this is bbc news. i'm david eades. our top stories: no knee—jerk reaction — president putin's warning to his american counterpart when dealing with russia. translation: there are some l advantages, some disadvantages but there will be no knee—jerk reaction on behalf of the sitting us president. borisjohnson�*s vision of global partnerships post—brexit begins — with the uk and australia agreeing the broad terms of a free trade deal. crossing mountains, deserts, the sea and even a warzone — we've a special report on ethiopian migrants trying to reach saudi arabia. diamonds are for everyone — fortune seekers flock

to a field in south africa. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. hello and welcome. russia's president vladimir putin has responded to president biden�*s warning about the threat to the west from russia. ahead of their meeting on wednesday, mr putin appeared to warn mr biden against taking any quick decisions against moscow. mr biden once famously called his counterpart a "killer", and said nato would respond to any harmful activities by moscow. on monday he described the russian president as "bright, tough and a worthy adversary". nato leaders have made it clear they see russia as the biggest threat. next president biden

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the gelling of alexi the valley or likely to be. —— the jailing of russian opposition leader. two very different flavours representing two very different leaders. i have been speaking to a former us ambassador to nato and asked if she believed there was a resurgent nato now waiting to confront russia and china? i do think the nato summit was very positive on that account. i think that this was a first step for president biden to say we need to have a united front as we deal with china, because everyone knows that they steal intellectual property, that they violate

the rules—based order. we all want free and fair competition and i think, if the eu, uk, us, canada, norway, all of europe and north america, can speak with one voice when china does something that is outside that order, such as with australia, that we can make a difference, and maybe we will bring china into the rules—based order which would be the best of all worlds, and i think that's what the president is trying to do. it is interesting you mention australia which, of course, falls outside nato certainly, but what we see from countries within nato, are many major european states who recognise that china is also an extremely valuable trading partner, and that is the difficulty of the balance, isn't it? it is, david. many of our european allies

do not want to provoke china but i think, and our president certainly took the message that, if we speak united together, when china steps out of line in a rules—based order, in a fair competition, that maybe we can influence china to come into the world order and have free and fair competition. jens stoltenberg said china is not our adversary, not our enemy. the reality seems to be that it is perceived nonetheless as an adversary? they're certainly building up and that is why i think it is very important what nato is doing, has been doing for the last 203 years, and that is, saying to china, we are not going stand by and watch the south china sea have a militarisation, attacking india, as they did on india's northern border, their harassing the japanese coast. they are doing a lot that is very — well, not to mention

hong kong, of course — that is troubling and we think that it is important that we begin to set up defences so that we can try to create the rules—based order but also assure that we will not be overrun militarily or have cyber and hybrid and the other kinds of attacks that we see from russia, frankly. it is, david, but it is a very important to always remember that nato is to deter so that we will not have to defend. if we can build our defences so that we will not have to use them, that has always been what nato does. yes, it is a tall order but if we are united in that, which i believe that we are getting to that point, i think that we have taken a first step but it is certainly not the end of the road, to try to do what is better for all of us, which is bring china in, but be prepared.

if they are on a different track, if they are trying to defeat the kind of government that we have, free democracies, then that is when we have to be prepared and we can wait to do that. a look at some of todays other news stories: the outgoing chief prosecutor of the international criminal court says she has asked judges to allow her to open a full judicial investigation into murders carried out during the war on drugs in the philippines. human rights watch says that more than 12,000 filipinos have been killed since president rodrigo duterte ordered his security forces to enforce his war on drugs policy in 2016. the trial of ousted myanmar leader aung san suu kyi has got under way, four months after a military coup removed the elected government from office. she is charged with owning unlicensed walkie—talkies and violating covid restrictions. later trials will focus on allegations of corruption

