the electoral commission is happy with the way it is being dealt with but what happens after the electiontes have gone missing in one of the most marginal seats in the country, plymouth, sutton and devonport? the election result could only be revisited with a court order and a court order would only come after an election petition had been lodged. court ordering a fresh election is the very worst case scenario. for now, a very the very worst case scenario. for now, a very simple system has turned into an unusually messy one. 0n tulsen tollett and welcome to sport today. coming up on this programme: —— i'm tulsen. rain accounts for four hours of play on a disrupted day at the french 0pen. england are into the semi finals of the icc champions trophy after an 87—run win over new zealand. and a day of high adventure and near misses at sea during the america's cup qualifying in bermuda. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the weather in paris, strangely enough. just the two women's french open quarter—finals took place at roland garros on tuesday as both men's last eight ma

in april, the electoral commission launched an investigation into leave.otentially impermissible donations, saying it had reasonable grounds to investigate whether the law had been broken. but now, in his first on—camera interview addressing this interview, cambridge analytica's ceo claims his company never in fact did any work on brexit for any of the campaigns. i'd like to think we've been pretty clear about this and consistantly clear over the last year or so that we had absolutely no involvement in the leave campaign — we did not do any paid or unpaid work for brexit. why did you initially say you had? well, actually, that was reallyjust an example of the cart pulling the horse. we had a slightly overzealous pr adviser, who released a press statement. you also had a colleague at the launch of leave.eu's campaign. that's correct, yes. you were still saying you weren't working for them, you didn't do any work for them. that's absolutely correct. so, what were you doing there? we were exploring the possibility of working with them, as we were with actuall

we can safely say that virtually nobody is going to be shocked at the announcement of electoral commission. navalny himself, his team, his his detractors, alexei navalny has said that the this -- these call-up proceedings have come back to the fore in recent times kremlin thehe option of not allowing him to run in the presidential 2018.ons of in march next year. an ongoing legal saga that started in 2013 with his first embezzlement, which he labeled then as being way relatednd in no to reality. the european court of human rejected that court 2016, but that was reinstated at the start of this year, as you said, in february. was appealed in may. so a long-going legal saga that said is really tied to political reasons. does this mean for navalny? is this the end of the road then ambitions,sidential am do you think? >> well, we've heard nothing navalny himself. he's halfway through a 25-day jail sentence. organizing unauthorized protests against corruption, where well 1500,000 people were arrested. this is a man who has been the country, opening campaign headquarters in across russia. drumming

the electoral commission says it is happy with the way it is being dealt with.inal seats in the country. the election result can only be revisited with a court order and a court order would only come after an election petition had been lodged. this is a very worst case scenario but for now, a very simple system has turned into an unusually messy one. anna varle with that report. round two of the papers is coming up at first, the weather news. the good news for tomorrow is weakened or to the raincoats and brollies away and it is looking more promising with sunshine on the way and filling warmer. today this were the effects — reports of trees coming down, gusts of wind, a really 319 " day and i as i “e 35; 319 " day a‘ rain as “15:55" 472,177, ' " 319 " day a‘ rain as 1‘ down “ffw‘w w ,, 319 " day a‘ rain as 1‘ down across w w ,, parts of the country. still many parts of the country. still some heavy rain across north—eastern areas of england and east of scotla nd areas of england and east of scotland and it will take time for that rain to clear a way. the that rm

i looked at the rules which are issued by the electoral commission on this.llot papers are consigned with the appropriate carrier. if, however, people then say that they have not received them, clearly there is a mechanism for returning officers to issue replacements. although the rules to say that the council, the returning officer, needs to be satisfied as to the identity of the individuals involved and then cites documents like passports and licences which need to be produced. it does sound as if, through no fault of the individuals who are yet to receive their papers, if they then need to the minute applied for a replacement it is a rather more cumbersome process than the initial application postal vote which is intended to make your life easy. the actor, peter sallis, has died at the age of 96. wallace and gromit. nick higham looks back at his life. for more than 30 years, peter sallis played clegg, the mild—mannered, flat—capped philosopher in last of the summer wine. stay. steady. go! much of the series' innocent charm came from peter sallis. yes! this

