hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. talks aimed at ending the trade war between the us and china are about to resume. and president trump has set the tone: we are the piggy bank that everybody steals from. including china. the us says china has backtracked on a deal — china says it hasn't. we look at what's gone wrong, and the chances of the two sides ever agreeing. pope francis issues guidelines for priests and churches around the world, aimed at fighting child sexual abuse. syrian government forces are launching assaults on the last rebel—held areas in the country. we will bring you up—to—date on the stage of this conflict, which is now eight years long.

and an ancient royal burial tomb was unearthed between a supermarket and a pub here in the uk has finally revealed its treasures. the two largest economies are in a trade war. in two hours, the us and china start talks in washington aimed at ending it. but the build up has been fraught. here's president trump earlier. the vice premier is coming here today, we were getting very close to a deal, then they started to renegotiate the deal. we cannot have that. so our country can take in 120 billion a year in tariffs, paid for mostly by china, by the way. not by us. a lot of people try and steer it

in a different direction. ultimately, it is paid for largely by china. what the president is skipping over there, is the us wouldn't really be taking in $100 billion. tariffs are taxes imposed on imports and are paid by the importers, that is to say paid for by us businesses bringing in chinese goods. here's one economist explaining. the president is absolutely incorrect and misleading the american people on this one. two recent studies by respected groups of economists, one led by the chief economist of the world bank, a professor at yale university, and another by the new york federal reserve columbia princeton have both found that 100% of the import tariffs the us is imposing, that is being paid 100% by us consumers and us businesses. so the people who are cheering trump at the rally are actually the ones who are paying that $100 billion of tax revenue. president trump says he has received a letterfrom xijinping saying both sides should work together to finish a deal. and up until a few days ago,

the view had been that the trade negotiations were going well. but according to this from reuters, last friday, china sent a diplomatic cable with a new version of the deal. and commitments to change chinese laws to meet us demands had gone. america wants more protection against theft of intellectual property, better access to financial services and limits to currency manipulation. this wall streetjournal article says that cable was sent because china saw weakness in recent statements by president trump, and thought the us was willing to compromise. president trump has a different angle. a reference to the election next year. to make it more confusing still, china denies it's attempting

to renegotiate at all. translation: the us has assigned lots of labels, such as backtracking, going back on one's word and so on, a lot of promises have been foisted on china. the chinese side has valued credibility and has kept its promises. the numbers in this story are vast. since last year, the us has imposed tariffs on $250 billion of chinese imports. if president trump goes ahead with his threat, from tomorrow they will have a tariff of 25%. in addition to that, president trump is threatening further tariffs on $325 billion of chinese imports. that would effectively mean all chinese imports would have 25% tariffs. 0n the other side of the equation, china has imposed tarrifs on $110 billion of us imports, that's nearly everything america exports to china. and the difference in the volume

of exports is what lies behind the dispute. the us buys far more from china than china buys from the us — and donald trump thinks that's unfair. this is how he describes it. you know, we are the piggy bank that everybody steals from. including china. we have been paying china $500 billion a year for many years. china rebuilt their country because of us. to find out more on china's strategy in these trades talks i spoke to vincent ni from bbc chinese. well, there is tactic but also the bottom line. the tactic, as you showed, china apparently misunderstood donald trump's intention, they thought donald trump is more than willing to reach a deal with the chinese. but there is also the bottom line,

which is that if america wants put everything they want into chinese law, that is to some chinese an infringement to china's sovereignty. so this is absolutely a no go area for the chinese. but we see donald trump think it is an area they can go to. so when you look at the respective positions of the americans and the chinese, one very capitalist economy, one economy dominated by the state, is it possible to sync these two things? this is the $1 billion question, ros. to some, intellectual property protection, i think this is also in china's interest to enforce kind of strict rule, because chinese companies will benefit as well. but to issues like monetary manipulation, currency manipulation, i think the chinese are much more wary about this because when the chinese economy goes down, china will want more room in their monetary policy they can manoeuvre to boost exports to the rest of the world.

so we are really talking about these two completely different systems and different schools of thoughts. and how important is the trading relationship with america to the general state of the chinese economy? it is very important, if not the most important. i think since trump started this trade war, some 18 month ago, chinese economy has felt the pain of being punished by the us. that is why i think to the chinese side, china is very willing to reach a deal, but the question is whether america is going to accept china's model of development and this is going back to what you earlier said, two completely different systems and we are not seeing any signs that both sides are going to reach a midway. the pope has announced a new church law that requires all catholic priests and nuns to report sexual abuse or violence in the church. this is the letter. clerics and church officials will be obliged to disclose any allegations they may have heard.

