hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. a landslide victory for india's narendra modi. he promised nationalism and economic progress for india. voters responded by giving his party and its allies a predicted 300—plus seats in parliament. translation: in this election, we have seen the highest turnout and that, too, in 42—degrees heat. this shows the commitment of all citizens. millions of indians have blessed us. my thanks to the people. after two fatal crashes, regulators from around the world are meeting to discuss the future of the boeing 737 max airliner. we'll be live in texas. and in the us, the wreck of the last ship known to have smuggled slaves

from africa has been discovered. india's prime minister narendra modi is celebrating a sweeping victory. he's secured another five years in office. these are the results so far. mr modi's bjp you can see he has a commanding lead with 350 seats. his party has done even better than the landslide it secured five years ago in the last election. narendra modi has tweeted... narenda modi spoke from delhi. here he is. translation: since independence,

many elections have been taken place but only in this election we have seen the highest turnout and that too in 42 degrees heat. this shows the commitment of all citizens. millions of indians have blessed us. my thanks to the people. and imran khan, the pm of pakistan tweeted. .. remember, there are tensions between india and pakistan over the territory of kashmir. earlier this year, both launched air attacks on each other during a military standoff. rahul gandhi, head of the national congress, has three generations of indian prime ministers in his family, but this is the second time in a row his party has lost. in some states, it didn't win any seats at all.

and mr gandhi lost his seat in the state of uttar pradesh, which his family has held for decades. this is a really important state when it comes to who will then lead from the city of delhi. today, he conceeded defeat and wished narendra modi luck. today is the day of the mandate, and i don't want to colour the decision of the people of india by getting into a long conversation with you about what i think went wrong. frankly, today, it doesn't matter what i think went wrong. what matters is that the people of india have decided that narendra modi is going to be the prime minister, and as an indian person, i fully respect that. if you feel like these elections have been going on for a while, you're right. it went for a marathon six weeks of voting, and the counting started on thursday.

perhaps this map will help you understand why this is such a massive process. look how many constituencies there are. it's the world's biggest voting event. there were 900 million eligible voters. they were casting ballots on more than 2000 parties and 8000 candidates. and this is what they were fighting for — 543 seats in the lok sabha, which is what the indian lower house is called. the bjp party has done even better than exit polls had predicted. the election was seen as a referendum on mr modi himself. india's rising unemployment is at a its—year high and farm incomes have plummeted, yet there are celebrations in the streets tonight. sangita myska is in dehli. prime minister narendra modi has won a landslide victory and made history in the process.

he is the first primi miniser in four decades to be reelected with a majority. tonight, storm clouds gathered over the city of delhi, but it did not dampen the spirits of his supporters. they came out onto the streets. they were singing, they were dancing and when he turned up at the bjp headquarters to make that victory speech, they were shouting his name. why? because this is a vote for an individual man. people here believe that he is the one person that can deliver on development that will fight corruption and will make india the regional superpower that it has the potential to be. but his critics say he is divisive. they say that he is trying to split india along caste and religious lines. the indian constitution enshrines the idea that this country is built on socialist principles and a secular society. but his critics say that under his regime, he's inching india towards being a country that is built on hindu principles.

nevertheless, tonight, in that victory speech, he promised prosperity for everyone. he now has five years to prove it. he certainly does. and we'll have more on this story with anbarasan ethirajan from the world service later this hour. some breaking news in the past few minutes. usjustice department returns indictment with 17 more criminal charges against wikileaks founderjulian assange.

this is literally just this is literallyjust coming into the newsroom againstjulian assange. he is also potentially facing a tradition to the us and potentially to sweden as well. he is currently actually in a prison here in london where he is serving an amount of time for jumping bail. where he is serving an amount of time forjumping bail. he was of course in an ecuadorian embassy for a long time but now this breaking news coming in and i'm sure we will get more reaction on that so i will bring that to you the moment that we get it. let's move to the democratic republic of congo, where the world health organization and other agencies are struggling to contain an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus that started ten months ago. the disease is concentrated in the east of the country, and the un is concerned that it could spread to the drc‘s neighbours. more than 1200 people have died already. ebola is one of the world's deadliest diseases, but that's not the only reason the disease is proving hard to contain. just have a look at this photo.

it was taken a week ago in the eastern drc. the smoke you can see in the background is coming from a fire which was started by locals. their aim is was to try to stop health workers leaving the funeral of four ebola victims. the burial itself was interrupted, and the health workers were stoned and blockaded in the cemetery until police dispersed them. the who says it's a common problem. we are fighting insecurity. we are fighting violence. we are fighting misinformation. we are fighting mistrust. and we are fighting the politicization of an outbreak. since january, there have been dozens of attacks on health facilities. every attack disrupts our operations.

