tv Beyond 100 Days BBC News August 26, 2019 7:00pm-8:01pm BST
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you're watching beyond 100 days. world leaders have a lot on their plates and not much agreement on how to deal with global problems. iran, china, russia, climate change, brexit, all big, contentious issues that dominated the g7 summit. president trump is at odds with european leaders on lots of things, but on one issue, he is positively gushing, borisjohnson‘s prospects in downing street. i've been waiting for him to be prime minister for about six years. i told him, "what took you so long?" as devastating fires take hold in the amazon rainforest, the g7 leaders pledge more than £20 million to help. also on the programme. a week after president trump's claim that american jews were disloyal for voting democrat, we ask a top americanjewish politician what he makes of it.
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and it may be one small white line to you and me, but it's one giant leap for the cattle heading for new pastures. hello and welcome, i'm katty kay in washington and david eades is in london. president trump didn't leave prematurely, he signed on to a brief final statement and there were lots of handshakes and smiles. in that respect, this g7 summit was less hostile that last year's. but get past the mood music, and on the biggest issues facing the world today, there is little agreement between the trump administration and the 6 other major industrialised nations. they don't agree on iran, on russia, on tariffs or on climate change. and that's before you get to brexit. the us president seems to have a very clear soft spot for the new prime minister, but he doesn't expect much change
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for borisjohnson out of the eu — a very tough negotiator, he says. i really believe that borisjohnson will be a great prime minster. especially after spending a lot of intense time with him over the last couple of days. he's very smart and strong. and do you know what else? he loves your country. the british prime minister said he had made the case to eu leaders to re—negotiate a brexit deal without the irish backstop. i really think that point has now landed. so let's see where we get! and i hope that friends and colleagues in parliament will be supportive of our efforts to get this thing done. to get out of the old withdrawal agreement and do a much, much better deal. that's what we need to do. katya adler, the bbc‘s europe editor, has been in biarritz for the summit. it's kind of hard to sum up this summit, katya. on the one hand, there's tonnes
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of things these world leaders don't agree with. on the other, you have to say it is at least better than last year. donald trump did not leave early. i think i'd agree with you there. i think it wasn't a total disaster. donald trump sort of ripping up the written agreement between the leaders last year and working off in a half. that didn't happen. he was on pretty good behaviour. there were lots of concerns here in france by the host emmanuel macron, the president of france, that, yes, donald trump could be offended by something and walk out. something else that he didn't want dominating the summit was brexit. and he managed to basically manage those two issues if you like. donald trump knows he will be hosting a similar international meeting next year. so perhaps he has that in mind and brexit was kept very much to the sidelines as well. emmanuel macron managed to whip out of a hat, a visit by the foreign minister of iran. which went down as a little bit of a diplomatic coup.
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although, realistically, as you say, these kind of problems, you know, the tensions with iran, the tensions of a trade were between the us and china and solving the environmental problem that we see reaching in the amazon at the moment, these were not solved here. amongst the g7 leaders, but they didn't exactly fall out with one another. the question remains, do you bother having them come together when there can be so many disparate views? and some say it is better in these times of division across the world to at least keep these leaders in the same room. even if they can't agree on everything. you decide. nonetheless, brexit did sneak in in places. notably in some of the press conferences. and i wonder while we are all treading water about what happens next on brexit, there was a point, or it seemed to be, that within borisjohnson‘s press conference, there was a suggestion that donald trump was saying no deal is more likely than ever. was that a general reading? i think everybody is saying no deal
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is more likely than ever. i mean, borisjohnson has admitted it is touch and go at the minute but if you think about it, it's not very long ago, about a week ago, he was still saying there was a million to one chance of a no—deal brexit. what you have here on the table, david, at the end of the day, is a compromise agreement. that was worked out by eu and uk negotiators over two years. it was signed off in november by the then uk prime minister and her cabinet and now there's a new payment services prime minister, who says he is having none of it and wants to get rid example, for example, altogether, or that contentious backstop guaranteed to keep the irish border open after brexit. eu leaders still say we're not gonna just get rid of the backstop. that would mean abandoning member state ireland, risking the northern ireland peace process. exposing the european single market. voluntarily, for what exactly? so they say to boris johnson, no, the ball isn't in our court, it is in yours. you come up with a credible workable immediately operable alternative to the backstop and we will get
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rid of it. the invitation is an open one. and the clock is ticking. thank you very much indeed. for more, let's speak now to michael fuchs, senior fellow at the center for american progress. thank you for coming in. i want to start on the issue. you run through the areas of areas they disagree. but starting with russia, president trump wants russia back next g meeting. a lot of people say, having russia, which is a power, having them inside the room is better than having them outside the room. by the way, there were numerous people during the g7 that felt that way. and we didn't take a vote or anything, but we did discuss it. my inclination is to say yes, they should be in. he has a point, doesn't he? having russia at the table might be more
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useful than having them outside of the room? this is not the first thing he has suggested this will stop a has—been suggesting it's repeatedly and the reasons why he is it are unclear aside from his affinity for flood your putin which goes back quite away. —— president putin. the original point of the g7 was not conceived of a0 plus years, it was to get the leading democratic industrialised countries together in a room who share common values to try to figure out how they can work together and tackle major issues. russia being in this gripping for a period of years was an attempt to bring a transitioning democratic russia, in the 1990s, into the fold. it has been sustained because of the invasion of crimea, that is the right decision. president trump said
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they were kicked out of the g8 because president putin had outsmarted president 0bama, particularly on the issue of syria. as he didn't deliberately muddling issues? i think he is deliberately missing modelling reissues for a variety of reasons for soppy likes to blame president 0bama for about everything. —— he likes to blame. he wa nts to everything. —— he likes to blame. he wants to bring putin again because he has a particular relationship with them. it is a trend we have seenin with them. it is a trend we have seen in this presidency that u nfortu nately seen in this presidency that unfortunately the president of the united states doesn't like to deal with his democratic allies. he likes to deal much more with strong men, with autocrats. and that is an u nfortu nate with autocrats. and that is an unfortunate thing. but probably one of the reason he wants to bring putin back into the meeting. there has been clear division in the way donald trump and others see things.