the way just before we get to the next headline which is about a socialist irish group the electoral commission fact sheet that i go before the general elections and it's an offense of bribery even to bribery includes where someone directly or indirectly gives any money to induce any voter to vote or not vote it's just not counted in the palace of westminster absolutely doesn't count at all not in westminster if i was to give you fifty pounds to vote for me and you could prove it that's a really big no no big big offense but if i give you a billion pounds or hundred million pounds. to stick with my side because i got a majority because i screwed up the general election that's completely allowed you explain it to me after and imperiously jr immediately said my friend my close friend or something in parliament but there is precedent for this because you're afraid i'll be laughing as well because they get the cash too but not this group in your first piece from the daily record it's all connected up yesterday recalled from scotland says militant irish republican group plans scottish rally to recru

we have contacted thanet district council and the electoral commission, and they say craig mackinlay‘l remain on the ballot paper. postal votes have already started. they say that being charged is not a ban on being a candidate. we have is ebay statement from the conservative party, they say that the allegations put before craig mackinlay, his agent nathan grey, and party activist marian little, are unfounded. many thanks. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has launched a strong attack on theresa may over her decision not to sign a letter from european leaders protesting at president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. mr corbyn said it showed mrs may's "silence and subservience" towards the president. but downing street said she'd expressed her "disappointment," and a source said other major countries had refused to sign. meanwhile, in brussels, the eu and china have beenjoining forces, to send a message to the world that they stood by the paris agreement. from brussels, our correspondent damian grammaticas has sent this report. in the fight against global warming,

the electoral commission oversees uk elections.nt to make sure is that local authorities can make the necessary adjustments so that they can be accessed by all. many say that the blind voting templates are not fit for purpose, that they do not work properly. what do you say to that? big improvements have been made to make sure they provide the right to contemplate so that they do fit the ballot paper, and how they will be used in practice so that the polling station staff are familiar with them. the commission wants any problems to be reported. we urge anybody who finds themselves in that position to contact the local authority immediately, so it can be put right. but the way that votes are cast is set in law, something that arik once changed. where brits democracy is campaigning for online voting. first—time voters born in 1991 have known nothing other than a world of facebook, smartphones, social media. with online voting, you wouldn't need assistance, you can use your own equipment in your own home. doesn't online voting leaders

the electoral commission oversees uk elections.horities can make the necessary adjustments, so that they can be accessed by all. many say that the blind voting templates are not fit for purpose, that they do not work properly. what do you say to that? big improvements have been made to make sure they provide the right tactile template so that they do fit the ballot paper, and how they will be used in practice so that the polling station staff are familiar with them. the commission wants any problems to be reported. we'd urge anybody who finds themselves in that position to contact the local authority immediately, so it can be put right. but the way that votes are cast is set in law, something that areeq choudary wants changed. webroots democracy is campaigning for online voting. asha has come to meet him. first—time voters born in 1991 have known nothing other than a world of facebook, smartphones, social media. with online voting, you wouldn't need assistance, you can use your own equipment in your own home. doesn't online voting

we've contacted thanet district council and the electoral commission, and they say craig mackinlay‘s remain on the ballot paper. postal votes have already started. they say that being charged is not a ban on being a candidate. we've is a statement from the conservative party, they say that the allegations put before craig mackinlay, his agent nathan grey, and party activist marion little, are unfounded. that's our correspondence, charlie rose. breaking news to bring you, police in brussels have arrested a man in connection with the november, 2015, attacks in paris. prosecutors have named a 31—year—old man, giving no more detail as to how was related to the attack. mass shootings and bombings in paris in november, 2015, which killed 130 people, and injured hundreds more. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn has launched a strong attack on theresa may over her decision not to sign a letter from european leaders protesting at president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. mr corbyn said it showed mrs may's "silence and subservience" towards the president. but downing stre

