team in the white updates from my team in the white house that is in close contact with the justice department. house that is in close contact with thejustice department. we are still gathering the facts while already the justice department gathering the facts while already thejustice department has stated publicly it is investigating the matter as a hate crime, a racially motivated act of violent extremism. as they do, we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america. our hearts are heavy once again but our resolve must never, ever waver. again but our resolve must never, everwaver. no again but our resolve must never, ever waver. no one understands this more than the people sitting in front of me. mums, dads, children, family members, about how those folks in buffalo field today when they got the call. it's as if you are being pulled into a black hole in your chest and there is no way out. jill and i know, we know no

memorial, no gestures can fill the void in the hearts they have now, or that you, you have lost someone, feel as well. being here today and hearing the name of your husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, brings it all back, as if you got that phone call ten minutes ago. the american people, we owe you. you know, you sit down in the street, in normalfamilies, all neighbours, and every day you worry and you worry you could get that phone call, and now you are looking at an empty chair. although i didn't personally know your husbands, wives, sons, daughters, brothers,

sisters, i knew them. they were the first ones to run in to help when everyone else ran away when we were kids, when we were young men and women, even in grade school. that is president biden _ women, even in grade school. that is president biden speaking, _ president biden speaking, specifically at an event for police officers killed in the line of duty, and he hasjust gone on officers killed in the line of duty, and he has just gone on to start talking about that, as you could hear. but he started his remarks by reflecting on the events in buffalo, that shooting, ten people dead by a white man, an 18—year—old, who —— and he started by confirming it is a racially motivated hate crime and most of the people targeted were black and he went on to describe the hate. he said it is a stain on the soul of america, and he urged all americans to work together to combat that. we will keep listening across that. we will keep listening across that event live in washington, but we brought it to you to get

president biden�*s first reflections in person on the shooting there in buffalo in new york state. it has just it hasjust come it has just come half past five to stop that have a look at the headlines. sweden's ruling social democrats have backed the country joining nato. it's after finland also confirmed it will apply for nato membership, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. their membership in nato would increase our shared security, demonstrate that nato's door is open, and that aggression does not pay. a british military intelligence assessment suggests russia may have lost a third of its ground forces since the start of its invasion of ukraine. the uk government says it wouldn't be deterred from taking action over post—brexit trading arrangements in northern ireland to try to help restore power—sharing at stormont.

now on bbc news, bbc world news correspondent laura trevelyan examines herfamily�*s historic links to slave ownership in "grenada: confronting the past." 250 years ago, this harbour on the caribbean island of grenada was bustling, with slave ships arriving from west africa. after a harrowing journey, the slaves were sold here and put to work on the sugar plantations in brutal conditions. my family in england owned slaves here on grenada, and though we never set foot on the island, we profited from the sale of sugar. and when slavery was finally abolished, we got compensation from the british government. the slaves got nothing. now grenada is debating the idea of reparations for slavery

and what that means. i've come here to confront the past, to ask how it shapes the future. i felt apprehensive as we began exploring grenada, not knowing what i'd discover, or how my quest to unearth the past would be received. one of the things that the british government asked for was for the planters to say how many slaves they owned and to make a record of how many were born, how many died each year. so grenada actually has some of the best records. nicole phillip—dowe is my guide. she's a historian, an official at the university of the west indies, and vice chair of grenada's national reparations commission on slavery.

we begin ourjourney by looking at university college london's database of slave ownership in the british caribbean. so, shall we see what happens if i type in my name? let's have a go at it. all right. let's get in there. trevelya n. 0k. and then let's put grenada. let's see what it's going to come up with. good heavens. we have reverend george trevelyan. harriet trevelyan. john trevelyan. so this is showing us that my ancestors owned what looks like hundreds of slaves on grenada... yes. ..on the tempe estate, the simon estate, the requin estate, la sagesse, five different estates. five different estates, yes. my relatives owned hundreds

of slaves and received thousands of pounds in compensation when slavery was abolished in 183a. yes. the sort of diseases that would have been around... once we knew the names of the plantations where my ancestors owned slaves, nicole showed me the records from those very estates. this one is actually the beausejour estate, and this record is 1817. so that's when my family owned slaves... yes. ..on beausejour? on beausejour estate. so it says these are the annual increase and decrease of the slaves on the beausejour estate in the parish of st george. and then it goes on to show, by deaths, how many died. look how many slaves died. and this one is interesting. this is alexander. he's only one—year—old. erm, he's black, erm, creole, meaning that he would have been born in the caribbean. he dies of obstruction of the bowels.

