president zelensky confirms ukraine has finally launched its counter offensive. and — four children survive for more than a month in the amazonjungle after a plane crash. we bring you their incredible story. hello i'm carl nasman, thanks forjoining us. we start here in the us, where donald trump has made his first public appearances since becoming the first former president in history to be indicted on federal charges. he's due in court in miami on tuesday — but remains on the campaign trail. here he is at a republican party convention in the state of north carolina, speaking in the past hour. at his first appearance of the day — in the state of georgia — he claimed that the federal charges he's facing have actually

helped his bid for reelection. the former president has been charged over his handling of classified documents, including some containing us nuclear secrets. he's accused of keeping them in a ballroom and a shower at his mar—a—lago estate in florida. speaking in north carolina, donald trump claimed that the charges against him were politically motivated. the baseless indictment of me by the biden administrations�* weaponised department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. i think it already is, when you think about it. let's remind you of the charges that trump is facing. the indictment unsealed yesterday contains 37 counts involving classified documents. it alleges he kept the files at his florida estate and lied to investigators. trump is also accused of obstructing the investigation into the handling of the documents. he has denied any wrong doing.

one of trump's personal aides, walt nauta, is also facing charges, accused of moving files to hide them from the fbi. the a9—page indictment says the classified documents contained information about us nuclear programmes, defence and weapons capabilities of the us and foreign countries, potential vulnerabilities of the us and its allies, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack. well, other republican candidates have also been reacting to those charges — but few have dared to criticise their rival. here's what former vice president mike pence had to say at at a republican convention in north carolina earlier on saturday. you know, we gather here in north carolina after a sad day for america. a former president of the united states facing an unprecedented indictment by a justice department run by the current president of the united states and a potential

political rival. mike pence there speaking in greensboro, north carolina — and closely following the republican candidates in their race to win the nomination is our north america correspondent, jess parker. she sent this report from the campaign trail. # it's time we stand and say... he may be due in court on tuesday, but donald trump's not huddled at home with his lawyers, he's out on the stump, insisting he's innocent. the ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the biden administration's weaponised department of injustice will go down as among the most horrific abuses of power in the history of our country. his next stop, a republican convention in north carolina, where charlie is proud to show her support. i'm trump all the way. doesn't it worry you,

though, the accusations? no, it's all manufactured, so they weaponised all of the agencies against him. it's terrible. but... it's like a banana republic. but there are photographs of boxes, allegedly containing classified documents in his mar—a—lago home, in the bathroom, next to the shower, in his ballroom. wait a minute, this is america. we're not guilty till we're proven guilty. it's at his florida home where prosecutors allege donald trump kept classified files, including nuclear and military secrets, and tried to obstruct an inquiry into the missing documents. there are, of course, other candidate in this republican field. one of them is former vice president mike pence, but he's among those who've been reluctant to attack donald trump in this case. there's a fear, of course,

of alienating the former president's very loyal base. he may be the clear front runner, but voters do have time to browse a growing list of options. do you think the legal baggage that he has is a problem? i think so. of course, again, i'm just waiting to hear. yes, it's surely a problem with the campaign going on. i'm sure he'd prefer not having it. and also motivate his base too. the accusations against donald trump are serious, and it's not the only legal battle he's facing. nevertheless, his name is still stamped all over this party. jessica parker, bbc news, greensboro north carolina. well, in just the past hour donald trump has been speaking to his supporters in north carolina — i spoke to our north america correspondentjess parker shortly after he wrapped up his address. it was another lengthy speech from donald trump. what did he have to say? it was a lengthy speech. and he touched on a whole lot of issues from relations with china to claiming, as we've heard before, that he thinks he can

bring the russia ukraine conflict to a very quick end, that he alone can prevent world war three from happening, very critical as you'd expect of thejoe biden administration, and of course touching on that indictment that was unsealed earlier this week. he didn't dwell on that too much but he did actually at certain points even ridicule the idea of this indictment and the espionage act under which he's been charged. he of course denies wrongdoing and it has to be said, the room is emptying out now butjust a few moments ago it was packed full of pretty ardant fans of donald trump. you would expect that, of course, you would expect a sympathetic audience here, this is a republican convention where people have specifically come into this room to hear the former president speak, but he really did have a buzz about him as he came into the room

and was really soaking in the adulation that he was getting and it was a crowd that was very receptive to the messages he was giving, whether it was on policy matters or whether it was on his belief, his claim that he is being subjected to a political witch—hunt. jess, i want to ask you because today, politico says that trump vows to continue running for president, even if he were to be convicted as part of this federal criminal indictment. what more do we know about that? yes, so that's a report i think coming out of a discussion he had on the way over between georgia here and north carolina. he didn't repeat that here specifically in this hall although i would say he did essentially allude to that because his message to people here tonight was that in his view, he gets a lot of obstacles thrown in his way and that he will never stop. he will never give up this race to try and become re—elected as president.

