williamson seems to me to be making a very unsubtle bid for power himself.t nonsense he said the russia, for them to shut up and go away, it's the best moment i've ever seen from richard made it on tv. he cut them off on good morning britain. he said he has gotten more praise for that than anything he's donein praise for that than anything he's done ina praise for that than anything he's done in a 30 years. he was frustrated because kevin williamson wasn't giving an answer. anyway, to get back to the actual story, williamson is pushing for a greater increase in the mod's budget. theresa may and philip hammond have said waita theresa may and philip hammond have said wait a minute, the nature of wa rfa re said wait a minute, the nature of warfare has changed, and the chief of staff is now saying that the biggest threat is the cyber threat, particularly from russia, and we should be pouring more money into that, not conventional... there's a problem here, because five years ago, within recent years we were talking about changing our defence strategy to fund the

a perfect opportunity to be as unsubtle as possible. these guys say, that laptop looks great, i'll put that down my shorts even though they're standing right in front of the shop shopkeeper. it's brzezinski -- it's brazil, we see this happen all the time. a pat on the back, thanks, man, no worries. the reason being the shopkeeper stayed calm and essentially said, look, mate, we've got cameras, you're going to get caught and arrested, i wouldn't if i were you. and the thieves were like, yeah, all right, and gave the stuff back and left, in 15 seconds it goes from being robbery to, oh, my bad, thanks for the advice, we'll go do something else. a second video from brazil. this woman is inside the lobby area of her building. everybody is cool. you're standing right outside your building. you're waiting for your car to turn up. and then you're just not safe. two guys in a motor bike see an easy target. she tries to fight back but they rip off her handbag, take her suitcase, and while you're still standing outside your building, they've taken

and that's an indication that perhaps next week the weather will turn just that little bit more unsubtleettled. a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. another blow to the high street as house of fraser says it plans to close more than half of its stores with the loss of around 6000 jobs. of its stores with the loss the of its stores with the loss government has releaset position the government has released a position paper which states the temporary backstop arrangement to prevent a hard border between northern ireland and the republic should not continue beyond december 20 21. more on that on the bbc news channel but now it's time for the bbc news where you are. goodbye. good afternoon, it's 1:32pm, here is your latest sports news. rafael nadal has completed his comeback against diego schwartzman to reach the semi—finals of the french open. one set down overnight, after their match was interrupted by rain, nadal was a different player in the paris sunshine and only dropped four more games as he took the next three sets. he'll face the winner of the match currently on court between

and this is unsubtle what the president's doing. >> woodruff: we're a year and a half in.d term sleaze and stain, and that bings me to the -- david, the -- i guess -- i don't know -- conversation this week about what initially started as esseanne bar tweeting something racist toward ent obama's former top aide valerie jarret, roseanne barr was fired b her note work pand then you had samana bee -- then you hadhe white house saying -- well, there have been all these insults directed at the president. where's our apology? where are the firings there?th samantha bee comedian, had something pretty awful to say about the president's daughter, ivanka, so bad we ca't repeat it here on the "newshour." are we in some kind of ck and mud in this country now in terms of our language and course racist and the rest of it? >> i hope we're trying to drags ourselt of the muck. we've been in the muck for a while. the caused by social media. it's caused by diffe tnt standards than used to exist. it's caused had part by donald trump setting new norms about what can be said and then trump's cri

and i do think that was an unsubtle message, a message of disapproval, but clearly to the extent he felt that way, it wasn't enough to keep him on the court at a time where the president can now seek to capitalize on his decision. >> an excellent point. joshua, thank you so much for hopping on the phone with me and talking about justice kennedy. again, if you are just tuning in, we have now learned and i have a letter now in high hand that justice kennedy has written to president trump as of today, announcing his retirement from the u.s. supreme court effective july 31 of this year. so kaitlan collins, she is our white house reporter with a little bit of news from that end of washington. what do you have? >> reporter: it turns out the white house is just as surprised as the rest of us by this news that kennedy is coming in to retire. they digesting it. but president trump who just greeted the president of portugal says he will speak more on this in a few minutes. the reporters who go in for that spray to see the two leaders sitting down next to each other in the oval office are in the ov

have a look, not the most unsubtle of handballs.th american team. there was a first win for an african team at the tournament too, as senegal beat poland 2—1 after a bad backpass, then an error from former arsenal keeper wojciech szczesny. that allowed them to win. and are theses the most considerate football fans in the world? the senegalese supporters cleaning up the senegalese supporters cleaning up after themselves having watched their team win. if everyone was as considerate as that, wouldn't the world be a better place? louise and i will be watching carefully to make sure your coffee cup is being taken away. i do try. from the most tidy to the team having the most fun — england and their inflatable unicorns! proof that england continue to do things a little differently at this world cup. unicorn racing part of their recovery at their tarining base following that 2—1 win over tunisia on monday. the players have got a day off today ahead of their second group match against panama on sunday. lam the i am the owner of a giant infl