charities after the famous 100 laps of his back garden. his exploits captured the world's imagination and inspired people to challenge themselves, striking a particular chord with the not so young and the very young. i am doing 100 backflips and amelia is doing 100 jumps. bouncing their way to raise money for the young at heart, the charity that has helped take care of four—year—old amelia, she and her older brother harry will be spending most of the weekend on the trampoline. along with inspiration the challenge also encourages innovation. heather has pledged to raise money for her local hospital while picking up 100 pieces of rubbish. anybody watching, please do what you can to help the environment, but also help captain tom and keep his legacy alive. so, whether it is litter picking, skipping, bouncing or everything in between, this is captain tom's legacy, people who are determined

to make a difference. john maguire, bbc news. time for a look at the weather, here's louise lear. april has come and gone and there have been plenty of them to talk about. dry weather, plenty of sunshine and very little rain, but the standout story four april 2021 are the frosts. we have had a grass frost recorded somewhere in the uk every night of this month, which is quite incredible. we are closing the month out on a bit more of a traditional note with april showers. if you catch one, you will know about it. light winds mean they are very slow moving. they have been very slow moving. they have been very hit and miss so far today. coming off the north sea a few across wales and the midlands. the showers could become a bit more

widespread as we go through the afternoon with hail and thunder. there will not be much in the way of warmth, still a disappointing feel at therefore this time of year. seven to 13 degrees. the showers will ease as we go through the evening and overnight. clear skies and showerfee will evening and overnight. clear skies and shower fee will allow those temperatures to fall away once again. in fact, temperatures to fall away once again. infact, we temperatures to fall away once again. in fact, we could have a touch of frost for our first morning of may in parts of scotland, northern england and northern ireland. it will be a sparkling start, but we will see further showers as we go through this weekend. sunshine and showers this weekend. sunshine and showers this weekend. but it is the early bird that will get the sunshine first thing in the morning. as we go through the day the cloud will bubble up and the showers will become quite widespread. 0nce bubble up and the showers will become quite widespread. once again with light winds, there will be hail and thunder mixed in as well and those temperatures are still disappointing for this time of year.

looking in the way of change as we go into sunday, again it is a showery story. but some of the showers in wales, the midlands and southern england could become quite intense with thunder and lightning intense with thunder and lightning in there. that is worth bearing in mind. as we move into bank holiday monday off because it will change and it is about low pressure and rain. something we have not seen for a time as this brings some increasingly wet and windy weather. a level of uncertainty as to exactly where the rain will be sitting. the heaviest will be across northern ireland, england and wales. 0n the leading edge we could see snow on the higher ground in scotland and we might get welcome rain on those very dry areas through eastern and south—eastern england. it will be accompanied by gale force gusts of wind in places and the temperatures are disappointing. that's all from the bbc news at one so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc�*s news teams where you are.

good afternoon. it's just after 1.30 and this is the latest from the bbc sports centre. manchester united have sanctioned six people over alleged abuse of tottenham striker heung—min son. it follows their premier league game earlier this month. the club has also published statistics which highlight the growing scale of the online abuse directed at their own players. in 18 months from september 2019, there were 3,300 abusive posts towards their players. that's a 350% increase on the prior similar period. and 86% of these posts were racist. the club are joining a boycott of social media from three o'clock this afternoon. watford captain troy deeney says he hopes the sporting social media boycott pushes platforms to do more to combat online abuse. the striker is subjected to daily racial abuse and even threats to his young family. you get racial abuse

aimed not only at myself and my partner, at my children, i have had death threats put at my six—year—old girls who have nothing to do with anything. it is constant. to put it this way, you're talking daily now. not every time you have a bad game or there is an emotional uproar, it is daily, and sometimes itjust because people are genuinely bored. hopefully you can get some analytics back from it to show the impact this four days had to the market, and hope to see today's ——show today's social media companies, if this continues we will branch off and make our own social media accounts. what if there is a platform everyone has to be verified by their drivers license, national insurance number...? that then will really make people

