Decison to withdraw troops from syria by a Republican Party heavyweight Mitch Mcconnell calls it a grave mistake. And making history thats out of this world two astronauts take part in the first ever all female space walk. Hello and thanks for joining us on bbc news. In barcelona the anger atjail sentences for catalan separatist leaders shows no sign of dying down. A fifth day of protests ended with police using tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon against stone throwing youths who also set fire to makeshift barriacades. By contrast, during the day half a Million People held a peaceful demonstration in the spanish city. Damian grammaticas sent this report from barcelona. Central barcelona. Parts of it are a battleground tonight. A full scale confrontation under way, between police and protesters. Round after round, fired by the riot officers. In return, stones, bottles and fireworks, hurled back at them. This is now the fifth night in a row of these clashes in barcelona, and whats clear is that they are becoming worse and worse. More violent, more protesters on the streets and more response from the police as well, who tonight have used tear gas for the first time and rubber bullets as they are trying to protect the National Police headquarters which are just down here. The day began with huge columns of people, converging on barcelona from across catalonia. Some had been walking for three days to get here. A general strike had shut down the city. Now, they took over the streets. These are Pro Independence supporters, putting on a huge show of force after spain jailed on monday nine catalan leaders who tried to declare independence for the region two years ago. Its only going to stop once we achieve what we want, that are changes, real changes. Not all catala ns want the region to split away. Thereve been counterprotests by those who want to stay part of spain. They have been tiny by comparison. They dont speak for the majority, because the support for independence is not majoritarian. This was the spark for the violence today, protesters hurling eggs and cans at Spanish Police officers. Eventually, police patience snapped. Every day this week, there have been scenes like this. Police action, fuelling tempers on the street. The severity of the jail sentences for the catalan leaders has caused real anger. But so too have police tactics, which the protesters see as heavy handed. Spains Prime Minister has warned those involved in any violence will face the full force of the law. There has now been a week of unrest with no sign of it ending. And catalan leaders say their hopes of independence are undimmed. In just a matter of hours borisjohnson will be asking mps across westminister to unite behind his brexit deal. And while parliament is deciding the fate of britains departure from the eu, thousands of protesters are expected to march through london demanding a new referendum. The stage is set, then, for a Super Saturday but no one knows quite what the outcome will be. Its expected to be a knife edge vote in parliament and in the last few hours a number of hardline tory brexiteers say they will back the agreement. Laura kuenssberg has the latest. Thats not the real borisjohnson. Its a fancy dress version, a climate protester who had scaled the scaffolding around big ben. The actual Prime Minister is teetering on an even narrower edge. He has to take a leap, not knowing if hell meet victory or defeat. Weve got a deal that allows us to get out of the backstop, thats abolished, and we can do free trade agreements as one whole United Kingdom around the world. Clearly, what matters is mps coming together across the house tomorrow to get this thing done. And ijust kind of invite everybody to imagine what it could be like tomorrow evening, if we have settled this. But in order to get this deal, though, you have given some concessions, youve accepted quite a significant Customs Border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom. That is something you said you would never do, you said no british Prime Minister could do that. No, on the contrary, nobody wants to have checks at the Northern Irish border. So, what weve agreed with the eu is that temporarily temporarily, and by consent of the people of Northern Ireland, if theres stuff that is coming from gb into ireland, or from anywhere else in the world via Northern Ireland into ireland, then, yes, there can be checks. But that, of course. And those checks can be levied by uk authorities. But that is very far from having a tariff border. By your admission, and its there in black and white in the deal, there will be extra customs checks, and for some people, including your allies, thats just not acceptable, that puts the union at risk. No, there are no tariffs going from gb to ni. But there are extra checks. They already are, as you know. But of course it is also going to be superseded, as we come out, as i hope we do at the end of this month, as we get on to negotiate the uk eu free trade agreement. The deal brokered by brains in whitehall and in brussels contains concessions from the eu and the uk. It leaves the future more open between the two sides, compared to the previous agreement, and in theory gives the uk more ability to trade round the rest of the world. But it does contain what could be significant changes to how Northern Ireland fits into the jigsaw of the rest of the uk, and thats not the only reason why the Prime Minister faces an uphill struggle to get this through mps. And you can watch all the developments at westminster across bbc news on saturday with special live coverage outside the houses of parliament. Lets get some of the days other news. A federal court in new york has found the brother of the president of honduras guilty of Drug Trafficking charges. Tony hernandez was arrested last year in miami. Prosecutors accused him of using his honduran government connections to smuggle 200 tons of cocaine