Stories coming live from the bbc newsroom. There are a number to focus on across the hour. Of course well talk about the royal engagement. These are some of the latest pictures from indonesia where thousands of people are being told to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano to leave their homes because of this enormous volcano and barley. Weve also got this special report to play, its about Lake Victoria and pollution damaging the lives of fishermen. Hope frances is in myanmar and thats going to be a delicate diplomatic trip because of theissue delicate diplomatic trip because of the issue of the Rohingya Muslims. We will talk about that in detail as well. Theres no doubt what the most popular story has been at bbc all day. The american actress and campaign Meghan Markle is engaged to prince harry. Here they are making their first appearance since the announcement. Harry has taken the royalfamily announcement. Harry has taken the royal family somewhere new. Announcement. Harry has taken the royalfamily somewhere new. Meghan markle is successful and well known in her own right. Shes a divorcee, mixed race, her mother is african american. The big day is going to be in the next year. We spoke to the happy couple. This is them and falling in love in the spotlight that comes with both of their lives. We were hit so hard at their lives. We were hit so hard at the beginning with a lot of missed troops. I made the choice to not read anything, positive or negative we were hit with all of the mistruths. We focused our energy on our relationship, and asked. Some of that scrutiny was centred around your ethnicity. When you realise that what did you think . Of course its disheartening. Its a shame that that is the climate, in this world, to focus on that, or be discriminatory in that sense. But i think, at the end of the day, im reallyjust proud of who i am and where i come from, and we have never put any focus on that. Weve just focused on who we are as a couple, and so, when you take all those extra layers away, and all of that noise, i think it makes it really easy to just enjoy being together, and tune all the rest of that out. Now that it is all official, prince harry, do you have that sense that the combination of the two of you and your different backgrounds, that you together represent something new for the royal family . I dont know if its something new. For me, its an added member of the family. Its another team player as part of the bigger team. For all of us, all we want to do is be able to carry out the right engagements, carry out our work, and try we hope to. Over time. To many of you Meghan Markle will need no introduction. She was a well known actress before prince harry came on the scene. Lots of you will have seen her in the tv series suits. Shes been another shows and films. She is a global ambassador for world vision and she has campaigned on the issue of gender equality, here she is talking on that issue for the un. Shes got a long track record of campaigning. When she was 11 she took issue with an advert she saw, that she felt u nfa i rly an advert she saw, that she felt unfairly portrayed women. She wrote letters to high profile women like every clinton taking up the issue. Here is Meghan Markle talking about that story at the un. The tag line said women all over america are fighting greasy pots and pans. Two boys in my class said thats where women belong, in the kitchen. I remember feeling thats where women belong, in the kitchen. I rememberfeeling shocked and angry, and also feeling so hurt. It just wasnt right and and angry, and also feeling so hurt. Itjust wasnt right and something needed to be done. Ill play you an extended part of the interview with Meghan Markle and prince harry in about 25 minutes. Lets turn to to some of the other main stories. Well begin in indonesia because more than 100,000 People Living near a volcano in bali have been told to move. You can see mount agung on the east of bali, it is indonesias largest volcano. Here are some of the pictures that have come in today. This smoke and ash is being fired four kilometres into the. Some activity has been going on for at least two months. If you look closely at these pictures you can see magma is visible. But may mean that a full eruption could come soon. That a full eruption could come soon. The alert has been raised to the highest level the authorities have accessed. I also wanted to show you these pictures from 1963. Thats the last time that the volcano erupted. At that time over 1000 people were killed by the eruption. The exclusion zone around the volcano has been extended to ten commenters. Ten kilometres. Volcano has been extended to ten commenters. Ten kilometres. In the last two days, well, yesterday i was wearing a mask and goggles. Today its been largely better because its been raining which has dampened down the volcanic ash. Translation there are concerns among the villagers. We tried to go to your evacuation centres, maybe this afternoon, but we also need to stay here to feed our livestock. Yes lam scared stay here to feed our livestock. Yes i am scared but i have to stay because i dont have any money. If i had it i would leave. Some of the locals. Bali is also a big tourist destination. Its airport has been shot which means 50,000 people are stranded. This is what weve got on the flight radar website. There is the flight radar website. There is the ash cloud. These flags are making a sharp west turn. They cant come into bali at the moment. Weve been following the story. Heres the latest. Predicting what a volcano will do next is a falls game. It is possible this is a low skill eruption over a longer period of time. Weve had activity for two months ever