deal of rain for england and wales and it should brighten up with sunshine and it won't take much sunshine and it won't take much sunshine to lift those temperatures widely. we have wetter weather for scotla nd widely. we have wetter weather for hello, i'm karin giannone, scotland and northern ireland, this is outside source. remember. the heavy rain will push after the european elections, the european negotiations. away during friday night and whilst we have that trailing weather front on the scene, for a while it is quite weak so there may be early sunshine for scotland and northern making his statement as leaders ireland on saturday before the cloud gather. the vast majority voted for thickens and we have another pulse of rain across northern ireland into western scotland. england and wales more sunshine and more heat and more effective, stronger and united eu. by rejecting those who wanted a temperature in the south—east 26 or even 27. it is not as warm for wea k eu. by rejecting those who wanted a weak europe. this is a powerful scotla nd even 27. it is not as warm for scotland and northern ireland because there's cloud and also rain, sign. europe in these elections. and the weather front, that's a cold people have become more pro front with colder air behind it, and head of that warmer air at the position of the cold front, cherie european, major you're a sceptic rain on that, sunshine following into scotland and northern ireland, parties have abandoned anti—eu but the air is cold here and it slogans and presented themselves as

eu reformers. this is a positive should be quite pleasant mind you. ahead of the cold front, another development. i have no doubt that one of the reasons why people on the very warm date for the south and continent voted for a pro—european east, temperatures could reach 27. that is the last of the heat for a majority is also brexit. if while. there is cool air coming in behind the weather front and this is europeans see what brexit means in practise, then they also draw a pool of colder air which is likely conclusions. brexit has been a to sweep across the uk is the jet strea m to sweep across the uk is the jet stream at dives south, it is a much vaccine against anti—eu propaganda. more buckled pattern to the jet stream. by the middle part of the now on the point of the lead week. low pressure dominating, the cool air will be drawn down across the uk so temperatures will be candidates. today's discussion confirms the agreement reached by dropping after all that heat that will be building up and peeking over the leaders in february last year the weekend. next week is cooler, that the european council will more unsettled, and where the rain exercise its role when electing the is needed most is probably going to be largely dry. commission president, meaning with the treaties that there can be no other. at the same time, no one can

be excluded being a leak candidate is not a disqualification, on the contrary, it may increase their chances. the treaty is clear, the european council should propose in the european parliament should elect therefore the future president of therefore the future president of the commission must have the support of both a qualified majority in the european council and a majority in the european parliament. we also discussed balances that if they need to reflect the union, when it comes to reflect the union, when it comes to geography, the size of countries, gender as well as political affiliation. this will be our genuine aspiration, but priorities in the real world, a perfect balance may be difficult to obtain. i will

now engage in confrontations of the european parliament as foreseen by the treaty. to kick start the process , the treaty. to kick start the process, i have already offered to meet the european parliament tonight at ten: theresa may admits it's a "matter of great regret" presidents as soon as they are she couldn't deliver brexit, ready. i will also continue my as she meets eu leaders in brussels. consultations with members of the european council, both on the future presidents of the commission and it's a warm welcome from those she'd underfuture president fought hard in negotiations, presidents of the commission and under future president of the as mrs may acknowledged the recent european council and in the central european election results were disappointing. bank, as well as the what it shows is the importance representatives. i can promise of actually delivering on brexit. that... representatives. i can promise that. . . that representatives. i can promise that... that is a bit of what he is i think the best way to do saying in brussels, let's put into that is with a deal, but it will be for my successor and parliament it eu leaders as they been hearing. to find a way forward. eu leaders are meeting in brussels meanwhile, labour expels right now and for once they're not talking about brexit. instead they're deciding who should get the eu's top jobs. tony blair's former spin all 28 of the european union's national leaders are there tonight —

including british prime minister doctor alastair campbell for voting theresa may. lib dem in the european elections. including british prime minister theresa may. well, we are still a member of the european union. while i am prime minister, i will continue to meet the obligations of the office and the duties of the office and of course, that includes being here today when we are due to discuss the top jobs and even institutions. four important jobs are upforgrabs. there's eu commission president, currently held byjean—claude—juncker. there's the role of european council president — at the moment that's donald tusk. after eight years in the post, mario draghi will be leaving as head of the european central bank. and leaders will also have to decide on a foreign affairs representative — that's currently federica mogherini. but agreeing on who should fill those positions won't be straight—forward. here's eu expertjacki davis. it's extremely complicated, in theory, it got simpler last time around in 2014 but we had these elections because the european parliament tried to put themselves