and all dioceses will have to have a confidential system in place so abuse can be reported and procedures followed when a senior member is accused. the vatican has long been accused of not holding priests accountable or worse, covering things up. in march, in australia, cardinal pell was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of the sexual abuse of minors. he is a former vatican treasurer and was one of the pope's closest advisers. and then in february, it was revealed that in 1995, pope benedict had to shut down an entire congregation of nuns in france who were being abused by priests. this was thought to be the first time abuse of nuns had been acknowledged by the clergy. and in 2002, the boston globe's famous spotlight investigation uncovered a nationwide crisis of historic and current abuse in the us. that led to the uncovering of 1000s of cases around the world.

here's our rome correspondent, james reynolds. essentially, there is a new category which is designed to stop cover ups because one of the major problems the church has had in recent years is that bishops, the senior leaders in the church, have got word of abuse, carried out by clerics, and they simply shuffled around those clerics into other parishes or dioceses. and these rules are designed to stop that. they are designed to allow people to report cover—ups, designed to allow the most senior officials of all to stop cover—ups. the first part of the rules also make it mandatory for priests, and members of the religion order to report suspicions of abuse. previously, it was left to their conscience, now they have to do so. it gives an indication ofjust how much the church is having to change its rules and just how much it is having to try and enforce things that clearly other organisations would have been mandatory, but i think there is a wider point as well. victims might say it is all very

well for the church to revise its internal procedures, but that is all they are. internal procedures. a lot of victims believe the most important thing is for the church simply to get out of the way of investigations carried out by the police, judicial authorities and prosecutors in any country in which a crime is committed. these current rules, the new rules suggest there is no change in the obligation of the church to report to civil authorities, the victims essentially say the solution lies with those authorities, not with the church itself. here in the uk, the opposition labour party has said theresa may has still to make "a big offer" in cross party brexit talks. labour leaderjeremy corbyn spoke at the launch of the party's european election campaign in gillingham in kent. the bbc‘s political editor laura kuenssberg was there. brexit is a long and strange journey. labour in kent today to launch a campaign for european elections that were never meant to happen.

trying to impress all of us with a promise from jeremy corbyn he'd compromise to take us out of the eu. applause. a vote for labour is a vote to bring our divided country back together. labour is the only party with a plan to unite our country and make it work for the many, not the few. calls for another referendum lurk here. jeremy corbyn‘s mention of the possibility raised a cheer. cheering and applause. and the chances of talks with the tories working out seem very faint. there has been no big offer and the red lines remain in place. it is actually quite difficult negotiating with a disintegrating government. can you tell voters if labour is now definitely a brexit party, or could you still be a remain party? we triggered article 50 and that was respecting the referendum.

0ur manifesto includes an option of a public vote on the outcome. labour mps backed brexit in the commons but might still offer another say. they love him here, but there are nerves about facing so many ways. i am very disappointed in the kind of half and half attitude of the party. he is looking at what is important for the country, not what is important within the labour party. he is looking at a wider picture. remain lost the vote and they need to vote to go and get us out of europe. jeremy corbyn says he can pull the whole country together. it shouldn't matter who was leave and who was remain. but that question is live and kicking in his own party and in the country. labour's careful compromise and ifs and buts on brexit, might not find many friends at a time when so many voters are

aching for something crystal clear. they have no strategy, they have no way forward and i think they are making mischief. go on, get on with it and work with what we have got, really. the labour party is sitting back, feeling we are glad we are not in the tory's position. what do you think about what is going on? it is a fiasco. but whose fiasco? yours to judge at the ballot box in two weeks' time. laura kuenssberg, bbc news. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. . . venezuela's opposition leader accuses the president of dismantling the country's national assembly after some high profile arrests. there have been a series of high—profile arrests of mps. we'll get the latest on the crisis from bbc mundo.

ido i do hereby say that the faithful in the republic of south africa... after six years of construction delays, the channel tunnel has been formally opened by the queen and president. the tunnel is still not yet ready for passengers and freight services to begin. for centuries, christianity and islam struggle for supremacy. now the pope visits and below is their willingness to coexist. roger bannister became the first minute of rail to run a mile in underfour first minute of rail to run a mile in under four minutes. memories of victory as the celebration reached their climax. this night is dedicated to everyone who believes ina dedicated to everyone who believes in a future for peace and freedom.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... trade talks between the us and china are about to begin in washington, following several days of hostile exchanges of words between the two sides. let's ta ke let's take a look at some of the main story from the bbc world service. in argentina a congressman has been shot and seriously wounded outside parliament in buenos aires. his adviser was killed. deputy hector 0livares was taking a walk in the square outside the national congress with his colleague when they were ambushed from a car. bbc mundo. police in northern ireland investigating the murder ofjournalist, lyra mckee, in derry last month have made four arrests. three men and a 15—year—old boy are being questioned in belfast, under anti—terrorism legislation. the reserve bank of australia has "taken responsibility" for misspelling the word "responsibility" on the nation's 50 dollar note.

