democrats. questioning of his conduct and decisions will only get more intense, and both committees in the house want to hear from robert muller himself. we've heard he has agreed to appear, we don't know when but likely to be later this month. fungus men and senators can get their own appreciation of what

robert muller's decision and conclusions were —— congressman, and how his report has been dealt with. but anyone who thought him finalizing his report and ending it in with be the end of this was certainly mistaking the mistaken. this looks set to go on for a long time. the streets of paris have descended into chaos today during may day protests in the french capital. an estimated a0,000 protesters were met by police officers in heavy riot gear. the french interior ministry tweeted. .. "immediate response, arrests, intervention: police, and firefighters are more than ever mobilized. no abuse should be tolerated on the sidelines of demonstrations". so far more than 200 people have been arrested, and more than 12,000 people searched by authorities. police closed off the champs elysees and areas around government buildings. protesters instead gathered in the montparnasse area where the protestors smashed shop fronts, and police used tear gas and rubber bullets. much of the worst violence took place here outside la rotonde, president emmanuel macron‘s

favourite restaurant. it comes just days after mr macron made some significant concessions to the protestors including cutting taxes. hugh schofield has more. this was to have been a normal show strength by the trade unions, but it didn't turn out like that. it turned into something we've been sadly familiar with, one of the saturday type demonstrations where the yellow vests are very predominant, and in which anarchists are also very predominant. it started off looking like a regular demo, but from the beginning we could already see many yellow vests. and more worryingly for police, there were these black block types, the revolutionary anarchist types who like to cause trouble. there were confrontations at the beginning of the march, and then there was worse violence at the end of the march where we saw once again burnt down cars and scooters

and bus shelters, stones and projectiles being flung at police, police battle charging back. very violent and lurid anti—police slogans from the crowds. there was nothing that the police didn't have under control, i don't think there was at any point in time where this would spill into something we haven't seen before, or at least nothing like in the early days of the yellow vests demonstrations. but nonetheless, it's a sad comment on life that what we saw this afternoon has become pretty routine. stay with us on outside source — still to come: the un delivers desperately needed aid to one of the worst affected regions in mozambique, as the death toll from cyclone kenneth rises to a1. a group of teenagers who all had haemophilia in the eighties formed a pact after some of them started dying whilst they were at

a school in hampshire. stephen nicholls, who's now 52, told the inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal that they vowed to find out what was killing them. our health editor hugh pym reports. 89 boys with haemophilia were educated in a special school in the 19705-805, educated in a special school in the 1970s—80s, just 16 have survived. they were at trial law's college in hampshire, where there was an nhs treatment facility that gave them blood clotting products. they did not know that this was infected with hiv and hepatitis c secular everyone was worried, because the press story was worried, because the press story was just breaking. stephen, was worried, because the press story wasjust breaking. stephen, who developed hepatitis c, said he and his friends began to realise they we re his friends began to realise they were at risk in the 1980s. what victims and campaigners want is the truth over why so many were infected when they put their trust in the nhs for safe treatment. hugh pym, bbc news. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom.

our lead story is... britain's defence secretary gavin williamson has been sacked over a leak of information from a national security council meeting. other stories from around the bbc news room right now... the united nations says that around 1a0,000 people in north—western syria have been displaced by fighting in the past three months. hundreds more have been fleeing hama and idlib provinces as a government air and artillery offensive backed by russia has escalated. more on that story on bbc arabic. riot police in kazakhstan have used batons to break up protesters demanding a presidential election boycott and the release of political prisoners. dozens of people were detained near almaty‘s central park where they had gathered for may day. several people have been injured by a tornado in romania. this footage was taken from a dashboard camera. the tornado narrowly missed a village but ten buildings lost their roofs. the freak weather early on tuesday evening was a result of a cold front from bulgaria. more on that story on bbc.com.

