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this is bbc news. i'm chris rogers. the headlines at 3pm. you can just about make them out. playing through the boos — the "working" part of the trip is now over and president trump is playing a round of golf in turnberry. thousands take part in protests on the streets of edinburgh in a second day of rallies against donald trump's uk visit. in other news, investigations continue in wiltshire after a bottle containing novichok is found at the home of charlie rowley, one of the victims poisoned by the nerve agent. england face belgium in their world cup third place clash. harry kane is chasing the golden boot as england aim for their highest world cup finish since 1966. thousands have taken to the streets of edinburgh in a third day
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of protests against donald trump's uk visit, as the president plays golf at his ayrshire golf course in turnberry. keeping an eye on events and tweets is my colleague, ross atkins. he joins us now with the latest developments. welcome back to turnberry on the west coast of scotland on a bright, blustery summers afternoon, and while donald trump gives press conferences and speeches, often his twitter feed is the best clue as to how he is really feeling. this morning, we saw a number of tweets, some issuing further criticism of cnn as fake news, and also a comment
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on those indictments of russian intelligence officials that were announced yesterday. he pointed the finger at the obama administration in one tweet without criticising russia itself. no tweet so far on his feelings uk— us trade deal. he gave us his feelings uk— us trade deal. he gave us a his feelings uk— us trade deal. he gave us a number of different thoughts to die just yesterday, and perhaps he feels that enough for the moment. —— thoughts to digestible than he has seen and heard protesters, and they are not the only protesters that have turned out. protesters are calling today a festival of resistance, a national demonstration. here in edinburgh, more than 10,000 people are expected to gather on president trump's second day in scotland. the president had only been at his hotel for about 20 minutes last night. he was out on the terrace, admiring the sunset, when, in an astonishing breach of security, a protesterflew into view — breaching the no—fly
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zone, getting within yards of president trump. the reaction was to get him indoors, but even that was not immediate. police are still looking for the pilot. as a result of us doing what we did, trump actually saw a protester in the flesh, instead of having to watch them just on television. we thought it was really important, but we did tell police we were on our way, we gave them a 10—15 minute warning. more than 5,000 police officers are on duty for the president's visit to scotland this weekend, and there is a highly visible presence. how could something so serious have happened? clearly that was a concern, it was a concern to us and to the security around the president, and there's no doubt that the individual responsible for piloting that powered parachute put themselves in danger as well as a result of that. there is an air exclusion zone in place, it is a criminal offence to breach that. they will be hoping there will be no repeat performance of this today.
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mr trump has a close personal bond with scotland, but disagreements over everything from his policies over migrants to renewable energy have led to a tetchy political relationship with the scottish government. he is not expected to meet the first minister this time. the protests that have happened so far do not impress the trade secretary, hoping to forge a free—trade agreement with america after brexit. i don't think that the protesters were an embarrassment to the government, i think they were an embarrassment to themselves. when you have the president of the united states, the leader of the free world, being greeted with signs that say, "go home, we hate you", i don't think that reflects the genuine good manners and hospitality of the british people. donald trump has tweeted that he hopes to be out inside the hotel, he and his senior advisers will be preparing for next week's summit with vladimir putin.
