:00:10. > :00:18.Hello and welcome to 100 days plus. Donald Trump Jr has just made it a
:00:19. > :00:22.lot harder for the US president to save his campaign didn't seek to
:00:23. > :00:25.cooperate with Russia. The President's sober releases
:00:26. > :00:28.e-mails which confirm that he did go looking for dirt on Philip Clinton
:00:29. > :00:33.from someone who was introduced to him as a Russian government lawyer.
:00:34. > :00:38.The e-mail said the Russian government was trying to support
:00:39. > :00:45.Donald Trump's candidacy. Donald Trump Jr's response to the offer? I
:00:46. > :00:47.love it. The Russian government itself, though, denies any
:00:48. > :00:53.connection to the Kremlin -- the Russian lawyer herself denies any
:00:54. > :00:56.connection to the Kremlin. After the fall of Mosul, the so-called Islamic
:00:57. > :01:04.states shifts its attention to Syria. We will be reporting from
:01:05. > :01:08.Raqqa. These fighters are coming up against
:01:09. > :01:11.IS snipers in all these streets around here. Other than that, they
:01:12. > :01:15.have drones, suicide bombers, this will be a very hard fight.
:01:16. > :01:21.The so-called big economy has given rise to new ideas and some dynamic
:01:22. > :01:25.new companies. But our work is properly protected, or flexible
:01:26. > :01:30.contracts now an excuse to avoid response ability?
:01:31. > :01:35.And Beijing is putting on quite a show. The promise of new trade along
:01:36. > :01:42.the new Silk Road, bridging the gap between east and west.
:01:43. > :01:43.In less than a decade, China has built twice as much high-speed rail
:01:44. > :02:01.as the rest of the world combined. Hello, I'm in New York, Kristian is
:02:02. > :02:06.in London. It now looks possible that Donald Trump's campaign didn't
:02:07. > :02:11.knowingly cooperate with people from Russia. The e-mails have been -- did
:02:12. > :02:15.knowingly cooperate. The e-mails had been released and show a direct line
:02:16. > :02:22.from Donald Trump eyes inner circle to Moscow. The e-mail exchange was
:02:23. > :02:25.with this man, Rob Goldstone, a music publicist and former tabloid
:02:26. > :02:29.reporter who was arranging the meeting was up Mr Goldstone
:02:30. > :02:33.represents the Russian pop star Emin Agalarov. His father is this man, a
:02:34. > :02:37.Russian oligarch who teamed up with Donald Trump in 2013 to take the
:02:38. > :02:51.Miss universe pageant to Moscow. He is close to present Pitt and stop --
:02:52. > :03:00.close to President Putin. Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and
:03:01. > :03:08.Paul Manafort all attended the 20 16 meeting with the Russian lawyer.
:03:09. > :03:13.You can see there are the direct link between the three men and
:03:14. > :03:17.Moscow. Trump Junior claims he has no knowledge of what the meeting was
:03:18. > :03:21.called to be about what knowledge was being supplied. The Russian
:03:22. > :03:27.lawyer spoke to NBC News to deny that she is a Kremlin stooge. Have
:03:28. > :03:31.you ever worked for the Russian government, do you have connections
:03:32. > :03:35.to the Russian government? TRANSLATION: No. They had the
:03:36. > :03:42.oppression, it appears, that they were going to be told information
:03:43. > :03:47.that you had, but the DNC. They had the impression. Added they get that
:03:48. > :03:50.impression? TRANSLATION: It is possible they were looking for such
:03:51. > :03:54.information, they wanted it so badly. Joining us now from
:03:55. > :04:00.Washington to try and unravel all this, our North American reporter.
:04:01. > :04:03.Let's take a look at what Goldstone actually promised in his e-mail to
:04:04. > :04:09.continue. He said, some official documents and if information that
:04:10. > :04:12.would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be
:04:13. > :04:23.very useful to your father. This is obviously very high-level...
