welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines... zelensky heads home from the g7 summit with new pledges of military support for ukraine. the bbc understands the prime minister rishi sunak will speak to his ethics adviser about whether the home secretary broke the ministerial code over speeding. the party of greece's prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, has claimed victory in sunday's elections — though it failed to win an outright majority. and manchester city are crowned champions of the premier league for the fifth time in six seasons.

live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. it's six in the morning in singapore, and 7am in hiroshima, japan, where president zelensky has thanked g7 leaders for their enduring support of ukraine. speaking at the end of a summit, mr zelensky said that russia's defeat would result in lasting world peace. it comes after conflicting reports of who is now in control of the eastern city of bakhmut. russian president putin has congratulated the wagner mercenary group for capturing the city, but ukraine denies it. our diplomatic correspondent james lansdale sent this report from kyiv. today injapan, president zelensky honoured the dead of a war that took place eight decades ago.

the devastation of hiroshima, bringing to mind another war, his war, one that's raging right now across ukraine. translation: photos of ruined | hiroshima remind me of bakhmut and such other towns. there is absolutely nothing alive there. all the buildings are destroyed. his task, their task, was to show the world that western leaders, at least these ones who make up the g7, were still united in support of ukraine. to signal moscow that talk of fatigue and distraction was overblown. to that and, president biden said the united states had ukraine's back and promised yet more military support. more ammunition, more training and more armoured vehicles. we will not waver. putin will not break our resolve, as he thought he could two years ago, almost three years ago. we are going to continue

to provide economic, humanitarian and security assistance to ukraine so it can stand strong as long as it needs to. he confirmed the us would help ukrainian pilots train on western f—16fighterjets like these, jets designed not only to give ukraine greater control of the skies but also, again, do demonstrate western resolve. translation: the training of pilots is a longer term i project that contains more of a message to russia. namely, that russia should not gamble that if it holds out long enough, support for ukraine will slacken. but all that diplomacy on the other side of the world will not matter unless it helps ukraine take the fight to russia and do more of, well, this kind of thing. because fighting continues along the front lines and the news from one city, at least, is conflicting. for more than eight months, in what's now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut.

the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands. in particular in the hands of fighters like these, from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader, yevgeny prigozhin, claimed to have full control here. "from house—to—house," he said, "we took the whole city" — something that ukrainian commanders and leaders denied. translation: bakhmut is not occupied by the russian - federation as of today. there are not two or three ways of interpreting those words. what's clear is that tens of thousands of russians have died here. many more have been diverted from other areas and ultimately that may be more important than who holds the ruins. james landale, bbc news, kyiv. whilst ukraine has been a major

focus at the g7 summit, china has also been on the agenda. president biden met the leaders of south korea and japan. he said the new strategy was not to de—couple from beijing — but instead to de—risk the relationship. we are not looking to decouple from china. we are looking to de—risk and diversify. our relationship with china. that means taking steps to diversify our supply chains and we are not dependent on any one country for necessary products. it means resisting economic coercion together and countering harmful practices for our workers. it means protecting the narrow set of advanced technology is critical for our national security. and those elements are all agreed on by the g7. i'm joined now by professor mary gallagher, chinese policy expert, and director of the international institute at the university of michigan.

thank you so much forjoining us on newsday. firstly, what do you make this new strategy? is it somewhat an attempt to stabilise the us china relationship?— relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm _ relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm statement _ relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm statement but - relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm statement but it - relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm statement but it is i relationship? yes, i think clearly it is a firm statement but it is a l it is a firm statement but it is a statement that signals to china that the states is willing to talk, it is reducing some of the language from decoupling to de—risking, which is where that came out of europe, so i think it shows a nice balance of criticism of but also a welcoming entry point for some discussions to happen. there has been really very few meetings since the balloon in february. but few meetings since the balloon in februa . �* ., ., , few meetings since the balloon in februa .�* ., ., , , february. but what does this strate: february. but what does this strategy mean, _ february. but what does this strategy mean, literally, - february. but what does this strategy mean, literally, in l strategy mean, literally, in practical terms? what kind of changes can we expect? well, i think there is another _ changes can we expect? well, i think there is another document _ changes can we expect? well, i think there is another document that - changes can we expect? well, i think there is another document that came j there is another document that came out of hiroshima where they put together economic resilience and

