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The Russia investigation takes a dramatic turn | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
when President Trump's son admits to meeting a Russian operative. | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Donald Trump Jr changed his story about the 2016 meeting but now says | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
he had hoped to find compromising evidence on the | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
It's the first admission of it's kind, but is it collusion? | :00:23. | :00:33. | |
Donald Trump Jr met the Russian lawyer in order to get the dirt. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Jared Kushner and Trump's campaign manager also sat in. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
"Close to the dumbest idea I've ever heard" - | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
that was one Republican senator's reaction to President Trump | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
exploring a joint cyber task force with Putin. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
The Iraqi government declares victory in Mosul. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
There are celebrations in the streets as word spreads | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
the city has been liberated from so-called Islamic State. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
But the battle has come at a terrible cost. | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
Look at the devastation around here, the heavy fighting, pretty much | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
every car and every building has been wrecked. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
Travelling the route of the New Silk Road. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
We have a special report on the trillion dollar project | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
With no other country offering a big idea right now, | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
this is the most ambitious bid to shape our century. | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Donald Trump's son, his campaign manager and his son in law, | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
talked to a well-connected Russian in a meeting billed as a chance | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
The June 2016 meeting is the first evidence that people | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
in Donald Trump's inner circle did talk to Russians with the intention | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Donald Trump Jr has now confirmed both | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
So is this meeting evidence of collusion? | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Or was it simply a chance for some legitimate opposition research? | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
And how damaging is it to the President? | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
All questions for Congress and the Special Prosecutor | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
who are investigating ties between the Trump | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
It doesn't help the Trump family that the meeting is only coming | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
to light now because of press reporting, and that Donald Trump | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
junior had to change his story about it over the weekend. | :02:34. | :02:49. | |
key initially said it was about an adoption meeting but then change the | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
story to say it was about this information. | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
He said, we had a meeting in June 2016 and the woman said she had | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
information about Mrs Clinton. So far five people have been forced to | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
change the statements who are connected to Donald Trump. Trump the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
right, his son, Donald Trump Jr, the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, | :03:24. | :03:25. | |
son-in-law Jared Kushner, for national security and -- national | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
security adviser and then his former campaign manager Paul Manafort. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
At the G20 - and in various tweets over the weekend - | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the President continued to equivocate on whether Russian | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
He even went so far as to suggest forming a joint cybersecurity | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
unit with the Russians, to defend against election | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
That idea brought this response from Republican Senator Lindsay Graham. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
When it comes to Russia he's got a blind spot, | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
and to forgive and forget when it comes to Putin regarding cyber | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
attacks is to empower Putin and that's exactly what he's doing. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
I am dumbfounded, I am disappointed, and at the end of the day he's | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
hurting his presidency by not embracing the fact that | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Putin's a bad guy who tried to undercut our democracy and he's | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Also voicing concern was US Republican Senator | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Joining us now is Former National Security Advisor | :04:17. | :04:35. | |
I will assume when you were national security adviser to President George | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
Bush who and like this in the White House? We are an unprecedented space | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
in so many respects. This is a president who ran as a political and | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
surgeon to shake up Washington and that is what he is doing. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
How damaging is this to national security in America? We are an early | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
days in this administration and they have clearly put down some markers | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
about trades, about climate, the Bush administration in its opening | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
day is pulled out of the Kyoto protocol which had been reached by | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
the Clinton administration and we received a lot of criticism for | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
that. I think we are early days and the question is on issues of trade | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
and climate, what is the Trump administration going to do in place | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
of that. You were at the G20 meetings in | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
Warsaw and on this latest indication there were meetings between Donald | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Trump Jr and Russians operatives that have not previously been | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
