live from london. this is bbc news. ukraine's president zelensky is visiting berlin, as germany pledges its largest weapons package for kyiv. the most powerful cyclone to affect the bay of bengal for more than ten years makes landfall, bringing record levels of flooding. turkey's leaders cast their votes along with the people in one of the most pivotal elections in the country's modern history. the swedish act, loreen, wins the eurovision song contest — becomimg the first woman to triumph twice.

hello and welcome to bbc news. the german chancellor, olaf scholz, has said his country will continue to support ukraine in its war against russia for as long as needed. he was speaking after meeting the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky in berlin. mr zelensky, has described germany as a "true friend" and "reliable translation: this awful war has severe geopolitical - consequences for everyone. but mostly for the men and women of ukraine. more than 1 million of them, women, children and older people have found protection here in germany. our citizens here stand in full solidarity to the people who have fled from the brutal attacks. mr zelensky called olaf scholtz a true friend and thanked germany for its solidarity. germany announced

they would donate supplies worth $3 billion to keep. the trip comes after a visit to italy where he met the italian prime minister, the president and the pope. let's cross to our correspondentjenny hill in berlin. this seems like a setting of relationships with germany and ukraine, they haven't always seen eye—to—eye on how to address the war. but this seems like a true turning point here. i’m war. but this seems like a true turning point here.— war. but this seems like a true turning point here. i'm not sure i would put _ turning point here. i'm not sure i would put it— turning point here. i'm not sure i would put it that _ turning point here. i'm not sure i would put it that strongly - turning point here. i'm not sure i| would put it that strongly because turning point here. i'm not sure i. would put it that strongly because i think what you have seen in germany is a very gradual shift over the last year or so. if we had this conversation back then just as the war began, it would have been unthinkable that a country like germany would be sending weapons into an active conflict zone. here we are today and germany has just

announced that huge package of weapons, 2.7 billion euros worth. to give you a sense of scale, that effectively will double its contributions militarily so far to keep. initially there were concerns amongst the ukrainians about the german position, its hesitation over sending weapons. post—2nd world war, germany saw itself as having a special responsibility to maintain peace over the continent diplomatically rather than militarily. olaf scholtz is a social democrat, he heads a coalition here. a lot in his own party were pro—russian, having with russia. that also changed quickly after the invasion. there were concerns about

olaf scholtz�*s government and his position when it comes to loyalties to ukraine. i that has long gone and ukraine has been fairly satisfied for some time that germany has been a good supporter. it is the second largest donor of military and financial aid, second to the us. i think this trip was one of those occasions where not only was ukraine, president zelensky, able to elicit an ongoing commitment of support from one of its major allies, of course italy yesterday too, but olaf scholtz and president zelensky to send a message to vladimir putin that despite the war is dragging on, costing lives, costing money and notjust in ukraine, that they will stand resolute. we have had olaf scholtz

saying he will supports ukraine as long as necessary. find saying he will supports ukraine as long as necessary.— long as necessary. and there is concern about _ long as necessary. and there is concern about how _ long as necessary. and there is concern about how long - long as necessary. and there is concern about how long that i long as necessary. and there is| concern about how long that will long as necessary. and there is - concern about how long that will be. ukraine does have this looming counteroffensive coming up and the sort of aids that germany is giving, these $3 billion of support, that will become increasingly important. yes, interestingly we heard president zelensky in a press conference in the last hour saying that he hoped the war could end this year. it is of course just a hope. he has a peace plan, germany has said that it will supports ukraine in whatever it wants to do in terms of ending that war. but it wants ukraine to take the lead when it comes to deciding the terms upon which it would end. as we know, ukraine is adamant that its territory and territorial integrity

must remain intact. in terms of the military support, this is one we will have to watch because as i have said, germany had been rather hesitant about sending weapons at all and then hesitated about sending battle tanks which ukraine had requested an hour to sending those tanks and a whole lot more air defences, president zelensky made it clear today that what he really wants our modern western fighter jets. germany does not want to give those at those stage, it is a native country that is reluctant to do so for all sorts of reasons including not wanting to supply weapons which couldn't be deemed essentially as defensive. we had that from olaf scholtz. president zelensky is undeterred and will hold talks with a security council here this afternoon and will try to persuade a so—called alliance of countries which will supply modern fighter jets to ukraine.— the eurovision song contest 2023 has a winner.

