john sudworth in beijing, thank you.t the mail on sunday over a claim it unlawfully published one of her private letters. in a statement prince harry referred to what he called relentless propaganda against his wife, and said he wasn't prepared to see her victimised by the press as his mother was. the duke and duchess are on the last leg of their tour of southern africa. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell is injohannesburg. this is a very strongly worded statement by prince harry. it is remarkably outspoken. it is nothing less than a stinging attack on the british tabloid media. at the centre of this legal case is a letter written by the duchess to her estranged father thomas at his home in mexico, portions of which were quoted in the mail on sunday earlier this year. in his statement the duke says his wife has become one of the latest victims of the british tabloid media, and he refers to a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the last year. he talks about the double standards of this specific press pack, wh

more from our beijing correspondent john sudworth injust a moment. first, rupert wingfield—hayes is in hong kong. this was hong kong's birthday present to china. they had been told to stay home, that any protest today would be illegal. any hope the protests would pass peacefully were quickly dashed. this was central hong kong this afternoon, and this the town of tsuen wan. police and protesters fighting running street battles. in the middle of one such battle, this happened. as a young protester tries to strike a policeman with a metal bar, the officer shoots at almost point—blank range. the 18—year—old protester is expected to survive. but news of his shooting only increased the fury on the streets. we are not afraid. because they shoot, we will get angrier and angrier. we are not afraid of them. especially us, we have to stay in the front line to protect our people, to save hong kong and the future of hong kong. as night fell, the streets of hong kong began to burn. the protesters began targeting chinese state—owned banks with molotov cocktails. bu

john sudworth: it was a display of military might.ng kong's protesters are railing against. unchallenged political power. china's 70—year economic rise presented as a communist party victory, in communist party style. the president looking on as the adoring crowds carried his portrait. "no force can stop the chinese people," he said. but, while china's economic boom has been extraordinary, communist rule has also brought chaos, famine... huge fences all around it — look. ..and recently, the mass incarceration of muslims, in camps that china calls schools. all of these issues are heavily censored. translation: if the party controls everything, society is screwed up. the best way of celebration would be to review history and learn from it. even beijing's parade was for invited guests only, with the public kept at a distance. hong kong's chief executive, carrie lam, was there, celebrating china's transition from impoverished neighbour to dominant power. it's an extraordinary, high—octane tribute to this country's rise to prosperity. but

john sudworth in china and damian grammaticas in belgium, thank you, both.ate group has become the first person in the uk to be convicted of a terrorism offence following a retrial. aidan james, who's 28, was found guilty of being in a camp where terrorist training was being carried out by a kurdish group, the pkk. june kelly reports. aidan james set off for syria in 2017. while hundreds of uk foreign fighters headed to the middle east to join so—called islamic state forces, he was one of a much smaller band of britons on the other side. he attended training camps run by two kurdish groups opposed to is. prosecutors said terrorist training was being carried out at both camps — and just by being there, aidanjames was breaking uk law. he eventuallyjoined the front line with the kurdish group the ypg, an ally of the west. this man, who uses the pseudonym mesa gifford, was one of the other britons involved in the fight against is — and he met aidanjames. i think aidan was caught up in something much bigger than himself, really. he was motivated by compassion, he

john sudworth reports john: she planned to draw a line under mont of protests and division on the streets. inthead, carrie lam was met more of it in hong kong's parliament. with oppositio mps, some wearing masks of the chinese president xi jinping, telling for he down to she gave up on her speech. it was delivereddenstead in a recording. help more hong kongers get on hong kong's parliament has not met since it was stormed by protesters in july. months of violent demonstrations have followed over fears that hong kong'sedon f are being eroded under chinese rule. how can you hope to heal divisions in this society if your policy address contains nothing to address the issue driving e protest this could not address or asve the probms in society flected in the social unrest. john rowland with no- john:no with polical solution in s, the violence has been intensified. the threat of chinese military intervention remains in th background.this is a politician, caught between the unstoppable force of the protest movement and the immovable object of beijing. it is a political crisis with no easy solut