into the us. Floods caused by eight days of torrential downpours in North Eastern ghana have left 28 people dead and displaced hundreds. Relief items are being transported 800 kilometres by road from the capital accra to the affected region on the border with burkina faso. Meteorologists warn the rains could last into november. Its emerged that boeing employees exchanged messages about possible problems with the automated Safety System on its 737 max jet nearly two years before the plane was involved in its first crash. The max planes have been grounded pending an investigation because of two accidents which killed more than 300 people. On thursday, turkeys president Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to suspend his military operation against kurdish led forces in Northern Syria for five days. But those forces have accused ankara of breaching the ceasefire. They say turkish air and artillery attacks are still being carried out against border towns. Well, in washington, the majority leader of the us senate says President Trumps decision to withdraw troops from syria was a grave mistake. In a rare criticism of President Trump, Mitch Mcconnell has warned that that there are significant dangers in america abandoning its allies. Heres the bbcs north america correspondent peter bowes. Well, this is clearly something he feels strongly about and there is a lot of people analysing why hes written the article and gone so public about it. One theory is that hes actually signalling to republicans, look, it is ok to criticise the president on this issue, such is the strength of feeling. A lot of republicans havent spoken out up until now, but maybe they will in the future. And just to summarise, what he is saying in this article is that he is really focusing on the implications of withdrawing American Forces from syria. He has grave concerns about the rise of groups like Islamic State and the possibility that in future, attacks could be staged on the united states. He says, if permitted to regroup and establish havens, they will bring terror to our shores. And he ends with this line, he says americas wars will be endless only if america refuses to win them. That is a direct criticism of what President Trump has been saying, talking for many months now about the fact that he wants to end these endless wars around the world. At least 62 people have been killed and Dozens Injured by a bomb during friday prayers at a mosque in afghanistan. The blast, which destroyed the buildings roof occurred near the city of jalalabad, in the countrys east. No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, as katie silver reports. A friday Prayer Service gone horribly wrong. A sacred time in the week for most muslims, instead these afg ha ns week for most muslims, instead these afghans rush to get wounded worshippers medical attention. Translation it was a time for friday prayers and everyone had gathered in the mosque, when suddenly a bomb exploded and many people got hurt. Eyewitnesses reported hearing the miller preacher before his voice was suddenly silenced by allowed them, and the mosques roof caved in. Silenced by allowed them, and the mosques roof caved in. Translation there was a big explosion, it all became dark and then the villagers came and rescued me. Iwas became dark and then the villagers came and rescued me. I was under the debris in the mosque was completely destroyed. So many people were killed and wounded. Translation when the explosion happened i was near the mosque, we went there, the entire mosque was destroyed. We dont know if it was a rocket attack ora bomb dont know if it was a rocket attack or a bomb blast. Children were among the injured. Local Authorities Say the injured. Local Authorities Say the number of casualties is likely to rise as people worked to bring bodies out from the rubble. There has been a surge of violence in the country in recent months. With the un saying it has reached unacceptable un saying it has reached u na cce pta ble levels. Un saying it has reached unacceptable levels. There have been almost 1200 civilian casualties in the three month to the end of september, about 1. 5 times higher than the previous year. Much of this, the un says, was caused by an effort by the taliban to disrupt democracy. The report not only documents the harm to civilians caused by the talibans offensive to disrupt the election but also highlight the pattern of adoption, threats, intimidation and harassment carried out by the taliban again civilians leading up to and during the elections. No fire noone has so the elections. No fire noone has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. The taliban are laying blame on the Islamic State group. Stay with us on bbc world news, still to come the still to come roaring success of londons west end, the roaring success of londons west end, the lion king celebrates 20 yea rs end, the lion king celebrates 20 years on the capitals stage. A historic moment that many of his victims have waited for for decades. The former dictator in the dock, older, slimmer, and as he sat down, obedient enough. 