hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. president trump's continuing his state visit to the uk. he's been praising the ‘extraordinary‘ us—uk alliance. he promised a "phenomenal" trade deal after the uk leaves the european union — but couldn't resist saying he'd have handled brexit better. i would have sued and settled, may be, but you never know. she's probably a better negotiator than i am. he also said reports of protests against him were "fake news", but there were hundreds of people on the streets of london demonstrating against his visit. we'll be live with the latest. we'll also have the latest from sudan, where the military has promised elections — but it's scrapped agreements with the main opposition coalition and is making arrests across the capital.

it's day 2 of the president trump's state visit to the uk. right now he's hosting a banquet at the us ambassador‘s residence, in london. let me show you some of the pictures from a little bit earlier. this was just now, just before that banquet. here he is, along with the first lady, welcoming prince charles and camilla the duchess of cornwall to winfield house. so a bit of ceremony tonight, but the day was all about policy. earlier on donald trump amani trump we re earlier on donald trump amani trump were welcome to downing street by theresa may and her husband, philip. expected the us and uk

to agree on a "very substantial" trade deal post—brexit. they also tried to reach common ground on iran, climate change, and national security. on all three, sometimes common ground can be a little elusive. the main point of difference seems to be on national security, particularly on national security, particularly on the issue of the chinese tech change while way. remember in april, it was leaked that it was way was going to be given the green light to help build britain's 5g network. but the americans consider why wait a major security threat, and have blacklisted the company. but the us considers the chinese telco a major security threat, blacklisting the company last month. president trump was asked if the issue would affect co—operation on intelligence issues. here's his response. because we are going to have absolutely an agreement on huawei and every thing else, we have an incredible intelligence relationship, and we will be able to work out any differences, i think we are not owing to have, we did discuss it, i see absolutely no limitations. we have never had limitations, this is a truly great ally, and partner, and we will have

no problem with that. theresa may was also smoothing over differences in policy — in her case it was iran. this is what she had to say. the americans pulled out of the iran nuclear d, this is what promised her had to say. today we have discussed again the importance of our two nations working together to address iran's to stabilising activity in the region, and to ensure that iran cannot acquire a nuclear weapon. although we differ on the means of achieving that, as i've said before, the uk continues to stand by the nuclear deal. it is clear that we both want to reach the same goal. christain fraser is outside buckingham palace covering the trip from the very beginning. good to see a christian, lots of nice mood music, lots of nice components, but haven't got any ferment policy agreements that we didn't have 48 hours ago? no, i don't think so, i don't agree any farther further in this relationship and we were monday morning, obviously at three enforce the special relationship, and the president has been keen to put that

to the floor today, talking about the enduring relationship, and harking back to yesteryear, and the things they did together at the second world war. that's very much been the theme of the visit, but in terms of the thorny issues, well they started past huawei as if seen, and they skirted past iran, and instead prefer to focus on trade. and clearly the president is enthusiastic about that trade deal, in fact having looking at the commons from nigel faraj who met the president this afternoon, he's been talking on his obc programme on the radio this evening, saying that in fa ct radio this evening, saying that in fact the investor in the president had told them they are well under way with this trade deal. they've got 13 chapters good to go, and in fa ct got 13 chapters good to go, and in fact he said he got the british side we re fact he said he got the british side were behind the curve. so clearly there is an appetite to do something, but of course, you have to remember that this is a president thatis to remember that this is a president that is america first. he's not uk first. and he is, at times, driving quite a hard bargain, it is a lot of people in this country who are nervous about american involvement

in the nhs, what it might mean for british farmers, in this country. so an awful lot of questions still when it comes to trade that certainly weren't answered today. but on that issue of trade, some viewers may be thinking, hold on, ithought issue of trade, some viewers may be thinking, hold on, i thought the uk couldn't have any discussions around trade with the us until brexit actually happened. yet, and when youth about the timing of this visit, the timing is awful. let's face it, because there's a political backing. i probably do it that it's been six month and the planning of the government thought well, we will be the other side of at march the 29th cut off date when we will leave the eu, and we will be looking to the eu, and we will be looking to the future, industry deal, and so june feels like a pretty good time to have a state visit. well it's not work to like that, because we are still part of the european union. we have had european elections, and of course there are some candidates within the leadership contest to her saying, you know what, we would like to push the deadline further past october the 31st, because it's really important for us to get a deal. in the number of people that president trump has met today, you look at who he's met, owen patterson, in duncan smith, some of

the cheap brexiters, nigel faraj, as we've said, michael going, boris johnson, jeremy hunt, he's talking to people who are keeping no deal on the table. and he sees a new chapter, so he's been very polite to theresa may today, talking about the good job that she's done, but of course he can say that because she's formally resigning on friday. he's looking to the future. and that's why he's talking to the people he's talking to at the moment. don't go anywhere christian, a couple other things to ask you about. before this meeting today, there was some speculation theresa may would push donald trump on climate change. but there was only a very brief mention of the topic in their news conference. here is all 12 seconds of it. recognising our nations are safer and more prosperous when we work together on the biggest challenges of our time. i also set up the uk's approach to tackling climate change and our continued support for the paris agreement. donald trump pulled the us out of the paris climate agreement in 2017. he gave no indication whether theresa may's words would have any impact on us policy.

