joe lynskey reports on an action packed gran prix in baku.he leaders at the start line, a congestion fight. when it is this narrow, slight touches cause big problems. trying to dodge the debris left a few cars in a mess. away from the trouble, lewis hamilton made his own problems. he called his early race untidy, but this grand prix changed with a collision. two drivers on the same red bull team falling out at top speed. the crash took seven laps to clear, so when the race restarted, they were all bunched together. in the sprint finish, the red sebastien vettel lost his way, so next to take the lead was valtteri bottas, but his dream, like his tyre, was left in tatters. the worst time possible to get a puncture. that left a simple overtake for his mercedes team—mate. for hamilton, this was a win that fell into his lap. victory claimed in fortuity, and his first of the season. really quite an emotional race to be honest, valtteri did such an exceptionaljob today and ready deserve to have the win. also sebastien did a greatjob. i think i was re

and formula one is in azerbaijan this weekend but hamilton's not at his best in baku, pipped to pole by vettel. hello and welcome to sportsday. also coming up in the programme... we have to start with football. another packed saturday programme coming up, but it's football where we have to start, with a number of promotion and relegation issues finalised today in the lower leagues. but not in the premier league, where no

in baku, staying streetsmart could be the key. sebastien did a good job.b the team did to get us, we were yesterday to where we are today and we did a greatjob. we are in the mix, this is the fifth best track to overta ke, mix, this is the fifth best track to overtake, does not mean it is impossible, i was trying sebastien hartung tomorrow. tough for mercedes. it's been an important day in the aviva premiership. bath travelled to gloucester for the west country derby knowing that nothing short of a bonus point victory was needed to keep alive their hopes of playing in the eurpoean champions cup next season. shaking off their recent poor run of form, the visitors had secured the four try bonus point by half time. bath finished 43 20 on top, all but dashing gloucester‘s hopes of making the play offs. elsewhere exeter ensured they finished top of the premiership for the first time in their history as they ended sale's faint play off hopes with a 3419 win. and london irish have been relegated following worcester‘s win over harlequins. richard johnson has been

in r0, staying streetsmart could be the key. —— in baku.gs they thought were by the artist are actually fake. staff at the terrus museum in the south of france were made aware of the forgeries by a visiting art historian. a committee of experts later reviewed the works and concluded that more than half of them were fakes. oh dear. and just before we go, let me show you these pictures from reunion island. a volcano known as piton de la fournaise or the "peak of the furnace" has began to erupt there. it's for the second time this year. the volcano lies on the eastern side of the island, which is a french territory off madagascar in the indian ocean. the area around the volcano is uninhabited, so the eruptions don't pose much danger to the population of reunion. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. i'm @lvaughanjones. hello again. we did have a number of showers today across the north—west of the country, but the shower clouds will tend to melt away. clearing skies. a decent night across the northern half

loves buildings and clearly wants to appear cosmopolitan and western oriented azerbaijan's capital baku is modeled on dubai many of its new buildings were built by friends a few years ago one human rights organization voted most corrupt man of the year but he's not without supporters at the turn of the millennium fifty percent of azerbaijanis lived below the poverty line now only six percent do despite alleged corruption many see him as a guarantor of stability but those who dare to question his power all suggest the country might be better off without him commonly face imprisonment protests and open criticism a rare in this nation with its cult of personality a combination of oil based wealth and the whip swiftly eradicate any potential demands for greater democracy. facebook is and will always be free that's what the company has promised users since it began but everything comes at a price and that became clear today as c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faced the second day of hearings before the us congress questions asked by congressional members have been mocked at as their lack of understand

well, lewis hamilton definitely need a good weekend in baku, he hasn't won since america last year, andt he should have won already in melbourne he was the quickest man all weekend, did a dominant pole position, and he was unlucky with the safety car, otherwise he would have won. after that, bahrain and china, more mediocre from lewis, and he has followed it up today, he is in the mixu paatelainen bit behind team—mate valtteri bottas, so he needs to respond this weekend. —— he is in the mix a little bit. nine points does not seem like much of a lead for the unhappiness of hamilton. no, but lewis is not happy when he's not winning, nine points is flattering to hamilton, because vettel should be ahead after winning the first two matches, coming second in china as well before he was hit by max verstappen. hamilton, in some ways, was unlucky not to win the first race, but then likely to be nine points away. all in all, a nice mix in the championship. 17 points separate the top four drivers, a healthy place to be at this point in the season. it is exciting for watching formula one this seaso