and breaking the official secrets act. prosecutors have begun questioning the seven members of the medical team who treated the argentine football star diego maradona before he died. a board of experts looking into his death decided he had received inadequate care. maradona died of a heart attack last november at the age of 60, weeks after surgery to remove a blood clot. the bbc understands that the british prime minister borisjohnson and his australian counterpart, scott morrison, have agreed the broad terms of a trade deal between the two countries. a formal announcement is expected on tuesday about what would be the first trade deal to be negotiated from scratch since the uk left the european union. our correspondent in sydney shaimaa khalil has the latest. i think that we now have the two leaders in the same room, agreeing on the broad terms, as you say. we are now waiting for this formal announcement and, of course, for these crucial details about how this is going to play out, what it will mean for

australian exporters and importers — in both countries actually, in australia and the uk. but it is quite significant because i think both leaders will have something big to say in their own countries. the prime minister in the uk will say, well, look, this is officially the first uk post—brexit deal, and scott morrison can come here and say, well, we have struck the first deal with the uk, after it has left the eu, but i think it also sets the tone, really, for trade deals around the world, after the uk has left the eu, so we are seeing in action in the british economy, if you will, post—brexit — what will look like, how it will change, what kind of deals they're striking, and also what kind of compromises they're going to make. for australia, i think it is really good news, of course, especially for the farming industry. we have heard, for example, from the head of the australian national farmers federation about how difficult it has been over the years

to get into the uk market. it has essentially been a market that they have been locked out of, because of eu restrictions, because of eu tariffs and safeguards — they have really built high gates around the farming industry and now, potentially, with these tariffs being eased in a phase between ten and 15 years and again that is very important detail that we are going to try and find out, that then opens up this market but again that presents a challenge to the farming community and the farming industry in the uk. so good news for australia but still so many questions to answer. i understand they had a dinner which amounted to welsh lamb, scottish salmon and australian wine and i'm sure the wine producers will be pleased, given the pressure they have been under not least from china, but i did wonder, the farmers over here are anxious that they cannot compete against australian farmers on economies of scale and nor are they happy about the possibility of hormone induced beef, use of pesticides, feed additives, things that are just

not allowed over here. any sign of how this is resolved? we still don't know. what we have heard from officials in the uk is that safeguards are going to be in place but, yes, issues for example like hormone—injected beef, chlorinated chicken, just lower standards when it comes to agriculture produced in general and of course the massive industrial scale that australia will be able to export to the uk, all of it is a great deal of worry for the uk farmers. shaimaa khalil there. the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court asking for a full investigation into murders carried out in the philippines in recent years. we havejust got a philippines in recent years. we have just got a line via writers of a spokesman at saint the president of the philippines will not co—operate with the international criminal court investigation. thatjust

coming in on bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: why yashoda swapped a football for a crystal ball during the european championships. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act which, for a0 years, forcibly classified each citizen according to race. just a day old, and the royal baby is tonight sleeping in his cot at home. early this evening, the new prince was taken by his mother and father to their apartments in kensington palace. germany's parliament, i the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat of government - from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into i the night, but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. the real focus of attention

today was valentina tereshkova, the world's first woman cosmonaut. what do you think of the russian woman in space? i think it's a wonderful achievement and i think we might be able to persuade the wife it would be a good idea if i could to get her to go up there for a little while. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: president putin has responded to president biden�*s warning about the threat from russia, appearing to warn mr biden against taking any quick decisions against moscow. the uk and australian prime ministers agree the broad terms of the first post—brexit trade deal. the crisis in ethiopia, more than 350,000 are now living in famine conditions, has led to people risking their lives to escape the country.

on monday the bodies of 25 african migrants were recovered off the coast of yemen, after the boat they were in, capsized. it appears they were trying to reach saudi arabia. it's a journey that involves crossing mountains, deserts, the red sea and even a warzone. our correspondent, zuhura yunus reports on one man's voyage. mustafa wanted to escape the hardship of life in shewa, ethiopia. with no plan and little money, he set off on the road to saudi arabia. like many illegal migrants, mustafa followed a 2000 kilometre ancient slave trade route. on entering djibouti, they walked through the desert

before crossing the red sea, to war—torn yemen and then travelled onwards to saudi arabia. with few opportunities, many young ethiopians are lured to make the journey. it is a torturous journey through temperatures of up to 50 degrees. suffering hunger and dehydration, many migrants do not make it. from the djibouti coast to yemen, it is an eight—hour journey across the red sea in crammed boats. every year, hundreds drown. mustafa says that ethnic tensions between the oromos and tigrayans are also never far from the surface. and that is not all, mustafa says.

