another well known person, philippe who is the mayor in western france and also known as a close ally of the former prime minister from the conservative party who was the favorite to win the primary within that party but who lost but it seems now there might be a de facto line between him or at least his lieutenants and emanuel macron and we'll have to wait for the verdict in a couple hours or minutes even. >> thanks for that, french politics editor. we'll go live now to the prime minister's residence and office s here where chris mohr is standing by. we've been waiting for this announcement for hours now since this morning. do you know anything more on your end? chris: not much more, and now apart from an ever mounting crowd of journalists and ever increasing speculation to the urgency of who the p.m. might eventually be and something macron was tight-lipped on during his campaign and marine le pen forced his hand on it and he kept his name under wraps saying it would be revealed later and a number of people he said potentially had in mind. you heard about edouard philippe whose name

one of them in western france, another in germany. they're all spiralling around each other.ain as the day goes by, we'll get a bit of heat in the atmosphere. we start to see showers breaking out. some of those are heavy and thundery. to the south of this, in spain and portugal, if anyone is on their holidays, reasonable temperatures into the high 20s, plenty of sunshine on the cards. here are those heavy, slow moving, thundery down pours, affecting parts of france, netherlands, belgium, germany as well. they will stay cool for the time of year. that cool air continues to flow down from high pressure that's across scandinavia. there'll be morning frost patches in finland and the baltic. it never gets that warm even in the afternoon. here in the united kingdom, that low pressure gets close enough to bring cloudy skies to eastern england. there could be spoghts of rain, probably not amounting to too much. the driest and warmest weather to the north west of the uk. temperatures could reach 19 degrees or so in western scotland. that ises our weather. nick —— that's our weather. n

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you look at what's happening in the western european nations, france and germany and italy and accusations of russian interested interference in their democratic process. what message does it send to those countries that their number one ally, the president of the united states, their president, fired the man at the agency that was looking into the very problem they're dealing with, russian interference in the democracy? >> chuck, from what i hear from leaders of the other nations, europe and more broadly the subject of russia comes up in all of our conversations is all the other nations want the u.s. and russia to work towards improving our relationship as well for all the reasons i just mentioned. i think it is largely viewed it is not healthy for the world and not healthy for us for the american national security to remain healthy at this low level. whether we can improve it remains to be seen. it's going to take some time, it's going to take lot of hard work. but i think the president is committed, rightly so, and i'm committed with him as well to see if we can do something to put us o

and what had prompted this interest was an area south of western france. the german trenches came to that point because it was a big gully there and then this road was going across and on the other side of the road was also something of a gully. and the allied forces were on that side and they would bring the bodies up at the end of the day and set them on the road and the women from two villages would come out with wagons and pick up the bodies and take them back and bury them. and so this is why it's called the road of the women and i was so glad that i was encouraged let's have tours there because it was quite exciting to go through. and what i was shown and i took my troops through and showed them also are things that i understand they don't show now, but any way, it's -- it was really something to see. >> thank you. i'll pick it up from here. >> so why was that battle important? >> well, it was a fortress area for the french. it was an extremely important -- it was a symbol of france because of all of these forts that encircled the city. the germans k

what had prompted this interest was an area south in western france called the shemen de dam. the german chen muches catrencht point, because there was a big gulley there. the road was going across. on the other side of the road was also something of a gulley. the allied forces were on that side. they would bring the bodies up at the end of the day and set them on the road. the women from two villages would come out with wagons and pick up the bodies and take them back and bury them. so this is why it is called the shem men de dam, the road of the women. i was so glad i was encouraged to have tours of veradun. what i was shown and i took my troops through and showed them also are things that i understand they don't show now. it was really something to see. >> el owe wiese, thank you. >>> why was the battle important? >> it was a fortress area for the trench, a symbol of france because of all the forts that encircled the city. the germans knew that. the germans rarely during the war went on the offensive. certainly by this point in the war, we are talking 1916. they felt in ord