based on previous statements, i think we can make an educated desperately not gas. that issue of climate change, and the president's position on it was one of the main drivers for the protests that we saw. here is an image from earlier. lots of people with globes on their heads, drawing attention to the american position on climate change. this particular demonstration took place in trafalgar square. the campaign against climate change, which is a camping group, as the name suggests, for other people, they wanted to object to other aspects of the present‘s behaviour 01’ aspects of the present‘s behaviour or policies. their attitude is best summed up by this — the return of the infamous trump baby blimp. first made its appearance in the summer first made its appearance in the summer of 2018, when donald trump visited before. at the time, the president said the blimp had made him feel unwelcome, this time, he simply looked at to play down the scale of the protests. as far as the protests, i have to tell you,

because i commented on it yesterday, we left the prime minister, the queen, the royal family, there were thousands of people on the streets cheering, and even coming over today, there were thousands of people cheering, and then i heard that there were protests, i said where are the protests ? i don't see any protests. i did see a small protest today, when i came from a very small. so a lot of it is fake news, i hate to say. now we know the president likes to brag about the number of people who come out to support him. most famously his inauguration crowd, but there were thousands of people out protesting against him, but there were also some people, but not as many, out to wish him a warm welcome. so we have these pictures from a little bit earlier, lots of protesters. we think measuring in the thousands, not the tens of thousands. let's bring in christian again. christian, lots of question about the president, and whether he

got his assessment rate. you've been down there in and around the action all day. he's not telling the truth on this one, is he? no, he's not. because i was here last night at 11 o'clock, yesterday there were some from supporters on this corner here, but i watched as the beast rolled by, and probably about a hundred, it certainly wasn't in the thousands. u nless certainly wasn't in the thousands. unless i didn't see the crowds on his way back to winfield house, because they did drive by it last night, but i genuinely don't think there was anywhere near thousands on there was anywhere near thousands on the streets waving at him last night. it was a handful. but you know, this is what he does come as you say, he is well known for exaggerating the crowds that come out, as he did with the inauguration. the real talking point about the protests today are of course ross, was jeremy ross, wasjeremy corbyn, the opposition leader, who addressed the crowd. and of course that divides opinion in the uk, something if jeremy corbyn walked through the door of number ten in some months‘ time, and that could happen, given where we are at in the political flux in the uk, how is he going to rebuild this relationship, because

donald you‘re from the podium today said he was a negative force, sadiq khan isa said he was a negative force, sadiq khan is a negative force, he said, so khan is a negative force, he said, so labour not in the best place when it comes to trying to do a trade deal with the united states, on the other hand, there were those who applied whatjeremy other hand, there were those who applied what jeremy corbyn other hand, there were those who applied whatjeremy corbyn did today, we shouldn‘t be rolling of the red carpet for donald trump, and of course they are pleased that he turned down the invitation to the state banquet last night. the only problem i think for a labour, really, is consistency. because jeremy corbyn did go to the state dinner for the jeremy corbyn did go to the state dinnerfor the president jeremy corbyn did go to the state dinner for the president of china. but didn‘t go last night for donald trump. russian, for the moment, thanks, you will be at back with us on about 20 minutes willjust went to turn to the other main stories of the day before we turn back to the donald trump visited the uk, and we must talk about what‘s happening in sudan, because things are excavating. the army has called what it‘s calling a snap election, not so snappy — it‘ll take place in 9 months. it‘s also cancelled all agreements with the main opposition party. all of this comes after serious violence yesterday when at least 30 people were killed.

we have footage like this, which shows the moments when the military started opening fire on unarmed protesters. this video is from khartoum. there are also reports security forces opened fire inside hospitals where injured protesters were being treated. despite all of that, in this televised address, the military blamed the opposition. translation: the political powers which are negotiating with the military counsel must bear responsibility for their attempt to sideline other political powers, and military power. and attempting to rule sudan on their own, to create another totalitarian regime, where one opinion is forced. without agreements, without a national mandate, and without public support, placing the security of sudan in real danger. the opposition‘s reponse is to call for "total civil disobedience". this is one protester

talking to the bbc. no matter what happens, or what the protesters did, and they did not do or participate in whatever was mentioned by the transition military captain, they do not have the right to kill peaceful protesters. they attack specific areas, and they free specific areas, it was planned, it was very clear that it was planned. let‘s just remind ourselves how we got here. activists in sudan have been protesting since december last year. thousands gathered khartoum, in this area here marked in green, in front of the president‘s residence. at first their target was the country‘s long—time ruler president omar al—bashir. he had been in powerfor 30 years, but in april, he was finally forced out by the military, who are looking at the protests in deciding to act.

