Hello and welcome to bbc news. Jeffrey epstein died from suicide by hanging thats the reported conclusion of the autopsy into the death of the disgraced american financier. He was found dead in his cell last saturday while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Investigations have been taking place into why epstein was taken off suicide watch a few days before his death. I asked our north america correspondent peter bowes whether the findings of the autopsy settle the questions about how he died once and for all. Well, theres been a considerable amount of speculation over the last week including many conspiracy theories about the way he died. There was a newspaper report here a few days ago that suggested he may well have had injuries typical of someone who had been strangled, although those injuries in fact could have also been found from someone older who had taken their own life through hanging. Well we now know officially that that is the cause of death, suicide through hanging, but of course while that may be official, many other questions remain regarding the circumstances. And what of those questions now . How will those be answered . Well, there are questions about what happened, at least the circumstances, the way in which he was being guarded and theres been a considerable amount of speculation that there were, certainly as far as the guards were concerned that were working that night, that they werent checking him every 30 minutes as they were supposed to. This was a man who was on suicide watch up until recently. He had been let out of that into a high security wing where the guards, we are led to believe a multiple reports, should have been seeing him every 30 minutes. It seems they didnt happen. There will be an investigation into that, but also the wider investigation the reason he was being held in that prison cell awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. That Investigation Continues as well. And where does that go now, that investigation specifically, into the sex trafficking charges that he was facing . Well, it will focus on potential Co Conspirators. Other people that might have been involved in the crimes that the authorities they were committed byjeffrey epstein, we know that earlier this week his private island in the caribbean was raided. We know that those possible Co Conspirators have been warned by the authorities at the highest level here in the states that this Investigation Continues. And theres a tremendous amount of pressure from the victims, victims who feel that theyve been cheated of justice because of his death. Epstein is now dead, they wanted to see him stand trial and be punished for his crimes. There is also talk of civil action against the estate ofjeffrey epstein. The us Authorities Say computers are coming back online after a nationwide computer failure disrupted customs checks at airports across the country. The glitch, which affected only international passengers, led to long delays at airports in at least four states. At least five us airports, including new yorks jfk and washington dulles were hit causing disruption to customs checks. Large queues have been building in the terminals while other passengers have been waiting on planes. Joining me on the line is jonathan ivelaw chapman. He flew in to Dulles Airport near washington from heathrow and got stuck. Jonathan, just tell us about your experience and how long it took to get you through the airport . Will my flight get you through the airport . Will my flight was seven hours and it took me five hours to clear through from landing, just to get out of the customs right now. So ijust managed to get through. So it is 2 50pm now. Its normally quite a lengthy way to washington, may a few hours, but it was clear there were some serious issues and it has been quite a frustrating day. How were they are people through customs if the computers werent working . What was interesting was watching how the american cues, how the local domestic passengers were dealing with it, they were clearly more clued up stop i am not sure if there was a backup system in place. There was a backup system in place. There was a backup system in place. There was a lot of noise coming from the american side of the whole and really, we waited until there was some improvement. They brought the systems back together very slowly. They very slowly ramped it up instead of having thousands of people in one go. They didnt seem to have any backup or manual systems at all, not saying that there wasnt any, but it did take a long time in dulles. We were let off the plane. There was no information on the aircraft. When we were walking through, things didnt seem normal. It just seems to through, things didnt seem normal. Itjust seems to peak through, things didnt seem normal. It just seems to peak at 3pm through, things didnt seem normal. Itjust seems to peak at 3pm for european departures and it became clear as we enter the customs hold that there were significant problems. Cues got longer and deeper. If you look at the cabin crew is the mark and cues cabin crew is the mark and cues cabin crew and cues for fast track entry, they werent going anywhere. They joined our cue for the manual process. That was very telling and very funny as well. How much of an impact has that have on your plans had . Impact has that have on your plans had . Iwas travelling impact has that have on your plans had . I was travelling for business, but i have my son with me, hes been extremely patient. Its been a long, long, long day coming from the uk. Fortunately i have the weekend to recover. I know there are a lot of people very frustrated. 