since tiny tremors were detected from the volcano. What happened recently is that magma can be spotted near the top of the volcano. That is a clue for scientists that a larger scale eruption could be coming soon. Whats been happening is the magma has been moving up through the volcano, heating water inside, creating steam which in turn creates pressure. That pressure is forcing that huge plume of rock and ash thousands of metres up into the air. The authorities cant take any of chances. They are trying to evacuate 100,000 people from the local area. Some people in villages around the volcano are staying put. They closed the local airport. A lot of people are stranded, tourists and locals, thousands of journeys ultimately are stranded, tourists and locals, thousands ofjourneys ultimately are disrupted. The priority for the authorities and bali is to make sure there isnt the death and destruction that happened the last time it erupted. In us politics, first lets talk about the longest serving member of the us congress. Hes a democrat and he stepped aside from a senior congressional position because of allegations of Sexual Misconduct. He accused of firing a former staffer because she refused his sexual advances. He tweeted earlier that he denies the allegations, many of which were raised by documents apparently paid for by a partisan right wing blogger. That story follows on from a couple of weeks back when the democratic senator al franken was accused of Sexual Misconduct by four women. Hes not spoken about those allegations for the first time. He has now spoken about these allegations. I know that i let a lot of people down, people in minnesota, my colleagues, my staff, my supporters, and everyone who has counted on me to stand up for women. To all of you i want to again say i am sorry. That clip will no doubt have been watched byjust about eve ryo ne have been watched byjust about everyone gathering in iowa for the 2017 Iowa Democratic party gala. I guess these repeated stories about Sexual Harassment inevitably are seizing the agenda. Definitely is something people have been talking about a considerable amount. Democrats trying to figure out where to go on this because members of their own party have been swept up in the allegations. Donald trump himself was accused of Sexual Harassment during the campaign. I think democrats are trying to pick up think democrats are trying to pick up the pieces. They lost control of the state government, they are trying to find a way to go forward and make inroads in this republican majority, not only here but across the country. Is it frustrating to democrats that they are not making more political progress, given the trouble is that donald trump has had . I think they understand that they dont control power in washington or here in iowa right now. Theres only so much they can do to slow down the republicans. Theres a certain amount of optimism based on Election Results in virginia for instance. They might be looking at big wins in mid term elections in 2018 but they understand they have a long way to go and they have been trying to come up go and they have been trying to come up with what message they need to come up with. Whether it is Bernie Sanders style populism or moderate approach to appeal to the middle class. They need more than being anti trump if they want to give a positive message to voters. Anti trump if they want to give a positive message to voterslj anti trump if they want to give a positive message to voters. I also wa nt to positive message to voters. I also want to ask you about this because in the last few minutes they clip as coming from donald trump speaking at an event in the oval office to mark the achievements of some native americans who served during the second world war. This is what the president said. Youre very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her poker pocahontas. But i like you but i like you. That was him referring to senator Elizabeth Warren as pocahontas. Why is that comment so controversial . This came up in 2012 when Elizabeth Warren was running for the senate. Apparently she listed Indian Heritage on her resume, it was listed on her harvard law directory when she was a professor there. It was turned into a Campaign Issue because apparently theres not much evidence she has an indian background. Donald trump has coined this pocahontas which has been considered a racist slur against Elizabeth Warren. Calling her pocahontas because she has these questionable assertions about her indian background. To hear him say this again in this context standing next to native americans at an event honouring them is pretty remarkable. Donald trump has had run ins with the native americans in the past when he was a casino owner. In Atlantic City he had some legal fights with native american casino operators in the area. There maybe more background context of the stand justified with Elizabeth Warren. More background than just the disagreement with Elizabeth Warren. Scientists are claiming overfishing and pollution are badly damaging the ecosystem in la ke are badly damaging the ecosystem in Lake Victoria. In the uk the government has been accused of keeping parliament in the dark after handing over edited versions on the analysis of the potential actor brexit on sectors of the economy. The papers were passed to the cross Party Select Committee on exiting the eu. Here is david davis. The leader of the house accepted that it was binding and it was clear that these reports, unredacted in full, should be handed over. If it doesnt happen, arguably thatis over. If it doesnt happen, arguably that is content of the house that in the first instance we will obviously raise it in parliament to get a nswe rs raise it in parliament to get a nswers to raise it in parliament to get answers to these questions. For those of you watching in the uk, that was keir starmer, not david davis, i do know the difference between the two, sorry about that. This is 0utside source, our lead story, prince harry and Meghan Markle have announced their engagement, news has gone around the world, the wedding will be in spring of next year. And other stories for bbc world service. American Tobacco Companies have been forced to run a series of Television Adverts detailing the deadly effects of smoking. 