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particularly iran. president macron was keen to suggest they were making progress, possibly the met chance of a meeting between the president of iran and donald trump. i don't know the gentlemen. i think that i know him a little bit, just by watching over the last number of years what has happened. i will tell you one thing, he's a great negotiator. but he... i think he's gonna want to meet. i think iran wants to get the situation straightened out. so, in your view, so, in yourview, is so, in your view, is that a step forward ? so, in your view, is that a step forward? we have been taking a numberof forward? we have been taking a number of steps back with iran over the last couple of years. the united states has in withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal and a variety of other steps. what you have seen in the last couple of months as president from getting very concerned about what he might have unleashed with withdrawing from the nuclear deal. heighten tensions over the summerand he is nuclear deal. heighten tensions over the summer and he is realising now the summer and he is realising now the potential cost in the rising
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tensions. couldn't result in some kind ofan tensions. couldn't result in some kind of an unintended conflict? and so kind of an unintended conflict? and so he has been vacillating back in re ce nt so he has been vacillating back in recent months, talking about the potential for renewed diplomacy. so thatis potential for renewed diplomacy. so that is a good thing. diplomacy is what we need right now. with iran. but the real question is, even if they were to sit down, at some point, what is the substance of what they could discuss? right now. it seems very to understand the contours, the substance of the it sounded as if president macron felt he had got donald trump almost where he wanted him. to commit to seeing president rouhani. for those further afield, that sensitive positive step forward? absolutely, again if we're talking about diplomacy as opposed to the other things president some has been talking about with iran over recent months, is absolutely the right place to be. but let us also
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president trump has also been talking about the possibility of meeting with iranian counterparts in previous months. so again, the question for me is what the substance of sub—discussion would actually include. president trump likes to say a lot of things. and what changes made on a lot of things very regularly. so, again, to me, it comes down to brass tacks about what substance we are talking about. thank you very much for coming in. if you had to sum up one thing that came out of the g7, one kind of concrete idea, i guess it would be this step closer towards some kind of summit meeting potentially between president trump and president rouhani. to hear the president speaking about it in his fairly mere term language, that is a little new and we will have to see whether taxi happens. we know he likes having summit meeting. he has a lwa ys likes having summit meeting. he has always wanted a deal with the iranians. he liked having the
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meetings in north korea. now, one of the other themes that loomed heavily over this weekend's summit was the us and china's ongoing trade war. but today president trump struck a more positive tone, saying that trade talks would resume ‘very shortly‘ and that there was a will on both sides to get a deal done. i think they want to make a deal and i think they should make a deal and i think if they don't make a deal it's gonna be very bad for china. and i very much appreciate the fact that they came out last night, very late last night, and they said, you know, they want to make a deal. they want it to be under calm circumstances, it was a little different kind of a statement, i thought it was a beautiful statement, i thought it indicated a lot. let's speak now to zhaoyin feng, a correspondent from the bbc‘s chinese service. this has been all over the place in the last few days and financial markets have been in the last few days. have the chinese come away from, they were not at the g7 summit, have they come away from watching it from the other side of
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the world thinking that they are closer or further away from some kind of big trade war with the united states? i think china is likely to read trump's remarks as a friendly gesture. i think both countries were caught off—guard by the escalation. from beijing's point of view it has practised constraint by announcing its retaliation in three weeks after trumps threat of new tariffs. but of course with so many signs of a us economy crisis, back home, president trump cannot afford to look weak. today, the mood music has changed a little bit. after the call between the two countries, trump has extended an olive branch to china. this will be in the interest of china's well with its 70th anniversary approaching on the first october, china would want to cool down the trade tension a little bit. there was an interesting
