:00:07. > :00:10.North Korea test fires a missile it claims could have
:00:11. > :00:17.President Trump calls on China to act and end this
:00:18. > :00:24.The European Commission president unleashes on the European Parliament
:00:25. > :00:26.for failing to show up, and threatens to not return.
:00:27. > :00:33.The wall of the old city in Raqqa has been breached by allies
:00:34. > :00:41.There are only a few members who can control the commission. You are
:00:42. > :00:43.ridiculous. I will never again attend a meeting of this kind.
:00:44. > :00:46.The wall of the old city in Raqqa has been breached by allies
:00:47. > :00:48.of the US led coalition as they advance against
:00:49. > :00:51.And to mark America's Independence Day we will take
:00:52. > :00:54.you to meet the presidents, 43 of them, in one small
:00:55. > :01:15.That is how long it would take for an inter-continental ballistic
:01:16. > :01:18.missile to reach LA from North Korea.
:01:19. > :01:20.There is no consensus on how far Pyongyang has advanced
:01:21. > :01:26.Or whether they have the capability to arm it with a nuclear warhead.
:01:27. > :01:30.But some experts suggests the type of missile they have just tested
:01:31. > :01:33.might already be able to reach Alaska, and with further refinement
:01:34. > :01:38.could put the major cities in the United States within reach.
:01:39. > :01:40.That, says Donald Trump, will never happen.
:01:41. > :01:43.But how will they stop Kim Jung Un, a man who is seemingly immune
:01:44. > :01:49.Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale reports.
:01:50. > :01:53.This is the moment that North Korea says it became a major power.
:01:54. > :01:57.The launch of a missile that it claims
:01:58. > :02:00.can reach across continents and deliver nuclear weapons as far away
:02:01. > :02:08.The news was announced on state television with
:02:09. > :02:20.We have become a nuclear power with intercontinental ballistic missile
:02:21. > :02:23.the presenter said, showing the handwritten order given by the
:02:24. > :02:28.He personally supervised the launch of
:02:29. > :02:31.a missile which he believes will secure him power, protect his people
:02:32. > :02:35.If North Korea ignores our military's warning
:02:36. > :02:37.and continues provocations, we are clearly warning Kim Jong-un's
:02:38. > :02:44.This is the missile that could carry the
:02:45. > :02:52.It was launched from an airfield here in
:02:53. > :02:55.western North Korea, and it was aimed at
:02:56. > :03:00.a steep angle, and rose to
:03:01. > :03:02.an altitude of about 1,700 miles it's claimed,
:03:03. > :03:07.It then landed 37 minutes later more than 500
:03:08. > :03:08.miles away, somewhere in
:03:09. > :03:13.The key point is that if this missile were fired
:03:14. > :03:17.at a more shallow angle it might have the power to reach potentially
:03:18. > :03:20.more than 3,400 miles, the minimum defined range for an
:03:21. > :03:29.And, if so, that could mean reaching as far
:03:30. > :03:30.as Alaska on the mainland of
:03:31. > :03:34.The pressure being applied internationally is
:03:35. > :03:41.having very little effect on changing the tactics of the regime
:03:42. > :03:44.It's also significant as well because it has
:03:45. > :03:46.been reported that it is an intercontinental ballistic missile
:03:47. > :03:53.which means North Korea are making tangible
:03:54. > :03:55.steps towards being able to target the US.
:03:56. > :03:58.Experts said it was still not clear if North Korea had
:03:59. > :03:59.the technology needed to protect a warhead
:04:00. > :04:01.on re-entry and guide it to
:04:02. > :04:04.its target, but if North Korean missiles can now reach the US, it is
:04:05. > :04:07.a significant step forward and one that President Trump said earlier
:04:08. > :04:11.Today in a tweet he again urged China
:04:12. > :04:14.to put pressure on North Korea, but so far China has shown no
:04:15. > :04:19.The president of China was in Russia today,
:04:20. > :04:28.both he and President Putin called for a freeze on North Korea's
:04:29. > :04:29.nuclear weapons programme and suspension of exercises
:04:30. > :04:36.The fear among diplomats is the dispute could destabilise
:04:37. > :04:38.an already tense region, packed full of conventional weapons.
:04:39. > :04:40.At this weekend's G20 Summit, all sides will
:04:41. > :04:48.Some of the strongest reaction today has come
:04:49. > :04:54.The launch, said Shinzo Abe, clearly shows that the threat has grown.
:04:55. > :04:57.I'm joined here in the studio by Shin-ichi iida, Minister
:04:58. > :04:59.for Public Diplomacy at the Japanese Embassy
:05:00. > :05:09.Thank you for being with us. My pleasure. We have not yet talk about
:05:10. > :05:15.the direction in which the missile flew. Where did it land? It landed
:05:16. > :05:21.100 miles from the Japanese Archipelago is, very close to Japan.
