like now, it's just there, you see the whole pagoda at once. there's no sense of the unfolding of the design, and i think with that walkway, there is a sense of passage. i like that. i can see when you look at this concept of the frame, it does have this elements of the design unfold, and it's not seen all at once. >> so i think when this does come back to us as an update on the landmark designation, one of the things that we're going to be evaluating is the last two design iterations really impacted the plaza, and the last two listed those remaining features that are still important, and so we'll be evaluating about whether it's lost its landmark designation. it does seem to be retaining all of those elements that have been identified as important. i do think the meaning and the memory of the original design had a significance. and just because it had been lost in the 2000 renovation and the one prior to that, i think it could still be brought forward. so i think how it gets implemented, i can see either way. i think the terrace -- the trellice

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaons across the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. it's buddhist new year and in thailand this means celebrating with a bit of a splash. hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets carrying water pistols in what is thought to be the world's biggest water fight. it's called songkran and is also celebrated in laos, cambodia and myanmar. throwing water symbolises washing away last year's bad luck. a 100—year—old german woman has started a new chapter in her life by running for election to the local council. lisel heise, a former sports teacher, is focusing her campaign on reopening the outdoor swimming pool in her home town. she is running as a candidate in the may election for a grassroots group which campaigns for sustainable development. her recipe for reaching the age of 100 is to live healthily, do lots of sport, eat well and train the mind. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. the weather now with nick miller. hello, after a chilly

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodauly exhibitions across the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. that is just about it from me. you can get in touch with me on twitter at any time. i'm @lvaughanjones. i will be back with headlines on a couple of minutes. all the top stories of the day at the top of the hour, but for now, you are watching bbc world news. hello, after a chilly start to the weekend, if anything during sunday it will feel a bit colder. of course it always helps if you get to see some sunshine, and most of us did at some stage on saturday. but for sunday there is expected to be more cloud building up and the east—south—easterly wind will be a bit stronger too. all that comes after a frosty start, and a good few degrees below freezing where we've had clear skies overnight, and away from any breezy conditions along north sea coasts and this weather front in north—western parts. this is a different flavour to the weather on sunday. more cloud around and some of us seeing a bit of

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodachihuly exhibitions across the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. can you imagine spending more than 80 hours on a seesaw? for two men from berkshire, that's exactly what they're doing this weekend. michaeljones and richard march are attempting to break a world record. they have a specially made see saw with added car seats for comfort and have installed a toilet so that they can answer their calls of nature. a plane with the world's largest ever wingspan has made its first successful flight. the stratolaunch is designed to act as a flying launch pad for satellites. its wingspan is the length of an american football field. it was funded by the late microsoft co—founder paul allen. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. it is a familiar theme really through today. most places dry, on the chilly side as well but we are seeing more cloud around. one part of the uk that's been quite cloudy day has been the south—west of englan

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaihuly exhibitions across the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. a plane with the world's largest ever wingspan has made its first successful flight. the stratolaunch is designed to act as a flying launch pad for satellites. its wingspan is the length of an american football field. it was funded by the late microsoft co—founder paul allen. ahead of the weather, a line from facebook, i mentioned those problems with people trying to access facebook, whatsapp and instagram. facebook, whatsapp and instagram. facebook site they are or were some people are having trouble accessing what they call the facebook family ofapps, what they call the facebook family of apps, unsightly are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. now, no problem accessing tomasz schafernaker. he has the weather. i suppose that's one way of putting it! let's get on to the weather and plenty of cloudy skies across western parts of the uk... in the east of the country there is a

but the one in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out in the colours and the pagoda in thesuccess of the exhibitions across the world will be replicated here. wendy hurrell, bbc news. a 100—year—old german woman has started a new chapter in her life by running for election to the local council. lisel heise, a former sports teacher, is focusing her campaign on reopening the outdoor swimming pool in her home town. she is running as a candidate in the may election for a grassroots group which campaigns for sustainable development. her recipe for reaching the age of 100 is to live healthily, do lots of sport, eat well, and train the mind. sounds exhausting. good luck to her. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @lvaughanjones. and this is bbc news. bye—bye. hello, after a chilly start to the weekend, if anything during sunday it will feel a bit colder. of course it always helps if you get to see some sunshine, and most of us did at some stage on saturday. but for sunday there is expected to be more cloud building up and the east—south—easterly wind will be a bit stronger too. all

as we enter the main pagoda, ibegin to on it. traditions of japanese buddhist culture. so, what is happening over here? they are making prayers. the first thing that strikes me about this is the scale of it. it is much bigger than i was expecting and it is a lot more, for wa nt of expecting and it is a lot more, for want of a better word, goal. yes, it is. everyone here seems very deferential. there is quite a sense of reverence here. yeah, it is very important to people injapan. of reverence here. yeah, it is very important to people in japan. in the past ten years, 11 years, since you have been here, have you seen things change? yeah, for sure. for example, along with the infrastructure improvements, i think people ‘s attitudes have begun to change a lot more. before, they would be barely anybody else out in a wheelchair. you did get strange looks and stuff like that. people are able to go out more often so they are going out more often so they are going out more often, and because about people around them are getting more used

