hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. france honours a teacher, beheaded by an islamist, with a ceremony under way right now in paris. these are the pictures coming in live. the french president, emmanuel macron, is giving a tribute to samuel paty, and will award him the legion of honour. also in the programme: reports say as many as 20 people shot dead, in the protests in nigeria. gunfire. this is the moment the shootings are said to have started. there are reports of at least 20 deaths. please give peace a chance.

south yorkshire has entered the highest level of restrictions, and the row between the mayor and the government continues. pope francis says he believes same—sex couples should be allowed to have civil unions — something that dozens of countries around the world already allow. the french president, emmanuel macron, is giving a tribute to samuel paty, the history teacher who was beheaded last week after he showed depictions of the pohet mohammed to his class. these are the live pictures coming to us from paris. president macron will award mr paty the country's highest order of merit, the legion d'honneur at a ceremony in sorbonne university, in paris. i'm joined now by our correspondent hugh

schofield. help us understand more of the ceremony and the proceedings that we are seeing here. well, we are in the university chosen because it represents academic freedom, samuel paty was a teacher. inside the university, they're paty was a teacher. inside the university, they‘ re pictures paty was a teacher. inside the university, they're pictures of louis pasteur and 3—400 people, with restrictions because of covid. we can see emmanuel macron delivering his ten minute speech, which was very moving. before that, he already had a private moment with the family with the insignia of the legion d'honneur on the coffin which is there, a tribute to the dead man whose body is there. and we had a reading from a friend of samuel paty‘s, a new poem written by a teacher, then we had president macron as well

delivering a ten minute tribute, starting off by saying, "i won't speak about islam and the cowers who led to this killing. i've had enough of words, oui’ killing. i've had enough of words, our actions will follow. " then he paid tribute to the man and his devotion to teaching. he was the sort of teacher that we all dream of having, the man who could change her life. then towards the end, he said the key point is address, why was this man killed? a friend of his family knew the quran, he read it, he made up to the every attempt to include muslims in his class. why was he killed ? include muslims in his class. why was he killed? he was killed precisely because of all that, according to president macron. in his want to control our future, but they know they will never control it as long as there are quiet heroes like this. and that i think sums up the feeling you want to impart. this

man quietly doing hisjob, and it's exactly those types of unsung heroes who will be the real block to islamism and the extremism of that religion. you, stay with us please. france is holding a national day of tribute for samuel paty. he was killed by an 18—year—old attacker who was later shot dead by police, but seven other people are being prosecuted in connection with the murder. the french anti—terrorism public prosecutor gave more details today. translation: the attacker arrived at the college at about 2pm. he approached a student and offered around 300 euros to identify mr paty. as he stood with the attacker, several other students arrived — the first one explained to them what the attacker was suggesting. they agreed to share the money. others decided not to stay. the student who had agreed to take the money gave the killer a physical description of mr paty. the attacker told them he was going to punish mr paty

for showing the cartoons of the prophet, and humiliate and beat him. what we know of those who will be prosecuted in connection with this crime? he mentioned the prosecutor, they've not technically been placed under judicial investigation, but they will be. a key figure is a teacher is the parent of the school —— he's the man who started the campaign against samuel paty, relying on the account of his daughter who it turned out was lying to him. so the whole campaign was based on false information from a daughter who was never there at the event when he showed the caricatures. he certainly to be placed under prosecution, and a radical whojoined the campaign, whojoined in to a radical whojoined the campaign, who joined in to lend a radical whojoined the campaign, whojoined in to lend his a radical whojoined the campaign, who joined in to lend his way to the campaign will also be facing

charges, no doubt about that. then there are about three people who brought the killer by the knife to the school, and then these two schoolboys, aged 14 and 15 who will probably face charges and be placed under investigation for providing the information, showing to the killer who the teacher was for money. the prosecutors said that wasn't an anodyne event — they knew that the killer was up to no good, they didn't know he would kill him but they knew he was up to no good. and yet they took the money and waited to watch to see what would happen. hugh, thank you very much. hugh schofield live with us from france. to nigeria, president buhari is calling for calm — but many nigerians are furious. there are reports that last night, multiple people were shot dead during the latest protests in lagos. the nigerian army denies

its soldiers were responsible — but experience tells us its word cannot be relied upon. this is what we do know. this protests was in an affluent lagos suburb called lekki. and shooting took place at the lekki toll gate. reports vary but at least hundreds of people had gathered as part of protests against police brutality that have grown in recent weeks. these pictures show protestors running to take shelter as we hear the sound of gunfire. some reports say the shooting lasted for an hour. they are shooting at us, they are shooting! they are trying to kill all of us. and i want to show you another video that's been widely shared. you can hear protesters singing the national anthem amid gunfire. singing. gunfire