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Our deputy Political Editor john pienaar has been crunching the numbers. For all todays sweet talking and arm twisting, this deal still leaves the future relationship up for negotiation. Brexiteers want to strick new trade deals and break clear of new eu rules and regulations. Critics fear well be worse off. But first, Boris Johnson has to get mps behind his deal that allows the uk to leave. The numbers look painfully tight and he either has to win round the dup, which looks close to impossible, or look elsewhere for votes. Why . Well, in the commons, the pm needs 320 votes to guarantee a win. The dups ten mps dont want to be blamed for a no deal brexit but they fear customs and regulatory checks on goods arriving from the british mainland could weaken the union. They wont back the deal. Most of the pms 287 tories will back it, some reluctantly. A number of rebels have been won over. Some keen tory unionists may stick with the dup. Labour will vote strongly against the brexit plan. The government denies it butjeremy corbyn fears a tory brexit means weaker workers rights, poorer environmental safeguards, and nhs services, say, up for sale in a future trade deal. But some fear losing support unless brexit is delivered and a number will split or abstain and every vote could count. What about the independents who were thrown out the conservative party . Well, they will split too. Some will back the pm, including a few who want back into the tory fold, they want to keep their seats. Others want to stay close to the eu but they might swallow this deal in the meantime. A few who are worried about britains future after brexit may refuse. Mrjohnson can forget jo swinsons lib dems and the snp and some others, they are against brexit. There are more struggles in the pipeline, a push for another referendum, for example, and some mps will vote to guarantee a brexit extension, they will try to make sure the deal comes before they approve it and that there is no last minute attempt to back out. Lebanese riot police have fired tear gas during clashes with Anti Government protestors in beirut. Its the second day of demonstrations the biggest in years. Theyre angry at unemployment, high prices and the poor state of public services. In response, Prime Minister, saad al hariri, gave his Coalition Partners three days to commit to a programme of economic reforms. Local journalist Timour Azhari has told the bbc what hes seen on the ground. Well, on the ground weve been seeing thousands of people on the streets of beirut, expressing their anger. Expressing their anger at years of economic mismanagement. They have been calling for economicjustice, they have been calling for the downfall of the regime, which is a slogan tied to the 2011 arab spring, as you know. People have been extremely hopeful, which is interesting to see in this country. For the last few years we have had smaller protest movements happening, but they would usually fizzle out after hours in the square. Now we are really seeing a staying powers to the protests. They have been basically going on non stop for two days. There are at least hundreds of people in the main square in beirut and hundreds more across the country. In another milestone for Space Exploration, the first all woman space walk has taken place. The american astronauts Christina Koch and jessica meir replaced faulty equipment on the outside of the International Space station. Gareth barlow has the details. For almost eight hours, they made history. The first all women spacewalk in the universe. Christina koch, and jessica meir, who has a doctorate in marine biology, stepping outside the International Space station, 400 kilometres above earth. We hope that we can provide an inspiration to everybody, not only women, but to everybody that has a dream that has a big dream and is willing to work hard to make that dream come true. Hello, everybody. Watching from solid ground as they made repairs to the space station, President Trump hailed the moment. And i just want to congratulate you, what you do is incredible. Its so youre very brave people. I dont think i want to do it, i must tell you that, i want to tell you, but you are amazing people. Earlier, what would have been the worlds first all womens spacewalk was cancelled after nasa ran short of medium sized spacesuits. In the early days of human space flight, women were not astronauts. There were only a couple selected as russian cosmonauts. It took nasa until 1978 to start selecting women. Now in 2019, amid the inky abyss, proof that there is space for us all. Gareth barlow, bbc news. Dr carly howett is assistant director in the department of space studies at the Southwest Research Institute in boulder, colorado. She told me why this space walk is a cause for celebration. I mean, fundamentally, these professionals are doing the work theyve been trained to do, and so they are the right people at the right time to do the job and they did amazingly well. This is a toughjob. They have been training six years to do it. Above all, they are professionals. This is a significant moment and i dont want to take away from that at all. This is the first time that two women have the work together. So, as your report already said, women have done space walks, i think the first was in 1983, but this is the first time two women have done it and i think that is a really significant milestone in terms of Space Exploration for women and all minorities by extension. About 600 people have gone into space, only 65 women are among them, why are women onlyjust beginning to catch up . Well, i think it was to do with opportunity, right . When Space Exploration began, most of the people that flew had heritage in the air force. They were traditionally pilots, its traditionally men, and that has been slowly changing. And i think as we go forward, women will continue to play an important, and maybe even a dominant role in space travel. If you think about even the language that we use, manned space flight is still used very widely, and thats got that heritage. But as we move toward human and crewed space flights, this coverage that you are giving them really shows that women are involved and have always been involved, but now we are teaching a more prominent role and that is great to see. If humanity goes back to the moon or mars, can we expect it will be a woman to plant the flag on the surface of that planet . Well, i hope so. But theres a lot of good scientific reasons to send women, especially on these longer missions. Women are lighter, which makes them lighter to launch, they need less calories, they need less food and need less oxygen. Women also produce less Carbon Dioxide by that extent. There are a lot of practical reasons why