these are the pictures right now from california, these are the scenes we are keeping a cross for you. and in georgia, police fired water cannon and tear at people protesting against a bill which they say targets free speech. the face of a 75,000 year old neanderthal woman revealed, scientists at cambridge university recreate a 3d model from a crushed skull discovered in kurdistan.

donald trump has returned to the campaign trail, telling crowds that the judge in his criminal trial in new york is crooked. on tuesday, the former us president was fined and threatened with jail if he continued to make comments aboutjurors and witnesses. but on a day off from proceedings, mr trump repeatedly criticised the case against him. mr trump repeatedly criticised at a rally in michigan, he said he was being forced to spend days in a kangaroo court. mr trump denies charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment. as you know, i have come here today from new york city, where i'm being forced to sit for days on end in a kangaroo courtroom with a corrupt and conflicted judge, enduring a biden sideshow trial, at the hands of a marxist district attorney who's taking orders from the biden administration. they're all, all of these trials. let's speak to bill scher, politics editor at washington monthly. what is your assessment of the state of play in all of this? the prosecution so far in the trial seems to be hitting its mark, you don't see many legal analysts in a statement saying the prosecution is not giving a good narrative to the jury. but you need a unanimousjury,

you need just one person who doesn't buy it for there to be a mistrial. that might be a high bar to clear. that might be a high bar to clear. that would mean he would be acquitted but there would be another trial which could be delayed until after the election which is what donald trump wants. what have you made of donald trump's statements about the trial? donald trump has gone about all his court trials in head scratching fashion where he doesn't seem to really want to win the trial will be nice to thejudge. really want to win the trial will be nice to the judge. he treats it all as a political stage as part of his political narrative which has so far worked well enough. he is still slightly leading in the polls, but it may not help him actually win this case. joe biden has ticked up

in the past month. you can't say donald trump has a solid lead but it is within the margin of error. donald trump is committed to attacking the system on a political basis and not doing everything he can to win in court. attacking the system out in public, is that a vote winner? it is very hard to say with confidence. right now, donald trump has about a one—point lead nationally and that is about the same in three of the key swing states, michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin. ifjoe biden won those three as well as a patch of nebraska in the omaha area, that is enough to win the electoral college. that is a coin flip right now. it is enough for donald trump to maintain loyalty but you do need a swing vote and it

is not clear weather the strategy can accomplish that. let's turn to india next where the general election is underway. all this week the bbc has been speaking to influential voting blocs. for more on this, i'm joined from kerala by our south asia correspondent, samira hussain. 0ne one thing we have also been reporting on over the last several months from india is how under the prime minister's leadership or ruling party there have been accusations of the prime minister singling out minorities, especially muslims, for example, at a rally last week, we had the prime minister say if the congress party wins, the opposition party wins, they will redistribute their wealth and give it to muslims. there was a

considerable backlash from those comments. it gives you a sense of the kind of divisive language being used in the country. as i found out, that kind of rhetoric doesn't exist everywhere in the country. we were driving around the city and we stopped when we saw this hindu temple. it struck us, why? take a look at what is beside it, a mosque. evening prayers are taking place right now. it doesn't stop just there. you can still see the mosque and temple behind me. if you look over this way, you see there is actually a church as well. it is not uncommon in india to see a mosque, temple and church all in the same area. but here, in a busy intersection in the middle of the city, it almost feels like these buildings are making a statement. we

decided we wanted to speak to the people around here. when you see these three altogether, what do you think? unity and diversity. people in different_ unity and diversity. people in different cultures are mixing and living _ different cultures are mixing and living together. is different cultures are mixing and living together.— living together. is that good or bad? it is good, very good. bad? itisaood,ve aood. �* it is good, very good. translation: in carola, it is good, very good. translation: in carola. you — it is good, very good. translation: in carola. you can — it is good, very good. translation: in carola, you can see _ it is good, very good. translation: in carola, you can see a _ it is good, very good. translation: in carola, you can see a mix - it is good, very good. translation: in carola, you can see a mix of- in carola, you can see a mix of religious groups but there is not particularly harmony among these groups. if the people understand the value of this harmony, the state of kholo will flourish. translation: india is a democratic country which argues all religions. all these three religions are treated equally by the country and thatis treated equally by the country and that is why you see a setup like this.

