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. i'm kasia madera in london. there are expected to be some protests the headlines: but the foreign secretary insists coming ready or not — he will be warmly welcomed. donald trump will begin his state visit to the uk in the indian air force has suspended its search operation the next few hours. to locate eight missing climbers due to poor weather conditions china defends its actions 30 years in the himalayan region. on from the tiananmen square crackdown — in a rare public the rescue efforts will resume later on monday. acknowledgment of events. and this video is trending on bbc.com: i'm karishma vaswani in singapore, the italian transport minister has said the government also in the programme: is ready to ban large cruise ships from the giudecca canal in venice — hope is fading, the search for eight after a ship lost control as it tried to dock. missing climbers in the himalayas four people were slightly has suspended due to bad weather. hurt in the incident. that‘s all. stay with bbc news. and a 13 story cruise ship crashes into mckee in venice reigniting calls for a ban. and the top story in the uk. three—quarters of a million

liverpool fans paint the town red, in the next few hours president trump will arrive in the uk for a state visit. ahead of the trip, mr trump has 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 tiananmen after 30 years. there are 30 years, china under the communist party has undergone many changes. do you think the government was wrong with the handling ofjune four? 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. the israeli defence forces has released a video that purports to show israeli airstrikes

on targets inside syrian territory on saturday. syrian state tv says 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. back now to the impending state visit to the uk by donald trump. the us president has been quoted widely in the uk papers giving his opinion on brexit, and on several politicians. rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor of the newspaper city am, says it's not unusual for donald trump to get involved in another country's domestic politics. donald trump certainly isn't a president to have followed etiquette in any other area, so i don't think it's that surprising. it is however, quite extreme, him coming out with this interview in the sun over the weekend where he pushes very hard for borisjohnson, talks about him being a really talented guy, great guy to work with, "i'd love for him to get it." i think those were the words he said. you've got to remember that when the state visit

was scheduled, nobody knew that it would be a volatile time for uk politics. trump is here meeting a prime minister with no power at all, a lame—duck prime minister, discussing loads of issues with her that she is not going to be in a position to do anything about. and so the timing is particularly bad, but the fact that he thinks he has so much influence over it is what's interesting. he said in that interview, "i can endorse anyone and they would go up by a0 or 50 points. i have a lot of sway over it." i'm not sure if he quite has the amount of sway that he thinks he does. he has not quite 100% endorsed borisjohnson just yet but it does feel like he is waiting almost to find out who will be the front—runner in this. borisjohnson is one of the few that he knows personally and has met. he mentions jeremy hunt, the foreign secretary in that interview, he was asked what he thinks of him and he said, "yes, i like him." i'm surejeremy hunt will be doing a lot with that. he also mentions michael gove who he doesn't

like because of the criticism of how trump handled iran. that could potentially play in gove‘s favour, because much as the tory based relationship with the us, there are probably people that think we should have a prime minister who is prepared to stand up for britain against the us. so again, i'm not sure how much effect these comments will actually have, but trump certainly thinks they will have an effect and is prepared to make them regardless of the diplomaic norms. the duchess of sussex will not be meeting donald trump. she is on maternity leave. but, during this interview with the sun, these comments about whether he described her... and this word "nasty," the connotation around that. how does he get himself into these situations? he says what's on his mind, he's never been shy. he says what he thinks of people. it's not that he said she was nasty, he claimed that he didn't. he went on a tirade 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 examples of this in the past, wikileaks, he said he had never heard of it and we had him on tape multiple times saying how great wikileaks are. there have been incidents where he claimed he never met anyone. we have photographic, video evidence of him meeting them, he lies and i think the media should be a little bit stronger when calling him out on it rather than saying he claimed not to have said something that he was caught on tape saying. he faulted, he has lied. it doesn't seem to matter and that is quite worrying. rescuers searching for 8 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 is so treacherous, many parts are so remote they can't be accessed by road, that search and rescue operations are always difficult. 0nce rescue operations are always difficult. once the climbers are reported missing, we are told to teams were dispatched from different directions to the base camp to look for them. but even getting there and

getting information out is a tough task. they were able to airlift these british climbers to safety. a group of four that was stuck on the mountain. unhurt, they are now aiding the 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 this climbers companions. the family has been asking for the search to be continued and widened. 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 once again can discover the slopes. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: thirty 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 4,000 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 e—mail addresses and phone numbers.