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaacross the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. a night out clubbing is something that most young people take for granted. but for disabled people, just getting past the bouncer can be a challenge. stuart devlin has cerebral palsy and has been turned away from several venues, after being accused of being drunk. he's now had an id card printed to help door staff understand his condition. bbc scotland's nine news reporter michael mcewan went to meet him. one in five scottish people have a disability. let's have a party! one of them is 37—year—old stuart devlin. tonight he is in this club in barrhead, but not every night out is enjoyable. so, tell me about your experience by going out to a pub in glasgow? am i right in saying this is not the first pub you've been knocked back from? few more. nightclub as well. hi, dougie, how are you? not too bad. i went to meet dougie graham, who works for a charity called c—change, based in glasgow. after he was turned away

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodalook at the weather with darren. it isa it is a familiar theme through today. most places dry on the chilly side as well. but we are seeing more cloud around. one part of the uk that has been quite cloudy all day has been the south west of england. we have this area of cloud stretching from the south—west across wales and up towards northern ireland. that is not really moving very far, it is actually a weak weather front that is just stumbling into that area of high pressure. that is blocking things off on a drawing in at the chilly air. it is bringing us, early on the least, a lot of sunshine. that averages have risen so we have seen more patchy cloud developing, that is spreading out more and limiting the sunshine a bit during the afternoon. we still have the cloudy skies, strong winds we re have the cloudy skies, strong winds were northern ireland and towards the far south—west, perhaps one or two spots of rain. the odd shower possible around the north sea coast but on the whole it

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaok at the weather with darren bett. it is looking like temperatures should be on the rise for next week. but it is a chilly day once again today. this is what has been happening over the past few hours. we have some rain and not far away and a few showers coming in off the north sea. we are certainly seeing more cloud developing at the moment. sunshine becoming more limited this afternoon. the rain in the west is not really moving very much, it is mainly affecting the far south—west of scotland. 0ne mainly affecting the far south—west of scotland. one or two showers are still coming in off the north sea. a lot of places will be dry. not quite as sunny lot of places will be dry. not quite as sunny and temperatures are going to struggle to around nine or 10 celsius. to this evening, a lot of the client that builds up will then tend to melt away. we keep clear skies for northern ireland, much of scotla nd skies for northern ireland, much of scotland and wales and the south—west of finland

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodahere once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. time for a look at the weather with tomasz shafernaker. is it isita is it a nice day to visit kew gardens? it is always a nice day to visit kew gardens. particularly today. over the coming days, the weather will get even better. it will be warming up considerably across the uk. at the moment, there is still a nip in the air, tomorrow iam thinking is still a nip in the air, tomorrow i am thinking i should have written a little less cold rather than milder. it is still going to be fairly nippy tomorrow. as far as the weather itself goes, the country is split in half. in western areas there is more cloud and hazy sunshine whereas in the east we have sunny spells coming and going. the reason we have this split is because there is a weather front close to the

we'd like to see one entry that didn't overpower the piece pagoda. so through looking at many o options, we found that this was a successful way to do that, to create a guiding entry. you can see the two separate sides as you go through the area of the moveable tables and chairs. this is just illustrating the different components of that upper and lower plaza and also to show the general level of the plaza as they are today have been maintained, so we're keeping with that. and looking underneath the grove of cherry trees, illustrating the idea of flexibility on the day-to-day, this could be cafe bistro tables, and perhaps on the weekend, these could be moved out for areas for informal

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaly exhibitions across the world will be replicated here once again. wendy hurrell, bbc news. breaking news and take you like to augusta because tiger woods has won the masters. it is his fifth title at the masters. his 15th major title in alland the at the masters. his 15th major title in all and the first one he has had since 2008. picking up the famous green jacket. he began since 2008. picking up the famous greenjacket. he began the since 2008. picking up the famous green jacket. he began the final round two shots in back of the overnight leader francesco molinari. ca rted overnight leader francesco molinari. carted a overnight leader francesco molinari. ca rted a two overnight leader francesco molinari. carted a two under 70 to finish one shot i of fellow americans dustin johnson, xander schauffele, and brooks koepka. cheering the happiest man in the world. dip your cat, tiger woods. does not get any better than that. does not get any better than that. does not get any better than

