female president. the frontrunner, claudia sheinbaum, and her main rival, xochitl galvez, are well ahead of the only male candidate in opinion polls. ms sheinbaum, who is a former mayor of mexico city, has the backing of the outgoing president, lopez obrador. it's been the most violent election campaign in modern mexican history. over 20 local candidates have been killed across the country during the campaign, and two people were killed in separate attacks at voting centres in the central state of puebla. our correspondent in mexico city, will grant, before we get into the candidates, tell us what it's been like covering this campaign, considering how violent it has been. if campaign, considering how violent it has been.- violent it has been. it has been very _ violent it has been. it has been very violent. - violent it has been. it has been very violent. i - violent it has been. it has been very violent. i made violent it has been. it has l been very violent. i made it out to two parts of the country on the campaign trail. one of them was the state of guerrero which was perhaps the most violent state of all in the campaign. 50 candidates had either been murdered or intimidated, some intimidated and threatened so much that they were forced off the ballot. that tells you how bad the situation is. it's notjust the situation is. it's notjust the murders, they create the headlines and rightly so, but there is this low level intimidation that has played out right through to polling day itself. stuff posted online about intimidation, about masked men coming to polling stations. gunmen. attempts to burn polling stations. things like that. it really has been quite worrying. nevertheless, the two candidates both say they will do things to focus on security, and that this is a situation they intend to bring under control. if situation they intend to bring under control.— under control. if we turn our attention — under control. if we turn our attention to _ under control. if we turn our attention to the _ under control. if we turn our attention to the candidates, | under control. if we turn our. attention to the candidates, it is set to be a historic election for mexico, because they are most likely on track to elect their first female president. to elect their first female president-— to elect their first female resident. , , . ., president. yes, very much. you have claudio — president. yes, very much. you have claudio sheinbaum, - president. yes, very much. you have claudio sheinbaum, the i have claudio sheinbaum, the former mayor of this city, the front runner who has always had a healthy lead in the polls leading up to voting day. and when i spoke to her on the campaign trail, it was clear she was very confident of victory. she is offering the electorate a sort of extension of president lopez obrador, as you said in your introduction he backed her, the outgoing president. he has put down six years of what they call the force transformation of mexico. essentially a policy of social programmes. —— fourth transformation of mexico. intended to lift the poorest from poverty, and has had some success. 5 million people have been lifted from poverty in his time in office. his opponents say he is an autocrat, that it is populism and that she is merely going to be a puppet of his and not her own woman. galvez says she is the change mexico needs, that she will be a different kind of candidate, who will be able to push back against the years of lopez obrador. against the years of lopez obrador-_ against the years of lopez obrador. , , . ~ , , obrador. just quickly, let us know when _ obrador. just quickly, let us know when results - obrador. just quickly, let us know when results are - obrador. just quickly, let us - know when results are expected, we know the polls are going to close and we can hear quite a bit going on around you. yeah, basically the — bit going on around you. yeah, basically the polls _ bit going on around you. yeah, basically the polls close - bit going on around you. yeah, basically the polls close now, | basically the polls close now, people who are still in the queue are generally still allowed to vote, should be allowed to vote, should be allowed by the electoral rules, but within a few hours we should get the indications, about 11 p m local time we should get the fast count. that should get the fast count. that should make it very clear who has won the race. iim. the ukrainian president has accused china of prolonging the war in his country by supporting russia. speaking at the shangri—la security gathering in singapore, volodymy zelensky complained that beijing was discouraging other countries from attending a summit scheduled in switzerland in mid—june. china has denied taking sides in the war. sura njana tewari reports. ukraine's president desperately needs help to forge his path to peace. the russian offensive in kharkiv has battered the north—east of the country for weeks. glide bombs fired by aircraft in russian airspace, pummelling ukrainian trenches. the us is helping kyiv fight back with advanced weaponry, but is concerned about escalation and has restricted their