hello, and thank you .joining us. president donald trump and germany's had their'first'fatftrfate so: where doewzrr ,,, , leaders and their countries?~~ , from washington, our north america editor, jon sopel, has more. the classic oval office ifi' designed to portray two world leaders getting along just fine. no eye contact, no chat, ii; 5 s§§§§§lg il—‘iiitié 555555555" , ,,, , ,, , the photographers asked if there's going to be a handshake. even chancellor merkel asks that. but president trump's hands don't move. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the chancellor of the federal republic of germany. at theirjoint news conference later, it was clear where the two agreed to disagree and for all the politics there was this thinly disguised barb from mrs merkel. translation: i've always said it's

much better to talk to one another and not about think our conversation proved this. this riposte to an endless stream of attacks from donald trump over the past year, variously describing the german leader as catastrophic, following insane policies and of ruining her country. and the president wasn't going to give up on pursuing european nations over their nato contributions. i reiterated te qhaneellerr— , —— fe' beets}, 35 ee'ell 35 the need— for our nato allies to pay theirfair share for 9-52 ---+ -s eeseefe on this, the chancellor said germany weeleiinere'fie'it; defeneei {fee eefe ffif ifii’fi’ ""” f” ”f” worked on obviously.

traffickers have to be stopped. but this has to be done the europe—us trade deal, but there seems zero drgspect of that. as ifls"‘mos'rtrustedffileague*?= when the president said. — phone taps." but at least with proved that the nsa tapped her phones. in other news:

about president trump staying with america, the secretary of state, rex.tillerson,. says.the,policy,, h. ,. he was speaking in seoul after talks with south korea's leadership. he said a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures were being explored. the un says it's appalled by the deaths of dozens of somali refugees after their boat was attacked off yemen's red sea coast. more than a0 bodies have been recovered, and survivors have been taken to detention centres. it's not clear who carried out the attack. archaeologists in egypt say that

a huge statue uncovered in cairo last week is not of pharoah ramses ii, as originally thought. it's now believed it depicts a much later king. the statue was found by an egyptian—german team, “a keaw a number of parts. scientists in the uk say e was trialled on nearly

figgggg eeeelee - lt wee feene te be efieeti’s'e ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ still to come: the caribbean‘s most acclaimed poet, sir derek walcott, has died at the age of 87. well, as donald trump was meeting angela merkel, his spokesman was being forced to backtrack on his claims thzag= in wiretapping the president. outsecuriwrofrespfiadeati gordon correra, reports. britain's gchq caught un'w .., "h f as so often, it began with e tweet—l trump's tweet.

the nsatt'hec‘iatt-htf‘effi or the department ofjustice, gchq hit back and said it was ridiculous. at least we have something in common, perhaps. laughter done anything wrong.