live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and thanks forjoining us on bbc news. tens of millions of people across north america have been watching a total solar eclipse — where the moon briefly blocked the light from the sun. cheering crowds who gathered at the resort town of mazatlan on mexico's pacific coast were the first to cheer as the sky turned completely dark in the middle of the day. the total solar eclipse swept up from there and across several us states and then into canada. it took about 2.5 hours in total — and thrilled the enormous crowds who'd gathered in its path along the way — including our very own nada tawfik.

have a listen to this. it's picking through the clouds, mother nature is teasing us, there it is! that's spectacular! wow, that is fabulous! here we go, it is fully, you can see it fully now! you can see it now. mother nature is truly teasing us today, earlier it peaked through and it has peaked through and it has peaked through again. it through and it has peaked through again.— through and it has peaked through again. it was clearly excitin: through again. it was clearly exciting and _ through again. it was clearly exciting and she _ through again. it was clearly exciting and she explained l through again. it was clearly - exciting and she explained what the app is feels like. certainly a joyous moment now it is sunny in niagara falls but for a moment with the heavy cloud cover many were beginning to feel that they were not going to be able to witness that moment of totality. to see that bright intense corona of the sun as the moon blocked the sun's atmosphere. but they were able to. and it was just an absolute

feeling of awe. the crowds here all erupted, clapping and joy. the atmosphere here it went completely dark, the temperature dropped and the seagulls — they had the most interesting reaction — dozens of seagullsjust going crazy in the sky right above the stunning backdrop of niagara falls. as my colleague emma vardy reports this was the scene replicated right across the eclipse's path. the path of the eclipse first touchdown on land along the west coast of mexico. modern technology meeting a phenomenon as old as the universe. as daylight returned, the shadow of the moon swept into the united states. in indianapolis of the indy 500, began a founder to another display. moon moving into perfect alignment with the

earth. the outer atmosphere of the sun visible here, the tiny flares of light flickering into space. the sun's corona being studied by nasa as they continued to unravel the mysteries of the universe. that is so beautiful! _ mysteries of the universe. that is so beautiful! 0h _ mysteries of the universe. that is so beautiful! oh my - is so beautiful! oh my goodness! listen for the birds! i don't hear any.— i don't hear any. beneath the skyscrapers _ i don't hear any. beneath the skyscrapers of _ i don't hear any. beneath the skyscrapers of downtown - i don't hear any. beneath the i skyscrapers of downtown dallas, rapture at the most cosmic spectacle the habits can bring. it's a very surreal few minutes, was a bright hot sunny day feels cold. i'm viewing goosebumps and the clouds moved aside at just goosebumps and the clouds moved aside atjust the right moment so the crowd here are awestruck. it so the crowd here are awestruck.— so the crowd here are awestruck. it felt like a dimmer— awestruck. it felt like a dimmer switch - awestruck. it felt like a dimmer switch being . awestruck. it felt like a - dimmer switch being turned down. it was really cool to see. �* ., ., down. it was really cool to see. �* . . ., down. it was really cool to see. �* . ., ., ., down. it was really cool to see. . ., ., ., ., ., see. i'm amazed on how all of the lights _

see. i'm amazed on how all of the lights of — see. i'm amazed on how all of the lights of the _ see. i'm amazed on how all of the lights of the skyscrapers l the lights of the skyscrapers came — the lights of the skyscrapers came on_ the lights of the skyscrapers came on and it went so cold. it was _ came on and it went so cold. it was beautiful, absolutely amazing. was beautiful, absolutely amazing-— amazing. the new york skyscrapers _ amazing. the new york skyscrapers brought - amazing. the new york - skyscrapers brought people closer to the solar eclipse of the century. i closer to the solar eclipse of the century-— the century. i fell liberties in arkansas, _ the century. i fell liberties in arkansas, a _ the century. i fell liberties in arkansas, a sweating i the century. i fell liberties - in arkansas, a sweating marked the moment, truly in in arkansas, a sweating marked the moment, truly— the moment, truly in eclipse of the moment, truly in eclipse of the heart- _ the moment, truly in eclipse of the heart. what _ the moment, truly in eclipse of the heart. what many - the moment, truly in eclipse of the heart. what many people l the heart. what many people will not see again. there were so many different ways that people marked that spectacular moment. it is the first time in a century that the total eclipse was viewable from all three continents. the next time will not be until 2044. next time will not be until 201m. already when you speak to people across the country, who are able to witness this event they are already planning the