sweden's act loreen obtained 583 points with her pop anthem tattoo. it was the favourite going into the competition — and she's only the second person to win it twice. her first victory on the popular contest was more than a decade ago. she won the competition in 2012 with her song "euphoria". the uk's entry, mae muller, came second from last in the final standings but said she would "never forget this journey". last night's eurovision was watched by an estimated global tv audience of 180 million. many also packed into the open—air fan zone on liverpool's waterfront to watch the long awaited final. earlier i spoke to our reporter

luxmy gopal who was watching the fan village in liverpool being taken down. the eurovision fan village behind me is being dismantled, all the glitter is being swept away at the end of a fantastic eurovision week and build—up here. yesterday, the fan village was full of around 15,000 people because it was a ticketed event to see the eurovision finals screened on the big screen here. but all week there has been performances, live music, dj sets, and everything to do with eurovision and music taking place here in the fan village behind me. throughout the week, several tens of thousands of people have come here. but of course it was all about last night though, the eurovision final. the opening act, last year's winners, ukraine's kalush orchestra had a surprise appearance with princess catherine playing the piano as part of it. there were some real fan favourites as there have been throughout the week that really got

the fan village roaring. that was finland with cha cha cha, they didn't win, as you saw last night, they came second place. the uk came in second from last. the uk hosting on behalf of ukraine. even though it was a bad night for the uk, overall it has been considered a really good week with lots of fans i have spoken to praising how liverpool has hosted the event. i spoke to lots of regular eurovision—goers who said this was actually the best experience they have had of eurovision being hosted and the build—up to it. i spoke to lots of people working and living in the city who, even if they weren't fans, said the sense of excitement and energy that has been around the city all of this week has been like nothing they have experienced before and have been very proud of how this event has showcased the city. i've also been speaking to ukrainian refugees who moved here in the past

year and they talked about how emotional they were by how liverpool showcased ukraine and did justice to them and hosted on behalf of ukraine. hotels have been full, bars and restaurants have been busy and liverpool city council has put a forecast of around £25 million being brought into the local economy with all the tourists and visitors. that is not a final figure but a forecast but of course it is about more than just the financial benefit. eurovision is so much more than simply a song contest. it is a statement of togetherness and it's judged that liverpool has done that really well. next year it's sweden's turn to take that role, just in time for the 50th anniversary of abba winning eurovision.

back to ukraine, in the past hour we have seen damage from last night's air on the ukrainian city of ternopil. this claims to show the aftermath of the russian missile strikes on a warehouse in to noble. they were just strikes on a warehouse in to noble. they werejust moments strikes on a warehouse in to noble. they were just moments before ukraine's contestants took to the stage in eurovision. they came sixth in last nights competition. in one of the most pivotal elections in its modern history, turkey is voting on presidential and parliamentary elections. this is current president, tayyip erdogan, voting in istanbul. he's been in powerfor 20 years. and this is his key rival — kimil kilicdaroglu.

