the president lavished praise on the prime minister after an interview was published in the sun newspaper. across the uk, thousands have taken to the streets to protest against the visit, accusing president trop of spreading hatred. i think we are going have sports news. the cameras are a little odd. iam news. the cameras are a little odd. i am perplexed. we are going to carry on talking about president trop. what else is there to talk about today? wimbledon, but that will have to wait. let's talk about the special relationship which has supposed to exist between the united states and the united kingdom. joining us to discuss that is professor, a political analyst and former ohio state sensor and a

professor of scotland is of international politics at the university of birmingham. it will settle down in a minute, if we just keep talking. that often works. it is wonderful to have you together here. your american perspective. first of all, how would you characterize this relationship before the visit? it has always been a bit ofa before the visit? it has always been a bit of a myth. my parents back in alabama, they only know of any hill the comedian. that is it. it has been on the one hand for the british, a convenient miss at times, because if helps with the idea that they are a power, we are still involved. and then for america, it has quite often been a rush of convenience. for example, in the first and second gulf wars, then we became great friends. they build up

the relationship. i do think there isa the relationship. i do think there is a real relationship that has built up since 1945 between agencies. the militaries, the intelligence services, the state department for an office but here is the twist with donald trump. he does not have that relationship. he does not have that relationship. he does not have that relationship. he does not have the alliance. donald trump is closer to vladimir putin then he is closer to vladimir putin then he is to our special relationship. he did actually say i would have an easier time in helsinki. did actually say i would have an easiertime in helsinki. how did actually say i would have an easier time in helsinki. how much of this is down to the fact that we are dealing with a president who primarily is a businessman. a tv star than primarily is a businessman. a tv starthana career primarily is a businessman. a tv star than a career politician.|j think, star than a career politician.” think, first off, contextually, the reason president trop won the election is because there was a great deal of the american public that was interested in shaking up the traditional political system. that being said, to your point, whether it is the special relationship with the united kingdom or our relationship with mainland

europe, the post—world war ii alliances that were built are really being questioned right now. we have seen that as exhibited through the conversations that have occurred just recently in that nato's summit. we have seen in the g7. and in the tariffs that have been laid under the auspices of national security which is a very thin, to say the least, reasoning. if this special relationship, which is most special, president trump said today, or possibly inventing a new word, if it is not special but it is about convenience, how is that relationship going to be affected by what we have seen in the last couple of days? this criticism of the brexit deal, and then saying theresa may is a marvellous person. what is

happening here is the strains are really happening abroad, not domestically. president trump often times leads to more of a domestic audience with his rhetoric, and so here, when he says things like boris johnson would be a great prime minister, if you are going to have a soft brexit that we are not going to have at bilateral trade agreement, those things sometimes play well with the base in the united states but obviously give pause to within the institutions in the united kingdom. we are in a period of strained and a lot of questions surrounding our historical relationship. what is his game plan? why would he say one thing one day and one thing another? it he certainly keeps everyone guessing. and the people around and keep being difficult and polite. the one we talk about is trump is unpredictable. he has a loose relationship with the truth. he is

manipulative. but here is something we need to go beyond. he may talk about the special relationship and say it is ok, this is part of a plan with advisers that are working with trump and the game plan here which we saw in nato's and we are seeing here is that they do not really like multilateral institutions. they do not like nato. they do not like the european union and specifically what happened with the interview, if they we re happened with the interview, if they were using theresa may to get at breaking up the european union. and the idea being, if you choose the european union or you choose us and the reason why i say that is a lot of people might not pick up on this, the person who was very influential with donald trump on this from the site is a man named steve bannon, who was his chief strategist and the white house and who has been in london this week. and they are not keen. not on nato either. and they

have been able to exploit the unproductive ability to turn this 1945 system on its head now. i honestly think this is the greatest challenge, i might even say crisis, for the us, challenge, i might even say crisis, forthe us, uk challenge, i might even say crisis, for the us, uk and europe central to suffering any kind of multilateral organisation. how ladies organisations meant to respond? i have always been frank about wanting to promote. so much of trop's strategy is playing to a domestic audience and fulfilling campaign promises. i have a little bit of a different view in regards to president trump and his advisers. i actually think he is pretty unilateral in the way he approaches things and a lot of the reports coming out of the united states are saying historic folks within the pentagon, those career individuals

inside the pentagon and the state department are essentially trying to clean up on nato in particular after the things that happened just re ce ntly the things that happened just recently in brussels. there is a challenge because there is a disconnect between what president trump says personally and then sometimes what career diplomats and others within the united states government actually say so it is ha rd government actually say so it is hard for our allies or adversaries to understand where we coming from. i will add to that, what i am saying is you have certain advisers around trump who can identify stephen miller, it is that white house advisers who are proteges of steve bannon who have been against the pentagon, who had been against the state department. you know were steep and has been all week? he hidden in london. talking to people like, there is a certain british politician, he used to party. and newspapers. it is fascinating. thank you both for being here.

