i'm kasia madera in london. the headlines: coming ready or not — donald trump will begin his state visit to the uk in the next few hours. china defends its actions 30 years on from the tiananmen square crackdown, in a rare public acknowledgment of events. i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. also in the programme: hope is fading — the search for eight missing climbers in the himalayas is suspended due to bad weather. a 13 storey cruise ship crashes into a quay in venice — reigniting calls for a ban.

it's midnight here in london, 7am in singapore and 7:00 in the evening in washington. in the next few hours president trump will arrive in the uk for a state visit. ahead of the trip, mr trump has made waded into the rows over brexit and the forthcoming conservatice leadership and while he will expect some protests the foreign secretary has insisted he will still be warmly welcomed. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. donald trump hasn't even arrived for his state visit and already he is making headlines, staking out his agenda on brexit, china and iran, ruffling feathers ahead of protests that could match those he faced last year.

he said britain should pursue a no—deal brexit, be careful before giving china access to technology, and go all out for a trade deal that his ambassador admitted would involve the nhs. your national healthcare service is the pride of the country. it is a highly, highly emotionally charged issue. do you feel that healthcare has to be part of the deal? i think probably you know the entire economy would in a trade deal. all things that are traded would be on the table. which includes healthcare. i think so. over the next three days, president trump will get all the pageantry of a state visit — dinner with the queen, lunch with the prime minister, d—day commemorations in portsmouth. but the potential for disagreement looms large, over how to tackle the threat from iran, if a chinese telecoms firm should provide part of uk's 56 mobile network, and whether a future trade deal would mean chlorinated chicken in british supermarkets.

such is the concern of some, they say the state visit should not even be taking place. some of the things donald trump has done over the last two, three years, londoners find abhorrent and offensive — rolling back the reproductive rights of women, separating children from their parents on the mexican border, introducing a ban muslim—majority countries. we march down whitehall... and he is not alone. tens of thousands of people are getting ready to protest. i think lots of people are going to be taking the day off work and coming down to protest and just send a message both to donald trump, to our government and to the world that everything he represents is rejected by the people here. this state visit is designed to celebrate an old alliance — flags and heads of state standing together, commemorating a shared history and sacrifice. there's a whole list of things that we don't agree with the administration on, but it doesn't affect the fact that we have the most important partnership that there is in the world

forfreedom, democracy, the rule of law, the things that really matter, and that's what we're celebrating. when donald trump arrives here tomorrow morning, he is going to get all the bells and whistles of a full state visit. but beneath the pomp, there will also be politics, and so for all the symbolic unity, there will be differences too. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. china has made a rare acknowledgement that the 1989 tiananmen square protests were put down violently. the authorities brutally clamped down on more than a million pro—democracy protestors who occcupied tiananmen square for six weeks. many died — though china has never given an exact figure. defence minister wei fenghe speaking in singapore said that stopping the turbulence was the correct policy.

everybody is concerned about the square after 30 years. rather that yea rs, square after 30 years. rather that years, china under the commonest party of is undergone many changes. do you think the government was wrong with the handling ofjune the fourth? there was a conclusion to that incident. that was a political turmoil, the central government need to quell. the government was decisive in stopping the turbulence. that was the correct policy. a little later on newsday we'll report from beijing on how the events of tiananmen square have been erased from chinese history. also making news today: the us federal aviation administration has warned that some boeing 737 max and ng aeroplanes may have faulty parts that need replacing. the faa says over 300 aircraft could be affected. the 737 max was grounded globally in march after two crashes led to concerns over its new anti—stall software.

following israeli airstrikes on targets inside syrian territory on saturday, which this video relased by the israeli defence forces purports to show, according to syrian state tv, another israeli attack was intercepted by the country's air defences on sunday evening. the latest airstrike hit an airbase in homs province, killing two and injuring several others. israel claims it was launched in response to syrian rockets fired into the occupied golan heights. the first british airways flight to pakistan in more that a decade took off from heathrow about three hours ago. ba halted flights in 2008 after more than 50 people were killed in a bombing at a hotel in islamabad. the british high commissioner in islamabad says ba wasjoining "an increasing number of british companies doing business in pakistan." bangladesh shocked south africa to get their cricket world cup campaign off to a flying start with a 21 run victory at the 0val in london. the tigers hit 330 for six,

