welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines.. at least eight people are killed during violence in pakistan, sparked by a corruption case against the former prime minister imran khan the conflict between israel and palestininain factions rages on. palestinian militants fire hundreds of rockets into israel, following a wave of israeli air strikes in gaza. in the uk , the publisher of the mirror newspaper has apologised to prince harry for unlawful information gathering, during a trial over alleged phone—hacking. the leader of the welsh national party plaid cymru, adam price,

has quit after a report found evidence of widespread bullying, misoygny and harassment in the party. welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan, where the former prime minister, imran khan, has been remanded in custody for eight days after his arrest on corruption charges. his detention has sparked protests across the country — at least eight people have died in clashes and police say about a thousand people have been arrested. if convicted, it would disqualify mr khan from standing for election , which is due this year. our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has more from islamabad.

waiting, watched by pakistan. this compound is where imran khan is due to appear. a night of unrest. calm now, but for how long? roadblocks installed around the entrances, hoping to stop the protesters. in the centre of the capital, clashes between the police and protesters build quickly and surge unexpectedly. the tear gas is coming pretty thick and fast now. i think we need to move back. we need to move back. we've been seeing people gathering sticks and stones from the side of the road, pulling up trees, and then hitting any of the tear gas canisters that land, trying to get them back towards the police lines. and now they're surging forward again. imran khan's party leaders said they wanted these protests to be peaceful. but, after months of building tension, some attending come ready for something more. "they've shelled on us", says this man, referring to the metal tear gas shells.

"this is what we've brought to fight against them." "you seem to be prepared?", we ask. "we're going to bring shotguns and pistols next time if they keep on shelling at us like this", he replies. in lahore, another day of stand—offs. in peshawar, multiple dead and injured. imran khan has now been formally charged on corruption for one case and will spend eight days in custody for investigation for another. multiple senior members of his party have also been arrested today. in an address to the nation, prime minister shehbaz sharif said that those taking the law into their own hands would not be spared. pakistan's military has said it will not tolerate any further attacks on state institutions. tonight in islamabad, the army was on the streets, the power struggle for pakistan still consuming a country already on the edge. caroline davies, bbc news, islamabad.

reza rumi is the editor of the pakistan news magazine, the friday times, and i asked him what's likely likely to happen next. i think the situation is really fluid at the moment. the protests on the may 9th were pretty stark and dramatic, particularly how the protesters, sort of, burned many military buildings and attacked installations. but today, i mean, on wednesday, it was relatively calmer, though there were reported incidents of violence, etc.. but, you know, it remains to be seen how imran khan's party workers and his supporters keep the momentum going. that is yet to be seen. but today, i mean, which is wednesday, my time here. the army was called in aid of civil power in two of the provinces and the federal capital. so that has also changed

the scales of who wields power in pakistan. and certainly the military is going to be taking a front seat now. and they also issued a very tough press release saying that they would not tolerate any more acts of violence, and that those who have been guilty of such acts will be nabbed and prosecuted. so i think it is quite tenuous, that situation. unfortunately, some of the workers of imran khan's party had, you know, taken law into their own hands. and that is something that has kind of changed the whole scope of a protest, you know, from peaceful protests. they have now turned violent. and that's the real anxiety among the state as well, that it should not continue further. yeah. as you said, the army does play quite a significant role, doesn't it? but given public anger

against the army, do you see a possible change in civil and military relationship in the future? yeah, i think that's a great question. but first, let me also add this, that, you know, the country is deeply polarized. so while it is true that mr khan is the most popular leader, and if there were an election soon, he's likely to win a large number of seats. but it is not that the army is entirely unpopular or there's a complete sort of revolution going on against the army. i think it's more of a sentiment that many of imran khan's supporters think that the army was instrumental in his ouster in 2022 and is not now... the army is not letting a direct election happen sooner so that mr khan can win and come back into power. but yes, i think these events will certainly cast a, i would say, a shadow

on the military dominance, which is part of pakistan's history. the israeli military says it's striking rocket launch sites in gaza as tensions escalate, a day after israeli air strikes killed 15 people in the palestinian enclave. palestinian sources say that at least one person has been killed and another seriously wounded. our correspondent yolande knell has been monitoring the days events. we had intense barrages of rockets being fired from the gaza strip towards israeli towns and cities, setting off sirens as far away as in tel aviv. and now we're having israeli air strikes in the gaza strip, renewed air strikes. this, as we know, that egypt in particular is trying to mediate between the palestinian armed groups and israel to try to secure a new ceasefire. qatar and the un involved

in those efforts as well. but, yes, there has been this setback in the past hour with a renewed rocket fire and and air strikes. it's been a very frightening day for israelis and palestinians, as you can imagine. the israeli military said something like 1.5 million people in israel had been told to stay in or close to their bomb shelters. schools closed. most businesses closed in the south of the country as well. and in the gaza strip, businesses and schools closed there as well. people talking about how eerily quiet it is. this really all adds up to the heaviest fighting that there has been between palestinian militants in gaza and israel for many months now, really, since going back to august of last year. and, of course, if a cease fire can't be reached, there is the risk that this could escalate into full blown war.

