west african regional body ecowas had given the country's junta a week to reverse its coup — which has seen mohamed bazoum placed under house arrest. the bloc threatened military intervention if the demands weren't met by sunday. but the deadline has now passed, so far, without action. but a short time ago — niger's junta warned the threat is still there. translation: the planning of this war has been carried out. free deployment has begun in two central african countries. our armed forces and although defence and security forces backed by the unfailing support our people are ready to defend the integrity of our territory and the honour of our homeland. france has suspended all development aid to niger's neighbour, burkina faso after its military government said it would see any intervention against the coup leaders as a delcaration of war. thousands of people gathered sunday in the main stadium of niger's capital in support of the coup, chanting anti—french slogans and waving russian flags. the bbc�*s nkechi ogbonna has been monitoring developments in neighbouring nigeria we are yet to hear from the original bloc, ecowas, on what the decision would be concerning niger. the ultimatum has elapsed this sunday evening and we are yet the 7—day ultimatum and we are yet to hear from ecowas but we also know that the supected moves in niger in the coming days, the rally this afternoon, showing pro—coup supporters at a stadium in niamey, the capital city, showed that the people were supporting the junta, chanting anti—france songs and waving pro—russia flags in the crowds. it's a mix of feelings. the first part being that a lot of nigeriens believing since 1960 independence, france has had a stronghold on niger, both economically and politically, and they say that france has not helped in any way to curb the islamist and jihadist operations in that part of the sahel region so they believe it was time for a change, to see if the military would bring the much—desired change but on the flipside of things, civil society groups and some other private individuals also believe they want democracy to continue as it would offer them a freedom of expression and their human rights would be protected. rescue teams in southern pakistan are continuing to search for the survivors of a rail disaster which has killed at least 30 people. police say 100 passengers were injured when an express train derailed in sindh province and there are fears the number of casualties will rise. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports. twisted, contorted and thrown off the tracks. derailed so violently, some carriages flipped on their side. inside were passengers travelling from karachi to rawalpindi. locals arrived before the army and rescue services. translation: i was sitting in my shop, suddenly - there was a huge bang. we were all stunned. we immediately thought an accident had taken place. we started running and when we arrived here we saw the train accident had happened. we pulled out bodies and wounded people from the wreckage. passers—by clambered over wreckage carefully guiding survivors out through windows and down over mangled metal. other passengers did not walk away. local hospitals declared an emergency as tens of injured began arriving. some were treated outside and the dead began to be counted. losing the light, the rescue teams began moving the train from the tracks, the cause of this disaster is not yet clear. translation: based on this initial investigation, - it doesn't seem likely that the incident was caused by sabotage or terrorism. it is more likely that it was due to a technical problem which the railway will look into thoroughly to prevent similar accidents in the future. local police have told the bbc that this was not due to flooding on the tracks contrary to local media reports, leaving the question — what caused this disaster and could such a loss of life have been avoided? caroline davies, bbc news, islamabad. to the us now, and former vice—president mike pence says he won't rule out testifying against his former president if donald trump goes to trial on charges of undermining the results of the 2020 presidential election. here's mr pence speaking to cbs news. people can be confident we will obey the law, we will respond to the call of the law if it comes and we willjust tell the truth. president trump was wrong. he was wrong then, he is wrong now. he had no right to overturn the election. also on sunday, donald trump's attorney, john lauro, told cbs news that if called to testify, mr pence would actually be donald trump's best witness. the reason why vice—president pence will be so important to the defence is the following. number one, he agrees that john eastman, who gave legal advice to president trump, was an esteemed legal scholar. number two, he agrees that there were election irregularities, fraud, unlawful actions at the state level. all of that will eviscerate any allegation of criminal intent on the part of president trump. meanwhile, legal arguments are already playing out publicly in the former president's election fraud case. donald trump says he'll be asking the judge to step aside, claiming he won't get a fair trial unless she does. mr trump attacked judge tanya chutkan on his social media platform, also saying he'll be asking to move the trial out of washington, dc. 0ur correspondent sean dilley joined me earlier to help break this all down. sean, thanks so much for being with us. now, donald trump says he does not believe that the judge in this trial with regards to january 6 will give him a fair trial. is there any evidence to support that? look, these things are very subjective. they are the views of the defendants, aren't they? you have to put donald trump's views and statements into the context that he doesn't see any of this process as being legitimate at all. one thing he is picking up on is that this judge was appointed by one of his predecessor presidents, president 0bama, in the same way he personally appointed thejudge who is hearing his florida classified documents case so that in and of itself, judges are supposed to be impartial however what he and his legal team would certainly be likely to pick up on is that this judge has