welcome to bbc news. i'm james reynolds. our top stories: a teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet mohammad, is decapitated north of paris. france's president condemns it as a cowardly attack. translation: our fellow citizen was attacked in a cowardly way. he was the victim of an islamic terrorist attack. armenian missiles hit azerbaijan's second biggest city for the second time in a week, as fighting over the disputed region of nagorno—karabakh intensifies. a no—deal brexit may be on the cards, as the uk calls off further trade talks with the european union. disney reissues warnings for viewers on some of its most famous films, admitting they contain racism and stereotyping.

hello and welcome to bbc news. president macron of france has paid tribute to a teacher beheaded by a knifeman in a suburb of paris, saying he was killed for advocating freedom of expression. the teacher is said to have shown his class caricatures of the prophet muhammad. police shot dead the killer, reported to have been 18 years old and born in russia. four people have been held in connection with the incident. gareth barlow reports. terror on the streets of france. a knife attack, a school teacher dead, decapitated. reports say the attacker ran from the scene, posted an image on social media, was apprehended by police and shot after threatening officers. he died shortly after. the incident happened in conflans—sainte—honorine, 25 kilometres from the capital.

translation: they will not get past us. our policemen, our gendarmes, all our internal security forces, our intelligence forces, but beyond that all those who hold the republic together. and at their side, magistrates, elected officials, teachers, all of us, we will stand together. the teacher is said to have shown pupils a cartoon of the prophet muhammad during a discussion about a wider debate in french society. many muslims consider any depiction of the prophet sacrilegious. and as such the teacher allowed any muslim peoples to leave the classroom. last month two people were stabbed outside the former offices of a french magazine, charlie hebdo, which first published the cartoons in 2015, triggering a terrorist attack which left 12 people dead. a trial connected to the case is expected to conclude next month. back on the streets of conflans—sainte—honorine, parents spoke of their horror.

translation: we saw the police and i had a friend who called me when he saw the body at the top of the street, lying on the ground with the head next to it. he called me and we got together. my son was outside and we were panic—stricken. we were very, very scared. an investigation is under way, with a motive and a background of the attacker, thought to be an 18—year—old chechen man, being closely scrutinised. the french parliament has denounced the killing as an "atrocious terror attack". gareth barlow, bbc news. more on that story now. our correspondent lucy williamson is at the scene in northern paris and sent us this update. the horror of this attack is really at odds with this quiet, sleepy, small suburb. the victim was a teacher at the local middle school behind me. he was attacked this afternoon by a man with a large knife

who decapitated him and then posted an image on social media, before being confronted and shot dead by police. police sources have confirmed to us tonight that they believe the attacker may have been an 18—year—old man and that the motive may have been a lesson given by the victim to pupils at his school here — reportedly a lesson on freedom of speech, and he showed them cartoons of the prophet muhammad, the same cartoons we think that were reprinted by the satirical magazine, charlie hebdo. now, the police said they are searching the house of the presumed attacker, the suspect that they shot dead earlier today. president macron has been here at this site this evening, calling it an act of islamist terrorism. "somebody wanted to destroy the republic," he said, "they won't succeed, we will stick together." but, yet again, tonight, there was a part of france that was suddenly the focus of this presidential solidarity, this national outrage and this local greed.

lucy williamson, bbc news, france. armenian missiles have again struck azerbaijan's second city, ganja, as fighting continues over the disputed enclave of nagorno—kara bakh. two residential buildings have collapsed, and dozens of people are feared to be dead. in the past few days, both azerbaijan and armenia have accused each other of violating the terms of a ceasefire in the enclave. it's internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan, but is populated and governed by ethnic armenians. konul khalilova from the bbc‘s azeri service has been monitoring the latest developments in ganja. attack on civilians in the second largest city of azerbaijan, ganja, happened around iam local time today. at least two residential buildings collapsed and at least six people have died, 35 injured. i have been watching live tv and i saw a lot of bodies,

taken under the rubble by the rescuers. there were children as well, and some people had been wrapped in blankets, obviously they were sleeping at the time when the attack happened. there was a previous strike on ganja about a week ago, tell us about that? a week ago there was another attack on ganja, and that happened just one day after the ceasefire agreement was signed between armenia and azerbaijan. and again, that also happened after midnight, when people were sleeping. and several people died, and there were many injured as well. is this, then, a sign that the conflict is spilling out of that disputed area of nagorno—karabakh into other areas in a sustained way?

