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The Governor of the Bank of England says Brexit

will make people poorer. IS the government now

It is not clear who has the upper hand.

The Chancellor is playing the long game.

The transition from Brexit must put the economy first -

and provide stability for British business.

But the UK's trade minister is on a mission -

to convince America, Britain will be going it alone.

Tomorrow when the Queen delivers the government's programme

I think it's very important that we set out how we intend

to deal with our trade once we leave the European Union.

They are voting in Georgia in a massively expensive race that

It's a small congressional election which has turned into a big

Are Democrats as fired up as all those protests suggest?

American student Otto Warmbier dies after being released

in a coma from North Korea - top politicians say it's

unacceptable but it's not clear what they can actually do

Welcome to the programme - I'm Christian Fraser in London,

Katty Kay is in Washington -- Is Brexit already

In his annual Mansion House speech the Governor of the Bank

of England Mark Carney, said price rises are now running

ahead of wage growth and real incomes are falling again.

Speaking alongside the governor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Philip Hammond was making the case for a longer transition to Brexit -

he wants the UK and the EU to agree a new customs' agreement under

which current border arrangements would remain in place -

perhaps for some years following Britain's exit.

In a moment, we'll hear from the British International Trade

Secretary who's trying to whip up business in the US -

but first, this report from our Economics

A year on from the referendum, and cars waiting in sunny

Southampton for a journey to the continent of Europe.

Exports to the European Union like these are a key

driver of our economy, an economy that the Chancellor said

would now be at the heart of those complicated Brexit negotiations.

Speaking at the Mansion House in central London, Philip Hammond

said without a flexible deal with the EU, the economy

When the British people voted last June, they did not vote to become

They did vote to leave the EU, and we will leave the EU,

but it must be done in a way that works for Britain.

In a way that prioritises British jobs and underpins

Alongside Mr Hammond today, the Governor of the Bank of England.

He said that Brexit was likely to make people poorer

and that they would need to be a transition period

after the completion of the Brexit process in 2019.

The Monetary Policy Committee cannot prevent weaker real income growth

that is likely to accompany the transition to new trading

It can support households and businesses as they adjust

The two great economic offices of state -

here is the Bank of England, and about two miles down the road

that way the Treasury, and the leaders of those two

institutions, I think, came together today to make a big

point about Brexit up of the economic wealth of Britain

first, they both said, even if that means some sacrifices

on those controversial issues of sovereignty and strict

Mr Hammond and Mk Carney spoke about struggling consumers

are weary of austerity, and shoppers today admitted

I think things maybe are going up in price a wee bit,

and obviously if wages aren't going up, people will be feeling

At the moment, I haven't really seen much of a difference,

there is a lot more offers and things in supermarkets.

I think they have gone up, they don't match

Higher prices, Brexit, the need for a good deal.

There were plenty of warnings today but the economy has been far

stronger than people expected since the referendum.

I don't think there is any doubt that since the Brexit referendum,

Now, it is a glass half full or half empty.

Clearly, that has meant there is higher inflation,

and that has had a knock-on effect for real incomes, but on the other

hand it has been a much-needed boost to exports, we really needed that

boost because the currency was overvalued.

It was a day for stepping back and taking the wider

An economy for consumers so uncertain, Mr Carney said

there would be no interest rate rises in the near future.

Sunny today, yes, but there could be more squally weather ahead.

If there is this longer transition to Brexit -

with the UK and EU remaining in a customs arrangement for some

years - will that delay the new global trade deals Britain

is hoping to strike, post Brexit. The international trade secretary

Liam Fox is currently in Washington to discuss the future relationship

been speaking to members of the administration about trade deals,

you are now at Capitol Hill, but there is not a person in the Trump

White House who does not know that Britain needs a trade deal more than

the United States does. It is not a great bargaining position. We have

been talking about trade between our countries and future trade policy.