in the driving seats. they came up with this idea that each of the political parties contesting those elections would have a lead candidate and if that person in that party came out of the biggest number of seats and could command the majority, then their man or woman would be the commission president. that is what led to jean—claude—juncker getting the job from centre—right last time around. the process outlined byjackie has a name. it's called the spitzenkandidat system — which is german for "leading candidate". and this man — manfred weber — is the leading candidate, from the largest grouping in the european parliament — the centre—right epp. he's german, and a politicall ally of angela merkel. here's the german chancellor. translation: naturally, coming from a grand coalition, i support manfred weber but not all parties do. despite this, this candidate is very important. while the european commission

will choose the nominee — their decision must be ratified by the 751—member parliament. and the eu election results have thrown a spanner in the works. in the 2014 election it was dominated by the main centre—right and centre—left groupings. but if we look at the new parliament, we can see it is much more fragmented. and the left—wing alde grouping has gained seats. the alde includes greens, socialist parties, and most importantly emmanuel macron‘s en marche. and the french president wants to flex his political muscle. translation: will likely face a new phase of the european adventure. for the first time there is not a majority with the two parties and we need to build something else. a new project that will reflect with the european people have chosen in this regard, the central force of progress that we have currently build will have an important role and responsibility.

let's find out about that and more from damian grammaticas in brussels, this isn't all being decided tonight is it. we heard a little bit from anglo miracle, they have been coming out saying they have not been discussing names, the process and they want this done by the next time they meet here and being able to sit down and i thinkjust to clarify, the group thatis i thinkjust to clarify, the group that is the centrist of the liberal group, and manual macron is in there now. they set up a site that, the liberals, the greens and the centre—right at this pro bloc in parliament, they're centre—right at this pro bloc in parliament, they‘ re likely centre—right at this pro bloc in parliament, they're likely to form the majority to rally behind their candidate and the issue there is that the centre—right, centreleft, anglo being able to the chamber, and also backing the centre—right that you're

hearing, she is still pushing that, a little bit lukewarm because she knows that the liberals are crucial to building that coalition and also no automaticity. no automatic plate for their man from the biggest party to ta ke for their man from the biggest party to take the top job, instead, they're going to argue it out over they're going to argue it out over the next few weeks the liberal side pushing for someone else. they say he has only been the parliament and does not have executive experience in the government and they say he is quite uninspiring, they're looking for someone else. let's go back to donald tusk because he is taking questions right now. brexit no one was trying to discuss it today. and

for us, the presence of theresa may isa for us, the presence of theresa may is a natural. she is still the british prime minister and still a member of the european union and so i have no doubt after our discussion today and our meeting that the uk will be as constructive for procedures as before. i have no doubt.

(asks in french) we will get in english translation later, however we will talk about domestic politics. while some parties are celebrating their european election results, in the uk, the ruling conservative party and the opposition labour party are still coming to terms with their losses. the brexit party — only a few weeks old — surged in the polls, helping push the conservative share of the vote down almost 15%. the need to win back supporters of brexit is playing out in the leadership contest. there are 10 contenders now — and remember, the next conservative leader will also be the next

british prime minister. today, jeremy hunt — who's foreign secretary — set out his position — unlike most of the other candidates he's warning against leaving the eu without a deal. if we guarantee a date by when we will leave the european union. we are running the risk that when parliament tries to block a no deal exit, as i think it would, you are then committed to a general election. the only way you can get over parliament blocking and no deal exit is to change parliament and that would be a general election. that would be catastrophic. meanwhile, the uk's home secretary and another leadership candidate, is keeping any big ideas to himself. brexit is going to be the big issues that has to be addressed properly and every candidate has to come forward with a credible plan, so i will have much more to say on that in the coming days. thank you very much. labour is also reeling. it's share of the vote was down more than 11% —

and its mps and supporters are split over whethere there should be over whether there should be another brexit referendum. you can see that in the result in scotland where labour isn't even on the list any more — it lost both of its meps, while the scottish national party — which wants to stay in the eu gained a seat. labour's official position is that a second referendum should be an option if there isn't a general election, but its leader jeremy corbyn is under more and more pressure to change that. here's his deputy tom watson. and now a close ally of mr corbyn and senior party member is also moving towards a people's vote. here she is. ideally, we would want the general election. been that has always been our position remains our position. as the clock ticks down, if you're not going to have a general election, we would support a people's vote. but not everyone in labour supports a second referendum.