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a little while ago, i was talking to a local conservative mp here, who was praising the amount of investment the trump organization investment the trump 0rganization has brought into this part of the country, in particularly the redevelopment of the trump turnberry resort behind me. there have also been more immediate disruptions for people living nearby. i was speaking toa people living nearby. i was speaking to a woman whose house overlooks the first hole of the golf course and said, how you finding this? she rolled her eyes and went, it's totally boring, i can't get my car out of the drive. so at least people are taking this approach but other people are very upset about trump's visit. let's go to edinburgh. what's happening there? i'm on the other side of the country ata i'm on the other side of the country at a park in the centre of edinburgh, and this is where the
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protest has ended. you saw in the report the pictures of it starting off at the scottish parliament, and the protesters marched through the city, a root of two and a half miles, and ended up in the meadows. the protest was billed as a carnival of resistance, and it's starting to wind down. a sure sign, you can see black fans behind me in front of a familiarfigure, or at least black fans behind me in front of a familiar figure, or at least the back of a familiar figure's edge, the trump baby blimp we saw flying in london yesterday. the plan had been, at least those behind it wa nted been, at least those behind it wanted to try and fly in turnberry so wanted to try and fly in turnberry so that donald trump could see it, but they were denied permission. they wanted to fly it at the scottish parliament, but they were denied permission for that, but it has flown here, throughout the carnival of resistance. we've had music and speeches. and we've had a police presence. you can also see that. but things are a lot more relaxed perhaps than they are at
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turnberry, and things have been relatively good—natu red here, turnberry, and things have been relatively good—natured here, but a lot of people. the organisers are talking about 50,000 people involved. the police's working estimate was between 10000 and 12,000. ithink estimate was between 10000 and 12,000. i think we can probably pick a figure somewhere in the middle of that. guessing is difficult, but there have been a lot of people involved in the protest today. is it possible for us to say that the people protesting against donald trump ofa the people protesting against donald trump of a particular political alignment in scotland? i don't think we can assign them to any particular political group. at the start of the march, at the parliament, there were a number. there were thousands of people, but among them were political activists, so among them were political activists, so certainly there are people coming to this from a particular perspective, and there were politicians from all of the parties in scotland, certainly the snp, labour, liberal democrats and the
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greens were all represented, and they spoke at the demonstration in glasgow last night. but the vast majority of the people involved in this protest that i have spoken to, and from the banners and placards i've seen, were ordinary members of the public, who were out to make their point that donald trump. these are people who have come out because they don't like either the man himself or his policies or what he stands for. when i spoke to people, they were talking about a multitude of different things, whether his policy on immigration, his approach to climate change, different perspectives from those people, but coming out with the same aim, making him know, the us president know that, while he's on this visit to scotland, in their eyes, he isn't welcome. but as you've been hearing, there are people who come from a very different perspective and say that these people have got it wrong, asi that these people have got it wrong, as i was walking along the road at the edge of this protest, there were people describing this as fake news,
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we love trump. so there are a small number of people who have been trying to make their point in a positive sense for the us president. let's go to central london, and richard galpinjoins us. this happening where you are? after that huge anti—trump demonstration in central london yesterday, today has been the turn for some pro—trump groups to come out on the streets, and behind me is the main rally going on. it's been happening for the last half an hour or an hour or so. the last half an hour or an hour or so. perhaps about 2000 to 3000 people, difficult to tell, but it's certainly been a lot smaller than yesterday, and beside the pro—trump groups there are some anti—trump groups there are some anti—trump groups out on the streets, particularly anti—fascists. not far from here, we were following that antifascist march, and it turned into some scuffles between them and some supporters of a radical
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right—wing organisation, the english defence league, which is organising this rally. the police moved in very quickly. they managed to get it under control quickly, but it's been very tense, with a lot of abuse being shouted between the two sides. joining me on the edge of donald trump's turnberry resort our doctor murray stuart lee from the university of the west of scotland and chris carmen, professor of politics at university of glasgow. perhaps we can start here, in terms of the silenced so far from the scottish government. they've not said a whole lot since donald trump right. technically it's a private visit, and they don't want it too embroiled in the discussion. lisicki, the further away they are, the happier they will be. what book and why? they don't agree with the
