hello, i'm karin giannone. this is outside source. tensions escalate between democrats and republicans in the us over the handling of the mueller report. the attorney general of the gutted states of america is not telling the truth to the congress of the other states. that is a crime. india prepares for a major cyclone. 200 kph winds, floods and storm surges are expected to batter the eastern coast in the next 2a hours. hundreds of thousands of sudanese protestors take to the streets again, calling on the military to hand over power. britain sets new ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions to almost zero in 30 years. we'll hear what it will take to achieve that.

hearings on capitol hill into how the usjustice department handled the special counsel's report on russian election interference turned ugly today. the speaker nancy pelosi accusing us attorney general william barr, who gave evidence yesterday, of lying and dishonouring the office he holds. the attorney general of the united states of america is not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. she's referring to mr barr's testimony yesterday to a senate committee, during which he rejected claims he'd played down the conclusions of the mueller report. my understanding was his concern was not 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 did not reach a decision on obstruction. thejustice department has responded to speaker pelosi's comments, calling them "reckless, irresponsible and false". william barr refused to attend a session of the housejudiciary committee today. in his place, an empty chair, a bucket of kfc and a plastic chicken. democratic judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler said he was prepared to begin a process that could lead to fines or imprisonment for barr after his no—show. here's what the white house had to say in response. i think what we are seeing from chairman nadler is he is incapable of holding power. if he and his committee are actually capable of

asking the attorney general questions themselves, it seems i get pretty pathetic moment for the chairman of that committee. look, we lost confidence in nadler along time ago but it is surprising to find out he has actually lost confidence in himself and his ability to do his job. quite a charge from nancy pelosi, very strong words. let's go to washington. why are democrats so angry? is about how william barr dealt with the mueller report to begin with. there is a suspicion he did that in favour of the president, effectively to claim down what robert muller found. but more importantly, the speaker of the house asked is what barr has told congress over the last few weeks. he was asked about any concerns that robert mueller and his team had about the way the report was

presented. he said a couple of weeks ago that he did not know if mueller had any problems with the way that document had been presented. we know now that robert mueller wrote to him with concerns saying the full substance human nature and context of the report had not been conveyed in that summary and the public was left confused about exactly what was found. those of the issues that democrats are now pursuing and they wa nt democrats are now pursuing and they want the attorney general held accountable for. how much power do they have two hold them accountable? democrats trying to embarrass him with the chicken and the fried chicken. i believe is the first time we have seen fried chicken handed around and congress was that there is an attempt to embarrass the attorney general and to make them look like he is on the rubber there is a more serious attempt to make him turn up and answer questions. he is being asked to hand over an underwriter copy of the mueller report for members of congress to repulsive if he does not do that kevin can be found in contempt of congress. there

are those calling on him to be forced to resign or face charges and nancy plessy is clear that is what she thinks is here. relic it said this is a circus has a whipped up a democrats because it is the only thing they can claw to out of the mueller report findings and as you heard the department ofjustice is studied by the attorney general as well. thank you very much. dan johnson in washington. india's east coast is bracing for the arrival a severe cyclonic storm. this is cyclone fani. it's currently rolling towards odisha state, also known as orissa, and is expected to make landfall on friday morning. it's packing wind speeds in excess of 200 kph. there are close to 100 million people in fani's path. this is a satellite image of the powerful storm. you can see just how big it is as it approaches the mainland. this is some of the wild weather already being experienced along the coast, strong winds and heavy rain lashing the area.

here's some pictures of the evacuations taking place. more thani million people are being moved to temporary shelters. hotel guests in the city of puri are also being told to leave before fani arrives. here's lt general nc marwah from india's national disaster management authority. we have deployed more than 5a national disaster response force teams him each team consisting of about 50 personnel who are equipped with equipment and various other materials for expedia evacuation and rescue of people. the ndma is also keeping people up to date via twitter. earlier, it advised of "phenomonal sea conditions and advised fishermen not to venture into affected coastal areas". the bbc‘s divya arya is monitoring the situation from delhi. the central government has actually

given10 the central government has actually given 10 billion rupees, an advance of almost 14 million us dollars for relief and rescue operations. because gordon and evie have put ships and helicopters on standby. people have been advised especially if they live in houses that have patched roofs which are not permanent structures to definitely move out and move to safer places because low—lying areas can get up tol.5 because low—lying areas can get up to 1.5 metre high waves tomorrow when the cyclone is to make landfall near the city of puri. i've been speaking with chris fawkes in the bbc weather centre. at the moment, it is coming up to the coastline of odisha chemist it will make landfall there in the next five hours or so. it had been going ina five hours or so. it had been going in a northerly direction but just started to turn north— northeast. the i is actuallyjust gotten a bit bigger over recent hours. that is a side of the storm undergoing one of these i0n cycles where the winfield

