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live from london. this is bbc news. the us supreme court rules former president donald trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the white house. taken while he was the israeli army orders a mass evacuation of parts of khan younis in southern gaza, sparking fears of a new offensive. it's the final week of uk election campaigning, and rishi sunak tells the bbc — it's not over until it's over. marine le pen�*s far—right party — comes out on top in the first round of snap french elections. england celebrates — but now midfielderjude bellingham is being investigated by uefa over a gesture he made — after scoring his late equaliser against slovakia.
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the us supreme court has ruled that donald trump is partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while he was in the white house, over his attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 election. the former president described the decision as a �*big win.�* our north america editor sarah smith reports. the powerful supreme court has the final say on what presidents can and cannot do. today's historic ruling means a president can never be prosecuted for anything that's part of their official duties. but they do not have immunity for non—official acts. so what does this mean for the criminal cases against donald trump? fight for trump! when he spoke to supporters onjanuary 6th, was he officially acting as the president, or as the losing candidate? we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. donald trump is facing criminal charges related to the january 6th riot and attempting to overturn the election results.
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hang mike pence! as his supporters stormed the capitol building, they chanted, "hang mike pence!" angry with the vice president because he refused to block the certification ofjoe biden as president. mr pence had to be evacuated from his office. donald trump cannot now be prosecuted for all the conversations in which he had been pressuring mike pence to overturn the election results. the supreme court did not say whether all the charges donald trump is facing are covered by presidential immunity, so it's going to have to be argued out in a lower court. which of his actions were official presidential acts and have immunity, and which were not, meaning he can still be prosecuted for them? trump is also facing charges in the state of georgia for trying to overturn the election result there. he phoned a local official and asked him to find more votes. so look, all i want to do is this. ijust want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,
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because we won the state. a court will have to rule on whether he was acting as president or not when he made that call. justice sonia sotomayor, a more liberaljudge, completely disagrees with the ruling, saying "in every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. if he orders the navy seal team six to assassinate a political rival, immune. organises a military coup to hold on to power, immune." until now, every president who has served in the united states has understood that he could be prosecuted if he engaged in criminal conduct while president. going forward, presidents know they're free. the most immediate effect of this ruling will be to further delay the three court cases mr trump is still facing, making it all but certain they will not come to court before november's election. sarah smith, bbc news, washington. earlier i spoke with professor michael mcconnell, former us circuitjudge and author of �*the president who would not be
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king: executive power under the constitution'. i asked him about the significance of the supreme court decision. certainly extraordinarily significant. it would have been significant however it came out. mr trump may be exaggerating just how big a win it is for him, because the court pretty clearly held that there are major aspects of the indictment, uh, that can move forward. so this is by no means a clean slate for mr trump. to other prosecutions that he's facing. what are the kind of questions prosecutors need to be grappling with now? well, they need to ask questions about, you know, what is the nature of the acts being, uh, being charged. but this doesn't affect all of the cases, because take, for example, the document retention case. all of that was based upon acts after mr trump left office, so this decision has nothing
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to do with that. um, it's hard to know exactly how it would affect the georgia prosecution, which is in a bit of a shambles anyway. it has nothing to do with the new york prosecution for, uh, business records falsification, which is purely private. so mr trump has plenty of his share of legal problems ahead of him. your book, as we said, is the president who would not be king. and yet we've gotjustice sonia sotomayor saying that the president is now a king above the law. to what extent do you agree with her on the basis of this ruling? well, i think that's an exaggeration. oh, there are plenty of officials that are immune. she's immune, for example. nothing in the constitution says so, butjudges are absolutely immune from prosecution for everything that they do.
