it was a repeat of the masters final from earlier this year back injanuary, which was won by mark allen kyren wilson, who leads the northern irishman by 11— five, exactly the same as it is on ding ‘stable. there are two other quarterfinals taking place which will finish off on wednesday, as the four time when john higgins, up againstjudd trump come about as a repeat of the 2011 final won by higgins. he trails by 5-3 final won by higgins. he trails by 5—3 against trump and also mark williams, the welshman level at 4—4. 0f williams, the welshman level at 4—4. of course, you can get everything at the website, or via the bbc sport app. seven—time champion serena williams could still be the number one seed at wimbledon this year, even if the american doesn't climb back into the world's top 32 before the tournament. williams has dropped to 4a9th in the world since giving birth last year. but she believes players returning from pregnancy should have protected seedings, as well as protected rankings. meanwhile, andy murray is likely to face a tough opening match at wimbledon, if as expected he

he began level at four frames all with mark allen and finished for the day leading 11—5.noon. you can follow that all throughout the next few days. on the bbc sport website. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and broadcaster, aasmah mir and the editor of politics home, kevin schofield. good to have you both. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let us start with the ft, which leads with allegations that the home office has wrongly ordered as many as 7,000 foreign students to leave the country over their english proficiency tests. "may warned brexit deal will sink her" says the telegraph, as the prime minister is warned by 60 tory rebels the government will collapse if she doesn't abandon plans for a post—brexit customs partnership with the eu. the express has better news for theresa may, who we see in the power pose which we saw the new home model yesterday, they've done a survey which shows she's kept the lead over jeremy co

and sir mark allen, the m16 officer who was dealing with the libyans, he has never spoken publicly aboutnies individual wrongdoing. but i'm very compressed there. —— the time very compressed, there. i'm joined now by lance price, former labour director of communications, who left blair's government three years before abdel hakim belhaj was seized. good evening to you. did you wonder today why theresa may was having to apologise for this, rather than the people who were kind of in power at the time that it happened, tony blair, jack straw and the others? i would have found it strange that she was apologising on behalf of the british government when it was a different government, of course, that was responsible and was in power at the time. it was a pretty damning indictment on the government. the most damning that i have heard from one government on a previous one. heard from one government we expect politicians to take responsibility. amber rudd has to take responsibility for the clock ups at the home office. even though she did not personally deprive people of health care. do you the en

six years ago, mr belhaj launched a legal action against the british government, mark allen, an mi6 officerles and jack straw, who was foreign secretary at the time. today, jack straw acknowledged he had given verbal approval for some intelligence to be shared, but says he had always acted lawfully. whether he was fully briefed by mi6 remains unclear. outside parliament, lawyers who had worked with the family described the day as a victory for everyone who opposes injustice, secret detention and torture. the uk lost its way when it got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an anti—gaddafi dissident, but today, i think it stood on the right side of history by recognising its mistakes and by apologising. while his wife received compensation of £500,000, mr belhaj said he did not want money, just an apology. and today, he got it. it has taken years to get to this point. parliamentary enquiries failed to unearth the story and it was only the fall of gaddafi's regime that brought it to light, and still the government sought to keep it quiet. today's settlement, though, may

in 2007 one of her affairs turned out to be this man, mark allen, a new mexico horse breeder and heir i said i'll take the ex-mrs. washington. allen asked her to marry him. >> the biggest mistake i ever made in my life. >> within months of moving to his new mexico ranch, allen says peggy was nosing her way into his horse business, pressing him to fire longtime employees and hire friends of hers. >> you know, she wanted her people to do the accounting and stuff. >> when he refused, allen says, the man magnet turned into a maneater. >> she'd get on me and it was -- it was like a man getting on you. she's a pretty good sized woman. i looked in her eyes and i -- i mean, she's evil. she is evil. >> but if peggy thomas married well, she divorced even better. allen says he gave her money and an 80-foot houseboat just to go away. >> the divorce took way longer than the marriage did. >> looking back, mark allen says he should have known better. he says a few days before their wedding peggy let him in on a little secret. >> she said she was accused of being involved in a murder and that her ex-