every attack makes it harder to reach communities. every attack gives the virus an advantage. helen branswell writes on infectious diseases for the health website stat in boston. she highlights another part of this story. we asked her why that might be. part of the problem probably relates to poor infection control practices in hospitals and clinics and traditional healing operations in this part of the drc.

earlier in the fall, for instance, when most of the cases were in a place called beni, it was recognised that there was a spike in malaria cases and kids were being taken to get treated for malaria. while they were in a clinic, they were often getting an injection, and the needle might not have been clean, might have been reused and so they went in with malaria and came out with ebola. that is a really worrying development. the united nations has named an emergency coordinator who will focus on the security situation. i've been speaking with him. well, the teams operate in a very complex environment. there are a number of security issues that they face. there are groups operating in the area, particularly in the primary area. but also in the beni area,

we have the allied defence forces, a very strong armed group that has threatened these responders in the past. so, these are ongoing threats, and we have unfortunately had a direct attack on responders, be they national or international responders. and that's the most worrisome aspect, and what we really need need to see stopped. and what i would say on that is the fact that the response is interrupted is what allows the virus to continue to propagate. you cannot take a break for one day, two days or three days because the virus takes advantage of that and continues to propagate actually in an exponential faction. so it is important that people be secure, responders be secure and they have the confidence that they can continue to provide support to the victims of the ebola epidemic. so is the argument not that you need more security and more

teens on the ground, in this context, what does your appointment hope to provide for those teens? security does not have to be armed personnel. there are many ways of achieving that level of security and the best way is to have the full support of the local population. who can advise of threats very early, who can actually provide some controls socially over those kinds of threats. so, the first layer really is to work with communities, engage with them, get their full support, understanding of why the response is important, and once that is done, you can look at other layers of support required to secure personnel. so it is actually quite complex and will take engagement with people on the political side, people that have economic interests, but also those who are carrying arms as a way to find a way forward to really provide the full safe environment for people

to carry out their work. stay with us on outside source. still to come, more bad news for china's huawei — japan's panasonic is the latest big name to say it's thinking of breaking ties with the company. a former football coach has been found guilty of 45 counts of indecent assault. bob higgins was accused of molesting 23 boys, mostly southampton and peterborough youth players, between 1971—1996. he was also found not guilty of five charges. he thrived on controlling and manipulating the situation he found himself in. he held the career prospects of those young men in his hands, and he exploited that in the most disgraceful way.

how dangerous a man is he? i think we brought a predatory peadophile tojustice. survivors if told us, told the court, told you they dreamed of careers in football. how did they react, what has it done to their lives? it has been as you said a very emotional reaction to the verdicts that had been delivered today. we have to acknowledge that not everyone will have got the verdict that they wanted on the grounds that there was 45 guilty verdicts and five not guilty. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: narendra modi has won a landslide victory in india's general election, securing another five—year term as prime minister. he says he's won a "historic mandate". here are some of the other stories being covered across the bbc. an american man who fought

for the taliban in afghanistan has been given early release from a us jail after serving 17 years. the us secretary of state has called john walker lindh‘s release "unexplainable". that's on the world service. china's housing boom has been blamed for an increase in a chemical that destroys ozone in the atmosphere. cfcii was supposed to have been phased out by 2010. but the chemical been traced to insulation foam being made in the country. the bbc chinese service is covering that. and one of the most read stories on the bbc news website. the street artist banksy has unveiled his latest work in venice during the city's biennale art festival. it shows an oversized cruise ship dwarfing some of the city's historic monuments. there's been a lot of attention on boeing after two of these aircraft, the 737 max, suffered fatal crashes recently. boeing was after all

the manufacturer. but there's also been a spotlight on the regulator in the us which certified them and gave them permission to fly. samira hussain has been speaking to the federal aviation administration in texas asking why, after the first crash, the planes weren't grounded. after the first crashed but we did not have the information we needed to grounded aircraft. the action that we took after the lionair accident was sufficient to make sure the world, we put on international notice, could if that happened again, could handle it that the cruise and the operators could handle it. but it was not sufficient. there was another crash in three pitiful people died. the investigation will determine whether oi’ investigation will determine whether or not it was sufficient. just to recap, the first crash was last october when a lion air plane crashed after taking off from jakarta. the second was in march when an ethiopian airline crashed six minutes after leaving addis