singing continues here's the account of one man who was on the streets last night. i saw over three dead bodies. died on the spot outside where they had been shot last night. i saw them. so it was really, really terrible. and these people would not harm, they were not holding any form of weapons. all there was was a nigerian flag. and this is from human rights group amnesty international, saying it has credible and disturbing reports of deaths. what we have heard from victims and family members of victims, and eyewitnesses show that there were deaths. and we are not certain of the exact number as of this time because we are still investigating, but i can assure you that what the government said is not a true reflection of what happened yesternight. authorities are downplaying the incident.

the nigerian army's twitter account put out a series of tweets, labelling news reports of the shooting of protestors as fake news and claiming there were no soldiers at the scene. but our correspondent martin patience — who was previously based in lagos — has tweeted. .. denials too from the state governor of lagos. he says authorities are investigating one death, and that it's not clear if he was a protester. and he said this. i will do everything to ensure that every life matters. the protests have been going on for the past two weeks. they began over a notorious police unit — the special anti—robbery squad — also known as sars — which has been accused of human rights violations including torture and extra —judicial killings. president buhari dissolved the police unit last week,

but demonstrations continued, calling for more changes in the security forces and wider reforms against corruption. lagos state governor now claims criminals have now hijacked the protest movement. on tuesday, he announced an indefinite curfew across lagos — which, bear in mind, is africa's largest city. these are some of the latest pictures from lagos today — shops have closed and streets are deserted. and look at these pictures — a major nigerian tv station linked to one of the ruling party's top politicians that's been set alight. next, let's understand how these protests have become about much more than a police unit. kiki mordi is a journalist in lagos. a lot of people are angry and on the street because, every other day while they protest, there is one incident of violence after another. and so, they don't believe that sars has truly been disbanded. this is coupled with the fact that sars has been disbanded four times in the past

four years in nigeria. and so there's this distrust between the people in the government, so they are calling for more action, more resignations, they‘ re calling for, you know, arms withdrawal because people have still given first—hand accounts of sars still, in fact, being on the streets and in their uniforms. next, we're going to hear from someone who was in one of lagos' main streets and filmed this — the scene after troops allegedly started shooting at protesters. and then, this happened. gunfire those videos were filmed by dolapo osunsina, a lawyer and social worker based in lagos. and we can speak to her now.

thank you very much indeed for your time. tell us more about what you saw last night? it was horrendous. we were there in the afternoon. so i was riding my bike along — i wanted to go to the protest, but i was advised not to go because it was u nsafe. advised not to go because it was unsafe. so i was feeling very anxious and upset because i thought that the curfew was imposed to sort of kill our morale and kill the momentum that we'd been building. so i got on my bike and i was writing along. i rode along the street and i saw a band of protesters. within three hours, the numbers had risen from 52150-200. it three hours, the numbers had risen from 52150—200. it was peaceful, it was great that the

people were singing the national anthem, they had created a platform for young people to express themselves and to sing and dance. it was a peaceful protest, and i was really, really organised, or impressed that the organisers had blocked off the street. we talked about what would happen if they did come. we practised, we sang the national anthem, and we sat down on the floor. and we told ourselves that when they do come, that we would sit down and wave the flag. and i think the most disheartening thing was the trust and the faith in the government not to attack us if we sat down and waved the flag. and within two hours, we saw the

sirens. they through tear gas and everyone dispersed. people ran underneath cars, they ran into the roads. i hid behind a tree. did you see who was firing? yes, we did. it was the police, they were firing shots. they fired about 30 rounds. and itjust went on and on, and on and on. people were running — we tried to lay a lo book, because of the tear gas, a lot of people had to disperse. it was horrifying, it was really scary. people were crying. yeah, it was just... really scary. people were crying. yeah, it wasjust... it really scary. people were crying. yeah, it was just... it was surreal. it sounds terrifying. did

you see anyone who had been hit by the bullets ? anyone who had been hit by the bullets? nobody was hit at this particular protest, no one was hit by the bullets because thankfully there was lots of inner roads, so people ran into the roads, they ran underneath cars, they took shelter behind cars and trees. people were only affected by the tear gas. so nobody was hit by a bullet, thankfully. but they were there and they were protesting peacefully, and it was just uncalled for. and, yeah, we we re it was just uncalled for. and, yeah, we were really upset by it. and we can see that upset. thank you so much for us speaking to us, and for telling us your experiences. she was