an eagle—eyed user reported the mistake on the re—designed note it had been in circulation with the mistake for more than six months. that's on our website. the syrian government has seized strategically significant town from rebels. it's in hama just outside idlib, which is the opposition‘s biggest remaining stronghold. and for over a week, russian and syrian planes have been attacking. the area had been covered by a truce brokered by russia and turkey last year — now both sides are accusing the other of breaking it. martin patience has this report from neighbouring lebanon. she was pulled from the rubble into the darkness. she was the only one of her family to survive and air strike.

the two—year—old's family had fled their home village in search of safety. their best option, a chicken farm where they lived in a henhouse. now she is being cared for by her grandfather. translation: my son, his wife and two other children died. and only his daughter survived. we collected the bodies from the hospital, and buried them. she is the only one left. russian and syrian aircraft have been seen in the skies above northwest syria. idlib province remains the last rebel stronghold. an agreement last year was supposed to end the fighting. but that has now been shattered. the town we're focused on is qalaat al—madiq, in hama. anti—government activists say it's fallen and are expressing concern an all out attack

on idlib may follow. one uk monitoring group says 12 hospitals have been bombed, but we can't confirm that. the un says 152,000 people have had to leave their homes. one us—based aid group which operates in syria is describing an "apocalyptic scenario. the un secretary general antonio guterres calls for "urgent de—escalation" the french president emmanual macron... "syria's humanitarian situation is critical, and no military option is acceptable. we call for an end to this violence." this footage aired onjordanian channel arab 2a shows a helicopter dropping a barrel bomb in a rebel—held town called karsaa. it's reported that it fell to the government on tuesday. rescuers say at least 20 civilians

were killed that day. civil defence workers, the white helmets — helping the injured in the village of hish. this gives you a better sense of the devastation. aerial footage taken over one village. buildings reduced to rubble. and civilians are fleeing in their thousands. activists say they're heading towards the turkish border. until recently, idlib was spared serious violence because of a ceasefire brokered by turkey and russia. vladimir putin is one of bashar al assad's most powerful allies. recep tayyip erdogan backs some syrian opposition groups.

on monday, syrian state media justified its offensive, calling it retaliation to opposition attacks. here's the analysis of bbc world service middle east editor seb usher. from the government possibly point of view, they are saying essentially the deal that was done at the end of last year to prevent them from an all—out offensive has not been honoured by the turkish side, has not been honoured by the insurgents there and what is i think causing their main concern is that the strongest force now there come essentially overrun the over fighters, is the former al-qaeda affiliate, now they are saying that essentially these are the terrorist they have been talking about, and they have been talking about, and they have been talking about, and they have not been contained, turkey has not acted to stop them from the attacks they continue to carry out, and that the important arteries,

these highways, which of running through rebel held territories have not been open and they were meant to be open as part of a deal. from a rubble perspective, they see it as an attempt from the government to fulfil what president assad said way back. —— from a rubble perspective. that he wanted to take back every single drop of the country. —— from a rubble perspective. in russia is behind him and this, so they fear they say for the millions both in idlib but also fled to mecca to the conflict. —— also fled to idlib. the war in syria has raged for eight years. nearly half a million people have been killed. this is the territory the opposition still holds. these light orange areas in idlib, northern hama and western aleppo. the darker orange is held by jihadists. the areas in blue are what the government controls. turkish backed syrian rebels control the area in red. the green is kurdish controlled. this article is interesting. washington post reports the air strikes are linked

to a growing economic crisis in government controlled areas. sebastian usher has more on that point. that is a part of what they are doing, because these highways are really essential to try and restore some kind of heart to the syrian economy. which, if you look at damascus now, compared to a year or two ago, even when the war was in a much more heightened state then it is now, economically, it is in a worse state. that is partly the sanctions the us has reimposed on iran, iran was a huge supplier of oil to the syrian government, huge fuel shortages now, people are rationed, massive queues at petrol stations and electricity shortages. price is rising all the time. the benefit that ordinary syrians believe they would gain from an assad victory, the people in damascus who have seen the population there doubled during the war,

are now looking around and saying there is nothing to be gained, if the economy cannot be sorted out, and the syrian government does have a huge problem. next door in the lebanese war after that ended, there were huge amounts of money which came in to rebuild the country from all sources. especially from some arab countries. there will be nothing at the moment from those countries coming to syria. iran is not in a position to provide those kinds of funds and other countries, people talk of $250 billion needed to rebuild the country. they are not ready in the west to get behind assad. he is the man they wanted to bring down. they see that still as essentially re—crowning as the head of syria, which is what they never wanted. venezuela's opposition leader juan guiado has accused president nicolas maduro's government of "dismantling" the national assembly which he leads. yesterday his deputy was arrested.