ababa. since then, all the planes have been grounded. the us regulator has met with aviation authorities from around the world today to discuss when the planes can resume service. samira hussainjoins me now from texas. samira, what happened today? the meeting is taking place behind me at the regional headquarters of the faa. it was a chance for american airline regulars to speak with their counterparts from around the world and give an update as to where the safety checks are going in terms of boeing and when those planes might be able to fly again. certainly a lot of airlines around the world are keenly aware of what is happening here and they want as much up—to—date information as possible. don't go away. i want to

focus on the religious ship between boeing and faa. meanwhile, the relationship between boeing and faa is too close. is being scrutinised with critics saying the relationship is too close. mary schiavo is the former inspector general at the us department of transportation. she's said, "because boeing knew whatever they did, and whatever they submitted to the, it was going to be certified. so, they got sloppy. or sloppier." both boeing and the faa have entirely rejected this. so what have they set about these allegations that the agencies are too close? the process at the airlines or the playmaker has to go through with the faa is something that the faa is going to be investigating. there have been these very pointed criticisms. in a hearing just a few weeks ago in washington, the head of the faa really did answer similar questions from congressional leaders. and he

said wejust do from congressional leaders. and he said we just do not have the technical expertise at the faa. in order to get that expertise, they would need an investment of $1.8 million. and so thatjust sort of demonstrates the kinds of technical knowledge that the faa from he does not have when talking about regulating these kinds of big pieces of machinery. and when it comes to the faa positive reputation, how does that impact upon it because it is still credible? there are a lot of questions pointed towards the credibility of the faa. and that is pa rt credibility of the faa. and that is part of why we are here today. they have invited the media here and they have invited the media here and they have had little regulars here in they have made a chance to reassert itself in terms of being the global leader in aviation safety. that said, global regulators had in the past really ta ken said, global regulators had in the past really taken the faa's where when they say this plane is safe to fly. that has not been put into

question and in fact we have already heard that there are some regulators that are wondering whether they should take the faa's ward four maybe should conduct some of their own investigations or require safety enhancements. 0k, we will leave you to it there, rather windy in dallas. samira hussain. oil has been plunging today. this is a graph of brent crude, it's one of the global benchmarks for the oil. you can see prices have dropped more than $3.50, that's about 5%, and that's just today! it's on track to be the biggest daily drop in six months. so, why? abhishek deshpande is the head of oil market research and strategy atjp morgan in new york. we have had this huge drop. there could be many factors potentially. what are you pointing this to?

commodities are clearly caught in the crossfire between the global macro uncertainties and risks that are on it at play against the core fundamentals that really drive commodities, especially oil if you look at it, a great example and what you were seeing today is an example where the global macro uncertainty and geopolitical risks more related to global economy led by us— china relations deteriorating is having far bigger impact on oil despite fundamentals remaining pretty strong given the supply—side issues that we have had in the market from two oil—based sanctions to even oil supply being disrupted from russian oil pipelines that we sought recently. and despite the supply—side weakness, it seems that oil is basically trying to preemptively take into account the

risk more so from the global macro rather than the fundamentals itself. and what about things like the uncertainty going on in venezuela? the sanctions in iran? how does that play into this? well, i guess as mentioned, that geological risks are definitely priced in a current levels at city $7. even whatever that you put a court risks are, even those have been remote. it seems as if there is a lot more investment malaise in place. the type of investors weekly in the market are not commodity players mostly that used to be there. they are mostly macro investors or we even have systematic trading that goes through momentum out there. so the macro signal is negative, everybody tends to get out of the market in that is what we are seeing as oil perhaps was one of the last of the commodities because we have seen this happen with metal already, with

oil one of the last of the commodities that was holding true it's fundamentals given all the rest from venezuela and iran that you mentioned. missing is the metro news becomes more negative and sediment becomes more negative and sediment becomes more negative and sediment becomes more negative, it tends to basically giveaway support, especially because of the type of investment position that we see that is going on in the market. abhishek deshpande, head of oil market research and strategy atjp morgan in new york. thank you for talking us through that. botswana has overturned a ban on the hunting of elephants that had been in place for five years. the country is known for being africa's largest elephant sancturary. an estimated 131,000 elephants range freely in botswana, one in three of the total population of african elephants. the president mohwaytsi massisi has backed the findings of a committee which recommended hunting be allowed to restart, saying elephant numbers are unmanageable.

