this is bbc news. the headlines: more turmoil at the white house — donald trump names generaljohn kelly as his next chief of staff after days of public infighting. john kelly will do a fantasticjob. general kelly has been a star, has done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody, a great, great american. fireworks and bottles are hurled at police in east london during a protest over the death of a man who was restrained by police last week. north korea boasts its latest missile tests proves that the whole of the us mainland is within range will. in the next hour — uk universities pension fund deficit grows to more than £17 billion. a pensions expert says universities

may have to reduce benefits for members or raise tuition fees for students. and in half an hour, click goes to las vegas for hackfest to find the the latest on cutting edge hacking research from the most brilliant minds in the world. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. president trump has described his new chief of staff, john kelly, as a true star of his administration after reince priebus stood down from the post. mr trump said mr kelly, a retired military general, had done a spectacularjob as the head of homeland security, where he introduced a tougher immigration policy. the resignation of mr priebus came after he was criticised by the president's new communications director anthony skarr—uh—moo—chi

—— anthony scaramucci, who accused him of leaking to the press. another tweet, another resignation, another day in the trump presidency. reince priebus is the latest senior figure in the white house to leave his job prematurely. the shortest serving chief—of—staff in history. he is being replaced by a retired four—star general. john kelly is currently in charge of the department of homeland security. donald trump revealed that reince priebus had been replaced at the end of a tumultuous week in washington. earlier, the two men travelled together to an event in long island, where mr trump lavished praise onjohn kelly. one of our real stars. truly one of our stars. the president was heading back to the white house that he tweeted news of general kelly's newjob. he spoke briefly to reporters. reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantasticjob. general kelly has been a star. done an incredible job thus far. respected by everybody.

a great, great american. reince priebus a good man. there was a time when they seemed so close. ever since the election, the right—hand man, reince priebus, rarely far from the president's side. but he tendered his resignation on thursday, following what he said was several days of discussions. the president wanted to go in a different direction. i support him in that. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it's a good time to hit the reset button. i think he was right to hit the reset button and i think that it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it's healthy and i support him in it. asked about an interview in which he was described by the new white house communications chief, anthony scaramucci, as "a paranoid schizophrenic," mr priebus said "he didn't want to get into the mud." next week a new start at the white house with a general in charge. in a moment we'll be hearing from a us politics specialist about these latest developments,

but first let's get a bit more background on the president's new chief of staff, generaljohn f kelly. as a four star general he holds the highest possible rank in the us military. during a career spanning four decades he served as a commanding general in iraq. his son robert died in action when he stepped on a landmine in afghanistan in 2010. it made general kelly the highest ranking officer to lose a child in the afghan and iraq wars. president trump appointed him the secretary of homeland security injanuary, where he was responsible for borders, immigration & cyber security. he's said in the past that a border wall between the us and mexico is essential because of threats entering the united states. with me is the london based american commentator and trump supporter charlie wolf. charlie, can you add a bit more for us charlie, can you add a bit more for us to the cv ofjohn kelly? clearly,

a highly decorated man, well respected. but a big, a highly decorated man, well respected. buta big, big a highly decorated man, well respected. but a big, big clumps of order? he's a marine. actually, i think is listed as an independent, which is more important. trump seems to like military man, people with a sense of urgency. what is not seeing out of the political classes that same sense of urgency. these are they seem that will the same guys in they seem that will the same guys in the back rooms,, they get things done, just rolled along. trump is a businessman, he wants the project up and running, in budget and it'sjust not happening. with reince priebus, to be fair, i think you did a good job. he likes priebus, let's not forget when hejoined job. he likes priebus, let's not forget when he joined the job. he likes priebus, let's not forget when hejoined the rnc, reince priebus turn that around, putting a lot of data processing and what have you. he helped trump get accepted what have you. he helped trump get a cce pted by what have you. he helped trump get accepted by the establishment. but i think trump was just too big. the important thing, i think people