:04:24. > :04:34.Donald Trump Jr's response to all of that... OK. Anthony, help us
:04:35. > :04:40.understand all of this. How significant is it? I think his is
:04:41. > :04:48.devastating. Last night, we saw the New York Times described the e-mail,
:04:49. > :04:51.but to see the actual text, the words exchanged, shows that Donald
:04:52. > :04:55.Trump Jr knew exactly going into this meeting that he thought he was
:04:56. > :04:59.going to be receiving assistance from someone connected to the
:05:00. > :05:02.Russian government, that the Russian government itself wanted to help his
:05:03. > :05:09.father get elected. Whether that actually took place in the meeting,
:05:10. > :05:14.you heard the lawyer mentioned that she wasn't connected with the
:05:15. > :05:19.Russian government, but here we are, he is going into the meeting, he
:05:20. > :05:28.thinks he's getting those documents, and I think that is very damaging
:05:29. > :05:31.for him. OK, damaging, Anthony, but already the question is being raised
:05:32. > :05:34.about whether it was actually illegal. Collusion may be unethical,
:05:35. > :05:41.it may not look good for the Trump campaign, if indeed this is
:05:42. > :05:46.collusion, but is it illegal? That'll be for prosecutors to
:05:47. > :05:50.examine. I'm sure the independent counsel is taking very close look at
:05:51. > :05:53.this. The statutes involved say that foreign governments cannot
:05:54. > :05:57.contribute to a political campaign, whether that is just dealing with
:05:58. > :06:01.monetary contributions are contributing, sisters in the form of
:06:02. > :06:04.incriminating in formation or opposition research, I think that is
:06:05. > :06:08.an open question, but as you mention, the political object of
:06:09. > :06:13.this absolutely devastating for Donald Trump Jr and for the entire
:06:14. > :06:18.tribe of ministration and the campaign that had been denying any
:06:19. > :06:21.sort of link any interest in getting help from the Russian government,
:06:22. > :06:24.welcome here you have Donald Trump to your going into a meeting and
:06:25. > :06:29.thinking that is what he was going to get, and if you look at the top
:06:30. > :06:33.of this e-mail chain, Donald Trump Jr, the day before the meeting,
:06:34. > :06:36.forward the e-mail to Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, they had said
:06:37. > :06:39.they went into the meeting not having any idea what would be
:06:40. > :06:44.discussed, but it seems likely that they had these e-mails in their
:06:45. > :06:48.inbox the day before they sat down intron tower. And of course, this is
:06:49. > :06:53.the moment where we all good into the archive to see what they said at
:06:54. > :06:56.the time. This is in January, Vice President Mike Pants denying anyone
:06:57. > :07:02.in the campaign had contact with the Russians. Did any adviser, anyone in
:07:03. > :07:07.the Trump campaign, have any contact with the Russians you're trying to
:07:08. > :07:14.meddle in the election? So of course not. I think to suggest that is to
:07:15. > :07:20.give credence to some of these... These bizarre rumours that have
:07:21. > :07:27.swirled around the candidacy. I don't know what you and Cathy will
:07:28. > :07:31.think but this looked like a classic sting from the New York Times, they
:07:32. > :07:37.tease a bit out of it, and suddenly, there is this transparent release of
:07:38. > :07:40.e-mails from Don Junior. But 17 minutes before he was transparent,
:07:41. > :07:50.there was the New York Times story. Maybe they had this e-mail all on. I
:07:51. > :07:53.think that is safe to say, these e-mails are not exhilarating or
:07:54. > :07:57.exculpatory for Donald Trump Jr by any stretch of the imagination full
:07:58. > :08:03.stop -- is exonerating or exculpatory. I think you try to get
:08:04. > :08:06.ahead of the story. He was so explicit, going into this meeting,
:08:07. > :08:11.it will not help at all, the fact that he got this out a little ahead
:08:12. > :08:14.of time. And you heard Mike Pence there, trying to separate himself
:08:15. > :08:19.from the story as best he can. But he has been put in a position,
:08:20. > :08:23.multiple times now, with the Marco Fu and -- Michael Flynn allegations,
:08:24. > :08:28.where he was time to say things and then become. Wouldn't you just love
:08:29. > :08:33.to know who is leaking this information? There is a lot of
:08:34. > :08:42.speculation. What more than one, 23, according to the New York Times. --
:08:43. > :08:47.two or three. He in the White House was Donald Trump? I have been told
:08:48. > :08:53.by people abroad, and here in the United States, this this is just
:08:54. > :08:59.part of American politics. It's a brutal game people polled just do
:09:00. > :09:03.opposition research. Here is a treat... He was the campaign
:09:04. > :09:19.strategies for Mitt Romney. He worked on the Bush campaign in
:09:20. > :09:46.2004. This is not normal in American
:09:47. > :09:51.politics, clearly. Yes, opposition research happen, but does not come
:09:52. > :09:54.from a foreign adversarial. But the question being raised, increasingly,
:09:55. > :09:58.is whether it was in fact illegal. Lawyers will have to look into it, I
:09:59. > :10:03.knew from both sides here, lawyers who say yes, this idea that they got
:10:04. > :10:07.things from a foreign adversary or foreign entity, that is illegal. I'm
:10:08. > :10:11.also hearing lawyers say no, this is good to be very hard to say that
:10:12. > :10:15.this was actually illegal. This was the point talking about...
:10:16. > :10:18.This is how lawyers make their money! Disagreeing with each other.