he beat northern ireland's mark allen 13—6 make his first world championship semifinal.our reporter, tulsen tollett. this is a tournament of shots and another one today. —— of shocks. yes, you talked about ding junhui going out to barry hawkins. john higgins and judd trump are 8—8 piece. let's chat a man knows a thing or two about the crucible theatre. the in 1985 against steve avis. dennis, have a look at this. we see the cloud coming in, it is brilliant. but when you talk about the players now, is it more unpredictable now as to who would go to the final than it was in your day? over 30 years ago, you could predict matches a lot easier. nowadays, they are all playing to such a high standard. it has been probing with the 8/4—finalists we have five. former world champions have five. former world champions have gone but the line—up is incredible. it is very difficult to predict the matches because they are playing all over the world all the time and the standard is very high. how much of a difference does it make when it goes from the two table set up into just one table?

elsewhere, it's a repeat of the masters final on the other table where mark allen and kyren wilson shared first to 13 goes through. those matches resume at 7 o'clock, starting in the next half—hour are the other two quarter—finals, john higgins againstjudd trump, and mark williams versus ali carter. there's coverage from the crucible on bbc 2, and on the bbc sport website where you'll find more on all our stories. let's talk a little more about brexit right now. the prominent back—bencher and strong advocate of brexit, jacob—rees mogg has accused the house of lords of trying to prevent the referendum decision to leave the eu from coming into law. peers voted last night to give parliament the final say, if a deal can't be reached with the european union. our assistant political editor norman smith spoke to mr rees mogg and asked for his reaction to that vote. it reflects on the house of lords, a strong majority fall remain, it was a rejection of the result. lord hailsham, who moved the motion, he said, at the very best it was an interim decision. the noble lord is saying that the biggest d

six years ago, mr belhaj launched a legal action against the british government, mark allen, an mi6 officere files and jack straw, who was foreign secretary at the time. today, jack straw acknowledged he had given verbal approval for some intelligence to be shared, but says he had always acted lawfully. whether he was fully briefed by mi6 remains unclear. outside parliament, lawyers who had worked with the family described the day as a victory for everyone who opposes injustice, secret detention and torture. the uk lost its way when it got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and an anti—gaddafi dissident, but today, i think it stood on the right side of history by recognising its mistakes and by apologising. while his wife received compensation of half a million pounds, mr belhaj said he did not want money, just an apology. and today, he got it. it has taken years to get to this point. parliamentary enquiry is failed to unearth the story and it was only the fall of gaddafi's regime that brought it to light and still the government sought to keep it quiet. today's settlem

on the 3rd of may, the claims againstjack straw and sir mark allen were withdrawn.mediation. this has been a long way and hugely complex piece of litigation which has been difficult for all the individuals involved as parties. as we have seen in recent years, there remains a considerable international threat to the uk and our allies and it is important that government and the security and intelligence agencies are able to respond properly to keep our country safe. but it is also important that we should act in line with our values and in accordance with our values and in accordance with the rule of law. that means that when we get things wrong, it is right and just that we should acknowledge it, compensate those affected, and learn lessons. i believe this is such a case. the settle m e nt believe this is such a case. the settlement of this claim has been agreed out of court. the main elements of the agreement i can report to the house are as follows. first, no missions of liability have been made by any of the defendants in settling these claims. secondly, the claim

one time i called mark allen. ust before people have all of the ways of communicating that we have now. you do it with a leaflet. they would hand it to people as a way to work. i called mark and we met there. and the police were waiting for us. i wonder how they knew. it's reminiscent. in the conference office here in atlanta. we later found out that one of our best allies in memphis was also paid fbi informant. and he took all of these famous pictures of emmett till marvelous photographer. he is getting paid by the fbi. and we didn't know that then. and rodney and i were talking earlier that you could maybe be naÏve about working with the fbi at some point but by 1969 you know what you're doing. and one of the sets of the photos in the house that they are lived in. taken from the front, the side in the back. the police and new what the way people came in and went out. during one of the incidents there. the police are surrounding our house. i went down i sat on their porch. and acted as an aclu observer. there was