once in yemen, the migrants are targeted for kidnapping. he was held and tortured for a ransom. mustafa managed to reach the saudi border but during an encounter with the security forces, he took a bullet in the leg. he says he was not aware of the dangers involved in making the illegaljourney. after six months in yemen, mustafa was deported. he has been back in ethiopian for a year now. his life forever changed. he now spends most of his time

begging in the local town. broken by thejourney to saudi arabia, he has a message for others planning to do the same. however, desperate for a better life, he says, few heed his advice. data is emerging in india which reveals the real scale of the covid death toll in the country, during the second wave of the pandemic. officially, the country has recorded the third highest number of deaths in the world but there's more evidence to suggest the number is massively under reported. the bbc�*s india correspondent yogita limaye reports from mumbai. this is something we have seen in india from the start of the pandemic,

the underreporting of covid deaths. we first heard it in testimony from doctors and otherfront line workers and we have seen evidence of it on the ground when we were reporting during the second wave of the pandemic, but reports that have appeared in the past few days really give a sense of how acute the scale of underreporting could be. she has looked at two dead states in india, andhra pradesh and madhya pradesh, and she has looked at in excess deaths in these states. when we say that what she means is the overall deaths that took place in a region over a period when the second wave was at its worst, minus the number of deaths that took place in the same region in a pre—pandemic year over the period. so these excess deaths she has found in the state

of andhra pradesh where 3a times the reported covid death toll in that region, and in the state of madhya pradesh she has found that these excess deaths were 42 times the reported official covid death toll in that state. of course, you know, it is important to point out that not all deaths in these regions would have been caused by the coronavirus. there could be other reasons for these deaths as well, and that is why it's never going to be a simple equation where you will be able to determine that if you multiply the official deaths by a certain number, and then you can get the official death toll in india. this is also partly because the reporting of deaths in different parts of this country, you know, it's very different. in some parts it is good, in other parts it is not. but what we can say with certainty is that there is more and more evidence now that the scale of underreporting in india has been

massive, and we will never know how many people died of the virus in this country. plans to end coronavirus restrictions in england have been delayed by four weeks, because of rising cases of the more infectious delta variant. the government says the extra time will allow many more people to be fully vaccinated. more than 1,000 fortune seekers have flocked to a village in south africa's kwazulu—natal province to dig for what they believe to be diamonds, after a discovery of unidentified stones in the area. the diamond rush started on saturday after a local herder made a find in an open field. aruna iyengar has the story. jubilation at the discovery of gems in a village in kwazulu—natal province. fortune seekers believe these gems could change their lives.

translation: i have never seen or touched a diamond _ in my life. it is my first time touching one here. i hope this will make a difference at home because we are really struggling so i hope things will be better. but are they diamond or quartz crystal? that is yet to be determined. south africa's mines department is sending a team of geological and mining experts to the site to analyse the stones. the provincial government has tried to stop digging, saying it is illegal mining activity. illegal or not there is a brisk trade in these stones by those hoping to make some money. many have struggled to earn a living and the unemployment rate in south africa runs at 32%. youth unemployment is at a record high. after pictures and videos of the gems circulated on social media, people have travelled from all over south africa to come here and this is what it means. translation: thisj means our lives will

change because no—one had a properjob. i only do odd jobs. when i returned home with the stones the family was overjoyed. translation: this will really help the community. - we hope that crime will come to an end, especially crime against women because the youth do all these things because of unemployment. police are keeping a watch on events. the provincial government has asked the diggers to leave. they have also suggested the people who could be spreading coronavirus. for now, the opportunity to make money from the ground is a more pressing concern. football, and france take on germany in the european championship on tuesday. it's arguably the biggest game of the tournament so far, with both teams tipped as potential winners. plenty of pundits will be happy to make predictions, but do you want to know the result? here's the bbc�*s tim allman.