heavy rain in the aftermath of cyclone kenneth is causing flooding in the north of mozambique. the number of dead has risen to a1, that is expected to rise. the cyclone hit mozambique last thursday and now much of the focus is on the northern province of cabo delgado. the state capital pemba is badly hit, with water at waist height in some areas. here are some of the latest pictures from the path of the storm. it's not just mozambique that's been affected. these are pictures from the island nation of comoros, which kenneth hit first. we are onlyjust getting these pictures from these areas. locals are having to cope without much support — for example here in pemba, people are sheltering in a school. doctors are warning of the risk of respiratory diseases given the flooding. this is the island of ibo, off the north of mozambique. it's a popular destination with tourists and has been

wiped out by the cyclone. rescuers have finally reached there five days after the storm hit. the bbc‘s lebo diseko is on the ground. she's visited the island of ibo. you can see a doorjust strewn there, a whole wall has come down. there are people here who are slowly trying to rebuild what they have, trying to rebuild what they have, trying to rebuild what they have, trying to make a life again. we saw people putting the bits of their houses back together. but they are telling us that they are really struggling for food. telling us that they are really struggling forfood. it's been difficult for aid to get in, i i really desperate said, and it's a really desperate situation. translation: people are still trying to build houses where they can. some don't know where to go at night. they stay in schools and in the morning, they leave. because of the conflict that hit the area, people came here, neither them conflict that hit the area, people came here, neitherthem northe

natives are in good shape. julian assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in school. the a7—year—old took sanctuary in the ecuadorian embassy to avoid sexual assault allegations which he denies. the judge said it was difficult to envisage a more serious example of the offence. any more was at london suffolk court for the sensing scapula julian assange arrived earlier this morning, his beard had been trimmed and he gave a fist to his supporters as he was driven in a course i feel he was asked if he understood in court with the proceedings were about, and he said he didn't understand the details scapula but he understood he would —— this was a case committed to prison. he was wearing a jacket over a great jumper prison. he was wearing a jacket over a greatjumper in

prison. he was wearing a jacket over a great jumper in jeans. prison. he was wearing a jacket over a greatjumper injeans. the prosecution were fairly short, saying they should be treated as an a1 case, very serious of skipping bail. then we had quite a long speech from mark summers, the qc for juliana saunders and mitigation. he said thatjulian assange was in fear for his life —— julian assange. he was worried he'd be sent to guantanamo bay and may be tortured in the us. that's why mark summers said julian assange had gone to the ecuadorian embassy for asylum. but thejudge dismissed most ecuadorian embassy for asylum. but the judge dismissed most of those arguments, saying this was nearly silliness to her. she said this was a case where nobody was above or beyond the rule of law. she said the judge —— judge taylor, this was a deliberate attempt to avoid justice, so deliberate attempt to avoid justice, so she sentenced him to 50 weeks in jail, and he will get some time off for about three weeks. he's already

in jail, for about three weeks. he's already injail, but for about three weeks. he's already in jail, butjulian assange for about three weeks. he's already injail, butjulian assange is sentenced to jail for nearly a year. any more. the us federal reserve has decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged amid mixed signals about the direction of the us economy. michelle fleury is outside the federal reserve in washington. looking at the financial market reactions there, stocks fell after the news came out. why? there had been some anticipation that perhaps there might be talk of a rate cut on there might be talk of a rate cut on the cards. the reason? inflation is currently running below the federal reserves's 2% target, it fell below the most recent data. it was weaker than expected, and this comes at a time when you can —— us economic growth accelerated in the first three months of this year, creating

a puzzling picture which is partially why we've seen the return rate unchanged. donald trump has had a few words to say about his feelings — says a full percentage point cut is necessary. does it listen to presidents? looking at their actions today, clearly not. you may be disappointed his tweet went unheeded, he tweeted at the start of a two day meeting saying that the fed should cut by one percentage point to return to the stimulus measures we saw in the wa ke the stimulus measures we saw in the wake of the financial crisis. that didn't happen, the fed chair reiterated he and his colleagues's position they will ignore all political pressure. thank you very much, michelle, outside the federal reserve in washington. the clues seem to be pointing towards the world's two biggest economies — the us and china, being

close to reaching a deal to end their trade war. it comes as the ft is reporting the us has dropped demands that china take action against state—backed cyber—theft that china take action from american companies. here's one analyst on that. the core tenant is to reach... i don't think you can do that if you don't think you can do that if you don't defend against cyber theft, that's another way of getting around stealing intellectual property. i would say this was a failure of a deal if this was dropped. we've seen over the last few months that we are just a few months around the corner ofa just a few months around the corner of a deal, but that hasn't materialised. if you see one side start to drop the requirements and making concessions to the other side of this negotiation, it shows motivation. and i think where you're coming from with the trump administration is that you have continued to talk around the muller report, you have continued excitement around the 2020 election. the view this as an opportunity to get a major win on a policy they've been pursuing the last few years. they want the headline, and the question is, what is the nuance that