making their highest one day total. in reply south africa struggled as they lost crucial early wickets and fell to their second defeat of the tournament after losing to england last week. let's return to our top story and the impending state visit to the uk by president trump. joining me now here in the studio is rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor at city am. normally the activity is that if you are foreign dignitary coming a country, you don't get involved in the domestic politics and yet, donald trump, here he is talking about boris johnson and donald trump, here he is talking about borisjohnson and been very commentary about him, what is going on? donald trump isn't a president to avoid etiquette in any other area, soi to avoid etiquette in any other area, so i don't think it's that surprising. it is however, quite extreme, him coming out of this

interview over the weekend where he pushes very hard for borisjohnson, talks about him being a talented quy: talks about him being a talented guy, great guy to work with, his love for him to get it. those were the words he said. you gotta remember that when the state visit was scheduled, nobody knew that it would be a volatile time for uk politics were stopped trump as he oui’ politics were stopped trump as he our meeting a parameter start with no power at all, a lame—duck prime minister, discussing the divisions with her that she is not going to be ina with her that she is not going to be in a position to do anything about. the timing is particular bad but, the fact that he has so much influence over it is adjusting. he said in the interview, i can endorse anyone and they go up by a0 or 50 points was not i have a lot of sway over it. i'm not sure if he has the amount of spray he thinks he does. he hasn't100% endorsed boris johnson yet but it feels like he is waiting to see who will be the front—runner. waiting to see who will be the front-runner. boris johnson is one of the few that he knows personally and has met. he mentionsjeremy hunt, the foreign secretary in that

interview, he was asked what he thinks of him and he said, yes, i like it. i'm surejeremy hunt will be doing a lot of that. you also mentions michael go over someone he doesn't like because of the criticism of how trump paddled around. that could goes favour. there are people that think we should have a prime minister who is prepared to stand up against the us. i'm not sure how much effect is comments will actually have but trump suddenly thinks they will have an effect and is prepared to make them regardless of the deeper magic norms. the duchess of sussex will not be meeting donald trump. she is on maternity leave. but, during this interview with the paper, his comments about whether he described, and this would nasty, the connotation around that. how does he get self of their situations? he says was on his mind, he's never been shy. his is of people. it's not

that he said she was nasty, he claimed that he didn't stop you and i tie rate against the media, the fa ke i tie rate against the media, the fake news media for claiming he did. this is one instance we have it on tape and they have been numerous exa m ples of tape and they have been numerous examples of this in the past, wikileaks, he said he had never heard of it and we had on tape multiple times seeing how great wikileaks is. multiple times seeing how great wikilea ks is. this multiple times seeing how great wikileaks is. this photographic video evidence of him meeting them, he lies and i think the media should bea he lies and i think the media should be a little bit stronger when calling him out on it rather than saying he clamped up to have said something that he was caught on tape saying. he faulted, he has lied. something that he was caught on tape saying. he faulted, he has liedm is seem to matter and that is quite boring. he will get loads and loads of coverage over the next couple of days, rachel, thank you. rescuers searching for eight missing climbers say the chances of finding them are bleak. the climbers from australia, india, the us and the uk have been missing for over a week.

they were attempting to summit nanda devi — india's second highest mountain. the rescue effort began on saturday when the climbers did not return to their base camp. authorities say it could take days to trek to the area. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye reports from the indian himalayas. it's one of the toughest mountains in the world to climb. not many have dared to take on nanda devi's jagged peaks. this is video filmed by a group of mountaineers a few years ago. now, in these icy slopes, eight climbers are missing. they were being led by martin moran, a man well known in the climbing community. this is a photo of the team before they set out, three weeks ago. they were to return to base camp on friday. when they didn't, a search was launched.

the terrain are so treacherous, many parts are so treacherous that they can be accessed by road for tops search and rescue operations are a lwa ys search and rescue operations are always difficult. 0nce search and rescue operations are always difficult. once the climbers we re always difficult. once the climbers were reported missing, we are told two tea ms were reported missing, we are told two teams were dispatched from different directions to the base camp to look for them. even getting there and getting information out is a tough task. the group of former stuck on the mountain. unhurt, they are now aiding with search efforts for the eight still missing. they were able to give us some inputs about the general direction in which these remaining mountaineers have gone. there seems to have been multiple avalanches in that general area. as more time goes by, it becomes harder to find the climbers was not

