welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... shouting. commotion in court, as the 19—year—old gunman who killed ten black americans, at a grocery store in buffalo, new york is sentenced to life in prison without parole. tributes to a young footballer rescued from a thai cave in 2018 who's been found dead at his school in england. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon resigns unexpectedly after more than eight years in the role. being your first minister has been the privilege of my life. nothing, absolutely nothing i do in future will ever come anywhere close.

thank you from the very bottom of my heart. a 19—month—old girl becomes the first british child to receive a new life—saving gene—therapy — we have an exclusive report. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it's shining just like a dime...# and the hollywood film star and model — raquel welch — has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in buffalo in new york state, where the self—declared white supremacist payton gendron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a racially—motivated

mass killing. this is him, being led into the courtroom. he'd earlier admitted murdering ten people during that attack at a supermarket last may. he drove more than 200 miles to the store, which is in a predominantly african—american part of buffalo. before sentencing, a relative of one of the victims was giving a statement when someone tried to attack gendron. have a look. you don't know a damn thing about black people! we are human. we like our kids to go to good schools. we love our kids. we never go in no neighbourhoods to take people out. don't do it! overlapping voices.

the eerie county district attorneyjohn flynn spoke at a news conference after the sentencing. i would characterise what happened today as the end of a beginning. that while what happened today puts a legal closure to the criminal proceedings... let's put aside the federal matter for our purposes here. ..puts a legal closure to this tragic incident on may 14 of 2022, it certainly does not put any closure on what we need to do as a society and as a community going forward. with more details — here's our correspondent in new york, nedda tawfeek. this was an incredibly emotional hearing, from a relative lunging at payton gendron in the court room before being restrained

to then the families hearing from the teenage white supremacist themselves. this sentence really was a foregone conclusion. it was the mandatory sentence for that charge. one of the charges he faced, domestic terrorism motivated by hate. and the judge said that he wouldn't be given any mercy or sentenced as a youth because he had meticulously planned, researched, carried out surveillance and executed this heinous crime, streaming shooting black americans shopping for groceries, live streaming that on the internet, on a social media platforms. so the judge said that he would not see the light of day again as a free man. but this was, this whole hearing, an opportunity for family members who lost their loved ones and for

survivors to directly confront gendron. we heard from one calling him a cowardly racist and another woman telling him that he will never understand black americans and one survivor saying that he still has haunting images of what happened running through his mind throughout the day and at night. so there was a real sense on how that community continues to grieve from this incident. now, gendron did make a statement of apology saying that he was sorry for their pain, that he hopes that nobody is ever inspired by what he did because he is remorseful for killing people simply because of the colour of their skin, because they were black. now, that elicited an emotional response again in the courtroom, a woman screaming that she doesn't believe that's how he really feels.

and in fact the district attorney for eerie county said that he feels that that wasn't a heartfelt apology either, that instead payton gendron was perhaps trying to spare himself from the death penalty in the federal case that he still faces. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines... thousands of syrian refugees who fled to turkey have been queuing at border crossings to go back to syria after last week's earthquakes. turkey has said it will allow them to leave for up to six months. the death toll from the earthquakes has now reached more than iii—thousand. the president of the world bank will step down from his post injune, leaving the organisation almost a year before his term was due to end. david malpass announced his decision on social media, without providing a specific reason for his departure. we'll have more on this story for our viewers in asia later this hour — on asia business report.

the head of nato has called on member countries to ramp up the production of ammunition for ukraine. jens stoltenberg said member countries were making more artillery shells to help kyiv�*s forces fight russia's invasion, but he warned they cannot guarantee there will be enough. riots have broken out across southern nigeria in protest against the government's policy of replacing old naira banknotes with redesigned new ones. the changes have resulted in many banks and atms running out of the new notes, leaving many businesses and indivuals without cash. one of the 12 boys who was rescued from a thai cave in 2018, has died in the uk. 17—year—old duangpetch promthep suffered a head injury while attending a football academy in the uk. the exact circumstances of the accident are not yet known, but he's reported to have fallen and hit his head. 0ur south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports. his winning smile, even

after nine days in the dark with no food, brought cheer to a global audience gripped by the thai cave drama. duangpetch promthep�*s rescue, with his coach and all 11 of his team—mates, by volunteer divers from across the world, over formidable terrain, seems little short of miraculous. as did their rapid recovery in hospital. and their unbroken spirit, on display in this first encounter with the hundreds ofjournalists who descended on thailand to report their underground ordeal. we were at his house in the little border town of mae sai when dom was finally able to go home to a family who could scarcely believe they had him back in one piece. theirfame opened new opportunities for boys whose prospects in life had been limited before. still football mad, dom won a scholarship last