We are coming into this at a good time. Trade between the US and UK

last year rose by 8% when global trade only rose by 1.2%. We have $1

trillion worth of assets invested in our countries. The US employs about

1 million people in the UK and the UK employs about 1 million people in

the US. We have a good solid trade and investment relationship and our

economies of -- are of similar shape. We want to get agreement in

the future that will help us go down that road but it is more than just

the UK and the US, it is also about how we shape the global trading

environment and ensure that we have mechanisms in the future to make

ourselves more agile and responsive in terms of changes in the global

economy. It is pretty clear that if Britain leads the European Union

without a trade deal with the United States, the country looks a lot less

economically viable and everyone here knows that. Britain needs this

deal more than they do. We already trade with the United States on our

current rules and it would be no change. We are talking about whether

we can get an even better agreement. The worst that will happen to the UK

and US is that we already trade at an exceptionally high level and we

hope to improve on that so there is nothing but a more optimistic

picture. We have been watching Phillip Hammond today who has been

making his Mansion house speech and clearly from what he is saying,

there is a struggle within Cabinet about what kind of Brexit this is

going to be. Can you confirm that there has been a discussion in

Cabinet since the election? I do not think there is a conflict. What the

Chancellor said in his speech was that we were leaving the single

market and the customs union but we may need some transition time to

help by businesses adapt to that. I do not think any of us have a

problem with that and I think what the Chancellor has set out is

actually very sensible and we need to look at the economic benefits and

how we can maximise those that is exactly what we are doing in our

discussions the United States. What he is talking about our customs

arrangements similar to what we have at the moment within the customs

union and a much longer slope, rather than this cliff edge. Does

that complicated for you when you're trying to sew up these global trade

deals, if we have a longer transition bound by the customs

union rules? We have to discuss what sort of transition it would be and

that is quite a long way off. What is clear is that we will be leaving

the customs union and back gives us the opportunity to be able to do the

transitional adoption of agreements that the EU already has, that the UK

as a party to. It gives us the ability to make agreements with

developing countries about the sort of tyrants we apply to their goats

and it might help us develop their more. It enables us about the future

free trading agreements. We have agreed we went to do that. What we

are talking about is what sort of customs facilitation agreement there

would be to ensure that we get frictionless borders and do not

apply any extra costs to add a UK businesses exporting to Europe or

European exporters coming to the UK. It is in the interests of everyone

that we reach such an agreement. Also at Mansion House, Mark Carney

was digging and he said that Brexit is already making British people

poorer, because rising costs are outstripping wage growth, do you

agree? There are other influences on the global economy rather than

Brexit. We have seen inflation rise elsewhere and we are now seeing some

increases in UK experts. That seem to follow on from the devaluation,

if you look at the food and drink industry, we saw a record export

last year, a 10.5% increase this year. You have to take all of these

things when they are aggregated. So you mean the governor is wrong? My

job is to look for the opportunities that come from Brexit, one of the

reasons I campaign to leave the European Union is that I believe

there are great opportunities for Britain to take advantage of these

growing markets and most of the global growth will come outside

Europe. We have to be able to get our share of that to increase

prosperity in Britain and make it sustainable in the long run. Can you

confirm that tomorrow when the Queen sets out the legislative programme

that there will be a trade built with vivid? My understanding is that

there will be. I think it is very important that we set out how we

intend to do with our trade once we leave the European Union and clearly

we have to make provision for that, to ensure there are no gaps and we

give adequate protection to British business and industry in terms of

the global trade remedies that we have. Rowenta make sure there are no

risks being run here and that is what responsible government is

about. They were keen to say that there has not been a dispute in the

Cabinet over a soft or hard Brexit, but specifically on the issue of

what matters more, immigration policy or economic policy, you have

had Michael Gove and Phillip Hammond saying that what takes priority is

the economy and business, does that mean that the people who would like

to see immigration policy take priority are losing the argument?

The government will have a balance that is in the best interests of the

country and clearly we want to ensure that if business gets access

to the Labour it needs, there is a worry that people are coming to the

United Kingdom and using our public services who may not be contributing

to our national wealth. That is the problem that the government will

deal with and will deal with that in a reasonable weight over a period of

time. Thank you very much for joining us. He did a pretty good job

of being a politician and not saying anything that would get him into

trouble with either side but the truth is if you listen to members of

the Cabinet, there does seem to be a division merging, particularly on

this balance between immigration and business. Those who would like a

softer Brexit and those who would like business and the economy to

take precedence seem to have been emboldened since the election. I

think so. There are certainly a lively discussion going on in

Cabinet and I understand that he fought very hard to avoid any delay

on the trade built theme in the Queen's speech. There will be no

Queen 's speech next year and he wanted it in there so that the

government can prepare for trade deals outside the EU and that is an

important signal that we are leaving the customs union but there are

other battles being fought within Cabinet, over migration and on that

transition that that answer was talking about in his Mansion house

speech. I was struck by the Michael Gove comment, there is an absolute

commitment from the Prime Minister of all of us in Cabinet that when it

comes to shape the new migration policy, the economy comes first.

