this is bbc news. the headlines: at least three people are killed in a russian missile strike on a health clinic in the ukrainian city of dnipro. british cycling bands transgender women from competing in all female events and they will now compete in a new open category. —— british cycling bans. and an interview with the director of a powerful, new film documenting the lives of women living under taliban

rule in afghanistan. premier league survival at stake this weekend — more on that in a moment. but first, the fa have published more detail on the charges which led to ivan toney�*s eight—month ban from football, for breaking rules around betting. toney was given a reduced ban, of 8 months instead of 11, because of a diagnosed gambling addiction. the brentford and england striker admitted to 232 breaches over a period of five seasons, ending in 2021, including betting against his own team. brentford say they will do everything possible to provide support to him and his family. nesta mcgregor has more. because he admitted the charges, it was reduced and after he was diagnosed as a gambling addict it was reduced from 11 to eight months. today, the pfa have come out and said it knows this is a problem in the sport, knows how difficult it might be for players to come forward, but it says it has created a safe space for players to come

forward and receive any help they need. brentford still in with a chance of a european place. the focus is very much at the bottom, with leicester, leeds and everton scrapping to stay in the top flight. leicester must beat west ham on sunday to have any chance of staying up sunday to have any chance of staying up and hope everton fail to beat bournemouth. i think ithink any i think any game you go into you try and win but he had to get the balance right, make sure you are not to open but we have to go and score a goal because without scoring a goal we do not win the game, so we know we had to go and create opportunities but we are mindful of the threat west ham have and both sides of the game will have to be good. a blow for manchester united — their winger antony could miss the fa cup final next week after suffering an injury in their win over chelsea which sealed champions league qualification. the brazilian player was stretchered off in the first half of the 4—1 victory.

united fear it could be a recurrence of the ankle injury which kept him out of the final two months of last season when he was at ajax. transgender women will be banned from competing in elite all—female events by british cycling, following a nine—month review and consultation. trans women will be able to compete in an open group against men. the national governing body said it was a move driven by fairness. i do appreciate it has taken us some time to get to this point and during that period there has been some anxiety, some upset, but i am wholeheartedly empathetic to that situation, but today is about leadership direction of travel for british cycling. the overriding principle is around fairness and that has been put together on the basis of consultation and medical research we have available at this point in time. there's confusion around whether british boxer leigh wood will fight to regain his world featherweight title on saturday night after the defending champion mauricio lara failed to make the weight. lara weighed in more than a pound

above the limit of nine stone 2.5, meaning he's now likely to be stripped of the world title he won when he beat wood in february. the fight may still go ahead, with wood still able to regain his belt, but his team have hinted they may pull out of the bout, calling the situation "a disgrace". geraint thomas is two stages away from victory at the giro d'italia. lead's roglic. and we're not far away from second practice at the monaco grand prix. more on those stories, head to the bbc sport website. great stuff, see you soon. i want to spend the next few minutes talking about a powerful new documentary filmed secretly inside afghanistan. in one sequence a young woman is shown, telling a taliban fighter, "you only oppress women".

he shouts back, "i told you not to talk, i will kill you right here." she replies, "0k — kill me. you've closed schools and universities — it's better to kill me." as a snapshot, it illustrates the transformation of women's lives under taliban rule, but also their refusal to simply accept it. the hollywood actor jennifer lawrence is one of the producers of the film, which was shown last week at cannes. she's described her "heart beating so fast watching these women defy the taliban". i spoke to the director about the key things that she wanted to show in this film. what is happening to women in afghanistan right now is really shameful and it is really sad that the rest of the world keeps silence and blind their eyes on the miserable situation of afghan women, so we wanted to give voice to women who are voiceless right now

and i believe 100% the rest of the world knew that women are not allowed to go back to theirjob and girls are not allowed to go to their study after the sixth grade and at the moment, women are not allowed to get out of the house without a chaperone, and every day the situation is getting worse and worse for women in afghanistan. and it is a film really told through their voices, filmed by them in part. i mentioned that extraordinary exchange between one woman and a taliban militant, tell us more about those exchanges and do we know what happened to her? i know she was being arrested. yes, she has been arrested, but later on she is released, but at the moment there are so many women in the taliban prison and we do not know if they are alive or not. so many women have disappeared, so many are killed, and so many