gets larger. the area affected by strong winds could be a little bit larger. you can see that turn as the storm is networking into the northeast so will make landfall around odisha. it is a storm of both —— multiple hat —— hazard. wind gust to get 200 kph and two to three inch of rain and then there is a storm surge where the north of the i you will get a big push of the ocean waters and will push inland and cause coastal inundation. if that is not been enough to be could coincide with high sides. that is dangerous when you look at what is further up that coasted you see mainly —— and very low—lying areas there. that coasted you see mainly —— and very low-lying areas there. that is right. the i of the storm and it will be running quite close to the coast. it will interact with the lead in that process might will take quite a long time, so is probably going to be a cyclonic storm as it arrives in bangladesh on saturday.

we have similar conditions in mala —— in the southwest coast, they have some very high tides coinciding with the full moon. the tide skimmer over three metres high for so if you put a 1.5 metre storm surge on top of that and weights on top of that committee could be looking at a wall of water that could be two or three times my height. that is a real concern in this part of the world. two days after the opposition in venezuela called for an uprising to topple president maduro, he's still very much in power and seemingly in control. crucially, he still seems to have the backing of the military. this extraordinary footage has been released on the president's twitter feed. it shows kneeling troops chanting and clapping in front of president maduro. the united states has claimed that a number of top generals have held secret talks with the opposition. clearly, the venezuelan government is at pains to show the opposite picture by putting out images like these. the president also spoke.

translation: no to the traitorous, no to the others. no one can be afraid. it is time to defend the right to peace. i told people the plan of the plotters, civil war commit machine guns versus machine guns, tanks against tanks, that we kill each other amongst brothers. on wednesday, we saw more protests. today, the opposition leader juan guiado called for government employees to go out on strike and said the demonstrations would continue until mr maduro stepped down. many of the countries bordering venezuela recognise mr guiado, but they fear he may have overplayed his hand. brazil's vice president today said juan guiado's attempt to overthrow maduro this week was "not the best idea". claudia plazaz is in miami. we too have a very uncertain situation in his venezuela full that we had demonstrations by the opposition in the interim president who is organised by over 50 countries and today we had that show

of military force by maduro kim who actually went to where military compound located in caracas. he marched next to 4000 military personnel according to state media. he also addressed the military members at the military compound. he also gave the opportunity to the defence minister to give very short speech where they said that the civic military unit was still very solid against any coup attempts the opposition planned it to conduct against the maduro administration. state with us. here is a news update on another opposition figure. the court on twitter has issued an arrest warning —— warm for him. let's show you a picture of him. tell us what we know about what happened to mr lowe we had heard he

had gone to the chilean in visio couple of days ago. well, he appeared next to want guaido on tuesday when he said they had to support of military personnel. and then after that, they went to a place for they gave a quick speech and then he went to the chilean embassy and then he transferred to the spanish embassy. now we have the supreme court issuing a arrest warrant against him. he is a prominent figure in the opposition. he was given the measure of couple of months ago. even under home arrest under the supervision of the secret police known as the... the court gave the order to the secret police that they can arrest him and theissue police that they can arrest him and the issue here is that he is actually at the spanish embassy

right now as far as we know. the other report that we have is that he is -- his other report that we have is that he is —— his wife went to their home today and their home had been disorganised and it was a very messy situation. they were saying the venezuelan authorities actually raided the house but we do not have any confirmation of this. why is it that we think that guaido, so prominent it is opposition, calling on people to mobilise, why do we think he is not been arrested yet? we don't know. he was actually supposed to be arrested upon his arrival in is well after he conducted a latin american tour when he went to colombia, brazil, paraguay and argentina and upon his arrival, he was able to enter the country freely and then went to a square and met with people and he has been able to conduct this kind of opposition actions over the last

three months. while he is not been arrested, we don't know yet. could that happen, probably. stay with us on outside source. still to come, protests and resignations in cyprus over the way police handled the case of what's thought to be the island's first serial killer. we'll have the full details. a fresh inquest is to be held into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi debrah, who died after suffering an asthma attack in 2013. up up until 2010 kemen will have been a healthy young girl was up after a chest infection, she developed severe asthma. she was hospitalized 27 times over three years and died

in 2013 just 27 times over three years and died in 2013just nine 27 times over three years and died in 2013 just nine years old. the following year, and a quest concluded she died of acute respiratory failure and severe asthma. but ella kissi debrah —— lives in your chimney busy south circular road in london and her family always believe air pollution directly contributed to her death. after a six—year legal battle, the mob walked out of the high court today with a victory. the original inquest vertical washed and a fresh inquest vertical washed and a fresh inquest ordered which will hear new scientific evidence backing the family's claims. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: the us house speaker has accused the attorney general william barr of lying to congress over the mueller report. afghan tribal leaders are concluding a four—day peace meeting in kabul. it coincides with talks between the taliban's political

