hello, i'm chris rogers. we start in france where the funeral service is taking place for 17 year—old nahel m, whose killing by a police officer during a traffic stop in a parisian suburb on tuesday has sparked four nights of unrest. last night, police made more than 1300 arrests across the country. president macron has postponed a planned state visit to germany amid the unrest. riots have broken out in several cities — notably in marseille, in the south of the country. video footage shows streets on fire, and shops — including a gun store — being looted by rioters. despite the deployment of 16,000 police officers — the violence has continued — including in the capital, paris. the police officer involved in the death of the teenager

on tuesday, has been charged with voluntary homicide. let's get the latest now from paris and speak to our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan. we are in the centre of paris, not too far from the suburb of nanterre where the funeral has been taking place on 17—year—old nahel whose death, he was shot by a police officer, has sparked protests, many officer, has sparked protests, many of course which have now turned violent. we hearfrom nanterre that there have been crowds on the streets in the vicinity of the funeral peacefully chancing for justice for nahel. of course some of the protests overnight in the last few days have been incredibly violent, and it was another night of violence, friday and saturday, more

than 1300 arrests. the authorities here say that the violence lessened last night compared to the previous few evenings, but they actually arrested more people than they have before. all indications that we have is that there are no signs that the protests and the violence is going to stop any time soon. the atmosphere here in lille in northern france is still tense. like many other cities across the country, this place has seen looting, fires, and damage to public property. 82 people were arrested in the area last night, and seven police officers were injured. behind me, you can see what remains of a big office building. about 500 people used to work here. this building was a very important part of this community. now, rioters broke in in the middle of the night, they poured fuel everywhere, and they set the building on fire. it was completely destroyed,

as you can see, we can still see and smell the smoke. the people who used to work there have now lost their offices, and their belongings. across the street, there is a pharmacy, and also a health centre. one of very few places in this neighbourhood where people can go and get treatment. that has also been looted and destroyed. a lot of people here are telling us that they do not sympathise with the rioters, they have said, what is the point of destroying public buildings like this one, pharmacies, theatres, schools? theirfeeling is, that that is not the right way to ask for justice and remember nahel m. 0ur reporter there in lille. we have also got rajini in the capital

paris, emmanuel macron has cancelled a state visit to germany, there is talk of not ruling out a state of emergency, but here in the bbc today over the last few hours i have heard many people, french and experts, saying that what they really want to hear from the government, from the french police, is some action, some interest in addressing the core issue here that people are protesting about. do you think that will come? it’s protesting about. do you think that will come? �* , . protesting about. do you think that will come? �*, ., , ., will come? it's a good question. i mean, will come? it's a good question. i mean. the _ will come? it's a good question. i mean, the core _ will come? it's a good question. i mean, the core issue _ will come? it's a good question. i mean, the core issue is _ will come? it's a good question. i mean, the core issue is what - will come? it's a good question. i i mean, the core issue is what people say is discrimination by french police towards minority communities, and some people put it quite bluntly, they believe that france's police is racist. it's notjust people we have spoken to in nanterre or you have been speaking to on the bbc, it is the united nations are saying yesterday that the french police was racist and discriminatory towards minorities and needed to do something about it. there was a response after that from the french

foreign ministry, they say there are no foundations in what the united nations has said and they came to the defence of the police. but it really does highlight the fact that at the moment there are does not seem to be much acknowledgement from the authorities that there might even be a problem in the first place. in fact, you have got the unions representing the police actually coming out, guns blazing, and some reports that they describe the rioters as vermin. many people feel, unless the core of this issue is acknowledged, then the protest and the riots will simply continue. it does remind many of us of the riots in uk citiesjust it does remind many of us of the riots in uk cities just before the olympics here. and that was sparked 0lympics here. and that was sparked by accusations of racism in the police force. but what really became apparent, and perhaps you agree this is the same case in france, it's much more about opportunity or lack

of it particularly for certain communities, and inclusivity within french society. do you think that is what we are looking at in france? it's a whole mix of issues. it's about opportunities as you say, it's quite striking that president macron said yesterday that a huge number of the rioters are young, teenagers, aged between 16 and 19. people who are at the start of their lives perhaps don't feel that they have that much to lose, and certainly we talk to people who don't feel that they have their opportunities. so there is that. i think one of the things that i found quite striking, you draw parallels between the situation in the uk and the riots that happened a while back, i see parallels with the situations i have covered when i was a correspondent in america. one of the things that many protesters have spoken to us about, and i stress that we have spoken to peaceful protesters in our conversations that we have had, they said if there was not a video capturing what happened to