drives to steal? they've levied $250 billion in tariffs, china has levied $150 million in tariffs. but the reality is, how does this impact intellectual property and cyber theft? which was the reason why we had these tariffs to begin with. as manufacturing becomes more automated, many fear it will employ fewer people. but it could also create jobs too. take a look at this, it's the latest in our disruptors series. big changes are coming to the role's factories

later in outside source, we will bring you the latest situation in venezuela. there have been rival demonstrations taking place on the

streets of the venezuelan capital. opposition supporters of one white ——juan opposition supporters of one white —— juan guaido opposition supporters of one white ——juan guaido and opposition supporters of one white —— juan guaido and also those of the president, nicholas madero. stay with us. taking a look at some of the weather stories around the world now, and no bigger story than what's going on in the bay of bengal, where we have a severe cyclonic storm. —— cyclonic. picking up significant strength with winds expected to cost over 200 kph, around 130 mph prior to landfall. this system is tracking in the north northwest direction and likely to make landfall in northeast india. bangladesh and the far northeastern states of india over the next few days. this is likely to be a significant storm both in terms of wind damage but also the threat of flooding. wind gusts at 205 kph,

around 130 mph. that will cause some flooding, 1.5 metres storm surge in coastal areas. landfall is expected friday with some significant impacts for northeast india and bangladesh. this weather system here stretching across parts of the midwestern united states, bringing some very heavy falls of rain. indeed during tuesday, we had a number of tornado reports stretching from parts of texas into oklahoma and kansas as well. this could bring some localised flooding, and to the southeast around the bahamas, we have a spell of unsettled weather. widespread storms here could produce 1- widespread storms here could produce 1— to waterspouts. those storms drifting towards florida, so the weather turning increasingly u nsettled weather turning increasingly unsettled here with the risk of extremely heavy downpours and localised water flooding. aside from those storms, it is warm across the southeastern united states. cool weather continues to affect canada.

across north america, let's look at eastern europe. not unusual to see an area of low pressure here, but what is more unusual is this. we have report of a tornado falling from this area affecting parts, 80 metres from doctor away from the capital. generally the weather will turn colder over the next few days. you can see the search of colder air spreading down from the arctic across the uk well into northern europe over the coming days. the weather will be quite unsettled with number of showers around, but the most significant feature of the weather as we head into the weekend, many places will be struggling to seat temperatures reach the double figures. that colder weather isn't just limited to europe. it's coming to the uk as well. fairly widespread showers around in the forecast for thursday. then the colder weather arrives with temperatures struggling, just nine celsius on friday in belfast with chilly winds as well. that's your latest weather.

hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. britain's defence secretary is sacked for leaking information. gavin williamson was found to have leaked discussions about the chinese firm, huawei. the labour party calls for a criminal inquiry. what the prime minister is saying is that he's breached the official secrets act. and as a secretary state of defence, that is a very serious allegation, it is a crime. the us attorney general has appeared before the senate, defending his handling of the inquiry into russian election interference. venezuelan opposition protests take over the streets of caracas — the united states criticises russia for backing the venezuelan leader, nicolas maduro. and which one of your facebook friends fancies you ?

you might find out sooner than you think. that's all coming up on outside source. more now on the sacking of british defence taking part of rival demonstrations. thousands of venezuela ns are on the streets of caracas taking part in rival demonstrations in support of president nicolas maduro and the opposition leaderjuan guaido. both men are urging their supporters to stand with them. juan guiado had this message tweet @jguaido "today we continue. juan guiado had this message nicolas maduro was as defiant as ever. last night we showed you some of the chaos in the capital after mr guiado called for a military uprising to end mr maduro's rule. here's the latest picture coming in.