:05:22. > :05:25.It is hundreds of miles from the Japanese land Archipelago, and that
:05:26. > :05:29.is causing massive concern amongst Japanese people, and, of course, as
:05:30. > :05:32.you mentioned in your initial presentation, there was a good
:05:33. > :05:36.possibility that they have launched a pretty sophisticated missile and
:05:37. > :05:40.it is a clear indication that the North Korea threat is not only to
:05:41. > :05:51.the region but also to the world, and I think it is critically
:05:52. > :05:55.important to send a strong message to North Korea and closely
:05:56. > :05:58.coordinate and strengthened the pressure through economic sanctions.
:05:59. > :06:04.Of course we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from Washington, that
:06:05. > :06:11.patience has run out and military action is obviously on the table,
:06:12. > :06:14.but we don't know what that will be or what it would involve but if
:06:15. > :06:19.there was a military strike the implications for Japan would be
:06:20. > :06:24.severe. The Prime Minister and other high-ranking officials have
:06:25. > :06:28.expressed again and again that Japan supports the Trump administration
:06:29. > :06:33.position that all options are on the table. You do not rule out a
:06:34. > :06:38.military strike? Guild our first and foremost priority is to resolve this
:06:39. > :06:47.North Korea nuclear and missile issue through diplomatic efforts.
:06:48. > :06:51.The UN Security Council has passed a very strong resolution last month
:06:52. > :06:56.and the US have announced a new additional economic sanctions
:06:57. > :06:58.against North Korea. I think it is quite important to rigorously and
:06:59. > :07:03.fairly implement the economic sanction measures that have been
:07:04. > :07:08.agreed upon by various countries concerned so that we can get under
:07:09. > :07:11.the International coordinated efforts to give the strongest ever
:07:12. > :07:16.pressure against North Korea so that it will come to sensors and for that
:07:17. > :07:22.purpose I must reiterate that China can play a critical role, because,
:07:23. > :07:28.after all, 90% of North Korean trade on value terms is with China. We
:07:29. > :07:35.were talking before we came negative -- about how this comes so close to
:07:36. > :07:40.the Japanese coast and you said it was very deliberate. Does that make
:07:41. > :07:43.a debate in Japan about a missile defence shield? There was a
:07:44. > :07:49.discussion, and also a project going on for a missile defence mechanism,
:07:50. > :07:52.in close cooperation with the United States, who are very important part
:07:53. > :07:58.of it. My point is that military actions are not the primary course
:07:59. > :08:05.of action that we should take at the moment. The most important thing at
:08:06. > :08:13.the moment is too closely coordinate not only just amongst Japan and the
:08:14. > :08:21.US but in a way to include China and Russia. We have had six party talks
:08:22. > :08:26.which are very effective in relation to North Korea and they have agreed
:08:27. > :08:29.economic sanctions but they must be implemented fairly and rigorously
:08:30. > :08:35.and what is making it possible for the North Koreans to develop nuclear
:08:36. > :08:38.weapons and ballistic rep missiles is the massive foreign currency
:08:39. > :08:41.revenue and we need to hit that and that is a very important point.
:08:42. > :08:47.Thank you very much for being with us. We had there that diplomacy is
:08:48. > :08:50.the way that regional departments would want to go but.
:08:51. > :08:52.Well, last week President Trump's National Security Advisor HR
:08:53. > :08:54.McMaster spoke about the changing threat from North Korea and need
:08:55. > :09:02.Will be seen are really two fundamental things that have
:09:03. > :09:08.changed. The threat is now much more immediate so it clear that we cannot
:09:09. > :09:12.repeat the same approach, failed approach, of the past. The second is
:09:13. > :09:15.the recognition that previous approaches have not worked and so
:09:16. > :09:18.to continue to do the same thing and to continue to do the same thing and
:09:19. > :09:20.expecting different results. In Washington we are joined
:09:21. > :09:22.by Kurt Volker, the former US Ambassador to NATO who now serves
:09:23. > :09:35.as the Executive Director Hello. Hello. How part do you think
:09:36. > :09:41.Washington will let Pyongyang go before it is going to have to change
:09:42. > :09:46.the equation? Well, I think there is still some room to go before there
:09:47. > :09:50.is a great confidence that North Korea has the real ability to fire a
:09:51. > :09:54.missile and hit the US. The test that we saw is an incentive for the
:09:55. > :09:57.US, China and others in the region to get much more serious even than
:09:58. > :10:02.we have already been about trying to get North Korea to change course. As
:10:03. > :10:07.your Japanese guest just said, the goal is not to use military force,
:10:08. > :10:10.the goal is to find economic and other leaders that cause North Korea
:10:11. > :10:14.to change behaviour and frankly most of those in the hands of China
:10:15. > :10:20.summit will be ramped up effort and an effort to try and get North Korea
:10:21. > :10:25.to stop where it is and reverse course. You would accept, as our
:10:26. > :10:29.previous guest just accepted, that so far diplomacy has failed. We all
:10:30. > :10:40.know that China quite likes having North Korea on its border, rather
:10:41. > :10:42.that than having South Korea on its border, along with US troops. That
:10:43. > :10:45.is right, but if the militant North Korea brings missile defences from
:10:46. > :10:49.the US into the area and a larger military presence on the Korean
:10:50. > :10:52.peninsular none of that is anything that China wants and it is in fact
:10:53. > :10:58.in their interest to act before that does happen. It is obviously
:10:59. > :11:02.unacceptable to everybody that North Korea keeps escalating the situation
:11:03. > :11:05.as it is, but we heard there that the military option has been
:11:06. > :11:10.reviewed. If there was a military option, what would it look like?
