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live from washington. this is bbc news. president biden calls mondays us supreme court ruling that gives presidents broad immunity a dangerous precedent.- a dangerous precedent. no-one is above the _ a dangerous precedent. no-one is above the law. _ a dangerous precedent. no-one is above the law. not _ a dangerous precedent. no-one is above the law. not even - a dangerous precedent. no-one is above the law. not even the i is above the law. not even the president of the united states. today's supreme court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. centrist and left-wing — fundamentally changed. centrist and left-wing parties _ fundamentally changed. centrist and left-wing parties in - fundamentally changed. centrist and left-wing parties in france l and left—wing parties in france work together to try and block the far right in the second round of parliamentary elections. and hurricane beryl strikes the i was delivering because tropic wins, intense rain and a life—threatening storm surge. hello, us presidentjoe biden
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addressed the country a short time ago after the supreme court granted donald trump shall immunity from criminal prosecution. due to that ruling, all format and future presidents will now be shielded from criminal charges for any official acts taken to a presidency but not for unofficial actions taken as a private citizen. during that speech go biden said the ruling set a dangerous precedent and it has fundamentally changed democracy. he urged americans to vote tactically at the polls in november.— in november. the american eo - le in november. the american peeple must _ in november. the american people must decide - in november. the american people must decide if - in november. the american people must decide if they l in november. the american - people must decide if they want to entrust the president once again the presidency to donald trump. now knowing you'll be more emboldened to do whatever he wants to do. you know, the outset of our nation is the character of george washington, our first character of george washington, ourfirst president to character of george washington, our first president to define the presidency. he believed power was limited, not absolute. that power always resides with the people.
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always. however200 resides with the people. always. however 200 years later, today's supreme court decision once again will depend on the character of the men and women who hold that presidency. that will define the limits of the power of the presidency. because the law will no longer do it. i know i will respect the limits of the presidential powers i have for 3.5 years. but any president including donald trump will now be free to ignore the wall. i concur with the descents today. in every use of official power, the president is now a king above law. with fear for our democracy, i dissent. so should the american people descents. i dissent. ., , _, , dissent. the top courts decision _ dissent. the top courts decision will _ dissent. the top courts decision will also - dissent. the top courts | decision will also cleave further delay donald trump selection interference trial in
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washington, dc. it is now highly unlikely it will finish before the presidential election. in a social media post, donald trump raised the ruling as a big win for our constitution and democracy. our north america correspondent has more on what the top courts decision means amid a fraught residential election. this decision means amid a fraught residential election.— residential election. this is seen as a _ residential election. this is seen as a huge _ residential election. this is seen as a huge victory - residential election. this is seen as a huge victory by l seen as a huge victory by donald trump. and his supporters and the republican party. they have been taking a victory lap, they view the ruling by the supreme court as some sort of defence against what they claim is the weaponisation of the political system byjoe biden against donald trump, claim they make without any evidence. for the democratic party, this is a loss in many ways because they believed that donald trump should be held accountable for the allegations against him. joe biden's campaign team released a statement after the ruling saying that it doesn't take you out what happened on
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january 6. those riots they believe that donald trump is responsible for that. we were on a call earlier, a press call involving the democratic party, the campaign team and they said that this reiterates the message that they are giving to the american electorate that democracy is at stake. democracy is on the ballot. and what the supreme court has ruled today effectively confirms that. clearly they are going to make this a campaign issue going forward. whether or not this ruling and the implications of it matters to americans and compared to all the other issues they will be having to deal with and think about as they head into the election remains to be seen. it was a landmark decision, the first time the supreme court has ruled, presidents can be shielded from criminal charges. it was divided along part of mines, six to three vote, the
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chiefjohn roberts delivered chief john roberts delivered the chiefjohn roberts delivered the majority opinion writing the majority opinion writing the nature of presidential power means a former president must have some immunity from prosecution. let's break all this down and joining me in the studio is a blog reporter amy, great to have you here. i want to ask about the president's comments werejust to ask about the president's comments were just towed about an hour ago. saying among other things that any president including donald trump will now be free to ignore the law. do you agree with that?- you agree with that? he's talkin: you agree with that? he's talking about _ you agree with that? he's talking about the - you agree with that? he'sl talking about the supreme you agree with that? he�*s talking about the supreme court �*s ruling that presidents are immune from prosecution, there is a core set of powers that which a president can never be prosecuted and in connection with and there will be a presumption that if a president is acting in his official capacity and they said the court should construe that broadly, that the president will be immune for that as well. it will be immune for that as well. . ., . ., will be immune for that as well. _, _, ., well. it could come down, if the president _ well. it could come down, if the president said _ well. it could come down, if the president said this - well. it could come down, if the president said this will. well. it could come down, if. the president said this will be dependent on the character of the people in office. how broad