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uh, the prosecutors are absolutely immune for prosecutorial acts. congressional staffers are absolutely immune for things that they do and that connection. immunity is not that strange. a notion that when people are performing important public functions, the general idea is that, you know, they should be disciplined and held accountable and in certain ways, but not through a threat of throwing them behind bars. how likely is it that you think he'll survive unscathed then? because what happens to him politically and legally really can be very different. well, yes, and a great deal depends upon whether he is elected president. i think if he is elected president, first of all, under pretty clear precedent from both, uh, sides of the aisle, he won't be prosecuted while he's president. so you know that would put that, kicks the can down
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the road for four years. uh, and he may and he presumably could dismiss or pardon himself or dismiss the prosecutions as well. now there are two of the four prosecutions are in state court where the pardon power doesn't exist. but still, if he's elected, uh, all this is going to be put on a back burner, uh, forfour years. the israeli army has issued a new evacuation order for parts of khan yunis and rafah in southern gaza, causing many palestinians to flee. the israeli army says the orders were made after rockets were fired from the khan yunis region but there were no casualties. residents of several neighbourhoods in eastern khan younis said they had received audio messages from israeli phone numbers ordering them to leave their homes. israel carried out its offensive in the city earlier this year, but this indicates that troops could soon return.
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people in khan younis expressed their anger over being displaced again. translation: they announced that we should evacuate out. of the eastern parts of khan yunis. where should we go? tell us where to go when we were displaced from rafah. we had to spend two weeks out in the open. translation: now we seek peace, not war. i enough is enough. we are slowly dying. this is unfair. what is our fault? we are innocent civilians. dr mohammed tahir is a british surgeon who has been operating at the european hospital near khan younis. he works with fajr scientific, a group of medical professionals. he sent us this after being ordered to leave. today, i'd been at al nasser medical complex, where i was lecturing a medical students. i returned to the european hospital to start my operating, and then we got the the news that the hospital was being evacuated.
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of course, i found that to be very strange because i always assumed the european hospital would be one of the safe havens in gaza. and yet the news was confirmed to us that it was actually in the red zone and had been, um, deemed unsafe. ourteam, uh, mission, uh, and ourleaders asked us to leave, uh, and we've been hosted by a very generous ngo by the name of kiedis right now. but, um, priorto leaving, of course, we witnessed all the, uh, injured, um, of varying severities are forced to stay in the hospital. and all the persons and families that camped in the hospital were evacuating the state of panic. the state of panic and the extent of the fear was extremely palpable. uh, some people have nowhere to go.
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some people have nowhere safe to be. some people don't have tents. they have no option of going to al—mawasi even. of course, al—mawasi is a three hour walk from the hospital or thereabouts. and in the middle of the night is extremely dangerous and very unsafe. you can imagine people lugging their stuff around for so long and so far. um, actually, when i was there, even before we left, a family member of one of my patients came to me to plead with me to check on the dressing of one of my post—operative patients and myself and one of my medical student colleagues ran to the ward to quickly attend to his wound because otherwise he would sit and fester and become infected. despite all our great and hard work to try to save his leg. i'm very upset. i'm very sad. my heart is very heavy. we've left our patients behind. um, and, uh, i really, i call upon the world international, um, members of all organisations to really put the pressure
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on to stop this. i mean, this must come to an end. where is the red line? when do they have their fill of the human suffering in gaza? it really is enough. um, and the people that are most at risk are families. they are, you know, injured persons, women and children. um, it's just terrible. and enough is enough. he's the man who saved the game for england at the euro's last night with a last gasp goal but nowjude bellingham is being investigated for a gesture he made after his very late equaliser against slovakia. uefa says it's looking into a �*potential violation�* of the basic rules of conduct. jude bellingham says it was an inside joke with some friends at the game. andy swiss sent this report. helped on, and it's in! jude bellingham! it was the 95th minute miracle which saved england's euros.
