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Tonight at Ten, Theresa May carries out a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
seeking a clear break with the Cameron years. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
It's a brutal reshuffle, Mrs May, isn't it? | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
The new Prime Minister spent her first full day in office | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
assembling her new Cabinet team and wasted no time in making | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Among those getting prominent roles are Justine Greening at Education, | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
Liz Truss at Justice, and the former leadership candidate | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
And there are ten leaving the Cabinet, including Michael Gove, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
Nicky Morgan and John Whittingdale, as Mrs May shakes up Whitehall. | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
Thank you very much, everybody. BOOING. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
There were boos for Boris on the Foreign Secretary's | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
first official engagement at the French Embassy in London. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
It's inevitable that there's going to be a certain amount of plaster | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
coming off the ceiling in the chancelleries of Europe. | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
It wasn't the result that they were expecting | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
and clearly they are making their views known. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And despite the Brexit concerns, the Bank of England decides to hold | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
And the other main stories on tonight's programme: | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
Out on patrol - we report on policing in the US - | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
in the aftermath of protests over the killing of black men. | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
The yellow jersey is running up the Tour de France! | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
And trouble at the Tour de France - why Britain's Chris Froome was left | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Mickelson makes history on day | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
He shoots an eight under par 63, the joint lowest | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Good evening from Downing Street, where Theresa May has sought to make | :01:52. | :02:17. | |
a clean break with the Cameron years by making sweeping | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
No fewer than ten of Mr Cameron's top team have left including | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
George Osborne, Michael Gove, John Whittingdale and Nicky Morgan. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Throughout the day there's been a constant flow of ministers | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
arriving at Number Ten, including Andrea Leadsom, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
the former leadership contender, who enters the Cabinet | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
And as our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Theresa May has carried out a much more extensive - some say brutal - | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Flowers on a day of congratulation, but commiserations too. | :02:47. | :02:57. | |
The busiest people in Westminster today were the florists. | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
But the Prime Minister was cracking on. | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Arriving for maybe her biggest job - getting her team right. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
It's not like they even get a job interview. | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
Like Liz Truss, they turn up to find out what they've got. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
A cosy chat in Number Ten, then in her case they walk out | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
as the new Secretary of State for Justice. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Or like Justine Greening, you walk in with one Cabinet post | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
My perfect job, she said, heading straight to her new department. | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
Are you looking forward to a new position? | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
I am, I'm absolutely delighted and looking forward | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
No time to waste with new responsibilities | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
for universities and apprenticeships too. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Imagine being Damian Green, a senior MP walking up Whitehall | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
hoping but not really knowing if you're | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
Half an hour later, in charge of the Department | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
for Work and Pensions, leaving in a minister's car. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
But a politician who's had few doubts about his suitability | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
for high office was enjoying his first day. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
It's been a very busy first day for me here at the Foreign Office | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
and it began really with a big speech to about several | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
I set out what we need to be doing and what we need to be focusing on, | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
and that is reshaping Britain's global profile and identity | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Philip Hammond is the Chancellor, essentially the number two. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
Amber Rudd is the new Home Secretary. | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Euro-sceptic Andrea Leadsom, who quit the leadership race just | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
days ago, moves into the Cabinet in charge of Rural Affairs. | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
After some confusion over his role, Jeremy Hunt stays at Health. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Priti Patel, also part of the Out campaign, | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
is promoted to DFID, the Department that | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
And Chris Grayling, who ran the Prime Minister's | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
leadership campaign, is now in charge at Transport. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Today's losers did not have to face the Downing Street walk of shame. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Theresa May told some colleagues in the privacy of the Commons | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
There are more than a few tweaks around the edges. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
George Osborne, the Chancellor for six years, is out, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Michael Gove, his controversial friend, was also shown the door, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
and Nicky Morgan, who backed him to be the leader, met the same fate. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Oliver Letwin, one of David Cameron's thinkers, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
is out as well, along with John Whittingdale, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
the old Culture Secretary, and Stephen Crabb, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
This is way more than the usual comings and goings of | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
This feels more like a whole new government. | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Theresa May has taken big, bold decisions and there's been | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
a no-nonsense clear out of some of the politicians who were seen | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
by some as a clique around David Cameron and George Osborne. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
And some of the same controversies and problems too. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
But the government looks different, very different, and under | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Theresa May what some ministers do will be different too. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
There won't be a budget within weeks now, as George Osborne had | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
We don't see any need for an emergency budget | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
I expect to make an Autumn Statement in the usual way, having spent | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the summer studying the effect on the economy so far, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
looking at our plan for the future, consulting with the experts, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
starting with the Governor of the Bank of England this morning. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Remember these changes are all within the same | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