strictly speaking it's an area straddling spain and france at the western end of the purities.y old language. how old, like the question of how far back their history goes and where it begins is not known. the best answer anyone can give you is long, long ago. >> what is this area, what does it look like back in subpoenath century. >> it wasn't there. it was a small church maybe. they're watching to the sea, watching. >> they'll have a point at it. >> before the revolution with systems. >> you could not for watching this because the wind or humidity make it possible. so it has windows to the sea. it means it's not so old. >> he and his daughter both acclaimed authors and they know as much about their history as can be known. they're much loved here. steamed briefly with a little salt, simple like much of that cooking. >> i love this. >> thank you. >> how long do you think the people lived in this community or does anybody know. >> we're living here. >> so you're talking like promagnet, all the way back. >> and the language from here. >> really don't know, it is the only languag

that has been a very strong driver of the threat in western europe and particularly in belgium and franceacks we saw there. but also in the uk. clearly individuals who have a european passport and seeking to carry out these attacks are high value to these groups because they can move much more freely and within western europe. so they are actively being sought out and recruited for that purpose as well. i think an attack of this scale unfortunately on soft targets was built in to how the government and the security services were pursuing and largely expected at some point this was possible. obviously when it happens it's extremely traumatic. i think the focus at the moment is on establishing in the investigation what was that support network that made this attack a viable attack. >> just very briefly, given that the fight against isis has been going on for more than three years, and it's gaining traction with the u.s. government, at what point can we realistically expect that those terrorist attacks across europe will lessen? that we'll see a lot fewer? right now it seems like the frequen

democracies, they just seeking to destabilise western democracies, theyjust tried in francear we're not going to put up make it clear we're not going to put up with that in the united states at all and we're going to get to the bottom of this, it is not a republican or democrat issue, and those supporters of president trump who persist in saying this is not an issue are doing themselves and the president a great disservice. very briefly if you don't mind, is there a smarter way to handle russia? from the russian point of view nato is an existential threat? i think that nato should be unified in supporting the growth of democracy throughout the growth of democracy throughout the european region. we do not need to be opposed to russia or a threat to be opposed to russia or a threat to russia, we certainly should try to russia, we certainly should try to make peace with russia, have economic relations with russia, but we cannot tolerate russian interference in the elections and western democracies and i would agree that the us and the uk and other countries should not seek to i

strictly speaking, it's an area straddling spain and france at the western end of the pyrenees.y've been speaking basque here long before the first roman arrived in 65 b.c. it is a very old language. how old, like the question of how far back their history goes and where it begins, is not known. the best answer anyone can give you is long, long ago. what did this area, what did this coastline look like back in the 17th century? >> so different, right? >> so different. >> there's moreland sk landscap. the sea wind into the land. >> maybe some houses like three or four there, but those weren't there, the church wasn't there. more church, maybe. in that time, horses were impossible. >> before the revolution, with no heating systems, you couldn't put water into the sea because the wind and rain was hard to maintain that type of living. >> duarte jimenez and his daughter are both used to speaking basque. they are used to basque cooking. >> so delicious. very, very good. i love these. >> how long do you think the basque people lived in this community? or does anybody know? >> 25 we we

emanuel macron scolded president putin for funding propaganda to try to influence voters in western democracies like franceted states. and u.s. senator and war hero john mccain says putin is more dangerous to america than isis because putin is trying to ruin our democracy. mccain will be on the "today" show in a little less than 15 minutes. here a preview. >> tried and they are still trying. they are still trying to change elections. they just tried to affect the outcome of the french election. so i view vladimir putin, who has dismembered ukraine, a sovereign nation, who is putting pressure on the baltics, i view the russians as the far greatest challenge we have. >> watch for john mccain on the "today" show. if you have thoughts or comments on our coverage of washington, you can reach me directly through twitter @scottmcgrew. >> scott, thank you very much. a live look right now at the brand-new shirts for the nba finals. more on that in just a second. this is oracle arena right now. two days, the warriors are facing off against the cleveland cavaliers for the third straight year in a row. this morning, w

