hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. i thought we were done with the 620 — but two weeks since hamburg it turns out donald trump and vladimir putin spent more time together than we realised. there they are at the meeting we knew about. we'll get into what happened a little later in the day. the white house says it was normal — not everyone agrees. it makes the president, frankly and disturbingly, not a credible in the white house response. the salaries of the bbc‘s top—earning stars have been revealed — and about two—thirds of those earning more than £150,000 are men. saudi arabia and its allies have dropped their demands of qatar and issued six broad principles instead. that's a climb down in most people's eyes. we'll look at why it's happened. we will report from nairobi. fake news is becoming an issue in the key union election. —— in the kenyan

election. donald trump and vladimir putin met twice at the 620 summit. not the once we'd been told about. this picture is from hamburg on july 7th. that meeting lasted over two hours. now we know they also spoke again during dinner that night. the us national security council says it was a "pull aside," not a meeting. "a conversation over dessert should not be characterised as a meeting." that is what it went on to say. we are being sucked into serious semantics. so how should we assess this? this is ian bremmer, who first reported the second meeting. it is certainly true that at summit meetings you have little pull asides

between heads of state to discuss business all the time. when our pull aside —— a pull aside for one hour is highly unusual. a pull aside of one hour between putin and trump where only the kremlin translator is there, we do not know what is discussed, given the uniqueness of the russia/ us relationship, it makes the president, frankly and disturbingly, not credible in the white house response to this story. a senior white house official has said... "the insinuation that the white house has tried to hide a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. it is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president's duties, to interact with world leaders." and here's the man himself. "fake news story of secret dinner with putin is sick. all 620 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the chancellor of germany. press knew!" we knew they were all going for dinner but we did not know until very recently that that hour or so

conversation took place. let's bring in anthony zurcher. i guess this is all the context of the broader trump/ russia story? that is how do you have to seed. during a dinner if the heads of state were to meet and chat, that is normal, nothing outside of the norms of normal diplomacy. because the spotlight is shining so sharply on us/ russia relations, this has been looked at suspiciously. the white house says it is a brief meeting, but if it took an hour, if they were sitting with heads of state from 18 other nations and vladimir putin and donald trump were talking for an hour, for more than two hours earlier in the day, that is an interesting story. people would rightly want to know what they discussed, i think. rightly want to know what they discussed, ithink. so rightly want to know what they discussed, i think. so far we have had no indication of what the conversation was about, the white house says it was niceties but that isa house says it was niceties but that is a long time for chit—chat. house says it was niceties but that is a long time for chit-chat. what is a long time for chit-chat. what is the protocol? if mr trump is a

conversation with anyone for an hour, is there an obligation to fill a sin? traditionally we will get a readout of a conversation with a foreign leader, every time donald trump picks up the phone, shortly thereafter there will be a statement describing what they spoke about. rex tillerson after the two plus our meeting at the 620 described what they discussed, lengthy rendition of every topic and donald trump himself talked about what they discussed. there was nothing about what happened at this dinner, no release, no information. the factory did not find out about it until after two weeks will raise suspicions about what they were talking about. it is ina public what they were talking about. it is in a public setting, there were heads of state and spouses from 18 other countries there. it could not have been too details a conversation, you would think. stay with us, anthony. here's stephen sestanovich from the us council

on foreign relations. "worst result of a meeting like this: now the president thinks, ‘no need to listen to others —i‘m the putin expert.”' ian bremmer also that might be a concern but we do not know about donald trump's opinion. ian bremmer also isn't keen on the two leaders being alone. remember, he is the man who broke the story. because the national security adviser was not there, the secretary of state, many people do not trust such trump will get it right by himself, that he will get played. first of all that the russians will have full and complete notes on the meeting and likely a tape since the translator was there, the americans don't, which makes trump vulnerable. second that the russians will get something from trump which they otherwise should not, because you do not have trump being properly advised by his capable team. anthony, i don't remember anyone expressing concerns about president 0bama being left in the room with