the rules are issued by the electoral commission on this. they have not received them, but there is clearly a mechanism for returning officers to issue replacements, the rules do say that the returning officer needs to be satisfied as to the identity of the individuals involved, and then documents like passports and drivers licenses need to be produced. it does sound as if, through no fault of the individuals who have not received their papers, if they then need to, at the last minute, apply for a replacement, it is a rather more cumbersome process than the initial application for a postal vote which is intended to make your lives easier. exactly! martyn oates, it's good to talk to you. thank you. in our plymouth studio. time for a look at the weather, tomasz schafernaker with the details. hello, not a great day for some of us today. in a couple of areas the weather improves tomorrow. evenif areas the weather improves tomorrow. even if rain clears, the winds are going to stay pretty strong. for some of us it will be a very windy day tomorrow

number two he has this commission on electoral integrity. headed up by vice president mike pence. they've been meeting. they're going to issue a report. the commission now has ten members. that is for everything from voter fraud here domestically to possible hacking by foreign governments. he takes very seriously integrity at the ballot box in all of its forms. i have no idea why the obama administration, except that they thought hillary would win and it didn't matter, why they failed to deliver on such an essential, essential duty. they had the prerogative. the duty. they failed to act on russian hacking. >> last day of the supreme court tomorrow. a lot of speculation about justice kennedy. has he said anything to the white house about retirement plans? >> i will never reveal a conversation between the sitting justice and the president or the white house. we're paying very close attention, these last bit of decisions. i can tell you one thing. just as the president did with justice neil gorsuch, when there are vacancies, he'll look to somebody who has fidelity to the constitution

for sean spicer to suggest that some kind of electoral parity commission is going to be the mechanismep the meddling of russia out of our election, i don't think that really is possible. it has to be something much, much more forceful than that. >> shepard: in the white house, what is the thinking on whether president trump should have this meeting in germany with vladimir putin, either two camp camps? >> there are two camps. our people as you say, very concerned that the president would be seen too much in the pocket of russians. remember, but two months ago, that is meeting with the russian foreign minister, and russian investor was trashing james combing and making strange comments about working more closely with the russians. we would just see that all dredged up again in an extended diplomatic exchange with the russians at this point. >> shepard: is it your sense that some of this discussion about who knew what when on russian interference is over, because the president appears to be same, if it is obama's fault, he did not do enough. the president's income i'm just finding out t

the electoral commission has said that being charged is not a ban on being a candidate.inley, his agent, nathan grey and party activist marian little are unfounded. thank you. the headlines on bbc newsroom live. the conservative candidate for south thanet craig mackinlay, along with his agent and a senior tory party official, have been charged with breaking electoral law, related to spending in the 2015 campaign. theresa may is facing criticism for failing to join the leaders of france, germany and italy in condemning president trump's withdrawal from the paris climate deal. police investigating the manchester suicide bombing have evacuated an area in the south of the city after finding a car which they say could be "significa nt to the investigation". let's go back to the bbc sports centre for the latest. all rounder chris woakes has been ruled out of the rest of the champions trophy, due to a side strain sustained in yesterday's win over bangladesh in the opening match of the tournament at the oval. woakes could only manage two overs before the injury. his replacement

number two he has this commission on electoral integrity. headed up by vice president pence. they've been meeting. they're going to issue a report. that is for everything from voter fraud to possible hacking by foreign governments. he takes very seriously integrity at the ballot box in all of its forms. i have no idea why the obamaed a ministraight, except that they thought hillary would win and it didn't matter, why they failed to deliver on the duty, the progress tifr, the the duty. hay 235i8ed to wakt on russian hacking. >> last day of the supreme court tomorrow. a lot of justice kennedy. has he said anything to the white house about retirement plans? >> i will never reveal a conversation like that. just as the president did with justice neil gorsuch, when there are vacancies, he'll look to somebody who has fidelity to the constitution who doesn't make up the law as they go along. and somebody with a record beyond reproach. we hope the next time we can get more than a handful of democratic senators to vote for our nominees. we would like a lot more cooperation from our dem