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that bellingham bicycle kick... salvation! ..looks more remarkable with every viewing. a moment of brilliance from bellingham! but now he's being investigated by uefa for making a crude gesture after scoring his goal. in a social media post, he said it was an inside joke towards some close friends who were at the game, adding he had nothing but respect for how the slovakia team played. well, if he's found to have breached the rules, jude bellingham could face a suspension, although it's thought a fine is more likely. but much will depend on his explanation, and the views of the slovakia team. both bellingham and england now face a nervous wait. the players were back training at their base today and they know if it wasn't for bellingham's goal, they wouldn't still be here. jude, golden boy again of the overhead kick
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to keep us in the game, keep us in the tournament. but we never say die. and that's what it was last night, a roller coaster, but we got over the line. bellingham's goal is already a fans�* favourite. there we go! some here have even been trying to re—enact it. but at a time when england need their stars to shine... and it's in! perhaps the biggest of all is under the spotlight. andy swiss, bbc news, dortmund. with just a few days of campaining left, rishi sunak has denied that he's given up on winning the election saying "it is not over till it's over", despite talking about the prospect of a labour "super—majority. " he's been speaking to our political editor chris mason. today and tomorrow, i'm following the two men who want to be your prime minister this weekend, and for the next five years. i'll be talking to labour's keir starmer tomorrow. here we go, last few days. first stop, stoke on trent. it's rishi sunak today,
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as both men embark on a masochistic hurtle around the uk before polling day. so on to the battle bus for the first visit. welcome to the bus. thank you. this, a business that distributes medicines. the production line of campaigning has a similar regularity, too. visits like this are a chance to make his pitch to workers in a relatively controlled environment. here we go. here it comes. and take a listen to rishi sunak�*s tone and emphasis. to vote for the conservatives is not just a vote to stop a super majority, but it's also a vote to make sure that we will fight for you. i will fight for you. i will make sure that your voice is heard, right? that is what this is about. and crucially, i will keep cutting your taxes.
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prime minister, listening to you, talking to the workers just now, it sounded like you'd given up. no, absolutely not. i'm talking to as many people as i can across the country. talking about a supermajority? yeah, what i was saying to people is i don't want anyone to sleepwalk into thursday, because there is a danger of a labour government that i want people to be alive to. and the choice for everyone on thursday is a vote for the conservatives, which will mean their taxes continue to get cut. we will get migration down and secure our borders. pensions will be protected. a vote for anyone else is just going to get the precise opposite of those things. you and your campaign have talked in the last few days about the irreversible damage that a labour government could do, and do very quickly, in power, and there'll be many people who might share that fear. but if you believe that, why did you call the election six months earlier than you needed to? you could have governed as a conservative prime minister for another six months before this moment. i think people deserve a choice.
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and my priority when i became prime minister was to deliver economic stability, and we have done that. inflation is down from 11% back to normal. wages are rising, the economy is growing faster than our competitors, and taxes are starting to be cut. this is the week where all the leaders returned to their big pitch. here's sir keir starmer, miles ahead in the opinion polls, in hitchin in hertfordshire. and look, the sun is just about shining. this is the summer and we have one job which is to make this a summer of change. but perhaps rishi sunak can take inspiration from the last minute heroics of the england team last night. is there a rishi sunak equivalent of thejude bellingham overhead kick that we're going to see in the next 48—72 hours to radically change what looks like the scoreline could be? mine is probably more a kind of flashy, you know, i don't know, cover drive or off drive or something instead! and talking of cricketing shots, rishi sunak came next to nuneaton in warwickshire to show off
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a few of them in the nets. chris mason the liberal democrat leader has been proving he has a head for heights in his latest stunt, sir ed davey performed a bungee jump. he's urging voters to take a similar leap of faith and back his party on thursday well, i am asking people to do something many people they've never done before and which is vote liberal democrats this coming thursday. we are finding lifelong conservatives considering us, they don't want to vote conservative, some young people who have not voted before, we are saying do something you've never done before, i have taken the plunge! the snp leaderjohn swinney says his party will always put the interests of scotland first. on a visit to peterhead fish market in aberdeenshire he said the conservatives will lose decisively to labour and urged voters to back his party: what people in scotland
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need to think about is, what protection do they want to make sure that scotland's interests are ta ken forward in the next parliament? and snp mps will always put the interests of scotland first. they will fight against austerity and the spending cuts the labour party is going to deliver, and they will make sure that scotland has a future that's made in scotland, for scotland. president macron is joining together with political opponents of france's hard right to try to block them from securing a parliamentary majority in elections next weekend. the national rally came top in the first round yesterday. now more than 150 candidates who came in third place from either the left or centre have agreed to step aside which means a single opponent will face the hard right party next sunday. our paris correspondent andrew harding, reports. paris, the day after. and for many here, a profound sense of shock.