in fact, some mps worry it could cost them even more support. mp jo platt says: mr corbyn hinted yesterday at a move towards a people's vote. nigel farage and the brexit party are only offering a no deal exit from the european union with all the problems and chaos that will cost for jobs. that will cause forjobs. there has to be in agreement with the european union and then there has to be a public vote. and to give you an idea ofjust how divided divdied they are, labour grandee, alistair campbell has been booted out of the party after revealing he voted for the liberal democrats. well, i'm very sad, but i don't feel i've left the labour party. i'm still of the labour party, as far as i'm concerned. and i'll always be labour and i suspect i will be in and around the labour party longer than some of the people who are in and around jeremy corbyn at the moment. back to ben in westminster.

and the significance of a figure like alistair campbell being expelled — that's quite a moment for labour. he is labour to his toenails. by the more robust advocates of labour policy, labour values that you can find really so it is been extraordinary in the eyes of many that he has been kicked out of the party, but people closer tojeremy corbyn, as the labour support essay, the rules of the rules and he said on the election night programme, that he voted lived in and hoping to get them closer to a people's vote, you cannot vote for another party and remaina you cannot vote for another party and remain a member, so he self—destructed his membership but i feel there is some incredulity that is widespread across that for someone is widespread across that for someone like alastair campbell could run foul of those rules. and he made the point when he was talking outside of his house that the irony thatjeremy corbyn, someone who for

yea rs thatjeremy corbyn, someone who for years and years was one of the most rebellious labour mps rarely ever voting along the lines of tony blair in the house of commons, and get his dissent was tolerated and campbell did this and he was kicked out. does it feel like jeremy corbyn is under more pressure than ever before? we do not know. but they are in considerable turmoil. remember when the uk got the extension, the latest brexit extension, the delay until october 31. donald tusk asked the uk to use the time constructively, you're seeing both parties plunge into an almighty crisis and about of soul—searching is the work out where they should stand on this huge question, the tories completely rattled by the success of the brexit party and the european elections, they are now braille it in a contest of theresa may resigned in the brexit party showing that at the moment, dragging many of the can't

toa moment, dragging many of the can't to a harder brexit position. and they will either leave the eu with 01’ they will either leave the eu with or without a deal —— candidates. and thatis or without a deal —— candidates. and that is blaming the argument for the tory party, they could be up to 11, the next few hours but the casting candidates is growing in labour having a huge round about whether or not they should abandon the ambiguity of the brexit position for ambiguity of the brexit position for a long time, trying to please both leave and remain members, they believe they should now move towards remain ata believe they should now move towards remain at a second referendum being its explicit policy proposal. that is causing deep alarm across many labour mps that represent leave constituencies and feel that i will bea constituencies and feel that i will be a terrible route to go down. the labour party is being investigated over accusations of anti—semitism. the equality and human rights commission says it's investigating

labour to see if it has "unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people because they are jewish", saying this was after "receiving a number of complaints about allegations of anti—semitism". here's the labour party's response. the labour party will fully co—operate with the teddy then, it the labour party will fully co—operate with the ehrc, it is very important. as we strive to do as a party is to ensure that we have the most robust and fair system that we can possibly have and i think this investigation will allow for us to be able to say with some confidence that we have that. the labour party has been plagued by claims of anti—semitism since 2016, and it's own mps have been some of the loudest critics. margaret hodge is a long—serving jewish mp. today she said:

and back in march, another jewish labour mp, luciana berger, quit in part over how labour handled the allegations. let's go back to ben wright in westminster. what kinds of allegations that have been made? what can the ehrc do? you touched on some of them, the party has not taken the evidence seriously with and its own ranks and has had a very inadequate complaint procedure that is been slow to discipline people and expel them when they have been found to be anti—semitic. this is been a row that has engulfed labour for about three years and margaret hodge and the labour party, they there have been many voices within the labour party that have just been increasingly livid about what they see as a really inadequate flat—footed and slow response from