he was replaced by military transition counsel. here you can see it being announced on sudanese tv. it was set—up to oversee the move to civilian rule. it was agreed a joint military—civilian council would oversee a three year transition period before elections. however demonstrators became suspicious the army wasn‘t serious about handing over power, and took to the streets. so they want that transition to be speeded up. where we are now though, it‘s difficult to say. the bbc‘s emmanuel igunza is in nairobi, he says all those arrangements have now been put in the bin. that looks very likely, because as it stands, things have really escalated from the events of monday, when those violent scenes we saw protesters being killed by the rapid support forces, who are being accused for carrying out this killings. we know now that the rapid support forces and other security agencies are moving further

into areas inside the capital city, because the protesters have continued their citizens. —— sit ins. we understand that from very early in the morning, they went out to the street and put up barricades, wanting to continue with the sit in, calling for the military counsel to leave part with civilian government, and it seems like they are back to square one, and it‘s not really clear yet if there will be resuming talks for a transitional government, which will then lead to a civilian rule anytime soon. and we have the opposition talking about total civil disobedience, in practical terms, what do they mean? well what we have seen over the past few months is that all they want is to see civilian, return to democracy sudan. they want a civilian authority there. they are very mistrustful of the intentions of the military counsel, they say that as it stands,

and with this calls for a nationalfor the elections in nine months times, the same system that president omar al—bashir put in place, the security operators, the political system is still in place, and they want this completely dismantled, so they say they will continue going out into the streets, they will continue disrupting public life until the military yields ground to a civilian authority. in this situation has really caused concern on the international scene, just right now, the united nations security council has stepped in a meeting to discuss sudan, and there‘s been words with condemnation against the military counsel for the events that led to the killings of at least 35 people, so quite a dramatic turn of events, there was much hope. today was supposed to be a celebration, the end of the ramadan fasting period, but people instead are morning some of

those who are dead, some of them are injured in hospital, and the protesters say they will not let up until the military counsel gives her power. stay with us on outside source — still to come. president trump is still threatening mexico with punishing tariffs if it doesn‘t act on immgration. we will go live to washington to find out where that process has got to. one of britain‘s most high—profile asset managers, neil woodford, has been forced to suspend trading in his largest fund, after investors asked to withdraw large sums of money. mr woodford is one of the country‘s most celebrated investors, controlling assets worth billions of pounds on behalf of individual savers, as well as, pension funds and local authorities. but a spell of poor performance has caused investors to lose faith. our economics correspondent, dharshini david, says today‘s decision, despite market fears, is a good and practical one. this could mean something like robbing banks, but in actual fact, this

is a safeguarding measure. what it means is that the front can actually shore up its finances, some of it's locked away in shares that are hard to sell, profitably, very quickly, so that you can try and make sure this money differ —— there is money there when it reopens the gates. in the meantime however, investors are still paying management fees. they want to be pleased. this has happened before, i should say, particularly of the referendum. we saw other investment funds being closed to safeguard their futures. they were fine in the long—term. but there could be some damage to the value of those funds, and of course mr woodford's reputation. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? president trump has promised a "phenomenal" trade deal with britain after it leaves the eu, but he‘s aslso stirred up controversry by saying the country‘s national health service must be part of the discussions. donald trump was asked about migration to the united states

from mexico in his news conference in london earlier today. here‘s what he said. mexico shouldn‘t allow millions of people to try and enter our country, and they could stop it very quickly. and i think they will, and if they want, we are going to put tariffs on them, and every month, those tariffs go from 5% to 10%, to 15%, to 20, and then to 25%. and what will happen then is all of those companies that have left our country and gone to mexico are going to be coming back to us, and that‘s ok. that‘s ok. on friday, president trump announced that he will impose tariffs on mexico if it doesn‘t curb migration over its border. mexico has said it is acting to reduce the amount of migrants entering the us, and its officials are currently in washington for meetings to discuss a way forward. the main meeting is on wednesday, when the countries‘ foreign ministers meet. that‘s when mike pompeo will meet the next convert minister.

in the meantime, mexico says it‘s confident that a deal can be done. if you ask me which is a percentage that we are expecting, or... expecting for tomorrow, as possibilities for negotiation, i think that we have 80% in favour of a negotiation, 20% that maybe is difficult to reach an agreement. tariffs on mexican imports to the us would have a huge impact on both countries‘ economies. this shows the value of mexican exports to the us last year. as you can see, it‘s measured in the hundreds of billions, with cars and car parts valued at $93 billion alone. which is why even some republican senators aren‘t keen. —— on the present‘s proposals. senator cory gardner says, "i think it‘s a bad idea, plain and simple." lets speak to our state

department correspondent, barbara plett usher. barbara, how representative is that quote that i‘ve just read of republican sentiments?” quote that i‘ve just read of republican sentiments? i think it's pretty widespread. i mean republicans have been quite relu cta nt to republicans have been quite reluctant to pick a conflict, or to pick a fight with mr trump, but this is the economic impact that they are worried about, especially on the agricultural and auto industries, and also, the tariffs would be attacks that the americans pay quite significant tax actually command that goes against the party‘s position, so all of these things are really worrying them. they do say that they are going to wait to find out how meetings go this week, but they are also talking about possible legislative action to block the tariffs, no one way to do that is to challenge mr trump‘s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border, if he‘s using that to justify actions like the tariffs, then congress could say, well we don‘t think that that‘s valid, and they could have a vote, a vote of disapproval, and they need enough