some changes which will effect lots of people. china has laid the blame squarely on the us for the breakdown of trade talks between the world's two biggest economies, but it has 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. political risk consultant michael hirson says the breakdown of talks can't be blamed onjust one side. well, it's hard to ascribe blame for the trade talks right now, because this is so much

larger than trade. it's about technology competition, it's about the geopolitical rivalry between the us and china. so what we see is 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 it's — i think those are the deeper issues at work. so how far apart are these two sides? i mean, you know, when you look at the fact that the us says it is not going to stop demanding the things it wants from the chinese economy to change, beijing says it is not going to give in, we're not going to let the us bully us — it seems the two positions are very far apart. i think that is the difficulty. if you look at the substance of the issues, the two sides had 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 very strong views on the us side about what needs to happen to make a trade deal. so that is the problem, and the politics has only gotten worse in the last month because of us tariff escalation, and perhaps even more so because of the recent us action against huawei. yeah, i wanted to pick up on huawei. we saw over the weekend china saying it would release its own entity list, which would then presumably start targeting american companies. we've seen some indication of that just over the last few days. do you expect that to continue from beijing, this targeting of us firms in retaliation for huawei? well, i think that china does not want to do this. they realise that there are real risks to china in terms of making — worsening the response on the us side, hurting america 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 event on the calendar right now is the g20 leaders‘ summit. that is where the two presidents will have a chance to meet and it‘s a critical window to try and de—escalate the trade war. 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 tugboat 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. back 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, you know, 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 ships to be banned. translation: this is yet another demonstration that it no longer makes sense. it is no longer is conceivable that huge ships can pass through the giudecca canal.

the ship‘s owners, mse cruises, have blamed technical issues, and say they‘re helping the authorities with their investigation. let‘s return to tiananmen square. as we‘ve reported, the chinese government has made a rare admission of the violent crackdown that took place 30 years ago. at that time, an image emerged that nobody could forget — one man standing in the way of the government tanks that crushed a peaceful student protest. over the years, chinese censorship seemed to have erased the memory of one of the most brutal nights of violence in the 20th century. 0ur correspondentjohn sudworth reports from beijing.

we all love to gossip. in fact, we love it so much, we do it on average for 52 minutes a day. well, that is the finding of the world‘s first study

to examine who gossips, and what they talk about. us researchers asked more than 400 people to wear portable recording devices as they went about their day. the study‘s author, megan robbins, explains the findings. a lot of academics define gossip as just talking about someone who‘s 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. so who is doing it the most? because there are some people, of course, who tend to not do it. what kind of people are the gossipers? people who gossip most frequently are extroverted people.

so these are people who are really sociable, outgoing, 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. ah, so no gender difference. it would be unfair to say that perhaps women are more prone to gossip. it is not like that, is it? n ot exa ctly. 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 that nasty gossip, negative or even positive gossip, there were no gender differences there. you have been watching newsday. i‘m kasia madera in london. and i‘m karishma

vaswani in singapore. stay with us. we will have a special report on how bat poo could improve the fortunes of cambodian farmers. hello. sunday was a real mixed bag of weather right across the british isles. for some, it was rain and puddles. elsewhere particularly in norfolk, 28.8 was recorded, making it the hottest day of the year so far and, as ever, our weather watchers were right on the spot. now, that weather front eventually has dragged what was left of the rain into the near continent up into scandinavia, leaving behind a big area of low pressure which will dominate scotland‘s weather for the next day or two. many isobars on that chart, as well, so some pretty 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. and our air will come from the atlantic, so a fresher feel to start the new day on monday. and showers right from the word go, gusty showers at that, with the odd rumble of thunder in there, i don‘t doubt. and that‘s going to be the case for northern and western parts of scotland, northern ireland too. a dry enough day, but a speckling of afternoon showers running along on the breeze from wales and the south—west up towards the midlands and east anglia. from monday into tuesday, as the low pressure centre drifts just a little further north away from scotland, the isobars opening out, so we‘ll bring in this little secondary low pressure in towards the south—western approaches, spreading the threat of showery bursts of rain through the south—west of wales, the western midlands, eventually to northern ireland, northern parts of england, central and southern parts of scotland too. and it‘s only really the farther south—east and maybe the north of scotland that during the daylight hours escapes the heaviest of the rainfall. i think we‘ll complete the journey of that weather front towards the north of scotland overnight from tuesday into wednesday.

and then, if we‘ve got the sums right, we‘ll be looking down towards the near continent, because it could well be that some really moist, muggy air drags the threat of heavy and thundery downpours into the south—eastern quarter of the british isles. elsewhere, it‘s a decent enough day, showers in the south—west perhaps, and still the remnants of that front. a bit of bother across northern scotland. in between, a pleasant enough day. then through the evening and overnight again, as i say, some doubt about this but it could well be that we drag meaningful rain through parts of the midlands up across eastern england. the bulk of it, i think, will be found out in the north sea. but there‘s just the chance it will come a little further west. it‘s a neat call, as you can see. thursday could be a wet day across the eastern half of the british isles, the best of the sunshine, i would have thought, for northern ireland 00:28:58,418 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 and perhaps the north of scotland.