it leads with an article on us congress reaching an agreement on a sweeping russia sanctions packageion, and its military aggression in ukraine and syria. let's move on to the china daily, and it says that china and russia are holding their annual joint naval exercises. the paper points out that the exercises are taking place in the baltic sea, and that they are the first of their kind for the chinese navy in europe. and finally, french le figaro devotes some space on its front page to the tour de france. it carries a photo of chris froome, who is holding up a total of four fingers, two on each hand, to signal his fourth win of the cycling competition. now, what are people talking about online? let's looks at what has been trending on bbc.com. more than 10,000 people have marched in the taiwanese capital, taipei, against government attempts to limit the burning of incense and paper money during religious ceremonies. the government has been pushing to end the practices, apparently to fight pollution. the protesters are followers of the taoist religion, and say the practices are a cruc

those hopes were squashed by the us congress last tuesday, when, despite white house objections, it votedmpose new sanctions on moscow for interfering in last november's election, something russia. has always denied. it was the last drop. if the us side decides to move further towards further deterioration, we will answer, we will respond in kind. we will mirror this. we will retaliate. but my call and my whole point is, do not do this. of course, donald trump also denies any collusion with russia in his election, but on a visit to estonia, his deputy was keen to reaffirm the administration has been no soft touch when it comes to moscow. the president has made it very clear that russia's destabilising activities, its support for rogue regimes, its activities in ukraine are unacceptable and the president made it clear that very soon he will sign the sanctions from the congress of the united states to reinforce that. since coming to office, donald trump has made no secret of his desire to improve relations with russia, but with this expulsion and a bill on his desk to approve further sancti

also this hour — white house officials are sending out mixed messages after the us congress agreed onllowing fresh sanctions against russia, intended as punishment for alleged meddling in the presidential election. the new white house communications director said the president was yet to decide whether to sign the bill. but white house press secretary sarah huckabee—sanders, insisted the administration was happy with the final bill. we support whether legislation is now and we will continue working with the house and senate to put those tougher sanctions in place of russia until the situation in ukraine is fully resolved, and it certainly isn't right now —— on russia. on the israeli embassy injordan is in lockdown after two people were killed in a shooting incident. it happened at a residential block used by embassy staff. israel has faced scrutiny after it implemented tougher security at a sensitive jerusalem holy site earlier this week. indian doctors say a tibetan student who set himself on fire in an act of protest against chinese rule has died in hospital. nineteen—year—old tenzi

the first sets of until russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in the us congress is part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. election last year and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between trump and the russian boy in the sky let's go live to new york awful this force the skull of open collar but good to see you again what was said of this hearing that well this was a hearing of the senate judiciary committee and there was a strong anti russian sentiment the star witness was former hedge fund investors bill browder and he testified as if he were a kind of expert on russia and many times members of congress made a point of congratulating him and commanding his courage thanking him for his work etc this is some of what we heard before the judiciary committee. it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals the russians are liars if threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping the russians will do anything they can get away with but even stuff they can't get away with to arrest

as the us congress prepares to question donald trump's family over alleged collusion with russia, the president insists he has the authority to issue pardons for wrongdoing. airline pilots welcome plans to tighten the rules for owners of drones due to concerns over near—misses with passenger planes. also in the next hour — cashing in a cool two million. an amateur player from east yorkshire has wowed the world of poker by finishing fourth in the game's most prestigious tournament. chris froome is on the verge of taking his fourth tour de france title after increasing his lead in today's time trial. and we'll be taking a look at tomorrow's front pages, including the sunday telegraph which reports that more than a0 high—profile female bbc stars have written to the director—general tony hall urging him to act now to close the gender pay gap. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the hospital which is seeking to remove life support from the seriously ill baby, charlie gard, has contacted the police after staff received death threats. great ormond street hospital said doctors and nurses ha