votes to override any veto that mr trump might give, and it may be that they would have that under these circumstances. another thing they could do would be to hold up approval of the new free—trade agreement with mexico, and canada. congress is needed, congress approval is needed for that, they could say no way, we are not looking at this while you start a trade war with mexico. and barbara, what is it that the mexicans could offer the trump administration to placate it? it's trump administration to placate it? it‘s a good question, the foreign minister said that they had a proposal they were going to present in the high—level meetings tomorrow on wednesday, he didn‘t say what was in it exactly, what he has said so far is that the mexicans have been taking action, that the trump administration has called for, such as clamping down more on the border with guatemala, trying to keep immigrants out of mexico, also arresting people who are transporting them through the country to the us border, also allowing some people to stay, who

have claimed asylum in the united states. but what the white house wa nts states. but what the white house wants is more of that type of action. it hasn‘t actually said how much more, has left the quite open, in fact, and the mexicans haven‘t said what they are going to propose. they have been quite clear that they are not going to except one thing that the us might ask for, which is to declare mexico as a country for migrants, so that people could have asylu m migrants, so that people could have asylum there. that something the mexicans don‘t want to do. they don‘t want to be saddled with this humanitarian problem. waiting barbara, thanks, it‘s good to talk to you. that‘s barbara camara state correspondent. president trump has claimed credit for his nation‘s healthy economy but there are signs global trade rows are hurting the us. america‘s central bank chief jay powell has promised to act to protect the us economy from the impact of trade wars — a clear hint the us federal reserve could cut interest rates soon. trump has raised tariffs on imports from china and as we‘ve just heard mr powell said that the fed would "act as appropriate to sustain the expansion." trump has raised tariffs on imports from china, and as you‘ve been hearing, he is threatening to do the same in mexico. here is what mr...

said,... i‘m going to get some help translating that, samira hussian is in new york. its politely good, but how would you expand the position? this is pretty significant, because what we've been hearing previously from the fed is that what we are going to be really patient, we are not going to touch rates unless we really have to. and remember, for the last while, what we've been talking about is raising interest rates, interest rates have been pretty historically low. of the la st been pretty historically low. of the last few years as the us economy has moved away from the financial crisis, and now has been in this expansion for almost a decade. we have been talking about raising interest rates, and well now what we are hearing from the federal reserve is that look, there are some possible headwinds that we could actually experience because of these trade words. not only with china, but in others a trade disagreement happening with mexico. the united

states's biggest trading partner. and as a result, the federal reserve is saying oh, well look, we are ready to respond, and if we want to keep this economy continuing on it sort of upward movement, if we need to cut interest rates, well we might just do that. but this is something that they are looking up. and just help us understand their analysis of why these trade wars could damage the us economy, or at least prevent its expansion? well then people are going to be a lot more insecure about making any moves, businesses are not going to spend as much, and i'iow are not going to spend as much, and now it's all up in the air in terms ofjust how businesses are going to be getting the raw materials that they need, to make what ever it is that they need to make. how is it going to get across the borders? how is he going to go to china? and most crucially, how much is any of this going to cost? and with so much business and certainty, businesses are not going to spend, and if businesses don't spend money, well that means the us economy isn't

going to be doing very much. just a quick word on those interest rates, does the federal reserve just change them whenever it fancies, or doesn‘t have to make a decision on particular dates? the federal reserve meets and when the whole committee meets, they make decisions oi'i committee meets, they make decisions on these interest rates, and these decisions are made in consultation with other fed shares from around the country, and they take in all kinds of information that they've gathered from these different, different regions of the united states, it's not something that they do willy—nilly, but it's also something that needs to be done that really needs to be clearly communicated to investors, to financial markets, to people around the world, because some of the people depend on what the federal reserve does with interest rates. we met thanks amir, i appreciate you taking us through that. in a few minutes we will be back with christian fraser in buckingham palace as we look at more elements of donald trump's state visit to the

uk. we will also turn to the 30th anniversary of the square massacre. hello there. coming up, all the latest on the monsoon in south asia, and also a rare sighting of snow just to the west of sydney australia. before that, let‘s take a look at the satellite picture for north america, and i just want to point out this shower cloud to the east of mexico. it‘s brought some flooding rains just recently, and it will continue to track up across the border into texas over the next 36 hours, and could be an issue. ahead of it, we could also see some sharp shards across north texas, oklahoma, and as far north as kansas. we‘ve got a weather front slicing across canada through the great lakes, but still in that southeast corner, it‘s all about the heat. not as extreme as it has been though, signs that the temperatures are starting to tumble a little.