0ne says that smoking kills on average more than 1000 americans per day, more than murder, aids, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol combined. And this skeleton ofa alcohol combined. And this skeleton of a mammoth which is more than five metres long has gone on display in france. It will be sold. It is more than 15,000 years old, it is estimated at more than half 1 million worth. Iraqi forces are trying to drive Islamic State out of the Western Desert of iraq. If we show you this graphic, the area in light pink is territory controlled by is in 2015 and the much smaller area in dark pink in the west of iraq and Eastern Syria is what is currently control. You can see how much that territory has contracted, thatis much that territory has contracted, that is because of military pressure applied to is and with that, some foreign fighters have decided to leave the Islamic State group, or at least their families have decided to leave. A look at the story of tanya, a british woman who moved to syria with her americanjihadist a british woman who moved to syria with her american jihadist husband but she very quickly opted to leave because of the circumstances in which she was living. She told her story to the bbc. My name is tanya, for a decade i was an islamic extremist. My ex husband became a leading member of the Islamic State and now i am hoping to come to his ideology. Womack in the late 1990s, she went to high school here in harrow, a middle class suburb. She went to high school here in harrow, a middle class suburblj grew up here and went to schooljust down the road. I didnt know her at the time that knew many people who did, they described her as a normal teenager, she sometimes had boyfriends and played truant from school, she wasnt known to be particularly religious or politically engaged. So when did it all change . I turned to religion in my life when i was 17. Ijust wanted to change my identity. I didnt want to be tania from harrow any more. I wanted to be someone pious, someone that people didnt call a tart. So it gave me structure in my life that i needed and helped me feel like i belonged somewhere. In her late teens and early 20s, tania mixed with various radical groups in london. They changed the way she looked at the world. 0ur minds were being filled with these images, terrible, disturbing images. They would give examples of what happened in srebrenica and bosnia. We were made to feel this shared sense of guilt because were a community and it was our duty to do something. And that something was jihad. In 2003, she married john georgelas, an american convert she had met online. Over the next eight years, they lived across the uk, the us and the middle east. By the time they reached syria in 2013, tania was pregnant with their fourth child. I stayed in abandoned homes by ex military. The windows had been blown out and every single night, i had become accustomed to hearing gunfire. By this point, tanya said she had started to question the life ofjihad. She wanted to take the children back to america. After three weeks in syria, she pleaded with john to let them escape. He agreed. There were bullets, like snipers, on these towers, shooting, and we could see the bullets flying everywhere. I remember putting my kids through the barbed wire and the syrian refugees, they were just guys, they were helping us as much as they could. I put the stroller in and thenjohn passed me another baby. It was so scary. John remained in syria and went on to join the so called Islamic State. Until earlier this year, the Group Controlled vast areas of syria and iraq, where it implemented brutal rule and killed thousands. Tania says she hasnt heard from john in over a year, and doesnt know if hes alive or dead. The last thing he told me, the last message, was that he apologises for the wrong that hes done to me and the children, and that if i dont hearfrom him in six months, its most likely because hes dead because he has to fight, because the fight is drawing closer to where he lives. Tania now lives in the United States. Her children are looked after byjohns parents and seem well adjusted to american life. Why should they give you a Second Chance . I think because i realised i was wrong and made a mistake. I really wa nt was wrong and made a mistake. I really want to make up for my mistakes. She says shes turned her back on extremism in order to use her experiences to deter others from making the same mistakes. If you were to meet a woman who was thinking about going down the same path that you once took, what would you say to her . I would say, i lost my family, i lost my home, i lost ten years of my life that i should have been, you know, working towards an education and my career. I have four children who dont have a dad now. Is this the situation you want to be in . If you want to see that report, it has been on the most watched list on the bbc news apple day long. In zimbabwe, as we were talking about last week, Emerson Gabler is the new president , we await his cabinet, that will be a major clue as to how he approaches things, will he stick with his allies from the mcgarr bay area . We also have this man, who mediated between the zimbabwe and they Zimbabwe Army and Robert Mugabe. He has spoken to richard galpin. In the african world, Senior Citizens are there for advice. The new president , he is my mentor. You said that he is your father and your leader . He is my father, my leader, and my mentor. You played a very key role as the main mediator to persuade Robert Mugabe to step down. What was the deal which did persuade him to go, what was he given and what was he offered . Listen, we didnt offer him anything. You are asking a direct question for him to resign. He wasnt offered anything. He resigned for the good of zimbabwe. Bayern how confident are you that the new president will pursue a Democratic Path rather than reverting to the morgue autocratic to the more autocratic presidency of Robert Mugabe. He will be a democrat . Yes. And you believe him . Well, i do, after 50 yea rs in and you believe him . Well, i do, after 50 years in his active life as after 50 years in his active life as a soldier and as a politician, he knows what it means, that democracy is crucial. Before we finish this half of outside source, cut Time Magazine is getting a new owner and theres the potential for a political dimension to this. Can you tell is more, please . Time warner has been purchased by meredith, they own magazines like better homes and crab macro gardens, the clientele is mid american but what makes the story interesting is who has helped meredith make the purchase . It is one of the richest men in america, and they often fund things that will serve their conservative values. They put money towards Interest Groups and towards funding political candidates that are really more geared towards the conservative ideals. Meredith has said that the cope brothers will not have any role, they will not sit on the board or have any editorial direction for Time Magazine but of course there are still doubts. We had to leave it there, we are at the end of this half hour of the programme. We will also play that interview with prince harry and Meghan Markle with mishal husain, if you cannot wait for that, we will have more coverage on the bbc website. But we will see you in a couple of minutes time. Hello, we have seen big contrasts in weather conditions across north america recently, the south west United States has been exceptionally warm throughout november with records being broken, and further north, it has been unsettled. No pressure bringing in winter storms, and another round of unsettled weather pushing into the Pacific Northwest with snow cascades and the northern rockies. Through the course of the week, this club moves into the great lakes. Further south and into the caribbean, panama and costa rica, heavy rain has been affecting this part of the world in the last 24 this part of the world in the last 2a hours. This is the satellite picture. Some of the heaviest rain will be across the caribbean and in cuba, around the bahamas and southern florida. We could have a risk of flooding. Speaking of flooding, a significant risk across parts of malaysia and indonesia. You can see these bright colours denoting areas where they could be Tropical Storm developing in the next few days. There could be torrential rain for kuala lumpur, singapore and disruption could be caused at the airports there. Heavy rain across the bay of bengal, into Southern India and the maldives. 0n the satellite picture, explosive cloud denoting these heavy downpours. There is a chance of these thunderstorms showing circulation and developing into tropical cyclones as the week wears on. Something to keep an eye on. In colombo, some thunderstorms likely and across chennai. This active for the front spreads across the central mediterranean, southern italy, greece, the islands and into the aegean. Heavy thunderstorms here. This satellite picture pushing into western turkey. This ties in with this area of low pressure, pushing north eastwards, on tuesday and wednesday, heavy snow on the high ground of the balkans. In northwest europe, this High Pressure coming into the atlantic, this area of low pressure a cross into the atlantic, this area of low pressure across scandinavia, strong winds in northern europe, with a surge of arctic air spreading southwards across the uk ireland poker tour penetrating as far south as central and Southern Spain and western europe. Temperatures will be below the seasonal average across the uk, throughout the week, cold northerly winds, sunshine in central and southern areas with wintry showers in northern and western areas, especially on the eastern coast. Settling snow on the hills. Temperatures of 5 7dc. A cold outlook across the uk. Here in the uk the news has been dominated by the new royal engagement. Prince harry and the us actress Meghan Markle are going to be married next year. Actress Meghan Markle are going to be married next yearlj actress Meghan Markle are going to be married next year. I could barely let you finish proposing. She said cani let you finish proposing. She said can i say yes, can i said yes. There we re can i say yes, can i said yes. There were hugs and i had the ring, i said cani were hugs and i had the ring, i said can i give you the ring . She said, oh yes the ring in indonesia mount agung is threatening to erupt. And we have a report on the pope who has arrived in myanmar. Lets go back to the most talked about story of the day, the announcement prince harry and Meghan Markle will marry next year. Two of them met in london last year and they have been speaking to Michelle Hussain earlier. We were introduced by a mutual friend. We should protect her privacy but it was through her. We met in london lastjuly, at the beginning ofjuly. Then it