disclosed, why do you think this White House has not said to its | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
members, every single meeting with a Russian operative must be disclosed | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
now. Two reasons. One this is a up early | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
on in the administration before has organised itself and secondly, the | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
President's attitude is this is an unfair investigation and he will | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
fight it at every step. An alternative approach is what | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
President Reagan dead in Iran-Contra and seek this is a problem and I | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
will get all the information out and get everyone to co-operate. I think | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
the latter would be the better approach. | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Donald Trump spoke about the meeting with President Putin in Hamburg and | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
said he pressed President Putin about Russian meddling in the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
election and said he denied it. You have lots of experience sitting | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
opposite President Putin. What did you make of the meeting and what we | :06:50. | :06:57. | |
have seen since? I think that part was pretty predictable, it's a good | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
thing President Trump bracelets, it is not a surprise Putin would deny | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
it, he done so consistently. The rest of the meeting was positive. I | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
do not think the president made any mistakes. They have a narrow focused | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
agreement on Syria which I think is a good thing, they apparently agreed | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
to set up something of a working group to address other issues, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
including issues of them about Ukraine. Now a special envoy to deal | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
with Ukraine. I think they are off to good start. Rex Tillerson did a | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
good job and I would say it's a good start, incremental progress and no | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
major mistakes. Well you are here, the other story of the day is the | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Iraqi Government declaring victory in Mosul. You were national security | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
adviser and saw the demise of Al-Qaeda in Iraq which of | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
course emerged again as Isis. Are you worried it might happen again? | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
The most important thing now is what comes in behind Isis. Is there an | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
effort to stabilise the situation and provide humanitarian assistance | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
and get good local Government in place, get the economy going, jobs, | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
if you do not do that, also addressed the sectarian tensions and | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
get the differing groups talking. The risk if you do not do that is | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
discontent continues and it will be a recruiting ground for Isis 2.0 | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
which will be even more brutal than Isis. Thank you for joining us. We | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
will have more later on on the victory in Mosul the Iraqi | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
Government is the clearing. On the Donald Trump Jr story, it is | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
not unusual for digging an opposition politicians. | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
Obviously I'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
How bad do you think this is for the White House? Does this leads from | :09:05. | :09:18. | |
this story to impeachment? No, certainly not. It's the first time | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
that somebody close to Donald Trump was prepared to talk to the Russians | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
about the campaign and information on Hillary Clinton. It does not look | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
good for the president, izzard collusion? That will be the purview | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
of the investigator. It is more ammunition for the investigations | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
into the Trump Campion and their ties with the Russians. The house of | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
representatives and Senate will not impeach at the moment. On Sunday the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
statement said, I went along to try and get dirt and she did not supply | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
and therefore no story but in some measure it shows they were trying to | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
potentially collude with the Russians. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
It seems to show they were trying to get information and that is what | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Donald Trump Jr went to that meeting for. The other question is how could | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
he possibly have forgotten the meeting and why did it not, | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
previously. The Trump administration seems | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
unable to escape this Russian story. Yes, the next three | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
weeks is supposed to be health care legislation passed, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
and even move on to tax reform. But right now prospects | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
are looking pretty bleak. Joining us now is Republican | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
political analyst Ron Christie. I was hearing a Republican senator | :10:37. | :10:50. | |
this morning sending we can get on the health care and tax reform and | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
the Russian investigation is separate. What do you think? I think | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
they can but the Republican caucus is an somewhat of a disarray. You | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
would think after eight years of being a political wilderness and not | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
having the White House or Congress Senate Republicans would have a | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
coherent message and legislation to what to do about health care and | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
become less weak and they are in a rush, they go out again in a couple | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
