can the marcos name return to govern? the son of deposed philippines leader ferdinand marcos is the front runner ahead of next months poll. the former bbc radio 1 dj, tim westwood, faces allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry. he kept putting his hand on my leg, stroking my leg and touching my face. running his hands through _ touching my face. running his hands through his _ touching my face. running his hands through his hair, - touching my face. running his hands through his hair, like, l hands through his hair, like, what — hands through his hair, like, what are _ hands through his hair, like, what are you doing! stop touching me. and, working against the clock — the cafe where finishing the job is part of the service. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. as the conflict in ukraine enters its third month the united nations secretary—general has embarked on a diplomatic mission. antonio guterres took part in talks with president putin, after which the russian leader repeated his stated reasons for invading ukraine, while claiming that he still hoped for a diplomatic solution. the un says president putin has agreed in principle to the un and the red cross being involved in the evacuation of civilians from the azovstal steel plant in the besieged city of mariupol. in a major policy move, germany has now authorised the supply of dozens of tanks to ukraine. and the us has committed to supporting ukraine's resistance for the long haul. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from moscow. he was trying to show it was business as usual. in the kremlin, vladimir putin began the day meeting russian olympic champions. like them, he hates losing. with the olympians, putin was up close and personal. not so with his next guest. the un secretary—general had come to talk about russia's invasion of ukraine. the seating plan said everything about the gap between moscow and the international community. translation: you're telling me that - russia's humanitarian corridors in ukraine are not functioning. mr secretary—general, you've been deceived. the corridors are open. we've helped more than 100,000 people leave mariupol. and from the un, a plea to russia for peace. it is my deep conviction that the sooner we end this war, the better, for the people of ukraine, for the people of the russian federation and those far beyond. the kremlin agreed in principle to un and red cross involvement in evacuations from mariupol. but moscow isn't rushing to halt its offensive. for diplomacy to succeed, there needs to be the political will for peace. but right now, there's little sign of that in the kremlin. vladimir putin seems determined to continue the offensive he launched in ukraine — at least until he can secure what he can present to the russian people as a victory. that means no ceasefire in ukraine. the russian military continues to attack, and continues to deny that russian troops have committed war crimes. kremlin critics argue that considering the scale of destruction, the un chief should have travelled to ukraine first before flying to moscow. i'm not in a position to give any advice to the general—secretary of the united nations, but i would probably go to mariupol first. i would go to bucha. i would go to irpin. i would go to all those places, talk to people, and then fly back to moscow and meet with putin and say, "mr president, what you are doing is crime." russia claims to be acting in self—defence, but it was president putin who ordered his troops to attack ukraine. the kremlin started this. it's determined to end it on its terms. well earlier we spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg, who gave us this latest update. what have we learned about vladimir putin? that nothing has changed. there is no sign that the kremlin leader is ready for peace. he continues to justify his actions, justify his so—called special operation, and seeing the secretary general at that enormous table was a real statement. this is not ajose, welcome to moscow, let's have a cosy chat. the second thing is, there is growing tension between russia and —— one of mr putin's closest allies, who had the powerful security council, he claimed that the actions of western governments and the ukrainian government would lead to the breakup of ukraine into several states. that sounds like a warning or even afraid. basically what we're seeing from moscow is not deescalation but escalation. from tomorrow, russia is stopping a surprise to bulgaria and poland so as well as this military conflict, it seems we're to have an energy while as well. the head of the international atomic energy agency has visited the dis—used chenobyl nuclear power plant, and said the risk of an accident when russian soldiers were in charge had been serious. russian troops took over the site on the first day of the invasion of ukraine and stayed there for several weeks. workers told the bbc they were forced to steal fuel to keep generators working and prevent a dangerous leak of radioactive material. our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, travelled with the iaea and sent this report. the road to chernobyl is littered with the wreckage of war. this was a route taken by russian tanks as they advanced on kyiv. it cuts right through the contaminated zone, around the world's worst ever nuclear disaster, but hundreds of russian troops stopped and made their base here at the atomic plant. very good. well done, well done... today, the head of the un's nuclear energy watchdog thanked the ukrainian technicians who stayed at their post, protecting the site under occupation. i don't know if we were very close to disaster, but the situation was absolutely abnormal and very, very dangerous. the un brought radiation monitors and other kits to replace what was damaged by the russians or stolen when they withdrew. the troops had dug trenches into radioactive soil here and churned up dangerous dust with their armoured vehicles, apparently oblivious to the risk. the un says radiation levels here are now back to normal, but the ukrainian military are still clearing the area of mines and booby—traps. one word that's used about the russian troops' presence here in chernobyl is "reckless" — the very fact that troops occupied a nuclearfacility in the first place, and then the way they behaved while they were here. the risk of an accident here was real. slava ukraini! so as they marked the anniversary of the 1986 meltdown, ukrainian officials said they diverted another disaster, although the soldiers on guard when the russians rolled in were all captured. 