was three orfour beginning ofjuly. Then it was three or four weeks later that i managed to persuade her to come and join me in botswana and we camped out with each other. Then we were really by ourselves. Then we were really by ourselves, which was crucial to me to make sure we had a chance to get to know each other. The friend who introduced you, was she trying to set you up . It was definitely a setup we talk about it now, because im from the states, we dont grow up with the same understanding of the royal family and so while i understand now very clearly there is a global interest there, i didnt know much about him and so the only thing i asked her when she said she wanted to set us up, one question was he nice . Because if he wasnt kind, it didnt seem to make sense. We went for a drink and then we said, what are you doing tomorrow . We got our diaries because i was off to africa for a month and she was working. The gap happened to be in the perfect place. How much did you know about meghan . Had you seen her on tv . Know about meghan . Had you seen her ontv . I know about meghan . Had you seen her on tv . I had never heard about her until this friend said Meghan Markle. I was like, give me a bit of background. Ive never watched suits or heard of meghan before. I was beautifully surprised when i walked into that room and saw her and that she was sitting there. I thought, im going to have to up my game and make sure ive got good chat. For both of us it was really refreshing. Given that i didnt know a lot about him, everything ive learned about him, everything ive learned about himi him, everything ive learned about him i learned through him as opposed to having grown up around different new stories or tabloids. For both of us new stories or tabloids. For both of us it was really authentic and organic way to get to know each other. Was quite refreshing for you in the way youve been brought up with a lots of people knowing a lot about you . With a lots of people knowing a lot about you . Or thinking they know. Exactly. It was hugely refreshing to get to know someone who isnt in your circle, didnt know much about me, ididnt your circle, didnt know much about me, i didnt know much about her. To start almost a fresh and getting to know each other step by step, and then taking that huge leap of two dates and then going effectively on holiday together in the middle of nowhere and sharing a tent and that kind of stuff, it was fantastic, it was amazing to get to know her as quickly as i did. In the case of your relationship, unlike many people, theres a layer of what it means to get involved with someone from the royal family. How much of a sense did you have of the enormity of what you were getting into and what it would mean for your life . As naive as it sounds now, having gone through this learning curve over the last year and a half, i didnt have any understanding of what it would be like. I think we both said that. No, i tried to warn her as much as possible but i think both of us were totally surprised by the reaction after the first five or six months we had to ourselves of what happened from then. I think you can have as many conversations as youd like and prepare as much as possible but we were totally unprepared for what happened. The scrutiny . Well, all sorts. And also, theres a misconception that because ive worked in the Entertainment Industry that this would be something id be familiar with but even though ive been on my show for six years at that point, and working before that, ive never been part of tabloid culture, pop culture to that degree and had lived a relatively quiet life even though i focused so much on myjob. So that was a really stark difference out of the gate. And we were hit so hard with a lot of mistruths that i made the choice not to read anything, positive or negative, instead we focus our energies on nurturing our relationship. 0n us. Some of that scrutiny, you made a Public Statement about it, some of the scrutiny was centred around your ethnicity, i think. When you realised that, what did you think . Of course its disheartening. Its a shame that that is the climate in this world, to focus that much which would be discriminatory in that sense but at the end of the day im really proud of where i am and where i come from. We have never put any focus on that, weve just focused on who we are as a couple. When you take those extra layers away, all of that noise, i think it makes it really easy to just enjoy being together and tune the rest of it out. What was it like introducing meghan to your father and your brother . Do you have that sense that you together represent something new for the royalfamily . I do think if its something new. For me its an added member of the family, another team player. We want to try and encourage others and the Younger Generation to see the world in the correct sense rather than perhaps having a distorted view. The fact that i fell in love with meghan so incredibly quickly was confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned, everything was just perfect. It was this beautiful woman who tripped and fell into my life and i fell into her life, and the fact that shell be really unbelievably good at the job part of it as well is obviously a huge relief to me because shell be able to deal with Everything Else that comes with it. Lam very i am very excited about it. Meghan given your acting, youd been involved in the area s quarters and been an ambassador for un women. What about this new role with a bigger platform and big voice . What do you want to do with it . |j bigger platform and big voice . What do you want to do with it . I think what has been really exciting as we talk about the transition of this