welcome to bbc news — i'm mike embley. our top stories: the fbi says the gunman who killed nine people in dayton, ohio had an interest in ‘violent ideologies‘. president trump will visit later on wednesday. a breakdown in brexit talks. britain says the eu won't negotiate — brussels says it's waiting for clarification from london. it is the eu saying they are not interested to they are saying no, we do not want to talk to that is wrong and sad and not the interest of europe. india puts kashmir on lockdown — pakistan's prime minister says the move will increase tension between the two countries. and tributes to toni morrison, the first african—american author to win a nobel prize,

who's died at the age of 88. in just a few hours president trump is due to visit el paso in texas where a gunman on saturday left 22 people dead, just one of 3 mass shootings in the us within one week. let's update you on the investigations into all three. the el paso attack is being treated as domestic terrorism, defined as an act designed to intimidate the population. the fbi says the majority of domestic terrorism arrests in the us in the past ten months are linked to white supremacy. on tuesday, the fbi opened an investigation into the killing of nine people in dayton, ohio. it's emerged that the gunman also followed a "violent ideology." the shooting injuly at the gilroy garlic festival in california is now also classed as domestic terrorism. officials have been poring over the gunman‘s "target list" which included religious

and federal buildings. let's talk to our north america correspondent, peter bowes. a terrible time, of course, for anyone involved but the difficult issue, particularly for this president. it is a very difficult issue of course for all concerned. people in those three separate us cities grieving at the moment but especially for this president. he is doing what other presidents in the past have done and that is visit these areas, sometimes described as these areas, sometimes described as the consoler in chief, the president, when they visit a town that has suffered a mass shooting like this to but especially as it applies to el paso in texas on the border with mexico, seven mexicans we re border with mexico, seven mexicans were killed in the shooting and the city has been at the epicentre of the crisis on the border, the debate that has been going on for months and years over the border. many

people do not want the president to visit. in some cases they blame his violent rhetoric, his angry rhetoric for creating this tension and atmosphere and some will go as far as to say that in part he may well have been to blame for what happened. do we know what the president will do exactly? on these occasions, we don't know specifically who he meets and who wet what is going to do but if past exa m ples wet what is going to do but if past examples are anything to go by he is likely to meet with relatives of who have been injured or killed and talk to local civic leaders, local politicians. this is likely to happen in dayton as well where the president is visiting first and then secondly to el paso. we heard from the mayor in dayton in ohio saying that she was not impressed by what he had to say about gun control and openly suggesting that many people in her community would probably not wa nt to in her community would probably not want to see him there. he is

potentially in for some difficult conversations. just briefly, there was a quote earlier from the fbi talking about white's premises. domestic terrorism involving whites are premises becoming a major domestic issue. —— about white's premises. —— white supremacism. domestic issue. —— about white's premises. —— white supremacismm isa premises. —— white supremacismm is a very relevant issue and coming back to the president, something that he has addressed but will need to address again in the future. the minister in charge of preparing the uk for a so—called no—deal brexit — leaving the european union without any agreement in place — has claimed the eu is refusing to engage in fresh talks on a new deal. european officials have described as "unacceptable" britain's insistence on scrapping the backstop, the measure intended to prevent any return of physical checks on the irish border.

here's our political correspondent ben wright. almost two weeks after becoming prime minister, boris johnson met his first eu leader today, his counterpart from estonia. reporter: prime minister, have you given up on trying to get a deal? brexit talks also deadlocked. the eu and says the withdrawal agreement is closed. ministers here say it has to be changed. at the moment it's the eu that seems to be saying they're not interested. they are simply saying no, we don't want to talk. well i think that's wrong and sad. it isn't in europe's interest. but eu leaders insist britain's demands are the problem. ireland's prime minister warned the uk that leaving the eu without a deal was not the clean break some claimed it to be. there are people who perhaps have become frustrated with the brexit process and, you know, there are saying to themselves, at least if we no deal on october 31, it's all over and all done. what i'm saying is that it

doesn't end on october 31. if we no deal, we're going to have to talk and the first thing on the agenda is going to be citizens rights, settlement of the irish border. by ramping up plans for a no—deal brexit, boris johnson hopes to convince brussels his serious about walking away. he wants that threat to persuade the eu to negotiate a new deal. if there isn't one, then number 10 is emphatic the uk will be living anyway on october the 31st and within early election possible, borisjohnson believes pro—brexit voters are behind him. but it's a strategy fraught with risk and if the eu doesn't budge and a no—deal brexit becomes government policy, a showdown with parliament is certain when mps return. they're taking a break at the moment, but as well as opposition parties, there are some tory mps preparing for a fight after the summer.