:11:11. > :11:20.Well, I think it would have to be a last resort because you have in
:11:21. > :11:24.Seoul a very large population within range of artillery fire from North
:11:25. > :11:27.Korea and we have North Korea that possess a nuclear device that even
:11:28. > :11:30.if it cannot be not very far can still cause a lot of damage so it
:11:31. > :11:34.would have to be something very swift and subtle but it would really
:11:35. > :11:38.be a last resort because we do not want to risk any of those casualties
:11:39. > :11:42.or any loss of life that might occur. There is a very strong
:11:43. > :11:46.likelihood that these missiles are on mobile launchers so even with a
:11:47. > :11:51.pre-emptive strike, you would not get all the missiles. I have a lot
:11:52. > :11:55.of confidence in US capabilities and intelligence so I think if we got
:11:56. > :11:58.that point I have a lot of confidence in the ability to succeed
:11:59. > :12:01.but obviously no one wants to get to that point. Very good of you to be
:12:02. > :12:02.with us. Thank you for joining us. Katty Kay might be taking July 4th
:12:03. > :12:05.off, but I'm very pleased to report that our resident expert
:12:06. > :12:07.and political analyst Ron Christie is hard at work,
:12:08. > :12:18.and he is going to be with us Hello. Good afternoon, Christian. I
:12:19. > :12:24.can see your US flag pins your lapels you are in the 4th of July
:12:25. > :12:27.spirit. . Write! I am in the spirit and enjoying the independence and
:12:28. > :12:34.the celebration of the of the United States. Donald Trump is starting to
:12:35. > :12:39.collide with the harsh reality of North Korea. There are no good
:12:40. > :12:44.options in this, are there? There are not. Frankly, this is the first
:12:45. > :12:49.foreign policy crisis of his administration. President Trump has
:12:50. > :12:52.been looking to Mexico and Canada and talking about we negotiating
:12:53. > :12:57.trade deals. The United States finds itself this morning in the position
:12:58. > :13:00.that if, in fact, this missile that was launched by career is any
:13:01. > :13:04.indication of their new technological prowess you have a
:13:05. > :13:09.missile that could potentially hit Alaska or even San Francisco so the
:13:10. > :13:12.geostrategic supporters -- importance of meeting with the G20
:13:13. > :13:16.this weekend has taken on an even greater importance for this
:13:17. > :13:21.president, his first foreign policy crisis. Looking back at the tweet
:13:22. > :13:27.that we referred to in the report, it came out before the inauguration.
:13:28. > :13:31.Donald Trump said that North Korea stated it was in the final stages of
:13:32. > :13:37.developing nuclear weapons capable of reaching parts of the US, it
:13:38. > :13:40.won't happen. Clearly, one he was getting his pre-presidential
:13:41. > :13:44.briefing this was foremost in his mind. There are people around the
:13:45. > :13:49.world who are worried about this president because he is impulsive
:13:50. > :13:54.and he easily rattled. You know the inside track in the White House.
:13:55. > :13:58.What sort of advice will he be getting? He will be getting the best
:13:59. > :14:01.and brightest advice. I will guarantee you this morning there
:14:02. > :14:05.will have been in the situation room, in a secure facility in the
:14:06. > :14:09.basement of the West Wing of the White House, you have military
:14:10. > :14:12.intelligence officers who man these positions 24-hour the day and you
:14:13. > :14:15.have a specific North Korean desk and what they did was prepare a
:14:16. > :14:17.matrix for him, giving him a sense of exactly what happened and what
:14:18. > :14:38.time it happened and the potential threat to
:14:39. > :14:41.the United States and our allies. Having been in a situation with
:14:42. > :14:43.President Bush, I can tell you that these are very dedicated and great
:14:44. > :14:45.individuals who are in the best spot to give President Trump the most
:14:46. > :14:48.current and important strategic advice for him to make decisions. In
:14:49. > :14:51.the end it comes down to him. In the end it does come down to him and it
:14:52. > :14:54.comes down to the National Security Advisor and the focus of his inner
:14:55. > :14:57.circle and the question I am thinking about right now is what is
:14:58. > :14:59.the presidential take on this? Does he view this, as I do, as a very
:15:00. > :15:02.significant threat and an escalation of threat from North Korea or do you
:15:03. > :15:05.look at the Tweety sent out this morning and he was referring to the
:15:06. > :15:08.North Korean dictator saying, does this guy have anything better to do
:15:09. > :15:12.this time? So I hope that his mindset is in the right place as we
:15:13. > :15:15.look at this very important juncture with relations with North Korea and
:15:16. > :15:20.the rest of the world. We will have more from you in a moment.
:15:21. > :15:22.The European Parliament has 751 elected representatives and once
:15:23. > :15:26.a month the parliament moves from Brussels to Strasbourg, its
:15:27. > :15:29.Today the invited guest was the Prime Minister of Malta,
:15:30. > :15:33.his country is one of the smallest members of the union, it has spent
:15:34. > :15:35.the last six months running the EU's rotating presidency.
