:00:00. > :00:00.take it, because we really had a lot of fun doing that show. We are going
:00:00. > :00:08.to start doing some more in about three weeks. Which is brilliant
:00:09. > :00:12.news. A whole new series? Yes, I think 15 of them. The original cast?
:00:13. > :00:14.Yes. The French president promises
:00:15. > :00:20.a radical new path for his country. Emmanuel Macron says
:00:21. > :00:22.the European Union has lost its way Critics say his Versailles ceremony
:00:23. > :00:26.looked just a bit too regal - he says it's time for the French
:00:27. > :00:29.to stop living unfairly And I think by it's recent
:00:30. > :00:34.choices our people are asking us President Trump has called France,
:00:35. > :00:38.Germany and Italy today It's all ahead of his trip to Europe
:00:39. > :00:46.and meeting with Vladimir Putin. This video tweet has had the second
:00:47. > :00:49.highest number of views of any and yes, it's another
:00:50. > :00:54.attack on the press. Also - amidst fierce
:00:55. > :00:56.fighting the battle Islamic State fighters
:00:57. > :01:00.are being driven from the But what comes next once
:01:01. > :01:06.the Iraqi city is reclaimed? And New Jersey's Governor
:01:07. > :01:09.is feeling the heat. It's bad enough to close a beach
:01:10. > :01:12.on a holiday weekend - it's another thing to then show up
:01:13. > :01:24.relaxing in the sand. I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:25. > :01:41.Christian Fraser is in London. Emmanuel Macron is either
:01:42. > :01:42.a self-styled Napoleon for the French Republic or he's
:01:43. > :01:46.a political genius who's going to restore both dignity
:01:47. > :01:48.and prosperity to the country. After a grand state of the union
:01:49. > :01:52.session at Versailles, the new French President has
:01:53. > :01:54.been called both. In a break with tradition,
:01:55. > :01:56.the President summoned the joint houses of parliament to Versaille,
:01:57. > :01:59.to hear a 90 minute address. In the speech, he said
:02:00. > :02:02.the European Union had lost its way, and the state of emergency will be
:02:03. > :02:04.lifted this autumn. He also told the lawmakers he wants
:02:05. > :02:07.to slash their numbers by one third. TRANSLATION: So far, too often,
:02:08. > :02:10.we have taken the wrong path. We have preferred
:02:11. > :02:11.procedures to results, regulations to initiatives,
:02:12. > :02:14.turned our society to and I think by its recent choices,
:02:15. > :02:21.our people is asking us to follow And I refuse, as far as I am
:02:22. > :02:25.concerned, to choose between ambition and
:02:26. > :02:29.spirit of justice. I refuse to accept that to create
:02:30. > :02:32.equality, we should give up excellence, or to succeed, we should
:02:33. > :02:42.give up the idea of giving everybody We're joined here in London
:02:43. > :02:55.by Peter Ricketts, the former Do you think that this is a
:02:56. > :02:59.president who is redefining the position at the moment? Yes, I think
:03:00. > :03:06.he has thought very carefully about this. He has smashed the mould, and
:03:07. > :03:14.now he wants to change the idea of what the French president is. He
:03:15. > :03:18.thought his lead assessor, Francois Hollande, was to showbiz, and he
:03:19. > :03:24.wants to give back to the presidency somebody like Charles de Gaulle. And
:03:25. > :03:29.I think he thinks that this is what French people want. No better place
:03:30. > :03:33.to instil some of that majesty and mystique than Versailles, but the
:03:34. > :03:37.difficulty is that there is a large section on the left that do not
:03:38. > :03:43.particularly like that approach. Here is a picture of a French
:03:44. > :03:47.newspaper has cast as Jupiter, the idea that he is far too regal for
:03:48. > :03:52.the position. There is a risk and what he is doing, because he can go
:03:53. > :03:57.too far. He sensed that the mould was fragile, he smashed and now he
:03:58. > :04:03.is going to rebuild it. Putting himself a very high up as president,
:04:04. > :04:10.but also trying to ruthlessly cut the size of Parliament, introducing
:04:11. > :04:16.proportional representation, simple fine lawmaking, getting on with the
:04:17. > :04:21.task of reform. And all this Jupiter president stuff will be fine if he
:04:22. > :04:25.can deliver. It is one thing to have fantastic style, to revive the
:04:26. > :04:28.dignity of the office of the president. He is still got to do
:04:29. > :04:33.something that has been almost impossible for any of his
:04:34. > :04:37.predecessors, to reform the French economy, and he said today that the
:04:38. > :04:42.French leaders stop living off the public purse over fairness. To break
:04:43. > :04:46.that social contract is good to be extremely difficult, whatever his
:04:47. > :04:51.stylus. It is, he has got to get unemployment down. As long as I can
:04:52. > :04:54.member working in France, it has been 10% or more, and the feeling is
:04:55. > :05:01.that too many people have been living on benefits. If he does not
:05:02. > :05:07.break it, he has got to at least show results, the fee does not do
:05:08. > :05:11.that in 12 or 18 months, then his efforts to redefine the presidency
:05:12. > :05:16.will look hollow. He needs to get reform in Europe moving, but he
:05:17. > :05:21.first asked to show that he can reform France. Several Cabinet
:05:22. > :05:26.members had to leave early on in his term. He looked so full of hope, so
:05:27. > :05:32.golden, so different, are the concerns that he may not be so
:05:33. > :05:35.different after all? I think the result is that French people are
:05:36. > :05:38.saying, this guy is actually doing it. He said he wants to clean up
:05:39. > :05:42.politics, get away from corruption, and the first hint of any
:05:43. > :05:47.involvement with scandal, and people left. And he has filled them with
:05:48. > :05:52.new people, so it is a very new team. He is setting a very high
:05:53. > :05:55.moral standard. I think people will accept that in France, because they
:05:56. > :05:59.were fed up with the previous political class. But this new team
:06:00. > :06:07.now has to get very going, and I do not think they have got long to go.