the move has been widely criticised by conservationists. and also.... here's the bbc‘s alastair leithead. there are more elephants in botswana any other country on earth that comes with its own problems. while poachers kill elephants across africa, some ask if there are too many of them here. living there elephants means your house can be flattened, your crops destroyed and even yourfamily flattened, your crops destroyed and even your family members killed. trying to stop conflict with humans isa trying to stop conflict with humans is a big part of botswana's decision. hunting is not going to to radically reduce elephant numbers but it might push them away from some villages and it will bring in

money. trackers and their committees who work with hunters lost their jobs five years ago. during the government consultation when people asked for a return to hunting. people —— critics say luxury tourism has grown since hunting was bad but rich tourists will be scared off and the hunting will not stop the coffee between elephants and people. but botswa na between elephants and people. but botswana is a big place. wilderness areas have little attraction for safari goers but they are perfect for hunting. which if related can bring in income for conservation. many conservationists believe opening up any trade will encourage poaching. but it's an election year and hunting is popular with rural voters. coming up, more on our breaking news this hour. much more later on in the programme. facing 17 more criminal charges and

thatis facing 17 more criminal charges and that is according to the us department ofjustice. we will speak to our correspondent in washington for much more on that. stay with us. hello there. across the us, we are well in the midst of tornado season at the moment. 27 touched down on wednesday. more on thursday so far as well. warm moist air in the southeast, cooler air filtering in from the northwest, and that is the recipe for low pressure producing scenes like this. these come from oklahoma. you can see the extent of the flash flooding. very heavy rainfall washing entire houses right away. notjust heavy rain, but of course damaging winds and tornadoes which have caused the devastation across quite a large swath of oklahoma and also missouri as well. as we move through thursday and overnight into friday, we still have low pressure moving out of the rockies in through the central and southern plains

and working gradually northeast. more heavy rain and thunderstorms with squally winds, hail and tornadoes as we head into friday, especially through parts of oklahoma and missouri once again. further south and east, it is pretty warm, so temperatures for the likes of atlanta above average for this time of year and pretty unsettled and cool working in from the northwest. here is the outlook then for some cities in north america. new york, sunny and dry with heavy showers in calgary and looking at ongoing wildfires across many northern parts of alberta for the next few days. this picture comes from myanmar, we have had some really big showers, thunderstorms as well over the past 2a hours or so and take a look at the satellite image, see the storm clouds brewing across myanmar. meanwhile, the other side of the bay of bengal, the pre—monsoon heat wave is continuing across much of india, especially for many central, southern and southeastern parts. temperatures here

certainly on the hot side. in chennai, high 30s once again. this picture comes from a dried up lake bed in the area where we have ongoing drought conditions. no rain there for at least the next five days or so. let's look at europe. this is the satellite image of the past 2a hours or so. a lot of cloud, low pressure in fact in charge and things staying fairly unsettled. the next area of low pressure brings some rain into the north of spain and southern france as well. further east across europe, heavy showers here anywhere from finland through parts of poland, czech republic and down to croatia and romania as well and some of the showers heavy and thundery too. should be mostly dry for northern parts of france and to the uk, higher pressure holding on here through friday and the weekend. the outlook here closer to home in the uk is for a lot of dry weather and some sunny spells as we look towards the bank holiday weekend. not dry everywhere but we start off

settled and then rain particularly in the north and northwest, should be dry at least the next few days further south. bye— bye.

hello, i'm kasia madera, this is outside source. the usjustice department has announced 17 new charges against the wikileaks founder julian assange, accusing him of endangering the lives of classified government sources. narendra modi celebrates a big victory in india's elections, winning a huge majority in parliament. in this election, we had seen the highest turnout and that too in 42 degrees heat. this shows commitment of our citizens, million of citizens have loved us. my thanks to the people. and in the us, the wreck of the last ship known to have smuggled slaves from africa has been discovered.

let's return to india now, and the comprehensive victory breaking news, 17 more charges 17 more criminal charges have been filed against the wikileaks charges co—founder, julian assange. the usjustice department says mr assange put lives in danger by publishing classified documents containing the names of us government sources. let's get the latest from washington and our correspondent gary o'donogue. i know it's developing right now but the lesson i what we know. well it's an interesting escalation to eli, the department ofjustice had already had one indictment out for julie and assigns which is

effectively a kind of hacking indictment accusing him of helping kathy 90, if you remember the army major hack into the pentagon computers and distribute that material in 2010 but this goes further in the sense that these are charges under the espionage act, they carry between five and ten yea rs they carry between five and ten years in prison, of christ as a whole bunch of them and they will be questions about whether they will be served concurrently or consecutively, if he were found or extradited and then found guilty, lots of this. what this will mean interestingly i think is the process , interestingly i think is the process, the extradition process in london, as likely to be more complicated and could take longer because the us will have to in a sense, as the british government to consider these charges fresh as the basis for extradition. and that made that the process back again. bear in mind, ilike that the process back again. bear in mind, i like that he is facing