this is the latest satellite picture than for south asia, you can see the pre—monsoon shower cloud starting to build, as what has been potentially one of the driest pre—monsoon spells for 65 years. so we are desperate for some rain now, we‘ve got that extreme record—breaking heat in the far north and west as well. but signs that the rain is gathering. now the yellow lines denote the tracks at the time of the month really across the monsoon will take more than west. the blue line is currently where the monsoon is sitting. so it‘s expected to arrive officially over the next couple of days, and that will certainly come as welcome news. heavy rain across northern and central china over the next few days. that rain is green to sweep its way steadily eastwards towards shanghai as well. a few sharp showers into hong kong and southeast china still, and plenty of widespread showers across malaysia and also into indonesia. but take a look at this. the blue ridge mountainsjust to the west of sydney had five cm of snow. they haven‘t seen that since 2015, there were even reports as far north as greenland as seeing a few flakes

of snow in the air. and that was because of a significant low—pressure which is now moving off to new zealand, and the strong southerly winds, we still keep the southerly winds, so temperatures on the chilly side here. at high pressure in control, a good deal of dry weather is expected, at the same time, that stormy weather is heading toward the north island of new zealand, with further wet weather to come as well. into the south island later. over to europe now, as we‘ve got rain pushing into western france, some of that torrential. we have seen significant thunderstorms so far this week in central europe. we‘ve also got some sharp thundry downpours continuing through the balkans, bulgaria, and into romania, but much of the mediterranean is fine, settled and sunny, and some of that heat is still pushing its way further north and east, nearly 30 degrees in moscow, 32 degrees expected in to berlin. more details on the uk‘s weather, where it‘s going to say pretty stormy and unsettled coming up shortly, but as we can see the best of the sunshine, madrid and rome. take care.

hello, i‘m ros atkins, this is outside source. on day two of president trump‘s state visit to britain, he‘s been talking politics. he says the relationship with britain is the ‘greatest alliance the world has ever known‘, but reveals he refused an invitation to meetjeremy corbyn. never met him, never spoke to him. he wanted to meet today or tomorrow, and i decided that i would not do that. he also said reports of protests against him were "fake news" — but there were thousands of people on the streets of london demonstrating against his visit. and 30 years on from the massacre in tiananmen square we‘ll be hearing about how china suppresses discussion of the event.

donald trump met with theresa may today. they won‘t meet again as leaders as theresa may will formally resign in a few days‘ time. and mr trump has been taking an interest on who will take over. here are three of the main contenders — former foreign secretary, boris johnson, the current foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, and the environment secretary michael gove. here‘s the president‘s assessment. so i know boris, i like him, i have liked him for a long time. he is... i think he would do a very good job. i notejeremy, ithink he would do a very good job. i don‘t know michael. but... would he do a good job? laughter donald trump has already praised borisjohnson as an excellent candidate in this interview with the sun. and he‘s had a 20 minute phone call with mrjohnson

since he‘s been in london. according to a source close to michael gove. “mr gove was asked last night by mr trump‘s team if he would be able to meet the president today.“ "he said yes." at last count, 11 people have entered the contest. that‘s the conservatives. next the opposition labour party whose leaderjeremy corbyn also came up at the press conference. i don‘t knowjeremy corbyn, never met him. never spoke to him. he wanted to meet today or tomorrow, and i decided that i would not do that. i think that he is, from where i come from, somewhat of a negative force. i think that people should look to do things correctly, as opposed to criticise. i really don‘t like critics as much as i like and respect people

that get things done. so i have decided not to meet. now that was a surprise. rememberjeremy corbyn refused to attend last night‘s state banquet. he said the uk shouldn‘t give a state visit to a president that backs climate change denial and uses racist rhetoric. jessia elgot at the guardian, thought the bbc can‘t confirm that. and then today, whether or not he had wanted a meeting with the president, he spoke at an anti—trump demo in central london. here‘s a clip from that. so i say to our visitors that have arrived this week, think on, please, about a world that is one of peace and disarmament, is one of recognising the values of all people, is a world that defeats racism, defeats misogyny,

defeats to religious hatreds that are being fuelled by the far right in politics, in britain, in europe and the united states. christian fraser. curious one, we are not sure if jeremy corbyn requested the meeting, but i‘m sure that they are aware of each other, and that there is a possibility down the track that jeremy corbyn could be prime minister and donald trump it‘s to be president. yes, i suppose and if a vote of no—confidence in the next leader of the conservative party, it is possible that we could have an election and possible thatjeremy corbyn could walk to the door of number ten and lots of people are saying, well how would that work? and could you salvage a relationship? because donald trump has very strong things to say in

america about socialists, they would not be in easy relationship, but probably be made more difficult after what was said today and in the press c0 nfe re nce , after what was said today and in the press conference, he was described asa press conference, he was described as a negative force so will be a difficult start to that relationship if indeed they were both in power at the same time. as for the other meetings today, you talked about who he has met, our political editor said they did not ask to see sajid javid or dominic or contenders that might get through to the later ballot and contest and knighted the health secretary matt hancock. so he was focused on the ones that he thinks are the top of the pile, borisjohnson who has been in the house of commons talking to the one nation conservatives and michael gove and jeremy hunter who has been seeing of the past two days as the

