welcome to bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: presidents biden and putin describe their first summit as "positive" and "constructive", but serious differences still remain between america and russia. blast—off for the first astronauts to china's new space station, and the country's longest crewed mission. police in hong kong arrest five executives from the pro—democracy apple daily newspaper, which opposes beijing's tightening grip on the territory. the nightmare goes on — hundreds of thousands of rohingya children who fled myanmar�*s military now facing sexual abuse, trafficking and detention.

and is blatant product placement falling flat? after cristiano ronaldo removes coca—cola bottles from a euros news conference. hello and welcome to the programme. the first summit between president biden and president putin has ended in switzerland. the two leaders held about four hours of talks. topics included, nuclear arms control, opposition figure alexei navalny and alleged cyberattacks by moscow. our north america editor, jon sopel, has more. best wishes and goodbye. he says "best wishes and goodbye" in russian. and with those words, the swiss president left them to it. there was little in the way of theatrics or fanfare, and the body language suggested

a good deal of wariness on both sides as the us and russian presidents shook hands on the portico of this handsome 18th—century villa overlooking lake geneva. i'm not sure how this is working. in the library, they sat somewhat awkwardly. a reporter asked the russian president whether he feared the opposition leader, alexei navalny. no comment. the american president was asked whether he trusted vladimir putin. he appeared to nod. he speaks in russian he says, "there are a lot of issues that require the highest level of meeting." the us president concurred. like i said outside, i think it's always better to meet face—to—face. there'll be subjects where they agree, but plenty where they won't. the us is most vexed by the endless cyber and criminal ransomware attacks on american infrastructure and election interference in western democracies. the president will raise human rights, and in particular the treatment of the opposition leader, alexei navalny. and the us has grown increasingly concerned about the destabilising effect

of russian military activity on the ukrainian border. then, after two hours of intense talks, it was over. on the central issues that joe biden pressed on, the russian leader either deflected or denied responsibility. president putin acknowledged the talks had been "frank and candid", normally a euphemism for a row, but he also said they'd been "constructive". translation: both sides expressed their intention | to understand each other and to seek common ground. talks were quite constructive. the president of the united states. then it was the american president's turn, once the aviators had come off. it's been a long day for y'all. he said he'd given vladimir putin a blunt message. i made it clear that we will not tolerate attempts to violate our democratic sovereignty or destabilise our democratic elections, and we would respond. the bottom line is i told

president putin that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. and he said he was satisfied with what had been achieved. it was important to meet in person so there can be no mistake about or misrepresentations about what i wanted to communicate. i did what i came to do. this was more "clear the air" than "new dawn". the americans had set the bar low for this encounter, and on that basis, it met expectations. jon sopel, bbc news, geneva. us intelligence has blamed russian based groups for a series of high profile cyber attacks in recent years. at the forefront of the biden administration's minds will be the hacking on democratic national committee and clinton campaign emails, during the height of the 2016 race, which the party believes helped tip the balance in donald trump's favour.

last december, the us treasury confirmed it and another department had been breached, through use of compromised software — solarwinds orion. after mr biden took office, a ransomware attack of the colonial pipeline created fuel shortages across the east coast, leading to the company paying 0ut$1l1i million to hackers. and just a week ahead of the swiss summit, the world's largest meat processing company, jbs handed over $11 million in bitcoin to hackers after a similar attack. earlier, i spoke tojohn hultquist, vice president of cybersecurity firm mandiant. it and its parent company fireeye alerted the us government to last year's solarwinds cyberattack after its own hacking tools were stolen by the same actors.

