15/04/2017 BBC Weekend News

North Korea has warned the United States that it's ready

It comes as the country staged a huge military parade,

displaying what appeared to be new, submarine-based ballistic missiles.

US President Donald Trump has sent a naval strike force to the region

because of concerns that North Korea is preparing to carry out

Our correspondent John Sudworth is with a group of foreign

journalists invited to the capital Pyongyang.

His movements are being monitored and tightly controlled.

You can actually feel the ground shake as thousands upon thousands

of goose-stepping soldiers, tanks, rockets and other weaponry

have marched and rumbled their way through the capital city.

This is a display of unity for the young North Korean

leader and it's meant, of course, to send a key

message on the anniversary of his grandfather's birth

that his grip on power is unassailable, but as Donald Trump

threatens to thwart his nuclear ambitions, it also sends a message

to the outside world that this country's military with its nuclear

tests and missile launches is vital for its survival

and military analysts will, of course, be pouring over these

pictures for evidence of the latest state of technological advancement

There is that speculation that it maybe preparing for another

I think it's probably unlikely that we'll see a test today,

but Kim Jong-un is making it absolutely clear that he is not

prepared to negotiate away his nuclear weapons whilst

being threatened and challenged by the United States and experts

believe that with missiles, with weaponry like this,

they are just a few small steps away from having a real deliverable

nuclear arsenal and, of course, once they reach that stage,

it's a game changer in terms of the regional security situation

and the global international diplomatic calculation

about what can be done about North Korea's military ambitions.

It changes things for good and the young man sitting up

there in those stands has learned that lesson from his grandfather

Jon Sudworth reporting from North Korea.

Everton Football Club has banned The Sun newspaper from its ground

because of an article by columnist Kelvin MacKenzie.

In it, he compared the intelligence of club footballer Ross Barkley

The Mayor of Liverpool called for the journalist

to be sacked for making what he called "racial slurs".

Mr MacKenzie, who denied making racist comments,

The controversial article published yesterday in The Sun has now led

The piece about the Everton footballer Ross Barkley,

whose grandfather was born in Nigeria, compared him

to a gorilla, and said the only other people in Liverpool earning

as much money as Barkley were drug dealers.

Knowing full well Ross' heritage and his ancestry in terms of his

grandad, it was a despicable comment.

So now, MacKenzie and the newspaper must wait to see if the police

In a statement, The Sun's publisher, News UK, said:

Mr MacKenzie said it was "beyond parody" to describe

But if the newspaper, which he edited for many years,

now admits the article was offensive, why did it

I would have thought that at The Sun, they knew enough to make

sure that MacKenzie didn't refer to Liverpool.

Especially on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

So it was a gross editorial oversight.

And now Everton Football Club has just announced that Sun

journalists have been banned from its football ground.

Kelvin MacKenzie's future as a columnist for the newspaper

Live now to Liverpool and our correspondent

Match day at Goodison Park. How are the remarks going down among the

fans? Well, Sean, I have been speaking to a lot of people arriving

here since that announcement was made, The Sun newspaper journalist

will be banned from the grounds. Now, a lot of them saying that this

was a long time coming and that they are extremely happy with that

announcement. To give you a sense of fans' feelings towards The Sun

newspaper, I was handed this as I was walking in today. A lot of

newsagents around this area don't sell the newspaper and a lot of

taxis have this slogan on them today and of course, we can't forget a lot

of fans saying they're coming here to remember those who lost their

lives 28 years ago today in the Hillsborough disaster. Frankie,

thank you very much. The parents of a Birmingham

university student, who was stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem,

have said they are "devastated" 20-year-old Hannah Bladon,

from Burton upon Trent - was in Israel as part

of an exchange programme. Her parents said she was the "most

caring" and "compassionate daughter" The driving test is moving

with the times with learners being told to demonstrate they can

safely use a satnav. The Driver and Vehicle Standards

Agency says it's vital that the practical test keeps

up-to-date with new technology, as our correspondent,

Judith Moritz, reports. Every motorist has been through it,

the rite of passage of taking a driving test, but in future

learners will be The first driving test

was taken in 1935. Clearly today's drivers are used

to a very different road experience. More than half of them use satnav

and so the test has been So it's turning right out

of gate and then continuing I went for a drive with

Graham O'Brien who helped SATNAV: Turn right, then at the end

of the road, turn left. Drivers will have to

follow satnav directions. So if we can incorporate it

into the test that will drive the training and get people more

familiar with dealing with that level of distraction as well

which we know is one of the biggest causes of accidents in the first six

months with new drivers. Learners will also be asked to show

they can cope with real life scenarios such as parking

within a bay. We were often taking people down

into housing estates where they would be reversing around

a corner and perhaps using up half a test doing some of these

set piece manoeuvres. The point is to change all of that,

to get people far greater The new tests have been trialled

in some areas and will be introduced for everyone by the end

of this year. Candidates will be asked to drive

independently for longer, but the cost and length of the exam

will stay the same as no doubt will the nerves of those

going through the process. With all the sport,

here's Mike Bushell The Tottenham manager might not

want his players to think about the title race,

but Mauricio Pochettino's side They're on course to trim

Chelsea's lead at the top of the Premier League to four

points this lunchtime. With Chelsea not playing

until tomorrow, Spurs are seizing their chance

with both hands. It took Moussa Dembele

just 16 minutes to break Harry Kane is back in the starting

line-up for the first time in five weeks after injury,

but he's leaving the scoring to others as Heung-Min Son

scored Tottenham's second. Final practice for the Bahrain Grand

Prix has just started. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has been

the man to beat so far this weekend. He was quickest in both

sessions yesterday. After two races, Vettel is joint

leader of the championship But the three-time champion

struggled yesterday, with Mercedes team-mate

Valtteri Bottas providing Snooker's World Championship is

underway. This year's tournament marks 40 years at the famous

crucible theatre. British players have dominated the event but is that

about to change. Jamie Broughton has been from Essex

to Beijing, to find out. For nearly half a century places

like this helped Britain produce a stream of World Snooker champions.

Inspired by the success of Ding Junhui there is a new snooker power

on the rise that threatens to sweep away the old guard. The growth in

China over the last ten years as I have been coming has been

staggering. If we don't professionalise the junior and

amateur games in Europe and Great Britain, we're going to fall way

behind. More than 70 million people play cue sports in China every week

and this is where the top young snooker players train. In the four

years since this academy opened, three players qualified for the main

snooker tour. This player beat Mark Selby at this year's Welsh Open.

China is doing lots and lots and they are streets ahead in terms of

development and infrastructure and investment. That doesn't make the

Chinese wrong and makes them right and it means that we've got to do

something similar if we have the appetite for it.

Murphy thinks the answer lies in having a feeder tour where amateur

players could learn their trade before progressing on to a new

reduced main tour of 64 players. ?1 million would in my opinion sustain

a complete challenge tour of ten events where the winner receives X

and at the end of it someone or some people get a tour card. Perception

is everything so you never ever cut the size of a tour because

commercially that's, people say, well, the game is going backwards.

But whatever the answer British snooker faces a fight to remain the

sport's world super power. You can see the documentary,

Enter The Dragon, on the BBC iPlayer while live coverage of the snooker

follows this bulletin on BBC One. And there's a full round-up

of all the day's sporting action in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel

at 6.30pm and 7.30pm. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC

One is at 6.10pm. Hello there. Good afternoon. Decent,

but unspectacular basically sums up the weather for the rest this Easter

weekend. Yes, there is some dry weather. There is some sunshine. A

lovely shot from one of