:06:08. > :06:12.Peter and I used to talk a lot about Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois
:06:13. > :06:17.Hollande, and I wonder about how people perceive the presidency. It
:06:18. > :06:21.is most likely mixture between the Queen and the Prime Minister. They
:06:22. > :06:26.missed out that has suddenly reappeared for Jacques Chirac, what
:06:27. > :06:30.was that about? Partly it is the lapse of time, and partly he was a
:06:31. > :06:34.president that did not achieve a great deal but preserve the dignity
:06:35. > :06:41.and a gravitas, the ad and obviously keen for people. So Mac ROM is maybe
:06:42. > :06:48.onto something here. -- Emmanuel Macron. I think he thought that
:06:49. > :06:55.people thought French people were fed up with the class of politics
:06:56. > :07:00.for a generation or so. He has pulled back, he wants to talk not so
:07:01. > :07:06.much but let his actions speak. His actions today are very symbolic, but
:07:07. > :07:13.of course he can go too far. So far I think he has shown good judgment.
:07:14. > :07:19.It is fascinating. I want to make a mention of the official portrait
:07:20. > :07:25.that was released a few days ago. Nothing is done by chance, this is a
:07:26. > :07:29.bit reminiscent of Obama. The book just behind his hand is the memoirs
:07:30. > :07:34.of Charles de Gaulle, opened halfway through as if he has been reading it
:07:35. > :07:39.and just cast it aside. And it throws back to when he first came
:07:40. > :07:43.out in front of the Louvre, looking like this fear with the pyramids
:07:44. > :07:48.behind him, the ode to Joy, the European anthem, everything is being
:07:49. > :07:54.very carefully calibrated in this presidency. Nothing is being done by
:07:55. > :07:58.chance, no mistake that we are talking about Jupiter and royalty in
:07:59. > :08:04.the context at Versailles today. That is how it is supposed to look.
:08:05. > :08:08.We talk about Donald Trump being the television president, but certainly
:08:09. > :08:12.the importance of image has clearly made its way into Emmanuel Macron's
:08:13. > :08:17.life as well, and like you say, he has a fantastic PR and messaging
:08:18. > :08:25.team. That photo you just showed, I am not sure how well that headline
:08:26. > :08:29.is good to go down, and it does reflect concerns among the friends
:08:30. > :08:34.that he is going to go too far, this is may have been one step too far,
:08:35. > :08:37.the event at Versailles. We are going to talk about president
:08:38. > :08:48.trumping the moment, albeit treating that he is doing. -- all the
:08:49. > :08:54.tweeted. Emmanuel Macron is keeping a distance from the journalists. It
:08:55. > :09:00.is all going to be about whether he manages to reform the economy. There
:09:01. > :09:03.is nothing and no one that can stop President Trump from tweeting.
:09:04. > :09:05.And often the target is the Fake Media.
:09:06. > :09:08."At some point," he wrote on his Twitter feed today
:09:09. > :09:10."the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers,
:09:11. > :09:13."strong economy, success with Isis, the border so much else!"
:09:14. > :09:15.The media actually does report on policy issues -
:09:16. > :09:17.we've done it a lot on this programme.
:09:18. > :09:20.The trouble is the message from the White House gets
:09:21. > :09:22.undermined by the messaging from the Oval iPhone.
:09:23. > :09:25.After the storm of criticism last week, Mr Trump reacted this way -
:09:26. > :09:27."My use of social media is not Presidential -
:09:28. > :09:34."it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!"