next time they will be able to see one. it's really an indescribable experience and something that no matter how often it is replicated, it is just as stunning. here, the park was expecting to have a record number of tourists. those i spoke to really reflected how witnessing this cosmic phenomenon on made them realise their place in the greater world and the cosmos. and how humbling of an experience it was. ultimately it was an amazing excuse for students to skip school, family is to plan trips and get out and spend this wonderful time together. four minutes plunged into darkness, experiencing a once in a lifetime event for many who are living on this path and don't know when they will be able to get to the next one. and despite the threats of

whether putting a damper on it, here and across the eclipses path, many people were able to enjoy that spectacular moment. seemed to mean so much to 70 as well as now everyone goes back to their daily lives. what is your big takeaway from covering the story? i have to say, it has been a difficult year of hard news and you really have to take those moments where you have people getting together and celebrating that joyous occasion. i really thought it was interesting to see people smiling so widely and cherishing that family time, that time with friends and i think that is again, a moment for us to remember our small plate in this great, great universe. certainly a lot of perspective from that event. i know today was quite emotional it was all some of the eclipse from the piece from emma vardy, from people you spoke to come a lot

of emotion involved in seeing this total eclipse? absolutely. i spoke to a couple from new york city who decided to get married right here with niagara falls as the backdrop moving their wedding back a week saying, where else would they want to get married. when people asked whether they were on their wedding, they will always be able to say it was during the solar eclipse during this time in niagara falls and we saw that mass wedding in arkansas, so many people deciding to cherish this moment in a special way, whether it be a wedding, whether be coming to niagara falls or a place they've never seen before, you really did feel the emotion. some people just saying, for those not here they have to catch the next one because it is indescribable, the emotion they felt inside, seeing that corona shining so bright and seeing

the atmosphere turned so dark in front of them, it was undescribable. as many have said, indescribable. if you want to find out more head to our website and also our mobile app as well for more information. now to events in the middle east. israel's defence minister has told troops it's an opportune moment to reach a deal on the release of hostages held by hamas. a spokesman for qatar which has been involved in the latest talks in cairo, has expressed cautious optimism. meanwhile, palestinians who've returned to the wrecked city of khan younis in gaza have spoken of the devastation they found, after months of intense fighting there. israel says its troops have been pulled back from the area in southern gaza to prepare for the next stage of the conflict. 0ur middle east correspondent, lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. for months, khan younis was a city of targets, its apartment blocks

and hospitals seen by israel as hiding places for hamas. residents returned today searching for their city homes inside the concrete mountains as israel continued talks with hamas on a cease fire deal. translation: the| destruction is huge. khan younis has been destroyed. it all needs to be rebuilt now. it's not suitable for animal to live in, let alone human being. translation: | wasn't . expecting this destruction. our biggest request is that they withdrew from our land. it's better for us to have tents on the rubble of our home rather than being displaced. hamas launched rockets from khan younis, the army said, even as its troops withdrew. it hit back with airstrikes. israel's prime minister has promised total victory in this war, but hamas is still

fighting and the withdrawal leaves just a skeleton israeli presence across the middle of the strip. this is being presented as a temporary tactical withdrawal and that buys benjamin netanyahu more time. under american pressure to agree a cease fire deal and pressure from his own cabinet to keep the war going, he's framing this as a pause, not an end in the fighting, keeping both foreign and domestic allies on track. translation: we are working constantly to attain our objectives. first and foremost, the release of all of our hostages and the achieving of total victory over hamas. this victory requires entering rafah and eliminating the terrorist battalions there. this will happen, there is a date. returning residents to their homes could smooth the path to a cease fire deal, but it could also help those in israel who want to continue the war.