i think this is a good way to sort of limit the issue at hand. there are a lot of cyber issues that we need to address between us and russia. that begins with the interference in the election, the critical infrastructure intrusions or probing of critical infrastructure, the criminal incidents that have affected critical infrastructure, and of course, some of the major espionage cases that have included us, with solarwinds incident. but there are a lot of things on the table and i think sort of grouping them under critical infrastructure, these are the obviously critical targets, this is a most important place where we can form some sort of early agreement. it is a really good way to start limiting this problem. that is interesting, so some kind of confidence that, a, it will be useful and, b, it may actually happen. of course, there's an implicit suggestion that there are targets therefore that must be on limits, so if it's not critical to national security, are we just in a place where we just accept these ransomware attacks are now part of life? i think we have to recognise that at least overnight, we are not going

to make ransomware go away. even vladimir putin is probably not capable of making ransomware go away overnight. they do not have full control, obviously. they have cultivated a safe haven but they don't have full control over all these actors. what we would rather see is maybe a message sent to these actors to keep to keep their hands off the critical infrastructure and give us some breathing room. interesting. the idea of retaliation was hinted by the us authorities. what do you think that means? well, the united states and our five eye partners have probably the most advanced defensive capabilities out there. i think they are handing out maybe as a deterrent the possibility of some sort of reciprocal attack. the issue there of course is that the reason that we have such advanced capabilities is because we come from advanced, sophisticated economies, advanced, sophisticated societies, and that gives us

of those defensive tools but it is also our greatest vulnerability. right? we sort of suffer from all these complexities in our society that can suddenly go down and cause a lot of great discomfort. and just finally, i am afraid we are almost out of time. on a tangential issue, any thoughts on the olympics and that as a potential target? yeah, well, the olympics were targeted before by russian actors. they tried to take down the pyeongchang olympics and we know that they were actually trying to take down the tokyo olympics prior to covid—19 sort of disrupting things. i believe they will try to take down the olympics again and this is going to be a real question of whether or not they are going to turn over a new leaf. john hultquist there.

china has launched its first crew to its new space station a landmark step in establishing beijing as a major space power. it will be china's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years. china's space ambitions have been fuelled in part by a us ban on its astronauts on the international space station. this latest venture follows previous successful milestones in china's space programme after missions to return rock and soil samples to earth from the surface of the moon, landing its first rover on mars. we can now speak to jonathan mcdowell from the harvard—smithsonian center for astrophysics. thank you very much for coming on the programme. good evening. we watched the launch in the last half—an—hour. it looked very smooth, very impressive. way is this so significant? this is really the opening of a whole new phase in china's

space programme. we will see a lot more chinese astronauts in space. they have been, you know, lagging behind, they have not done as much with astronauts in the past years, and so, they have been waiting for their big new rocket to get ready so that they can launch the big space station. now they are ready and raring to go. we're going to see space walks, experiments with robot arms, and so we will see a lot news of chinese astronauts in the years to come.— of chinese astronauts in the years to come. and it may be a surrise years to come. and it may be a surprise to _ years to come. and it may be a surprise to some _ years to come. and it may be a surprise to some that - years to come. and it may be a surprise to some that china's i surprise to some that china's astronauts are banned from the international space station. is that right?— international space station. is that right?_ international space station. is that riuht? ~ . , ., that right? why? that is due to the us. that right? why? that is due to the us- you — that right? why? that is due to the us. you know, _ that right? why? that is due to the us. you know, the - that right? why? that is due to the us. you know, the berlin . the us. you know, the berlin congress decided that when we launched us satellites —— us congress, china learned a little bit too much about our space technology, and applying it to missile technology. this

order came down that we cannot play with chinese. as a result, the chinese have gone in their own way. the chinese have gone in their own wa . , ., the chinese have gone in their own way-— the chinese have gone in their own wa . , ., ., own way. they have gone their own way. they have gone their own way- _ own way. they have gone their own way- they _ own way. they have gone their own way. they have _ own way. they have gone their own way. they have three - own way. they have three astronauts onboard this rocket heading towards their space station. what will they do there? , ., ., ., there? first you move into a new home. _ there? first you move into a new home, everything - there? first you move into a new home, everything is - there? first you move into a new home, everything is in l new home, everything is in boxes, you have to unpack, right. plug the refrigerator in. there will be a lot of setting up this crew will have to do for this home, it will be home for chinese astronauts for years to come. they will test out base suits, they will practice doing space walks to do maintenance on the outside of the space station. test out their robot arm. these are things the international space station astronauts have done for years, station astronauts have done foryears, but station astronauts have done for years, but china does not have that experience let people mmp have that experience let people ramp up so they do the same things that we know how to do. if they are going essentially, replicating what we have already seen on the international is a station, is there anything exciting here?