17—year—old nahel, maybe no one would have even known what happened. and there have been many placards at some of these marches that say, how many other nahels have not been filmed? it was the fact that somebody filmed that moment when the police shot him and distributed that video, which ended up being shared around the world, that this whole movement has now come about. this whole conversation about police violence. and it does has echoes of what we saw in the united states after the killing of george floyd, the fact that it was captured on tape. so i think that is what is interesting in the conversations we are having here. it's a real challenge for president macron at the moment, as you say he has cancelled that summit in germany, he had to come back from an eu meeting earlier this week earlier than planned as well. people are waiting for him to do something. we have also got people saying, more needs to be done to stop the violence. some people talking about the possibility of a state of emergency

being introduced.— possibility of a state of emergency being introduced. ra'ini, thank you for that analysis — being introduced. ra'ini, thank you for that analysis and— being introduced. rajini, thank you for that analysis and update. - being introduced. rajini, thank you for that analysis and update. when j for that analysis and update. when emmanuel macron does say something, you will hear it here first on bbc news and possibly on the bbc news website as well. live news from all of our correspondings on the latest developments across france. here in the uk — the average household energy bill in england, wales and scotland will be lower from today as the regulator, 0fgem, brings in its new price cap. typical annual costs will be reduced to £2,074 — which is about us$2,600, a drop of £426 or $541 a year. our business correspondent, mark ashdown reports. for about 18 months now, energy bills have been rising and rising, and finally they seem to be stabilising, but for millions of people, it's still a struggle. carly lives with her young son in a small flat in london.

it is a relief that they're sort of stabilising, but they're still really high. sort of stabilising, they're still unaffordable, particularly with the cost of everything else going up. in 2019, the energy regulator 0fgem introduced a maximum price suppliers can charge for a unit of gas and electricity. it's reviewed every three months to reflect changes in wholesale prices. in april, it was set at £3,280, so a typical household will pay no more than that for their energy. but, due to the government's energy price guarantee, those bills were actually capped at £2,500. now, from july, 0fgem's cap has fallen to £2,074, so it means the average consumer will see their bills fall by around £426 a year. analysts predict that energy bills will stay around this level for some years yet. we think that, unfortunately, prices are likely to stay higher until the end of this decade. that's because the competition

for energy on the global stage is going to continue. and energy bills are still nearly double what they were before the covid pandemic. the charity, citizen's advice, says it helping more people with their energy bills than any other cost—of—living topic. we know that people are still really struggling at the moment. at citizen's advice, we're helping nearly three people a minute with crisis support, and we're continuing to break really unwelcome records when it comes to helping people with energy debts. there are warnings, too, that six million households are now in fuel poverty. 0fgem says it supports vulnerable consumers and anyone struggling with their bills should seek advice from their supplier. mark ashdown, bbc news. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has warned that a "serious threat" remains at the russian—occupied zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and he believes that russia is "technically ready" to provoke a localised explosion at the facility. earlier today zelensky met

with the spanish prime minister, pedro sanchez, who was in kyiv on the opening day of his country's six—month presidency of the european union. mr sanchez said the bloc would support ukraine in its war against russian invaders no matter what the price. the spanish prime minister added his visit shows the eu's unequivocal support for ukraine's membership bid. last year, ukraine was granted eu candidate status, but officials in brussels have dismissed ukrainian suggestions that it could join the bloc within two years. america's top military officer says ukraine's counteroffensive against russian forces is "going slower than people had predicted," but is making steady progress. is it happening slower than computers might have said or other people might have said? yes. what i add said was this would take six to eight, ten weeks, it's going to be very difficult, it's going to be very difficult, it's going to be very long, and it's going to be very, very bloody and nobody should