year to go to britain, to this private academy near leicester. this is my dream, he wrote, promising to work hard and pursue his ultimate goal of representing his country in international football. it was left to the man who got him the scholarship, zico, a former member of the thai national team, to inform his family about his sudden death. his mother asking only for help to bring back his body. the first sad note in a story which, until now, still had the power to amaze and inspire. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. nicola sturgeon, scotland's longest—serving first minister, and the uk's most experienced political leader, is standing down after eight years in office. in a hastily—convened and sometimes emotional news conference, ms sturgeon said she no longerfelt she had the energy for thejob.

being your first minister has been the privilege of my life. nothing, absolutely nothing i have done in the future will come anywhere close. 0n cue from the very bottom of my heart. —— thank you from the very bottom of my heart. a court in italy has acquitted the former prime minister silvio berlusconi of bribing witnesses to lie about his notorious "bunga bunga" parties. the billionaire politician, who is 86, was accused of paying people to provide false testimony in a previous trial where he was charged with paying for sex with a 17—year—old moroccan dancer. mr berlusconi had denied wrongdoing. he insisted the parties were elegant dinners. thejudge in milan said mr berlusconi had no case to answer. another 28 accused were also acquitted. 0ur reporter sofia bettiza joins me now for more on this story.

great to get you on the programme. tell us more about the outcome of this trial. this verdict was — the outcome of this trial. this verdict was the _ the outcome of this trial. ti 3 verdict was the culmination of a legal battle that lasted 11 years and that made headlines around the world. it all began in 2010 when silvio berlusconi, who was then prime minister of italy, was charged for paying for sex with an underage girl. she was a 17—year—old dancer known by has stage name ruby the heart stealer. judges believed berlusconi paid off 2a people, mostly young women, so they would lie in previous trials about his so—called bunga bunga parties. they were described as six field parties where women were paid to attend. 0ne where women were paid to attend. one of the accused was ruby herself.

translation: i need time to process this great joy. i this is an enormous liberation. many people know nothing about my life. at the moment, speaking to berlusconi is not top of my priorities. the first person i will speak to is my mum. so the outcome of the trial was that berlusconi was acquitted because judges say there simply wasn't enough evidence. and this is really significant in italy because this scandal contributed to the downfall of silvio berlusconi as prime minister in 2011. his reputation abroad was destroyed but this whole time he has denied any wrongdoing and he insists that the bunga bunga parties were just elegant dinners. so, today, berlusconi feels vindicated and in a tweet, he says, i have finally been acquitted after more than 11 years of suffering, of political damage, and of having

my name dragged through the mud. so, you know, now that his name has been cleared, mr berlusconi's is likely to continue playing an important role in italian politics. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... hollywood actress raquel welch, often credited with paving the way for modern day action heroines in hollywood films, has died at the age of 82. nine years and 15,000 deaths after going into afghanistan the last soviet troops were finally coming home. the withdrawal completed in good order but the army defeated in the task it was sent to perform. malcolm has been murdered. that has a terrible effect for the morale of the people. i'm terrified of the reprecussions in the streets. one wonders who is next.

explosions. as the airlift got under way there was no let—up in the erruption itself. lava streams from a vent low in the crater flow down to the sea to the east of the island, away from the town for the time being. it could start flowing again at any time. the russians heralded the next generation space station with a spectacular night launch. they called it mir — russian for peace. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani. 0ur headlines... the 19—year—old gunman — who killed 10 black americans, at a grocery store in buffalo,

new york — is sentenced to life in prison — without parole. tributes are paid, to a young footballer — rescued from a thai cave in 2018 — who's been found dead at his school in england. the former us ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has officially launched her bid to win the republican nomination for the presidency. the launch came in charleston in south carolina. she talked about the need to help ordinary people at home — and be stronger abroad — citing china as a huge threat to the us. have a listen. i stand before you as the daughter of immigrants, as the proud wife of a combat veteran, and as mum of two amazing children. i have served as governor of the great state of south carolina. applause. and as america's ambassador for the united nations. and above all else i am a grateful american citizen who knows our best days are yet to come.

