it's welcome to newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: donald trump lashes out at the british prime minister and the uk ambassador to the us, following leaked memos criticising his adminstration. emergency help for hundreds of rohingya refugees left without shelter after a series of landslides in bangladesh. i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme. the wealthy american fiancier jeffrey epstein pleads not guilty to charges of trafficking underage girls for sex, more than a decade ago. and a balancing act for the planet. we have a special report from the amazon on the vital role played by its trees,

as more and more are cut down. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 8pm in washington, where president trump has accused british prime minister theresa may of making a mess of brexit. in a series of tweets, he also said the us would no longer deal with the uk's ambassador in washington. it comes after emails from sir kim darroch — in which he described trump's administration as inept were leaked. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. at a personal level,

it's always looked more like an awkward rather than a special relationship. the reserved vicar‘s daughter alongside the brash manhattan tycoon. and although this is not the first time that donald trump has criticised theresa may, this is his most brutal assault yet. the ambassador he is referring to, of course, is sir kim darroch, britain's man in washington,

whose leaked secret messages to london described donald trump and his administration as inept, insecure, and incompetent. yesterday, the president singled out the ambassador for criticism. now he has broadened his attack. his tweed tirade came just hours after theresa may said she had full faith in sir kim but did not agree with his views. her spokesman described the leak as absolutely unacceptable and said downing street had made contact with the white house. meanwhile a whitehall whodunnit as the foreign office mounted an investigation to find out who leaked the e—mails and just as importantly, why. as for sir kim, he seems safe in a job that he will soon leave anyway after four years in washington.

it's a personal view and there will be many people in this building do not agree with that view, it is a personal view and indeed i do not agree with some of the views that we saw in those letters. i think the us administration is highly effective and we have the warmest of relationships and a partnership based on standing up for shared values. during his state visit to london before tea at clarence house with the prince of wales... hi again. ..donald trump shook hands with the ambassador he's now made persona non grata. clearly he still has fond memories of all the pageantry at the palace, when he went out of his way to show respect for the british monarch, but rarely has an american president displayed such public disdain for british prime minister. nick bryant, bbc news, washington. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. the son of a former south korean foreign minister who defected with his wife to north korea, has reportedly

followed his parents footsteps and moved to the north. north korean state media released this footage of choe in—guk arriving at pyongyang airport, in what could be a rare defection from the south to the north. here's what he had to day. translation: today i came to pyongyang to permanently resettle in north korea where my parents have passed away. i cannot fully express in words how ifeel to be here in north korea, a true homeland, where my family's patriotic soul resides and the legitimacy of our people is alive. also making news today. france's president emmanuel macron is sending a diplomatic advisor to tehran in an effort to de—escalate tensions between iran and the us. tensions have continued grow in the year since the us pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. tehran announced earlier it had

reached limits on uranium enrichment, calling on european nations to live up to their side of the agreement. staff of deutsche bank have been handed redundancy notices and sent home in europe, asia, the united states and australia as the bank begins to shed 18,000 jobs. the bank is losing a fifth of its global workforce, after failing to recover from the global financial crisis a decade ago. and coco gauff, the american teenager who's been taking wimbledon by storm, has been knocked out of the tennis competition. the 15—year—old was eliminated by former world number one, romanian simona halep, in straight sets. speaking after the match, the young american described her wimbledon experience as amazing, saying,

"i hope they learned about me, that i'm a fighter and i'll never give up." a huge clean—up operation is taking place in bangladesh after last week's landslides partially destroyed rohingya refugee camps. one person was killed and thousands more left without shelter after downpours caused flooding and mudslides. with two months left of the monsoon season left — there are fears the refugee camp — near cox's bazar in bangladesh — is still at risk. around a million rohingya refugees are living in the country after fleeing violence in neighbouring myanmar. gemma snowdon — who is in cox's bazaarfor the world food programme told me how severe the damage is there was around 500 millimetres of rain over the course of wednesday and thursday last week which equals quite a bit of devastation. there were 2,700 people who were displaced and 3,400 shelters that were damaged. i went to the camps on thursday after some very significant rainfall