of weeks for a month so you think they would have something concrete. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
I am cautiously optimistic me Senate will put forward legislation but the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
question is whatever the Senate does can pass the house of | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
representatives which is much more conservative than the Senate. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
How serious is this Donald Trump junior Russian story is? Not so | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
important. I worked on several campaigns and if someone told me we | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
have dirt on opponents. Would you like to meet, of course I would say | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
that meeting. If a Russian said that to you? I think the interest here | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
anything attached with Russia plus Donald Trump is collusion or | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
obstruction or is illegal. I think that is a fallacy. We have had | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
strong disagreements on this programme and I have been leading | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
the charge about what the president is doing but just by the fact Donald | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Trump Jr happy meeting with someone he did not know and succeeded in | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
cremation -- had information on the secretary of state, I don't think | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
that is a problem. If he knew he was meeting a Russian, that is more | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
problematic. It is not. You're talking about someone who was not | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
paid employee of the campaign and just because someone from a foreign | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
country asked to meet does not make it illegal. I met with several | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
officials from foreign governments who sought my opinion on a variety | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
of issues and just because they are from a foreign Government or a | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
foreign citizen does not necessarily make them illegal or make this | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
collusion or anything other than trying to have a business | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
transaction, in my view. Let me take you back to the programme in | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Congress because it seems to me Donald Trump is the one who keeps | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
saying health care reform will be coming and is putting pressure on | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
himself and legislation like this does not take a long time to push | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
through. It took Ronald Reagan 5 years and 9 | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
months to pass his Tax Reform Act - the more significant step | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
in the creation of Reagonomics. Bill Clinton campaigned to change | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
parts of that legislation - it took him 203 days to raise taxes | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
on high earners and cut some And the Affordable Care Act | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
took 426 days to pass. Which is perhaps the most | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
relevant time scale - this after all is the legislation | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Donald Trump wants to We other currently 171. Why is he | :13:48. | :14:01. | |
putting so much pressure on Congress? I think he believes he | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
needs a legislative victory. This is as much about optics as anything | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
else. In the Bush administration it took ayes over one year to get his | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
signature no Child left behind legislation done. If you will pass | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
something to really revamp one sixth of the American economy I say don't | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
do it right and be very measured and let's make sure we get some | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
bipartisanship to do this right. -- I say we do this right. I think to | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
rush this through his misguided. They need to do it all right if they | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
are going to get it done. -- do it right. | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
The Iraqi government is declaring victory in Mosul, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
the largest city under IS control, after nine months of fighting. | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
The prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, visited the city | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
Our victory today is a victory against darkness, brutality and | :15:00. | :15:19. | |
terrorism. I declare from this place, I declare to the whole world, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
the end and the failure and the collapse of the so-called caliphate. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Our correspondent Jonathan Beale is in the city where troops this | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
morning were still dealing with the last few pockets | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
We are at the front line of one of the last pockets, we are told, of | :15:33. | :15:53. | |
resistance. There are snipers up there, 200 to 300. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
But you can see the devastation around here from the heavy fighting. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Even though the Iraqi Prime Minister said they are on the verge | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
of victory, in his words, there is still a battle ahead, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
there is still IS fighters out there and the battle for Mosul | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
Let's speak to the head of American troops in Iraq and Syria. Thank you | :16:13. | :16:33. | |
for joining us. There is a big delay on the line. Thank you. Actually I | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
am the head of all coalition troops. There is a long delay on the line. | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
You one Mac the war but securing the peace will be much more difficult. | :16:48. | :16:59. | |
Well, I think I take exception we have won the war. I would like to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
offer coalition's congratulations to the Iraqi Prime Minister and the | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
Iraqi security forces on their historic victory. They also made | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
some extraordinary efforts to safeguard civilian lakes. I would | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