so i think that report from politico plays into things that we've heard from donald trump plays into this wider message that he will keep fighting, but of course this does throw up some complicated issues. it's too early to say what exactly is going to happen. we don't know when a trial might occur related to this latest federal level indictment but, obviously as you know, carl, there isn't actually a rule that says somebody can't run for president if they've been indicted, even convicted. so could be that if anything like this ever came to pass, he denies wrongdoing but it could be a real stress test on what on earth could happen in america if something like that would come to pass. jess, briefly if you can, i know you've been speaking with a lot of republican voters there and you said the report —— the reception was very positive but are there some republican voters that are leaning towards other candidates or starting

to change their mind? there's a range. there are people who are just diehard supporters of trump, do not believe any of the accusations that were levelled at him. you saw in my report, i was speaking to two ladies saying, well, the department ofjustice is supplying these photos of boxes mar—a—lago home. they weren't having any of it and they think double standards were in play. i also spoke to people who are much more hesitant about donald trump, actively looking at other candidates. ron desantis does seem popular among people here in terms of his massage and record for delivery but we have to point out is very far behind in those polls where donald trump is our front in the republican field. jess parker in north carolina, thank ukraine's president zelensky has confirmed that his country's counter—offensive against occupying russian forces, is underway. this week's escalation in fighting across the south

and east of the country followed months of speculation as to when the counter attack might begin. the president was speaking after holding talks in kyiv with the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau. from the capital, our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, reports. anotherforeign leader, canada's justin trudeau, in town, and bearing gifts — £400 million of military assistance. and finally from president zelensky, an admission that ukraine is now on the attack. translation: counter offensive and defensive actions _ are taking place in ukraine. what stage they are at, i won't say in detail, but i think will definitely feel a toll. it's hardly a revelation. all week images like these have flooded social media. ukrainian troops pushing forward, probing russian defences, looking for weak points. some of the fighting — here, south of zaporizhzhia — has been ferocious.

but russia says it's repelled all ukrainian advances, destroying precious western supplied equipment in the process. claims it is hard to verify. translation: over the past 24 hours, l the ukrainian armed forces continue unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations. whether ukraine has had a successful week is hard to know, but this is not yet its big armoured push deep into russian occupied territory. that could still be some way off, if it happens at all. ukraine knows it has four or five months before autumn rains soften the ground once more, to change the entire course of the war. pauladams, bbc news, kyiv. it's like something out of a movie. four children found alive after surviving a plane crash and spending more than a month fending for themselves in colombia's amazon jungle.

their mother, the plane's pilot and co—pilot all died in the crash early last month. colombia's president says the rescue, is �*a joy for the whole country'. simon jones has more. airlifted to safety from the jungle, after a story of survival against the odds. they were found by the military after a huge and long search. the children, forced to fend for themselves for more than five weeks. translation: together the military forces - and the indigenous communities that helped with the search efforts found the children after a0 days. they were on their own. they are an example of survival that will go down in history. hundreds of soldiers had been involved in the desperate hunt for the children, aged 13, nine, four and one. message plays. a recorded message was played from the air, instructing them,

if they heard it, to stay still and wait for help. there was hope the children were still alive after items left behind by them, including a drinking bottle and half—eaten fruit were found. the children belong to the huitoto indigenous group. it's thought their knowledge of fruits and jungle survival skills helped keep them safe. their family can scarcely believe this moment has come. translation: we are happyl because until now we couldn't sleep, couldn't be happy, couldn't talk. for us, the situation was like being in the dark, living for the sake of living, because the hope of finding them kept us alive. when we found the children, we feltjoy. the children have been flown to the capital, bogota, for a full medical assessment. they are weak, they are tired, but their rescuers are calling this a magical day. simon jones, bbc news.

earlier i spoke to genevieve glatsky, a new york times journalist who's based in bogota. first of all, i think many people just would love to know what more details we have about how these children managed to survive for such a long time in thejungle. so, the children just arrived at a military hospital in bogota early this morning and we still don't have a lot of details about exactly how they survived. you know, they're still recovering from the whole ordeal and they're a little bit nervous, little uneasy with all the people surrounding them, so, i think instead of prying them with questions about what happened, i think it'll probably be a few days or weeks until we get more details from them. we heard there in the package that these are children from a local indigenous group there, a community in colombia, and that there was some thought that maybe what they've learned about the jungle in terms