counter terrorism detectives in britain investigating the contamination of two people by the nerve agent novichok believe they have found the source of the substance. dawn sturgess died in hospital on sunday after being exposed to the nerve agent. her partner, charlie rowley, remains in a serious conditon in hospital. our correspondent duncan kennedy has the latest from salisbury, well, the news that they have found in this bottle came through from the metropolitan police late this afternoon. all they are saying is they found a small bottle at the house of charlie rowley in amesbury, and that the bottle was found on wednesday. they say the bottle was then taken to porton down, the research lab quite near to amesbury, and the tests have come back positive for novichok. and what the police are not saying is what sort of bottle it is, other than it is a small bottle, and nor are they saying where that bottle came from. did either dawn or charlie pick it up here in salisbury, perhaps by dawn's hostel here behind me or did they pick it

up in amesbury or en route? they're not getting any further details on that. what they are also saying is they cannot guarantee that there is not more novichok in the area. they say that is why they were going to keep the cordons on, looking at these addresses, like the hostel here behind me, also the park here in salisbury, plus one or two other places, in case there is another source of novichok in this area. so the police are describing the finding of this bottle as a significant breakthrough, and have been asking the public to help them on this, while making sure the public do not pick anything up that was not their own. that has been a key search for the police, just how did don and charlie come into contact with that novichok? it now looks like for certain, it looks like novichok within that small bottle but the details surrounding its whereabouts, the type of bottle, are not yet clear and the police have stressed again that their investigations are continuing.

100 or so detectives on this, trying to pin down all these lines of inquiry they have running. we have also found out today that the postmortem examination of dawn, who died last sunday, will be carried out next tuesday. they said they were not heroes, but had a unique set of skills. a correspondent was there to meet them. they had spent days in the total darkness of a flooded cave system. this morning, blinking in the flashlights, the seven rescuers arrived to applause from the crowd of well—wishers, who had shared a drama, replay around the world. when rick stanton and his colleagues emerged from the inky water a mile

from the cave entrance, they could hardly believe what they saw. how many of you ? hardly believe what they saw. how many of you? 13? brilliant. it was unbelievable. we give them some extra light. they still had light. they look to good health. but of course when we departed, all we could think about was how we were going to get them out. slowly, carefully, preparations were made foran carefully, preparations were made for an operation the ties dubbed mission impossible. the visibility in the water is very low so down to a few inches, there was also a lot of debris in the cave from previous attempts. as the risk of more monsoon rains grew by the hour, the rescue began. sometimes if it was low, sometimes it was very narrow, and you pushed them in front. and we we re and you pushed them in front. and we were able to manoeuvre them in that

way. they were still clipped to us so way. they were still clipped to us so if we lost them, we would always be able to find them. at heathrow, the divers left quietly to resume their normal lives. they still insist they are not heroes. across the world, their skill and courage will not be forgotten. time to look at the weather. we have had some really heavy rain. there is plenty from the heaviest storms, but over the next few days, as the temperature is building, it ta kes ce ntre as the temperature is building, it takes centre stage. by sunday, you'll see highs hitting 31 degrees across eastern parts of england. we have had plenty of them today. a number of these affecting southern parts of scotland. showers across the peak district two, and a whole raft of downpours and thunderstorms working across from wales into southern parts of england. those

showers came across the sky, the skies looked something like this earlier in the day. it was the second run that we saw some heavy showers. looking at this evening weather, the showers will still be with us for the next few hours and perhaps as you are thinking to head down for sleep, it will be pretty warm still. temperatures at 11 o'clock, between 17 and 20 degrees. from there, temperatures will slowly tick downwards, 12—16d your eventual overnight lows, and the showers were clear off. this weekend, we have low pressure to the west of the uk that will bring a weather front and, and perhaps a little bit of rain. otherwise, temperatures will be building. pressure will be gilding across the country. ultimately hotter weather. for england and wales, and northern ireland, it should stay largely dry with some warm sunshine. temperatures widely in the low to mid 20s, but peeking

around 29 degrees across eastern counties of england. that is where the hottest weather is likely to be. a chance for a late date that a storm but most of us will not see that. most of us will have a dry day. more hot and dry weather to come on sunday. across the northwest, we have thicker clouds, a prospect of some rain here, white heavy at times in western scotland, particularly early in the morning. highs of 31 degrees in the sunshine across eastern england, so it will be pretty hot. the weather over the next few days, lovely hot weather to come this weekend but looking ahead to next week, it looks like the weather is going to turn more u nsettled. weather is going to turn more unsettled. we will see a number of showers for the first half of the week and perhaps more general rain in later in the week, which will be good news for the gardeners. hello, and ross atkins. welcome to

turnberry and world news today. president trump has arrived in scotla nd president trump has arrived in scotland in few minutes he will be arriving here. it is the last leg of his visit to the uk. president trump was earlier formally welcomed by the queen at windsor castle — despite it not being a full state visit. he held talks with the prime minister, where tensions were evident on the approach to brexit, but both stressed the special relationship between the two countries. i give our relationship, in terms of grade, the highest level of specials. i'm confident that this transatlantic alliance will continue to be the bedrock of our shared security and prosperity for years to