are in prison inside their house at the moment. all afghan women are inside the house, all afghanistan becomes a big prison. i wanted to ask you about that because so much of this was done with secret filming. tell me about the moral dilemmas you might have had, because we all know the consequences of defying this regime, in terms of what you had to work out in the dangers of how you filmed, what you filmed, the dangers to them, tell me a little bit about what you went through. ok, i spent almost two years living in the border of afghanistan, trying to collect these materials, but it was first those women who sent me these videos and telling me to raise their voice, because they knew me from my previous film and they knew that i focus on social issues

and women issues in afghanistan. after several months, when i received a lot of video, i thought i have to do more thanjust make an archive out of this video, so i decided to make a film and it was the time that someone from the production byjennifer lawrence contacted me and asked if i wanted to make a film, any film, they are happy to help me. and then we had our team in afghanistan and also these women filming their life by mobile phone and sending it to us, and we had a lot of training in how to film and send this material to ourteam. and of course that had so much at risk for those brave women who were actually doing that. you mentioned jennifer lawrence, i mentioned her in the introduction, tell me a bit more about her

involvement, because she talks about the documentary being born out of emotion and necessity. she was absolutely passionate and involved in so much of this? yes. i think it was really important to have such an important person from hollywood in the film as a producer, and also i am hoping having this team with the film could raise the message of this film to everywhere and i'm so glad that we start showing this film from such a high platform in cannes and ourjourneyjust starts. we really need all of you, all people, that they heard our voice and they watch this film and do something. at least, not accepting the situation which is right now

women in afghanistan are facing. the actor hugh grant has been given permission to sue the publisher of the sun newspaper, for using unlawful means to gather information on him. a judge dismissed an attempt by news group newspapers, to block his legal action, because he didn't bring it within six years. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, is following at the high court in london. hugh grant is claiming the sun head investigator to tap his phones, wreck into his car, his home, place bugs and get into his mobile phone voicemails. he said the publisher just did not accept it had done that for a great number of years and so he could not bring a case, he did not know what evidence there might be. the problem with this or to

privacy cases you have to come to court within six years and so this bit of the case is about is what hugh grant new and whether he knew he might have a case that might succeed in court. news group newspapers and said he didn't, he should have come to court earlier and there is nothing firm to answer in court. thejudge and there is nothing firm to answer in court. the judge sorta agreed with both sides and said hugh grant could have a child to examine whether his phone was tapped, his home was burgled, because that evidence was only disclosed about two years ago but when it came to phone hacking, that is getting into mobile phone telephone voice mail messages, that evidence dates back much further. hugh grant, thejudge decided, would have known about it and therefore could have brought a case. both sides are claiming victory but someone who is working closely with hugh grant told me just a few minutes ago in a different case here at the high court that they believe they will still be able to get all of the stories about hugh grant that they are concerned about in front of a judge in court next year.

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should make it easierfor overseas bricklayers to get a visa, but it is home trained workers from places like this that is expected to make the biggest difference. you're live with bbc news. british cycling has confirmed it intends to permanently ban transgender women from elite female competition. last year, the sport's governing body in the uk suspended its existing testosterone—based policy, while it conducted a review which followed the controversy over british rider emily bridges, one of cycling's most high—profile transgender competitors. 0ur sports editor dan roan spoke to the head of british cycling. he explained the reasons for the decision. in the competitive policy, we will define the female category as the athletes who are female by sex at birth and the open category available to all other riders. including trans women athletes? absolutely. why have you brought these changes in? we brought the changes in,

we suspended the policy a number of months ago, about nine months ago. it was clear that we had to take another look at the policy from a consultation, listening to those that may be directly affected and impacted, but also the wider cycling community, to look at the medical research that is available at this point in time and also to look at the legal aspects of any changes. so we've taken all of that work. i do appreciate it's taken us some time to get to this point. and during that period there has been some anxiety, some upset, and i am wholeheartedly empathetic to that situation. but today is about leadership, direction of travel for british cycling. when it comes to medical research, what did that tell you? the medical research very much was focused on both the physiological aspects and also the hormonal aspects. we acknowledge that there is a paucity of research at this point in time, but we can only take and look at what is available to us. so our chief medical officer has headed up that.