at the protest and lay ghosts when the prior hearing began. next let's hearfrom shay—un kuti, his father was the late afrobeat pioneer fela kuti who was jailed by a previous buhari government back in 1984. his grandmother was also one of nigeria's best known women activists. here's his reaction to what happened in lagos last night. everybody feels very sad and heartbroken right now. i think this goes very far to confirm that there are still slave masters and a slave relationship between authority figures and the people of this country. and we are happy that this movement is not only aboutjustice, but about claiming our citizenship of nigeria. there seems to be a chasm between what eyewitnesses are saying and what the authorities are saying? definitely, we were at the

scene of the shooting earlier today and meta scene of the shooting earlier today and met a number of eyewitnesses who we re and met a number of eyewitnesses who were all adamant that they were shot at by members of the armed forces, many of whom described as wearing camouflage. they were believed to be soldiers because nobody else is allowed to wear camouflage in nigeria, and they also told us they had seen a number of bodies. now that figure kept changing, but amnesty international has come out ofan amnesty international has come out of an investigation and said it counted i2 bodies between both incidences. and the curfew is still in place in theory, but is it being respected today? so some parts of legos, like where we are, things we re very legos, like where we are, things were very quiet with very few cars on the streets. but when we drove into a lackey, which is one of the areas with violence last night, we noticed groups, mostly young men,

roaming around the streets. many of them said that they were there to protest, to show that they wouldn't be intimidated by yesterday's events. and some also told us that they were there to try to stop looters who were targeting businesses. we did see some businesses. we did see some businesses go up in flames and a couple of businesses had broken windows and a burned out cash machine. so there was evidence of destruction there but, for the part, people we spoke to her really keen to state that what happened last night was incredibly traumatising to many of them. but they came out to the street to have their voices heard. thank you very much to our correspondent in legos. a growing list of celebrities have pledged their support for the demonstrators, including beyonce, rihanna, kanye west, and naomi campbell. and the nigerian footballer odionjude igalo, who plays for manchester united,

posted this video on twitter. i can't keep quiet any more for what is going on back home in nigeria. i will say to the nigerian government — you are a shame to the world. for killing your own citizens, sending military to the streets to kill unharmful protesters because they are protesting for their rights. it's uncalled for. and the protests have spread to other places, too. this is london. protesters gathered outside nigeria's high commission building — holding banners denouncing the nigerian president. let's bring in chi chi izundu, our west africa correspondent. how has the international community reacted? well, as we know, these protests have been going on for a number of days now. and as it's been growing momentum, a number of celebrities that you've mentioned already have actually joined that you've mentioned already have actuallyjoined in. a lot of the time with the social media hashtag and sars protest, referencing police

brutality, and also the special armed forces unit that the nigerian population are calling for an end to. like you said, names like kanye west, naomi campbell, falette davis, rihanna have alljoined in and asked to stand with their nigerian brothers and sisters to call for an end to the police brutality —— violette davis. this morning, one of the biggest names in this liberty world, beyonce, joined calls because lots of people were asking for her tojoin calls. it lots of people were asking for her to join calls. it caused some controversy because some people were asking what could she do aside from tweet? but she's responded, saying she stands with her nigerian brothers and sisters. her charity work is now extending to those in nigeria offering shelter and food, and any kind of emergency help that they may require. but of course that will cause controversy because some

people in social media said they didn't want her help. they needed people to instill diplomacy and put an end to the violence that they saw last night. thank you very much, we appreciate it. there's much more on that story on the bbc news website. there's been a big jump in coronavirus infections in the uk. over 26,000 cases have been recorded in 2a hours — up from over 21,000 the day before. and there have been 191 reported deaths. meanwhile, the fallout from the government's imposition of strict covid regulations on greater manchester continues. the government failed to reach a deal on the financial support that would be offered to the region. and confusion continued over how much the government will be offering. this was from parliament earlier. i'm very proud that this government has already given greater manchester £1.1 billion in support for business, £200 million in extra funding,

£50 million to tackle infections in care homes, 20 million for test and trace, another 22 million for local response that we announced yesterday. and yesterday, the mayor of greater manchester was offered a further £60 million, which he turned down, mr speaker — with no encouragement, i may say, of support from the right honourable gentleman. so i can tell the house today, mr speaker, that that cash will be distributed to the boroughs of greater manchester. so £60 million, or $78 million, in extra funding. that's below what local leaders wanted. and opposition leader keir starmer went on the attack. this is a prime minister who can find £7,000 a day for consultants on track and trace, which isn't working, that can find £43 million for a bridge that was never built — but he can't find £5 million for the people of greater manchester. i really think the prime minister's crossed the rubicon here, not just with the miserly way that he's treated greater manchester, but the grubby take—it—or—leave—it way these local deals are being done.