anyone. is this notjust people upset that trump is president being patronising about his ability to handle conversation? that is definitely part of it. over the campaign, hillary clinton constantly questioned donald trump's ability to conduct foreign policy, members of the foreign policy establishment, conservative members, signed a letter saying they did not trust donald trump to run us foreign policy. that second guess has continued to the first six months of his presidency. but he is the president and well within rights to sit down with the president of russia and have a conversation if he wa nts russia and have a conversation if he wants over dinner. because the spotlight is show —— so sharp, people want to know what they are talking about and there was so much controversy about possible russian influence on the us election and possible trump ties to russia, the suspicion is built in and it will

come up suspicion is built in and it will come up whenever suspicion is built in and it will come up whenever there is a meeting like this, particularly one that was not disclosed immediately. let's go to health care. after tuesday's collapse of the republicans' plans to do away with president 0bama's health care system, he told republican senators that he's ready to sign a bill repealing 0bamacare. the rest, he says, is up to them. for seven years you promised the american people that you would repeal 0bamacare. american people that you would repeal 0bamaca re. people american people that you would repeal 0bamacare. people are hurting. inaction is not an option. frankly, i don't think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan, unless we can give our people great health care. because we are close, we are very close. the president says inaction is not a plan but that seems to be what is happening? just yesterday he said inaction was going to be his policy, they would let 0bamacare fall apart and well can come to the table when everything was in ruins, to come up with a new plan. that was a change

from earlier when he said he wanted a straight up repeal. and before that he wanted repeal the —— and replace. there is a problem with trying to get a republican senators on board, they have been getting mixed messages from the white house time and time again, it is difficult to pin donald trump down and some republican senators are worried that if they stick with him they will —— he will change his mind again and leave them hanging to drive. there is not an infinite amount of time can be spent on health care, presumably, because every minute you spend on this you are not spending on another policy you wish to pursue? we are almost in august, they are talking about pushing back their recess but lots of things congress has to do not a major pieces of legislation that are optional, like passing a budget, passing appropriations to fund the government, a debt limit to raise in

order to continue to issue debt. they will all crowded major pieces of legislation. the more time they spent on health care than us time for tax reform. by next year, the mid—term elections will loom over all the members of congress and they will be more worried about saving theirjobs than will be more worried about saving their jobs than about will be more worried about saving theirjobs than about doing something big that could put them right in the cross hairs for any sort of controversy or dislike legislation that they had to attach their name to. 6reat their name to. great stuff as always, anthony. let's talk tomorrow. this is releva nt. go back to november last year. donald trump was the president elect. "in addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, i won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally". we have discussed this before. today a commission that he set up to investigate had its first meeting — and the president was there. bearing in mind there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, but we shall see what it manages to find. during the six months donald trump's been in office, i've been showing you as many of his tweets as i have clips of him on camera. we look at them all the time to

understand his thinking. rajini vaidyanathan‘s been taking a look at his tweets tell us. twitter is a wonderful thing for me, i get the word out. he has been dubbed the twitter president. we know he loves to spell things out in 140 characters, but what is his online music service about the last six months of his presidency? he has sent more than 940 tweets, he is an early riser, typically sends them between 6am and 8am, an average of almost six tweets per day. that is 85 times the number of news conferences he has hosted. the two donald trump, that is modern—day presidential. 0k, go ahead. what does president trump tweet about the most? the highest number of tweets about the economy, on the media are not far behind. this video is his most shared tweets so far.

he does not hate all media. president trump has sent more than 70 tweets about fox news, usually to publicise his upcoming appearances or praise the network's coverage. publicise his upcoming appearances or praise the network's coveragem isa or praise the network's coveragem is a modern—day form of communication, especially when you have tens of millions of people like i have. his tweets often sends mixed m essa 9 es his tweets often sends mixed messages that even his own staff cannot decide. they speak for themselves. his comments and his tweets speak for themselves. after saying he had a great meeting with angela merkel, he criticised 6ermany‘s nato contributions. and look that is messaging on china, one minute he seemed to give up on the idea of working with the country, only to tweet about an excellent meeting with china days later. president trump recently suggested setting up a cyber security unit with the russians, but it did not ta ke with the russians, but it did not take long for him to retract the idea. should i keep the twitter going on at? many of his supporters think he