sentencing for skipping bail, which he did when he first went into the ecuadorian and the sea, and is also a question of whether or not swedish prosecutors want to extradited bear, to face the charges of sexual assault and rain. i want to ask you about that because it's developing at the moment but there was a bit? over who would effectively get here in paris, whether he's extradited to the united states rest or go to sweden and when they decide what they do in terms of the rain allegations, but with the severity and even indictment, hollis is going to play out? the interesting thing is, ithink to play out? the interesting thing is, i think the lawyer certainly not grow too or lawyers are going to argue he does not get a fair trial -- trial, argue he does not get a fair trial —— trial, he may face other reps, they will put everything i ever throw everything in the court process i would think, that's why it could take some time and that may end up with a decision by the

british home secretary as to whether or not he does get extradited, i think i like some sense at the time when he got out when he released or left the ecuadorian and the sea that the swedish authorities were perhaps prepared to stand aside, but that seems to change debate in recent weeks, said that a lot of people who wa nt weeks, said that a lot of people who want a piece of him at the moment, the swedish government potentially, the swedish government potentially, the us government certainly, and his lawyers will be working hard. but it's worth pointing out i think the extra charges up the ante significantly. in the sense not are now saying lassies actions but peoples lives at risk and that obviously will be taken much more seriously in the courts here, but it's also worth saying we can expect a response saying i think talk about it at that attack on national security and during a lesson if you like and also an attack on what they call the first amendment right of free speech, so effectively, they

say he was doing journalism by putting material out there, that governments did not want published. his lawyers do make comments about this i will expect some reaction, gary, thank you for getting all that across quickly. like i say any reaction to that we will bring you. going back to indiana. let's return to india now, and the comprehensive victory of narendra modi's bjp party, in the election there. us president trump has sent his congratulations, saying "congratulations to prime minister @narendramodi and his bjp party on their big election victory! great things are in store for the us—india partnership... i look forward to continuing our important work together!"(read on) the bbc‘s south asia editor, anbarasan ethirajan, told me more about how narenda modi's party managed to win so many seats. it all boils down to one man,

the prime minister narendra modi. so he fought this campaign like a us presidential election. it was more of mr narendra modi, the brand which really captured the imagination of the indian people. he was always using his background and social background to his advantage, like me coming from this lower caste background, here in the capital, make to be used the us president analogy, drain the swamp, i'm here to clean the system where the congress party ruled for decades, they could not do anything and i am here to root out corruption and i am here to make india great again. they were talking about an assertive hindu ideology. the supremacy of the hindi policy. that is one of his main campaign platforms. even though the economy was not doing well for the last five years, he was cleverly able to manage to deflect the attention of the economy talking about issues like national security and an assertive foreign policy and also talking

about the pride of being a hindu, the majority hindu religion, how he's going to protect the hindu religion and culture. that is really going down well with the electorate they are, and the second thing is while the bjp was able to project him as at the main prime ministerial candidate, there was no one from the main opposition side. the main opposition congress party was projecting rahul gandhi, about a grand coalition with as many political parties, they were fighting with each other in various states. for example in the state of west bengal, a politically important state, the congress is fighting with one of the region leaders. it's the same case in different parts of india. some people prefer here stability over a coalition experiment. but it's not in every place in india, it's not in some states, especially the southern states, the bjp did not do very well. they did not have a proper

organisational structure and many other southern states, and also bjp for a long time or seem more like a northern indian northern indian states like the deprivation more like a northern indian northern indian states and they were usually popular, it took time for them to establish their own identity in the southern part, for example in that state of karnataka, they were in power and in the election today the results show they won the most number of seats there. where as in other states, there are very strong regional parties and their regional parties, they have their own identities for example like in the state of tamil nadu, the parties talking about the dravidian ideology and their own ideology and the pride in their own culture and language. it's the same case and on depredation. —— andhra pradesh. so the bjp's hindi policy did not go well or maybe they did not have enough to partners, so that they can make and routes into seven parts of india, but if you see them in other parts,

like they made inroads into the state of west bengal, this was ruled by communists for decades, it was a communist region, and now it's a very fiery regional leader darren making roots into west bengal, so they made that in many states but still, they have yet to make that kind of impact on southern parts of india. thanks to our editor there he had a long day and stayed here for us to put that huge result into context. huawei, the chinese technology giant, is facing more problems. an increasing number of companies around the world are cutting ties with it. in the us they include the chipmakers intel, qualcomm and broadcom, plus google and its android operating system. in the uk, chipmaker arm told all staff to suspend business with huawei. on top of that major companies in the uk, japan and taiwan, will either delay, pull or not sell huawei's new handsets, for now at least. the move comes after the us placed huawei on a blacklist over national security concerns.