leader and the us special envoy in doha. the talks are focusing on the withdrawal of us troops and efforts to stop afghanistan from being a base for international militants. that from bbc farsi. for the first time ever, doctors in the united states have used a drone to fly a human organ for a transplant. it's hoped the breakthrough will speed up the moving of organs and save more lives. the king of thailand has married his long—term partner, giving her the title of queen. this is one of the most read articles on our website quite possibly because the new queen used to be the deputy commander of the king's personal bodyguard unit. his coronation will take place this weekend in bangkok. here in the uk, there are growing calls for a police inquiry into the leak of sensitive information blamed on the uk defence secretary gavin williamson.

he was sacked yesterday after an investigation concluded that he was behind the leak from a meeting of the country's national security council. they had been discussing a possible role for the chinese company huawei in developing the uk's 5g mobile network, information that then appeared on the front pages of the telegraph newspaper. mr williamson has controversially sworn on his children's lives that he didn't do it and says a police inquiry would exonerate him. but today, the prime minister's deputy told the commons the government would not be taking it further. the unauthorised disclosure of any information from government is serious and especially so from the national security council. the prime minister has said that she now considers that this matter has been closed and the cabinet secretary does not consider it necessary to refer it to the police. however the british foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, who is in africa at the moment,

has weighed into the row saying... here's pauline neville jones, the former chair of the joint intelligence committee. my own belief if the promised has drawn the line at the right place by dismissing somebody for a serious breach of the rules of the operation of the council, unauthorised disclosure of sensitive information. whether it is sensible to invoke the pretty heavy provisions of the official secrets act to bring change —— a charge under that act and the question would be what would they demonstrate by way of damage to the national interest because you have to do that. i think it is a rather questionable. the issue they were discussing is a policy issue, it was

known this issue had to be discussed. what he did was to disclose the positioning of people inside the cabinet and the fact that there was not really full agreement. i think it would be quite hard to actually bring a case that it was actually bring a case that it was actually effective. my own view is the prime minister was sensible to make it very clear to her colleagues and future colleagues in anybody else who holds that job that this is not a sensible thing to do if you wa nt not a sensible thing to do if you want to hold high office. so, how is all this being received by mr williamson's former colleagues. our chief political correspondent vicki young can tell us. there are some saying he should be able to try to clear his name and some think that a police investigation might be the way he could do that. i think gavin williamson think it would give him a chance to challenge the evidence that was put to him although his friend say that evidence did not amount to much. they are talking about an 11 minute phone call that he had with the journalist to them broke the story but he insists he

did not reveal anything from the national security council meeting also but i have to say there are lots of these colleagues who simply do not believe his denials. they say he has reputational as a minister who speaks pretty openly to journalists a lot of the time. some of them have been pretty rude about him saying he was over promoted and that he really thinks he is more important than he is in the party. and another minister said to me that he had this phone call with a journalist and let's face it, it was not talking about the weather, was he? he stilled us tonight, this idea ofa he? he stilled us tonight, this idea of a police investigation i think looks pretty unlikely for some there isa looks pretty unlikely for some there is a process here if you want to investigate whether a —— official sigrist act has a broken there have to bea sigrist act has a broken there have to be a formal referral from the cabinet office and it was pretty clear listening today that that will not happen. president trump's nominee for a seat on the board of the federal reserve, america's central bank, has pulled out of the race. the news came in a tweet

from the presidentjust minutes after stephen moore himself declared he was "all in". what is going on here? this sounds complicated, let's go to new york and michelle fleury who can explain what's going on. there were two nominees being floated to join the board of governors at the federal reserve, the central bank of america. a lot of controversy about these two figures, one herman cain who dropped month ago and withdrew himself. this was because he was running for president himself there were allegations of sexual harassment and those began to be dressed up again and before any of that took steam, he pulled out. in the case of stephen moore, a donald trump ally who is been vocal in supporting the white house economic policies and handling of the economy, he was someone handling of the economy, he was someone who had come under criticism for comments he had made about women, jokes that he had made but also for some aspects of his economic views. all of this had been reveling on of the background and

there were signs that number of republicans were wavering in their support and that we have learned that he has withdrawn his name for consideration. of course some of the wider context to all of this as we have seen donald trump in the past ta ke have seen donald trump in the past take a combative or unorthodox approach to institutions in washington and i think the federal reserve was no exception in this case. tell us a little about stephen moore in what his background was. case. tell us a little about stephen moore in what his background wasm he is known to american tv viewers here, a frequent commentator on economic issues. his views were sort of known to have kind of change depending on different times. he had been pulled up ever since his name was floated for the nomination forgetting certain economic statistics wrong and his understanding of certain things, whether it beat disinflation was one error or there was criticism of if