:15:36. > :15:39.But the parliamentary chamber was empty.
:15:40. > :15:42.Barely 30 elected officials turned out to hear the speech.
:15:43. > :15:48.Well, it drew this response from the European Commission President,
:15:49. > :15:57.There are only a few members in here to control the commission. You are
:15:58. > :16:13.ridiculous. HE SPEAKS FRENCH. HE SPEAKS FRENCH.
:16:14. > :16:17.I will never again attend a meeting of this kind. The commission is
:16:18. > :16:20.under the control of the parliament that the parliament house to respect
:16:21. > :16:27.even the presidents of smaller countries and what the parliament is
:16:28. > :16:29.not doing. That was a rather feisty exchange with the president of the
:16:30. > :16:30.parliament. A little earlier I spoke
:16:31. > :16:37.with Chris Morris, a long time More than once or twice you made
:16:38. > :16:40.this visit from Brussels to Strasbourg and it is costly for the
:16:41. > :16:43.parliament to move. Given some of the criticism the Parliament
:16:44. > :16:48.receives it could well do without criticism from one of their own.
:16:49. > :16:52.They could, but I can see his point. He has come all the way down from
:16:53. > :16:56.Brussels to Strasbourg which is a difficult journey. The Prime
:16:57. > :17:06.Minister of Malta has flown up from Malta and be with him and only 30
:17:07. > :17:09.MEPs turnout. There are supposed to be 751 MEPs. They will not always
:17:10. > :17:12.all be there but you would hope that if the President of the commission
:17:13. > :17:15.and the Prime Minister who has been running EU business for the last six
:17:16. > :17:18.months turn up then more than 30 should be bothered to come and
:17:19. > :17:20.listen to them talk. He was a bit undiplomatic but he sometimes is and
:17:21. > :17:26.he sometimes says what he thinks. I can understand where he is coming
:17:27. > :17:29.from. Jean-Claude Juncker is the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg,
:17:30. > :17:34.does he have a point that very often the smaller states have to jockey
:17:35. > :17:38.for position? He does. One of the commission 's jobs is to look after
:17:39. > :17:42.the interests of all member states, big and small. He went out of the
:17:43. > :17:46.way to say that if it was Angela Merkel they would queue at the back
:17:47. > :17:50.door to get in. Just because it is a small country you need to show a bit
:17:51. > :17:53.more respect. It was a little bit of handbags and the president of the
:17:54. > :17:59.parliament snapped back and said you don't control us, we control years.
:18:00. > :18:02.Explain the parameters, he said it wouldn't come again and through his
:18:03. > :18:07.toys out of the pram but where was the distinction on whether the power
:18:08. > :18:11.lines like? The president of the parliament was referring to that
:18:12. > :18:15.Parliament has the ability to sack commissioners. It can get rid of
:18:16. > :18:18.commissioners in extremis, and it has to approve the commission so in
:18:19. > :18:24.a sense parliament is the oversight over the commission rather than vice
:18:25. > :18:30.versa. Said this was how dare you? A little bit. But I can see his point.
:18:31. > :18:34.It brings us back to the point we have discussed many times, why is
:18:35. > :18:37.there a second parliament anyway? Maybe he would not have been so
:18:38. > :18:42.grumpy if he had only just gone down the road in Brussels but this costs
:18:43. > :18:45.?150 million a year to have this second parliament in Strasbourg and
:18:46. > :18:50.most MEPs would like to get rid of it but they cannot do anything about
:18:51. > :19:00.it and it is up to the leaders of the member states and France are
:19:01. > :19:02.opposed to losing this so it is pork barrel politics and it would be very
:19:03. > :19:07.difficult to get rid of that second chamber but most people think it is
:19:08. > :19:11.a waste of time. The point we have two include is that they are all
:19:12. > :19:16.there in Strasberg and they didn't turn up late. This was the photo
:19:17. > :19:20.that our correspondence sent three hours later and you can see that it
:19:21. > :19:24.is full, so I do not know what that means. Tory own conclusions from
:19:25. > :19:29.that. Do the Maltese Prime Minister not pulling in a very big crowd.
:19:30. > :19:31.As a candidate, Donald Trump vowed to crackdown on illegal immigration
:19:32. > :19:33.while building that wall along the border with Mexico.
:19:34. > :19:36.In the first five months of his Presidency the number
:19:37. > :19:39.of arrests by immigration officials has increased, but so far there have
:19:40. > :19:42.But one particular group that is in focus,
:19:43. > :19:45.is the undocumented minors, known in America as the DREAMers.
:19:46. > :19:48.In 2012, President Obama issued an executive order to give
:19:49. > :19:51.Now that policy is under legal challenge.
:19:52. > :19:54.Will Grant has been to Mexico city to meet the DREAMers who have
:19:55. > :20:03.already given in to the pressure and gone home.