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of airpower does this really give the presidency? that's what we will _ give the presidency? that's what we will find _ give the presidency? that's what we will find out. - give the presidency? that's what we will find out. the | what we will find out. the descent thought, it was quite broad and it said this was really extraordinary language. from the two dissenting justices. one took a step of reading from her dissent in the courtroom which is something the justices only do when they really want to make a statement and will strongly about something so the president quoted from the end of her dissent where she said fear for our democracy and the other justice jackson also had a dissent where she called the decision sounding a five alarm fire for democratic self—governance. fire for democratic self-governance. fire for democratic self- . overnance. ., self-governance. on the other hand it is _ self-governance. on the other hand it is interesting - self-governance. on the other hand it is interesting to - self-governance. on the other hand it is interesting to hear. hand it is interesting to hear from donald trump himself calling it a victory for himself legally but he also said it's a victory for democracy. what you make about those comments and the arguments from any republican say that this was something that was necessary and the office of the presidency needs to be protected and should feel confident to take any action it feels necessary as president
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while in office?— feels necessary as president while in office? that was the rationale _ while in office? that was the rationale for _ while in office? that was the rationale for the _ while in office? that was the rationale for the supreme i while in office? that was the i rationale for the supreme court decision. two real rationales that they point to do, the first is when a president is in office he or she needs to be able two decisions without worrying that they will face prosecution when they leave office. and then the second concern was if a president could be criminally prosecuted after they leave office, this would set up a vicious cycle in which former presidents will be prosecuted and so the next president would prosecute his successor or predecessor. for the comments from the former president, continuing the remarks that we heard from him this idea that this is not real charges and this is a part as a witch hunt. charges and this is a part as a witch hunt-— charges and this is a part as a witch hunt. there will be some fallout here _ witch hunt. there will be some fallout here when _ witch hunt. there will be some fallout here when it _ witch hunt. there will be some fallout here when it comes - witch hunt. there will be some fallout here when it comes to i fallout here when it comes to the many trials that donald trump is facing. i want to ask you first how this might change the way special prosecutorjack
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smith goes about this election interference case in washington, dc? it interference case in washington, dc? interference case in washinaton, dc? ., ., washington, dc? it will not go back even _ washington, dc? it will not go back even immediately - washington, dc? it will not go back even immediately to - washington, dc? it will not go back even immediately to the | back even immediately to the lower courts, it is a procedural step were attacked a bit of time. when it goes back to the lower court, he is going to the lower court, he is going to have to show that the conduct that he is alleging is the basis for the charges is part of the unofficial act by the former president rather than an official act and the supreme court even sat in the majority opinion this will be a very fact intensive analysis. they suggested some of the charges are some of the conduct alleged involving for example former president trumps conversations with officials in the department ofjustice would be an official act that he couldn't be charged for that. they suggested that his conversations with the van vice—president mike pence trying to convince him not to count the electoral votes on january 6 could be part of his official act but they left the
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door open a little bit forjack smith to come back and prove it was not. thejudge will be hearing a lot of arguments assuming the case goes forward about what is and is not exactly official conduct. about a minute left _ exactly official conduct. about a minute left but _ exactly official conduct. about a minute left but i _ exactly official conduct. about a minute left but i want - exactly official conduct. about a minute left but i want to - exactly official conduct. about j a minute left but i want to ask you we are hearing reports for our cbs news partners say donald trump is now looking to overturn his conviction in the new york hush money case. citing this supreme court ruling. what are the chances that legal argument may be successful? it that legal argument may be successful?— successful? it could be a little bit _ successful? it could be a little bit of _ successful? it could be a little bit of a _ successful? it could be a little bit of a tough - successful? it could be a little bit of a tough sell l successful? it could be a i little bit of a tough sell that the allegations, the conduct at the allegations, the conduct at the centre of the case and are not an expert in it but it spans both before and after trump was elected president and when he took office and the supreme court in the decision today made clear that this applies to a president act while in office. to be extent that some of them have happened after he was president, they went to the idea that falsifying business records and