israel is facing tough us demands to move refugees out of rafah before any ground offensive there. a day after the israeli withdrawal, it's clear how much the face of khan younis has changed, much less the face of the war. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. the medical charity in sudan is urging humanitarian organisations to return to the country to help its desperate citizens. many charities left when the war broke out a year ago and since then more than 12,000 people have died. the conflict started when the head of the army and the leader of a powerful rebel group fell out and began fighting for control of the country. almost 25 million people, around half of the population are in need of humanitarian aid. more than 8 million people have been displaced within sudan and to other countries. bbc�*s correspondent visited chad to

speak to victims of the violent conflict. 0n speak to victims of the violent conflict. on a street in sudan, civilians are threatened at gunpoint by the militia. what happens next is too graphic to show. sorry about that, we will try to get that back up and running in a bit. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

south east asia is experiencing a record—breaking heatwave, with countries across the region battling threats including crop failure, educational disruption and water shortages. in the philippines, thousands of schools cancelled in—person teaching because of the extreme heat. scientists blame a combination of human—induced climate change and the el nino event, which caused hot and dry weather across the region.

i'm spoke to ben horton, director, earth observatory of singapore at nanyang technological university. singapore and southeast asia always experiences hot temperatures around this time of year but they are unusual because they are combining together with human — induced climate change. we have carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere not seen for at least a million years. superimposed with that we have natural variability we are in the el nino of the southern isolation when you are in el nino there are atmospheric and ocean temperatures around the indian ocean and southeast asia are increased so the ads onto climate change. then there are other factors that happened in the last 12 months. we have the tonga eruption, that erupted huge amounts of water vapour into

the upper atmosphere. water vapourjust like carbon dioxide acts as a greenhouse gas. then we had slight changes with maritime trade regulations, maritime trade used to put aerosols, far higher quality aerosols in the upper atmosphere through their pollution. that action used to cool the climate, regulations has removed some of these aerosols adding to the climate. so it is a mixture of human induced in natural availability giving us the record—breaking temperatures in southeast asia. this year. but you had me on this show this time last year where in 2023 we had heatwaves. i think what needs to be said is this isjust what is going to happen. we live in a warming world and every time this year, people in southeast asia, particularly in a el nino year are going to experience record—breaking heat, impacts on our livelihoods, impacts on agriculture. 0nly set to get worse, given that there is no slow down with these

omissions as well. if we focus in on one human aspect, taking the case when schools are unable to go to school due to heat what impact if they have on young people? heat is a deadly problem particularly for the youth and the elderly. the youth have, unlike adults, a limited ability to cool themselves down. so if they are in the hottest parts of the day and some of the reports coming out of the philippines are that there are 60—70 students in a room without ventilation, obviously for their direct safety, for the direct safety, they need to be removed from schools. and that has a huge long—term impact on their development, their education and indeed their impact upon the workforce. this is a sort of adaptation that we must make.

let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. russia's ambassador to the united nations�* nuclear watchdog says his country has called an emergency meeting to discuss what he said were ukrainian attacks on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. the russian occupied facility is near to the front line of fighting, and both sides regularly accuse each other of shelling the site. 27 people have gone on trial in connection with the panama papers scandal. the affair began with a huge leak of legal and financial documents eight years ago. it highlighted how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth. the vatican has issued a strong warning about gender theory. the declaration — signed by pope francis — said that sex change surgery risked "the unique dignity" of a person which is bestowed at conception. the pontiff has often been criticised by catholic conservatives over his perceived liberal stance. donald trump says abortion rights should be decided by individual us states. he's been under pressure from conservative republicans, who have been calling for an outright abortion ban. gary 0'donoghue is in

washington with more. donald trump is a man who has occupied pretty much every position on abortion over the last 25 years, but he has been claiming credit for overturning that abortion right by the supreme court by putting conservative justices there. social conservatives want that to go further, they want a nationwide ban on abortion and donald trump has been flirting with that idea but the polls are very clear it would be a liability for him to go down that road at the election so he has taken the strategic and frankly politically sophisticated decision to hedge on this one, for the fear of driving away republicans and galvanising democrats. anti—abortion groups are unhappy about that and his vice president mike pence said it was a slap in the face but the reality is that social conservatives are never going to vote forjoe biden so no matter how unhappy they are with donald trump, they have nowhere else to go.