it's corrosive to public trust to pit region against region, mayor against mayor, council against counsel, asking them to trade away their businesses and jobs. we need a one—nation approach — replace these endless limp local battles with clear national criteria and proper support for jobs. this all comes after ten days of talks that came to nothing. here's sarah corker in manchester with more on the saga. the labour mayor of greater manchester said he'd support a package of £65 million. the government offered 60. there was no agreement. in a strongly worded letter, some conservative mps from greater manchester said that mr burnham was putting his ego before his responsibility to those he represents, and accused him of putting hundreds of thousands of people in jeopardy.

workers affected by tier 3 restrictions, so those employed by businesses forced to close by law will have two thirds of their wages paid for by the government. the hospitality sector, though, fears some businesses may not survive moving into this top tier of restrictions. we're treading water and we seem to be playing a game at the moment. every day, i don't know whether i'm opening or closing. last week, i didn't know which tier we would be in. we ran ourfood all down, we ran all our beer down, our cask, so it wouldn't perish. and then the next day, i'm told that i need to reorder — and i'm ordering them, and then we are shutting down again. so it's playing a bit of a game really at the moment, and it's affecting everybody. greater manchester is the first area to be forced into england's highest level of alert against the wishes of local leaders, who say they are standing up for an area already suffering after months of local lockdown.

well, more areas in the north of england are facing tougher restritions. from saturday, these four areas in south yorkshire will move to tier 3 — that's the highest alert level. that means some pubs and restaurants will shut, and household mixing will be banned. funding again is crucial. south yorkshire will get a package worth £4! million — or $53.5 million. danjohnson is in sheffield. this is another million or so people who are affected by the highest level of local lockdown restrictions. and the mayor of the city region here in south yorkshire, dan jarvis, said city region here in south yorkshire, danjarvis, said he had accepted those tighter measures because more older people were contracting the virus here. he said, "the number of people in covid—i9 in hospitals has doubled over the last few days." he said there was no sign that would rele nt over said there was no sign that would relent over the coming weeks, and in action was not an option. that means there will be further disruption to social life and business

too. we will turn to more areas of the pandemic in the second half of outside source. hello there. we've seen some pretty heavy rain across parts of northern ireland and scotland to start this week. and during today, it was england and wales which saw the wettest of the weather. for thursday, it looks like conditions will turn a bit dry for many of us, thanks to this ridge of high pressure, and many should get some sunshine as well. now this is a complicated area of low pressure which has brought in all the rain for england and wales, and also across northern scotland. it'll hang around the north of the uk as we move through the overnight period. some pretty heavy rain there, strong winds blowing down from the north—northeast. for england and wales, it looks like conditions will turn drier through the night, there will still be quite a bit of cloud here and there and a few showers, but also some clear spells. temperatures not quite as mild as they were the previous night, but still 9—12 celsius here, and generally single figures in the north.

now this area of low pressure continues to push away into the north sea as we move through thursday. it'll still affect much of scotland, perhaps the far northeast of england with very strong winds. but this ridge of high pressure will continue to build, and that will settle things down. so we start off with cloud and rain, strong winds across northern scotland — that should slowly ease away, and showers further south should tend to fade as that ridge of high pressure begins to move in. so by the latter part of the afternoon, northern ireland and much of england and wales should be dryer with good spells of sunshine, and it will tend to remain cloudy and breezy further north. a fairly mild day but not quite as mild as it has been, with temperatures 10—16 celsius in the southeast. doesn't last long, though, because the next frontal system will make inroads for friday, bringing outbreaks of rain, stronger cloud and winds in the northwest of the country. some heavier bursts of rain on that as it continues to move eastwards, but it will tend to weaken as it moves into central and eastern parts of england. behind it, sunshine and showers —

these will be blustery and it will be windy all day pretty much across the board, but especially to the northwest of scotland. some of these showers will merge together to produce longer spells of rain. temperature—wise, again, a little bit down from the last few days, 9—12 celsius in the north, 12—14 celsius further south. as we head on into the weekend, it turns even more unsettled. saturday looks like a very windy day with widespread gales, heavy showers and longer spells the rain. it'll be mild too and turn fresher into sunday.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. france honours a teacher, beheaded by an islamist, with a ceremony in paris. president macron said the teacher — who showed his class cartoons of the prophet muhammad — was slain by "cowards" for representing the secular values of the french republic. samuel paty was given the legion d'honneur, the highest medal france can award. a major development in nigeria. reports say as many as 20 people have been shot dead, in protests against police corruption. this is the moment the shootings are said to have started. the state governor denied the claims, and called for calm. please give

