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take it, because we really had a lot of fun doing that show. We are going

to start doing some more in about three weeks. Which is brilliant

news. A whole new series? Yes, I think 15 of them. The original cast?

Yes. The French president promises

a radical new path for his country. Emmanuel Macron says

the European Union has lost its way Critics say his Versailles ceremony

looked just a bit too regal - he says it's time for the French

to stop living unfairly And I think by it's recent

choices our people are asking us President Trump has called France,

Germany and Italy today It's all ahead of his trip to Europe

and meeting with Vladimir Putin. This video tweet has had the second

highest number of views of any and yes, it's another

attack on the press. Also - amidst fierce

fighting the battle Islamic State fighters

are being driven from the But what comes next once

the Iraqi city is reclaimed? And New Jersey's Governor

is feeling the heat. It's bad enough to close a beach

on a holiday weekend - it's another thing to then show up

relaxing in the sand. I'm Katty Kay in Washington,

Christian Fraser is in London. Emmanuel Macron is either

a self-styled Napoleon for the French Republic or he's

a political genius who's going to restore both dignity

and prosperity to the country. After a grand state of the union

session at Versailles, the new French President has

been called both. In a break with tradition,

the President summoned the joint houses of parliament to Versaille,

to hear a 90 minute address. In the speech, he said

the European Union had lost its way, and the state of emergency will be

lifted this autumn. He also told the lawmakers he wants

to slash their numbers by one third. TRANSLATION: So far, too often,

we have taken the wrong path. We have preferred

procedures to results, regulations to initiatives,

turned our society to and I think by its recent choices,

our people is asking us to follow And I refuse, as far as I am

concerned, to choose between ambition and

spirit of justice. I refuse to accept that to create

equality, we should give up excellence, or to succeed, we should

give up the idea of giving everybody We're joined here in London

by Peter Ricketts, the former Do you think that this is a

president who is redefining the position at the moment? Yes, I think

he has thought very carefully about this. He has smashed the mould, and

now he wants to change the idea of what the French president is. He

thought his lead assessor, Francois Hollande, was to showbiz, and he

wants to give back to the presidency somebody like Charles de Gaulle. And

I think he thinks that this is what French people want. No better place

to instil some of that majesty and mystique than Versailles, but the

difficulty is that there is a large section on the left that do not

particularly like that approach. Here is a picture of a French

newspaper has cast as Jupiter, the idea that he is far too regal for

the position. There is a risk and what he is doing, because he can go

too far. He sensed that the mould was fragile, he smashed and now he

is going to rebuild it. Putting himself a very high up as president,

but also trying to ruthlessly cut the size of Parliament, introducing

proportional representation, simple fine lawmaking, getting on with the

task of reform. And all this Jupiter president stuff will be fine if he

can deliver. It is one thing to have fantastic style, to revive the

dignity of the office of the president. He is still got to do

something that has been almost impossible for any of his

predecessors, to reform the French economy, and he said today that the

French leaders stop living off the public purse over fairness. To break

that social contract is good to be extremely difficult, whatever his

stylus. It is, he has got to get unemployment down. As long as I can

member working in France, it has been 10% or more, and the feeling is

that too many people have been living on benefits. If he does not

break it, he has got to at least show results, the fee does not do

that in 12 or 18 months, then his efforts to redefine the presidency

will look hollow. He needs to get reform in Europe moving, but he

first asked to show that he can reform France. Several Cabinet

members had to leave early on in his term. He looked so full of hope, so

golden, so different, are the concerns that he may not be so

different after all? I think the result is that French people are

saying, this guy is actually doing it. He said he wants to clean up

politics, get away from corruption, and the first hint of any

involvement with scandal, and people left. And he has filled them with

new people, so it is a very new team. He is setting a very high

moral standard. I think people will accept that in France, because they

were fed up with the previous political class. But this new team

now has to get very going, and I do not think they have got long to go.