it is now being used well, well beyond what congress intended. there is no question to me. we saw the most recent use of this in regards to activities in syria, certainly had nothing to do with the attack on our country on september 11. that is true, as i said initially about the interpretations under the obama administration and now the trump administration. the iraq aumf is still used for justification for u.s. military operations in iraq 14 years past the u.s. invasion and long after the end of the saddam hussein regime. these aumf's are now becoming near authorities of convenience -- mere authorities of convenience for presidents to conduct military activities anywhere in the world. this is no longer acceptable. two per -- permit -- to permit this to continue is a a dereliction of congress duty to direct and regulate the president's use of his commander and chief authority in activities of war. it is an invasion of our responsibility to the american people to ensure the united states does not stumble into war or involve himself in ill-conceived wars that are not ours to

as the us congress prepares to question donald trump's family over alleged collusion with russia, theauthority to issue pardons for wrongdoing. airline pilots welcome plans to tighten the rules for owners of drones due to concerns over near—misses with passenger planes. also in the next hour — cashing in a cool two million. an amateur player from east yorkshire has wowed the world of poker by finishing fourth in the game's most prestigious tournament. chris froome is on the verge of taking his fourth tour de france title after increasing his lead in today's time trial.

president trump's eldest son could be called to testify in the us congress — over allegations of russianlection. after his latest setback — the us president says the new republican healthcare policy should be to let 0bamacare fail. later today the bbc will publish its annual report, which for the first time, will include details of how much the corporation pays its stars. the government has forced the disclosure, which will affect presenters on salaries of more than 150 thousand pounds. the bbc already publishes full details of executive pay and expenses. 0ur media editor amol rajan reports. they're the faces beamed out and broadcast to the nation on a regular basis, presenting shows that still command an audience of millions. and tomorrow, for the first time, we get a clear indication of how much they are paid. the bbc‘s annual report will include the salaries of all broadcasters paid over £150,000 by the bbc, a result of tense negotiations over its royal charter agreement. tony hall, the director general of the bbc, was against the move. i don't think it's right that we should have nam

what's making headlines around the world 7 let's start with the japan times which covers the us congressunish moscow for meddling in the 2016 presidential election and its military aggression in ukraine and syria. the philippine star previews president rodrigo duterte's state of the nation address today. his speech is expected to focus on the government's efforts to deal with an islamist insurgency in parts of the country, and his controversial war on drugs. china and russia, meanwhile, have begun their annual joint naval exercises. china daily reports the drills are taking place in the baltic sea, the first of their kind for the chinese navy in europe. the gulf news claims israel has defied international calls to remove metal detectors at the entrance of a sensitive holy site in eastjerusalem despite the security measure triggering violent clashes with palestinians. 0nshore uk windfarms now lead the field in efficiency and can be built for about the same price as gas power stations, according to the guardian. the finding comes as the world's first full—scale floating wind farm takes sha

this is a big response by russia to the us congress passing very tough sanctions against russia in response that some 755 staff at us diplomatic missions across russia, so that's notjust americans, we believe this is russian local hired staff will have to seize their activities as mr putin put it in an interview yesterday that he gave. so some of those will be americans who will be expeued those will be americans who will be expelled from the country. we don't know the exact numbers yet, but many of them are russian staff who will now lose their jobs of them are russian staff who will now lose theirjobs and this is an expression of the anger and the frustration that there is here in russia with the way that relations with america have gone under donald trump. i mean remember, of coffers, that russia was hoping for something ofa that russia was hoping for something of a reset in relations, hoping for things to improve with the united states when donald trump came to power, but what it has seen is actually relation plummet to the lowest that they have been since the cold war and this is the l

our top stories: president trump's eldest son could be called to testify in the us congress over allegationsear's election. and after his latest setback, the us president says the new republican healthca re setback, the us president says the new republican healthcare policy should let obamaca re new republican healthcare policy should let obamacare fail. let's take a look at what is making headlines in newspapers from around the world. new us sanctions against iran feature widely on the front pages, including that of gulf news. it says tehran's parliament retaliated by voting for extra funding for its missile programme, a move described by the speaker, ali larijani, as showing the americans that iran will resist them with all its power. the japan times covers the rise of abandoned babies in south korea. it says it is because of new child protection laws that include stopping adoption agencies taking in undocumented newborns. and the china daily highlights president xi jinping's support for a palestinian sovereign state based on borders dating back to 1967, with jerusalem as its capital. it c