have any illusions about any of that. ukraine is fighting for its life. it's an existential fight for ukraine and they are fighting against a very significant country of 140 million people, nine time zones, a big army, lots of munitions and so on. ukraine is fighting for their life. we are giving them as much help as humanly possible, but at the end of the day, ukrainian soldiers are assaulting two minor deals and into trenches and this is literally a fight for their life. —— are sorting through minefields. now in the aftermath of the aborted wagner insurrection, there were immediate questions about what president putin was up to. but those questions quickly fell away as he made, unusually, a series of public appearances in the days following the mutiny. here's david waddell. wagner's march on moscow was a week ago today. it's remarkable how long ago today. it's remarkable how long ago it now seems given events could easily have spiralled into at something else. here is the leader

of the wagner outfit, yevgeny prigozhin. 0n of the wagner outfit, yevgeny prigozhin. on monday he would an audio message explaining his side of the story saying they were keen to hold to account those leaders responsible for mistakes in the ukraine war. then we get a response from president putin, special state tv address on monday evening. there are no special announcements but he is clearly keen to present an image of a united russia. steps were taken, he says, to avoid spilling blood. since then he has taken the unusual step of appearing in public multiple times to present his face to the russian people. on tuesday, 2500 soldiers, russian guard and security officials were lined up in the kremlin cathedral square. this is the site of the coronation and funeral processions of russian czars. to a presidentialfan funeral processions of russian czars. to a presidential fan there, vladimir putin descends the steps of the kremlin going down onto the fair —— square. the imagery says it all, the orthodox church, the kremlin, president and army. delivers a speech to the troops and they deliver a minutes silence for the air force pilot killed in the

insurrection. it's all about national unity and perhaps a victory. 0n national unity and perhaps a victory. on wednesday in a highly unusual appearance get up close and personal with crowds in dagestan. officially there to chair a meeting in domestic tourism but it's not a meeting which dominates news bulletins, it's the crazy scenes that follow. the kremlin leader mobbed by an adoring crowd. on thursday back in moscow attending a business conference on russian brands. it shows him attending to what looks like business as usual. in a slightly bizarre moment, he is a smiley face on an interactive whiteboard. visit —— vision of contentment if you like as president putin tries to say that all is well with the russian state despite that we had to tell events from just days earlier. —— that weird events just days earlier. the king of the netherlands willem—alexander has apologised for his country's role in slavery at an event marking 150 years since slaves

were freed in former colonies. in his speech, the monarch said he felt "personally and intensely" affected. a dutch study revealed that the royal family earned the equivalent of nearly $600 million from the colonies, where slavery was widespread. now it's time for a look at today's sport with gavin. to the ashes in a moment. but first, a moment to note perhaps for cricket fans. the west indies will miss the upcoming world cup for the first time in tournament's history. it's after they were beaten by scotland, in today's super six qualifier. scotland won by seven wickets — a huge win for them — and a first victory over the west indies in one—day matches. qualification for the world cup in india is still on for them — but they have to beat zimbabwe on tuesday, and the netherlands on thursday. but the west indies, a team so synonymous with the world cup, having won the first two editions, won't be there in october. to test action then and the second ashes test between england and australia, at lord's. australia lead by more than 330 as they look to build on their second innings, on day four. england started well with the wickets of usman khawaja, steve smith and travis head before lunch.

cameron green and alex carey fell not long ago. but australia now 242—7. they're1—0 up in the series, following victory in the first test at edgbaston. positive steps for england, but with a job on their hands, if they're to get back in this. the women's ashes gets back underway today. england's women are also on a rescue mission when they play australia in the first t20 match of their multi—format ashes series tonight. they lost the one—off test match, by 89 runs at trent bridge in nottingham on monday. the way that match is weighted, it leaves the hosts four points down, and needing to win five of the six limited—overs games to regain the ashes for the first time since 2014. super excited, they're a really strong t20 team that are world champions so we're going to have to really take them on, try and play to our strengths and do the things that have worked so well for us for us in t—20. so, yeah, i'm excited to get into battle. after 12 years at manchester united, goalkeeper david de gea's time at the club might be coming to an end. his contract finished yesterday and with no decision yet over whether he will remain

