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you're watching beyond one hundred days... donald trump makes the case for immediately deporting illegal immigrants "who invade his country", without a court hearing. aside from the fact it runs contrary to international norms, it puts him at odds with senior republicans in congress, who are currently legislating for more judges. it is not easy interpreting what donald trump wants from the new legislation, but what is clear is that his zero tolerance approach is popular with republican voters. not so much with democrats. press secretary sarah huckerbee sanders is the latest to be forced out of a restaurant because the owner and her staff objected to the work she does for the president. also on the programme... migration is igniting tensions in europe over who will accept those seeking refuge. italy refuses another rescue ship stranded in the mediterranean. a bumpy road for easy rider. harley davidson says it is moving some production out of the us — blaming tariffs for the overseas shift. get in touch with us using the hashtag...
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'beyond—one—hundred—days' hello, i am christian fraser in london, jane o'brien is in washington. there is a poll, just published in the united states, that presents the split in america society, over how best to deal with illegal immigration. whether to punish or whether to treat migrants well, as an example of kindness. it is a divisive issue — as it is here in europe. and that dilemma of how to deal with mass migration will again dominate this week's eu summit in brussels. we will talk about europe shortly. in america the fate of thousands of children remains unclear despite president trump's executive order halting family separations. yesterday he suggested by—passing the courts altogether to send migrants back to their home countries. for more we are joined
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byjonathan turley a professor of constitutional law at the george washington university. and do this? can he bypassed the courts? what rights to these migrants quit work and the short a nswer migrants quit work and the short answer is no. the constitution protects persons and that a cruise once you are in the territory of the united states so they'd you have you processed rights. the tricky question is what constitutes a due process. only 15% of people here and documented actually have hearings. there is a process called expedited deportation which is for people who are captured or stopped within 100 miles of the are captured or stopped within100 miles of the border and within a certain period of time. those people
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can largely be sent back without a hearing. the answer is no, you cannot simply negate the fifth amendment but he does have a lot of authority for expediting deportation. we know he enjoys using his executive orders to try and circumvent things, he did that with halting the separation of families but why is that only a short—term fix? why is it so easy to do that? it isa fix? why is it so easy to do that? it is a very difficult situation. he was not the first administration to divide up families, president obama did so in fact the decision that binds all of these cases came out of a long way to gauge involving the obama administration. but the difference is not separation of children from their families, it is the raw numbers. because trump went toa criminal the raw numbers. because trump went to a criminal enforcement as opposed to a criminal enforcement as opposed to several the numbers are simply greater. it seems again that the
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president is frustrated by the limits on his power. according to one report in the american papers he asked his agent last week i cannot just issue an overarching executive order to deal with the whole problem. why can't he? the problem is the differences between these cases have enormous legal significance. most children in our system significance. most children in our syste m co m e significance. most children in our system come here without parents so a high percentage of them have no pa rents to a high percentage of them have no parents to go to. we're not going to turn those children away. people claiming asylum have a right to a healing and due process and that will take time. what the bush administration is likely to do is change sent immigration judges to the border and with these cases quickly. we have a backlog of between 606 ali 600000 and 700,000
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cases which will not move through the process very quickly. thank you. it seems there's no escaping america's political divisions — white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in virginia at the weekend because the owner objected to her work with president trump. sanders used her government twitter account to complain. none too surprisingly, the president has also weighed in. anna palmer is senior washington correspondent for politico and joins us now. the interesting thing about these
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tweets and this image of chaos within the white house and yet what we are seeing from the latest gallup poll as his approval ratings are steadily growing up. poll as his approval ratings are steadily growing uplj poll as his approval ratings are steadily growing up. i think it is something that we are really seeing a lot of in terms of what the base wa nts a lot of in terms of what the base wants and what trump is able to do with voters where maybe the media and others are crying foul, that is the latest incident of strong attention analysing of the right and left in politics. i want to show viewers something that happened this weekend, this is the congresswoman maxine waters campaigning in la and she was talking about public confrontations the likes of which sarah huckabee sanders encountered. have you listen to what she has to say to her supporters. if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department stores, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd and you push back on them.