Peter and I used to talk a lot about Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois

Hollande, and I wonder about how people perceive the presidency. It

is most likely mixture between the Queen and the Prime Minister. They

missed out that has suddenly reappeared for Jacques Chirac, what

was that about? Partly it is the lapse of time, and partly he was a

president that did not achieve a great deal but preserve the dignity

and a gravitas, the ad and obviously keen for people. So Mac ROM is maybe

onto something here. -- Emmanuel Macron. I think he thought that

people thought French people were fed up with the class of politics

for a generation or so. He has pulled back, he wants to talk not so

much but let his actions speak. His actions today are very symbolic, but

of course he can go too far. So far I think he has shown good judgment.

It is fascinating. I want to make a mention of the official portrait

that was released a few days ago. Nothing is done by chance, this is a

bit reminiscent of Obama. The book just behind his hand is the memoirs

of Charles de Gaulle, opened halfway through as if he has been reading it

and just cast it aside. And it throws back to when he first came

out in front of the Louvre, looking like this fear with the pyramids

behind him, the ode to Joy, the European anthem, everything is being

very carefully calibrated in this presidency. Nothing is being done by

chance, no mistake that we are talking about Jupiter and royalty in

the context at Versailles today. That is how it is supposed to look.

We talk about Donald Trump being the television president, but certainly

the importance of image has clearly made its way into Emmanuel Macron's

life as well, and like you say, he has a fantastic PR and messaging

team. That photo you just showed, I am not sure how well that headline

is good to go down, and it does reflect concerns among the friends

that he is going to go too far, this is may have been one step too far,

the event at Versailles. We are going to talk about president

trumping the moment, albeit treating that he is doing. -- all the

tweeted. Emmanuel Macron is keeping a distance from the journalists. It

is all going to be about whether he manages to reform the economy. There

is nothing and no one that can stop President Trump from tweeting.

And often the target is the Fake Media.

"At some point," he wrote on his Twitter feed today

"the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers,

"strong economy, success with Isis, the border so much else!"

The media actually does report on policy issues -

we've done it a lot on this programme.

The trouble is the message from the White House gets

undermined by the messaging from the Oval iPhone.

After the storm of criticism last week, Mr Trump reacted this way -

"My use of social media is not Presidential -

"it's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!"

He followed up with a meme that many of you will already have seen -

a video of a wrestling match in which the President takes

down a figure whose face is obscured by the CNN logo.

"It is a sad day when the president of the United States encourages

"violence against reporters," a spokesperson said.

Joining us now to discuss it all is Molly Ball,

In the White House's defence is that the scene we have just seen his fake

wrestling, it is all entertainment, and liberals have not got a sense of

humour. They should not see this in any way as an attack on the press.

And similar to what the president himself said in the tweet, but you

just quoted, the president has a unique way of communicating with the

American people. His instinct is when he is attacked, he will punch

back ten times harder, and that is what he is doing now. They see him

as the victim of unfair attacks and is therefore attacking in return.

This is not a widely shared view, even, I think, among Republicans

here in Washington and among voters I have spoken to out in middle

America. There is a real uneasiness with the President's sort of

candour, you could see, and the outrageous things that he says. And

his own lack of focus on the a lot of policy issues that you mention.

It is fair to say that you look at what is happening here in the United

States, around the world, and you get the President tweeting about

alias media figures, and the whole thing looks absurd at a time when

there is a lot to deal with. -- VDS media figures. Isn't there a risk

within the media, the American media has talked about little else for the

last few days, it just looks the resident would more out of touch

with what American voters care about? It makes the President look

more out of touch. If he thought the American people were interested in

health care and tax reform, he could be tweeting about those things are

giving large public addresses on those things, instead of being

obsessed with this grudge match with the media. It may look outside the

press look bad, but we are not on the ballot, we do not have to get

re-elected, and we do not have to run the country. So if he wants to

have a successful presidency when he is able to accomplish goals he has

set out for himself and to get re-elected, his public image as the

one at stake. His basis 3839%, like it when he goes after the media. The

polls I have seen have the number who approve of his tweeting is

significantly lower than that. There is a hard-core Trump base who are

loyal to him, and they say that when Trump is attacked, they take it

personally. They see it as an attack on them. I have likened it to the

way that people are fans of their sports teams, and inspires that

level of unreasonable devotion. There is literally nothing he can do

to annoy those people. But that is a small section of the electorate, and

there really is a feeling that he is only speaking to that dedicated fan

base, which is a pretty narrow slot, and not a unifying message. The two

things that are alarming about this particular meme, the CNN one, he

plucked it from an obscure Reddit forum, and you wonder how he is

coming across that in. And then he re-tweeted that treat from his

president Twitter account. As the CNN statement said, he does have a

number of residential responsibilities in front of him.