The same side is still in charge, but the new Prime Minister | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
wants a clean break, maybe clearing old resentments | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Don't forget, these jobs really do matter. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster. | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
Theresa May's new line-up has not been universally welcomed in other | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
The President of the European Parliament, Martin Shulz, | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
said the EU would 'work constructively' with the new British | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
government, but he accused Mrs May of putting party unity ahead | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
The French Foreign Minister was rather more forthright, | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
accusing Boris Johnson of peddling lies during the referendum campaign, | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
as our deputy political editor John Pienaar reports. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The first full day as Foreign Secretary and a few friendly words | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
Not exactly an angry demo - they seemed to quite like | :07:43. | :07:57. | |
him, but foreign secretaries aren't supposed to be booed | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
What would you say to those who are unhappy about you being | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
The start of the day was not perfect either. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Best say nothing, but where was his ministerial car? | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
He lost his way when he was after the leadership. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Now, to the surprise of many, he's finally | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
in charge of quiet British diplomacy. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
After a career strewn with colourful outbursts and more than a few | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
gaffes. Around the world there's been some amusement and quite a lot | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
of shock. On Twitter, the former Swedish leader thought it was a | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
joke, the former Belgian Prime Minister did as well. British humour | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
has no borders, he wrote. Australia sent good wishes to a good friend, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
but others in France and Germany were less friendly. And Martin | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
Shulz, president of the European Parliament, as described the Cabinet | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
reshuffle which made Mr Johnson Foreign Secretary, as part of a | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
dangerously vicious cycle since the vote to quit the EU. The criticism | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
had come pouring down. French Foreign Minister said in an | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
interview the new Foreign Secretary had told a lot of lies about the EU. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
After a boat like the referendum result on June the 23rd, it's | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
inevitable there will be a certain amount of plaster coming off the | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
ceiling in the chancelleries of Europe. It wasn't the result they | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
were expecting and clearly they are making their views known in a frank | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
and freeway. I have to say that the gentleman that you mentioned, the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
French Foreign Minister, in fact has sent me a charming letter just a | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
couple of hours ago, saying how much he looked forward to working | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
together. Here in the UK, this was the reaction of one of Labour's | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
leadership challengers. They've just made him Foreign Secretary? In | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
America they know about Boris Johnson's way with words. He | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
compared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to a sadistic nurse | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
in a mental hospital and during President Obama's British visit he | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
wrote about what he called the part Kenyan's president Aslan -- | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
ancestral dislike of the British Empire. In Washington, which also | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
took the losing side in the campaign against the EU, a State Department's | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
face spoke volumes. It's been announced as Boris Johnson. How do | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
you think... That's better. We are always going to be able to work with | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
the British, no matter who is occupying the role of Foreign | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Secretary. Boris Jensen addressed is new stuff today looking the part, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
that's what diplomacy is about sometimes. Colleagues say he has the | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
talent and brains for the job, but he will have to get used to being a | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
little less Pienaar, BBC News. The man who replaced George Osborne | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, says the outcome | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
of the referendum has had a 'chilling effect' | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
on the British economy. But he insisted that the government | :10:52. | :10:52. | |
would do whatever was needed During the day the Bank of England | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
surprised the financial markets by keeping interest rates on hold | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
at 0.5% despite hints that a cut was on the cards, | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
as our economics editor He was the future once - | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
George Osborne, and austerity budget, after austerity budget, | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
a plan that has been religiously Today the new man, Philip Hammond, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
and a change of tone - out goes the language of cuts | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
and deficits and in comes the language of reassurance | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
and an economy that works, And on tax, a big message: | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Increasing taxes is not the way to support the economy, | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
to maintain consumer that we keep on growing our | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
economy in the future. If there is one thing that people | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
in this country will want to focus on it is making sure | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
that the investment in our future continues, | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
and the jobs that investment creates The question on everyone's lips: | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
What is Philip Hammond's agenda? On taxes, as we heard, | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
he signalled a keenness, On borrowing, the deficit reduction | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
target has been abandoned. And on trade with Europe, | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Mr Hammond insisted that Britain Big decisions are ready | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
for take-off, on airport expansion Mr Hammond stayed neutral | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
on a decision that has On a new nuclear power | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
station at Hinkley Point, the Chancellor was warmer, | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
backing the project. There is no better signal than being | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
open for business at the moment We would like to see | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
the aviation capacity The Davis commission | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
recommended Heathrow, The other big project we would love | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
to see taken forward is HS2. It puts a spine up the middle | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
of the country and also bring growth to regions of the UK, | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
so let's get on with it. Not getting on with it, | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
