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i'm ros atkins in turnberry on the penultimate day of the us president's uk visit. we are into the last 2a hours of his we are into the last21i hours of his time in the uk. he is staying at we are into the last 2a hours of his time in the uk. he is staying at his luxury turnberry golf resort, which you can see behind me, and he has had a mixed reception on the cause. booing. the working part of the uk visit is over. there is no schedule of events for today, but we knew the president would be playing golf, and protesters wanted to keep him company. we haven't just protesters wanted to keep him company. we haven'tjust seen protests on this part of the west coast of scotland. we have also seen a turnout in edinburgh, and we'll hear from a turnout in edinburgh, and we'll hearfrom some of a turnout in edinburgh, and we'll hear from some of those protesters in the next few minutes. police in wilshire recover more than 400 items and samples in connection with the poisoning of dawn sturgess and charlie rowley, who were exposed to the nerve agent novichok. england are 1—0 down at half—time to belgium in their world cup third place play—off,
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as gareth southgate's side chase their best finish since 1966. serena williams is out on centre court. she's playing angelique kerber in the women's final as she tries to win a record eight wimbledon titles. coming up on dateline london, a further look at donald trump's visit to the uk, his advice for theresa may on brexit, and a look ahead to his meeting with vladamir putin in helsinki on monday. donald trump may be spending the weekend here on the west coast of
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scotla nd weekend here on the west coast of scotland rather than the white house in washington, dc or his hotel at mar—a—lago in florida, but really what we've seen today has followed a familiar pattern. we had a series of tweets, taking on some of mr trump's favourite subjects, attacking american news networks as fake news, he attacked the obama administration with regard to yesterday's indictments of 12 russian intelligence officials, who are accused of hacking the democratic party in 2016, and he talked about golf, which is one of his favourite things to do at the weekend. he has visited golf courses over 50 times since the weekend —— since he became president, and it wasn't a surprise that he'd surprised to play a round here. a few hours ago, i watched him walking down the first fairway. i couldn't see any protesters, but i couldn't see any protesters, but i could hear them, and those people
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made themselves heard. at one point, the president waved at them, though i don't think their messages were particularly friendly. we heard cha nts particularly friendly. we heard chants like no kkk, no racism, and their general hostility was certainly communicated. the protesters couldn't get particularly close to the president, in part because there are hundreds of scottish police officers, and significant detail from the us. scottish police officers, and significant detailfrom the us. one thing you can't miss in the middle of the golf course is a scaffold on which two snipers had been positioned through the day. let's look at how the protests have played out in scotland, notjust in turnberry but elsewhere. 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,
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admiring the sunset, when, in an astonishing breach of security, a protesterflew into view — breaching the no—fly 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 oui’ 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
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offence to breach that. they will be hoping there will be no repeat performance of this today. 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 who 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. i think his remarks are frankly embarrassing for a cabinet minister to say that.
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he lives in a democracy where people have a right to free speech, a right to demonstrate and a right to express themselves. donald trump was out on the golf course here. he has described this as one of his favourite places to relax. but inside the hotel, he and his senior advisers will be preparing for next week's summit with vladimir putin. they're not just they're notjust protesters in turnberry but out on streets in edinburgh. that's here from steven godden. the protesters marched through the city, a route of around two and a half miles, and ended up here in the medals. the protest is what is being billed as a carnival of resistance, that is what they are calling it. it is starting to wind down now, a sure sign of that, you can see those vans behind me in front of a familiar figure, or at least the back
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of the figure's head, the trump baby blimp that we saw flying in london yesterday. the plan had been, at least those behind it had wanted to try and fly it in turnberry so that donald trump could see it, they were denied permission to do that, they wanted to fly it over the scottish parliament at the start of the march, they were denied permission to do that. but it has flown here throughout this carnival of resistance. behind me you can perhaps see the movement, we have had music, we have had speeches, and we have had a police presence. you can also see that there, but things are a lot more relaxed than at turnberry, things have been relatively good—natu red here. but a lot of people as well, the organisers are talking about 50,000 people involved, police, their working estimate was somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000, so we can probably pick a figure somewhere in the middle of that. getting is always difficult, but there have been a lot of people involved in this protest here today.
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i spoke to the local conservative mp earlier, putin praised —— who praised the investment the trump organization had brought to this area, particularly the turnberry resort behind me. i spoke to the greenpeace activist who was behind that protest, not the person flying the powered paraglider but the person who organised it, and he said it wasn't dangerous and they gave the police ten or 15 minutes notification. evidently the police have a different view of what happened. we've heard about those protests in scotland and we saw a big protest in london yesterday, but there is more happening in london. who is turning out today? there was a huge anti—trump protest yesterday, when we think more than 100,000 people took part in that demonstration. today has been beaten for some pro—trump groups. —— has been the turn. behind me, there was a rally going on and it's been going
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on for several hours right in the heart of whitehall, very close to number ten downing street. these are the pro—trump people, and in particular, they are supporters of tommy robinson, the former head of the right wing group the english defence league. today, he is currently in prison over contempt of court, and many of the people here have been calling for him to be released from prison. earlier, there was some trouble here as we came in, with supporters, people in support of tommy robinson next to be. earlier, there was some trouble, some scuffles between two groups, people from pro—trump supporters, the english defence league, and antifascist groups. police broke it up antifascist groups. police broke it up quickly and the situation has been tense, but it is back to normal.
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thank you for that update. if you arejust thank you for that update. if you are just joining thank you for that update. if you arejustjoining me in turnberry, i am just beside donald trump's golf resort, and there is the hotel as you can see just through the trees behind me, on the other side of that field. just over there is the golf course donald trump has been playing on. let's go live to glasgow and speak to katrina stuart from the herald macro and evening times. as far as we know, the first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, will not meet donald trump. do you regret the fact that the government is seeking to make more of his time in scotland? i think nicola sturgeon has been very clear on her position as regards donald trump. last year, she said theresa may should rescind the offer of a state visit for mr trump to scotland. she is used very strong language to describe her feeling about the american president. i'd have liked have seen a meeting between them. i don't
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think she would have held her waist in any regards speaking to him, and i think that something probably that has put mr trump of meeting the first minister. he is a misogynist and he isn't going to take kindly to being told what to do by a female first minister. i think today, given the fact she is leading out the pride march in glasgow, she has voted with her feet and made pride march in glasgow, she has voted with herfeet and made it clear what she feels about donald trump. is this embarrassing for the snp? if you go back a few years, they were very supportive of donald trump's interest in developing two golf resorts, in particular, the one on the aberdeenshire coast? we have to go back quite a while for that. yes, there was quite a bromance between alex salmond and donald trump when donald trump was a reality tv star with deep pockets. he was promising to come here and create thousands ofjobs, invest billions in scotland. that never happened and that relationship soured around 2014 with donald trump
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tweeting that alex salmond was maybe the worst leader the free world has seen, which is a nice bit of foreshadowing! as i say, nicola sturgeon is a different kettle of fish and her relationship donald trump has always been different. i don't think this is an embarrassment for the snp, but i think the political and media response in scotla nd political and media response in scotland have been quite injune. i'm curious that you think it would have been better for her to have i'm curious that you think it would have been betterfor her to have met donald trump. of course, that rests on the fact the president would have extended the invitation, but do you think there is a risk she could have scored more political points and more effectively got her point across if she'd thought that meeting rather more forcefully? yes and, as i say, i think it would have been good for her to meet him but we saw recently he met with another prime minister who gave him short trip,
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andi minister who gave him short trip, and i think nicola sturgeon would have done the same thing but thank you for your time. that was live from glasgow. i'm joined at turnberry by doctor murray stuart lee from the university of the west of scotla nd lee from the university of the west of scotland and james cook. james, you were in that extraordinary press conference yesterday at chequers with theresa may and donald trump, and we could probably write a book about each answer. extraordinary event. you were saying to me earlier that the comments about immigration rather got lost in the coverage of the brexit issues that were thrown up. yes, lots of discussion about brexit, and rightly so. clearly a junior trade deal between the uk and the us is a critical ambition of the prime minister. —— the achieving a great deal but but with immigration, it struck me that the language being used by this president is
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exceptionally unusual, and something we haven't heard in mainstream british or american politics for some long time. he said without any caveat that immigration was bad for europe, that it was undermining the culture of europe. some people will regard those comments as refreshingly robust but others will ta ke refreshingly robust but others will take them as disturbingly racist, but you can't deny that they are extremely unusual for somebody in his condition. —— positions extremely unusual for somebody in his condition. -- positions do we need to look at the scottish issue through the prism of racism? immigration is a big issue because without immigration scotland would have great difficulties. the population has hardly grown over the la st population has hardly grown over the last century and it's now the largest it's been, mainly down to immigration. ruck normally when donald trump talks about immigration, he does add that he isn't saying he doesn't want anybody to come in, he was somebody of a certain calibre. many people seem to think that what he prefers to bad