looking both here, domestically, but also across the world that is therein and just making sure that on the balance of listening to our athletes, on the balance of everything else, that we make a clear policy going forward. and that's the determination that we've made here today. i spoke to our sports news reporter, alex capstick, for more on this. it all came about last year when emily bridges, the highest profile transgender cyclist in the country, was about to compete in the national 0mnium championships, an elite competition, but was barred from doing so at the last minute and british cycling decided to review the whole policy. they suspended the existing policy and they spent, as you've heard, nine months going through all the evidence. and they've got to find or they were trying to find a solution to what has become a dilemma for many sports in balancing inclusion with fairness. and as you heard there from jon dutton, the boss of british cycling, they prioritised fairness and with all the evidence that they had at their disposal,

which they admit isn't enough, they want more research, it was decided to err on the side of fairness and that's why trans women have been banned from competing in the female category. there will be this new open category, which will include men and all other athletes, including trans women. in terms of the response from emily bridges, it's been pretty angry so far. just take us through it. yes, she posted what can only be described as a withering assessment of british cycling and the decision they've made today on her instagram page. she called the decision to ban her and other transgender cyclists from the female category as a violent act. she described british cycling as a failed organisation and wasn't sure whether she wanted to ride ever again. so clearly a distressing time, a distressing decision for emily bridges. 0n the other hand, people who support female sport have been generally welcoming of the decision, with some reservations that it

doesn't include community or recreational cycling. alex, this is the decision in cycling today, but we can see similar debates and arguments and considerations in other sports. so where does cycling sit compared to other sports now? yes, this is happening, as you say, in lots of other sports across the world. the difference here is that there is an athlete, or there was an athlete, emily bridges, who wanted to compete for great britain, so right at the top of the sport. in lots of other sports, they don't have that issue. in cycling, they do. there was also the athlete in america, austin killips, who won a uci, that's your international governing body sanctioned event in the usa earlier this month and that caused a lot of noise. and that's why the uci is reviewing its policy, which at the moment differs from british cycling's new policy in that transgender athletes are allowed to compete as long as they suppress their levels of testosterone for a two—year period. today's decision is along the same lines as what has been decided by world athletics and swimming.

an inquest here in the uk has found that the army missed opportunities to prevent the suicide of a "positive and bubbly" female officer cadet at the prestigious sandhurst military academy. 0livia perks died by suicide in february 2019 after fearing she might be expelled for spending the night in an instructor's room. coroner alison mccormick found the army missed opportunities to get the 21—year—old mental health support before the incident and failed to pass on mental health risk assessments further up the chain of command. the army said there were story fairly systemic and individual failings which led to her death. —— they were sorry. 0ur correspondence spoke to following the conclusion today's inquest.— today's inquest. olivia perks was described as _ today's inquest. olivia perks was described as a _ today's inquest. olivia perks was described as a vivacious - today's inquest. olivia perks was described as a vivacious and - today's inquest. olivia perks was i described as a vivacious and bubbly person, who always wanted to join the army which is what she did in may 2018, but injuly the army which is what she did in may 2018, but in july 2018 the army which is what she did in may 2018, but injuly 2018 and again

in fabbro 2019, there were a couple of incidents which are called into question her mental health. eventually, five days later, she took a knife in her accommodation at sandhurst. —— she took her life. today the verdict of suicide was recorded. there was a lot of criticism for the army saying they missed opportunities and risk assessments were not followed and perhaps if 0livia was assessed more properly she might not have been left alone in order to take her life. 0livia's parents were in the inquest, they were both crying today, and afterwards at the family solicitor gave the reaction. the maternal family _ solicitor gave the reaction. the maternal family and olivia welcomed the findings of the coroner's inquest _ the findings of the coroner's inquest into her tragic and unnecessary death. the last four years— unnecessary death. the last four years have — unnecessary death. the last four years have been the hardest and most difficult _ years have been the hardest and most difficultjourney years have been the hardest and most difficult journey we could years have been the hardest and most difficultjourney we could have embarked on. to lose our wonderful, vivacious— embarked on. to lose our wonderful, vivacious and — embarked on. to lose our wonderful, vivacious and captivating girl in circumstances which we now know were