economic security and that document is even more interesting than the biden statement on the communique the leaders put together because it is so detailed about what they intend to do regarding supply chains around data security, around high—tech. and i think what we will see is a continuation of the some of the things we have seen already with export controls but maybe better coordination across the united states, european, and asian allies. and how do you expect beijing to respond? and how do you expect bei'ing to resond? ~ ,., ., .,, and how do you expect bei'ing to resond? ~ ., , respond? well, so far it has been uuite respond? well, so far it has been quite negative. _ respond? well, so far it has been quite negative. there _ respond? well, so far it has been quite negative. there were - respond? well, so far it has been quite negative. there were some | quite negative. there were some statements earlier today that were critical of the hiroshima meeting. xijinping was meeting in central asia with some leaders there. but i think what we would expect and maybe this is why biden is so optimistic that they will be a foreign relationship, they should be some visits, they will meet in singapore, i believe, soon, the commerce ministerfrom china is going to be

in the us this month so i think we can be helpful that some of these changes are going to lead to... i don't think the relationship will improve overnight but at least we can start talking to each other about the problems that we have. another somewhat new term that we have heard over the weekend from the g7 summit is economic coercion, can you talk us through what this means? so, economic coercion is something that i -- so, economic coercion is something that i —— chinese government has done quite a lot of, as it market grew more important and consumers group more important, sometimes coordinated directly from beijing and sometimes mobilising people and consumers not to buy goods from nike or h&m because of the stars that took on the human rights abuses. it happened to let the radio 4 things it said regarding taiwan, it is happen to south korea, it has happened to the philippines, and it

means that china uses its large consumer market and its cornering of key materials to try to get what it wants from other countries. find wants from other countries. and ahead of the _ wants from other countries. and ahead of the g7 _ wants from other countries. and ahead of the g7 summit, we had president macron of france visiting china and came under quite a bit of criticism from the rest of the western nations. do you think the g7 countries show the united front as they want it to? in countries show the united front as they want it to?— countries show the united front as they want it to? in hiroshima, they did a fairly good — they want it to? in hiroshima, they did a fairly good job _ they want it to? in hiroshima, they did a fairly good job of— they want it to? in hiroshima, they did a fairly good job of it. _ they want it to? in hiroshima, they did a fairly good job of it. of- did a fairly good job of it. of course, the proof is really in what happens next. are they able to maintain this type of corporation as they have to make very, very hard decisions about, say, the automotive industry, where each germany is invested in china making automatic it but the dependency on china is a big concern, especially as chinese companies are overtaking western companies are overtaking western companies in vehicle manufacturing

and exports. it will be difficult because a lot of these countries have very key economic interests within china.— within china. professor mary gallagher. — within china. professor mary gallagher, thank _ within china. professor mary gallagher, thank you - within china. professor mary gallagher, thank you so - within china. professor mary. gallagher, thank you so much within china. professor mary - gallagher, thank you so much for joining us on newsday today. the bbc understands that prime minister rishi sunak will talk to his ethics adviser on monday about the home secretary's handling of a motoring offence. suella braverman consulted civil servants after getting a speeding ticket last summer. she then asked her political adviser whether they could arrange for her to do the speed awareness course on her own. our political correspondent ben wright reports. when a prime minister strides the world stage, it's always the questions about a rumpus back home that seem to irritate. at the end of the g7 summit injapan, rishi sunak seemed annoyed by this. do you have full confidence in suella braverman? - did you have any questions about the summit? others will, i think. well, chris, i don't know the full