there's new evidence that people living with long covid, have inflammation in their blood, and this may provide clues, as to how best to treat the condition. a uk study of hundreds of patients who've been seriously ill with covid, suggests their immune system remains overactive long after catching the virus. fergus walsh is here, with the full story. the study followed more than 650 patients in the uk who have been treated in hospital with severe covid. six months on, two in three were still experiencing symptoms, including heart and lung problems such as shortness of breath, fatigue, gut issues, anxiety, depression and brainfog. the researchers analysed their blood and found these proteins, which are markers for inflammation of the immune system which are useful while the body is fighting an infection, but not once a virus is gone. the scientists say there is strong evidence that long covid is caused by different types of post—viral inflammation.

i think this is really exciting for us, it is the biggest study of its kind. it has taken a long time to get this far, but it is finally pointing to some very specific pathways that might be underlying long covid that could be targeted in future trials and treatment. this is tracey evans, she was a care assistant before contracting covid in early 2021. tracy ended up on a ventilator in hospital and three years on, she still can't not work to a raft of long covid symptoms. i have fatigue so bad evenjust changing a pillowcase on a bed, it's breathless. i can't walk far. even to the local shop, which isn't far, i can't walk. i have shooting pains all over my body. i've got really bad brain fog, i forget what i'm saying, i forget what things are. so if somebody's talking to me,

i canjust stare at them blank. a blood test to diagnose long covid it is a long way off but it is hoped that this research can eventually lead to new treatments with existing drugs being trialed to target areas of the immune system which are triggered by long covid. at the time of her death — amy winehouse had already become a music legend. but her struggles with substance abuse, mental illness and addiction were well documented. now her life and music is the subject of a new film, back to black. here's our culture correspondent, charlotte gallagher. # tried to make me go to rehab, isaid no, no, no.# amy winehouse, a music legend. # yeah, baby, and the rest # they tried to make me go to rehab # # i said, no, no, no. now, a new film is telling her story. i was so excited by the idea of, you know, playing and getting in touch with amy —

the girl, and then amy the singer — as well as, like, you know, the woman before the icon. i don't write songs to be famous. i write songs because i don't know what i'd do if i didn't. and for you, sam, how hard was it to find your amy — someone that can physically resemble amy, but then can also sing like her? well, really, it was important, mostly, that i could find someone that wasn't going to impersonate amy. there were many brilliant impersonators and people that looked like her or sounded like her. but marisa came in as herself — was the only one in the audition process, who didn't try to look like her in any way. earrings, eyeliner or anything. a big part of the film is amy's troubled relationship with blake fielder—civil. i didn't meet blake. i wanted to meet blake, but i didn't meet blake. i set out to make the film, like i said, through her perspective.

so her love of him, you know, had to be palpable. it had to feel real and we had to understand why she fell in love with him. and so it wasn't about making a sort of one—dimensional villain. we had to fall in love with him to understand why she wrote one of the greatest albums about their love. and... and, for me, really, the villains of the film, you know, it's addiction and paparazzi. and when you actually look back now at the headlines that were written about her, i mean, i was reading one that said, "amy goes to see blake in court, "but she can't hide the state of her shocking skin." and it's a picture of someone obviously very unwell. hm, yes. do you think now, obviously, what amy went through, what britney spears went through, that maybe we've moved on a bit as a society that people wouldn't be persecuted essentially like that? i don't know. recent news may say different. ifelt like we maybe had evolved to this place of maybe that wouldn't happen now, but it feels like it is happening now.

