pushing further south across the uk, before high pressure settle things down for friday and, indeed, into next weekend. that's your latest forecast. welcome to bbc news, i'm david eades. our top stories: president biden holds a meeting with emperor naruhito during his first visit to japan since taking office, as the us seeks to bolster its regional influence against a dominant china. we report on howjapan is boosting its own military, amid fears of chinese aggression towards taiwan. if china did try to invade taiwan, despite all of the impressive naval power on display here in tokyo bay, it is not clear at all whether the united states or its japanese allies now have the ability to stop them. i will well and truly serve the

commonwealth of australia, in the office — commonwealth of australia, in the office of prime minister. anthony albanese becomes australia's 31st prime minister, before heading to tokyo for talks with president biden, and the other quad leaders. thousands of kilos of powdered baby milk arrives in the united states, to help relieve a critical shortage of infant formula. and we meet the pampered pooches, riding japan's iconic bullet train in style. hello, thanks for joining hello, thanks forjoining us here on bbc news. how to keep a lid on china's ambitions in the pacific: that is the key issue confronting president biden as he has arrived injapan for his first visit to asia since becoming president.

it's also his first summit with america's asian allies since the russian invasion of ukraine. in tokyo he will hold talks with the prime ministers of japan, india and australia. the fallout from ukraine appears set to dominate discussions, but much of the focus will be on china's territorial intentions, in particular its claim on taiwan. many analysts believe china's massive military gives it the wherewithal to invade taiwan, and to hold off the us and its allies if they try to intervene. our correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes filed this report from tokyo. this is something that hadn't been seen for more than 70 years, a fighterjet landing on board a japanese aircraft carrier. the jet is american butjapan has a0 of them on order. this is a sleek new mogami class stealth frigate being commissioned last month. it's the first of 22.

japan is quietly abandoning seven decades of pacifism, and the reason is simple — china. after ukraine, japan's former prime minister shinzo abe is warning that a chinese invasion of taiwan could be next. translation: a taiwan - emergency is our emergency, forjapan and for the us—japan alliance. president xi jingping should not make any mistake in recognising this. taiwan is a vibrant and boisterous democracy. butjust like ukraine, is claimed by a much bigger, more powerful neighbour. i think whoever is in power in china, be it xijinping, or whomever comes after him, it is baked into the cake inside the communist party that china must get taiwan back. it's impossible to see any

leaders stepping back from that position, and if they did step back from that position, they'd be out of a job. just south of tokyo, ships of the us seventh fleet lie at anchor next to those of its japanese ally. for decades, these ships have a guaranteed american domination of the western pacific, but not any more. russia's invasion of ukraine has highlighted two very uncomfortable truths for the united states and its allies here in asia. the first is that when china says it is determined to reunify taiwan, by force if necessary, it actually means it. the second is that if china did try and invade taiwan, despite all of the impressive naval power on display here in tokyo bay, it is not clear at all whether the united states, and its japanese allies, now have the ability to stop them. china's current military build—up is unprecendented in peacetime.

many of these new weapons are designed specifically to defeat any attempt by the us orjapan to intervene in the taiwan strait. between now and 2030, if there is an assessment that china will have significant conventional military advantages in this period. so this is the period that everybody is most concerned that china will have conventional military advantage. and could be tempted to use it. as they meet in tokyo this week, the challenge for the us and its allies is how do they make it clear to president xi jinping that despite his newly acquired military might, using force to take taiwan would be just as much a disasterfor him as invading ukraine has been for president putin? rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. earlier i spoke to barry pavel, senior vice president and director of the scowcroft center for strategy and security at the atlantic council, and asked him if he thought an invasion

on taiwan would happen. no, i don't. no, idon�*t. no no, i don't. no time in the near term. xijinping has his hands full with an economy that is not growing nearly at the rate that his entire population has come to expect, with a covid lockdown that is creating unprecedented protests, with a strategic alliance with russia which just invaded a strategic alliance with russia whichjust invaded a much smaller country and is utterly failing, and xi needs things as stable as possible for the november party congress where he hopes to be anointed president for life. he needs stability and calmness. there is not a chance he will invade taiwan anytime this year. qm. taiwan anytime this year. ok, but even _ taiwan anytime this year. ok, but even that _ taiwan anytime this year. ok, but even that timeframe - taiwan anytime this year. ok, but even that timeframe is interesting because this is not something that has just sprung up something that has just sprung up overnight. it has been on xi jinping's agenda as an issue for a good while now and i