0k, jonathan ivelaw chapman, thank you for sharing your experience with us andi for sharing your experience with us and i hope you have a restful weekend after all of that. Thank you. Hong kong police say they are back in control of protests in the city. They insist they dont need the help of mainland Chinese Paramilitary Police gathered across the border. Hundreds of people gathered in the Central Business district of hong kong on friday night. More pro democracy demonstrations both legal and unauthorised are planned for the weekend. From hong kong, heresjohn sudworth. This freewheeling, free trading city was once a haven for those fleeing china. Now though, chinese fishermen landing their catch here have no time for talk of human rights. Weeks of chaos have led to falling orders, and they know who to blame hong kongs young protesters. Translation they dont believe in china now but, when they grow up, they will know china is right. It seems an unlikely hope. The fear that hong kongs promised autonomy is being eroded under chinese rule has brought many thousands onto the streets, undeterred by tear gas or rubber bullets. So, this week, in what looks like a deliberate warning, Chinese Paramilitary Police have been gathering and conducting riot drills in the border city of shenzhen. But the Hong Kong Police, for now, at least, appear unconcerned. Are you confident that the Hong Kong Police force is still able to maintain public order, or do you think we are getting close to the moment when chinese intervention becomes inevitable . This is a trying time. We all face tremendous pressure, but i can tell you we are confident that we have the capability to maintain law and order in hong kong. There are other ways to apply pressure, though. After some staff from hong kongs Flagship Airline took part in the protests, china threatened to prevent it using mainland airports. The chief executive, rupert hogg, has now resigned. Meanwhile, another weekend of protests has begun, with further clashes likely. 0n the one hand, the Chinese Communist party knows that rolling the troops into hong kong would bring huge economic and diplomatic costs but, on the other, it also knows that this summer of rage presents probably the biggest challenge to its authority since the tiananmen protests 30 years ago. And theres no sign yet that these people are ready to back down. John sudworth, bbc news, hong kong. And youll find in depth coverage of the hong kong protests on our website, including more on the resignation of the Cathay Pacific boss, and also how businesses in the territory are reacting to the months long protests. Thats all at bbc. Com news. You can also download the bbc news app. Lets ta ke lets take a look at some of the other stories making news this hour. Us President Donald Trump has told pakistans Prime Minister, imran khan, india and pakistan must reduce tensions in kashmir. It follows a similar call from chinas ambassador to the united nations, where the issue was discussed on friday. There have been reports of progress in preparations for a peace deal with the taliban in afghanistan, with discussions between President Donald Trump and top advisors apparently going very well. Negotiations have been taking place on a us troop pullout from afghanistan and the potential for a political settlement between the warring sides. The us president has been adamant that he would like to withdraw us forces, possibly ahead of the november 2020 election. The democratic republic of the congo has suffered a setback in its efforts to contain a year long outbreak of ebola, with a new area reporting its first cases. A mother and her child tested positive for the virus in south kivu province. The woman has since died. The veteran hollywood actor peter fonda has died at age 79. The actor was seen as a countercultural icon, best known for the 1969 film easy rider, which he co wrote and produced. He died after suffering respiratory failure from lung cancer. In a statement, his family said we wish for all to celebrate his indomitable spirit and love of life. Brian welk, film reporter with the wrap discussed what the actors legacy would be. Peter fonda was such a symbol of counterculture in the 60s, getting his start in bikerfilms, and his role in easy rider is iconic, he has had a long career and is a member of hollywood royalty. With his family, his father henry fonda and sisterjane fonda, so he had a long history in movies. The film you mentioned, easy rider, it was one of the First Independent films to really have success and show that independent films could break through. It was such a symbol of really the whole period, very emblematic of. It captured the rebellious spirit, the spirit of the entire decade, also was a great symbol of psychedelia from director Dennis Hopper and his role as captain america, really brought his career, something he nodded to later on, even in cannonball run or ghost rider with nicolas cage. It is well documented that they were committed to getting into role for that film, all of them. He was originally, he wanted to do something on his own, he wanted to break away from doing the b movies for roger cormann, he was dedicated to doing something completely different, and he ended up being nominated for an oscar for his screenplay that he co wrote, and reallyjust changed the culture, really set the stage for many of the counterculture movies and antiheroes we see on screen today. And it has to be said, you look at his family tree, and movies is in his dna. Absolutely. Part of hollywood royalty, his father henry fonda, his sisterjane fonda, he is the father of bridget fonda, it just goes on and on, and they gave a very sweet statement at his passing today, saying please raise a glass to freedom, i thought that was a really nice sentiment, and the whole family has this incredible legacy, so to hear that he passed and left behind this rich hollywood family is very sad. Brian welk, thank you for sharing your thoughts. Stay with us on bbc news. Still to come putting more women front and centre. One