so a one—year—old? a one—year—old. yeah. this is the beausejour estate, high in the hills of grenada, once a sugar cane plantation jointly owned by the trevelyans. the production of sugar cane fuelled the transatlantic slave trade. and it's here that slaves, owned by my family, worked long hours harvesting the crop. this is the location where the slave master would come out and look over the slave plantation, the sugar plantation. at beausejour, i met the second of my guides, the historical novelist dc campbell, who grew up on grenada. dc explained what life was like for the slaves shipped here from west africa

by the colonial powers to harvest the valuable sugar cane. to the left, we would have seen the windmill turning, and those would have the big rollers that would crush the sugar canes. very dangerous work, because the rollers, when you're feeding the rollers with the sugar cane, if your fingertip gets caught, it's the beginning, because your finger pulls your hand, and then your hand, your shoulder, and then your entire body. and there are cases of entire bodies being crushed in those machines. there'sjust not enough time to stop it. so the solution... the solution at that time was to have a big machete standing close by, and someone whose job it was to keep an eye on the feeders and the machete. and the minute someone got stuck in those rollers, they would take that machete and chop off the limb. good lord. yes. rather lose their arm, than a life.

because that human being with one arm can still get back to doing the work that lost them their arm to begin with. so it was very brutal, not just what they were inflicted on with punishment, the work itself was punishment. and, dc, how about the absentee slave owners? like my family, like the trevelyans? we... in britain, we like to think that we didn't have slavery. in fact, in school i was taught that we abolished slavery. but the fact is that the british practically invented it. the distance, the time away from the actual slave experience here in the caribbean, i think, allowed a lot of europeans to feel detached from the actual slavery, but they certainly benefited from the wealth that went back from these plantations. and the wealth was extraordinary. i mean, it wasn't just sugar, was it? well, there was sugar. there was cotton at one time, tobacco, cocoa, all of those products.

rum? but sugar, the products, the by—products... yes, rum, of course, was a major by—product. sugar was, of course, the other one. i think there was maybe about a 20 year timeframe in the 18th century, where the consumption of sugar in england quadrupled. grenada's capital, st george's, is one of the most picturesque in the caribbean. the bustling harbour sits below the hillside of an old volcanic crater. the horror of life and death on the beausejour estate seemed at odds with our spectacular location. ourjourney into the past with both our guides took us next to the north of grenada, through the lush rainforest to the belmont plantation, now a popular tourist destination. but there's no escaping the past. nicole, can you tell us about these objects? yes. so these are shackles, and these would have been used on children.

so little hands are expected to fit in here, and they would be sort of bound like this. yeah. and what is this, nicole? a form of torture. it's a neck collar. so if the enslaved, for whatever reason, was disobedient, this — as you see, it's padlocked — it would be opened, placed around the person's neck. and the moving of your head would have been almost... ..almost impossible. so this one would be the whip. notice, because it's plaited leather, it means that whenever you got... ..whenever you got hit by this, more than likely it's going to tear the flesh. and you have instances of slaves being beaten, receiving as much as 100 lashes. so all of this in front of us, how would you sum up what you've showed us?

i would say... ..forms and mediums of control. it's an actual process of ensuring that this labour is not only free, but it's also controlled, so that that labour does exactly what is asked of them, and produces as much as possible, so that there can be a realisation of wealth. it's making me feel physically sick, the way that you describe that. it's like a system of profit built of torture. for an absentee planter, who has never set foot in one of these islands, were they aware of the brutality of slavery? ordid they...? were they aware but just turned a blind eye, because there's profits coming from this?