one time i called mark allen, good ally of mine. we are going to meet at a factory to hand out leaflets that just before people had all of the ways of communicating that we do now, so you've got to the firestone factory about whatever the issue was and hand it to people as they went to work and so i called and we met there and the police were waiting for us. thought i wonder how they knew. one phone call somebody sitting there listening. it's reminiscent of what they did doctor king, which is followed him, the fbi did this, followed him to every hotel that he visited, back then they could do it wireless. they had to actually implant a wire into his hotel room. they implanted into the southern christian leadership conference. his treasurer was a paid fbi informant to and later found out some of our best allies was also a paid fbi informant and he's the man who took all of these famous pictures of hemant was a famous photographer. stephe .. >> so i put on a coat and went down to stand on the porch. as a aclu observer if the police sta

kyren wilson continues his match with mark allen, while the new favourite ding junhui is in trouble trailing.uk/sport. a court has heard that an army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute believed he would get a £120,000 life—insurance payout. emile cilliers denies attempted murder and criminal damage. duncan kennedy reports. emile cilliers, on the left, is a sergeant in the army, and is accused of twice trying to kill his wife in the space of six days. victoria and emile cilliers were married, but the court heard he wanted to get rid of her and treated her with absolute contempt. mrs cilliers came to give her evidence for the first time today, in this retrial of her husband. in april 2015, at the netheravon airfield in wiltshire, mrs cilliers jumped out of an aircraft, but both her main and reserve parachutes failed to open. she fell 4,000 feet and landed in a field. the prosecution say it was her husband, emile cilliers, who sabotaged her parachute at the airbase the day before the incident. the jury has seen this video reconstruction from the prosecut

as i look at this more, i was talking with mark, allen, rachel, this morning i think it's having the opposite effect. or it's going to. follow me through this case. let's say that you're a director at a va medical center. and you have two pots of money. and you have a provider that works for you. a government employee that decides to leave. so you want to replace this person. but it's not going to happen right away. so in the interim, you have to send that care downtown, while you go out and recruit a provider. so that workload and that money has flowed to the private sector, right? so we're sending patients downtown and you're recruiting. and we have two separate pots of money. and then you decide, or your find someone that's willing to come on board. unfortunately your money has been moved to community care of choice. and you don't have access to that money. when you come to me as a cfo and say hey, i got this person lined up. they're ready to start. and i'm like okay, it's going to take me three months to get that money back to you. you know that provider isn't going to wait three

he began level at four frames all with mark allen and finished the day leading 11—5. giving birth last year. the all england club says it can decide to seed a player, regardless of ranking. a decision will be made at a meeting in latejune. andy murray will not be seeded if he‘s not ranked in the top 32 when the championships begin. murray hasn‘t played competitively since losing in the quarter—finals last year because of a hip injury. it means he could be drawn against, for example, roger federer or rafael nadal in the first round. it is all done through a computer formula, determining that. why can serena get it and not murray? some of our best known retailers, like debenhams, house of fraser, evenjohn lewis, have been experiencing tough times recently as shoppers abandon the high street. but could a little innovation tempt customers back? ben is at europe‘s biggest retail technology show to find out more. tell us more. good morning. we are at europe hours largest retailing technology expo looking at how the high street can fight back. technology has changed the way