the chinese foreign minister qin gang is in europe this week, meeting his counterparts from the eu's two biggest powers — germany and france — as well as norway. beijing has come under pressure to condemn russia's invasion of ukraine, but it's so far tried to portray itself as a neutral party. but last month, president xi took his first call with the ukrainian leader volodymyr zelenskyy. alicia garcia—herrero is from european economic think—tank bruegel, and she says the volume of trade between russia and china has boomed significantly since russia's invastion of ukraine. i mean, that that that show a very, very dramatic increase. not only imports from russia, that's well known, this is basically oil and gas, but actually exports from china into russia. and that's more tricky because we have a lot of imports, which are semiconductors, some of which the european commission argues are for dual use.

meanwhile, the eu commission has proposed blacklisting several chinese companies for allegedly helping russian companies to bypass the sanctions. but how likely is that, given the eu is also keen not to upset beijing because of their trade ties? well, absolutely on point. it might be unlikely, first of all, because it requires unanimity. and, you know, we know from experience that there will be some countries, some member states that may not vote in favour. but i think that's a rise in tension anyway, even if the sanctions aren't fully implemented, because it shows the intent. the intent has changed, given that these companies, many of which are already in the us treasury list and are sanctioned already, some of which are actually based in hong kong. i think one in uzbekistan. so, you know, it's starting

to be clear that the commission is very much aligning with the idea that the us has already held for a long time, that there is indeed some kind, indirectly, of military support to russia from china. that's a key theme, even if the sanctions are not approved. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the release of chat gpt, an online tool that can answer questions in natural humanlike language, has sparked discussions about the future of artificial intelligence and its uses. i went to the university of bath to find out what sort of conversations lecturers are having. it will handle things like multiple choice questions, for example. it will handle those very well. in its current format chat gpt really struggles with any of the kind of higher order thinking that we require graduate students demonstrate.

today, universities are being urged to teach students how to use chat gpt and other artificial intelligence tools. bath has actually already started using it in some assessments. so one of the things that's great about it is the fact that it gets students started on things. it won't give them the answers, but it can give them ideas as to what to think, what to do, and how to structure their work. baths, policy on chatgpt and other tools is still in the works, and is due to be in place from this september. you're live with bbc news. in the uk, the publisher of the mirror newspaper has apologised to prince harry for unlawful information gathering, at the start of a trial over alleged phone hacking. the prince's lawyers say harry was subjected to the "most intrusive methods of obtaining personal information". they argue that executives at the mirror knew about widespread phone hacking but failed to act. the company denies allegations

of voice mail interception. tv presenter piers morgan was editor of the daily mirror newspaper from 1995 to 200k. in an exclusive interview recorded before the start of the trial, mr morgan tells the bbc�*s amol rajan he denies any knowledge of unlawful activity. good to see you. how are you? very good. better known now for being a judge on talent shows, or walking off set on breakfast tv, piers morgan was for many years campaigning and influential tabloid newspaper editor. those years are back in the spotlight this week as prince harry and other claimants bring allegations of phone hacking to the high court. have you ever hacked a phone? no. did phone hacking ever take place during your editorship of the mirror? not that i'm aware of. cos what you're is there's no phone hacking at the mirror? no, to be clear, originally, i said i've never had a phone, i've never told anyone to hack a phone, and no story has ever been published in the mirror in my time

from hacking the phone. and then somebody pointed out, "well, you can only know the first two things for sure." all i can talk to is what i know about my own involvement. i never hacked a phone. i wouldn't even know how. let's just state some facts, for some people that don't know the details — there have been dozens of civil hacking cases against the mirror group, and we know at least five who have been awarded damages for phone hacking by the mirror during the period when you were editor. now, those are the ones we know about cos they came out in court, but most cases so far against mirror group newspapers have been settled. i only worked for the daily mirror. sure. let's be clear, i only worked for the daily mirror. i never had any responsibility for the sunday mirror or sunday mail, of the sunday people, or any other titles. no responsibility at all. in 2015, the trinity mirror group apologised for historic phone hacking and said, "such behaviour represented an unwarranted and unacceptable intrusion into people's lives." i hear what you're saying... i agree with that, by the way.

