live from washington. this is bbc news. welcome to viewers on pbs in america. a man is arrested outside buckingham palace after being found with shotgun cartridges. the man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in their home was arrested in texas after an extensive manhunt. uganda is parliament passes a controversial anti—gay bill. we will hear from an activist. hello i'm sumi somaskanda. let's start in london,

where rehearsals have been taking place for king charles�* coronation on saturday. a short while ago the traditional gold state coach left westminster abbey on it's journey back soldiers dressed in bright yellow and red military uniforms paraded past buckingham palace towards westminster abbey just after 12.20am on wednesday. crowds ran through stjames�* park to find the best spots along the mall with many trying to spot their relatives in their military outfits. these rehearsals come just hours after a security incident outisde buckingham palace. uk police detained a man after he reportedly approached the gates of the royal home and threw items, thought to be shotugn cartridges, into the palace grounds. police say the arrest is being treated as a mental health incident rather than terrorism. our correspondent robin brant has more details. it happened just after seven o'clock on tuesday evening when police say a man approached the front gates of buckingham palace, a couple of hundred metres down that way, and through what they describe as shotgun cartridges into the grounds of the palace. that man

was detained and arrested. police have also said he was carrying at the time what it described as a suspicious bag. a quarter and was set in place and further specialist officers were brought in and a controlled explosion was carried out. as far as we know, there were no further fallout from that. the metropolitan police say they are not treating it as a terrorist related incident. it is i understand being described as a mental health incident. buckingham palace say neither the king or the queen consort were in the building at the time but among the security services and the police as we approach saturday, four days away, the day of the coronation, there is increasing nervousness about incidents like this. i have been down here on the mall notjust tonight but yesterday it was far, far busier and what you haveis far, far busier and what you have is a sense of people being able to move around pretty

freely. that is what organises for the event want but nonetheless among the security services and police who are here in a heavy presence there is of course increased vigilance as we approach saturday's events. let's turn to sudan now. army chief abdel fattah al—burhan, pictured here on the right, and mohamed hamdan dagalo, of the rival paramilitary group the rsf, have agreed in principle to 7—seven day truce, beginning thursday. this was the sudanese capital, khartoum, before the announcement was made. you can see smoke from the fighting across the skyline. on tuesday the african union held an emergency meeting on the conflict, bringing together african, arab, un and other representatives.

a72 hours ceasefire was met with gunfire. the bbc�*s paul adams is following the situation from neighboring kenya. tens of thousands of sudanese civilians have fled north to egypt, south to chat, and south to south sudan and probably lhr number have been on the move inside the country so we have a situation already in which probably 100— 150,000 people have been displaced. the un is warning the number could drastically increase, up to 800,000 or more, if the military situation is not brought under control. so we have concerted international efforts to try to get the two generals leading the rival armies to sit down around a table or to send representatives to sit down around a table, and discuss differences. the un has indicated both sides have nominated people to have that discussion but there are no

words arrangements yet or a venue or an agenda. so the talks could happen but there is no sign of them happening imminently. the other thing thatis imminently. the other thing that is happening is that the international community is looking at this humanitarian crisis and anticipating it could get a whole lot worse. there are efforts to galvanise the relief effort to make sure that aid starts to flow into places like north sedans i can be distributed to places it is most needed but in order to do that, to get it to the places where it is most needed, to the people running out of food, the hospital is not functioning properly, the situation on the ground has to be brought under some kind of control. the political talks at some point are absolutely vital. here in the us, the man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in their home was arrested on tuesday in texas. authorities gave an update just moments ago,

announcing that the suspect was apprehended in the city of cut and shoot, texas, about 16 miles, or 26 kilometres, from cleveland, texas, where the shooting happened on friday. the suspect is accused of opening fire on neighbors after they complained about noise coming his front yard while he practised shooting his ar—15 semi—automatic rifle. the victims were all from honduras and included a nine—year—old child. here's sanjacinto county sheriff greg capers detailing tonight's arrest. he was caught hiding in a closet, underneath some laundry. they effectively made the arrest. he is uninjured. he is currently being taken to my facility in cold springs. the maximum — as the mexican

government, migrants including countries from haiti, nicaragua and fenway is lower and it will allow the bided administration to carry out deportation that were key in deterring migration to the southern border. the us as it will also accept migrants on humanitarian grounds. it follows an announcement on monday that the us says it will deploy 1500 additional troops to mexico's borderfor 90 days. during a press conference, a spokesperson said the troops will fill critical capability gaps. staying in the us, supreme court ethics took the spotlight on capitol hill here in washington earlier. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing to consider changes to the court. it comes after propublica published information last month about the relationship betweenjustice clarence thomas and conservative billionaire harlan crow.