huawei has repeatedly denied it's controlled by the chinese government and says it would never share user secrets. this is how the us secretary of state mike pompeo responded. this is false. to say they don't work with the chinese government is a false statement. there is a law that they must... it's required to buy chinese law to do that, so it's just the ceo on that at least is not telling the american people the truth nor the world. mike pompeo not convinced and many others as well. so why have so many other countries followed suit? here's the bbc‘s business reporter leisha sa ntorelli. many of the us‘s traditional allies, a country such as australia, new zealand, japan and the uk has said they will consider not using huawei at the 5g equipment, and many retailers in the countries looking to pull or delay or stop selling huawei smartphones.

now one of the reasons why these companies in these allied countries to america are signing up to the suspension of business ties with huawei is because they are concerned about getting caught in the crossfire of the us china trade war. and so many of these firms such as us chip—makers are looking to reduce their exposure to china given they do so much business there, but ultimately it's going to be a really hard task because over the last few decades, when it comes to technology, the supply chain has become so complicated and integrated that it will take several years to unravel. huawei is considered a world—leading provider of next—generation 5g technology and currently makes more phones than apple, coming second only to samsung. china is now fighting back. speaking to the bbc‘s world at one programme, the chinese charge d'affairs in london, chen wen, responded to the ban.

what kind of signals did these gestures send out to other administrators and other chinese companies. is uk still open? still are extending a welcoming arm to other chinese ambassadors? so will they be repercussions on direct investments. indeed, indeed. of what order? of what scale? well, it's hard to predict at the moment but i think it's going to be quite substantial. going into billions? i don't have the figures and i cannot imagine it, but definitely the message is not going to be very positive. china's increasingly aggressive tone has some worried that the us and china are now embroiled in a technological cold war that could affect more than just the governments. here's leisha santorelli again.

ultimately it's consumer who will be hurt by any technological cold water. that's because at that global supply chain when it comes to technology has been set integrated, apple and american companies buy pressing china and huawei also buys from america, so for example they spent $70 billion on components last year and have back on the $11 billion came from american companies. his is why some people believe america is ultimately shooting itself in the fight by targeting huawei and that's because they believe that the trump band could force the chinese to accelerate the pace of technological innovation and if we see huawei, but that that operating system in its own axle, and the long run we see chinese technology supersede that of silicon valley and that would undermine president trump efforts to rain in china's technological ambition. stay with us on outside source — still to come...

perfect ten. we'll hear from american gymnast katlyn o—hashi on the story behind a routine that captures the world. thousands of people across the uk are heading to the polls today to vote in the european elections. however, there appear to be problems for some people attempting to vote. some eu nationals, living here in the uk, are reportedly being turned away from polling stations. a campaign group said thousands of people have been affected by the issue. the electoral commission says it understands their frustration, saying the legal process could have been made easier. our reporter leigh milner has been looking into this and explained more about what has gone wrong. all eu citizens who live in the uk, not only have to vet, they also have been fed and what is known as a one farm, special fund they have to fit in and returned to council to say we arejust in and returned to council to say we are just loading in and returned to council to say we arejust loading here in the uk not

anywhere else, so the deadline for that was on the 7th of may and according to the electoral commission, de elections were announced on the 8th of april, so during the april, there was lots of confusion, not many people knew what was happening and boaters claimant basically they did not have time to go through everything and get it sorted out that's what they claim. even the electorate commission has agreed with them in a way, i had a statement here and they say they understand the frustration, and also the very short notice from the uk government participation in the election has had an impact on the time available for people to become aware and complete the process and we have had so many people get in touch with us and basically state they are really upset and they had not had their say and have been denied a boat, so what we know is that people have to fill out the form, and they were very confused, they perhaps did not get it in on time may be forgot to even submit

the form, but however we do not know they sell local councils could have administrative errors, and lack of the correct forms being sent out and we simply don't know. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... the usjustice department has announced 17 new charges against the wikileaks founder julian assange, accusing him of endangering the lives of classified government sources. here are some of the other stories being covered across the bbc. an american man who fought for the taliban in afghanistan has been given early release from a us jail after serving 17 years. the us secretary of state has called john walker lindh‘s release "unexplainable". that's on the world service. china's housing boom has been blamed

for an increase in a chemical that destroys ozone in the atmosphere. cfc11 was supposed to have been phased out by 2010. but the chemical been traced to insulation foam being made in the country. the bbc chinese service is covering that. and one of the most read stories on the bbc news website. the street artist banksy has unveiled his latest work in venice during the city's biennale art festival. it shows an oversized cruise ship dwarfing some of the city's historic monuments. typical banksy. let's go to the united states where the wreck of the last ship known to have smuggled slaves from africa to the us has been discovered. this follows a year—long investigation. the remains of the clotilda were found at the bottom of the mobile river in alabama.