hamilton of mclaren miss avies followed by his teammate about terry botha's last year's winner in baku daniel rick yaddo starts from fourth with fellow red bull driver max for a stop in fifth and ferrari's kimi or i can in six moving on to brenda's league of football saturday afternoon action is nearing its climax to be sure to stay with us on the a full coverage later now on friday hoffenheim celebrated a three win three one win rather over however thanks to a hat trick from andre come out it the croatian began with the simplest of toughens in the sixty eighth minute followed up with a smash of a volley in the fiftieth and then sealed a victory for hoffenheim with a delicate love in the eighty sixth minute all that making him a man of the much. now is because so painting purchased by twenty five thousand online buyers has been put on display in a swiss museum is the first major work of art to be owned collectively by an online community the owners of picasso's musketeer bust paid about sixty five euros each in return they can all visit the painting at the geneva modern art museum for

won the azerbaijan grand prix, his first win of the formula i season in an incident packed race in bakue of his team—mate valteri bottas and some self inflicted drama from red bull drivers max verstappen and daniel riccardio. joe lynskey reports. the waters are calm, but the streets are chaotic. behind the leaders at the start line, a congestion fight. when it is this narrows light touch is cause big problems. trying to dodge the debris left a few cars in a mess. away from the trouble, lewis hamilton made his own problems. he called his early race untidy. something has happened. i don't know what. but this grand prix changed with a collision. two drivers on the same red bull team falling out at top speed. the crash took seven laps top speed. the crash took seven laps to clear. so when the race restarted they were all bunched together. in they were all bunched together. in the sprint finish, the red sebastian vettel lost his way. the next to ta ke vettel lost his way. the next to take the lead was valtteri bottas. but history, like desio, was left in tatters. the worst time possible to g

to the streets of baku now where fast straights and tight turns from red bull's daniel ricardo led to the fastest practice time ahead of the azerbaijan grand prix but things are a bit bumpy for red bull's other driver max for shop and shower championship leader sebastian satchel with sparks before crashing into a wall the twenty year old's father wasn't none too impressed teammate work hard one this city's circuit last year and finished friday's practice round with the best time of one minute and forty two point seven nine five seconds qualifying for great placement for the azerbaijan g.p. starts on saturday. and don't forget you can always get the news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the op to send us photos and video. partially daily news live from berlin thanks for joining us. to. learn german with w. anytime anyplace. with or with jo jo and her friends. colleagues is going to be getting up to mischief spi

spectacular flying and bouncing even by trampolines it was the european trampoline championships in baku obvious or by shot on sunday where participants wow with a tightly choreographed quick twist while catching a big air check this out this is ross most steffensen of denmark a silver medal winner. not too bad there that was the tumbling competition there and this was the double mini trampoline.

flying and bouncing aided by the springs of trampolines it was a european trampoline championships in baku on sunday where participants loudly tightly choreographed slips and twists but that's the same thing. this here is rassmann stephens and of denmark a silver medal winner. that was a tumble competition and this is the double mini trampoline for russia's fussily mccroskey a gold medal. you're watching due to the news still to come buried in rubbish a waste crisis hits major indian cities but one on something new or has come up with a way to turn the tide of garbage. good except i think that's coming up with gary hart in business. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving freedom. global news that matters w made for minds.

flying and bouncing aided by the springs of trampolines it was the european trampoline championships in baku on sunday where our participants wowed with tightly choreographed flips and catching air this is brusqueness steffensen of denmark a silver medal winner here. that was the tumbling competition and share this is the double mini trampoline where russia has vastly mccarthy to go from the. reminder in our top stories here on g.w. inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. still trying to gain access to the site of the alleged poison gas attack in the syrian city of duma it is not clear why they haven't been able to go there yet. the e.u. plans to slap a tax on big u.s. tech companies and washington is hitting back monica has all the details coming right up and business. just long way to start right there and it's not a just. what is the true face of the country. freedom independence a separation of state and church that used to be your.

and i was familiar with this iconic beef that he had with baku.. >> jimmy: did you read all the books or something? >> well -- and this is just a testament to how welcoming this fan base is. so i walked into a comic bookshop. in north hollywood. and the guy was just staring at me from behind the counter. but not that usual looking at you way in the stores. [ laughter ] you know. you know that way. >> you know that way. >> we know that way. and, you know, he like winks at me. i'm like, okay, all right. little weird. i go over. picking up a book. and he goes, i know you, i just want to let you know, i know you. then he proceeds to bring out every single issue my character had ever appeared in. >> jimmy: wow. >> he was like, i just want to give this to you, good luck. >> jimmy: he gave them all to you? >> gave them all to me. [ cheers and applause ] it's this place called -- >> jimmy: what is the name of the comic bookshop? >> blast off comics. >> jimmy: wow, nice assist from blast off comics. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: you've got to go back in costume