or is the expectation actually, with the speed of development, they will be able to surpass what is happening on the iss? i think this is not going to be groundbreaking, compared to what has been done before, it's just new territory for china, but it will position them in the years to come to have this experience of maintaining, fixing broken things, spending long times in space, but they are going to need, if they want to surpass the us, russia and say, sending astronauts to the moon and mars. this is a stepping stone, a learning experience, getting maturity in the chinese women space programme —— human space programme —— human space programme to where it can compete in the first rank. thank you. fix, compete in the first rank. thank vom— hong kong police say they've arrested five executives from the pro—democracy apple daily newspaper in a dawn raid on its offices.

the newspaper, which has opposed china's tightening grip on hong kong says its editor—in—chief, ryan law, was among those detained. the founder and owner of the newspaper, jimmy lai, has already been put on trial over similar accusations, which could carry a life sentence. our hong kong reporter, danny vincent, has more. in the early hours of the morning, the national security police arrested five executives from apple daily, including the chief executives and the managing editor. this is the second time apple daily has been raided. the first time, jimmy lai, the outspoken critic and owner of apple daily was arrested and paraded through the newsroom. he's now in prison for charges relating to the protest movement in 2019. he is also being charged and standing trialfor violating national security law. i think the difference between this raid and the raid before is clearly the people

that have been arrested, jimmy lai is not the managing editor, he is not involved technically with editorial decisions inside the paper, he is an outspoken actor in his own right. he was arrested under those charges, because of his involvement with the protest movement. but this time we are seeing editorial staff arrested at the newspaper. some of the journalists we have been speaking to our apple daily have been livestreaming the event. the police are still outside and inside their offices at the moment. there were reports earlier in the month from some journalists inside the newspaper, that apple daily would be further targeted and even raided or even closed. so, the journalists that i have been speaking to, they felt this is notjust an attack on the pro—democracy

movement, but there seems to be a shift, in their words, a shift here, that the media itself is also under attack. danny, iam intrigued about the public reaction here. what you think it will be? is there a sense now that this is inevitable or are events like this are still shocking to ordinary people in hong kong? i think the scale of this, of this arrest, and also the pictures that hong kongers will be seeing livestreamed from inside apple daily will again be surprising and shocking and maybe that's in some ways the point. we have seen more than 100 police officers inside apple daily, raiding the premises. this is, of course, the second time it has happened. some residents feel they are prepared, you know, they are used to dawn raids, they know activists and pro—democracy individuals are being targeted. but this again represents a change in hong kong.

the first time apple daily was raided, i think the city had not seen anything like that before. the image of hundreds of police officers inside the most popular newspaper in the city. it's shocking. but in the time that's passed between then, hong kong has changed substantially. activists say people, both, inside and outside of the formal opposition have been targeted, the young, the old. so i think that most activists would think this is yet again another example of how drastically the city is changing. stay with us on bbc news. just what is flying high over the middle eastern countryside? find out a little later. 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: presidents biden and putin described their first summit

as positive and constructive, but the leaders made it clear, differences still remain between america and russia. the first astronauts to china's new space station have blasted off — for the country's longest crewed mission. save the children says more than 700,000 rohingya children are facing severe discrimination and denial of their most basic rights across several different countries. the aid agency says the children are vulnerable to sexual abuse, trafficking and detention. most rohingya muslims fled their home country, myanmar, after a deadly crackdown by the military in 2017. they now live in refugee camps in neighbouring bangladesh, malaysia, thailand and indonesia. in the camp of cox's bazaar alone, there are over a50 thousand children refugees. let's speak more about this with save the children's senior