don't necessarily understand this, the white house is run on a harbour again tested run as a hierarchy, by again tested run as a hierarchy, by a military. certain people have certain jobs. a military. certain people have certainjobs. so i think having so much a general in their will help it get back to running a lot tighter ship. let me pick up on some of that, and what priebus said in his cnn interview. he said the president wa nted cnn interview. he said the president wanted to go any different direction, the has the right to hit the reset. but after six months in office? after losing so many key members of staff, whatever the reasons, another has been some infighting, this appears to be a white house out of control and a presidency that is failing. whether it's out of control and it isn't the important thing, the important thing is what you do to fix it. do you say, things are going the way we plan but optics will look good or do we “— plan but optics will look good or do we —— seoul dooley discontinued going the way things are, or are do we do what is needed? garside but after six months, that is very

worrying that the president is having to press the reset button after six months. and he has not delivered policies... key is to a lot more about things you want necessarily see, for instance, the denial of revelations, the economy is doing better. but the people look at the guide... —— the cutting down of regulations. the important thing is the stuff that came in, remember, he doesn't have a political background, these weren't his staff, they would recommend it. they are good people but they don't have his vision and they don't understand. scaramucci, whatever you want to say about the guy, he is a fellow new yorker, he understands he's a fellow businessman, he understands a sense of urgency and how the president thinks. and if the president tweets instead of going, or, my gosh, it's never been done like that, scaramucci says, i'm here to serve him. all his military man and robust people he surrounded himself with, his family, his trump family, so to

speak, how will they go down with the republican establishment in the common months? doesn't matter. it's important as far as the president is concerned, he's the commander—in—chief. the republican party should work with him and help him instead of fighting him. it's not a republican democrat thing, it goes across party lines. this is a quy: goes across party lines. this is a guy, the establishment and the media the civil service and the deep state anything don't like because he's here to drain the song, as he says. so they are fighting him every step of the way. but i would say yes to play their game a little, it's a conundrum because you to break the machine you could play the machine at its own game which sounds like working against itself as but that is what he was given. now coming yea rs is what he was given. now coming years as feet under the table coming as comfortable in the chair and he's bringing in his own people. talking to us. —— bags for talking to us. —— thanks. violence has broken out

in east london during protests about the death of a man shortly after he was restrained by police a week ago. the independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of 20—year—old rashan charles. last night, bottles and fireworks were thrown at officers in the dalston area of hackney. danjohnson was at the scene of last night's trouble. attention had been building all afternoon. a peaceful protest about the death of a man in police custody to do something else. police were out in force, trying to remain calm, but it didn't work. at 10pm, a fleet of police vans was facing a burning barricade and an angry crowd. bottles were thrown. hundreds of officers try to keep people back. move away,! police in riot gear and repeatedly tried to clear the street. mounted officers were brought into. it took at least

another hour force and kind of order to be established, debris still smouldering in the street. the confrontation was sparked by the death of rashan charles, he was chased into a shop by police a week ago. officers say he tried to swallow something, there was a struggle and he became ill. just over an hour later, rashan charles was declared dead. he was 20. he was the third young man today after being stopped by police in london in just over one month. it stirred up long—standing grievances. just over one month. it stirred up long-standing grievances. they are angry and confused because they are not being presented in life itself orup not being presented in life itself or up they have to sell drugs, carry because they are living in knives because they are living in fear. they have no spirituality. they have to sell drugs? why? they are forced into situations where are fw don't understand how to live, they don't understand how to live, make money, work for what they want. they don't want to work for the system. this morning, the council has been cleaning up and trying to move on. it spent the week trying to ease concerns in this community. the

charles stanley has warned that hostile actions by demonstrators are now. “— hostile actions by demonstrators are now. —— the child's family. demonstrators are gathering in hackney again today. i'm quite worried people will come from outside of hackney who haven't listened to the family's requests and done unnecessarily have the motivation to have a peaceful protests. i think as long as it remains peaceful, people should be able to... the independent police complaints commission says it should be old answer the questions from temple map's family about his death and will follow the evidence wherever it leads. —— it helps to be a better answer the family's questions. north wales police are searching for a missing five—year—old girl. detectives believe molly owens, from holyhead in anglesey, may be with her father — brian george owens — who failed to attend a court hearing yesterday. a man who killed one person and injured six others in a supermarket attack in germany was a known as