That is not so subtle shift away from where they were before the

election. They were talking about freedom of movement coming to an end

and now they are saying that people and skills and the skills that

business needs must be a priority as well. We will see on Monday how far

they have shifted, because David Davis will present the government

offering on citizens rights to the European Commission and we will see

what is in that, what are they doing to protect rights here in Europe and

also going forward, for those who want to come and work here. It will

be interesting to see what Doctor Fox comes up with both here and

America, Americans are looking up written differently at the moment.

Conversations I have had, the fact that we are leaving the European

Union does make us less valuable to our American allies, there is no

question about that. Hundreds have gathered for a vigil

after a terror attack Faith leaders and the head

of the Met Police attended 47-year-old Darren Osborne has been

held on suspicion of attempted murder and alleged terror offences

after the attack in Finsbury Park. 180 families directly affected

by the Grenfell tower fire in west London have been given money

from an emergency fund. A public inquiry has been announced

by the Prime Minister and investigations into the fire

safety measures that Police have named five victims

of the fire which is thought Barclays Bank and four of its former

senior executives have been charged with fraud and other offences

stemming The ex-chief executive,

John Varley, is among those The charges concern the way Barclays

raised billions of dollars from investors in Qatar

during the crash. We wonder what Moscow

will make of this meeting. The US President has hosted

the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, at the White House

where the Mr Trump was thanked It was the first face-to-face

meeting between the leaders They can be certain that Vladimir

Putin was watching. You know we live in crazy times

when a small local election in the US attracts a whopping

$56 million in campaign spending. Today's election in Georgia's 6th

district has become most expensive It's also a proxy war

between Democrats and Donald Trump. Here's how we got to

today's mega bucks vote - The seat was occupied

by Congressman Tom Price who left to join the Trump administration

as health secretary. Republicans believe they can win

this affluent seat that they've held since 1979.

But it's close - they don't love Trump here, he only won the district

by one-and-a-half points last year. The two candidates are Democratic

novice Jon Ossof and Republican Our North America Correspondent Nick

Bryant is in Atlanta for us. Why has this become such a big deal

and how on earth is costing $56 million? If you turn on the

television, you will see because every two minutes there is another

political advertisement featuring either this democratic 30-year-old,

this unlikely challenger, the guy who could go from long shot to big

shock, Jon Ossof up against Karen Handel who is a former Georgia

Secretary of State. I has it becomes all-important? Democrats here want

to deliver a bloody nose to Donald Trump and that is why so much money

has been poured into this race, much of it, it has to be said, from out

of state. A lot of money is said to have from New York and California to

try and get Jon Ossof into Congress. As you say, it is not natural Trump

country, it is a Republican stronghold, this seat was

represented previously by Newt Gingrich. Tom Price used to

represent it as well. It was not very favourable towards Donald Trump

in the last one, he only won it by over 1% of the vote, that Romney won

by 23%. Last year, this district actually went for Marco Rubio. There

is this feeling that his behaviour as President, the unorthodox way he

carries out his daily duties in the White House has depressed that

Republican vote even further. Everyone is saying that this is all

about Donald Trump and if the Democrats win, it will be a sign

that they can do even bigger things next year, maybe even take back the

House of Representatives. During the course of this campaign, I

understand that neither candidate has talked about Donald Trump very

much. When I suggested to Karen Handel that this was Trump

referendum, she almost bet my head of and she was very annoyed that

that is the way that the media, especially the out-of-state media,

has tried to present this. Jon Ossof is trying to present himself as a

pragmatist, a third way Democrats, he wants to reform Obama care but

not fix it, but he and in his television advertisements has made

Donald Trump central to this race calling him a national

embarrassment, he wants to go to Congress to hold him to account. The

Trump the fact has had two distinct impacts, one is it has galvanised

the Democrats. I was at their campaign headquarters on the EU vote

this boat and the spirit and the energy out room was quite

extraordinary and much of that was against Trump. There is a feeling

that the Trump a fact has depressed the Republican vote and that is why

Karen Handel is so determined to keep it on local issues and the

inexperience of a candidate rather than Donald Trump in Washington.

Like you say, Karen Handel is then it is not a Trump referendum but if

you look at the tweets, the President is putting out, he knows

how important it is for them to win it. Democrat Jon Ossof wants to

raise your taxes to the highest level, he is weak on crime and

security does not even live in the district, he tweeted. I wonder will

he be tweeting tomorrow if they lose? They're trying to say that Jon

Ossof is a carpetbagger, that he is a bit of a loony lefty and that is

why he is so determined to present himself as this political centrist

in a Republican stronghold. This is big reverberations, if the Democrats

were to win this, it may unnerve the Republican leadership, especially

ahead of the mid-term congressional leadership centre might have an

impact on the move is to repeal and replace Obama can Best Obamacare.