use to targets inside ukraine. president zelensky complains that his hands are tied. pressure on washington has been building. finally, in a meeting with us secretary of defence lloyd austin, a change in policy was made official. but zelensky told the bbc that it is still insufficient. translation: is this enough? no. i have mentioned the example before, the airfields from where russia bombed ukraine, knowing that ukraine will not bomb them in response not having the systems to do so. could asia provide what he needs? he was hoping to drum up support by making an unscheduled visit to the shangri—la dialogue in singapore, asia's premier defence summit. south korea and japan are big arms and hardware manufacturers after all, but the focus for president zelensky was a peace conference which he hopes will prevent nuclear disaster, ensure food security and release prisoners of war including ukrainian children held in russia. he says 106 countries have already signed up. president zelensky has been holding meetings here all day, to drum up even more support for that peace conference in switzerland later this month. his departure was far more muted than his arrival, when delegates packed the lobby and balconies for more than an hour, some comparing it to taylor swift's recent visit. that overshadowed the issues in asia. many countries are worried that china's increasingly aggressive behaviour is destabilising the region. beijing is a concern for president zelensky also. he said there were elements of russian weaponry that come from china and has accused it of prolonging the war by supporting russia. in a morning speech that was eclipsed by excitement for zelensky�*s address, the chinese defence chief denied taking sides. asked if he had met dong jun here, zelensky said no, and accused beijing of undermining his peace conference. translation: this is very | unfortunate that such a big, independent, powerful country as china is an instrument in the hands of putin. zelensky was the man of the moment amidst a sea of security dilemmas in the indo—pacific. it's the latest diplomatic push for a leader who has become accustomed to begging the world for help. now he returns home to the war, and a peace conference he hopes can break the deadlock, on his terms. suranjana tewari, bbc news, singapore. melinda haring is non—resident senior fellow at the atlantic council in washington. she told me there's no doubt president zelensky is frustrated by china's support for russia. what happened today may seem a little overstated. it may seem like zelensky exploded. that's not what's going on. china is pretending that it's not aiding and abetting the russian regime. it is. make no mistake about it. you can't be half pregnant. russia cannot continue the war in ukraine if china would not be selling drones and other equipment that russia uses every day to prosecute the war in ukraine. so that's really what we're hearing and feeling was zelensky�*s very sharp statements today. so just to elaborate on that, if you could then give us a sense of the scale of the influence that china has over russia's actions in ukraine. so china and russia have been very friendly for a long time, so that's not new. but since the war started two years ago, the full scale war china and russia have grown increasingly close and their leaders have grown increasingly close as well. we had a lot of pictures before the war, exchanging necklaces, a lot of sort of kabuki theatre, but it's a lot more real now. the two big authoritarian powers are reinforcing each other in very, very real ways. so there's economic cooperation. there is real cooperation on the state to state level, and there's been enormous amounts of purchase of weapons. so the sort of red line is beijing has not provided shells to moscow, but it has enabled it's been selling a lot it's been selling a lot of equipment that enables the russian war machine and it claims that we're innocent, we're not doing that, it's playing a double game. last year, beijing proposed a peace plan and back in the anniversary of the war in february �*23. and it's pretending to be a neutral broker and it's not. and we see that today because zelensky has he's inviting everyone. he's in singapore, he's inviting the world to come to a peace conference in switzerland later this month. and he did not invite russia and the chinese have snubbed him. so he's very upset. and he's not only upset about the snubbing, that china is a hypocrite. he's really upset because russia is using china to try to undermine other countries from participating in this swiss peace process. so that's why zelinsky is so upset today. china, for their part, have denied taking sides in the war. melinda, what impact do you think this forthcoming peace summit in mid—june could have on the conflict on the war on going in ukraine? so, steve, don't write any big, bold headlines. that's that's the a0,000—foot view. there's more than 106 countries coming to switzerland, but you can't have a real negotiation if the two parties to the conflict are not there. russia's not coming and ukraine will be there. it looks likejoe biden is also not