her name is yashoda. but around here she may as well be called judas. a long—time resident of this zoo in hamburg, she has predicted that france will beat germany in the football. translation: on the one hand i do want her to be right. - on the other hand i do have a german heart, so i would be happy if germany did actually win. elephants have a a long memory but are not normally regarded as soothsayers. and she has not got much of a track record when it comes to psychic prognostication. "we hope the elephant�*s mistaken," said this visitor. "and germany manages to win." "i trust the team" said this woman. "france are world champions. i think the lads can do it." there is a long and noble tradition of animal oracles predicting sporting results. perhaps the most most famous of

them all was paul the octopus. he made his name during the 2010 world cup. and then there was the psychic pig who tried to do the same at the european championship two years later. and this was a sheep picking winners at the rugby world cup. another of these furry forecasters is achilles the cat. he predicted poland would beat slovakia in saint petersburg. unfortunately the slovaks won 2—1. perhaps we found achilles' heel? yeah, he didn't do very well, did he? now to news on the pitch because scotland's first appearance in a major tournament in 23 years has ended in defeat. two goals from patrik schick, including one from the halfway line, was enough to secure the points for the czech republic at skriniar scored the winner in slovakia's surprise two—one win over poland in their group e game in saint

the final match of the day was a disappointing nil—nil draw between spain and sweden in seville. that is bbc news. hello there. monday was a day of contrast. still hot and humid in london. the temperatures were soaring. in fact, by the middle of the afternoon, we reached the highest temperatures recorded so far this year and that was 30 celsius in greater london. now, it was a different story further north and west because of a weak weather front that was spilling in across scotland, into the north of england. behind it, the wind direction changing to a north—westerly and that brought with it some fresher air and a marked contrast. look at sunday's highs across northern ireland, 25 degrees, the warmest day of the year here. but by monday, those temperatures were down quite sharply. and it looks as though that fresher feel will continue to be the theme of the weather

into tuesday, as well. starting off with a good deal of dry weather, our weak weather front just a band of cloud lingering first thing in the morning but there will be a lot of sunshine coming through in area of low pressure bringing in some rain into western fringes of scotland by the middle part of the day and the winds increasing here. so, we're looking at around 10—18 degrees as the overall high but futher south and east, 25 is not out of the question. down a touch, but still that's 77 fahrenheit. that weather front that's bringing the rain is going to bring some heavy bursts of rain for a time across scotland overnight, but as we move into wednesday, it'll be a fairly weak affair by then as it moves out of the scottish borders into the north of england and parts of north wales. behind it, we'll see some sunshine as well, top temperatures around 14—18 degrees, ahead of it, we're starting to drag up more heat and humidity once again, 28 degrees not out of the question. and it is this heat and humidity which may well

trigger off some sharp thundery downpours late on wednesday towards the end of the working week. why? we've got this warm humid air starting to move up from spain and into france, could trigger off some sharp thunderstorms moving their way across the channel. there's a lot of uncertainty just where these thunderstorms are likely to crop up and so, it's worth keeping abreast of the forecast but anywhere across eastern england could be at risk of real torrential thundery downpours from time to time. further north and west, it's a drier and bright affair on wednesday. top temperatures down considerably, we're looking at 13—22 degrees.

this is bbc news.

i'm david eades. the headlines: russia's president, vladimir putin, has responded to president biden�*s warning about the threat to the west from russia. ahead of their meeting on wednesday, mr putin appeared to warn mr biden against taking any quick decisions against moscow. mr biden said nato would respond to any harmful activities by russia. the bbc understands that the british prime minister, borisjohnson, and his australian counterpart, scott morrison, have agreed the broad terms of a trade deal. a formal announcement is expected on tuesday about what would be the first trade agreement negotiated from scratch since the uk left the eu. the president of the philippines says the country will not co—operate with international criminal proceedings carried out in relation to the war on drugs. the outgoing chief prosecutor of the international criminal court says she has asked judges to allow her to open a full