this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. more than 50 palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli forces injerusalem. it follows similar unrest on friday at least 50 people have been killed, many of them schoolgirls, in a militant attack in the afghan capital, kabul. sadiq khan wins a second term as london mayor in a result much closer than predicted. and, the remnants of chinese rocket hurtling back to earth has disintegrated and crashed into the indian ocean.

we start injerusalem. there have been more clashes between palestinians and israeli police, a day after more than 200 people were injured in some of the worst violence in years at the al—aqsa mosque. fighting broke outjust as tens of thousands of muslim worshippers prayed at the compound to mark the most holy night of ramadan. more than 50 people were injured. gareth barlow reports. stun grenades against stones. palestinian protesters and israeli security forces clashing outside the al—aqsa mosque complex injerusalem's old city, one of the most revered sites in islam. it's also the location of the temple mount, the holiest site injudaism.

the source of the anger — weeks of rising tensions over the potential eviction of palestinian families from their homes in occupied eastjerusalem, which israeli settlers claim as their land. earlier on saturday, roads into the city became gridlocked as israel ramped up security, fearing a repeat of friday's violence. car horns. coaches of muslim worshippers were stopped at checkpoints with cars left abandoned as people trekked uphill to the mosque complex. translation: we saw on social media that our relatives - are being stopped in the street and they're not allowing them to enterjerusalem. we came here voluntarily, without planning or anything. everyone who has a car came to pick up people and help them. around 90,000 worshippers gathered at the site on saturday for an event marking ramadan, but prayer

was soon replaced with protest. officers on horseback clashed with palestinian youths, who lit fires and tore down barricades. monday will see israel's supreme court rule on the legality of the potential evictions, as israelis celebrate jerusalem day. the un, eu, russia and us have called for security forces to show restraint. but depending on the court ruling, palestinianfamilies may feel compelled to express their anger once more. there's a definite fear that the clashes aren't yet over. gareth barlow, bbc news. jalal abukhater is a palestinian journalist and writer. he was at the al—aqsa mosque. today's scenes were not as violent as yesterday. today's scenes were at the periphery of the mosque. again, the provocations by the police were seen by everyone to have been super unnecessary since the beginning of ramadan, the provocations which have led to clashes

erupting all around jerusalem, along with underlying causes of course of evictions and house demolitions that have been going on. so what's happened yesterday and last night at al—aqsa have been unprecedented actions by police which led to disruptions with the prayers and evacuation of the entire mosque compound. and there was a similar example a few years ago in 2017 where there were similar provocations and increasing violence in ramadan, at al—aqsa, and injerusalem. the government did try to calm the tensions at the time. we haven't seen any sign of direct action by the israeli government to stop what is going on to decrease the tension. what i do believe is that the netanyahu government

are not interested enough to calm the tensions because they want to distract from whatever political troubles they're facing. our thanks to jalal abukhater there. to afghanistan now. officials say at least 50 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in a blast near a school in the capital, kabul. some reports have put the death toll as high as 55. many of those who died were schoolgirls who'd just finished class and were streaming out of the gates at the time of the attack. secunder kermani has more details. panic, fear and bloodshed outside the school gates. the explosions took place just as students were making their way home — many of those killed girls and young women. inside a hospital, relatives search body by body for their loved ones. whilst outside, a desperate wait for news. "oh, my god, my god," this woman cries. "two of my daughters

were studying there." one of them is injured, the other is missing. the islamic state group is likely to be behind the bombing. although less powerful in afghanistan than the taliban, their attacks here are typically even more brutal and they've repeatedly targeted this community, afg hanistan�*s shia hazara minority. violence has been flaring across the country, with the taliban stepping up assaults on the afghan government, whilst us and international troops begin a final withdrawal. in this latest atrocity, so many lives cut far too short. and for those who have survived, an increasingly uncertain future. secunder kermani, bbc news. earlier i spoke to afghanistan expert madiha afzal, and asked her what we know about who is behind the attack. so, the taliban has overtly denied responsibility