the Bank of England, which held interest rates at 0.5%, | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
despite worries that The Bank of England certainly | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
surprised the markets and a lot of economists when they said today | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
they wouldn't be cutting interest rates to help stimulate the economy, | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
well, not yet anyway. I think that makes | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
an important point - that it is not the governor of this | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
place who is most vital of the travel of UK economy - | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
that job is down to the new Prime Minister, | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the new Chancellor, their policies will play a much | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
more significant role. We won't know those details | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
until the Autumn Statement, Economists say speed | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
is now the essence. Businesses are waiting | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
for the Government to provide some clarity on how it is going | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
to support the economy, how it is going to affect | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
their plans, and waiting until the Autumn Statement may be | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
a bit too long. The bank did warn the housing market | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
and consumer confidence have It said it was ready to cut interest | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
rates next month if necessary. Whether it feels the need may depend | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
in part on how far Mr Hammond is keeping his side of the bargain | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
on boosting Britain's economy. Today's Cabinet reshuffle | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
could signal a very different approach in some key policy areas, | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
including Justice and Transport So let's ask three of my colleagues | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
to outline the task ahead in those departments, | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
and we'll start our health editor Hugh Pym at St Thomas' | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
Hospital in central London. Yes, there was some confusion over | :14:30. | :14:42. | |
health policy earlier today, with reports the Health Secretary Jeremy | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
Hunt was moving on. Then it was confirmed he was staying in post. So | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
he will press on with his existing priorities. First of all imposing a | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
contract on junior doctors in England, he had reached agreement | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
with the British Medical Association but the members voted against, so | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
were lamenting it may not be straightforward. There is the bigger | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
picture of NHS finances, with warnings some hospitals and other | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
trusts may struggle on their budget and maintain safe standards of care. | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
Longer term, the government is committed to a seven-day NHS in | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
England. It's been made clear that is a manifesto commitment so the new | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Prime Minister still sees it as a priority. Mr Hunt has always made | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
clear he loves his job, but he knows it's tough and it could yet get | :15:24. | :15:25. | |
tougher still. The new Justice Secretary and the | :15:26. | :15:38. | |
first female lord Lord Chancellor, Elizabeth Truss has two decisions to | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
make, to press ahead with the prisons' bill, the bill that gave | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
prison governors more control, more education, rehabilitation, that was | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
the brainchild of her predecessor, Michael Gove. It was in the Queen's | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Speech two months ago but Theresa May is known to have a traditional | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
view of prince, should that bill be abandoned? Secondly, the plans to | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
replace the human rights act with a British bill of rights in the | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Conservative election manifesto. But not much happened on it since. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Elizabeth Truss is known to be a fan of the idea. Should the plans be | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
speeded up. We have been trying to get answers to the questions. Her | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
office have not been able to give us clues, perhaps as they are still | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
trying to work out what the answers are. | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
And Chris Grayling comes to the department of transport when the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
decisions depend on two pieces of national transport infrastructure. | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
The high-speed rail link between London and the north of England. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
That vote could kick-start construction on what could be one of | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
the biggest engineering projects in Europe. Then of course there is the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
controversial issue of airport expansion in the south of England. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
The Government committed to airport expansion last year, last year, the | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
airport commission recommendeded a third runway at Heathrow Airport but | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Boris Johnson does not like that idea. As for Philip Hammond and | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Theresa May, their thoughts are nor nuanced but they both have | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
constituencies close to the Heathrow flight path. | :17:17. | :17:27. | |
Thank you very much. Well | :17:28. | :17:27. | |
The head of the high street retailer Next, Lord Wolfson, | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
who supported the Leave campaign, has told the BBC that big falls | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
in immigration would be dangerous for the economy. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
He also said he would not be reducing investment in his business. | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Three weeks after the referendum our business editor Simon Jack has | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
been to Stoke on Trent, an area that voted to leave, | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
After the intense heat of the European referendum, | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
no city in the UK emerged with more hardened resolve | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
70% of voters wanted a break with the European Union. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
That level of certainty at the ballot box has led | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
to uncertainty for one of its most famous businesses. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Pottery maker Portmeirion has said it will cut | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
It's the uncertainty within the consumer's mind | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
that is making the retailers think, how much stock should we order? | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
And with the retailers wondering how much stock to order, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
we have to be very careful we don't just make stock to add it to stock. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
We are having to pull back just a little bit on our | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
The Bank of England has described the vote to leave | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
You might think of it as a punch on the nose which hasn't | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
started hurting yet, and some would say the governor has | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
been acting and talking as if an economic downturn | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
is imminent or even underway, and yet 70% of people here in Stoke | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
got exactly what they wanted, and many will see this as a reason | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
I did vote to stay in, but obviously with the majority | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