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and you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere. it shows us how incredibly divisive the mid—term elections are going to be. absolutely and it is a sign that maxine waters has been that person for the left putting up the call to democrats to say we're not going to ta ke democrats to say we're not going to take that anymore and i think she is really far out there. we have seen the sense that ali senate minority leader trying to tap down expectation wanted to have a unity from sea to see so maxine waters is fermenting that anger but that is people on the democrat side who are concerned that the do not want to be going as low as they believe
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president trump and some of his supporters have been. as another danger that all this is playing into president trump's hand because she can present himself as a victim of abuse basically and suck supporters? there so can his supporters. this is not the conversation they want to be having that they want to be taking the high road and not be seen as embracing negative party politics and this is something that when you look at president trump's supporters they are painting 100% and they see democrats do this and that increases at the potential energy which has been lagging in terms of who might been lagging in terms of who might be coming up to vote in november. thank you. and mind of the fact that he cited red hen as filthy, shire show you this report from the
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florida inspectorate to look at donald trump's restaurant, it has been cited 78 times in three years. it was dated ten times last year and this report was done injanuary two weeks before the japanese prime minister arrived so maybe people in glass houses are very posh houses should not throw stones. whenever president trump turns to illegal migration he often cites europe as a cautionary tale. in fact, the numbers crossing the mediterranean this year are down on 2016 and 17, but the row over who should play host to them is no less severe. today, italy's far—right interior minister, matteo salvini, went to libya to hold talks with the authorities there. and at that meeting in tripoli, mr salvini told his libyan counterpart he wants migrants travelling to europe to be processed at centres on libya's southern border. translation: on thursday in brussels we willjointly support the libyan authorities in setting up reception
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and identification centres in the south of libya. to help libya as well as italy to block migration. gavin lee is on board one of the rescue ships off the coast of libya, the aquarius. he joins us live now from the deck. jealous when you are and what you are encountering. —— tell us where are enceuntering. —— tell us where” ,, ,, are. this ship has been you are. this ship has been operationalfor you are. this ship has been operational for three years and the question is is at a charity rescue boat, right now we are 30 miles from tripoli. to the west of libya is from the vast majority of migrants
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from the vast majority of migrants from sub—saharan africa set off through this route and it has been many boats packed up it is down to two boats and we have had the sport and the staff on—board many are exhausted because it had to go to spain when the italian said they could not come ashore because the accused them of being a taxi service for illegal migrants. today the deputy prime minister of italy are effectively the most powerful man in italy right now said that it will be the libyan coastguards that have the entire responsibility for the waters and he wants to block it, non—governmental boats from... charity workers say they have had many occasions when fast boats blocked by italian coastguards, it is the libyans that will do that.
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the accused the italians of breaching international maritime laws will stop thank you. apologies for the dropout and sound. not easy broadcasting from a ship off the coast of libya. this weekend the leaders of 16 eu states met in brussels. the eu commission is in favour of setting up these disembarkation centres in north africa. — there is also a plan to strengthen the eu border patrol with 10,000 extra guards by 2020 — and an ambitious proposal to return 70% of the illegal migrants by 2019. but, there's no agreement on what to do about secondary migration — those who register for asylum in one country but then cross to another. germany has threatened to close its border by sunday unless a solution is found. that could lead other countries to follow suit. italy says a country who rescues migrants shouldn't have to process them. it wants centres set up in other countries. italy also wants every eu member to be forced to adopt a migrant quota and be denied eu funds if they refuse. our europe editor katya
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adler is in rome. tell us about these disembark asian platforms, what are they and how would they work? —— disembarking platforms. listening to what you we re platforms. listening to what you were saying about centres, it is confusing server and watching will be confused and i can tell you that inside the eu then is the confusion going on. in 2015 there were hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants crossing europe, we are not they are now in the summer of 2018 but we're talking about a new european migrant crisis and that is not about migrant numbers because they are down, this is about a
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change in european politics, the lies across europe on tough on migration politicians. the new italian government here also deputy prime minister rose to fame in italy on an anti—migration ticket so that is why this is a crisis. these disembarkation centres have failed to heal and i do not think it is much closer right now but whether you call it a disembarkation centre word processing, the idea is to stop migrants coming to europe so they do not need to be processed here. it means keeping them over there and being able to separate them out. those are economic migrants and would not receive asylum do not have refugee status and would be sent home and this and those who can be refugees would then be allowed in italy into europe and would not have to risk their lives at sea. it is
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doing the rounds in the us of course, it has gained traction amongst member states but some are what he centres in africa for example, others say inside the eu and so—called hotspots and others say just outside the and so—called hotspots and others sayjust outside the eu and countries like albania. again they cannot agree but the italian interior minister is the one right now causing the very big waves if you excuse me using that analogy and he has turned eu migration politics upside down for the moment i a crucial summit of all eu leaders this thursday and friday. is there any sign that all this confusion and opposition to migrants as stemming the migrant flow itself? numbers are down, they are massively down on the height of the crisis back in 2015. however tens of thousands are still arriving and there are two main countries and say the eu have been dealing with that over the last few
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yea rs, dealing with that over the last few years, germany on one side that ta kes years, germany on one side that takes the largest number of asylum seekers, 1.4 million in the last 40 yea rs seekers, 1.4 million in the last 40 years and italy on the other where most migrant boats are still arriving. both those countries have voters who are now much more sensitive to migration. numbers might be down but so is water tolerance and they both have tough on migration politicians, to a different extent on the way up and putting the pressure on internally and domestic and external on the rest of the eu. migration will loom large on europe but i do not think you will reach a happy conclusion in the next few days. there were four countries that boycotted this weekend's migration summit in brussels: the so called visegrad four. hungary, poland, slovakia and the czech republic have continually rejected the eu's migrant quotas and instead have for tighter borders. zoltan kovach joins us from budapest, he is the government spokesman in hungary.