i think phone hacking is completely wrong and shouldn't have been happening, and it was lazy journalists being lazy. but there's evidence that it happened while you were editor. there's no evidence i knew anything about any of it. i never told anybody to hack a phone. and nobody on the daily mirror or the hundreds and hundreds, thousands, possibly of journalists who worked with me on the daily mirror have ever even been arrested in connection with phone hacking. so there are lots of civil things going on, but as you know, the bar for that is a lot lower than it is for any criminal action. yes, we can keep going over and over and over this, but the police were pretty thorough in their investigation. what i would say is i have not been involved in any of these settlements at all, nobody has even asked me for my opinion, which i think says it all. but does it stretch credulity for an editor as hands—on, as energetic, as intricately involved in the paper, as you were to say, "this stuff was going on, but i didn't know about it." i didn't, so i don't care whether it stretches people's credulity or not, but i can be certain about what i knew and what i did, and no—one has ever produced

anything to contradict what i'm saying. prince harry is taking legal action against several tabloid newspaper groups. his legal actions include legal actions which concern claims about your record at the mirror. are you worried? no, not at all. most people, piers, would find that quite... i couldn't give a monkey's cast. you couldn't give a monkey's cast about the fact that you... ? why don't you walk around and ask 100 members of the public, "do you think, do you have any sympathy for prince harry when it comes to privacy now?" zero. this guy, he's got no time for his family, he comes all the way, 5,000 miles, this eco warrior, to come and lecture the media once again about invasion of privacy and intrusion — and yet he's the biggest invader of privacy in royal history. so, no, i'm not going to take any lectures from him, and i don't give a damn what actions he wants to take. good luck to you. but honestly, it's like being lectured on the truth by donald trump. amol rajan, bbc news.

some breaking news developing in the uk. the leader of plaid cymru, the third largest party in the welsh parliament — adam price, has announced he is stepping down — just days after a review found a culture of harassment, bullying and misogyny in the party. plaid cymru has three mps at westminster. nicky schiller reports. adam price was first elected to the westminster parliament in 2001 for his home constituency of carmarthen, east and da nville. he won that seat from the labour party. indeed, at the time he was seen as a rising star of plaid cymru. he made his name in westminster as a fierce opponent of the afghanistan and iraq wars. indeed, he led an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the then prime minister, tony blair, over the iraq war. in 2010, he took the unusual decision for a politician to take a career break. he went to harvard university in the united states. in 2016, he was elected a member of

the national assembly. although he was a little embarrassed by this campaign leaflet from plaid cymru that called him an x factor politician labelled by some the mob dragon, that in welsh folklore was the prophetic sun. now here he is speaking on the plaid cymru website about one political memory when he was a child. one of my first political memories was meeting the then labour prime minister, jim callaghan, on a visit to ammanford. he came up to me and with a camera behind him and asked, of course that typical politician's question, young man". and i said straightaway, "prime minister". "you want my job" ? he said to laughter behind him. "no," i said. "i want to be prime minister of wales in 2018". adam price surprised many by challenging his then close friend leanne wood for the leadership of plaid cymru. she had been party

leaderfor six years. he easily won that election. he led the party in his first major campaign for the 2019 general election. he has, however, hit the headlines, most notably in 2020, when he called for reparations from the uk government to wales for being ground down into poverty. now, he later apologised for his poor choice of words. he didn't have quite so much comeback when he appeared on the bbc�*s question time and admitted that he'd taken illegal drugs when he was younger. as a gay man who first went clubbing in the 1990s, it would be a bit of a surprise if i hadn't taken drugs, and i'm look, i'm not saying i'm proud of that, but i'm not going to lie about it either. before the 2021 senate elections, adam price announced a plan for wales to gain independence in about ten years. but that plan was dependent on plaid cymru leading the welsh government and labour won the election now. more recently, the party has been mired in allegations around culture. indeed, a damning report found that there was bullying and a misogyny culture in the party. now that adam price

has gone, the search for a new leader begins. plaid cymru is the third largest party in the welsh parliament. australia has long been a eurovision—loving country — with the final of the song contest shown on television there every year for the last a0 years. australian acts were officially invited to join the party in 2015, and this year the country is represented in liverpool by progressive rock band voyager. they are set to perform their song promise in thursday's semifinal. the band shared their excitement to me. well, we'vejust gotten off the stage from our dress rehearsal, too, and we're feeling pretty confident. yeah. the roar of the crowd was incredible. we felt good. yeah. i think we're going to be all right. i think it's going to be all right. we promise you it's going to be all right. well, best of luck with that.

but for those of us who may not be so familiar with the eurovision phenomenon in australia, can you just talk us through how big is it back home? massive. i think that australia is one of the largest viewership of eurovision outside of europe. so we absolutely love it. it's bombastic, it's ridiculous, it's fun, it's everything you would want a tv entertainment piece to be really. and we're so committed to it that we get up at three a:m., sometimes 5 a:m., depending on where you are in australia to watch the contest, because it is the most spectacular show on earth, without a doubt. a lot of support from australia, of course, but in the spirit of eurovision, where you can't vote for your own country, which performance would get your 12 points? well, i think gustav- from belgium is definitely worth 12 points, as is vesna from czechia. i and of course, who the hell is edgar from austria. - yeah, fantastic. there's so many good acts this year. it's really, really hard to choose. it'll probably change if you ask us tomorrow. can't everyone win? no. how does it feel, though?