sentenced many of the january 6 attackers and she's been known to give sentences longer than the department ofjustice have asked for but in this case what he appears to be upset about is the judge's refusal to grant the defence more time to respond to a prosecution request to limit what donald trump can say about the evidence once it is disclosed to him. the former president also says he wants this trial to be moved out of washington. he says it is anti—trump. what is the likelihood of these kind of requests succeeding? again, he would say that because he thinks it's all twisted against him. it's very common in different parts of america for a change in venue when a small community, for instance, knows the defendants or victim of a crime really well and you can't get a fair trial. his argument is because essentially like 95% of people in washington, dc voted forjoe biden, he is arguing that it is stacked up against him and he can't get a fair trial. west virginia but there is not a massive surprise here because it's not the first time he has been asking for this. of course, sean, this is the third indictment in some four months. it's completely unprecedented for the united states. now all eyes are on georgia, aren't they? unprecedented seems like a trite word but there is no other word for it, is there, if you think that it isis the first time in history that someone has been running as a candidate for president and they don't know if they could conceivably end up in the white house or a federal prison. the issue around georgia, you are quite right, the county expected to issue its own indictment related to this case around claims of election interference. what you've got to look out for in particular is on 2 of january 2021, donald trump described that as a "perfect call", it was released to the media and he asked the secretary of state in georgia if he could find 11,780 votes because it was donald trump's assertion at that time that there were thousands of people voting who were not even alive but there was no evidence he was able to produce then. just one point to leave you with, donald trump's lawyer speaking to us networks on sunday, picking up on the point that the first amendment does protect free speech. they are arguing it does include actions and saying donald trump was then allowed to lobby people. ultimately, the conclusion of their thesis is this, they say the prosecution, or as they put it, joe biden�*s administration, but we know what they mean by that, is not going to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that donald trump didn't honestly believe he won the 2020 election. and just briefly if you don't mind, sean, all of these legal cases stacking up, how is that impacting his race for the republican nomination? if we're being totally honest, you never actually know. at the moment, it doesn't look like it's impacting him badly because there are two hurdles if you think about it, there's the republican party race to become the nominee to run for president and he is way ahead of any of his other candidates. the nearest rival, ron desantis, is 30 points behind him so it looks at the moment as though he will win that republican party nomination, but of course anything can change. bear in mind, he's presumed innocent. if he was convicted of an offence or imprisoned, that could change things, and there are some polls suggest that could be of concern to republican voters but if he is running as the republican party candidate, those polls seem slightly less believable because the alternative would have to be that republican voters would have to vote either forjoe biden or not vote at all, that is pretty much unthinkable. 0ur north america correspondent sean dilley there, thank you very much. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. voiceover: bbc news - bringing your different stories from across the uk. this was the 22nd pride in hull event. it's just nice being able to celebrate and be able to be open and dress up, and really be proud. what does pride mean to you? notjust accepting, but celebrating the differences in the world. you can tell that hull really is a great place for pride. l what does pride mean to you? about being yourself and being really open with everybody. as far as the lgb aspect, or sexual orientation aspects of the pride movement go, a lot of movement has happened, there is an awful lot more work to be done in identifying what can be done for our trans community. 0rganisers say they hope that by walking with transgender groups, it will mean even more people listen to their message. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. on friday, a texasjudge ruled that parts of the state's ban on abortion may be too restrictive. judgejessica mangrum issued a temporary injunction — granting exemptions for women with pregnancy complications and their doctors. butjust hours after that decision the state's attorney general filed an appeal with the texas supreme court — blocking the judge's order from taking effect. in march, 15 women, the center for reproductive rights and their physicians filed a lawsuit against texas, claiming the abortion law put their lives in jeopardy. here's what polling tells us about attitudes in the us towards abortion. 26% of texans believe abortion should always be legal without any restrictions, according to a joint university of houston—sta nford poll. 28% believe that there should be at least some minor restrictions. 