Even if he does not have to spend his time in the Reddit swamps, this

came from a user with a history of racist and anti-Semitic comments,

even someone on his staff is looking for him, is that what he was elected

to do or is it to focus on foreign policy, domestic policy, the economy

and so on? It makes it harder for members of Congress to focus on

those things because they then have to talk about the president tweets.

I wrote a piece on the BBC website this weekend, and suggested that one

of the problems is that it suggests that the President is easily

rattled, and America's Abbas 's are watching that. I think that is true,

and there is an amount of jitteriness here in Washington in

the national security community about this seeming reactive nests

and the lack of a policy vision, when it comes to allies and enemies

alike, Isis appears to be on the run, but nobody has any idea about

what America plans to do afterwards. There is a real back him in terms of

the stance towards Nato being so muddled, and many of our allies

being set off balance, so I think it is true that nobody really knows

what he is going to do next. They do that is the plan. He said he would

be unpredictable. He certainly is unpredictable. Thank you. President

Obama said he did not worry about what journalists were writing about

him when he was in office, he worried about in 20 years' time, but

that does not seem to worry President Trump. Whatever the White

House saying about this? They have a real feeling that the press is not

giving them a real shot in the United States, and the president is

right to head back. -- to hit back. The president may have used the

media successfully during the campaign, but now they would say

that the fake news on the mainstream media has turned against him. That

is the feeling from some within the White House.

Quickly on the issue of Obama care, could we say... This has been a

difficult weekend for the Republicans, the board on health

care cancelled last weekend, they could be getting some bad press, but

instead the press are focusing on this. -- the vote on health care.

New health care is so unpopular for Republicans, they are happy for the

conversation to be about something else.

The President will be in Germany for a two-day G20 meeting

And it would seem, despite the criticism,

he is engaging with people other than the Fake Media.

Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, will be heading to those meetings,

Is the president is trying to redirect attention to foreign policy

issues this morning? I am sure the White House will say he is busy with

these things all the time, and it is just the fake news media not giving

him the attention he deserves an big policy issues. Maybe if he didn't

tweet so much about other things, we would not get deflected from them.

It is a big important policy... We are trying to talk about policy, and

now we are back on issues! Exactly, he wants to talk about foreign

policy, he has got this meeting ahead of the G20's. We saw what

happened at the G7, with America about to pull out of the climate

change deal. We saw him at Nato, equally an awkward occasion, when he

did not commit to article five of the Nato treaty, when an attack

against one is an attack against all. It remains to be seen how he

will be seen and the G20. Last week, the National Security adviser was

running through the list of people he will meet. The president will

meet with many world leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel,

Prime Minister Theresa May of the UK, President Vladimir Putin of

Russia... Hang on, President that you put on? -- he carried on as if

it was the most important -- normal thing in the world. All eyes will be

on what the talk about. I feel sorry for the other due 20 litres, nobody

is going to be interested. -- the other G20 leaders. He's has said he

will be talking about Syria and Ukraine, and a lot of people are

thinking a lot while you not talking about Russia dabbling in the US

election? The court at the briefing was there is no agenda yet for that

meeting with President Putin. It might be a bit three ruling, we will

talk about whatever comes up. I think after the meeting, we will

hear about the meeting that Donald Trump had with Sergei Lavrin the

Oval Office. We will hear about Russian interference in the

election, but I think that that will not be raised at the meeting. He

does not want to poison the relationship with Vladimir Putin,

and if he does not raise it, you are accused of ignoring what you're

intelligence services are telling you, which is that Russia did

intervene in the presidential election. I hope you will transform

yourself magically into a fly on the well and tell us everything. -- a

fly on the wall. I will try. Thank you for joining us.

