welcome to bbc news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: cheering. lady gaga leads crowds in new york to mark 50 years since the stonewall riots helped spark the global fight for lgbt rights. can the us and china end their bitter trade war? we'll be live in osaka as donald trump and xijinping meet at the 620 summit. applause. it's taken 20 years of talks, but the eu and a group of south american countries finally clinch an historic free trade deal. and nearly 50 years since the apollo 11 moon landing — nasa opens up the original

mission control room to the public. hello and welcome. there's anticipation building as president trump and china's xijinping are due to meet in just over an hour's time — at the 620 summit injapan. the two countries are, of course, currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. all eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock. ourjapan correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes is at the summit in osaka. he is watching all of the happenings for us. rupert, can you give us an idea of how crucial this meeting will be? yes, it is the meeting that has overshadowed the whole of this 620 has overshadowed the whole of this g20 summit, yesterday and today. this meeting will happen in about one and a half hours time. the

reason everybody is watching this meeting so closely is because it is the first time president trump and president xijinping been the first time president trump and president xi jinping been able to sit down face—to—face since the trade war between the two countries has got quite bad. and in the run—up to today's meeting, president trump been threatening to further escalate the trade war with more tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chinese exports to the united states. so there is deep concern that the trade war could get worse and that would affect the whole of the global economy. so there is, i think, everybody here, all the world leaders, are keen to see that these two leaders can at least draw some sort of truce not to let the trade will get worse. and we saw president trump this morning in a meeting with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman at least sounding very upbeat about today's meeting, saying he had a very good relationship with residency, a very good friendship, and the relationship between the us and

china is very good. some people may disagree with that. it certainly was an upbeat message ahead of the meeting. rupert, separately to that, donald trump has tweeted about another issue. it seems like he has offered an invitation to the north korean leaderfor a offered an invitation to the north korean leader for a meeting. offered an invitation to the north korean leaderfor a meeting. can you explain a bit about that? yes, another surprise from president trump this morning. he tweeted that he is willing, he is going to leave here this afternoon and go to south korea to have a meeting with the south korean president and he has tweeted that while he is in south korea he is willing to go to the dmz, the border between north and south korea, the demilitarised zone, and he is willing to meet with north korean leader kim jong—un and he is willing to meet with north korean leader kimjong—un if he is willing to come there to meet with him. we will be there and they put out a feeler because they don't know where he is right now, he may not be in north korea, but a set of

chairman kim would want to meet i'll be at the border. certainly we seem to get along very well. they can tell you. we seem to get along... for the stupid people who say he gets along, it is good to get along. now, this it was not expected in the official planning of his trip to south korea —— this was not. he medically there were no plans to meet with the president of north korea. this seems to have come from president trump himself. we don't know if this will take place and if it does we don't know what is on the agenda and what can be achieved. it certainly has set the twitter universe tweeting this morning after president trump made that announcement. i am sure there are a lot of raised eyebrows. there are other major issues being discussed at the g20, apart from trade issues between china and the us. yes, there are. there is supposed to be a joint communique between all leaders this afternoon which lays out what they have achieved and what their commitments. japan is chairing this

meeting, remondis abe had talked about wanting to have new commitments on climate change, he brought up the issue of plastics getting into the wilds oceans and how to do without, and he wants a recommitment by the g20 countries to the idea of free trade, it flies in the idea of free trade, it flies in the face of what is going on between china and the us, certainly that is something japan, as the host, want to get into that communique. we'll have to see what comes out. because on the issue of climate change, in particular, the us a very different view from japan and other g20 countries and france, we know that the french president emmanuel macron is pushing particularly for a strong recommitment by the g20 to the goals of the paris claim in accord from backin of the paris claim in accord from back in 2015. lots of very important issues being discussed at the g20. thank you for keeping across it. that is rupert wingfield hayes in 0saka for us. for more on the g20 take a look at our website. there you'll find all the latest updates from the summit

as well as helpful explainers on who is attending the summit and what they are due to speak about. that's all at bbc.com/news — or download the bbc news app. the eu and a group of south american nations, known as mercosur, have secured a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. the eu says the agreement with argentina, brazil, paraguay and uruguay will create a market for goods and services covering almost 800 million people and produce more than $100 billion in trade between the two blocs. 0ur south america business correspondent daniel gallas has more. it has been 20 years in the making and now it has finally been announced. europe and south america have closed one of the largest free trade deal is in the world, tariffs are being scrapped to ease trade in are being scrapped to ease trade in a combined market of over 800 million consumers. for years there was distrust from both sides,