the presidential election by almost 3 million votes, so he did when he electoral college, he appointed what he calls a commissionn election integrity to be headed byy the kansas .ttorney general kris kobach i was wondering if you could talk about the direction that will go and what donald trump is attempting to do here and what you want to see happen around voting rights.s. >>>> amy, look. i am proud of maryland because back in 2012 when states to the north and south of us, virginia pennsylvania, or heavily invested in passing voting rights laws, we passed laws to expand voting rights laws. kris kobach was out of totouch with marilyn thehen and is now, and so is donald trump who is trying -- one more person who signed up to help kris kobach takeaway the voting rights off our fefellow citizens. make it harder for us to vote when the very idea of our democracy is issue be easy for all of us. -- issue be easy for all of f us to vote. the reality is we have to come together in our states now and decide that rather than bemoaning, if you will, the transferring of powers from the federal government to the states that

demanding not only an independent special counsel but also a special commission and also demanding things like election reform and the electoral college and superdelegates. when they get up to city hall, maxine waters, well known to those here in southern california, but also one of the major anti-trump voices on capitol hill. the hope is that this kicks off a summer of protests but we'll see how that goes and how the counterprotests go. there's more going on in orange county today as well. >> scott, thanks for your report from downtown l.a. ali, over to you in washington. i've been watching you all day long out there. what are you hearing from marchers in d.c.? >> reporter: scott is right. this is how we've been spending our weekends lately. there's been a series of protesters over the past few months since the trump administration came into focus. people are saying that they want transparency from the investigation being waged into the alleged trump collusion and also the idea of him releasing his tax returns. they want general transparency from the administration. maxine waters will be speaking where scott is and we heard f

created theump commission after claiming hillary clinton received millions of illegal votes from noncitizens to help her win the popular vote. she -- she lost to president trump in the electoral college. joe in maryland, line for republicans, go ahead. caller: the one thing i have never heard democrats or republicans mention for people who have long-term health care issues is it is a very simple solution. there are long-term care insurance policies you can buy where you can sit down with an agent and they will figure out what you would need in terms of coverage. the premiums are fairly reasonable. not everybody can afford it, i understand that, but people who are economically in good shape, they don't have to lose all of their assets by paying for if they juste invest in a long-term care policy. their disappointing. neither the democrats or the republicans have mentioned this. it is an easy solution for a lot of people. thank you for listening and hopefully, the congress will wake up and start talking about this as a solution. john: glenn in maryland, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: i am disappointed i missed the conversation that i was kind of hoping that number one i

electoral system. >> the actual hacking. >> the hacking, the altering, maybe, and the dumpings undermine our election. we should have an outside, independent commissionstudy what that is. we have tried to say this is critical infrastructure. the republicans have resisted that. we must protect the elements mechanism of our elections. >> the collusion argument which a lot of democrats state as a fact, like the collusion case. there is no collusion case. we haven't seen any proof. again, i know the investigation is not over. we don't know what evidence they have or don't have. is there some criticism for democrats in seeming to want to force this to impeachment. >> senator schiff, wariner and others are very measured. when i said to members, the only things that matter are the facts, the facts and the law. that's what investigation will reveal to us. i think we have to remove all doubt as the impact of russians in our life. i think it's important the american people to know what did russians have on donald trump politically, financially and personally that he is standing in the way of this legitimate investigation as to russian impact on our election an

commission. but then they go beyond that and they talk about things like election reform, getting rid of superdelegates, getting rid of the electoral college. and the hope was this would be the start of a summer of protests. but again, based on the turnout coming out here, we'll see. it's off to a bit of a slow start. sheinelle. >> scott cohn in los angeles. ali vitali in washington, thank you both. ali, are you ready for us? what can you tell is, ali? >> reporter: well, so around us things have really quieted down. everyone has really dissipated. we're still at the washington monument but a little bit about today. we had about a thousand people out here, multiple speakers, and i think there's a really good picture of why folks are out here for this march and other marches in the past. >> oftentimes people think we come out because we're talking to the president. we're sending a message to members of congress that when you go back to your sdringt, you better be standing up for the right things, saying the right things, voting for the right things or you will be voted out in 2018. so the message here goes way beyond this administrat