the article detailed thatjustice thomas, seen here, took extravagant trips funded by mr crow. earlier, i spoke with bbc�*s anthony zurcher about all this. great to have you back in the studio. what were the arguments in the hearing today?— in the hearing today? well, i think you _ in the hearing today? well, i think you heard _ in the hearing today? well, i think you heard from - in the hearing today? well, i think you heard from both i think you heard from both republicans and democrats at the supreme court needs to be more open and transparent but the debate between the two was over how to do that. democrats would like to see the legislation that imposes a code of ethics onto the supreme court because of the stories that have come out about clarence thomas going jetsetting trips, the rich texas donor and selling property to the rich texas donor. republicans are saying that this is a lifestyle by the democrats in an attempt by them to undermine the legitimacy of the court. they think the court

itself should police itself essentially and impose its own ethics and abide by its own ethical guidelines and not have congress tell them what to do. you touched on that briefly but new reminders of the back story of how we got to the hearing? it was from these stories, one about clarence thomas and another one about neil gall selling a piece of property in colorado to the president. there was concern among the chair of the senate initial committee and other democrats that supreme courtjustices need to do something and have a binding set of ethical rules but the question is, one, either the boat that would pass it in congress and even then, is the legality of the congressional legislative branch of government imposing rules on a separate branch of government, thejudiciary and government, the judiciary and there government, thejudiciary and there was a debate thereabout some of the legal experts they brought in on whether that is possible. the final arbiter of

that would be the supreme court! it kinda creates a dilemma. court! it kinda creates a dilemma-— court! it kinda creates a dilemma. ., ., dilemma. you mentioned the republicans _ dilemma. you mentioned the republicans are _ dilemma. you mentioned the republicans are saying - dilemma. you mentioned the republicans are saying the i republicans are saying the democrats are cherry picking ethical violations based on how they feel about the conservative buyers in the court. they also said some transparency rules would actually be welcome. what did you make of how republicans or the hearing today? i you make of how republicans or the hearing today?— the hearing today? i think you outlined it _ the hearing today? i think you outlined it there, _ the hearing today? i think you outlined it there, twofold, - outlined it there, twofold, they acknowledged that because i can read the public opinion polls as well as the democrats and it shows a public approval trust in the supreme court is that historical lows. in order to combat that they understand that stories like what we saw about clarence thomas, there needs to be some sort of acknowledgement by the supreme court and openness and transparency in what is and is not allowed, what they should have to disclose what they should not have to disclose. i think you saw that from the republicans but then i also wanted to point out the

democrats and their view are undermining the legitimacy of the court as well, through criticisms of supreme court decisions helping people not to trust the court and attacks on individual supreme court justices as being partisan, that in the republican point of view undermines the faith of the court. view undermines the faith of the court-— the court. what exactly do democrats _ the court. what exactly do democrats want _ the court. what exactly do democrats want to - the court. what exactly do democrats want to see, i the court. what exactly do i democrats want to see, what kind of rules? i democrats want to see, what kind of rules?— kind of rules? i think they want to see _ kind of rules? i think they want to see binding i kind of rules? i think they want to see binding rules| kind of rules? i think they i want to see binding rules that require disclosure of things like those jet trips that clarence thomas went on all where a supreme courtjustice may have a financial interest or connection to someone before someone bringing a case before the court. there is also the idea have to recuse themselves in certain circumstances where there is a parent — an apparent conflict of interest. there are rules governing how federal judges carry themselves, ethical guidelines that they have to adhere to. the thing is