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i asked him about a comment made by a leading mep who suggested hungary as the forced the lo fourth largest net beneficiary of eu funds it has only agreed to take 200 migrants. for the past eight years we have been pursuing this witchhunt against hungary. especially for the past three years if it was about illegal migration. it was a sickly hungary and central european countries in return for the rules. keeping in mind that the system is not a gift for these countries, that is an investment coming from all over europe, it is our money because we have opened markets. the remarks and comparison is another political approach to what should not be and
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thatis approach to what should not be and that is a legal issues and monitor issues which have different traditions. italy is one of the countries are saying that quarters should be enforced but how are you going to work with italy that is now more in line with new way of thinking? —— your way of thinking? let's start with what we agree on is what italy have demonstrated recently and that is defending european borders by land and sea is not a matter of capability. how much ofa not a matter of capability. how much of a threat to the eu do you think these divisions over migration are? is migration related issues opposing the biggest challenge the european union has faced for the past
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decades. the biggest challenge is that european union for the past couple of years increasingly is not following its own rules. it would be a lot easier not only men migration but with respect to other parts of our lives and integration if all countries followed the same rules. that is not the case. we have seen bigger countries being treated differently if it was about economy and again most of the european members are not following the rules. imagine that happening at your borders and shores in the uk, i believe the action and reflection on that would be the same as from hungary. if you're funding was withheld because you do not take your quotas, what would hungary's response be? hungary has been defending its own border and the european borderfor defending its own border and the european border for three years without any contribution from the european union. we are fulfilling
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our own duties, we have never asked for money because responsibility comes first. we expect the european union as a demonstration of solidarity to pay at least half of the cost we have spent on border reinforcements which is reaching beyond 1 billion euros. reinforcements which is reaching beyond1 billion euros. thank reinforcements which is reaching beyond 1 billion euros. thank you. interesting corporation. the us defence secretary has confirmed that two military bases in texas will be used to house immigrants, father to an announcement earlier today confirming that. thinking as you we re confirming that. thinking as you were listening there to the hungarian minister, you're the these governments in hungary and italy have been criticised by liberal progressives in europe as indeed
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donald trump has but they think they are on form political ground. we we re are on form political ground. we were talking at donald trump's figures at 40%, the highest he has been, 5—star italian party to cover 50% of the vote. so the answer for it europe is to get to grips with the approach and people are voting for that and a few others going to deal with this existential threat thanit deal with this existential threat than it has to find solutions which it is not doing. and they are not doing it in america either. we have an immigration vote coming up this week but will it pass the senate evenif week but will it pass the senate even if it gets past the niehaus? it remains a constant problem and as we heard some hundred thousand immigration cases —— 700,000 immigration cases —— 700,000 immigration cases —— 700,000 immigration cases and waiting to be held and the political solutions are few and far between. it's among america's most iconic brands but today harley davidson announced that it
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would be moving some of its production overseas due to the tariff tit—for—tat between the us and europe. so are the president's america first policies hurting the very voters he promised to deliverfor? joining us outside a dealership in new york is our business correspondent paul blake. their biggest market outside the united states is europe. that's right, 40,000 of them were sold in europe last year at harley—davidson said any regularly lo regular tory finding that they would have to ship production to other facilities in places like brazil and india and thailand. they are saying they had it goes back to the tariffs slapped by the eu in the united states and it is important to remember that those tariffs and in response to the ta riffs those tariffs and in response to the tariffs that donald trump handed down earlier this month on the steel
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and aluminium from the eu. harley—davidson reacting to the retaliation that they are getting from the eu. is this a case of the law of unintended consequences or was this really inevitable that this would happen? it is a two prong strategy here, on one hand these are symbolic of the american open road, up symbolic of the american open road, up there with famous car brands. on the other had the political calculus is that people potentially affected who could are american manufacturers who could are american manufacturers who doubles up the lo donald trump is seen as blue—collar workers in the heartland who could potentially be affected so getting donald trump in his core constituencies. thank you. on the back of the airbus
