this is bbc news. the headlines. world leaders meeting injapan the head of the g7 summit and support for ukraine and sanctions against russia on the agenda. and another major russian air attack overnight with nearly all the incoming missiles destroyed. and sting receives the novellas songwriting reward. the highest honour. let's return to the story we are covering the last half hour. the supposed car chase involving harry, megan the paparazzi injoining me

now is thejournalist megan the paparazzi injoining me now is the journalist a real commentator thank you so much for staying on the line and i know they did not want to abruptly end the conversation but the point you're trying to make there is there is a high level of interest and ijust wanted to get your understanding of how much is instigated by them and how much is instigated by them and how much is the fault of the press? there is a ridiculously high level of interest in harry and meghan and those programmed by how the story was reported yesterday and in the front pages of the papers today and editors and readers alike very much interested in harry and meghan and with the get up to in this paparazzi is, the one that showed in the car or going into a building with so much more than red carpet shots especially. still, there is still huge interest in them would harry

and megan wanted when he stepped back as working royals was to be able to control the narrative, to put what they wanted about themselves to be photographed perhaps at events and be able to decide what pictures were put out of their children, etc. that is what they wanted to be able to control they wanted to be able to control the narrative and a lot of people are saying, if you're in the royal family or if you're a celebrity like meghan markle. you do not choose to get to do that. meghan markle. you do not choose to get to do that-— get to do that. what do you think about that? _ get to do that. what do you think about that? is _ get to do that. what do you think about that? is this _ get to do that. what do you think about that? is this a _ get to do that. what do you think about that? is this a part - get to do that. what do you think about that? is this a part of- get to do that. what do you think about that? is this a part of the l about that? is this a part of the deal that when you are a public figure, when you are a so—called celebrity, you just have to put up with the identity of the peerage is going to chase you for photographs and value adds a lot of money? you cive over and value adds a lot of money? you give over a — and value adds a lot of money? gm, give overa certain and value adds a lot of money? gm, give over a certain part of yourself to the public, to your fans as it

were, but does not matter who you are, whether you are the sussex or the prince and princess of wales, whether you are angelina jolie or jennifer lopez, you do not desire to be chased by paparazzi, chased by them in convoy to be made to feel threatened by them in any way and let us remember, this must be very triggering for prince harry given how his mother died in 1997. negative and in different countries, do they operate in different ways in the uk and in europe versus what happens in the us?— the uk and in europe versus what happens in the us? they operate in different ways _ happens in the us? they operate in different ways across _ happens in the us? they operate in different ways across the _ happens in the us? they operate in different ways across the united - different ways across the united states and the laws in new york are not as strict as the laws they have in california and those paparazzi laws that they have in california actually came and not long after the death of diana, prince of wales and

the limits of where paparazzi can take pictures and what they can take, new york is seen as a bit of a wild west, as it were. and the paparazzi can be much more aggressive there than they are perhaps in other states. find aggressive there than they are perhaps in other states. and help us understand. — perhaps in other states. and help us understand, and _ perhaps in other states. and help us understand, and meghan _ perhaps in other states. and help us understand, and meghan and - perhaps in other states. and help us understand, and meghan and harry. understand, and meghan and harry left the uk partially because of what was happening in terms of the press and how do you think that will play out given what is happened and how it unfolded in the various different versions of events. i think this is going to make harry and meghan even more determined that they will proceed with these cases against newspaper groups, gives people they feel that invaded the privacy whether it's paparazzi or whether it is through phone hacking. the pictures in the video from this incident and given the uk and on a couple of tablet websites and

disappeared after ten minutes and the statements that he put out saying that they would not allude to the fact that in this moment and they have been taken down and they are circulating widely online and make them even more determined and what they feel is they behave in and doesn't intrude on the privacy stop by thank you forjoining us on the programme. more news on the british royal family, events during national morning because the government feared nearly £162 million, that's almost $20 million. the state funeral on the 19th of september 2022 came 11 days after her death. breaking news for you that is just coming and you will

