You know on it it's moving along very nicely earlier this week Mr Trump called off the meeting following what he called hostility from North Korea but later reversed that decision talking to reporters in Seoul president Moon said Kim Jong un had expressed an intention to put an end to confrontation through a successful summit with President Trump President Trump has met Joshua holds a Mormon missionary from Utah who was released along with his wife after 2 years in a Venezuelan prison President Trump welcomed Mr Holt to the White House I just want to welcome you to the Oval Office welcome you to the White House it's really very special that everybody is going through a lot and through a lot more than most people could endure He said his administration was in the midst of very big negotiations for the release of u.s. Nationals being held elsewhere Joshua hold had gone to Venezuela to get married but the couple were detained soon afterwards accused of concealing weapons the Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has hailed the overwhelming referendum result to liberalize strict abortion laws as the day Ireland came of age as a country he was addressing thousands of ecstatic Yes campaigners at Dublin Castle it's also a day when we say no more no more to doctors telling their patients that there is nothing can be done for them in their own country no more lonely journey to cross the Irish sea. No more stigma as the day of the secrecy is lifted and no more isolation as a burden of shame is gone and he abortion groups called the outcome a tragedy of historic proportions more than 60 percent of voters opted to change a law that in effect banned abortion in vast majority of cases campaigners in Northern Ireland now want to Boston all there to be liberalized as well. Thousands of Real Madrid supporters have gathered in the heart of the city to celebrate their team's victory in the Champions League final this is the Spanish team's 3rd consecutive title they are the 1st to achieve the feat since Byron Munich in 1976 this is the world news from the b.b.c. Thousands of protesters have marched in the capital of Nicaragua and other cities to demand the resignation of President Daniel Ortega and his wife vice president resign Mary oh demonstrators in Minard were carried placards and chanted slogans against the couple the rallies are the latest in 5 weeks of anti-government protests that have seen at least 76 people killed in clashes with the security forces Hawaii's kill away a volcano has pewter column of ash up to more than 3000 meters in a series of explosions from the summit the latest bursts of come in the 4th week of what is ranked by geologists as one of the biggest eruption cycles in 100 years. The American astronaut Alan Bean who was the 4th person to walk on the moon has died at age 86 NASA said he died peacefully following a brief illness Warren Bill looks back at his life Alan Bean was a naval officer in test pilots before he was selected by NASA to become an astronaut in 1963 he was part of the Apollo 12 mission which reached the moon in November 9694 months after the 1st ever successful lunar landing Alan been laid to commanded the 2nd mission of the u.s. Space Station Skylab in 1973 which was to be his last 4 years into space after retiring he became a king painter depicting the Apollo missions and other space scenes Alan Bean was once quoted as saying I have the nicest life in the world the NASA administrator Jim Bryden Stein said it was a comforting sentiment to recall as the world mourns the passing of the astronaut one of the pioneers of the videogame industry Ted Dabney has died aged 81 he had suffered Gale cancer and opted not to seek medical treatment having been given just a few months to live as date went from Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell city's partner fellow dreamer and friend died in Northern California b.b.c. News. This is from our own correspondent here on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Pascal hasa Welcome to the program in this edition Sri Lanka sees its future a bright but not everyone is convinced by the Chinese emperor's new clothes the single lane road becomes a sleek but virtually empty 4 lane expressway leads us past a gleaming new convention center and an International Airport a woman in a blue and gold sari tells us that after several years the airport still has only one flight a week plus the people in Papua New Guinea being run out of their communities even their families accused of witchcraft is reconciliation possible all reports are witness is an attempt also the light footed footballer bearing the burden of the hopes of oh about 100000000 people yes it's World Cup fever time and we have white Egypt's been gripped more than most 1st though to Venezuela where elections last weekend so Nicolas Maduro win a 2nd term as president but this was a vote that the international community had labeled a sham from the start the main opposition parties boycotted the process there were also accusations of vote buying and fraud the day after the polls the u.s. President's Donald Trump slapped more sanctions on the country but Mr Maduro remains resolute he said the elections were a great show of democracy so divan is Whalen's feel the same case he wants and finds they've been voting with their feet leaving Venezuela was hard it was opposed to be they didn't even want to go tool I guess I felt guilty that whereas I could had back to my family turning the page on the devastating situation there I'd be leaving behind my Venezuelan colleagues who can't. With each new visit to the country the stories become more painful whether it's seeing the tears of mothers who tell me they can't afford to feed their children or it speaking to grandparents whose entire families have gone abroad in search of a better future leaving them behind people getting more desperate and more lonely it's hard to get your head around what annual inflation of 13000 percent means it's a vibing on a monthly minimum wage that doesn't even stretch to buy kilos of meat or seeing banknotes discarded in the gutter in a country where people are starving because those notes are worth no more than the mud they've been thrown into all of this sounds impossible to believe and as one woman said to me this week this isn't Narnia this is Venezuela and something needs to be done but nothing seems to get done it's the same narrative that repeats itself the government wins elections the opposition cries foul and the president spends days justifying his victory on state television blaming the u.s. For Venezuela's troubles all the while the