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announcement, bmw have said they will close british factories that make minis and rolls—royce cars at brexit leads to destruction. —— disruption. it would increase costs and damage its manufacturing model. not easy decisions for companies but they carry big upfront costs which they carry big upfront costs which they think i was taking that is going to be a much longer and more expensive cost down the pipeline. and i think the supply chain is one aspect of what we're in america are com plete aspect of what we're in america are complete cars and motorbikes being caught up in this tariff tit—for—tat and it is a further irony of that within a month of taking office donald trump vetted gm and ford who we re donald trump vetted gm and ford who
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were planning to move production to mexico and import cars preassembled with a border tax if they went through with that and they capitulated and said we will open a plant in michigan. it'll be interesting to see if the intervenes directly with harvey davidson and the same way. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — prince william arrives in tel aviv, on the first official visit to the holy land by a member of the british royalfamily. and roseanne barr gives an emotional interview, her first since the cancellation of her programme rosanne. she says she's made herself a hate magnet, and that she didn't mean what people think she meant. that's still to come. if you want to escape the heat is
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the best bets, eight cb is developing to kinky things more co mforta ble developing to kinky things more comfortable at times. one mainland, temperatures close to 30 in central london. these are the uk hotspots today. the reason things are dry and settled is because we have the jet strea m settled is because we have the jet stream to the north, looking towards the south—east of europe but the really jet strea m the south—east of europe but the really jet stream is the south—east of europe but the reallyjet stream is configured means this big area of high pressure set up, things warming day by day. the air not humid, that is the good news pilot is fought by day by night it gets grouped deal more co mforta ble, it gets grouped deal more comfortable, tadic is dropping into single figures and it will be cooler into the morning along eastern coasts where winds are light and we will see mist and fog forming more widely over mates were to be greyed out coastal districts into the morning. the sun doesn't make much
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inwards westwood source moments but temperatures lower than farther west. more cloud in northern ireland, the outside chance of a shower but notice how the orange colours on the map, temperatures widely into the 20s and the hottest conditions 27 to 29 and not far off that across some parts of central scotland. a little cooler weather is mist and low clouds towards eastern coasts. high—pressure but as the jet strea m coasts. high—pressure but as the jet stream looked towards the eastern mediterranean some of the forecast increases, more like what. frequent storms and flooding and gusty winds and feeling cool by comparison. the best in the southern weather and western europe and that includes us is to wednesday. late tuesday will see mist and low cloud potentially in some eastern coast, more breeze through southernmost counties so temperatures not quite as high
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towards the coast but further north it gets warmer. across north—western england and some spots close to 2930, much more comfortable and pleasa nt towards 2930, much more comfortable and pleasant towards eastern coast. divisions on the high side on thursday and friday, before pulling offa thursday and friday, before pulling off a touch into the weekend. this is beyond one hundred days, with me jane o'brien in washington — christian fraser's in london. our top stories: days after his executive order halting family separations, president trump suggests by—passing the courts altogether to send migrants back to their home countries. the question of what to do with migrants also ignites tensions in europe — italy says it wants centres to process them to be set up in libya. coming up in the next half hour: mps prepare to vote on whether to approve a controversial third runway at london's heathrow airport. prince william in the middle east —
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the first member of the royal family on an official trip to both israel and the palestinian territories. let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag... ‘beyond—one—hundred—days'. turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has secured victory and won sweeping new powers as a result of sunday's ballot. his main rival has conceded defeat but called the elections unjust. international observers have also criticised the vote, saying it wasn't conducted on a level playing field. but president erdogan's spokesman insists it was a fair campaign. from istanbul the bbc‘s seelin girit reports. never before has an election race been so tight in turkey, but the president's supporters did not disappoint. this vote winning machine in turkey held on to power despite a fierce opposition campaign.