say the war is far from over, this is one major battle has concluded. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
There are a number of Isis fighters still left in Iraq that will have to | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
be defeated before we have won the war. Lots of little towns where you | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
will have to fight between Mosul and Baghdad but if and when the fighting | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
is over, talking about that piece, I read today there are 25 million | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Sunnis between Baghdad and Damascus whose governments have failed them. | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
What do these governments have to do to make Sunnis feel part of the | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
country they live in? I think you hit on the essential | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
issue which is the cause of Isis in the first place. The Government of | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
Iraq did not make the SUNY people feel as if their Government | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
represented the interests and fell prey to Isis. And if we are to keep | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
Isis, the next Isis, from emerging, we will have two, the Iraqi | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Government will have to do something significantly different and reach | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
out and reconcile with the Sunni population and make them feel like | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
their Government in Baghdad represents them. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
You today said make no mistake, this victory alone does not eliminate | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Isis and there is still a tough fight ahead. What have you learned | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
from fighting, both the coalition and the Iraqi forces, learn from | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
fighting Isis in Mosul that will be useful in ... | :19:08. | :19:20. | |
This is a brutal, evil enemy. A very determined one. So one of the things | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
I learned is this fight will take longer than we anticipated. All sort | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
that fighting in cities, I already knew this as a professional soldier, | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
how difficult it was to fight in urban areas, but I never saw | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
fighting on this extend the duration and scale. We are applying all those | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
lessons to the fight we are already engaged in the global capital of | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Isis in Syria. It was the American decision under | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
President Obama to pull American forces out of Iraq that enabled Isis | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
to grow in the region, in part, will American forces now keep a presence | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
in Iraq for longer, to stop Isis 2.0 from re-emerging? | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
I think so. Those decisions have yet to be made. However, there is an | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
ongoing dialogue between the Government of Iraq, the Government | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
of the USA and the governments of other coalition members nations. To | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
have a continued coalition presence here after the defeat of Isis, and I | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
think that is exactly one of the things we need to do to keep that is | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
going down the right path in the future. Thank you very much for | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
joining us. Even on the state when you have the | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Iraqi Government declaring victory in Mosul, everyone is being | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
cautious. Both our guests being cautious, they are all aware of | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
history and the risks of repeating itself, and the complications of the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
politics of this and the need to make sure all the different | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
sectarian groups feel vested in these countries and do not turn | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
against their governments and enable a future Isis to re-emerge. | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
They fought and defeated Al-Qaeda in Iraq and out of that has come | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
so-called Islamic state. The Prime Minister of Iraq, who the Americans | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
do like, I believe, spoke about how the effective federalism, devolving | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
power to Sunnis and also to Kurds, who have taken a lot of ground in | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
this site that they are reticent to give up. All the sides in this one | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
clear and straight and after their security and security and education | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
and policing so they will have, if they want to secure a peace, they | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
will have two devolve more power from Baghdad. The question, as | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Stephen touched on, it's how much appetite isn't there in America | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
politically to keep an American force of several thousand, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
presumably, in Iraq in the long-term." President Obama was to | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
remove those trips and how much political support got for that. Are | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Americans prepared to say this is a long-term fight, even after Mosul | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
has fallen and it looks like Isis has been rolled back. | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
I'm sure there will but what we do not talk about is the rebuilding | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
effort. There are around 60 countries with the UN who have | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
contributed money to rebuild in places like Mosul and that will be | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
the first challenge, making sure people feel safe enough to come | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
back. Looking at the report we saw of the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
sort of destruction and devastation in Mosul that will be no easy thing | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
to secure. Lots to do in Iraq. The UN envoy to Syria says | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
a ceasefire in the southwest of the country has held quite well | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