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question thrown at donald trump during the course of his press conference. which was essentially an accusation that mr trump kept changing what he wanted. he would say one thing, come back again, that creates uncertainty in the markets. his response is simple. that is the way i negotiate, he said. i wonder whether beijing now feels like it has sort of got the run of the trump negotiating stance. are they still bewildered? i think anyone can be billed by trump's negotiating. in the past 24 hours of the story coming from the white house, trump has changed three or four times. so beijing is still learning. thank you very much. it has been quite a couple of days. let us pick up on some of the more memorable moments. including this novel aerial shot of the roundtable meeting. prime ministerjohnson
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and donald tusk sharing a joke. looks like something out of star trek. or a centrifugal force. prime ministerjohnson and donald tusk sharing a joke. that handshake between president trump and indian prime minister narendra modi. captions for these pictures. and here angela merkel stands out as the only female leader in attendance. how many are there, david? 23 men, and one woman. the year, folks, 2019. thank goodness angela merkel is still in office for the moment. he was asked about that, president trump. was he conscious there was only one woman leader and that she
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may not be there at next year's g7, he said you never know what will happen. but if she goes, we have lost the head of the imf, and theresa may has gone, it could be down to none. leaders at the g7 summit have also been discussing climate change — or at least most of them have. emmanuel macron chaired a session on climate and bio—diversity, but donald trump was a no—show. g7 leaders have announced a $22 million support fund to help protect the amazon from forest fires. the money will go toward fire fighting aircraft. at a summit set up to deal with global economics the amazon blazes forced climate change to the front of the agenda. in biarritz, mr trump called himself an environmentalist, but he has been out of step with other world leaders on the severity of climate change
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and how to tackle it. indeed, today the president chose to skip the discussions about climate. which left mr macron to take the lead in announcing the new fund. over in brazil, the reaction to the g7 funding has been mixed. our correspondent will grant is in the amazon rainforest in the state of rondonia. the $22 million promised by the g7 nations to help tackle the fires here in brazil is welcomed by environmental campaigners in this country. but most would say it doesn't go anywhere nearfar enough in terms of the scale of the problem. there are still somewhere around 75,000 fires. raging across brazil. there has been a joint operation launched here by the brazilian government. the government ofjair bolsonaro. and this involves the military, the firefighters, and the environment ministry. protesters say it is woefully undermanned and it is late and slow.
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of course, jair bolsonaro himself has not welcomed the money. he continues to be in confrontation with g7 leaders, saying why do they want to help the amazon? why have they got their eyes on the amazon. what do they want out of it? no one helps anyone except a poor person unless they want something in return. and that alone i think it shows the degree to which the two sides are at odds. for more on the situation there i spoke to one of our reporters from bbc brasil, nathalia passarinho. she's been getting the latest from the brazilian government. well, ijust spoke with the environment minister, ricardo salles, and he said that brazil will accept the offer of the 20 million. and it came somewhat as a surprise because president jair bolsonaro had just tweeted a few hours before this interview that he thought president emmanuel macron was acting as if...
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treating brazil as a colony or a no man's land by suggesting that rich countries should save the amazon and by discussing this issue in a meeting, in the g7, without brazil's participation. it has got very personal, as we know, with insults flying around, even about each other‘s wives and things, not very nice from a macron and bolsonaro perspective. what about the fact that donald trump didn't even turn up for the climate discussions? i am presuming in some sense, mr bolsonaro will be quite pleased about that. well, yes, president jair bolsonaro, as we know, has become very close to president donald trump in the past months. well, the united states said it was concerned by the fires in brazil but at the same time, president donald trump called president bolsonaro to offer to represent brazil's opinion during the g7 summit. so, yes, i do believe that president bolsonaro might think that this could seem like somewhat
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of support, even though it is not spoken and so clearly said, but it might be understood as support coming from donald trump. nathalia, quickly, give us an update on what is happening in brazil with the fires. i know they have been using military aircraft. have there been more fires, less fires? what is the status? well, the environment minister said that there has been, there has been a bit of rain in the region, so that has helped, but there are plenty of fire outbreaks still out there and we are not sure by now the extent of the damage, how many animals and plants were destroyed by the fires. we have 44,000 armed forces, armed men and women in the amazon region. six aeroplanes are being used with water tanks to battle the fire, but the situation is still very difficult there.