that supreme court, those rules do not apply to. that supreme court, those rules do not apply to-_ do not apply to. that is the way congress _ do not apply to. that is the way congress passed i do not apply to. that is the way congress passed the l do not apply to. that is the i way congress passed the law? and that is how the supreme court wants it. and there is a question about whether congress could pass a law affecting supreme court because it is the highest court in the land, the head of thejudicial highest court in the land, the head of the judicial branch. there has been a little bit of concern about whether congress could step into that anyway. but there is more pressure now for congress to do something, at least for the democrats but again the reality is there is not much likelihood of this current make up of congress that this will happen. {line current make up of congress that this will happen.- that this will happen. one of the justices _ that this will happen. one of the justices themselves i that this will happen. one of| the justices themselves thing about this?— about this? the chair asked john roberts, _ about this? the chair asked john roberts, the - about this? the chair asked john roberts, the chief i about this? the chair asked i john roberts, the chiefjustice to come and testify. he declined and sent a letter outlining the rules as they were, a code of ethics that they said they would abide by, again, they are the ones with the final arbiters of this, as

they they respect the ethical guidelines about transparency and about when a justice should recuse themselves. they have been otherjustices that have commented publicly about this. samuel leto, one of the more conservative justices, who alter third the docs decision, striking down the abortion all constitutional rights last year, he had an interview with the wall streetjournal saying that he felt that their supreme court justices are that he felt that their supreme courtjustices are being court justices are being targeted courtjustices are being targeted and hammered by critics every day, they do not feel safe, that there is no—one who is defending the supreme court rhetorically at least from these types of criticisms and feel that a lot of what has been done and for partisan reasons, for people on the left do not agree with the direction that the supreme courtjustices are taking, the court and legal theory these days. you mentioned _ theory these days. you mentioned the - theory these days. you mentioned the polls, l theory these days. you i mentioned the polls, and theory these days. you mentioned the polls, and you mentioned the polls, and you mentioned a lack of trust in the supreme court and its ability to be neutral. do you

think ethics codes could change public perception of the trustworthiness of the court? maybe around the margins ever prevents stories like clarence johnston coming out, that affects the view but what affects the view but what affects the view are these decisions and they are highly controversial decisions one way or another that half the country likes and the other half does not and a set of these decisions come down, particularly about things like abortion, golf and people really angered about what the supreme court does and certainly make them view the court as more politicised. thank you so much. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. look at this bay. it is absolutely beautiful today and we have to be 100% sure before

we have to be 100% sure before we do anything to damage this beautiful environment. a canadian company called planetary plans to capture and store carbon in the waters by pumping in a magnesium hydroxide, through an outfall pipe and it has a community concern with the question remaining why here? is said that after extensive research on potential sites, the cornish coast provides the ideal conditions. because the water is shallow and turbulent and the currents keep the water knee the surface for a long time. a child took place last often and an environmental company has asked for more of an impact statement and the credentials are under scrutiny. you're live with bbc news. israeli air force launched the heaviest air strikes since last summer on wednesday, after palestinian militias

firing more than 70 rockets into the israeli towns around the gaza strip. video shows that rockets were fired and exploded overhead in gaza. israeli officials said the strikes targeted weapons manufacturing sites and training camps of hamas, the islamist group that governs gaza. the latest flare up was sparked by the death of khader adnan, a leader in the islamicjihad movement in the west bank who went on a hunger strike in an israeli prison. an islamicjihad senior official told the bbc that they are ready to fire a longer range missile if israel doesn't hand over the adnan's body. leaders of kosovo and serbia on tuesday failed to agree on how to lower tensions in serb—majority areas in north kosovo. in march, both countries agreed to implement an eu—backed plan but little progress has been made. some 50,000 serbs who live in north kosovo still refuse to take part in kosovo

institutions and boycotted local elections organized by kosovo authorities last month. 0ur guy de launey has more. the european union announced a normalisation agreement between serbia and kosovo in march but since then it seems like there has been nothing but tensions between the two sides so the eu was obviously quite desperate to trumpet any process or progress coming from these normalisation talks and they have got something quite potential on thisjoint potential on this joint declaration potential on thisjoint declaration on missing persons. kosovo and serbia have to co—operate, they are going to form a joint commission chaired by the european union, they are going to pool their resources including satellite imagery, lidar and exchanging documents, official document in order to find the missing persons from the kosovo conflict in the late 19905 and identify them. the european union says there are