i think it is increasingly clear that parliament will have to act because the reckless behaviour of the prime minister in terms of a no deal brexit is something that parliament will have to take seriously. tonight at a debate in belfast, ireland's leo varadkar was saying england was refusing to talk unless the backstop was removed entirely from the agreement, a position he described as disappointing. as it stands, both borisjohnson and the eu say the other side is the problem. three years after the brexit referendum, compromise has really look more distant. india's sudden decision to strip part of the state of kashmir of rights it's enjoyed for decades is facing growing opposition from pakistan. india and pakistan each control part of kashmir — and both countries lay claim to all of it. it's a volatile flashpoint for two nuclear—armed countries. in a moment we'll hear

from our pakistan correspondent, secunder kermani. first, with the view from kashmir and delhi, here's yogita limaye. another day in lockdown. troops at every corner, watching for any sign of protest. phone and internet lines remain down. living in fear and confusion, kashmir‘s people are trying to make sense of what's happened. "why have we been cut off?", one man asked. "this indicates that they're doing something which will hurt us." "today we have begun to think that we are not free, that we don't live in a free country", another man said. those away from home have been struggling to make contact. faisal fehmi last spoke to his parents two days ago. they were talking to me and saying, we don't know when we're going to talk again so just take care of yourself.

and my mother was all teary—eyed and she was just crying. in parliament, india's home ministerfiercely defended his government's actions. "kashmir is a cause worth sacrificing our lives for!", he told mps. and the country's prime minister gave his first reaction, he said: "jammu and kashmir is free from the shackles of vested groups, a new dawn and better tomorrow awaits." kashmir! pakistan! in pakistan, there had been some protests, the crowd here in lahore chants that one day all of kashmir will become part of pakistan, the slogan has been repeated for years, but this latest move by india seems to have caught the government by surprise. prime minister imran khan addressed the parliament. his message, calling on the international community

to take action. translation: i'm telling you, it will have serious consequences. everyone will lose, so this is the time to act. the head of the pakistan army also met with senior officers today. he said they would stand by the people of kashmir in theirjust struggle. that support seems likely to remain at a diplomatic level. it was only a few months ago that pakistan and india nearly went to war with each other over disputed kashmir with both countries launching airstrikes into each other‘s territories. a military response in pakistan hasn't occurred yet, but tensions have existed for the past 70 years and seems set to increase. let's speak to suvi kaul, who is kashmiri and writes about kashmir. he is a professor of english at the university of pennsylvania, based in philadelphia.

thank you very much for your time. this is a sick picken to move. it is a moment and probably for all the wrong reasons. we are watching a central government in india that is so determined to push its hindu majority agenda, this is their account of themselves, not my account, that they have decided to use parliament to basically tater pa rt use parliament to basically tater part article one of the constitution that tells us the state of kashmir is only a part of the union because of the existence of something called article 370. that is the article that parliament, under the government, has now gotten rid of. this is manifestly unconstitutional and a threat for the functioning of the federated states of india that constitute the union. as you know, pakistan would also like to control all of kashmir. they have long been accused of supporting violence

there. and the bjp did have this in their election manifesto and in previous election manifesto is. there is no question they are acting on their manifesto. in my opinion that does not make it any less unconstitutional. or antidemocratic. of course pakistan has done all it can and to that extent kashmiris have for the last 70 years been boundin have for the last 70 years been bound in political games and instead of india taking an enlightened and secular, democratic pathway that would allow them to recognise that there are communities within the union of india that seek to preserve their own identity, based upon legal arrangements the union, the government at hand has basically decided that draconian activity is their path. that is unfortunate, not

only for kashmir but for the future of indian democracy. it is hard at the moment to get any information out of the area. what are you hearing about how things are?” out of the area. what are you hearing about how things are? i hear nothing. i have been trying to ‘s talk to my sister, my aunts, my u ncles talk to my sister, my aunts, my uncles for talk to my sister, my aunts, my u ncles for two talk to my sister, my aunts, my uncles for two days now. this is a measure of the indian desperation. for one week they prepared for this. they said to all indians that they should leave kashmir so that they could crackdown the way they have and now my sister, who is kashmiri and now my sister, who is kashmiri and indian is living there was no contact with any of the people in the mainland that she would ordinarily wish to be in touch with the so this is the terrible situation and i'm not sure i can tell you anything because i don't know anything. thank you very much for your insights. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we'll be looking back on the life, work and impact of the nobel prize—winning writer toni morrison.