stand up and take note. rugby�*s european champions and challenge cup finals will take place at twickenham. the games have been moved from marseille because of the impact of covid—19 in france. up to ten thousand fans will be allowed to attend both showpiece games, in line with the uk government's roadmap out of lockdown. the challenge cup final is on friday 21 may and the champions cup a day later. marseille will host both finals in 2022 instead. the world snooker championship semifinals are continuing today with mark selby and stuart bingham currently at the table. the pair were tied at 4—1; overnight. it's been tight but selby, who is chasing a fourth world title, just has the edge leading 9—7. it's the first to 17 frames, they'll be back this evening. this afternoon's session sees last year's finallist, kyren wilson, and shaun murphy in the other semifinal. wilson leads 6—2. valtteri bottas looks determined to make up for crashing out of the last f1 race in italy. he topped the time sheets in first practice for this weekend's portuguese grand prix. the finnish driver was two hundredths of a second quicker than red bull's max verstappen around the undulating circuit in portimao. but his mercedes team mate and championship leader

lewis hamilton was almost a third of a second slower in 5th place. jodi ewart shadoff and bronte law are the highest placed brits after round 2 of the women's world championship in singapore. they are tied for 12th on 6 under. south korean pair hee young park and inbee park are currently tied in the lead on 11—under, with hee young park carding 5 birdies during round 2. to the nfl draft and the jacksonville jaguars selected clemson university quarterback trevor lawrence. the 21—year—old lawrence, finished as runner—up in voting for the heisman trophy, awarded to college football's most outstanding player. the draft is being held in cleveland, ohio, as fans were welcomed back to the event a year after covid—19 forced it to go to a virtual format. the draw for the 2023 women's world cup qualifiers is taking place right now in switzerland. for that and all our stories head to the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport.

the first us consignment of emergency medical supplies has arrived in india, including hundreds of oxygen concentrators, ventilators and other items to tackle covid—nineteen. two more similarflights are expected to reach india in the next few days. the us supply is the latest to reach the country which has reported another record daily increase in coronavirus cases, with almost 390,000 new infections. there were another 3,500 deaths nationwide. members of the british asian community are sending medical supplies to their relatives in india. as the situation worsens, many here have started fundraising as rahila bano reports from bolton. how is your health? how is everyone? how is the family? for ansh, this is a desperately worrying time. make sure you take care of uncle, auntie and everyone. nine members of ansh�*s family

in delhi had the virus in november but have all recovered. since then, india's health crisis has got far worse. i call my friends or talk to my mum, there is someone who has got it and someone we know has died of it, so... it is heartbreaking. there are approximately 21,000 people of indian origin in bolton. they have been fundraising at temples, gurdwaras and mosques like this one to send money home for medical equipment. we've collected more than £5,000, £6,000 current and it is still ongoing. what happens is where the hospital can't provide them oxygen, they are buying them privately and using them in cricket fields, setting up beds wherever they possibly can. this is just one of the oxygen bottles that have been paid for by worshippers in bolton.

fundraising efforts are also taking place across the region. we have just celebrated lord hanuman�*s birthday yesterday so we felt that it was appropriate that we do something where people can come and also realise, do some devotional singing and also pray at the same time for people who are losing their loved ones. 0ne, it's a prayer meeting but secondly we are also raising funds. as the struggle continues, indian communities here hope their efforts will go a long way in helping india's fight against covid. rahila bano, bbc news, bolton. we're less than a week from may's elections, with different polls depending on where you live. 0ur correspondent lewis goodall has been taking a look at what's happening — and where. there is a bumper crop of elections coming up in england

and scotland and wales in may, the biggest set of elections, the biggest democratic test for the three major parties this side of the next general election. so let's have a look at some of the contests that are taking place across the country. for a start, we've got 143 different english councils up for election, 5000 seats, in some places, a third of the chamber, in some places, half the chamber, because some of those seats are held overfrom councils which should have been elected but weren't because of the pandemic. msps in holyrood up for election, 129 of them. all members of the welsh senedd up for election. we have seen what huge powers those bodies have in scotland and wales during the pandemic. in england as well, police and crime commissioners, up for re—election. 25 seats for the london assembly, as well as a whole suite of other