wonder, were china to do something in let's say the next two years as long as perhaps joe biden is still president, with the us intervene? because thatis with the us intervene? because that is a huge question that needs answering.— that is a huge question that needs answering. yes, and so one certainly _ needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot - needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot rule - needs answering. yes, and so one certainly cannot rule out. needs answering. yes, and so| one certainly cannot rule out a chinese invasion. i personally think a military heavy invasion at this point, after what we have seen in ukraine is very unlikely but you can't rule it out and the us would undoubtedly come to the defence of taiwan with its allies including japan because if it did not, if taiwan was lost, it would give the chinese leadership a new strategic advantage from which the united states and its allies would have a very, very hard time recovering. have a very, very hard time recovering-— have a very, very hard time recoverinu. ~ . , recovering. we are 'ust looking at some pictures, _ recovering. we are 'ust looking at some pictures, i- recovering. we are just looking at some pictures, i think- recovering. we are just looking at some pictures, i think we i at some pictures, i think we can bring them to you now, president biden and emperor naruhito in conversation a little bit earlier, just a few minutes ago, i think. i think we have got those pictures for

you somewhere... as we wait to see if we have, it is an interesting perspective, isn't it? seeing japan building its military might, presumably that is entirely built around china's own military growth, isn't it? , ., ., china's own military growth, isn't it? , ., , isn't it? yes, and so japan is very wary — isn't it? yes, and so japan is very wary of— isn't it? yes, and so japan is very wary ofjapan. - isn't it? yes, and so japan is very wary ofjapan, has - isn't it? yes, and so japan isj very wary ofjapan, has been for a very long time. it is slowly moving toward a much stronger leadership role. the us is encouraging this. it will soon go beyond the enshrined i% of gdp for defence spending and looking towards 2% like nato. it is talking about counter—attack capabilities which could include pre—emption of metal sites and command and control. it is really being encouraged in this because the united states needs allies in both the indo—pacific as well as europe to up their roles, to up as europe to up their roles, to up their capabilities so that together we can all seek to deter china and russia. that is

the analysis — deter china and russia. that is the analysis of— deter china and russia. that is the analysis of what _ deter china and russia. that is the analysis of what is - deter china and russia. that is the analysis of what is going i the analysis of what is going on there stop the one of these important parties to the squad discussions as they are called will be the new prime minister of australia, anthony albanese. he has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister. the ceremony was brought forward to enable him to fly to tokyo to meet the leaders of the quad group which includes the us, japan and india. but before he left, he gave his first press conference, where he was asked about australia's relationship with china. the relationship with china will remain a difficult one. i said that before the election, that has not changed. it is china that has changed, not australia and australia should always stand up for our values and we will in a government that my lead.— and we will in a government that my lead. that is the new prime minister _

that my lead. that is the new prime minister mr _ that my lead. that is the new prime minister mr albanese i prime minister mr albanese there talking before he headed off to tokyo. 0ur correspondent is in sydney and has more. they have deteriorated in spectacular fashion in recent times over beria's geopolitical and trade disputes. sometime ago, australia's called for an independent enquiry into the origins of covid—i9 which infuriated beijing. it responded with a raft of trade restrictions on australian and more recently china has struck a security accord with solomon islands. this is a melanesian archipelago to the north—east of australia traditionally in australia's sphere of influence. there are concerns about china's ambitions in the pacific. plenty for anthony albanese to mull as he heads north on his first day in his newjob to tokyo. he has already had a telephone call from president biden and been congratulated

by narendra modi on twitter. he is going to tokyo to shore up very important foreign policy allies is as far as australia is concerned. does a labor party—dominated government represent perhaps a softer touch from a beijing perspective? well, according to the outgoing prime minister scott morrison that is most definitely what he said in pretty explosive claims made during the australian election. essentially mr morrison was saying that the labor party was conniving in some way with beijing. that has been roundly rejected by mr albanese. i think what we will see is a softer diplomacy from the labor party when it comes to abhorent —— foreign policy. the indications are that mr albanese the's new government will seek to shore up these alliances in the asia—pacific region and the indo—pacific region with countries such as japan and india and others.