these pictures show the moment he was taken. intelligence agents surrounded his car. he refused to get out, and eventually they towed the vehicle away, with him still inside it. claudia plazas, in miami. thank you forjoining us. is this a concerted push against opposition mps at the moment? according to one glider, the interim president of venezuela recognised by over 50 countries, this is a push against the opposition and he also said this was a strategy used by the administration. —— juan guido. was a strategy used by the administration. ——juan guido. not only on the members of the opposition but also on the population, so they can stop going to demonstrations organised by him. i saw one report saying some mps are taking refuge in embassies. is that right? that is what we have heard. this is not new, we also had an opposition leader currently at the

residence of the spanish ambassador in caracas. but we do see some reports of members of the opposition led national assembly seeking shelter in embassies in caracas. presumably, the argument of president maduro supporters is that if you try and overthrow the president, you can expect to be arrested. well, this has been the case for many weeks now, there is a possibility that juan case for many weeks now, there is a possibility thatjuan guiado can be arrested, why hasn't happened yet, we do not know, but this is clearly an escalation and the push against the opposition and all the actions that were being carried out byjuan guiado, nonetheless, juan guiado said today that they were calling for more demonstrations across the country for this set a date where they will demonstrate against their recent arrest. thank you forjoining us. recent arrest. thank you forjoining us. if you speak spanish, you can get news from her and her colleagues at will be back with you in three in

three orfour minutes. —— at bbc mundo. that evening. thank you forjoining me. if you are off to spain, i have something that may be of interest coming up. first, our evening look at some of the major well whether stories, let's head to the united states. storm season, these clouds are storm clouds and over the last 24 are storm clouds and over the last 2a hours, flooding like this happening through texas. some tornado reports, large—scale hail damage and wings, that transfers into the mississippi valley overnight into friday. these are areas around the mississippi valley, severe flooding, same across ontario and quebec where we could see heavy rain as that spreads its way and could see heavy rain as that spreads its way and cooler conditions coming to many and later on friday, more storms arriving in the south. he mentors the southeast, cooler across central park in canada, pretty warm for this time of the year across the pacific northwest, likes of seattle and vancouver, temperatures well

above where they should be. most notably in seattle, 29 degrees on friday, warmer than vegas, temperatures on the cool side with rain. let's go to east africa. can get, more storms, overa month amount of rain here in a few days. they will continue to transfer inland. they need the rain across the southwest. severe droughts over here. no rain but building heat, towards the northwest. it's been unusually cool of late. casablanca crossing to the canaries, temperatures soaring as the heat builds and as you will see, also going to affect parts of liberia. before we get there, are on the go at the moment could be this one, the swell a cloud could be cyclone and lily to the east, it will stay after over the next few days. it is the southeast, that area quite as they we re southeast, that area quite as they were the front which could bring val barth is what a spell since december. as we see that right this way. —— could bring melbourne. eventually it will brighten up to

syd ney after eventually it will brighten up to sydney after some wet weather on friday. let's go to europe now. if it is heat you are asked head to south spain and southern portable. if you just watch the redder colours here in the chart from a temperature chart the next few days, watch how they get a bit deeper and push her way into particle, temperature set to soar, unusual heat way for this time of the year, temperatures well into the 30s. not far off that here in the building into lisbon later this weekend. a start of next. away from that, friday, further north, a fair bita from that, friday, further north, a fair bit a cloud, some rain around turning bit cloudier, there could be some big thunderstorms across germany and into pollen, cooler here than we saw earlier in the week, and things cooling down to eastern europe after those storms pass. —— and into poland. taurus western russia, it stays hot before the cooler weather gradually works its way in. for us, we are doing things the opposite way. things will get warmer at the coming days into next

week, turning drier after some showers and more details coming for the week ahead in half an hour.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. talks aimed at ending the trade war between the us and china are about to resume. and president trump has set the tone: we're the piggy bank that everybody steals from. including china. the us says china has backtracked on a deal. china says it hasn't. we look at what's gone wrong and the chances of the two sides ever agreeing. results from south africa's general elections are coming in, with the ruling anc party on track to win. we're live in pretoria with the latest. it's not often that we report on montenegro. the government there has just found 1a people guilty of plotting to overthrow the government, and they say russia is involved. we'll go to the region to find out more.