the labour leadership and they sing that today is the ultimate indictment about howjeremy corbyn has handled this. the first time, the political party is going to be investigated formally by deh rc with all of its statutory to correspondence and ask for evidence which may finally get to the bottom of how theyjudge in labour has responded. as you said, the labour party spokesman said that the party was implacably anti—semitic and denied strongly that they have been an unlawful in lawful and anything they've done and they will co—operate fully with this inquiry, but i believe many mps i think this isa but i believe many mps i think this is a pretty dark day for labour party. in the last few hours, a trial has began in the us city of norman, oklahoma — that could have huge consequences, for the world's biggest pharmacuetical companies. the state of oklahoma is seeking $17.5bn of damages from the drugmakerjohnson & johnson. it claims the company's misleading marketing had a role

in an addiction crisis that kills around 130 americans every single day. in the opening statements an attorney for the state of oklahoma said johnson and johnson denies doing anything wrong. our correspondent samira hussain is following the case from new york. what have we been hearing in court? just to reiterate how important this case is, this is the first trial against a single manufacturer to make it to this court proceeding and it really, the outcome of this trial could really show what can be capable in terms of these kind of lawsuits against individual companies. specifically with regards to this case, the state of oklahoma saying that look, johnson & johnson

absolutely flooded the state with these drugs and created a very ruinous situation for the state. whatjohnson & johnson is ruinous situation for the state. whatjohnson &johnson is saying in the defence is look, you cannot associate all of that blame to us specifically and in fact, has made the argument, look at what we do in terms of educating kids for example see you cannot make the claim that we are responsible for such a desk to make tetra about the companies involved in this case—are we likely to see more of these cases? 40,000 people so far have died, it is an epidemic of immense proportions in the united states and it is clear that there are lots of state—level, communities, federal government that are really trying to get a handle on the problem and one

of those is through the court system. in this lawsuit, there are two other pharmaceutical companies that were implicated in both the phone have settled and just on sunday, they settled, some details are being worked out and of course there are perdue pharmaceuticals that was backed by the family and they settled back in march for some $230 million, but many advocates say that i was just too little given the size of the problem. how much do you normally spend on a cup of coffee? $3, $5? well how about $75? yep — you heard it right. that's what one cafe in san francisco is charging for a certain variety. have a look at this.

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we have sold about 20 cups. and how many have you gave away and testing? about 20. lama i am a little budget constrained at the moment. we are on an entrepreneurial budget. the president of the european council donald tusk has spoken after meeting the 28 leaders. he says the post—election mood is positive.

these results are a good omen for the future as europeans. the vast majority voted for a more effective, stronger and united eu. while rejecting those who wanted a weak europe. this is a powerful side. europe. this is a powerful side. europe is the winner of these elections. in fact, europe is the winner of these elections. infact, people europe is the winner of these elections. in fact, people have become more pro—european, some major you're a sceptic parties have abandoned the anti—eu slogans and presented themselves as eu reformers. this is a positive development, i have no doubt that one of the reasons why people on the continent voted for a pro—european majority is also brexit. if they see what it means in practise, they will also draw conclusions. brexit has

been a vaccine against anti—eu propaganda. hello again, we have seen some severe thunderstorms over recent days and parts of the united states and now in illinois we have what is golf ball size hail pinging off the ground. some severe thunderstorms in the area very threatening looking clouds. not just the area very threatening looking clouds. notjust illinois saw these kinds of dark clouds, we also had similar conditions in indiana over the last 24 hours. these big thunder clouds are known as super cells rotating from their storms and this is known as the wall cloud, and bc tornado strap from them sometimes. beside her neato work across ohio and around the time of dayton, discussed some significant damage to buildings, trees flattened in the area, the full extent of the damage

is still being assessed. the storms are all tied in with the system they can see on the satellite picture, so that the storms are likely producing some tornadoes in the main threat will be moving into parts of the midwest again, areas like kansas, oklahoma, further eastward into missouri and iowa, a risk of storms later on tuesday and tuesday nights, and then to wednesday, we can see another batch of the severe storms developing once again. and more turbulent weather on the way. we also seen some big storms recently, the last 24 hours, rainfall is fallen at hong kong, parts of southern japan and we have a slow—moving trough that will continue to being teddy make bring big storms of a chain over the next few days, we have some localised flooding here and the monsoon has been proceeding across the bay of