:10:19. > :10:23.They are all lawyered up. There's plenty of money going around. But
:10:24. > :10:26.even if he hasn't committed a crime, the real suggest the Russians were
:10:27. > :10:30.dragged out the drug campaign to stop so even if you take Donald
:10:31. > :10:32.Trump Jr out of this, the centre is that Moscow were trying to
:10:33. > :10:37.interfere. -- the Russians were trying to help the Trump campaign
:10:38. > :10:42.full stop the Russians have denied it just last week, but does that and
:10:43. > :10:47.I'll ring true? The former Russian Prime Minister is
:10:48. > :10:51.now a leading opposition figure and joins us now. Thank you for joining
:10:52. > :10:57.us. Is it now getting harder for the Kremlin decided and interfere in the
:10:58. > :11:03.American election last year? I think as the story develops, some kind of
:11:04. > :11:11.understanding that Russians, especially those who are in the
:11:12. > :11:15.so-called sanctions list, are trying to build up a model, to try to
:11:16. > :11:21.eliminate those sanctions. I think this is a confirmation world than
:11:22. > :11:25.interference the elections, though just e-mails that you're referring
:11:26. > :11:29.to, suggests that that could also be the case. Why would Mr Putin have
:11:30. > :11:37.gone to such lengths to stop Hillary Clinton? I think that is... That was
:11:38. > :11:46.clear that during that period of time, during the Obama
:11:47. > :11:52.Administration, relations with Mosul's Russia changed completely. I
:11:53. > :11:59.would say American reaction of human rights violations taken by Putin was
:12:00. > :12:02.absolutely unacceptable from Mosul's perspective, though I think this is
:12:03. > :12:08.an obligation of the American Government as well as many other
:12:09. > :12:15.governments, that human rights would be respected in Russia. Of course,
:12:16. > :12:18.the Ukrainian affair, annexation of Crimea, the Syrian operation,
:12:19. > :12:24.everything contrary to general order exists in this world. Mr Putin would
:12:25. > :12:30.like to destroy all those things. Of course, he wanted his regime to be
:12:31. > :12:33.seen as a decent one. But unfortunately, from his perspective,
:12:34. > :12:37.the American administration and other Western governments are
:12:38. > :12:42.standing very strongly on their values and understanding what is
:12:43. > :12:45.international law is about. If your candidate an arms length from it, so
:12:46. > :12:51.you weren't directly in the data, that would give your trying to keep
:12:52. > :13:00.an arms length,... What we know about this oligarch, Agalarov,
:13:01. > :13:05.hopelessly seated between? -- how close is heated Putin? I don't know
:13:06. > :13:08.how close, but I would say he has an extensive and large business in
:13:09. > :13:13.Russia and that suggests that he has a good relation with high-level
:13:14. > :13:17.officials, and this lawyer, is not of course working for the
:13:18. > :13:24.Government, but I think a number of her clients are people who are in
:13:25. > :13:29.the sanctions list and that is why I think her attempt was to build up a
:13:30. > :13:36.mechanism to limit those sanctions. I think that was what the main
:13:37. > :13:40.purpose was. I know I don't know about the other information
:13:41. > :13:42.presented in the e-mails... Some kind of compromise on Hillary
:13:43. > :13:50.Clinton, as they say there, that could be the case. Other we have no
:13:51. > :13:54.evidence at the moment. Very good to get that insight. They give very
:13:55. > :13:57.much. The UK economy has graded record on
:13:58. > :14:01.climate in recent years, but has created the right kind of implement?
:14:02. > :14:11.-- has created record employment, but it is it the right kind? We have
:14:12. > :14:17.a report on the gig economy will stop a report reveals that often,
:14:18. > :14:23.this leaves too much at power in the hands of the employer.