for the attack, but afghanistan's president, ashraf ghani, has blamed the taliban for it. without a ceasefire, it's hard to know. one would have to take the taliban's word for it. that they haven't committed the attack. and it could certainly be the work of isis, as the islamic state group has conducted attacks such as this in afghanistan in the past. but the taliban has as well. and what we do know is that the taliban have intensified their attacks across afghanistan, with more violence, in this past week since the final us withdrawal began, than in any other week since last october. and they've shown no interest in reducing violence, in coming to the table for peace talks, much less a ceasefire. actually, they have openly threatened journalists as well. so, the taliban, while they may not have conducted this attack,

are certainly not innocent in afghanistan in this past week. that's interesting. well, given that and given you've mentioned the us troop withdrawal, where do you think that stands, now? i think that will continue as it has been continuing because — or as it has begun, because of the fact that president biden has not conditioned the us troop withdrawal on anything. it is an unconditional withdrawal. and so that is expected to continue. but, i think, as it does, you know, again, as i said, in this past week we've seen attacks intensify. we will see a country already, sort of, in the grip of violence, with increased violence. and it will be hard to look away, as much it will be hard to look at, you know, the ramifications in many ways of this war, of this decision, as the us troops are withdrawing. 0k. and this attack in particular

is a horrendous and an strikes at, you know, the very heart of what the taliban and an what is and other groups have been striking at — you know, girls�* education, women's empowerment, western values. our thanks to madiha afzal there. bits of a large chinese space rocket whose path has been tracked by us and european monitors has landed back on earth. it looks like the remnants of the rocket landed in the indian ocean and didn't hit land. ted muelhaupt is the principal director of aerospace's centre for 0rbital and re—entry debris studies. what do we know about what happened here? what we know for certain is it — happened here? what we know for certain is it didn't _ happened here? what we know for certain is it didn't continue - certain is it didn't continue on the orbit that we had pretty good. it came down about half the revolution earlier than we expected, and i'm very relieved

to see that it appears to have landed safely in the indian ocean. there is still some 0cean. there is still some confusion about that. the chinese sometime ago officially reported it was down in the mediterranean. we had various sightings from all over the world. but it does seem to be settling down that it is down off the mole dives. —— maldives. it had had come down a few minutes earlier, it would have come down in a densely, relatively densely populated area. straight over spain. and over egypt. area. straight over spain. and over egypt-— over egypt. interesting. statistically, _ over egypt. interesting. statistically, it - over egypt. interesting. statistically, it was - over egypt. interesting. i statistically, it was always more likely to land in a bit of water and on land, wasn't it? absolutely. the odds are always that you are going to land in water or someplace uninhabited but we really want to make certain that is the case which

is why the world standard are to bring it down someplace safely. to bring it down someplace safel . ~ safely. do you think the chinese _ safely. do you think the chinese now _ safely. do you think the chinese now will - safely. do you think the chinese now will have l chinese now will have effectively been proven right if we do confirm eventually that it was in the indian ocean, and that the risk was worth taking and that they have less of an incentive to do it any differently next time? well, they got lucky. 0f any differently next time? well, they got lucky. of the two of these that launch, one did hit buildings in east africa and one got lucky. but just a few minutes' difference and maybe we will be talking about a different story. i hope they don't want to bet on luck. 0ne they don't want to bet on luck. one of the things we look at with these re—entries is that there is a probability associated. you calculate that and then you take steps to mitigate that. and apparently they didn't do it. find mitigate that. and apparently they didn't do it.— they didn't do it. and if you aet they didn't do it. and if you get more — they didn't do it. and if you get more and _ they didn't do it. and if you get more and more - they didn't do it. and if you get more and more events| they didn't do it. and if you . get more and more events like this, you know, the more and more aircraft and rockets going