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translation: one nation, one flag, one country, and one state, for this we will be one. the primary challenge he faces is just that — bringing the nation together. this country feels more polarised than ever. president erdogan is either despised or adored. he will now receive sweeping new powers such as appointing his cabinet, his vice president, and even seniorjudges. that concerns the opposition. president erdogan's main rival warned that turkey was entering a dangerous regime of one man rule. he called on president erdogan to embrace the whole nation. translation: president erdogan, from now on please don't act like you are the leader of the akp. bring people together. be president for the 81 million people. i suggest you use my campaign slogan, "everyone's president". president erdogan's governing party lost seats in parliament
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but will still be able to secure a majority with the help of the nationalist mhp party, who did much better in the election than expected. since the failed coup in 2016 over 100,000 public workers have been dismissed or sacked from their posts. more than 50,000 were arrested. 90% of the media here in turkey is controlled directly or indirectly by the government. but president erdogan is adamant that turkish democracy is strong. and the huge turnout yesterday proved it. an interesting time coming up for turkey. the entire police force of a town in mexico has been detained on suspicion of being involved in the murder of a mayoral candidate. fernando angeles juarez was shot dead by unknown gunmen on thursday outside one of his properties in ocampo.
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he joins the long list of politicians that have been killed in the country ahead of elections on the first ofjuly. let's cross live to mexico city and speak to journalist juan manueljimenez, who joins us now. it seems an extreme measure, this, to get rid of 27 policemen, or suspend them. has it ever been done before? never. exactly the candidate for mayor was shot dead last thursday. now local authorities reported that all police officers of the mexican municipality of ocampo we re the mexican municipality of ocampo were arrested for an internal investigation. this is unprecedented. it is happening in mexico. politicians are being killed since the electoral process started on september of last year. what effect is that having on the campaign? you would have to be brave to stand as a candidate. that's
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correct. 46 murders against candidates. we are talking about 36, 70 8.2% -- 70 8.2%. there is no problem with the elections, is the official line, but there are a lot of candidates that, because of the murders, because of the insecurity in our country, have decided to step down from their candidature. is this part of a broader clamp—down on political violence? or do you think this is just a one off? it has definitely been going on for some time. in mexico 25,000,300 been going on for some time. in mexico 25,000, 300 people were murdered in 2017. we are talking about more than 200,000 people killed from the year 2006 to 2017.
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it's outrageous what is going on here since they declared a war against crime. what the government calls the war against crime. and politicians are involved in these murders because most of them have been allegedly linked to organised crime and organisations in our country. arresting an entire police department, is that part of a broader crackdown or is that purely for ocampo kosta it is unprecedented. all of the police offices of ocampo were arrested and disarmed. that's never happened before. —— is that purely for ocampo? the people there are not the authorities but are the criminals.
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do come back on the programme and tell us more about the election. thanks very much. politicians in the uk will vote in the coming hours on whether to approve plans for a third runway at one of the world's busiest airports, heathrow. the issue has been hotly debated for decades, and the vote is likely to expose splits in both labour and the conservatives. the government wants all parties to back the plans, saying the uk's ability to compete on an international stage after brexit is at stake. but there is criticism of borisjohnson who will miss the vote. the foreign secretary once vowed to lie down in front of the bulldozers to prevent a third runway being built. let's get more from our chief political correspondent vicki young. is the government likely to win this? i think so. they seem confident. not least because the snp have said they are in favour of it do not think they have been convinced. they have said they will now abstain. they won't oppose it.