it was used to smuggle men, women and children. it operated in secret, decades after congress banned the importation of slaves, and was intentionally sunk in 1860 to hide evidence of its use. alice porter has been following this story from the bbc newsroom. what a fascinating story, tell us, what exactly was it used for? the slave —— slavery in 1860, and 1807, it became illegal to import slaves from africa to the us but that did not stop people trading in it because the price of slaves suddenly rocketed, and so there are a number of businessmen who thought i'm still going to bring them in illegally and that's what happened here. timothy maynard was a businessman working in mobile alabama and he had a lady

with friends and said they had a $1000 bet he could bring slaves and from west africa and that's exactly what he did he set the ship over to what's known as bending now, and this was in the ship and he took 110 nine women and children and brought them over, one young woman is believed to have died en route, but it's amazing that moore did not die given circumstances with them shackled together beneath the home of the ship and a torturous six week voyage, and they arrived into alabama and that was another boat to ta ke alabama and that was another boat to take them off the ship, at that point, the ship burned and sunk the ship to destroy the remains of what they had done. incredible story, absolutely desperate situation but when it comes to now, the archaeologists have found phosphoric, telus my. absolutely in the past year that had been maritime archaeologist trying to find a ship, sell a year ago a journalist was walking down the mobile river, and they saw they tide was out and they

saw woody coming through and they thought i wonder if it is the ship, and it was not actually, but what it does is reinvigorated the debate over trying to find it and the national attention was about trying to find it, because people in the local area, many of them are descendents of those from the sale slave ship so they had they had been wanting to find it, so the archaeologist who stories have descended and looked for it, and that's a big task trying to find a ship and what it looks like, so they went through and about the 2000 ships that they never operating in the gulf of mexico in the 18505, and they realised looking to the records, there are about five what's known as 5poon records, there are about five what's known as spoon nur5e, a records, there are about five what's known as 5poon nurse, a type records, there are about five what's known as 5poon nur5e, a type of the 5hip, there were only five built and the golf and they knew what they're looking for said a sunday band dredged a part of the river they had not looked out and found a ship and they had been dimen5ion5 not looked out and found a ship and they had been dimensions of the 5hip, they had been dimensions of the ship, and realised this wasn't the ship. wow, this must be so emotional

for like you're talking about the defendants, because this is like a full circle finding out the ship that actually exi5ted. full circle finding out the ship that actually existedlj full circle finding out the ship that actually existed. i think it's interesting from an archaeological point of view, but i think i'll separate the people, it gives a sense of history and heritage, africa town nearby, many are descendents of those who were on the 5hip, descendents of those who were on the ship, but descendents of those who were on the 5hip, buti descendents of those who were on the ship, but i think most significantly a5 ship, but i think most significantly as well, the captain when he brought the ship, he sunk it for reasons he was trying to hide from the law, but i think we now look and realise this is tangible evidence and proof of the trustees —— atrocities that were committed during the transatlantic trade route. thank you for bringing that story. i want to keep the focus onto something slightly different. injanuary a video of the american gymnast katlyn o—hashi performing a ‘perfect 10' routine, went viral.

few of the millions of fans who watched that clip around the world would have guessed she'd struggled with body image issues, leading up to that performance in california. jo currie reports. it was the gymnastics routine that flipped the internet on its head. and injanuary, it turned us collegiate athlete, katelyn ohashi, into a viral sensation. it's crazy. the next day my phone kept going off, my twitter notifications and i looked and i had like 50,000 more followers than i had that morning. i had people screen shotting, celebrities posting the video. this is so crazy, i don't even know what's happening, but it's so amazing. but behind that smile, ohashi has had a difficultjourney. quitting sport when she was younger, a lot of coaches told her she was too large to be a gymnast. i was told that i didn't

look like a gymnast. i was told that i looked like i'd swallowed an elephant and i looked like a pig and my face was three times the size it was this morning. as a 14—year—old that's impressionable, you start believing those things. it hit me so hard, i felt so uncomfortable looking in the mirror. i felt uncomfortable walking back into the gym because i felt like their eyes were targeted at me and i do think it is a form of abuse. ohashi had been tipped as the next big thing in us gymnastics, even beating simone biles in a senior international competition. but the constant mental strain around her body image, coupled with a serious back injury led to her walking away from the sport. i came home and i wasjust bawling. my mum said, "aren't you happy?" isaid, "i'm miserable". i don't think the coaches were necessarily aware of the damage they were doing. to never put on leo again, to never be judged critically by anyone, i felt like was a relief.