:14:24. > :14:35.The report recommends that workers for countries like Uber and
:14:36. > :14:41.Deliveroo should be classed as contractors, giving them more
:14:42. > :14:49.security. This is making people's lives more insecure are making their
:14:50. > :14:53.lives harder to manage. We need to ensure that the self employed and
:14:54. > :14:58.those working in the gig economy are all properly protected. You in the
:14:59. > :15:02.UK, we have had record employment and a lot of it is down to the gig
:15:03. > :15:06.economy. The problem is that retail ComRes are trying to shift some of
:15:07. > :15:12.their contracts onto these as you are flexible contracts get around
:15:13. > :15:18.some aspects of employment law. So he is saying Korea to play -- he is
:15:19. > :15:22.saying, you need to pay national literacy workers, sick pay, holiday
:15:23. > :15:26.pay, all the rest of it. The trouble is, and this is where you need the
:15:27. > :15:32.balance, a lot of people in the gig economy like the hours. They were
:15:33. > :15:36.four to they -- they work for two employers, they want to be flexible
:15:37. > :15:41.to. But that got me thinking, wonder if those is a debate like that in
:15:42. > :15:47.the knighted States, there is a debate here, but I don't sense that
:15:48. > :15:51.there is one? -- the United States. The gig economy in 2020 will take up
:15:52. > :15:57.43% of the American workforce. That is huge. American workers don't
:15:58. > :16:02.necessarily expect modern times a paid holiday or health insurance,
:16:03. > :16:05.even, pension benefits. That is not the social contract that Americans
:16:06. > :16:11.make with their employers. So you hear Sangam bling here about that I
:16:12. > :16:13.do hear grumbling about whether employers should treat their
:16:14. > :16:18.employees better, but the gig economy is actually very well-suited
:16:19. > :16:25.to the way people do business here. In this, our last week of 100 Days
:16:26. > :16:31.+, we are looking more closely at some of the teams that have guided
:16:32. > :16:35.this problem. Yesterday, we talked about the retreat of Western,
:16:36. > :16:38.liberal democracy. Today, we're talking about the relationship
:16:39. > :16:41.between politics and identity. The pattern was a UK Government
:16:42. > :16:48.minister, also the last Governor of Hong Kong and a European
:16:49. > :16:50.Commissioner. He is a man who has seen first-hand where national
:16:51. > :16:54.identity and projects combine. His memoir is just out and he joined us
:16:55. > :16:56.a little earlier. In your book, you talk about some
:16:57. > :16:59.rather unexpected things in relation to the Prime Ministers you worked
:17:00. > :17:02.with, three of them, Ted Heath, In the context of today's relaunch,
:17:03. > :17:06.Theresa May's relaunch, I don't think there are bottles
:17:07. > :17:13.of champagne being broken over the bows of the ship
:17:14. > :17:19.with this relaunch. I think she is obviously
:17:20. > :17:21.in difficulty. She is in office but
:17:22. > :17:27.not I think in power. Because the Conservative Party
:17:28. > :17:29.is quite nervous that any attempt to find a successor would divide
:17:30. > :17:31.the Conservative Party even more fundamentally
:17:32. > :17:35.than it is already divided. I think she is quite limited
:17:36. > :17:43.and I think that she allowed herself at the early stages of these doomed
:17:44. > :17:50.Brexit negotiations to line up behind the people who wanted a hard
:17:51. > :17:55.Brexit or no deal being better than a bad deal and so on issues
:17:56. > :18:01.like the role of the European Court of Justice, on immigration,
:18:02. > :18:04.I think the Government have got into I think it's going to be a struggle
:18:05. > :18:10.to get out of it without either loss of face or considerable bashing
:18:11. > :18:15.for the national interest. Let's broaden this out and talk
:18:16. > :18:18.about one of the themes in your book, the idea
:18:19. > :18:21.of identity in politics. We all heard Donald Trump in Warsaw
:18:22. > :18:24.last week and he spoke about the crisis of western
:18:25. > :18:27.civilisation and the idea of identity for national politics
:18:28. > :18:33.and I wonder whether there are not a lot of people, whether in Europe
:18:34. > :18:36.or in America at the moment who wouldn't agree with him
:18:37. > :18:39.and think we need to reclaim in this fast moving globalised world
:18:40. > :18:42.where people are crossing borders, we need to reclaim a sense
:18:43. > :18:47.of sovereignty and identity. in Europe and I think
:18:48. > :18:54.in the United States is lamentable. His idea of identity bashes Islam,
:18:55. > :19:00.keeps people out, very tough immigration controls,
:19:01. > :19:02.doesn't have much to do with the things which America
:19:03. > :19:07.helped to give the world after the Second World War,
:19:08. > :19:11.institutions and values, which gave us probably the 50th
:19:12. > :19:15.happiest and most stable and peaceful years in