kemal kilicdaroglu. and this is his key rival — kemal kilicdaroglu. he's the leader of a broad opposition alliance. our middle east corrrespondent, anna foster, from antakya — she's been visiting a hub where thousands of people were arriving in buses to cast their votes. and i spoke to her a little earlier. this is one of the places they come to next from the get of the buses. in turkey, people vote in schools. this can see are so badly damaged it is not safe to go back inside. is not safe to go back inside. instead, you have this whole row of containers, one for every classroom that would normally have been where people go in and cast their votes. there have been long queues here all day, a steady stream of people who have been coming back to this earthquake area to cast their votes because if they didn't register in the parts of turkey that they are now, they had to come back here. this is one of the most pivotal elections in years. in the last few days have been trying to get a sense of the issues, the things that have beenin

of the issues, the things that have been in people's minds when they cast the votes. the earthquake is one of them, the economy another big one. here is what some voters had to say when i spoke to them in the city of al dana. translation: i hope good things will happen and god| willing, it'll be good. we expect chp to win. there is no tolerance for any sort of criticism right now. we're going through troubled times. as i'm talking to you, ifeel anxious because i could be arrested tomorrow. but it's all right. they can't scare us with prison sentences. translation: i'm voting for consistency, stability. j but i'll respect whoever the society cheese is. but i'll respect whoever the society chooses. i'm all for democracy and its principles. i will respect whoever wins. translation: | think - the earthquake will affect the outcome of the election seriously because people feel resentful of the government. | many of us share this feeling in aldana. - we think if another earthquake hits | here, there won't be anyone tryingj to rescue us. this grim concern shows

a sharp shift in votes. i that was the thoughts of some of the voters in aldana. that first pass was a student and it is difficult to find people talking on camera about theissues find people talking on camera about the issues and the way they are planning to vote, it makes them very nervous because freedom of speech has been one of the issues here in turkey over the last few years. the economy, the earthquake, all of these things have made it a really tight competition. president erdogan has been in powerfor 20 years. kemal kilicdaroglu, the challenger, represents a whole group of opposition parties have come together in an unprecedented way with different visions for the future of turkey, different things i want to do after the election, but one thing bringing them together behind a single candidate was their wish to unseat president everyone after two decades in charge. a powerful cyclone has crashed into coastal areas of bangladesh and northern myanmar with windspeeds

of over 200 kilometres per hour in cox's bazaar in bangladesh, at least a—quarter of a—million people have been forced to take shelter. particular fears have been expressed for the nearlyi million rohingya refugees living in flimsy camps in the region. our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from cox's bazaar — just before the cyclone made landfall. sirens. this is bangladesh's tourist police, and they're patrolling the beach here in cox's bazar in the southeast of the country to move tourists away from this beach. you can see that the waves are starting to become more intense and the rain is already coming down here ahead of cyclone mocha. and there are still quite a lot of people out and about, which is why they want people to clear off the beach. and we'll be going soon as well. now, authorities here have been issuing announcements telling people to be in their homes if they're secure or move to a emergency,

an emergency shelter. and we were at one shelter yesterday, which is a school. we saw hundreds of families all crammed in to the classrooms there. somebody even bought their cattle and their chickens, their livestock with them as well to see this storm out. now, this part of the world is no stranger to cyclones, and this is actually the start of the annual monsoon season. but forecasters fear the cyclone mocha could be one of the worst they've seen in well over a decade. there's also huge concern about close to a million rohingya refugees who stay over an hour from where we are right now in the world's largest refugee camp, because those rohingya refugees live in very flimsy bamboo structures with tarpaulin roofs, they have very little protection. now, the authorities in bangladesh don't allow the refugees to leave the camps, so they're staying there through this storm. and there's huge concern, even though humanitarian agencies say that they've moved some

of the refugees within the shelters to places they feel might be a little bit safer. so we're going to get off this beach now along with all the others as the weather gets worse in anticipation of cyclone mocha. earlier, the united nations refugee agency representative in bangladesh— johannes van der klau — told us about the preparations to mitgate the effects of cyclone mocha. we have been working around the clock the last days to be prepared for this landfall of the cyclone today, which might be one of the most severe we have seen in the last decade. so we need to be prepared for the worst. insofar we can be prepared because we look at the refugee population in the camps and consider that they live in very, very flimsy bamboo shelters which cannot