but after a year of recuperation, ohashi did return to gymnastics, albeit not as a professional, but at college in california. and it's here she created that routine and found her voice. being comfortable with the only person that matters is yourself. because you are the only person that has your back and you are the only person that's in your skin, 100% of the time. this routine catapulted ohashi into the spotlight, but it's her body issues that will resonate with girls and women everywhere. jo currie, bbc news, los angeles. fantastic fa ntastic story fantastic story and inspirational. going back to the breaking news. 17 more criminal charges have been filed against the wikileaks co—founder, julian assange. the usjustice department says says mr assange put lives in danger by publishing classified documents containing the names of us government sources. web page you can read the more

on thejustice department's website. that's more on their website of christ will be monitoring this and have much more on our website before the time being thank for watching. hello, thursday saw temperatures at 211 degrees in the southeast of england. nice and warm in the sunshine as head towards the bank holiday weekend, this is going to be spilling in all this cloud from the atlantic so as a result we find temperatures dropping as well. that's being kept at bay at the moment, these weather fronts are still out in the atlantic. that area of low pressure is taking most of the rain away from northern scotland that we had seen in the past few days. although we will see seven wet weather returning to high land. a lot of cloud getting drawn down across scotland, cloudy skies in northern ireland. the odd shower here. as we started to see my cloud

arriving into northern wales, there is a chance of a few showers as well. most places still dry. southeast, and warm wind with some sunshine 23 degrees. further north that temperature is a shade lower than we had on thursday, thanks to my cloud. now into the bank holiday weekend, there will be some sunshine at times, but also some rain. that's mostly across the northwest of the uk. and for all the best by monday, i think it will probably feel cooler. we start with an early shower is on saturday, across southern price in england and sunny spells. already cloudy across northern ireland, that drizzle is going to set in widely across scotland and arrived in northern england during the afternoon. so that's going to depress the temperatures here. further south, nice and warm, 20—22d. in southern parts of england and wales. that weather front bringing the rain and drizzle as we head through saturday, over night into sunday, that low pressure arrives pushing the second weather front in as well. so more extensive rain i think for a scotland that this could be happening too, across northwest england and wales, clearing up a northern ireland. sorry rain pushes to the southeast, and arriving in the afternoon.

a bit quicker than we thought early on. temperatures make it up to 20 or 21 are so, we see improvements in northern england and southern scotland, it stays wet in northern scotland. we had that weather front there. not one well move away, we are drying down cooler air and a northwest breeze. and across the northern half of the uk, a chance of showers have perhaps long spells of rain for western scotland and northern ireland and further south across england and wales, a better chance of staying dry with sunshine as well, but temperatures lower by this day, so 18 is that top number in the southeast on monday, 13 or 111 and only ten in northern scotland. some chilly air here on monday. we had this sort of area blood pressure really and the flow bringing those showers along the spells across the north, pushing its way south on tuesday, so wet weather moves further into england and wales, at the same time it turns dry across northern ireland and scotland as well. going to be quite chilly on tuesday, maximum temperature is only 90

degrees in the northern parts of mainland scotland, 16 and south of england. we are seeing chilly air on wednesday, at the jet here pushing north, a bit stronger for a wild but it weekends can send me dry up high pressure from the south, it's going to be mixed with this chaotic picture of the highs and lows, and you will find out warm air starts to push north as well as a get a southwest breeze. essentially if i know the price of the uk later next week, still hanging onto a chance of showers and rain, and eventually it warms up and further south across the uk we see temperatures climb most of all and largely dry and sunshine at times.

tonight at ten — theresa may now under pressure to name the precise date of her departure. the prime minister will meet the leader of backbench conservative mp5 tomorrow, amid calls for a leadership contest within weeks. several of the prime minister's cabinet colleagues expect she might say she's off in the morning. no official word from downing street tonight. during the day party leaders visited the polling stations, as voters across the uk elected new members for the european parliament. but the results won't be announced until sunday night. we'll have the latest from westminster. also tonight... the indian prime minster, narendra modi, wins another five—year term in a landslide victory for his nationalist party and policies.