over recent hours and that's been bringing fresher air with it so today's top temperature will be around 25 degrees. that's not cold, still warmer than normal for the time of year but not as hot as yesterday and yesterday ended in a bit of a bang as well. some lively thunderstorms, particularly focusing in on parts of scotland brought also some localised flooding issues. it wasn't the first time this month that edinburgh was in the firing line for some pretty nasty weather. looking at the weather picture, over recent hours, you can see those storms have been working out into the north sea. the weather has been calming down but if you're heading outside over the next few hours, there could still be a bit of rain to come especially across western areas of scotland, the highlands and the western isles but it's a largely dry picture and although it was a very warm start to the night, if you are heading outside over the next few hours, these are the kinds of temperatures you are more likely to encounter, only around 15, 16 degrees celsius. sunday is going to be a much fresher kind of day with plenty of sunshine around. there will be some thick cloud in the north—west and that will be bringing outbreaks of rain so some wet weather here and along with that, the cool winds coming

in from the sea will keep temperatures pretty low, really, from the time of year across the very far north of scotland and that's why there are a few showers for northern ireland, a few for the north—west of both england and wales, the driest weather across southern and eastern areas. for many of us, temperatures are actually pretty good for the time of year. 20 in aberdeen, quite warm. 2a, 25 for south—east england but 1a for shetland and 12 in lerwick, that's not particularly special for the time of year. another hot day coming up then for central europe on sunday as well. the heatwave is beginning to come to an end as cooler atlantic air begin to flow in and that will tend to knock the temperatures down. for much of the week ahead, our weather is going to take a north—westerly pattern and bring further showers in across the north—westerly wind for the uk, variable cloud elsewhere with some spells of sunshine coming and going. temperatures alright for the time of year again with highs of around 18 in newcastle, 22 in london but again, across the far north of scotland, it'll be a little bit disappointing for the time of year. we are looking deeper into the week ahead, it's a largely dry week, actually. sunny spells and temperatures generally into the high teens and low 20s for scotland and northern ireland and into the low—to—mid 20s for england and wales. that's your weather.

this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump has arrived in the south korean capital, seoul for talks with president moonjae—in. there is no clear indication whether the leader will take up his last minute of of a meeting. a short time ago mrtrump met minute of of a meeting. a short time ago mr trump met the south korean

president. four weeks after the brutal crackdown in sudan — hundreds of activists have returned to the streets of the capital — demanding civilian rule. there are calls for a much bigger demonstration on sunday. about 130 people have been killed since the crackdown started, according to doctors close to the protest movement. thousands of people have marched through the georgian capital, tbilisi, for the tenth day running in the latest wave of anti—russian protests. they demanded the resignation of the georgian interior minister — they blame him for police violence against a crowd that tried to storm parliament earlier this month. now on bbc news, our world: denmark's efforts to better integrate its migrant population are attracting controversy at home, and abroad, with the government designating 29 housing areas as "migrant ghettos". denmark — a country consistently ranked as one of the happiest in the world.

but recent controversy over immigration, and a newly introduced ghetto plan, threatens to damage its happy image. we would say that this is actually institutionalised racism. i have come to denmark as they face a general election... bbc, is danish immigration policy racist? ..to find out what impact these new laws are having... unless you're white, you're not danish. ..and what the future looks like for denmark's 500,000 immigrants. i think we would actually like to help these children. we have a real problem and we don't want to have those problems like you see around the world.

i've come to the city hall square in copenhagen. it's the celebration of iftar, the communal breaking of fast at the end of ramadan. it's supposed to be a low—key peaceful event. it's the city square and it is completely surrounded by the police. and i'm not sure if their presence at this scale is comforting or worrying. the police are here because alongside the eid celebration is one of denmark's far right politicians — rasmus paludan. we think that since there are 51 muslim countries in the world, and only one danish country, which is denmark, it is only right that danes and should remain in denmark and the muslims should go back to one of the 51 muslim countries. we don't want it in denmark at all, we want it in the countries that the great president trump has spoken about. iraq, iran, syria, libya...