:19:16. > :19:18.the world's history. I believe the relationship
:19:19. > :19:22.between freedom, the rule of law, economic success, democracy
:19:23. > :19:27.and accountability so that the second half of the last century
:19:28. > :19:31.was so much better than the first. If we want to go back to the first
:19:32. > :19:34.half of the last century, when nationalism poisoned
:19:35. > :19:37.and undermined civilisation, then President Trump is welcome to it,
:19:38. > :19:40.but it certainly isn't something I went to see for my children
:19:41. > :19:44.and grandchildren and that is why If we are to see a world
:19:45. > :19:51.in which America has a different role and it seems under
:19:52. > :19:54.Donald Trump, that role will be a more retiring one in the world,
:19:55. > :19:58.do you buy into the theory that other countries are going to step
:19:59. > :20:00.in, namely, the country you know very well,
:20:01. > :20:02.China, for example. I think as far as President Xi
:20:03. > :20:08.Jinping in China is concerned and so far as President Putin
:20:09. > :20:11.is concerned, President Trump My own view is that there isn't
:20:12. > :20:21.a really big and serious issue in the world that we can tackle
:20:22. > :20:23.in a sensible, rational way I think Europe can play a part
:20:24. > :20:29.but I think it's going to depend very much on the United States,
:20:30. > :20:32.presuming the role that America doesn't need
:20:33. > :20:36.to be made great again, America's reputation around
:20:37. > :20:43.the world has been nosediving since President Trump came
:20:44. > :20:46.into office and American soft power, which was one of the reasons why
:20:47. > :20:53.America could achieve so much around the world, has been shot to pieces
:20:54. > :20:55.by this administration. I don't say that with any
:20:56. > :20:58.pleasure but it is true. You have been talking a lot
:20:59. > :21:00.about Hong Kong of late, if that soft power is replaced
:21:01. > :21:03.by hard power from China, Hong Kong is guaranteed by treaty
:21:04. > :21:12.between Britain and China, a treaty which runs until 2047
:21:13. > :21:16.and what it looks as though China is trying to do at the moment,
:21:17. > :21:20.is to overturn some aspects of that agreement which was supposed
:21:21. > :21:23.to guarantee Hong Kong's way My own view and I'm sure
:21:24. > :21:29.that of other people, if you can't trust China
:21:30. > :21:32.to keep its word on that, I want to see China
:21:33. > :21:38.playing a responsible role I think China doing well
:21:39. > :21:46.isn't a threat to us. I think China doing badly would be a
:21:47. > :21:55.threat. Interesting words. There is no doubt
:21:56. > :21:59.China's 20 extend its reach, and with the US it retreating from
:22:00. > :22:02.things like the transpacific partnership, there is new
:22:03. > :22:08.opportunity. China is promising a new trillion dollar rail routes,
:22:09. > :22:13.following the trade route which once connected these and west. In a
:22:14. > :22:18.special report, editors travelling the length of this new cell growth.
:22:19. > :22:21.Today, she is in Western China, where it is hoped that it may help
:22:22. > :22:25.resolve tensions bring a Muslim minority and the state.
:22:26. > :22:31.This is the face of the new Silk Road.
:22:32. > :22:33.Behind the stage make-up, this girl is a Muslim
:22:34. > :22:39.The people left behind by China's growth.
:22:40. > :22:52.TRANSLATION: Tourists I met had heard this place was unsafe,
:22:53. > :22:55.that they couldn't be sure to get out unharmed if they came here.
:22:56. > :23:03.Some people did some bad things and it has affected all of us.
:23:04. > :23:07.China is trying to rewrite the script.
:23:08. > :23:09.At this theatre, a grand narrative of ethnic unity
:23:10. > :23:19.The wealth gap between west China and the coast,
:23:20. > :23:24.a challenge as immense as the terrain.
:23:25. > :23:28.This economy is addicted to building.
:23:29. > :23:33.But the coast now has as much road and rail as it can absorb so China
:23:34. > :23:39.seeking new frontiers at home and abroad.
:23:40. > :23:48.To solve economic insecurity problems with one blow.
:23:49. > :23:50.The Silk Road was once unimaginably remote the most
:23:51. > :23:54.In less than a decade, China has built twice as much
:23:55. > :23:57.high-speed rail as the rest of the world combined.
:23:58. > :24:11.A magnet for the biggest tourist board in the world.
:24:12. > :24:13.One the government hopes will kick-start growth
:24:14. > :24:19.Heading west to troubled Xinjiang, do they fear becoming
:24:20. > :24:27.TRANSLATION: Not afraid, there are people looking
:24:28. > :24:40.A small group of people are causing trouble but 99% are good.
:24:41. > :24:43.At the grand theatre, they are spending $250 million
:24:44. > :24:55.But the more China invests, the more it has to protect.
:24:56. > :24:59.The ancient Silk Road story has moments of danger.
:25:00. > :25:07.And China's grand new narrative is fraught with peril.