scolded russian president putin for funding propaganda to try to influence voters in western democracies like france and the united states. and u.s. senator war hero john mccain says, putin is more dangerous to america than isis. becausen is trying to ruin our democracy. he'll be on the "today" show in a little more than onhour. here's a preview. >> they tried and they are still trying. they are still trying to change elections. they just tried to affect the outcome of the french election. so i view vladimir putin, who has dismembered ukraine, a sovereignination, who is putting pressure on the baltics, i view the reussians as the far greatet challenge we have. >> watch for that on the "today" show. if you have questions, comments, ideas, share your thoughts. i'm on twitter, @scottmcgrew. >> thank you for getting us up to date. you have something to show. hiding under the desk now. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> you know there's a basketball game coming up. game one of the finals. the warriors playing the cavs again for the third year in a row. what do you have? >> these are the new fi

fighting force but they want to make sure that it doesn't go back to reinfect areas like western europe or in france and belgium in particular or do anything else with, you know, any of these areas. so they want to make sure that they can destroy this effort on the part of sirs aisis and it's to be interesting to see how isis responds to this. >> it's a major operation. mosul, the second largest city in iraq, still has not been completely liberated. they've been trying for two years to do that. raqqa and syria, the capital, that's still under isis control. they've got a lot of work to do. thanks very much. >>> coming up, take a look at. this we're looking at some live pictures from the white house. later this hour president trump will depart for his first trip overseas after taking office. can he leave the controversies of this week behind him? that's coming up next. plus after being briefed comey's firing by the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, one congressional member tweeted this. it renewed my confidence that we should have no confidence in this administration. we're going to discuss the

strictly speaking it's anarea straddling spain and france at the western end of the pyrenees. long before the first roman arrived in 65 b.c. it is a very old language. how old? like the question of how far back their history goes and where it begins is not known. the best answer anyone can give you is long, long ago. >> anthony: what did this area, what did this coastline look like back in the 17th century? >> irati: so different right? >> edorta: so different. >> irati: there's more landscape now the sea went further into the land. >> edorta: maybe some houses like three or four there but the other ones wasn't there. the church wasn't there. there was a small church maybe. that mountain, houses' watching to the sea was impossible. >> anthony: all the traditional houses were pointed inland? >> irati: yeah. before the industrial revolution with no heating systems -- >> anthony: right, the wind would come in. >> irati: you couldn't afford watching into the sea because the wind and the humidity make it impossible to maintain that kind of living. >> anthony: right. >> irati: so ev

france. still two things happening. on the one hand, we have the cooler air which may get into northern ireland and western scotland but armer air coming up from france so temperatures in london up to 25 celsius. even in newcastle, temperatures should hit 21 celsius. tomorrow evening, that weather front is slow—moving saudi damp weather will stick around across the north—west. it is still a slow—moving front. at a glacial pace as we go through the course of friday. the fresher atlantic air coming through here. warmer and the possibility of some rumbles of thunder across the south and the south—east. those storms will rumble across the new continent during the course of the weekend. they should stay towards the east. overall, summarising the weekend across the uk, it has been pretty fresh with brisk atlantic winds and showers almost everywhere but sunny spells as well. thank you very much indeed. just a reminder of our main story this lunchtime. the breast surgeon ian paterson, who carried out numerous unnecessary operations, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. that is all from the bbc news at one, so it is goodbye

that was in response to a pro-western government taking after demonstrations. the groupse because of germany, francessia and ukraine, those leaders have worked together to create a peace process for eastern ukraine. anyas not really made progress forward, especially since this year we saw renewed casualties and the cease-fire continues to be violated on a weekly and daily basis. genie: thank you. raceance, the presidential is in its final stretch before election day this sunday. emmanuel macron and his challenger marine le pen gave made josh marine le pen gave -- marine le pen gave major challenges. at their last rallies before election day, both candidates were in an attacking mood. marine le pen with their accusations on her by the listed candidates of the financial sector. the enemy of the french still in defiance, but this time it is running for president and everyone is dreaming of its election, it is emmanuel macron. a few kilometers away, and manual macron had his chance macronback -- emmanuel at his chance to hit back. >> what she is promising is the rejection of what unites all of us. do no