peace a chance. barack obama's making a return to the campaign trail — he'll be taking the stump in pennsylvania later to help joe biden win the white house. and pope francis says he thinks same—sex couples should be allowed to have civil unions. something that dozens of countries around the world, already allow. several developments in the us election campaign. first there's the fallout from this story from the new york times. it's based on the president's tax records — and reports that donald trump has a bank account in china and spent years pursuing business projects in the country. a lawyer for the trump organisation said that the company had opened an account with a chinese bank, but added —"no deals, transactions or other business activities ever materialized and, since 2015, the office has remained inactive. . .."though the bank

account remains open, it has never been used for any other purpose." now this story is important for a couple of reasons — the first is about taxes. the chinese bank account paid out almost $190,000 in local taxes between 2013 and 2015. a previous times story revealed president trump paid just $750 in us federal taxes the year he was elected, 2016, and his first year in office. the second is that president trump has been critical of his democratic rivaljoe biden stance on china. here's what he said at a rally over the weekend. china has already bought and paid forjoe biden. ifjoe biden became president china will own this country. now, to the clear there is no evidence for this. joe biden's income tax returns

and public financial disclosures show no business dealings connected to china. there is also no evidence mr biden's son hunter received a large personal payout following a business deal in china — a claim some trump campaign surrogates have made. well today eyes are on the battleground state of —pennsylvania. barack obama will be campaigning for his vice presidentjoe biden. before 2016, pennsylvania had voted democrat in six straight presidential elections. but mr trump won it narrowly. according to the polling website real clear politics, joe biden is ahead by 3.5 percentage points — but his lead has just about halved over the last few weeks. and it's worth pointing out that hillary clinton was projected to win the state by 2.5 points at this stage in 2016 — and she lost it. here's julia terruso from the philadelphia inquirer. i believe president obama will make

a direct appeal today to black americans specifically back men who don't traditionally turn out in numbers as high as supplemented and that it numbers as high as supplemented and thatitis numbers as high as supplemented and that it is a group that president trump's campaign has been trying to make inroads with so i would expect president obama to speak directly to black male voters and try to appeal to them to come out forjoe biden. i guess it's always this way that we end up focusing on the same few states ? end up focusing on the same few states? that is right. the battle ground states but also the few counties within those states and in pennsylvania it is about three that voted for president obama and then switched to a president trump in 2016. that is may be thought of the president and erie pennsylvania last night and why barack obama is coming out today to philadelphia to appeal as we just heard directly to black

militaries because these are the voters who did not turn out for hillary clinton in 2016 and arguably may have cost her the entire election. we are seeing a lot of attention on pennsylvania as we are announcing states in the event up to the election but pennsylvania is the one state that scarred democrats deeply. i was there, i looked at what should have been a victory party for hillary clinton and it turned into a funeral as it became clear that the blue wall had crumbled and pennsylvania had swung to trump and she lost the election. help me understand how barack obama fits into the practical information in this campaign because some people watching about the web might be thinking you have a 2—term president here on your side, why are we not see more of him? good question. you cannot blame the pandemic entirety for that. he has kept a very low profile particularly during the primaries ran joe profile particularly during the primaries ranjoe biden was up againstan primaries ranjoe biden was up against an enormous field of candidates as e—mail. he did

not endorse anybody until very late on whenjoe biden endorse anybody until very late on when joe biden had endorse anybody until very late on whenjoe biden had effectively clinched the deal and this is pretty much the first time that he had seen him on the campaign trail. he is the democrat's rock star. the fact that they are leaving the base plate to bring him out i think says a lot about the fact that the meeting in pennsylvania and why the democrats this is not a done deal. thank you very much. we will have full coverage of the us presidential campaign in the coming two weeks. brazil's president jair bolsonaro says his government will not buy china's sinovac covid—19 vaccine. this is significant because just yesterday, sao paulo's governor said after a meeting with the health minister, that the federal government had agreed to do this. the deal we were told would mean the government buying 46 million doses and people could start receiving them by january 2021. and of course brazil is desperate for a vaccine — it has almost 5.3 million cases — the third highest tally in the world