if we unite and fight to save our country. a one—year—old girl born with a rare condition that severely damages the brain and the nervous system has become the first child to be treated by britain's national health service using a new life—saving gene therapy. the treatment costs just under £3 million — that's around 11.5 million us dollars — and is the most expensive medicine ever approved in the uk. the girl, teddi, was diagnosed after her three—year—old sister, nala, had developed the same life—limiting condition — which is known as mld. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh reports. teddi and nala have mld, metachromatic leukodystrophy. this little piggy went to market... children are born apparently healthy, but the condition gradually attacks the brain and body. ..all the way home.

are you a ladybird? ladybird! this was nala when she was two. now, a year later, she can't walk or talk and is tube—fed. her body is basically kind of gradually shutting down. she will lose her eyesight, she will lose most of her senses and it will basically come to a point where there is nothing left for her to lose. nala's mld progressed too far for her to be treated. but it meant the condition was picked up in her sister teddi before damage was done. she's at royal manchester children's hospital having stem cells removed from her blood, the first stage of a ground—breaking gene therapy. so, when they told us that there was treatment available for teddi, it was kind of like, a bit like a bit of a bitter pill to swallow because nala

can't be helped, so you know, we are extremely grateful in one sense and then really sad on the other. two months later, teddi's personalised therapy, called libmeldi, is ready. scientists have added a working copy of the faulty gene which causes mld to teddi's cells. they're your cells. libmeldi costs more than £2.8 million, though the nhs has agreed a confidential discount. this one—off infusion aims to stop teddi's disease in its tracks. teddi will need to spend several more weeks in hospital while her gene—altered cells make their way to her bone marrow and start to produce the crucial missing enzyme that causes her condition.

fewer than ten children a year in the uk are likely to be eligible for libmeldi. one reason why the price tag is so high. teddi's doctors are trialling similar treatments for other rare conditions. i think it will be transformative in genetic diseases. libmeldi shows that we can take their own stem cells, put in the gene that their illness is deficient or faulty in, and correct the condition. teddi can expect a healthy future. but nala is terminally ill. her parents want mld screened for at birth, so it's always picked up early enough for treatment. fergus walsh, bbc news. to antarctic glaciers now — which may be more sensitive to changes in sea temperature than was previously thought — that's according to new research. the work is the result of the biggest land—based survey ever undertaken on the continent.

0ur climate editor, justin rowlatt, was with the science team on the glacier. west antarctica is a challenging place to work. it is the stormiest part of the world's stormiest continent. it took more than a month and more than a dozen flights to get the scientists and their equipment to the front of the glacier. ice—hardened ships brought in fuel and other bulky supplies, which were then dragged over the ice in an epic 1,000 mile overland journey. this was the final destination. a campsite at the point this vast glacier goes afloat. if we are thinking about what is sea level going to be like in ten years, this glacier is the place to be. boilers turned snow into water. hot water was used to melt down into the ice. this is a historic moment. the first time anyone has tried to drill down through this glacier.

beneath the 600 metres of ice below me is the most important point of all, the point at which the ice meets the ocean water. for the first time ever, scientists could take measurements under the ice, to the surprise of some local creatures. they sent down ice fin, a remotely operated robot submarine, packed with scientific instruments. 0h—ho—ho! yes! what we could see is that instead of this kind of flat ice that we had all pictured, there were all kinds of staircases and cracks in the ice that weren't really expected. a team from the british antarctic survey using different instruments also found that the overall melt rate was lower than expected. it showed how sensitive the glacier is to even small changes in sea water temperature. what the results show us is that you actually don't need to increase the melt rate that much to drive very fast retreat.

so has the glacier passed a tipping point where collapse becomes inevitable? 0ur observations don't necessarily tell us that, but what it does tell us is how the ice shelf is currently melting and we can use that knowledge from today to produce better models which will tell us more about the future. thwaites is at the bottom of the world, but what happens here will affect us all. the better the processes that work under this glacier are understood, the better forecasts we will have of how our seas will rise in the decades to come. forewarned is forearmed, they say. that is particularly important because carbon emissions, which are driving the processes warming this glacier, continue to rise rapidly. justin rowlatt, bbc news, thwaites glacier. hollywood star raquel welch, who became an international sex symbol in the 1960s, has died aged 82. welch died on wednesday morning after a brief illness,

according to her manager. she won a golden globe award for her performance in 1974's the three musketeers and was nominated again in 1987 for the film right to die. the american is often credited with breaking the mould for modern day action heroines in hollywood films. david sillito reports. raquel welch did not expect anyone to remember what she thought was just a "silly dinosaur movie". but one million years bc, with its giant malevolent turtles, poor grasp of evolution, and prehistoric bikinis, turned raquel welch into a star of teenage bedrooms across the world. "in one fell swoop, everything about the real me was," she said, "swept away." # you make me feel so young...#. it was pretty clear how she was being marketed. coffee 7 in bedazzled, she was given the role of lilian lust. strong, black and sweet.