:25:08. > :25:14.Deliver on the spin of opportunities for all or forever scanned the crowd
:25:15. > :25:34.Some challenges facing the new rising superpower, China. You're
:25:35. > :25:38.watching 100 Days + from BBC News. Still to come, we had a report from
:25:39. > :25:42.inside Raqqa in Syria. Our correspondence on the front line of
:25:43. > :25:49.the fight against the so-called Islamic State. And it's the finish
:25:50. > :25:53.line for the 2024 Olympics, two of the last contender still standing
:25:54. > :25:55.will find out soon if they will be the host of that Olympics. Coming up
:25:56. > :26:15.on 100 Days + on BBC News. Good evening fell stop a change of
:26:16. > :26:18.fortunes, some rain, some of it really quite heavy across the
:26:19. > :26:22.south-west and for parts of Wales, as you can see from this weather
:26:23. > :26:25.watcher's picture, it pushed its way is through the day bringing some
:26:26. > :26:31.heavy rain across the south coast into parts of Dorset and towards SWI
:26:32. > :26:35.team. The first significant rain we have seen for this year's Wimbledon
:26:36. > :26:38.championship. The rain will convey you to track its way steadily
:26:39. > :26:41.eastwards and it will continue to be quite heavy, which is great news for
:26:42. > :26:46.the gardens and for the farmers out there. Our first significant rain
:26:47. > :26:54.across parts of southern England so far this July. Clear skies, a chilly
:26:55. > :26:56.night to come in the north of Scotland, low single figures in
:26:57. > :27:02.rural sheltered spot, but where we keep the cloud, it will be 14 or 15
:27:03. > :27:06.degrees. That will start a clear away from the Essex and Kent coast
:27:07. > :27:10.during the morning, perhaps lingering for the morning rush hour,
:27:11. > :27:12.but behind, a legacy of either wait for a time before it will thin and
:27:13. > :27:17.break in the sunshine will come through. Not looking too bad across
:27:18. > :27:19.parts of Wales, Pinter Northern England, the Isle of Man, Northern
:27:20. > :27:23.Ireland and the bulk of Scotland will start the day on a slightly
:27:24. > :27:26.chilly enough but with plenty of sunshine. It really is looking like
:27:27. > :27:32.a promising date through the middle of the week. As we go through
:27:33. > :27:36.Wednesday, that car that we have done towards the south-west will too
:27:37. > :27:39.thin and break-up during the latter stages of the morning. The wind
:27:40. > :27:44.swinging round to a north-easterly direction, it may feel chilly on the
:27:45. > :27:51.coast, but with shelter we could cease some temperatures of low 20s,
:27:52. > :27:55.possibly. It bodes well if you have tickets for Wimbledon, Wednesday, a
:27:56. > :28:03.perfect day and one with it. 22 degrees the high, 72 Fahrenheit.
:28:04. > :28:09.Training into their stake -- not much change into Thursday, dry, in
:28:10. > :28:13.the sunshine, it will continue to feel quite warm with light winds, 18
:28:14. > :28:19.to 23 degrees. Clouds gather into the far north-west. A week rent will
:28:20. > :28:22.make its way slowly south and east, bringing some showers, but by
:28:23. > :28:26.Friday, a ridge of high pressure builds again and generally speaking,
:28:27. > :28:28.things look quite promising. Maybe some could arrive as we go through
:28:29. > :30:07.Friday, but cry. President Trump's son has
:30:08. > :30:16.released an email chain, showing he was keen to use
:30:17. > :30:19.information from Russia to dig the dirt on Hillary Clinton
:30:20. > :30:21.and help his dad win But the lawyer he met
:30:22. > :30:26.denies the allegations of a connection to the Kremlin,
:30:27. > :30:28.and insists never possessed any Emails released today
:30:29. > :30:44.by Donald Trump Jnr have changed the debate here,
:30:45. > :30:47.about whether the Trump campaign cooperated with Russia
:30:48. > :30:49.to affect the US election. In the correspondence,
:30:50. > :30:51.this is what the person arranging an encounter with a Russian
:30:52. > :30:55.lawyer promised. "Some official documents
:30:56. > :30:57.and information that would would incriminate Hillary
:30:58. > :31:00.and her dealings with Russia, and would be very
:31:01. > :31:03.useful to your father. This is obviously very high level
:31:04. > :31:06.and sensitive information, but is part of Russia
:31:07. > :31:08.and its government's support for "If it's
:31:09. > :31:17.what you say, I love it, Well, joining us now
:31:18. > :31:21.is Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute
:31:22. > :31:32.at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Matthew, put your Moscow hat on. Or
:31:33. > :31:38.are they making of this in the Kremlin? What is very strange about
:31:39. > :31:45.how this has come together is that the lawyers substance of argument,
:31:46. > :31:49.which had to do with the sanctions bill, the Russian retaliation etc,
:31:50. > :31:56.that was 100% consistent with the Kremlin message. It plugs into
:31:57. > :32:00.basically a life and death struggle for the Putin regime. The big
:32:01. > :32:06.proponent of those sanctions was Bill Browder, a former American
:32:07. > :32:10.citizen, British who bankrolled the campaign to get sanctions against
:32:11. > :32:15.Moscow. The element of luring the Trump campaign in, what sort of
:32:16. > :32:19.sounds strange about all of that to my year is if you are running an
:32:20. > :32:22.intelligence operation to try and subtly push an American election,
:32:23. > :32:30.that is the opposite of what you do. You do not very publicly, and
:32:31. > :32:33.through these very obviously traceable intermediaries, put out
:32:34. > :32:37.feelers and deliver nothing of real value or substance. You do the
:32:38. > :32:43.opposite. The very quietly deliver things of tremendous value in a
:32:44. > :32:46.plausibly deniable way. This seems like the opposite of a Russian
:32:47. > :32:51.intelligence operation. It may have been a bumbling rush-hour Kremlin
:32:52. > :32:59.lobbying operation. What you say is that maybe the lawyer overrate this?