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signing cheques to michael cohen and it could be a tough sell to the new york state judge that this was part of a presence official act. we are going to hear this argument in some detail. aha, going to hear this argument in some detail.— some detail. a monumental decision by _ some detail. a monumental decision by the _ some detail. a monumental decision by the supreme i some detail. a monumental. decision by the supreme court which will have some big impacts for short. any, thank you for coming in.— you for coming in. thank you for having — you for coming in. thank you for having me. _ you for coming in. thank you for having me. donald i you for coming in. thank you | for having me. donald trump former top — for having me. donald trump former top adviser _ for having me. donald trump former top adviser was i former top adviser was convicted for defying a congressional subpoenae for a committee probing the january 6 21 attack on the us capital. the claims his conversations with then—president trump that they should be protected under an executive privilege but on friday the supreme court projected his last—minute bid to delay the sentence was not our editor sat down with him for an interview last week and she began by asking him how he feels about his was in sentence. how do you feel about that? it doesn't make a difference, that's four years on a navy ship, i serve my country now
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for the last ten or so years focusing on this. ifi if i had to do that in prison i will. no difference at all. well several months away from the election, you accept it is possible that joe biden could barely win the election in november? impossible. remember, early voting, the ballots get mailed but early voting starts in this country around mid—september. we are only 100 days away from when it starts. if you say it's impossible for him to win fairly... crosstalk you are declaring now are you that if he... hang on, hang on. if he is declared the winner you will cleanse election is stolen? he didn't win in 2020. he is totally not legitimate. this is the basic thing, this is why the show, our audience have never wavered from this ever. there were 60 court cases where judges found no evidence. that is not true. they didn't have standing. this is never adjudicated. look into this november...
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if he is declared the winner you will immediately cry foul and say... how do you say declared winner? by certification by the states? he will not get certified by the states. he would not have been certified last time if we didn't have the fiasco of january 6. you said to supporters that they need to be ready to fight back. what does that mean? we mean on tables like this, it is not votes it is ballots. right now we have trained up on army of poll workers, poll watchers, election officials, we have been training upforyears, lawyers will be ready and this time they will have their filings ready to go and there will be outside the courthouse. just some clarification on those comments. joe biden fairly one to 2020 election as certified by all 50 states and washington, dc, and according to a non—partisan fact checking
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operation run by appointer institute, donald trump's election fraud lawsuits failed either to error or evidence. in addition the associated press reviewed every case of potential voter fraud reviewed every case of potential voterfraud in reviewed every case of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states and they were disputed by donald trump, found fewer than 475 of the cases would not have changed the outcome in any state. in france, except poles from the first round of parliamentary elections there suggest the far right has made historic gains, the far right leader marine le pen's national valley party secured more than a third of the boat for a supportable left—wing collagen. letting the centrist renaissance party and its allies in third place. emanuel macron is calling for centuries and left—wing parties to reunite rather than split the boat as the pyrite hopes to win parliamentary majority in the second and final round of voting next weekend. without an affluent majority france will have a hung parliament and the national rally will be blocked
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from pushing to its plans. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest and a warning there are flashing images in his report. paris, the day after. and for many here, a profound sense of shock. "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. 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
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won big across the nation. her party's populist, anti—immigrant, eurosceptic message and its 28—year—old candidate for the prime minister's job, finding broad appeal. 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
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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 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. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making headlines with just days left to convince voters before thursday's general election, parties have been hammering home decor messages. rishi sunak want about what he called the danger of an unchecked labour government with a supermajority but denied having
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given up hope of winning. the labour leader has called for a summer of change. and good midfielderjude bellingham has been investigated for a gesture he made a game. the governing body says it is looking to a potential violation of the basic rules of conduct. he says it was an inside joke with some friends at the game. military horses broke free and ran loose through the centre of london on monday, the second such incident since april. the uk ministry of defence that the three horses came loose from their riders during exercises. there was soon returned to their barracks. one horse sustained minor injuries. out of the horses were involved in that previous incident. you are live with bbc news. the first major hurricane of the atlantic season, beryl, metaland pull on the caribbean island on
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monday. beryl continues to move through the region during flash flooding and bringing wind speeds of more than 200 kilometres an hour. here is a look at the projected path of the hurricane. it is threatening to bring dangerous conditions to barbados, said vincent and the grenadines and the category four storm shattered records becoming the strongest atlantic are keen to form this early in the year. our correspondent has the latest on the storm from mexico city. things seem quite bad here and in some vincent and the grenadines. i've been speaking to a journalist and as he was doing a national broadcast to the country, wanting people about the latest development letting them know what the official advice was they had to flee their studio because the roof of the adjacent building was coming off. he says sabin ripped off lots of different buildings around the island and