still around 1600 people missing from that conflict and this of course has been a major issue between kosovo and serbia and also the families involved. the thing we don't have an agreement on at all as the main bone of contention between kosovo and serbia and the ethnic serb minority in kosovo and that this association of majority serb municipalities. this is supposed to give ethnic serbs in kosovo a degree of autonomy and a draft for how it should look was presented at the meeting by kosovo serbs. it's been roundly rejected already by kosovo and the eu's foreign policy chiefjoseph paralysis they will need to be further meetings to try to come up further meetings to try to come up with some sort of mutually agreeable plan for this association. in uganda, the controversial anti—homosexuality bill has been revised after public outrage from human rights defenders who said the bill had led to fear of more attacks on gay people. the original bill criminalized

people for identifying as lgbtq has now been changed as uganda president yoweri myseveni said the clause would lead to the prosecution of people simply for their physical appearance. earlier, i spoke with ugandan lgbtq+ activist delovie kwagala about the bill. thank you so much forjoining us on our show. this controversial bill in uganda has been watered down slightly, what do you make of that? i think either way at the moment as the queer community, whether it is the watering down or signing the bill or not, unfortunately it is already an action that can be implemented within the president signs that or not from this moment, because since it has been already read three times in parliament, it already becomes an act, so either way, it doesn't protect us in any way stopping the bill doesn't allow

for any queer survival whatsoever in uganda at the moment. whatsoever in uganda at the moment-— whatsoever in uganda at the moment. ., ., , , ., whatsoever in uganda at the moment. ., , ., ., moment. what does this mean for the aueer moment. what does this mean for the queer community _ moment. what does this mean for the queer community in _ moment. what does this mean for the queer community in uganda? | the queer community in uganda? how does it change their lives? to be honest the lives have already been in for. there is already been in for. there is already violence on the ground thatis already violence on the ground that is ensuing on two people, there is already people that are being thrown out of houses. not only that but also in villages as well where chairman's are like, get out of our village, we don't want you, you know? we do already have cases of corrective rape and all of these horrendous hate crimes and all of that and it is because of obviously they all talk about the bill because every time they speak about it or discuss it in the parliament it feels like the society feels like their responsibility to actually carry out these heinous crimes onto queer bodies, onto us, by getting people naked and beating them

up people naked and beating them up and all of that, so these things are already happening. whether the bill has been signed or not and uganda also has a history of using the speu has a history of using the spell to threaten the queer community, so every single time it feels like the government, every single time when the government has some thing, we have always been the scapegoat. so this continues, it means that we are going to lose more people once again, just like we did in 2009, just like we did in 2014 up to 2015, just like we did, we always do, because this is the realities of queer living in uganda unfortunately. if i could jump in there, you actually live now in south africa. is there any option for you to return to uganda? hat africa. is there any option for you to return to uganda? not at the moment — you to return to uganda? not at the moment stopping _ you to return to uganda? not at the moment stopping at - you to return to uganda? not at the moment stopping at the i the moment stopping at the moment they can't really return to uganda because i was in

uganda since december 2022 and i only came back here for a week to pick up a code of conduct from the police so that they can renew my visa, and i was notified that they would be arrested at the airport because of my visibility but also the work that i've been doing with hashtag what next, a platform are created to share information and resources and to fund raise to the crisis in response of the crisis which is the passing of the entire homosexuality bill because being a photojournalist by profession, my work, my career that i've created for the last seven years documenting realities of queer living in homophobic countries at the moment is a crime. i can't publish or print out any work and also fundraising, if you are aware about the details of the bill, is also considered as aiding the promotion of homosexuality. so basically

this will affect me in many different aspects stopping my work, personally, as a person, and also at the moment my child as well because i have a nine—year—old who is trans who i cannot now necessarily return home because they would be arrested for child endangerment. it is really sad because all of my equipment and all of my work is still in uganda because i'd left with an essential bag to return and i wasn't able to sew in a way i've became a political and homophobic fugitive in a country that also doesn't allow me to stay because as they speak right now, my visa is expiring in the next 20 days and guess what? they haven't received any help and this is why you keep saying, visibility without protection is really a deficit and a worry about me putting myself on the front line to fight for our rights and actually talk about the switch is dangerous in uganda.