directly elected mayors, 13 of them. how are these elections conducted? it might be a bit more complicated than you think, it depends where you live and what you are voting in. in scotland and wales you get two votes, one for your local constituency member, and another for the regional list. this vote effectively helps parties which do not do so well in the local constituencies but do still do well overall in the election, it tops up their representation and gives them extra seats and makes the overall system more proportional. but that is different of course if you are living in england. in english local councils, it is our old friend, first—past—the—post. 0ne voter, one candidate, one vote, whichever candidate gets one more vote than all of the other candidates, they are elected, whichever party controls more than 50% of the seats in a local chamber, they control the local council, and if they are not able to get more than 50% of the seats, then they have to form a coalition with another party. and that is different again

if you are voting in the english mayoral elections or the police and crime commissioners. there, there is something called a supplementary vote system, voters get two preferences, if no—one gets over 50%, then the other candidates are eliminated one by one, and the preferences of those voters are redistrubuted until you get over 50% for one candidate and hey presto, you've got a mayor or you've got an english local police and crime commissioner. but one thing that unites all of these elections is the fact that they are taking place in very different circumstances than we might have expected, certainly different from back in the 1950s in the halcyon days. this one is taking place in a global pandemic. covid—secure local voting stations, voters being asked to bring their own pencil, shielders being asked to vote by post, we can't know what effect all of that is going to have on turnout. could be much lower,

could be much higher, if lots of people choose to vote by post. and therefore this is a very unpredictable set of elections and we can't know what power they are going to have in order to give us wider insight into trends in our politics more generally. lewis goodall reporting there. the headlines on bbc news. 44 people are killed in a crush at a religous festival in israel. the country's prime minister calls it one of the worst disasters in the nation's history. security worries over the prime minister's phone after it's revealed his phone number's been freely available online for the last 15 years. police investigating the murder of community support officer julia james in kent say they've found no motive or suspect. a global coalition of more than 60 leaders from technology companies and law enforcement is calling for "aggressive and urgent"

action against ransomware, which is a malicious software that infects a victim's computer. the attacker then sends a message saying a ransom needs to be paid to unblock it. gangs are routinely targeting schools, local government and hospitals. 0ur cyber reporterjoe tidy has been speaking with two victims of recent attacks. we are a normal swiss office supply company. why the hell are you hacking us? everything was gone, there is no communication anymore. and they were the worst three weeks in my life. when martin kelterborn�*s company was hacked, it very nearly destroyed his business. we could really watch live the pictures being encrypted one after the other, and losing your pictures, you don't run an online store, you don't run anything anymore. warehouses and delivery processes plunged into chaos, and this was the message that appeared on screens, the hackers' ransom,

half a million dollars in bitcoin. they do not cooperate, they want your money, or they want you dead. martin didn't pay, but recovering the business cost more than half a million dollars, and many months. during the pandemic, ransomware gangs have become bolder and crueller. they're now routinely attacking notjust private companies but schools, local governance, police forces and even hospitals. and now a coalition of more than 60 organisations including microsoft, amazon, the fbi and the uk's national crime agency, have formed a ransomware task force calling on governments to take urgent, aggressive action against these criminal gangs. their citizens, our citizens, are being impacted every day by this issue. and not only that, but really distressingly, i think, and it is not talked about enough, the funds that come in from ransom, they fund other organised criminal activities. so, you're talking about things like human trafficking. one of the things the task force wants to do is make reporting ransomware attacks compulsory,

especially if victims pay the hackers. a lack of transparency means we only know about a fraction of the true cost of ransomware. 0ne estimate for 2020 puts the real figure of ransom is paid plus business disruption at potentially $170 billion, or £122 billion. and increasingly, this is public money. hackney council in east london is still recovering after a devastating attack in october that is likely to cost more than £10 million to overcome. that october, we were seven months into a pandemic, where people are suffering enormous hardship, and to sit there and imagine that anyone could think it was ok to cause such damage to those services at a time like that is just hard to comprehend. even now, many vital services are still disrupted. investigators here are still trying to work out who attacked the council and why. but even if they can find the cyber criminals, the chances are, they will never be brought to justice. the ransomware task force report and recommendations is being delivered to the us president.