list but not a jihad is, police say. german police say he acted alone but was overpowered by passers—by. it's emerged that uk universities have a pension fund with a deficit that has grown to more than 17 billion pounds — the largest in the uk. the universities superannuation scheme caters for existing and retired academics. a pensions expert says universities may have to reduce benefits for members, or increase tuition fees for students, to fill the black hole. the pension specialist, john ralfe, who has been monitoring the scheme's progress for many years, says the deficit is down to poor management. i think the root cause of it is the uss trustees going down to the casino and betting the money they have been given by universities on equities. i've just checked the figures this morning, in 2008, the scheme was in surplus. a lot of people including me have been warning

that this was a problem. uss have been kicking the can down the road for a number of years and i think now, they will have to face up to it and do something. what is the bet the trustees have made that hasn't paid off? they have been taking money from individual members of the scheme and from employers, could have fitting that in safe investments, bonds, which match the pensions. but they haven't, they have been pitching the acid into equities, hedge funds and other complex and risky bets. —— pitting the acid —— assets. earlier our business correspondent, joe lynam explained how difficult it would be to clear the pension scheme's deficit. if you have a pensions black hole and you're a private pensions, basically a savings scheme, the government is not going to bail you out because its private. your options are, you ask the existing people who would benefit from this scheme, academics, lecturers, to take another pay cut. they did that last year. they got their benefits

cut last year. they won't be keen on that. if you ask them to take another pay cut, they may say, i'm moving to germany or canada or the states. option two, you ask donors to pay more money, wealthy people who studied at these universities, to cough up more, but will they do that for a pension scheme? easy for oxford and cambridge, but not much for the less well known universities. last option, you ask students to pay more. that's controversial. there is a tuition cap on fees, will they go back to the government and say, can we raise that even further, or start charging students for other things? maybe charging to use the wi—fi, or other things. you don't want to deter students as the uk emerges from the eu. this is page 3a of a very long pdf.

it's ever 32 of a global standard, the deficit doubled in we year. the headlines on bbc news: president trump names retired military generaljohn kelly as his new chief of staff after reince priebus ‘s debts down after days of infighting. riots in hackney at after the death ofa man riots in hackney at after the death of a man who was restrained by police. north korea claims that its latest missile tests show the whole of the us mainland is within range. president trump says that the test was dangerous and reckless. more now on that missile test. the north korean leader kimjong—un claims any target on the us mainland

is now within striking range. it following his military‘s latest intercontinental missile test, the second test within a month. as with previous launches, the event was celebrated by north korean state media. cloa ked in darkness, state run tv captured the final moments before the missile launch. a potent symbol of north korea's defiance in the face of international sanctions. its leader kim jong—un there to witness it all. then the dramatic lift—off. and the moment that pyongyang thumbed its nose at the world. the second launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in less than a month. it travelled higher and further than the missile fired before, eventually smashing down into the ocean off the coast of japan. then came the official confirmation from pyongyang. the newsreader announcing that this test was proof that the whole of the us is now within reach.

pictures show a triumphant north korean leader. in washington, president trump described the tests as reckless and dangerous. the reaction from north korea's neighbour in the south was equally harsh. translation: dashing the international community's hopes of eased inter—korean military tensions and in particular, seoul's offer of bilateral military talks. these joint us south korea military drills a response to the launch, designed to send a clear message that seoul and washington stand shoulder—to—shoulder in the face of an increasingly belligerent north korea. the us already has battleships in the pacific ocean. now, it has promised to scale up its strategic assets in response to this latest threat. more aircraft carriers and stealth

bombers could soon be on the way. a jubilant kim jong—un wants us recognition as a nuclear power. instead, in the wake of another missile test, he's likely to face stiffer sanctions with china and russia under pressure not to stand in the way. the head of a group advising environment secretary michael gove has said that tax break for farmers should be reviewed, and that the farming industry is suffering from "subsidy addiction". dieter helm, an economist, questioned the exemption of business rates for farmland and suggested that it was used to avoid inheritance tax. a defra spokesman said that his suggestions were not under consideration as policy. we can now talk to daye tucker, a sheep farmer in west stirlingshire who is also a member of the national farmers union of scotland's environment & land use committee. that's the title! can you just tell