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vast majority of policies and direction. nonetheless, all the time that government, regional or national, are getting involved with other governments which perhaps they are not huge fans of, so what do you make of nicola sturgeon's approach? she's trying to a message today. she was leading the pride parade in glasgow, one of the biggest in the uk, and supposedly she was doing this dissent a message, —— to send a bit of a this dissent a message, —— to send a bit ofajab this dissent a message, —— to send a bit of a jab underneath the radar, to point out that they don't support trump's policies. i was speaking to the local mp earlier, and he was saying, you've got to understand what trump has done in turnberry, bringing money and business. he is a member of the conservative party and he represents the local area, which appreciates much of what trump has brought in money and investment, but it still doesn't represent the values of the majority of people in scotland. in terms of mr trump,
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presumably he will be preparing for the russia visit? i imagine, after he is done on the golf course, he will probably pursue that with senior advisers, who are probably working in the hotel. thank you. we will talk again later on on bbc news. by the way, talking of nicola sturgeon, i wasjust news. by the way, talking of nicola sturgeon, i was just talking to collea g u es sturgeon, i was just talking to colleagues from bbc scotland, who say she is sitting down for an interview with the bbc as i am talking to you, so i am hoping in the next hour or two we'll be able to give you direct comments from scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, an donald trump's visit, because unless there is a big surprise they are not going to meet while donald trump is visiting turnberry. thank you. reaction that we are expecting any moment, and we've also had reaction from the labour leader,
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jeremy corbyn, responding to comments made by liam fox, the international trade secretary, earlier today, that those who protested and continue to protest against donald trump's visit are an embarrassment. i think his remarks are, frankly, embarrassing for a cabinet minister to say that. he lives in a democracy, where people have a right to free speech, a right to demonstrate, and a right to express themselves. there were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets yesterday — in london. what they were doing was asserting their diversity, asserting their support for women's rights, for human rights, their opposition to racism and misogyny, their anger at the way donald trump has described and treated muslim people and mexican children. i think they've got every right to say that and every right to do that. surely, we should be proud to live in a society where there is dissent. the idea that we should not say anything for fear of embarrassing somebody — how ridiculous is that? we live in a democracy! i ask liam fox, grow up! in response to liam fox's comments
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about protesters on the bbc. let's bring you up—to—date with the headlines. the work is over and the golf begins — donald trump is booed on his golf course during the last leg of his first official trip to the uk. investigations continue in wiltshire after a small bottle found in the home of one of the victims is found to contain the deadly nerve agent novichok. further unrest in northern ireland as an explosive is thrown at the home of former sinn fein leader gerry adams. in sport, a poor start for england as they play off against belgium for third place at the world cup. they are losing 1—0, thomas meunier scoring in the fourth minute in st petersburg. gareth southgate has made five changes from the team which lost in the semifinals. at
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wimbledon, the men's semifinal is ongoing, novak djokovic and rapid job that rafa nadal battling it out. the winner needs to be two games clear. serena williams and angelique kerber are in the wings for the women's final. and joe root is back on form, scoring an unbeaten century for england, setting sri lanka a target of 123. i'll be back with more headlines in an hour. let's bring you up—to—date with one of our main stories. police in wiltshire are continuing their search for evidence in the poisoning of a couple with novichok. detectives say the substance which killed dawn sturgess and left charlie rowley in hospital had been in a bottle found at his house. scotland yard says it doesn't know where the bottle came from and says it can't guarantee that there isn't any more of the substance left. 0ur correspondentjon ironmonger is in salisbury. a lot to discuss with this
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investigation. yes, a major breakthrough, but should the public be reassured they are safe from this latest find? i think the public should be reassured, chris. this is a pretty significant development, the discovery of a small bottle of robin chok, found at the home rowley in amesbury, about eight miles away. ca rs in amesbury, about eight miles away. cars a small bottle of nonfiction. i wa nt to cars a small bottle of nonfiction. i want to update you. wiltshire police have revealed they have removed for vehicles, police cars and ambulance from two different depots in swindon in salisbury. i think we can presume they might be concerned about trace elements of novichok being in those vehicles if they were used to transport charlie rowley and dawn stu rg ess to transport charlie rowley and dawn sturgess to hospital. back to that small bottle of novichok, which was