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we will carry on covering the story as it develops. joe walsh helped get donald trump elected in 2016. now he wants to make sure he's not elected again in 2020. the former congressman is the 2nd republican to announce he's running republican to announce he's running against the president in next year's election. it's an extremely long shot bid, there's little indication that republican voters are prepared to ditch mr trump in favour of someone else. but mr walsh said mr trump is a bully who is unfit for office and therefore he has to give it a shot. he had this tweet. and then he had this to say to abc news. we've never had a situation like this. you can't believe a word he says. and again, i don't care your politics, that should concern you. he's nuts! he's erratic, he's cruel. he stalks bigotry.
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he stokes bigotry. he is incompetent. he doesn't know what he's doing. george, he is a narcissist. we know what he thinks about young trump. but i think it would be a goodidea trump. but i think it would be a good idea to ask you what you think ofjoe walsh. good idea to ask you what you think ofjoe walsh. i good idea to ask you what you think of joe walsh. i had good idea to ask you what you think ofjoe walsh. i had a good idea to ask you what you think of joe walsh. i had a chance to speak to him this morning and i'd ask him about this idea that he has floated that he says lots of republicans have said to him in private, something they will not say in public, which is that they have similar views about president trump to him. and if it is time somebody challenged him. but actually, this is what i asked him, if you look at his approval ratings in the republican party, they are up at 85, 90%. so either those republicans are lying to pollsters or they are lying tojoe walsh or not as many of them asjoe walsh is making out. it is going to be very, very hard for anyone to run against donald trump. maybe he is doing this as a protest.
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maybe he is doing this as a protest. maybe he is doing this as a protest. maybe he is doing it as an attention grabber to the idea there is opposition in the republican party do donald trump. he is a real conservative, a tea party conservative, a tea party conservative, a tea party conservative, a fiscal conservative. he does not like present putin, i was not convinced by what he told me about how many republicans there are who are prepared to vote against donald trump. i think you nailed it in the first point. they will say things publicly that they will not say privately. dozens of wildfires have forced tourists to evacuate from hotels and beaches in greece. officials said around 700 firefighters were deployed as the fires spread, fanned by strong winds and dry conditions. one of the worst fires — on the island of samos, forced authorities to transfer people from several hotels. a hong kong police officer fired a gunshot during protests on sunday —
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the first time a live round has been used since demonstrations broke out injune. police used water cannon against protesters for the first time earlier in the day. police said 36 people had been arrested as a result of sunday's protests, the youngest aged just 12. hollywood producer, harvey weinstein, has pleaded not guilty to a new indictment against him. weinstein appeared at new york state court in manhattan. the producer's criminal trial has been delayed to january. he's already pleaded not guilty to charges including rape and sexual assault. scientists say a vast raft of volcanic rocks stretching over 58 through the pacific ocean. the sea of pumice — the size of 20,000 football fields — was first reported by australian sailors earlier this month. pumice is a bubble—rich rock that can float in water — it's produced when lava goes through rapid cooling and loss of gases.
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now, we've all heard of herd mentality but this group of cows in the uk have taken it to a new level. watch them jump over the white line in the middle of the road as they cross over to a new field. extraordinary! there were two in the back we did not do it put all the othersjump back we did not do it put all the others jump over it. i back we did not do it put all the othersjump over it. i am back we did not do it put all the others jump over it. i am fascinated by it, i could watch it all day. forget sheep! there we go. our random bit of fun video for you. this is beyond 100 days from the bbc. coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news — we'll have the latest from g7 and the british prime minister's
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chances of getting a deal past parliament and the eu before the end of october. and a hundred years since the first scheduled flight took off, imagine taking one where you don't need to pack any clothes — because they're made for you en route, and your meals are ‘cooked' on a 3—d printer! what a scorcher of a weekend. temperatures hitting 33 celsius for the south—east of england. similar to what we saw on sunday afternoon. it has been drawn in from the new continent by this area of high pressure. cooler heirlooms across the north atlantic behind this cold front where there will be some rain too. slowly as the week wears on, this cool air will continue to push its way eastwards with temperatures returning close to the seasonal norm but there will also be some rain around and also some thunderstorms i had of that cold front as it bumps into the hot—air. certainly a change
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over the next few days. let's start by looking at tonight. it will be another clear and pretty warm and muqqy another clear and pretty warm and muggy one across central, southern and eastern england. further west, the weather front will bring outbreaks of rain to the far west of scotland, northern ireland, perhaps not wales and west of england. temperatures 17 or 18 degrees. tuesdayis temperatures 17 or 18 degrees. tuesday is the last day of the hot and sunny weather, certainly for the eastern half of england. for the rest will have more outbreaks of rain, western scotland and northern ireland. south—west england will become more widespread, into northern england. perhaps a few in the midlands. temperatures 26—31 degrees, not quite as hot as sunday and monday. as we head through tuesday night, these thunderstorms could be quite pokey as they bring torrential downpours as they pushed north. all tied in with this weather front which will continue to journey
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eastwards as we reach wednesday. looking out across the atlantic, couple of weather systems waiting in the wings. this is wednesday. a lot more cloud around. outbreaks of rain for scotland, much of north and west england and wales. skies will brighten up across northern ireland and western scotland later. i had of the weather front it will be hot and sunny but there could be a few thunderstorms breaking out from the heat. 2a—27 or 28 in east anglia. cooler for the north and west. that is the theme as we end the week. outbreaks of rain, blustery showers wilton breezy but feel cool and fresh.