The British Government insists the public sector pay cap

of 1% remains in place, despite growing pressure

The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, is the latest

to add his voice to calls for higher pay for workers

But Downing Street says it will listen to the to the pay review

bodies which could recommend pay rises above the 1% cap.

The Gulf state of Qatar has delivered its response to a list

The emirate had been given 48 hours to agree to an ultimatum or face

yet more diplomatic and economic sanctions from Saudi Arabia,

Qatar has already indicated it won't comply, saying the demands

were so extreme that they seem designed to be rejected.

The French energy giant, Total, has signed a multi-billion-dollar

It's the first major agreement between Iran and a European company

in the sector since the lifting of sanctions

Total will be the largest shareholder, and will work together

President Trump tweeted his willingness to lend

a hand to Charlie Gard, the little boy in Britain whose

parents have lost a legal battle to keep him on life support.

His parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, want their son

to receive experimental treatment in the US.

Donald Trump said, if we can help, we would be delighted to do so.

I was just looking at a comment from the Prime Minister's official

spokesman, and he said he was aware of President Trump's tweet about

Charlie Gard. This is a sensitive time, and our thoughts are with him

and Charlie's family. But they do not talk about if there is any

chance that offer will be taken up. We have also got something just here

from the White House press office, saying the president is just trying

to be helpful if at all possible. They recognise all the legal issues.

It is curious that the president should get involved in an era where

he does not have jurisdiction. It is a very conjugated legal case, a

concentrated emotional case for the family, and it is not very clear

what the president means. -- a complicated emotional case. There

has been concern from some Conservative bloggers in the United

States, saying this is what happens when you have socialism, somehow a

reflection on public health care systems. We will have more from the

White House later. Charlie was supposed to be taken off the

life-support system on Friday, but he is still on it at great Ormond.

Glorious day here in the UK yesterday, and also in New Jersey.

The kind of holiday weekend where ordinarily

But on Saturday, in the midst of a budget row with Democrats,

the Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie,

ordered all non-essential services to be shut down,

Yes, long stretches of empty sands - deserted,

Look a little closer, and you will see that sitting

there in his deck chair, beach to himself,

A little later in the day, he was asked at a news conference

Little did he know that his local paper, The New Jersey Sentinel,

had been flying over the beach that morning, taking photos.

Here was Mr Christie's response when pressed.

There is no one at Island Beach Day Park.

There are no lifeguards, there is no-one to pick

up the garbage, there is no-one providing any services at

And when they were made aware of the photos,

A spokesman said Mr Christie had briefly been on the beach

but "He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on."

Seriously? I think he needs to fire his spin doctor and get someone new.

We have been speaking a a lot about royalty on this programme, starting

with President Macron. This is July the 4th, in the United States. Who

needs the Royal Family when you have got Governor Christie closing down

the beach for his own family? Here are his approval ratings. He is at

15%, that is below the American media, at 21%. Congress is at 20%. I

think it is statistically impossible to get lower than 15%. It looks from

Governor Christie's responds that he is leaving office in January, he

does not care. You're watching 100

Days+ from BBC News. Still to come - Iraqi special forces

are in the final stages of the mission to defeat so-called

Islamic State in the city of Mosul. We'll look the power

struggle that could be left And professional wrestling

has become political in the US, as we hear

from the Progressive Liberal - a wrestler who delivers

a message with his punches. That's still to come on 100

Days+ from BBC News. Warmer weather on the way for many

others this week. Most noticeable in England and Wales as the week goes

on. Here are some images from today's weather. Cloudy in Northern

Ireland, some sunny spells in Wales. Actively cloud in Northern Ireland,

a weather system coming in as the evening goes on. Overnight that will

feed into parts of South Scotland and northern England, but also

thickening cloud will produce some drizzle for Wales in south-west

England. Some cruder skies in Scotland except for the odd shower.