# we only said goodbye with words what do you think she'd make of the film? i think that she would feel, like, the fact that we've sort of gifted her music back again in a different light, i feel like hopefully she would feel proud of it and us. and of herself, too, you know, as a catalogue of her achievements and what it was that i hope that she would watch it and feel, like, you know, proud of everything that she created. a fascinating life and it was interesting to see how the film works out. before we go let's give you a reminder of our lead story here on bbc news. tens of millions of people across north america have been watching a total solar eclipse of the moon briefly blocking the sun. crowds who gathered at the resort town on mexico's pacific coast with the first to cheer as the sky turn complete reduction in middle of the day. the eclipse that moved up the continent across several us

states and into canada. stay with bbc news. hello. monday was quite a quiet day of weather, really. we had some sunny spells breaking through the cloud, for example, here in cambridgeshire. and across large parts of england — it was a warm day for april, with temperatures topping out at 19 degrees celsius at kew in london. these temperatures are around five or six degrees above average. it's going to be a much cooler kind of day for tuesday. notjust cooler — it's going to be wet and windy for many as well. the change is down to an area of low pressure. this area of cloud you can see swirling to the south—west of the uk and that's essentially pushing northwards and eastwards over the next 12 hours. we already have quite a bit of rain with us at the moment and the rain across northern ireland and scotland could be

heavy enough to cause some localised flooding. 20—a0 millimetres of rain, not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things. however — edinburgh, for example, has already had over one and a half times the april average rainfall, even though we're onlyjust over a week into the new month. so this extra rainfall could be enough to cause some localised flooding. the weather will tend to brighten up from the west as we go through the day. sunshine and showers follow our main band of rain through. it's also going to be a windy, gusty kind of day. particularly for england and wales, gusts widely running into the forties of miles now, but could reach around 50 or 60 miles an hour around some coastal areas, with the rain reluctant to clear away from eastern scotland and parts of northeast england. 0ur temperatures are about 10 to 12 degrees for most now. that will clear through and be left with some colder air as we head into the first part of wednesday. potentially chilly enough to give an odd nip of frost for the early part of wednesday morning. should be a fine start to the day with sunshine. then it clouds over with the next weather system moving in from the west, bringing more rain. now, even as the rain pushes

through across wales and south—west england, it probably will stay rather cloudy. the weather that follows, however, it will start to turn a bit milder again with south—westerly winds, temperatures around 13—15 degrees. and that warming trend continues as we head into thursday. again, we've got south—westerly winds with us, but this time after a cloudy start, the clouds should tend to thin and break up and we'll see some spells of sunshine coming through quite widely. yeah, there'll be a few showers for the north and west of scotland, but otherwise it's mostly dry. and those temperatures, 17 for aberdeen, 17 for belfast, but highs could reach around 19 or 20 across parts of eastern england. it stays pretty mild then towards wales and england as we head into the weekend. temperatures could reach the low 20s for some.

big plans for us made chips — the world's largest maker of semiconductors agrees to build a third factory in arizona and gets billions in support. plus we take you to south korea for a ride on the world's first driverless night bus. hello and welcome to asia business report. i'm steve lai. our top story today: tsmc is expanding its plans to invest in the united states. the taiwanese chip—making giant will build a third factory in arizona. in exchange, the commerce

department is awarding tsmc with $6.6 billion in subsidies. the taiwanese chip—making giant first announced plans to expand into america back in 2020. however its production timelines have been delayed, partly because of uncertainty about when it would receive funds under the us chips act. paul triolo from the albright stonebridge group consultancy says the us is making huge strides to bring chip production onshore. it is a huge step forward. i think one official characterised it as the biggest foreign direct investment in greenfield's facility in advanced semiconductors in us history. so it's a big step on the way to the us trying to onshore some percentage of global capacity in advanced semiconductors. right now, the percentage is zero, so the goals that the commerce department has set up for these investments is to reach about 20% of global capacity for advanced semiconductors by 2030. and this is a big step

in that direction. it's notjust investments coming from the outside,