pledge to bury mark weinberger under a mountain of debt. >> if you had him in front of him, what would you tell him? >> this is your just desserts, >> ken allenrmined. >> but monica says she still cares deeply for the man she knew as mark stern and the feeling is evidently mutual. felt comfortable with and loved in her life. rob stafford: how deep is the scar for you? it's deep. it's deep. it's deep. rob stafford: but monica says she still cares deeply for the man she knew as mark stern, >> but monica says she still cares deeply for the man she knew as mark stern and the feeling is evidently mutual. >> i receive a letter from a collection. >> what did it say? >> i love you. don't forget me or don't forget the mountain. so he search to be real with me. he was i think real with me. >> it's noteworthy that shortly after weinberger's capture in italy, his italian girlfriend began corresponding with his american ex via facebook. >> i was picturing a thin blonde girl who was maybe about 20, 25. i was 25 when i met him. that's what i had picture. >> monica is about the opposite of you. >> yes. we shared one thing in common. he lied to her and he lie

breaking up, mark, i apologize, jonathan allen to the idea, the message that hillary delivered on economics. is there something to what the caller was bringing up? interesting, the caller is talking about deficits and the debt. huge effort on the clinton campaign's part to find ways to pay for her programs, was very they thought important that every time they went out and told the voters bout a new program, there was some pay for it, cut in spending elsewhere or increase in taxes. believed that was the responsible thing to do and voters would respond to it. end, it didn't matter what we saw was president trump campaign on policies that were going to expand the deficit and come into office and tax ment policies the last cut and the big spending boost e just got more recently than exacerbates the deficit. we are looking at as far as the can see trillion dollar deficit in debt that will skyrocket. obviously didn't prioritize that as number one idea going into the election. way, they have not done that for a long time. complains power party about deficits and debt, ba-- er partyaxace exacerbate

mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. it is just after 7:30 p.m. in new york and it is 7:30 a.m. in sydney and that i am joined by paul allen in sydney. orning mark, health and markets,weight on u.s. and the fed holds, as expected, and we have the s&p and dow both off 7/10 of 1% and the nasdaq -- 4/10 for tens of 1% of 1%, and tesla reported in will have that story in a little while. and we have asx futures pointing a lower, andke japan closed today with the aussie dollar hovering above $.75 u.s. below $68l slipping as u.s. crude inventories buildup. elsewhere we look at the australian trade that is expected to widen, and steven mnuchin is in china to talk trade. i am paul allen in sydney. more from "bloomberg technology" is next. ♪ emily: this is a technology and back to our top story. tesla out with first-quarter revenues and elon musk saying he is targeting 5000 model threes in two months, but it is difficult to predict production. if the company cap up its production the company will be profitable in the third and fourth quarter, and aside from s anddel three, the model model x are hot, and joined us now from detroit is david welch

see how mark zuckerberg plans to keep the company going next. this is bloomberg. ♪ paul: i'm paul allendney. betty: i'm betty liu in new york. as we have mentioned, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg has struck an optimistic tone at the conference.veloper he conference. he says he will keep building apps and tools for users despite the company's issues with fake news and hate speech. i want to bring in sarah frier in san jose who has been following this developers conference. what stood out to you in mark zuckerberg's keynote here? sarah: i think the contrast for me was so incredible. i watched this man for 10 hours in front of congressional testimony and saying the same things over and over. in front of developers, he completely changed his tune. he is almost like a preacher in front of this -- he was so passionate about the changes he was making. it was interesting to see the difference. be tonly, he needed to developers to believe in a future with facebook again. betty: i'm sure he is so comfortable in front of that audience, sarah. sarah: developers to believe in a future with facebook ag

mark zuckerberg. >>> a fairfield father accused of torturing his 10 children is speaking out. jonathan allen said he is not a monster and his children have been brainwashed into thinking they were abused. the children were living in horrible conditions and they say the children described incidents of abuse that resulted in burns and injuries consistent with being shot by a bb gun. right now the father is in the solano county jail. >> it is so messed up. the children took them and they had no marks on them whatsoever. i want the police to know that i am not an animal. i am not a cruel dad. >> we are getting word that the mother, ina rogers, will be facing nine counts of child abuse. >>> dozens are rallying in san francisco to protest and celebrate the founding of israel. this is a live look at the rally outside the israeli consulate. there remembering thousands of palestinians forced to leave during the founding of israel. the demonstration comes the day after the u.s. embassy was moved to jerusalem and deadly clashes between protesters and israeli troops began. >> there are two sides and you