:20:04. > :20:10.These were some of the United States best and brightest. Now they are
:20:11. > :20:15.Mexico's again. Young and dedicated and bilingual. In the US they were
:20:16. > :20:22.known as DREAMers. Now thousands have returned to Mexico, he devoted
:20:23. > :20:32.totally or under due west. -- either voluntarily or under duress. This
:20:33. > :20:37.was a video chat with many of them. Many share similar stories of deer,
:20:38. > :20:44.separation, deportation and stigma. Despite the proposed protection of
:20:45. > :20:48.the Obama administration is deferred action policy, many of the DREAMers
:20:49. > :20:51.at this event return to Mexico when their parents were deported to avoid
:20:52. > :20:54.breaking up their families. Now they find themselves in a country that
:20:55. > :20:59.they barely know and with which they have few connections. But these days
:21:00. > :21:05.they are not looking backwards, but ahead, for opportunities in Mexico.
:21:06. > :21:11.In Mexico there are also trains and the thing is you cannot put American
:21:12. > :21:15.dream in your dream. It is your dream. If you put American comedy
:21:16. > :21:21.you are already putting up the border wall that Trump wants to
:21:22. > :21:26.build. Despite the President Trump tough rhetoric towards Mexico
:21:27. > :21:30.deportations went down by 12% over his first 100 days and he recently
:21:31. > :21:34.said that DREAMers should rest easy. Still activists say that more needs
:21:35. > :21:38.to be done to inform immigrants in the US of their rights. They think
:21:39. > :21:41.that as long as they are undocumented people they do not have
:21:42. > :21:49.rights, and they do. We have to make them aware of that. Now a little
:21:50. > :21:53.problem, or a little mistake, can have very big consequences. Someone
:21:54. > :21:57.who knows just how big those consequences can be is Francisco. He
:21:58. > :22:01.was arrested for trespassing and he said he was just crossing a car
:22:02. > :22:06.park. He was deported after living in Kentucky for 14 years. After
:22:07. > :22:12.battling the tangled bureaucracy in Mexico he finally has an ID card. I
:22:13. > :22:15.am 46 years old but in the united states you get a job at that age
:22:16. > :22:21.without any problem but here it is very difficult. Another thing is
:22:22. > :22:26.that some people in Mexico say they are not racist but people with my
:22:27. > :22:31.skin colour and it is actually a truth that we have less
:22:32. > :22:34.opportunities. Connecting people at Francisco would deport the support
:22:35. > :22:38.groups might take time. Most simply do not know that help exists.
:22:39. > :22:42.Deportations may have slowed slightly but few expect the Trump
:22:43. > :22:45.administration to let up, meaning more young people may soon have to
:22:46. > :22:54.build their dreams in Mexico instead. This is a divisive issue.
:22:55. > :22:57.Where do you stand on the type of support that the DREAMers should
:22:58. > :23:01.get? I think they should get the support. It is a very difficult
:23:02. > :23:04.environment for children who did nothing wrong on their own and their
:23:05. > :23:07.parents may have brought them to the United States. They have a right to
:23:08. > :23:11.bigger and we need to find a way to get them the to stay here. Let us
:23:12. > :23:12.talk to another story. It is my favourite
:23:13. > :23:14.story of the week. We showed you pictures yesterday
:23:15. > :23:16.of the New Jersey governor Chris Christie enjoying a deserted
:23:17. > :23:18.beach, having closed them to the public on Saturday over
:23:19. > :23:21.a budget dispute with the Democrats. Bad enough, but in a press
:23:22. > :23:23.conference a little later, the governor denied he had been
:23:24. > :23:26.enjoying the sun that day. His spokesman defending him,
:23:27. > :23:29.said strictly speaking that was true because he was sheltering under
:23:30. > :23:44.a baseball cap. I think it is just so ironic,
:23:45. > :23:48.Christian, that Chris Christie, and no relation, even though I was born
:23:49. > :23:51.in New Jersey! He claims he is a fiscal conservative and one that is
:23:52. > :23:56.really leading jersey forward but it almost looks as though he is Nero
:23:57. > :24:01.while the rest of New Jersey is burning. It has been terrible and it
:24:02. > :24:04.was terrible for him to deny his constituency opportunity to enjoy
:24:05. > :24:08.the beach while he is there at a taxpayer funded Governor 's Mansion,
:24:09. > :24:09.doing something that they couldn't so the optics of that were just
:24:10. > :24:09.awful. You can imagine that Twitter has
:24:10. > :24:27.been having some fun with this. There he is in his beach chair on
:24:28. > :24:35.the George Washington Bridge. And so on and so forth. This is a man whose
:24:36. > :24:40.approval rating has plummeted. He was a presidential candidate and he
:24:41. > :24:44.opened the Republican convention back in 2012. It is amazing, isn't
:24:45. > :24:49.it, how quickly the arc of Chris Christie 's political career as
:24:50. > :24:53.cratered, frankly. He is a person who, not unlike Donald Trump, was
:24:54. > :24:57.very forceful and aggressive and very abrasive and he tried to
:24:58. > :25:01.present himself as something of a moderate to the American people and
:25:02. > :25:05.it never really caught on. After you look at the presidential election
:25:06. > :25:07.and the loss and the way that President Trump humiliated the
:25:08. > :25:10.governor and brought him into run his transition team but then
:25:11. > :25:14.immediately fired him shortly thereafter, it makes you wonder if
:25:15. > :25:20.he has a future in politics in the United States. At this juncture I
:25:21. > :25:23.just do not see it. His approval rating of 15%. He was asked about in
:25:24. > :25:28.the press conference just after that but he said he did not care about
:25:29. > :25:32.his poll ratings. John McCain used to have a joke, when you are down to
:25:33. > :25:37.that level you are down to staffers and close family. 15%! You are
:25:38. > :25:46.watching 100 Days Plus from BBC News.