away from the united states, and he was going to support the two great democracies of western europe, britain and france, by all the means that he could, partly because he had huge society.n for their he traveled a lot in europe as a young man and had had both french and german governesses, so he knew the languages. like many wealthy people on the east coast of the united states, he was almost european, partly because he admired the societies, but also because they will ball >> for the united ulkwarks for the united states. his method then was all method short of four. he called congress, it took a while to pass, what was called the cash and carry neutrality act so that the president had the power to sell armaments to countries that were fighting on two bases, one they had to pay cash, no credit. toh, and secondly they had come and get the stuff and take it away themselves. american ships could not sale to countries that were fighting, so this with the cash and carry act passed in 1939, which benefited britain and france far more than germany because britain had a wasnavy and germany notionally blockadi

united states had iron and food and blood and muscle, bone, men to france, fighting in world war i, primarily on the westernront. he did not have the facilities for many guns and trucks being made in france at the time. there was one things it was good at, that was telecommunications. this picture i am showing you was a world war i poster, trying to recruit men to operate telegraphs telegrams, radios. the size on the fonts makes you think it is important, but in was the primary instrument the telephone. it had been invented in the united states by alexander graham bell, like many great americans, and immigrant. he came from scotland and invented the telephone over here. it is a superior instrument that these technologies, the telegraph -- imagine this. it is morse code. some buddy has to take the message, type it up, somebody than takes it to somebody else. it is slow and centralized. the other technology was the radio. radio's at this time were so heavy that it took three mules to log a radio -- lug a radio set into the field. and someone could take the waves out of the air and figure where it was being be

, western attack on this, on the islamic state. they know that the britain, france, germany, ought of the western countries work together, also in intelligence, and from their van padge point, don't differentiate oh, we love the us more than britain. >> you come kill us, we'll go back, kill you. >> thank you, michael. >> we'll have you back. >> 7:10. >> the jury now deciding the fay of south jersey father on trial for killing his three year olson. >> so, the prosecutors say david creato should spend the rest of his life in prison. but the defense argues, they're still reasonable doubt in this case. so the jury has it now, when will they get it, steve, this morning? >> reporter: well, they got it yesterday. late in the day. just like we predicted this time yesterday. but they only got 20 minutes, to deliberate before being sent home. so coming back at 9:00 to continue deliberating. and among the thoughts, two sides left them with, this, from the defense, creato's lawyer said evidence is suggesting another person. and then the prosecution got up after that calling the

we have to build a new vocabulary to redefine the political life in the western world and especially today in france. so i wouldn't say macron is a centrist. doesn't mean anything to france. to say a liberal, not very clear. so you should say -- open society versus closed society maybe. we really need to reinvent our political vocabulary if we want to understand what's going on. >> i want to bring in jim shields, professor of french politics in england. jim, thanks for joining us in this conversation. again, on the breaking news of a new president being elected in france and it's emmanuel macron. how would you label emmanuel macron? >> well, as your previous speaker said, he's very difficult to categorize. macron has positioned himself at the center of gravity of french politics. and that has been his strength up until now. he has been able to take policy from the left and the center and also from the center right. he is also put considerable support on the center right and the center left and he's turn up the rule book that separates right from left and he has been endorsed in this election right a

france's election has exposed the same fault lines that have driven out the western countries. those constable with globalisation, on the other those anxious and angry faced with a changing world. his rival marine le pen appeals to them. this was another shock. france's far right leader in the final run—off. she is anti—eu, wants to ditch the euro, real estate border controls. she painted her campaign as another fight against the out of touch elite. a win for her would plunge europe into new political uncertainty. mr macron headed the paris this afternoon. he is a former investment banker and briefly economy minister, so part of the establishment. a reason many may decline to vote for him. the two candidates have radically different views on questions of identity, immigration, openness to the world, so immigration, openness to the world, so this election will be highly consequential. will it be the next domino to fall or will it mark the receding of the populist tide? there we re receding of the populist tide? there were signs today that turnout was down compared to the first r