:09:35. > :09:37.He followed up with a meme that many of you will already have seen -
:09:38. > :09:40.a video of a wrestling match in which the President takes
:09:41. > :09:43.down a figure whose face is obscured by the CNN logo.
:09:44. > :09:58."It is a sad day when the president of the United States encourages
:09:59. > :10:12."violence against reporters," a spokesperson said.
:10:13. > :10:14.Joining us now to discuss it all is Molly Ball,
:10:15. > :10:27.In the White House's defence is that the scene we have just seen his fake
:10:28. > :10:31.wrestling, it is all entertainment, and liberals have not got a sense of
:10:32. > :10:35.humour. They should not see this in any way as an attack on the press.
:10:36. > :10:40.And similar to what the president himself said in the tweet, but you
:10:41. > :10:47.just quoted, the president has a unique way of communicating with the
:10:48. > :10:50.American people. His instinct is when he is attacked, he will punch
:10:51. > :10:55.back ten times harder, and that is what he is doing now. They see him
:10:56. > :11:00.as the victim of unfair attacks and is therefore attacking in return.
:11:01. > :11:03.This is not a widely shared view, even, I think, among Republicans
:11:04. > :11:08.here in Washington and among voters I have spoken to out in middle
:11:09. > :11:14.America. There is a real uneasiness with the President's sort of
:11:15. > :11:18.candour, you could see, and the outrageous things that he says. And
:11:19. > :11:22.his own lack of focus on the a lot of policy issues that you mention.
:11:23. > :11:25.It is fair to say that you look at what is happening here in the United
:11:26. > :11:32.States, around the world, and you get the President tweeting about
:11:33. > :11:37.alias media figures, and the whole thing looks absurd at a time when
:11:38. > :11:44.there is a lot to deal with. -- VDS media figures. Isn't there a risk
:11:45. > :11:48.within the media, the American media has talked about little else for the
:11:49. > :11:54.last few days, it just looks the resident would more out of touch
:11:55. > :12:02.with what American voters care about? It makes the President look
:12:03. > :12:07.more out of touch. If he thought the American people were interested in
:12:08. > :12:10.health care and tax reform, he could be tweeting about those things are
:12:11. > :12:14.giving large public addresses on those things, instead of being
:12:15. > :12:18.obsessed with this grudge match with the media. It may look outside the
:12:19. > :12:23.press look bad, but we are not on the ballot, we do not have to get
:12:24. > :12:26.re-elected, and we do not have to run the country. So if he wants to
:12:27. > :12:34.have a successful presidency when he is able to accomplish goals he has
:12:35. > :12:39.set out for himself and to get re-elected, his public image as the
:12:40. > :12:47.one at stake. His basis 3839%, like it when he goes after the media. The
:12:48. > :12:50.polls I have seen have the number who approve of his tweeting is
:12:51. > :12:56.significantly lower than that. There is a hard-core Trump base who are
:12:57. > :13:00.loyal to him, and they say that when Trump is attacked, they take it
:13:01. > :13:05.personally. They see it as an attack on them. I have likened it to the
:13:06. > :13:07.way that people are fans of their sports teams, and inspires that
:13:08. > :13:12.level of unreasonable devotion. There is literally nothing he can do
:13:13. > :13:16.to annoy those people. But that is a small section of the electorate, and
:13:17. > :13:21.there really is a feeling that he is only speaking to that dedicated fan
:13:22. > :13:33.base, which is a pretty narrow slot, and not a unifying message. The two
:13:34. > :13:38.things that are alarming about this particular meme, the CNN one, he
:13:39. > :13:48.plucked it from an obscure Reddit forum, and you wonder how he is
:13:49. > :14:01.coming across that in. And then he re-tweeted that treat from his
:14:02. > :14:03.president Twitter account. As the CNN statement said, he does have a
:14:04. > :14:11.number of residential responsibilities in front of him.
:14:12. > :14:17.Even if he does not have to spend his time in the Reddit swamps, this
:14:18. > :14:21.came from a user with a history of racist and anti-Semitic comments,
:14:22. > :14:26.even someone on his staff is looking for him, is that what he was elected
:14:27. > :14:31.to do or is it to focus on foreign policy, domestic policy, the economy
:14:32. > :14:34.and so on? It makes it harder for members of Congress to focus on
:14:35. > :14:41.those things because they then have to talk about the president tweets.