european farmers campaign for ta riffs european farmers campaign for tariffs and subsidies in order to block cheaper products from the south. manufacturers in countries like argentina and brazil also relied on trade barriers to limit competition, but negotiators say a deal has been reached in which all can benefit. in terms of tariff saving is also unprecedented. when fully in operation it will save, from the european side, companies up to four billion in duties at the border, that is four times as much as we japan. protectionism is on the rise globally, with brexit and the growing trade war between china and the united states, politicians and south america and europe working to stress that the deal is also a message to world leaders who say protectionism is the way to save jobs. this is an historical moment. historical not only for the moment we are living in the world in which

we are living in the world in which we have to show commitment to integration, multilateralism, opening of the markets, free trade, trade routes. it took 20 years to reach this file. now there will be testy m o nths reach this file. now there will be testy months ahead as this vote is put to parliament in member states. daniel gallas, bbc news, sao paolo. a white supremacist in the us has been sentenced to life in prison — for driving his car into a crowd of people two years ago. james fields targeted anti—racism protestors who were demonstrating at a white nationalist rally in charlottesville, virginia. he killed one person and injured more than two dozen others in the attack. the case stirred racial tensions around the us and the president donald trump was criticized for his response. barbara plett usher reports. james fields carried out the attack during a rally of white nationalists protesting plans to remove the statue of a confederate general, robert e lee. using his car as a weapon, he killed one of the counter—protesters,

heather heyer, and injured others. as a result of this act of domestic terrorism that was charged as 29 hate crimes, a united states district judge this afternoon determined that mr fields deserved to spend the rest of his life in federal prison and imposed that sentence. he avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to 29 counts of hate crime and apologised for the hurt and loss he'd caused. miss heyer‘s parents were present at the sentencing. they said they forgave mr fields but her mother susan said his case sent a strong message that there were consequences for hate crimes. the last time i saw my daughter was to identify her body and to sign the papers for her to be cremated. and i held her bruised hand and bruised arm and i said i'm gonna make this count for you.

and that's what i've done. and i will continue to do. you don't get to knock my child down and silence that voice without 500 more raising up. the rally was a critical moment in the rise of the far right movement. since then public gatherings of white supremacists have drawn smaller crowds. president trump was harshly criticised by his ambivalent response of the dispute between the neo—nazis and the protesters, saying "there were fine people on both sides". barbara plett usher, bbc news, washington. france has recorded its highest temperature — of 45.9 degrees celsius — as much of europe continues to swelter in a heatwave which has claimed several lives. the french health minister has warned that everyone is at risk from the heat and similar warnings have been made by officials in italy and spain. 0ur paris correspondent, lucy williamson, has been watching the mercury rise. all this week, france has edged towards record—breaking temperatures, with some areas given

unprecedented red alerts. carpentras, near avignon, was the first to feel it — 44.3 degrees. followed quickly by an even higher peak, almost 46 degrees, near montpellier — the hottest france has ever been. translation: ijust stay at home with the fan on and the windows closed. translation: there are fewer people — at 11 in the morning there is nobody about. the last time france broke temperature records, more than a decade ago, it was august. what makes this heatwave unusual is notjust the high temperatures, it's how early it's come. the government has published a video showing people how to keep cool and asked for safety announcements on trains in both french and english. but these few days of hot weather aren't expected to spark the kind of health crisis france

has seen in the past. and some accuse the government of acting like a nanny state. the warning from across the border, though — heat poses more than one kind of risk. forest fires that began in spain on wednesday were still outpacing emergency crews today. all this sparked by farm waste left to heat in the scorching sun — "carelessness turned to catastrophe," in the words of one official. dozens of wildfires have now appeared in the hottest parts of france. in paris, the health minister expressed frustration at those ignoring government advice. this heatwave testing the state for its vigilance, its citizens for their famed sangfroid. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: italian demolition experts blow up what remains

of the morandi bridge in genoa — work is due to start on a new crossing next year. china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations. a huge firework display was held in the former colony. the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell of another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space.

challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 34 years. and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the us and china seek an end to their bitter trade war — as donald trump and xijinping meet at the g20 summit in osaka. after two decades of negotiations, the eu and several south american countries clinch a huge free trade deal — covering 800 million people. a rally is taking place in new york to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the lgbt movement. thousands of activists from around the world have gathered in greenwich village. the rally is in a park near the stonewall inn, the gay bar where exactly 50 years ago patrons rose up against police

harrassement, giving birth to a national and global movement in support of equal rights. our lgbt correspodent, ben hunte, is there. it was right here on christopher street 50 years ago where many people believe that the modern lgbt rights movement was born. you will see the gay bar behind me, the stonewall inn, that was where there was a police raid, and that led to nights of very violent protests. a year later, america had its first gay pride parade. as you will see the streets are beginning to fill up, rainbows are everywhere throughout new york city, and we are at a rally today, so between six o'clock and nine o'clock in new york there is a rally taking place, kicking off pride weekend. many young people don't need the same facilities as stonewall, because they are accepted as lgbt people but these places are a co nsta nt people but these places are a constant reminder of the struggles that did take place 50 years ago to get to where we are today.

the families of the eight people killed in the london bridge attack have reacted angrily after a coroner failed to apportion blame to police and the security services for not preventing it from happening. they victims died in a matter of minutes — on the third ofjune two years ago — when three men drove a van into pedestrians and then stabbed people in nearby borough market. daniel sandford reports. it was a happy summer night on london bridge that turned to horror in an instant. christine delcros and herfiance, xavier thomas, were enjoying a romantic visit from paris when a white van did a u—turn and drove deliberately and at speed onto the wide, unprotected pavement. christine is still recovering from serious injuries, but xavier was knocked off the bridge and did not survive.

canadian tourist chrissy archibald was also killed. today, as he ended the london bridge inquest, the chief coroner said that the system for assessing the bridge after the manchester arena terror attack proved wanting. the inquest heard that one of the killers, khuram butt, had been identified by mi5 two years earlier as someone who might attack the uk. even his own brother—in—law had warned counter—terrorism police about him and there had been bureaucratic errors. but the coroner was not convinced that mi5 had missed a chance to prevent the attack. the father of alexandre pigeard and other bereaved families disagree. we are now aware that there were a lot of missed opportunities

to neutralise at least one of the attackers, who was known as very dangerous. so i think this attack could have been preventable. he then embraced the off duty nurse, helen kennett, who tried to save his son and was herself stabbed in the neck. and i want to thank so much helen for her courage. police conceded they had made some errors with khuram butt. we know certain things could have been done differently. but after careful consideration the chief coroner has found that the pre—attack investigation was, nonetheless, thorough and rigorous. the coroner also criticised khuram butt‘s family, saying:

that's mad. that is terrorists. after ploughing through pedestrians on the bridge, the van crashed and the killers got out. each carrying a weapon for the next stage of the attack. with 12 inch knives strapped to their wrists, moving swiftly and as a pack, the man cornered and then attacked their victims — two here at the top of the stairs, two further down the stairs, and a fifth at the end of the courtyard near the entrance to the boro bistro. in less than a minute they had fatally injured five of their victims just in this small area. on a night of heroes, james mcmullan died trying to help sara zelenak. kirsty boden died trying to save alexandre pigeard. passers—by and police officers desperately tried to keep sebastian belanger alive, while the attackers moved on, still knifing anyone they came across. off duty pc charlie guenigault

took them on unarmed, earning himself the george medal. i remember them thrusting towards me with their knives, getting out of the way, obviously this happened within seconds, and getting stabbed in the back. i've dropped to the floor, dropped straight onto my bum, he stands above me and he stabs me three times in the head. the last person the men killed was ignacio echeverria, stabbed outside the restaurant two and a half minutes after the attack started. just inside the restaurant was junior doctorjohnny moses. he told me a man at the door was trying to stop him leaving for his own safety. i said, "you have to let me out, i'm a doctor, i can't watch them die, i can't watch them bleed to death." and we were having this argument, it was getting very frustrated. i understood him, but i just had to get out. i said, "let me out and then you can close the door and lock it afterwards."

working with police officers, he was able to save marie bondeville, who was stabbed 18 times. the killers rampaged through borough market through another 7 minutes, still attacking people, but failing to kill any more. they were in the process of stabbing antonio filis when armed officers arrived and shot them dead. demolition teams have blown up what remains of a motorway bridge in the italian city of genoa, nearly a year after it partially collapsed, killing 43 people. thousands of nearby residents were evacuated from their homes before the explosive tear down. james reynolds reports. at nine o'clock this morning, genoa got ready to bring down the remains of the morandi bridge. there was a short delay because of reports that a man was found refusing to leave his home near the structure. officials sorted it out, water cannon was switched on ready to catch the dust, and then demolition experts pressed the button.