foreign secretary. another thing to ask, remember change uk? the independent group to give it its full title? a group of mps that left the conservatives and labour, we have the original 11, all smiles then, less so now. six of them have left including the leader and the most high of them. explaining why he has done the leader, and chuka umunna, arguably the most high profile of them. web here‘s a blog post from him — he says change uk shouldn‘t carry here‘s a blog post from him — he says change uk shouldn‘t carry on in its current form, and going forward he‘ll continue to battle brexit. christian fraser. this is reasonably farcical, isn‘t it? it has been a difficult time for change uk. they launched as a european campaign got under way, they could not get their name right,

their branding right and then the lead candidate in scotland then defected to the liberal democrats and they somewhat fell between the stools, really between labour and the liberal democrats, doing so well in the european election and so, there have been difficulties within there have been difficulties within the group because they come from labour and the conservatives they find it difficult to find a united message, a difference between those who are in the group and six of them walked away which leads to five and a former conservative mp still in charge, but she is deeply disappointed by developments and i guess there will be some hand rubbing between the labour party because there were fears of splitting the labour party some months ago and this could be a warning to those labour mps they we re warning to those labour mps they were thinking of walking away. it doesn‘t naturally follow that those of walked away from change uk will

suddenly enjoy the —— join the liberal democrat party but what we are told is that those that walk today will probably sit defendants in the house of commons. sank his door is always open, so far none of taking them up on that invitation. we also got some clarity from donald trump on on post—brexit trade talks between the uk and us. when a reporter asked if the national health service would be part of the talks, this was his response. look, i think everything with a trade deal is on the table. when you‘re dealing on trade, everything‘s on the table. so, nhs or anything else, or a lot more than that, but everything will be

on the table, absolutely. president trump pulled off the rare feat here of uniting labour and the conservatives saying the same thing. and here‘s the uk health secretary matt hancock — who also wants to replace theresa may. there is absolutely no way that the nhs will be on the table for trade talks with the united states, or with anywhere else for that matter — full stop. and if i‘m prime minister, the nhs will never be for sale. not on my watch. the nhs is one of the biggest issues in british politics. famously this pledge by brexiteers promised more money for the nhs. although we should note one of the leaders of the brexit campaign, boris johnson, will have to appear in court over this — he‘s being prosecuted by someone

who claims it was a misleading promise. beyond that, it‘s deeply engrained in british culture. the nhs constitution reads but free healthcare for all is expensive. this is the proportion of public spending that went towards the nhs 60 years ago — around 10%. now it‘s close to a third. and as spending has increased, so has the role of private companies. they received around £4 billion in 2009/10 — that‘s around $5.1 billion, to around £9 billion or $11.4 billion in 2016/2017. here‘s the bbc‘s

health editor hugh pym. the system, as it now is and i am talking about angling here. different arrangements and other parts of the uk, legislation in 2012 requires local health commissioners to put contracts out to tender under eu rules. so that allows them private providers, if they wish to pitch for these contracts. so about 7% of total spending on health by the nhs goes to these private providers. not a huge amount, but it does include some british private companies, some foreign ones including a some foreign ones, including the subsidiary of one us company. so it is possible as things currently stand. so when donald trump says he wants the nhs as part of broader trade talks,

what does he mean in practical terms? what he is hoping for, and the americans are hoping for, is for everything to be put back on the table. there is one other factor here, the head of nhs england, simon stevens, once this legislation to be changed so they would not have any more tendering in the nhs budget would stay within nhs organisations. now, if the government tries to go ahead with that sort of legislation and they are also involved in trade talks the us, the latter might have to take precedence. so the british government might be unable to legislate that way because the americans will insist on being able to pitch in for these contracts and future. it‘s really going to be up in the air when he gets to these talks. and what about those who say, actually this is a part of a broader american frustration because the nhs deals as a single entity and can drive a harder bargain than perhaps some other countries can do. all, there is frustration in the us. there is frustration in the us. there is a central organisation in england and scotland which decide what is good value for money for the nhs to pay in terms of former and medical devices and it

has been pretty successful in keeping prices down for pharmaceuticals. and in the end, the us pays more because it does not have a similar organisation, so one of the demands will be that you pay more for drugs in the uk as part of a trade deal, that would be extremely unpopular with the british government at the time and ministers have been making pretty clear that they do not want any of these aspects of the nhs on the table for any trade talks. the supermarket chain is reducing

packaging, encouraging customers to get drunk containers has begun a trial aimed at reducing packaging. it‘s encouraging customers to use their own containers to buy food such as pasta, rice and cereals. the experiment at a store in oxford will see hundreds of products taken out of their plastic wrapping, and shoppers will be able to borrow boxes to take their food home. it‘s the latest initiative by supermarkets to tackle the impact of waste on the environment. our business correspondent, emma simpson, reports. we have all become used to taking our own bags to do our own grocery shopping. but what about taking our own plastic containers, as well? in the corner of this supermarket, there is a refill station, where you can pack your own food, from lentils and pasta to frozen fruit. no box? then borrow one, or use an environmentally—friendly bag. if some of the things we are trailing here were rolled out across all of our shops and all customers switched to using reusable containers, it would save thousands of tonnes of plastic

and other types of packaging as well. but it also would completely change the way that we actually shop. is this commercially viable? that is what we need to find out through the test. buy their reusable bottles and you can do wine and beer, too, and lots of loose fruit and vegetables. plenty of independent shops offer food unwrapped, but no supermarket has tried anything as varied as this. it's nice being able to weigh the amount you want. it'sjust more flexible. and it looks better. yeah, i think it's high time there was less plastic and more... it's kind of going back to what you hear about prewar, really. i'm not sure that it's enough but it is a really good start. waitrose says this is a genuine test to find out if shoppers really have an appetite for change.