-- leaders skies. Some outbreaks of rain, not just to begin with but for

much of Tuesday. A few heavier burst possible as well. To the south of

that, a few showers developing into the Midlands, but most places will

be dry. There will be some sunny spells coming through. A bit warmer

as well as the day goes on. Let's take a look at things throughout the

day. A rainy zone here, it is quite cool hanging around. It will feel

quite pleasant in northern Scotland, but still the odd shower around. For

the rest of England and Wales, it will be warmer to the size of this

weather front here. Temperatures edging into the 20s for some. --

warmer to the south of this weather front. The Wimbledon forecast, a

warmer day for Tuesday. A hot day on Wednesday, and on Thursday, warmth

and humidity but the chance of a thundery downpours we will see any

moment. Most of the rain will have died out by Wednesday. Best of the

sunshine will be to the south of that, and with that, temperatures

edging up further into the 20s, and for some nearly 30 Celsius. By the

time we get to Thursday, we could well be seeing some thundery showers

breaking out and some of those edging northwards as the day goes

on. President Macron has promised

a radical new path for France and saying he'll streamline

the courts and cut the number President Trump has called France,

Germany, and Italy today, it's all ahead of his trip to Europe

and meeting with Vladimir Putin. Iraqi special forces have

recaptured more territory They are now in the final stage

of the battle to drive out Troops and police are closing

in from three sides. The fighting has been

ongoing since October, and it's just the Old City that

forces have yet to reclaim. But if we look at Mosul,

there are a lot of factors and The forces pushing

forward are primarily from the Iraqi Government -

the Army, Federal Police, But to the north, you have

Kurdish Peshmerga who have been involved, and also Sunni Arab forces

trained by Turkey. There is also a small detachment

of Turkish troops in the area, although they are not yet involved

in the fighting. I'm joined now by Doug Ollivant,

the Former Director for Iraq How close are we to the fall of

Mosul and what does that mean for Islamic State? It looks like we are

close. There are now just three small district along the river left

to be reclaimed by the Iraqi forces. It's now just a matter of time. The

forces against the last remaining Islamic State fighters are

overwhelming: literally thousands the hundreds. Just prove how

prescient, you are, just don't going to quote -- I'm just going to quote

this. There are serious equities that must

be balanced or checked even while Mosul our citizens are liberated.

Are you convinced that a group that liberated, including US citizens,

have settled those interests? For now, yes. I been very impressed by

the Iraqi government's ability to keep both the Peshmerga and the Shia

forces doing the bulk of the fighting. But there are many

equities still to be settled. When you look at other battles in Iraq,

these are much smaller towns outside Baghdad. Mosul is a big place and it

has lots of societies that are expected to come back together and

get on. How will they keep the peace? This

be complicated. All the previously liberated cities have always been

almost 100% sunny Arab. But with the different populations, there are a

lot of wrong things in Iraq. The government is moulding, there is a

sectarian battle, the whole region is corrupted. But Berlocq

Changed. -- but a lot has changed. There has been a centre of Iraqi

nationalism rekindled. There are countervailing friends, a new

secularism. -- trends. But this is not to say the forces against the

fighting are not still there but we should see how this new normal

settles out. When we talk about the US strategy, they have to work with

the government and find a government that includes and involves all these

different set. But you have a balanced at the top who the

Americans in the like, then three key departments in Iraqi government,

justice, interior, defence, which are vacant. Those are key part of

the government. What the Americans have to do? I'm not sure that's

right. There is a defence minister, an interior Minister in place. There

are some empty ministries. I'm not going to sit here and tell you the

Iraqi government is well functioning. But it's good enough to

move forward and for the entire world community, not just the United

States, but the Europeans, the region, to have a partner to work

through. In the last few days, the Iraqi vice president said the United

States does not have a clear plan to deal with the crises it faces in the

Middle East. Is that a fair criticism give me are an -- given we

are on the brink of Mosul and possibly Raqqa falling? Does the

White house have a strategy? We need to grade the administration, and any

administration. The Middle East is in crisis, from Africa to Iran. How

to control a strategy when the ground is shifting beneath you is

difficult. I wish the US government would focus more on Iraq, but to say

there was no plan is something else. We do hear from Syrians who are

fighting the battle against Islamic State that they are happy with the

administration, they feel that Trump has stepped up in a way in no way

that Obama didn't? The groups that are fighting on our behalf, the

Kurds and the affiliated groups, are happy, I'm not sure you could say

that for the rest of Syria. Syria will be harder to settle than Iraq.