That will certainly emboldened the Democrats, real -- a real morale

booster. A lot of Democrats feel they cannot win back the Senate,

they are defending a lot of seats but they think they can wrestle back

control of the House and that is a tantalising prospect because if they

do win back the House, they win subpoena power and they would be in

charge of some of those committees that have been carrying out the

probes into Donald Trump and that, for them, is a tantalising prospect.

Nick Bryant in Georgia. Thank you. With me now is Ron Christie -

the former advisor to Thank you for coming in. At this

stage is it more important for Democrats to win this to show that

they are galvanised against Donald Trump or is it more important for

Republicans to win it to show they can hold on seats. I think it is

more import of the Democrats, they have spent a lot of money. I am so

glad you agree with me. They spent a lot of money here and I find it

fascinating that Jon Ossof only has 700 donors in Georgia. It has come

from California, Massachusetts and New York. The Democrats are angry

and looking for a way to find some way to send a message to Donald

Trump and I think that is what this race is all about, 26 million

dollars. They have had to near losses recently, in cancers and

Montana and they really need to win Georgia. I am intrigued about how

flippant you are about the cost. All the parties that the UK party spent

was around ?40 million. Was never a debate in the US about what you

spend? This is the sixth district of Georgia! Britain has bargain

basement democracy. Cheap and cheerful. Is deliver a debate about

it? I think there is a lot of discussion. You have Jon Ossof

spending 26 million and the Republican contender spending about

the same amount, over $50 million for a conversion are some people are

scratching their heads and saying, if you're going to spend this amount

of money for a district in the suburbs of Atlanta, what does this

mean about reforming the amount of money spent in other elections? We

have breaking news from the White House and that is the fact that we

have a press briefing taking place. We have been missing it and it is

Sean Spicer before he might possibly be leaving the podium, he is

speaking to the press again. Right here. Keep taking your selfies. It

is those who put, we have had a couple of vacancies. We have been

seeking input from individuals and meeting with potential people who

may be of service to the administration. I do not think that

should come as a surprise but we are always looking for ways to do a

better job of articulating the message of the President and his

agenda and we will continue to have those discussions internally and we

have an announcement we will you know. That White House briefing is

over and we keep hearing the possibility of a big staff shake-up.

I think he is out and from what I have been hearing is that this is

the first wave of a white out shake-up. There were kick him

upstairs to take the communications director job, get someone who has a

less combative relationship to do the briefings. Will they keep doing

press briefings? I have not known and administration who has been so

camera shy. There is a value to the American public in having members of

the press question the press secretary. No question. We have

never seen a President like theirs, one who puts tweets out several

times a day. I think the President believes he is as best press

secretary and I think that is why you have seen a diminished role at

the White House podium. He is need -- he will need a strong and robust

communications director. The White House is saying that Mr Trump will

make an announcement this week on the existence of any tapes or

conversations with the former FBI director, whether those tape --

tapes exist. They will need a strong man in that position. Or woman.

Absolutely. No question. The notion we are talking about, recordings,

tapes, up whatever he may have done, sometimes he is his own worst enemy,

things come on Twitter, where he makes these comments and then you

have a special counsel, investigating this administration. I

think it is safe to say that this administration needs a strong man or

woman at the podium as well as the communications shop, to make sure

they can write this ship sooner rather than later. The real question

is whether the President actually wants that would prefer to do his

communications himself. Saturday Night Live are going to miss Sean

Spicer. So are we! He does provide good copy. He does.

You're watching One Hundred Days Plus from BBC News.

Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News -

another escalation - as the US accuses North Korea

of murdering an American student, we'll get the thoughts of one

ambassador who's negotiated with the regime.

And how hot does it have to get before planes are grounded?

If you're sweltering in Europe - spare a thought for America's

southwest...That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.

Today was not quite as hard as yesterday, hot enough though, lots

of blue skies in many parts of the UK, a beautiful picture here from

Devon. Temperatures in the South East cut up to 31, yesterday we

district out at 33 degrees. A contrast on the North Sea coast, 17

degrees. What will happen over the next 24 hours, the heat will peak in

the south tomorrow and then we have got some thunderstorms on the way

and they will mostly affect the north and south of the UK as well.