the problem is that there were very very few people who opposed it the way that it works with the us congress is that a veto can be overridden that as long as you have two thirds of the house two thirds of the senate clearly they will have that number so the. president trumpeted not be able to effectively veto it and that's not just saying that it's quite a done deal because there's a tremendous backlash from the european union they have threatened to take action against the united states very difficult to do that because they have to have unity among their twenty twenty eight members but at the same time i think just through their public relations and so forth they've made it clear how outrageous this is and i think that. there is a possibility that the european union backlash will cause the house and the senate perhaps to make some modifications one of the important things is that in the course of this of course the. the gulf stream or the nordstrom to gas project is the most that's the core of the whole thing and. the legislation gives president trump the power to ban invest investments in

the president isn't a tyrant yet, so the us congress has overwhelmingly passed new sanctions that makesident dry and, you know, reduce the amount of sanctions that are already against russia. it is a big blow for donald trump. the vote was overwhelming be passed in the house and senate and his spokesperson indicated he would sign the bill. it is a blow for donald trump. the law that ijust referred to that the president may or may not sign doesn'tjust to that the president may or may not sign doesn't just apply to russia, it also applies to north korea and iran. the president, allthis controversy about his links with russia, it will be difficult for him to block this law. pre—empting his signing, but a mere putin has retaliated already by expelling back to the cold war 755 us diplomats. it leaves me to ask exactly how many diplomats the us has in russia, that's quite a lot! a small fraction?! again, president trump couldn't be seen to be being too friendly with russia. absolutely. he is caught between a rock and a hard, cold place in this case. nothing he could do. he's been accused pre

except when force is used are defensive purposes and three, the congress should authorize initiating use of force abroad only by declaration of war or a specific statute or preparation. you made the point correctly that the use of military force that we now have did not envision going into military combat against forces that did not even exist at the time it was passed. so, i want to get to the questions so want to make one more point. one is that we have been seeing an application over the years, you go back to harry truman and deciding that it was okay for the united nations to decide when we're going to go to war in korea, and there has been a fundamental abandonment of our democratic processes and our republican structure of government. one of the ways we did this, i will say it was not when i was in congress, it happened just two years before was to pass the more powers act. that is clearly unconstitutional because it infringes on their powers because it infringes on constitutional powers by giving a single person at the top of the chain the ability to send us to war for a limit

the move is in retaliation for new sanctions approved by the us congress for russia's alleged involvementt year's presidential election and the annexation of crimea. the high court will today decide whether tony blair, former foreign secretary jack straw, and former attorney general lord goldsmith can be prosecuted over the 2003 iraq war. the attempt to bring them to court was launched by a former iraqi general, abdulwaheed al—rabbat, who calls the invasion a crime of aggression. a dedicated mental health service has been set up to help people affected by the manchester arena attack. 22 people were killed when a homemade bomb was detonated at an ariana grande concert in may. doctors say the nhs service is specifically for those closest to the victims, or those who witnessed the attack and who may need extra support dealing with the trauma. footballer cristiano ronaldo will appear in court in madrid today accused of tax fraud. he is the latest player to fall foul of spain's taxman, and will attend a hearing to answer four counts of tax evasion. our sports correspondent richard conway has t

the move is retaliatory — coming after us sanctions on russia were overwhelmingly approved by both houses of congress washington correspondent laura bicker assesses the impact putin's move will have on the us. it will cut the number by half. to put it into context, when president 0bama found out russia had meddled in the presidential election he expeued in the presidential election he expelled 35 diplomats. at the time, vladimir putin did not respond, did not retaliate. he said he wanted to work with the new administration. this has backed a donald trump into a corner. he has a bill ordering new sanctions on russia. russia says it will retaliate even further if that deal is signed. it does not look like fresh start with moscow —— it does look like fresh start is in tatters. laura bicker there. for more we're joined by steve fish — politics professor with the university of california at berkeley. relations between russia and the us lie in tatters. they have been getting worse. this does seem to represent a new law. it is hard to imagine how much lower they can go although president putin says this wil