coming, which is another big signal that you should limit your expectations. however, it's important. and countries should show up because pressure needs to grow. it needs to grow and grow on russia. russia is the aggressor state and russia needs to leave ukraine as soon as possible, so that ukraine can re—establish its borders and its territorial sovereignty. and those are doctrines that china says it supports in this peace plan it floated a year ago. in south africa, the party once led by nelson mandela, the african national congress, has had its worst election result since the end of apartheid three decades ago. it means a fresh political landscape for the country, with the anc losing support because of anger over the cost of living, high levels of corruption, unemployment and crime. barbara plett usher has more from johnannesburg. this is a country at a crossroads. the historic inequalities of apartheid have not been erased and the people have had enough. last week, they went to the polls and voted for change, delivering a dramatic drop in support to african national congress. today, the president spoke for the first time. people have given effect to the clarion call that has resonated across generations. that the people shall govern, our people have spoken. whether we like it or not, they have spoken. the anc�*s disastrous showing has thrown competition wide open for a coalition government to replace its controlling majority. the pro—business democratic alliance came second, with an agenda of free—market reforms, but it struggles to shake the image of a party for the white minority. the former president, jacob zuma, disgraced by allegations of rampant corruption, has made an extraordinary comeback, heading the newly formed mk party. the radical economic freedom fighters want to nationalise banks and seize white—owned land. so those are the options, and we have now had the official announcement of the election result, confirming what we already knew. that means that the anc has two weeks to form a coalition with parties which have very different visions of the country. faced with that uncertain future are these young people injohannesburg, the generation for whom most is at stake. nearly 50% are unemployed. if we get somebody young, fresh, young blood, yeah, we're going to, i'm very much optimistic. it's going to be a beautiful country. i hope the ruling party is shaken as we want them to be. we just need the basics, like, just take care of the people. and to stay on their promises and keep their word, you know. we know they want to tell the money, let them tell the money, but let them at least do what they promised to do and then maybe tell the change. the votes may have been counted but nobody knows where they will lead. barbara plett usher, bbc news, johannesburg. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the indian ocean nation of the maldives has said it is to ban israelis to travelling to the tourist location. ii,ooo israeli tourists visited last year. they don't have diplomatic ties with the muslim majority nation after they were suspended in 1974, but israelis have been allowed to visit since the maldives listed a previous ban in the early 19905. previous ban in the early 1990s. this all comes as the us urged israel and hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal outlined by president biden. here's the white house national security council spokesmanjohn kirby, speaking to abc this week programme. well, it is an israeli proposal, one that they arrived at after intense diplomacy with our own national security team and over at the state department in what it is a phased approach. so where we are right now is that proposal, an israeli proposal has been given to hamas. it was done on thursday night ourtime, we're waiting for an official response from hamas. we would note that publicly hamas officials came out and welcomed this proposal. but the proposal has been met with vocal opposition. two key right—wing members of israel's coalition government have threatened to bring it down if the prime minister agrees to the latest peace deal offer. finance minister bezalel smotrich, here on the right, and national security minister itamar ben—gvir said they were opposed to striking any deal unless hamas was wiped out. on saturday night in tel aviv, tens of thousands of people gathered to urge the prime minister to accept the ceasefire proposal. groups of protesters were dispersed by mounted police and water cannon. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega has more benjamin netanyahu seems to be caught between two options — ceasefire and coalition. unsurprisingly, two of his far right ministers have dismissed the deal that was proposed on friday by president biden for the war in gaza, describing it as unacceptable. the finance minister bezalel smotrich and itamar ben—gvir, the israeli national security minister, have threatened to quit the government if the deal goes ahead. now, this could lead to the collapse of the coalition of prime minister netanyahu. now, the head of the opposition has offered to support the government if those ministers do resign in protest. but this would make mr netanyahu dependent on the support of people who have been highly critical of him. mr netanyahu hasn't yet responded. since on friday, when this deal was announced, his office has issued only two statements, short and vague, without explicitly supporting the deal, which was described by president biden as an israeli proposal. now, the families of the hostages who remain in captivity in gaza are urging the prime minister to support the deal. they say that time is running out to rescue the hostages. so a lot of pressure on the prime minister. for hamas, this is perhaps the best deal they can expect. they say they will support this deal if israel does. let's take a look at some of the stories making the headlines in the uk election. officials in the indian state of uttar pradesh say at least 33 people working at polling stations died of heat—stroke over the weekend — saturday was the final day of voting in the country's election. at one point, a temperature ofjust under 47 celsius was recorded. donald trump has suggested that his supporters could reach "breaking point" if he is sent to prison following his criminal convictions. mr trump was found guilty by a jury on thursday of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments made to a former adult film actress. one of his lawyers has told the bbc that nothing will change in the former us president's election campaign, despite his conviction. north korea has continued to fly balloons carrying large sacks of rubbish over the border into south korea. the military in the south say some 600 balloons were sent over the weekend, many of which landed in the capital seoul. on wednesday, pyongyang began sending sacks of waste paper, cigarette buts and excrement to its neighbour, in retaliation for activists in south korea sending balloons carrying propaganda leaflets to the north. the flamboyant founder of fake cryptocurrency onecoin, ruja ignatova, is the world's most wanted woman. dubbed the "missing cryptoqueen", she's on the fbi's top ten most wanted list after defrauding investors of $4.5 billion and then vanishing. for the past year, bbc world service's eye investigations and panorama have been trying to find out more about what happened to her, and whether she is even alive. this coin is going to be number one worldwide. she has been accused of defrauding victims of more than $4 billion. the bbc has been investigating the disappearance of ruja ignatova for five years. an international fugitive who allegely masterminded a vast worldwide fraud scheme is being added to the fbi top ten most wanted list. sources now say she may have been murdered. translation: she messed with the wrong guys. - one, two, three. we will double the points on your account! when i saw ruja ignatova there was a hype that - you invest in the coin you can invest in thel lives and nice cars. she is leading people out of their financial misery. i but the dream she sold was no more than a ponzi scheme. allowing the leaders of one coin to steal $4.5 billion from their investors. i lost all of my money. it was a really, really, sad and embarrassingj and depressing moment of my life _ the fbi and the internal revenue service launched a criminal inquiry into onecoin in 2016. if you look at all the money, it has ended up in her pockets, privatejets, she had multi—million dollar mansions. dubai, london, germany are the three we knew about. by 2017, law enforcement in ten different countries were investigating onecoin. suspecting the police were after her, ruja ignatova fled bulgaria in 2017 and has not been heard from since. her disappearance has been linked to an unnamed demand linked to an unnamed man described in us court documents as a drug trafficker. the bbc understands this to be a man known as taki, suspected of leading a bulgarian organised crime group but has never been prosecuted for any crime. sources close to ruja ignatova says taki was her head of security. herformer adviser, frank schneider said it was a typical arrangement in bulgaria. as in most, call them mafia environments, we have to buy protection. the bigger it gets the more dangerous it becomes. a secret police report seen by the bbc suggests taki may have had ruja ignatova murdered, killed on a boat off of greece and her body thrown into the sea. the key question is why would he kill her. one possible answer is she already knew too much, if in the mafia you become a liability, you are butchered. and you are thrown to sink at the bottom of the sea. taki has never been arrested over claims he has had ruja ignatova murdered, but bulgarian police say don't have enough evidence. since ignatova has been said to been murdered, there have been reported sightings of her but have come to nothing. no body has ever been found. the bbc wrote to his lawyers about the allegations in this film. they did not respond. until now, the far side of the moon has been relatively unexplored. but now the chinese have landed a spacecraft on the far side of the lunar surface. the mission to discover to bring back rock samples and see if there is ice or water there. here's laura