should, for sure. we get it direct from him. you love the tweets? cofevfe is a great word explanation many wish he would stop treating, including some in his own party. he has more than 33 million followers and it does not look like he will stop any time soon. we will be looking at a subject very close to donald trump's heart soon. the chinese and the us are having high—level trade talks, looking at the fact that america buys an awful lot more than it sells to china. we will speak to michelle fleury about that. ministers have announced plans to raise the state pension age from 67 to 68, seven years earlier than originally planned. six million people will be affected by the change, which will take effect in 2037. the work and pensions secretary david 6auke told mps the government wanted to meet the needs of an ageing population

without placing an unfair burden on the young. this is about the government taking responsible action in response to growing demographic and fiscal pressures . growing demographic and fiscal pressures. that is why today i am announcing the government's intention to accept the key recommendation of the cridland review and increase the state pension age from 67 to 68/2 years from 2037. this brings forward the increased by seven this brings forward the increased by seve n yea rs this brings forward the increased by seven yea rs from this brings forward the increased by seven years from its legislated date of 2044/46 in line with the recommendation made byjohn cridland and following careful consideration of the evidence on life expectancy, fairness and public finances. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is... it's been revealed donald trump and vladimir putin had a second, undisclosed, meeting at the 620 earlier this month.

the white house has called it perfectly normal. some of the main stories from bbc world service. that will be in a moment. but now with story that has dominated discussions in the uk. big day for the bbc. it's been forced by the government to reveal the salaries of all of its broadcasters who earn more than £150,000. it turns out an awful lot of them are men. just under two thirds. there are 62 men and 34 women. this is in the bbc‘s annual report. it is online if you want to read it. and those stats are just the start of it. the top seven earners are men. white men. chris evans earns between £2.2 million and £2.25 million for his radio 2 show — and other work. the top paid female star is claudia winkleman. she earns between £450,000 and £500,000 — a lot of money, but under 25% of chris evans. again and again the issue of gender inequality plays out —

on radio 4, on the news at ten, on newsnight, on radio five live, on bbc sport, on bbc breakfast — the best paid people are men. eight news correspondents are on the list — one, laura kuenssberg — is a woman. the prime minister has got involved. "theresa may slams the bbc for ‘paying women less than men for doing the same job'. warns the bbc that she will be watching progress." that came from the political correspondent of the sun. the bbc says it is making progress, it takes it seriously. the bbc‘s director general tony hall addressed the issue. what i care most about, and i think we have to get much, much better, is the gender barents between men and

women in our top talent. i think we've made a lot of progress but nowhere near where i wanted to be, by2020 nowhere near where i wanted to be, by 2020 want to get to the point where it is equal between men and women on the radio channels and television programmes as well. we have made progress until the last three orfour mike have made progress until the last three or four mike leigh have made progress until the last three orfour mike leigh years, the last three anyway, 60% of the new hires or promotions we have done have been women. you see that on the ten o'clock news, the today programme, sometimes verges presented by women, you see that on strictly and the new doctor who. but we have much more to do and we are determined to get a read. cathy newman presents on channel 4 news and she says in response to the disclosures... 0ne and she says in response to the disclosures... one of our stars, jane 6arvey, who presents bbc radio 4, says... the gender pay gap is not the only

pa rt the gender pay gap is not the only part of what has been revealed that is getting a lot of attention. 0ut of the top 96 names, only 12 people we re of the top 96 names, only 12 people were from a black, asian or minority ethnic background. several of those high earners named in these disclosures have been talking about it today. here they are. what do i do? on paper, absolutely nothing justifies that huge amount of money, if you compare me with lots of people who do visibly... a doctor saves the life of a child or a nurse comforts a dying person. however, we operate in a marketplace. i think i provide a very useful service, somebody has to do thejob of very useful service, somebody has to do the job of trying to hold power to account. a direct question, are you embarrassed to pick up your paycheque? i just you embarrassed to pick up your paycheque? ijust feel you embarrassed to pick up your paycheque? i just feel very lucky every day, is the answer to that. do