and just walking through, there was a lot of water everywhere. 0ne field that the previous week had been an actual field was now a lake and there were people out there with boats and some kids out there fishing as well and some people went into our phones where floors had turned completely to mud. they were laying down sand to drain the mud. the world food programme is about to provide emergency assistance to around 6,000 people. currently there is a break in the monsoon season. of course, it already started in june. how do you prepare for the next one that may hit the area? we prepare for this year round. there is an almost constant threat of disaster in the refugee camps. there are two cyclone seasons a year plus the monsoon season so throughout the year, we've been doing a lot of engineering works, which includes stabilising slopes so we can cause landslides ——we can

avoid landslides and damage to roads that can potentially cause landslides and damage to roads and homes and we have teams on standby who can be pulled out when something like this does happen so we have mobilised refugees to help fixing the slopes damaged and we also pre—position emergency food stocks all around the campus in strategic locations so that we can respond very quickly when something does happen. in this instance, we were able to respond within 12 hours and provide food to people who needed it. gemma, what is the current state of the people who have been displaced and the homes damaged by these heavy rains? so people who have been displaced have been assigned new shelters or they are staying with family and friends and is also obviously obviously a race to fix what is damaged. the rain since thursday hasn't been as heavy but it has been heavy showers on and off so that's always a challenge when trying to fix these slopes.

0ur teams have been doing that, but we've been making very good progress and a number have already been fixed and we are prioritising the most urgent ones so the ones that are putting homes or roads in danger, once those are done, we will move onto the ones that aren't necessarily putting people in danger. gemma snowdon, from the world food programme, speaking to rico from the cox's bazaar. the wealthy american financier jeffrey epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking. mr epstein, who once counted president trump, bill clinton and queen elizabeth's son prince andrew as friends, is accused of luring underage girls to his homes in florida and new york. the prosecutor outlined the charges. this conduct as alleged went on for years and it involved dozens of young girls, some as young as 14 years old at the time, that they were allegedly abused.

as alleged, epstein was well aware that many of his victims were minors and, not surprisingly, many of the underage girls that epstein allegedly victimised were particularly vulnerable to exploitation. my colleague nada tawfik, has been monitoring the case and told us more on what has been found in epstein‘s home. this was a hearing to determine mr epstein‘s bail and prosecutors were putting forth evidence to show he should remain in detention. on saturday, they raided his manhattan mansion with a search warrant and said they found credible, explicit evidence that matched victims testimony. for example many of the terms said that mr epstein lowered them into a private room with a massage table where they were told to give him a massage but to undress

before they were then molested by him. investigators at the home found that room, found that massage table saying it was just as it was 15 years ago. they also found in his safe multiple cds that contained hundreds if not thousands of nude photographs of femails, many of them underage girls. and they had very explicit labels on them, the victims‘ names, they said "young nudes", so these were some of the things to support their case. he has been accused before. this case has come up again because a really strong investigative reporting, prosecutors said, that really blew the lid off what they called the deal of a lifetime that jeffrey epstein got back in 2008, when a federal prosecutor gave him a plea deal that made him escape federal charges of sex trafficking. instead, he only pleaded guilty

to a state felony charge of prostitution and he served 13 months injail of which is private driver would take him from the prison to his office on what they called a work release so many people criticised this deal is too lenient, showing preferential treatment to him because local police in florida had handed the case to the fbi and they had dozens of underage girls there supporting the case. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. what's it like to be named as one of the world's best scientists under a0 7 also on the programme. how we can all watch the restoration of one of the world's most famous paintings — rembrandt‘s night watch — as a team of experts and art historians carry out their delicate work.

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this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm kasia madera in london. our top stories: president trump criticises teresa may's government and says the us won't work with britain's ambassador to washington, after he calls the white house dysfunctional. efforts are underway to provide emergency help to hundreds of rohingya refugees left with shelter following a series of landslides in bangladesh. —— without. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. germany's frankfurter allgemeine leads

with the greek elections. it carries a picture of the outgoing prime minister, alexis tsipras, and the newly elected pm, kyriakos mitsotakis, who was quoted saying that "today the hard work begins". the philippines star runs a story about president deuterte announcing his support for peter cayetano to become the new speaker. his announcement ends months of speculations over who should occupy the top house seat. duterte's choice will be subject to a vote on the 22nd ofjuly. and finally, the straits times shows the devastating effects of flash floods in the malaysian state of melaka. evacuated to relief centres. over the last week we've been looking at the threat deforestation poses