details of what has happened, nor have i spoken to the home secretary. i think you can see first—hand what i have been doing over the last day or so. but i understand that she has expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine. downing street later insisted that of course the prime minister had full confidence in suella braverman. it's not the speeding offence itself that's put her in the spotlight, the issue is whether she acted properly in trying to arrange a one to one driving awareness course. the government doesn't dispute that ms braverman approached civil servants for advice, but she was told they couldn't get involved. seemingly keen to avoid taking part in the usual group course, ms braverman then asked a political aide to try and arrange a one—to—one session, but the company said no. labour wants an investigation. rishi sunak needs to put his money where his mouth is and show that he stands up for standards in public life and have an immediate investigation under

the ministerial code. in the end, ms braverman decided to pay a fine and take the penalty points on her licence instead. her team insists the home secretary did everything right and deny there has been any breach of the ministerial rule book. but even this former tory party chairman has concerns. | it certainly brings into question, j i think, the use of civil servants, so i think there is definitely questions to be answered. i shouldn't do it in the first place, but if you do get caught, - you just take the medicine. and let's see where we get to. suella braverman was keeping her head down today, hoping that attention on her handling of the speeding offence soon moves on. a lot more on our website and so do check that out as well. and we have lift off. five, four, three, two, one.

these are pictures from the kennedy space centre in florida where the first saudi woman has voyaged into space. rayyanah barnawi, a breast cancer researcher blasted off along with fellow saudi fighter pilot ali al-qarni on what's being called a private chartered flight. they are due to spend around eight days on the international space station. and in the next hour, we'll be speaking to aerospace engineer and special adviser to the saudi space mission, mishaal ashemimry, who attended the launch. around the world and across the uk. so, robbie, what happened to your dad? so, two and a half years ago injanuary 2021, my dad went out for a dog walk with our dog connie. the dog went into the sea. gareth, my dad went in after her, and they both never came out, they both drowned.

now, you've seen some cctv because some people who live locally gathered it. yes, i decided to watch it because for me it was dealing with facts and there was a lot of kind of media talk at the time, and knowing that he tried his very best to get out of the water, for me that was a small comfort, and also to know that it was so quick. when you see people swimming, what is your advice to them? my advice would be, respect the water. if you think you are a really good swimmer, just roll back a little bit because my dad obviously thought he was a more competent swimmer than he was. some of the dangers are hidden, you don't always see them, they are not obvious. and if you are unsure, don't go in. you're live with bbc news. to greece now and the centre—right party of the incumbent prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, has claimed victory in sunday's elections.

with almost all the votes counted, his new democracy party has over lio%, twice that of its nearest rival, the leftist syriza party. it is now likely that the ruling party will go for a second round of elections in latejune to try and secure a majority in parliament, rather than form a coalition. our correspondent in athens, nick beake, explained how the prime minister has been reacting to the results. he is talking about a political earthquake tonight. his pulses underestimated his appeal to the nation, he says he has a clear mandate to govern for another four years, that he will be able to continue the job, as years, that he will be able to continue thejob, as it years, that he will be able to continue the job, as it were. years, that he will be able to continue thejob, as it were. he has had for years in power and now he is really appealing to the nation to keep him in power. it is not quite as easy as that, as we have been hearing in the last few minutes or so, but certainly he says he has the

quiet ability to go to the people, it would seem in a few weeks' time, for the second vote, and the system, as we have been hearing, changes yet again. so, with these bonus seats awarded to the party, you imagine tonight he would be pretty confident he could secure an outright majority are suddenly without top up factor, are suddenly without top up factor, a majority, when the greeks go to the polls probably injuly, it would seem. islington the analysis here in greece tonight, they said if you look at it from the prime minister point of view, he has real momentum, there is a 20% to referential ocean between him and the other party that is coming second. and without momentum, he can move forward. and what is the incentive for him to go into coalition where he will be constrained, he will have to put into his cabinet and other key places people he wouldn't necessarily want to be within his team so suddenly that would be the thinking. i mean, coalitions, the