i mean, now that you're getting this far, you know, you have some of your friends possibly getting eliminated. it is hard, it is hard to see, you know, people who you were just sort of on stage with a couple of or in the green room a couple of days ago, all of a sudden, you know, their parcels go and they have to go home. so it's kind of sad because you make connections with these people over the weeks and then all of a sudden they're gone. so it is quite sad. it's a brutal context. you know, there can only be one winner. the saying united by music. you know, we do feel united when we share all of those shows together and those rehearsals and the pre parties and everything. so yeah, it does hurt a little bit. and that's the wonderful thing about this competition. it's a competition, but we are united by music and you know, we do feel that we have a much, much stronger connection to some of the other artists in the other countries. and possibly, you know, than the standard kind of elimination shows that you see on television. when you're talking to people in semifinal one going, - you need to get through| and then we need to get through so that we can.

yeah. and for all the love back home, the eurovision song contest can't come to australia. briefly, before we let you go, if you were to win, who would you like to be the next host? well, i mean, we're still hoping and i'm building a small stadium in a regional town in western australia that should have about 500 capacity. yeah. and some lights. so hopefully we can, we can lure the people into there. i think that's probably going to be enough. never say can't who doesn't want an australian holiday next year? everyone come down. thank you so much forjoining us. voyaging there, joining us from liverpool and best of luck today. thank you so much. don't forget to vote. if you're not in australia, you can vote for us. and it airs tonight on sbs. what time? don't even know. three a:m., five a:m., five a:m.. we want dedication. and the rest of

the world can vote. graffiti certainly divides opinion. for some it's nothing but a blight on the urban landscape. while for others it's a vital and dynamic form of artistic expression. in senegal in west africa — an art school has been set up to use grafitti as a way to inspire young people. tim allman has the story. in dakar, this isjust part of the scenery. colorful, occasionally controversial. sometimes political. 0ften joyous. a maverick form of art. but that might be about to change. this is the rbs academia. an art school for graffiti. for the most part, they thought it was impossible to put something like this in place. you didn't even think you'd have a single student

because who's going to be interested in this art? and after opening it, they realized there are a lot more young people who were interested in it. the students, sometimes young people who've left ordinary school behind, pay around $25 a month in tuition fees. they are taught technique, design, the use of color, a way to make money. but it's so much more than that. for me, graffiti is a tool that allows me to express myself while people are in the streets to demonstrate violently. art allows us to be noble and to put messages on the walls that won't go unnoticed. for many, graffiti is now an art form, gaining new—found respect, and the students of rbs academia are doing their bit. tim allman, bbc news.

there is a lot more on our website for all the news stories we are covering, but thank you for watching newsday. hello there. it's quite tricky trying to plan your day ahead with the weather at the moment. take, for example, wednesday morning, glorious start in st albans in hertfordshire. but by the middle of the afternoon there were plenty of shower clouds, and many skies overhead look like this, quite threatening at times. in fact, if we take a look at the radar from wednesday, there were quite a widespread bunch of showers that moved in from the west, and some of these turned quite heavy with rumbles of thunder mixed in there as well. in fact, we're not even halfway through the month of may and some counties across england have already seen above average rainfall. the exception, highland scotland, where there's not been that much rain so far this month. but low pressure still dominates the story

as we go through thursday. that means further showers to come. high pressure is trying to build in from the west and it will do so for the first half of the weekend at least. so, for thursday we'll start off with some low cloud around, but largely fine and dry. but it won't be long before the sunshine comes through and we start to see some warmth building and showers turn quite widespread into the afternoon once again. couple that with some low grey cloud temperatures in the far north and east of scotland, disappointing 10—13 degrees. highest values, perhaps around 17 or 18 degrees. dodge the showers. keep the sun. it'll feel relatively pleasant. now, high pressure is building in from the west. but to complicate the story, this little weather front here is going to produce more cloud coming in off the north sea with a cool northeasterly breeze. and we'll see some showers running down through lincolnshire, east anglia, further south and west through the day. so west will be best for the sunshine and the warmth. on friday, we could see temperatures peaking at around

18, possibly 19 degrees. but where that low gray cloud continues to roll in off the north sea, only highs of around 1a celsius. the high pressure then moves in for the start of the weekend. not a bad start, but already frontal systems pushing in from the northwest will start to bring a change from sunday onwards. so saturday, not a bad day and feeling pleasantly warm. but as we go through into next week, the showers are set to return and it will be just a little bit cooler than it should be for this time of year.

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