particularly germany and france, start to say, we are going to affirm the international order, we will strengthen the west. it's almost as though the position of leader of the westernorld has fallen vacant and president macron of france is stepping in to fill that role. >> can't you make the argument that that's what then candidate donald trump ran on, that america first, he doesn't want to be the world's policeman, he doesn't see the same role for the united states globally that past presidents have. >> the problem with transferring leadership to places like france and germany is even if they doubled what they spent on defense, they don't have the capacity or domestic politics to play a leadership role around the world. again, i just don't see the strategic purpose. also, what we spend on defense is not something that somehow is only a negative, is only a cost. it totally rebounds to our benefit in terms of the security and stability that we tend to develop around the world. i think fareed a few minutes ago called it a grievance. it's a world view in which trade and which foreign policy effort is only seen as a negative rather than being seen as a positive. >> whe

western democracies. will it be the case in france and will le pen come out on top or perhaps a candidate in the person ofacron who is more of a mainstream candidate who prefers the status quo in terms of international organizations, not just the european union but nato, but the world trade organization who thinks globalization is actually the way to go as opposed to someone like marine le pen and other far right populace candidates who with, in fact, want to completely disrupt sort of the world order as it is -- as it's been seen over the last several decade. that is the big question. therefore the result of this election will have an impact far beyond the borders of this country for those reasons. >> hala there in paris, thank you. >>> we are joined by marie suar suarez. what are you hearing from voters in that area? >> reporter: good morning to you. we did see marine le pen arrive two hours or so ago and she cast her vote and looked confident and happy and didn't say a word but we can assume that she voted for herself. but it's important to note why she came here not to pair russ but where she began he

there will be some wet weather pushing through north—western areas, but ahead of that southerly winds drawing up the warmth out of francehire and newcastle around 19 or 20. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: a breast surgeon — who carried out a series of needless operations — is jailed for 15 years. ian paterson was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three counts of unlawful wounding. in the last short whilejeremy corbyn has just announced he will appear in tonight's tv debate on bbc one with representatives of the six other major parties. the labour leader has repeatedly challenged theresa may to a debate but she has ruled out taking part. the afghan president has described a car bomb, which killed at least 80 people in kabul, as an inhuman act. more than 300 people were wounded, and several embassies were damaged, in the attack on the city's diplomatic quarter. as preparations for saturday's benefit concert in manchester get underway, police investigating last week's attack now believe the suicide bomber bought most of the components for the bomb himself, but haven't ruled out a wider network.

western alliance. what about the french people themselves? we talk about the structure franceey have a 10% unemployment rate. a social structure of retirement and lavish pension benefits and he's promised economic reform. can he achieve that? >> he has to. france has major economic problems. we refer to the unemployment and you thought implement very high. the security situation is palmer's. the amount of attacks that take place is hugely alarming. there are many challenges ahead for france. i agree with your correspondent from paris. i think this was an anti- le pen, pro- macron boats. >> it what would you advise him to do first? >> the security situation seems to be the major wrong. the terrorist attacks i get through france's totally alarming. there's constant attacks and i think they really have to begin to crackdown on the islamic networks operating the. the jihadists who are plotting attacks i think it is something france needs to deal with quickly. >> le pen needs to be stronger than that, macron talked about stepping up the efforts, is there way to deal with that and a

angela merkel told the crowd at an election rally that a western world divided by brexit and donald trump's presidency meant that germany and franceit which exposed divisions between the us and other leading powers. let's speak to our correspondent damien mcguinness who joins us via webcam from berlin. angela merkel looking for a new allegiances, david ? angela merkel looking for a new allegiances, david? it was quite a forthright message but to certain expense “— forthright message but to certain expense —— certain extent what she is doing is going back to that franco german alliance which order narrowly in the past the driving force behind eu integration. france has been struggling in the last few yea rs has been struggling in the last few years and that could now turn round with the new president emmanuel macron who is very much on the same line of thinking as angela merkel, both free trade and liberal values. she's hoping paris and berlin can work together to get the eu really going again. that is also in the face of definite challenges, including brexit, and the other being donald trump. that is a leader that european leaders