bengal and we have seen hundred millimetres of rain in the past 24 hours. we are going to see the months and push low for the northwards of the next few days, could arrive in southern parts of sri lanka over the next few days and possibly into. as we look to the forecast of next week, see a bit of snow in victoria for the next 24 hours and heavy rain continues to come down over the western side in new zealand, threat of flooding over the next few days. for europe, it is been very unsettled with cloudy skies quite cool with outbreaks of rain and the heaviest rain will be across northern areas of italy and croatia and wednesday and whether for those who have gone out for holiday here, and poland, some big thunderstorms capable of producing some fairly large hail and some damaging gusts of wind as well. system pretty severe weather on the eastern parts of europe, cloudy with

rain and the south for the north, brighter spells at times and that is your latest weather. bye for now.

hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. after the european elections, the european negotiations. presidents and prime ministers are in brussels haggling over who will take the eu's top jobs. it's shaping up to be a contest between france and germany. britain's theresa may is there, too — but back in westminster, more and more candidates are lining up to take over as prime minister. i want to solve the brexit crisis and i'm worried that if we don't saveit and i'm worried that if we don't save it we will face a political crisis which is far bigger than our legal relationship with the eu. labour is also divided over brexit — but that's not its only problem.

the party's being investigated over allegations of anti—semitism. eu leaders are in brussels tonight to thrash out who will get the institution's top jobs. the process can be tricky at the best of times, but it's been made even more complicated by the results of the european elections. adam fleming explains what the leaders will take into account. they have promised to gender geography and politics as they seek a new president of the european council and a new president of the european central bank and a new foreign policy chief and all the focus is now on a replacement for jean—claude juncker as president of the european commission. that is in there on the red carpet. for one of there on the red carpet. for one of the last times. eu leaders would

like to nominate the lucky candidate by the time of their next scheduled meeting in brussels at the end of june, so there should be a month of frantic horse trading. but the european parliament gets to approve the final decision and they think the final decision and they think thejob should go the final decision and they think the job should go to somebody who puts themselves forward for it during the european parliament elections, somebody like various people from the centre—right and the ce ntre—left people from the centre—right and the centre—left or the liberals, or because of the compromises involved maybe it will go to someone com pletely maybe it will go to someone completely different like the chief brexit negotiator michel barnier. one thing is for certain many names will come and go because this is just the start of this process. adam fleming. the various political groupings will be working to get their favoured candidates up. but eu commission members will also be thinking of the incluence they can wield as national leaders. here's katya adler

on what's at stake. every single one of those eu leaders wa nts to every single one of those eu leaders wants to make sure that in the eu topjobs like the wants to make sure that in the eu top jobs like the head wants to make sure that in the eu topjobs like the head of wants to make sure that in the eu top jobs like the head of the european commission and the european council, the presently represents all eu countries, the head of the central bank at the new foreign policy chief and so on, these leaders want to make sure they have influence in those big figures and thatis influence in those big figures and that is why they are horse trading and scheming if you like to get their favourite candidate in and the main headline here is the rift this is causing between france and germany, emmanuel macron and angela merkel. they are on opposite sides as to whether there should be a new brexit extension and on opposite sides when it comes to the candidates for the top jobs and they don't agree over the euro zone reform as well which is something emmanuel macron is talking about so don't expect much out of this summit. those leaders will try to airtheir summit. those leaders will try to air their views here but not come to any conclusions because they don't wa nt to any conclusions because they don't want to fall out.

let's go to myanmar now where earlier this month these two journalists from the reuters news agency were released from prison — wa lone and kyaw soe oo. they'd spent more than 500 days behind bars, and their case was widely seen as an attack onjournalism, because they'd been working to expose a massacre of rohingya muslims by the myanmar government. but democracy activists in the country say despite their release — myanmar is still a country where speaking your mind can land you injail. our correspondent nick beake has been investigating. this is a comedy act that could have landed you in prison during the humourless military dictatorship. a satirical sketch burmese style often at the expense of the powers that be, but those who hoped in 2019 the army would see the funny side were mistaken. when the still powerful