. >>> the white pagoda is a big white tower and a beautiful national park in china just northwest of very nice. three years ago, 2016, the chinese government announced plans to build a smaller duplicate of the white pagoda here in the united states in a new chinese garden at the national arboretum in washington, d.c. and right away after they made that announcement, people started to kind of freak out about the possibility of a new chinese white pagoda in downtown washington, d.c. this is how "the wall street journal" explained it. quote, the project was deemed a national security risk because it included a 70-foot-tall white tower that could potentially be used for surveillance. quote, the garden was planned on one of the higher patches of land near downtown washington less than five miles from both the capitol and the white house. "the journal" then reported that this woman was believed to be lobbying for that white tower behind the scenes on behalf of the chinese government. her name is wendi deng murdoch. she is a prominent chinese american businesswoman. she used to be married t

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bombers they have said they came from well off families. some of them multimillionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo their neighbors i'm shocked and m.m.a. it saddens me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence louis al jazeera colombo judges in sudan have for the first time joined the three week mass sit in military headquarters to demand civilian rule tens of thousands demonstrated

another clever feature metal rails along the flared pagoda roof they provide stability and function as roll bars oddly the torsion bar suspensions were installed one behind the other making the wheel base six centimeters longer on the left side than on the right. and that is a mortal current tester christo says and there we find have a spare tire as well as a redesigned one point five liter four cylinder engine with forty kilowatts made from the engine block cylinder head and gears are made for. i'm a lightweight aluminum alloy is good to achieve better balance the gears are located ahead of the front axle of the engine sits behind more typical of modern sports cars so the renault was actually ahead of its time because there's often committed more talk to off north by more downspout talking football to my boss and outside of disinfo house. and this raspy had a lot exeunt is quite in chanting. that is safe tonight crystal feels the our sixteen stands for the famous french lifestyle a bit eccentric but very likeable and easy going road bumps like he thought a public wouldn't get the othe

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaforty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want to hold a sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families. some of them multimillionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock. over it suddens me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence louis al jazeera colombo well in an interview with with al-jazeera prime minister running on the committee says there will be a fair investigation into why prior intelligence about t

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want to hold a sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families some of them multimillionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and that there ma'am it's suddens me that most of my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim. because police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florent al-jazeera. and in an interview with al-jazeera prime minister rania vicar missing guest says there will be a thorough investigation into why prior intelligence about the attack

bank and the road leading to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagoda forty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo will not hold sunday mosque this weekend because of security threat and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinema in grand hotel although police have not named the bombers they have said they come from well off families some of them multi-millionaire some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and. it saddens me that my neighbors have done this it puts a block on all of us sri lanka's police and security forces are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombing prevent attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence really. another of our correspondents now in the sri lankan capital colombo mel fernandez i'm in now after a rather shaky start it seems as though the security operators in sri lanka has really got into gear. absolutely mar

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaforty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bombers they have said they came from well off families. some of them multimillionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock to. me that most of my neighbors have done that it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence al jazeera colombo. tensely populated areas of tripoli are gradually turning into battlefields that's according to the international committee of the red cross i know the red cross says the humanitarian s

coming in now that the road has now been reopened and separately a couple of hours earlier in the town of pagoda that's about forty kilometers east of colombo from where we are there was a minor explosion police have said no one was injured in the explosion we're still trying to get confirmation on whether or not this was a controlled explosion there have been several of these over the last couple of days a controlled explosion is where bomb disposal experts are called in to detonate an explosive sometimes they blow up suspicious objects such as a motorbike because they fear that there may be explosives hidden within that object noun separately there are other security measures that are happening here. going as space has said that drones and other unmanned aircraft. banned from sri lankan space the general post office says it's no longer taking field packages that's a return to wartime practice and reading all of these things just highlights how tense the situation is here in sri lanka france that you very much for that finale that flew with the latest live and colombo thank you. three members o

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaforty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want to hold a sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and got their man married. me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim. because police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism lawrence louis. colombo. prime minister has also told al-jazeera thorough investigation will be held into why warnings about imminent attacks weren't shared we have to admit the fear.