western europe. as we've seen, i believe, in france and will in germany, and thei relatives in their minds success at doing this is the force. all the tools available to them, active propaganda, financing, candidates sympathetic to their cause, trolls, hacking, revelations of confidential e-mails. whatever it is. they'll use that fairley well. >> could you give us sense without revealing classified information, the magnitude of financial investment in the efforts. if you're a near neighbor of russia and have army, navy, air force, marines and might have intel community and a little bit of sort of intel ops, info ops campaign going, what is the russian investment? >> i can't give you a figure. i will say that, in comparison to a classical military expenditures, it's a bargain for them and, of course, what they're looking for, particularly in europe, is so dissention of split unity and, of course, end sanctions, and if they can drive wedges between and among the european nations and particularly by manipulating and influencing elections, they're going to do it. >> director, do you stand by the i.c.'s a

course, what's new and different here is that aggressiveness is spreading into western europe as we've seen i believe in france and will in germany, and their relative success in their mind at doing this is simply going to reinforce. so all the tools they avail to them, active propaganda, financing, candidates sympathetic to their cause, trolls, hacking, revelations of confidential e-mails, whatever it is, they will use that. >> can you give us some sense of that the order of mag toud of their financial investment in these kinds of efforts. if you've got your army, navy, air force, marines and might have a little bit of an intel community and a little bit of intel ops, info ops campaign going, what is the russian investment? >> i can't give you a figure. i will say though that in comparison to classical military expenditures it's -- it's a bargain for them, and, of course what, they are looking for particularly in europe is sow dissension, split unity and, of course, end sanctions, and if they can drive wedges between and among the european nations by -- and particularly by their manipulating and influencing e

western europe. as we've seen, i believe, in france and will in geany. and in their -- in their mind, success at doing this is going to simply reinforce. so all the tools available to them, active propaganda, financing, candidate sympathetic to their cause, trolls, hacking, revelations of confidential e-mails, whatever it is, they'll use that. >> can you give us some sense without revealing classified information the order of magnitude of their financial investment in these kinds of efforts? if you're a near neighbor of russia and got your army, navy, air force, marines, and you might have a little bit of an intel community and a little bit of a sort of intel ops, infoe p ops campaign going, how does the russian investment -- >> i can't give you a figure. i will say, though, that in comparison to a classical military expenditures, it's a bargain for them. and of course, what they're looking for, particularly in europe, is sew dissension, split unity, of course, end sanctions. if they can drive wedges between and among the european nations, particularly b

france's divide mirrors the last in a piece this morning from the washington post. "ever since donald trump proved last november that anything is possible in the topsy-turvy new world of westernolitics, may 7 has been circled on european calendars with a mix of anticipation and dread. the right-wing populist, the presidential election in france, a country scarred by unemployment and terrorism, seem offer forhe next big global order in their own nationalist and nativist and protectionist image. to the mainstream it looked like a possible third strike after trump and brexit with the potential to doom the european union, nato, and other members of the transatlantic alliance. if anything, the campaign has solidified the new fracture line in modern politics. the choice voters face on sunday illustrates the profound new chasm in the west between those who favor open, globalized societies and others who proposed close and nationalized ones." voters facing a choice that faces -- mirrors a divide in the west. we will have more on the french election later in the program and a reminder when we cover the debate that took place next wednesday -- last wednesday. it is available on our web