to try to counter china's growing assertiveness. that is what makes this quad meeting on tuesday in tokyo so important for australia as a new man gets down to business on his first day in his newjob. thank you very much phil mercer in sydney. a military plane carrying 35 tonnes of powdered baby milk has arrived in the united states from europe. it's hoped this will help address a critical shortage of the formula in the us. global supply chain problems were made worse in the us by a product recall and after a production plant closed in february because of a health scare. president biden invoked the cold war—era defense production act to help increase supplies. joining me now is cheryl hart, founder of non—profit group, supporting mamas, based in northern california. thank you very much indeed for joining us. i suppose the first question is how you feel that

seeing this first shipment. a huge sense of relief, i guess? it is, although i know the formula for hypersensitive infants thought will be sent to the hospitals and health clinics first, so it will be a while before actually see it on our shoulder in our grocery stores. �* ., , , stores. and how urgently is that needed? _ stores. and how urgently is that needed? there - stores. and how urgently is that needed? there are - stores. and how urgently is that needed? there are a i stores. and how urgently is l that needed? there are a lot stores. and how urgently is - that needed? there are a lot of mums who will want that now. yes, we are actually in quite a desperate situation in northern california certainly and across the country, it has been for the country, it has been for the past few months now that families have been unable to find formula and it has got to the point where, for those who can afford it, they have been paying the shipping fees to get formula across from europe or from other parts of the country but of course a lot of families can't afford that, so the advice they have been told is ask your paediatrician for samples but there is only limited supply, ask your paediatrician if you can switch to a different formula and if you are desperate, you have to

go to the emergency room. find go to the emergency room. and there have _ go to the emergency room. and there have been cases of children being taken into hospital. what are mums doing that leads to that sort of circumstance?— that leads to that sort of circumstance? well, i'm in certain babies _ circumstance? well, i'm in certain babies who - circumstance? well, i'm in certain babies who have, l circumstance? well, i'm in l certain babies who have, you know, specialformula, they can't drink milk—based formulas, they can'tjust have maybe the regular toddler formula which isn't seeing the same of shortage, although there is a shortage there, so there is a shortage there, so there will be illnesses that results from this shortage, babies are going to get sick. we are also going to see a huge rise in mental health issues with anxiety coming off the back of two years of a pandemic which we are still feeling the effects of in california. so it is getting desperate and we are seeing a lot of families in crisis situations. it seeing a lot of families in crisis situations.- crisis situations. it is the sort of simple _ crisis situations. it is the sort of simple product i crisis situations. it is the l sort of simple product that crisis situations. it is the - sort of simple product that we just don't think about, isn't it? you just know it is going to be available so when you run up to be available so when you run up against an issue like this it must be extremely, you mentioned mental health issues,

it must be extremely worrying. it is desperate. it is heartbreaking. your number one job as a parent is to keep your baby alive and so the thought of not being able to do that through no fault of your own because your formula, like you say which is normally easy to get hold of in your regular shopping isn't there on the she” shopping isn't there on the shelf and you are faced with shelves week after week, it is desperate and it is heartbreaking to see it happening here.- heartbreaking to see it happening here. heartbreaking to see it hauenina here. i , happening here. let's hope this first shipment _ happening here. let's hope this first shipment is _ happening here. let's hope this first shipment is the _ happening here. let's hope this first shipment is the beginning | first shipment is the beginning of the end of what has been a very difficult time of a lot of families. thank you very much indeed. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: all aboard for these pampered pooches — how japan is making a special effort to please its canine commuters. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen,

up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletic events to aid famine relief in africa. the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7am. taunting which led to scuffles, lscuffles which led to fighting, | fighting to full—scale riot as the liverpool fans - broke out of their area and. into the juventus enclosure. the belgian police had lost control. i the whole world will mourn the tragic death of mr nehru today. he was the father of the indian people from the day of independence. the oprah winfrey show comes to an end after 25 years and more than 4,500 episodes. the chat show has made her one of the richest people on the planet. geri halliwell, otherwise known as ginger spice, i has announced _ she's left the spice girls. argh! i don't believe it! she's the woman with the bounce, the go, girl power. not geri. why?