the question was whether we want to save our people and japanese as well and win the war, or whether we want to take a chance on being able to win the war by killing all our young men. the invasion began at two o'clock this morning. mr bush, like most other people, was clearly caught by surprise. we call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all iraqi forces. 100 years old and still full of vigour, vitality and enjoyment of life. no other king or queen in british history has lived so long, and the queen mother is said to be quietly very pleased indeed that she's achieved this landmark anniversary. this is a pivotal moment

for the church as an international movement. the question now is whether the american vote will lead to a split in the anglican community. this is bbc news, the latest headlines: president trump is due to visit the texan city of el paso later, where 22 people were murdered by a gunman with an apparent racist attack. the british government and the european union have blamed each otherfor a refusal to reopen talks about the uk's brexit deal. chinese government officials have issued their most severe threat yet to demonstrators in hong kong, saying those who play with fire will perish by it. there've been nine weeks of anti—goverment protests in the territory, sparked by anger over a law that would make it easier to extradite people to mainland china. the leadership in beijing has refused to rule out sending in troops. our correspondent mariko oi joins us now from hong kong.

how is it looking from there right now? despite that strongly worded warning from ageing, hong kong protesters are warning from ageing, hong kong protesters a re not warning from ageing, hong kong protesters are not backing down. just last night, angry protesters surrounded a police station after a student was arrested for what the police say was possession of a dangerous weapon. it turns out, according to the newspaper, it was a laser pointer. people got angry that he should not have been arrested but police ended up in teargas, pepper spray yet again. that has been one of the main complaints of the protesters here in hong kong, police have been using a lot of teargas including in the residential area and people living upstairs of these high—rise apartments with their windows open or conditioning on are affected by teargas, including children and the elderly. despite

all these clashes, despite the warning from china, but people are not breaking down. how did the protesters feel about the real possibility that the government in beijing will send in troops? that is the extreme way that beijing could possibly try and restore order here in hong kong. some protesters have been quoted by the media saying they we re been quoted by the media saying they were ready to die. others are concerned about the possibility. i think such it is fair to say that when you speak to analyst, they think the option is unlikely because that would definitely be condemned internationally. so china would probably not want to go down that road. that it is fair to say that they want to send that message, a warning to protesters that they are not ruling out that option. as you mentioned, yesterday they did not rule out the option and we also saw pictures of the 12,000 anti— riot

police officers practising how to handle street protests in the area. it is fairto handle street protests in the area. it is fair to say that beijing is definitely running out of patience and sending a signal that they are ready to intervene but, so far, they have said they will leave it to the hong kong police who they say are doing a greatjob of trying to restore order and the chief executive of the city, carrie lam, who has been widely criticised by the protesters here, has theirfull support. one of the giants of american fiction — toni morrison — has died. she was 88. she was the first black woman to win a nobel prize — she also won a pulitzer — though she didn't even publish her first novel until she was 39. her visionary, poetic, sometimes mystical novels gave voice to african—american history and experience, usually through the stories of women. barack obama called her writing "a beautiful, meaningful challenge." "what a gift to breathe the same air as her," he said, "if only for a while."

i remember sitting in my office, and i was so overwhelmed and i wrote a list of everything i had to do, everything. and then i decided to write what i wanted to do, and there were two things. the first was, mother my children. the second was, write books. you know, i'd learned about what we call skin privileges when i went away to college. powerful racial discrimination. if i saw a white man walking down the street and i was by myself, i'd cross the street. if i saw a black man, i would run toward him for safety. "each night without fail she prayed for blue eyes. fervently for a year, she had prayed". it took five years for me to write that really small book, to pay attention, to pay

attention to this child. maybe she's in difficulty. she's obviously hurt. she's abused and misused. but take her seriously. please. she had the ability and the genius to create a world that had not existed before — and, not only that, a quintessentially american world. she is an american writer, she's an african—american writer. today, is it sickening you to death being labelled a black writer? no, i prefer it. oh, i thought you were probably tired of it. well, i'm tired of people asking the question. "something in the house braced and in the listening quiet that followed sethe spoke. "i got a tree on my back, and a haint in my house..." i don't read my books,

except publicly when somebody asks me. do you know, i read beloved a couple of weeks ago. and i started reading — something i normally don't say, i sometimes think. i said, "it's really good." i always felt like a partial american or as kind of a fraudulent american. and finally not american at all. i felt like a black person. when this nobel prize was given to me, ifelt american, probably for the first time. toni morrison, for the nobel prize of literature... i just want to show the characters off the way they would present themselves. i want to bear witness to them. i want their voices out there, not mine.