i've been here every year and it's the first time in many years that i have seen this many cops. but he's turned it into a media circus with his hate speech. jirwan sarwar is a dane of pakistani descent. he's seen a recent rise in intolerance. what do you think he's is doing? well, he's speaking to the worst in all of the people. but the hate speech that he's doing, if you would take out the muslim and put injew, then you would have a second world war rhetoric. tonight, rasmus paludan's supporters are desecrating the koran — and the plan is to burn it. recent changes to danish blasphemy law means free speech is protected, no matter how inflammatory it is. last year this event had a handful of police, cops, i heard, but because of you, this year, look around, there is police everywhere, there press everywhere. how does it make you feel?

freedom of speech only really matters if you do something that really, really offends other people. because if you only state something that everybody agrees with, then freedom of speech doesn't matter, because nobody will react hostile towards you if you only say something they agree with. what are you thinking? well, he's got a lot of insane followers, and most of them have a small scent of alcohol in their breath, and now he's moved over there so he that can burn the koran. singing. but the real aim of paludan's stunt is to put his political party on the map at a crucial moment in danish politics. i would say nine out of ten werejust like... we were in shock, but frankly i don't care because i have my

religion in my heart and i have my holy koran in my home, elevated. and as long as he's not touching that, he's not my problem. but he might be my problem on wednesday. wednesday is election day. denmark will choose a government and give its verdict on the country's controversial ghetto plan. last year the government designated 29 inner—city areas as ghettos. a ghetto was where more than half of an area's population is from an immigrant background. and also where crime and unemployment are higher than average. and levels of education and income are below average. the ghetto plan brought in new laws for these areas. parents will be forced to send their children to danish nursery schools from the age of one.

and police can impose higher penalties for crimes committed in these areas. the policy was announced by the right and centre—right coalition prime minister, lars rasmussen. i have come to one of copenhagen's best—known ghettos — mjoelnerparken. 80% of the people who live here are immigrants or their descendants. i'm in one of one of the poorest and biggest ghettos in copenhagen and this is their community centre where the community have come together to ask questions about the ghetto plan from the politicians. crime and unemployment are higher than the national average here.

today's election candidates all say they want to improve things. sine heltberg is standing for denmark's opposition centre—left social democrat party. traditionally supportive of underprivileged communities and architects of the country's generous welfare system, but controversially sine‘s party has decided to defend the government's tough new immigration policies. part of the ghetto plan is to remove some residents and to create a more mixed community. she went to a school where a lot of her classmates were from a ghetto and her whole argument is that kids should not be brought up in a place where the majority of adults around them are a unemployed.

sine‘s words are not going down well. residents resent their neighbourhood being called a ghetto.

some of the residents are leaving, not best pleased by what they've heard. what was it that made you think that they were being racist?

how were these points that you made received today, because it didn't seem like... no, i wasn't the popular one today, not at all. but i think it's very important that i stand up for what my party believes in and i hope people respect that. when you were doing some of your comments, a whole bunch of people left the room, they accused the ghetto plan of being racist, of being anti—immigrant, anti—muslim. i think the opposite. i think we would actually like to help these children. we have a real problem and we don't want to have those big ghettos like you see around the world, we don't want to have them in denmark, we would like to live together. but whatever the intention, critics of the ghetto plan point to the small print, which they say makes it inherently divisive. we have a situation where the law says it is not such a good thing to be unemployed or to be a poor

or have low degree of education, but it's a really bad thing to be of non—western origin. so basically, if there is a high rate of crime, unemployment, lower rate of education and income, but you're not 50% or more immigrants, the area will not be considered a ghetto? exactly. i mean, what you're saying sounds to me like racism within the danish system. we would say that this is actually institutionalised racism. back in mjoelnerparken, two blocks have been reserved for new residents, as part of the ghetto plan's programme of changing the area's social profile. they are currently social housing plans. asma has brought up herfamily here.