us that's the title! can you just tell us how farmers do benefit from subsidies and how much they are actually needed by farmers? well, that's the biggest question of all and it's good that everybody is starting to talk about it and discuss it. certainly, many farmers are reliant on subsidies at the moment. because since decoupling into theirs and five, the markets have become more volatile. —— since 2005. so there is no guarantee that you will get the price of your stock, whether it is cheaper cattle are brain, that it is costing you jack shall produce. —— whether it is sheep or cattle all grain. the one hand, we have inputs rising, we have the cost, the price that we get for our produce has remained fairly low, below the cost of production. so

more and more farmers are borrowing more and more farmers are borrowing more and more money and they are putting their businesses at risk. and what has kept them afloat and has allowed the banks to lend the money has been the single farm payment, or the basic lending scheme as it is now. and you would think that the environment secretary, michael gove, would be reviewing subsidies, bearing in mind that brexit is about to happen. those subsidies come from the eu, you would think it would be under review anyway? well, given what we now know, about how little has been planned, should brexit take place? —— should brexit take place, i'm not surprised. nothing is in step and prepared for, in the case brexit outcome. d except that it does need review, brexit or not, if farmers are becoming too reliant, too addicted, and it was pointed out recently that one in five recipients

of farming subsidies are actually doing and milliners who didn't need the money at all? well, yes, but let's go back to your first point. i don't believe that farmers these days are as reliant on subsidies as they were in the past. there are certainly not as reliant as they we re certainly not as reliant as they were in the past, there was why would they have voted for brexit en masse, as it appears? you actually did quite well without subsidies, didn't you, am i right in thinking that? up until 2016. didn't you, am i right in thinking that? up unti12016. i live. -- i did. but! that? up unti12016. i live. -- i did. but i have to tell you, one of the reasons i was able to do that was because of my age. i mean, i should be sitting back and enjoying my retirement, i will be 72 next month. in august. so i am a recipient of another kind of subsidy, which in my pension. which act lidded painter. —— would i

actually did pay into. without my pension, and without the amassing of my savings and the selling of the previous business, we would not be able to farm now. my concern is for the youngsters, the new generation of farmers, who are coming in without the benefit of my age group. they are going to be in a very tricky situation without either being able to borrow from the banks, which they are not really able to do these days, very much, or a continuing subsidy that focuses on them. it's been a pleasure talking to you and we don't believe a word you're saying about your age, by the way. that's what everybody here is saying, not just way. that's what everybody here is saying, notjust me. i am way. that's what everybody here is saying, notjust me. iam not way. that's what everybody here is saying, notjust me. i am not a charmingly. thank you for to us. pope francis has led tributes to charlie gard, the ii—month—old boy who died yesterday, following a lengthy legal battle over what medical treatment he received. charlie's parents, connie yates and chris gard, wanted their son

to be taken to the united states to be treated for a rare genetic condition, which causes progressive rain damage and muscle weakness. they eventually dropped their legal challenge against great ormond street — the hospital looking after charlie — when a specialist offering to treat charlie in the us, said it was too late for the treatment to work. pope francis, who followed charlie's story closely, tweeted: here, the prime minister theresa may said: and the us vice president mike pence also tweeted: president trump had offered support to charlie and his family during the legal dispute. nearly a quarter of shops

are breaking the law, by selling knives to underage people, some as young as i3—years—old. that's according to new figures from the local government association which says some retailers, including two supermarket chains, have been caught out. adina campbell has more. with knife crime at its highest level in six years in england and wales, retailers are under increasing pressure to do more to tackle the problem. local trading standards teams tried to buy knives earlier this year. almost one in four shops they visited were found to be selling knives to people underage. seven out of 29 retailers, including two major supermarkets, in areas like devon, somerset and bristol, sold a blade to a person under 18. they included a machete, a lock knife and kitchen knives. last year, similar test purchases were carried out by london trading standards, with eight knives a month being sold to children as young as 13. safety campaigners are now