major orchestras attempt to find female conductors. The big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. As the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a hugejob of crowd control. Idi amin, ugandas brutalformer dictator, has died at the age of 80. Hes been buried in saudi arabia, where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. Two billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millennium. It began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later when the sun set over the bay of bengal. This is bbc news. The latest headlines the autopsy verdict on the disgraced billionaire, jeffrey epstein, who was found dead in prison, is suicide by hanging. Air travellers across the unites states face major delays as a computer failure causes chaos at airports. Us President Donald Trump has told pakistans Prime Minister, imran khan, india and pakistan must reduce tensions in kashmir. It follows a similar call from chinas ambassador to the united nations, where the issue was discussed on friday. Tensions have escalated in the region after india ordered the lockdown of the Kashmir Valley and stripped the region of its special status. This is what the representatives of india and pakistan had to say after the un meeting. As the Chinese Ambassador emphasised, the human rights situation injammu and kashmir and it is an abysmal human rights situation with violations carried out with impunity by india. That too has been discussed. Of particular concern is that one state is using terminology ofjihad against, and promoting violence in india, including by the leaders. Friends, violence is no solution to the problems that all of us face. Us congresswoman Rashida Tlaib says she will not visit her family in the occupied west bank. Thats despite being given permission by the Israeli Government. Ms tlaib was previously banned from making an official visit, along with fellow democrat ilhan 0mar. But israel later overturned the decision on humanitarian grounds. Both politicians have been critical of israeli policiy towards the palestinians, much to the irritation of Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Taking to twitter, Rashida Tlaib said i have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in fighting against racism, oppression injustice. Chris buckler in washington is following the story and says the us president ignited this row from the outset. President trump was privately and publicly lobbying the Israeli Government to ban these congresswomen from really going to israel. And of course that was subsequently proven to be the case. The Israeli Government decided that they would allow Rashida Tlaib to come and essentially visit her elderly grandmother. But she decided she is not prepared to do that because of the conditions that have been placed on her by the Israeli Government. They say she can only come if she doesnt voice opposition to israel during the trip, and she says that would be silencing her, and would be against some of her grandmothers own views as well. She points out that as a member of the us congress, she says as far as she is concerned, when she became a us congresswoman, many palestinians, especially her grandmother found a sense of hope, a hope that they would finally have a voice and she is not prepared to have that silence. And actually, she goes on to suggest that her grandmother is being used as a political bargaining chip in all of this. It gives you a sense of the emotional nature of this as well as the political row surrounding all of these discussions. President trump has reportedly been asking his officials whether the us could buy greenland from the danish government. The wall streetjournal reports that the requests have been made with varying degrees of seriousness. The capital of greenland is actually 300 km closer to the us capital than the danish onethe majority of the island the Worlds Largest is covered in a permanant ice sheet that contains 10 of the worlds freshwater. Well, there has been plenty of reaction from greenland and denmark. Greenlands foreign minister ane lone bagger said the former Prime Minister of the territory Lars Lokke Rasmussen tweeted and another politician, rasmus jarlov, tweeted in the world of Classical Music women are rarely the ones holding the baton. In britainjust one of the leading orchestras has a female principal conductor. There are efforts to change this, including at the Welsh National 0pera, where a new role of female conductor in residence, has been created. Sian lloyd went to meet tian yi lu, as she began her first week in thejob. toreador song plays. Taking on one of operas best known and best loved pieces of music in her own way. I think a rehearsal should be like children playing. Lets try this, lets try this, oh, wow, this works, and sometimes an orchestra or a chorus might give me something i hadnt thought of. Tianyi lu is one of only a handful of women to have titled roles, the top jobs among the several hundred conductors on the staff of british orchestras. Perhaps sometimes, the second beat of the bar, go a little bit. As she begins her position as first female conductor in residence with Welsh National opera, she takes that number to eight. Even at the very beginning of my career, when i tried conducting for the first time and i loved it, the thought of conducting didnt even cross my mind because i had never seen a woman in a professional context conducting before at that stage. I therefore didnt think it was possible. That shortage of role models is something the Opera Company is trying to change. With this newly created post, its one of a growing network of organisations creating opportunities to give women the means and confidence to conduct. I think its positive action. We are addressing the gender imbalance in the sector at the moment and if there is an imb