at old trafford the spaniard, a four time player of the year at united had agreed to a new contract earlier this month, but it was then withdrawn. it means at the age of 32, he'll become a free agent. patrick vieira is set to become the new manager at ligue1 club, rc strasbourg. vieira has been out of work since being sacked by premier league side crystal palace in march. chelsea's owners have recently agreed a deal to buy a majority stake in strasbourg. vieira will sign a three—year contract, and the deal should be completed tomorrow. lewis hamilton will start today's sprint race at the austrian grand prix from a lowly 18th as max verstappen took pole position. defending champion verstappen raced to top spot for the second day in a row after claiming pole for sunday's grand prix in friday's qualifying. his red bull team mate sergio perez willjoin him on the front row for today's 23—lap dash round the red bull ring. mclaren's lando norris came an impressive third. shohei ohtani's thunder was stolen by a cat near the end of a mlb game between la angels and arizona diamondbacks.

while the crowd seemed transfixed by the game, the moggy suddenly leaped up a fan barrier without any fuss, tore into the seats, rattling a fan in the process. baseball fans had a field day reacting to the unexpected visitor who seemed quite at home in the stadium and in no hurry to make itself scarce. you have got to love an intruder cat! and what a great leap on him. and just a reminder before we go. the first stage of the 2023 tour de france is under way in the spanish city of bilbao. you can follow live updates on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. all eyes on tour de france as it enters france as well with the protests and the violence there, organising saying they are willing to make any changes they have to make if needed. a column by the broadcaster jeremy clarkson in the uk's sun newspaper, in which he wrote that the duchess

of sussex should be paraded naked in the street, has had a complaint of sexism upheld by the press watchdog. a record 25,000 people complained to the independent press standards organisation, about the article. david sillito reports. jeremy clarkson's column from december of last year was all about how much he hated the duchess of sussex, and that he dreamt of seeing her "made to parade naked "through the streets of every town in britain, "while the crowds chant �*shame' and throw lumps of excrement at her." the article was soon deleted, with jeremy clarkson saying he was horrified to have caused so much hurt. the sun also said they regretted publishing the article, and six months on, the paper is now publishing a ruling from its regulator, ipso, that it breached the editorial code. will there be a fine for the sun? the remedy that the committee required is the publication of its upheld decision, to let not only the readers of the sun but also the wider public know about the reasons for the finding, and the sun will be required to flag that on its front page.

the complaint was not made by the duchess of sussex, but by the women's rights organisations the wilde foundation and the fawcett society, who have welcomed the ruling. we're absolutely delighted about this victory for fawcett, for our members and supporters, and for wilde foundation, who also brought the complaint with us. this was a really egregious example. women have had to put up with this kind of hate for generation after generation. time is up — we are going to stand together and we are going to hold our press to account and say that it isn't acceptable to perpetuate these kind of hateful ideas any more. and while there's no comment from meghan and harry, it's understood they were happy for the complaint to go forward about an article that prince harry described as "horrific, hurtful and cruel." david sillito, bbc news. more than 30,000 people from across 600 organisations are taking part in london's annual pride parade. the procession started at hyde park corner and will end at whitehall place in around three hours.

a number of stages are hosting performances from lgbtq+ acts as part of the celebrations. an hour after the event started, just stop oil protesters disrupted london's pride march in protest over the parade accepting sponsorship money from, what they call, "high—polluting industries". the metropolitan police said that seven people have been arrested for public nuisance. just stop oil protesters sat down in front of a float for around 20 minutes. the dj on the float continued to play music and the crowd cheered as the activists were removed. ahead of the protest, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, said many people involved in the parade are passionate about tackling climate change, but disruption wasn't the right approach. exploring the dark side of the universe — may sound star wars, but it's not science—fiction — it's reality. in just over half an hour's time, the european space agency will launch a telescope into space to try and solve some