. >> willem marks live from london, thank you. >>> coming up, axios's mike allen has a look at this morning's>>> and president trump lashing out at the deep state. saying a spy was embedded in his campaign. top intel officials and lawmakers are preparing to meet on the informant and senators angus keen, james langford and jeanne shaheen will be here and new york city mayor bill de blasio joins the conversation. "morning joe" just moments away. >>> welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the co-founder of axios, mike allen. talk to us about axios' one big thing today. >> it's president trump's torch it all strategy. wooer seeing on your air so many attacks, so many targets. so often that sometimes we forget to step back and look at what he's doing. what we have is presidential whack-a-mole, any threat that comes up, any person or institution that might hold him accountable, he goes after. so we have the media, we have the intel community. we have the justice department. fbi, the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, special counsel robert mueller. mueller's

mark crumpton. just after 5:30 p.m. in new york. my colleague paul allen has a look at the markets. good morning. an afternoon rally in the in majorred out indexes in major indexes ending lower. the dow kind of flat. back afterussie dollar pushing getting a boost from strong march traded numbers. the u.s. dollar also weakening against most g10 currencies. oil higher again above $68. gold gaining. we are waiting on the u.s. jobs report and the number of other things to look out for as well. the u.s. trade talks continuing in china. on.a services ppmi later alibaba earnings out before the reopened in the u.s. more from bloomberg technology next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." i'm emily chang. union square investors has invested in some of the biggest names in tech, from twitter to etsy. they are a backer of coinbase and cryptocurrency. became the first female partner, joining the in san francisco. you are going to move there. you have invested in periscope. what has the transition been like thus far? >> it has been really awesome and exciting. i think the interesting thing about venture i

you start to see mark penn, a former clinton aide sort of questioning the mueller probe. you see allen these members of congress who will be meeting today to discredit the origin of the probe. so it's not always totally coordinated. but now it's all of these voices, almost every day. trying to raise questions about the probe now. but also the origins of it. and the why it matters. the why it matters, is that the more you have this and the more successful it is, and polls show with republicans it is pretty successful, where you have a lot of republicans saying this investigation should end and that the president is not guilty enough to be impeached. that gives the president more and more leverage. because at the end of the day, this is both a legal debate, but it is also a political debate. because it's a house of representatives, that's controlled by republicans that would decide impeachment. and it's the senate which is controlled by republicans that would decide removal. so we should pay attention to this campaign. >> so besides it just being kind of a public chorus and solidifying t

mark crumpton. it is just after 5:30 p.m. in new york, 7:30 a.m. in sydney. paul allen has a look at the markets. good morning.ood morning. a bit of a mixed finish on wall street. we have the s&p up one quarter of 1%. the dow off by a quarter of 1%. the nasdaq up 9/10 of 1%. apple beating on most expectations. snap disappointing on almost every metric and suffered after hours. locally, let's take a look at how we are shaping up for wednesday in asia. asx futures pointing slightly higher, 1/10 of 1%. nikkei futures higher by two thirds of 1%. the currency space, the aussie slip below 75%. the yen weakening as well. with commodities, a similar story. oil slip below $68. gold hitting for its lowest price since december. the public holiday is over in china and we are waiting on the pmi for april. i'm paul allen in sydney. more from bloomberg technology next. ♪ ♪ this is bloomberg technology. we are live at the milken institute global conference in beverly hills, california. i want to get back to the top story which is apple second-quarter results. while revenue in iphone sales in line with estimates, one area wher