after the us and india, and is second only to the us in terms of deaths, with almost 155,000 registered so far. but the chinese vaccine plan appears to now be off. earlier the president tweeted for my government, any vaccine, before being made available to the population, must be scientifically proven by the ministry of health and certified by anvisa. the brazilian people will be nobody‘s guinea pig.‘ now this chinese vaccine is being tested by the butantan institute, which is the research centre in sao paulo. evidently there remains works to do. katy watson, sao paulo. chinese vaccine is being tested by the butantan institute, which is the research centre in sao paulo. evidently there remains works to do. katy watson, sao paulo. it is quite confusing, how come there is so much moving around on

whether this is happening or not?“ you need any more evidence about how political covid—19 has become, this isa political covid—19 has become, this is a year in prison. the governor of sao paulo has been one of the most powerful politicians in the crisis. in fact, he from the very beginning disagrees over how to deal with the pandemic. he encouraged client to him, he encouraged stay—at—home and he openly disagreed and this is a man who backed both narrowing the elections and many people feel he may run for the next term as president, and he is the rifle and this is something that they are seeing play out. he is a time for unity and this is not a question of politics or ideology. it is a

question of trying to tackle covid—19. it is where we are at. this practical spot over vaccines. isn't it correct that work is still going on on this vaccine impress so there may come a point down the track that the president says ok i am now satisfied is a safe and you could argue that's a reasonable position to hold. absolutely. when hea position to hold. absolutely. when he a statement having had a discussion with the health minister and 2a governors said the buying of 46 million doses of the vaccine would only come after the health regulator okayed it so it was never going to be something that he wanted to going to be something that she wa nted to going to be something that she wanted to go out regardless in fact after that oxford university vaccine chapel base and have to go to the same process but the issue is yes, they are still continuing to do the trials and sao paulo has become the base here in brazil

of the corona back vaccine as it's called here and those will continue but once it goes regulator of course it has to go to the ministry of health and that of course is the question whether it will be ok by the health ministry. it looks pretty busy behind you there, to what degree is a life getting back to some form of normality? that life is pretty normality? that life is pretty normal now. it has been for several months now, of course here in sao paulo there was quarantine and the governor did encourage people to stay home but that to me there was no national lockdown and that because of tension of confusion and people here started to go and been desperate to go back to work and a lot of people especially indian from an economy we needed to work so life has become a bit more normal. restau ra nts, has become a bit more normal. restaurants, shopping centres,

with restrictions. a huge moment for the catholic church — and for gay catholics. pope francis today said he thinks same—sex couples should be allowed to have civil unions. that's a significant departure from vatican law and from his predecessors. he made these comments in a documentary that premiered on wednesday as part of the rome film festival. here's the trailer. the film is called francesco and in it he says: "homosexual people are children of god and have a right to a family. nobody should be thrown out or made miserable over it. what we have to create is a civil union law. that way they are legally covered." why do it in a family? —— in a fair number? this is a very personal

documentary. ape gave a big chance to the pope to speak in spanish and in italian about his journey from the streets of buenos aires through argentina and into his elevation here so this is a moment when he spoke personally about certain issues and he was talking about receiving a gay man here in their back again who wrote a letter to the pope saying how he wanted to bring his children into the church and in the context of that discussion but the context of that discussion but the fact that it was said in an interview and not in a more formal setting and not as the product of high—level discussions within the vatican makes vatican watchers feel this is not going to be an eminent change in church policy. we will not that any fee that church setting me and civil unions just because the pope said so in an interview and in an unusual

setting as such. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we will ask whether president trump succeeded in his four years of foreign policy. we have been looking at this through the week and really look again at the ramifications of america first approach this time with a focus on the middle east. the england footballer, marcus rashford, who has led a campaign on free school meals, has warned mps not to turn a blind eye to what he called vulnerable children. the commons is due to debate a labour party call to extend free school meals in england through the holidays. so far the government has refused to support the proposal. here's our education correspondent, elaine dunkley. the start of the day at the primary school comes as a relief to many children and their families. brea kfast clu b children and their families. breakfast club is the guarantee of a

meal they might not have at home. you can go to the breakfast club and had a bagel or a piece of toast. what would happen? you will probably have an empty stomach and probably feel a little sick. with half-time not far away, holiday hunger is at the forefront of parents minds. throughout the summer, they relied on free school meal vouchers. we would not have survived you worry a lot about making sure there is enough food and you have to find that main meal for the kids in and see people struggle. the coronavirus pendant —— pandemic has brought additional hardship and stigma. in the school there is a food bank and a clothing store and on weekends teachers deliver food parcels. a clothing store and on weekends teachers deliverfood parcels. it's really nice to bring food to someone. they are so grateful when

you come to the door and its many times that we have been emotionally upset now we have parents that don't have jobs any more and don't know how they're going to survive. have jobs any more and don't know how they're going to survive! winning goalfrom marcus rushford last night and today he was hoping for success in extending the free school meal voucher scheme. so far, the government has said no. the test council has been given an additional £62 million for families facing financial difficulties. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is? ata at a ceremony in paris, president read tribute to a teacher who was beheaded after he showed a cartoon of the prophet muhammad in class.