remember the ongoing legal battle between the florida governor ron desantis and the entertainment giant disney. the news came in that they are scrapping plans to relocate 2000 jobs to florida in part because of changing business conditions in the state. that is according to an e—mail to employees and scrapping any plans to relocate any of those jobs to florida in part because of what they say are changing business conditions and this is all a part of that whitening legal battle between ron desantis, the florida governor and the entertainment giant. that is the latest that is happening between the latest that is happening between the two warring sides in the decision to relocate to florida from california prompted many employees do not want to move across the country and they say they have scrapped those plans to relocate 2000 jobs to florida. let's return

to the war in ukraine. as the two sides ready themselves for a spring offensive, some energy continues to play key role in giving a clear view of the situation on the ground, both in the devastation that is been caused by the fighting in the very start of the war, a picture of the movement between troops and military equipment. forthe movement between troops and military equipment. for the public, these images of serve to debunk misinformation about the war, shining a light on some of worst atrocities, such as the massacre in blue—chip. i spoke to william marchal that ceo and the word of ukraine and more recently, the conflict in sudan is aided government and commercial mapping of the situation on the ground. i asked him how crucial his work has been. bit of a space renaissance new rockets, new satellites and what is new is to getting the data since and 200 satellites every day, the image of a point on ukraine every day what

is changed is every single day, all of those movements attract. and satellites used to be such a province of government and i'll do something that everyone can access. the bbc can access it, the think tanks that are doing investigations, societies are able to bring information and triangulation on that situation so everyone understands the same picture. it’s understands the same picture. it's all art of understands the same picture. it's all part of this transparency now but it is also not some secret behind closed doors where intelligence agencies and governments work with organisations like yours, it is all for the public to see. �* ~ ., to see. and i think that generally hels to see. and i think that generally helps democratic _ to see. and i think that generally helps democratic societies - to see. and i think that generally l helps democratic societies because this is called out in various stages, challenges for misinformation has been out about the war in the troop build—up in the beginning in mass graves and we

uncovered where they were and how they were built and it's almost the time machine which can go back in time machine which can go back in time into planetary forensics and figure out what went on in this transparency leads to stability, greater accountability and governments no actors. looking at some of the _ governments no actors. looking at some of the imagery, _ governments no actors. looking at some of the imagery, i _ governments no actors. looking at some of the imagery, i remember| some of the imagery, i remember talking to you a lot about this. you kind of need to know which are looking for, don't you, essentially? there is so much that is captured in a millisecond and they understand we are looking at images and we are being told this is belarus. ads, being told this is belarus. build—up of troops and this is that the beginning of the war outside and the beginning of the war outside and the construction of a bridge and the day that russia said it was withdrawing and we saw them building bridges, military bridges to bring the troops and and that was out and part of the west was able to call the bluff and obviously, they're trying to provide that so everyone

can understand this better. that is what i find most _ can understand this better. that is what i find most extraordinary. - can understand this better. that is| what i find most extraordinary. the tactic that the biden administration used at the beginning of this was to be very open. russia is about to launch this attack no matter how much the russians are going to say we are not going to do this, they are able to say with a lot of clarity and that is because classified information was being made declassified. a lot of it with the help of organisations like yours. the help of organisations like ours. ~ , y the help of organisations like ours. ~ , , ~ , the help of organisations like yours. absolutely. and we try to su ort yours. absolutely. and we try to suoport his _ yours. absolutely. and we try to support his efforts _ yours. absolutely. and we try to support his efforts as _ yours. absolutely. and we try to support his efforts as best - yours. absolutely. and we try to support his efforts as best we i support his efforts as best we can. but i think this is doing us three things. one, is an operational help to ukraine right now that the support of the us and other governments. the second is that a coherent society that ever gets to see. the people in different parts of europe that are dealing with high energy costs suffer the consequence of this war, know why this is happening because the reality is on the ground vacancy atrocities and we understand that. the third thing is