up more aircraft and rockets going up and lots of them coming back down, is there now more pressure, you send your message loud and clear, that these international standards for how to control a re—entry really have to be taken more seriously? 0r have to be taken more seriously? or do you think i'm going to be sitting here and we're all going to be sitting here tracking many more uncontrolled re—entries of these rockets in the years ahead? ~ �* ~' ., ~' ahead? well, i'd like to think that we won't _ ahead? well, i'd like to think that we won't because - ahead? well, i'd like to think| that we won't because people are following the standards. the one was harmless in that it didn't actually hit anyone, but think about the energy that was put into tracking this, talking about it, people worried about it, people, some of them on the verge of panic. that actually is damage in and of itself. what i'd like to see is that we don't have to deal with this. there ought to be an ethos, relative to space to brief stop you put it up, you bring it

back down. pack it in, pack it out. but you don'tjust dump it on your way out, you pack it out, and make certain that you are doing this responsibly. ted muelhaunt. — are doing this responsibly. ted muelhaupt, great to have you back on, thank you.— muelhaupt, great to have you back on, thank you. this is bbc news. the main stories this hour: there's been a second night of clashes between palestinians and israeli forces injerusalem — it follows similar unrest on friday when 200 people needed medical treatment. at least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a blast near a school in the afghan capital, kabul. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has asked for talks with scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, after the scottish national party won an historic fourth term in office. although the snp fell one seat short of an overall majority

in the scottish parliament, it has backing from the scottish greens to push for a second independence referendum. and, the labour candidate sadiq khan has been re—elected as the mayor of london. he beat the conservative candidate shaun bailey with 55% of the vote. the bbc�*s adina campbell was at city hall for the declaration. a big boost for sadiq khan and his team tonight as it's now been confirmed he will serve a second term as london mayor. 19 of the 20 candidates — that's a record number of candidates since the job was created back in 2000 — were standing in this race, and they were in the room as the results were read out. and a big sigh of relief, cheers, as sadiq khan was confirmed back into the position of london mayor. in terms of the numbers, well, sadiq khan secured 1,206,034 votes while his

closest rival, shaun bailey from the conservatives, well, he managed to get 977,601 votes. now, the pressure was really on labour to keep this position because london is very much dominated by labour in terms of political allegiances, so it would have been a bit of a shock if the result had gone in a different direction. but it was much more closely contested than previously predicted — shaun bailey, the conservative candidate, doing much better than what the polls suggested. and at times, the lead between both shaun bailey and sadiq khan was fairly narrow. saying that, it is sadiq khan's night. he will be spending the next three years as london mayor. it'll be interesting to see how he leads london out of this covid pandemic, because it is about rebuilding london, getting people back intojobs, seeing how the economy can get back on track. and there are some key issues at the heart that really, really matter to londoners — transport, crime and policing,

pollution and, of course, housing. so, lots of things to deal with tonight, lots of things going forward for sadiq khan to consider. he will now go on to be the next london mayor again for another three years. thailand has seen a record number of deaths from covid—19, with cases surging and hospital capacities stretched. until now, the country had managed to largely contain the virus but, this latest outbreak accounts for around half of all cases reported since the start of the pandemic. i've been speaking to dr rick brown, who's with the world health organisation in bangkok. he told me a little more about the situation in thailand. what happened was that there was an upsurge in cases around the end of march, beginning of april which has turned into really a third wave, and as you said, currently there are around 2000 cases being reported today and yesterday,

there were 19 deaths. and actually, the reason why there is some pressure on healthcare facilities is because thailand has a policy of admitting every single patient who tests positive for covid—19, even if they don't have symptoms. and i mean, this makes sense from a public health perspective, as long as there is capacity. that's really interesting because that's quite strict controls and that, part of that approach, although it must be stretching capacity now, is part of the reason it's been so successful. what are the other reasons that, up until now, thailand managed to have a handle on this so well? so i think i would point to a few things. one is that they do have very good early warning systems. as i think you probably know, they detected the first case outside of china which allowed them to prepare, to sensitise members of public and clinicians.