the us congress has just set up what could be a crucial week of evidence in the investigations into russiannterference in last year's presidential election. president trump's eldest son and his former campaign manager will both testify before the senatejudiciary committee next wednesday. earlier this month donald junior published e—mails which showed him accepting what appeared to be a russian offer to help his father get elected, and damage hillary clinton. and us media is also reporting that president trump's son—in—law, jared kushner, has been asked to appear before the senate intelligence committee in a closed session on monday. live now to washington and the bbc‘s laura bicker. first of all, laura, several lines emerging just now from an interview president trump has done with the new york times. he said he would not have appointed jeff sessions as attorney general if he had known he would step aside from the russian investigation. also accusing the fbi director he sat, james comey, of trying to blackmail him, essentially. then saying that the special counsel investigating all of this

the us congress has just set up what could be a crucial week of evidence in the investigations into russianrence in last year's presidential election. president trump's eldest son and his former campaign manager will both testify before the senatejudiciary committee next wednesday. earlier this month donald junior published e—mails which showed him accepting what appeared to be a russian offer to help his father get elected, and damage hillary clinton. and us media is also reporting that president trump's son—in—law, jared kushner, has been asked to appear before the senate intelligence committee in a closed session on monday. first of all, though, several new lines have emerged from an interview president trump has done with the new york times. a couple that stand out involving the appointment of attorney generaljeff sessions and the ongoing russia investigations. the bbc‘s laura bicker has the latest from washington. there is a lot in this interview. the new york times does point out that healthcare and other policies were asked about, but what is certainly seen in this interview and show

afford to be so blase, considering fresh sanctions have just gone in and been voted for today in the us congressbea one level at least they can probably be a bit blase about a us travel ban. asi be a bit blase about a us travel ban. as i say, it is only about 1000 01’ ban. as i say, it is only about 1000 or fewer ban. as i say, it is only about 1000 orfewer americans who ban. as i say, it is only about 1000 or fewer americans who travel into north korea every year. but i think this step by washington is of course symbolic as much as anything, prompted by the death of that young american tourist. he was sentenced to 15 years hard labour last year, released last month, and then found to be ina released last month, and then found to be in a coma up on his release, and he subsequently died. so shocking was that news that i think it focused minds in washington. the bigger picture is north korea's nuclear and missile programme. washington's growing frustration, particularly with china, the feeling it is not doing enough to push north korea. america is looking for anyway it can to get leverage. those n

step one force was used for limited range of defensive purposes. and three, the congress should authorize initiating use of force abroad only by declaration of war or a specific appropriation. the point that the use of military force we now have did not envision going into military combat against forces that did not even exist at the time the aumf was passed. to get me just, i want to the questions. so, i want to make one more point, a couple. one is that we have been seeing a consistent abdication over the years, you go back to harry truman and deciding it was ok for the united nations to decide when we were going to go to war. in korea. and there has been a fundamental abandonment of both our democratic processes and our republican structure of government. and one of the ways in which we did this was, i will say it was not when i was in congress. it happened two years before i got there, was the passage of the war powers act, which is clearly unconstitutional. presidents think it is unconstitutional because it infringes on their powers. it's unconstitutional because it

in both countries the move comes in response to a new sanctions bill which was approved by the us congress this week. also ahead this hour to news are a journalist working with the r.t.s. are a big channel has been killed by shelling from islamic state in serbia. human rights watch claims one u.s. trained iraqi army unit house numerous extrajudicial killings suspected. with the top stories from the past seven days on rights to the moment developments as well this is the weekly n r t international a little welcome responding to the new. sanctions of law and we are putin say used america will have to cut its diplomatic staff in russia by more than seven hundred fifty personnel by september. more than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff are currently working in russia for sure seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful america has taken a step to jeopardize u.s. russia relations and the important thing is that that step wasn't triggered by anything but this is a move to impose a legal restrictions to attempt to influence other coun

the us congress is set to slap new sanctions on russia. in other news, muslim leaders have called on worshippers to boycott a holy site in eastjerusalem worshippers to boycott a holy site in east jerusalem after worshippers to boycott a holy site in eastjerusalem after metal detectors were installed and then removed. europe has been hit by extreme temperatures and floods. we speak to the weather team about what has been causing yet. president trump launched a public tarried of tweet againstjeff sessions. then he said these words a few minutes ago. and disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. and if he was going to accuse unselfish and told me prior to taking office and i would've quite simply picked somebody else. sighting that's a bad thing not for the president but for the presidency. i think it is unfair to the presidency and that is the way i feel. thank you. many americans must be wondering if the president is trying to pry open the office of attorney—general to