no surprise in south africa. according to the earliest results in south africa's election, president ramiphosa and his anc party are on course to win yesterday's general elections, although we won't get the official results till saturday. but an opposition party has raised conerns over the legitimacy of the poll. nomsa maseko in johannesburg. in just the last few hours, smaller opposition parties held an impromptu press conference at the election results centre in pretoria. they were questioning the eligibility of the results and the credibility thereof, and this comes after 20 people have been arrested for alleged electoral fraud. because they say that they were able

to remove the ink on their thumb and went to vote again. but we also heard from the ellections results centre where the independent electoral commission held a press briefing in which they announced that they will be running an audit which could result in a delaying of the announcement of the results, which is expected on saturday. the commission will urgently conduct an audit of the results and votes cast in some voting stations to ascertain if incorrect voting occurred. the audit will cover a statistically representative sample of voters as well as complaints and allegations of illegal voting have been received. these are the three main parties. the far left party and the democratic alliance and then the anc. the anc was led to power by nelson mandela in the ‘90s. it's been there ever since.

it looks like they are going to be led to another victory. we're particularly interested in the province of gauteng. it contains johannesburg and the capital pretoria. it's where the money is. milton nkosi is in pretoria. we spoke yesterday about the scale of the anc victory and whether we see the anc being punished for corruption allegations. what do you read into the first results? well, it seems like the anc has survived the corruption scandals of the last decade because as i look at the leaderboard here just over my shoulder, i do not know if you can see, after 67 and a half percent of the count has come in, the anc is leading with 6 million votes. so they have about 87% of the national

vote and the votes are still coming m, vote and the votes are still coming in, particularly from rural areas. -- 5796. in, particularly from rural areas. - - 57%. that in, particularly from rural areas. —— 57%. that number is certainly going to rise somewhat. there have been some other winners as well. the smaller parties, they are almost doubling their number from last elections and the right wing, the freedom front plus, they are also doubling their number from 2014. so smaller parties are gaining come of the anc not as strong, so anc has survived the corruption scandals. that means they are king when it comes to politics in sub africa, but a weak king. i can see behind you democratic alliance, 2,357,000, so far behind the anc, so many thought the anc position but be threatened, we should kick that down the road for quite a few years. 0h, we should kick that down the road for quite a few years. oh, yes indeed. the anc here was saved

literally by its president ramiphosa. he is the man who came in and fall on the huge anti—corruption ticket and also spoke about the growth of the economy. so he has promised the country that he will fight the high on implement which is at 27% and also the poverty and inequality that exists in the country. which emanates really from the many years of colonialism and apartheid. so the president has been good for the anc but not so good that he probably took them to where they were last time. so he isjust eating them closer to 60 rather than all the way above. so anc has been punished because the vote turnout has been the lowest since the end of apartheid in 94. very interesting. thank you, milton very much. north korea has fired two short—range missiles. that's a second test in less than a week.

the two missiles were launched from kusong and flew as far as 420km before falling into the sea. remember, we're three months on from the summit between donald trump and kim jong—un that broke down without a deal. here's what the us president has just said about these tests. well, we're looking at it very seriously right now. they were smaller missiles, short—range missiles. nobody‘s happy about it. but we're taking a good look and we'll see, we'll see. the relationship continues, but we'll see what happens. i know they want to negotiate, they're talking about negotiating, but i don't think they're ready to negotiate. these tests coincide with a visit from the us special envoy for north korea to seoul for meetings. here's laura bicker. up until this last week, it had been 500 days since pyongyang carried out a serious weapons test.

now, we have had two injust five days. and when it comes to these tests, president moon warned north korea tonight that it could jeopardise future talks with washington. he also said that he believed this was pyongyang's way of showing his displeasure at the break—up of talks during the hanoi summit between donald trump and kimjong—un, and he said that he thought this was pyongyang's way of pressuring washington to come back to the negotiating table and come back with a better deal. certainly the rhetoric we have heard from state media coming from pyongyang over the last month has shown that they appear to be warning washington that their patience will only last so long. in fact, pyongyang has said they only give washington until the end of the year to come up with a better deal or they say they will go a new way, take a new path. so, when it comes to where they are, certainly the us envoy

to north korea has arrived in seoul, he is trying to get talks back on track, but it seems that both north korea and washington's position are increasingly entrenched. washington will not give up sanctions on north korea unless north korea shows serious signs to disarm and dismantle its nuclear weapons programme. north korea says that is unfair and they would like to see sanctions being eased, and then and only then will they start to dismantle some of their nuclear weapons programme. if you are a regular viewer camino we pulled together the biggest story from around the world. next it will be go to montenegrin. a court in montenegro has found 14 people guilty of plotting to overthrow the government in 2016. two of them were pro—russia opposition politicians. they've both been jailed for five years. two other are accused of being russian spies.