to the amazon rainforest. it is one of the biggest sources for capturing carbon dioxide on the planet. but just how significant is the rainforest in helping to limit the rise in global temperatures? 0ur science editor david shukman has been meeting the scientist who's spent the last decade finding out. this must be the hardest way to investigate why the trees of the amazon are so important. climbing right up into them. down on the ground a scientist, erica boehringer, is asking for samples of the leaves. her assistant, way up above, cuts away a few branches and throws them down. according to erica, understanding the forest is vital. for me it is really important because the amazon cannot speak up, the trees cannot speak up. they cannot say that they are worth it and they have a value, they are really important. so i made this my life.

erica has studied the same batch of trees for ten years now, measuring exactly how they are growing and how they affect the climate. they are helping us, forfree, to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it in the forest and lock it up in here. this matters to the whole world because of the sheer size of this forest. we have used graphics to show how the billions of leaves are breathing in carbon dioxide, a gas which is heating up the planet. as human activity keeps adding more and more carbon dioxide into the air, magnificent trees like this pull a lot of it in. but chop it down and burn it and all the carbon that has been stored inside over the many years is suddenly released back to the atmosphere which of course increases the speed of global warming. in the last few months the rate of deforestation

here has suddenly increased. the new government of brazil wants to encourage development. creating feel where there used to be forest. so erica's research is all the more urgent. in this lab, she studies the leaves collected from the forest. to work out how much carbon the amazon holds. it is the equivalent of america burning fossil fuels for nearly a century. in 97 years of the us fossil fuel emissions, that is how much carbon there is in this place. because a big tree might store three tonnes of carbon, four tonnes of carbon. it's a lot of carbon. but the forest is about more than carbon and climate change. it is home to an extraordinary variety of creatures and it is unique. it is so wonderful, it is so full of life, it is so full... just so beautiful. and to lose it, it's never going to come back again, we are never going to be able to build an amazon.

it's going to be gone forever. so once it has gone, it's just gone. all that is left where forest once stood, a stark reminder of what has vanished and of consequences for the rest of the world. david shukman, bbc news, in the amazon. the world economic forum has named 21 of the world's best scientists under a0. out of the researchers chosen, 10 are from asia and more than half are women. christine cheung is one of them. she's an assistant professor at nanyang technological university, where she specialises in molecular and vascular medicine. she told me what this recognition means to her. it's really invigorating and a huge honour. an eye—opening experience in to come to the world economic forum and i think having to see leaders across industry to gather together

and tackling global issues is very inspirational for us. as the role of young scientists, we hope to influence evidence—based decision—making in these leaders. you've always said that scientists like yourself should not only be working in the lab but should step out and mingle with businesses in a wider audience. why so? i'm starting to learn about social responsibility for scientists. traditionally, we love and are passionate about deep science but to help leaders and to solve long—term problems, it's good to have scientific evidence to back up policy—making like technological evidence in terms of artificial intelligence, medical breakthroughs and a new way of social interactions are disrupting a lot of business practices in life. artificial intelligence is now the buzzword in industry but of course, taking a look at your undergraduate studies, biomedical engineering, and your phd is stem cell medicine and your research is blood vessels.

who inspired you to get into this field? was it your mum, your dad, your aunties and uncles? partly family, they are very open so i've never felt any constraint. i did manage to explore a lot of science and experimentation during my school days and that helps with my interest in the picture, like in the ‘90s, there was a laboratory mouse with what looked like a human ear grown on its back and that intrigued me a lot and that was my first notion of regenerative medicine. and looking at the winners this year, 13 of the 21 scientists named by the world economic forum are women. what are some of the challenges women face in this industry? for women in science, science itself, there are a lot

of rejections in terms of grants and fundraising for research and trying to meet a higher standard for scientific publication but women in science generally, there might still be some assumptions behind just being a woman, in particular, to balance work and parenthood so women are still seen as the primary caregivers but i'm seeing women stepping up to challenge some of these assumptions and our institutions are much more enlightened by having very supportive policies like longer maternity leave so i'm optimistic about the change. congratulations there. christine cheung. lets turn from science to art. in fact military like operation, called 0peration night watch. it's a military—like plan, to move a masterpiece by rembrandt into position, so experts can start restoring the painting. in a first, the whole thing will be open to the public to watch, as restorers, data experts and art historians work in a giant glass chamber. it will be painstaking, delicate work, as anna holligan reports. it's called the night watch but it's