he understood how the economy was staring at the moment. all of this came toa staring at the moment. all of this came to a head with a number of republicans beginning to express doubts that they will be unable to support them and there was a sense that there might not beat the numbers to get him confirmed. donald trump and said he would stick by his man but it did increasingly seem unlikely and now we get this sort of withdrawal. of course is comes at a time of many people were concerned the federal reserve independent was under attack and the president, who certainly is taken to tweeting publicly about monetary policy suggestions but also criticising the head of the federal reserve, who the president appointed himself. stay with us. now, just what is the investor appetite for beyond meat. the vegan burger company whose early investors, include leonardo dicaprio and bill gates hasjust gone public on the nasdaq in new york. let's go back to

michelle in new york. how much of a buzz is there about this? let's just how much of a buzz is there about this? let'sjust say apologies for the pond but there was a huge appetite from investors for this. this stock surge over 100% on its first day of trading and it climbed up first day of trading and it climbed upa first day of trading and it climbed up a whopping $40 above the original listing price the company proposition is this is a plant —based burger and we have seen veggie burgers before but this is different in the way that it tries to replicate the taste of meat using plant —based ingredients. and sort of replicating the mouth feel about that quite a lot. it is to by the founder's desired to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a lot of which comes from agriculture and so that sort of how the company got started. but it does face a lot of competition. i didn't know if you

have tasted the impossible burger, another competitor. but it is a growing space and one i suspect will sort of see a lot more opportunities but again there are huge risks because of this increasing competition. one detail that is fascinating is these burgers believe like real meat burgers with beetroot cheese. that is right. i read the ingredients and a key ingredient is peace and they have bee gees for colour and not just the peace and they have bee gees for colour and notjust the colour, the get that sort of blood is being juice and also potato starch, coconut oil to give you some of that greasy feel that we all like from a burger. thank you very much. on the appetizing note, thank you to michelle in new york. what is coming up michelle in new york. what is coming up in the next half hour, facebook has banned several far right figures and organisations saying their posts are dangerous. among those removed include the nation of islam a leader

luis farrakhan, all right american radio host alex jones luis farrakhan, all right american radio host alexjones and former editor of breitbart milo ian novelist. more on that in a few minutes. a lot to get to, let's get straight in the weather details of the biggest weather story is in south asia for stud this swirl of cloud is extremely severe cyclonic storm fani and his been developing over the bay of bengal and now bearing down on the east coast of india. look to make landfall close to the city of puri. torrential rain and damaging winds combining with a big storm surge close to the coast bringing some really disruptive and potentially very dangerous weather. when gus around 120 mph, up to 300 limiters of rain with that storm surge crashing into the coastline

and very rough seas. expect to hear some new stories about this part of the world over the next couple of days. that storm in a quick informal track northeastward days. that storm in a quick informal track northeastwa rd through days. that storm in a quick informal track northeastward through calcutta and eventually into bangladesh as we move through friday and saturday. to north america, this is the satellite and radar picture and you can see an angry looking area of current cloud with rain across social areas. the real levels have already been high across part of the us so there has been further flooding. these pictures come from missouri and also from iowa and not only flooding rain but also one or two tornadoes. this damage may well have been caused by a tornado and this bell of the retirement weather continues to track its way eastwards as we go out of thursday and into friday. from texas up to the midwest and the great lakes could see vicious thunderstorms and that could disrupt some travel plans but also quite a few showers and thunderstorms down across florida where it is still very warm and very humid. a quick story from down under because in

australia we have had a frontal system working its way eastwards over the last couple of days reading outbreaks of heavy rain. some places have had a lot of rain and other places not a lot on the face of it. this town in victoria recording 15.6 mm of rain in the space of 14 minutes. that is a short space of timea minutes. that is a short space of time a compare that to just tim and leaders of rain that fell in that spot over the whole of the first four months of the year. they have certainly had a type of rain so that when weather approaching the east coast of australia over the next couple of days. up closer to home in europe, look at this, a plunge of cold airfrom europe, look at this, a plunge of cold air from the arctic. we are getting deeper into may but it's something of a return of winter across canada abf wasn't really hot and dry lately and wildfires and that snow in the forecast across in the navy as we look for the next few days. this belt of heavy downpours moving south across europe and taking the cold air with it. we will feel the effects of that here at home. called her with overnight

frost and some sunshine and wintry showers in the north and more details and more details in half an hour.

hello, i'm karin giannone. this is outside source. tensions escalate between democrats and republicans in the us over the handling of the mueller report. the attorney general of the united states of america was not telling the truth. to the congress of the united states. that is a crime. facebook bans several far right and anti semitic figures and the organisations linked to them saying their posts are dangerous. hundreds of thousands of sudanese protestors take to the streets again, calling on the military to hand over power. britain sets new ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions to almost zero in 30 years. we'll hear what it will take to achieve that.