withstand a storm of this magnitude. but coming back to the preparations we have put in place, first of all, we started with thousands of refugee volunteers to make population aware that this is coming. so they have been sending messages to all the tens of thousands of refugees to be prepared in the sense that when this comes, they need to seek shelter at higher level areas. they need to tie down the shelters. they've got ropes for all this and they have organized simulations, how to evacuate from areas in the camp which are very prone to the floodings and to the storms, because this cyclone comes as heavy and intense rainfall, which leads not only to flooding but also to landslides. let's get some of the day's other news now. the democratic governor of the us state of north carolina has vetoed legislation that would have banned almost all abortions beyond the first

trimester of pregnancy. the state's general assembly will now need to attempt an override vote to force through the measure, which would ban all abortions in north carolina after twelve weeks except in some cases. the new chief executive of twitter says she is excited to help transform the business. linda yaccarino's appointment was announced by elon musk on friday. posting on twitter, she said she had long been inspired by his vision to create "a brighter future". the bbc has learned that google's estimates of the climate impact of different forms of transport are inaccurate. the search engine's carbon calculator on its google flights app overestimates the impact of some high—speed train journeys — but underestimates that of flying. turning to uk politics now — lots to discuss. rishi sunak�*s pledges on the economy and migration — and the labour manifesto proposal to give millions of eu citizens the right to vote if they return to power at the next general election. earlier i spoke to our political correspondent,

tony bonsignore. it was a conference yesterday of a new grassroots organisation within the conservative party. we've got another conference in the coming days, not dissimilar, and a debate going on about where the party goes from here and whether this is the right direction, as well as the leadership of rishi sunak. now, yesterday, we heard from some very senior conservatives, very closely associated with borisjohnson, calling for a change in direction, calling for things like lower taxes, maybe a harder line on brexit, a closer relationship between and central office. now, today we've had the first real response from that. grant shapps, who's the energy secretary, he's been out doing the media round this morning. he was asked about that and what he did was refer back to what has really been the central set of promises from rishi sunak

since he became prime minister. five pledges that he made which are halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing national debt, cutting waiting lists and stopping boats across the english channel. and what grant shapps said in response to that criticism was, "the government remains focused on those pledges, even if they are proving tough to to meet." i accept that they are difficult and very detailed pledges. these are not vague numbers that we've put... we've put numbers to what we've promised. it's difficult. secondly... harder than you thought? i thought it was always going to be difficult and we still are committed. absolutely, to those five pledges. so you heard there from grant shapps, i think for the moment the government is saying, "look, no change at all here." and i think partly that's a reflection of the fact that given

everything that happened to the conservatives last year and of course, we've had three, you know, we've had three prime ministers in less than a year. i think rishi sunak feels for the moment his leadership is on pretty safe ground. and tony, the other interesting thing we should talk about today, reports about labour possibly extending the right to vote in the uk for eu citizens. yeah, now, this story has been sparked today by this big splash in the sunday telegraph, which suggests that labour are considering giving 16 and 17 year olds a vote.— and i7—year—olds a vote. at the moment, the minimum age is 18, but also, and perhaps more controversially for some anyway, giving settled eu citizens in the uk, of which there are many, giving them the right to vote as well. at the moment they can only vote, for example, in local or mayoral elections. now, there's been lots of talk around this, this morning, on the bbc�*s sunday with laura kuenssberg, it was the turn ofjonathan reynolds, labour's shadow business secretary, to be asked about this.

he didn't confirm it, but neither did he deny it. this is what he had to say. we do want to strengthen our democracy. we believe that people make a contribution to this country if they live here. there's an argument for having them involved in that process, but we will set that out in detail. as i say, this is part of how we make policy. it's a democratic process involving the whole breadth of the labour movement. but if people are making a contribution to the uk, let's celebrate that. so you heard there from jonathan reynolds not ruling it out. not confirming it, but it is clearly... there is a discussion under way within labour. but it will be, i think, a very involved and very controversial decision if we were to get to that. and of course, that assumes that labour are going to win the next election. pablo picasso was one of the most famous and influential artists of the twentieth century. famous for his experimental style — he helped develop collage and cubism.