humanitarian policy and advocacy manager in asia — olof blomqvist. thank you for coming on the programme. this is a shocking situation when you hear some of the numbers of the children impacted here. what are some of the ways they are particularly vulnerable?— the ways they are particularly vulnerable? ~ , ,., , ~ vulnerable? absolutely, i think ou vulnerable? absolutely, i think you summed — vulnerable? absolutely, i think you summed up _ vulnerable? absolutely, i think you summed up the _ vulnerable? absolutely, i think you summed up the scale - vulnerable? absolutely, i think| you summed up the scale of the problem in the introduction, we're talking about more than 700,000 children across the region who are all denied their basic rights. essentially we are talking about a lost generation of rohingya children, they all live lives in the margin with constant risk of abuse and exploitation. they lack legal status, they are denied citizenship in myanmar and that follows them wherever they go, refugee rights in other countries are similar and this really impact their ability to attend schools

as well and to get a quality education. across the countries we looked out there is almost not a single child who is able to access quality school. state listeners. _ to access quality school. state listeners, lack _ to access quality school. state listeners, lack of _ to access quality school. state listeners, lack of education, i listeners, lack of education, what is happening to them now, that will live with them for the rest of their lives, which is a hugely damaging prospect for them. what are what about the actual countries where they are? they don't exactly have a lot of resources to try and fix this? ., lot of resources to try and fix this? . , , ., this? that is true, but we do also think— this? that is true, but we do also think that _ this? that is true, but we do also think that there - this? that is true, but we do also think that there are - also think that there are things that these governments can do in the short term to adjust these problems, when it comes to education for example, we really want to see rohingya children be included in the public school system of these countries, notjust rohingya countries, not just rohingya children countries, notjust rohingya children but all refugee children, and the fact that a lot of these countries actually treat refugee children as criminals has an incredibly harmful effect on them. there

were rohingya boys and girls we spoke to in malaysia who said they were afraid to leave their home, the play with their friends in france because they thought there might be arrested and deported by police, but at the same time this is not something that these countries can handle on their own. we need to see much more international support for these countries are.— countries are. justin that international _ countries are. justin that international support - countries are. justin that - international support because clearly this report and the numbers, it throws the world's attention back on what is happening there which of course has been happening for so many years now. what is the level of international support and what more is needed? it is international support and what more is needed? it is dropping and that is _ more is needed? it is dropping and that is extremely - and that is extremely concerning. we can probably expect it to drop for a while longer given the financial impact of the pandemic. just in the last couple of months we saw the news from the uk about the reduction in foreign aid, we saw a drop in foreign funding to bangladesh, so that is extremely worrying. this is definitely not the type international donors to cut

back on humanitarian funding, in particular to rohingya communities. most of these children depend on aid agencies or communal agencies just to get by every day for everything from food to schooling, to healthcare, so we need more support from the international community, not less.- support from the international community, not less. thank you so much for— community, not less. thank you so much for coming _ community, not less. thank you so much for coming on - community, not less. thank you so much for coming on the - so much for coming on the programme. now, is it time to rethink the age—old advertising practice of product placement? a couple of major sponsors of the european football championship have this week suffered the embarrassment of top footballers shunning their products. courtney bembridge reports. first it was portugal's cristiano ronaldo. as he sat down at a press conference on monday, he shuffled two bottles of coca—cola out of shot. he then held up a bottle of water, apparently encouraging people to drink that instead. the small gesture took the fizz out of coca—cola's share price,

which fell in the hours that followed — wiping $4 billion from the company's value. but coca—cola, which is still worth around $2110 billion, knows better than to pick a fight. the company issued a statement saying, "everyone is entitled to their drink preferences." but cristiano ronaldo isn't just anyone. when you consider that cristiano ronaldo has 299 million followers on instagram, what he does is big moves every time he does something. and it wasn'tjust ronaldo. one day later, french footballer and practising muslim, paul pogba, removed a heineken beer from of the table in front of him. it turned out the beer was non—alcoholic. but many are asking whether this kind of product placement has had its day. the trend here is that fans will become more wary and the kind of heightened profile of these examples will have brands kind of talking behind the scenes now, to see what they want to be affiliated to. both coca—cola and heineken