you might want to send women instead of man to do these sort of Long Duration missions. Eventually, if we do want to go out and populate the solar system, you are going to have to be sending women. Women are not able to reproduce without women, but there are ways of reproducing without man. So i think the possible future of space flight is in womens hands. My my first time on stage, i was like, oh my gosh, im actually in the lion king a swing is a cast member who is required to learn multiple roles within the show, in the case of lion king that would be different characters such as the gazelle, the zebras, lionesses, the cheetah. I would say is quite nerve racking. Ive learned to control the nerves, ijust go with it ive learned to control the nerves, i just go with it and just the fact that i know the choreography and where to be. When i go downstairs to what they called the bunker, im going to show you where all the magic happens. The magical bunker. Follow me so this is the lioness costume, the heads are all hand painted. The silks are all hand dyed individually to make every single individual look different. The different beads come together to make this corset and the white lines represent the underbelly of the lioness. These other gazelles. They are all made out of carbon fibre. We have one on the right hand, one on the left hand, and one on the cup to represent the herds as they travel across the highlanders on the head. And these are made to keep the shape of these are made to keep the shape of the grass. The first time coming on stage, the audience, the energy is just so real and electrifying. I was very nervous, but i think i guess i got over the fact that i was nervous because i was just like, over the fact that i was nervous because i wasjust like, im in it, doing it. And as a swing you have so many other things to be thinking about such as where you are meant to be on stage, who you come after, which wing exit to enter and exit on. I had to think about all of those things but i did have to enjoy. By my third so i think i settled in and enjoyed it. I dont remember what scene it was but it was kind of quiet and my mind was like lion king thats my baby and i was like lion king thats my baby and iwas like. Like lion king thats my baby and i was like. Stay with bbc news. Good morning. This time last week the World Weather story was typhoon hagibis. And in fact, we were watching this powerful typhoon barrelling its way towards the shores of japan. Weather warnings were enforced, several of the Rugby World Cup matches were cancelled, including the england france match. Well, im pleased to say fast forward seven days and yes we have some shower cloud across japan but the weather story looks much better for the quarterfinals. In fact, it should be relatively dry, bright and warm, with temperatures into the mid 20s for the england australia match. I wish i could say the same, however, for the uk on saturday. Yes, it does look as though were going to have plenty of showers, some of them heavy with the odd rumble of thunder again. But there is an improvement for the second half of the weekend. However, were still under this influence of low pressure with this weather front enhancing the rainfall across eastern scotland. Well also see plenty of showers out of the west as well. Some of these showers will push further inland as we go through the day, perhaps not as many as we have seen across england and wales, but the rain fairly persistent through eastern scotland, drifting down towards the Scottish Borders as we go through the day and then a northerly breeze kicking in behind. So top temperatures on saturday of 10 15 degrees. But as we go to the overnight period, the showers will start to fade away and the northerly wind will start to kick a little bit further south. So, thats going to allow temperatures to fall away. Low single figures in a few spots, a chillier start to sunday morning but a quieter start to sunday morning. And that, im sure, will come as welcome news. In fact, the second half of the weekend looks drier and there will be fewer showers around as well. A better day for getting out and about. So we start off on a chilly note. That northerly wind will be a feature, albeit light, a few showers along the east coast a little more cloud here, damp and drizzly in places. Further south and west we will see a little more sunshine and after that chilly start temperatures will recover 9 11; degrees, the high. Again, we could have an issue with some fog and frost through the night, but the story into the early half of the week is High Pressure building from the west. There is this weather front that could just be a little bit of a fly in the ointment for the extreme south east, maybe the risk of some rain close to the kent coast. We will need to keep an eye on that. But generally across the uk on monday, that quieter theme of weather is set to build. There will be light winds, there would be a little bit of fairweather cloud and it will feeljust a little bit cooler. But with the sunshine compensating, hopefully a better feel. 9 11; celsius. Take care. This is bbc news, the headlines violent clashes between protesters and riot police have continued into the night in the spanish city of barcelona. Earlier on friday, about half a Million People held a peaceful demonstration against the jailing this week of catalan separatist leaders. British mps will be heading to parliament in a few hours in whats been called Super Saturday a special vote on Prime Ministerjohnsons new brexit deal. He spent friday trying to secure the 320 votes the government needs to win a majority for his agreement. One of President Trumps most loyal supporters, the Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, has condemned the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria as a grave mistake. Writing in the washington post, he said it would embolden washingtons enemies and leave americans less safe