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that things are really quite bad but it takes time to get a national picture because once the winds come in, obviously you cannot cut communications which is what has happened particularly in grenade. what is forecast — particularly in grenade. what is forecast from _ particularly in grenade. what is forecast from here - particularly in grenade. what is forecast from here out? in j is forecast from here out? in essence it will continue to make its way through the caribbean. the big fear i think is it will not lose much intensity as it moves towards the potential to mexico's cosine. some of the islands are quite small and will not sap the strength of the hurricane. it is also a lack of other pressures that could we can storms. the fair is it has a clear run all the way through to the gulf of mexico. we shall see and there are often moments in which storms that are particularly powerful can we
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can but most of the communities along the path simply are crossing their fingers that it will not be as devastating as some of these storms has been in recent memory. the israeli military has ordered palestinians to leave the southern gaza city after rockets were fired towards israel. many had a ready flat after first receiving audio messages telling them to leave before the military posted a second warning on social media. the latest evacuation order covers the area around the european hospital to the southeast of khan younis with staff already moving some key equipment to the hospital. the israeli prime minister said on sunday that the intense phase of the war with hamas was about to end but our to continue operating in gaza until the group was eliminated. meanwhile the director of al shifa hospital has been released after more than seven months of detention. after he was subjected to severe torture
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while in custody according to his testimony. he is among dozens of palestinian prisoners who were returned to the gaza strip. israeli president said he was not aware of the claims. our correspondent has more on this injerusalem. the our correspondent has more on this in jerusalem.— this in jerusalem. the doctor was released _ this in jerusalem. the doctor was released this _ this in jerusalem. the doctor was released this morning i this in jerusalem. the doctor i was released this morning and he has made several statements. he alleged that he was tortured and saw torture in the prisons as well. we saw similar allegations from prisoners who had been released recently. there were many more prisoners who have been detained by israel since the war erupted between israel and hamas and the internal security service here in fact said the reason why people like this doctor are being released is because prisons are overcrowded and isn't the space to keep them. there's been growing criticism from a number of testers, the former war cabinet minister has said the government should resign over this but someone
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who is a suspect accused of sheltering those who carried out the october seven attacks should not be released. what the doctor himself made his allegation of torture, we contacted israel mac prison service which essentially said it had not heard any complaints so far. all rights of prisoners are respected but everyone who goes to prison in israel has the right to file a complaint and it will be fully examined. talks between taliban authorities and the international community in qatar have good with nations. no civil society groups including women were in the room representing afghanistan. it led to criticism is that women had been silence. our correspondent has more from doha. . , doha. talks between the international _ doha. talks between the international community | doha. talks between the i international community and doha. talks between the - international community and the taliban authorities have concluded in doha according to view when it's been a productive few days and the
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discussions have been frank. the un received criticism before these talks began and questions again during a press conference about the fact that they had agreed to the taliban insistence that they were not members of civil society in the room during the course of these talks. that means that there were no women from afghanistan voicing their opinions in these meetings with the taliban authorities speaking to the international community. during the course of this press conference someone who is leading the talks from the one side so they faced an almost impossible choice about this and women's rights continue to be an in the front and centre in the course of the past few days. even a manageable mat we spoke to talked about the fact that they seem to think the talks had gone fairly well as can be expected there was no expectation would have a massive breakthrough so we still don't have any major solutions or the conclusions or announcements from these talks. the big question that is what happens next and what will be
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done to solve afghanistan's any problems. done to solve afghanistan's any roblems. ~ , ., ., problems. the wimbledon grand slam has kicked _ problems. the wimbledon grand slam has kicked off— problems. the wimbledon grand slam has kicked off in _ problems. the wimbledon grand slam has kicked off in london i slam has kicked off in london with half a million spectators stated at the tournament. some of the most dedicated fans camped out overnight in the hope of securing tickets available on the date and the bbc�*s mike bushelljoined them. hi, is this the right place for the queue? hi, mike, welcome to the queue. just head around that corner over there and you'll meet the already, 1000 people queueing. 1000?! yeah, just over. there's the tent, the tent, that has to be erected. and here's my neighbours. hello! from scotland. oh, look at that. and there, of course, what we're hoping to see, andy murray on tuesday. so that's what you are waiting for, that's what you are here? well, i hope i don't snore. so doi!