are official sponsors of the euros and may well feel their investment has fallen flat. courtney bembridge, bbc news. so often when we talk about lebanon, we're bringing you bad news. it's a poor country that's experienced decades of sectarian division, and has had to provide shelter to thousands of refugees. but it's also the home of unesco world heritage sites, and a beautiful landscape. three french adventurers wanted to witness it first hand in an unusual way. tim allman reports. for all its troubles, let there be no doubt, lebanon is truly stunning. a country of history, mystery and of spectacle. for these three men, there's only one way to truly appreciate it. fred, vincent and aurelian are wingsuit flyers,

so if they want to have a look around, they take to the skies. jumping out of a helicopter, they glide across the lebanese countryside, seeing the country's highest peak and flying through the khadijah valley in the forest of the cedars of god. like a trio of cape superheroes, they seem to defy gravity in a fairly nonchalant way. translation: it's cool that we're the first people to over this country. in the end, reality asserts itself, and they parachute down—to—earth. an unprecedented an extraordinary trip across an extraordinary country. tim allman, bbc news. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @ l vaughanjones let me know what you think about what we're covering on

bbc news. about what we're covering on bbc news-— about what we're covering on bbc news. . , ., bbc news. that is it from me, goodbye- _ hello there. over the next few days, bouts of thunderstorms will be affecting parts of england, bringing a risk of some localised flooding. now, wednesday was another very hot day in the capital. 29 degrees celsius, that was the highest temperature recorded in the whole of the uk. it was also very muggy. but we had some thunderstorms that started to break out as well across northern france, and these have been tracking across the english channel into southern and eastern areas of england. really anywhere from around about dorset, somerset north—eastwards at risk of a storm overnight, but really it's a more general area of rain with some thunderstorms mixed in. that's kind of what we'll have over the next few hours. now, across the north west, it should become largely dry here. a fresh night, ten degrees, comfortable for sleeping, but very muggy in eastern england. 18 degrees as we start the day on thursday. now, through thursday, a wet start, i think,

across the south east of england, east anglia, a good part of the midlands as well, with outbreaks of rain. still a risk of a few thunderstorms mixed in. most of that rain will clear off into the north sea with the weather becoming drier and brighterfrom the south—east, but still with a lot of cloud around. best of the sunshine, scotland, northern ireland and north—west fringes of both england and wales probably having some bright and reasonably fresh weather as well. but it will still be very humid in the east. thursday night, well, it should become dry at least for a time before the next batch of storms begin to make inroads from the south. and then through friday, again, we're looking at another pulse of thundery rain kind of affecting the same sort of areas really. southern england, the midlands, east anglia, parts of lincolnshire and yorkshire. and within this area of rain, there will be some hefty downpours bringing a risk of some localised flooding. still relatively fresh weather across the north west with some bright or sunny spells coming through. now, friday night, the rain slowly pushes its way northwards and eastwards with the thunderstorms as well. saturday does look a little bit drier generally. there'll be a few bright or sunny spells around, perhaps one or two showers here and there as well. and then through saturday

night, more storms work up from europe. but this time, the rain's going to be more widespread, and it will push right across into northern ireland and scotland as well, still with the risk of some thunderstorms embedded in that area of rain. so, all in all, very unsettled for the next few days. the biggest storms capable of bringing a lot of rain in a short space of time, which could bring the risk of some localised flooding. that's your latest weather.

heavenly palace this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: both the us and russian presidents have spoken positively about their summit in geneva, but significant differences were laid bare. president biden said he'd told mr putin that the us would respond to actions that threaten its interests. the two leaders held about four hours of talks. hong kong police say they've arrested five executives from the pro—democracy apple daily newspaper, in a dawn raid on its offices. the newspaper, which has opposed china's tightening grip on hong kong, is owned byjimmy lai, who's already been put on trial over similar accusations. the first astronauts for china's new space station have blasted off in the gobi desert, for the country's longest crewed mission to date. it is china's first crewed mission in nearly five years, and a landmark step in establishing beijing as a major space power.

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