in no way is this indicative of what is happening in the country, this is one story about one corner in one part of india. at any time in which we are seeing so much polarisation, especially within the religious communities, this really actually just stood out. thank you. scottish national party politician john swinney has announced he's standing to be the party's next leader and first minister of scotland. he's the first candidate to enter the race to succeed humza yousaf who resigned after the collapse of a power—sharing agreement with the scottish greens. he said he wanted to unite the party and build a modern diverse scotland, focusing on issues like health, education and transport. my message is crisp and simple. i am stepping _ my message is crisp and simple. i am stepping forward to bring the snp together to deliver economic growth

and socini— together to deliver economic growth and socialjustice, to deliver the very— and socialjustice, to deliver the very best — and socialjustice, to deliver the very best future for everyone, in a modern, _ very best future for everyone, in a modern, dynamic, diverse scotland. i want to— modern, dynamic, diverse scotland. i want to unite — modern, dynamic, diverse scotland. i want to unite the snp and unite scotland — want to unite the snp and unite scotland or independence. i invite everyone — scotland or independence. i invite everyone in the snp and in our country— everyone in the snp and in our country who want to join me in that journey. _ country who want to join me in that journey, to— country who want to join me in that journey, to do so now. thank— journey, to do so now. thank you very much. applause one of britain's leading computer scientists has warned it's not too late to stop artificial intelligence from being used to influence the outcome of elections in the uk and the us. dame professor wendy hall said social media companies needed to do more to make people aware about the risks from ai—generated deepfake images and videos. and we can speak to dame wendy now. thank you for coming on the programme. about artificial intelligence specifically the risks to do with elections, what are your

concerns? it is not, you said we need to talk to the social media companies, we all of us need to be involved. my concerns are we have raised this issue last year, it is now too late to bring in any major changes in laws or even there are no technical solutions on the horizon which will cover everything. what we need to be doing is raising awareness and i think we should probably be calling for a team from government, social media companies, journalists like yourselves, social media experts, to think of pragmatic ways to help people be safe and get the messages they can trust. it is all about checking your sources, and listening to people you trust. things like bbc verify, all the media companies should have that sort of thing and work together. we should bring in rules as we do with the in person

elections, you make sure that anything that comes from the parties is stamped as this is a broadcast from the labour party, the conservative party. we need to stamp, this is a message from the official candidates, on anything they put out. for example, i am trying to think of pragmatic ways through this. that is an interesting set of challenges and potential practical solutions. from a philosophical, ethical, moral, wider point of view, what should we be doing? human advancesin what should we be doing? human advances in al seem inevitable and there will be upsides to them. it is about awareness. i have heard a story from taiwan, they had their election in december, they were getting misinformation from china.

they ran a big public awareness campaign to talk about making sure you trust these sources, be careful what you read. we should bring in rules about not being able to broadcast adverts on social media from the political campaigns, or maybe a few days before the election, just like we don't allow people to campaign on the day of the election in the non—digital world. thank you very much for coming on to the programme and talking to us. this is bbc news.

this is bbc news. a 75,000—year—old neanderthal skull made up of more than 100 fragments of bone has been painstakingly put back together, and used to create

a 3d reconstruction. the remains were discovered in a cave in the kurdistan region of iraq — which archeologists believe may have been a burial site. 0ur science editor, rebecca morelle, has more. revealed for the first time a face from the ancient past, a female neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago. she's been called shanidar z. her face was recreated from this skull unearthed six years ago. we can say that she's neanderthal from various features, so perhaps the most obvious one is this quite large brow ridge that runs across above the eyes, but also things like the shape of the nose. so the nose is is quite wide at the top. a detailed analysis suggests she was probably around her mid—forties with particularly worn teeth. by the time the teeth are getting this worn down. chewing is not as effective as it would have been, so she's not able to eat in quite the same way. we've got some other indications of sort of poor dental health, some infections, some gum

disease as well. probably by the time the skeleton and the teeth are this kind of worn, you're actually getting to the natural end of life. the skull was found like this in profile and completely flattened into a two—centimetre thick layer. transforming the crushed skull into what you can see here has been astonishingly difficult. it's made from hundreds of fragments of incredibly fragile bone that have been painstakingly pieced together. it's like the ultimate 3d jigsaw puzzle. it's taken the best part of a year to complete. the skeleton was discovered in a cave in the kurdistan region of iraq. the excavation was followed by a documentary team. archaeologists have been unearthing neanderthal remains there since the 1950s. they found bones from at least ten individuals. they think it's a burial site where different groups of neanderthals brought their dead over many years.