france. now it's on to the next election in great britain. >> many in the western world convinced there's a conspiracy behind it. we'll hear testimony about russia's interconvenience with american elections later this morning. in france, hackers dumped hacked e-mails, both real and fake, just moments before the legal campaign blackout in france on saturday. just moments before the law says candidates could not speakÑi ou against them or defend themselves. and it's not just hacks, there are fake twitter accounts, fake news all trying to swing ) elections. facebook said it deleted more france before theqtñelection an thexd silicon valley company is looking ahead to thenb parliamentary election in great britain in june, warning british voters in newspaper ads with the top ten ways to spot fake news. here in america, fake news wasqh huge problem. in some cases, the trump campaign repeated the fake news on the campaign trail. news items for thei#enver guardian, there is no such newspaper. wall street wanted emanuel macron to win the election, he did. we don't think the markets will move thatÑ$r much. nasd

president to take more refugees and several of these western european countries who want answers on climate change, particularly the new president of franceho wants to know if we are pulling out. >> something that has been somewhat consistent is when he meets with people won on one, he tends -- one-on-one, he tends to be a little more influenced by them. he is malleable. whether that happens out of this meeting, time will tell. >> this is his wheel house. if someone is dealing with real tess state all around the world. this is something he's good at, glad-handing and cutting deals. if there is one thing he will be good at other than driving the left hysterical, this is this forte. kennedy: why is this trip going oh well for him. >> going so well. the bar is really high right now. kennedy: i think the low expectations and low poll numbers, so people assumed it would be a disaster at every turn. but he's been on message. he hasn't been on twitter, and he's been charge the pants off people. >> there is also an 8-hour time difference. i want to heart insider -- i want to hear the insider perspective. kennedy: why aren't we getting leaks? >> t

france so a warm day tomorrow. setting off morning showers in northern ireland, sunshine in the afternoon. western scotla nd sunshine in the afternoon. western scotland turning west in the afternoon. eastern scotland largely dry. look at temperatures further south, wisely into the 20s, maybe mid—20s in the south—east. warm across southern mid—20s in the south—east. warm across southern areas mid—20s in the south—east. warm across southern areas to finish monday. rain moving across scotland and that will fade away and the rest of the week, not much rain around. most of the week, not much rain around. m ost pla ces of the week, not much rain around. most places dry, becoming warm, if not hot as we head to friday. tuesday, temperatures will take a tiny dip. we have westerly winds, and the aircoming tiny dip. we have westerly winds, and the air coming from the atlantic hence the temperatures will drop a touch. low cloud in the west and light rain and drizzle. with the ever strengthening sunshine, it will feel very pleasant. through tuesday into wednesday, high pressure building even more. they westerl

it will bring rain into north—western areas, heavier at times, to the south of it we are seeing warmer air from francee parts of the country will be rising whereas in the north—west we have fresher, wetter atlantic weather setting in. the weatherfront fresher, wetter atlantic weather setting in. the weather front will be slow moving. it will bring light rain to wales and some northern parts. you can see where the fresh weather is. in the south—east it could be as high as 26. the south particularly warming up briefly, a lwa ys particularly warming up briefly, always a bit fresher in the north. a bit of rain from time to time. on balance, actually, not too bad. thank you very much. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines: jeremy corbyn stumbles over the cost of labour's free childcare plans in an interview with the bbc‘s woman's hour. theresa may says with brexit negotiations due to start days after the election, only she is prepared to lead britain out of the eu. the us pop star ar

president to take more refugees and several of these western european countries who want answers on climate change, particularly the new president of franceho wants to know if we are pulling out. >> something that has been somewhat consistent is when he meets with people won on one, he tends -- one-on-one, he tends to be a little more influenced by them. he is malleable. whether that happens out of this meeting, time will tell. >> this is his wheel house. if someone is dealing with real tess state all around the world. this is something he's good at, glad-handing and cutting deals. if there is one thing he will be good at other than driving the left hysterical, this is this forte. kennedy: why is this trip going oh well for him. >> going so well. the bar is really high right now. kennedy: i think the low expectations and low poll numbers, so people assumed it would be a disaster at every turn. but he's been on message. he hasn't been on twitter, and he's been charge the pants off people. >> there is also an 8-hour time difference. i want to heart insider -- i want to hear the insider perspective. kennedy: why aren't we getting leaks? >> t