avoidable _ circumstances which we now know were avoidable. we have been fighting for the truth _ avoidable. we have been fighting for the truth of what really happened since _ the truth of what really happened since she — the truth of what really happened since she passed. and the story we were _ since she passed. and the story we were presented with by the ministry of defence was very different to the conclusion — of defence was very different to the conclusion that has now been reached by the _ conclusion that has now been reached by the coroner. we were aware that the career_ by the coroner. we were aware that the career 0livia had chosen had inherent — the career 0livia had chosen had inherent risks, but we watched with pride _ inherent risks, but we watched with pride as_ inherent risks, but we watched with pride as she — inherent risks, but we watched with pride as she joined her 182 commissioning course in may 2018. we felt secure _ commissioning course in may 2018. we felt secure in _ commissioning course in may 2018. we felt secure in the knowledge she would _ felt secure in the knowledge she would be — felt secure in the knowledge she would be safe for those 44 weeks whilst _ would be safe for those 44 weeks whilst at — would be safe for those 44 weeks whilst at this prestigious academy. sadly, _ whilst at this prestigious academy. sadly, this — whilst at this prestigious academy. sadly, this was not the case. the army have _ sadly, this was not the case. the army have also — sadly, this was not the case. tue: army have also responded sadly, this was not the case. tte: army have also responded to those claims and to those criticisms in the form of the major general, the man who leads sandhurst, a man called zac stenning and he said he

was sorry for the failings and much more could have been done to help 0livia. he said and tonight he would address the cadets at sandhurst and explain how the army should learn the lessons of her death. you explain how the army should learn the lessons of her death.- the lessons of her death. you are watchin: the lessons of her death. you are watching bbc _ the lessons of her death. you are watching bbc news. _ the lessons of her death. you are watching bbc news. newly - the lessons of her death. you are i watching bbc news. newly released documents from the fbi revealed that queen elizabeth ii faced a potential assassination threats during to visit the united states back in 1983. the documents share details of how the fbi were concerned following an assassination threat made to an american police officer. 0ur north america correspondent david willis sent this update. this information is contained amongst a cache of documents, more than 100 in total, but were released by the fbi under a freedom of information request submitted by the us media. the documents reveal that the late

queen elizabeth ii was the subject of a potential assassination threat here in the us by the ira during a ten—day visit to the state of california back in 1983. according to those documents, the threat was made in a phone call to a san francisco police officer by a man he had met in an irish pub in the city. this man was claiming that he was seeking revenge for the death of his daughter who had been killed by a rubber bullet in northern ireland. the caller apparently said that he was intending to harm the queen either by dropping an object from san francisco's golden gate bridge onto the royal yacht britannia as the yacht was passing underneath the bridge, or by mounting some other unspecified threat intending to kill

the queen during a visit to the yosemite national park. it's unclear how seriously the authorities took those threats but they came at a time of heightened tension involving northern ireland with the irish republic army fighting for independence from the british mainland. and this of course only four years as well after the death of the queen's second cousin, lord mountbatten, killed by the ira off the coast of the republic of ireland. as it was the queen and prince philip's ten—day visit to california in 1983 passed off without incident. there were some protests, but that visit culminated in a banquet hosted by the then us president ronald reagan and his wife nancy in san francisco. fascinating documents. it is of course a bank holiday weekend this weekend and with the forecast for the weather

being good, many could be heading to the coast, but would you know what to do swimming in open water if you got into difficulty? heroesjohn maguire. the last time these two met, tina was fighting for her life. tina had gone for a swim of a beach in west cornwall. at first the conditions it seemed benign but then she realised there was a strong current taking her out to see is you cannot get back to shore and to safety. cannot get back to shore and to safe . �* ., ., cannot get back to shore and to safe .�* ., ., , , safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no _ safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no way _ safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no way i _ safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no way i knew _ safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no way i knew i - safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but there was no way i knew i was - safety. i'm not a bad swimmer, but| there was no way i knew i was going to get back in and i think at that point i realised i was going to have to start calling for help for attention. to start calling for help for attention-— to start calling for help for attention. ,, . , ., ., , attention. she was in realtrouble but fighting _ attention. she was in realtrouble but fighting panic, _ attention. she was in realtrouble but fighting panic, something - attention. she was in realtrouble but fighting panic, something in l attention. she was in real trouble i but fighting panic, something in her mind clicked, the phrase afloat to live. she had spotted it on an advertising screen at nay her