talks will happen over the next few days or so, technically it is three days or so, technically it is three days first of all for the party who comes first to try and put something together and another three days and then another three days. i'm not sure we will even get to that, whether it might emerge quite quickly that the prime minister believes, as he has claimed tonight in this speech in the last few minutes or so, that he has a quite a rarity, the mandate, and as a result of what he describes as a political earthquake, that he has got the vote of the greek people as how to continue forward and stressing the economy, as he has been doing. he has appealed to grace and said he is the only guy who can consolidate the growth in the economy and also move it forward and that the years of pain with the eu bailouts, the reduction in spending, they years of high and implement, that really they can be a thing of the past, and he's the man for the future. that can be a thing of the past, and he's the man for the future.— the man for the future. that was nick beake _ the man for the future. that was nick beake reporting _ the man for the future. that was nick beake reporting for- the man for the future. that was nick beake reporting for us. -

now to northern ireland where sinn fein�*s vice president michelle o'neill has called on the british and irish governments to deliver a plan to restore a powersharing government at stormont. it's after her party delivered a stunning success in the council elections, becoming the largest party in local government for the first time. emma vardy reports. the political landscape of northern ireland is changing. unionism, the belief that northern ireland should remain part of the uk, is no longer the dominant force. as the democratic unionist party, for a second time in 12 months, has been overtaken by sinn fein. i thought it was inevitable that it would be that way, because people, well... my idea, you vote for people who are going to do the job. ijust think it was coming, the dup haven't been standing around doing anything, so... is that what it's down to, a lack of government? lack of government, yeah. someone has to make really vital decisions relating - to the environment, employment, . childcare, women's refuge provision,

the whole abortion issue is still unresolved. - the scale of the jump in support for sinn fein is something they themselves hadn't even predicted, but will it do anything to change the dynamic in the power—sharing crisis here in northern ireland, which has left everyone without a government for a year? the dup are preventing a return to power—sharing as a protest over the brexit arrangements, the irish sea border, which they believe undermines northern ireland's place in the uk. the party wants new legislation from the british government to address their concerns before they'll return to government. getting a border poll is still core business for sinn fein. it's just that they downgrade it slightly, come election time. in effect, what you've now got in northern ireland is 40% of the population wanting a united ireland, 40% who don't want a united ireland, and 20% in the middle who can't make up their mind. when a devolved government is reformed here, sinn fein will, for the first time, hold

the first minister's role. the dup will still have equal powers but the events of recent days have cemented a historic shift, which shows no sign yet of being reversed. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. )let�*s take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... heavy fighting has continued in sudan despite rival generals agreeing to a temporary ceasefire. previous truce attempts between sudan's regular army and the para—military rapid support forces have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning. but the new deal which starts on monday is enforced by a "ceasefire monitoring mechanism". the prime minister of italy — georgia meloni — has been visiting homes affected by the severe floods in the northeast of the country. she returned early from the g7 summit injapan to see for herself

the effects of the heavy rainfall near ravenna. iii people died in the extreme weather which saw 6 months worth of rainfall in just 36 hours. ten people have been taken to hospital after a double—decker bus hit a railway bridge in glasgow, tearing the roof off the vehicle. a number of other passengers were treated by paramedics at the scene. there are road closures and disruption to rail services as safety inspections take place. tackling the climate crisis requires a massive cut in greenhouse gas emissions — and as nations continue to grapple with how to achieve that, scientists have also been looking at ways to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. one possible route involves using humble pieces of the rock, basalt — which one entrepreneur now calls �*magic dust�*. our environment correspondent jonah fisher explains.

there's very little that's green about orrock quarry in fife. the black basalt hillside is being steadily eaten away to make concrete and asphalt for new roads. this is our magic dust. basalt is a volcanic rock found in abundance around the world. and as it weathers in the rain, it takes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. that's what's balanced our climate for the last millennia. enhanced rock weathering is a way of turbocharging that natural removal. what we do is we use this fine material which massively speeds up the process. what we do is we use this fine material which massively speeds up the process. so more contact between the rain and the rock? we watch as the basalt is spread. the science is still new but it is thought that scattering about 1.5 tractor loads cancels out a typical brit's annual carbon footprint. for the world to stop warming, we're going to have to stop putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. this isn't going to fix that. but the world's leading climate scientists are now clear that some carbon removal,