out of my career but into the role is that, as you said, the causes that have been important to me i can focus more that have been important to me i can focus more energy on. That have been important to me i can focus more energy on. Early out of the gate you realise once you have a voice people are willing to listen to, with that comes a lot of responsibility. And at the same time i think, in these beginnings a few months, and now being boots on the ground in the uk, im excited tojust really get to know more about the different communities here, smaller organisations who are working on the same causes that ive always been passionate about under the same umbrella, and also being able to go round to the commonwealth. I think itsjust the beginning of. Theres a lot to do theres a lot to do. Theres a lot to read on the royal engagement and you can find extensive coverage on the bbc website with videos and articles on both harry and Meghan Markle. If youd prefer you can get the same information on the bbc news app. Next we are going to talk about pope francis. Hes arrived in myanmar for his first ever visit. Hes been greeted a bit earlier and this is going to be a delicate visit. He is being urged to put pressure on the authorities over their treatment of Rohingya Muslims as weve reported many times. More than 600,000 people have fled across the border from myanmar into bangladesh since august. The un has accused Myanmar Security forces of ethnic cleansing. Already since the popes arrival the army chief is insisting there is no religious discrimination in myanmar. Pope francis will give a speech tomorrow after meeting the day factor leader of myanmar, aung san suu kyi. Every single word of the speech will be looked at closely for references to the Rohingya Muslims. These are roman catholics from an ethnic minority. Theyve come for a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the pope. The congregation here at st anthony s church, normally used by the tamil community, is suddenly swollen. The hymns lifted by extra voices. She is on herfirst ever visit here. Translation by extra voices. She is on herfirst ever visit here. Translationzlj never imagined he would come to my country. You can see hundreds of thousands of people here who have travelled four days by train. I never thought i would ever be here. Now i am here, just look at me and all these people. This is already a sign of change for the better. I am so excited. This is a big moment the myanmars small population of roman catholics, but a risky one for pope francis. In a country that has generated the largest refugee crisis the region has seen in a generation, but where there is very little sympathy for them. There have been big street protests here but in support of the myanmar military, even after it was accused of ethnic cleansing, of driving hundreds of thousands of muslims out of the country. The pope has already spoken out several times over their plight. But hes been warned not even to use the term rohingya during the visit. Translation this is misunderstood by the international community. If he uses that word there will be a strong reaction. He needs to look at the situation here now. He needs to be aware there are things he can say things he should not say. Buddhist monks have been among the strongest supporters of a resurgent intolerant nationalism in this country. That has affected other muslim communities like this one in young. Anti muslim sentiment has been stirred up. But can a visiting pope do anything to help . We need such voices, the voices of concern, from people who are impartial. He is not speaking for any race or religion. In his mind, anybody who is victimised, he should speak for them. The buildup to this visit has raised hopes on many sites which the pope will find hard to meet. This old racecourse is a venue for one of the masses he will hold. Speaking blu ntly the masses he will hold. Speaking bluntly about the rohingya risks offending his hosts. While failing to do so will disappoint those who have come to expect more from this unorthodox pontiff. Well have more coverage on that speech by the pope in myanmarand coverage on that speech by the pope in myanmar and tomorrows programme. Now east africa, i want to focus on africas largest freshwater lake. La ke africas largest freshwater lake. Lake victoria plays a key role in the economies of the countries surrounding it but researchers say it is suffering from pollution, overfishing, which is impacting on uganda, kenya and tanzania. You can see one of the ways it is impacting by this statistic. Go back to 2005. 0ver by this statistic. Go back to 2005. Over 36,000 tonnes of fish was caught. Come back to last year and we are at less than half of that figure. Lets get more detail in this report. For centuries lake mick Lake Victoria has provided nourishment for its people. The catch is now paltry. He shows me what he caught today. The catch of the fish is very little. Life is very hard. As far as todays catch is concerned, it is little, it is about ten kilograms when, back in the day, we used to catch about 100 to 500 kilograms. Abundant fish variety were once here. Fishermen have to go farther and farther to find any at all. Kwaesi is one of hundreds of fishermen in this village and, for him and others here, the smaller catch means they survive day by day, hand to mouth. Lake victoria was called the lake of gods, and the people believed its resources were endless. At the height of the boom, fishermen in Lake Victoria caught more than 36,000 tonnes. Last year, it was less than half that, atjust over 17,000. Fishing is still a lifeline for uganda. At this fish market, the countrys largest, most of the nile perch are sent abroad. But the