that was toni morrison in her own words. well, joining me now from new york isjoelle leon, a performing artist and writer. ‘s thank you very much for your time. ‘s this news has hit hard. very much so. i found out, i was in the middle of the work meeting and my partner texted me. i had seen the documentary a few weeks ago and had been ruminating on her legacy. it is still shocking and hard nonetheless. if you could, tell us about her legacy. how did her work speak to you? tony's work is everything. —— toni's work is everything. i was

messaging a friend today and saying that everything i write, i write because of toni. toni was able to encapsulate the multifaceted and multi— layered blackness of lack experience. through her words and through her art. and gave us agency in that way. it gave me a sense of who i wanted to be as a writer and made it more confident to write as a black man for black people and being 0k black man for black people and being ok about that. you grow up in school here in the states and there are many riders you are told to read, hemingway, whitman, but having someone with the body of work of tony morrison —— of toni morrison who speaks to and for the black audience was unheard of. and to do it over such a long necks dented

period of time it is miraculous. she was revered for a long time but it is worth reminding ourselves that she was a single working mother and she was a single working mother and she began to wake at four in the morning to write and did not publish her first novel until she was 39. she knew the struggle. and much of this great work was done on stolen time. she spoke about that. was a full—time editor while she was doing this work. i think that speaks volumes of the attention behind her work and the immediacy behind the work. it felt as if toni knew she was working against the clock and with stolen time. i think it also begs the question, what are we doing with our own time? that a single mother could do this work and produce these phenomenal bodies of work, under such pressure. and especially at the time she was creating the work. this is not 2019

with social media and twitter and instagram, we're talking about a person who did not have internet access to these things and still doing the work in the way that is still widely felt and recognised. we could talk about this for a long time but we must leave it there for now. thank you so much for talking to us to us. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm @bbcmikeembley. inafew in a few hours we expect president trump to visit el paso in taxes where a gunman on saturday left 22 people dead, just one of three mass shootings in the united states within one week. that is now being treated as a domestic terrorism act, defined as an act to intimidate a population. much more to come.

good morning. weather across the uk at the moment is stuck in repeat mode, isn't it? sunshine and showers. now, if you dodge the showers and you get the best of the sunshine just like we had yesterday in suffolk, a beautiful day, temperatures peaking into the mid—20s but some of the showers were really quite torrential as you can see from this weather watcher picture sent in on tuesday afternoon birmingham. today, the area of low pressure will be sitting to the north of scotland where most of the frequent showers will be and with lighter winds here, pretty slow moving as well. elsewhere, a breezy day and we start off with a decent slice of sunshine coming through but there will be showers out to the west which will drive in across the country on a brisk south—westerly wind. for england and wales, the showers fairly isolated into scotland, particularly eastern scotland, they'll be quite heavy,

slow—moving and torrential times so weather warnings remain in force. a blustery day however you look at it. if you dodge the showers, you keep some sunshine. again, we could see temperatures peaking into the mid—20s but underneath the cloud, with the showers, a disappointing 16 degrees, let's say, for aberdeen. as we move out of wednesday, that low pressure will drift off into the north sea and will allow this ridge of high pressure to build so on thursday, not a bad day, certainly the best day for getting out and spending some time outside. that doesn't mean to say we will rule out the showers completely, there will be one or two isolated ones particularly across northern scotland and maybe into the south and eventually by the end of the day, the cloud will gather here but not a bad day for many and temperatures again, 16—24 celsius, that's 75 fahrenheit. i hope you can get out and make the most of it because by the end of thursday and friday, we have an unusually deep area of low pressure for this time of year, bringing wet and eventually some windy weather with it so if you've got outdoor plans, if you are under canvas

over the next few days and towards the weekend, please keep abreast of the forecast. heavy rain will move through northern england, scotland and northern ireland, leaving a trail of sharp showers behind and the winds really starting to pick up, gusts in excess of 40—50mph as we go through the end of the day. in terms of the feel of things, 16—23 degrees but underneath that rain, yet again it will feel pretty miserable and as we move into the weekend, that area of low pressure will sit across the far north of scotland and it's to the southern flank of the low where the winds will really start to pick up and that could be an issue so it's worth bearing in mind, friday, heavy rain and the winds will start to strengthen. by saturday, we could see gales across the country. there you go, take care.

this is bbc news, the headlines: it's emerged that the gunman

who killed his sister and eight other people in dayton, ohio on sunday had a history of violent obsessions and previously mused about committing mass murder. his family have said they are fulling cooperating with the investigation. the british minister in charge of preparations for leaving is due to visit el paso in texas, the scene of saturday's mass shooting —— president donald trump is. the british minister in charge of preparations for leaving the european union without a formal deal has accused the eu of refusing to engage in fresh talks. the european commission insisted it was open to further discussions, but said it is waiting for the uk to clarify its position. pakistan's prime minister has said he'll refer the indian government's decision to stripjammu and kashmir of its special status to the united nations if necessary. he also warned it would increase tensions between the countries. kashmir is currently under a security lockdown with phone connections largely cut.

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