a significant opportunity to take action that might have stopped the attack. the netherlands pilots a new scheme that could lead to the full legalisation of cannabis production. and how the great pyramid of giza continues to reveal extraordinary secrets. scientists discover a mysterious hidden corridor. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a prominent lawyer in the us state of south carolina has been found guilty of killing his wife and son. prosecutors said alex murdaugh wanted to distract attention from his theft of millions of dollars from clients, which he used to fund an expensive drug habit. garry o'donoghue reports.

a small—town courthouse in south carolina, but a dramatic trial that has gripped the nation's imagination. minimum sentence for murder... after nearly six weeks of evidence, but less than three hours of deliberation, thejury returned its verdict on both murder charges. docket number 2022 gs 15, verdict — guilty, signed by the foreperson of thejury. outside the court, the prosecutor said justice had been done. if you do wrong, if you break the law, if you murder, then justice will be done in south carolina. the murdaugh family dominated the legal world in this picturesque part of south carolina. for decades, the family held key prosecutor roles in several counties, and their private law firm seen almost as powerful as law enforcement itself. it was at this 1,700—acre property that the bodies of maggie and paul murdaugh were found brutally murdered

almost two years ago, the culmination of a series of events that had seen three other separate suspicious deaths connected to the family. three months later, alex murdaugh, accused of killing his wife and son, was also to admit to a botched suicide attempt involving a $10 million insurance claim, charges for which are still pending. but during the murder trial, he was adamant he was innocent. did you take this gun or any gun like it and blow your son's brains out onjune 7 or any day or any time? no, i did not. one conversation... throughout the trial, the prosecution said murdaugh committed the murders in an attempt to generate sympathy at a time when his life was falling apart amid allegations he had stolen huge sums from clients partly to fund a drug habit, and fourweeks in, he had to admit he lied about the last time he'd seen his wife

and son alive. why did you lie to agent owen, agent croff and deputy rutland about the last time you saw maggie and paul? as my addiction evolved over time, i would get in these situations or circumstances where i would get paranoid thinking, and it could be anything. that night, june 7, after finding... ..maggs and paul... .."don't talk to anybody without danny with you." and he may be taken away. as he left the courtroom, murdaugh mouthed "i love you" to his son buster, who was in the public gallery. he will be sentenced later today and could get anything from 30 years to life without parole. but that isn't the end of it for alex murdaugh. he still faces dozens of other for financial crimes,

and investigations into other suspicious deaths connected to the family. garry o'donoghue, bbc news. in india, the meeting of g20 foreign ministers has ended without a final joint statement due to bitter divisions over russia's war against ukraine. it's the first time the us and russian foreign ministers met in public since the invasion, but their exchange was tense. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said the talks were marred by moscow's "unprovoked and unjustified" war, while russian officials said moscow and beijing had agreed to oppose what they called "western blackmail and threats." india's prime minister, narendra modi, called on foreign ministers to put their differences aside and find common ground. it is but natural that your discussions are affected by the geopolitical tensions of the day. we all have our positions and our perspectives on how this tension should be dissolved. however, as the leading

economies of the world, we also have a responsibility toward those who are not in this room. well, earlier, i spoke to ravi agrawal, who's editor—in—chief of foreign policy. i asked whether he thought india will be disappointed over how the g20 summit went. it will quite simply. india began the year by sort of saying that it was very proud to be holding the g20 presidency. it has, for much of the last few months, being saying that it will try and be the voice of the global south, trying to convene g20 countries to discuss issues like climate change, reducing debt for poorer countries. but in a sense, india may have been trying to do too much. you know, for quite a while now, india has been walking a tightrope, in a sense,

where it wants to be friends with the united states, but it refuses to even say that the war in ukraine is a war. india, of course, has a long, historic partnership with russia, it relies on russia for arms, it has dramatically increased the amount of crude oil it is purchasing from russia. it used to get 0.2% of its total crude from russia before the war. today, it's upwards of 20%. so given all of these things, india may have been trying to do too much all at once, trying to please all sides, have an a la carte sort of relationship with every country, where it takes the best of what it wants at any time. however, at a time of war, even though india wasn't ready to call russia's war on ukraine a war, it may have bitten off more than it can chew and, therefore, it was left with bitter disagreements coming out into the open, but of course, that's natural, and it wasn't able to be the world leader,