generals watch this grainy show, streamed live on facebook, they have the performers arrested for painting the performers arrested for painting the armed forces in a bad light. so this morning this woman is going to court accompanied by her mother and sister. they have no idea if she will be coming home tonight. this kind of situation is really bad, we did not make any violence, we just went to the streets and performed in front of the people. it really shows what other people are feeling in their mind, that they did not dare speak out, so this is our freedom their mind, that they did not dare speak out, so this is ourfreedom of speech. do you regret it now? not at all. the case held up as myanmar's most high—profile attack on free speech has that —— is that on the reuters journalists wa lone and kyaw

soe oo. they may now be free but many others are being hauled before the courts. including this woman who along with six friends has just been charged with defaming the military. this became a regular sight during five decades of military dictatorship but now under a civilian government there are growing numbers of journalists, activists, artists being prosecuted. democracy activists are trying to sound the alarm. translation: this case brought by the army and so are the other cases, the civilian government cannot stop them, and also they don't do anything to stop them, so the freedom of speech is getting worse. the government of the nobel prize winning —— with the nobel prize winning —— with the

nobel peace prizewinner has been in problems. the film—maker who called for the generals to get out of politics and the farmer who told her that the military had grabbed his land, the newspaper editor who published reports of the latest fighting in the western state of rakaia. back at this courthouse, the comedian is taken to a prison to await trial, and her mother will not see her tonight. is she really a criminal, she asks? how can they treat her like this, they did not even give me a chance to hold her? the traditional burmese performers who now face four years behind bars for expressing how this country feels. the leaders of myanmar tomorrow, the prisoners of today. the united nation's children's agency, unicef, says education in afghanistan is underfire. it says the number of attacks

on schools almost tripled last year, compared to the year before. there were 192 attacks on schools in 2018, denying an estimated half a million children their education. the taliban and so—called islamic state group are blamed for the majority of attacks. sheema sen gupta is the deputy representative of unicef in afghanistan. in afghanistan there are over 3.7 million children who are out of school and at 60% of these are girls. so now in 2018 we had over a thousand schools closed and it impacted another 500,000 children. it adds to the numbers of children who are out of school and the

threat, the worry, the fear keeps more children out of school. so this isa more children out of school. so this is a problem which is really serious and children who don't have access to education lose out on learning but they also lose out on socialisation, they lose out on various other skills that are important to make them productive citizens. what we are asking for is for all parties to the conflict to keep these schools out of harms way and to keep children out of harms way so children can continue to go to school and this is absolutely doable. stay with us on outside source — still to come... it's already critically endangered... now the sumatran rhino population in malaysia has been dealt a blow. students across the uk are sitting exams this week but many could find themselves getting distracted by their smartphones. our media editor amol rajan has been

speaking to pupils in reading. smartphones are the most convenient and sophisticated consumer technology ever invented — reaching billions of people every day — but, boy, are they addictive, as these students at the university of reading have been telling me. would you say you're addicted to your phone? erm, i think i would, yeah, because without thinking about it, ijust pick up my phone to check instagram, or snapchat, or facebook, or anything. it's a bit of an issue with studying because if i have it on my desk while i'm revising, i tend to get very, very tempted to just look at my phone. i'll be like, ooh, i see a notification, and i'll be tempted to just open it. and then ten, 15 minutes will go by and i haven't done any work. smartphones have been rightly called "a species—level environmental shock". while the science about their effect on young minds is contested and evolving, what's not in doubt is that in the space of just a few years, they've created a totalising environment, relentless information overload and irresistible distraction. we live in an attention economy.

this former google designer wrote an influential book about how big technology companies manipulate us. information abundance makes our attention the scarce resource, and so challenges that, in the past, were about breaking down boundaries between us and information, now the challenges are really about putting those boundaries in place, setting limits for ourselves. and so, that's kind ofjust the baseline world we find ourselves in. and then on top of that, you have this entire persuasion industry that is dedicated to capturing, exploiting our attention. facebook is a persuasion machine. twitter is a persuasion machine. you know, instagram is a persuasion machine. and i think when we call these things social media, you know, that's not actually what they're selling, that's not their business. they're essentially advertising companies, persuasion companies. study requires concentration, and distraction is the enemy of concentration. it mayjust be that the attention economy and academic education don't really mix. amol rajan, bbc news.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... european union leaders have begun haggling over the topjobs in the eu — with signs of disagreement between france and germany. japan is reeling from a rare, violent crime. a man carrying two knives attacked a group of schoolgirls as they waited for a bus — killing a 12—year old and an adult, and injuring 15 others. it happened in the city of kawasaki near tokyo. our correspondent rupert wingfield hayes sent this report from the scene. this morning, this quiet residential street on the south side of tokyo was turned into a scene from a horror movie. schoolgirls lining up to get on their morning bus, slashed and stabbed by a knife—wielding man shouting, "i'm going to kill you!" this man saw it happen.

