Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 2 Jun 2018

Donald Trump has announced that the 12 June summit with Kim
Jong-un will go ahead as planned in Singapore. Speaking to
reporters, the US President said the encounter could leading to
several further meetings. “We are going to start a process,” he
said. “I think they’d like to see something happen and if we can
work something out that will be good.”

A roadmap to avoid Brexit will be sent to MPs and peers next
week, reports The Guardian. The campaign group Best for Britain is
pushing for a second referendum on whatever deal Theresa May agrees
with the European Union. The group, backed by George Soros, says a
referendum could be held within 17 working days of parliament
legislating for one, meaning it could be held in December.

Google is cashing in on the sale of apps that are being used by
abusive men to spy illegally on their partners, reports The Times.
The apps, which track movements, are secretly installed on phones.
It is estimated that they are used against at least 10,000 women in
Britain annually. More than 3,000 spy apps are up for sale on
Google’s Play Store.

Visa is operating at “full capacity”, the company says, hours
after major disruption. Millions of people were left unable to pay
in shops, petrol stations and railway stations across Britain and
Europe after an unprecedented crash in Visa’s payment system. Visa
apologised and ruled out “malicious” activity as the cause of the
disruption, which caused chaos at supermarket checkouts.

Conservationists say the countryside is being “concreted over”
as it is revealed that greenfield land is being developed at the
fastest rate for 25 years. The Campaign to Protect Rural England
says farmland, forests and gardens are being swallowed up at an
“alarming” rate. The group blames a slackening of planning rules
for a surge in development in “wastefully low densities” in rural
areas.

The government will force supermarkets to ban “guilt lanes” at
supermarket checkouts and end two-for-one offers on junk food. Amid
a crackdown on child obesity, ministers are also planning a 9pm
watershed on advertising products high in sugar and salt from 2020.
They may also ban the use of cartoon characters and celebrities to
promote junk food.

A Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers near
the Gaza fence, according to the Palestinian health ministry. In
the latest violence on the border, Razan al-Najjar, 21, was shot
near Khan Yunis. She was a volunteer with the ministry, wearing a
white medical uniform. Her death brings the toll of Gazans killed
by Israeli fire since the end of March to 123.

Labour has committed for the first time to a wholesale
restructure of the National Health Service. The shadow health
secretary, Jon Ashworth, said the party has officially rejected the
prospect of working within the existing structures, calling them
unfit for purpose. “It’s my intention that the next Labour
government should bring forward legislation to reinstate the NHS,”
he said.

China is intimidating its neighbours, US Defence Secretary James
Mattis has said. Speaking in Singapore, General Mattis said
Beijing is deploying missiles “tied directly to military use for
the purposes of intimidation and coercion”. He added that
Washington wanted complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula
and stated the issue of US troops in South Korea was “not on the
table”.

The actor Benedict Cumberbatch has saved a cyclist who was being
attacked, reports Sky News. The star of Sherlock was described as
“brave and selfless” after he helped a food delivery rider who was
being beaten up by a gang of people near Baker Street, the road
where fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived. An eye witness
said: “If he hadn’t stepped in, the cyclist could have been
seriously injured.”