i think the american people have lost confidence in the electoral process, and one of the things that can be restored is the commissionc idea. >> almost half the states don't require it. i think that needs to change. stuart: okay. john, thank you very much, indeed. thank you, herb. stay there, we have got more from you. >>> look at this, the u.s. treasury hauled in more than $240 billion in taxes last month. that is a record. get this, however, the federal government could still run a deficit of more than $88 billion for that month of may because of how much they are spending. [laughter] does that make you feel better? >>> two items on health care. today top health officials are meeting at the white house to work on high prescription drug prices, and the senate may vote on an obamacare replacement plan by the end of this month. we also have senator schumer, outreach to top republicans in the senate about health care reform. that's a development, and we'll be back. ♪ ♪ >> big deal today on wall street, and that is amazon buying whole foods. it has affected markets across the board in many different ways, amazon jumping

electoral system. that's one of the reasons he's a vo strong advocate for voter i.d. laws and why he's also put in place a voter integrity commissionhard by the vice president which i think shows the level of importance he's placed on that to make sure that the integrity of all of our elections, particularly moving forward, are as sound and correct as possible. >> so then, thank you, just a broader follow-up on that. so, like i said, this morning, he called the hack a hoax. he hasn't accepted the popular vote tallies and touting job numbers that he used to call fake. he won't tell us where he stands on climate science so i'm wondering why does the president choose to accept certain facts but dispute and reject others. >> i'm not aware that he accepts certain facts. i think we accept all the facts. >> popular vote totals, climate science, you still haven't told us where he stands. >> the president won the election. i don't know why we have to continue debating this. the democrats lost because they didn't have a message. they had a poor candidate. we had a message and the president won. i'm not really sure what fact we're dispute hea

assault on the electoral institutions of our political democracy in 2016 and we've got to prevent it from happening again. e need to have a bipartisan or nonpartisan, independent commission outside of congress to study exactly what happened and to report back to us about what we need to do to build up our defenses so our democracy is as strong as our economy and as our military and so our democratic institutions need to be fortified against subversion, against hacking, against cyberpropaganda and fake news and so on. with that, madam speaker, i'm going to call up and invite the very distinguished congresswoman from seattle, washington, ms. jayapal, who has been an advocate for human rights in the house of representatives since her rrival in january. ms. jayapal: thank you so much, representative raskin, for your leadership in the house. it's been a great honor to special the c.p.c. order hour. since i was the vice chair of the congressional progressive caucus, i will be right here for the special order hours because i do think they are an important opportunity for members to talk about issues all at once and to kind of pick an issue and to focus on it. obviously today we

electorate what they want to do with mandates and what they want to do with brexit. and lastly, this does not translate into leadership abilities. in brussels, when you look at the teams from the european commissionhe european union, they might think she will topple any time, so what kind of authority will she bring to the table? rishaad: what does it mean then for another election? will there be another poll? on top of that, isn't there going to be electoral fatigue? >> yes, and that is an important phenomenon. the next parliamentary election is not scheduled until 2022. i don't think this will happen. i think we will see another in a year or two, or even sooner. because to solve this problem, i fresh mandate will have to be taken from the people. you mentioned the electoral fatigue phenomenon and this is important because britain has traditionally had very stable electoral cycles and now we have moved off that. we have the scottish referendum, the european referendum, the brexit referendum. this year we had a new general election. this tears at the political fabric of political parties in general in britain. we have been trying to work out exactly what happened. i'm sure theresa may and her col

electoral systems? >> i believe the president's tone and the president's disbelief of the evidence is keeping us from unifying. after september 11th, we sought to understand through an independent commissionand what we could do to close them. those were put into place. that's the kind of unity our country needs from our nation's leaders now. >> congressman, we understand and respect your commitment to this investigation and to getting to the truth of what happened last fall publicly so all americans know about it publicly. but why not focus all of these investigations into one? into the mueller investigation which seems to be more independent, less reliant on politics, more focussed. why not do that? >> we want mueller to have all the resources he needs. his job is a criminal probe. as a former prosecutor, i want to stay out of the way of what he has to do so he can have an investigation that's not compromised. our job is to report back in a broader sense to the american people how we were so vulnerable, whether any u.s. persons were involved. but most importantly, as i said, so make the structural changes that are needed so we're never in a position like this again, or to make the americ