in public, she played the role. two mountainous spoons full! but she said she had little control over her career. # now, listen here, boy! # i used to be a square...#. she was bornjo raquel tejada, the daughter of a bolivian engineer, and her heart really lay in song and dance — light—hearted, old—school glamour. a lot of people want to be great artists. i don't know that i'm capable of being that, but i hope i entertain a few people, you know? the producer behind many of her projects was the man she married in 1967 — film producer patrick curtis. it would be fair to say she was better known than many of her films. never again will i let you go into such terrible danger. but she did win a golden globe for the three musketeers. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it's shining just likea dime...#. and on stage and television, she did get a chance to show off her song and dance skills.

# you got the shake and i got the shimmy...#. raquel welch had set out wanting to be ginger rogers and ended up being defined by a doe—skin bikini. that was david sillito looking back on the life of the actress raquel welch, who's died at the age of 82. before we go — rare footage from the 1986 dive that was the first to film the sunken ship titanic has been released. most of this new video has never been made available for public viewing. the footage from woods hole oceanographic institution was shot about 3 kilometres below the ocean's surface. the nearly impregnable ship was the largest ocean liner in service in 1912 when it set off on its firstjourney. it struck an iceberg in the atlantic on april 1a as it made its maiden voyage from southampton, england, to new york .of an estimated 2, 200 passengers on board some 1,500 died, shocking the world and prompting outrage over

a lack of lifeboats on board. hello. the last few days have been pretty settled with high pressure in charge, but things are about to change and thursday is going to be an overcast day across most of the uk. drizzle if not rain, really very murky conditions to start with. and then towards the end of the week, it could actually turn very wild across some northern parts of the uk. we'll get to that. here's the satellite picture. here's all of that cloud moving off the atlantic. it's a small weather system that will be moving across the uk during the course of thursday and there are more weather systems out in the atlantic coming our way. so, early in the morning, we have thick cloud across many parts of england, wales and northern ireland. outbreaks of rain, drizzle, hill fog too, mild with that — 5 to 7 celsius. but across the north of scotland, we will have had

clear skies, so perhaps a touch of frost. so really very murky, grey, overcast, whatever you want to call it, first thing in the morning. later in the day, it does look as though most of that rain should peter out, at least across england and wales, and we'll see one or two bright or sunny spells — with a bit of luck, one or two decent sunny spells. 13 or 1a celsius in the south, a little bit cooler in the north. now, on to friday — nasty low pressure will be sweeping across scotland. that is going to bring severe gales. exactly where the worst of the winds will be, still a little uncertain, but it does look as though it's northern scotland that will get the worst of the winds, but not only northern scotland, it's also going to get very windy through the lowlands and particularly to the northeast of england, so the east of the pennines — in fact, the apps are already indicating gusts of over 70 miles an hour, for example, in newcastle. so, these winds will cause problems, disruption, possibly blow some trees down as well. so, really keep track of the forecast. the details may change, but it does look as though it's the northern half of the uk

that will be very blustery and quite possibly stormy for a time. later on friday, the winds will die down and then in the south, actually, it shouldn't be too bad. breezy, yes, but we're not going to get the gales, and it will stay mild — up to around 1a celsius. now, here's a daisy chain of weather systems as we go through the weekend. so, more cloud pushing our way. i don't think it's going to be raining particularly heavily, but i think there will be a lot of cloud during the course of saturday and sunday, but one or two glimmers of brightness, too, and on the mild side. bye— bye.

this week on the show... this is no ordinary cellar door. no. i'm in switzerland, going bonkers for bunkers. oh, wow — look at this! it's right in the middle of this massive complex, isn't it? and you'd never know if you're just driving through. sightseeing nonstop. absolutely spectacular mountain views. on a train breaking new ground. this is where the magic happens. and up high in the alps. up here, it's peaceful.

the views, you don't get this out of a aeroplane window.