a response to the unlawful actions v us and most importantly to the anti russian mayhem in the us congress the rest of foods are setting the tone on capitol hill and we're not ruling out any steps to bring them to the senses this bill is a tool of intimidation for the entire world it's a consequence of our own willingness to follow america's political course the u.s. secretary of state for his part explained the thinking behind the sanctions bill he says russia should take steps to improve its ties with the u.s. and hope sanctions won't be needed in the future of the russian embassy in the u.s. said it's puzzled by rex tillerson this statement about that about the sanctions we got some expert opinion it's not the most logical thing to say we want to improve relations therefore we are imposing sanctions next to listen his statement was trying to be diplomatic and less from the impact and be less insulting to russia than the he might otherwise have been for that i think of why you have a logical statement explaining these sanctions to which was not really any sensible justification at all we

a response to the unlawful actions v us and most importantly to the anti russian mayhem in the us congress the rest of foods is setting the tone on capitol hill and we're not ruling out any steps to bring them to their senses this bill is a tool of intimidation for the entire world it's a consequence of our own willingness to follow america's political course the u.s. secretary of state explained the thinking behind the sanctions bill he says russia should take steps to improve its ties with the u.s. and hopes sanctions won't be needed in the future the russian embassy in the u.s. said it's puzzled by rex tillerson statement on the sanctions we've been getting some expert opinion it's not the most logical thing to say we want to improve relations therefore we are imposing sanctions next to listen his statement was trying to be diplomatic and less from the impact than be less insulting to russia than the he might otherwise have been i think that's why you have a logical statement explaining these sanctions to which was not really any sensible justification at all we think about american for

congress it's part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the us election and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between team trump and russian lawyer and italian vessel needs guy ortiz killed martin takes up the story . and if we were to believe everything we heard from bill browder in his testimony before congress we would think that russia and vladimir putin in particular were almost the source of all evil in the world let's take a listen to what was said before the senate judiciary committee it turned out that in putin's russia there are no good guys no empathy and no morals to threaten me with death they threaten me with kidnapping in the face of evil i don't think there's any other way to characterize me or putin the russians will do anything they can get away with but even stuff they can't get away with to arrest kidnap torture and kill to take people's properties away the russians are liars so who is bill browder and why is he being considered an expert on russia in testimony to the us congress well bill browder was a hedge fund investor doing lots of

the global energy market so after months of podium pounding and condemnations against russia the us congress is about to pass a bill penalizing russia not much to see here right just part of the ongoing confrontation well let's take a look at what's actually in the bill the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance and finally we will acknowledge that energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a viable element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's vot

the us state department has notified us congress whether tehran is in agreement.as nothing to do with a hacking attack ona nothing to do with a hacking attack on a qatar news website which helped to trigger qatar boycotts by neighbouring states. they had suggested the uae instigated the operation. in the woman has been shot dead by us police officer responding to a callout. she reported a noise near her. 0fficials say the body cameras were not turned on. “— say the body cameras were not turned on. —— near her home. the greens president grubb philippines president rodrigo duterte is facing issues as islamic state still hold control in parts of the country. a number of civilian casualties in afghanistan have resulted in the highest number in one year. they have reported that more than 600 people were killed. casualties of women were up people were killed. casualties of women were up by nearly one quarter. saudi arabia is investigating the woman who posted this video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop—top in public, defying the country's strict dress code. it's

president trump's eldest son could be called to testify in the us congress over allegations of russian's election. an american boy who made history as the world's first child with a double hand transplant is now able to write, feed and dress himself. it is two years since zion harvey was given new hands. he is now ten, and his doctors say they are amazed by and so proud of his progress. here is his extraordinary story. i just want to write a letter to the parents for giving me their son's hands, because they didn't have to do that if they didn't want to. look at that! up, up, up! nice! all right, come and get me. squeeze, squeeze and open. open, open, open, open, open. 6ood. all the way up. wow! are you ready? eyes on the ball. head in the game. now i can get a snack out of the refrigerator without anybody helping me. did most of my art in here, did most of my rapping in here. we have jackie robinson. over here we have mohammad ali, and over here we have ray lewis. in the middle of all of them is me. the only thing that is different is, instead of having no hands, i have two hands. and