this is bbc news. i'm david eades. the latest headlines: president biden has had a meeting with emperor naruhito during his first visit to japan since taking office, as the us seeks to bolster its regional influence against a dominant china. australia's new prime minister has been sworn in — he'll now head to tokyo for talks with president biden and other leaders. let's turn to russia now, where it's a crime to call the invasion of ukraine a war and anyone who contradicts the official line on russian military action risks up to 15 years in prison. dozens of people have already been prosecuted, including the opposition activist vladimir kara—murza, who accused russia of war crimes. moscow maintains that it doesn't target civilians. 0ur eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford reports from ukraine walking through the ruins of

russia's war on its neighbour, evidence of its cruelty in every crushed street and home, in every story of civilians targeted and killed. but russia itself is silencing those facts, denying what'sclear to see on the ground and it's arresting those who dare to speak out, and it's arresting those who still dare to speak out, even abroad. the whole world sees what the putin regime is doing to ukraine — the cluster bombs on residential areas, the bombings of maternity wards and hospitals and schools — the war crimes. these are war crimes. for that speech, vladimir kara—murza is now facing ten years behind bars. his wife already lives abroad for safety. vladimir was poisoned twice in russia and nearly died, but evgenia says he refused to be silenced. he was charged, basically, for speaking the truth about the war and about

the russian army's atrocities committed in ukraine. with this war, evgenia tells me, the repression has only intensified. truth is actually the regime's main enemy, and this is why i believe this regime is using this law to squash all dissent in russia and to scare people into silence. this is the result of an all—out war. but in russia, it's a crime to call it that or to criticise what was done here as vladimir putin's army tried to seize ukraine's capital. in andriivka, we found a team from the un collecting evidence of suspected war crimes — stories that most russians will never hear. the village elder told me 13 civilians were executed here, hands tied and shot in the head.

and when i asked who they were, he listed the dead one by one. lists names in ukrainian. translation: we didn't need protecting. - just look how they protected us — they killed so many people. i've got no words for it. they're swine. all of this destruction, russia's war on ukraine, hasn't come from nowhere. vladimir putin has spent two decades dismantling democracy in this country, crushing his critics, silencing the free media and now, criminalising the truth — eliminating all checks on his power to make this possible. but there are russians resisting even now — like this reporter heading for a ukrainian front line and seeing for herself the destruction caused by russian bombs.

the war started — it was an immediate, "i need to be there, i need to be there right now". lilia yapparova writes for a website now blocked in russia — like almost all independent news — but she is determined to go on reporting what the kremlin doesn't want people to hear. do you think about the risk to you personally in the future? co nsta ntly, yea h. yea h, co nsta ntly. it's difficult. it's disturbing. it hurts sometimes to write because i know that, yeah, i will say that, for sure, because i can't hide facts, but am i going to jail for that? the risks are far higher for ukrainians — that's clear on every street. but as war so devastates this country, in russia, vladimir putin has declared war on truth itself. sarah rainsford,

bbc news, andriivka. monkeypox has now been detected in three more countries, bringing the total to 15, as scientists say they are still unsure what is causing the outbreak. austria, israel and switzerland are the latest to report the presence of the virus, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, as well as human to human, the virus is most common in remote parts of central and west africa britain's health security agency has said high risk contacts of people with monkeypox should self—isolate for three weeks. dr aimish adalja is a senior scholar and infectious diseases physician at the johns hopkins center for health security. any time a virus is doing something unusual or spreading in a new manner, we need to be concerned and we need to find the answers. that being said, although we

are seeing monkeypox spread in communities without links to travel, it is not the same level of panic we had during covid—i9 or with the new influenza virus. because even though this is scary and there are open questions to be answered, we understand monkeypox in a different way because we have tools that we know can be put to bear on this outbreak and stop it. once we understand the epidemiology of how people are getting infected. femicide is the killing of women, simply because of their gender — it's often the result of domestic violence. and in bolivia the number of cases has led to indigenous women in the country developing an app that they hope will help to save lives. wendy urquhart reports. el alto, near la paz, is bolivia's second biggest city and is also one of the poorest in the country. gender violence is rife. 180 cases against women were reported in 2021 and 3a cases have been registered by may 8th this year, but that could be just