this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? president trump has promised a "phenomenal" trade deal with britain after it leaves the eu, but he‘s also stirred up controversry by saying the country‘s national health service must be part of the discussions. four people have been killed by a gunman in the city of darwin in australia. witnesses say the man walked into a motel and fired into several rooms. he was arrested about an hour later by armed police — who say they don‘t think the incident is terror—related. bbc world service. queensland in eastern australia has experienced significant snowfall for the first time since 2015. severe weather warnings have also been issued for a thousand kilometre stretch of coast which includes sydney. people have been urged to stay indoors to avoid heavy rain and gale—force winds. it‘s exactly 30 years since the chinese authorities began crushing protests in beijing‘s tiananmen square. out of the demonstrations

came this iconic image. it was taken onjune 5th 1989. tiananmen square is one of beijing‘s most famous landmarks and 30 years ago students went there to call for democracy. but martial law was declared — and troops entered the square. these pictures showed the square in the aftermath of the army crackdown — with fires burning around the square. no—one knows exactly how many people were killed. the chinese government says 200. but two years ago, these newly released documents from the then british ambassador to china put that figure as high as 10,000. the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, is now calling on china to

china called these comments "an affront to commemorations have been taking place around the world to mark the occasion. in france, activists set up a mock tank on the place de la republique — standing in front of it like the iconic photo. in taiwan, people marked the anniversary by visiting inflatables of the tank and man with shopping bags. injapan, a rally against the chinese government was held in tokyo, with protesters calling for a a democratic government. and in hong kong, huge crowds gathered in victoria park for a candlelit vigil — with organisers saying around 180,000 people were there. well let‘s stay in hong kong — this is what we have from stephen mcdonell. this day could hardly be more different in hong kong and in beijing. this day could hardly be more

different in hong kong and in beijing. on the mainland of china, the events ofjune 1989, essentially, falling into the category of official amnesia. in hong kong, we have tens of thousands of residents, who have turned out for this vigil. they are sitting peacefully, hearing speeches, hearing songs, and same to the government in beijing, that elsewhere, people may not remember, but here we will not forget that day in and around tiananmen square, where the people‘s liberation army came in and fired on its own people. hong kong people still remember what happened 30 years ago. and even though maybe we can do much to change the situation, it is a kind of gesture. i am very touched that so many people are here to share their same feeling, to memorise the same thing, together.

for those in the leadership of the chinese communist party, who want to see that moment in history, which has become known as the tenement square massacre, which has become known as the tiananmen square massacre, simply disappear. this vigil is nothing short of a complete challenge to that concept, and so given the recent deterioration the freedoms in mac enjoyed by the people of hong kong the freedoms in enjoyed by the people of hong kong on so many levels, their analysts now who are starting to ask how much longer will beijing put up with this level of dissent from the citizens of the city? you heard steve there saying how different things were in hong kong compared to beijing. in china, there‘s been no mention of the anniversary. discussion relating to the massacre is censored in china and posts relating to it are removed from the internet. so awareness, particularly among

younger adults, is minimal. bbc monitoring‘s china media analyst, kerry allen, explains what the chinese government is doing. today, it is mentioning that as a new logo for the 70th anniversary of the communist party that is coming in october this year. every decade, there‘ll be military parades in beijing which means if people are talking typing in any of these search words, are just reports on this and so any comments that activists are people trying to get m essa g es activists are people trying to get messages out about this because it is so heavily repressed means that these comments just will not be seen. but they will see is a huge government campaign seeing with the communist party is going to be doing come october. i would or how deals

of images, because the massacre is largely associated with that one image of the men standing in front ofa image of the men standing in front of a tank, has a magenta share that? particularly interesting is what people have done is they have tried to share screen grabs because government sentences what they do is if they identify certain keywords in the automatically remove these m essa g es the automatically remove these messages and this can be really innocuous, the 4th ofjune, six months, but this year what‘s happening is a lot of social media platforms have suddenly implemented maintenance upgrades and this is happening on social media and video platforms, so people can‘t actually comment they‘re being told that their comments need to wait in a queue and it is possible that there will be delays until the 6th ofjune before people can post anything. and