:33:00. > :33:02.Or maybe somebody further down the It is quite possible. The way the
:33:03. > :33:09.Kremlin system works made recalls the Soviet system. Over fulfilling
:33:10. > :33:13.the plan. Putin set a general direction for a Russian policy. Then
:33:14. > :33:20.you have a competition. Remember the famous competition among the
:33:21. > :33:23.hackers? This competition among elements of the Russian state and
:33:24. > :33:29.their interlocutors and intermediaries to fulfil the
:33:30. > :33:36.expectations of the top guy. This was a bungled operation by some
:33:37. > :33:40.people who were not the A team. We should say we have some news in from
:33:41. > :33:45.the White House. A statement from President Trump, in which he says, I
:33:46. > :33:50.son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency. As we
:33:51. > :33:55.pointed out earlier, these e-mails would not have come out if it had
:33:56. > :33:57.not been for the New York Times investigation. Prosecutors have been
:33:58. > :34:03.asking for these contacts, these meetings earlier. I take the point
:34:04. > :34:07.Matthew is making. Maybe there wasn't a plan from the Kremlin in
:34:08. > :34:12.this particular direction. The point is, and this is surely the uppermost
:34:13. > :34:15.point of this story, is that he was prepared to go along with it
:34:16. > :34:19.thinking the information was coming from Russia. It doesn't matter what
:34:20. > :34:23.information was coming dandelion, or whether he knew who he was meeting
:34:24. > :34:27.or not, he was prepared to go along with it, thinking it was top
:34:28. > :34:33.information coming from Moscow. Surely that is the point? You will
:34:34. > :34:34.hear a lot of -- about the issue of intention in the next few days.
:34:35. > :34:38.Day by day, the Islamic State is being driven out of its strongholds.
:34:39. > :34:41.The Iraqi government declared victory in Mosul yesterday,
:34:42. > :34:44.though the United Nations believes there are some 3000 civilians
:34:45. > :34:49.trapped in areas still held by the militants.
:34:50. > :34:52.With that push in Mosul the next target is Raqqa in Syria.
:34:53. > :34:56.Gabriel Gatehouse, along with cameraman Fred Scot
:34:57. > :35:06.and producer Peter Emmerson, have been with them on the front line.
:35:07. > :35:19.In Raqqa, Islamic State is making its final stand. Fighting their way
:35:20. > :35:23.into the heart of the caliphate, a fragile coalition of power is great
:35:24. > :35:33.and small, of Arabs and Kurds, of men and women. This woman is in
:35:34. > :35:39.command of a thousand fighters on the Raqqa front line. Together,
:35:40. > :35:45.these men and women make up the Syrian Democratic Force is, STF. An
:35:46. > :35:55.alliance that includes Arabs but is led by the Kurds. Their success
:35:56. > :36:00.against IS has come in no small part to backing from the United States.
:36:01. > :36:06.The Americans have quietly built a presence on the ground, providing
:36:07. > :36:10.weapons, training and firepower. The commander and her unit on the
:36:11. > :36:14.Western Front. It is a tight squeeze inside a home-made armoured truck
:36:15. > :36:22.with a couple of firefighters driving towards the centre of Raqqa.
:36:23. > :36:34.Islamic State are supposed to be surrounded inside the old city. But
:36:35. > :36:45.IS have dug tunnels. And they frequently pop up you don't expect
:36:46. > :36:53.them. These fighters are coming up against IS fighters in all of these
:36:54. > :36:57.streets. They have got drones, they -- this is going to be a hard fight
:36:58. > :37:04.into the centre of Raqqa. Inching their way into the city, house by
:37:05. > :37:10.house, the fighters are so close they can hear IS in the building
:37:11. > :37:14.across the street. This is of course a battle for territory. They are
:37:15. > :37:19.fighting to retake the capital of the caliphate. Has something
:37:20. > :37:27.happened? Everybody is springing into action. They think they have
:37:28. > :37:36.got some Isis snipers in the buildings around.
:37:37. > :37:42.What is going on? They are moving here. They now face
:37:43. > :37:50.Islamic State at perhaps their most dangerous. Wounded, cornered and
:37:51. > :37:57.with nothing left to lose. But the fall of IS is inside. -- in sight.
:37:58. > :37:59.So what happens next to Islamic State?
:38:00. > :38:02.Joining us is James Jeffrey, who is a former US ambassador to Iraq.