they also have had years of investment in health systems, so they have one of the longest and field epidemiology training programmes, they have a network of more than 1 million village health volunteers. then next, i would maybe say they have strong cultural norms which helped — so for example, a non—contact greeting. they also have a culture before this event of wearing masks when people have respiratory illnesses. i see, that's really interesting, couple of interesting detail factors specifically as to why it has done so well. one of the big ways out of it for thailand, all countries, though, is vaccination. briefly, because i'm afraid we are nearly out of time, but where is the country when it comes to vaccination? so thailand made a decision early on to invest in establishing domestic production of vaccine and this is looking increasingly like a good decision. so everything we've heard suggests that they are on track to be able to produce astrazeneca vaccine

domestically, maybe starting around a month's time. and i think, you know, if everything goes to plan, this is going to be their way out of the pandemic. our thanks to rick brown. let's get some of the day's other news: two avalanches in the french alpine region of savoie have killed seven people. four hikers died after being engulfed by a snowslide near the ski station of valloire. another three people were killed on mont pourri, 150 kilometres away, when a second avalanche struck. thousands of people in colombia have again joined protests to demand the resignation of president ivan duque. in bogota, cali and other cities, the demonstrations were largely peaceful, after days of clashes that have led to the deaths of almost 30 people. spain has lifted a national state of emergency imposed six months ago to contain the coronavirus pandemic. the measures included an overnight curfew and restrictions on travel

between regions. spain's infection rate has been dropping and is lower than that of many of its european neighbours but a surge in cases is expected cuba has announced it will begin vaccinating its population against the coronavirus, using two jabs developed by its own scientists. the government said the aim was to vaccinate as quickly as possible the 1.7 million people who live in the capital, havana. here in the uk an undercover investigation by the sunday times newspaper and channel four dispatches has covertly filmed the queen's cousin, prince michael of kent, talking about taking large sums of money from a prospective client for access to the kremlin. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. he is his royal highness, prince michael of kent, a first cousin of the queen. he's not a full—time working

royal and does not receive any funding from the public purse. prince michael does, however, have long—standing cultural and other links with russia, and it was supposedly to take advantage of those links... as a royal member... ..that two people, posing as representatives of a south korean company dealing in gold, set up a remote meeting with the prince. in reality, they were reporters for the sunday times and channel 4. they hoped the prince could open doors for them in the kremlin. the fee they offered the prince for a speech was a generous one. how about the fee, us$200,000, that we have offered? was it acceptable, sir? oh, yes, very much so.

in a statement, prince michael's office said he hadn't met president putin since 2003. his representative, the statement said, had made suggestions that prince michael would not have been able to fulfil. buckingham palace declined to comment. nicholas witchell, bbc news. a #metoo movement has been sweeping through western balkans after the serbian actress milena radulovic went public with allegations of abuse against a former drama teacher. women from across the region have been sharing their own stories of sexual violence — a previously taboo subject. here's bbc monitoring's krassi twigg when it was happening to me, i thought that i was the only one, not only with him but in the world who was surviving something like this. serbian actress milena radulovic shared her story of rape injanuary. it was like a dam broke,

setting off a #metoo wave empowering women across the region to speak up about a taboo subject. well, this story shaked serbia from the ground. milena has accused famous producer and drama teacher, miroslav aleksic, of raping her when she was 17 and studying in the prestigious acting school in belgrade. several other women, from the same school, have come forward with similar accusations. aleksic has since been charged with rape and other illegal sexual acts. he denies wrongdoing and is being held in detention. the publicity around the case unleashed a tide of testimonies and brought another case back into the spotlight. i remember clearly hearing about milena's story and being in tears ofjoy. i was just thinking that my mission to encourage other people to speak has started. danijela stajnfeld it is a serbian filmmaker now based in new york.