it has already spilt, because we have seen attacks on other cities of azerbaijan, it is not only ganja, it is mingecevir, it is barda, naftalan, and other cities where people were killed and injured, and buildings have been damaged and collapsed. let's get some of the day's other news: voting is under way in new zealand, where the labour prime minister, jacinda ardern, is hoping to win a second term in office. voters are casting ballots in a general election and for two referendums. conservative national party leaderjudith collins has warned a labour victory would mean more taxes and an unfriendly business environment. the us budget deficit has hit a record $3.1 trillion in the fiscal year that's just concluded. the increase in the gap between government income and spending was almost entirely due to the us coronavirus rescue package. protestors have clashed with police on the streets

of the chilean capital, santiago, as anger intensified against president sebastian pinera's government. mass protests started a year ago, sparked by a hike in metro fees, but spread to encompass pent—up grievances over income inequality and soaring living costs. the protests have left at least 31 dead and some 3,000 demonstrators and police officers injured. media reports in japan say the country's government has decided to release more than a million tonnes of radioactive water from the fukushima nuclear disaster into the sea. the plant was compromised by a earthquake and tsunami almost a decade ago. but the government says no decision has been taken but added that a decision does need to be made soon. the british government has said that brexit trade talks are over and "there is no point" negotiations continuing unless there's a fundamental shift in the eu's position. the prime minister boris johnson says the uk should get ready for leaving without a deal on january 1st after an eu summit in brussels insisted it is the british who should be making concessions.

here's our europe editor, katya adler. eu leaders had lots on their mind at this summit — the covid crisis first and foremost. but eyes and ears here were also very focused today on downing street. how would borisjohnson react to their demand that the uk must give way first if a trade deal is to be agreed? the answer — not positively. it is clear from the summit that, after 45 years of membership, they are not willing, unless there is some fundamental change of approach, to offer this country the same terms as canada. and so, with high hearts and with complete confidence, we will prepare to embrace the alternative and we will prosper mightily. downing street's clear message — trade talks are over unless the eu changes its tune. "no chance," retorted france's emmanuel macron.

translation: we are always aware that it is the united kingdom that wanted to leave the european union, that is leaving the european union and that needs an agreement even more than we do. after months and months of eu and uk negotiators shuttling backwards and forwards between london and brussels, both sides are fed up. the key sticking points still in talks — the rights of eu fishermen to fish in uk waters after brexit, competition regulations — known as the level playing field — and how disputes should be resolved if a trade deal is agreed. angela merkel said today the eu's chief negotiator would head to london on monday to launch intense last—ditch talks, but this evening, the government said no. as things stand, there was no point. this flexing muscles and ultimatum—giving by the uk and the eu is hardly surprising at this stage,

but is it the end of the road or political posturing before difficult compromises are reached? concessions are going to be needed by the government and the eu if a deal is to be found, and for those who really believe in this deal, tonight feels like a case of so near and yet so far. katya adler, bbc news, brussels. american federal prosecutors have formally charged a mexican former defence minister of drug trafficking and money laundering. general salvador cienfuegos was arrested at the airport in los angeles on thursday. he led the mexican army for six years during the presidency of enrique pena nieto. mexico's current president, andres manuel lopez 0brador, said the arrest showed the extent of corruption in his predecessor's government. the bbc‘s will grant has more on the story. the first thing to jump out from the unsealed court documents against general salvador cienfuegos zepeda is the name. the prosecutors say he was known as el padrino, meaning "the godfather", which is an extraordinary allegation which against the man who was at the time, lest we forget, the country's defence minister.