daniel riccardo of red bull the man who has the speed in baku right now.his afternoon. dan evans returns to tennis today after serving a year—long ban for taking cocaine. the former british number two says the drug is "shocking" and "life ruining", and that taking it was the "worst thing he has ever done". he left his tennis racquet at his parents house while he served his ban so he wasn't "haunted by the sight of it". he'll play at the qualifying event for the glasgow challenger today after being given a wildcard. and some big racing news, asjockey katie walsh announces she's retiring. the 33—year—old broke the news after a narrow win riding antey at punchestown yesterday. walsh, whose brother ruby is also a leading jockey, says: "i've had a marvellous career and i have unbelievable memories. the next chapter in life begins now." among those achievements — she's the best placed female jockey in grand national history, finishing third on seabass in 2013. i love her, because every grand national, every festival, if we are there for breakfast, she will get u

flying and bouncing aided by the springs of trampolines it was a european trampoline championships in baku on sunday were participants wowed with tightly choreographed looks and the passion of the air a watch rusnak steffensen of denmark on a silver medal winner here. and that was the tumbling competition and this is a mini trampoline. over russia's muscly mccoskey gold medal. ok we just have time for minder of our top stories we're following here on western leaders are calling for a fresh diplomatic push to end the war in syria two days after u.s. led airstrikes targeted sites linked to the production and storage of chemical weapons former f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump is morally unfit to be president of the united states economy was speaking as part of a publicity campaign to promote a new book about being fired by truck. thanks for watching we were back in thirty minutes. on. a plastic bottle turned into. good idea can work in the worm and there are people developing smart solutions everywhere. let's inspire children to invite them into magazine the go ahead to africa ne

the german, who is nine points clear of hamilton, finished 0.179 seconds clear of his rival at the bakul corner of his lap. vettel has already won two of the first three races this season. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on the bbc sport website plus news of a big day in rugby union. state media in north korea has hailed yesterday's summit with the south as historic — saying it paves the way for the start of a new era. the two leaders agreed to work to rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons at the landmark summit. us president donald trump said via twitter that he'd had a long and very good talk with south korea's president moon. he also made clear that america would continue to push for north korea to give up all of its nuclear weapons. for more on this, i'm joined by our washington correspondent, chris buckler. president trump sounding very upbeat about what happened yesterday? after the apparent success of that meeting at the korean border yesterday there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity and it is clear that the americans are in the middle of it. it gives you th

and celebrations on the streets of baku is azerbaijan's ilam ali embraces towards a landslide win in the presidential election. we begin with the war in syria russia has hit back at the united states saying its smart missiles should be aimed at terrorists and not of the syrian government that comes after u.s. president donald trump warned of a missile strike on syria following a suspect that chemical attack in dubai or white house correspondent kimberly how could has more. this is how the united states responded to last year's nerve agent gas attack in qana by attacking a syrian air base with tomahawk missiles and it's how the u.s. may act again. to the truck display of the syrian government for a recent suspected chemical attack outside damascus with their troops on the ground in syria he's also accusing russia of complicity for supporting president bashar al assad in a series of tweets of wednesday morning president donald trump warned missiles will be coming and taunted get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart russia has proven themselves to be responsib

s third consecutive pole position as he aims to win his third race of the season on the streets of bakuday's sport is on the bbc website including london irish being relegated from rugby union's premiership, dan evans's win on his return to tennis after a drugs ban, and previews of manchester city and chelsea women's champions league semi finals. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. that's all from me. goodnight. hello. this is bbc news. the review of the parole system, prompted by the controversial approval for the release of serial sex—offenderjohn worboys, has today been released. it calls for greater transparency in the parole process and for victims to be able to challenge decisions more easily. well, head of the parole board at that time was nick hardwick, who was sacked in march byjustice secretary david gauke after the high court's decision to block the release of the rapist john worboys. i asked him earlier about his reaction to the proposals. i think there's a big gap between the political reality and what is actually being proposed. what's being

the baku circuit is a narrow street track which led to a dramatic near crash between the two torro rossodetails. in formula 1 every nation brings its own challenge. azerbaijan is about conquering the streets but when it is narrow and congested, danger comes into play. this is how close pierre gastley came to a devastating collision. the team—mate he dodged pulled up with a tyre puncher, he was one near miss away from something much worse. lewis hamilton knows the road to a third career title is even trickier this year. he has ground to make up on the championship leader and once again he missed out on pole position. taking it to his final lap. kimi raikkonen led the way before getting blown off course in his final lap. that paved the way for sebastien vettel to take pole position. three races in a row where he will start in front. he knows beating hamilton means meeting every challenge head on. in the backed coup, staying street smart could be the key. after great britain's men's ice hockey team beat italy yesterday for the first time in 66 years, they now stand on the brink of winning w