it comes a week after the us department ofjustice reportedly set up an internal team focused on combating ransomware. some ransomware gangs like evil corp live millionaire lifestyles in russia, safe from international prosecution. the newly formed ransomware task force is urging governments to aggressively target these alleged criminals and increase the pressure on the countries that harbour them. joe tidy, bbc news. it's three weeks since a volcano erupted on the caribbean island of st vincent causing a huge amount of damage to both tourist and residential areas which were covered in a thick blanket of ash. thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. many remain in emergency shelters or temporary accommodation and hurricane season is only a few weeks away. 0ur latin america and caribbean correspondent, will grant, went to st vincent to see how the clean—up operation is going. the aftermath of the eruption of la soufriere is hauntingly beautiful and destructive.

the explosion left hillsides denuded of their tree cover and a ghostly coating of white ash over every inch of st vincent's northern coastline. the pyroclastic lava flows brought tens of thousands of tonnes of material down the mountainside, and a hail of dust and stones showered over the villages below. one of them was sandy bay, a picturesque fishing village reduced to a dust bowl overnight. located in the worst affected red zone, evacuated villagers now risk fresh emissions and mudslides to clear the debris. we have 295 students. the local primary school schoolteacher is annel francois. her pupils had been preparing to return to class after months of home—schooling during the pandemic. the volcano ended that plan when the school roof came down under the weight of the ash fall. i was really distressed, knowing that so many students would be out of an education

for a while. now is the time that they should rebuild the proper structure that they had said they are going to build. there isn't a home, vehicle or a surface in st vincent that isn't covered by a thick layer of this very fine volcanic dust. with hurricane season approaching, it is going to take this community and st vincent as a whole many months to recover from this. it's a multidimensional challenge of immense proportions. st vincent's prime minister says the eruption has compounded the problems created by coronavirus. plus, of course, the desolation in the northern third of the country. the complete decimation of agriculture and animal husbandry in that one third. the infrastructure has been shot through. the island has recently held a national day of prayer,

thankful it wasn't a national day of mourning. but the evacuees at this shelter are still victims, of an act of god which put their families at risk. around 15% of st vincent's population was forced from their homes, many sleeping in converted classrooms, eating donated meals, relying on charity. yet nelsia says it wasn't hard to drop everything and run. because of fright, i didn't even think about leaving everything behind. she lost her teenage daughter in a bus crash a few years ago and says leaving material things was easy in comparison. it was just, get out of here, be safe. that is the only saving grace of this huge disruption to st vincent, that no one died. but the volcano is still active and the scale of the tragedy for a small island is vast. homes, crops, animals, entire livelihoods buried beneath the ash. will grant, bbc news, st vincent.

if you're taking your dog for a walk in the countryside this bank holiday weekend, the message from farmers is to please keep it on a lead. they say the rise in both dog ownership and rambling during the pandemic has led to more attacks on flocks. fiona lamdin report from dartmoor, and just a warning there are some images you may find distressing at the start of this film. easter sunday morning, get here today, some people out last night for a nice bank holiday walk with their dog, dog disappeared for five minutes, yeah. 0nly bit one sheep. neil cole lost 30 lambs and eight ewes after a dog chased some of his flock earlier this month.