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that helps. and i think there are enough labour mps who will back the government in order to make sure that your vote happens. after all of these years, all these decades of talking about it, this gives an outline planning permission to heathrow to get on with the detail. even then people think this timetable could be pretty slow. the government and ministers and others fear it could end up in the courts before the building starts at all. it has been going on forever, as you say, remind us why it has been so controversial. there is a lot of talk about the pollution and the lives of those who live under the flight lives of those who live under the flight path. this is one of the busiest airports in the world. particularly those night flights. one of these mps, a former minister, has resigned in order to oppose this expansion. his constituency, those people he represents,, he says they have to put up with night flights which start from 430 am. he says it
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is bad for their way of life. and pollution. lots of talk about the increase in emissions that there could be. the counter argument about is people saying that aligned and jets are getting more fuel—efficient, they are getting cleaner, and that in the end this progress will help. there's also the question of people getting to heathrow. if you will have millions more passengers going to an already congested area in the south—east of britain they say you need the transport links that can make that much more efficient. and not everybody is convinced that is all going to happen. i will educate jane on why people like me did not want ru nway on why people like me did not want runway three. as the hong kong flight runway three. as the hong kong flight jams its brakes runway three. as the hong kong flightjams its brakes at 5:30pm. what about the line that boris johnson would lie in front of the bulldozers? he did go missing. oti
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has been found safe and well in afghanistan. nobody was sure where he would be. —— but he has been found safe. he also has constituents who might feel the same. he has spoken against it for years. but it turns out he cannot be here tonight. that has raised lots of eyebrows. particularly as his colleague has resigned in order to oppose it. borisjohnson is resigned in order to oppose it. boris johnson is on resigned in order to oppose it. borisjohnson is on important business in afghanistan. but there are many of his own colleagues actually speaking out, saying this is about sticking by your word, it is about sticking by your word, it is about sticking by your word, it is about trusted politicians. somebody has spoken up so much about it, why can't he be here? he said him resigning would make no difference because the government will win this boat anyway. he says he will continue to make the case behind closed doors. he will continue to make the case behind closed doorslj he will continue to make the case behind closed doors. i read that he is only there because it was the only window the afghanistan leader
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kurt give him. —— could give him. this is beyond one hundred days. roseanne barr gives an emotional interview saying she regrets becoming a "hate magnet" after the racist tweet which led to her show being cancelled. the fire—fighter who first led the response to the grenfell fire has said he wasn't trained in evacuating people from a burning tower block. his evidence to the grenfell inquiry has raised serious questions about london fire brigade's procedures and training on tower blocks. this report from our special correspondent lucy manning shows pictures of the fire at grenfell tower. 720 firefighters, 140 fire engines, and many stories of bravery that night. but the fire brigade is having to answer for its failure in telling people to leave their flats. michael dowden was one of the first firefighters at grenfell tower and
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in charge for the first hour. it was soon clear he did not have the right training. did you ever receive any specific training on how to evacuate people from high flaws in high—rise blocks, who has mobility difficulties? not that i can recall. government and fire brigade guidelines suggested that commanders can change the state of policy and consider evacuations. but michael dowden appeared unaware. did anybody give you any help or advice in understanding when it might be necessary to have a full evacuation? i don't think i've had any input from any individual. he accepted he had not done all of the fire safety checks when he had visited grenfell tower the previous year, that they had never practised on high—rise buildings, and he had not known about his boss's fears about combustible cladding. in his written statement he said when he arrived at
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the fire he was quickly out of his comfort zone and was having to make decisions he had never made before. but he said we did all we could. we we re but he said we did all we could. we were all exhausted and did our best. michael dowden did not feel well enough to continue his evidence today. he has left serious questions for the fire brigade and the way it trained its firefighters. police in jamaica are investigating the murder of an elderly british couple who had recently moved to the island. grandparents charlie and gayle anderson from manchester, were found dead at their home in mount pleasant on friday. their family say it had been their dream to live on the island for their retirement uber has told a court that it was right for its licence in london not to be renewed over safety concerns. the decision was taken by transport for london last year, but is now being appealed by uber. it says the licence should now be renewed because of wholesale changes it's made. us secretary of defense james mattis will arrive
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in china on tuesday to meet chinese state and military leaders. at the top of the agenda is china's desire to develop military relations, but it comes as tensions have heightened over trade and china's stubborn standings in the disputed south china sea. in thailand, the search has been called off for the night — for an under — 16 football team and their coach — trapped inside a flooded cave. the group of thirteen has been missing since saturday and a massive rescue effort has been launched, involving thai special forces. rescuers spent monday scouring the vast cave network in chiang rai and say they have found an indication that all 13 people trapped are alive. roseanne barr has given an emotional interview, saying she feels remorse for the racist tweet that prompted abc to cancel the revival of her show roseanne. meanwhile it's been announced that the cast of her show are to return to tv screens in a spin—off series — without the show‘s main star. roseanne barr recorded
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a podcast interview with her longtime friend who's a rabbi. she told him she "never would have wittingly called any black person a monkey. she blamed the tweet which was aimed at former obama adviser valerie jarrett, on the sleeping drug ambien and deleted it. let's have a listen... iamalot iama lot of i am a lot of things. a loudmouth and all of that stuff. but i'm not stupid for god's sake. i never would have wittingly called a black person, or say they are a monkey. i would never do that. i didn't do that. to have people think i did that, it kills me, ijust didn't do that. if they do think that, i'm so sorry... you know? it was so clearly