a lot calmer than yesterday. juan guaido addresses a rally in the capital. we're hearing the streets are littered with burnt out vehicles from tuesday's clashes. these pictures give you a better idea ofjust how many people are on the streets supporting the opposition. it is may day public holiday — so many more likely to show. but this is the scene just a few kilometres away at a rival rally in support of mr maduro. these pictures were carried on state television — taken from just outside the presidential palace. but in the past hour we've have seen violence. security forces have fired tear gas outside the carlota military base — where violent protests took place on tuesday. juan guaido declared himself the interim leader injanuary and has the backing of more than 50 countries — including the us. yesterday — he announced the start of operation liberty — calling mr maduro a usurper. here he is addressing supporters at a rally today. translation: what we have sacrificed

won't have been in vain and it won't be in vain. it's been for our families and our future and to achieve our goal, which is to unite the country. we have seen how we started shaking things up and reclaiming our space and how we are still out in the streets. yesterday, they thought they had stamped out the protests. they won't do it. we will stay in the streets until we get freedom for all of venezuela! but president maduro says the streets have not turned against him — our reporter in guilermo olmo is at a pro—maduro rally. just a few hours after a long day of violence here in caracas, venezuela on both sides of the political divide have taken to the streets again. here, the government supporters are attending the rally of president nicolas maduro. they say they want to show that the venezuelan people stand against the coup d'etat that the opposition have attempted yesterday.

on the other side of this, the opposition supporters are doing just the opposite. they are trying one more time to bring more time to try and bring the dictatorship to an end. remember just 2a hours ago, we were showing you these shocking pictures. rubber bullets and tear gas fired — as security forces faced off with opposition supporters outside the carlota military base in caracas. at one point armoured vehicles ran appeared to run over protesters. according to rights groups more than 83 people were arrested at protests across 23 states. dozens were injured. and the country's military said he'd stopped a coup attempt and claimed victory over mr guaido. he came on national television with a message for his rivals. with the truth as a sword, as a shield, we face so many attacks and so many lives and we have emerged

victorious in every situation and will continue to emerge victorious in any difficulty that we face from now on. in the upcoming months and yea rs, now on. in the upcoming months and years, i have no doubt about it. well, i've been speaking to the bbc world service regional america's editor candace piette. we are in a process here, not an end game and the opposition leaders are saying the same thing. this particularly, guaido's allies, the military have not moved in the past few days towards guaido which has been what he needs to happen, but protests on the streets are so significant. we are seeing very large crowds across venezuela and he is touring points of the city and he has been asking for more defiance, more determination. so we are in that process and he says now that there will be a series of staggered

protests going forward, ending in a general strike, a keyed into dates of the public sector workers and the unions come out for him because they usually come out from maduro. the us has been mr guaido biggest backer — imposing crippling sanctions on nicolas maduro and his regime. today the us secretary of state mike pompeo said the white house is prepared to take military action. he also made this accusation. he was ready to go. he had made a decision that we have been urging him to make for quite some time and he was diverted from that action by the russians. we hope you will reconsider and get back on that plane. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov called the secretary of state today to tell him washington's inteference in venezuela's affairs is a breach of international law. according to russia's foreign ministry this was the message: the us national security adviserjohn bolton has also been weighing in.

if you are nicolas maduro, kulik and your defence minister any more and trust them? i do not think so. i think nicolas maduro is now surrounded by scorpions in a bottle and it is only a matter of time. here's candace piette again with more. very surprising comments from him there and the us and the us official should come out and say that senior members of maduro's entourage have beenin members of maduro's entourage have been in negotiations with the opposition. it is as if theyjust wa nted opposition. it is as if theyjust wanted to see it a little bit more doubt into the whole situation there. in fact, doubt into the whole situation there. infact, one doubt into the whole situation there. in fact, one of the men he mentioned was the defence minister who is also the head of the armed forces and yesterday he came out to the venezuelan people on television that the military have remained solidly behind maduro. so it is very

much doublespeak they‘ re solidly behind maduro. so it is very much doublespeak they're going on from us officials. one particular st where they have been running skirmishes, we have been seeing this a lot. confrontations between protesters and security forces, there have been some episodes of violence, a lot of people on the streets because it is the public holiday of mayday and we will keep further developments from venezuela. more now on the sacking of british defence secretary gavin williamson. downing street believes he behind a leak from a top—level downing street believes he was behind a leak from a top—level national security council meeting where they discussed a possible role for the chinese company huawei in developing the uk's 5g mobile network. mr williamson, who has been in the job since 2017, strenously denies the allegation. this is what he said to the bbc on tuesday. i never have leaked anything from the national security council nor would i ever leak anything