country keeps crumbling misdemeanor is still has his supporters in a country where 9 out of 10 people aren't eating enough it's not hard to win votes if you're offering free food Maria is one of Mr Maduro's fans I met her at a campaign rally and I asked her who was to blame for the trouble than the swale it was in the imperative us she told me and the country's right wing opposition before insisting that people here aren't hungry we have food here she went on to talk about one upside of the crisis being that people have learned to eat more healthily but that's a bizarre thing the threat of starving has become Mr Madeira secret weapon with handouts the government is for some a reliable way for people to get food even if the benefits don't come as often as they used to many people still take the approach of better the devil you know than the devil you don't. At that same rally something else caught my eye at the back of the crowds big groups of people about 30 or 40 in each differentiated by varying colors of Madeira t. Shirts and baseball caps I asked one of them why she was there to support the duo she said. I pushed a bit harder but why you're wearing the same t. Shirts we'll work together you told you have to come she smiled nodding her head about an hour earlier I'd spotted a government big cheese. A bald broad shouldered man he's vice president of the Socialist Party he's also a man that the u.s. Accuses of drug trafficking and money laundering and has placed sanctions on as the government rarely gives interviews to international media this was my chance I thought to put some questions to him I asked what he thought of Venezuelans going hungry suffering he rejected the notion turning to his friends and asking Are you suffering no was the reply that came back to him that's your personal opinion you can't make that the news he told me frankly I'm not stated any opinion I was simply putting the facts to him blaming us for that as well as problems is one thing denying those problems even exist is quite another which is why the haps I felt that this time around things feel more helpless than in the past Mr Middler is promised change with his new presidential term but if he's not fix the problems in the 5 years he's been in power why should we expect anything to get better for the next 6. Every time I leave Venezuela I have the same conversations with my colleagues and friends how long can they stay before they have to flee to these people who had savings and future plans all of them blown out of the water because an economy that's failing and the government which is only making the freefall worse I say goodbye to people not knowing if I'll see them again and I can't help wondering about their futures we all have dreams but in minutes while a few and I are able to realize them Katie Watson now back on base in Brazil across Southeast Asia port cities and trading hubs are feeling the effect of Chinese money the huge one belt's one road initiative which funnels state funds into projects which can improve transport and trade links for Chinese goods has been making an impact from the Philippines to Poland but there is particular focus on the Indian Ocean where Bay doing's approach has been to buy up controlling stakes in port facilities along the best shipping routes it's a strategy nicknamed string of pearls one pair on that string is Sri Lanka which emerged a decade ago from a quarter of a century of civil war hoping to get back on its feet with some help China has proved a good friend one that's very much at home perhaps a little too much at home his team out almost 50 years after my last visit I'm relieved to find the trains still running along Colombo sea front passengers hang happily out of the gangways between carriages even if they're no longer perched on the roof white shirts and checkered sarongs below in the warm breeze. I head for the National Museum to discover more about the 2000 year old seen Halley's culture of this most beautiful of islands a culture that absorbed successive influences of Arab Tamil Malays Portuguese Dutch and British settlers and colonists ancient Buddhas and rock paintings lie ahead but 1st there's a brightly lit room featuring a special Beijing sponsored exhibition on the maritime Silk Road there's a reconstruction of the boat in which a 15th century Chinese admiral visited Sri Lanka and pottery showing the Thais go back even further Chinese girls giggle as they take selfies after a few days in Colombo I realise that my list of foreign influences is out of date I find that most of my fellow tourists are Chinese they're also workers with bowls and chopsticks and the woman Hawking mobile phones by the roadside there are Chinese karaoke bars and Chinese built hotels and blocks of flats a Bird's Nest Stadium and a Lotus tower goal face green is the city's historic focal point where families and courting couples come to fly kites or stroll along the waterfront at one end is the venerable golf face hotel at the other end right out at sea cranes and dredges view sand as the Colombo International Financial city begins to take shape on a huge stretch of reclaimed land the giant construction site is lined with hoardings similar to the ones I remember in China that urged to the masses to March on board a glorious future building a world class city for South Asia they proclaim $15000000000.00 worth of investment $83000.00 jobs. In charge of both finance and construction is a subsidiary of a Chinese state enterprise that was blacklisted by the World Bank after allegations of corruption it's been granted in 1009 year lease like the one Britain used to possess in Hong Kong and a new city within a city will have its own financial and you dish will systems like the extraterritorial zones that Westerners once had in Shanghai and other Chinese ports through Lanka has been caught in a death trap and to resolve it has begun to hand over its assets as part of another special economic zone in the south the sleepy fishing village of Hambantota is being turned into a huge container port as I approach the area where the Sri Lankan friend after a long drive past palm fringed beaches and the goons seeing elephants monkeys turtles and monitor lizards along the way the single lane road becomes a sleek but virtually empty 4 lane expressway it leads us past a gleaming new convention center and an International Airport a woman in a blue and gold sari tells us that after several years the airport still has only one flight a week she's got nothing against these projects but she says local people have yet to see any benefits when we reach the port itself a guard at a