fighting this information online and we have a lot of misinformation online. satellite data triangulating with other things like drum data, people taking pictures on phones and everything in between is being triangulated and biblical open source intelligence and everyone gets to figure out what is going on and makes it harder and harder to make it up. and i think that's a counterbalance to the misinformation spread of misinformation we are finding online. i spread of misinformation we are finding online.— spread of misinformation we are finding online. i want to get your views on the _ finding online. i want to get your views on the conversations - finding online. i want to get yourj views on the conversations being had. the ceo of open ai and on regulating ai. how much to say i work with what you are doing? it is a fascinating _ work with what you are doing? it 3 a fascinating advance. you been using computer visuals for some time, machine learning tools to detect objects, planes, ships or roads or trees to stop before and various other things. but now, watch language models are making it even easier and everything is going xg

beauty. and everything is a gpt now. and an interface onto all of these imageries. your learning as best we can in the turkish earthquakes and after that, we provided a base map with all the building damage, across that area within 48 hours to try to help with the response efforts. and we can soon imagined as having an interface and having won and turkey dissing 3564 buildings are down nine to 60,000 buildings are affected in this is where response is needed and this is where response is needed and this is where response is needed and this is the help they require and here is your local fema office to provide blankets of medical help. you can imagine they're going in that direction and what that does is to democratize the value of all this information. we produce 4 million images a day and we cannot look at all that imagery, we need ai images a day and we cannot look at all that imagery, we need al to help us. but it's notjust for the armies of people at nasa or other large

organisations that can leverage satellite data now, it's for everyone to be able to get the benefits for and in time, we are opening this up for more people. 226 bodies have now been exhumed in the so called "shakahola forest massacre" in southern kenya most of them women and children. hundreds of people are still unaccounted for. the victims were members of a cult whose leader, paul mackenzie, told his followers to starve to death so they could "seejesus". barbara plett usher reports from the area. this is a woman who knows so to protect life. just a few months ago, cooking food for her family was considered a sin. she rescued her five she rescued herfive children she rescued her five children from a christian doomsday called. she was told they must starve so they could see jesus. told they must starve so they could seejesus. if told they must starve so they could see jesus. if she told they must starve so they could seejesus. if she had not escaped, they would be dead.

see jesus. if she had not escaped, they would be dead.— see jesus. if she had not escaped, they would be dead. when the child tries or asked _ they would be dead. when the child tries or asked for _ they would be dead. when the child tries or asked for food _ they would be dead. when the child tries or asked for food and - they would be dead. when the child tries or asked for food and water, . tries or asked for food and water, we are told to take a cane and beat them so they could go to heaven. so ijust them so they could go to heaven. so i just spoke about it and said them so they could go to heaven. so ijust spoke about it and said i cannot go along with this and i cannot go along with this and i cannot eat while my child is starving. cannot eat while my child is starving-— cannot eat while my child is starvinu. ., ., , , starving. how come so many parents could? she _ starving. how come so many parents could? she asked _ starving. how come so many parents could? she asked many _ starving. how come so many parents could? she asked many questions i could? she asked many questions about the meaning of the deaths all around her. we about the meaning of the deaths all around her. ~ ., about the meaning of the deaths all around her-— around her. we would gather every saturday and _ around her. we would gather every saturday and the _ around her. we would gather every saturday and the pastor— around her. we would gather every saturday and the pastor would - around her. we would gather every saturday and the pastor would tell| saturday and the pastor would tell us that the world was coming to an end. and said we should fast and die because of the delayed, heaven would because of the delayed, heaven would be full. but when i was fasting, god spoke to me and told me this is not his will. . ., spoke to me and told me this is not his will. ,, . , ., ., , his will. she and hundreds of others moved to the _ his will. she and hundreds of others moved to the forest, _ his will. she and hundreds of others moved to the forest, invited - his will. she and hundreds of others moved to the forest, invited by - his will. she and hundreds of others moved to the forest, invited by the | moved to the forest, invited by the pastor who sold them plots in the new holy land. now it is a crime scene digging up mass graves filled with his followers. unearthing