from the national security council. do you admit that you're one of the people under suspicion? as i say. never would, never have. reaction has been coming in from westminster. penny mordaunt is replacing mr williamson to become britain's first female defence secretary. she'sjust spoken. the prime minister has made her decision, it is a huge privilege to be asked to work with the best armed forces in the world. some mps are now calling for a police inquiry. the deputy leader of the liberal democratsjo swinson we've also heard from the labour party. clearly, the national security council is a very serious matter and to be involved, him of all people,

the importance of the confidentiality of security matters. more from chief political correspondent vicki young at westminster. westminster is used to being shocked but this really did come out of the blue, news that theresa may's sacked gavin williamson, she said that she had compelling evidence from that inquiry being led by the senior civil servant. but there are two sides to this story and almost immediately gavin williamson and his friends came out fighting. so he absolutely denies all of this, they feel that he has been stitched up, they point to an acrimonious relationship and they think that is why this has happened. now, a little earlier, the man who has got a cabinetjob out of all of this, he was asked what he made of what's been going on. that was an

investigation conducted by the cabin secretary and security adviser who i've known for many years since afghanistan, he is a very serious man. that is a very serious investigation and i have full confidence in that investigation. but that is not how his friends see it, they think the inquiry left a lot to be desired and you can hear that coming through from that letter from mr williamson saying that he is confident a thorough and formal inquiry we had vindicated his position. we understand that the evidence we think as it is, is a record of a phone call between him and the journalist who reported the leak, you cannot prove what day we are talking about and they have that denial there from gavin williamson. of course, this is the national security council. they discuss matters of national interest and thatis matters of national interest and that is why we are seeing such a serious leak at the time. stay with us on outside source — still to come: a pivotal

moment for athletics, south african runner caster semenya loses a landmark case against sport's governing body. obesity is one of the biggest health challenges facing the uk. now leeds believes it has come up with a solution. danny savage reports. when it comes to stopping children being overweight, leeds is getting it right. special classes across the city, paid for with public funds, are being partially credited with helping. the parents of these children recently completed the course... ..and are now confident about child versus food. they are allowed crisps but there's a price. you have to be good all weekend. be good all week, at the weekend when you're watching the movie, you could have a packet of popcorn or you can have that chocolate. try it, it's there. play with it, put it on the floor, lick it, it doesn't matter. i'll feed it to us if you want. that's ok too. and it's having the confidence

to know that is ok. it's ok if she doesn't eat it. not lecturing, but giving parents strategies appears to be the key. it would be things like, "do you want broccoli or carrots with your tea," rather than just, "what do you want for tea?" that already sort of gets rid of the oven chips. and, "do you want to go out and do some activity, do you want to go to the park, do you want to go on the swings?" again, that already restricts them from thinking about, "well, do i want to use the computer or watch tv? " and the effect is measurable. if we put it in real terms, that means that about 625 fewer children are starting school already obese, just in the city of leeds. i think that gives us some hope that, actually, this problem can be turned around. the brownlee brothers trained around here? yes, so i've actually been in the gym with them... but it's not just about special classes. this vicar runs a playgroup, and says the community

benefits, health—wise, from local sports heroes. the impact of sport locally, and the profile of sport, has really gone up. i think that makes a big difference because so many people think about what they're doing physically and how they're achieving. the hope is that the example of leeds can be duplicated elsewhere. it needs to be if childhood obesity is to be tackled. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: britain's defence secretary gavin williamson has been sacked over a leak of information from a national security council meeting. the united nations says that around 1a0,000 people in north—western syria have been displaced by fighting in the past three months. hundreds more have been fleeing hama and idlib provinces as a government air and artillery offensive backed by russia has escalated. more on that story on bbc arabic riot police in kazakhstan have used batons to break up protesters

demanding a presidential election boycott and the release of political prisoners. dozens of people were detained near almaty‘s central park where they had gathered for may day. several people have been injured by a tornado in romania. this footage was taken from a dashboard camera. the tornado narrowly missed a village but ten buildings lost their roofs. the freak weather early on tuesday evening was a result of a cold front from bulgaria. more on that story on bbc.com. caster semenya, the south african runner, has lost her appeal against new rules put in place by the governing body of world athletics to restrict levels of testosterone in female runners. here's the iaaf‘s website, the rules there, are designed to cover atheles with what's called and will cover races between a00m up to a mile. ms semenya is one of athletic‘s biggest names.