:25:47. > :25:49.Still to come: With North Korea saying they have a missile that can
:25:50. > :25:51.reach the United States, we'll examine how their
:25:52. > :25:54.And we'll visit some very presidential figures
:25:55. > :26:09.That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.
:26:10. > :26:15.Hello. It is a fine evening out there for many of us but it has been
:26:16. > :26:18.one of those days in the Lake District, it has looked like this
:26:19. > :26:21.pretty much throughout the day. There is a weather system sitting
:26:22. > :26:24.across Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and northern England so if
:26:25. > :26:29.you have been under it you know it is quite cloudy and wet and cool.
:26:30. > :26:31.This evening into tonight the rain is easing away from Northern Ireland
:26:32. > :26:37.but in parts of southern Scotland and northern England it stays quite
:26:38. > :26:40.dampened drizzly overnight. There may be the odd shower in south-west
:26:41. > :26:44.England but elsewhere it looks dry. Variable cloud and clear spells and
:26:45. > :26:47.for many a warm night to come but for many of us it will dip down into
:26:48. > :26:52.single figures. A bright start to the day tomorrow. In northern
:26:53. > :26:56.Scotland it continues with those sunny spells and it feels pleasant
:26:57. > :26:58.in the afternoon, maybe 20 degrees. In the central belt and southern
:26:59. > :27:02.Scotland and Northern Ireland and for much of northern England, cloudy
:27:03. > :27:06.start to the day. It looks drier than today but still light rain and
:27:07. > :27:09.drizzle around, particularly across parts of south-east Scotland and
:27:10. > :27:13.northern England. For the rest of England and down into Wales for many
:27:14. > :27:15.of us it will be a blue sky start to the day, particularly south Wales
:27:16. > :27:37.and southern England. More sunshine compared to today and
:27:38. > :27:39.it will feel warm as a result. Sunshine in northern Scotland and
:27:40. > :27:42.for some of us in Northern Ireland, south-west Scotland and North West
:27:43. > :27:44.England it will brighten up in the afternoon. North-east England and
:27:45. > :27:46.Southee Scotland stays cloudy but showers elsewhere in the North.
:27:47. > :27:49.Maybe the odd one in Wales and the south-west but many of us will stay
:27:50. > :27:51.dry. Quite a range of temperatures and in Newcastle it could reach 30
:27:52. > :27:53.with the hottest sunshine in southern England. We are turning on
:27:54. > :27:56.the humidity in Wimbledon the next few days with Thursday looking
:27:57. > :27:57.interesting with a chance of downpours and possible
:27:58. > :27:59.interruptions. That is after a warm and muggy night on Wednesday night.
:28:00. > :28:02.We bring the weather disturbance forwards on Thursday. The warmth
:28:03. > :28:05.will not extend further north but the rain will clear away in Scotland
:28:06. > :28:09.and in eastern Wales and England they are most at risk of the
:28:10. > :28:12.thundery downpours. Hit and miss and not everyone will but if you do that
:28:13. > :28:17.brain could be torrential. The heat and humidity is there and it extends
:28:18. > :28:20.further north across more of Scotland and Northern Ireland on
:28:21. > :28:24.Thursday. By Friday there is still some heat to be had by the weather
:28:25. > :28:28.system approaching the North West will sleep south-east as we go
:28:29. > :30:08.through the weekend and turn a bit cooler and fresher.
:30:09. > :30:10.Welcome back to One Hundred Days Plus,
:30:11. > :30:17.North Korea test fires a missile and claims it could reach America -
:30:18. > :30:22.the country's dictator wants to put a nuclear warhead on it.
:30:23. > :30:24.In the battle for Raqqa, US-backed Syrian forces have
:30:25. > :30:27.breached the wall surrounding the old city - closing
:30:28. > :30:41.North Korea's missile program is advancing at some pace.
:30:42. > :30:45.Since February they have fired 17 missiles further improving
:30:46. > :30:53.But this latest test might be the most significant yet.
:30:54. > :30:58.If it is proven to be an intercontinental missile.
:30:59. > :31:01.The previous missiles that have been launched had ranges of 3 and half
:31:02. > :31:03.thousand kilometres at most - which puts neighbours
:31:04. > :31:10.South Korea, Japan, China and Russia within reach.
:31:11. > :31:12.With Hwasong-14, the name given to this missile,
:31:13. > :31:16.you can see Alaska and some areas of the West Coast
:31:17. > :31:23.North Korea says it is a ICBM the US and Russia are not convinced.
:31:24. > :31:28.Moscow believes it is another of the intermediate range.
:31:29. > :31:37.Neil Ashdown is the Deputy Editor of Janes Intelligence Review.