Temperatures at 9pm tonight, still very hot in the south, uncomfortable

going to bed, 15 degrees, a lot fresher in Newcastle around nine

o'clock this evening. Tonight, we are seeing the threat of one or two

showers, may be isolated thunderstorms in the north-west of

the UK, to the south of that in the morning, that hot air starts pumping

in once again from the near continent. Already at eight o'clock

we are talking about temperatures into the 20s, across the south of

the country, is still around the mid teens, and noticed these little

blobs of blue, these are the showers and potential thunderstorms that

could affect Northern Ireland or the South West of Scotland into the

north of England and further north as well and here, a lot fresher

first thing are talking about temperatures of 12 or 14 degrees.

Not everyone is getting the heat. Big north and south split. We have

that hate resurging from France and the near continent, very hot air,

exceptionally hot, in the North vicar cloud and the possibility of

some thunderstorms. 34 as possible, in London, if that happens, we get a

whole of 34 degrees and back and be the hottest day in 40 years, more

than 40 years. Then, weapons united that Thursday, fresher and cooler

area starts pushing them, but look at that, thunderstorms are rumbling

through Bill West of the UK. By Thursday, that heat will be pushed

into the continent and look at the drop, still 26, warm in London but

mostly in the teams across the West and north. Bacuna trend will

continue into the weekend, some of us will have a little bit of rain

and not an awful lot of sunshine on offer. Goodbye.

Welcome back to One Hundred Days Plus with me Katty Kay

in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.

Our top story - the Bank of England governor says Brexit

But on a trip to America, the UK's trade minister

tells this programme, there are opportunities

My job is to look for the opportunities that come from Brexit.

One of the reasons i campaigned to leave the european union

is i believe there are great opportunites for britian

to take advantage of those growing global markets.