waters on this bay look odd. Algae has turned it green, like pea soup. Bloom levels are 20 times higher than is safe for swimming or drinking. Scientists search for clues, testing the water every month. The lake is slowly dying, it is a ticking time bomb. How desperate is the situation . We continue to pollute the lake through untreated waste water, for example, fertiliser being washed off from agricultural enterprises. Then the other thing is, of course, the destruction of part of Lake Victorias ecosystem, like the wetlands. The flower business is an alternative to fishing for some. Uganda has perfect weather for roses. Large greenhouses dot the lakes shores using water to grow rosebuds. But it is adding to the pollution . The pesticides can be coming back and turning back to the lake, and all of the communities surrounding this bay. The ugandan government is trying to save the lake. A special Task Force Raids the villages to destroy illegal boats and nets. The military is coming in today to control Illegal Fishing on the lake, looking at Illegal Fishing methods on the water. These measures are yet to help fishermen like this man. Today he has made just £2 to support his family. They only live on my power. If i dont go on the lake, i dont eat. I am scared of the situation in the future. Their songs reminisce about the lakes past bounties, but more has to be done to stem its decline, orfuture generations will only hear tales of the once plentiful lake of the gods. A little earlier i spoke to me now because i wanted to understand how the fishing works in Lake Victoria and who controls it. I think it is a partnership of all three countries. It is bordered by uganda, tanzania and three countries are in charge of that. Do they get along, are they working together on the issue . At the moment there is no effort for all three to work together. I was in uganda but the director of fisheries in uganda is trying hard to ensure that the lake is in better shape. Stopping illegalfishing that the lake is in better shape. Stopping Illegal Fishing and encouraging fishermen to use better methods instead of poison which it used in previous times, they encourage them to use greener methods to catch fish. And the fish menu met, they must be concerned . Methods to catch fish. And the fish menu met, they must be concerned7m is the source of their livelihood, one told me that he has had to move further weight to find any fish at all because fish have been swimming from the polluted area which is the closest to the lake. Tell me more about the pollution . Well, audi is at the bottom of what is happening at the bottom of what is happening at Lake Victoria, there is too much of it. At normal levels it is good because the fish eat them but here there are 20 times the levels of allergy in the area that they should be. Is that caused by people or is itan be. Is that caused by people or is it an unfortunate twist of fate . Be. Is that caused by people or is it an unfortunate twist of fate . M is coming from multiple sources, there needs to be better waste management, waste coming from city centres into the lake, people polluting the lake themselves are a source of concern. These countries could see one another as rivals when they look at the wonderful resources of Lake Victoria . They look at the wonderful resources of Lake Victoria . Some parts are disputed, it is a big deal understanding which country claims which part of the lake. It is a contentious issue. And pakistan, there is a deal between is the mists and the government which have ended weeks of protests connected to an accusation of blasphemy islamists. It rotates around the law minister, or he used to be the law minister. He was accused of blasphemy after a reference to the Prophet Muhammad was left out of the revised effort to stop the atmosphere is less tense than the last few days but thousands of protesters have remained, blocking this key road between islamabad. This morning, protesters reached an agreement with the government, brokered by the army. For the people here it feels like a victory. All of their key demands had been agreed to. The law minister has resigned. He is the man the people here believe is responsible for the amendment to the oath. Which started all of this and rest and the government agreed that all of those arrested will be released. They have achieved what they came for. The whole purpose was to honour the Prophet Muhammad. Translation once they have done this for our people, we will go away and that is our only demand now. The violence has concerned many in the country. Some blamed the government and say they should have taken firmer action and soon. Should have taken firmer action and soon. 0thers should have taken firmer action and soon. Others say that the powerful military establishment in pakistan have used the protest as a tool to pressurise the civilian government. And there is a constant power struggle between the two entities although the military would deny that. There is a great deal of cleaning up to do. The crisis may be over but the real damage could be to the governments reputation ahead of next yea rs the governments reputation ahead of next years general elections. Next, the story of a mother from uganda who was attacked with a machete by her husband. She lost both of her hands but now, thanks to a charity here in the uk, she has received a new pair of prosthetics. It is the smile that students from Salford University had worked so hard for. Just one year ago, this peasant farmerfrom fort portal in uganda was in pain. She was subjected to a vicious machete attack by her husband, who was angry that she dared ask for a share of their harvested crop. She lost both her hands and an ear in the