the convener that it was hoping to be. now, you mention this tightrope that you say india is working on — do you think that india can keep up this diplomatic balance? well, the evidence of this week suggests that it's going to be difficult, right. i mean, india is trying to bring all these countries together to bridge gaps, to build bridges. those are difficult things to do when you have so many countries in the g20 that simply don't agree with each other. i mean, russia's in the g20, it was invited to this meeting. foreign minister sergei lavrov was there. he huddled very briefly with us secretary of state antony blinken. those two sides have very clear, major differences. india can't bridge them necessarily, so this notion that india can convene these meetings, can play all sides, can make good with everyone, it's one thing for india to do that when it's not convening,

but when it's convening these countries together, these kinds of differences come out into the open. so we may be in a situation where this year we'll see a lot more of that come to the fore as india hosts other meetings to convene the g20 group together, leading up to cop27. again, there are very big issues that india is trying to play a leadership role in, and rightly so. this is a good thing. we need leadership from other countries, we need countries in the global south to play a bigger role in major issues, areas of cooperation such as climate change. but again, when you have a world in which there is a war ongoing, when you have a world in which russia is a major player still in the global economy, and you add into that the fact that the us and china are increasingly at loggerheads, we're entering a world in which those two large economies are beginning to decouple in a sense, well, then all of these problems come out into the open. it's harder to mediate,

harder to negotiate, and the tightrope walk that india has been walking for the last few years, it's not quite alignment. india likes to call it multi—alignment. thatjust becomes much harder to pull off. let much harder to pull off. us get some of the day's other let us get some of the day's other news. at least 57 people are known to have perished in the train crash in greece on tuesday. a government minister said austerity during greece's economic crisis in the 2000s contributed to a lack of investment in the railways. rail workers across the country have held a one—day strike, blaming government neglect of the network for the disaster. shahida raza, a member of pakistan's women's national hockey team, has been identified as one of 64 people who died on a boat travelling from turkey. the boat was found wrecked off the coast of italy on sunday. shahida's sister, saadia, told the bbc she had been trying to reach italy to get medical treatment for her three—year—old son. the wooden boat was thought to be carrying around 200 people.

two men have fired at least 14 shots at a supermarket owned by relatives of the footballer lionel messi in his home city of rosario in argentina. security camera images show the two men approaching on a motorbike in the middle of the night and opening fire. a threatening message was left inside the building. the families of the 22 people who died in the manchester arena bombing say the final report into what happened that night in may 2017 is a "devastating conclusion". the inquiry found that the uk security service, mi5, missed a significant opportunity that might have prevented the attack in the months running up to the bombing at the ariana grande concert. judith moritz reports. only salman abedi detonated the bomb which killed 22 people at manchester arena, but others bear responsibility — those who radicalised him, helped him make the device, and the agencies who failed to stop him. the manchester arena inquiry

report spells it out starkly — mi5 let abedi slip through the net. i have found a significant missed opportunity to take action that might�*ve prevented the attack. there was a realistic possibility that actionable intelligence could've been obtained which might�*ve led to action preventing the attack. the reason for this missed opportunity included a failure by the security service, in my view, to act swiftly enough. abedi set off his suicide bomb in the foyer at the end of an ariana grande concert. teenagers were leaving. parents were waiting for their children. the youngest to die was just eight years old. for the families of those who were murdered, the report's findings are hard to take. all we, as families, have asked for from day one is the truth. acknowledgement of failures. hopefully next time,

there won't be as many families going through the utter heartbreak we have had to endure for the last five years, nine months, one week and one day. forgiveness will never be an option for such evil intentions and those that played any part in the murder of our children will never, ever get forgiveness. from top to bottom, mi5 to the associates of the attacker, we will always believe that you all played a part in the murder of our children. tonight, mi5 has said it's profoundly sorry that the security service did not prevent the arena attack. this is didsbury mosque where the abedis worshipped. the report found that leaders here were wilfully blind to extremist activity on the premises. its chairman was described as an unreliable witness who downplayed the links between the abedis and the mosque —