she's a double olympic and triple world 800—metre champion. but since she burst onto the scene in 2009, gender tests reportedly showed she had higher—than—normal testosterone levels. the sport's governing body says the rules are about maintaining a level playing field. here's ade ade adedoyin injohannesburg. what essentially means is defending their world title this year, she is going to have to take this medication to lower her testosterone level to below five per litre, she, and one thing to say is in that judgement, the fact that they have some concerns about how this policy is going to be implemented they also said that they want them to consider getting more data for events and give her more of a lifeline if the

iaaf, they must start taking the medication within a week. world record marathon holder, paula radcliffe is among those who've been backing the governing body on this, her position is that caster semenya meanwhile made this statement through her lawyers. the south african government tweeted this... it's notjust the government that backs her, the un human rights council also supported ms semenya's appeal. earlier i spoke to our gender and identity correspondent, megha moha. so the question here is, we are talking about eligibility for sport but we're also talking about the definition of what a woman is now in 2019. as far as we know, caster semenya has been born and raised a woman, a woman with intersex trouble. she is not transgender, she is not born a

boy in the transition later, she was born as a girl. just describe what exactly it is to have dsd or hyper interactionism. which is also the same as intersex traits, they preferred to be called in that term, but dsd which is a sex development, highly medicalized term. a0 different variations of it and according to the un, we do not know the entire level but it is between 9.5% and 1.7% of the world, so that would be on the upper level, as many people who have red hair. on the upper level. so that can work from chromosomal differences are testosterone differences to having external testes as well as ovaries.

will be sought today, he can't but help but feel this is a very it is how polarising and how much of a lightning rod of an issue this is very rarely, what you can't even see the other point of view. those who support caster semenya say, this is how she was born, there is no question of doping or taking performance—enhancing drugs. this is her naturally as she is and she can compete if she wants to. people up and showing videos of michael phelps and showing videos of michael phelps and his six foot seven wingspan, the fa ct and his six foot seven wingspan, the fact that he has double—jointed notice and that is said is that this is probably is, so why aren't we celebrating her —— prowess.

is probably is, so why aren't we celebrating her -- prowess. the iaaf say, yes, she is a woman. if you're going to a question that, but she is so much an outlier that it is not an example of all women. so she would dominate every sport that she takes pa rt dominate every sport that she takes part in, which if we look at the last 29 races, she has won all of them. how do we go forward from here, are there any views as to what the future holds if this is going to become an issue increasingly in sport? we have a number of issues to go out here, and the immediacy, caster semenya said they will be launching an appeal, as that seems to be the next step for caster semenya, however we are going to have to have conversations when it comes to athletes with intersex traits but transgender athletes because a lot of people have been speculating that one of the reasons why this decision was made was

because if you didn't stop intersex athletes from taking testosterone suppressant medication, that would mean that transgender suppressant medication, that would mean that tra nsgender athletes suppressant medication, that would mean that transgender athletes would say, if intersex athletes don't have to do it, why should i have to do it and then you are in a great territory. —— grey territory. facebook has announced a new feature for its users — secret crush. it's billed as a way for friends who have hidden feelings for each other to get together. users mark up to nine friends they're interested in on a private crush list. it only lets them know they're on the list if the feeling is mutual. let's speak to technology reporter will guyatt who's in wiltshire. i think it is about time facebook do something in the dating space. there've been some a privacy concerns and some of us might not necessarily want to trust facebook right now with dating information.

at the idea that facebook is not trying to find people to stay on the platform longer makes sense and some of the big dating platforms essentially use facebook‘s platform to make the service possible. so that feels a bit creepy that might be sharing feelings about your friends on facebook, it kinda makes sense, many of us have been on facebook for many years, we spent a big group of people, they might all be —— might not be close friends. we may have a feeling or a connection for one of them though, but i think it isa for one of them though, but i think it is a good idea. i do not necessarily know that if everyone is going to embrace the idea of facebook as a dating app.|j going to embrace the idea of facebook as a dating app. i suppose the dating apps that we know already is that you probably have already encountered this person or persons in real life. that is very much the idea of things but some people don't a lwa ys idea of things but some people don't always stick to that rule. but the idea is that if you are with people that you've been friends with in the