loves buildings and clearly wants to appear cosmopolitan and western oriented azerbaijan's capital baku is modeled on dubai many of its new buildings were built by friends a few years ago one human rights organization voted most corrupt man of the year. but not without supporters at the turn of the millennium fifty percent of azerbaijanis lived below the poverty line now only six percent do despite alleged corruption many see him as a guarantor of stability but those who dared to question his powell suggest the country might be better off without him come in the face imprisonment protests and open criticism a wreck in this nation with its cold of personality a combination of oil based wealth and the whip swiftly eradicate any potential dumond's for greater democracy to a story the business world is also following closely so that's a story that is happening right now because the boss of facebook mark zuckerberg has been answering questions more questions rather from u.s. lawmakers about data privacy is up or berger is testifying following revelations that millions of people have their fa

him top of the drivers standings. which puts him top of jo lynskey reports. which puts him top of in bakurt line, a congestion fight. when it is this narrow, slight touches cause big problems. trying to dodge the debris left a few cars in a mess. away from the trouble, lewis hamilton made his own problems. he called his early race untidy, but this grand prix changed with a collision. but this grand prix two drivers on the same red bull team falling out at top speed. the crash took seven laps to clear, so when the race restarted, they were all bunched together. so when the race restarted, in the sprint finish, the red sebastien vettel lost his way, so next to take the lead was valtteri bottas, but his dream, like his tyre, was left in tatters. the worst time possible to get a puncture. that left a simple overtake for his mercedes team—mate. for hamilton, this was a win that fell into his lap. victory claimed in fortuity, and his first of the season. at snooker‘s world championship, john higgins made sure of his place in the quarter finals with a 146 break helping him set up a 13 frames to

has won his first grand prix of the the formula 1 season, but he needed a lot of luck to do it in bakund prix. both red bulls collided with each other. hamilton's team—mate valtteri bottas was on course to win but he suffered a puncture opening the way for hamilton to take the checkered flag. it takes hamilton to the top of the drivers championship standings. that's all the sport for now. more now on the resignation of the home secretary amber rudd. with more analysis of what this means for the government, here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. the timing is a surprise. in recent days we've seen both number ten and the home office really try to keep amber rudd in her position. there was a lot of sympathy for her inside the conservative party of canada and they tried on various defences of they tried on various defences of the mistakes that she said in her own words she had made, but it seems in the last few hours it had reached a tipping point, and the decision was that it was time for her to leave rather than for her to try and stay on and stymie the damage, much of which has b

crosses into western iran spreads up through terror on up to the southern caspi as well not even catch baku just about that's where the rain is south of it what to expect to see very much rain occasional showers just pop possible in yemen otherwise it's a breezy thing and that breeze is picking up dust a forecast dust load suggests that sunday could be quite unpleasant affair these inside a saturday possibly qatar as well but the wind dies down the dust disperses to some degree come monday temps around about thirty three mark in doha we expect to see the luck of showers in southern africa toward us what we've got there are a few catching the coast mozambique south and tanzania but otherwise it's just been a warm sunshine. getting to the heart of the matter if. the bill calls you today and says let's have would you accept facing reality what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peace corps unification is the only option for prosperity you. hear their story on al-jazeera and. whether someone is telling. me i think it's how you approach a. story and.

into a field killing all two hundred fifty seven people on board and celebrations on the streets of baku is azerbaijan's a lovely have races towards a landslide win in the presidential election. i'm joining in doha we had a sport first second night in a row there's high drama in the champions league but this time spanish side real madrid booked their place in the semifinals over its least eventis. we begin this hour with syria's war russia has hit back at the united states saying it's smart missiles should be aimed at terrorists not at the syrian government and that comes after u.s. president donald trump warned of a missile strike on syria following a suspected chemical attack in duma our white house correspondent kimberly how kate has more. this is how the united states responded to last year's nerve agent gas attack in qana by attacking a syrian air base with tomahawk missiles and it's how the u.s. may act again little truck display of the syrian government for a recent suspected chemical attack outside. damascus with their troops on the ground in syria he's also accusing russia of co