i think it means that they must have cared for each other. they were looking after other members of the group, and that care went on after they died. because they were carefully placed and probably covered. there's absolutely no doubt that they maintained a tradition over several hundred years of "this is where you put grandma." since the first excavations, the cave has been transforming our understanding of neanderthals. the species disappeared about 40,000 years ago, while modern humans — that's us — thrived. but now there's evidence from the cave they used tools, built fires, and cooked together. you're getting into a world where you can see neanderthals sitting around, preparing food, heating them up, some kind of simple cooking going on, and presumably that beginning of socialising in ways. so that's just another example of they're more and more like us. for the archeologists, touching the past is all about telling the stories of these ancient people.

it's a massive privilege, actually, to be able to work with the remains of any individual, but especially one as special as her. it's very exciting to start getting glimpses of what her life was like. there are really important things that we can learn about her as an individual, about the group that she was part of. learning about shanidar z also reveals more about us because although neanderthals died out, our two species once interbred and their genes live on in us. so she could revealjust how similar or different we are. rebecca morrell, bbc news. let's speak to dr emma pomeroy in cambridge, who is the associate professor in the evolution of health, diet and disease, department of archaeology at university of cambridge. a painstaking undertaking. absolutely. it took almost a year

and i have to give a lot of credit to my colleague who did a lot of the difficult work, cleaning the remains in the laboratory and piecing them together. how are we trying to understand and learn from this? there are a couple of things, we are trying to understand this individual herself, what was her life like, did she move around, what was her diet, what were her day—to—day activities she undertook? how old was she when she undertook? how old was she when she died? there is also the question of how she was treated in death. she is very interesting because she is part of a cluster of individuals which seem to be unique among neanderthals. we have at least five individuals within 1.5 metres by neanderthals. we have at least five individuals within1.5 metres by one metre by 50 centimetres. it doesn't seem as if they are coming back to this one particular spot in an enormous cave, placing bodies behind

a vertical two metre tall stone. it is hinting at this repeated behaviour and cultural traditions of how you deal with the dead. thank you so much for coming on. fascinating explorations there. let us take you quickly back to los angeles, we are keeping tabs on these live feeds coming on as police decided to go in and remove part of the barricades from the pro—palestinian demonstrations in the early hours of the morning, in la. we are keeping cross developments for you. this is bbc news. we wa nt we want to bring you up—to—date with the action there over the last couple of hours. it started with the arrival of significant numbers of police. there were megaphone

announcements that the camp of pro—palestinian protesters had been declared unlawful. and the requests were for students to disperse and leave or face arrest. and then, a couple of hours after that, police did move into one part of the barricades, they started removing them, coming face—to—face with some protesters. we saw a number of people being detained by police, they had zip ties over their hands behind their back, sitting on a grass close to one of our correspondence on the ground at the time. and there has been a period of relative calm since then. this, of course, goes back to 2a hours ago where there were criticisms by some politicians the police arrived too late on the scene. a group of pro—palestinian demonstrators, there was a confrontation with pro—israeli demonstrators 2a hours ago, there were violent clashes. moving forward

24 were violent clashes. moving forward 2a hours, that is when police were on the campus in huge numbers in ucla. they made the decision to go in to the camp and start removing the barricades and indeed removing the barricades and indeed removing the people, you can see some tents being pulled through by police and removed, in what seems like the aftermath of that main police operation. there were flash bangs, loud stun grenades, huge flashes and loud stun grenades, huge flashes and loud bangs at the same time in the sky meant to disorientate people. it has been a dramatic couple of hours and this is the aftermath. we heard from students on the ground saying they did not want to leave, they would not leave. then the police

went in and detained some of them. we don't have exact numbers on those injured, or on the people detained as yet. we do have our correspondence on the ground and these live pictures over the last couple of hours. we will be back on the ground there in los angeles in the ground there in los angeles in the next couple of hours. whilst it looks relatively calm, let us just take you back to the moments earlier, this is about 3am, 3:30am there. this was the moment the police decided that they will break down those barriers, there is of plywood that you can see there, gazebos, umbrellas. behind the plywood that you can see is that line—up tents we were just seeing from the live pictures in front of