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cheers looks a bit dodgy. i've made loads of friends tonight. so, what's your name? natalie. where are you camped? what number are you? so, i'm number 123. so, right down there. so, you're going on centre court? yeah, we arrived at five o'clock this morning. amazing! finally, the tent is fixed! i'm in bed, the tent�*s stayed up. it's what, half ten? but everyone's so friendly. so, you go to bed really happy that you're part of a sporting event in itself. so, goodnight all. true dedication there from the tennis fans, i do think someone needs to help ike out with his tent pitching skills. not very impressive showing there. what's more coming up at the top of the hour, stay with us on bbc news.
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hello there. not much change to the weather as we move into tuesday. in fact, the upcoming week will remain pretty unsettled, i think, with low pressure always nearby. it will be breezy, even turning windier across northern areas by the end of the week. some rain at times, mainly in the north and the west, and it will remain on the cool side for earlyjuly. this ridge of high pressure, though, bringing quite a bit of dry weather, i think, on tuesday. we'll start off with quite a bit of sunshine around in northern, central and western areas. more cloud for eastern england, a few spots of rain — that rain will tend to ease down. and then as we head into the afternoon, skies will turn cloudy again as the temperatures rise a little bit, and we'll see some patchy rain pushing into western scotland, mainly through the afternoon. again, disappointing temperatures, 13 to maybe 19 or 20 degrees across the south. so i think it should stay mostly dry for wimbledon on tuesday — temperatures around 20 degrees — but with low pressure moving in on wednesday, i think there's a greater
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chance of seeing some disruption to play with temperatures also at around 18 degrees. so as you move out of tuesday into tuesday night, we start to see this low pressure system moving in, bringing thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain, and stronger winds. i think the far southeast will stay dry until we reach the morning period, but because of the cloud, the rain, and south—westerly winds, i think it'll be a slightly milder night for all. so wednesday, we have this area of low pressure and its weather front crossing the country. it'll be a breezy day for most and a cloudy one. i think cloudy from the word go, outbreaks of rain splashing their way from west to east. i think it stays quite wet across northern and western scotland through the day. we could see something a little bit drier, perhaps, into the afternoon across eastern areas, maybe skies brightening up out west, certainly for northern ireland, but a breezy, even blustery day to come for all areas — these are mean wind speeds. temperatures disappointing for earlyjuly at 12 to 17 or 18 degrees across the south. so that's wednesday out.
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as we move through thursday, this area of low pressure will bring even stronger northwesterly winds to the country, most of the rain across the north. and then for friday into the start of the weekend, could see another area of low pressure hurtling across the uk to bring another spell of wet and windy weather. so yes, an unsettled outlook for the end of the week. most of the rain in the north and the west. there will be a little bit of sunshine at times in the south and the east.
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boeing announces it will buy spirit aerosystems in a bid to improve the safety of its planes. as the eu's tariff deadline inches closer, we look at the impact those duties will have on the world's number two economy. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. we start with boeing. around two decades ago, the plane maker changed the way it was doing business and began outsourcing production of some of the major components of its biggest—selling planes, like the 737 max and the 787 dreamliner. now, it's reversing course and bringing one of its biggest suppliers, spirit aerosystems, in—house. our north america business correspondent erin delmore has more on that deal. the move comes after months of renewed scrutiny
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