since it went into force on Sunday. It's hoped the truce might give | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
the negotiations some momentum. Staffan De Mistura said | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
the de-escalation of the conflict in south-western Syria should be | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
a stage on the path A judge at the High Court in London | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
says he will reconsider on Thursday the case of Charlie Gard, | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
the terminally ill baby, who has been offered treatment | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
in the United States. The 11 month old boy has a rare | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
disease and is being kept Charlie's parents want the judge | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
to evaluate an experimental treatment which they believe | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
could improve their son's Meanwhile, the High Court has | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
rejected a case brought against the British government | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
claiming it's arms sales The case was brought by human rights | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
campaigners who argue the UK is breaking international laws | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
by selling weapons that have The Saudis have been conducting air | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
strikes against the Houthi rebels We have had a lot of CBS News today | :24:08. | :24:22. | |
around the world but we just have time for a video of Donald Trump and | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
his good deeds of the day. While returning from T20 meetings in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
Germany here he is boarding Marine one but the wind was clearly blowing | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
up a deal but lights on his feet, the president receives the marine's | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
cap and places it back on his head, only for it to blow off again. Not | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
to be defeated, the president chases at once more. Windy days and hats. | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
I've noticed the presidential tie was also flapping. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
I thought that was a really nice gesture. There is the Marine | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
standing stiff as a board, not allowed to move. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Nice touch from the president on his way back to the White House. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
Plenty more to come. You are watching 100 Days Plus from BBC | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
News. Still to come, Ukraine says it will | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
begin discussions to join Nato. We will try and find out how Russia | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
would feel about that and whether Nato is on board with the timetable. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
We will talk about the new silk Road. We have spoke a lot about | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
globalisation in recent weeks but what about the new globalisation, a | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
report on the trillion dollar real project between China and Europe. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
That's all still to come here on 100 Days Plus on BBC News. | :25:54. | :26:10. | |
It has been a day of mixed fortunes today. Some sunshine in the | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
south-east and Beeson spelt further north. Glorious pictures sent in | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
from the Highlands. Also some sharp thundery downpours. Those showers | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
are drifting into the North Sea was some still remaining in northern | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
England and Scotland. We end the day in southern England with decent | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
sunshine. Highs of 27 Celsius. Things will start to change through | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
tonight as cloud and rain gathers in from the West and particularly in | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Wales and south-west England. Not as humid as previous nights. We start | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
off with some rain across England and Wales and more significant wet | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
weather arriving later in the day affecting England and Wales and | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
certainly affecting Wimbledon throughout the afternoon. Some rain | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
turning quite heavy. A brief role in the middle of the day so not bad for | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
the courts early on but more significant rain arrives. For | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, not too bad and northern England with | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
sunny spells and scattered showers. Perhaps Northern Ireland will see | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
the best of the weather throughout the day. Temperatures way down on | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
what we have seen for southern England. Showers turning heavier and | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
more persistent throughout the afternoon into the south-west. That | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
rain pushes steadily eastwards through the night, some heavy, | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
welcome news for the gardens. Behind that area of low pressure the winds | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
swing to a northerly making it feel noticeably fresher on Wednesday. | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
Despite a good deal of dry weather on Wednesday with sunny spells. The | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
quieter theme looks set to continue Thursday into Friday, a good deal of | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
dry weather, scattering of isolated showers. Not all doom and gloom but | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
certainly feeling noticeably fresher and there will be rain at times but | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
also some sunny spells. The welcome party plus. Our top | :28:29. | :30:19. | |
stories: The Russian investigation takes a dramatic turn in Donald | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Trump as Nixon admits to reaching special meeting a Russian. I think | :30:25. | :30:32. | |
the President's attitude is that this is an unfair investigation | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
commies going to fight it at every step of the way. President Trump has | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
ruled out exploring a joint cyber task force with Russia, a backdown | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
on the idea after one Republican senator described it as close to the | :30:45. | :30:45. | |
