up shortly it will be beyond 100 days, with much more on all the day's news. coming up very shortly on bbc news. grazing but that! that came in a box from china! just managing to keep hold of this. you're watching beyond 100 days. the british prime minister insists there is still time to get a deal with the european union. but her brexit proposal is dismissed by borisjohnson as half brexit, a plan that will take the uk to a "miserable permanent limbo". the former foreign secretary slams the government's new blueprint. was this resignation speech a pitch for a newjob — as leader perhaps? it is not too late to save brexit. we have changed tack once and we can change again. donald trump says he's been harder on russia than any other us president. i think president putin knows that better than anybody, certainly a lot better than the media. he understands it and he's not happy about it, and he shouldn't be happy about it because there's never been a president as tough on russia as i have been. also on the programme...

the thai boys who spent more than two weeks trapped inside a flooded cave have described their rescue as a miracle, and thanked the divers who saved them. and we'll introduce you to walter, who walked 20 miles through the night, to his first day at work, after his car broke down. it's earned him worldwide fame — and a new car. get in touch with us using the hashtag... 'beyond—0ne—hundred—days‘ president trump says russia is no longer interfering in us politics — despite the fact that his own head of intelligence says just the opposite. mr trump has come under severe criticism for being too soft on vladimir putin at the helsinki summit. but speaking at the white house in the last couple of hours, mr trump insisted no american president has ever been tougher on russia. there's been no president ever

as tough as i have been on russia. all you have to do is look at the numbers, look at what we've done, look at sanctions, look at ambassadors not there. look, unfortunately, at what happened in syria recently. and i think president putin knows that better than anybody, certainly a lot better than the media. he understands it and he's not happy about it, and he shouldn't be happy about it because there's never been a president as tough on russia as i have been. 0k, thank you very much, everybody. today's remarks come after mr trump yesterday said he mispoke in helsinki when he sided with russia over the us intelligence services on the question of russian meddling. isaid i said the word would instead of wood. the sentence should have been, i don't see any reason why i would not why it would not be russia. —— i said the word would instead of wood.

but that reversal doesn't quite fit with other things mr trump said in helsinki. i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. what he did is an incredible offer. he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigation with respect to the 12 people, i think that's an incredible offer. and in an interview with fox news last night, mr trump called into question the nato principal of an attack on one is an attack on all — what's known as article 5. why should my son go to montenegrin to defend it from attack? i understand what you're saying. i've asked the same question. you know, montenegrin is a tiny country with very strong people. yet, i'm not against montenegrin. yeah, right. 0r albania. by the way, they're very strong people. they're very aggressive people. they make it aggressive and congratulations, you're in world war iii. well, for reaction i spoke

a short time ago with republican congressman ryan costello from pennsylvania who joined us from capitol hill. president trump has said he misspoke in that press conference with blood putin about his assessment of russian meddling in the us election. are you satisfied? no, because the mistake was already made. the presentation at the press conference was more than whether he said should 01’ was more than whether he said should or should not. there was a lot of attendant explanation and description over his meeting with vladimir putin at, and his disgust for contempt over the investigation that i think still sends signals to the international community that what russia may or may not have done is something that the president questions. i think that's a terrible message to send to our allies who

look to us to reinforce the provisions of nato and more broadly the baltic states and those in europe. there are implications that president's words are having an impact on public opinion here in the us. only 32% of republican voters actually believe the intelligence assessment that russians meddled in the 2016 collection. does that put a republican congressman like yourself ina republican congressman like yourself in a difficult position? are you at odds with your voters on this?m in a difficult position? are you at odds with your voters on this? if my voters think it's an illegitimate investigation, that would put me at odds with them. i would remind eve ryo ne odds with them. i would remind everyone that the investigation may not have anything to do with president trump. it has to do with interference of russia in the 2016 collection, and to date, we have had plenty of indictments that deal with russian national ‘s. my biggest

concern here is takeaway from that press c0 nfe re nce , concern here is takeaway from that press conference, is that when russia goes about interfering, we are going to have presidential elections in bosnia next year. if you look at what happened in montenegro with them joining nato, you have lots of countries out here that have political campaigns coming up that have political campaigns coming up with russia seeking to interfere. when those russian proxy candidate say no, russia has nothing to do with it, they will be able to point to president trump and say not only are we not interfering, this nonsense about russia interfering in the us election is hogwash. nonsense about russia interfering in the us election is hogwashlj nonsense about russia interfering in the us election is hogwash. i want to ask you about what the president said in an interview on fox news in which he seemed to call into question the usefulness or validity of article five of the nato treaty. he seems to imply that perhaps americans, it was ridiculous for americans, it was ridiculous for americans to have to go and fight for a small nato member like

montenegro. does that concern you? you now have the president of the united states calling into question, why should we support the small countries? it undermines the ability of nato seeking countries, seeking entry into nato, of running a campaign to get sufficient numbers of votes to make application to nato. for all the president's wishes to pat himself on the back for how much money he raised in the last week or whatever, i think the comments relating to montenegro on more damaging than anything he did in terms of getting people'sfinancial commitments. when you have the leader of the free world calling into question what the underpinning of what nato is, let's not forget, since 1919 there has been no major european war. in big piece of that is nato and what it stands for. and our commitment to nato. the only time article five has

been invoked was of course in the us after the attacks of 911. now it seems even the russian press was stunned by donald trump's performance in helsinki. 0ur moscow correspondent steve rosenberg has been looking at the reaction in the russian media to monday's summit. 0pponents opponents of donald trump have launched a counter attack after the helsinki summit. it goes on to say donald trump's opponents in the democrat and republican camps in a rare show of unity have accused him of u na cce pta ble rare show of unity have accused him of unacceptable compliance in the question of russian interference and an inability to defend there is a stinging criticism in this opinion piece. in that press conference, trump made a huge mistake. he had to have understood

that one of the first questions he would have got would have been about that, russian interference. the writer concludes... this paper says... steve rosenberg there would the

reaction from the russian press, suggesting trump came out the worst of that encounter with vladimir putin. the message to anyone that wa nts to putin. the message to anyone that wants to be president of the united states is that you must choose your words carefully and when you know the world is listening on a sensitive issue like russian meddling, and what the us intelligence services have said, make sure you get it right. and that you don't go back and had to correct yourself, particularly when everything else you have said in the course of press conference teams to suggest that actually you are siding with the russian president over your own intelligence services. there is a lot going on here, some republicans suggesting today, 0k, the president has said that, we will ta ke the president has said that, we will take him at his word and want to move on but lots of people saying they do not buy it. and he keeps doing it. iagree they do not buy it. and he keeps doing it. i agree with congress and costello, there is nothing he could say to undermine nato greater than what he has said there, that's to undermine mutual self defence is a very serious thing. the likes of

latvia, estonia that what russian military exercises across their border sit there in the safe knowledge that nato will come to theiraid. knowledge that nato will come to their aid. then the president saying i don't like getting involved with the smaller countries, that undermines the whole principle of nato. it will be interesting to see what is in those papers tomorrow. potentially more serious than anything he said in helsinki, in fa ct. tonight theresa may has been meeting her mp‘s behind closed doors. tory brexiteers forced the government to accept for amendments before the bill passed. less one, brexit rebellions can't be ignored. tuesday was a mixed bag. the government did lose a vote on the trade bill.

but crucially there was no commons majority for a customs union, if brexit talks were to fail. crisis averted, but only by a handful of votes. lesso n two ? there is no convincing majority for any direction on brexit. which brings us to today. while theresa may was being grilled on her chequers plan, by a committee of mp‘s that oversee brexit, former foreign secretary borisjohnson was in the chamber, delivering his resignation speech — and an unsparing assessment of what the prime minister has come up with. it is not too late to save brexit. we have time in these negotiations, we have changed tack once and we can change again. the problem is not that we failed to make the case for a free trade agreement of the kind spelt out at lancaster house, we haven't even tried. tonight theresa may has been meeting her mp‘s behind closed doors. she has been meeting the 1922

committee. she was kept waiting in the corridorfor several committee. she was kept waiting in the corridor for several minutes but was eventually let in to cheers and the banging of tables. it would seem a new sense of unity. 0ne senior cabinet member saying tory mps have come to their senses and there was fulsome support for the prime minister. simon clark, one of those brexiteer mps who put in a letter voting for a vote of confidence has reportedly withdrawn it. the prime minister has thanked him for doing that. let's pick this up with conservative mp and remain supporter, dominic grieve, whojoins us now from westminster. great to have you with us. the evidence we see this week is that rebel brexiteers are much more dangerous to the prime minister than revel remainers, led by you? that may well be the case. we are essentially loyal to try to help the prime minister, there we have anxieties over aspects of the

chequers agreement and the white paper. we are prepared to give the prime minister our support because it's the only way forward at the moment. she must have an opportunity to carry that negotiation out. they appear to be intent on ruthlessly undermining her. there is no majority in the house of commons for a customs union with the eu but quite obviously, there is no majority for any direction when it comes to the future trade deal. we need another election. i'm not sure another general election is going to solve this problem. it could well lead to an equally divided parliament. you must remember the divisions are notjust in my own party but in the labour party as well. the two principal parties really, seriously divided on this matter. as for parliament's opinion on particular subjects, identity the view that there is no majority in parliament for a customs union for example, what is true is that the tensions that exist within my party mean people being able to express their views openly on a number of

subjects becomes quite difficult. my view is we are in for a continuing period of instability. the best thing we can do is to allow the prime minister to get on with her negotiation. i don't know if you are a betting man, but! negotiation. i don't know if you are a betting man, but i was wondering where you would put the odds on a no deal. i know the prime minister said today there is still time, though time is ticking every day, to get to some kind of a deal with the european union, and that she is not planning on a no deal but we have seen planning on a no deal but we have seenin planning on a no deal but we have seen in the netherlands, ireland, evenin seen in the netherlands, ireland, even in the uk, they are stepping up prospects, plans for a no deal. whether you put the odds? they seem to be growing for me. there are undoubtedly a number of my collea g u es undoubtedly a number of my colleagues who want this as an outcome. they appear to be relentlessly relentlessly pursuing it as relentlessly relentlessly pursuing itasa relentlessly relentlessly pursuing it as a goal. if they were to come close to succeeding, then as i've said ona close to succeeding, then as i've said on a number of occasions, i think the party structure in parliament would collapse. i don't believe a no deal is a credible

possibility. the consequences would be catastrophic for this country. i certainly would not be able to subscribe to it in such circumstances at all. thank you. the 12 boys rescued from a cave in thailand want to resume a normal life after their gruelling ordeal. but first they had a lot of questions to answer from the curious press. the boys and their coach seemed remarkably calm and happy. they expressed guilt over the diver who died trying to save them and said none of them wanted to be the first to leave when rescuers were ready to take them out. here'sjonathan head with more. two weeks ago, they were trapped and near starving. to look at them now, you would hardly know it. the most famous football team in the world made their first public appearance since their astonishing rescue with smiles and traditional thai greetings. and then began a kick around for the waiting journalists.

watching at home was the family of dom, the team captain who turned 13 while in the cave. his stepfather, banphot, has not been able to see him yet. with just a few hours to go, it's hard keeping his emotions back. i'm just waiting to welcome him as soon as he gets in, he said. "we will all be there. "i just want to hug him." for the first time, we had a chance to hear what happened to the 12 boys and their coach in their own words. they had gone to explore just for an hour, they said, but found themselves cut off by fast rising water. 14—year—old adun, who speaks the best english among them, then described the moment when, after nine days, they heard the two british divers close by. translation: we were digging and we heard somebody talking, but we didn't think that it was real, so we stopped and listened.

it actually turned out it happened, it was real. i was shocked. i thought they were thai officers, but when they got out of the water, i found that they were english. i didn't know what to say to them, so ijust said, hello. it was a miracle. i was shocked. for all of them, the hardest thing in the cave was the hunger. this is the youngest, titan, who is 11 years old. translation: i tried not to think about food. i tried not to think about fried rice! they finished with a tribute to saman kunan, the thai diver who died while trying to save them. then it was time to go home. at dom's house, friends and relatives came round to welcome him back. it's been a very long wait this evening for dom's family but we thinkjust a few more minutes

to go before he comes home, and for this very ordinary family, hopefully an end to a very extraordinary story. and then he was there. the boy who had missed his 13th birthday, but with his miraculous escape, had been given a second chance. it's not often you get an ending as happy as this. jonathan head, bbc news, northern thailand. great to see them all out and looking so well. with me now is the clinical psychologist professor lorraine sherr — who's head of the health psychology unit at ucl here in london — and hasjoined us on the programme throughout the boys' ordeal to provide analysis. they look well but maybe it's a bit pre—emptive declaring them fit and well. we saw with the chill a miners in that mine eight years ago, they are still suffering from post—traumatic stress disorder. —— minors. it's highly likely. everything will

read her, it will be with them lifelong. they are looking fit physically, hopefully they have had psychological care to pre—empt it. you said to me while we were watching jonathan's report, it all looked a little bit rehearsed. well, i think they all apologised to the pa rents, i think they all apologised to the parents, there was something about that, yes, perhaps rehearsed. that might bea that, yes, perhaps rehearsed. that might be a good thing but in a way it loses its spontaneity because it's in the public eye. in a way, their natural reactions, if they are being told what to do, will not be allowed to bubble up. is there a guilt thing there? there could be. they have had three ordeals, the ordeal of the cave, the ordeal of the rescue and now the ordeal of life, and the reality that someone has actually died, they might have

played a role in getting themselves then the first place. they will look back and they will will have recriminations. do children respond differently to adults in situations like this? do they recover faster or slower or in different ways? children have a great ability to recover but also children don't express emotions in the same way as adults. after a bereavement, a child doesn't walk around with as much melancholy perhaps as an adult. they might feel it, so we shouldn't be fooled if they are looking and feeling happy outside, they may still have lots of churning emotions in the head need an opportunity to talk through, to reflect on, and to resolve. what do you hope for these boys now? what would be the most useful thing they could do over the next few weeks and months? perhaps they will never be experiencing normality again because they will be in the world spotlight. i hope they

will not feel bad, i hope they will not have the correct. i hope they will have a little bit of happiness. the attention is almost inevitable, but maybe they will learn something and play a role in life that will benefit the world. good to see you again, thank you. i was watching that press conference today. they must be aware by now how much they have captivated the world. how do they handle that? it must be somewhat overwhelming to come out and see the world media there in front of them. it was so different seeing them at that press conference which, as the professor said, looked slightly staged. the authorities have said, this is it, that's the only press conference, then they will go home and try to resume a normal life will stop i thought it was telling that once the boycott of the minivan and got to his family, the minivan and got to his family, the reactions from his mum and dad we re the reactions from his mum and dad were totally spontaneous, nothing to do with the ordeal, theyjust wanted

to hug their son. probably that's what they need the most, some sense of normalcy. now how's this for good employee relations. walter carr was supposed to start a newjob in alabama but his car broke down the day before. rather than cancel his shift he decided to get up at midnight and walk the twenty miles to work. at about aam, after walter had walked 1a miles, the police picked him by the side of the road. when they heard what he was doing, they took him out for breakfast and then drove him the rest of the way to work. but the story doesn't end there. when the boss of the company found out what walter had done to get to work on time — he gave the young college student his own car. a 2014 ford. i'd like to give you this car right here, today, right now. you can drive away with it! wow! yeah, man! you know... it works, yeah! it served my family and i really well.

i think it'll serve yours. young man, you're going to do great things. you already have. thank you so much. god bless you. god bless you too. thank you so much. you're so welcome. thank y'all for coming. it's so... well, it's going to be a little easier to get home! you walked here! isn't that great? the woman you saw there i think is the woman whose house he was going to for the first day of work. he works for a removal company. the great thing about this story is he lost everything in new o rlea ns, story is he lost everything in new orleans, he moved to alabama with his mother. this was a big break, a job he wanted, he was going to make sure he was there on time. you periodically get stories like this in the states of people having to walked a long way to work and their collea g u es walked a long way to work and their colleagues rallying around to buy

them a car. every single time, it is brilliant. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — sir cliff richard wins a big pay—out following a police raid by the bbc on his home. and why barack obama wants to see more females in politics. a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weather forecast. a a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weatherforecast. a bit a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weather forecast. a bit of sunshine as well. we saw some sunshine as well. we saw some sunshine in places today. this is how it looked in essex earlier on. sunny skies through the evening will convert into starry skies overnight, pretty much a dry nights, residual showers fading away. quite a range

of temperatures, single digits in scotland, to the south, overnight lows of 1a and 15. tomorrow, a decent looking day. long spells of sunshine, mostly dry, a small chance ofa sunshine, mostly dry, a small chance of a shower across eastern england but only a small chance. summer rain into the far north—west later in the day, on the cool side at 15 degrees in stornoway will stop compare that with 28 or 29 in the south—east. that extra cloud the first sign of this frontal system, bringing rain south and east into friday. fairly heavy rain across northern ireland, but as that goes across england and wales it will tend to fizzle away. for the south—east, it will be another fine, for the south—east, it will be anotherfine, dry for the south—east, it will be another fine, dry and for the south—east, it will be anotherfine, dry and sunny for the south—east, it will be another fine, dry and sunny warm day for the most part, temperatures of 28 or29, for the most part, temperatures of 28 or 29, caller with the extra cloud further north and west. i mention a mostly dry day, there is a chance that we could see some heavy

thundery downpours creeping up from the near continent across southern and eastern parts through friday evening. these will be very hit and miss but if you get one, you will know about it. torrential downpours of rain, thunderand know about it. torrential downpours of rain, thunder and lightning. that weather system will slide away by saturday, high takes charge again. looking at lots of fine weather on saturday, some extra cloud and showers, that will tend to break up and then we will see some spells of sunshine. temperatures will up into the 20s, more like high teens from aberdeen to glasgow and belfast. sunday, a lot of cloud across northern areas at this stage, perhaps patchy rain into the far north of scotland, spells of sunshine still in the south. still warm, temperatures not that far from 30. to the weekend, spells of warm sunshine and just a little rain at times. this is beyond 100 days, with me, katty kay in washington, chrstian fraser is in london.

borisjohnson urges theresa may to change tack on her brexit strategy, and criticises the deal that was agreed as a "miserable, permanent limbo". it is not too late to save brexit. we have changed tack once and we can change it once again. donald trump defends his words and says he's been harder on russia than any other us president. none the worse for wear — the 12 thai boys and their football coach w freed from a flooded cave describe how they survived for more than two weeks underground. coming up in the next half hour... sir cliff richard is awarded more than £200,000 in damages after winning a privacy case against the bbc over its coverage of a police search of his home. and speaking on the centenery of nelson mandela's birth, barack obama calls for more women in politics — saying it would lead to better policies. let us know your thoughts by using the hashtag #beyond100days. after several days of brexit—related tumult in the westminster parliament

this week, it's been another rough day for the prime minister. she was up in front of a committee questioning her brexit plans, her former foreign secretary, borisjohnson, gave a a brutal resignation speech in the commons, and she faced her weekly prime minister's questions. the only blessing in all of this was that the man opposite during prime minister's questions today — the labour party leaderjeremy corbyn — is not having the smoothest ride either. a row over anti—semitism within his party has reignited, after one of his mps reportedly swore at him and called him an "anti—semite". on top of that it's not entirely clear that labour's strategy on brexit would be a viable alternative — today the labour leader had plenty of ammunition to throw at the prime minister but again failed to land any punches. mr speaker, the brexit white paper does state, and i quote, the uk is committed to membership of the european convention on human rights. is the new brexit secretary signed

up is the new brexit secretary signed up to that? we are signed up to that, that was in our manifesto. but cani that, that was in our manifesto. but can i also say to the right honourable gentleman, he has stood up honourable gentleman, he has stood up and asked virtually the same question and obviously has not listened to any of the answers i have given. the point of this is not bite you just read out the question you thought of on tuesday morning, but you actually listen to the answers the prime minister gibbs. prime minister's questions earlier. labour mp stephen kinnock is here with me now. jeremy corbyn had an opportunity and he seems unable to punch through when it comes to brexit. faced with the chaos opposite, he should be waving the labour planus the credible alternative, but nobody is convinced? our biggest challenges that in order to get a realistic and feasible with the european union, it

needs to be based on an existing model. both the conservative party and, i'm afraid, my party, hasn't come forward and said this is the basic off—the—shelf model that works for the country, let's have a negotiation on that basis. you can tweak and change things but if you've got to get the foundations in place first, i have said to the best pa rt of place first, i have said to the best part of two years that the european economic area is the right place for the country to go, the only viable option for brexit and if we have that tangible clear plan that the european union would understand what we are talking about, other than the government white paper which is gobbledygook and the lack of a plan on our gobbledygook and the lack of a plan on our side, that plan would really cut through and could reunite the deeply divided country. meanwhile the national executive committee has approved a new code of conduct on anti—semitism criticised byjewish leaders, do you think margaret hodge, who called jeremy corbyn an

anti—semite and racers last night, should be investigated or is owed a fulsome apology because the party refuses to listen to her concerns? about we have got ourselves embroiled in a debate which was com pletely embroiled in a debate which was completely unnecessary. the ihra definition of anti—semitism is the right one to adopt and we should simply adopt that. i think margaret feels very, very strongly about this issueis feels very, very strongly about this issue is perfectly understandable reasons, i think the best thing would be for her to have acquired quiet sit down in conversation with jeremy, for her to put her point across. i hope it will be taken on board and our national executive body will then adopt the ihra definition in full. that is the clearest and most simple way through this. why didn't they do it last night? we are in a situation where those who feel passionately about the government of israel mistreating and abusing the human rights of

palestinians feel sometimes that they are not allowed to make that criticism because they are then accused of anti—semitism. there is absolutely nothing in the ihra definition that prevents you from levelling criticism at the government of israel, something i do regularly. i think we just need to clarify that point and move on. we are ina clarify that point and move on. we are in a situation up where the conservative government is in meltdown, theresa may is no longer able to manage her own party, she is in office but not power. this is not the time for the labour party to fight about something which could so easily be solved. mr kinnock, a few days ago i met a young man who had voted to jeremy days ago i met a young man who had voted tojeremy corbyn and been terribly excited about his leadership, and then said he was com pletely leadership, and then said he was completely disillusioned because he does not know whether labour party leader stands on issues, he said he

does not know where he is. can you clarify things? jeremy has been on a journey, it has been very good to see he has signed on to a customs union, that is clearly good news for business and enables frictionless trade in manufactured goods. it is not far enough. we need to sign in to the european economic area which would give frictionless trade and services as well and have clarified so services as well and have clarified so many of these issues around regulatory alignment. i think it would be excellent if the party could sign up to that, i think if we could sign up to that, i think if we could come forward with a combination of the european economic area plus a customs union, that would give the clarity and the certainty that the country is desperately crying out for and would certainly help if our front bench could put that position forward. the big difference between our party and the conservative party is i do not think we are driven by ideology on europe, our differences are more nuanced. what you are looking out

with the conservative party is an ideological ego driven hard to call off brextremists who are running the country and our parliament. the interesting thing is that the prime minister says there is still time for brexit, but the political editor of the sun tom heaton turn is saying that the government over the last two months will put at 70 technical notices which will tell businesses and people how to prepare for a no deal. they did not previously want to do that because they thought might spook the markets that there has been a big sea change and now they will start putting plans in place, which is interesting because tomorrow the eu will do exactly the same thing and publish their preparedness documents, i believe there is some hard—hitting language in it. dominic grieve would not like a hard

brexit, but he says if he was a betting man the odds are going up in favour. i am betting man the odds are going up in favour. iam not betting man the odds are going up in favour. i am not sure mr kinnock will have won over that young man i spoke to, who would have been so keen onjeremy corbyn and is not any more. there seem to be a lot of ifs, if we can come up with clarity, and the front bench can come up with clarity, i did not hear much of a concrete plan which would convince mei concrete plan which would convince me i would know where they are. speaking of clarity... today donald trump said no president has ever been as tough on russia as he is. and on vladimir putin. it's a claim that many of his critics would take issue with — especially after the performance at monday's summit with vladimir putin. senator ben cardin is one of the leading democrats on the foreign relations committee — earlier today he told me that meeting was a dark moment for the united states. and this was his response about what congress could actually do about it.

i expect my colleagues on both sides of the aisle not only to speak out the take action, to make it clear to americans... does not look like republicans are to do that.|j americans... does not look like republicans are to do that. i have spoken to a lot of republicans, i think they will be challenged to stay silent. america demands action, the global community expects the us to lead the free world and what happened with mr putin and mr trump this week needs to be repudiated. you say americans demands action but a new reuters poll has said only 32% of republican voters actually side with the us intelligence community assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 action, what do you make of that? the facts are the facts, there is no disagreement that russia interfered mr peetoom's direction in the us election and they wanted to favour mr trump. that is no longer

subject to dispute. the only person in leadership in the united states that raises questions about that is mrtrump. his that raises questions about that is mr trump. his intelligence team, that raises questions about that is mrtrump. his intelligence team, his closest advisers, all understand that russia interfered in our election and were trying to do to help mr trump. thank you very much. four years ago, bbc news broadcast live television coverage of a raid by police on the house of singer sir cliff richard. it followed an allegation of sexual assault against a child but sir cliff was never arrested and he was never charged. the bbc not only paid for a helicopter to cover the police raid, it subsequently submitted its coverage for an award. today, a judge at the high court in london said the bbc had infringed sir cliff's privacy rights in a "serious" and "sensationalist" way. he rejected the bbc‘s argument about freedom of expression and of the press and awarded sir cliff over £200,000 in damages. a close friend of the singer's said his ‘persecution was one of the greatest scandals

of the 21st century‘ joining me now is charlotte harris, an expert in media law from the london firm kingsley napley. thejudge ruled that the judge ruled that the very naming of sir cliff was unlawful, so even if the bbc had not used a helicopter, it had run the story with less prominence, it would not have mattered and he would still have mattered and he would still have found an sir cliff's faber? the judge did a balancing exercise on the facts of the case. it is nothing new in terms of the scrutiny that editors have too one should go through when you make a very important life changing decision as to whether or not to name somebody whilst there is a criminal investigation ongoing. we know when somebody is charged at that stage there is things come into play, but they are generally named then when

somebody is charged. we are talking before an arrest, while the investigation is going on. that is nothing new. i don't think there should be anything to be afraid of in terms of new law. fran answered, the head of news, says they will appeal. one lawyer i spoke to said that in his view, senior news staff have lost sight of the distinction between things in the public interest and things that are interesting to the public. do you think that is true? i think there has long been a distinction between things that are interesting to the public and what is in the public interest. leveson was a really interesting examination into that. we had lots of scrutiny during leveson, looking at those issues, and in terms of things like kiss and tell and those sorts of private information situations, i think it has had quite a downturn. but when

you have something like an allegation of wrongdoing of this nature, it might be that a journalist might consider or even the public might consider it as a matter of public interest that they should know. we're talking about investigation stage and we need to think about whether it is in the public interest to keep an investigation as clear as possible of anything that could cause a problem with the trial going forward. we know from previous cases, rolf harris, stuart hall, that before they were charged, this was put into the public domain and silent victims who did not dare come forward before did come forward because of the publicity. and therefore you could argue it is in therefore you could argue it is in the public interest. i understand that there is room for that in the judgment, so if there is an optional. macron operational reason. since there was a threat to the

public, a different decision might have been made. 0r public, a different decision might have been made. or if the police decide that actually it is in the public interest that they should name somebody, it can still happen. there is nothing in thisjudgment including those decisions being made, but it is a reminder that there will be scrutiny when these editorial decisions are made. very interesting, thank you for coming in. appreciated. former us president barack obama wants more women in politics — in fact, he says, men are kind of annoying him right now. speaking in south africa to a group of young leaders, mr obama urged more african women to take step up. men have been getting on my nerves lately. laughter i read the newspaper and ijust think, brothers, what's wrong with you guys? what's wrong with us? we are violent, we are bullying. we

are... you know? just not handling out are... you know? just not handling our business. sol are... you know? just not handling our business. so i think empowering more women on the continent, by the way, i think that will lead to better policies. president obama, the man married to michelle obama, of course. if you look at africa as a continent, and there are lots of countries with different political systems, but in terms of female representation in parliament, africa it is better than the united states, and rwanda has more women in parliament than any other country in the world, 61%, but there have only ever been two female african heads of state elected to government. alan johnson surly african heads of state elected to government. alanjohnson surly finn liberia, and also in mauritius, somebody who had to step down in march over a financial scandal. does

rwanda have a half and half parliament? 6196 are female, the highest number in the world. and they didn't do badly. thinly veiled criticism of certain donald trump. he never names him when he does this? he is very careful, and i think he has gone further in the last couple of days in south africa talking about creeping authoritarianism around the world. i was speaking to some people who had worked for barack obama and asked if people were pushing him to step up on europe, vladimir putin, they say that they know that if he does he becomes a punching bag for donald trump and turns it on his twitter feed, which does not help anybody. but he has spoken up on the issue of women in office. this is beyond 100 days. still to come... have you lost your sense of humour? sometimes christian des! well, if you're in need of a laugh the national gallery in washington mayjust have the answer.

find out why a little later in the programme. it's been touted as an easy way to protect your heart, take omega—3 fish oil supplements we've all been told. well now, researchers say the evidence for this is flimsy at best. a new study has found the chance of getting any meaningful benefit from taking the supplements, is one in a—thousand. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson has the story. cod liver and other fish oils sold as supplements to help protect the heart. but this large—scale study published today suggests that these supplements do little or nothing. they contain omega 3, considered helpful in preventing heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. cochrane researchers examined trials in over 100,000 people over long periods of time. they concluded the chance of any meaningful benefits to the heart was one in 1000. this cardiologist was surprised by the findings but says it is clear what people should do. there is no magic pill, no magic answer and i would say

the best way of dealing with cardiovascular disease is to prevent it if you don't have any yet or to prevent future events is to tackle the problem as a whole. so a healthier diet, do some exercise on a regular basis. omega 3 is a family of fats found in oily fish like salmon and mackerel. eating it is still thought to be good for the heart. but representatives of the food supplement industry say that pills can still play an important part in our health. there are massive benefits in terms of brain health, eyesight health, protection against autoimmune disease and adhd. so i think considering it is safe why wouldn't you consider taking an omega 3 supplement? whether the study will change people's long—held beliefs in the benefits of taking cod liver oil and other fish oil pills is not clear. but whatever happens, the nhs says that people should eat fish twice a week to help our health. sophie hutchinson, bbc news.

if you're in need of a good laugh — orjust a wry smile — the national gallery of art here in washington has just the thing. a new exhibition aptly titled sense of humour looks at several centuries of humour in drawings and prints. from the funny to the ridiculous, outright mockery and satire, there's something to tickle everybody‘s funny bone — as jane o'brien has been finding out. there are many different types of humour, and not everybody will find the same thing funny. especially when the joke's a few hundred years old. this is an early 18th—century french engraving of a skeleton. ok, you've got me. why is that funny? look at the angle of the hip. it's practicallyjaunty. and then if you haven't noticed those, he appears to be smiling.

he is looking at and, to an extent, mocking us. so i suppose we would have to be able to laugh at ourselves in order to see the humour in this? absolutely. or what about the french minister who turned into a beast—like cannon and whose fuse was lit by the king? yeah, perhaps you needed to be around in 1836 to get that one! but political satire is a recurring theme of this exhibition, from the renaissance to the 20th century. it seems skewering the establishment always raises a smile. honore daumie's19th—century chamber of deputies is a case in point. nobody is working, people are falling asleep. this guy's blowing his giant nose. there's another guy who's fallen asleep. some of them are chitchatting and giggling with each other. you expect them to be passing notes, practically, but nobody‘s focused on the matter at hand. what also unites these drawings and prints is the quality. they may be funny, or not, but they are all works of art with some

familiar names. here you'll find a smiling rembrandt, caricature by british satirist james gilroy. roy lichtenstein's take on the screen and a rather naseous is looking president nixon courtesy of andy warhol. —— roy lichtenstein's take on the scream. somejokes are more obvious than others. take this post on the advantages of being a woman artist. i love this one, actually. "not having to undergo the embarrassment of being called a genius." because we all worry about that! exactly. ok, it's funny, i understand that, but why is this important compared to all the other pieces? one of the things that's very important about this work for me are the artists themselves, the guerilla girls. they were enormously influential, beginning in the 1980s. they are completely anonymous but they are so important in the history of art that i felt this was something we had to have in the collection. it is also worth noting that some of

the most prolific periods of humorous art occurred during times of social upheaval. there are moments when we all need a good laugh. at the beginning of the programme we said that the president in the white house a short while ago had suggested russians are no longer interfering in the american political process. the white house press secretary has been speaking in the last few minutes, let's hear what she had to say. she was asked about the president's view on whether russian is still meddling in elections. —— russia is. we certainly believe that we are taking steps to make sure they can't do it again, unlike previous administrations. this president is taking bold action and reform to make sure it does not happen again.

he believes that they would target certainly us elections again. overbite has clarifying what the president said, apparently he thought he was answering a separate question about whether it was time to wrap up with oppression and said he did not think... how long the four he walks back the walk back? —— how long before? there has been a lot of revision! this time yesterday you may remember that president trump was busy walking back the comments he had made in helsinki, which meant we were not able to bring you all the news of world emoji day. and some of you weren't very happy. so on world emoji day plus one, and by popular demand, we are going to revisit it. because we are using emoji's more and more, and because some of you are getting a bit cocky and in danger of falling into the age old emoji trap. don't use them — if you don't know what they represent.

here's an example. do we know what the little smiley face with the tears rolling down the face with the tears rolling down the face means? it means we are splitting oocytes with laughter, it does not mean you send it to a friend who has just lost a dog. does not mean you send it to a friend who hasjust lost a dog. —— splitting our site with laughter. sends the wrong impression. we decided we should look at some emojis of ourselves. i think we have a little christian fraser emoji.|j like that. very chirpy. except christian admitted at the beginning of the programme, before we went on air, that he is not a blonde after all. you are so predictable. he said you can't wear a tan suit if you are ginger like me. we need a ginger christian fraser emoji. and here is

what christian fraser's emoji would really look like! can i show you yours?! actually, it is not you. we have done this from still photographs, by the way, there is an app that you can do this. that is not you, it is miley cyrus. shall i show you miley cyrus and hannah montana?! i am quite happy with that. about 30 years younger than me and about 500 times wealthier! i would be quite happy to be miley cyrus. but you, my friend, the ginger christian fraser emoji which you admitted to. not a fake news! see you tomorrow. a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weather forecast. a a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weatherforecast. a bit a bit of rain and a bit of heat in this weather forecast. a bit of sunshine. we saw some sunshine in places today. that is how it looked

for a weather watcher in essex earlier, sunny skies through the evening will convert into starry skies overnight. pretty much a dry night, any residual show is fading away. parts of north—west scotland will go down to single digits, to watch the south we are looking at overnight lows of 13, 1a watch the south we are looking at overnight lows of 13, 11115. a decent looking dates, long spells of sunshine, most places dry. a small chance of a show across parts of eastern scotland north—eastern england, but very small. more confidence in brain into the far north—west later in the day. on the cool side of 15 degrees in stornoway, compared with 2829 across parts of the south—east. the extra cloud in the north—west is the first sign of this frontal system bringing rain southwards and eastwards during thursday night into friday. heavy rain across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but as that sinks south eastwards it will fizzle away and towards the south—east, for the most part, and otherfine, dry,

sunny and very warm day with temperatures of 28 or 29. it was cooler when we had the extra cloud of the north and west. mostly dry across the south—east, there is a chance that we could see heavy, thundery downpours creeping up from the near continent across southern and eastern parts of england through friday evening. these will be very hit and friday evening. these will be very hitand miss, but friday evening. these will be very hit and miss, but if you get one you will know about it, with torrential downpours of rain, thunder and lightning. the frontal system responsible will slide away by saturday, high—pressure takes charge once again. we are looking at lots of fine weather on saturday, some extra cloud and perhaps early showers in the south. then we will see spells of sunshine. the temperature is still well into the 20s across the southern half of the country, more like high teens from aberdeen to glasgow and belfast. into sunday, quite a lot of cloud across northern areas at this stage, said dominic raab up some patchy rain. still some sunshine to be had

in temperatures not that far away from 30. into the weekend, spells of warm sunshine and just a little rain at times. this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines at 8:00pm. sir cliff richard says he's relieved after winning his privacy case against the bbc. he's been awarded £210,000. this has to be something done that says, "you cannot do it again, you must not do it again". and i'm still not quite sure why they didn't have some kind of legal advice that would stop them. i was never even arrested let alone charged. the bbc apologises for any distress caused to sir cliff, but is considering an appeal. borisjohnson appeals to theresa may to reconsider her brexit strategy — warning the uk will exist in a state of "miserable, permanent limbo" unless she changes course. it is not too late to save brexit. we have changed tack once and we can change again.