or is it that they genuinely did not know the extent of this? it really opens those questions. there's an active debate on grenada about the brutal legacy of slavery and how to make amends for the past. grenada's national reparations commission is engaging the country's youth in a discussion about what exactly reparations even mean. we've come here to this school to find out what the students have to say. so good afternoon again, girls. students: good afternoon. today we want to chat about the legacy of slavery, and we want to talk about reparations. so in terms of treatment,

the slaves, basically, there would have been specific laws. all right? and one of the things we must understand is that they were chattel slaves. and that means... what does chattel slavery mean? student: personal property. perfect — personal property. all right? now, if they're considered personal property, it means that they have no rights. absolutely no rights. so this is laura trevelyan. now, one of the things about laura is that she found not too long ago that her... five times great—grandfather. ..five times great—grandfather was a slave owner... here... ..in grenada. so this is my question — in 183a, almost 200 years ago, my family received the equivalent of £3 million in today's money

when slavery was abolished. the thousand slaves that we owned here in grenada got nothing. do you think that my family should pay money in reparations to the people of grenada? can you raise your hand if you think that's a good idea? that seems to be unanimous, nicole. can i ask how many of you are descended from slaves? do you know? i think everybody. nicole laughs after class, i sat down with the students to find out more about their views on reparations and the legacy of slavery on grenada. it's not onlyjust in the infrastructure or the systems, but it's also in the mind of everyone, just general grenadian citizens. we kind of have this victimising mind—set about, "oh,

instead of trying to get ourselves out of it. even though the whole... a majority of grenada is black, the population is mainly black, there is still a lot - of racism and colourism. i and i think these things pass downl from the minds of parents who have taught their children these things. just steps away from the market where the enslaved were once sold is another prompt from the past.

the name hankey is well known on grenada, and my family owned slaves on this island in partnership with a mr hankey. he was our agent. freed slaves often took the names of their masters. so it's possible that my relatives owned the ancestors of the mr hankey who runs the store today. it's so nice to meet you. it took a bit of persuasion before mr hankey would speak to me. it's disconcerting when a complete stranger turns up to ask about the past. i'm just curious to know if it's possible that my relatives owned your ancestors. there is a possibility. but if it was the case that we were linked by history, what would you think of that? erm...that�*s deep. that's deep.

do you think it's fair that my family got money when slavery was abolished, but the slaves here in grenada got nothing? no, not at all. it wasn't fair. i believe that the slaves were the hard workers. they are the ones that should really get some form of compensation. there was a lot to reflect on after i'd met mr hankey and the students and seen the plantations. as a schoolgirl, i'd been taught that britain led the world in abolishing the slave trade. my history lessons glossed over how britain's empire profited from slavery for centuries before abolition, and the cost of abolishing slavery was staggering. compensating families like mine for the loss of what was called their property cost britain's government £20 million in 183a. but the slaves received nothing. now grenada is asking to be paid by the former colonial powers

to try to repair the damage done by slavery. the arguments for and against reparations are controversial and complex. the moral imperative of making amends versus questions about whether this is the most effective way to tackle racial inequality. and is it right to expect those who weren't responsible to pay the price for decisions made hundreds of years ago? on one of the forts built by britain and france to defend their lucrative slave trade, i met with arley gill, the chair of grenada's national reparations commission. reparations mean to us compensation for the exploitation of our forefathers. our ancestors, enslaved africans, worked on the plantations for free, and that established the industrial revolution and triggered the development of western european societies. what kind of compensation do

you think is appropriate? we believe that they can make significant contribution to eradicating illiteracy. so our forefathers, they were not given the benefit of proper educational institutions. and so our governments have inherited a high illiteracy rate. our health system, the caribbean is well known for chronic disease, diabetes and hypertension. and it's a direct legacy of the diet that we inherited from the period of slavery. so we believe that... ..the european countries, the former colonial powers, can assist greatly in our health care system by transfer of technology and medication and so on and so forth. as calls for reparations grow, prince edward and his wife sophie cancelled a visit to grenada in april. it was to have been one stop on their caribbean tour to celebrate the queen's platinum jubilee. there were fears that the royal couple would be met by protests over slavery, as the duke and duchess

of cambridge were when they were in jamaica this march. caribbean governments want more from britain than expressions of sorrow over the slave trade. ..should never have happened. the british government, first of all, must apologise wholeheartedly. and notjust the british government, we cannot leave out the monarchy. the royal family played a critical role in sanctioning and participating in the slave trade and slavery. britain's government has never apologised for slavery. the foreign office told this programme that slavery was and still is abhorrent, expressing deep regret that the slave trade could ever have happened. grenada, meanwhile, is moving forward, taking steps towards reclaiming its past. streets named after english officials who owned slaves will be renamed for prominent grenadians.