:14:42. > :14:46.I wrote a piece on the BBC website this weekend, and suggested that one
:14:47. > :14:53.of the problems is that it suggests that the President is easily
:14:54. > :15:00.rattled, and America's Abbas 's are watching that. I think that is true,
:15:01. > :15:02.and there is an amount of jitteriness here in Washington in
:15:03. > :15:08.the national security community about this seeming reactive nests
:15:09. > :15:14.and the lack of a policy vision, when it comes to allies and enemies
:15:15. > :15:18.alike, Isis appears to be on the run, but nobody has any idea about
:15:19. > :15:25.what America plans to do afterwards. There is a real back him in terms of
:15:26. > :15:29.the stance towards Nato being so muddled, and many of our allies
:15:30. > :15:33.being set off balance, so I think it is true that nobody really knows
:15:34. > :15:37.what he is going to do next. They do that is the plan. He said he would
:15:38. > :15:46.be unpredictable. He certainly is unpredictable. Thank you. President
:15:47. > :15:48.Obama said he did not worry about what journalists were writing about
:15:49. > :15:53.him when he was in office, he worried about in 20 years' time, but
:15:54. > :15:58.that does not seem to worry President Trump. Whatever the White
:15:59. > :16:03.House saying about this? They have a real feeling that the press is not
:16:04. > :16:10.giving them a real shot in the United States, and the president is
:16:11. > :16:15.right to head back. -- to hit back. The president may have used the
:16:16. > :16:19.media successfully during the campaign, but now they would say
:16:20. > :16:24.that the fake news on the mainstream media has turned against him. That
:16:25. > :16:51.is the feeling from some within the White House.
:16:52. > :16:59.Quickly on the issue of Obama care, could we say... This has been a
:17:00. > :17:01.difficult weekend for the Republicans, the board on health
:17:02. > :17:07.care cancelled last weekend, they could be getting some bad press, but
:17:08. > :17:13.instead the press are focusing on this. -- the vote on health care.
:17:14. > :17:16.New health care is so unpopular for Republicans, they are happy for the
:17:17. > :17:19.conversation to be about something else.
:17:20. > :17:22.The President will be in Germany for a two-day G20 meeting
:17:23. > :17:25.And it would seem, despite the criticism,
:17:26. > :17:30.he is engaging with people other than the Fake Media.
:17:31. > :17:55.Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, will be heading to those meetings,
:17:56. > :18:06.Is the president is trying to redirect attention to foreign policy
:18:07. > :18:09.issues this morning? I am sure the White House will say he is busy with
:18:10. > :18:14.these things all the time, and it is just the fake news media not giving
:18:15. > :18:19.him the attention he deserves an big policy issues. Maybe if he didn't
:18:20. > :18:24.tweet so much about other things, we would not get deflected from them.
:18:25. > :18:29.It is a big important policy... We are trying to talk about policy, and
:18:30. > :18:33.now we are back on issues! Exactly, he wants to talk about foreign
:18:34. > :18:39.policy, he has got this meeting ahead of the G20's. We saw what
:18:40. > :18:43.happened at the G7, with America about to pull out of the climate
:18:44. > :18:47.change deal. We saw him at Nato, equally an awkward occasion, when he
:18:48. > :18:52.did not commit to article five of the Nato treaty, when an attack
:18:53. > :18:59.against one is an attack against all. It remains to be seen how he
:19:00. > :19:01.will be seen and the G20. Last week, the National Security adviser was
:19:02. > :19:07.running through the list of people he will meet. The president will
:19:08. > :19:14.meet with many world leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel,
:19:15. > :19:18.Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK, President Vladimir Putin of
:19:19. > :19:28.Russia... Hang on, President that you put on? -- he carried on as if
:19:29. > :19:36.it was the most important -- normal thing in the world. All eyes will be
:19:37. > :19:41.on what the talk about. I feel sorry for the other due 20 litres, nobody
:19:42. > :19:47.is going to be interested. -- the other G20 leaders. He's has said he
:19:48. > :19:52.will be talking about Syria and Ukraine, and a lot of people are
:19:53. > :19:56.thinking a lot while you not talking about Russia dabbling in the US
:19:57. > :20:01.election? The court at the briefing was there is no agenda yet for that
:20:02. > :20:04.meeting with President Putin. It might be a bit three ruling, we will
:20:05. > :20:16.talk about whatever comes up. I think after the meeting, we will
:20:17. > :20:20.hear about the meeting that Donald Trump had with Sergei Lavrin the
:20:21. > :20:23.Oval Office. We will hear about Russian interference in the
:20:24. > :20:27.election, but I think that that will not be raised at the meeting. He
:20:28. > :20:31.does not want to poison the relationship with Vladimir Putin,
:20:32. > :20:35.and if he does not raise it, you are accused of ignoring what you're
:20:36. > :20:38.intelligence services are telling you, which is that Russia did
:20:39. > :20:44.intervene in the presidential election. I hope you will transform
:20:45. > :20:51.yourself magically into a fly on the well and tell us everything. -- a
:20:52. > :20:53.fly on the wall. I will try. Thank you for joining us.