calling for tougher rules. these penalties should be applied. if they continue to do this, they should be punished and put out of business. it's illegal to sell knives to anyone under the age of 18, but in scotland 16 to 18—year—olds can buy a kitchen knife or cutlery. shops caught breaking the law face six months in prison or a fine of up to £5,000. the local government association says more needs to be done to stop lives being put at risk, and shops need to put up higher safety checks. more than 50 mps have backed calls for urgent improvements to britain's broadband network. the british infrastructure group wants automatic compensation for families who do not get the internet speeds they pay for. ofcom says it's already taking firm

and wide—ranging action to protect customers. a young boy growing up in afghanistan who witnessed the suffering of war, is now a medic in chester who uses virtual reality to help the victims of violence in his homeland. the new technology helps not —— his organisation helps doctors get help from the west. we are plenty of depressing stories about afghanistan, but this is not one of them. quite the opposite, in fa ct. one of them. quite the opposite, in fact. afghanistan has one of the lowest sta nda rds fact. afghanistan has one of the lowest standards of medical care in the world. doctors often aren't highly trained and their equipment is pity basic. but they can contact doctor waheed arian,. an afghan who

qualified as a doctor in britain and he can give them detailed medical advice using social media, from his home in chester, he takes messages day and night. he calls it kelly medicine. they don't have to -- the cutting edge technologies, the expertise, the evidence —based medicine. they need and expertise, any advice that is more world—class here. that is very useful for them. i will take the arrow and replace it along... now, waheed arian and his tea m along... now, waheed arian and his team are developing new ways of showing doctors there what to do. team are developing new ways of showing doctors there what to dom went very well. we discussed a medical case, we solve the problem, it was a live medical case in a hospital, using augmented reality, wheeler ‘s and manage their problem.

—— we discussed it and managed their problem. as a boy in the 1980s, he had to escape from the russians who had to escape from the russians who had invaded his country. he and his family were lucky to survive. when the civil war fired up family were lucky to survive. when the civil warfired up in afghanistan, his parents sent him on his own to britain. he was 15 and didn't speak much english yet within four years, he was studying medicine at cambridge. he became passionate about helping people in the country of his birth. i have seen some are suffering in my childhood, and that suffering in my childhood, and that suffering was still very vivid in my memory. but i wanted to see if i could help in any way, alleviate that suffering from many people that we re that suffering from many people that were ina that suffering from many people that were in a similar position to mine asa were in a similar position to mine as a child. he doesn't get much time with his family in chester. yet taken with his family in chester. yet ta ke n leave with his family in chester. yet ta ken leave of with his family in chester. yet taken leave of absence to develop his ideas, but in order to pay the

bill, he has to work every weekend as an bill, he has to work every weekend asana&e bill, he has to work every weekend as an a & e doctor. easy way a lot, and it can be hard and lonely at times. —— e is awaya and it can be hard and lonely at times. —— e is away a lot. and it can be hard and lonely at times. —— e is awaya lot. when and it can be hard and lonely at times. —— e is away a lot. when you are alone. but on the other side, i know he's doing amazing things for humanity, he's going to be saving thousands of lives, so either get the positives. gemma weir, long way injust two years, the positives. gemma weir, long way in just two years, we are the positives. gemma weir, long way injust two years, we are helping places that have no other support. we have come a long way. this is so important. we are saving lives. helping others in afghanistan to survive, his fit, users, his therapy. —— is coming he says. you can watch the full documentary on monday at 7pm on bbc one and we can all see it on iplayer it will be available shortly afterwards. headlines coming up, but first, the

weather. hello, there. our family changeable theme to the weather continues throughout the course of this weekend. it's not going to be raining everywhere, in fact, there will be some decent and long spells of sunshine but equally, some showers around too. some more persistent rain during the course of the day towards the south. we've got a weather front in the english channel, so some rain for the channel isles, the isles of scilly, and then that rain pushing further north across much of southern england as we move through into the afternoon. further north, it's a story of sunny spells but scattered showers, blustery and heavy showers for scotland and northern ireland, where there could be the odd rumble of thunder. but drier for much of northern england down towards the north midlands, and temperatures around 18 to 22 degrees. into this evening, then, we will keep the outbreaks of rain in the south, pushing further north across much of england and wales tonight. further showers in the north—west. now, through tomorrow, that rain clears quickly from the east coast, some heavy, potentially thundery showers in the north and west drifting their way further eastwards