the list of allegations i have here, the list of charges, involve first, protecting the h2 cartel from military operations, secondly, directing military operations against their rivals, also securing maritime transportation for drug shipments — those drug shipments involve methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine — introducing cartel members to other bribe—taking officials in the government, and finally, warning the cartel of us investigations against them. taken as a whole, that is a very damning indictment of the man who was supposedly charged with leading the fight against the drug cartels. in terms of the political ramifications, i see two. one for the incumbent president, andres manuel lopez 0brador. this will bolster his efforts to present himself as the man leading the charge against corruption in public life. and secondly, of course for his predecessor,

former president enrique pena nieto. this is the second high—profile member of his government to have been arrested in recent months. previously the former head of the state—run energy company was arrested on alleged bribery charges, and now this situation with the former defence minister. this comes at a time that they are trying to change the law on impunity for former presidents, all of which makes this extremely uncomfortable forformer president enrique pena nieto. this is bbc news. the headlines: a teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the prophet mohammad is decapitated north of paris in an attack condemned by president macron. azerbaijan's second largest city, ganja, has been shelled by armenia. two residential buildings have collapsed and dozens of people are feared to be dead. intense fighting between government forces and the taliban continues in afg hanistan‘s helmand province, with the us once again having to come

to the defence of afghan forces with airstrikes. as taliban and afghan government delegations continue to meet in qatar, serious concerns are being raised about whether this latest battle could completely derail the fragile peace process. shaharzad akbar is the chair of afghanistan independent human rights commission. she tells our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, how she has been coping with the latest surge in violence. it's very difficult. i mean, personally, for me, before i will say mum, it was easier. now that i'm a mum it's much harder. my husband and i, every week, we talk about me writing a novel. you just can't get wood because they keep thinking of my son. every time i am in a car eight think about having contacts, because they think they might be my last thoughts. it is that serious. you belluno have been killed. p—plater have

been threatened. my colleagues have been threatened. my collea g u es have been threatened. my colleagues have been killed. so it has moved closer and closer every day. and everywhere they to people coming to us, asking to people coming to us, asking to talk to the mission to talk to talk to the mission to talk to the government to find ways to the government to find ways to protect them or they want to leave the country. this includes academics, religious scholars. activists, journalists. is it clear to you who is behind this wave of targeted assassinations? no, i think that is part of the difficulty. we don't know. we still don't know who killed our colleagues. we don't have a nswe i’s. colleagues. we don't have answers. and it continues 110—0118 answers. and it continues no—one is taking responsibility. is the government doing enough? no. you know that the government is in the middle of a war that is all consuming, but this is very, very important. this targeted attack, their impact is far reaching and the government should do more to identify who was behind them. by identify who was behind them. by the taliban have made it clear that they will not agree

toa clear that they will not agree to a full ceasefire now. they say they need something in return. what is your fear than if they continue to reject it? it will really impact the process , it will really impact the process, i think. it will really impact the process, ithink. it it will really impact the process, i think. it will really impact people's trust in the process and credibility of the process and credibility of the process. it will also impact... the longer the bloodshed it continues the harder it will be for us as a people to come together, the harder it will be for us to heal as a society. every day the killing goes on someone else wants to take revenge or hits back. and that's hard. that's going to make peace much harder. there is a lot to worry about. what is your biggest worry? one of my biggest worries is the talks failing. they worry about the consequence of that because there would be no good if the talks fail. the war would rage on which would mean more civilian casualties. there would be an attempt at military ta keover would be an attempt at military takeover by one or both sides,

which will, again, fail and cause, i think, which will, again, fail and cause, ithink, civilwar, which will mean even greater misery. so my hope is that the talks succeed. my request is an afghan, from both sides, is that both sides give their best to making the talks work. but it is not about the both sides only, it is also about the international community and regional powers. regionally it is very important, something that worries me from time to time. is europe, is the us, is everybody utilising their leadership and deliveries with the region to make sure talks work. every afghan seems to have a balance of hope and fear and they shift. where is your balance now? it's hard to be hopeful. it's not easy. i think every day i have to be just just revive hope and myself every morning with everything thatis every morning with everything that is going on. but they don't see a plan b. they don't have an option but to be hopeful. i don't want to