prosecutors said the plotters had kremlin support to assassinate the then—prime minister and now president milo djukanovic. and it's all allegedly connected to nato. the bbc‘s balkans correspondent is guy de launey. well milo djukanovic with the big issue really because russia obviously objected to montenegrin joining nato. that is one ingredient. and then there is what is going on inside montenegro itself. about half a bridgejoining in the other half different —— did not. about 20 years ago, montenegro was being targeted by nato air strikes during the kosovo conflict because much of that —— montenegro was part of yugoslavia and it nato was part of yugoslavia and it nato was bombing the country as part of a campaign to try and persuade yugoslavia to withdraw troops from kosovo. so all of that is in this particular melting pot. and this is where the ingredients of the pot come from. this idea that somehow

russian intelligence had tied up with serbian nationalists and they we re with serbian nationalists and they were planning to overthrow the government in the capital and assassinate the prime minister and replace that government with one which was for me to the kremlin and within scupper montenegro's nato session. if the judiciary being seen is free of being influenced in montenegro? is not have the most brilliant writing. in the region, it is around the level of serbia information. he did not want to be around a level of those countries because these countries do have to have a lot of work done on the independence of theirjudiciaries. a lot of them are hoping thatjoining organisations like nato and montenegro's case or the eu which is what serbia and montenegro, co. seville, albania are all hoping to do, is going to help them make reforms to reduce corruption and increase the independence of their

judiciary and make the society more prosperous. but we are seeing the croatia joining the european union and itsjudiciary croatia joining the european union and its judiciary rates croatia joining the european union and itsjudiciary rates no better and itsjudiciary rates no better and they world economic forum rankings than montenegro's does. they are both in the 80s when it comes these rankings out of about 130 countries. it is not a particularly edifying view when you look at this table. do the political divisions that provide context for this plot all those years ago still exist? are they mirrored in today's politics? on the one heck of it you have divisions in society because there is an awful lot of ethnic serbians in montenegrin who did not wa nt serbians in montenegrin who did not want the coach to become independent in the first place, which it did in 2006. they still pine for the days of serbia and montenegro and back to yugoslavia. they still being positioned tojoin yugoslavia. they still being positioned to join nato assuming they took very personally. which should not of happened. that division is still definitely there.

gueyein division is still definitely there. gueye in belgrade for us. stay with us on outside source, still to come... it's been described as britain's answer to tutankhamun. the ancient burial site was found to the east of london between a pub and supermarket. the scottish national party launched their european election campaign today with an appeal to vote for them in order to stop brexit. leader nicola sturgeon accused the tories of treating the scottish parliament with contempt. lorna gordon reports. nicola sturgeon‘s core message on the european union has never wavered. scotland is a country which, she says, lies geographically on the edge of the eu, but wants to remain at its heart. this is by far the most important european election in scotland's history. the party she leads, the snp, would like to see two referendums — another vote on europe and,

if the country leaves, another on scottish independence. if people do vote for the snp in the european elections, do you see that as strengthening your case for independence for scotland? people who support independence will want to vote snp to express that view, but my message to the other people is if you don't want to see scottish continually ignored and our interests disregarded and cast aside, and if you want to see scotland and the whole of the uk stay within the european union, vote snp. her argument that westminster politicians have ignored scotland's interests for too long is not new, but she says this vote is a golden opportunity to send a strong and unequivocal message that scotland is not in favour of brexit. is this likely to whet the appetite of scottish voters? i want to vote for something like remain, i could vote for the greens, kind of labour maybe, but i could also vote for the snp or change uk.

i don't know. i would like the snp to win the day on that and for scotland to stay in europe. i always wanted to be part of europe but i'm split now. they will be hoping to change his mind with a campaign theme clear to all. lorna gordon, bbc news, edinburgh. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: trade talks between the us and china are about to begin in washington, following several days of hostile exchanges of words between the two sides. a british man with links to al shabab has been sentenced to four years in prison in kenya for possessing bomb

making materials. jermaine grant is believed to be part of a terror cell that planned multiple attacks over christmas in 2011. that's from bbc swahili. the bbc has sacked a high—profile british radio presenter after he tweeted a joke about the duke and duchess of sussex's son using a picture of an ape. danny baker later deleted the tweet and apologised. david beckham has been banned from driving for six months for driving his car while using a phone in central london. the former england captain was charged after a member of the public photographed him holding a mobile as he drove his bentley in slow—moving traffic. back to the us—china trade talks. the tariffs already imposed by both sides have affected the markets. china's shanghai composite index, that's all the stock traded at the shanghai stock exchange, has fallen about 10% so far this month. in comparison, over in america, the s&p 500 index, that's the stock of the 500 largest companies