but one of his earliest works has now come under intense scutiny — for a secret image hidden for more than a century. tim allman has the story. picasso painted le moulin de la galette when he was just 19 years old. at first glance, by his standards, it seems fairly conventional. but what's this, that dark shape at the bottom of the painting? is it a chair, perhaps a jacket? no, turns out it was originally meant to be a dog. what we know is that in many instances, picasso painted aspects of the composition and then subsequently obliterated them and transformed them into other compositional elements. this was really part of his practice. experts long suspected there may have been something hidden away in the painting, but it was only when they used

a new technique called x—ray fluorescence imaging spectroscopy that the earlier image was revealed. why the playful and occasionally mercurial artist chose to alter the painting is unclear, but the presence of a dog in the foreground may well have changed the way a viewer might interact with the image. one can only speculate why picasso would have concealed this, but certainly now my eye is drawn to all these wonderful figures in the composition. so no longer is the dog there to, kind of, monopolise our view. le moulin de la galette has recently been fully restored, but the mysterious canine remains hidden away. it was apparently intended to be a cavalier king charles spaniel, which seems sort of appropriate roundabout now. stay with us here on bbc news.

hello there. so far this morning, it's been rather misty and murky across central and eastern areas of england, but things should improve here. there'll be some sunny spells developing throughout this afternoon, and that's where we'll also find the warmest of the weather today. but further north and west, we've got some outbreaks of rain, and that rain has been steadily moving its way through scotland, northern ireland. there'll be some sunny spells developing later in the day here. a few showers cropping up across central areas. but on the whole, towards central, eastern, south—eastern areas, the cloud will burn back towards the coasts, there'll be some sunshine, and those temperatures getting up to about 20 or 21 degrees. but it will be cooler in the north—west. here, yesterday, 20 or 21 celsius. today, we're looking at about 1a or 15 degrees. now, through tonight, the area of rain will continue to spread into the south—east.

it will stay relatively mild here. temperatures down to about 10 degrees. but elsewhere, with the clear skies, we'll see those temperatures getting down to about 3 or 4 celsius, so a little bit of a chilly start first thing on monday morning across central scotland. now, we've got high pressure situated to the west, and around an area of high pressure, the air travels in that direction. so it means for the uk, we're going to see that north—westerly wind bringing some showers in across western scotland, northern ireland and wales through the morning. by the afternoon, those showers perhaps more concentrated towards northern and eastern areas of the uk. it will be a little bit drier the further west you are but for many of us, there will be sunny spells and that cooler air will have made its way to the south—east of england. temperatures here dropping down by a few degrees compared to today. for tuesday, more of the same. dry for most with sunny spells, one or two showers around scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england. temperatures will start to come up a little bit as we go

through the rest of the week. 15,16 celsius, a bit nippy in the far north, north—east of scotland. the high pressure broadly dominating through most of this week, with a few weather fronts brushing past towards the end of the week. that will bring one or two showers in the forecast. broadly speaking, sunny spells for money and temperatures broadly speaking, sunny spells for many and temperatures will continue to rise. by thursday and friday, we will see temperatures going up to 18 or 19 celsius. feeling pleasant in the sunshine. that's all from me. goodbye.

this is bbc news, the headlines. ukraine's president zelensky is in berlin on his first visit to germany since the start of the war. the german government has announced it will supply weapons worth around $3 billion to kyiv. the most powerful cyclone to affect the bay of bengal for more than ten years — has made landfall on coastal areas in bangladesh and myanmar — bringing record levels of flooding. turkey's leaders have cast their votes — in one of the most pivotal elections in the country's modern history. recep erdogan is trying to retain the presidency — after twenty years in power. the swedish act loreen has won this year's eurovision song contest in liverpool, after surviving a last—minute surge in votes for finland.