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messages — float on the surface so the main messages it does not matter how you float, _ messages it does not matter how you float, is _ messages it does not matter how you float, is as— messages it does not matter how you float, is as you do as little as possible _ float, is as you do as little as possible to keep yourself calm. you may need _ possible to keep yourself calm. you may need to bring your hands back and forwards across, maybe a bit of movement— and forwards across, maybe a bit of movement with your legs but the key thin- movement with your legs but the key thing is _ movement with your legs but the key thing is not _ movement with your legs but the key thing is not to panic, or try to swim — thing is not to panic, or try to swim at— thing is not to panic, or try to swim at really hard.— thing is not to panic, or try to swim at really hard. more than 220 --eole swim at really hard. more than 220 people drowned — swim at really hard. more than 220 people drowned in _ swim at really hard. more than 220 people drowned in the _ swim at really hard. more than 220 people drowned in the uk - swim at really hard. more than 220 people drowned in the uk last - swim at really hard. more than 220| people drowned in the uk last year, so with summer approaching, the water safety message remains vital. tina knows that flight to live does exactly what it says on the poster. she is living proof. as i said, all the forecasts predict good weather for the weekend. let's find out more. prospects still looking good for the bank holiday weekend. today was a good day to be out about an essential and, whether were walking by the river here in 0xfordshire or walking a little higher up in the cumbrian fells. we did see some car developing here, but this fine walking weather will continue through the weekend.

0vernight tonight, skies will clear across much of the country, but the cloud will continue to push and on that breeze into the north—west of scotland. here, temperatures will be higher than last night. last night got down to one celsius in suffolk and it will be quite chilly overnight when we have those skies and eastern england. bank holiday weekend, telling a bit cooler as the weekend, telling a bit cooler as the weekend goes on and we have that cloud putting in on the wind across northern ireland and into scotland. not much rain and later in the north—west there will be sometime. south—east scotland, dry and bright and quite warm, cloud for northern england. sunny skies further south and not as windy in the south. it is pointing to a warmer day for england and wales, widely temperatures reaching 22 a 23 degrees. should be very pleasant. north—western part scotland turning colour and cooler air follows that when the front that is bringing eight few spots of rain which is out of the way by sending us high pressure builds back in, cooler air pushing down from the

north. some changes for sunday. we may start off quite sunny in most places but cloud looks like it will tend to increase and spread out. best of the sunshine hanging on across western areas and the highest temperatures are squeezed towards the south—west, telling cooler across northern and eastern parts of the uk. a significant drop in temperature for the north—east of england. high pressure is still around, but it is keeping it fine and dry, but we have quite a few more isobars on the chart in southern parts of the uk on monday. eight windy day and quite a chilly wind coming in from off the north sea. that east north—easterly wind could bring class for a while which will then get pushed away and away from northern scotland it looks like it should be quite a sunny day on monday. but at the air will be cooler for england and wales but warming upfor cooler for england and wales but warming up for scotland and northern ireland, without sunshine it will feel chillier in the south but

highest temperatures likely to be in western parts of scotland.

live from london, this is bbc news. at least three people have been killed in a russian missile strike on a health clinic in the ukrainian city of dnipro. 0ur correspondent is on the ground. this is a continuation of russia's current strategy — widescale drone and missile attacks across ukraine and the outcomes are typically indiscriminate. the parents of ten—month—old finley boden have been sentenced to life in prison in the uk for his murder in 2020. and as voters in turkey prepare to go to the polls in a consequential presidential election, we have a special report focusing on what's at stake for ordinary turks.