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"it's like having a hangover," says sandrine, a legal assistant of yesterday's election results. "people are fed up with politics," says caroline, "so they're turning to the extremes." "it's the people's choice," says margarita. "and given the high turnout, we'll get the government we deserve." they're all talking about this woman, marine le pen, whose party, the national rally, took the lead in sunday's vote. if the surname is familiar, that's because her father, jean—marie le pen, was a notorious far right politician, a racist and anti—semite. but his daughter has softened the national rally�*s image and platform, and last night won big across the nation. her party's populist, anti—immigrant, eurosceptic message and its 28—year—old candidate for the prime minister'sjob, finding broad appeal.
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formerly, it was more people that were workers in complicated economic situations. now you have also white collars voting for national rally. you have women voting for national rally, you have young people. meanwhile, france's president is in trouble. no wonder it looked like emmanuel macron was trying to hide yesterday. his election gamble has backfired. his centrist party on track to lose heavily. so what of plans to block the far right from sweeping to victory? this afternoon, different parties began arriving at parliament, aiming to forge a united front against the national rally. but the divisions are all too evident. the leader of the green party here brought to tears of frustration during this debate. france is still digesting the shock of yesterday's election result. love it or loathe it, the national rally is now at the heart of france's political
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mainstream. more than that, it is the most powerful party across the country. but can it translate that into enough seats in parliament to win outright? if it can, france will be changed utterly. andrew harding, bbc news, paris. earlier, i spoke with nabila ramdani, the author of "fixing france: how to repair a broken republic". i started by asking what people have been saying to her in reaction to the election results. well, there was certainly an awful lot of shock and indeed anger as far as the exit polls came out and propelled marine le pen and her party, the national rally, in the lead with 34% of the vote share. you could already see people taking to the streets and gathering around the main squares in paris to protest against this result,
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and but dare i say, there is not much of a surprise. i mean, the national rally has been polling extremely well for a long time, not least of all in the recent european parliamentary elections only three weeks ago. but i think we have to take these results with a bit of a caveat. the vote share for the national rally was undoubtedly highly significant, but it's not a definitive result as we know. what ultimately counts is the seat share. and we'll know about that next sunday. so what we need to work out is how this massive vote share will translate into seats won. actually won in the 577 seats at the national assembly in paris. but what sort of reflection do you believe the other parties, particularly those more in the middle of politics, need to be doing in the next six days? because it is quite clear that a message is being sent to them from the electorate. yes, absolutely.
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i think there's a lot of, uh, a lot of these, uh, vote, uh, towards the far right, uh, has a lot to do with the disillusionment with, uh, macron�*s government in particular. uh, there is his, uh, constantly referred to as the president of the rich, effectively looking after an elite after the establishment, while millions of french people feel disillusioned and indeed alienated, and they are pressing concerns such as the cost of living, the youth unemployment, which is extremely high, but also, you know, climate change, globalisation and such major issues of the sort. i think what propelled the vote for the extremes is a fixation on themes such as identity and indeed immigration, which are legitimate to a certain extent. but this discourse has been stirred up at the extremes by polemicists in the media, notjust mainstream media, but also social media.
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but there's a sense of urgency in trying to lock the far right out from gaining power. and that's why you see calls coming from the president himself urging his candidates as part of his coalition, to be strategic about it and to sort out deals with the leftist coalition of the new popular front to try to keep the far right out in the second round. it's often referred to as the republican front, and it's designed to make sure that the national rally and the far right in general, stays well out of power. a prison officer has appeared in front of uxbridge magistrates�* court charged with misconduct in a public office. it comes after a video was shared online allegedly showing a member of prison staff having sex with an inmate, inside a cell within wandsworth prison. our reporter, nick johnson, has more.
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linda de sousa abreu appeared in court dressed in a grey tracksuit, and she spent much of the hearing clutching one of her hands to her chest. she spoke briefly to confirm her name, her date of birth and her address in south west london. now the prosecutor accused the 30—year—old prison officer of wilfully abusing the public�*s trust by engaging in sexual acts with a prisoner in a cell. the metropolitan police previously said it began an investigation on friday after officers were made aware of a video allegedly filmed inside wandsworth prison. now, the prosecutor explained that ms de sousa abreu was apprehended at heathrow airport. she was planning to fly to madrid, but that apprehension, the court heard, was a result of ms de sousa abreu notifying the prison of her plans to travel, and not because it was an attempt to evade arrest. nevertheless, there are strict travel conditions imposed on her bail.