Thanks for joining us. Great pleasure. Happy 4th of July.

There are millions of people who have fled the conflict

in Iraq and Syria, many of them risking

Combine those numbers with the displaced who are trying

to cross from Africa, and you can well understand

More than 80,000 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean

this year, most of them crossing from Libya.

And according to the UN, over 2,000 people have died trying.

Relief as yet another group of migrants is rescued

in the Mediterranean, after setting sail in a small

Large numbers are on the move again, heading for Italy -

thanks to the warm weather and calm seas.

They're mainly from Africa and the Middle East.

Some fleeing conflict, others trying to escape poverty.

More than 80,000 have arrived in ports in southern

A big increase compared to the same period in 2016.

And those trying to help them, like the Italian Red Cross,

say they're now struggling to cope because the European Union has

totally failed to implement its plan to relocate thousands of migrants

Only a few hundred are being relocated in other

And you can imagine if we had relocated 30,000, we could have

30,000 more beds to host the new migrants.

Such is the frustration of the Italian government now that

it's even hinted at stopping boats carrying rescued migrants

And the European Commission has already responded.

We are ready to increase our support to Italy,

including substantial financial support, if needed.

All EU states now need to deliver and show solidarity towards Italy.

But as the number of migrants arriving in Italy rapidly grows,

the government and aid agencies are likely to be sceptical of these

promises of help and solidarity, which they've heard

A desperate situation. I spent two weeks in a ship last year on the

coast of Libya, we were 12 nautical miles off the coast of Libya and all

these boats coming towards us have enough feel just to get over the

mark into international waters so that we are there and other boats

are there to rescue them. That is the frustration for the Italians,

nobody wants to see people drowned but then we are perpetuating the

problem whereby they are sending more and more out, knowing full well

the ships are there. That is the concern for the Italians. And so

many of them. It is a difficult issue.

Now, it's a rare day when professional wrestling makes

not one but two appearances in our show, but it seems

Donald Trump may have some competition.

Daniel Harnsberger, or the Progressive Liberal

as he is known, has made politics part of his act.

Yes, by day he's a real estate agent, but when he takes

to the ring, he's the character many love to hate.

That's because he's wrestling in a part of the country which voted

overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, and wearing a Hillary Clinton shirt

is a recipe for being cast as the bad guy.

That's what I want, I want to upset people. I enjoy every second of it.

I've seen him in wrestling. Because with the Bible Belt, the middle of

Eastern Kentucky, he's the perfect heel. Fox News maggot! New can't

talk about that having a fight, politics and religion.

It is a release for sure. In saying what I think.

I was working for promoters in that particular event who said hey, I

want you to be the best bad guy you can be. They are talked about the

wall and how I wished he would not build a wall around Mexico and said

I wish you'd build it around West Virginia so those people can

infiltrate the rest of the population. I don't agree with

nothing he does, as far as his political views, but he's probably

the best gimmick I've seen in wrestling a long time. I think it's

great. We've seen it once before up in Hazard but now we're watching

him. I think I'm speaking for the masses, and the masses might not be

here in Eastern Kentucky where we're sitting right now, but I am speaking

for the country, our fans don't like his hard left

views, but we don't like being told what is best for us all think that

there better than us. There's probably more Republicans in the

audience than Democrats, but mostly everybody still touring gizzards are

good show. Everybody is in on the joke. You're not going to find a

character like the Progressive liberal in New York or Los Angeles,

you'll find it in the Bible Belt. We think of are you left or right? But

at the end of the light, who can drop the elbow?

May be that it, the elbow, maybe we need more of that, not the tweeting.

I'm worried about Christian. We have heard about the alternative right,

we have heard as much about the alternative left. One study says

they get 20% wrong, they cast politicians as spies. Maybe the

wrestling ring is the best way to work it out? We all left and the

Albright. You won't be here tomorrow? Is July four! But I'll be

like Stone back tomorrow.