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stupid, iam sorry... you know? it was so clearly stupid, i am sorry. a pretty emotional interview. she said she was on ambien at the time, which is a sleeping pill. not an excuse, she said, butan a sleeping pill. not an excuse, she said, but an explanation. the bulk of that is what she has lost. she said she has lost everything and it has been very costly. and costly for her co—stars on the programme. with the end of that programme. with the end of that programme they are out of a job. but there will be a spin off i think it's called the connors. you used to watch the original programme, didn't you? idid. it you? i did. it was very popular. she has lost a lot of fans over what she said. the interesting thing is he has been tweeting today, donald trump, aboutjimmy fallon and what he did, rubbing donald trump's hair. it's amazing how celebrities have been pulled into this divisiveness in the us. i watch every day,
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somebody new is either on the right side, the wrong side, journalist have to explain which side they are on, not going hard enough, too hard. it's pulling all manner of people into the political debate. it certainly is and it went end any time soon. you're watching beyond one hundred days... it's often said that you can't understand someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. well thanks to virtual reality — many in washington, dc have recently been given the opportunity to see what is like to be a central american or mexican refugee crossing the desert at night. the installation called carne y arena is the work of academy award winning director alejandro inarritu and for six minutes visitors are immersed in the experience. recently he spoke to us about the project and what he hopes visitors will take away with them. this is more about understanding humanity, not taking a political side, because i'm not interested in
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that, i'm notan side, because i'm not interested in that, i'm not an activist. it is a physical art installation. a little bit of theatre, a little bit of documentary. i interviewed many immigrants. igot documentary. i interviewed many immigrants. i got their stories and what it really means to cross the desert. i wrote a script based on their stories with specific details. i entwined that and put it together. i wanted it to be a physicalfirst impact. you can walk along the border in the sand on the border. you can feel the sand. you are with these unknown people but you feel these unknown people but you feel the experience very emotionally. i have never done vr. i am a film—maker. i like to challenge myself to do something. as a mexican
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i felt compelled to do this. it is a world crisis. it is a deficiency of compassion that we have. everything is about community. you take pictures. you share it on social media. suddenly i think there was a mystery which is lost, the mysteriousness of art. something is lost. i want the people to go with no cellphones. it is your experience. you cannot share it with anybody else. you cannot own it, you cannot buy it. you cannot even describe it. it is difficult to describe it. it is difficult to describe what you saw, in a way, because it is weird. like a dream almost. i think it is great that people have their own personal experience. i think that's a great thing in today's world. the emotions and the complexity of what those six
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and the complexity of what those six and a half minutes create in people. there is a transformative element which is deeper than any ideology or political party. that's why i'm inviting donald trump and all of the people who make decisions about immigrants to at least understand and experience what they go through. it isa and experience what they go through. it is a compassionate mission. putting people in other people's shoes. it's a way of understanding, which is another way to love somebody, and i think that is a powerful tool, in that sense. an extraordinary project. it's amazing how your preformed opinions shift when you experience something like this. to the british royals now — and as part of a tour of the middle east, prince william is in tel aviv. he'll also visit the west bank on wednesday. the duke is set to become the first member of the royal family on an official trip to both israel
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and the palestinian territories. let's get the latest from our royal correspondentjonny dymond who joins us now from jerusalem. it's impossible to see anything in this region except through a political lens, so how significant is this that? it is significant for people in different ways. it is significant for the israelis because there has never been a royal visit before. for israelis that has been odd. relations between britain and israel are pretty good and have been for decades. the israelis have been wondering why don't we get a royal visit? the answers are different according to who you talk to. but it's because there have been too many wars, too much violence, too many wars, too much violence, too many political difficulties in this region for the royal family to come here. now they feel the time is about right. ask the palestinians and it is good news for them to get some kind of acknowledgement of the difficulty they are in. given there
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is now almost no relationship between the us administration and the palestinian authority, any kind of relationship, any kind of spotlight attention they can get as a result of this visit is probably good news for them. having said that, buckingham palace and the various different palaces involved in this insist this is a nonpolitical visit. the prince will tread very carefully. he does not have exposure to high profile public engagements. not doing any question and answer sessions. this is a very controlled and very planned visit. what will he be doing? he will do the sort of normal things political leaders do when they come here with a lot of add—ons. on tuesday he will go to the holocaust museum in jerusalem. it's probably the most solemn space varies in israel. he will meet a holocaust survivor. he will meet a holocaust survivor. he will go to the wall of remembrance and laid a wreath. he will guarantee
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the president, and the prime minister. on the palestinian side he will see the head of the palestinian authority. but then there was a raft of other activities. cultural activities, activities involving young people, involving high—tech, use and tech are the interests of the younger members of the british family. —— the youth and tech. these things are not related to the conflict. british officials stressed they want to build a relationship that isn't just about that conflict whilst at the same time maintaining attention on conflict and trying to get towards some sort of solution. it's a split personality visit. on the one hand, all of the official visit stuff, on the other hand the palace is stressing lots of different events, some are cross community, but many lean towards the interest of the prints such as technology, the dues, and cultural events, as well. —— the prince.