:38:03. > :38:04.He also served as deputy national security advisor under
:38:05. > :38:17.Ambassador Jeffrey, what happens to Islamic State fighters, both from
:38:18. > :38:24.Iraq and Syria, who haven't been captured or killed? There will be
:38:25. > :38:32.some. There will be some. A few will try to generate a gorilla campaign
:38:33. > :38:37.against whatever the authorities are in Iraq and particularly Syria. We
:38:38. > :38:49.saw Visinia rack in 2010, 2011. There weren't many but they can
:38:50. > :38:52.strike from time to time. There will be very stringent controls on
:38:53. > :38:59.letting these people back to their homes. There already are in places
:39:00. > :39:02.like Tunisia. What would your advice be to the Trump administration and
:39:03. > :39:09.the coalition forces in the region, to try to make sure that Isis 2.0
:39:10. > :39:13.doesn't re-emerge? That is a really great question and it is what people
:39:14. > :39:16.are focused on. This is a huge victory we are seeing unfold in
:39:17. > :39:25.Mosul and in the days and weeks ahead it is the destruction of
:39:26. > :39:30.Islamic State, the first since the downfall of the Taliban in 2001.
:39:31. > :39:35.However, we have Isis in the state it was from 2014 to 2017 because of
:39:36. > :39:42.Iran's intervention in Iraq and Syria. Supporting its clients,
:39:43. > :39:51.particularly President Assad, but also some of the Shia politicians in
:39:52. > :39:54.Iraq. And Isis... We have to avoid that happening again. Iran is the
:39:55. > :39:58.next big issue that the Trump administration is going to have to
:39:59. > :40:02.tackle. It is not ready to do it yet because it has been preoccupied
:40:03. > :40:07.understandably with Isis. It seems to me that the United States sees a
:40:08. > :40:12.friend in the Prime Minister, someone they can work with. He is
:40:13. > :40:16.already on record as saying they need a federalism in Iraq that works
:40:17. > :40:20.for the Sunnis and the Kurds. When it comes to Mosul, that is tricky.
:40:21. > :40:24.It is a city were all others different societies are present. How
:40:25. > :40:30.do you command a city like Mosul and give these communities faith that
:40:31. > :40:33.their interests are being upheld? There is a standard that we have
:40:34. > :40:40.learned in many conflicts. I think of Sarajevo in Bosnia. It requires
:40:41. > :40:46.strong international engagement. You have that with the American led
:40:47. > :40:49.coalition right now. It requires the kind of bottom up reconciliation
:40:50. > :40:55.that we have seen in some areas of Iraq that have been retaken by Isis.
:40:56. > :40:58.But the underlying problem is, and we saw Visinia rack and we have seen
:40:59. > :41:04.it in Afghanistan, if you cannot control the big politics of the
:41:05. > :41:07.region, neighbours such as Iran, Pakistan, no matter what you try to
:41:08. > :41:21.do on the ground, falls apart. We have to deal with Iran's influence
:41:22. > :41:23.in Iraq. James Jeffrey, thank you. Politics, too much of it. Time for
:41:24. > :41:24.some sport. Paris and Los Angeles
:41:25. > :41:26.will be the next hosts In an unusual move, both cities
:41:27. > :41:31.will be officially awarded the 2024 All the other contenders
:41:32. > :41:36.pulled out of the race. But the question remains -
:41:37. > :41:41.who'll host the games first? Emmanuel Macron has put himself
:41:42. > :41:50.front and centre of the Paris bid. It is him again. He makes me feel
:41:51. > :41:53.inadequate. Here he is last month,
:41:54. > :41:56.boxing in Paris as part of events He is only four years younger than
:41:57. > :42:04.me. I hate him! He's also been in Switzerland -
:42:05. > :42:08.as has the mayor of Los Angeles, with gold medal sprinters
:42:09. > :42:16.Allyson Felix and Michael Johnson. Donald Trump has got into this,
:42:17. > :42:21.hasn't he? Yes. Surprise, surprise he is rooting for Los Angeles. He
:42:22. > :42:27.has got this fancy dinner with lobster, which I think he hates.
:42:28. > :42:30.They are meant to be celebrating Bastille Day. It is going to be
:42:31. > :42:36.about the Olympics and who wins. Donald Trump likes to win. Emanuel
:42:37. > :42:40.Macron likes to win. I was looking at this dinner. It is at the jewels
:42:41. > :42:47.were -- Jules Verne restaurant in Paris. No other guests. It has been
:42:48. > :42:51.closed to all other guests. It is just Emmanuel Macron and Donald
:42:52. > :42:54.Trump. They will dine on blue lobster and caviar, among other
:42:55. > :43:01.delicacies. Does the President like blue lobster? No. He likes a stake
:43:02. > :43:05.and he likes it well done. Otherwise he likes diet Coke. This is not his
:43:06. > :43:08.kind of dinner. I could always sit in.