being traded in us exchanges, has fallen about 2%. michelle fleury is in new york. iam i am always a bit wary of drawing straight comparisons between the performance of the markets and the health of an economy. but can we say that china is feeling more economic pressure because of this trade war? i think if you want to try and look back and draw some sort of conclusion, then certainly the trade war has perhaps highlighted underlying problems with china's growth story. they have become more apparent over the last year or so. compare that to the us when there we re compare that to the us when there were questions certainly at the end of last year about the economic performance there, which has actually been notable for surprising people to the upside was a bit as i'm better than people expected. in that sense, i think so far you could say the us appears to have a

stronger economy. but some people have described this as something of a phoney one when you're talking about trade wars in the sense that this is i slitted and limited so far to date. however, that might change if current threats are followed up as american consumers are concerned for their have not been that badly affected but they might be if donald trump follow—through also of his threats to impose more tariffs, especially on a further $325 billion worth of chinese goods. let's pick up worth of chinese goods. let's pick up almost threats. president trump has threatened to increase tariffs on $200 billion of goods by up to 25% tomorrow. this is from the nobel prize—winning economist paul krugman. .. his point is that although these numbers are big, the us economy is much bigger.

ifi if i take that point further, you might think this is heavy thing to do with my country and its economy? of the people are looking and try to study this and the implications of it. i saw one reporter says it is costing american families as much a $767. it is a bit too early to tell the actual cost but here is a mechanism through which it can spread beyond the shores of the us and of china. look at american companies as they are kind of try to make decisions about how they produce their goods also they may decide for example in anticipation of tariffs or because they are already in place to change where they source or supply some of their goods also they can have knock on effects for countries that can be beneficial for mexico and they might benefit from this because if you produce goods there, they would not be subject to tariffs of chinese

parts imported into that region. and of course from across the border into the us and when they would not be than subject of those terrace social this has a knock on effect. all so that means companies may be stopping for making investments that they otherwise would. this trickle—down effect is what economists are studying and they are trying to assess what it would do but we've already heard from the international monetary fund and they have been working on this and they say they think it will contribute to a weekend global expansion. thank you very much. talk to you next week, i am sure. uber has just released the pricing for its shares. uber is expected to announce its share pricing at any moment ahead of its debut on the new york stock exchange tomorrow. with me is business reporter ben brown. we know it will be worth quite a lot. at the moment they set each year priced between 44 and $55 a

share for some that means were between 80 and $90 billion for the company for the bit is an enormous evaluation. no prophet ever. in the first three months of the year, it made a one be another loss. there is number of issues they have to address with there are key reasons to why uber has a big evaluation. many are hoping that uber will be like amazon and will transform transportation in the same with the amazon transformed e—commerce ultimate has driverless cars to another woman people use every month and things like huber eats and a freight service and scooters and bikes. aside from the fact he has not turned a profit, one of the challenges that my concern investors ? challenges that my concern investors? it has probably regulars around the world but also drivers. we thought thousands of drivers striking across the us and also here in the uk partly overpaid but also a number of claims in the us by drivers really unhappy with the fact that they are not employees for so

they are treated as contractors and that means you get things like sick pay, leave and other benefits that you will get is an employee. so they have a number of issues to resolve and the number of challenges already facing them. thank you very much indeed. this i get to the committee we re indeed. this i get to the committee were live outside of the uber headquarters in every field and some drivers took issue with the company policies. treasures from an ancient royal burial site in the south east of england are going on display for the first time. 15 years ago, workers digging up a road near southend in essex made the discovery. it may have been a royal burial, but now it sits between this aldi supermarket and a pub. the pub's since been renamed the saxon king. that's because the tomb was initially believed to be that of saebert, the sixth century saxon king of essex. it's actually now thought to have been of saebert‘s brother,

but the pub's sticking with the name. this is a drawing of the wooden structure that made up the tomb. in it were dozens of rare artefacts including these gold—decorated drinking vessels, a lyre — which is a stringed musical instrument known — and these gold coins. let's hear from the museum of london archaeology who was responsible for excavating the site. i mean, it was a truly amazing discovery. it was unexpected. we knew there was an anglo—saxon cemetery excavating in advance of a proposed road scheme which did not go ahead. we were just checking to see what the archaeology might be. and we landed straight on top of this burial chamber. so it is really quite like an english version of tutankahmun's tomb. the burial chamber was made

of timber and had taken a huge amount of effort to construct this chamber. within it was the coffin of the prince. and placed very carefully and significantly around him were lots of amazing, precious and special objects which obviously had a meaning to him. they come from a range of places, some locally but there were great craftsmen and women in anglo—saxon england at that time. some of them, there is a pitcher, a copper alloy pitcher which came from as far away as syria. and there were incredibly fragmentary remains of a lyre, an early english harp, which is very interesting because this was an oral tradition. so, he could have been in his great hall recounting the story of their family going back generations and had a lyre doing it. it is an interesting find. that was actually decorated or had two fittings which had garlands in it and we had done special science on this and find they came from as far away as sri lanka.