169 from this unit are now missing. "they're our comrades and we're worried about them," alexander tells me. "we want them back as soon as possible." just beyond the exclusion zone, the invading troops occupied houses too. here, they parked a tank right outside. nina was so scared, she hid in the woods. "we stayed there for two nights without any food "or water," she tells me. "it was awful." nina's fear was no high—tech nuclear accident, it was the russian soldiers who climbed through her window and took over her home. sarah rainsford, bbc news, chernobyl. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines: police in pakistan say three chinese nationals and their pakistani driver were killed in an explosion in the southern port city of karachi. a group that opposes chinese investment in pakistan, has said that a female suicide bomber carried out the attack. the group has targeted chinese nationals on a number of occasions, as has the pakistani taliban. the government in sri lanka, which has run out of money to import food, fuel and medicine, has come up with a new visa plan to bring in foreign currency. the golden paradise visa programme will allow foreigners to live and work in the country for ten years, if they deposit at least $100,000 usd there've been widespread anti—government protests over the desperate shortage of basic goods. the organisers of the wimbledon tennis tournament have defended their decision to ban russian and belarussian players from this year's competition, saying it's not discrimination. the organisers say participation could be used to benefit what they called russia's "propaganda machine" during the war. the ban has been heavily criticised by top tennis stars and the game's governing body. to the philippines now, where in just under two weeks filipinos will vote for their next president. the current frontrunner is bongbong marcos, the son of the country's late dictator ferdinand marcos, whose corrupt and autocratic rule led to him being deposed in popular revolt in 1986. marcosjunior says he will make the country rise again, but has been criticised for avoiding serious scrutiny about his father's legacy, during election campaigning. howard johnson reports from manila. activists and students out in force during a public holiday to commemorate the popular uprising that ousted late philippine dictator ferdinand marcos. mr marcos ruled the country for two decades, much of it under martial law. his regime rigged elections, tortured and killed political opponents and plundered an estimated $10 billion. more than 30 years on, his son bongbong marcos is on the verge to returning the family to power. he's currently the front—runner in opinion polls, with his nearest rival, leni robredo, more than 30 percentage points behind. opponents of marcos believe that online disinformation, whitewashing the crimes of the past, is at the heart of the family's reversal of fortunes. but some truths are indelible. boni ilagan�*s sister rizalina, a student activist, was abducted by government forces in 1977 with nine other students. of course, the marcos keep on saying that, "we have to move on, we have to unite," but moving on means you have found peace with the past. how can the likes of me find peace with the past when the disappearance of my sister has not been explained? but there are millions of people in the philippines who support bongbong marcos. in the 1970s, former mayor primo lirio allied himself with ferdinand marcos to receive preferential treatment to develop his town. i know that he wants this country to be great, again. what about the people whose loved ones disappeared? yeah, it could happen. it really happened, yeah. but why will they point out at marcos for all of this death? oh, i actually know that — bridge over troubled water. bongbong's election team says theirs is a positive campaign, direct to the people through social media... again, we will have to skip mr marcos, who is absent... ..but he's refused to take part in several primetime tv debates and independent media interviews, so we approached mr marcos at a rally. mr marcos, can you really be a good president if you don't answer serious questions? sorry? can you really be a good president if you're not doing serious interviews? are you hiding something from the public? despite facts proven by court evidence, intelligence and whistle—blower accounts, many in the philippines say the reporting of the marcos—era abuses is not true. misinformation is prolific here, and it's turning philippine history on its head. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. if you want to get in touch with me i'm on twitter, @bbckarishma. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: working against the clock — the cafe where finishing the job is part of the service. nothing, it seemed, was too big to withstand the force of the tornado. the extent of the devastation will lead to renewed calls for government to help to build better housing. internationally, there have already been protests. sweden says it received no warning of the accident. indeed, the russians at first denied anything had gone wrong. only when radioactivity levels began to increase outside russia were they forced to admit the accident. for the mujahideen, the mood here is of great celebration. this is the end of a 12—year war for them. they've taken the capital, which they've been fighting for for so long. it was seven o'clock - in the morning on the day can when power began to pass from the minority to the majority, . when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white - colony. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm karishma vaswani, in singapore. our headlines: the un secretary—general, antonio guterres, holds talks in moscow about the invasion of ukraine. president putin refuses to stop the shelling. the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, says staunch support for ukraine in its battle with russia will continue for the long—haul. the former bbc radio one dj tim westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry. the 64—year—old is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching in incidents between 1992 and 2017. the bbc and the guardian newspaper have heard detailed accounts from seven women in a joint investigation. their identities have been protected. tim westwood strenuously denies all the allegations. our correspondent chi chi izundu has this report. this is not about music now, and i'm just very, very scared. this is predatory behaviour. i was 17. if you are trying to remove an item of my clothing - and i put it back on, - that means i don't want it to be gone. this is the story from a group of women. this was an assault. an abuse of power. seven women, who alleged they had been subjected to unexpected and unwanted sexual behaviour from the former bbc radio one dj, tim westwood. it's westwood. we are live on bbc two. this is how radio one get down in the 9/7. pamela — not her real name — used to work with kids trying to get into music. she said tim westwood invited her to do work experience at radio 1 because he wanted help getting a younger audience. so i get to london and he picks me up personally. i remember being in the car. he kept putting his hand on my leg and stroking my leg and touching my face. running his hands in my hair, like, what are you doing? like, "stop touching me." we went back to his apartment. i was meant to be staying in a hotel. as i'm sat in his apartment, i'm thinking, "ok, when am "i going to this hotel?" this is what i should have clarified, but i didn't. he came up and i sat on the edge of the bed and then he starts touching me and removing stuff and i'm pulling it back. he's kissing me on the neck and i didn't give him any come on. there was no flirtation. that's not somebody i would j ever look and find attractive. so, me sat in this house i thinking, "how am i going "to get out of this?" but knowing i can't get out of it — i'm in london alonel with this guy who's i a lot older than me. if i try to get out of it, who's to say how he'sl going to react? so ijust submit to it. traumatic — that's how i would describe it. - in a statement, the bbc said: another two women have accused the dj of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour when they were 17 and 20, while anotherfour women that we have spoken to accuse the dj of either grabbing their breast or slipping his hand down the back of their shorts or up their skirt, after taking a picture with him at nightclubs. the earliest alleged incident took place in 1992, the most recent in 2017. none of them went to the police. nowadays, i'm a big dog. as an early adopter of hip—hop, tim westwood has been a prominent figure in black music for more than a0 years. he presented bbc radio 1's rap show for nearly 20, interviewing some of the biggest names on his show. he says he strenuously denies all these allegations. all of the women that we spoke to as part of this investigation have two things in common. number one, they were all young, and numbertwo, they are all black. and all have the same question of their experience with tim westwood — who do you tell? because this is a man who has huge power in the music industry and a huge influence in black communities. and because they're black women, they felt they felt that their experiences would be ignored. i want him and people like him to be held accountable. we have to stop protecting these people. chi chi izundu, bbc news. to china now, where up until recently the country had claimed success in managing covid. but earlier this year it all started to go wrong. shanghai followed hong kong and dozens of other cities as infections of omicron spread quickly. many complained they were starving, unable to work or buy food, and in places deaths spiked too. now attention is turning to beijing, as questions multiply about whether china's leaders need a new covid plan. here's ben chu. families in beijing rush to stock up on food, supermarkets stay open late, and residents are compelled to queue up for mandatory testing. the fear is that this mass testing, now ordered across most of the districts of the chinese capital as the number of detected coronavirus cases creeps up, could be a prelude to beijing itself being plunged into one of the planet's most stringent lockdowns. the chinese national government has used strict municipal lockdowns — like the one in shanghai, four weeks old and counting — to pursue its dynamic zero covid policy. beijing residents have seen it coming. hence the food hoarding by its residents. news of the outbreak in beijing has prompted a steep stock market sell—off. shares are now down around 6% since last friday's close. criticism of lockdowns is proscribed, but increasingly, protests are breaking through on social media. crowd chants china is no democracy, but public opinion is not irrelevant to the regime, and the backdrop for this surging discontent is the run—up to the 20th communist party congress in november, where xijinping is expected to be granted an unprecedented third term as china's paramount leader. as