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immigration he is referring to certain geographical locations and races, let's be frank. he is the child of an immigrant, his mother is from scotland, so many people look at him askance when he brings up the issue about where people come from. james, what's it like covering one of these trips? what do you hear from the white house and the president's people? not that much. it's not particularly useful. let's explain how we work. our white house reporter is right at the core with the president, she's been travelling with him on air force one, she's been close to him, and she gets a bit of intelligence and information which she feeds back to the wider team. the way this works, without getting into too many details, is that she is working on a pool basis, so that she is working on a pool basis, so she has to provide the information to everybody, and trailing behind that small group of people in that pool is a much wider
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pool of correspondence, and i am one of those, and they include a lot of the senior american network correspondents, and clearly they have their own connections with the white house but they don't necessarily get much from the tour was usually politicians on these tours offer you briefings and information and they may be sent a seniorfigure with you information and they may be sent a senior figure with you at points, but there hasn't been much of that. such was the extent of this organisation or at least unpredictability as a result of this president that most of us, including a very senior correspondent from cnn, were all on the eurostar when the president decided at the last moment to call a press conference in brussels, which was frustrating for a lot of us. thank you. backing up what murray was saying, if there wasn't so much controversy around donald trump, we can perhaps be spending more time or another story, that an 18—year—old woman who grew up that an 18—year—old woman who grew up on the island of lewis in the outer hebrides in scotland decided
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to go to america, she had a choice between canada and america and she chose, maria mcleod chose america. she travelled to the east coast and she met fred trump, and one of their children was donald trump, who has 110w children was donald trump, who has now come back to scotland as the president of the united states. it's an extraordinary story which, in some ways, is getting lost among all the controversy no sign of that controversy holding up, because tomorrow donald trump takes off from prestwick airport and goes to helsinki, because he meet vladimir putin on monday. more on that in 15 minutes. the headlines on bbc news: 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.
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further unrest in northern ireland, as an explosive is thrown at the home of former sinn f in leader gerry adams. england are still a goal down against belgium as they play—off for third place at the world cup, thomas meunier scoring in the fourth minute. there are 30 minutes left to play in st petersburg. novak djokovic wins an epic battle against rafael nadal to reach this year's wimbledon final, the three—time champion will play south africa's kevin anderson tomorrow. meanwhile serena williams has margaret court's grand slam record in her sights — she's playing angelique kerber in the women's final. angelique kerber has williams 40—30 in the first game. and after setting india a target of 323 to win the second one—day international, england have india 70—3
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at lord's, looking to level the best—of—three series. i'll be back with more at 5:30pm. over 400 items, samples and exhibits have been recovered by police as part of the ongoing investigation into 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 small bottle found at his house in amesbury. 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. to bring us more details is our correspondent andy moore. don't know where it came from, don't know if there is any more out there, not very reassuring for the public, but in some ways this development should be reassuring, shouldn't it? yes. what we've had today in the
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last hour or so is a detailed account of just last hour or so is a detailed account ofjust how difficult, risky and dangerous this investigation is. we saw some pictures there of the forensic tents etc outside the home of charlie. so every day starts with a plan for what investigators want to achieve. the investigators then have to put on their hazard suits, which can take 40 minutes, and they are working inside the tents in high temperatures up to 40 celsius. because of a high temperature, they can only stay about 15 to 20 minutes inside the house. then they have to come out and take off all of that gear, which takes another 40 minutes. they have to be very careful not to spread any contamination. there are fire officers and ambulances standing by in case of problems. all the people standing out —— carrying out these investigations are volunteers. blood
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samples are taken regularly to make sure nobody is being contaminated. despite the fact they can only carry out two of these deployments per day, 400 items have been recovered, as you said. some of them have been taken to porton down because they may be contaminated and, most importantly, that small bottle, we don't know anything more about it, containing novichok. we have had a statement from the most senior counterterror police officer in the uk, who said it isn't an exaggeration to say the search process linked with both this and the salisbury investigation has been one of the most complex and difficult uk policing has ever faced. he says it's important because they want to get to the bottom of the crime, but they also wa nt to bottom of the crime, but they also want to make sure nobody else in the area is at risk of poisoning. our correspondentjon ironmonger is in salisbury. earlier he gave us this update. this is a pretty significant development. the discovery of a small bottle of novichok, found at the home of charlie rowley in amesbury, about eight miles away.