the campus building, to give you some idea of the geography. let us look at these pictures from early on, this gives you a sense of the confrontation effectively, on the left—hand side, the tents of the pro—palestinian demonstrations that have been there for a number of days. and the black line of people, the police in the middle. 0n the right—hand side, that parlour would effectively on the right—hand side of the picture, that is because the police were taking that word from the left—hand side, the barricade at the left—hand side, the barricade at the edge of the encampment and throwing it behind them so they could come face—to—face with the protesters. as they did that, you can see that gazebo in the middle being moved, moved into the front line. and the pattern continued, the police pulling that gazebo away, back and throwing it behind. i want

to show you these pictures as well from earlier. there was smoke, flash bangs, chanting, flags being waved, and a huge police presence. the latest we have from our correspondence on the ground, just giving us an update when the action was just giving us an update when the action wasjust coming to giving us an update when the action was just coming to a close, saying that police did gradually break down that police did gradually break down that ucla encampment. they pushed forward into the camp around 20 metres on one side which was what we are seeing right now. this was a little earlier. and as of now,, our correspondence on the ground saying the camp is surrounded on all sides

ijy the camp is surrounded on all sides by police, which rings true with the aerial pictures we were looking at a short time ago. and again live clearly it is quite dark but you can see it seems like police are firmly in control of that encampment now. protesters are still there, getting more agitated according to our correspondence, as they realise police have managed to break down their barricades. still many wanting to be there for as long as they can. protesters with headphones inside the encampment are shouting instructions to each other, warning people to use goggles and headgear. again from our correspondence. as we have been watching this over the last couple of hours, this isn't the only place where pro—palestinian demonstrations have been taking place in the us, university campuses stretching from coast to have been taking place. these are some of the more dramatic images when it comes

to police action. you may have seen in texas police disrupting an encampment, and police in new york at columbia university, breaking at at columbia university, breaking at a sit in at one of the buildings. huge potential repercussions and ramifications which will be picked over, the political consequences of this. forthe over, the political consequences of this. for the time being, it looks like that encampment at ucla, in los angeles, that is now in the hands of police. plenty more coming up. this is bbc news. hello, good afternoon. it was stormy across the south of england last night, with lightning strikes in recorded and stilled the threat of heavy, thundery downpours notjust this afternoon but tonight and tomorrow. more sunshine around

today. the best in the north and west. forthe today. the best in the north and west. for the afternoon, today. the best in the north and west. forthe afternoon, expect today. the best in the north and west. for the afternoon, expect it to be cloudy in wales, dry in the south—west, thunderstorms breaking out. the best of the sunshine in northern ireland and scotland, 22 degrees possible. still warm for east anglia. this evening, the weather front will bring cloud, outbreaks of rain across england and wales. misty for north sea facing coasts, bringing thunderstorms over east anglia. temperatures of ten degrees. 0n east anglia. temperatures of ten degrees. on friday, the front will push further northwards. we have an area of low pressure bringing thundery downpours further north and west through the day. cloud

spreading in. brightening up in the south of england by the end of the afternoon. cloudy in northern ireland. scotland seeing some of the best sunshine tomorrow. again up to 22 degrees celsius. but it will turn cloudy and cooler over the weekend. 0n cloudy and cooler over the weekend. on saturday, the weather front pushes further northwards bring cloud and outbreaks of rain. cooler air behind it. a dip in temperatures. 0n air behind it. a dip in temperatures. on saturday we could see showers across the south of england but generally there will be sunny spells. it will feel warm in the best of the sunshine, temperatures lower than they have been, up to 18 degrees. through the rest of the weekend, it is a messy picture. when the sun shines it will feel pleasantly warm but expect showers and longer spells of rain.

and feeling cooler for most. goodbye.

today at one. a man appears in court charged with murdering a schoolboy in a sword attack on tuesday. 14—year—old daniel anjorin suffered fatal stab wounds. marcus monzo is accused of killing him and also faces two counts of attempted murder.

also this lunchtime — clashes in los angeles as police crack down on pro—palestinian demonstrators at a university there. police are facing off against a line of protesters here, pushing people back and dismantling barricades as they go. more chaos at the co—0p live — britain's biggest indoor arena postpones its opening yet again. and recreating a face from the past — meet the woman who lived 75,000 years ago. and coming up on bbc news — the last english team left in europe. aston villa are taking on 0lympiakos in the last four of the conference league tonight. their first major european semi finalfor 42 years.