the struggle for power in sudan has continued today. these are the latest pictures from a demonstration today. in the capital khartoum. hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered to try to persuade generals who are running the country to hand over power to a civilian administration. the generals want seven of the ten members on the transitional council to be from the military. the opposition meanwhile is proposing a 15 person council the majority of whom should be civilians. protest leaders also insisted today that the civilian administration must include representatives from armed groups who battled the previous regime. here's one of them speaking in khartoum today. translation: i assure you, even if we agree tomorrow with the military council on our proposal and they fully

supported it, the transitional ruling institutions will not be formed unless the armed resistant groups are a key part of the set up. there have been protests in sudan ever since this man president omar al bashir was ousted last month. the military council is demanding that a future governing body is headed by this man general abdul fattah al burhan. there have also been disputes over the barricades that protestors have set up. the bbc‘s mohanad hashim is in khartoum. the pro—democracy opposition alliance calls for a one million strong march to put pressure on the transition pressure on the transition military counsel. they turned up in thousands. this crowd, what they want, they are very clear about it. they want a hand over to civilian government. now, talks between the military and the opposition have stalled and they have broken down. the sticking point being the makeup of the sovereign state council that will oversee the transition period. the military, they want the upper hand, while the civilians

want the council, where they have the upper hand. but the deadline of the african union that has been extended from two weeks to two months is seen by protesters here as a betrayal. and some pressure has been lifted up the back of the military counsel. it is worth a note, for many protesters, the african union under the chair leadership of egypt is seen as part of an a regional access, which includes kingdom of saudi arabia, and the uae, both of them strong allies of the transitional military counsel. in cyprus, thejustice minister has resigned over how police handled the case of what's thought to be the island's first serial killer. a 35—year—old greek cypriot man is in custody, he's admitted to killing seven female migrants. the focus of the search for the bodies has centred around a toxic red lake in the village of mitsero. this is the moment remains of one

of the bodies was recovered from the lake. the bodies of three of the victims had been put into suitcases and thrown into the water. this case has shocked cyprus. but it's also led to anger. protestors have accused police of failing to properly investigate the disappearance of the victims in the three years since they went missing, because they were migrants. here's the justice minister ionas nicolaou aanouncing his resignation. translation: i briefed the president of my decision to resign my duties and thank him for the trust he showed me throughout my services. i am resigning only out of political responsibility, as i share no other responsibility of the police handling of missing person reports. and neither did police inform me of such reports. rosie blu nt‘s been covering this story. there is another protest organised tomorrow and there was one last week. they say the cyprus authorities have really failed these women who have been left very vulnerable and unprotected.

tell us about this appalling series of crimes and how they came to light. over the past few weeks, several bodies have been recovered. the first one was found in an abandoned mine by a german tourist who was taking photographs. it wasn't even police who uncovered the bodies. this led to a further investigation which uncovered several more bodies. one was found in a well and several were found in suitcases dumped in the red lake in cyprus. so it has really been a horrific and covering. there was a child as one of the victims. the allegation being because these were migrant women and children, this wasn't treated with utmost importance. it is believed to be two children. the daughters of two of the victims. what people are saying is these women were not taken seriously. they say their disappearances were reported several years ago, that neighbours and friends reported them missing, and because they were migrants, the policejust said they went back to the original to the original countries, they couldn't investigate them further. that is what is being alleged.

what is happening with the investigation now? what are police doing? the man who has confessed to some of the killings is in police custody. not all of the bodies have been recovered yet. so the investigation is ongoing, looking for more bodies, but the real question is is how this is been allowed to happen in a system that leaves women so unprotected, these migrant workers have told me awful stories of working conditions that completely flout eu working directive, 14 hour days, not having a day off, some have said they have a single day off in one month, shared between three families, and some reported sexual harassment as well. so this is the tip of the iceberg of a massive issue in cyprus. it's only three weeks sincejulian assange was arrested in london but proceedings have

already begun to have him extradited to the united states. the us wants him to stand trial charged with computer hacking, in relation to publishing classified military documents. the wikileaks founder is currently in jail serving a 50 week sentence for breaching his bail conditions, and he gave evidence today via video link. he said he wouldn't surrender to extradition for doing what he called award winning "journalism that has protected many people". here's his lawyer outside the court. this case is not about hacking. this case is about a journalist and a publisher who had conversations with a source about accessing materials, encouraged that source to provide materials, and spoke to the source about how to protect their identity. this is a protected activity that journalists engage in all the time and any prosecution and extradition of mr assange for having alleged to have done so will place a massive chill and investigative journalism chill in investigative journalism the world over. our correspondent charlotte gallagher was watching outside court.