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confirmed yesterday by the police. i'm joined by a chemical weapons expert. you live in the area. are you reassured by this finding? very reassured. today, ifeel a you reassured by this finding? very reassured. today, i feel a lot happier than i was yesterday, and i'm pretty convinced this container is the container that carried the weaponised novichok, probably the container used to put the novichok on the door handle of the skripals house, and it was then discarded, which dawn and charlie picked up, and dawn subsequently died. i'd be surprised if we find any other debris containing novichok. we might find a couple that had the precursors, it's a binary weapon and it would have been weaponised somewhere, and the second important thing is the evidence that the police and security service will be able to get off this thing, there may well be dna, the container might lead to where it came from. it's a
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very good day today in the development of this investigation. can we speculate on what this small bottle of novichok look like and how it might have come into the possession of charlie rowley?” suspect it's small and nondescript on the outside. when nerve agents are moved around in small quantities, they are usually moved in small plastic type looking containers, only maybe an inch and a half across and an inch wide, but very thick and heavy. at the end of the day, it only contains about a quarter of the day, it only contains about a quarterofan the day, it only contains about a quarter of an egg the day, it only contains about a quarterofan egg cup the day, it only contains about a quarter of an egg cup full of novichok. they might have thought it was some sort of container or plastic thing that might contain some medicines and picked it up through interest. it would be fairly nondescript. i'd be surprised if it was a common or garden nondescript. i'd be surprised if it was a common oi’ garden soi’t nondescript. i'd be surprised if it was a common or garden sort of perfume bottle or something. this stuff is really toxic, whoever used it knew that and they wouldn't idly carry it in something that might
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injure themselves. uk government has invited independent chemical experts to check this stuff out. is that significant? it's important, across the un body to investigate these sort of things, they came for the name one attack and verified it was novichok, they will come in to verify this, so they now have two microsoft of novichok and i'm sure they will be the same. even more significant, in the last two weeks, the opcw significant, in the last two weeks, the 0pcw had been given the authority to attribute blame for chemical attacks, so it might well be that, with the evidence they get from here, the evidence they already have, the evidence british and american security services will give them, they could lay blame, and i expect the russians, who are clearly in the frame for this, we'll be getting concerned that the un security council could be producing a resolution soon directly blaming them for this attack. it's important to mention that the police have said
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there could still be the possibility of further containers of novichok lain undiscovered in the area, and public health england has put out a warning to members of the public do not pick up anything that looks strange, particularly including syringes, needles and cosmetic bottles. thank you, jon ironmonger. the former sinn fein president, gerry adams, has appealed for people who carried out an attack on his home in west belfast last night to meet him. an explosive device was thrown at the house. it follows several nights of rioting in londonderry, which police have blamed on dissident republicans. 0ur ireland correspondent, john campbell, reports. for six nights this week, young people from a republican area of derry have attacked the police. the chief constable said they were being directed by a group of violent dissident republicans who oppose sinn fein and the peace process. yesterday, a rally was held in the city, where sinn fein condemned the dissidents, saying they were using young people as cannon fodder.
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and this may have been the dissidents' response, a crude explosive device thrown at the west belfast home of gerry adams. it caused damage to a car parked on his driveway. today, mr adams called on his attackers to explain themselves. i would like them or their representatives to come and meet me. i would like them to sit down and explain to me what this is about. i would like those who are involved in exploiting children in derry to do the same thing. there was a second attack, not far away, at the home of another senior sinn fein member, though no damage was caused. dissident republicans are small in number. they have been heavily penetrated by the security services and have little capacity to mount attacks, but events here and in derry show they remain dangerous. john campbell, bbc news, belfast. a ryanair plane has suffered a sudden loss of cabin pressure.
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30 passengers have been treated in hospital in germany. the aircraft was flying from dublin to croatia and was forced to make an emergency landing in frankfurt. some of the people on board have complained of suffering headaches and nausea. the former pakistani prime minister has begun a 10 yearjail sentence — he arrived back in the country last night from the uk. nawaz sharif was convicted in absentia by an anti—corruption court last week. but he says he s the victim of a political conspiracy that aims to ensure his party loses in the country s upcoming elections. secunder kermani was on the plane back to pakistan with him and has this report. nawaz sherif was met by a crowd ofjournalists as he boarded a flight heading to lahore. he knew that when he landed he'd be arrested. i know that i'll be going straight to the jail, of course. this is a struggle for the restoration of democracy in pakistan, for the restoration of sanity to the vote, and i am