experience migration again. they don't want to be a refugee again. my biggest fear is to have to raise my son somewhere outside of afghanistan. and for that did not happen they have to have faith. they need to have hope that the process will work. that we will move to something better for work. that we will move to something betterfor all afg ha ns. something betterfor all afghans. shaharzad akbar talking to the bbc‘s lease to set. disney has strengthened a content advisory message on its streaming service, warning of racism and stereotyping in some of its classic films. the message says that certain films include negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures, adding that these stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong 110w. some examples include lady and the tramp, released in 1955 where a scene includes two siamese cats, si and am, who are depicted with anti—asian stereotypes. and a scene in 1941's dumbo where a group of crows that help dumbo learn how to fly have exaggerated stereotypical black voices. the lead crow is called jim crow — a reference to a set

of racist segregationist laws in the southern us at the time — and he is voiced by a white actor, cliff edwards. a little earlier i spoke with the film and entertainment journalist piya sinha—roy and asked whether she would be comfortable in watching certain disney classics with children from multi—cultural backgrounds. i think it's — you know, these films are, they are animated and they are part of, like, you know, kind of growing up that a lot of us have had. but i think it's important to have these warnings, because i think it is really, really important to understand what was wrong with these films and to make sure that these same stereotypes and caricatures and racist slurs even, are not being repeated by the next generation. almost all of us grew up watching the films, in many countries, including me, probably including you. what was your experience, watching these films when you were a kid? i definitely grew up with a lot of these films in the 90s, and, you know, one thing that really does stick out to me is quite often people who sort of oppose these warnings don't necessarily understand

the impact that the negative, you know, portrayals had on very specific people. i grew up in surrey, i went to school there, primary school there, and i remember in school having, you know, the slurs used in peter pan used against me. i'm not native american. i'm south asian. but still, i had brown skin and i was in a white school. and kids, when you are six or seven years old, you don't differentiate. i definitely had those terms used against me, so much so that i still remember it. you have to realise these things happen, they're real. a message is of course just a message but the characters are still going to say those lines and make those slurs. and in the playground, young kids pay more attention to what the characters say than what the message says. i think that's a very good point. i think this is the absolute bare minimum that, you know, disney is doing. personally, you know, would it be better do not have those lines at all? yeah, i think so.

because it's children's programming, i think it would be nice to not have to keeping seeing those things repeated. but you know, i think a lot of people are opposed to that, that these films should be shown as they existed and that is a hot debate. i am a little against thatjust because of my own experiences. i wish they would change. but if the warning does at least mean parents can talk to their children about this and make sure that those children don't continue these mistakes, then at least that's something, right? and it's notjust about the past, the british actor john boyega, who is black, has accused disney of sidelining black characters in the latest star wars. did he have a point? i think he does. and john boyega spoke so eloquently about his own experience, now that he can speak openly, now that he is done with his contract. and i think it's really eye—opening to hear it from him.

i think a lot of us, we have been reporting on the industry, and someone like me who looks at diversity and inclusion in film and entertainment in hollywood, we have seen that and we talk about it and we've mentioned it, but it really requires someone who is really experiencing it to speak out as well. and john boyega would be — the platform he has and just being able to bring a spotlight to that experience was really important, i think. piya sinha—roy there. let's sail to the beautiful tanzanian archipelago of zanzibar now, well—known for being a spectacular tourist spot. and what better way to get around the islands than on a boat tour? well, the tours are a key source of income for some locals, but cancellations caused by tourists' fears about covid—19 have affected their incomes. hajib mwa—limu tells us his story.

translation: i have been doing this for more than ten years. my work is to take visitors to the islands. sometimes i bring them to an island like this, or i take them to coral stones. they swim and explore worlds underwater like and fish that live in the coral. 0ne one person can pay up to us $50. when they have paid the tour office on the island, it means they are cleared to enter the marine parks here. if i get a customerfrom my agent, then in one day i can earn $13 on average. but if i get the customer myself, i can get more than that, around $25 a day. i have five kids. three of them are in school.