of its biggest mysteries. to explain more, here's our science editor rebecca morelle. stunning images of our cosmos, but what we can see makes up a tiny fraction of what's really out there. the rest is known as the dark universe. we can't see it and scientists don't really know what it is. now a new mission is about to try and shed light on this mystery. it's just like trying to set off on a ship before people knew where land was in different directions. now we're just trying to map out the universe and try and understand where we fit into it and how we've got here. the european agency's spacecraft is called euclid. it's trying to understand phenomena called dark energy and dark matter. so what is dark matter? galaxies like our own milky way are held together by gravity. the force comes from everything that's in them — the stars, the planets, the dust. the thing is, all of this material

doesn't provide enough gravity to stop these great spirals from flying apart. there's something else there, a cosmic glue that we can't see that adds the extra gravity to bind them together, and that's dark matter. and what about the other missing part of the cosmos, dark energy? since the big bang, the universe has been expanding, with galaxies moving ever further apart. scientists had thought that over time, this would slow down, but actually, this expansion is speeding up and it's thought that a mysterious force, dark energy, is driving this. it could enormously influence the fate of our universe. how far is it going to expand? is it going to go forever and accelerate? is it going to just rip apart? or will it perhaps collapse back down again? understanding that fifth force, if that's what dark energy is, will help us understand, you know, not only where we came

from, but where we're going in this universe. it will take the spacecraft six years to complete its map of the sky. what it discovers could mean fundamental changes to our understanding of the universe. rebecca morelle, bbc news. let's return to our top story, and the riots and protests across france now reaching their fourth night, more trouble expected later as well. i want to show you the scenes at the moment as france's economy minister bruno lemaire meets with shop owners and their representatives to discuss the recent outbreaks of violence and protests. lots of shops and businesses have been targeted by protesters, some of those businesses destroyed, offices reduced to rubble. and the economy minister has just told those business representatives that the acts of violence are inexcusable. there will

no doubt be appeals for help to rebuild some of those businesses but there are also appeals for the french police to be investigated for racism and brutality. something the government has not yet talked about. we will keep you updated. hello. we start off the first day of july on a fairly fresh unsettled sort of node with sunshine and showers, certainly a little bit cooler than much ofjune, in fact it looks likejune is going to turn out to be the warmestjune on record in the uk. some blue sky and sunshine already starting to break through and through the rest of the weekend, that mix of sunny skills and scattered blustery showers, most of the showers will be across the northern half of the uk. yesterday's cloud is exiting towards the east and we have got clearer skies rolling in from the atlantic, still bearing a few showers with them. most of the showers for the rest of the day will be across scotland and

northern ireland. more persistent rain across the far north of scotland but using your way through this evening and overnight. dry into the night but as we through the early hours of sunday morning, it will be cooler and fresher than saturday morning so temperatures in the countryside getting down to single figures. through the day tomorrow, low pressure sitting out towards the north—east of the uk. the winds rotating around the low pressure bringing some showers, like today some of the showers will be mostly across scotland and northern ireland, more persistent rain across the northern islands at times. sunshine further south, a bit of a breeze blowing, not quite as strong as it is today. temperatures just down a notch so between about 14 and 22 north to south on sunday. no greater change as we head towards the working week. it looks like it's going to be a dry day tomorrow, temperatures 21 degrees and a noticeable breeze coming in from the

west. moving through sunday night and on into monday, the low pressure not moving in a hurry, sitting across scandinavia so more showers walking in —— coming in. later in the day some of the showers arriving across england and wales. eastern areas will keep driest for the longest on monday. temperatures between 13 and 21 degrees. the week ahead is looking unsettled so there will be showers at times. sunshine in between the showers so not a complete write—off. dry and warm during the week, some of the showers could affect the championships which begin at wimbledon.

of dark matter and dark energy — this is bbc news. the headlines: french police have detained more than 1,300 protesters after a fourth night of rioting. there was unrest in marseille, lyon, grenoble, and parts of paris. the violence was sparked by the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by a police officer on tuesday. in the uk, the press watchdog has upheld a complaint that an opinion column written in the uk's sun newspaper — by the broadcaster jeremy clarkson — was sexist towards meghan, the duchess of sussex. and the european space agency will launch its euclid telescope from cape canaveral today on a mission to produce an enormous 3d map of the cosmos. it will be used to study the nature