the family has been our —— has asked the family has been our —— has asked the search to be continued. i'm still holding out hope, ‘cause people can go missing in the himalaya for a week. you can get trapped, and then might have to dig a snow hole and survive for several days. but the monsoon is moving in now, which is very heavy rain in the indian lowlands, and then it's dumping fresh amounts of snow and bad weather in the mountains. you know, and we are worried that there's an avalanche involved. at sunrise, rescuers will begin to scour the slopes. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: 30 years after the tiananmen crackdown we've been finding out if people in china are willing to admit they've seen this iconic image. the queen and her husband began their royal progress to westminster. the momemt of crowning in accordance with the order of service,

by a signal given, the great guns of the tower shall be shot off. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali, who has died at the age of 7a. 0utspoken but rarely outfought, he transcended the sport of boxing, of which he was three times a world champion. he was a fighter and he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles album sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, a record described as "the album of the century." this is newsday on the bbc.

i'm karishma vaswani in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories. american president donald trump will begin his official state visit to the united kingdom in just a few hours time. the search for eight missing climbers on india's nanda devi mountain has been suspended due to bad weather. and hundreds of thousands of liverpool fans took to the streets to welcome back their team — after they won the european champions league. that story is trending on bbc.com. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the us—china trade war is on the front page of the japan times. china has issued a report blaming the united states for the trade dispute — saying they will not back down. the front page of the south china morning post features a new development in the spread of african swine fever. more than a000 pigs will be culled in hong kong after two cases of the disease were found.

and the front page of the philippine star has a story about new us visa rules that will affect about 15 million foreigners. the state department will ask nearly all applicants to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. china has laid the blame squarely on the us for the breakdown of trade talks between the world's two biggest economies. but it's also suggested it wants to resume stalled trade talks with washington. in a white paper that china released on sunday, beijing laid out its position on trade — saying it would reject any attempt to force concessions on economic issues. the two countries are locked in a bitter trade war and have slapped tariffs on each other on billions of dollars worth of goods. political risk consultant,

michael hirson, says the breakdown of talks can't simply be blamed on one side or the other. it is hard to ascribe blame for the trade talks right now because this is so much larger than trade. it is about technology competition and the geopolitical rivalry between the us and china. what we see are the two sides digging in on some very core issues that really touch on the chinese side on sovereignty and on the us side on the view that china has not been playing by the rules for decades. so i think those are the deeper issues at work. how far apartare the deeper issues at work. how far apart are these two sides? when you look at the fact that the us says it is not going to stop remanding the things it wants from the chinese economy to change, beijing says it is not going to give in and let the us bully us, it seems the two positions are very far apart.|j think that is the difficulty. if you

look at the substance of the issue, the two sides have actually moved fairly close before this latest escalation. the problem is that the remaining issues again touch on these very core sensitivities on the chinese side of sovereignty and strong views on the us side about what needs to happen to prepare a trade deal. that is the problem. the politics has only gotten worse in the last month because of us tariff escalation and even more so because of the recent us action against huawei. i wanted to pick up on huawei. i wanted to pick up on huawei. we saw over the weekend china saying it would release its own entity list that would then presumably start targeting american companies. we saw indication of that over the last few days. do you expect that to continue from beijing, the targeting of us firms? i think that china does not want to do this. they realise that there are

real risks to china in terms of worsening the response on the us side and hurting america occupational —— china occupationally. but they need to play to the domestic audience and to show the trump administration they will not take this lying down. i think we will see a restrained response from china over the next few weeks. and the key thing is the upcoming meeting. that is where the two presidents will have a chance to meet and it is a critical window to try and de—escalate the trade while. we have more coverage on the state visit of donald trump here on the uk on our website. a cruise ship crash in venice has reignited calls for large vessels to be banned from the city's giudecca canal. it seems the ship, called the msc 0pera, may have broken loose from a tug

boat and was then unable to stop because of strong currents. four people were hurt. katharine da costa reports. horns blaring and out of control, the cruise ship ploughs into the dock, ramming a small tourist boat, and sending dozens of people running for safety. on board, stunned passengers brace themselves for impact. someone else went in the water. that way! watch out! back, back, back! it was just a massive shock and we were sort of trembling. we couldn't believe what we were seeing, and just to see this thing out of control, it was almost literally unbelievable. the collision happened this morning on the giudecca canal, one of busiest in venice, adding to growing pressure for large ship to to be banned.