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this is beyond 100 days. with me katty kay in washington, david eades is in london our top stories, at the g7 summit — president trump says the us and china will "very shortly" resume trade talks after a weekend of escalating tension with beijing. meanwhile british prime minister borisjohnson claims it is the job of "everybody in parliament" to deliver brexit. also on the g7 agenda, iran, will president trump meet president rouhani? we'll hear from the chairman of the advocacy group that seeks to prevent tehran from fulfilling its nuclear ambitions. coming up in the next half hour: from wearable seats to customized food, we visit an exhibition charting the future of air travel. plus, the public art project that's seen president trump's contraversial tweets stitched into delicate embroidery.
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g7 leaders closed their summit today with a discussion of world problems including fires ravaging the amazon rainforest, but the weekend was overshadowed by talk over the us's relationship with three countries not in attendance, china, iran, and russia. the summit in biarritz, a beachgoers' paradise in southwestern france, saw a shift of focus to us—iranian relations today when the president said he would be open to meeting iran's president hassan rouhani under the right circumstances. he also said that he would support the president putin being readmitted to the group in time for next year's summit which the united states is hosting. we're joined now by elisabeth bumiller, washington bureau chief of the new york times. we were saying earlier in the
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programme, it's better than last year, he did not leave early and he did sign the memorandum. do you think that president trump and his g7 partners two and a half years and have come to a mode of figuring how to deal with each other to get the best out of a situation? it's hard to know. anyone attending this summit would have had whiplash, said to me within the united states watching trump go from position to position in the course of a few highways and reversing himself again. i think the leaders are waiting trump out. i think they are waiting trump out. i think they are waiting to see what happens in the election and until then they have to race this is very unusual president of the united states to his unpredictable as we saw today and he was all over the map on china and first he called the president and enemy and then he said he was going to rethink his position on the ta riffs to rethink his position on the tariffs and he said no, that tariffs should have been higher and then
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today once again just before the stock market went up he said he wa nted stock market went up he said he wanted to have talks and he received some communication from china which of course did jamie said it was not the case. >> it's as you say it very hard to keep up. it's very hard for foreign leaders to keep up. i was interested to see president trump in his relationship with emmanuel macron because there was a lot there mr trump could not have been happy about, being ambushed for lunch, the iranian foreign minister turning up, mr trying to talk about climate change but then mr trump has this ability to be funny, take a listen to this. we had a lunch that lasted for quite a while that many of you got to see it was the two of us. he was not trying to impress his people, i was not trying to oppress its people. we mayjust trying to impress each other. lots of hugs,
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lots of shaking hands, he has disability when he wants to turn on the time. he does it with micron, we saw that when the was visiting the united states. i think foreign leaders know how to deal with things to flatter him and tell him how interesting his ideas are entered as a team seriously. that goes along way with trump, that makes them feel good, that's what happened in that lunch despite as you say that lunch despite as you say the defences, the president does not even attend the climate meeting with all the other a g summit leaders attended and he was not happy with that about seeing them there but he says now he wants to meet, its head spinning. you talk about head spinning.“ to meet, its head spinning. you talk about head spinning. if that's it's of course his opportunity next year as host to lay out the
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choreography and also possibly to choose at the venue. let's just have an little lesson because he seems very interested in his own set up just outside miami. having lived in miami is fantastic. really fantastic. having it in that particular place because of the way it's set up, each country can have their own data by their own bungalow. it's very important to me only five minutes from the airport. the airport is right next to it. sounds very convenient. this is president trump sounding like the real estate developer he was. he does that sound like a president, he sounds like a guy who has got a nice piece of property and he would like to have the g7 next year. he also said look, i will not make any money here, he complained in the same press conference , here, he complained in the same press conference, he estimated he must be as president, we'll never know for sure if that's true but i was there used to hearing sound
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like, on standby resort i think there's all sorts of conflicts of interest here but certainly trump would like to show up. thank you very much. well as we've mentioned, one of the key topics at the g7 was iran's nuclear programme. president macron‘s invitation to foreign minister zarif to attend talks on the sidelines of the larger meeting certainly raised eyebrows. and of course there was mr macron‘s suggestion that president trump meet with iran's president rohani. for more on that prospect we are joined now by former us senator and democratic vice presidential candidate joe lieberman who is now chair of united against nuclear iran. thank you forjoining us. do you think it would be a good idea for mr trump to meet president well soon?|j have trump to meet president well soon?” have and a condition to eat or a suggestion. basically, in our organisation i myself think the