"i heard the screams, then i saw some kids lying on the ground," he says. "there was a man with two long sashimi knives, one in each hand. then he cut himself in the neck and collapsed." "i saw a boy who had been slashed on the face and leg," says this man. "he was very traumatised, terrified. i cannot forgive what was done to these kids." this afternoon, people began leaving flowers and little gifts at the site, a sign of respect for the two who were killed — one, a little girl, the other, a parent. so this is the street corner where the little girls were lining up to get on their bus this morning when they were suddenly attacked by this man wielding two knives. you can still see the bloodstains on the street here. an attack like this would be profoundly shocking anywhere in the world, but it is all the more shocking here injapan because this is such a safe society. japan is so safe it is extremely common to see children as young as six years old walking to school every day by themselves.

prime minister shinzo abe called the mood of the country tonight when he spoke of his anger at what had happened. translation: i feel strong anger that young children have suffered. i would like to offer my deepest sympathy to those who died and their families. we must ensure the safety of our children. this evening police began searching the house where the suspected attacker lived. neighbours said he was a quiet man who kept himself to himself. having taken his own life, there is no no one left to explain why he carried out such an apparently senseless attack. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in kawasaki city, japan. more than 40 prisoners have been found strangled, in four separate jails, in the north west of brazil. prison officials in the north western state of amazonas said the killings appeared to have happened when rival gangs clashed. here'sjulia carneiro.

authorities, the federal government has said it is sending a special task force with agents to reinforce the security in the main prison unit where the massacre started. where 15 we re where the massacre started. where 15 were killed on sunday. the government also says it will make vacancies available in federal prisons in order to transfer leaders that are perceived as leaders of this massacre, into the safer units and get them away from the prison units where this happened. we also know that on sunday when this started it was a visiting hours at the prison unit so it seems that families were within the unit and some of them witnessed the killings of these first 15 victims that were strangled or stabbed to death. brazil has the third largest prison population in the world with 700,000

inmates, and many of these prisons are overcrowded, building new prisons has long been a demand here. not only building new prisons but also improving the infrastructure and the situation within the existing prisons. which have often been described by human rights organisations and even government officials as medieval conditions and often described in brazilian society asa often described in brazilian society as a factory for criminals with the understanding that prisoners go into these prisons and come out even more dangerous because of the terrible conditions inside. to malaysia now. the sumatran rhino — which is already critically endangered — has been struck another blow. this is tarm. he was the last male sumatran rhino in malaysia — and he's just died. he'd been living on a wildlife reserve on the island of borneo. now, there's only one female sumatran rhino in the whole of malaysia. her name is iman, and because of tumours, she can't carry a baby. here's helen briggs.

this is another blow for the future of the sumatran rhino. we think there are fewer than a hundred left on the planet. may be 80 in the wild and only a handful held in captivity. the rhino tarm was in his 30s and probably died of old age. he was malaysia's last may rhino and that means there's only female sumatran rhino left now, a female called iman who is held in captivity, so watch for the future of this very rare species of rhino? there are some remaining in the wild on the indonesian part of the island of borneo and also on the island of sumatra, but the problem is they have lost a lot of their habitat and they have been poached in the past

and the rhinos that are remaining are in small pockets, they are solitary creatures, anyway, so finding a mate is really tough for the sumatran rhino. i spoke to one charity, save the rhinos, who say there is a glimmer of hope for the future of the species but that would rely on taking them out of the wild and capturing them and taking them toa and capturing them and taking them to a wildlife sentry and breeding them naturally and then releasing them naturally and then releasing them back to a national park —— wildlife sanctuary. there is hope but this is a big challenge and it requires political will is well to save the species from extension. —— extinction. another climber has died after scaling mt everest. an american doctor was killed while descending the mountain. that brings the death toll to 11 this season — a jump up from an average of six,