this is yet another demonstration that it no longer makes sense and no longer is conceivable that huge ships can pass through the canal. the ships owners, mse cruises, have blamed a technical issue and say they're helping the authorities with their investigation. it was an image nobody could forget — one man standing in the way of the government tanks that crushed a peaceful student protest. but 30 years later, chinese censorship seems to have erased the memory of one of the most brutal nights of violence in the 20th century. 0ur china correspondent john sudworth reports from beijing.

the haunting image from tiananmen

square. we all love to gossip — and we do it on average for 52 minutes a day. that's the finding of the world's first study to examine who gossips — and what they talk about. us researchers asked more than a00 people to wear portable recording devices as they went about their day. the author of the study, megan robbins, explained the findings. a lot of academics to find gossipers talking about someone who is not present, as you mentioned and it turns out that based on our study findings that most of this talking about people who are not present is neutral. neither positive nor negative. negative gossip is more common than positive gossip but the overwhelming majority was neutral. who is doing it the most? there are some people who tend to not do it. what kind of people are the gossipers? people who gossip most

frequently are extroverted people, people who are sociable and outgoing and also tend to be assertive and by farand and also tend to be assertive and by far and away that was the characteristic most associated with gossip, rather than any demographic characteristic like gender, social class or anything like that. so no gender difference. it would be unfairto gender difference. it would be unfair to say that, perhaps women are more prone to gossip? it is not like that, is it? not exactly. in the way that most people think of gossip, because people think of it as negative nasty behaviour that would be not accurate to say based on our data. we found that women gossip neutrally more often than men. so they were gossiping a little more than men in that way but in terms of nasty gossip, negative or even positive gossip there were no gender differences there. studies

we re gender differences there. studies were explaining that gossiping is potentially not a bad thing. this is news to me. stay with us. sunday was a mixed bag of weather right across the british isles. for some rain and puddles elsewhere particularly away born in norfolk, 28.8dc was recorded, making it the hottest day of the year so far and, as ever, our weather watchers were on the spot. that weather front eventually drag what was left of the rain into the near continent into scandinavia leaving behind a big area of low pressure that was dominate the weather of scotland for the next few days. many isobars on the next few days. many isobars on the chart as well so some gusty conditions there. that weather front will have had the effect of dragging heat away from the british isles and shovelling it into the continent. 0urairwill

shovelling it into the continent. 0ur air will come from the atlantic. a fresh feel to start the new day on monday. showers from the word go. gusty showers at that with the odd rumble of thunder in there, i do not doubt. that will be the case for northern and western parts of scotla nd northern and western parts of scotland and northern ireland. a dry day but a speckle of afternoon showers running along the breeze from wales and the south—west up towards the midlands and east anglia. monday into tuesday as the low pressure centred drifts a little further north away from scotland, isobars open out and we bring in a little secondary low pressure in towards the south—western approaches, spreading the threat of showery rain through the south—west of wales, western midlands eventually to northern ireland, northern parts of england, central and southern parts of scotland. it is only the father south—east and maybe the north of scotland where during the daylight hours can escape the heaviest of the rainfall. we will complete the journey of that weather front towards the north of scotla nd weather front towards the north of scotland overnight from tuesday into

wednesday and then if we have the some right we will look down towards the near continent because it could be that some moist and muggy air drags the threat of heavy and thundery downpours into the south—eastern quarter of the british isles. elsewhere are decent they we re isles. elsewhere are decent they were showers in the south—west and still the run into that front, a bit of bother across northern scotland. in between a pleasant enough days. then through the evening and overnight again, as i say, some doubt about this but it could be that we drag meaningful rain through parts of the midlands up across eastern england. the bulk will be found out in the north sea but there is just the chance it will come a little further west. it is a need to call as you can see. thursday could bea call as you can see. thursday could be a wet day across the eastern half of the british isles to the best of the sunshine for northern ireland and perhaps the north of scotland.

someone i'm kasia madera with bbc news. our top story: american president, donald trump, will begin his official state visit to the united kingdom in a few hours time. ahead of the trip, mr trump has waded into the rows over brexit and the race to be tory leader. there are expected to be some protests — but the foreign secretary insists he will be warmly welcomed. the indian air force has suspended its search operation to locate eight missing climbers due to poor weather conditions in the himalayan region. the rescue efforts will resume later on monday. and this video is trending on bbc.com: the italian transport minister has said the government is ready to ban large cruise ships from the giudecca canal in venice — after a ship lost control as it tried to dock. four people were slightly hurt in the incident. that's all. stay with bbc news.