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she is due to appear at isleworth crown court in west london next month, where she'll enter a plea. andy murray is leaving it until the very last moment to say whether he is fit enough after back surgery for his wimbledon farewell. the tournament got under way today. murray is due on for his first round match tomorrow. meanwhile, three british players have already made it through to the second round, including former us open champion emma raducanu, asjoe wilson reports. welcome back to the championships. enjoy, but only special davids get into the royal box. beckham made way for attenborough, who took the ovation. well, deep respect for the longest careers. andy murray forced himself through practice, striving to be fit for one more chance to play. it is easier when you're 21. defending champion carlos alcaraz, he was stretched by the distinctive estonian mark lajal but prevailed
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in three sets. oh, that's brilliant! and then said that centre is the most beautiful court he plays on, which went down well. three years ago on the outside courts here, there was a sudden buzz of attention, a player winning matches. it was the first time we'd really heard the name emma raducanu. well, a lot has happened since then. after challenges, injuries, emma raducanu came into this tournament feeling happy, and she eventually ended her first—round match even happier. game, set, match, raducanu. although it took nearly two hours to get past mexico's renata zarazua. at the end of the day, you have to just do what it takes to get over the line, and honestly, watching the football last night, it was like winning ugly! like, it... it all counts! well—timed line for a sporting audience. for a dominant british victory, watch this forehand. with that, sonay kartal of brighton
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had knocked out the number 29 seed sorana cirstea of romania, 6—0 in the third. top of court 16, london's lily miyazaki won her first—round match 6—1, 6—2. first victory here aged 28. why not stop for another photo? joe wilson, bbc news, wimbledon. hello there. we've seen a good deal of cloud heading our way today, bringing with it some rain here and there as well. and, really, through the rest of this week, it's very changeable. not particularly what we'd expect at this time of the year — cloud, some rain at times, mainly in the west, a cooler breeze keeping temperatures below average as well. and it's notjust on the cooler side here in the uk. you can see from the temperature anomaly map, we've got the cooler blues across many parts of europe. the hotter weather is more across eastern areas and temperatures may build a bit across iberia. but our weather is going to be coming in from the atlantic,
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which is why western areas will see most of the rain. we've had this band of cloud here on this weather front. it's been taking some rain eastwards today, mainly affecting the northern half of the uk. that weather front will be weakening overnight tonight, taking some thicker cloud, more across eastern and for a while southern parts of england, with a little rain here and there but not very much. clearer skies will follow towards the north—west, in scotland and northern ireland, and here, we could see temperatures perhaps in rural areas as low as seven or eight degrees. temperatures will be higher where we've got that cloud across eastern parts of england. in the morning, it could still produce a little light rain or drizzle here and there. elsewhere, there'll be some sunshine for a while, cloud will bubble up. we'll see more showers breaking out across the northern half of the uk, perhaps merging into longer spells of rain in the afternoon in western scotland and later into northern ireland. and that will limit the temperatures here to around about 16 degrees, but could make 20 again across southern england and south wales. and it shouldn't feel too bad here. but we've got more weather systems coming in from the atlantic
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overnight and into wednesday, stronger winds behind that as well. now, that's going to leave us with quite a messy picture, i think, on wednesday — a lot of cloud, some rain from time to time, nothing particularly heavy or prolonged. and for scotland and northern ireland, it'll be followed by some sunshine and some showers as well. and again, those temperatures reaching 16, 17, possibly 18 degrees. but that's a little below average, certainly for this time of the year. low pressure running to the north of the uk will bring some stronger winds on thursday. the next system may well bring some rain into england and wales, the southern half of the uk. the position of that rain could change, but essentially, through the week, it's still rather mixed weather. temperatures are disappointing for the time of year. there'll be some sunshine in between the cloud and the rain.

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