two of them are still young. life is really difficult, but i appreciate that for it daily home upkeep. this brings sustenance to us. at least they get food for the house. the challenges? well, when there are visitors 01’ well, when there are visitors or terrorists, we are happy. —— tourists. but when there are no visitors, it means there is no business for us. at the moment there are very few visitors, they are not as satisfied with the numbers like before. the effects of corona? there was no work. i had no money. it was a problem. i had to go out to fish. that way i was able to survive. even then, when we would go out and fish we had to organise ourselves. only a few of us at a time,

so that we wouldn't transmit the virus to each other. my greatestjoy is when i'm with the visitors — it's a guarantee that i will have something for that day, butjust on my own, there is no joy. i'm happy when they come, because immediately i know i have no worries. having no worries, that is something to aspire to. before we go, something to make you smile. this was the moment ten penguins were released back into the wild in brazil. look at their excited, you don't see it yet, they are waddling. here it yet, they are waddling. here it comes! there they are. they had been found washed ashore wea k had been found washed ashore weak and hungry in the southern state injuly weak and hungry in the southern state in july and weak and hungry in the southern state injuly and august. the animal rescue organisation said the young penguins likely lost their way on the first annual migration from patagonia in

search of food. let's hope they enjoy that ocean. do stay with us enjoy that ocean. do stay with us bbc news. hello there, the weather is set to change in a big way next week. but before then, essentially we've got more of the same. and probably skies looking a bit like this across many parts of the country. there will be a lot of cloud around this weekend. for many places, it may well be dry, but for all of us, it's going to be on the cool side. we've still got this nose of high pressure sitting across the uk. keeping this area of low pressure away, but threatening with some showers in the far south—west. also we've got cooler air coming down from the north, bringing all this cloud into scotland, into northern england and into northern ireland and there may be a bit of drizzle in that quite low cloud as well, so quite grey and gloomy. further south, still fairly cloudy out there but there may be a little sunshine at times, the odd shower more especially towards the far south—west of england. for many of us, temperatures like they were on friday, 12 or 13 degrees. that cloud still around into the evening and the cloudier

skies continue to move across the northern half of the uk overnight. and again, a few pockets of light rain or drizzle further south. some breaks in the cloud, perhaps. the cloud certainly thinner here, so temperatures could be a bit lower than those sort of numbers suggest. but for many, we're looking at sixes and sevens on saturday night into sunday morning and a lot of cloud again on sunday. and again, we've got a few pockets of light rain or drizzle here and there. the showers should be moving away from the south—west over more southern parts of england and wales. there will be a better chance of seeing some sunshine, giving the temperatures a bit of a boost, 1a or 15 degrees, contrast that with the eight or nine that we're struggling up to the north—east of scotland and perhaps the north—east of england. high pressure over the weekend, doesn't last into next week. instead, we've got areas of low pressure coming in steadily from the atlantic, and that means the weather is changing. so, we've got some rain on the way on monday. at the moment, it looks like it's mainly going to be across northern ireland and into scotland, some heavier rain over the hills. england and wales with a little bit of sunshine at times. there will be a stronger wind from the south at this time. and that means temperatures are going to be higher, perhaps as high as 15 or 16 in the south—east of the uk.

next week, though, looks very different from what we've seen just recently. it will be a bit milder but the winds will be strengthening with showers or longer spells of rain.

this is bbc news. the headlines: president macron of france has paid tribute to a teacher beheaded by a knifeman in a suburb of paris, saying he was killed for advocating freedom of expression. he called him a victim of an islamist terror attack and declared that deception and violence would not win. armenian missiles have again struck azerbaijan's second city, ganja, as fighting continues over nagorno karabakh. images from the scene show a huge pile of rubble with people searching for survivors in the dark. an azeri official said over twenty homes were destroyed and at least six people killed with more than thirty wounded. britain's prime minister, borisjohnson, has said the country should prepare for ending the brexit transition period without a trade deal at the end of this year. he said this could only be avoided if the european union fundamentally changed its negotiating position.