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaorty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomber as they have said they came from well off families. some of them multimillionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock. over it suddens me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence louis al jazeera colombo well the prime minister who you heard in that report is vowing to improve coordination between various state agencies to prevent future attacks running sayin

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaforty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and got their man married. me that muslims who are my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence al jazeera colombo. sudan's military leaders say they're willing to hand over top government positions to civilians but insisted they will retain the leadership of the trans

central bank while the road to the airport was briefly closed a minor explosion was reported in the town of pagodaforty kilometers from colombo the blast was unlike the controlled detonations by bomb disposal squads in the last few days catholic churches in colombo want told the sunday mosque this weekend because of security threats and c.c.t.v. video has been released of another suspected suicide bomber captured at the cinnamon grand hotel although police have not named the bomb as they have said they came from well off families some of them multi-millionaires some lived in this suburb in colombo the neighbors are in shock and got their man to work it saddens me that most of my neighbors have done this it puts a black spot on all of us muslim sri lanka's police and security services are under pressure to arrest everyone involved in the easter sunday bombings prevent further attacks and clamp down on religious extremism florence al jazeera colombo. then sleep populated areas of tripoli are gradually turning into battlefields that's according to the international committee of the red cross which sa

inspected a suspicious vehicle and then separately there was a bomb there was a minor explosion in the town of pagoda that's about forty kilometers east from here now and we're still waiting for confirmation on whether or not that was a controlled explosion carried out by bomb disposal experts that have been happening over the last couple of days but it really just shows how tense the situation still is here in sri lanka and in fact the archdiocese's in colombo has said that they will not be sunday mass celebrated in churches on sunday in colombo the cardinal will celebrate mass on sunday and he's hoping to get that televised on the local station so that catholics may celebrate mass at home themselves and you can see emergency legislation. has allowed some arrests. you suggested as we mentioned. t.v. footage being released in a limited fashion to try and garner more information about who the suicide bombers were. how they actually managed to execute. the bombs in the way that they did. that's right now police have said that managed to identify eight out of the nine attackers the suit the c.c.t.v. foo

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as we enter the main pagoda, i begin to absorb some of the ancient traditions of japanese buddhist culturever here? they‘ re making prayers. the first thing that strikes me about this is the scale of it. it's much bigger than i was expecting and it's a lot more, for want of a better word, gold. yes, it is! everyone here seems very deferential. there is quite a sense of reverence here. yeah, it is very important to people in japan. in the past 10 years, 11 years, since you have been here, have you seen things change? yeah, for sure. for example, along with the infrastructure improvements, i think people's attitudes have begun to change a lot more. before, there would be barely anybody else out in a wheelchair. you did get strange looks and stuff like that. people are able to go out more often, so they're going out more often, and because of that people around them are getting more used to, you know, different colours of society. and with the olympics coming up soon, i think it's getting even better. tokyo 2020 will be the first games where sponsors are mandated to acquire rights for both th

the one in the japanese garden, with the one in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossoms and the pagodast the newspapers. the broadcaster and former tv executive rob mclaughlin is here to tell us what's caught their eye. we'll speak to him in a minute. first let's look at the front pages. the sunday times of course leading on the apparent admission from jeremy corbyn that evidence of anti—semitism within labour had been "mislaid, ignored or not used". labour says it has strengthened disciplinary procedures over the issue. their main picture is the aftermath of an incident outside ukraine's london embassy yesterday in which it claims its ambassador‘s vehicle was deliberately run into. the sunday telegraph quotes analysis of opinion polls suggesting jeremy corbyn is "on course to sweep into number 10" after theresa may's failure to deliver brexit on time. and a picture of dame hellen mirren on the front there looking shipshape as a pirate. staying with brexit and the observer leads on a warning from labour's leader in the european parliament that the party will be "deserted by millions of

think the niijima floats in the japanese garden, with the cherry blossom out and the colours, with the pagodaagain. wendy hurrell, bbc news. we're here on the bbc news channel until nine this morning. and coming up in the next hour... we'll get the latest from augusta, ahead of the final day of the masters. what is happening with andrew marr later? good morning. another big extension on brexit, until october. if there is to be a way through, it seems to hang on the talks between the labour party and the government. david liddington, in effect theresa may's deputy, is at the heart of those talks and he will be here to update us. i have also got the labourmp update us. i have also got the labour mp david lammy. an enormous enthusiast for a people's vote. i have got a gerald batten, the leader of ukip. and the head of the co—op, who employ 70,000 people around the country, to give us a sense of what all of these means on the high street and for people doing business in the country. we are on the bbc news channel alltel nine. follow us over if you can. we will hear why some bars and clubs are tur