at the end of an eventful week, we sat with our guides, nicole phillip—dowe and dc campbell, to reflect on what we'd learned. this is grand anse beach, where it all began in 1609 when the british first tried to land and colonise grenada. the carib natives repelled the british, only to be invaded by the french. what, to you, is the legacy of slavery, as you sit on grenada today? well, the people will never forget. the evidence is all around us. we do have structures. we do have memories. we do have history that we can't walk away from. we know most of the people who live on this island are descendants of slaves from the west african nations. so it's ever present around us. the struggle, the poverty is all part of that.

and how about grenada's relationship with its own history? would it help...? at the moment there's just that one plaque in the market square which is a memorial to the enslaved. but apart from that, you don't really know that this was somewhere where the slave trade was so prominent. do you think that's something that grenada could do to spotlight its own heritage more? absolutely. i believe there are lots of opportunities on the island to spotlight those historic places and historic events. there's a lot of room for improvement, i believe. we have slave plantation remnants — the windmills, the boiler houses. those things, i think, bring to people's memory the struggle that the slaves went through. and i think we need to keep that alive. what do you think it means that we're sitting here together? you a descendant of slaves, me a descendant of slave owners, able to talk about the tricky subject. i think it's remarkable.

and from our first conversation, within minutes, i realised this is something that we can talk about without the emotional... ..heart—wrenching conversations that you typically will have, that we've reached that point where the descendants of slaves and the descendants of slave owners can actually sit side by side and come up with solutions. i've been thinking a lot during this trip about what, if anything, i might owe to the people of grenada — an issue i discussed with nicole phillip—dowe. i've been thinking about my own responsibility, nicole. i'm thinking that i can persuade family members to try and endow an educational scholarship, so grenadians could study abroad. what do you think about that idea? excellent idea. education is the way to go. when you educate one person, it's notjust that person, it's the entire family and, by extension, the village and the community.

so education, for me, it's always been a medium of advancement. so i think that's an extremely great idea. exceedingly great idea. but we can't undo the past. no, we can't. we can't. it's learning to accept that it happened. but how do you deal with it now that you've come to terms with the fact that this is what has happened? and education, for me, is one of the ways that you can repair that damage. the devil slave masterjabjab is a reminder of grenada's not so distant past. he shouts he's a prominent character during carnival, representing the freed african slaves who mock their former oppressor. rhythmic drumming the horrors of the slave trade are being

acknowledged, and grenada is reclaiming its history. hello there. it really is a messy picture out there at the moment. obviously we've seen a lot more cloud around today, some bursts of rain too. the rain in western scotland probably easing away, but further south into england the rain that we've seen developing here will continue to push its way northwards, could be heavy, possibly even thundery as well, working its way upwards into southern scotland. if you're hoping to see the super blood moon later in the night, the best chance i think will be in northern scotland with some clearer skies. very warm and muggy night, those are the minimum temperatures. we start off quite cloudy tomorrow with some mist around too and these bursts of rain. the wetter weather continues

to work its way northwards, where it will come to rest in scotland. eventually some sunshine coming through in northern ireland and developing more widely in england and wales, but still maybe a few thundery showers here and there. warmer in the sunshine, 22 or 23 degrees. underneath the cloud and rain in scotland, it's going to be quite a bit chilly here. through the rest of this week, we will continue to have some warmth and sunshine at times. but still that continued threat of some heavy and thundery downpours.

this is bbc news — the headlines at six. sweden's ruling social democrats have backed the countryjoining nato — it's after finland also confirmed it will apply for nato membership, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. their membership in nato would increase our shared security, demonstrate that nato's door is open, and that aggression does not pay. a british military intelligence assessment suggests russia may have lost a third of its ground forces since the start of its invasion of ukraine. president biden has been speaking after ten people are killed in a shooting in buffalo.

we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain