you're watching beyond one hundred days. a british navy ship comes dangerously close to contact with iranian boats in the straits of hormuz. hms montrose trains its guns on vessels believed to belong to the iranian revolutionary guard. the uk frigate was escorting an oil tanker through the dangerous waters when it was intercepted by the iranian boats. thousands of illegal immigrants could be rounded up for depotation from america this weekend after president trump calls for high profile raids. also on the programme. the white house is holding a social media summit today to discuss the future of tech — but no invite for facebook, twitter and google. and ringing the hell for big ben — 160 years since it first struck the hour, we will take a look back at the history of one of britains

most enduring monuments. hello and welcome — i'm katty kay, with christian fraser in london. the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf has become so tense recently that oil tankers now need a military escort. today one of those naval escorts came dangerously close to iranian vessels. the british navy‘s hms montrose was forced to train its guns on three iranian boats that were impeding the progress of a british tanker. the ministry of defence says the boats, believed to belong to the iranian revolutionary guard, tried to stop the tanker as it moved into the straits. iran had warned there would be repercussions over the uk's seizure of an iranian oil tanker off the coast gibraltar last week. the british foreign secretary says the uk is doing all it can to keep its ships safe. obviously very concerning

developments but i am proud of the royal navy and the role they played in keeping british assets and shipping say. we are continuing to monitor the situation very carefully. we a re monitor the situation very carefully. we are constantly monitoring the security and co nsta ntly monitoring the security and constantly keeping under review the kind of security that we need to keep british shipping say. —— safe. let's talk to hagar chemali — the former spokesperson for the us at the united nations. there have been times in the past when oil tankers needed escort during the iraq war. how much sign is there that we are back in that situation now? times are certainly tense. it is not unprecedented for the united states to offer, and for other governments to offer, military escorts for those vessels. those waters on that point is a very strategic one, a third of the world's oil goes through there, and

20% of the world's oil is transited through that section, so it definitely is a critical part but that does not mean we are inching towards war, and nothing that indicates an all—out military escalation. so what is around trying to do by goading the uk and the british navy like that? at the end of the day, what iran are trying to achieve is leveraged, in order not to create a crisis but to give themselves a bit more pressure for ultimate negotiation. so what they wa nt ultimate negotiation. so what they want at the end of the day is sanction relief and economic concessions, without soliciting a kind of military response and white without soliciting sanction on the other end, but they are not going about it the right way. at the end of the day the actions they are taking is completely different than what the british dead of the coast of gibraltar. but i suppose they would see this is the only way they

can operate. they are operating in a grey zone, not war and not peace, and it reminds the rest of the world that the trump actions have consequences for everyone else. of course and that is to be expected. both sides, both president trump and the iranians, what they are trying to do is to get leveraged for negotiations. iran is trying to increase its leveraged with small provocative step so that when both sides come to the table, they will have more leveraged. not to create oi’ have more leveraged. not to create or create a moderate nuclear crisis without soliciting a major response. neither side wants war and that is clear. on the us side, the reason they are trying to get so much leveraged is because they want negotiations when they happen to include iran's nefarious behaviour and human rights abuses, notjust its nuclear programme. that is why its nuclear programme. that is why it has been so tense, but it affects not just europeans and

it has been so tense, but it affects notjust europeans and those in the region but everybody globally. and it shows how difficult it is. emmanuel macron has one of his high representatives over in iran and it seems the option is freeze for freeze, so they freeze enriching uranium and donald trump freezes further sanctions, but the difficulty is that things can just continue to escalate? that is right and it does but the pressure is going to continue up to a certain point and both sides right now say that neither one wants to go to the table, neither side is ready for diplomatic negotiations, but at the end of the day what iran wants is sanctions relief and the only way they can get that is by negotiating with the united states and they will not get that with a provocative military style or mafia style measures, and they will not get it by threatening to walk back from the iran dealfurther. by threatening to walk back from the iran deal further. the only way they can do that is by negotiating directly onto to halt activities.

let's remember that in 2014 it is sanctions that brought iran to the negotiating table. i was in the treasury department and one of the things that was interesting that could be done again as certain sanctions related to iranian trade we re sanctions related to iranian trade were put on hold during negotiations, so the same thing could happen, and i am not saying the united states would walk it back, but there is potential to hold some of them while negotiations take place. thanks very much. donald trump has tweeted about the incident in the gulf. it seems that the brits and the french and the germans are coming around to the idea that the iranians are up to no good! in 2001, jack straw was the first senior british government minister to visit iran, he visited frequently in the five years he was foreign secretary. he's written about the uk's turbulent relationship with tehran. his book is called the englishjob, understanding iran and mr straw is with us. if you want to negotiate with a

country, you have to understand where they are coming from. does the west understand iran? many people in the west don't and i am afraid that applies to president trump and what iran craves above all else is respect and recognition for its importance as a regional power and for its antiquity, 2500 years of civilisation before our civilisation got going here in the uk. butjust picking up on that report, i agree with your last interviewee that iran is going about this the wrong way. their economy is an absolutely dire straits because of the imposition of these further sanctions by president trump. just to give you one example, before the sanctions were imposed, iran was exporting 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. now it is down to 400,000. and that has phenomenal

implications for their ability to hold foreign exchange, and for the domestic economy, so you have shortages, rising prices, increasing unemployment and general discontent. what this illustrates and what i try to show in my book as you have an apparently homogenous system of government with different power centres, and at the moment what is clear is, partly a consequence of american sanctions, is that the power has shifted from the elected government to the non—elected but very powerful revolutionary guard, and they are calling the shots. so ironically donald trump is in lockstep with the hardliners?m ironically donald trump is in lockstep with the hardliners? it has given them soccer. the irony is that the revolutionary guard and other ha rdliners the revolutionary guard and other hardliners were always opposed to a

nuclear deal. they were with my french and german counterparts when i was trying to negotiate a deal, and they continue to be all the way through the obama — rouhani negotiations, and it is a great irony, because the revolutionary guard control about a third of the economy, they run the smuggling operations, and they are immune from the consequences, the elite in iran, are immune from the economic consequences of the sanctions. but you're interviewee was right to say that the only way through this is by negotiations and it is getting from where we are now to serve. that is the challenge. the other misstep from the iranian point of view is that by doing what they did today aren't coming that close to a

british naval vessel, they are reflectively splitting the europeans away from them. they had the europeans on side after the americans pulled out so why would you then try to alienate the brits? you are absolutely right. they are doing this because they are very upset about the detention of the iranian tanker, but i spoke to iranian tanker, but i spoke to iranian diplomats and that was under eu sanctions. it was not about exporting oil run, it was about exporting oil run, it was about exporting oil run, it was about exporting oil against eu sanctions to syria, but coming back to this issue of negotiations. there is no question donald trump would like a deal with iran and the iranian government privately are desperate for a deal, but you have got to get from where we are and to get down through these egos, but also declared public positions against negotiations. that requires incredibly careful preparation. it was two years of secret negotiations

that are current before the formal obama — rouhani negotiations with the eu took place leading up to the deal in 2015, and one of the things i feel strongly is that the british government perhaps can have input, that if you want a deal, it has to be one that looks at new regional architecture and accepts that although iran is for sure more sending than sinned against in the region, so have other countries, including saudi arabia, who are not lilywhite. you have to look at this. that could be a tough call with this white house. but it may be that if you want relative peace across the gulf, that is the only way forward. while you're here we have to ask you about last night's panorama. the leaders offices, it declaring war, and former staffers who blew the whistle. what do you make of it all?

i have seen reports of the panorama programme andl i have seen reports of the panorama programme and i was actually at my book launch so apologies for not having seen the programme but i have seen enough. i think the labour party response is pathetic. you think the responses pathetic? are you do. what they are trying to do is to denigrate the witnesses rather than take seriously the evidence of the witnesses which was very powerful, and tom watson is the deputy elected leader of the labour party and it has come to something when the elected deputy leader of the party has said, the leaders office have got this entirely wrong. they are very defensive, for very good reason. they have never taken theissue good reason. they have never taken the issue seriously. i don't think all of them are anti—semitic themselves, but they are at best complacent about anti—semitism, not

understanding that it is racist to be anti—semitic toward someone of the jewish faith, as it is to be racist toward somebody who is black or asian. they don't get that, and critically, the conflict concerned about the way israeli governments in re ce nt about the way israeli governments in recent years have treated palestinians, which i and many israeli dues share, and to our trope against many of the jewish faith and the existence of israel. and that is where jeremy corbyn is, and it has led to this terrible permissive regime. jack straw, thank you. thousands of immigrants in america could be dpeorted this weekend in high profile raids by border agents. the white house has ordered the action as part of its bid to get tough on immigration. president trump had spoken about deporting millions of illegal immigrants. it now looks like the final number won't be that big — some 2,000 people who recently got to the us illegally are expected to be rounded up in 10 major cities. the white house says it

will try to keep families together in special detention centres. we're joined now from san francisco by ron christie. nice to see you. we have been told for weeks that the detention centres in the united states are full, so where are they going to put all these people that they round up? good evening to you both. this is a very delicate issue for the united states. on the one hand you have facilities that are designed to handle thousands of people and you are finding hundreds of thousands of people coming to our borders and it isa very people coming to our borders and it is a very delicate issue, moving people to the interior of the united states, so you have people going to places like maine and all around the united states ease the tension that the texas— arizona borders. united states ease the tension that the texas- arizona borders. at the other issue is a delicate political one for the white house. when they separated families last year and you

had all those pictures of families and kids on the borders, actually the president dipped in the approval ratings and even republican said they didn't particularly like those images. is there a risk of a backlash against the white house if they are seen to round up lots of families ina they are seen to round up lots of families in a very high—profile way which seems to be what the president wa nts ? which seems to be what the president wants? the term you used is the appropriate one, delicate. they have appropriate one, delicate. they have a very narrow road to walk on. on the one hand they don't want to separate families but they also want to assure the american people that they are doing everything they can to have people coming to the united states legally and lawfully, so the notion they are going to separate families look and humane as an image this administration does not want coming so close to an election, just a little more than a year away. coming so close to an election, just a little more than a year awaylj wa nt to a little more than a year awaylj want to talk about another story break in the united states. every ten yers as a resident of the us i am asked to fill out a census form. it asks lots of questions

about where i live, who's in my household etc. nowhere does it ask me whether or not i'm an american citizen — which for the record i'm not. in the next couple of hours, donald trump will hold a press conference at which he's expected to say he's changing that rule for the 2020 census. his administration already tried to add a citizenship question but the supreme court blocked him. so now he wants to sign an executive order to get round the courts. this what is interesting is the role that william bach, the attorney general, is playing on this, because it seemed to me before that he was saying to the department ofjustice, this won't happen, let's get on with it, but now he seems to be facilitating something that he knows the supreme court would take a dim view of? this is a very delicate issue on the issue is whether the president of the united states has the ability to add a question asking about citizenship of those filling

out the senses. from a legal standpoint the answer to the question is yes. what the supreme court held a few weeks back as they we re court held a few weeks back as they were questioning the legitimacy of why the administration wanted to do this. the court didn't feel they had provided an adequate explanation as to why they want this question. if the president acts later today as we think he will, then the supreme court will litigate this again and the administration had better have their act together and say, here is exactly why we want to add a citizenship question on the census and here justification. citizenship question on the census and herejustification. which may citizenship question on the census and here justification. which may be why abc news is just reporting that a p pa re ntly why abc news is just reporting that apparently the president, and this is only abc news, is reporting that actually the president is going to back down and not sign an executive order putting a citizenship question on the senses. i guess, you are a lawyer, they have lower surround them, they realise this wouldn't go anywhere in the courts?” them, they realise this wouldn't go anywhere in the courts? i think it

would have gone their way on the court but it would have to go to the district court and court of appeal is and eventually supreme court and as we know, in politics, if you are explaining you are losing, and from a political and legal standpoint i think the administration didn't want to lose in the court of public opinion. stay has one second, i have to show you something. earlier today trump took to twitter to mock several of his potential rivals in the 2020 campaign. "could you imagine having sleepyjoe biden, or a very nervous "and skinny version of pocahontas (1000/24th), as your president, rather than what you have now, so great looking and smart, a true stable genius! let's bring back ron. you and kristian are very fine men. christian only moderately stable! i am not sure either of you would feel the need to say in public how good—looking you are?

the need to say in public how good-looking you are? speaking for myself, i would good-looking you are? speaking for myself, iwould never say good-looking you are? speaking for myself, i would never say such a thing! and ideas here are my friend christian... why are you laughing when you're talking about stable genius? or very good looking for that matter. can we put that back up, if you are a stable genius you have to get your fractions right. does anybody understand the bit in brackets? it is one divided by 1024, thatis brackets? it is one divided by 1024, that is not genius. that was... what can we say? pure trump, touting his genius and his good looks. can i just say, one other thing on the census that is important is that statisticians don't like the citizenship question, because the censusis citizenship question, because the census is meant to be a snapshot of where the country is, immigrants,

illegal emigrants, residents, citizens, and they are worried that if they had this question some people just want answers so you will not get a true reflection. so if you are not a citizen do you just disappear? if you don't answer your not counted. but if you're already a minority feeling under pressure you wouldn't answer? if you are there illegally you wouldn't answer, that is the idea. the british foreign office says there's no reason to believe sir kim darroch‘s emails were hacked — instead the official inquiring is focusing attention on finding whether someone within the system deliberately leaked the british ambassador's communiques. sir kim resigned yesterday as the uk's ambassador to washington after the emails were printed in a british paper. downing street has refused to rule out the possibility of theresa may identifying a new ambassador before she leaves office in just two weeks time. andrew overton was spokesperson and deputy head of communications at the british embassy in washington until last year and joins us now from annapolis.

good to see you. let me ask you, if he hadn't resigned yesterday, what with kim darroch‘s legacy have been if he'd made it all the way to the end of the year? thank you for having me. what i will say as it was a wonderful legacy. what is important is the president consistently with these tweets has undermined us diplomacy, he has shattered norms and continues to erode our alliances with every tweet he sends. personally, and i can speak for a he sends. personally, and i can speakfora numberof he sends. personally, and i can speak for a number of my colleagues and friends, and the foreign office, we are devastated that kim darroch, a remarkable document and loyal civil servant, was cut in the crossfire. he has received overwhelming support from his colleagues and by twitter and facebook feeds are full of wonderful anecdotes of his remarkable leadership during his time at the

british embassy in washington. and of course, civil servants can point out, they cannot point out what is clear to everyone in washington, that the president's thin—skinned and his loose relationship with the truth, is making it much harder for diplomats to do theirjobs, which i think makes us all less safe. uber there there also during the obama administration. it is not always easy for an embassy to deal with any administration. did you notice a particular shift in the british embassy's relationship with the white house between president obama and president trump? president trump was suggesting he had had a bad relationship with kim darroch all along. was that the case as far as you knew? that is absolutely untrue. during the 2016 campaign sir kim took the trump administration seriously unlike a lot of his counterparts in washington. he was one of the few ambassadors on the

republican convention floor, and from the earliest days of the administration until this very week he was routinely hosting trump officials at his residence and was welcomed with open arms at the white house. i think the trump team loved sir kim saw his claim that he was not well liked her well thought of really couldn't be further from the truth. just a quick word, did sir kim, when he was out and about in washington, undermined brexit, talk to an brexit state was a disaster? he is an ultimate diplomat. occasionally he would be frank with colleagues but he absolutely did a tremendousjob colleagues but he absolutely did a tremendous job during some colleagues but he absolutely did a tremendousjob during some of the most difficult circumstances, by recognising that the uk and us relationship goes much deeper than its leaders and much deeper than any policy area. he was travelling in preparation for brexit and was consta ntly preparation for brexit and was constantly travelling outside of the

beltway, meeting with governors and ceos beltway, meeting with governors and ceos of company who invest in the uk. he was also at the opening of new offices including in north carolina and minnesota, so he was laying the groundwork for what the uk-us laying the groundwork for what the uk — us trade relationship would be like after brexit. thank you. i have to say and all of my dealings with sir kim, he was a real civil servant and you wouldn't have known what his politics were. he was very much representing the british government, not a political figure. on thursday the 11th ofjuly 1859, 160 years ago, big ben first began striking the hour. since then the bell — which sits at the top of the elizabeth tower above the palace of westminster — has been an enduring symbol of british democracy. 160 years not entirely without incident. throughout world war ii it continued to chime, though the clockface of the tower went dark to avoid guiding the german bombers to their targets in the blitz. in 1962 and again in 1968 heavy snow stopped the clocks hands from moving, in 2005 it was hot weather — and then in 2015 it was discovered to have been

running seven seconds fast. for the past two years big ben has been undergoing restoration work. the clock face has been dismantled, the bell is still in place — it should be completed by 2021. and while working on the tower — they found a timecapsule, that was left in the 1950s by the workers repairing the blitz damage. i hate to spoil the party but can i say this? it stopped for four years when it had first been installed so it has not really been ringing for 160 years. seven minutes late is what he usually is into the studio! this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — president trump is hosting a ‘social media summit‘ at the white house. but instead of the silicon valley giants attending, it's right—wing social media pundits

and conservative lawmakers who have made the guest list. that is all coming up. after an evening of torrential downpours affecting parts of northern and eastern scotland they are going to feed into the night. this area of low pressure is the culprit, now moving away, just in time for this area of high pressure for the weekend. storm is fading, one or two showers, parts of the midlands into east anglia will clear away, but if you shower still running into northern scotland, most places having a dry night, thicker cloud in northern ireland may produce some patchy light rain and drizzle. quite muggy overnight, the temperature holding up in the mid teens. friday, a sunny start for many of us, and if you start with sunshine you will see cloud

building, starting cloud you will see sunshine coming out, and otherwise showers developing and they start going through northern and eastern parts of scotland down through northern and eastern england, well scattered showers, perhaps some thunderstorms, most places avoid them and stay dry and the temperature again mostly in the low 20s and a few spots approaching the mid 20s. for wimbledon, a slight chance of catching a shower over the next couple of days, not significant, and sunday looking dry, perhaps cooler, and these are decent temperatures for playing. and here comes the area of high pressure and thatis comes the area of high pressure and that is moving right across the british isles, as we go through the weekend. i don't expect clear blue sky, there will be areas of cloud and some warm sunny sky, there will be areas of cloud and some warm sunny spells at leeds during saturday the chance of catching a shower. more so in parts of england, but the breeze is taking a little more of a track towards the north sea coast. that will cool

things, some spots in the mid to upper teens while other spots are getting towards the low 20s. and for pa rt getting towards the low 20s. and for part two of the weekend, a mix of cloud and sunshine and the chance of catching an isolated shower somewhere, a bit of patchy rain for thicker cloud running towards the far north—west of scotland. still a little cooler along the north sea coast and it is elsewhere but elsewhere pleasant into the weekend. high—pressure holding off on monday and tuesday for a few days looks like a low pressure may get the upper hand. if you want some rain, there is the chance of some showers.

this is beyond one hundred days... i am katty kay with christian fraser in london our top stories — a royal navy frigate shadowing a tanker owned by bp steps in with protection after three iranian vessels tried to block its passage. thousands of illegal immigrants could be rounded up for depotation from america this weekend after president trump calls for high profile raids. coming up in the next half hour..... a report says there is still a ‘significant problem‘ of bullying and harrassment towards westminster staff who work for mps. flash flooding — and tornadoes — 3s a massive storm approaches new orleans — the mayor warns residents that they cannot pump away the water levels expected.

donald trump has often complained about liberal bias on social media so today he‘s hosting a tech summit at the white house with some of the biggest names in conservative media. tweeting earlier today the president said the summit will cover the ‘dishonesty and bias‘ of the ‘fake news adding.. joining us now from washington is margaret o‘mara, history professor at the university of washington and author of ‘the code: silicon valley and the remaking of america‘ it seems the problem with this summit is that the tech companies are there, can be make significant changes of the social media companies are not? you cannot. they are central to the problem and the dilemma washington and silicon valley have is only solved when they

come together. the basic problem is there is a regular tory regime governing the social media created in an area when the internet was different. the big tech companies are under close scrutiny, is there a danger with them not being there and some of the senior figures from congress and the room that some of that process could be speeded up?m is interesting the mood in washington is so dramatically different than if years ago and for such a long time the ground i cover in my book is 70 years of a relationship between the us government and the tech industry and for someone it was a positive one, leaders of both parties and congress we re leaders of both parties and congress were gung ho about the possibility of silicon valley changing the world and know the mood has darkened. it is going to be a regular tory fixes and legal fixes are not going to be

quick and easy, they need to be technologically informed and listening to the people who understand how it works. there are a host of problems around social media, intervention and elections is one, congress is trying to wrestle with. as the president correct with the premise that as a political bias inherent to social media whether through algorithms that conservative voices are excluded from social media platforms? the great irony about this bias position is that actually the problem stems from the fa ct actually the problem stems from the fact the social media platforms have been designed to try to be neutral. this goes back to the philosophy with which the platforms have been designed by silicon valley at the beginning that you create this platform for free and open communication and are not going to have gatekeepers deciding who is saying what and who has privileged

voices. the ad designed for maximum engagement and draw us in because they appeal to our emotions whether positive or angry. that‘s what social media platforms have become very good conveyances for all sorts of speech that their creators did not imagine. from which donald trump has profited more than most. something happening this site, the french government has approved a law that would make france the first major economy to impose a tax on these internet giants. i think it is a3% these internet giants. i think it is a 3% tax, how will the us react to that? it is interesting because it isa that? it is interesting because it is a question of the specialness of the internet as something reckoned with both in the us and globally. the question of whether internet

commerce should be taxed was a live one in the us for a long time and now you have you buy something and it is subject to state tax anyway to not use to be. internet giants have grown larger than either when taxation has been very low, a swing towards deregulation and roaring taxes so much so that some of these companies pay no tax at all which is to the problem with fewer resources at government to be a countervailing force to industry in general. thank you. the labour party has denounced whistleblowers who spoke to last night‘s bbc panorama programme about alleged anti—semitism. labour says the former party officials were disaffected opponents ofjeremy corbyn. the whistleblowers had claimed that close associates of mr corbyn interfered in the way the party dealt with claims of anti—semitism. the deputy labour leader tom watson

says he was shocked, chilled and appalled by the allegations in the programme. our deputy political editor john pienaar reports. the morejeremy corbyn is criticised the louder the defence. the verdict of this neighbour on the media, they do not stop bullying. he is saying nothing about the latest claims that and that has leadership labour has been soft on anti—semitism. his close ally came out fighting, whistle—blowers‘ accounts of anti—semitism the distorted. whistle—blowers‘ accounts of anti-semitism the distorted. some serious charges that have been a co ntesta nt a nd serious charges that have been a contestant and complaints put to the bbc and! contestant and complaints put to the bbc and i think the bbc should investigate those and we can come to a conclusion. has the labour party

leadership done enough to tackle anti—semitism? leadership done enough to tackle anti-semitism? i think it has, leadership done enough to tackle anti-semitism? ithink it has, at the beginning it was too slow but that has improved. panorama has inflamed the row on anti—semitism with striking testimony. they call mea with striking testimony. they call me a dusty zionist. i do not think it isa me a dusty zionist. i do not think it is a safe space forjewish people any more. but i was shocked when i saw panorama last night and am angry this morning. the only way to deal with this is action not words. this is about practice and culture. it must have taken great courage for them to whistle—blowing and to call out for practices i think is deeply sad. and deplorable that we would just dismiss those in some way,

disaffected. the row is also getting personal. jeremy corbyn‘s close adviser is accused of interference and cases as is the party general secretary. the official statement from the party back them up and condemns the bbc for what it calls an overtly biased intervention. labour has tried to damp down the robot it has grown worse and to many more whistle—blowers have submitted evidence to the commission investigation into cases of anti—semitism. the deck at a leader is demanding access to the submission from the party to that enquiry which is hurting labour and the pain can only now becoming worse. on the face of it, a job in the uk‘s westminister parliament ought to offer a good career break with great prospects for the future. but what if it comes with an "unacceptible risk" of bullying and harassement — and sexual harassment too. a new report says that this

is what some who work in parliament face. staff who work for mps — doing the day to day work needed to run their offices — are particularly vulnerable. and complaining would mean ‘career suicide‘. according to gemma white qc‘s report, the staff who work for british mp‘s suffer a constant ‘drip drip‘ of demeaning, humiliating behaviour. one witness told her: "sexual harassment is just something young working—class people have to tolerate. the report recommends that former members of staff with grievances should be allowed to make historical complaints against members of parliament. we‘ve been speaking to the bbc‘s political reporterjessica parker. jim white seems to be drilling down into the oddity of allotment situation so people who work for mps but are paid for by the taxpayer. she describes this as a system of 650 small businesses, 650 mps in

total and one of the things she recommends needs to happen as a properly resourced department to oversee employment practices and mps offices. there is a general sense that over the road in the house of commons and the house of lords it is not necessarily a particularly conventional employment setup as you might see and various offices across the country. things are based on rather arcane procedures and practices and these things need to be updated and overseen properly. a unique power relationship potentially between mps and their staff. our members shocked by the findings of the report? the accounts being given of incidents of sexual harassment and abuse are incredibly graphic. i would not necessarily people are totally shocked. we have heard allegations of bullying and

harassment before as you will know. i think some of the details will shock some people, the report outlines the most common form of behaviour is when mps shout and a little and she relates staff regularly and often in public. it adds that sexual harassment is also adds that sexual harassment is also a problem. of course these findings will shock some people but we have had reports from these things before so perhaps the fact this enquiry is even happening to begin with suggest people may be already aware that there was some kind of problem. the lords had a similar report published yesterday with similar behaviour amongst peers and some of the solutions they suggested was to put cctv cameras in the bars and public spaces where staff and mps interact. as if they cannot be trusted to be altogether any public place.|j as if they cannot be trusted to be altogether any public place. i think what you have overall as a

determination on the authorities‘ behalf to look like they are trying to address this problem. that is why we have two enquiries in the lords and commons with recommendations and it‘ll be interesting to see whether they are indeed acted on. is important that where laws are made and taxpayers are funding the houses of parliament that proper standards are upheld but also stressing it is not unusual in other workplaces outside a parliament for these kinds of problems to arise. thank you. it is interesting that jessica of problems to arise. thank you. it is interesting thatjessica who works in millbank and sees that atmosphere and hears the gossip is not shocked by what is in that report yet you and i read that and the sort of things... myjaw was on the sort of things... myjaw was on the floor. we took out some of the most graphic quotes about the type of sexual harassment happening and you think if they are beyond being shocked when they did it in black—and—white that this is happening to people then you have a

real problem. we should remember a lot of them are young people desperate to get on their careers and have a vulnerable position and are being preyed on. severe weather conditions as well in the us coast of louisiana — with forecasters warning of hurricane—force winds before the end of the week. authorities issued a flash flood emergency in the new orleans area as streets, homes and hotel lobbies flooded in a severe thunderstorm. meteorologists say around 8 inches of rain fell in about two the weather system also threw up this water spout — sucking up liquid from the nearby lake pontchartrain, in a tornado—like manner. this footage was filmed from the safety of a neighbouring office — there are no reports of the water spout causing any injuries. the mayor of new orleans latoya cantrell warned residents what they could expect from the tropical storm.

we do expect that the storm will be slow moving. that means there is the possibility as it moves slow but we are going to get heavy rainfall for up are going to get heavy rainfall for up to 48 hours it could be. 48 hours to ensure rainfall consistently over the city of new orleans. south—east of new orleans officials have ordered mandatory evacuations. manuel bojorquez is in new orleans for cbs news and they sent this update. those mandatory evacuations are happening in low—lying parishes south of new orleans but here in the city eyes are on the mississippi and here is why. flooding along the midsection i said a lot of water streams of the river is already swollen and coupled with the potential storm surge from the tropical system and additional rain

could spell trouble. officials have said they believe the levies that protect the city like the one we are on will hold during the event but they fear the water could overtopping some of them so well there is still uncertainty of the track of the system they are object eve ryo ne track of the system they are object everyone to be prepared. —— urging eve ryo ne everyone to be prepared. —— urging everyone to be prepared. —— urging everyone to be prepared. —— urging everyone to be prepared. larrison campbell is a political reporter in mississippi, whose task of covering a republican politician got a lot harder when he said she couldn‘t accompany him on a campaign trip — unless she brought along a male chaperone. apparently robert foster, who wants to be the state‘s next governor, was so nervous about being seen on the trail with a woman — even a woman journalist — his campaign told her they were worried that if somebody happened to take a photo of the journalist with the candidate

it could be used by his political rivals to slander him. her newspaper, mississippi today, said it was a waste of newsroom resources to send along an extra journalist to effectively babysit ms campbell. ms campbell who is a grown—up probably do not need a chaperone. ms campbell who is a grown—up probably do not need a chaperonelj would say so. tell us when you told your editor what had been said to you. there were a couple of conversations i had with the campaign manager and the first one we actually set up the interview for today, a 15 hour ride along and i was very today, a 15 hour ride along and i was very excited to get that campaign access and at the very end of the conversation he threw this caveat that we need you to bring a male colleague along i took it to my editor and it seemed politically sexist and he agreed and so i went back and said we cannot do this. it

isa back and said we cannot do this. it is a far—fetched request but he would still love to make this interview work, how to be do this? and they were not comfortable with any sort of wiggle room and i certainly wasn‘t comfortable with the requirement so the interview fell apart. mississippi is a fairly conservative state, is it common for politicians to fuel male politicians to feel they cannot be seen alone in the company of a woman reporter?m isa the company of a woman reporter?m is a very conservative state and this is absolutely first time anything like this has happened. there are different levels that make it interesting to report on politics in mississippi. my female colleagues andi in mississippi. my female colleagues and i talk about the differences between how we are treated on the campaign trailare in between how we are treated on the campaign trail are in the halls of the state capital versus how our

male colleagues are so this particular request was a shock but i am not sure i can action the court a total surprise. now this has been picked up and is been reported here on the bbc and in the united states, has the foster campaign comeback with any kind of retraction or reaction? i think they are actually very happy with the way the position things. she has a double down and said when i spoke to his campaign manager we are worried about people who try to get one smear campaigns and we are worried about somebody doing that and now they have actually come back with a story about the billy graham row and the pa ct about the billy graham row and the pact with his wife and never being alone with a woman. it is the first

i have heard of that but i think it isa i have heard of that but i think it is a message that is really resonating with a want of supporters. certainly a lot of people think the request was weird including his campaign managers who called it a weird request when he first called me. a lot of other people out there really excited that he has taken this step. it is has enough been a political reporter enemy, thank you forjoining us. can i put the alternative view, some teachers go into classrooms and doctors go into surgeries with nurses, is this the inevitable pushback? any doctor‘s surgery that isa pushback? any doctor‘s surgery that is a chance you are getting partially undressed on the campaign trail you arejust doing partially undressed on the campaign trail you are just doing the job of a reporter so no comparison. this is beyond one hundred days.

still to come — it‘s not the most popular sport — but we show what it looks like when you take part in t—rex racing. tonnes of plastic are being removed from a river bed in cumbria. the plastic was put there to protect the river 20 years ago. but now that plastic is now being eroded and fragments of it are being washed away into the sea. alison freeman reports. at first glance, the river keekle looks like any other, but take a closer look and you can see its dark secret — reams and reams of black plastic. this plastic was used to line the river to protect it from contamination from a nearby disused mine. but over the past two decades, it‘s deteriorated and it‘s become the pollutant itself, as well as an eyesore. there‘s been such a knee—jerk reaction to worry about what the river will do once the coal mine operations had finished. it was a natural thing — let‘s just constrain the river,

put it in plastic, and then we can walk away and it will be fine. well, in only 20 years, that plastic‘s starting to degrade. we‘ve got to remember that we‘re not just taking plastic out of a river, rivers go to the sea. so this potentially would end up in the sea. what‘s happening here is thought to be the biggest river restoration of its kind in the uk. this summer‘s project is a pilot, with plastic being cleared from a 200m stretch. next year, the rest of the 2.5km will be restored, costing more than £1 million. it‘ll benefit wildlife as well as people. catherine and her family live nearby. they welcome the project. the benefit of getting this back to nature for us, as a community, is that we'll be able to spend more time here safely and we'll be able to enjoy more wildlife, because when the river's restored, obviously, the wildlife that lives in it will be increased as well. it will be a better habitat, a more natural habitat for the wildlife. more rivers have been