the baku circuit is a narrow street track which led to a dramatic near crash between the two torro rosso. the team—mate he dodge pulled up with a tyre puncher, he was one near miss away from something much worse. lewis hamilton knows the road to a third career title is even trickier this year. he has ground to make up on the championship leader and once again he missed out on pole position. taking it to his final lap. that paved the way for sebastien vettel to ta ke paved the way for sebastien vettel to take pole position. three races ina row to take pole position. three races in a row where he will start in front. in bacuna, stein streetsmart could be the key. richard johnson has been named champion jockey for the third time in a row at sandown park. johnson was runner up to ap mccoy on sixteen occasions but has now won the title every year since 2016. he could only manage second place on the final day of the season but did win the cheltenham gold cup on native river in march. staying with horse racing and seven time cheltenham festival winning jockey nina carberry has announced her ret

indiana, and followed stan as the invoice and later into adulthood when a meeting and helicopter at baku air base in afghanistan researching horse soldiers and you still in the army. he touched on s the site and he said would you ever write about vietnam? i sit stanley come in 2005 i don't think america is ready to read that story yet. i wish i could tell it and finally in about 2014 i did start the book and returned to vietnamre with stan where the bk is with some sense of competence towards the light. it's not an angry book. it's not a bitter book. it's a book i find in my experience dealing with veterans of three different wards, very intimately the book when my job was to acknowledge their experience and to try to reflect it back to them in hopes that also will slide the book across the kitchen table and say were you there? at that something like this happened you? so that perhaps in our country it is a a conversation that mit open up about this generation of americans, men and women, who served in this conflict which creatively so much chaos and which we are living with today in our

loves buildings and clearly wants to appear cosmopolitan and western oriented azerbaijan's capital baku is modeled on dubai many of its new buildings were built by friends a few years ago one human rights organization voted most corrupt man of the year but he's not without supporters at the turn of the millennium fifty percent of azerbaijanis lived below the poverty line now only six percent do despite alleged corruption many see him as a guarantor of stability but those who dare to question his power all suggest the country might be better off without him commonly face imprisonment protests and open criticism a read in this nation with its cult of personality a combination of oil based wealth and the whip swiftly eradicate any potential demands for greater democracy. a look at the financial world now in time between russia and the us are causing the russian ruble to drop fast against the u.s. dollars as new sanctions are hitting russian businessmen and their companies along with the sharply escalating diplomatic crisis in syria now the ruble has fallen to just over fifteen u.s. cents o

championship lead from ferrari sebastian vettel but an incident packed a race that was a disastrous day in baku for red bull and basin has more. lewis hamilton has struggled to match the pace of sebastian vettel so far this season and it looked like he would be second best again as the ferrari driver led from pole him back but this would turn out to be anything but an ordinary race the circuit proving to type to some in the early stages the battle for top dog at red bull has been building between max for stop and daniel ricardo and that came to a head on the track. cart a running into the back of his teammate and red bull leading back with no points to share. that saw the safety car come out with just a few laps remaining with the savings about three leading the way from vettel but the german drive the last places to hamilton and team mate kimi raikkonen on the restart and just as both us looked to be cruising to the win a puncture ended his race handing victory to a subdued hamilton with reichen in taking second and said you pres putting force india on the podium for the first time since twent

state of the universe that started in something that was her act i would rather take the risks of to baku she had the risks of dictatorship digital dissidents on al-jazeera. and then reported world on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the your. old buck it's time to sport his tatyana. thank you so much barcelona have secured the spanish league title with a record four games to spasov to elena messi hot trick evolved as side to afford to victory at the pool table on sunday giving them an unassailable lead over a second place at less accommodate in the standings these were the themes as barcelona fans celebrated the team's twenty fifth the league title is the second piece of silverware path to have

duhan, got the third. at the azerbaijan grand prix. finished just clear of his rival at the baku streetown park. but has now won the title every year since 2016. he could only manage second place on the final day of the season. of his highlights of the season. event in glasgow. ireland's sam's barry today. hockey for the first time in 25 years. promotion and a gold medal. part of the sport's elite. very well done to them. a slightly more light—hearted look at yesterday's football. dress for theirfinal away game of the season. in the past, and yesterday, the theme was clowns. have a look. match at tranmere. look away if you do not like clowns. goodness me! stepping in buckets and water pistols and the whole lot. pistols and the whole lot. intimidating but i actually find those little more scary. those little more scary. they are, aren't they? it is all in good spirits. it isn't exactly... i prefer the smurfs or all bloggers. prefer the smurfs or all bloggers. —— oompa loompas. that ice hockey story is fantastic. story is fantastic. like to win right at the death of the match? the match?