not even set at night. the restorers are bringing rembrandt‘s most ambitious work back into the light of day. this state—of—the—art glass chamber will allow them to work while the public keeps watch. translation: the night watch belongs to the netherlands, to everybody, to the world. we believe the public has the right to see what is happening to the painting. it was supposed to be a standard group portrait, a popularform of art among high society folk during the 17th century dutch golden age, but rembrandt broke with convention, filling his canvas with movement and action. this style evokes passions, not always positive. it's been attacked three times

in the last century. when it was slashed in 1975, the restoration was done in private. this time, the only damage is time. its modern name comes from the paintings varnish, which has darkened over the years, dimming the original colour. the challenge for the restorers is to bring it back to life. you have been watching newsday. i'm kasia madera in london. i want to see night watch in its full beauty. food glorious food. we'll see how one restaurant in toronto is tackling the problem of food waste. and if you don't like hights, look away now. this daredevil free climber has scaled london's shard, one of the tallest

buildings in europe. urban climber george king made the ascent without ropes or suction cups. the 19—year—old was spoken to by police after the stunt, but not arrested. this time last year, we were on a run of five days with temperatures sitting 30 celsius or above somewhere in the uk. great news if you don't like heat like that. there is nothing like that on the immediate horizon. high pressure being squeezed to the south, rain—bearing weather fronts moving in, mostly across the northern half of the uk, average temperatures for most of us this week. it's a warmer start, though, in the morning compared with where we've been over recent mornings, but a lot of cloud around and some outbreaks of rain. this is what it looks like at 8am in the morning, with outbreaks of rain running eastwards across scotland. a few heavier bursts within this. still some patchy rain for northern ireland and northern england. it's at least a damp start for some of us here. some of this rain will fringe north

wales, through the midlands and even push onto parts of east anglia but it is going to be lighter, more patchy than it is to the north. south of that, a lot of cloud around but there will be some brighter sunny spells to be had here. let's take a look at how wimbledon is shaping up for tuesday's play, a rather uninspiring look at cloudy skies. a few brighter spells out there, maybe the slight chance of a shower but dry for a full day's play once again. this is how tuesday goes. scotland and england and northern ireland will see most of the rain at times, drier interludes but we could see an area of heavier rain running eastwards as we go on through the afternoon. again south of that, it is mainly dry. some sunshine, cornwall down to the channel islands, a few spots in the 20s, most of us 19s or low 20s. the next spell of rain could turn

things quite wet at the end of the day in northern ireland and southern scotland and northern england, clears overnight. and into wednesday, another spell of rain into northern ireland and north—west england and western scotland later in the night, and the nights are getting a little warmer. it's getting rather humid for many of us as we go through the week. for wednesday then, another spell of rain pushing east to start the day. digging a little further south to parts of eastern england. sunny spells follow, particularly to england and wales. a lot of cloud in england and scotland and a few more showers following on as we go through the day. let's take a look at thursday, because we could well see some quite heavy, thundery downpours developing in parts of northern ireland, scotland and northern england. by no means everybody will see, them but where they do pop up, that could lead to some disruption in some spots. england and wales seeing a few showers moving from west to east as well, and still a few sunny spells as well. going into the weekend, the showers slowly fade over the weekend. it turns drier, sunnier and a little warmer.

i'm kasia madera with bbc news. our top story: president trump attacks theresa may over her handling of brexit, saying she made a mess of it. it comes after leaked emails from the uk's ambassador to washington criticising the president and his administration. donald trump says he'll no longer deal with him. american fiancierjeffrey epstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking underage girls for sex more than a decade ago. the judge ordered the businessman, who once counted bill clinton and donald trump among his friends, to remain in custody. and this story is trending on bbc.com. the restoration of one of the world's most famous paintings, rembrandt‘s the night watch, is underway in the rikes museum in amsterdam. visitors will be able to watch the work live as it happens. that's all. stay with bbc world news. and the top story in the uk:

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