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president has followed the correct choice with regard to irani, broke out of the previous nuclear agreement which i think was not strong enough. he has put maximum pressure on the iranians. the question now is this the time to sit down to try to renegotiate and write a that nuclear agreement? if it is then, i want to suggest to the president that he not accept meetings with president mohanty, the real decision—maker in iran is the supreme leader who has met with president putin. he has met with president putin. he has met with president shee of china. president trump obviously deserves to have a meeting at that level, if the iranians are not willing to have the supreme leader and meet with our president than i think the president ought to send vice president tends to meet with mohanty. do you think
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the sanctions have pushed iran to the sanctions have pushed iran to the point where they are in good faith prepared to negotiate with the united states now? that's a very important question. i think the sanctions have really hurt the economy. unfortunately the iranian people there is a lot of unsettled feeling within a run toward the regime. whether it's enough it's been creek —— key question that president trump and his administration has to decide. if it's enough then it's time to try to engage in direct thoughts and renegotiate the nuclear agreement. it could help president trump decide. >>i decide. >> i know you are keen to talk about theissue >> i know you are keen to talk about the issue that put up last week. donald trump pitching in with his view, seeking to go to asia —— bind
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them now, something which donald trump setting the support that at the time. also sure that's a good idea. i am not at all, i was surprised, offended, by what the congressman said about dues at different times. particularly i think she's made some of the most anti—semitic remarks and elected official could make but the members official could make but the members of congress newly elected —— elected i think it was a big mistake for israel which is a great democracy, there's all sorts of dissent and is ready politics to have shut them out of israel so i hope that position changes after the israeli elections which are coming up in september. let's have a listen to donald trump
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himself on the issue. i want to bring this into the equation as well. i think any jewish people that voted for a democrat, i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. my point would be best. given the vast majority of support within the jewish community is directed at the democrats. does this all backfire now on donald trump aren't does he still have a worthwhile mission to pursue here? i don't know whether, to me it was a very harmful statement in this sense. american support for israel has remained profoundly bipartisan even hardly anything else. but i think the basic assumption of this statement, don't
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represent a democratic party with the democratic party with regard to israel. with a guide to their support of boycotts and sanctions of israel, a vote for the house a few weeks ago, 90% of the democrats voted against the blade cut sanctions movement. so, here is what i worry about it president trump us by statement. it begins to make partisan relationship that has been bipartisan because israel and the us share values and now the targets of islamic terrorism and extremism. you mentioned the congress and he said they came up with some of the most anti—semitic themes you have heard. but when you hear president trump say it would be disloyal for a
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jewish militaries in america, week was the other way he used to support the democratic party. doesn't that smack of anti—semitism to you as well? questioning the loyalty and the patriotism of jewish well? questioning the loyalty and the patriotism ofjewish voters? president trump actually clarified, i was troubled by the original use of the word loyalty by the president and he clarified in the second go around that is meant loyalty to israel. but you know, this is the point. dues are loyal to america and american values and dues are not homogenous in their points of views. so why do so many dues vote for the democratic party? because they see it as that party of social justice. which incidentally is part of being jewish in my opinion. those values that came from sinai are fundamental to what it means to bejewish and
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that's alongside for some of the israel but for others in thejewish community, israel is not a priority issue for them and that's the diversity of opinion within our community. we have to get back to the g7. boris johnson refused to be drawn on whether he would be willing to suspend parliament to suspend parliament in order to stop a no—deal brexit in two a no—deal brexit in two months' time, as opposition parties and backbench rebels plan to meet tomorrow to discuss ways to do just that. mrjohnson did say that it wasn'tjust the general public that is sick of brexit, but also eu leaders, who just want negotiations to be over. i think that this is really a matter for parliamentarians to get right ourselves. we asked the people to vote on whether to stay in or to leave the eu, they voted, overwhelmingly, substantially, to leave, by a big majority.