something he continued to deny outside court today. i can tell you here and now, there is no place for radicalisation or politics or any evil acts. no—one can be radicalised with a ten—minute sermon. but this is about political meetings, this is about other activities in the mosque. i repeat again, and i hope you have it on — there are no political meetings, i do not care what people say. the inquiry said there were political meetings. of course they would say. have they been to the mosque? have they been in 2016, 2017? they heard what they were told. people would sometimes lie. they heard evidence from one of your imams, who was said to be reliable. that imam and i stood in the court and i said, "that imam is a liar." many things he did were not correct. i do not care what he said, but i will tell you he lied. and you did not turn a blind eye, you say? and we did not turn a blind eye. the report found that salman abedi's father ramadan holds significant responsibility for radicalising his sons. ismail, bbc news. can i ask you a few questions, please, ismail?

who's this? it's bbc news. and there was heavy criticism of the eldest abedi brother, ismail, who fled the country in defiance of a court order to appear at the inquiry. the report found that m15 and counterterrorism police each failed to share intelligence — that's something that both organisations say has improved since, allowing our cameras inside theirjoint operations centre to illustrate the way they work together. this is the first time that journalists have been allowed inside this building and the obviously tight security prevents us from filming much of what goes on here. but this place is being held up as an example of positive change. it was built in direct response to the manchester arena bombing and the other terror attacks which happened that year. in five years since this incident happened, there's already been an internal inquiry by m15, and 104 recommendations were made. 102 have already put in — put in place. the last two are being

put in place as we speak. and there are no doubt many more changes that are going to be needed from the reports that sirjohn has written, and i will be making absolutely sure that they are put in place as well. the arena bombing was manchester's darkest day. tonight, its mayor said the country was simply not prepared for a terror attack like it to happen here, and that the inquiry�*s findings must be used both to protect and respond better in future. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: the netherlands pilots a new scheme that could lead to the full legalisation of cannabis production. first, the plates slid gently off the restaurant tables. then suddenly, the tables, the chairs and people crashed sideways and downwards. it was just a matter of seconds as the ferry lurched onto her side. the hydrogen bomb.

on a remote pacific atoll, the americans had successfully tested a weapon whose explosive force dwarfed that of the bomb dropped on hiroshima. i had heard the news earlier and so, my heart went bang, bang, bang! - the constitutional rights of these marchers are their rights as citizens of the united states and they should be protected, even in the right to test them out so that they don't get their heads broken and are sent to hospital. this religious controversy — i know you don't want to say too much about it — but does it worry you that it's going to boil up? oh, it worries me, yes, but . hope — everything'll be all right at the end of the day. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: disgraced lawyer alex murdaugh is convicted of murdering his wife and son

at a trial in south carolina. a meeting of g20 foreign ministers in delhi ends in acrimony because of bitter divisions over russia's war against ukraine. more than half of the world's population is predicted to be obese or overweight by 2035. that's according to the world obesity federation. it says almost all of the countries that are expected to see the greatest increases are low or middle—income countries in africa and asia. a new report for 2023, called the atlas, is urging governments to act quickly because four billion people will be affected in total. that's 51% of the world's population. also, 200 million of them will be classified as obese. that represents one in four people. the federation adds the financial cost of obesity will amount to $4 trillion annually by 2035.

joining us down the line from perth is jane martin. she's the executive manager for australia's obesity policy coalition. jane, thank you forjoining us. start figures that by 2030 5/2 of the world's population will be classified as obese. but what is the clinical definition of obesity? it what is the clinical definition of obesity?— what is the clinical definition of obesity? it is a calculation usin: a of obesity? it is a calculation using a person's _ of obesity? it is a calculation using a person's weight - of obesity? it is a calculation using a person's weight that | of obesity? it is a calculation i using a person's weight that is then divided by the square of their height and it is a measure that will be used to assess whether you fit into an obese or overweight category across the population. and if your bmi is 30 or above, that that meets the criteria for obesity. that meets the criteria for obesi . , ,., that meets the criteria for obesi. , , ,, obesity. this report suggests that children _ obesity. this report suggests that children and _ obesity. this report suggests that children and as a - obesity. this report suggests that children and as a lead i that children and as a lead dozens would be those most at risk. —— adolescents. why do you think that is the case? because what we're seeing as they unhealthy drivers of unhealthy weight like poor