33% say it should only be allowed in special circumstances like when the mother's life is at risk. and 13% of texans believe abortion should be completly illegal. nationwide, 64% of us adults believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases according to a june survey. but all earlier, i spoke to lead plaintiff in the texas lawsuit, amanda zurawski. thank you so much for taking the time to be with us on the programme today. to begin with, if you would, tell us what happened to you because of the abortion laws currently in place in texas. thank you so much for having me, it is a pleasure to be here, despite the circumstances. last summer almost exactly one year ago, it was august 2022, i was one—day shy of 18 weeks pregnant and was diagnosed with a condition called cervical insufficiency or incompetent cervix which meant that i was dilating prematurely and we were told after a brief examination that miscarriage was inevitable. and so we asked what could be done to move the process along and protect me and respectfully lose the baby which meant doctors intervening but doctors could not because of the laws in texas. because the baby's heart was still beating so providing any sort of intervention would have been considered an illegal abortion so we had to wait until her heart stopped beating or until my life was considered at risk enough that i would then have qualified for healthcare and what happened to me was eventually after three days i went into septic shock and finally doctors were able to provide healthcare. an incredibly distressing situation and we are grateful that you will share it with us. so this situation of yours meant that not only did you lose your daughter, your own health was also at risk through this. yes. you are exactly right. imagine getting the news that you are going to lose your child that you have wanted and worked desperately for over a year and there is nothing they can do to protect you so not only was i grieving and trying to mourn her loss but i was also terrified because i did not know what was going to happen to me. and you went into sepsis and if i understand, it also means that could potentially make future conception more challenging. we know that conceiving in the future will be more difficult. it was extremely difficult the first time and it will be even harder, if it can happen, again because the sepsis left in my reproductive organs a substantial amount of scar tissue, leaving one of my fallopian tubes permanently closed. the state of texas there says it does make exceptions for mothers whose life is threatened but you brought a case against the state calling for more clarifications. why doesn't the current law go far enough? to your mind? i am not a healthcare professional but i understand that the law is extremely vague and has very confusing language and so healthcare professionals do not know what they can do and when they can provide healthcare and what kind of healthcare they can provide. some of my fellow plaintiffs are physicians in the state of texas and they have said time and time again that they do not know, you know, what the law truly means and when they can practice bestjudgement. on top of that if they make a mistake, if they violate the law they face up to 99 years in prison, massive fines, losing their license and those are risks that they should not have to even consider when potentially providing life—saving healthcare. so we now know that a judge in texas has ruled in favour of your case but the state attorney general has already appealed it. so, halting it while the ultimately considered. what do you anticipate happening next? firstly we were thrilled that the judge ruled in our favour. it was really, i think, encouraging to see a court rule that patients like us are being harmed and will continue to be harmed so that gave us a huge amount of hope. we're not surprised the state appealed, for sure, we expected that but i think it really speaks to their views on pregnant people in texas. now we know in no uncertain terms that they intend for pregnant people in texas to be facing harm. they know what the possible consequences are, they do not seem to care about our lives and our health and our safety and they say that, yes, we should have to face these crimes. you brought this case forward very publicly, sparking a conversation there in texas. when you speak to people in your community and when you speak to people in the state about the abortion laws currently in place, what kind of things do they tell you? what kind of views are they sharing and do you see any kind of momentum shift in the conversation? definitely. it has been an amazing amount of support, of outrage, of disbelief. i think we're kind of through the phase of shock and disbelief because initially people did understand that this was happening and they did not understand why. i think we have made a lot of headway there and now people know this is happening and they are outraged and they wanted change. so we are getting support from not just people in texas all across the country, across the world. i think people are very, very motivated to fix this and to change it and, so, i am very hopeful that we may be the first lawsuit of our nature but i do not think we will be the last and that is very encouraging. amanda zurawski, thank you so much for being with us and for sharing your story on bbc news. thank you so much for having me. the two—time defending champions at the women's football world cup, the united states, have crashed out of the tournament, with the final result decided by just millimetres. the round of 16 match finished scoreless in regular and extra time — sending it to a dramatic shootout. sweden prevailed 5—4, with three us players missing their penalty kicks, including star forward megan rapinoe. sweden sealed the deal on this penalty shot. it was nearly saved by us keeper alyssa naeher, but was ruled to have just crossed the line. here's our correspondent shaimaa khalil. remaining cannot over egg the enormity of this moment. they have dominated the game for years and years and they have produced legends, some of whom were playing today on the pitch. today they were there fears themselves. they played aggressively but could not score goals. sweden's defence and their goalkeeper who hands down was a woman of the match would not allow them to score. then it came down to penalties and what a penalty shootout that was. sweden won by the narrowest of margins and in the end meghan rapinoe says good wide world soccer has missed a penalty and what a note to go out on, that definitely hurts. there will be many questions about the performance in this tournament about why they did not gel nor play as a unit. the future of their coach. right now i think the united states team and millions of fans will have to sit with the fact that the reigning champions, the defending champions are now out of the world cup. the tournament has been described as the world cup of surprises, of unpredictability