the latest attempt by republicans in the us congress to fulfil a long—standing promise to scrap the healthcareystem set up by barack 0bama is on course to collapse. what happens next isn't clear because the republicans can't agree on how to replace 0bamacare, and they've only got a small majority in the senate. it's a complicated story. here's nick bryant to wrap it up. for seven years, republicans have been going to repeal 0bamacare, a central pledge of donald trump's election campaign was to do it immediately. but getting rid of that landmark reform and coming up with a replacement is proving politically impossible. two republican senators announced they weren't prepared to vote, even for the bill to be debated, they didn't think it went far enough in dismantling 0bamacare. but other moderate republicans have been opposed because millions of americans could lose their health coverage. the numbers simply aren't there. even though republicans have a majority in the senate. it's a huge blow to donald trump. the second time since he became president, the republican—controlled congress has failed

white house officials are sending out mixed messages after the us congress agreed on legislation allowinggainst russia, intended as punishment for alleged meddling in the presidential election. the new white house communications director said the president was yet to decide whether to sign the bill. but white house press secretary sarah huckabee—sanders, insisted the administration was happy with the final bill. we support where the legislation is now and we'll continue working with a house and senate to put those tough sanctions in place on russia until the situation in ukraine is fully resolved and it certainly is not right now. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. philippine president rodrigo duterte will deliver a second state of the nation address to a joint session of congress in the next few hours. he is expected to talk about the ongoing and controversial war on drugs, the conflict in marawi against islamist militants and economic policy. the uk independent police complaints commission is investigating the death of a 20—year—old black man who was chased

white house officials are sending out mixed messages after the us congress reached a bipartisan agreementns against russia, intended as punishment for alleged meddling in the presidential election. the new white house communications director said the president was yet to decide whether to sign it but white house press secretary, sarah huckabee—sanders, insisted the administration was happy with the final bill. twojordanians are believed to have died and one other person injured after a shooting at the israeli embassy in jordan. the building, in the capital, amman, has been sealed off. greg dawson reports. the entire embassy compound was evacuated and on lockdown after the shooting. so far israel is refusing to comment on what happened here. police in amman have been talking. they say two men, apparently working for a furniture company, entered the complex shortly before gunfire was heard. they have confirmed that two jordanians were killed, and two other men injured, one of them an israeli. little has been revealed about what sparked this incident as violence against israelis is rare injo

present in both countries the move comes in response to a new sanctions bill which is approved by the us congress this week. also ahead a journalist working with the r.t.s. are a big channel has been killed by shelling from islamic state in serbia. human rights watch claims u.s. trained iraqi army unit house numerous.

republicans in the us congress say they'll press ahead with a vote to repeal healthcare reforms, knownugh there's no agreement on what will replace it. the announcement was made after efforts to approve a new system collapsed. president trump later took to twitter and urged republicans to work on a new plan from a clean slate. the family of a seven—year—old autistic boy with a rare condition, that puts him at risk of severe brain damage, are beginning a high court challenge to an nhs decision to deny him a life—changing drug. nhs england says the long—term effectiveness of the drug, which would cost £100 a day, hasn't been proved. a victory could mean that in future cases the welfare of the child could take precedence over cost, as our legal correspondent, clive coleman, reports. this is seven—year—old david. we can't give his real name for legal reasons. he has the rare condition pku. if his protein isn't limited to 12 grams a day, what you'd find in three slices of bread, he could suffer permanent brain damage. he also has severe autism, can't talk and so managing his diet is hugely

lobbied for the first set of russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in the us congress it's part of the investigation and moscow's alleged meddling in the us presidential election and he's given his account of the infamous meeting between team trump and the russian boy i tell you it's guy and that's cos life to ati's calabar across this force what's been said of the hearing. well we've just heard bill browder speaking before the senate judiciary committee in washington d.c. now his testimony it really kind of focused on the foreign registration act of the foreign agents registration act law in the united states which monitors the activities of people directly working for foreign governments he argued that he felt that this law was not broad enough was not sweeping enough it is important to note that bill browder is one of the main people who pushed for the magnitsky act was the primary imposition of sanctions on russia now in his testimony he certainly used some rather inflammatory rhetoric and talked about russia and some rather harsh terms let's take a listen to what