of things you can eat there and ways you can survive might�*ve helped them? yeah, absolutely. relatives of the oldest child, a girl, lesley, was 13 years old, said that she knew the jungle well. and certainly, the area they come from is very rural, very remote, so they are very certainly more in touch with nature and how to fend with themselves in an environment like that than your average kid from london or new york or bogota. and the government officials that have spoken so far attributed their survival to those factors. and what about the search itself, because they were gone for weeks. the search continued. can you tell us a bit about how that took place? what they did to try and find these children in what's a very remote area. yeah, so the search for them has really seen some twists and turns. about three weeks ago, it was announced that they had been found —

by the president, mistakenly — because the country's child welfare institute had received inaccurate information, saying that they'd been found, so then, everyone had to retract the news, saying they hadn't been found, so then the whole country was just watching with bated breath to see what would happen. the military, airforce, every entity deployed every force imaginable — helicopters, land and river teams as well as collaboration with indigenous communities and even using a massive speaker, played a recording made by the children's grandmother in huitoto, their native indigenous language, telling them to stay put and to wait for help. wow. what about the children right now? what condition are they in? because this must have been a very physical ordeal for them to go through, as well as a difficult mental ordeal to go through. they are in remarkably good condition considering the circumstances. as far as injuries, officials say they just have a few cuts and scrapes.

they are not eating solid food yet because they haven't been eating well in those circumstances, so it takes a little while to reintroduce food back into their system, but they're being cared for. they're also receiving psychological help as well, but they're said to be in good health and good spirits. they are asking to play, they asking for books and chatting, and they're expected to be discharged in around two or three weeks. we heard from the president there in the piece. you are often in colombia — can you give us a sense on how this saga affected the nation and what the reaction has been? because often times, these kinds of cases can really stay in the headlines for a long time and really capture the emotions of people living there. oh, absolutely. i think when there was some confusion a few weeks ago, people were, of course, confused, a little bit angry — why are we getting mixed messages? but now that they have been found, it'sjust been

overwhelming joy and relief to hear this amazing, extraordinary news that i'm sure we'll be hearing more about for weeks and months to come. do we have any sense now of what will happen with these children? they're young, they've lost a parent in this crash and, if i have it right, they were actually travelling from thejungle, isn't that right?, to relocate to their father? just give us a bit more of a back story on these children. yes, so, they were travelling with her mother to be with theirfather, who had left the area previously, according to local media, they say because he was facing threats from armed insurgent groups in the area. so, it's really unclear where they're going to live, who they're going to live with. i imagine with their father, but those details haven't been announced or discussed yet. but officials did say in a news conference today that their education and well—being will be assured for the rest of their lives. in terms of the crash itself, which took place a few weeks ago, of course, have

there been any investigations on what caused this plane to go down? so, we know it was engine failure. the pilot reported that around 7:30am on may 1st and had to make an emergency crash—landing in the middle of the jungle, among the trees. there's been some criticism as a result of this about inadequate conditions forflying in these remote areas — that the planes are old and don't work well, that the technology is outdated, that there aren't really adequate places to land — but official authorities deny these claims, so we'll see what happens going forward. all right, genevieve glatsky, a journalist with the new york times who has been following the story for us, thank you. thank you for having me. let's ta ke let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines. visiting the uk is set to become slightly more expensive. people travelling to the uk without a visa will soon need to get an electronic

travel authorisation, which will cost £10 per applicant. but you will not need an eta if you have a british or irish passport, permission to work, live or study in the uk, or have an entry visa. on the hottest day of the year so far in the uk, at least three soldiers fainted in the scorching heat during a royal military parade. microphone parade rehearsal. it happened as the prince of wales led the colonel's review rehearsals at horse guards parade. the men who fainted were stretchered away while two others had to be helped off the parade ground. turning now to new reporting from a prominent tech news outlet, saying twitter is refusing to pay a bill from google's cloud services arm. according to a report from platformer, which the bbc has been unable to verify, google's servers host much of twitter�*s tools for fighting spam and child sexual abuse. but platformer reports twitter has now stopped paying google's invoices, putting those services in jeopardy. the decision allegedly comes after a long campaign from twitter to get

google to lower its fees, following elon musk�*s takeover of twitter. sports now and manchester city have won the champions league for the first time in their history, completing a travel of domestic and european trophies. they've beaten inter milan 1—0 in the final in istanbul and it's only the second time that the trouble has been accomplished by an english club. the last of course, their rivals, manchester united, in 1999. the winning goal was scored by rodri and this is how fans reacted to the final whistle back in manchester. cheering and applause let the celebrations begin! watching along with them, if you can hear them, was our