the outcome of the us election will influence things far beyond america's borders. and all this week, a bbc news series has been looking at "what the world wants from america". and has been assessing the global impact of the trump presidency so far. today, we turn to the middle east — starting with rana rahimpour from bbc persian, on us policy towards iran. from the early days of his campaign, donald trump made it clear what he thinks of the nuclear deal. this was a horrible one—sided deal that should have never, ever been made. he said the deal is not containing the initial programme and that it enabled tehran to continue what he calls its the middle east. so trump withdrew from the nuclear deal. he reimposed us sanctions against iran including a run's oil sales and financial transactions. this has left the international community critical of presidentjohn's policy for the fair it may further alienate iran and push it to the hardliners.

then there was the killing selling money one of the deadliest military in the middle east. iran responded by attacking to american bases. but no soldiers were killed. it actually seems to work. iran has dialled down its activity in the persian gulf in recent months. the question is will iran come to the table if donald trump is elected ? iran come to the table if donald trump is elected? where will the financial and humanitarian hardships of another four years of sanctions lead to unrest that destabilises yet another country in the middle east? not everyone in the middle east sees the us president as a fool. trump picked saudi arabia for his first overseas trip and it was the first time for a us president. two weeks later saudi arabia, united arab emirates and egypt had boarded a blockade accusing them of

maintaining quality relations with trump and supporting terrorism. initially president trump did not hide his bias. but the american stands towards the gulf that changed eventually. for plenty of reasons, a crisis would harm the energy sector and negatively affect the us. the pentagon was worried about it the largest military base in the middle east and three, that blockade seem to backfire and push qatar more towards iran. president trump sold arms deals to both saudi arabia and the united arab emirates despite congressional criticism and the war in yemen. and the next step after sending all these weapons into the region, a piece beer. after decades, trump has overseen the normalisation of ties between the united arab emirates and israel.

you have been the greatest friends that israel has had in the white house. trump had pledged during the campaign to recognise the claim tojerusalem and be personally delivered on that and later trump decided to move the embassy from tel aviv and move that over ten decades of official us policy. and put the rest at odds with the international community. viewed from the palestinian side it was not good either. jerusalem was going to be the capital of a future state. but for trump that's was one step in the pursuit of peace in the region. he came up with a plan and about 70% of the west bank and of its capital on the fringe of east jerusalem. if far right leaders believe the peace plan endangers

the existence of this state of israel and others argue that many favourites to israel are intended to aid president trump's election. some some of the decisions president trump has ta ken have primarily affected individual countries. some though have arguably affected us all. president trump has put an end to us multi—lateralism — and his his america first policies have ofen meant america removing itself from joint efforts with other countries. that has not pleased everyone. here's carl bildt, the former prime minister of sweden. trump has —— clearly it's very important and if we take the global health issue and the world health organisation extremely important these days, trump has left so you can go through that area by area and see how it was previously always trying to exercise some sort of good and global leadership and global

issues and left the arena. us foreign policy exists to serve us interests of course. and there are plenty of commentators who'll argue president trump's policy has done just that. foreign policy magazine says "trump's foreign policy adventures haven't all flopped" saying "trump steered well clear of any costly new military blunders like the war in iraq or the 2011 intervention in libya." the open democracy website asks "why isn't donald trumpeting his foreign policy record". .. mentioning "the thorny issue of north korea is currently sidelined, with trump able to argue that his deal—making skills have brought kim jong—un to the table". all be it coming to the table and then not getting a deal. and the right—wing magazine the spectator says "we should give trump credit for his foreign policy successes" saying "any fair analysis must concede that he has tackled some entrenched foreign policy problems and put us interests to the fore." bruno macaes is a former a portuguese government minister — he's now a

foreign affairs analyst. thank you for your time. how do you assess the trump impact on foreign policy in america's relationship especially with europe. i think the record on foreign policy tells a different story. he has not started any new awards and you might say it's a little bar but he is the first american president sincejimmy carter who left office in 1980 not to start a new wire and i think my fundamentally as we look to the future i think he has introduced a number of inconvenient discussions into the washington bible and he has asked for example why the us is still in afghanistan, 20 years after the image invasion and he is asked why the very wealthy western european nations are not able to support the cost of their defence without relying on the united states and up this feature many as the prime example of that. now you may ask how he offered an alternative andi