grisly details. there was an order of death, children were in first but not the pastors children and he went last. those who resisted were beaten, even children, some of the bodies were strangled or suffocated. at doesn't have been found alive, victor is a human rights activist who has been helping this. not all survivors wanted to be rescued. they truly believed that this was the way to heaven. she truly believed that this was the way to heaven. . , truly believed that this was the way to heaven. ,, , _, ., truly believed that this was the way to heaven. ,, , _, , , to heaven. she is coming to jesus tellin: to heaven. she is coming to jesus telling her — to heaven. she is coming to jesus telling her to _ to heaven. she is coming to jesus telling her to come _ to heaven. she is coming to jesus telling her to come and _ to heaven. she is coming to jesus telling her to come and save - to heaven. she is coming to jesus| telling her to come and save them stop by— telling her to come and save them stop by this man accused of trying. he has— stop by this man accused of trying. he has been in court before on charges of radicalisation. that is when you decided to move here. esther mckenzie was preaching here before you left for the forest. and after he was arrested, locals came and attacked the property. you can see and they have destroyed the

church walls. people who are very angry about what happened. they're angry about what happened. they're angry at mckenzie and the authorities rarely handled it. the search and rescue operation has been intensified, there is a public inquiry and a shake of the local security services. while this is allowed to go on for so long? he was known. he allowed to go on for so long? he was known. ., , ,, ., ., ., ,, ., known. he was known and taken to court three — known. he was known and taken to court three times _ known. he was known and taken to court three times and _ known. he was known and taken to court three times and even - known. he was known and taken to court three times and even now, i known. he was known and taken to| court three times and even now, we have an active case in court. this is a matter that has come up now and a matter that we are having under investigation. thank you. hundreds of --eole investigation. thank you. hundreds of people are _ investigation. thank you. hundreds of people are still _ investigation. thank you. hundreds of people are still missing - investigation. thank you. hundreds of people are still missing and i investigation. thank you. hundreds of people are still missing and he l of people are still missing and he is still waiting for his brothers family. to make lively kids. the boy loves me very much. used to level that they will come running to your? that is my prayer. the

that they will come running to your? that is my prayer-— that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale _ that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of _ that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of it _ that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of it has _ that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of it has been - that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of it has been in i that is my prayer. the horror, the sheer scale of it has been in this | sheer scale of it has been in this community and travelled far beyond it. the agonising question still of how this could have happened. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. a woman on a mission. this is 91—year—old kathy was determined to walk a total of four miles by the end of the month it's around 200 metres a day and this is a real challenge. mobility issues and disease which means short distances. and put issues and disease which means short distances. and pu— distances. and put seem to be stiffenin: distances. and put seem to be stiffening up — distances. and put seem to be stiffening up and _ distances. and put seem to be stiffening up and i'm _ distances. and put seem to be stiffening up and i'm going i distances. and put seem to be stiffening up and i'm going to l distances. and put seem to be l stiffening up and i'm going to do it, ifi

stiffening up and i'm going to do it, if i drop dead at the end of it. it's all to raise money for a club that supports her. she wants to raise enough money to install a lift to make it more accessible. i was insired to make it more accessible. i was inspired by _ to make it more accessible. i was inspired by captain _ to make it more accessible. i was inspired by captain tom, - to make it more accessible. i was inspired by captain tom, mr i to make it more accessible. i141?» inspired by captain tom, mr tom, to make it more accessible. i —" inspired by captain tom, mrtom, he made millions and there's no way on earth, how little is better than nothing, isn't it. after watching bbc news. you're watching bbc news. to el salvador now, where we're taking a deeper look at the president's crack down on gangs. the country was once the murder capital of the world. for decades rival gangs ruled the streets. but a year ago the country's young, media savy president declared war on gangs, imposing emergency security measures and giving police sweeping powers of arrest. thousands are now behind bars and the country is transforming