:31:38. > :31:48.There are two arguments, the nuclear warhead and then the delivery
:31:49. > :31:55.mechanism. So the delivery mechanism first, TUC big strides that they
:31:56. > :32:00.have made. While North Korea since Kim Jong Un came to power, there
:32:01. > :32:03.have been working on a series of missiles designed to fulfil
:32:04. > :32:11.different purposes. The missile would just seen tested today is
:32:12. > :32:16.their version of a ICBM. The longest range missile. From what I can tell
:32:17. > :32:19.it also has the longest rage that has been demonstrated. So different
:32:20. > :32:23.tools to fulfil different jobs and this is the missile designed
:32:24. > :32:26.potentially to threaten the United States. And based on some figures
:32:27. > :32:32.made public it is credible that it could potentially reach places like
:32:33. > :32:37.Alaska. Well we saw that the trajectory is a bit of a loop, goes
:32:38. > :32:42.up and come down quite sharply. Ordinarily it would not be fired in
:32:43. > :32:47.that way? So this is a test and they deliberately fired it in a lofted
:32:48. > :32:53.trajectory because given the range they're trying to get, if they fired
:32:54. > :32:57.with the traditional ballistic trajectory it would have reached
:32:58. > :33:01.Japan and they obviously would have tried to fire it down. So they
:33:02. > :33:06.deliberately tested it at this angle and so quite a few sums will be
:33:07. > :33:09.doing -- will be being done in Washington and other parts of the
:33:10. > :33:16.world to try to work out how far it can get. It was still go out of the
:33:17. > :33:21.atmosphere if fired on that trajectory which brings us to the
:33:22. > :33:25.warhead. How advanced we need to be to be able to come back through the
:33:26. > :33:30.atmosphere and do they have that technology? There are two processes,
:33:31. > :33:34.won the delivery and covered course of this year we've seen a series of
:33:35. > :33:39.significant steps forward in the missile. In 2016 North Korea
:33:40. > :33:43.released images that led us to believe they had designed a credible
:33:44. > :33:47.re-entry system for warhead. Not to say that it is built or tested but
:33:48. > :33:51.something they have been thinking about. We have not seen so much
:33:52. > :33:56.progress on the delivery system this year but it does not mean they're
:33:57. > :34:02.not working on it. Just looking at these pictures, a lot of technology
:34:03. > :34:07.is involved for a country supposedly under sanctions, and supposedly
:34:08. > :34:11.China putting pressure on, where is coming from? Much of it will be
:34:12. > :34:15.developed domestically by North Korea and some of the tests seem to
:34:16. > :34:19.mark a transition towards more domestic rebuild technology rather
:34:20. > :34:24.than relying on old Soviet style systems that they inherited. But
:34:25. > :34:27.there will be bits of technology needed to make these missiles that
:34:28. > :34:32.North Korea may struggle to make domestically because of the high
:34:33. > :34:36.tolerance required for the materials. And in some cases it is
:34:37. > :34:43.likely North Korea is sourcing materials through front companies
:34:44. > :34:47.and third countries to deliberately evade the sanctions that are in
:34:48. > :34:49.place to allow it to advance its missile programme. Thank you for
:34:50. > :34:51.coming in. The US backed coalition in Syria
:34:52. > :34:54.says they have breached the historic More than two thousand
:34:55. > :34:58.jihadi fighters, and up to a hundred thousand civilians,
:34:59. > :35:00.are still thought to be inside the capital of
:35:01. > :35:02.so called Islamic State. Meanwhile Iraqi forces say
:35:03. > :35:04.they are also close to taking the last few remaining streets
:35:05. > :35:08.controlled by IS in Mosul, as our correspondent
:35:09. > :35:12.Richard Galpin reports. On the front lines
:35:13. > :35:14.of Raqqa, the capital It's looking
:35:15. > :35:23.increasingly vulnerable. These are troops of the Syrian
:35:24. > :35:27.Democratic Forces, or SDF, Over the past few weeks
:35:28. > :35:34.they have advanced rapidly through the outskirts
:35:35. > :35:42.towards the city centre. This Kurdish commander said
:35:43. > :35:44.the Islamic State militants are only firing mortar shells and rockets,
:35:45. > :35:53.and claims their spirits are low. And now, after the arrival
:35:54. > :35:56.of reinforcement last weekend, SDF troops are reported to have
:35:57. > :36:00.taken another major step forward, breaking through the walls
:36:01. > :36:07.guarding the old city. The US military says its warplanes
:36:08. > :36:10.based in the region fired missiles to punch two holes in these medieval
:36:11. > :36:19.walls surrounding the old city. SDF troops were then able to take
:36:20. > :36:22.the fight inside the heavily fortified area, where it's estimated
:36:23. > :36:24.at least 2000 Islamic State fighters Amongst those involved in this key
:36:25. > :36:35.battle is a British man who calls They are making excellent inroads
:36:36. > :36:41.into the city, which means that the confidence amongst the SDF
:36:42. > :36:44.fighters on the ground is incredibly high, and we're looking forward
:36:45. > :36:46.to seeing Raqqa completely done, finished, which is the heartland
:36:47. > :36:57.of the so-called Islamic State. And, meanwhile, across the border
:36:58. > :37:00.to the East, Iraqi troops are now very close to pushing Islamic State
:37:01. > :37:04.completely out of its other major stronghold,
:37:05. > :37:11.the strategic city of Mosul. It has taken the soldiers
:37:12. > :37:13.here almost eight months to reach this point,
:37:14. > :37:16.with just a handful of militants fighting on in a tiny
:37:17. > :37:21.corner of the city. The caliphate proclaimed
:37:22. > :37:24.by Islamist State across a large area of Syria and Iraq three years
:37:25. > :37:30.ago is almost at an end, but with pockets of territory
:37:31. > :37:52.elsewhere, the militants Italy has summoned the Austrian
:37:53. > :37:59.Ambassador over reports that border controls should be imposed soon to
:38:00. > :38:05.stop migrants crossing from Italy to Austria. There were reports that
:38:06. > :38:13.Austria had moved armoured vehicles to the alpine Brenner pass. Narendra
:38:14. > :38:17.Modi has become the first visit to Israel by an Indian Prime Minister.