the tip of the iceberg. translation: where | live, j nobody talks about violence. it goes unnoticed and women stay silent because they are afraid of being assaulted again by their husbands. plus, there's nojustice, so there's no place to report these cases. now, a group of women in the city have created an app that could save the lives of those being assaulted. this is the sos button. when you log onto the app on your mobile phone, it requests three close contacts. the minute you experience violence, you press the sos button and those three people are notified that you're in trouble. the felisa yanapir app has been downloaded more than 500 time since it was launched in november last year. the aim is to let women know what their rights are and help them to find legal, psychological and physical assistance if they are in danger and to save lives. wendy urquhart, bbc news. and finally, japan's famous shinkansen bullet—train service flouted its own rules

at the weekend, allowing a special group of passengers to travel without the restrictions they would usually face. 21 dogs were able to sit freely inside the carriages with their human companions as they were whisked away on an hour—long journey from tokyo to the mountains north—west of the capital. translation: we travel a lot together but in the past, - i felt really bad about keeping my dog in a cage. so, when i heard that we could be together on this train, i applied straight away. translation: he has to stay in a carrier all the time - when travelling, so we can check him regularly. today, we don't need to do that, and can see his face. we can travel more comfortably this way. let me remind you of our top story, president biden has

arrived injapan for his first arrived in japan for his first visit to asia since becoming president. in his first assignment since the russian invasion of ukraine. —— first summit. hello. after the warmth of last week, when both scotland and england recorded their highest temperatures of the year so far, things are looking cooler this week, especially where it was so warm last week. it'll be breezier, windy by wednesday. it'll be wet at times, not all the time, mostly in the form of showers. a rather cloudy—looking picture for monday, and messy on the chart here, with quite a few weather fronts around as well, so we are going to see some wet weather at times. this is how we start the day. this weather front here with cloud and some patchy rain stretching through parts of england. still raining into the north and northwest of scotland, after a damp sunday. that rain, though, just beginning to fizzle out, allowing some brighter skies and a few showers. and elsewhere, although there will be a lot of cloud around, there will be a few bright spells,

but notice the showers becoming more widespread, late morning and into the afternoon. some heavy, perhaps with a rumble of thunder. an area of rain also for parts of southeast england and east anglia, later in the day. some uncertainty about how far north and west that will get, but don't get caught out by it, and it will make for a cooler day compared with sunday. and overnight and into tuesday, eastern areas most likely to see cloud and some outbreaks of rain. showers around elsewhere through england and wales. northern scotland and northern ireland becoming mainly dry, here with some clear spells and probably the lowest temperatures as tuesday begins. and then on tuesday, we will continue across some eastern areas to have some rain, perhaps initially toward southeast scotland, and running southwards, through the eastern side of england. elsewhere, it's a case of sunny spells, perhaps catching a shower. a lot of them fading, though, from western areas later in the day. and similar temperatures. a breezy day on tuesday. wednesday's looking like a windier day, because one low pressure's moving away, another one's coming in,

with weather fronts bringing another shot of wet weather from west to east, during the day, and lifting that wind. looks to be wettest in western scotland for a time, although even here, turning showery. the rain more patchy the more further south you are. further showers following on behind, though. i think increasingly dry and sunny towards the end of wednesday. a blustery day wherever you are. gusts in scotland, northern ireland, northern england, perhaps around a0 mph or so. looks like we'll see another weather system coming in on thursday, with further outbreaks of rain pushing further south across the uk, before high pressure settle things down for friday and, indeed, into next weekend. that's your latest forecast. families. thank you very much indeed.

this is bbc news, the headlines: president biden has had a meeting with emperor naruhito of japan during the second leg of a trip to east asia, that's intended to reinforce ties to its allies in the region. mr biden is due to hold talks with the politcal leaders of japan, india and australia. australia's labor party leader, anthony albanese, has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister, ending nearly a decade of rule by the conservative coalition. the swearing—in was accelerated so that mr albanese could attend a quad leaders' meeting in tokyo, in an official capacity. the monkeypox virus has now been detected in three more countries, austria,

israel and switzerland, bringing the total to 15.