so, it is huge. so there is all this trade going on across the sea and right into the east mediterranean. we have done dating and done some very interesting dating on it and it is a very early anglo—saxon christian princely burial. and it is a transitional moment when christianity was just coming into the anglo—saxon world and yet we still have this pre—christian burial practice. and the reason we know he was christian is a lovely sort of intimate detail. somebody, after he died, just before they closed the coffin, put two foil gold crosses, just very thin sheets of gold over his eyes and then covered his face with the cloth with a gold braid. if you want more on that fine, get it on the bbc news website. as for those trade talks which we looked at to the programme, they will begin shortly and we will have updates on those in the coming days. thanks for

watching and see you next week. bye— bye. hello. the weather has been very changeable over the last few days. topsy—turvy, some clouds with thunder and lightning, hailstorms as well. the weather is expected to settle down over the next few days. but not properly until next week. so for the time being, we are still in this sort of changeable weather pattern. so a lot of clouds, notjust across the uk, but into spain, portugal, germany, central europe, scandinavia as well. there is a jet stream that is driving this weather system coming straight off the atlantic here, a lot of blue to the north, orange to the south and we get this mid—temperatures gradient that we call the atmosphere and that strong jet stream blowing out of the west due east. so, for the time being, it is still pretty unsettled. on friday, we have some showers around.

very hit and miss, so the majority of the country will have a dry day. still relatively cool for the time of year, temperatures averaging 14—15 degrees and then towards the end of the day friday night, we could see some more widespread rain moving into southwestern parts of england and possibly southern counties. then a change starts to take place as we head into saturday. so a high pressure starts to build around through portugal northwards, so it is building from the southwest here and it slowly pushing away, if you like, that unsettled weather further towards the east and further towards the southeast. so the weather will be improving through saturday in western areas of the uk and the remnants of this unsettled weather with a shower still across more eastern parts of the country. and then on sunday, when this high—pressure is well—established across the uk, so we are pretty much right in the middle of it, that is when things really will start to settle down and also on this side of the high pressure, the winds blowing like so,

and the jet stream by the way, riding the high pressure, the winds blowing like so, that high pressure will also drive some warmer weather in our direction so more sunshine, dry conditions and southerly wind. so that means temperatures will be creeping up possibly as high as 18 by sunday in cardiff and the mid—teens in central parts of scotland. the high pressure is still there. it's because it's a blocking high, so with the high pressure there, it is not moving so it is a very strong high pressure. on monday, still with these winds blowing around like so. in the centre of the hight, very light winds, sunshine, dry through the day and that means that temperatures will keep rising. about the mid, high teens quite widely across the uk and wouldn't be surprised if they nudge to 19 or 20 and one or two spots. now the exact position of the system will change a little bit as we go through the course the week and maybe not slam bang across the uk, might wobble a bit to the left or the right, to the north or southeast. you get the message.

notice there is a wind blowing off the north sea on tuesday so it might be sunny, but the north sea pretty cold and in places like norwich and hull, it may be on the chilly side. that is tuesday, here is wednesday. the high pressure sort of meanders and moves a little bit towards the north there, the jet stream pattern is very weak as well. that's another sign of this blocking situation, blocking and see a bit of a jet stream there going down there, the atmosphere almost like in a state of equilibrium, nothing is moving around so that means it next week, high pressure is to persist, stick around and that means a lot of dry weather and warming up, too.

tonight at ten, syria's last—remaining rebel areas, now under heavy attack from president assad's forces, eight years after the start of the devastating civil war. assad's army is advancing, in a major offensive, backed by russian air power targetting idlib, northern hama, and western aleppo. the fighting has forced around 200,000 civilians from their homes, leading to warnings of a new humanitarian crisis. translation: aircrafts were bombing that day, at midnight a fighterjet bombed them and killed my son, his wife, his daughter and his son. we'll have the latest on the scale of the humanitarian problems in the region. also tonight... two years after the grenfell tower fire in west london, the government is to spend £200 million on replacing

dangerous cladding on privately—owned,