explosion. it was all over in just a few seconds. explosion. the pile of dust covered the entire area. the operation was a success. translation: at 9:37 the bridge came down, procedures have been strictly followed, and plans are on track. man shouting. italy is still recovering from the partial collapse of the bridge last summer. the structure fell when decaying cables, encased in concrete, snapped. an investigation in who is to blame has yet to reach its conclusions. the country has already begun work on a replacement bridge designed by the country's most famous architect, renzo piano. this is what it will look like.

the government says the new structure is expected to be ready by next year. dozens of police officers were waiting at the site of a boat landing at lampedusa. 40 applicants have been at sea for two weeks after being rescued from waters off libya. to space now and the control room of the first moon landing, the apollo 11 mission, which left earth in 19 69. for the last three years the us space agency, nasa, has been restoring the mission hq in houston, texas, ahead of the flight‘s fiftieth anniversary next month. gareth barlow reports(tx

from this control room in houston, this became possible on the moon. it's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind. the first lunarlanding on giant leap for mankind. the first lunar landing on july giant leap for mankind. the first lunar landing onjuly 20,1969. giant leap for mankind. the first lunar landing onjuly 20, 1969. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first man on the moon, nasa has spent $5 million to restore the mission hq to its original condition, much to the delight of the apollo 11 flight. it was dazzling, overwhelmed. you couldn't believe this. all of a sudden you we re believe this. all of a sudden you were 50 years younger and you wanted to work in that. i wanted to walk back into that room and work. three, two, one, lift off. while working in the former control room won't be

possible, visitors will be able to step back in time and its hopes the experience will encourage the next era of space exploration. many have left us and for the apollo generation, our time is rapidly coming to an end. i pray that the room you will be going into will continue to inspire and drive the current future teams to complete the work that we began. as nasa prepares to send people back to the moon and also to mars, the memories of the past will help the next giant leap in the future. there's been tears and celebrations in paris at the women's football world cup, as the defending champions the usa beat the hosts france 2—i. megan rapinoe scored a goal in each half for the us. wendie renard's late header brought hope for france, but it did not manage to turn things around.the usa will now face england in the semi—finals on tuesday.

friday was a hot one in the west of the uk, saturday is going to be hotter across eastern parts of the country. still nowhere near as hot as france — here is a reminder of that record—breaking temperature set on friday in southern france, nearly 46 celsius, smashing the previous record set in august 2003 of 44.1. across europe, still very hot, you can see these deep red colours, temperatures into the 30s across much of the continent, the heat is actually going to be shifting eastwards over the next few days, and then it will start to turn cooler.

back to the uk, in england on saturday, temperatures could get up to 34 celsius, that is just in one or two spots, for most of us it won't be quite so hot but it will feel very muggy already from the morning onwards, first thing in the morning on saturday in the south, temperatures could be around 16—17, a little fresher in the north—east of england. on saturday there will be a lot more cloud across western parts of the uk, so here it won't be quite so hot, the heat is going to ease, in fact showers and thunderstorms are possible in northern ireland and scotland, but across england, the heat is going to intensify. look at these deep red colours — temperatures in excess of 30 degrees are expected in yorkshire and possibly 34 in the south—east of the country. but in western scotland, a significant drop. showers and thunderstorms across parts of scotland may rumble through during the course of saturday evening, whereas across many parts of england it will be a balmy, if not hot, hot end of the day. if you don't like the heat, here is the good news: sunday is going to be much, much fresher, a cool front is set to sweep across the country, it will cut off that hot wind out of france and instead we will see a westerly wind blowing, so we can see yellow colours here indicating the cool air and that heatwave transfers

into more central and eastern parts of eastern germany and poland, where temperatures could approach 40 celsius. here is sunday's weather forecast. you can see the wind blowing no longer out of the south, it is blowing out of the atlantic, a fresh breeze around western coasts, showers as well, still pretty warm in the south, temperatures around 25 celsius, low 20s across yorkshire, but in stornaway a mere 15 degrees — an atlantic breeze and some showers. the fine summer weather is expected to continue into monday and tuesday, no extremes but very pleasant indeed.

this is bbc news. the headlines: presidents trump and xi are preparing for talks at the g20 sumit injapan. the us and chinese leaders are meeting after trade negotiations stalled last month. mr trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on chinese imports. mr xi has warned this could destroy global trade. the european union has agreed a huge free trade deal with south america's biggest commercial bloc after two decades of talks. the eu's agreement with argentina, brazil, paraguay and uruguay creates a market for goods and services covering almost 800 million people. an american white supremacist has been jailed for life without parole for driving into a crowd of anti—racism protesters in 2017 — killing a woman and injuring dozens of others. james fields ploughed his car into demonstrators in the city