china's economic growth grinds inexorably lower amid the multiplying disruptive lockdowns, it's increasingly clear xijinping can't have both common prosperity and zero—covid. many regime watchers think something will have to give. but the big question is, which will it be? now, how often do you put off work or find excuses not to get things done right until the last minute? well, here's the answer. for me, it would be a fair amount of time. japan has opened an anti procrastination cafe, and the rules are pretty tough. writers facing deadlines can go to tokyo's manuscript writing cafe, but with an understanding, they can't leave until their work is finished. rachel stanton reports. you may think this is known as tokyo's manuscript writing cafe, people come here to work in peace and quiet. again, it isn't unusual to see people typing away while having a drink, but this place is different. with ten seats reserved for writers, editors and anyone grappling with the deadlines... translation: i deadlines... translation: ., ., , ., translation: i wrote a blog ost translation: i wrote a blog post today. _ translation: i wrote a blog post today. my _ translation: i wrote a blog post today, my goal- translation: i wrote a blog post today, my goal is - translation: i wrote a blog post today, my goal is to - post today, my goal is to deliver three blog articles and i will do my best to achieve that. translation: �* ,., ., translation: an important thing in this experience _ translation: an important thing in this experience is _ translation: an important thing in this experience is the _ in this experience is the deadline issue. the owner says it is a _ deadline issue. the owner says it is a pain _ deadline issue. the owner says it is a pain point that everyone would have, just like everyone — everyone would have, just like everyone needs family affection, the demand to meet a deadline — affection, the demand to meet a deadline is a shared demand, globally _ globally. customers enter, write globally. — customers enter, write down their names, writing goals and their names, writing goals and the time they plan to finish. they can also choose from a range of progress checks. staff gently checking in to see how they are doing, or they could just stand directly behind them. translation: . ., translation: the cafe went viral and social— translation: the cafe went viral and social media - translation: the cafe went viral and social media and . viral and social media and people are saying that the rules are scary, but it feels like you are watched from behind, but actually, instead of monitoring customers, i am here to support. the cafe was originally a live streaming space hit badly by the coronavirus pandemic. while there are many recipes for success, here it is hoped that ijy success, here it is hoped that by tracking your time and blocking out distractions will result in you meeting those hard—hitting deadlines. rachel stanton, bbc news. what will they think of next? that's all for now. stay with bbc world news. hello again. it was southern areas of both england and wales that had the best of the sunshine on tuesday, temperatures reaching 17 degrees in parts of southwest england but also around cardiff's bute park as well. wasn't like that everywhere, though. after a largely sunny start for quite a few, we had cloud tending to bubble up through the afternoon and spread across the skies, as you can see here on the satellite picture. with that cloud increasing, temperatures weren't as high for many of you. indeed around the eastern coast, just eight degrees in places. right now, we're seeing a good feed of cloud coming in still from the north sea, so predominantly cloudy weather in scotland and across eastern areas, from northeast england all the way into parts of east anglia. but there are breaks elsewhere, notably across parts of southern england, across parts of the midlands, wales, running into northern ireland, north—west england as well. these areas, you might well start off with a little bit of morning sunshine, but even where you start off with the sun, cloud will tend to bubble up and spread across the skies in any case as we go through the day. so, whether you start off cloudy or cloud develops later on, most of you will see quite a lot of cloud through the day. across northeast scotland, you might hold onto some sunny spells through the afternoon here. there will be one or two elsewhere in the west. temperatures about nine to 1a degrees for most. the area of high pressure has been bringing us this long spell of settled weather, still on the charts for thursday, but it is starting to weaken to a degree. we may well see just a few showers running into northern scotland, maybe one or two not far away from south—west england. otherwise, still predominantly dry, often a lot of cloud building through the day and temperatures not really changing a great deal, 10—15 or maybe 16 celsius. friday follows a very similar pattern as well. if you start off with the sunshine, cloud will tend to develop later on. one or two showers for northern scotland, but otherwise it's another dry day with light winds across the whole of the country. temperatures not changing a whole deal either. looking at highs potentially peaking up to 16 degrees where any sunshine breaks through the cloud. the weekend will start to see some changes in the weather as high pressure starts to relinquish its grip. a little area of low pressure could thicken the cloud up enough to bring just a few passing showers. that's most likely across northern areas of the uk, the south most likely to stay dry with a few brighter spells. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all of the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. this week, another chance to see if video games can play the pain away. the vfx that made bond make that bend, and there was this enterprising young fellow.