ask how he offered an alternative and i don't think he has but he has done such a complete demolition job that i think you will find it very difficult to go back to the previous consensus. he has also put a? next to the alliance between western europe and america, do you not think there are consequences of that?” think that's an exaggeration. i listened to my good friend just before i came in and he has not done that. he has been quite careful not to ta ke that. he has been quite careful not to take any dangerous steps that could endanger transatlantic relationships and i have followed very closely he was very close according to my sources to introduce ta riffs according to my sources to introduce tariffs against auto—makers and european andjimmy tariffs against auto—makers and european and jimmy auto—makers and he did not do that and he has not done it till the elections and has been very careful about what he says he never crossed the line particularly on article five so i think someone says in the financial times today a farmer director of policy planning at the state department that the change he would introduce is more about style than substance and there is some truth

to that. speaking of style and substance somewhat argue that the effo rts substance somewhat argue that the efforts to be a beacon for democracy all around the world have been undermined by some of the behaviour of donald trump. europe also sees itself as an example which other countries can follow and do you think that idea of the west being something for the rest of the world to aspire to has been undermined? trump creates peace synonymous passions on both sides and obviously has displaced the rest style and that may have hurt america with some audiences, not all, not in turkey, not in india, not in israel but on other issues that are deeply connected to human rights either trump or the state department under the direction has been marked active than you might think what you hear about and that's very important i think. do you think that because of mystic trump's idiosyncratic

style that perhaps the difference of its foreign policy is exaggerated in fa ct foreign policy is exaggerated in fact it's not that different to what we have seen him go before.” fact it's not that different to what we have seen him go before. i think thatis we have seen him go before. i think that is correct. i think we will see that is correct. i think we will see that when joe biden that is correct. i think we will see that whenjoe biden comes into office and another thing about trump is that he was learning on the job and he did not know much about foreign policy for the first three yea rs foreign policy for the first three years he has clearly been improvising many of his most and been a busy in terms of the reputation for competence that to be associated with the united states but i don't think being a former practitioner i don't think it's the most important thing in the and. thank you very much. that ends this hour of outside source. if you want follow—up stories on any of the information on the stories we cover and you don't have the bbc news app on your smartphone put that in your apps

there you can get much more background context and i will see you soon. goodbye. hello there. we've seen some pretty heavy rain across parts of northern ireland and scotland to start this week. and during today, it was england and wales which saw the wettest of the weather. for thursday, it looks like conditions will turn a bit dry for many of us, thanks to this ridge of high pressure, and many should get some sunshine as well. now this is a complicated area of low pressure which has brought in all the rain for england and wales, and also across northern scotland. it'll hang around the north of the uk as we move through the overnight period. some pretty heavy rain there, strong winds blowing down from the north and northeast. for england and wales, it looks like conditions will turn drier through the night, there will still be quite a bit of cloud here and there and a few showers, but also some clear spells. temperatures not quite as mild as they were the previous night, but still 9—12 celsius here, and generally single figures in the north. now this area of low pressure continues to push

away into the north sea as we move through thursday. it'll still affect much of scotland, perhaps the far northeast of england with very strong winds. but this ridge of high pressure will continue to build, and that will settle things down. so we start off with cloud and rain, strong winds across northern scotland — that should slowly ease away, and showers further south should tend to fade as that ridge of high pressure begins to move in. so by the latter part of the afternoon, northern ireland and much of england and wales should be dryer with good spells of sunshine, and it will tend to remain cloudy and breezy further north. a fairly mild day but not quite as mild as it has been, with temperatures 10—16 celsius in the southeast. doesn't last long, though, because the next frontal system will make inroads for friday, bringing outbreaks of rain, stronger cloud and winds in the northwest of the country. some heavier bursts of rain on that as it continues to move eastwards, but it will tend to weaken as it moves into central and eastern parts of england. behind it, sunshine and showers — these will be blustery and it will be windy all day pretty much

across the board, but especially to the northwest of scotland. some of these showers will merge together to produce longer spells of rain. temperature—wise, again, a little bit down from the last few days, 9—12 celsius in the north, 12—14 celsius further south. as we head on into the weekend, it turns even more unsettled. saturday looks like a very windy day with widespread gales, heavy showers and longer spells the rain. it'll be mild too and turn fresher into sunday.

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