which it's been for the past 20 years. the nepalese government has issued a record number of climbing permits, meaning around 600 people were preparing to climb the mountain this year. overcrowding has been blamed for the deaths. this photo has gone viral showing a queue of climbers waiting to reach the summit. seasoned mountaineers say there's been an increase in inexperiened climbers who don't know how to evaluate the risks. here's a mount everest expedition guide on the responsibility of climbers. the climbers have got to keep in mind that it is a big challenge, a huge challenge, to climb mount everest a nd huge challenge, to climb mount everest and you need to be physically so well—prepared, you need to have experience because you wa nt to need to have experience because you want to know how you feel climbing 7800 feet high, how your body is feeling and how your brain is feeling, because scientifically speaking you are in the dead zone and you are taking huge risks, so you are then putting the risks on the sherpas and there is a thing there, the climbers have got to be

conscious that this is something which implies lots of risk. there is no middle zone, it is black—and—white. navin singh khadka is environment correspondent for the bbc world service. i've been asking why everest is so busy at the moment. it is the limited period of window, first of all, and the first two days the 19th of may and the 20th of may when it opened up because the rope fixing was already delayed. the first window was not utilised properly and most of them, they stayed back for the second window, and that is why there was a massive crowd during the second window. the other point is about the crowd management. they are supposed to be 60 government officials at the base camp, but my investigation has found there were just five who were there and the rest disappeared. maybe a couple of days they were there. they we re couple of days they were there. they were supposed to manage that and spread the crowd evenly. but for

whatever available whether periods we re whatever available whether periods were there. and there are also the increased numbers of young climbers who are not trained new are inexperienced. a growing volume of that —— and who are inexperienced. and also the cut—throat competition between these organisations of tours, you have guides who are not experienced either. the popularity of everest, is it more popular than ever? very much. because of the reasons i just ever? very much. because of the reasons ijust mentioned, more and more people, because ever rest technically is easier than the second highest mountain k too, because if you fix the ladders, if the weather permits, everyone can be there, and so there was a record number of permits issued this year,

381 and they expect it to go up next year and then on and on. it has been publicised in such a way that if you pay, you can do it, so it is more and more popular. the lessons from this year, you don't think they will be learned and if you are permits will be issued ? be learned and if you are permits will be issued? is that financial? yes, the government talks about the economy and operators talk about the economy, but the thing is they are aware of the criticism and the controversy, the operators say they need to talk about the trafficjam but when you have this, this visit to nepal, they aim to usher in more than 2 million tourist and a significant chunk of that will be trekkers and mountaineers. he has written a fascinating article on what he thinks is going on this year with those deaths on everest.

back to our top story. european leaders have been meeting in brussels — haggling over who will take the european union's topjobs. this is the start of a process that could take many weeks — and that's partly because of the recent elections to the european parliament. as we've been hearing since the results came out on sunday, the balance of power has shifted away from the two centrist blocs that have traditionally wielded power. in the last hour, the european president council donald tusk been speaking in brussels. for me, and i say this also in the leaders discussions, these results area leaders discussions, these results are a good omen for our future as europeans. the vast majority voted for more effective, stronger and united eu, while rejecting those who wa nt united eu, while rejecting those who want a weak europe. this is a powerful sign. europe is the winner

in these elections. in fact, as people have become more pro—european, some major eurosceptic parties have abandoned the anti—word—macro slogans and presented themselves as eu reformers. this is a positive development. i have no doubt that one of the reasons why people on the continent voted for a pro—european majority is also brexit. as europeans see what brexit means in practice, they also draw conclusions. brexit has been a vaccine against anti—eu propaganda. one of the other big beasts jean—claude juncker is in one of the other big beasts jean—claudejuncker is in brussels and he has met theresa may. he has spoken to our europe editor and he says he is meeting theresa may this

afternoon... he has met theresa may, and he has been crystal clear, they will be no renegotiation of the brexit deal. see you tomorrow. we have much warmer weather on the way by the end of the week, mainly for england and wales. tuesday was the coldest day of the week where we had some sunshine and showers, and the north north westerly winds are being replaced by atlantic winds. south—westerly winds emanating from the tropics and that will bring the warmth into england and wales, but initially it will bring cloud and rain in many places. a cold bright start for the eastern side of england and scotland being replaced largely by the cloud coming in on those south—westerly breezes. scotla nd those south—westerly breezes. scotland still in the - wales