the magistrate told us this could be a very, very lengthy process forjulian assange, his supporters and his legal team and the us authorities. as you said, julian assange wasn't here in court today, he appeared via video link from bill marsh prison where he has been since he was dramatically removed from the ecuadorian embassy in april. and i have to say he looked very different from those disheveled images we saw of him being removed from the embassy by police. he was wearing a blazer and jeans, his long hair had it been cut off and as you said, he would not surrender to this extradition request. he describes himself as a journalist who has won awards for his work and he claims that he had saved many, many lives. the prosecution read out the details of the charges which america wants to charge him with. essentially that he conspired with the former us military analyst chelsea manning to divulge some of the us government it was the biggest data leak in us history. there were secrets about

the afghanistan conflict, the iraq war, state department cables and the us wanted him in america where he can face charges. if convicted, he would face a possible maximum of five years in prison. britain is being told to lead the global fight against climate change by cutting greenhouse gases to nearly zero by 2050. that's the recommendation from the government's own advisers in this report. they say if the world's first industrialised nation does this and other countries do the same there's a 50 50 chance of keeping global temperature rises below danger levels. our environment analyst roger harrabin explains. when britain sparked the industrial revolution, we didn't know that burning coal oil and gas would produce emissions that would overheat the climate. now, a clean industrial revolution is under way, and adviser say that by 2050, the uk

should add it no more heating gases. this target with the lot of renewable energy is called net zero. it means industry will have to curb emissions much more quickly, power pla nts emissions much more quickly, power plants like this one in yorkshire will lead the way. then the farming, burping cows are hitting the climate, we need to eat less red meat for supper and turning some farm land to forest the report says. housing must be net zero emissions too. for the first time, flying and shipping should be included in the target as the committee says. protesters will say the report doesn't go far enough, others will think it goes too far. the committee insist their targets are realistic and essential to protect the climate. so as we heard there, people can do their bit to help by doing a number of things including turning down their heating in winter, eating less meat,

switching to electric cars and taking fewer flights. people who work in this area say a mental shift is needed. i don't think it is about sacrifice. it is about change. that scares some people sometimes. it is about living well within the limits that the planet sense for us. i don't think it sacrifices at all. we have to make it doable. it has to be something that we as citizens of the uk sign up to and say yes, this is actually going to make our life better and this is something we should show everybody else the way. we're talking about the uk here but how does the rest of the world compare? as we can see here the countries emitting the most greenhouse gases by quite a long way are china and the us. together they account for more than 40% of the global total so what's china doing to cut its emissions? here's our correspondent robin brant in china's biggest city, shanghai.

this certainly pollution a particularly the air quality here is a huge issue domestically for this government and the president has made a priority to try to deal with that to make the air better, ideal with that for about six months of the year here come air quality can be very bad to make the water better and make the lead better as well. at the same time you have a country that has a huge hungerfor the same time you have a country that has a huge hunger for power, huge hungerfor that has a huge hunger for power, huge hunger for electricity, this night time a rainbow scene down by the river in the heart of shanghai isa the river in the heart of shanghai is a common the river in the heart of shanghai is a common scene across the river in the heart of shanghai is a common scene across hundreds of cities in this country cities that have expanded usually over the last 20 years at this country economy has rapidly grown over the last 20 years and most of this power is provided by burning coal. coal is king in this country. currently about 59% of electricity is generated by coal and coal is responsible for 70% of

china's co2 emissions. coal is the real problem. renewables, use of renewa bles real problem. renewables, use of renewables is increasing in efforts to make: cleaner but at the moment it dominates electricity generation here and that is the big challenge for china. stay with us on outside source still to come... facebook has just been several far right and anti—semitic figures and organisations linked to them saying that their posts are dangerous. —— has just abandoned several. a fresh inquest is to be held into the death of nine—year—old ella kissi debrah who died after suffering an asthma attack in 2013. the original inquest concluded that her death was caused by acute respiratory failure and severe asthma, but her family says new evidence proves her death was directly linked to illegal levels of air pollution near her home in south london. ella was cheeky and bright, says her mother. here she is playing with her phone in their car.

there little cough a sign of how ill she was. a few months later, she had a severe asthma attack and died. i'm going home today. her home was just 25 metres from london's busy ring road. she was breathing air so polluted that it broke legal limits. pollution wasn't put as a cause of ella's death, but her mother has always believed that it was linked and now she is one step closer to finding out. today at the high court, a judge said in the interests ofjustice there should be a new inquest. we spoke to rosamund after the ruling. it's incredibly important. i loved her so much, so, so much and i'm so proud of her, that she is doing this for everybody else. even you and me, because we all breathe air. ella was rushed to hospital almost 30 times in the three years before she died.