assault and was pregnant at the time with her third child. But fast forward to today, a charity called salford knowledge for change, they heard about her plight. They helped to raise funds so that she could smile once again and have hope of one day looking after her children again. Its been a very difficult process. Upper arms prosthetics have not been developed in uganda at all so weve used our undergraduate Student Placement Programme to link students in prosthetics and their staff here in salford with our team of biomedical engineers in uganda and together, working between uganda and the uk, we eventually managed to provide her with functioning limbs. I was involved in this side of things, being at the university and with lecturers. When we received the casts, a group of us rectified, where you add an takeaway plaster to form the shape of a cast that would fit on herarm. Form the shape of a cast that would fit on her arm. It was an interesting project, one we wouldnt necessarily see in the uk because of the cultural differences. We took the cultural differences. We took the casts, send them back here, they gave us the casts, send them back here, they gave us new arms and the casts, send them back here, they gave us new arms and that helped in the rehabilitation process. Months we re the rehabilitation process. Months were spent painstakingly creating a new pair of hands. 0ne were spent painstakingly creating a new pair of hands. One is fitted with a robotic thumb so that she can grip objects. There will be no substitute for the real thing but it is hoped this new pair of prosthetic hands will go some way to repairing the damage from this attack. |j hands will go some way to repairing the damage from this attack. I am happy, the prosthesis means they are measured and are the right ones. Her smile says it all. Gina campbell, bbc news. That report ends this edition of outside source. I will see you tomorrow at the same time. Goodbye. Hello, monday is likely to be the most mild day of the week ahead. Cold air will return and in the longer term, it will be the position of the jet stream that will be crucial. What we are saying now, mild westerlies are replaced by cold northerly is. High pressure and those winds bringing down the showers. Showers to come from Northern Isles and the south west of england, initially, showers around coastal areas of north east england as the wind picks up, blowing them further inland and all the way to the midlands and across east anglia. We will see more cloud around, it will feel cold. Temperatures lower than they were on monday and tuesday, 5 8d typically and feeling colder in the wind too. We are starting to see cold air returning, madaya that we had on monday was a blip, northerly winds will be pushing back in. Windy down the eastern side of england and scotland. Thats where we see most of the showers and the club. Further west, fewer showers on wednesday in the south west, some continuing in scotland, most of the snow will be over the hills in scotland. Temperatures of 3 7d, a cold day in the wind but many inland areas dry with sunshine. High pressure to the west, they pressured to the east, and you can see wind coming from a chilly northerly direction. 0n thursday, whether similar to that on wednesday. Some showers in western exposures, more showers down the eastern coastal areas of england. Thursday is likely to be the coldest day of the week ahead. 0n thursday is likely to be the coldest day of the week ahead. On thursday into friday, around the top of this area of High Pressure, signs of more cloud toppling down in the north west. Coldest air across this corner of the uk, towards east anglia, the southeast, chilly with some showers. Further north west, temperatures picking up that there will be more cloud. A chilly day on friday, the warm weather front continues toppling down around that area of High Pressure, and it brings in more cloud, milder air, atlanta ca re in more cloud, milder air, atlanta care with High Pressure, moving down across the uk. More cloud, some rain and drizzle around. Temperatures higher, 10 degrees in belfast on saturday. Its almost unheard of. I spoke to you about the jet stream. 0ver spoke to you about the jet stream. Over the weekend, this jet stream to the north, diving down to central europe, this is where cold air is pushed. 0ver europe, this is where cold air is pushed. Over the weekend, we see mild aircoming in. Pushed. Over the weekend, we see mild air coming in. It may only be briefly because as we move into next week, the position of the jet stream changes, these winds are digging down towards the uk, thats where the cold air will be. Fluctuations in thatjet the cold air will be. Fluctuations in that jet stream, the cold air will be. Fluctuations in thatjet stream, mild air in the uk. More sunshine and showers, on the eastern side of the uk. That is where it will be coldest of all. Clear skies, frosts become widespread once again. Tonight at ten a Royal Wedding in the spring, as prince harry and the american actress, Meghan Markle, announce their engagement. After the announcement, the couple spoke to the bbc about the proposal, which happened in london earlier this month. It was so sweet and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee, was it an instant yes . Yes as a matter of fact i could barely let you finish proposing. I was like, can i say yes . She said, can i say yes . Then there was hugs and i had the ring, and i was like, can i give you the ring . And she was like, oh, yes the ring wearing a ring designed by the prince, ms markle said she would continue to support campaigns on equality and fairness in her new role. Very early out of the gate i think you realise once you have