investigations are now turning to china and the challenge to identify the victims. correspondent, john sudworthies tell us they are still trying to gather information. for now, we know nothing about who these people were or where exactly in china they came from. there is a profound sense of shock being expressed on social media that something like this could have happened again. in previous incidents, the 58 people found dead in the back of a lorry in dover back in 2000, for example, or the 21 chinese people who drowned off morecombe in 2004, in those cases, they were brought to the uk by the snake head gangs, a notorious chinese criminal underworld that runs these people smuggling operations. what is interesting is that in recent years, demand was thought to have been falling away, the chinese economy today provides far more opportunities than it used to and even for those who still look for work in the black market economies overseas, today, flights and visas and passports are far more easy to come by. we will need to wait for more information but what this dreadful discovery in essex may tel

john sudworth, bbc news, hong kong.ll impose more than $7 billion worth of import taxes, ortariffs, on a range of goods from the eu, including single malt whisky from scotland. it's in retaliation for illegal government subsidies to the aircraft manufacturer airbus, the rival of the us firm boeing. the new tariffs are targeted at those four eu countries which helped airbus, including the uk. our business editor, simonjack, takes a look at what the impact could be on scottish firms. a bolt from the blue. a is—yearfeud between eu giant airbus and arch us rival boeing over government subsidies has seen the us allow to impose $7.5 billion worth of tariffs on eu products, and the impact has landed right here, in speyside in scotland. from friday, single malt exports from scotland to the us, worth £1 billion, will be hit with a 25% tariff. single malts from the republic of ireland will not. so, this has been matured in sherry casks for... this distillery sends 60,000 bottles of spey single malt to the us every year. patricia

we will hear from john sudworth in beijing in a moment.ield—hayes reports from hong kong. a very violent day here in hong kong. police say 180 people have been arrested today, the largest number of only one day in this four months of protest. and they say also that they used six live rounds in the protest, and for the first time one of those rounds was fired directly at one of the protesters. viewers might find some of the images in my report disturbing. extraordinary. communist rule has also brought chaos, famine... and recently the mass incarceration of muslims in camps that china called schools. all of these issues are heavily censored. translation: if the party controls everything, society is it up. the best way of celebration would be to review history and learn from it. even beijing's parade was for invited guests only, with the public kept at a distance. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam was there, elevating china's transition from impoverished neighbour to dominant power. it is an extraordinary high octane tribute to this coun

in a moment we'll hear from john sudworth on those celebrations, but first rupert wingfield—hayes reportssaid, today was supposed to be all about china's big birthday party. but in hong kong, many people were determined to spoil the party for china. they had been told that protest today were banned, but that did not stop them coming out in their tens of thousands. it has been a very violent day in hong kong today. police say 180 protesters have been arrested, and police have fired six live rounds during the protest today, and for the first time, one of those rounds was fired directly at a protester. this was hong kong's birthday present to china. they had been told to stay home, that any protest today would be illegal. any hope the protests would pass peacefully were quickly dashed. this was central hong kong this afternoon. and this, police and protesters fighting running street battles. in the middle of one such battle, this happened. as a young protester tries to strike a policeman with a metal bar, the officer shoots that almost point—blank range. the 18—year—old protester is expected

john sudworth, bbc news, hong kong.g glacier, as part of their tour of pakistan, travelling to the mountains of the hindu kush, to see for themselves the effect of global warming. prince william called for the uk and pakistan to work together on tackling what he called the "impending global catastrophe". our royal correspondent, jonny dymond, is travelling with them and sent this report. even for the royals, it is a rocky road up the hindu kush. william and catherine came here to see firsthand the impact of a warming planet. the retreat of the glaciers that, across these mountains, serving nearly a quarter of humanity. when the glaciers melt, they sent walter tumbling down, flooding the region and then, once they are gone, there is nothing left for the rivers, the rivers that irrigate this hot, hard lan and it is by the prince because global warming and impending catastrophe. he came to learn but also to sound the alarm. a billion people rely on this water behind us. an enormous amount of people. it is very ha rd to an