liars so who is bill browder and why is he being considered an expert on russia in testimony to the us congress well bill browder was a hedge fund investor doing lots of big business in russia in the early two thousand this point he's a wanted man charged with tax fraud in russia furthermore he was key in lobbying for the passing of sanctions against russia the magnitsky act put forward in two thousand and thirteen so here's where russian lawyer and italia vessel need sky comes in she met with trump's team last year to discuss these anti russian sanctions the magnitsky act and there are many allegations about that meeting she came up throughout the hearing and was pretty much a central figure in the testimony of the russian lawyers name natalya vessel and it's going to so. then it will this guy. and tom. bissell lynette's guy and i just go and tell you i tried it over lindsey graham's pronunciation they're now in his testimony bill browder described her as an agent of the russian government saying that she worked with the security services had all kinds of connections almost as if she were work

signs of a sneaky undercurrent of multibillion dollar defense contracts being pushed through the us congress may go unnoticed so have your wits about you when abroad as you. run into characters like this one this is splendid baltimore police officer who was caught on his own body camera planting drugs that led to an eventual arrest. number four on the whistle stop tour is a country where allegedly fourteen protesters face execution saudi arabia so what you'll step is even the u.k. foreign office is a voice against travel within ten kilometers of the yemeni border no mention there of the u.k. de facto conflicts into tens of thousands of civilians contracting cholera although they do state yemeni passengers flying to jordan have to provide disease free certificates so make sure you carry your credentials or you might not even get off the ground like a flight containing british journalist religion is stopped by the saudi that coalition from entering yemen now on to the travel update sure to be full of delays and disputes in the case of british airways versus the cabin crew is it business over e

the us congress will need to approve any changes to the agreement before they can take a fact. inflation in the u. k. dropped unexpectedly in june for the first time since october. prices rose that two point six percent down from two point nine in may. defying predictions that inflation would continue to creep towards the three percent. britains inflation rate has risen sharply since last year's brags that vote which pushed down the value of the pound. made imports more expensive producing consumers purchasing power. data could add pressure on the bank of england to raise interest rates from record lows. all the economists expect inflation to pick up again and continue to outstrip weak wage growth. the chicken on the day's trading action now negative close to the major european indices. for the one hundred in london it with about two tenths of a percent in the losses. kekionga dax both down over one percent. swedish electronics group ericsson dropping about fifteen percent is it reported deeper than expected losses. wall street is a bit more muted at this session with scene at

the move comes after the us congress imposed tough new sanctions on moscow.the decision "regrettable and uncalled for". several people have been killed in clashes in venezuela during the country's controversial election. president nicolas maduro has claimed victory — calling it the biggest vote ever for the revolution. he wants to put in place a new constituent assembly, with powers to rewrite the constitution. the opposition boycotted the vote and at least ten people died in clashes between police and protesters. willgrant is in the capital, caracas. the election appears only to have added to venezuela's problems? that is right, this was the bloodiest election day in living memory. in venezuela. and as you say, it is completely compounded existing problems. the government says around 41.5% of the electorate turned out to vote for them. and they are taking that as a resounding victory. but most venezuelans, i think not watched in disbelief when that result was announced. they simply do not believe that many people turned out in support of the government, give

much in an era of -- of war against state, iraq and congress opted in a case where it had in its hand power to define relationship of war between usand the state to instead give a very broad authorization of military force to cover a lot more than just iraq. i would hate to think that if the war powers, the way congress to find them aren't applicable today, i want to apply the constitution as written come what may, but is this a problem? >> well, you know, you have a situation where you have authorization for military force in 2001 that's still being used as a rationale for -- for carrying out military operations under circumstances as we discussed before where some of the combatants that's being used against it and exist at the time that the aumf was ep acted and i don't think we regard al-qaeda, to my mind that's a classic example that the congress doesn't assert itself and use article 1. one of the most important parts of this power that congress has exactly as you're describing to set these arrangement congress gets to say who the combat antidepressants and who the laws in custom apply to and if that -- if that's something tha