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prepared to pay any price for that. sharif‘s supporters claim the real reason he was convicted is because the pakistani army want him out of power ahead of the elections. defying roadblocks, cuts to mobile phone service and pre—emptive arrests, thousands turned out in lahore, hoping to welcome him. the decision that came is not right, it's not correct. that's why they are going to support nawaz sharif, and the pml is going to win the election with more majority. in the end, sharif‘s arrival was overshadowed by a huge suicide bombing on an unconnected political rally in the western province of balochistan. the build—up to the elections is becoming increasingly fraught. landing in lahore, he and his daughter were surrounded by security officials, waiting to fly them
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to a jail in rawalpindi. for some, nawaz sharif is a corrupt politician finally being punished. for others, he's a political martyr. how the majority of the country view him will play a large part in determining the elections. britain's new polar research ship, the sir david attenborough, has taken to the water for the first time on merseyside. it was named after sir david after ministers rejected the winning name in a public vote, boaty mcboatface. 0ur science correspondent, jonathan amos, was at the slipway in birkenhead. it's been a splendid day here on merseyside to witness the biggest ship built in britain in three decades go in the water. named, as you say, after sir david attenborough, and he was here, of course, to press the big ceremonial button that sent it on its way. three, two, one, launch. it was a wonderful
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engineering moment, actually. it went a bit faster into the water than we were expecting, but it looked superb. sir david himself is determined to go out on sea trials when they begin early next year but, to do that, they've got a bit more work to do. they've got to put the upper decks on and then they've got to fit all the equipment inside. an iceberg the size of a hill has drifted close to a small village on the western coast of greenland, prompting fears that waves could overwhelm homes there. the village, which has around 170 residents, has been partially evacuated. it's feared the iceberg could break apart, with waves flooding the coastline. serena williams could make tennis history at wimbledon this afternoon. if she beats germany's angelique kerber, williams will equal margaret court's all—time record of 2a grand slam singles titles.
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but before that, novak djokovic and rafael nadal are still battling in their semifinal — they're deep into the fifth set. john watson is at wimbledon for us. will it ever end, john? you wonder, don't you, and i think that's probably a question in the tournament organisers are asking themselves, because they were forced into having to stage the resumption of this men's second semifinal in of the epic five set match which we also saw yesterday between kevin anderson is in —— kevin anderson and john isner, kevin anderson coming through the six and a half hour match, to book his place in the first wimbledon final. this one is also going the distance. it was 2—1 and novak djokovic when they left the court last night at 11pm. rafa
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nadal came back out to win the fourth set, levelling the match, and forcing a fifth and deciding set. as you can see, 8—8 at the moment. live pictures from centre court. novak djokovic looking like he will hold his service game, which means the pressure will be back on rafa nadal. the duchesses of sussex and cambridge watching from the royal box, and this match between the pair, they have enjoyed some epic tussles in their careers, and this match will certainly go down as one of their greatest. as you know, the crowd will be waiting for the women's final. it's been delayed from its traditional start time of 2pm. when this match is concluded, we will see serena williams against angelique kerber. incredible that once again we are talking about serena williams in another wimbledon final in light of the time she spent away from the game following the birth of herfirst away from the game following the
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birth of her first child and the health complications that followed, but i guess it is testament to the champion she is, looking her place in another wimbledon final, looking to win an eighth wimbledon title. angelique kerber will be a fierce competitor, and this is a repeat of the 2016 final, with angelique kerber looking like she's getting back to the form she had in 2016, when she reached the wimbledon final and was beaten by serena williams. 0ne and was beaten by serena williams. one of the main talking point in this championship so far was the number of top seed who dropped away in the early rounds of the championships, but with angelique kerber and serena williams due to ta ke ce ntre kerber and serena williams due to take centre court stage later on in the final, i think this is a final worthy of something we'd all wanted to see this year. yes, it's been thoroughly enjoyable. let's see what the weather is like. a pretty straightforward weather story. if you've got outside plans,
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you will not be disappointed because it looks likely to stay warm and sunny. the exception is the far north and west, where a week weather front will bring cloud and showery outbreaks of brain to northern ireland, the western and northern isles of scotland. 16 to 23 degrees here, but further south we could see 28 celsius, 82 fahrenheit. that's going to lead quite a one night, with temperatures not falling vital. mid—teens widely. the weather front will bring just showery outbreaks to northern ireland and perhaps aberdeenshire by dawn on sunday morning. we start sunday with that weather front out into the north—west, but for most of us this weekend, it's hot and sunny, and it will stay like that. whatever you are doing, enjoyed. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines: president trump is in scotland to wind down and play golf after completing his two—day
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