and to see ewes dead, lying in the field in distress, is, how do you explain that? i can only say, your heart sinks. why do you let your dogs off a field full of sheep? and he's not alone. in dartmoor, there have been 52 attacks on livestock reported so far this year. i'm getting calls almost daily about dog attacks. the injuries that sheep suffer through dogs are absolutely horrendous. in the hot weather, they can end up getting maggots onjust a small little bite mark, or the stress alone from chasing them can mean that they abort their lambs. it's a real problem. going to go short, back in, praise him back. there has been an 11% increase in pet ownership since lockdown, with many more of us now getting dogs. and that's why training courses like these are so important if we are to keep our dogs under control in the countryside. come, mouse, come, mouse, come! my whippet mouse and

i were invited along. all the distractions and smells of being outside within the confines of safe strict schooling. people have had the lockdown puppies, and they're now showing signs of either anti—social behaviour or potentially chasing livestock. my advice is not to let your dogs out to chase anything, whether that's squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, because ultimately if your dog is going to start to chase a squirrel, then they're going to chase deer, livestock, anything, really. sit, sit. leave it. we used to call her betsy bonkers, ok, so this is why we had to do a couple of courses. she's a cockapoo, they're very bright, they need stimulation, and it's an ongoing feast with this one. if i'm not continually reinforcing her training, we are going to have problems. i think anybody who doesn't try and train their dog

properly is a fool. and an anti—social fool. the national sheep association say two thirds of farmers they surveyed have seen an increase in dog attacks since lockdown. i would like to see the law and the guidance around the need for dogs to be on a lead changed. i think it should become an absolute requirement for dogs to be on a lead in the vicinity of livestock, full stop. that would stop them attacking sheep. sheep worrying is not only costing farmers thousands of pounds, but more than half say it's affected their mental health. i can only describe it as somebody putting their life into creating this piece of art, to have somebody come and stick their boot through it and just smash it. and it's just... yeah, i can't really describe it. itjust makes you feel sick to the stomach. as we were filming, this lamb, just

a few minutes old, finds its feet. steady. this is the ending they are working so hard for and are so desperate to protect. the dutch government has said the eurovision song contest in rotterdam next month will take place in front of a live audience. about 3,500 people are expected to be allowed into the arena, a fifth of its capacity. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. april may well have been quite a quiet month with a good deal of dry weather in the forecast, but the story's been the overnight frost. as we close out april 2021, there has been a grass frost recorded somewhere in the uk

for the whole of the month. we close out the month perhaps on a little bit more of a tradition, with sunny spells and april showers. the showers so far have been pretty hit and miss, rolling in off the north sea. through the afternoon, further showers developing inland. the showers could be heavy, with a little bit of thunder mixed in there, even some hail as well. if you dodge the showers and keep the sunshine, temperatures a little subdued for this time of year. a maximum of 7—13 degrees. those showers continue to the early evening, but then they will start to fade away, and under clearing skies, we do it all again, temperatures are likely to fall away, so for the first morning of may we could start again with a touch of frost, particularly in scotland, northern ireland and northern england. low single figures perhaps below freezing here. as we go into the weekend, despite frosty mornings, a case of sunny spells and dodging some showers. the rest of the sun first

thing, showers developing through the day and there could be some heavy ones and a little more widespread in the afternoon. can't rule out the odd rumble of thunder and some hail, temperatures still struggling, 7—13 degrees. almost a repeat performance as we go into sunday. a lovely start, some sunshine coming through, more cloud developing across the far north and west and some heavier showers across england and wales into the afternoon, with a high of 1a degrees. the real change arrives for a bank holiday monday. what a surprise. yes, it will turn increasingly wet and windy, with this area of low pressure. something we have not seen for quite some time. just where that low is going to be sitting, still subject to change, but at the moment it looks like the heaviest of the rain is going to push its way out of northern ireland across england and wales. 0n the leading edge we can see some snow to higher ground in scotland, and we could see some welcome rain into eastern and south east england,

with a high of 12 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines... 44 people are killed in a crush at a religous festival in israel — the country's prime minister calls it one of the worst disasters in the nation's history. we've just finished treating one of israel's worst disasters. a terrible disaster of people who came to celebrate lag b'0mer, and rabbi shimon bar yochai and unfortunately, were literally crushed to death. police investigating the murder of community support officer julia james in kent say they've found no motive or suspect. the actor and writer noel clarke is suspended by bafta weeks after receiving one of its top awards — after 20 women make allegations of harrassment. it's emerged that borisjohnson�*s

mobile phone number has been available online for 15 years — raising concerns about