allen questrom. >>> turning now across the pond and the eu with mark zuckerberg. josh lipton has the story in san francisco, josh? >> kelly, facebook's mark zuckerberg saying sorry again before u.s. lawmakers in april, and today, before eu lawmakers >> but it's also become clear over the last couple years that we have not done enough to prevent tools from used for harm as well. and that goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a mistake, and i'm sorry for it >> now, zuckerberg addressed election interference on the platform saying the company's doing a better job, for example, using ai, saying to detect or remove fake accounts, and reminded the audience of the company's commitment and investment in europe >> we're very committed to europe almost 400 million people in europe rely on our services to connect and communicate with their friends and the communities that matter most to them, dublin is home to our european head quarters london

is travis allen and then for my state -- for my state school superintendent is that 4%. 39% are still undecided before the primary. >> the top two vote getters will go off in november. >>> markmembers of the european parliament in brussels to issue his latest public apology for the company's privacy scandal. he admitted facebook failed to adequately protect users information. he said they didn't do its job and fighting fake news and propaganda, especially in the past few years. >> we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm. that goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a mistake. i'm sorry for it. >> he made a similar vow and issued a similar apology before appearing the u.s. -- before the u.s. congress last month. his appearance becomes three days before europe is enforcing new internet privacy rules. >>> and on views -- the mountain view city council is considering a tax of $2 million a year or more on google. the tax would be collected through a restructuring of the city's business license tax. voters make a decision

mark sykes and vice mayor. just several days later on december the eleven thousand nine hundred seventeen the british army commanded by general edmund allonby captured jerusalem. entering the holy city alongside allen the was a jewish military unit established under british all citizens. one member of this unit was david ben-gurion who would later be israel's first prime minister. the unit also included said jabotinsky a future zionist leader as well as. soon to be father of a young boy itzhak rabin. within a month general allen be welcomed time vice month in jerusalem. there were approximately fifty thousand jews in palestine at this time ten percent of the population among staff a million arabs. the great war ended in one thousand nine hundred eighty and preparations were made for a peace conference in paris president of the united states woodrow wilson commissioned an investigation into the known turkish areas of the form of autumn and. the commission was headed by the academic dr henry kane and the politician charles crane. when it was eventually published the crane king report proved to be illicit dynamite the report stated that the non jewish population of palestine nearly nine tenths of the

allen has pleaded not guilty to felony charges of torture and child abuse. both parents are due back in court next week for a preliminary hearing. >>> later today, san francisco mayor markrell will announce an effort in the city to help heroin addicts beat their addiction. it is a first in the country and will bring direct treatment to addicts. according to the chronicle l, the mayor is including $6 million in the current budget proposal to pay for a 10-person team that will go out on to the streets and give homeless people a new drug that is effective at stopping heroin cravings almost immediately. mayor farrell told the chronicle that waiting for addicts to come into a clinic is not working. >>> happening now a member of the bart board of directors is helping police at the bart station. he has been there since 5:30 this morning to patrol the area. this comes after a bart rider released videos of people passed out or shooting up drugs inside the station. >> it looks third world. honestly you wouldn't think you're in america. body after body sitting down, needles, feces. everything. >> the san francisco police department has joined bart police in patrolling the area thi

kyren wilson leads mark allen 11—5, needing just two frames to reach the semi—finals. eoin morgan became captain. they struggled in test cricket this winter, but were dominant against australia in their one day series, winning a—1. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. so the cabinet and the rest of the conservative party are spending the day arguing about what should replace the customs union when the uk leaves the eu. brexiteers wants it to be something known as maximum faciliatation. 0thers — generally those who were more supportive of remain — prefer an alternative known as the customs partnership. but does anyone know exactly what either of those terms actually mean? one man who does is chris morris from our reality check team and he's here to make it all clear. this is all about trying to ensure that trade remains as easy as possible — frictionless is the government's preferred term — once the uk has left the eu. at the moment, the uk, like every country in the eu, is automatically part of the customs union. that means there are n