you think you are overpaid?|j every day, is the answer to that. do you think you are overpaid? i don't even really want to answer that. i think we are the ultimate public company, therefore i think it is probably on balance right and proper that people know what we are paid. here's the analysis of the bbc‘s media editor. the bbc did not want to do this, they fought a really strong fight against the government at the time of the last charter renewal saying they should not be forced to disclose names. they said that it would be inflationary and lead to pay rises, they also said it would bea pay rises, they also said it would be a poacher ‘s‘ charter, other broadcasters would swoop in for the top bbc talent. if that does not happen over the coming weeks a month than the government will think that the bbc made these arguments and it turns out they are wrong, and it is visible but next year there was a transparency is good and healthy, it is flushed out some major issues to

be addressed, let's have more, either lowering the threshold also people paid by independent production company should be on the list. based on conversations i have had at the bbc, in westminster and across the industry, i would say it is the start of a pretty long ordeal for the corporation. much more online. time for 0utside source business. the us and chinese trade chiefs are meeting in washington as we speak, as trump's 100 day deadline for boosting trade with china comes and goes. 0ne one factor is dominant. the us buys more from china than it sells to china. last year the imbalance in goods was $347 billion. let's find out why that matters, michelle fleury is live from new york as usual. i guess i am not surprised to hear that imbalance, because the chinese can make things ata because the chinese can make things at a lower cost than the americans? and given the relative strength of the american economy, the size or importance of consumers to economic growth in america. if you look at

the trump administration they have talked about america first, at the heart of that in many ways is a focus on trade, restoring manufacturing in america, having things made in america. according to the white as it is made in america week, they have held a variety of events to highlight the fact. against this backdrop you have the leaders of the two largest economies in the world meeting to discuss a range of issues, of course trade will be one of them. we are seeing an administration willing to focus on trade deficit, some economists disagree as to whether that is right to focus on or not. 6iven how important the relationship is to both leaders, they will not want to get too far into a fight over this, but issues remain. from the chinese side, did they have concerns about that imbalance or is

ita concerns about that imbalance or is it a case of the bigger the balance the better? i think they are aware of the politics or optics of this and are sensitive to that. 6lobally china has been under pressure to do more to boost domestic consumption so it is not, as some have called it in the past, the factory to the rest of the world. where it gets interesting is they export a small amount of steel to the united states, the commerce department is investigating whether or not to impose tariffs, that is one potential flash point. impose tariffs, that is one potentialflash point. thank impose tariffs, that is one potential flash point. thank you, impose tariffs, that is one potentialflash point. thank you, i hope to speak to you tomorrow. from january, businesses will be banned from charging fees on transactions made by debit and credit card. it follows a directive from the european union to end the charges often imposed by airlines, food delivery companies and small businesses. sarah campbell has the details. for years consumers have been charged more for using their credit or debit cards. 396 3% extra on flight b and 2% extra on

ryanairand 3% extra on flight b and 2% extra on ryanair and norwegian. fancy a late night takeaway? apps such as hungry house and just eat will add charges. but from january such charges will be banned. it is thanks to a european directive. it is great that they will put an end to these, and notjust those ones, but american express and paypal as well. it is further than the government had to go so it is great news for consumers. it does cost companies money to process payments. 5.5p for debit card payments according to 2016 figures, and 16p for credit cards. up until now some companies have passed significantly higher costs on to consumers, including the dvla, which charges £2.50 per card transaction. 77% of all retail sales in the uk are made using card, so it is the predominant way to pay, and therefore it is quite right that consumers should not be charged for the privilege of paying in the way they want to. surcharges will cease, but it will be open to firms

to recoup the costs they incur by other means. sarah campbell, bbc news. the food sector got a little spicier today. us group mccormick & co — it makes these condiments here — is to buy the food business of british consumer goods giant reckitt benckiser for $4.2 billion. reckitt owns the french's mustard brand among many others. it's all part of mccormick‘s ambitions to expand globally. i will let iwill let samir i will let samir hussein explained. when you open your fridge, is a teeming with all kinds of different condiments? certainly our fridge at home has several kinds of hot sauces, master ‘s, ketchups and lots of households are like that. that is really what mccormack is banking on, the popularity of having condiments. it is using verse $4.2 billion