dumbest idea I've ever heard. Today, Ukraine's president said that | :30:46. | :31:02. | |
Nato has agreed to begin talks over joining the alliance. Speaking | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
alongside Nato's Secretary General, the president said he would | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
implement the reforms necessary by 2020. It comes as Ukraine continues | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
to fight a Russian backed insurgency in the east of the country. | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
Moscow responded today by saying Ukraine's potential ownership in | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
Nato would not boost security and stability in Europe. We are joined | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
by a former senior director for Russian affairs at the UN Security | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
Council in the Obama administration. It's interesting, mail, from the | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
Ukrainian Government, we have heard from Moscow, but I haven't heard | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
anything publicly from Nato. It is Ukraine driving the timetable on | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
this, is Nato fully on board? I think it remains to be seen exactly | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
what was agreed to. Ukraine has an interest in leaning forward a bit | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
and talking about membership. From Nato's perspective, from the | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
perspective of key allies including Germany and the United States,, | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
membership of Ukraine is not on the cards at this point. A close | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
relationship is, help with defence and military assistance, but I think | :32:05. | :32:10. | |
we're at the beginning of a conversation about what relations of | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
Ukraine will have up with Nato over the long run. Polls in Ukraine show | :32:15. | :32:16. | |
that ever since the Russian intervention in the east of the | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
country and in Premier, there is much more support in favour of | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
joining Nato membership in Ukraine than they used to be. -- and in | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
Crimea. But Russia says it won't increased about it, this is kind of | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
a red rag to Moscow, isn't it? Russians have objected to the Madrid | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
of Nato from the get go, going back to the early 1990s. -- to the | :32:41. | :32:48. | |
embodiment of Nato. But Britain come in some ways, is responsible -- pleb | :32:49. | :32:58. | |
won is responsible, for this U-turn in foreign policy. But again, and we | :32:59. | :33:09. | |
are the very beginning of a conversation, and it may well be | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
that we have to wait for several years before we get a better sense | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
of whether Ukraine has a serious chance of becoming a member. We had | :33:16. | :33:24. | |
on the show last week, very timely, the man who has been named as the | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
special Robson to do to Ukraine. It is has been said is a hardliner when | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
they comes to matters in Kiev. -- the special representative to | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
Ukraine. In terms of the Russian investigation, it's very difficult | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
to know,? Of weird habits conversation earlier in the year, I | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
would have said that the cupboard Ministry 's and seems to be doing a | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
somersault on Ukraine -- the Trump administration, he had talked about | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
three Ukraine under the bus, recognising Crimea, dropping | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
sanctions, but since then they have tax towards a more conventional | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
position. The President made a point of meeting with the Ukrainian | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
president, he flew to Poland, which is on the survival of Nato, the US | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
has said that sanctions that are at least van Gogh Nato, yes said that | :34:15. | :34:18. | |
sanctions will remain in place. So they are now at the point of saying | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
that pulses looked huge remain in place, and it is now up to us see if | :34:24. | :34:33. | |
we can't get Dunn it's essentially up to the Russians to agree together | :34:34. | :34:39. | |
troops out and stop the separatism rebellion, and in return, Ukraine | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
grants the region at high level of a tummy. -- autonomy. On the show, we | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
spend a lot of time exploring common themes across the abundant. Tonight, | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
we have an author who makes the case for us in his new book. He makes the | :34:56. | :35:02. | |
case for white prince. Democracy are under threat. | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
He says that America has been ceding its role ever since the invasion of | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
Iraq and that China will inevitably fill the global power vacuum. Ed, | :35:14. | :35:18. | |
thank you very much for coming into the studio. Donald Trump, Brexit, | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
the populism that we have seen in other countries in Europe, the | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
symptoms of what you're talking about or are the also causes of it? | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
I think they're about. But this has been a long time in coming. There | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
has been a source of... Perhaps self soothing interpretation of 2016 | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
Brexit and Trump is just being the weird, volcanic eruptions in the | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
other rows dormant range of Western liberal democracy and that would be | :35:46. | :35:48. | |
a serious up misreading of how deeply rooted and structural the | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
middle of our middle economy is our feeling. The middle of the economy | :35:52. | :36:01. | |
has an impact on politics. If you're looking for an optimistic, feel-good | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
beak Street, I'm guessing this is not really. But how bleak are you, | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
how bleak do you feel about the prospects for the Western liberal | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
democracy? Is it really price point? Its crisis point, but maybe it is | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