correspondent.— you can hear them, was our correspondent. it's chaos but ha - correspondent. it's chaos but happy chaos- _ correspondent. it's chaos but happy chaos. take _ correspondent. it's chaos but happy chaos. take a - correspondent. it's chaos but happy chaos. take a look. i happy chaos. take a look. people in tears, people have been through an emotional wringer over the last 90 minutes. when the goal went in, there was more beer in the air then there was behind the bar. when the inter milan goal merely went in, people were working out, holding a stomachs. >> holding their stomachs. microphone walk —— walking out. people here have been waiting for this for many decades and there's a pride as well because man united were the last team to win the treble in 1999. now, city have done it. they can hold their heads up high as well. the party here is going to continue all the way through the night. if you can hear me,

i believe you with these scenes. i believe you with these seem-— i believe you with these scenes. , ., ., scenes. just a raucous scene and a big — scenes. just a raucous scene and a big night— scenes. just a raucous scene and a big night of— scenes. just a raucous scene i and a big night of celebrations for manchester city fans. now then, bagpipes aren't for everyone. they can bring a tear to the eye at funerals ora ringing in the ears elsewhere. we'd like to introduce you to the man who holds the record for having the largest collection of bagpipes in the world. his name is daniel fleming, and he hopes to beat his own record by doubling his collection. crispin rolfe has his story. bagpipes skirl my first set of bagpipes were bought by my late father, and it's actually this set here. the first of many. ten years ago, daniel fleming created a record for the most amount of bagpipes anyone could own — of 105. now this year, he hopes to double that, having increased his collection to 210. bad news for the neighbours.

i have got wonderful neighbours and it's wonderful that they applaud me at three o'clock in the morning when i'm finishing playing. i'm not sure what they're shouting. i think it's probably "more" — i hope it's "more". and then, there's danny's long—suffering wife, jane. there you go. bye — bye! bye! love you! thanks! he didn't have that many when i first met him. he does do lots of practising and it's not too bad, but you can't really hear it. if he's in the front of the house, i'm in the back of the house with the radio on. i don't know whether someone has 105 — or, indeed, 106 sets — hence why i have still kept collecting. so, i sincerely hope that someone hasn't got more than 210. i very much doubt it. and if they do, who'd want to be there neighbours? plays auld lang syne for now, though, danny has got to wait for the guinness book

of records to verify his claim but the chances are he's going to be a world record breaker again. bagpipes skirl. crispin rolfe, bbc look north, in cleethorpes. before we go, it's time to start horsing around. an annual race in wales is going to answer the question can humans run faster than a horse? the main event, mile cross—country route, through muddy tracks and mountainous terrain but today, another proved the naysayers wrong, when daniel connelly coming in first, almost ten minutes ahead of the first horse. stay with us right here on bbc news. hello. there were two main parts to saturday's weather story — some heat and some thunderstorms. it was by quite some margin, the hottest day of the year

so far — 32 degrees celsius in parts of surrey, lots of other places not too far behind. but for some, that heat through the afternoon into the evening spawned some thunderstorms. a dramatic view for this weather watcher in shropshire. this is how it looked on the radar picture through saturday evening across parts of the midlands, east wales, north west england and also up into western scotland. some quite intense thunderstorms, a lot of rain falling in some locations. and for sunday, well, it's more of the same — more hot sunshine but more scattered thunderstorms. in fact, a few showers and storms from the word go across parts of scotland, one or two, perhaps, through the channel islands, central southern england. and while there will be some spells of warm or even hot sunshine through the day, all that will do is intensify those showers. quite hit and miss — some places avoiding them — but if you catch one across parts of southern england, the midlands, east wales could give torrential rain, squally, gusty winds, thunder and lightning. 30 degrees in london, somewhere could get to 31. northern england, seeing spells of warm sunshine

and the odd thunderstorm. scattered showers for northern ireland and some continuing across scotland. maybe not quite as warm here as it was during saturday. now, for sunday night, it's another pretty humid affair. some showers and thunderstorms are set to continue. some areas of low cloud, mist and fog, but some clear spells, too. but overnight lows, generally 11—16 degrees — and bear in mind, we'll only get down to these temperatures very briefly because as soon as the sun comes up again on monday morning, those temperatures will start to climb. plenty of sunshine around but again, some scattered showers and storms — perhaps a line of thunderstorms popping up from london through the midlands and into parts of mid wales. again, a very warm day widely — temperatures between 20 and 27 degrees. some spots could getjust a little bit warmer than that. and deeper into the week, while high pressure remains just about in charge, not quite strong enough to suppress all of the shower activity, there will be some showers, maybe the odd thunderstorm. and as more of an easterly breeze starts to develop,

it could be that those temperatures drop backjust a little bit. but broadly speaking, lots of dry weather and sunshine, and it is going to still feel very warm.

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