roadblock says you can't go in it's been sold to China My friend says she was similarly refused entry at a Chinese restaurant in Colombo and told it's not for locals as well as environmental and other concerns the 2 big port deals have raised serious questions of sovereignty throwing because strategic position on east west trade routes has made it a key staging post in the network of sea ports that form part of China's belt and road initiative it's ambitious global development plan but there are worries in Delhi that this so-called teardrop island just off the coast of India could become a hostile military base. So Mr Lincoln's a calling the Chinese their new colonizers and comparing them favorably or otherwise with the Europeans of the past one man described it as a tactful invasion in another 50 years he told me this could be a Chinese country Tim you know you were listening to from our own correspondence with me past Garza here on the b.b.c. World Service now New Guinea of the northeastern tip of Australia has a long history of identifying which is in its communities someone dies of a poorly understood illness witchcraft the community is feeling down on its luck discord is rife someone can be blamed for some believe this extreme blaming is increasing with the on even affects of modernity numbers can be hard to come by about a practice which often involves murder by the community as a whole but the United Nations says there are $200.00 killings a year in one province and Papua New Guinea has 20 provinces but there is also an effort underway to reintegrate those accused of witchcraft and to reconcile them with their communities Emily Webb returned with one man accused of sorcery back home to the family which tried to kill him half an hour into our conversation Capi suddenly pulls out a tissue containing some whitish rocks he doesn't say matter of fact Lee It takes me a moment to realize what they are they kicked me in my face and I lost my teeth he says he holds them out for inspection they look slightly reddish stained with Beetle not the stimulant many people around him chew then I was slashed with bush knives and they took me towards the river and tried to throw me in he doesn't say angrily in fact he looks resigned his stripey will then have to push back to reveal his gaunt and wrinkled face. I'm sitting in a safe house in the New Guinea highlands copy I've been told was chased out of his village 2 weeks ago after he was branded a sorceress by his family his son has brought him here to meet me also here is a family of 7 accused of using sorcery to kill a child they had to live in the safe house for 2 years and then now homeless and another old man beaten by a mob he believed he killed his brother with supernatural powers it tends to be the vulnerable who are accused those who don't have anyone to defend them most accusations follow unexpected deaths they were too young too successful to die people say the copy It began after his sister in law died people told me you must not stay in your home because they will surround you and they will kill you he tells me copy decided to run in the dead of night he began the long journey to his son's house by foot Eventually he reached the river that separated him from safety and crossed it on a large rubber ring on the other side some of his nephews were waiting for him in a car but this wasn't a welcoming committee anyone would want they started beating him and copy claims nearly killed him but they were interrupted and so they took him back to his village where his son was eventually able to secure his release the safe house is run by a network of volunteers many of whom have been through similar experiences the woman behind it is Lena her own family was ripped apart by accusations of sorcery when she was growing up now she helps rescue other people from attacks they'll go to hospital for treatment and be brought here Leno will then organize reconciliation meetings to try to help survivors return to their communities. The next day it's copies turn we can into a 4 by 4 and travel along dirt tracks and over precarious bridges copy sits quietly next to his son still in his stride he will and has despite the sweltering heat we arrive in a beautiful mountain top village surrounded by pineapple plants and sugarcane to find a grand looking white coffin sitting on a platform this is the burial site of copy sister in law and his family is here Lena goes ahead with the local policeman and after 10 minutes we're back in Deva copy is hugged stiffly by his niece the atmosphere is quit copy stands with his eyes fixed on the ground his knee starts to talk and nothing is clear. Just says that every family member has to be present when someone dies she insists and this is why she sent her brothers to attack copy because he wasn't present for the whole mourning period of his sister in law her mother but when I bring up sorcery she clams up I have no idea about this she says and walks away she sits under a tree and looks in the other direction the conversation continues but she refuses to acknowledge that the attack on copy had anything to do with sorcery she says that other people might have said that but not her copy is made to explain what happened to him but he looks embarrassed and stumbles as he speaks after an hour we decide to leave copy is given another stiff hug and we pile into the 4 by 4 I'm not entirely sure what's just happened so I asked the policeman he's with us it's normal he tells me nobody wants to take responsibility everybody starts pointing fingers and saying no it's not me somebody else did it. Does he think that they believe coffee was a sorcerer I ask he notes persecutors rarely admit their guilt and witnesses rarely come forward they're worried about repercussions arrest clearly to tribal violence between communities meaning no deaths Driving back I ask copy if he'll ever go home he shakes his head he'll stay with me and tell his son tells me when he dies I'll go and bury him some reconciliations do work that sorcery is a label he can never quite get rid off Emily Webb there and you can hear more from Papua New Guinea on the assignments program this Thursday in 2 weeks the football World Cup gets under way in Russia it's not much of an exaggeration to say that 100000000 people will be following a certain match avidly and that's just one side supporters and it's not that much of a stretch to say that all the hopes of that 100000000 will be resting on the shoulders rather the feet of one man on the 15th of June Egypt is due to meet you're a guy in group one and all eyes will be on Mohamed Salah Edmund Bower explains