diets, and ultraprocessed food, which is becoming more prevalent in low and middle income countries. we are seeing a rise in the promotion of ultraprocessed food that is very cheap and available and this is influencing people's diets, particularly in the developing world, where they are going through a nutrition transition.— are going through a nutrition transition. what do you think government _ transition. what do you think government should - transition. what do you think government should be - transition. what do you think government should be doing| transition. what do you think. government should be doing to help tackle this?— help tackle this? there is a really important _ help tackle this? there is a really important role - help tackle this? there is a really important role for i really important role for government that i think this report really outlines the urgent need. this space does the economic impact of overweight and obesity by 2035 is estimated to reach over $4 trillion. it is really important. around 3% of global gdp. that governments act to address obesity. that is through policies such as protecting children from unhealthy food marketing, putting taxes on ultra processed foods, contributing to the problem. 85 countries and jurisdictions have a health

levy on sugary drinks. and that has had a positive repercussion, reformulation, removing sugar. populations are consuming less sugar. companies are moving to produce more low, no sugar products, and, in the uk, there was no decline in revenues for companies. there are a lot of levers that governments can use around prevention and then investments in management and treatment. so i think it is really critical that the solutions that we have, many of which have not been implemented because of the influence of the commercial beneficiaries around ultra processed foods, so the ultra processed foods, so the ultra processed foods, so the ultra processed food companies, media companies, are all lobbying very hard to see these — these policies not to be implemented. but i think you have just seen a rollback of the levy on sugary drinks in israel occur. and mostly that would be as a

result of lobbying. jim and mostly that would be as a result of lobbying.— result of lobbying. jim martin, thank you _ result of lobbying. jim martin, thank you very _ result of lobbying. jim martin, thank you very much - result of lobbying. jim martin, thank you very much for - result of lobbying. jim martin, thank you very much for your. thank you very much for your time. . ~ thank you very much for your time. ., ~' ,, thank you very much for your time. ., ~ i. g. now, the dutch authorities have announced a pilot scheme to license the growing of cannabis. it'll be launched in two cities in the south of the country. it's part of a bigger plan to legalise the production of the drug nationwide. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. the netherlands is famous — or notorious, depending on your point of view — for its coffee shops. they are places where you can get hold of and consume certain types of drugs. although it is legal to buy cannabis here, it is technically illegal for the coffee shop owner to get hold of their supply — which can make life complicated. it is a very shady territory — the back door. and i don't says it's all criminals — that is what you see in the newspaper — because mostly it is nice

people we buy the cannabis from. but still, i don't know where it's grown. it is shady. in recent years, the dutch government has tried to impose some restrictions on these places, making them less open to tourists, for instance. but ministers also want to normalise the business, break the connection between coffee shops and drug gangs, and ensure a better quality product is sold. for me, it wouldn't matter that much, because nine out of ten times i get it from people i know who grow it themselves, but if you are getting it from a coffee shop, then yeah, it would be better to have it regularised and legalised, so you know where it is coming from. for now, the licensing scheme is confined to two cities, bleda and tilburg, but the plan is to expand it across the country, and make every coffee shop a safer and more satisfying experience.

till allman, bbc news. one of the greatestjazz saxophonists of all time, wayne shorter, has died in los angeles. he was 89. wayne shorter was a well—known figure in the jazz circuit in the late 1950s with the art blakey's jazz messengers. hejoined miles davis's second great quintet in the 1960s and later co—founded the jazz fusion band weather report. he also appeared on 10 joni mitchell albums and collaborated with rock musicians such as carlos santana and steely dan. during his long career, he was awarded 11 grammys and a lifetime achievement award. now to something being called the most important discovery of the century. archaeologists in egypt have used cosmic ray technology to uncover a new layer to the largest of the great pyramids. stephanie prentice reports. the big reveal. a cavernous structured tunnel deep inside the great pyramid of giza. a hidden and inaccessible passage close to the entrance to the last of the seven wonders of the ancient world. congratulations given to a team of scientists as they reveal the fruits of seven years of labour.