before people's eyes, but there's a dark underside hidden from view human rights groups are dismayed, as are relatives, at the thousands of people being arbitrarily arrested. 0ur mexico, central america and cuba correspondent will grant has been investigating for a bbc news documentary called "inside el salvador�*s gang crackdown" he explains what he's found. el salvador has been synonymous with gangs for for a long time. and the murder rate, as you said in your introduction, there was at one point the worst in the world. and for decades, el salvadorans have had to put up with extortion and fear in their neighbourhoods. a lot of violence. now, march last year after a particularly brutal weekend of gang violence in which more than 80 people were killed, president bush came down essentially like a tonne of bricks. some people think he was building to that point. but by passing a measure called a state of exception, he gave these powers to the police

and they have been arresting ad nauseum. somewhere around 66,000 people in a year have been detained. now, in amongst those are a lot of people whose families say have been completely, arbitrarily arrested. they had nothing to do with gang activity or activity at all. i met the mother of one of those people, a tractor driver in a state in a department, a region called bahawalpur, a very poor, rural region. her name was marcella marcella alvarado. she's absolutely desperate with worry and says that it's unbelievable that it's taking this long for the government to establish her son's innocence. a lot of human rights are meant to be there to help us. it's true that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. but my son has been inside for a year and to investigate someone you don't need a year should be two weeks at most, three months at the very maximum. but my son has been there for a whole year. well, as you can hear that people

are absolutely desperate with worry. it's been incredibly difficult for the families. this has been a year. wejoined them during their protest to mark that year of the state of exception. and people have actually had family members die in prison who they say had never been charged with any meaningful crime or anything properly related to gang activity when they were put in prison. and you can watch will grant's film "inside el salvador�*s gang crackdown" on bbc news this weekend. there watching bbc news. you are watching bbc news. members of the rmt have said they will stage a fresh strike on the second ofjune, in a long running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions. the strike will see 20,000 train managers, caterers and station staff all walk off thejob. it means there will be three rail

strikes within four days, with aslef train drivers walking out on may 31st and june the third, the day of the fa cup final. the rmt said no new proposals had been put forward by the train companies since the union's last strike action on 13 may. water companies in england have apologised for failing to do enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. last year there were eight hundred untreated discharges every day on average, causing mounting public anger. the water companies have promised to spend £10 billion or 12 and a half billion dollars to put it right by modernising sewers though it will mean higher bills for customers. our environment correspondent, jonah fisher, reports: for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways and that profit has been put before the health of our rivers and beaches. england's water companies have always denied that.

but today they came together to make an unprecedented apology. i am here on behalf of the water industry today to say sorry. we are sorry about the upset and the anger from the fact that there have been overspills of untreated sewage onto beaches and into rivers over the past few years. we are sorry that we did not act sooner. but we get it. they get it and propose spending £10 billion by 2030 — that's three times more than had been previously planned. if approved by the regulator, the money will go towards bigger pipes, upgraded sewage works, and huge tanks to stop sewage overflowing when it rains. the money to fund these improvements, for places like this sewage treatment plant behind me, won't come out of the water companies' back pockets or the dividends they've paid out to their shareholders. ultimately, it will be

paid for by you and i in the form of higher bills. welcome back to the today programme. who exactly is sorry? for campaigners in 0xfordshire listening to the apology, it was a sign they were at last making some progress. we will give ourselves a pat - on the back when the sewage stops wrecking our rivers and we start to see clean rivers again. - in the meantime, we are not being. part of the green washing campaign, thank you very much. we want action. you are somewhat sceptical of this apology then? sceptical, but enthused l by the fact this is starting to rattle government, - it's rattling the water industry and it's rattling the regulators. the water companies will hope this draws a line under their past failings and enables them to begin rebuilding, both the sewage network and the public�*s trust.