we have just been seeing a huge candlelit vigil that they cannot do in china, is it the same for people in hong kong discussing this much more freely than everyone else? yes, they can. what is really interesting if that lighting a candle, something thatis if that lighting a candle, something that is seemingly kind of innocuous, it is way of marking respect. the government knows that people of previous years, they have either uploaded pictures of candles are used the emoji, just a little picture you can use on social media platforms. on the anniversary, it just gets removed from social media, some people can even post a candle and people are aware that there are visuals because now they even chinese people are travelling more and more that they can learn about tiananmen square from overseas, but what is known about by chinese people, in hong kong, it is

censored. one of the people marking the anniversary is wang jer—shin. he helped lead the demonstrations 30 years ago. he‘s been speaking to the bbc‘sjon sudworth. one of the leaders of the protests, he has not been back to tiananmen square until now. 30 years ago there was a student movement here which shocked the world, but they must have forgotten. they have no way to find out what happened here because the information is censored. it is safer to do the interview in the car. gel for supporting the protest, still believes that china would be better off if they had succeeded. i china without

censorship and without a privileged class. a place for the poor can live freely without being driven out of the big cities. two miles from the square, he shows me the place he first saw the tanks arrive. the decision to speak out, he admits, is a risky one. but it‘s also proof that despite the efforts to force people to forget, some insist on remembering. hello there. there‘s going to be quite a lot of rain in places this week, thanks to a series of low pressure systems, which could graze the country, or even move right across the uk. there remains some uncertainty to proximity ofthese areas of the low—pressure system and the rainfall. but tuesday was a wet one, things to low—pressure, which brought rain too much

of the country. on wednesday it will be confined to scotland and northern ireland, so another wet day here particularly for northern ireland, with rainfall totals really mounting up. for england and wales, actually not a bad day on wednesday. there will be plenty of sunshine around, some showers though for western england in towards wales, some of these could be quite heavy. and temperatures and the sunshine reaching 20—21dc, but it will feel cooler for the northwest. across the southeast though, the cloud and a brakes of rain will start to build up into the evening, and that‘s because we will see this developing area of low—pressure over the near continent, which will move northwards. now the current thinking is, most of the heaviest of the rain, potentially could stay out at sea, but it‘s likely to graze the eastern side of the country through wednesday night, and into thursday. the rain eventually perking itself across the northern half of scotland, it‘s winter bring a pretty wet day here, with some heavy and persistent rain, and quite a cool strong north easterly wind. but elsewhere across the country, we should see some sunny spells, but also a scattering of showers, some of which could be

heavy and thundry. those temperatures 15—18d, a little below the seasonal average. as we had on through thursday night into friday, that low—pressure slowly moves away from the north, but we look at another one that‘s going to arrive across the south. now this one could mean business. it could have some fairly strong winds with it, and some areas could see a lot of very heavy rain. still uncertainty to it, but it does look at the moment, central, southern, and eastern areas could see some of the heaviest of the rain throughout friday, where as further north, throughout much of the day, we should see some sunny spells, and just a few showers around, and it‘s going to feel cool for all temperatures, generally around the mid—teens celsius. now through friday night into saturday, that area of low pressure will drift further northwards, taking the heavy rain into parts of scotland, so it could be a thoroughly wet day here. quite breezy too. further south, blustery winds blowing in from the northwest, so could feel quite cool. with sunny spells, but some of these showers could turn out to be quite heavy, perhaps again, even thundry. those temperatures ranging from around 14—17 or 18 celsius. so that‘s how saturday‘s looking. onto sunday, that area

of low—pressure tends to drive northwards. we do see another one perhaps arriving into... but high pressure starts to build to the east, and it looks like pressure will start to build out to the atlantic as well. and so we are in between weather systems, we think, on sunday, a few showers or outbreaks of rain across the far north of scotland, with that area of low—pressure there. but elsewhere, later winds, some good spells of sunshine, but again a few showers could develop as those temperatures reach highs of 17—18d, pretty much across the board. but there will be a few cooler spots as well. so for this upcoming week, it will be unsettled. low—pressure bringing in some really wet weather to some areas, and it‘s going to feel rather cool for the time of year. now into next week, we‘ve got a couple of scenarios going on. scenario one, most computer models are going with us, we think that the high—pressure across the atlantic i showed you will build in across the uk, and kill off all the showers, so we should see drier and brighter conditions. so it might feel warmer. however, there is a possibility of another scenario that high—pressure might not arrive

across the uk, and allow lower pressure to continue to dominate, bringing further rain or showers, some of which could be heavy and thundery. so you have to stay tuned for the forecast, we will update you again, same time, same place, tomorrow.

this programme contains scenes of repetitive flashing images. tonight at 10: president trump praises the relationship between america and the uk, saying it‘s the "greatest alliance the world has ever known." speaking after talks with theresa may at downing street, he said a "phenomenal" post brexit trade deal and might include the national health service. i think everything with the trade deal is on the table. when you‘re dealing in trade, everything‘s on the table. so nhs or anything else, or a lot more than that. the point about making trade deals is, of course, that both sides negotiate and come to an agreement about what should or should not be in that trade deal. as thousands demonstrated against the president, mr trump revealed he‘d refused to meetjeremy corbyn. but the labour leader, addressing the crowds, said he‘s willing to talk to anyone.