And coming up - a water-bombing aircraft crashes in Portugal

as the fire emergency, which has killed 64 people

And with given in Portugal as there are questions about whether a major

highway was not blocked off. At least 64 people died in the fire

since Saturday and the government has declared a state of emergency in

the forested Our correspondent James Reynolds has

travelled to Varzeas, where a fifth of the population has

died in the blaze. This afternoon, Portugal

despatched more planes The government is yet

to make this region safe. The relief effort is too late

for the village of Varzeas, it's lost one in five

of its residents. Sisile Tina told me

she knew all the victims. On Saturday afternoon, the village

watched the forest catch fire. "There was a massive

noise", Amal told us, "We'd never seen anything like it",

said Valdemar, "it all happened Residents were then forced

to take an immediate, terrifying decision -

stay here and risk getting caught by the flames or drive off

in search of safety. Many drove, it proved

to be a fatal mistake. On this road, flames

engulfed many in their cars. Mario Pinhal told Portuguese TV

that his family tried His wife, Suzanna and their

daughters Joanna and Margarita drove Everyone has been kind,

but I just want my wife Mario and his parents barely

escaped in the car behind. "We should have died",

Mario mother's cries, Mario Pinhal's home remains

standing, it is a shattering monument to his family's

decision to flee. If they'd simply stayed put,

they would have all survived. James Reynolds, BBC

News, central Portugal. The European Court of Human Rights

has ruled Russia's 'gay propaganda' law is discriminatory

and encourages homophobia. The law bans the promotion

of homosexuality to minors but judges ruled it breaches rules

on freedom of expression and did not The Kremlin says it will review

the court's decision. Football manager Jose Mourinho has

been accused of tax fraud. Spanish prosecutors investigating

Mourinho's time as Real Madrid's head coach say he did not declare

income from the use The Manchester United manager

is accused of defrauding Spain of 3.7-million dollars between 2011

and 2012. Donald Trump may have condemned

the brutality of the North Korean regime following the death

of American student Otto Warmbier but John Mcain

has gone even further. The Republican US Senator says

Otto Warmbier was murdered He died just days after arriving

back in the US in a coma. Otto Warmbier was 'bright,

intelligent and likeable' - according to a fellow traveller

who met him on a trip It was on that trip he was arrested

and imprisoned for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster

from a hotel. He died yesterday, surrounded by his

family in a Cincinnati hospital. Here's what the president

had to say today. It's a total disgrace

what happened to Otto, it should never ever have been

allowed to happen. Frankly if he had been

brought home sooner, I think the result would have been

a lot different. He should have been brought

home that same day. The result would have been

a lot different. Such a sad story with so many

questions and everyone saying what a great guy Otto Warmbier was and how

he fell victim to the regime. But we do not really know what happened, at

what stage she got these brain injuries that put him into, and what

the circumstances where. Well among those who aided in Otto's

release was Former US Ambassador There are still questions about the

captivity of Otto Warmbier and what happened to him. You helped to get

him out of North Korea, when did you know that he was in a coma? I found

out when the news was reported to the American State Department. I

have met with the North Korean is 20 times in the past year, I had sent a

delegation to try to get Otto out in exchange for humanitarian

assistance. So I learned a year later after he was in a coma, this

was a crime of humanity what the North Koreans did, a gross human

rights violations and cover-up. This optimism excuse, sleeping pill, he

might have been tortured, he might have been abused. This is wrong and

there should be some kind of punishment for the North Koreans. I

imagine it would make any kind of negotiation with the North Koreans

more difficult but also it is an indication of the fact that you and

others did not know and it shows how little we know about what is

happening in North Korea, how limited our intelligence is. It

shows that Kim Jong Un is governing almost without any input, it could

be that the foreign ministry that normally deals with these issues was

sidelined and the security forces did not want to tell Kim Jong Un of

the problem. That might have happened. Or maybe he knew and they

felt the best thing to do was hoped that he would come out of that, and

things would be OK. But I think the fact that they failed to disclose,

they failed to give proper medical treatment, that possibly he was

tortured right left his trial, that he is being in a coma for a year is

a major violation under the Geneva Convention of the treatment of

prisoners and should be some for that, they should pay for that. The

issue is how you make them pay. Obviously it is such a closed and

repressive regime. I know he's spent a lot of time talking to the family

and we watched the father speaking brave and last week. He was critical

of the Obama administration for not publicising that Otto was there and

the kind of conditions he was being kept in. There are now three

Americans still there and six South Koreans as well. Should we not be

making more of that and keeping up the pressure and publicising the

fact that they're being held? Yes and I think this is a major

consideration for any future policy towards North Korea. Let's get those

three Americans out and a Canadian, there is a Canadian there as well do

not forget. We should also make every effort to get the North

Koreans to disclose what happened. But I worked with the Obama

administration on this for the past year and they were concerned, they

supported my trip when I sent my delegation there. They knew what we

were doing through private efforts, not necessarily government to

government. So the Obama administration was deeply involved.

But the North Koreans were waiting for the new administration to come

in, they did not want to deal with a lame-duck administration that was

leaving and so I think that this slow things down. But I give

President Trump and his team credit for being aggressive and getting

Otto out when they found out he had been in a coma, they demanded to go

to North Korea to bring him out in an aeroplane. That was the right

course of action. And we made the point that for all the strong words

we've heard from John McCain, what do they do because it seems for all

the pressure that Donald Trump is put on the Chinese to start ramping

up the pressure on North Korea, it is not working, they're just

ignoring it. China has put in a little more pressure than they have

in the past but they need to do more, they need to step up. They

need to realise that there is turmoil in the Korean Peninsula and

it is not an interest from these missile tests destabilise the region

where they want to be paramount. They should also be concerned about

the human rights case, Right on their own border with Otto Warmbier.

Not just because he's an American but because the North Koreans take

these prisoners, they detain these individuals and use them as

bargaining chips. Possibly torture. Mishandle the whole situation. China

needs to step up more than they have. They've not done enough and

they are the major lever we have with North Korea because they give

food and fuel, energy assistance, economic assistance, coal and oil,

they can do a lot more and the international community should step

up on China. But also maybe the United Nations do an investigation

of this Otto Warmbier case, the human rights commission. There has

to be some transparency, there has to be some explanation and the North

Koreans need to explain what happened to Otto Warmbier and his

family. A wonderful American family that is heartbroken and unjustly

treated, their son. Thank you very much. And of course for all your

efforts in trying to get all these prisoners out. It is interesting

talking about the prospect of retaliation, it is just not clear

what that means when John McCain says it should not happen. What does

retaliation look like. With a regime like North Korea. It is not easy.

And the White House saying in the past few minutes that it is an

increasingly remote possibility that Donald Trump will meet with Kim Jong

Un. It's a close run thing on what we

talk about most in Britain - or perhaps what we moan about most -

it's either Brexit or the weather. Way too hot for chimpanzees,

this is Whipsade zoo The temperature at London's Heathrow

airport - 34 degrees today - In Arizona this week it is so hot

the planes can't take off. This is Phoenix airport where more

than 40 flights have been grounded That is not a fair comparison! That

is in the Desert. Thank you for