:20:54. > :20:55.The British Government insists the public sector pay cap
:20:56. > :20:57.of 1% remains in place, despite growing pressure
:20:58. > :21:00.The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is the latest
:21:01. > :21:02.to add his voice to calls for higher pay for workers
:21:03. > :21:07.But Downing Street says it will listen to the to the pay review
:21:08. > :21:09.bodies which could recommend pay rises above the 1% cap.
:21:10. > :21:12.The Gulf state of Qatar has delivered its response to a list
:21:13. > :21:17.The emirate had been given 48 hours to agree to an ultimatum or face
:21:18. > :21:19.yet more diplomatic and economic sanctions from Saudi Arabia,
:21:20. > :21:22.Qatar has already indicated it won't comply, saying the demands
:21:23. > :21:28.were so extreme that they seem designed to be rejected.
:21:29. > :21:30.The French energy giant, Total, has signed a multi-billion-dollar
:21:31. > :21:35.It's the first major agreement between Iran and a European company
:21:36. > :21:37.in the sector since the lifting of sanctions
:21:38. > :21:43.Total will be the largest shareholder, and will work together
:21:44. > :21:48.President Trump tweeted his willingness to lend
:21:49. > :21:51.a hand to Charlie Gard, the little boy in Britain whose
:21:52. > :21:54.parents have lost a legal battle to keep him on life support.
:21:55. > :21:58.His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, want their son
:21:59. > :22:03.to receive experimental treatment in the US.
:22:04. > :22:13.Donald Trump said, if we can help, we would be delighted to do so.
:22:14. > :22:18.I was just looking at a comment from the Prime Minister's official
:22:19. > :22:24.spokesman, and he said he was aware of President Trump's tweet about
:22:25. > :22:27.Charlie Gard. This is a sensitive time, and our thoughts are with him
:22:28. > :22:32.and Charlie's family. But they do not talk about if there is any
:22:33. > :22:35.chance that offer will be taken up. We have also got something just here
:22:36. > :22:39.from the White House press office, saying the president is just trying
:22:40. > :22:43.to be helpful if at all possible. They recognise all the legal issues.
:22:44. > :22:47.It is curious that the president should get involved in an era where
:22:48. > :22:52.he does not have jurisdiction. It is a very conjugated legal case, a
:22:53. > :22:56.concentrated emotional case for the family, and it is not very clear
:22:57. > :23:02.what the president means. -- a complicated emotional case. There
:23:03. > :23:04.has been concern from some Conservative bloggers in the United
:23:05. > :23:09.States, saying this is what happens when you have socialism, somehow a
:23:10. > :23:16.reflection on public health care systems. We will have more from the
:23:17. > :23:19.White House later. Charlie was supposed to be taken off the
:23:20. > :23:23.life-support system on Friday, but he is still on it at great Ormond.
:23:24. > :23:26.Glorious day here in the UK yesterday, and also in New Jersey.
:23:27. > :23:28.The kind of holiday weekend where ordinarily
:23:29. > :23:32.But on Saturday, in the midst of a budget row with Democrats,
:23:33. > :23:35.the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie,
:23:36. > :23:38.ordered all non-essential services to be shut down,
:23:39. > :23:44.Yes, long stretches of empty sands - deserted,
:23:45. > :23:49.Look a little closer, and you will see that sitting
:23:50. > :23:55.there in his deck chair, beach to himself,
:23:56. > :23:59.A little later in the day, he was asked at a news conference
:24:00. > :24:04.Little did he know that his local paper, The New Jersey Sentinel,
:24:05. > :24:07.had been flying over the beach that morning, taking photos.
:24:08. > :24:14.Here was Mr Christie's response when pressed.
:24:15. > :24:18.There is no one at Island Beach Day Park.
:24:19. > :24:20.There are no lifeguards, there is no-one to pick
:24:21. > :24:22.up the garbage, there is no-one providing any services at
:24:23. > :24:33.And when they were made aware of the photos,
:24:34. > :24:41.A spokesman said Mr Christie had briefly been on the beach
:24:42. > :24:51.but "He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on."
:24:52. > :24:59.Seriously? I think he needs to fire his spin doctor and get someone new.