some big names on the red carpet at the ivor novello awards in london today a big day for british music. it's all about celebrating the art of songwriting. our music correspondent mark savage was there. the ivor novellos are some of music's most prestigious awards presented for songwriting, not for sales. it's a fact that wasn't lost on charli xcx, who won the visionary award for her rule—breaking futuristic pop. # don't make me beg for you. i really, genuinely felt like so happy and excited to be recognised by the ivors. and yeah, i'm really genuinely looking forward to this day. and, you know, because i've been doing this now for a while and you get a bitjaded and like, "oh, whatever. nothing means anything any more." but this really means a lot to me. # i don't want to be... the pop star raye won best contemporary song for escapism, which she released independently after an acrimonious split with her record label.

0nstage, she called out the music industry's treatment of songwriters. # take this pain away. the record industry is making more money than it has in the last 30 years. everything's up, funded by songs that they aren't paying for. just disrespecting a whole community of people thatjust need to be seen now. so i'm going to be a broken record about this. # you know it's not i the same as it was.... harry styles added to his growing collection of awards with, as it was, named the year's most played song on tv and radio. and sting was given the fellowship of the academy, its highest award, honouring a song book that includes every breath you take and roxanne. # roxanne # you don't have to wear that dress tonight which of your husband's songs is your favourite? 0h, there's so many. i think fields of gold feels like the...|'m very close to...

because it's about you! # you'll forget the sun in hisjealous sky # as we lie in fields of gold # mark savage, bbc news. hello there. full uk forecast in a moment. but, we're going to start off with what's going on in italy where we've seen some extreme rain over recent days thanks to storm minerva. this is one of the major roads heading into bologna, the capital of emilia romano region, which has been really badly hit. but i fear there's further extreme rainfall on the way. this time affecting the north—west of italy, where over the next few days we could see around 200 or 300 millimetres of rain, particularly centred around the piedmont region, is likely to lead to further severe flooding and further landslides, as well. now, italy seen more than its fair share of extreme rainfall. this next one will be

the third lot of extreme rain in the space of three weeks. and it follows an extreme drought that we had last year when a state of emergency was declared. now, as our planet warms up, we expect to see extreme weather events become more frequent. and this lot for italy, certainly fits that bill. meanwhile, here in the uk, well, we've got a weather front slowly pushing into an area of high pressure. as it does so, the front�*s very weak, but bringing a little bit of rain across scotland and northern ireland as it has been through the day on thursday. and eventually we'll start to see better damp weather getting into northern england, north wales as well. temperatures overnight about 8 to 10 degrees. now tomorrow, brighterskies for scotland and northern ireland. given more sunshine here,

it should feel even a bit warmer temperatures, high teens. but across england and wales, that weak weather front still capable of bringing a few areas of mostly light rain, temperatures reaching the high teens. so for most of us, it's going to feel quite pleasant if you're outside. what about the weekend? well, that nasty storm system, storm nino i was talking about — here it is on the pressure chart that's actually going to start to affect our parts of the world as we develop these easterly winds. and that will actually bring some slightly milder air in across england and wales. it will boost our temperatures for scotland. and northern ireland, though, got another weak weatherfront edging in. and although the skies will be bright, often there'll be a bit of patchy rain around. so some damp weather at times, i think best sums the weather picture up. on in sunday again, it's north western areas that will have the thickest cloud, but still some hazy spells of sunshine quite likely to get through that. england and wales fine with some sunshine. and like saturday, temperatures reaching the high teens to low 20s, feeling pleasant in those sunnier moments. bye for now.

hello, i'm sarah campbell. you're watching the context on bbc news. the bottom line, mr prime minister, is that when our countries stand together, we stand stronger. and i believe the whole world is safer when we do. and we're increasing our engagement in the region to work with allies like australia, like japan to ensure that the pacific region does remain free and open. we don't want to see any change to the status quo. we're talking about two big countries not in the 67, i but are almost at the centre of the g7 conversations. i welcome to the programme.