new medical evidence, key to today's decision, showed a striking correlation between these visits and spikes in air pollution. we've known for many years that air pollution and asthma go together, but what we haven't had are clear demonstrations of individual human beings suffering as a direct result of this pollution. the government says it's taking concerted action to improve air quality. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: the us house speaker has accused the attorney general william barr of lying to congress over the mueller report. other stories from around the bbc news room at the moment. in uganda, the opposition mp has been released from prison on appeal. the

politician have been prosecuted for organisation organising a protest against a social media tax last year. the us military has reported a major increase in sexual assaults despite years of efforts to address the problem, number show more than 20,000 incidences of unwanted sexual contact in 2018 come up a quarter from when the survey was last conducted in 2016. and health authorities from the caribbean island of st. lucia have quarantined a cruise ship preventing any of its passengers or crew from disembarking after a case of measles was diagnosed on the ship, the us vessel is thought to be the free ones, which is owned and operated by the church of scientology. on the bbc website. a former cia agent has pleaded guilty to spying for china. it's a case linked to the dismantling of an entire

us espionage network. jerry chun shing lee shown here with a blue tie is a naturalised us citizen who left the cia in 2007 to live in hong kong. there he was recruited by chinese agents. prosecutors say he was then paid to divulge information on us covert assets. this led china to bring down a network of informants between 2010 and 2012. around 20 informants were killed orjailed during that period. it was one of the most disastrous failures of us intelligence in recent years. bbc chinese's zhao yin feng joins us from washington. tell us a bit about his background. mr lee worked for the cia for more than ten years, until 2007 when he moved to hong kong, and a 2010, he was approached by the chinese intelligence agents and in two

yea rs, intelligence agents and in two years, the fbi got him back to the us, interviewed him several times and found out that he was carrying some sensitive information about the cia operations in china. however, at the time, the fbi let him go, hoping to get more evidence, not until last year was a to get more evidence, not until last yearwasa mr to get more evidence, not until last year was a mr lee arrested in new york. that us spy network that collapsed in china between 2010 82012, how convinced are authorities that he was connected what happened? according to media reports, mr lee, more specifically created to notebooks containing cia secret operations in china and also identities of undercover agents in china. which led to the chinaa crackdown of us spy network from 2010 and 2012. it was the biggest failure of eight us intelligence in

the recent years. just like you mentioned, more than 20 spies were identified by beijing and 12 of them reportedly were killed it, one shot down ina reportedly were killed it, one shot down in a government building in the courtyard in front of all of his colleagues. how did that collapse of the intelligence that they had in place affect the cia operations? basically, it paralysed the us spy network in china. which take years to establish. it was devastating for the us spy system. thank you for joining us. let's tell you what is going to be coming up on the programme because... and bbc is the hash—tag if you want to get in touch with us at any point. a lot more to bring you on the programming, including facebook. facebook has banned several far right and anti semitic

figures and organisations saying their posts are dangerous. among those removed include nation of islam leader louis farrakhan, alt right american radio host alex jones and former editor of breitbart news, milo yiannopoulos. in a statement, facebook said "we've always banned individuals or organisations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology." the statement went on to say the process for banning people is extensive. let's bring in dave lee in san francisco... tell us more about what has happened. this is about facebook, i guess coming good on some of the promises that has made to clean up some of the activity on facebook when it comes to things like hate speech. facebook says that no political ideology is considered in these decisions he simply looks at whether there are words and

sentiments expressed towards people based on race, religion, gender and so based on race, religion, gender and so forth and whether that transition to being hate speech and therefore they say they don't want that on their platform, that is how they judge these particular individuals they said, so that can include also my some of their rationale for this, praising or celebrating some of the work of others who have already been abandoned by facebook or simply making some of those sentiments themselves. this is facebook starting to make big moves on combating this problem, some think it has promised to do for quite some time now and this is probably i would say the most significant demonstration of that we have had so far. tell us about the individuals and the groups they have selected this time. many other people in this group you call far right are altered right you could also say, and they are quite closely linked, like alex jones, the host of info wars, known

as being a conspiracy theorist, disputed some of the accounts of mass shootings here in the united states, his programme has also featured other figures such as gavin mcinnis, which he was the leader of afar right mcinnis, which he was the leader of a far right group as well and facebook designated mr mcinnis is being engaging in hate speech and therefore once alexjones referenced some of his work as well, they decided to take the action. interesting case within this, louis farrakhan, the leader of the nation of islam, they say the reason why he was banned from the platform was because of anti—somatic comments that he had been making this year and that is why they say that individual fell foul of the policy. in all, they described these people as being dangerous, and for that reason they say they were no longer be able to use facebook and ossa instagram as well. only coming out the last hour or so, i wonder what the last hour or so, i wonder what the reaction is being so far to the