and what that means. it switch is dangerous in uganda. and what that means. iii and what that means. if i could “um in and what that means. if i could jump in there. _ and what that means. if i could jump in there, other— and what that means. if i could jump in there, other african i jump in there, other african nations as you said, they are passing bills similar to uganda and what we've heard from some african leaders is that this is about instilling african values, not imported western values. what is your response to that? to values. what is your response to that? ., , ., , values. what is your response tothat? ., , ., , to that? to be honest, the only imorted to that? to be honest, the only imported values _ to that? to be honest, the only imported values right _ to that? to be honest, the only imported values right now- to that? to be honest, the only imported values right now that| imported values right now that they are talking about, values, is homophobia. homophobia is the only import that is coming from the west. homophobia is the only un— african thing that we can recognise because honestly, we do have history of queer nurse in uganda, it is just that they have tried continuously erase our culture and our history is copy we have all of the books speaking about this but not only that, also we do have countries where were normalised. it was normal to be queen normalised. it was normal to be queer, women marrying women and also enactjulie being too

spirited was a thing of spirituality but this means that they are starting to colonialism selectors when it works for them which is really not fair, because we deserve rights to live as black queer people, because we are humans before we are queer. we people, because we are humans before we are queer.— people, because we are humans before we are queer. we have to end the conversation _ before we are queer. we have to end the conversation there i before we are queer. we have to end the conversation there but l end the conversation there but thank you very much forjoining us here on abc news and sharing your story with us.— your story with us. thank you so much _ your story with us. thank you so much for— your story with us. thank you so much for having _ your story with us. thank you so much for having me, i'd i so much for having me, i'd really appreciate the. == so much for having me, i'd really appreciate the. -- bbc news. and finally: football fans rejoice. this was the scene in northern wales today, welsh football club wrexham and their hollywood owners ryan reynolds and rob macellaney celebrated the team's promotion to the english football league, 15 years after being relegated. 15,000 supporters turned out for a huge bus parade through the town.

reynolds and macellaney, who bought the club two years ago, were on board the bus with the players. thank you for watching bbc news, stay with us. hello there. on tuesday, it was a largely dry day across the uk. the best of the day's sunshine was across western areas, where we had some lovely blue skies through the afternoon in west wales, for example. elsewhere, though, there was quite a bit of cloud that bubbled up through the day. with high pressure in charge, actually where the winds came round, that high pressure, that was really important to how the day felt. in scarborough, with the onshore winds, temperatures just 11 celsius, quite cool. in contrast to that, the warmest place in the uk was here, managing 19 celsius, not far behind that for west wales, 18.6 celsius in a couple of spots. now at the moment, cloud is tending to melt away across england and wales, the thickest cloud over the next few hours across the north west of the uk, where you might find

an odd spot of rain, but it's not really going to amount to much, quite mild for western areas to start the day. quite chilly in the east with temperatures starting off wednesday morning down into low single figures. now, i think by and large for wednesday, there should be more in the way of sunshine to look forward to across england and wales. after a cloudy start in northern ireland, we should see some bright or sunny spells developing here. i wouldn't rule out a bit of rain, though, into the far north west of scotland, where it will continue to be quite cool. temperatures across england and wales for the most part, 15—18 celsius. so i think that will feel pleasant in the may sunshine. but then we start to see some changes coming up from the south west for thursday as a weather front approaches, and that is going to be spreading some rain. could be quite heavy as well for a time across southwest england before later in the day, the rain edges into parts of wales and the west midlands, probably. there will be some drier and brighter weather ahead of that, and temperatures could still reach around 18 celsius, but it will continue to feel quite cool across eastern scotland and northeast england with the winds coming in off the chilly north sea. now for friday, there's a general downward spiral into more unsettled weather conditions with heavy showers or even some

longer spells of rain. the air, though, is relatively mild with the winds coming up from a south westerly direction, 18 celsius, even if we don't get a great deal in the way of sunshine. but then on into the weekend, which, of course, is the coronation weekend, low pressure works up from the south west, and it does look like it will be turning increasingly unsettled. so i think rain will move into southern areas of england from the south west on saturday. so it could be quite damp for a time for the coronation. and then beyond that, we've got some heavy and thundery showers in the forecast for sunday.

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