:25:00. > :25:06.We have been speaking a a lot about royalty on this programme, starting
:25:07. > :25:10.with President Macron. This is July the 4th, in the United States. Who
:25:11. > :25:14.needs the Royal Family when you have got Governor Christie closing down
:25:15. > :25:21.the beach for his own family? Here are his approval ratings. He is at
:25:22. > :25:26.15%, that is below the American media, at 21%. Congress is at 20%. I
:25:27. > :25:31.think it is statistically impossible to get lower than 15%. It looks from
:25:32. > :25:33.Governor Christie's responds that he is leaving office in January, he
:25:34. > :25:35.does not care. You're watching 100
:25:36. > :25:38.Days+ from BBC News. Still to come - Iraqi special forces
:25:39. > :25:41.are in the final stages of the mission to defeat so-called
:25:42. > :25:44.Islamic State in the city of Mosul. We'll look the power
:25:45. > :25:46.struggle that could be left And professional wrestling
:25:47. > :25:49.has become political in the US, as we hear
:25:50. > :25:52.from the Progressive Liberal - a wrestler who delivers
:25:53. > :25:55.a message with his punches. That's still to come on 100
:25:56. > :26:13.Days+ from BBC News. Warmer weather on the way for many
:26:14. > :26:17.others this week. Most noticeable in England and Wales as the week goes
:26:18. > :26:22.on. Here are some images from today's weather. Cloudy in Northern
:26:23. > :26:25.Ireland, some sunny spells in Wales. Actively cloud in Northern Ireland,
:26:26. > :26:30.a weather system coming in as the evening goes on. Overnight that will
:26:31. > :26:35.feed into parts of South Scotland and northern England, but also
:26:36. > :26:44.thickening cloud will produce some drizzle for Wales in south-west
:26:45. > :26:57.England. Some cruder skies in Scotland except for the odd shower.
:26:58. > :27:02.-- leaders skies. Some outbreaks of rain, not just to begin with but for
:27:03. > :27:08.much of Tuesday. A few heavier burst possible as well. To the south of
:27:09. > :27:14.that, a few showers developing into the Midlands, but most places will
:27:15. > :27:18.be dry. There will be some sunny spells coming through. A bit warmer
:27:19. > :27:23.as well as the day goes on. Let's take a look at things throughout the
:27:24. > :27:28.day. A rainy zone here, it is quite cool hanging around. It will feel
:27:29. > :27:32.quite pleasant in northern Scotland, but still the odd shower around. For
:27:33. > :27:36.the rest of England and Wales, it will be warmer to the size of this
:27:37. > :27:40.weather front here. Temperatures edging into the 20s for some. --
:27:41. > :27:51.warmer to the south of this weather front. The Wimbledon forecast, a
:27:52. > :27:55.warmer day for Tuesday. A hot day on Wednesday, and on Thursday, warmth
:27:56. > :28:05.and humidity but the chance of a thundery downpours we will see any
:28:06. > :28:11.moment. Most of the rain will have died out by Wednesday. Best of the
:28:12. > :28:16.sunshine will be to the south of that, and with that, temperatures
:28:17. > :28:22.edging up further into the 20s, and for some nearly 30 Celsius. By the
:28:23. > :28:26.time we get to Thursday, we could well be seeing some thundery showers
:28:27. > :28:28.breaking out and some of those edging northwards as the day goes
:28:29. > :30:06.on. President Macron has promised
:30:07. > :30:14.a radical new path for France and saying he'll streamline
:30:15. > :30:17.the courts and cut the number President Trump has called France,
:30:18. > :30:22.Germany, and Italy today, it's all ahead of his trip to Europe
:30:23. > :30:37.and meeting with Vladimir Putin. Iraqi special forces have
:30:38. > :30:39.recaptured more territory They are now in the final stage
:30:40. > :30:44.of the battle to drive out Troops and police are closing
:30:45. > :30:48.in from three sides. The fighting has been
:30:49. > :30:50.ongoing since October, and it's just the Old City that
:30:51. > :30:54.forces have yet to reclaim. But if we look at Mosul,
:30:55. > :30:57.there are a lot of factors and The forces pushing
:30:58. > :31:04.forward are primarily from the Iraqi Government -
:31:05. > :31:06.the Army, Federal Police, But to the north, you have
:31:07. > :31:14.Kurdish Peshmerga who have been involved, and also Sunni Arab forces
:31:15. > :31:17.trained by Turkey. There is also a small detachment
:31:18. > :31:20.of Turkish troops in the area, although they are not yet involved
:31:21. > :31:22.in the fighting. I'm joined now by Doug Ollivant,
:31:23. > :31:37.the Former Director for Iraq How close are we to the fall of
:31:38. > :31:41.Mosul and what does that mean for Islamic State? It looks like we are
:31:42. > :31:45.close. There are now just three small district along the river left
:31:46. > :31:49.to be reclaimed by the Iraqi forces. It's now just a matter of time. The
:31:50. > :31:53.forces against the last remaining Islamic State fighters are
:31:54. > :32:00.overwhelming: literally thousands the hundreds. Just prove how
:32:01. > :32:01.prescient, you are, just don't going to quote -- I'm just going to quote
:32:02. > :32:10.this. There are serious equities that must
:32:11. > :32:19.be balanced or checked even while Mosul our citizens are liberated.