, try to communicate to the rest of the world that western elections are ill jet matt, and it's not just us. we know that now. it's germany, it's france other countries, and it's a very broad and in the very well-disguised effort to create questions about the legitimacy of these western elections. i think this is very k.g.b. >> dickerson: in north korea the president is relying very heavily on china. is he relying so it makes it hard for him to push back on china when it comes to the south china sea or human rights or intellectual property rights? >> i think that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on north korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to south korea, i think these are all good things to have done, and i think he's gotten china's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not, that this is a very serious matter for the united states. my last visit to china as secretary, january 2011, i told president hu, just like this, the president of the united states wanted me to tell you that we now consider north korea a direct threat to the united states. and it had no effect whatsoever. i think pr

western and midwestern states actually rose. a sharp decline in other parts of the country helped keep prices down overall, frances and gigi, backhank you very much on a monday. >>> coming up, iraq's presidential announcement, believe it or not and more memorable moments from "snl's" most watched season finale in six years. >>> plus cher turning back time at 2017 music awards. we have the highlights. stick around. ouch! ♪ skin-flex™, anna! sit! new band-aid® brand skin-flex™ bandages. our best bandage yet! it moves like a second skin. ♪ dries almost instantly. better? yeah. go! good thing because stopping never crosses your mind. band-aid® brand. stick with it™ what bad back?gels work so fast you'll ask what pulled hammy? advil liqui - gels make pain a distant memory nothing works faster stronger or longer what pain? advil. [ ominous music playing ]] ah! ah! ah! [ children laughing ] wooo! yea! have a despicably delicious breakfast with these special edition jars of nutella. bounty is more absorbent,mom" per roll so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty, the quicker

explain to everybody what's at stake here not just for france, but for how we understand the cohabitation of westernope? >> oh, and it's not just western europe. let's be really blunt here. the election of marine le pen would be the end of europe as we know it, and probably in some senses, the end of the world as we know it because what she's talking about doing is taking a central part of the european union, an absolutely founding member central part, france and taking it out of the european union, taking it out of the euro and creating a situation where europe starts to break up once again. it's not just great britain floating off into the atlantic. it's the whole core of the european union falling apart. with all that that implies for nato and the alliance. so we would be looking at something we haven't seen since europe was put back together after world war ii and it would be a very dangerous proposition. >> christopher, what's the tone of frexit as it's been called since le pen has been described as the french trump and he has rolled back on his conversations when it comes to nato and unifying

sent iron and food and blood and muscle and bone men to france to fight in world war i and other parts of the globe, but primarily on the western front. because it did not have the facilities to make guns and planes and tanks and even trucks on the scale that were being made in france at the time. but there was one thing that the united states was particularly good at, and that was telecommunications. now, this particular picture i'm showing you is a world war i poster, you know, trying to recruit men to operate telegraphs, telephones, and radios and the size of the font on the radio makes you think it's important. but in fact, the primary instrument of generalship in world war i was the telephone. and of course it had been invented in the united states by alexander graham bell who like many great americans was an immigrant and he came from scotland and invented the telephone over here, and it was superior at this time than these other technologies because first of all, the telegraph, imagine this, telegraph is morse code so somebody has to take the message sitting at a desk, they have to type it up, they have to send it to som

france. he needs to make some statements like this knowing what the international media and the western frenchave criticism against president trump. it is all politics in my view. >> shannon: do you think the relationships are stable the way they are and once we get past the elections in those countries we'll hear less of this? >> a stabilization here of our issues would help and what would also help unfortunately will be the fact that the jihadists are on in europe that iran will be a problem, that the middle east is not stable so because of these overseas problems, europeans and north americans will have to come together, no doubt about that. >> shannon: always good to see you thank you. >> bill: in a moment hear what the u.s. military is doing today that may eventually stop north korea. we'll tell you about that. and we are learning the identity of the navy seal who died during a memorial day ceremony. 27 years old doing a fleet week demonstration over the hudson river in new york city. that story is straight ahead. >> you know, this individual came down like a rock, his parachute folded up