like this, will be needed, to restrict rising temperatures and quite possibly at some point to try to cool down our overheating planet. come on! the rocks also bring benefits to the landowner, acting as a fertiliser. hopefully the meat will taste... well, it can't taste any better, it's so good the now! but might focusing so much on removal distract from the vital importance of cutting emissions now? reduction has to come first. the nice thing about what we're doing with enhanced rock weathering is it's permanent, so the carbon dioxide is permanently removed once we've done this process, it's scalable and it's ready to deploy today. this is no silver bullet but, at this early stage, enhanced rock weathering looks a promising development, both absorbing carbon and improving the fertility of the land. jonah fisher, bbc news, in fife.

there have beenjubilant celebrations with supporters on the pitch at the etihad stadium, as manchester city rounded off their home campaign with a win over chelsea. they clinched the premier league title on saturday when nearest rivals arsenal lost. earlier, man city were presented with the trophy, for the 5th time in six years. our sports editor dan roan has this assessment on how this achievement will be viewed. there seems little doubt that we're watching one of the great sides in the history of english football, perhaps even the greatest after all. only on two previous occasions since the war have clubs won five titles in six years. never before has a side won four consecutive titles, yet few would bet against city doing exactly that next season. and of course, in the next three weeks they have the chance to complete what would be a remarkable treble if they can win the cup final and the champions league final and do something that no sides achieved for almost

a quarter of a century. so a great side and it has to be said, a great manager as well in pep guardiola, who deserves huge credit. and yet i think many will feel somewhat conflicted as well about manchester city's achievements. i think that's partly down to concern over the fact that the wealth of the club's abu dhabi owners in some part has created a domination that some fear has begun to make the league feel somewhat predictable, even though other big spending teams have failed in comparison. and then, of course, this was the season in which the premier league themselves hit city with an unprecedented catalogue of more than 100 charges of alleged financial rule breaking. now, city deny wrongdoing, but i think for many, until that case is settled and it could take years to do so, they'll struggle to know exactly how to feel about these achievements, even if they're full of admiration for what is clearly a very special football team. that's all for now — stay with bbc news.

hello. we have a lot of fine weather to come for the uk in the week ahead. it has been a weekend of mixed fortunes weather—wise. it has been pleasantly warm and sunday was the warmest day so far. under the cloud across aberdeenshire, we are to about 12 celsius where you see the sunshine, where you see the cloud makes all the difference this time of year. through the week ahead, things are looking dry, sunshine around but variable amounts of clouds away get the clouds, and one field but equally warm but generally dry is the fame, high pressure building through the atlantic, a couple of other vans moving just around the top of the high pressure at times. there will be a bit more cloud coming and going, vertically was the norm. monday, most places

looking dry, more cloud and eastern england and northern england but a brighter day in scotland and northern ireland. most of us the chance of showers the pennines. these are the temperatures. heading through monday evening, a bit of cloud again across parts of eastern england, should be frost free as we start the day on tuesday butjust be temperatures down to about three or 4 degrees where we see some of the clearer spells. on tuesday, a cooler, fresher day, the coolest day of the week, a change in the winds, bringing the winds for a more northerly direction so cool across eastern areas where you've got a bit of cloud and the breeze from the north say. most of us, a dry day, temperatures varying between 11 to 19 degrees. probably only day we

won't reach 20 degrees this week. into wednesday, a cold front pushing north, so a cold front in the far north, so a cold front in the far north of scotland, they could be the odd shower here. much of the uk having a fine day. cloud generates across southern and eastern england through the day. top temperature up to 20, 201 degrees, we could just squeeze 22 and the likes of north—east england. it was the end of the week, dry and settled, variable amounts of sunshine, stays trying to next weekend as well. bye—bye. —— stays dry into next weekend as well.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour. newsday continue straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. acting is the most precarious of professions. adulation today can be followed by rejection tomorrow. the only certainty is uncertainty. it says much then of the talent and resilience of my guest today, jane horrocks, that her acting career has spanned four decades and has seen her excel on stage and screen from comedies to musicals.