:32:20. > :32:22.Are you convinced that a group that liberated, including US citizens,
:32:23. > :32:26.have settled those interests? For now, yes. I been very impressed by
:32:27. > :32:37.the Iraqi government's ability to keep both the Peshmerga and the Shia
:32:38. > :32:43.forces doing the bulk of the fighting. But there are many
:32:44. > :32:50.equities still to be settled. When you look at other battles in Iraq,
:32:51. > :32:56.these are much smaller towns outside Baghdad. Mosul is a big place and it
:32:57. > :33:00.has lots of societies that are expected to come back together and
:33:01. > :33:04.get on. How will they keep the peace? This
:33:05. > :33:15.be complicated. All the previously liberated cities have always been
:33:16. > :33:21.almost 100% sunny Arab. But with the different populations, there are a
:33:22. > :33:27.lot of wrong things in Iraq. The government is moulding, there is a
:33:28. > :33:30.sectarian battle, the whole region is corrupted. But Berlocq
:33:31. > :33:40.Changed. -- but a lot has changed. There has been a centre of Iraqi
:33:41. > :33:45.nationalism rekindled. There are countervailing friends, a new
:33:46. > :33:51.secularism. -- trends. But this is not to say the forces against the
:33:52. > :33:55.fighting are not still there but we should see how this new normal
:33:56. > :34:01.settles out. When we talk about the US strategy, they have to work with
:34:02. > :34:04.the government and find a government that includes and involves all these
:34:05. > :34:07.different set. But you have a balanced at the top who the
:34:08. > :34:12.Americans in the like, then three key departments in Iraqi government,
:34:13. > :34:15.justice, interior, defence, which are vacant. Those are key part of
:34:16. > :34:22.the government. What the Americans have to do? I'm not sure that's
:34:23. > :34:28.right. There is a defence minister, an interior Minister in place. There
:34:29. > :34:31.are some empty ministries. I'm not going to sit here and tell you the
:34:32. > :34:37.Iraqi government is well functioning. But it's good enough to
:34:38. > :34:40.move forward and for the entire world community, not just the United
:34:41. > :34:46.States, but the Europeans, the region, to have a partner to work
:34:47. > :34:49.through. In the last few days, the Iraqi vice president said the United
:34:50. > :34:52.States does not have a clear plan to deal with the crises it faces in the
:34:53. > :35:00.Middle East. Is that a fair criticism give me are an -- given we
:35:01. > :35:07.are on the brink of Mosul and possibly Raqqa falling? Does the
:35:08. > :35:14.White house have a strategy? We need to grade the administration, and any
:35:15. > :35:19.administration. The Middle East is in crisis, from Africa to Iran. How
:35:20. > :35:29.to control a strategy when the ground is shifting beneath you is
:35:30. > :35:33.difficult. I wish the US government would focus more on Iraq, but to say
:35:34. > :35:38.there was no plan is something else. We do hear from Syrians who are
:35:39. > :35:42.fighting the battle against Islamic State that they are happy with the
:35:43. > :35:47.administration, they feel that Trump has stepped up in a way in no way
:35:48. > :35:53.that Obama didn't? The groups that are fighting on our behalf, the
:35:54. > :35:57.Kurds and the affiliated groups, are happy, I'm not sure you could say
:35:58. > :36:00.that for the rest of Syria. Syria will be harder to settle than Iraq.
:36:01. > :36:02.Thanks for joining us. Great pleasure. Happy 4th of July.
:36:03. > :36:05.There are millions of people who have fled the conflict
:36:06. > :36:07.in Iraq and Syria, many of them risking
:36:08. > :36:12.Combine those numbers with the displaced who are trying
:36:13. > :36:14.to cross from Africa, and you can well understand
:36:15. > :36:18.More than 80,000 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean
:36:19. > :36:20.this year, most of them crossing from Libya.
:36:21. > :36:23.And according to the UN, over 2,000 people have died trying.
:36:24. > :36:37.Relief as yet another group of migrants is rescued
:36:38. > :36:40.in the Mediterranean, after setting sail in a small
:36:41. > :36:43.Large numbers are on the move again, heading for Italy -
:36:44. > :36:47.thanks to the warm weather and calm seas.
:36:48. > :36:49.They're mainly from Africa and the Middle East.
:36:50. > :36:56.Some fleeing conflict, others trying to escape poverty.
:36:57. > :36:58.More than 80,000 have arrived in ports in southern
:36:59. > :37:11.A big increase compared to the same period in 2016.