in firsts and for the us fans it has ended with the worst of surprises for them. in a few hours — england will take the field in brisbane in their first knockout game — against nigeria. but the team isn't the same as the euro—winning team from last year. three of their players are out with knee injuries. it's a surprisingly common issue across the women's game as katie silver reports. this is not the way chloe logarzo imagined she'd be spending this world cup. a midfielder who played for the matildas 49 times, as well as in the us and bristol, she expected to be on the field rather than talking about it. i was hoping, you know, 28, 29 that this would be the peak and then things would come from this. but it wasn't to be. fresh off the olympics at a training camp in ireland two years ago, she collided with a defender, injuring her anterior cruciate ligament, or acl. i think the difference between any other injury and the acl injury and the reason why people grieve a harder way than doing a normal injury is because you've seen all of the athletes who can potentially come back not the same. and the idea and the thought of not being the same as what you were before is frightening. after a year out, this was when she first took the field again for the matildas. but her knee still doesn't have full mobility and chloe hasn't been selected for the world cup. she's certainly not alone. the list of star players who have missed out on this world cup because of acl injuries is really long, and they're from some of the top ranked teams, including england, the us, the netherlands and france. many are calling this an epidemic and say it's hurting the women's game. it's like a who's who of the best players — from england, forward beth mead and leah williamson, holland's vivianne miedema and france's delphine cascarino. in fact, it's an injury that impacts women up to eight times as much. there's a number of reasons for this. according to experts, women'sjoints, including the knee, are often looser and have a greater range of motion. there's less muscle mass there, making the area less stable. the way women land from jumps is often different. it's even thought the menstrual cycle can have an impact. it's been very clear to those of us involved in treating football players... dr andy williams is a leading knee surgeon who has treated many lionesses and premier league players. he says it's notjust differences in physiology. i think the most powerful thing is that hitherto, women have been treated as second—class citizens. they haven't received the input of coaching and strength and conditioning that the boys do. i think there is an inequality that we need to deal with, and many women are able to play high level football simply because they're skilful. there's urgent calls for more research on how to prevent women suffering a similar fate to chloe and all the other players unable to take the field at this world cup. notjust for them, but for the millions of women and girls that have taken up the sport. katie silver, bbc news, sydney. and just before we go — barbie has officially made more than $1 billion at the global box office. it means greta gerwig becomes the first woman to reach the milestone as a solo director. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. well, i have got some good news for you. the weather outlook for most of us this week isn't looking too bad at all. and as promised, it is going to turn warmer for all of us. but it may not last that long. let's have a look at the big picture across the atlantic. and here's the jet stream, that current of wind, the weather systems, the rain here. and notice how by thursday, the jet stream takes on the shape of a ridge, which means it allows the warmer air to stream in from the south. but let's have a look at the short term. and this is the satellite picture — we're in between weather systems, the gap in the clouds here, so some clear spells through the early hours, and then this smaller area of low pressure will be a bit of a fly in the ointment, i think, for the beginning of the week through monday and into tuesday. so here's the forecast, then, through the early hours. for most of us, it's dry, a few showers in the north and the northwest. but as i say, sunny spells, if not even clear blue skies in one or two parts of the country. now, through the morning, into the afternoon, the cumulus clouds will bubble up and we will see showers developing. but i think they will be well scattered and most of us will miss the showers. but you might catch one or two, particularly across the north of the country. temperatures between 17—21 celsius. now, here's that rather small area of low pressure, but the winds are coming in from the south—west, which means it's relatively humid air. so turning quite murky in the south—west late on monday, perhaps drizzly and wet. there is that small weather system here. if anything, this meansjust a fair amount of cloud across the uk during the course of tuesday. also, the humidity will rise — it will feel quite muggy out there. so, cloudy, maybe damp at times with a bit of rain across the south, with sunny spells, too. but the best of the weather — northern half of the uk. so, sunshine for newcastle and glasgow on tuesday. temperatures in the high teens. and then the weather really does improve on wednesday. i think broken cloud with some sunny spells, a generally dry day. the winds are coming in from the south. the temperatures are rising widely into the 20s across the uk, mid 20s in the southeast and the south. and i think by thursday, we could be hitting the high 20s. but as i say, it's not going to last for that long because by the weekend in the northwest of the country, guess what? showers and strengthening winds. voice-over: this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. 0n the surface, it seems calm has returned to sri lanka. this seaside expanse in colombo that was the site for months—long protest is now bustling with locals and tourists enjoying a day out. long queues have gone, food and medicine shortages have eased, and the government is making tough choices to get the economy back on track. but the real recovery in the lives of average sri lankans is still a long way off.