purchase as a way to expand their condiment empire globally. they have been looking for an international company to be able to make this kind of expansion. they approached another company and were rebuked twice, now they have found success with reckitt. now here is a report on how fake news is becoming a major issue in the kenyan election campaign. it's less than 24 days before kenyans had to the polls, and a survey released today says that fake news about the general election has been widespread. the report says 90% of kenny ‘s suspect they have seen news that has been fake or inaccurate about the general election. —— 90% of kenyans. the fa ke election. —— 90% of kenyans. the fake news varies from false reports about results of primary is and nominations to false reports about public figures and politicians dying. 0ne public figures and politicians dying. one of the most notable exa m ples dying. one of the most notable

examples came from western kenya, where it was reported on leaflets made to look like one of the nation's big publications that a member of the opposition had infected dann defected to the ruling pa rty‘s infected dann defected to the ruling party's side. it looks like the two main reasons for producing fake news for financial main reasons for producing fake news forfinancial or main reasons for producing fake news for financial or political gain. 0nline lots of people looking for click bait, offline they are looking to spread political propaganda. what can be done? the report authors suggest that politicians need to reaffirm the value of mainstream media and consumers need to be a lot more discerning about what they consume. ina consume. in a roundabout way it might be the prevalence of fake news that makes people sit up and think about what dann whether what they watch, see or hear is true. see you in a couple of minutes. hello. if you havejointly

hello. if you have jointly over recent evenings you will know we have been majoring on the effects of the south asian monsoon and other areas of concern across asia. tonight i thought we would move over towards north america, where thursday looks like being another very hot day right through the heart of the usa. some of the temperatures pushing towards 40 celsius. much of the heaters contained to the south of these weather fronts. conditions to the north are a good deal fresher with the air flooding out of the north of canada, making for a very active frontal system with thunderstorms likely from the lakes to the northern plains. that is not the only weather story in town, at last we can speak of rain falling into british columbia, and about time, because the story in recent weeks has been all about wildfires. 0ver weeks has been all about wildfires. over 150 as we weeks has been all about wildfires. 0ver150 as we speak. 2017 has been a particularly bad year. we have 45,000 people who have been evacuated from their homes in recent

days. the story is not much improved south of the border, all the way from montana towards 0regon, down towards nevada and into the worst affected state of all, california. again, the stories have been very much about how intense and widespread the fires have been, 12 states affected at the moment, over 4 million acres burned, twice the acreage we saw burnt in 2016, which was bided its own right. many thousands have been evacuated. it is not just many thousands have been evacuated. it is notjust a north american problem, in recent weeks we have seen fires in portugal and spain, more recently towards the heart of italy, sicily and across the adriatic both montenegro and croatia. that is not being the only story of late. as far back as tuesday we saw a crop of thunderstorms originating much closer to greece causing real issues across the bosporus and getting into the heart of istanbul.

these are just some of the images ca ptu red these are just some of the images captured while those thunderstorms rumbled away across the north—western corner of turkey. estimates of the rainfall varied between about 60 millimetres and 120 millimetres. there was quite considerable disruption, as you can imagine. at the same time, closer to the british isles, and other active system will bring in some flooding. it looks as though the combination of heat, not searing heat but enough to release the thunderstorms, could well presented self into the heart of continental europe. —— could well presented self. staying closer to home, then ritual have the details inafew home, then ritual have the details in a few minutes about what thursday holds —— ben ritual have the details. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. two weeks on from the 620 its been revealed that donald trump and vladimir putin spent more time together than we realised. the white house says it was normal —

not everyone agrees. it makes the president frankly and disturbingly not credible in the white house response. saudi arabia and its allies have dropped their demands of qatar. and issued six broad principles instead. that's a climb—down in most people's eyes. we'll look at why it's happened. with venezuela's economy near collapse and unrest on the rise — many are people crossing into brazil which is now struggling to cope with the arrivals.