they have been using advanced radiography for detection then collecting images by feeding a minuscule endoscope — a tube with a camera on it — into tiny gaps in the pyramids stones. the discovery of a hidden tunnel is a revelation, not only because it allows greater insight into the workings of ancient egypt, and how they achieved such feats of archaeology, but also because of what may be inside. it's not built for nothing. it has a reason. it could be leading to a tomb. it could be built as a process of building the pyramids, and we don't know much about the construction of the pyramids, so it's a great discovery. it could be built to hide treasures. the largest giza pyramid is also known as the great pyramid of king khufu, an ancient egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty. historical accounts of him are rare and conflicting,

so the discovery of a burial chamber could rewrite or even open up a new page in the history books. for now, the next step for the team is to use their tech to try and travel 4500 years back in time and get even more answers — including crucially what or who could lie at the end of this tunnel. stephanie prentice, bbc news. well, that is an exciting discovery. that is all for now. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @lmmisztak. hello again. the main difference in the weather we had on thursday from place to place was around how much cloud we saw. the best of the day sunshine was across wales, the midlands, east anglia and southern counties of england. really was a glorious day. but further north we had extensive cloud coming in off the north sea, the thickest cloud for eastern scotland and north east england. and that brought us notjust grey skies, but actually

outbreaks of light rain on and off. for much of the day, it turned out to be quite damp. now, over recent hours, we've been detecting some of this light rain still affecting parts of southern scotland, north—east england, but i think there's a tendency for the weather to become a bit drier here over the next few hours as that damp weather works its way westwards across northern ireland. elsewhere, a lot of cloud, and where we keep the cloudy skies overnight, temperatures frost free. the frost limited to the clearest spots, west wales, south west england and into the north west of scotland. now, as we start friday, there will be a lot of cloud around, a damp start for northern ireland, for example. the cloud coming through across south east england, very thin, it's only 300 metres thick, so it might thin and break to give some sunny spells. there's a lot of cloud set to come through across northern england. so, if you see some sunshine here, it's going to be quite late in the afternoon. should see some breaks for western wales, parts of south—west england and north—west scotland with some sunny spells from time to time.

now, through the weekend we'll start to get some thicker cloud coming in across the country, and with that we're looking at some patches of light rain developing. here's the weather picture for saturday, it's an east—west split. eastern areas having the thickest cloud, you might get a few spots of rain falling from that, particularly close to the north sea coast, but in western areas it's dry with the best of the cloud breaks and some sunny spells. temperatures not changing too much and we'll still have that fairly cool breeze with us. the second half of the weekend, on sunday, the cloud certainly thickens up significantly and we'll start to see patchy outbreaks of rain developing quite widely across the country, but nothing particularly heavy. now into next week, we've got a big change in the weather patterns on the way. northerly winds are set to dive southwards from the north pole, dragging with it much colder air, a return to widespread frost, and for some of us, the snow on the way as well. now, the first place to see potentially disruptive snow monday will be across northern scotland, where the snow, combined with strong winds, will bring drifting and pretty poor conditions over higher routes. through the rest of the week the risk of snow extends

southwards.

this is bbc news. this is bbc news. the headlines: the headlines: a prominent lawyer in america a prominent lawyer in america has been found guilty foreign ministers has ended has been found guilty of killing his wife and son. of killing his wife and son. alex murdaugh was convicted alex murdaugh was convicted of shooting the pair of shooting the pair at theirfamily property at theirfamily property in south carolina injune 2021. in south carolina injune 2021. prosecutors said he wanted prosecutors said he wanted to distract attention to distract attention from his theft of millions from his theft of millions of dollars from clients. of dollars from clients.

in india, the meeting of g20 in india, the meeting of g20 foreign ministers has ended without a final joint statement due to bitter divisions over russia's war against ukraine. it's the first time the us and russian foreign ministers have met in public since the invasion, but their exchange was tense. the head of britain's domestic intelligence service has made an unprecedented public apology for m15's failure to prevent a terrorist attack in manchester in 2017. ken mccallum's expression of "deep regret" came