i have to lie here for ten hours every night to get my blood cleaned. i used to be able to survive just doing this, but now i have to go to the hospital. asma has to go to a local hospital for her dialysis twice a week. she and her husband asif have been given a year to move out from their home. we've lived here 28 years. 28 years you've lived here! yeah, all my three girls were raised here, and the last one's getting married next month, so. congratulations. thank you. so,you know, they're like... so this place means more to you than just a home? it's like your... ..family home, you know. but when they move us out they're saying, you can't even stay in this area. you've got to go further afield, because we don't want too many foreigners in one area. that's why we are moving you out on the first place, so all the foreigners are scattered. why would it be so bad for you to move out, further away from this neighbourhood ? for me, there's lots of reasons. number one, my hospital;s five minutes away. the only hospital that

does dialysis here. the other one is a0 minutes away. number two, my daughter has just purchased a house, not an apartment, she has bought an apartment, three minutes' walk away from here so she'd be close. number three, he works here. asif works as the taxi driver and his office is nearby. we cannot neglect that there are no problems, there are problems. there are people who have the problems, people who never want a job, they never ever got a job. if they are coming from the war zones, they are not qualified, they did not even learn the danish, but it don't mean that if they are living in a place then we just throw them out. how do you think the society sees you? how do you think the society categorises you? i think the society sees us as foreigners.

and they always will, because we're not white. it doesn't matter what you do. it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter how perfectly well you speak danish, unless you're white, you're not danish. election day is not far away. i'm meeting sine, the social democrat party candidate from the community meeting. as you can see, it's lovely houses we have here, but there's like four blocks and there's two blocks in the middle that are going to be sold because we want to have them mixed. i think of course there are some people living here who are sick and it will be hard for them to have to move. a lot of the residents that we met the other day, they were saying that no—one asked them. yes.

what seemed to really anger them, concerned and worried them, they said the decision has been made about us, our lives, our homes, our communities, and we weren't involved in it. yeah, of course they're right. when you make a new law you hear everybody, but they will not have the... i mean, you will still make the law even though they do not like it. so in that part they were totally right. how are the elections going? a crazy time right now in danish politics. i think my party, the social democrats, are doing fine. because, actually, we're taking the concerns people have, also with immigration, seriously. and, i mean, if you look out in europe you can see right—wing parties moving forward and we have seen that in denmark as well and we would not like to have that. so we take people's concerns seriously. i want to know what sine thinks about the prospects of the far right in the forthcoming elections. people like rasmus paludan.

how realistic is it that he would get elected, though? he's 50—50, i will say. and what does that say about denmark as a society for someone like him to have a 50—50 chance of getting elected? i think it's a very bad situation for denmark and very shameful as well. freedom of speech only really matters if you do something that really, really offends people. freedom of speech only really matters if you do something that really, really offends people. why would you do it to provoke them so much... you have to give me time to answer, 0k. i didn't know for certain... the video of me talking to rasmus paludan has now become a part of his campaign. he's uploaded it on youtube and it's been snowballing and it's had

thousands of views. he's trying to tap into the global alt—right or populist right movement and he's clearly succeeding. one of the comments says "i hope this guy gets the support he deserves in denmark. that's a hero right there." and he needs only 2% of the people's votes to get into the parliament. rasmus paludan has run a campaign of provocative and offensive stunts. this is another copenhagen ghetto, norrebro. it has a significant immigrant and muslim population. seven weeks before the election, rasmus paludan has come — protected by police — to perform his koran throwing stunt. two men run in trying to take the koran from him.

he is taken to safety in a police van and for two days police struggle with rioters incensed by paludan's actions. i have come to norrebro to meet the two young men who rushed to stop paludan's koran stunt. one was arrested and awaits charges while the other evaded capture. they've asked us to hide their identities. you weren't born in denmark. you came to denmark when you were very, very young. how danish do you think the government and the white danes, the majority of them, see you?

how does that make you feel? if you could go back in time would you do this again?