renaturalised in cumbria than anywhere else in the uk. but the keekle is the most challenging by far. alison freeman, bbc news. for the first time since 1992 england are through to a world cup final. yes, you heard that right, england‘s cricketers are into the world cup final. they thrashed australia today at edgbaston by 8 wickets. australia bowled out for 223 — three wickets for woakes & rashid; two for archer. and a superb 85 from jason roy.which means they will play new zealand on sunday at lords. i will be mostly indoors, the phone

will be off the hook. cricket is coming home from the angle and fans as they left edgbaston having watched england thump australia by eight wickets to book their place against new zealand in the final. australia won the toss and put themselves into bat but they may not think that was the right thing to do, 14—3 having lost the early wickets of finch and warner and peter hanscombe on his world cup debut. steve smith got into position to put up some sort of fight against england, he was the only as chilean batsmen to go past 50 but eventually run out for 85 and the australian tail went pretty cheaply as rashid and chris woa kes tail went pretty cheaply as rashid and chris woakes finished on three wickets. 224 was the target for england and the knocked it off very

co mforta bly, england and the knocked it off very comfortably, their opening partnership 124 betweenjonny ba i rstow partnership 124 betweenjonny bairstow and jason roy. jonny ba i rstow eventually bairstow and jason roy. jonny bairstow eventually going lbw bulb light mitchell starc bairstow eventually going lbw bulb light mitchell sta rc and bairstow eventually going lbw bulb light mitchell starc and england and out of reviews whenjason roy did one because pat cummins bolt and he was out. owen morgan at the one—day captain andjoe was out. owen morgan at the one—day captain and joe root the test captain and joe root the test captain saw england over the line with morgan hitting the winning runs to putting on to the showpiece finale against new zealand. angered have been to three world cup finals before and lost them all, the last one in 1992 when they beat south africa to get to the final against pakistan. that was not to be, 27 yea rs on pakistan. that was not to be, 27 years on they have certainly put the semifinal across to bed and england can the go to lots and get the hands on the world cup? yes. one of the other great contests has been decided

at emerald downs in washington. the t rex dash. this was the third annual race — where every competitor is obliged to wear the exact same inflatable tyranosaurus rex costume. look at them running their heads held high. it is the way their heads wobble. because you like to bring you occasional random animal stories this may be the most random most animal story. this is the third year of the t rex race, so popular. what is happening there? we have become deflated. what happens to a t rex when it gets a puncture? no prize money, just for laughs. i would back

in washington next week. nice of you to turn up. i have been on holiday. panic over. after an evening of traditional thundery downpours they will fade into the night and low pressure is the culprit which moves away and coming and in time for the weekend of the area of high pressure. the storms fading, some showers and thunderstorms for parts of the midlands and east anglia, also clearing and left with a fuchsia buzz into northern scotland but most places dry with thick cloud and northern ireland producing patchy and light rain or drizzle. quite muqqy and light rain or drizzle. quite muggy overnight, temperatures towards the mid—teens. friday is a sunny stat for many, if you start with sunshine you will see cloud building, if you start cloudy sunshine comes out. waiting for a

few showers was to develop and they start through northern and eastern scotla nd start through northern and eastern scotland and england and very real scattered so perhaps thunderstorms but most places avoiding them and staying dry, temperatures mostly in the low 20s with some in the mid—20s. for wimbledon that there is the slight chance of a shower over the slight chance of a shower over the next couple of days, not significant in the symbols, sunday looking dry and perhaps cooler but these are a decent temperatures for playing and spectating. it is the area of high pressure moving right across the british isles through the weekend. don‘t expect clear blue sky, areas of cloud and warm sunny spells at times and during saturday still the chance of catching a shower and muscle perhaps towards parts of england. the breeze taking more of a track towards north sea screening things a bit, some spots to the mid and upper teens but as

elsewhere towards the low 20s. for pa rt elsewhere towards the low 20s. for part two of the weekend on sunday, a mix of cloud and sunshine, the chance of catching and isolated showers somewhere and maybe patchy rain from thicker cloud towards the far north—west of scotland. still cooler on north seacoast than elsewhere but for many a very pleasa nt elsewhere but for many a very pleasant end to the weekend, high pressure for monday, low pressure on tuesday may get the upper hand but if you want some rain on the government that is the chance of some insurers. —— rain on the garden.

this is bbc news i‘m martine croxall. the headlines at eight... britain has raised the threat level for uk shipping in iranian waters in the gulf to its highest level. it comes as a royal navy warship warned off iranian gunboats which were trying to intercept a british tanker in the straits of hormuz. a public inquiry concludes this father of two was shot dead after a catastrophic series of failings by greater manchester police. firearms officers authorised and planned the operation incompetently and in breach of national guidance. labour rejects accusations that senior members ofjeremy corbyn‘s team interfered during investigations into alleged anti semitism. and jubilation as england power into the cricket world cup final for the first time in 27 years after thrashing