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i want to give you a quick update in terms of the police investigation. wiltshire police say they've removed four vehicles, police cars and ambulances from two different depots, one in swindon, one in salisbury. they don't say anything more than that, but i think we can presume that they might be concerned about trace elements of novichok being inside those vehicles, if perhaps they were used to transport charlie rowley and dawn sturgess to hospital, say. back onto that small bottle of novichok, which was confirmed yesterday by the police. i'm joined now by hamish de bretton—gordon, a chemical weapons expert. hamish, you live in the area. are you reassured by this finding? i'm very one should —— reassured. today i feel a lot happier than i was yesterday. i'm pretty convinced this container is the container that carried the weaponised novichok, and was probably the container that was used to put the novichok on the door handle of the skripals house, and was then discarded,
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which dawn and charlie picked up and, of course, dawn has subsequently died. i'd be very surprised if we find any other debris that contains novichok. we might find a couple of containers that had the precursors. this is a binary weapon and it would been weaponised somewhere. the second really important thing, the evidence that the police and security services will be able to get off this container. there might well be dna. the container itself might lead to where it came from. it's a very good day today in the development of this investigation. can we speculate on what this small bottle of novichok looked like and how it might have come into the possession of charlie rowley? i expect it's fairly small and probably quite 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,
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but they are thick and heavy. at the end of the day, this only contained 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 have contained some medicines and picked it up through interest. it will be fairly nondescript. but i'd be surprised if it is a common or garden sort of perfume bottle or something. this stuff is really toxic. whoever used it knew that, and they wouldn't ideally carry it in something that might injure themselves. that interview and update came from jon ironmonger in salisbury. much more on the website. 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. our ireland correspondent, john campbell, reports. for six nights this week,
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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. 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
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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. the men's semifinals at wimbledon are finally over, after novak djokovic beat rafa nadal in an epic five—set encounter this afternoon. he's broken glass. —— he's broken at last. he beat his career—long rival 10—8 in the fifth set. the match went into a second day because the previous semi—final took a record six and a half hours. the serb will face kevin anderson in tomorrow's final. very special. it really could have
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gone either way, i think. people who saw the match, you know, it was very clear that very few things separated the two players, and until the last shot i didn't know if i was going to win. i believed it, you know, but! knew he was very close and he had some chances. yeah, this kind of match, you look for, you live for. these are live pictures from centre court at the moment where serena williams is hoping to win her 24th grandslam against the german 11th seed angelique kerber. she is 2—1 up. she is trying to win a record eighth wimbledon title. angelique kerber is 2—1 up at the moment. it comes back in a flash to serena
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williams. incredible comebacks for serena williams after health complications following the birth of a child. she is unbeatable at the moment. but, of course, all of the pressure is on for that record eighth wimbledon title right now. the duchess of cambridge and sussex both their in the royal box, watching, the rest of the world. and the weather is looking good for it. it was sarah keith lucas. lots of blue sky and sunshine but not for the north—west. a few flashes of rain across parts of northern ireland and into the west of scotland. clearer and dryerfor eastern scotland and england and wales, but we'll stay dry overnight, perhaps the odd patch of mist and low cloud one western coasts, but temperatures holding up in the middle seems —— mid—teens. sunday,
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england and wales dry and sunny again. scotland and northern ireland again. scotland and northern ireland a bit cloudier, which will produce some rain for parts of northern ireland, the west of scotland, and i think eastern scotland stays dry for a good part of the day. in the sunshine and heat further south, hide up to 30. potentially looking at the hottest men's final at wimbledon in more than 20 years. things turning slowly fresher next week. a chance of rain. hello, this is bbc news, the headlines: president trump is in scotland to wind down and play golf after completing his two—day working trip to the uk. thousands take part in protests on the streets of edinburgh in a second day of rallies against donald trump's uk visit. an explosive device has been thrown at the former sinn fein leader gerry adams‘ house in west belfast. nobody was hurt in the attack.
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400 items are recovered in connection with the poisoning of charlie rowley and dawn sturgess, victims of the deadly nerve agent novichok. and on the verge of a 24th singles grand slam, serena williams takes on angelique kerber in search of a record breaking victory. now on bbc news, it's time for dateline london.
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