last year, she released a documentary examining the aftermath of sexual assault, including her own. recently she revealed the name of the man she says raped her — well—known serbian actor, branislav lecic, who denies the allegation. others have come out with similar accusations. an investigation is underway and no charges have yet been made. violence against women is a serious concern in serbia. the country ratified the istanbul convention to protect women, but reporting and conviction rates are extremely low. most of the victims in balkan region are still in silence. the self—silencing is self—protection. the self—silencing is a self—protection. because one thing is to survive sexual assault and reach for safety, the other thing is to survive the unpredictability of a backlash, disbelief, shaming. danijela left serbia, abandoning her successful acting career there. from the ptsd and from pretty much dysfunctional person that i was for years,

i raised up to make the film to make something that was helpful for many people and that is something that has healed me. for milena, one reason to share her story was to make people to see what is hiding in plain sight. i knew that it was going to be interesting for everybody because i was a protected girl, from a good family. and people would say, oh, my god, her! if i could talk to milena radulovic i would tell her to not be — radulovic i would tell her to not be afraid. go radulovic i would tell her to not be afraid.— not be afraid. go tell your parents. _ not be afraid. go tell your parents, now! _ not be afraid. go tell your parents, now! and - parents, now! and i would tell her that it is not only your case. and to know that, no matter how _ case. and to know that, no matter how difficult - case. and to know that, no matter how difficult and i case. and to know that, no i matter how difficult and long time — matter how difficult and long time is — matter how difficult and long

time is needed, the healing is possible _ i will be back with the headlines in a couple of minutes. this is bbc news. hello. after saturday's cloud and rain, somewhat brighter skies around during sunday but there's every chance you're going to see some wet weather at some stage of the day, really due to the proximity of this area of low pressure, so either showers close to that or, indeed, along this weather front with still the chance for seeing some outbreaks of rain. certainly more cloud than there will be elsewhere if you're close to that. we're still drawing in some warmer air from the south, so if you do get to see a bit of sunshine, it will actually feel quite pleasant, particularly across south east england and east anglia, which will see the higher temperatures. but this is where we're starting the day. it's a much milder start than we've had recently, and particularly across england and wales. now, along the weather front i pointed out, some cloud from south west england, south east wales, the midlands and on towards yorkshire. just edging a little bit further east

with the chance of a few spots of rain — it doesn't look like much more than that for much of the day. close to the low pressure, northern ireland and scotland will see some quite heavy showers, thundery possibly too. quite blustery, particularly in northern ireland — these are average wind speeds but gusts here could be over 40mph or so. and as for temperatures, it will feel a little bit warmer if you do get to see a bit of sunshine during the day, mainly 14—17, but a few spots in east anglia, south east england mayjust get above 20 degrees, just depending on how much sunshine there is, but be aware as we get into the evening, there could be some quite heavy and thundery downpours moving through here, whereas elsewhere overnight and into monday, we will continue with a few showers, particularly across western areas. and just to reinforce the fact that it's a bit warmer by day and it is overnight as well, these are the temperatures to start things off on monday morning, so there won't be any frost around. that area of low pressure is still, though, close by on monday — in fact, as it will be for the week ahead — and so that's going to mean that there'll be plenty of showers,

and this is where we're expecting them to be during monday. some heavy with hail and thunder, particularly towards the west and north. and though while some will reach across to eastern areas, it may well be there'll be quite few showers here around, at least during the afternoon, for the midlands, east anglia and south east england. temperatures are fairly close to average for the time of year. it will feel a bit warmer than it has done over the past week if you're in some of that sunshine. there will still be these heavy downpours around but very noticeably overnight, it's not going to be as cold. it will be largely frost—free in the week ahead.

this is bbc news, the headlines: there have been renewed clashes in jerusalem between palestinians and israeli police. the fighting broke out a day after more than 200 people were injured in some of the worst violence in years at the al—aqsa mosque compound. 50 people, many of them young girls, have been killed in a militant attack at a school in the afghan capital, kabul. reports say there were multiple blasts as they were leaving their school. the neighbourhood is home to the hazara minority who are shia muslims. the chinese authorities say that the remnants of one of their space rockets that had been hurtling back towards the earth, have crashed into the indian ocean. tracking sites have been monitoring the uncontrolled re—entry of the huge long march rocket.

major disruption on some of the uk's busiest rail lines