individuals chosen. one of the curious parts of this was that facebook seem to announce this to the press before actually putting those bands in place. there was a rather bizarre situation earlier when alex jones was rather bizarre situation earlier when alexjones was able to host a livestrea m when alexjones was able to host a livestream on facebook talking about his ban from facebook. and also other figures we saw, my low who you mentioned, he was able to go onto his facebook account, to his followers they should expect them to be banned and direct them to other places on the internet where he is sharing his thoughts and to work. facebook has been criticised for that, people suggesting they could have handled that aspect better, but of the reaction i have seen, people are looking at this as at least one step of many that facebook needs to combat hate speech across the network. just how much pressure is facebook and the other social media companies under right now and how much is that building? the pressure

is building immensely. this is something that not just is building immensely. this is something that notjust effects facebook, it affects twitter as well and a big way, twitter already moves to banding some of these figures. that should banding some of these. i think one of the difficulties these companies have of course is that when they take this action, there is an opposite reaction from some of the corners not just an opposite reaction from some of the corners notjust far right but also politicians in the us who say the social networks are being more unfavorable the social networks are being more u nfavora ble towards the social networks are being more unfavorable towards people with the right wing views and there is a bias within these silicon valley companies, the california companies against their views of people on the right here in the us. that criticism i think will bubble up because of this decision, we haven't seen you get but that is because i think this news is just breaking get but that is because i think this news isjust breaking but get but that is because i think this news is just breaking but it will come down the line i'm sure. thank you for bringing us the latest.

thank you for watching outside source. we will be back next week at the usual time. goodbye. hello. bank holiday weekend is just around the corner. you will want to know what is in prospect for the long weekend. i can take it not be a reflection of last year which was a record breaker on a may day, a high of 29 celsius, we might be breaking records this may day, but for a different reason. it could be disappointingly cool what some places and temperatures below the average for this time of the year. if you want somebody to blame, don't blame the weather forecasters, blamed this cold front slipping its way south and west as we speak, it is going to open the floodgates really for this cold air to spell out from the north. the isobar squeezing together, the winds are significant feature as well, particularly in the far north of scotla nd particularly in the far north of scotland for friday. it will be a windy day, friday at the transition

really because our cold front will be sinking its way slowly south and west, it will bring a blanket of cloud, if you spent some spots of shall he ran across south wales in central and southern england and behind it, brighter conditions and a few scattered showers and perhaps even wintry to the top predominantly of higher ground in scotland and windy with it too. it will be a real contrast and the temperatures for the afternoon, with the south of the front sitting temperatures into double digits, 13 to 15 degrees. to the north, it noticeably colder, particularly when you factor in the wind and on those exposed east coast. that cold air will continue to press out and actually for the side of the weekend, we can see it why spread by light frost so that will be a bit of a shock to the system. a good deal of dry weather to start with but that northerly wind could drive in some showers off north sea coast, and they will push that little bit further in western areas will see the best of the dry and bright weather, and temperatures will reflect that, it will be able

any day, it will feel quite called perhaps the highest values on saturday of around ten to 13 degrees. but always on the east coast, particularly when you factor in the strength of the one, it will be disappointed. but high pressure will build from the west, really through sunday into monday. that will quiet things down a little bit, it will kill off the showers, and the winds will fall like there, so on sunday, a good deal of dry weather in the story, a few scattered showers operatively north and still a noticeable a strong wind but elsewhere, it will be caught around but predominantly dry, a good day forgetting god and temperatures nine to 13 degrees. but with lighter winds, it may feel that little bit better. —— for getting out. we already established money will be disappointing with the field but look at this, again, dry for many on monday. a good day for getting out and about. and if we look further, you can see we have been quite lucky in some respects, i know we are desperate for rain, but low pressure

looks likely to bring some wet and windy weather into the second half of next week moving across the country, i happen to scandinavia and thenit country, i happen to scandinavia and then it potentially could be replaced by another significant glow, plenty of isobars on the charts, the ones will be a feature as well, gales possibly with some of the south. it does look like we keep the south. it does look like we keep the blue tone from much of the week, potentially, temperatures could be a little bit as disappointed. i like to play for with the position of the low and just where we will see their rain and the winds, but it is worth bearing in mind next week quite a dry start, then turning wet and windy, and really could be quite cool for the early part of me. —— for me for leigh may.

the prime minister says the case is closed, after the defence secretary was sacked over leaks from the national security council. gavin williamson insists he didn't do it, as labour demand a police investigation into how the details we re investigation into how the details were leaked. in response to receiving the most brutal sacking i can think of, the member for south staffordshi re can think of, the member for south staffordshire has can think of, the member for south staffordshi re has protested can think of, the member for south staffordshire has protested his innocence. therefore, this matter cannot be, as the prime minister says, closed. also on the programme tonight. turn down the heating, eat less meat, switch to electric cars, fly less. what we all need to do to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 of them a special report on the backlash against today's republican dissidents in the wake of the killing of the journalist lyra

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