called the retreat, and my publishers wanted it to be called | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
the collapse of Western liberalisation, and I argued against | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
that, because retreat implies the possibility of regrouping to stop | :36:28. | :36:31. | |
what we have seen in France with Emanuel Macron's victory, and Angela | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
Merkel trying to revive the Franco German motor, that is definitely a | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
glass of champagne half full. And in context, the rest of the world, the | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
non-Western is falling out of poverty at a faster rate than ever | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
before in team in history. That is good news. Our ability to cope with | :36:50. | :36:59. | |
the jubilant impact of that is not something that fills me with | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
optimism there. -- the geopolitical impact. It has been said before that | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
things will be better for children than for us, but that has stopped, | :37:09. | :37:12. | |
that is driving some of the resembled politics. There is, I | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
think, a Champagne moment in Europe with Emanuel Macron and that is | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
driving a rapprochement between Germany and France. But I wonder how | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
long that will last? Because you can't tell me that those elements | :37:27. | :37:28. | |
that were there, that were supporting the front National and | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
supporting the far left, they have not disappeared, have they? They | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
haven't. And it is troubling to see that e-mail Macron's victory was on | :37:40. | :37:47. | |
a historic low turnout, it's a really thin mandate that he has. And | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
of course, his plan is to get the Germans to relax, they are very, | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
militaristic fiscal rules. The Germans committed in their DNA to do | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
this. Unless he can persuade angler Marco -- angler Marco -- Angela | :38:04. | :38:09. | |
Merkel that it is in their interests to do this, the suffering parts of | :38:10. | :38:16. | |
the European Union are going to get more populous and resentful. I | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
surely caution implicit in your question. I wish we could top more | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
about it, we are running out of time. Thank you for coming on and | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
talking about your book. The agents at road was the world's | :38:29. | :38:34. | |
first superhighway. -- the ancient silk Road. Now, China is hoping to | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
recreate that route. The critics say Beijing is trying to exert its | :38:41. | :38:43. | |
influence on all 60 countries that are investing in it, but Mel -- many | :38:44. | :38:51. | |
could well be indebted for decades. Starting in China, the route winds | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
its way past Indonesia, Sri Lanka and ends up in Europe. At the same | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
time and that there will be a land-based networks making west | :39:00. | :39:08. | |
through central Russia. They call them the ships of the | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
desert. For centuries, the camel trains of the silk Road dominated | :39:16. | :39:21. | |
trade between China and the west. Now, China wants to recreate the | :39:22. | :39:34. | |
silk Road. This time, by train. When this man started here, 34 years ago, | :39:35. | :39:39. | |
China sold the role next to nothing. Now, he is a foot soldier for a | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
trading superpower. I asked how that had changed him. TRANSLATION: We are | :39:46. | :39:55. | |
under a lot of pressure. Expectations are high but there is | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
also a lot of hope. We need the training to develop faster and | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
better. The pressure is coming from the top. Not led by merchants... But | :40:06. | :40:14. | |
by a president. Chinese emperors once claimed to rule all under | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
heaven. With the United States no longer leading on trade, the | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
president has seized his chance. He calls his vision... His vision may | :40:26. | :40:39. | |
be so vast that it may be so decades until we can tell whether it is a | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
successor to the entrance will grow. But we can say that with no country | :40:44. | :40:46. | |
offering a big idea right now, that this is the most ambitious bid to | :40:47. | :40:55. | |
shape our century. Already, Chinashapes our material lives. But | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
selling abroad and building at home is no longer enough to keep the | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
strange economy growing. Now, it plans to build a broad two. A | :41:06. | :41:13. | |
win-win for all, says China. But when the talking is done, Chinese | :41:14. | :41:20. | |
traders drive a hard bargain. ,, for an old friend. The world by much | :41:21. | :41:26. | |
more from them than the other way round. Red tape can make importing a | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
nightmare. The Government can change the law at any time. So there is no | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
real concrete law. There is no grey area at the moment. -- there is a | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
grey area. If the Government made it more clear, it would be easier. But | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
the new Silk Road is China solving China's problems. Money and muscle | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
heading west. On a journey across three continents. Bidding to redraw | :41:55. | :42:06. | |
the map and command the century. It's strange to think isn't it, that | :42:07. | :42:13. | |
the old Silk Road, 2000 years ago, was the first ex-parent and | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
globalisation. -- the first experiment. And now they are | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
recreating it. And we have talked a lot on this programme, if America | :42:24. | :42:27. | |
loan, China is well prepared to step into this vacuum. -- if America | :42:28. | :42:37. | |
first means America alone. We have really enjoyed doing this | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
programme, behind the scenes, of course, there's a fantastic team who | :42:41. | :42:47. | |
have really helped us. We would like to say happy birthday to our editor, | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
Kate. There was chocolate cake as well. I | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
didn't get any chocolate cake, here in Washington. None. | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
We will see you tomorrow, do join us tomorrow. | :42:59. | :43:02. |