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parliament vowed several times to reflect and respect that mandate. and i think people have just about had enough of this conversation. i'm joined now by our political correspondent nick eardley. i'm sure that's affected by some of the conversations borisjohnson may have had but where do we stand now on perhaps by care and some of the plucking going on around trying to create another majority, a different majority the challenge boris johnson? it's intense, does condensation have been going on throughout the summer break, and they'll come to something of a head tomorrow but opposition mps gather tomorrow but opposition mps gather to discuss exactly how they're going to discuss exactly how they're going to stop no deal. the truth is we don't have a strategy at the moment, i suspect borisjohnson is rubbing his hands with glee at the fact that
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they're spending as much time disagreeing with each other as they are disagreeing with him. his message is a quite different one. it's been a firm and they can't stop me if! it's been a firm and they can't stop me if i want to take the uk out without idea. the 31st of october, what is not clear is how far you heard it in the crib, how far boris johnson will go to make that happen and what the strategy the other parties could agree on to stop it. we have gone from being a million to one of the chances for of brexit to now deal brexit being touch and go. is there a feeling the prime minister has gone to europe, spoken with european leaders, heard the message of the that —— that it's on him to come up with workable solution to the irish backstop and that's not going to be possibly between now and october 31. i wonder if the million to one no deal slightly regretting always seems
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like a slight exaggeration at the time. and nuance that language basically saying it's touch and go. we are not sure if were going to be able to get this new deal. he is trying his best to put the pressure but they are backing it back at him and say activity you that has got to sort this. i don't think there's been any meaningful progress in the talks last week or so with european leaders. yes the fact that the compensation is positive, it's good news for boris johnson, that compensation is positive, it's good news for borisjohnson, that means if you can come up with a solution in are willing to listen but the fundamentals are still the same. borisjohnson won't pass the deal as it stands. european leaders aren't willing to reconsider the idea until there is something concrete on the table that would replace it. so at the moment there is still that mexican standoff. this is beyond 100 days. still to come, forget small
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trays of inedible nosh, how about personalised food that's been printed on board. we'll look at the future of flying. it been the hottest late august bank holiday on record in the uk. temperatures rose to more than 33 degrees celsius in west london — beating the previous record of 28 degrees two years ago. richard lister has more. it's europe's biggest street party, and this year the notting hill carnival was hotter than ever. over the past two days over a million people danced their way through temperatures in the 30s. officially, today's temperature record was broken rather more quietly here at tibenham in norfolk. the thermometer here hit 28.6 celsius. in frinton and nearby resorts in essex, beach—goers were undeterred by a possible
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contamination issue that made 150 people seek medical attention yesterday after swimming in the sea. today they couldn't get enough of it. fantastic, yes. i've never been here before, so... yes, in england. there was loads of space on the beach. just a gorgeous day. the official advice on a stretch of coast is still don't go in the water because of the contamination scale but you can see how much notice people are taking of that. with no problems reported, most people in frinton are more concerned about staying cool. these lake swimmers had the same thought in bradford. the temperatures were not record—breaking everywhere in the uk, but hot enough. and just what the organisers of the reith show in north yorkshire had been hoping for. a prize—winning bank holiday monday. around the country people made the most of the last public holiday before christmas. from sand castles in sunderland, to ice skates, to in regent's park in london where for some sun—seekers it was a
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little bit too hot. cambridge, where a new rink opened with perfect timing. it is a day that ended with sunburn for some and plenty of sand in the car, too, but bank holidays don't get much better, or hotter, than this. richard lister, bbc news, frinton on sea. imagine a flight where you don't need to pack any clothes — because they're made for you en route; where your meals are ‘cooked' on a 3—d printer; and where the plane itself has a coating of algae to provide water — and power — on board. they are some of the extraordinary ideas to emerge from a special study on display at the saatchi gallery here in london , as we mark exactly 100 years since the very first scheduled flight took off. one propeller, one pilots, one passenger. the well‘s first scheduled flight was converted into
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a bomber carrying a newspaper, devonshire cream, jam, and grass. a bomber carrying a newspaper, devonshire cream, jam, and grassm course for future members they changed over a hundred years of scheduled flight but the changes seem to be growing all the time. here is an example of what our flights could look like about 100 yea rs flights could look like about 100 years from now. from seeking to eating, to heating, this is a projection by students at the royal couege projection by students at the royal college of arts, and to every step ofa college of arts, and to every step of a very distantjourney. college of arts, and to every step of a very distant journey. we would have this scheme it's on my site we are inside a leaf of chloroplast which will be able to photosynthesize and generate energy for onboard use. and in addition, you'll be able to clean air inside the cabin from pastors exceeding conducts. what will you eat onboard the facts of the future? to explain thatis the facts of the future? to explain that is yourjob it does not look like food to me. this is taking account of your dna data, your
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health status and also is extremely printed which we can do during your fight. . this is one of the beams of our lives, lugging that stuff around wherever we go. what are they going to do that over the course of the next 100 years? essentially as soon as you buy a ticket from that. you could see where we start thinking —— printing off your clothing for you. almost like a0 printed clothing. so a good and soft materials around us and it's all packed up for you nice and it's all packed up for you nice and neat and be ready for you at your destination so you don't have to carry as much. this display is more than a flight of fancy it's a possible world is driven by the imagination and technology. that's just the way it started. this is an accurate division of air travel in the future. i want to live a bit longer. hypersonic travel around the
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world and zero carbon emissions and the food you want to eat and no luggage to worry about. that is great travel. this beeper is ready for acceleration to hypersonic speed captain. i love that. just hang on about 80 to 100 years it will be fine. so not for you and me pam. for to 100 years it will be fine. so not foryou and me pam. for our children, children possibly. president trump is known for his unique use of language. whether it's his tweets or at a rally, the former reality tv star knows how to make an impression. and that proved a challenge to american artist diana waymar, who wanted to find a way of relating to the current political atmosphere. so she began knitting mr trump's words.