it's finally polling day. the centre—right and right—wing coalition government who brought in the ghetto plan is facing the electorate. two new far right parties, including rasmus paludan's are attempting to get into parliament for the first time. and the social democratic party out of government for four years, are hoping that supporting the ghetto plan will help them win back power. it is approaching midnight. and i've come to the parliament

building where the candidates are waiting for their results. already something seems to be happening. this area has been allocated to rasmus paludan's party and this is actually where he's been waiting. why are we not allowed to go inside? because they don't want visitors? why is that, do you know? don't you. you don't know. 0k. it's almost midnight and 98% of the votes have been counted. rasmus paludan has received only 1.8% of the votes. there is no way he's now going to get into the parliament suddenly we spot him. but he's less talkative than he was in the city square. rasmus, how does it feel to be rejected ? the winners of the night

of the social democrats. sine‘s party leader, mette frederiksen, will almost certainly become the new prime minister. it's a new political programme for the country — with a key ingredient from before. sine is celebrating the victory of her party. congratulations. thank you. what do you think this means? well, i hope for a new direction in denmark, of course. and in terms of integration, the ghetto plan? yeah. what she said that right now, that she's standing on that same perspective as she has done all the way through. which is? the plan will be continued. the cross—party support for the ghetto plan means it's unlikely to be stopped anytime soon.

bbc, is danish immigration policy racist? no, of course not. denmark's elections, saw support for populist parties fall and the far right fail to get into parliament. but around 80% of voters chose parties which support the ghetto plan. for many of the country's immigrants concerns about their place in denmark continue to grow. hello again. yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far. temperatures reached 3a degrees celsius at both northolt and also heathrow in west london but a cold front has been working eastwards

over recent hours and that's been bringing fresher air with it so today's top temperature will be around 25 degrees. that's not cold, still warmer than normal for the time of year but not as hot as yesterday and yesterday ended in a bit of a bang as well. some lively thunderstorms, particularly focusing in on parts of scotland brought also some localised flooding issues. it wasn't the first time this month that edinburgh was in the firing line for some pretty nasty weather. looking at the weather picture, over recent hours, you can see those storms have been working out into the north sea. the weather has been calming down but if you're heading outside over the next few hours, there could still be a bit of rain to come especially across western areas of scotland, the highlands and the western isles but it's a largely dry picture and although it was a very warm start to the night, if you are heading outside over the next few hours, these are the kinds of temperatures you are more likely to encounter, only around 15, 16 degrees celsius. sunday is going to be a much fresher kind of day with plenty of sunshine around.

there will be some thick cloudin the north—west and that will be bringing outbreaks of rain so some wet weather here and along with that, the cool winds coming in from the sea will keep temperatures pretty low, really, from the time of year across the very far north of scotland and that's why there are a few showers for northern ireland, a few for the north—west of both england and wales, the driest weather across southern and eastern areas. for many of us, temperatures are actually pretty good for the time of year. 20 in aberdeen, quite warm. 2a, 25 degrees for south—east england, but 1a for shetland and 12 in lerwick, that's not particularly special for the time of year. another hot day coming up then for central europe on sunday as well. the heatwave is beginning to come to an end as cooler atlantic air begin to flow in and that will tend to knock the temperatures down. for much of the week ahead, our weather is going to take a north—westerly pattern and bring further showers in across the north—westerly wind for the uk, variable cloud elsewhere with some spells of sunshine coming and going. temperatures alright for the time

of year again with highs of around 18 in newcastle, 22 in london but again, across the far north of scotland, it'll be a little bit disappointing for the time of year. we are looking deeper into the week ahead, it's a largely dry week, actually. sunny spells and temperatures generally into the high teens and low 20s for scotland and northern ireland and into the low—to—mid 20s for england and wales. that's your weather.

this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: after the us—south korea summit, a possible meeting with north korean leader kim jong—un. president trump says he's proud to be pushing for peace. north korea and south korea are both in much better places right now than they were 2.5 years ago when i became president. tremendous danger, tremendous danger. i'm mariko 0i near the border between the two koreas, where this sudden rush of twitter diplomacy has made this meeting a real.