real world , that you've been friends with in the real world, that certainly is true, i think facebook very much is trying to reinvent itself. mark zuckerberg talked about this, rending this week in the us, the return to privacy for facebook. it's must be a private network by the same time, i think they want to rewind remind people of keeping them on even longer stuff but will there be any restrictions as to who you can put under secret crush list if someone put under secret crush list if someone is already described as being married or in a relationship, which he be allowed to do that?|j being married or in a relationship, which he be allowed to do that? i am assuming that you are right it's only running in about 16 countries of the moment, if you're in the philippines, yunnan, brazil, you can actually get this feature right now. but they are expecting that the uk will get it before the end of the year and then we'll see more of a dead and then facebook is not charging for this at the moment, a

lot of the dating apps charge for premium features, but i can't help but wonder if you have to pay for it. if it becomes a viable dating platforms like tender or any of the other dating platforms, iwonder facebook is going to use that to monetize it as well. will, let mejust bring in some reaction from facebook users. one has tweeted, what are your thoughts on that? the idea of dating online, i met my partner through twitter and i was when twitter had 1a0 characters. so if that is possible, who knows you can do on facebook. thank you very much. fascinating stuff. let us bring you the end of the programme, what is the latest in the caracas, venezuela. there is likely not on the streets, street protests, we are

seeing a bit of arise in the scenes of violence on what is going on right now in caracas. the latest on bbc news, stay with us. hello. if you have been walking in the woods, you will know that we closed out the month of april with some beautiful displays of bluebells at the moment. a couple weeks earlier than usual, the region's may be just how dry it has been across the uk. these are the professional rainfall statistics he could see the majority of the country has seen well below average rainfall with just whales and southwest england saying just about average, but are we going to see any rain in the next ten day forecast? keep watching and i'll let you know. we will start off with some sunshine and then a scattering of showers into the afternoon. some of the showers would be quite heavy with rumbles of thunder. if you get the best of the sunshine, you could get temperatures

peaking to 16 but a bit colder in the far north because there's a court from that is going to be pushed showering outbreaks overnight and in the south, it will introduce something colder into friday. if you showers into the far north and the temperatures really struggling year. seven to 10 degrees of the very best, just ahead of that court front and we might see temperatures around 14 and we might see temperatures around 1a or 15 degrees, but the front moves out of the way at the start of the bank holiday weekend and that is going to allow the floodgates to open up this court and pushing across the country. it also means that the start of the weekend gardeners and growers take note and temperatures falling low enough for a touch of frost and yes, you might be waking up to frosty looking picture like this, at the start of the weekend, it is decidedly cold, nothing like what we had at the easter bank holiday. it will feel court and there will be some

night—time frost, and will be a good deal of dry fine weather in the forecast as well. starting off cold, possibly frosty and then there will bea possibly frosty and then there will be a noticeable blustery wind and that would drive in some showers down off the north sea coast and thatis down off the north sea coast and that is just down off the north sea coast and that isjust going down off the north sea coast and that is just going to exacerbate that is just going to exacerbate that cold feel out there, so on the unexposed coast it will be very pleasant, seeing the best of the brighter weather for temperatures struggling seven to 13 degrees. the high pressure will build from the west and that should kill off the showers little bit from the second half of the weekend and also you can see that the open up a touch so the wind will start to ease so with each day in the bank holiday, it might just be that little bit better. stronger went to the north, but generally speaking there will be a good deal of fine weather and there should be fewer showers around on sunday and with the winds using just the touch, it might feeljust that little bit better despite this temperatures still only around nine to 13 degrees down on where they

should be really for the time of the year. later winds again on monday and again, there will be some cloud around but we get some holes in brightness as well it should peak around 1a celsius. but further ahead, are we going to get some rain for our gardens? but it does look as though low pressure will start to push in from the west. one area potentially being replaced by another. so that could in the six to ten day period be a change to the forecast. yes, there's the potential forecast. yes, there's the potential for seeing showers or longer spells of rain and slowly but surely, this temperatures will be just that little bit less cold. take care.

the defence secretary is sacked, accused of leaking secret information from a meeting last week of the national security council. gavin williamson is accused of leaking information to a newspaper about a government decision regarding the chinese telecoms firm huawei. the prime minister told mr williamson her inquiry found compelling evidence he was responsible for the leak, he replied with a strong denial. a government minister backs the pm. i have a lot of confidence in the national security advisor, i have a lot of confidence in the process he will have conducted, and i have a lot of confidence in the prime minister and i'm sure they will have made the right decision. opposition politicians are now calling for a police inquiry into whether the defence secretary breached the official secrets act. also tonight...