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and she invited others to do the same. the resulting collection is on display in a new york city gallery, and the bbc went for a look. it has been so incredible to see people come into to sit still or to literally walk into a space that is sort of a, i was inspired injanuary 2018 to stitch the words i'm a very sta ble 2018 to stitch the words i'm a very stable genius into an inherited piece of needlepoint. i think at that point i haven't found a way to process the language which is being used and such and he was not following on twitter very close —— closely. i set a goal engaging in us politics. but it very quickly ramped up politics. but it very quickly ramped up to three or four pieces a week
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and then it pretty much by six months later i could not possibly keep up. the response to the exhibition has been pretty amazing. they talk about when they remember hearing which quotes and they look for their friends pieces. one hearing which quotes and they look for theirfriends pieces. one piece at ten to show people when it's in the exhibit it's that that's going to ever happen to puerto rico is president trump and at the —— first glance it appears to be stitched into the fabric like the rest of the pieces but when you look more closely you realise she stitch this quote into the square piece of paper towel. when you look at something and you see each individual state you are forced to wonder about the person who made it and then wonder how they would impact with what they are stitching and in many cases
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people i stitching words they find challenging and upsetting and i think when we are in that space you can see the contradictions and you can see the contradictions and you can see the contradictions and you can see them because we know it's been made by a person who has given, it's made a commitment with what they are hearing and what they feel about it. that is one way to deal with donald trump with every morning. before we before we go we have to pay to say on this programme, we are losing our editor. you'll see us on the programme every day but it is here standing there with us who brings this programme to you and has done for the last few months. she has been a fantastic editorfor months. she has been a fantastic editor for beyond months. she has been a fantastic editorfor beyond 100 months. she has been a fantastic editor for beyond 100 days. months. she has been a fantastic editorfor beyond 100 days. we have loved working with her. sadly, we are losing her to the world of medicine. she is going bravely to become a medical student. we are hoping she never had to treat christian and i because i have a
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suspicion that christian would not bea suspicion that christian would not be a very good patient. in fact i know he would not be a very good patient. we will miss you so much. thank you for everything you have done for the programme over the last few months. we will see you all tomorrow, goodbye. for many of us it's been a bank holiday weekend. what a scorcher of a weekend. a record—breaking hot late august bank holiday temperatures is again hitting the 33 celsius mark across the southeast of england. the heat has been drawn in from the continent by this area of high pressure. cooler heirlooms across the north atla ntic cooler heirlooms across the north atlantic behind this cold front where they will be some rain as well. very slowly this week where is on this cooler air will continue to push its way eastwards and temperatures some thunderstorms i had of that cold front as it bums into the hot air. i changed over the
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next few days, let's look at tonight where it will be another clear and pretty warm and muggy one across england further west we have that weather front bringing outbreaks of rain to the far west of scotland and northern ireland and a few showers into south wales and southwest of england and 1718 degrees in the capital. tuesday is the last day of the hot and sunny one sartini for the hot and sunny one sartini for the eastern half of england, further west we'll have more clout outbreaks of rain and showers may be thunderstorms across outlets and then becoming more widespread between night and lives in weston england ten —— 26 to 31 degrees across the southeast not quite as hot as sunday and monday. as he had to tuesday night the showers and thunderstorms could bring you some torrential downpour it's as they pushed northwards across southwest of wales and northern england and scotland. all tied in with this weather front as he looked out across the atlantic a couple of
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weather systems in fact waiting in the wings. this is when's picture a lot more clout around, outbreaks of rainfor lot more clout around, outbreaks of rain for scotland into much of northern and western england and wales and the skies will brighten up across scotland later on and ahead of that weather find a will still be quite hot and sunny and thunderstorms breaking out in the heat 2a through 27 or 28 across east anglia but cooler high teams celsius for the northwest. that is the theme as the end the week i will see outbreaks of rain and press to shower and it will turn breezy.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 20:00: the prime minister says he's marginally more optimistic about striking a brexit deal after meeting g7 leaders in france — saying it's the job of everyone in parliament to deliver on time. i think people have just about had enough of this conversation and i think they're yearning for a moment when brexit comes off the front pages, but that can only happen when we come out of the eu on october the 31st. leaders at the summit pledge $22 million to help tackle the devastating fires in the amazon rainforest. the $22 million promised by the g7 nations to help tackle the fires here in brazil is welcomed by environmental campaigners in this country, but most would say it doesn't go anywhere near far enough. the largest earthquake thought to be caused by a fracking site in the uk
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