:38:18. > :38:22.He talked of the two countries working closely together to build
:38:23. > :38:26.prosperity and cooperating in the fight against terrorism. They're
:38:27. > :38:27.expected to announce partnerships in areas such as agriculture, defence
:38:28. > :38:31.and space technology. Today is 4th July,
:38:32. > :38:33.it is Independence Day in the United States and we thought
:38:34. > :38:36.we would celebrate by dropping In fact we have been
:38:37. > :38:41.out to meet 43 of them, It's a passion of mine and I feel
:38:42. > :38:53.strongly about saving them. I guess it is my job
:38:54. > :38:56.now to be the keeper of We have got 43 presidents
:38:57. > :39:05.here ranging from our first President, George Washington,
:39:06. > :39:12.to our 43rd, George Bush. They're probably 16
:39:13. > :39:22.foot, to 18 feet. They weigh anywhere
:39:23. > :39:23.from 14 to 20,000 There was a park built
:39:24. > :39:29.about 12 years ago where the I was asked to crush
:39:30. > :39:38.the statues or get rid of And I actually hauled them
:39:39. > :39:45.off at my own expense. We had to lay them over tyres
:39:46. > :39:49.to cushion their heads. And unfortunately we
:39:50. > :39:51.dropped them and Lincoln took a good smack in
:39:52. > :40:05.back of the head which history tells you something about that story.
:40:06. > :40:07.Their moods seem to change, over the four years they've been
:40:08. > :40:10.sitting here, the weather, a little mould gets on
:40:11. > :40:11.them and everybody goes back to George,
:40:12. > :40:15.They are strong, they fight the weather.
:40:16. > :40:18.We need to go back to the beginning before there was a
:40:19. > :40:19.president, what this country fought for,
:40:20. > :40:21.to have freedom, to say what
:40:22. > :40:35.That is my cause, I'm going to spread it.
:40:36. > :40:37.After we move, and we are considering bronzing them, which
:40:38. > :40:39.will make them last about 400 years without repair.
:40:40. > :40:42.In their state of being concrete, they probably need
:40:43. > :40:47.touch-up and attention on a yearly basis.
:40:48. > :41:16.What a great film. Apparently he's trying to crowdfunding some of the
:41:17. > :41:19.repairs to those statues. One of them I think Ronald Reagan was hit
:41:20. > :41:26.by lightning and so they need yearly care. Let me tell you, as we
:41:27. > :41:29.celebrate our independence on the 4th of July here is one of the
:41:30. > :41:32.things we have in the bill of rights is freedom of speech and freedom of
:41:33. > :41:36.expression and this gentleman certainly is taking the time to
:41:37. > :41:41.speak his mind and its presence felt in a way to preserve the statues. So
:41:42. > :41:48.God bless them, not necessarily my cup of tea. So where will you be
:41:49. > :41:54.watching the 4th of July fireworks? I'm excited this evening, I will be
:41:55. > :41:58.on a rooftop overlooking the White House, overlooking the South lawn
:41:59. > :42:01.with my wife and a dear friend of mine who just became a United States
:42:02. > :42:05.citizen. So this would be the first opportunity for my wife and I to sit
:42:06. > :42:10.and be with someone who can celebrate their first 4th of July as
:42:11. > :42:13.an American citizen. It is a deeply partisan time in Washington right
:42:14. > :42:22.now, is this the kind of time when the village that is Washington comes
:42:23. > :42:24.together? I think so, driving in to the BBC today you see so many
:42:25. > :42:29.American flags waving, so many people in a good mood, sitting
:42:30. > :42:33.together, visiting comic eating, and looking forward to these fireworks
:42:34. > :42:38.tonight to say that we stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans
:42:39. > :42:42.and we revel in our country and its history and look forward to history
:42:43. > :42:46.yet to be made. While we wish you a happy 4th of July. Thank you very
:42:47. > :42:51.much for coming in and sharing some of that with us. Kathie Kay will be
:42:52. > :42:56.back tomorrow. She is taking a well earned break but we'll be back in
:42:57. > :43:03.this seed tomorrow. Join us for that and thank you for watching.