:37:12. > :37:14.And those trying to help them, like the Italian Red Cross,
:37:15. > :37:16.say they're now struggling to cope because the European Union has
:37:17. > :37:19.totally failed to implement its plan to relocate thousands of migrants
:37:20. > :37:27.Only a few hundred are being relocated in other
:37:28. > :37:39.And you can imagine if we had relocated 30,000, we could have
:37:40. > :37:42.30,000 more beds to host the new migrants.
:37:43. > :37:47.Such is the frustration of the Italian government now that
:37:48. > :37:49.it's even hinted at stopping boats carrying rescued migrants
:37:50. > :37:57.And the European Commission has already responded.
:37:58. > :38:00.We are ready to increase our support to Italy,
:38:01. > :38:05.including substantial financial support, if needed.
:38:06. > :38:14.All EU states now need to deliver and show solidarity towards Italy.
:38:15. > :38:17.But as the number of migrants arriving in Italy rapidly grows,
:38:18. > :38:21.the government and aid agencies are likely to be sceptical of these
:38:22. > :38:23.promises of help and solidarity, which they've heard
:38:24. > :38:42.A desperate situation. I spent two weeks in a ship last year on the
:38:43. > :38:46.coast of Libya, we were 12 nautical miles off the coast of Libya and all
:38:47. > :38:51.these boats coming towards us have enough feel just to get over the
:38:52. > :38:55.mark into international waters so that we are there and other boats
:38:56. > :38:58.are there to rescue them. That is the frustration for the Italians,
:38:59. > :39:01.nobody wants to see people drowned but then we are perpetuating the
:39:02. > :39:05.problem whereby they are sending more and more out, knowing full well
:39:06. > :39:10.the ships are there. That is the concern for the Italians. And so
:39:11. > :39:12.many of them. It is a difficult issue.
:39:13. > :39:15.Now, it's a rare day when professional wrestling makes
:39:16. > :39:17.not one but two appearances in our show, but it seems
:39:18. > :39:18.Donald Trump may have some competition.
:39:19. > :39:20.Daniel Harnsberger, or the Progressive Liberal
:39:21. > :39:24.as he is known, has made politics part of his act.
:39:25. > :39:27.Yes, by day he's a real estate agent, but when he takes
:39:28. > :39:30.to the ring, he's the character many love to hate.
:39:31. > :39:33.That's because he's wrestling in a part of the country which voted
:39:34. > :39:36.overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, and wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt
:39:37. > :39:46.is a recipe for being cast as the bad guy.
:39:47. > :39:58.That's what I want, I want to upset people. I enjoy every second of it.
:39:59. > :40:01.I've seen him in wrestling. Because with the Bible Belt, the middle of
:40:02. > :40:15.Eastern Kentucky, he's the perfect heel. Fox News maggot! New can't
:40:16. > :40:24.talk about that having a fight, politics and religion.
:40:25. > :40:34.It is a release for sure. In saying what I think.
:40:35. > :40:44.I was working for promoters in that particular event who said hey, I
:40:45. > :40:48.want you to be the best bad guy you can be. They are talked about the
:40:49. > :40:53.wall and how I wished he would not build a wall around Mexico and said
:40:54. > :40:57.I wish you'd build it around West Virginia so those people can
:40:58. > :41:05.infiltrate the rest of the population. I don't agree with
:41:06. > :41:10.nothing he does, as far as his political views, but he's probably
:41:11. > :41:19.the best gimmick I've seen in wrestling a long time. I think it's
:41:20. > :41:25.great. We've seen it once before up in Hazard but now we're watching
:41:26. > :41:29.him. I think I'm speaking for the masses, and the masses might not be
:41:30. > :41:31.here in Eastern Kentucky where we're sitting right now, but I am speaking
:41:32. > :41:44.for the country, our fans don't like his hard left
:41:45. > :41:52.views, but we don't like being told what is best for us all think that
:41:53. > :41:56.there better than us. There's probably more Republicans in the
:41:57. > :41:59.audience than Democrats, but mostly everybody still touring gizzards are
:42:00. > :42:05.good show. Everybody is in on the joke. You're not going to find a
:42:06. > :42:09.character like the Progressive liberal in New York or Los Angeles,
:42:10. > :42:17.you'll find it in the Bible Belt. We think of are you left or right? But
:42:18. > :42:26.at the end of the light, who can drop the elbow?
:42:27. > :42:36.May be that it, the elbow, maybe we need more of that, not the tweeting.
:42:37. > :42:41.I'm worried about Christian. We have heard about the alternative right,
:42:42. > :42:49.we have heard as much about the alternative left. One study says
:42:50. > :42:54.they get 20% wrong, they cast politicians as spies. Maybe the
:42:55. > :43:01.wrestling ring is the best way to work it out? We all left and the
:43:02. > :43:06.Albright. You won't be here tomorrow? Is July four! But I'll be
:43:07. > :43:08.like Stone back tomorrow.