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technology, the dues, and cultural events, as well. -- the prince. he comes from jordan. he has been canvassing opinion. and the jordanians have a role to play in this peace process. they do. there is one actor outside of this which matters when it comes to the peace process which doesn't even exist at the moment. that actor is america. at the moment the palestinian authority isn't talking to the us administration as a result of the move of the us embassy here to jerusalem. something the palestinians objected to. lots of people have ideas. there's lots of good will from many quarters. but if america is not in the game nothing is moving and that's the situation in israel and palestinian territories. there is no peace process to speak of. thanks very much. donald trump has been meeting with the king and queen ofjordan today. a lot of progress has been
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made in the middle east. it declines to say when a peace plan will be reached. the choreography of this programme is not always straight forward. you don't know if you are coming and giving. so i have some sympathy for the honour guard injordan, who were on the runway in amman to give him a royal send off. only it went a little awry. superb. i love that. my left or your left? chuckles i think they got away with it. only just. prince william was on the plane at the time. let's have a look at the time. my left, your left, on your
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marks. i get this. i don't know my left from my right. i'm with them. it went well. it is a bit like what idoon it went well. it is a bit like what i do on the dance floor. anyway, same time tomorrow we will be back, thanks for watching, goodbye. very few will escape the blue skies overhead this week. if you want to escape the heat the coast is one of the best bets, refreshing sea breezes developing, keeping things more comfortable. 29, close to 30 degrees in london. these were the uk hotspot today. things are dry and settled and warm because the jet strea m settled and warm because the jet stream is way to the north. it looks towards the south—east of europe, come back to that in a moment. this
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all means this area of high pressure is not moving anywhere. things gradually warming up day by day. the air is not desperately humid, which is good news. it's hot by day but by night things are comfortable. temperatures away from towns and cities dropping to single figures. cooler into the morning, especially on the eastern coasts. mist and fog forming widely overnight here, could be great on these coastal districts into the morning. the sunshine is strong at this time of year. it means that the cloud will not be too much of a problem. an outside chance ofa much of a problem. an outside chance of a shower over northern ireland. temperatures widely into the 20s once again. some of the hottest conditions for midlands, wales, and north—west england. not far off that across central parts of scotland. cooler where is there mist and low cloud towards the eastern coasts. as
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thisjet cloud towards the eastern coasts. as this jet stream leaps towards the eastern mediterranean some of the forecasters in greece calling it more like automatic the moment. storms, flooding, gusty winds, and cool by comparison. the best of the summer weather is in western europe, which includes us, again into wednesday. mr low cloud potentially across eastern coasts. some breeze over southernmost counties of england. —— mist and low cloud. a few spots close to 28 degrees, as well as areas in western scotland and northern ireland. things cool offa and northern ireland. things cool off a touch into the weekend. this is bbc news. i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 8pm: the lead firefighter in the initial response to the grenfell fire says he wasn't trained how to evacuate people from a burning tower block. iti
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it i can't remember any time that i've actually been on a training course that would facilitate that. mps begin to debate whether to approve a third runway at heathrow airport. a decision is expected later this evening. the government decides to reject a scheme to build a tidal power lagoon in swansea bay. and britain swelters on the hottest day of the year so far. temperatures in some places topped athens and miami.
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