bicker. this is the view from the change 6 space probe as it comes into land on the far side of the moon. now that it's here, it has work to do in what china is describing as an historic mission. every movement was monitored at beijing's aerospace control centre. landing on this part of the moon, as shown in this animation, is risky. this is a very impressive mission because the thing about the far side of the moon is you've got no line of sight communication with the earth. but years earlier, china launched a satellite to relay messages from earth to solve that problem. after decades of preparation, the probe finally touched down. for the next two days, a mechanical arm will drill and collect rock and soil samples. this is a world first. scientists have never been able to study this side of the moon. the change 6 began its mission in early may, and if the uncrewed craft makes it back later this month with the precious samples, china will know its leading the way in this type of lunar exploration, and the country is yet another step closer to putting their own man or woman on the moon. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. more on that on our website, including beijing's gorda strategy which aims to see chinese astronauts walk on the moon by 2030. —— gorda strategy. we saw some pretty decent weather over the weekend. saturday, scotland, northern ireland saw the warmth and the sunshine. it was england and wales on sunday which saw temperatures reach 24 celsius in a few locations. this upcoming week, though, will be rather disappointing for many. it'll turn a lot cooler for earlyjune — sunshine and showers, and nights will become chilly. gardeners and growers, do beware, could see a touch of frost at night from tuesday onwards. now, this area of high pressure, which brought the fine weather at the weekend, just retreating back out towards the atlantic, allowing some weather fronts to start to work their way down from the north. one such weather front will bring quite a bit of cloud across the country through the day — holes appearing in it, some sunny spells here and there, spots of rain over some western hills. best of the sunshine across northern scotland, but there'll be maybe a few showers across the north. quite blustery here, and turning cool already — but top temperatures, 19—20 celsius in the warmest spots elsewhere. as we move through monday night, we see the cloud coming and going, there will be some clearer spells. a few spots of rain just pushing into the northwest of the country — that's a sign of things to come. and most places will be fairly mild. but it's all change tuesday onwards, these cold fronts will bring outbreaks of heavy rain, some heavy showers — and behind it, that colder, arctic air spills its way southwards across the whole country through tuesday and wednesday, and hangs around for the rest of the week. so we could see some heavy, maybe thundery showers across the northern half of the uk. some wintriness over the high ground, some hail mixed in, a few showers getting into england and wales, and it'll also be quite blustery. there will be sunshine in between, but it's a much cooler air mass — the low—to—mid—teens in the north, could just make 19—20 celsius in the warmest spots across the southeast. a bit cooler still for all areas on wednesday. further showers across the northern half of the country, the odd one just getting into the midlands and perhaps eastern england. but tending to stay dry here — top temperatures, 17—18 celsius, 10—14 celsius across the north of the country with these heavy showers, which will be blustery at times. little change as we head into thursday and friday. that area of low pressure sits to the north of the uk, feeding in this cool northwesterly breeze with plenty of showers, mainly to the northern half of the country. and that's how it looks to end the week, and indeed, into next weekend, where it will remain quite cool. further showers here, best of any dry and bright weather will be towards the south. but pretty disappointing temperatures for the time of year. a new industrial revolution, with 100 trillion dollars�* worth of opportunities. we'll have more on nvidia's road map for al chips. plus, the prime minister of lithuania tells me how she responded to coercion from china. hello, and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. let's begin in taiwan — where nvidia bossjensen huang has laid out the company's latest roadmap for artificial intelligence chips. he says the chips will unlock 100 trillion dollars�* worth of opportunities in the manfacturing, healthcare, and computing industries. your future pc will become an ai, it'll be constantly helping you, assisting you in the background. pc will also run applications that are enhanced by ai. of course, all your photo editing, your writing, your tools, all the things you use will all be enhanced by ai. and your pc will also host applications with digital humans that are ais. mr huang informally kicked off the computex technology expo in taiwan on sunday. the event is also being attended by bosses from other large chipmakers, including intel and amd.