vote voting to go out, there is nothing we can do now, | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
so we just have to sit back and see what happens, really. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
I think it is what it is - the people have spoken, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
so let's just try and jump with the opportunity | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
Come back in 12 months and see, and we'll be there. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
You are confident we will be better off? | :19:05. | :19:22. | |
I voted to come out, and I can't wait for it to happen. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
The boss of one of Britain's's biggest retailers is also confident. | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
I think, as with all these things, they are always slightly overdone | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
in the media and I think most people are sort | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
I suspect the devaluation of the pound will be much more | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
of a boost to British manufacturing than people are expecting. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
But he is concerned that sharp cuts to immigration could harm | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
the economy and reject the notion that the referendum result makes | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
I voted leave and I certainly would feel betrayed if immigration is not | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
I think it would be very dangerous to bring immigration | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
down to those levels, and I don't think that the majority | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
of people who voted Leave are the sort of bigots London has | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
of people who voted Leave are the sort of bigots that London has | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
Actually people want control of their borders, | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
but they don't necessarily want all immigration to stop. | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
That might be true, but here in the Potteries | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
and elsewhere, many Leave voters hope to combine two things - | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
brighter economic prospects and much lower immigration. | :20:16. | :20:16. | |
Simon Jack, BBC News, Stoke-on-Trent. | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is with me. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Can we talk about how the Government will manage the Brexit process. | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
Split between three Cabinet ministers, how do we do that? Nobody | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
knows that answer. They are all charged with dealing with the | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
difficult, probably the most difficult question for Theresa May | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
as a Government, how to go about leaving the European Union. It is | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
not just a blank page in terms of how the process will work but also a | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
blank page in how the three men are expected to work together? Will | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
there be a pecking order? Or report to Theresa May? How does it work, | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
does Liam Fox report to Beijing. Brussels? It is unclear. It feels a | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
risky situation. All three men are strong characters, all three are | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
fond of expressing their views and all three are hard to plaquate. In | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
terms of the other union, the union between Scotland and the rest of the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
UK, yesterday, Theresa May stood there and it was almost the first | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
thing she mentioned in the speech. She is clearly making it a priority | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
as the first visit tomorrow as the Prime Minister is tomorrow to head | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
to Edinburgh to have a meeting with Nicola Sturgeon the First Minister | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
there. Clearly that shows she means | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
business. So, what has happened in the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
meantime to make us more confident about the sense of Theresa May as | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Prime Minister? We have had big pieces of the jigsaw there. Are | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
three main things that she has done. Firstly, she has efficiently, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
clinically, some may say brutally cleared out, a group of people seen | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
around David Cameron or George Osborne. They are gone, off to the | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
back benches. So there will be big characters, experienced voices and | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
that may be a benefit, compelled be a risk. Secondly, there are places | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
around the Cabinet table for the quiet grafters, people who have | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
worked hard, done their jobs lower down in parts of the government or | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
the Cabinet, rewarded for loyalty or hard work but that means too around | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
the Cabinet table and in public life there will be fewer characterful | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
voices speaking from the Cabinet. But maybe that tells us that Theresa | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
May is interested in controlling what is going on. And thirdly, if a | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
lot of people were to think that Theresa May was to be cautious, it | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
would be about continue youity, she has pretty much dismantled three | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
government departments, taking bits from others and mixing them up, | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
notably, the department for energy and climate change. That has meant | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
that some in the environmental world, it has sent alarm bells | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
ringing for some people. But overall, the sense of Theresa May | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
was of somebody most interested in stability, most interested in being | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
a safe pair of hands and actually, the strongest message we have had | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
from inside Number Ten, is that she wants to draw a line under the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Cameron era, she sees this time as her own. | :23:44. | :23:44. | |
That's it from Downing Street this evening. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
A lot of ministerial changes today, so a quick reminder that | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
you can follow all the news of Mrs May's Cabinet along | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
with reaction and analysis on the BBC News website. | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
And with that it's time to join Reeta for the day's | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Philando Castile, | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
who was shot dead by police in the US state of | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
The killing led to protests and nights of violence | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
Policing in America is now being sharply questioned - | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
after a series of deaths of African-Americans | :24:22. | :24:22. | |
Our North America Editor Jon Sopel went out on patrol with police | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
in the city of Frederick in Maryland and he sent this report. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
The other side of policing in America. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
In Frederick, Maryland, a city with its fair share of street | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
gangs and drug problems, officer Deborah Kidwell | :24:46. | :24:46. | |
has gone to the park to meet local youngsters. | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
She comes bearing gifts, but the first question | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
this little one asks is, "Do you wear a gun?" | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
Just in case, just in case I need it. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
All they think is that we lock people up and we shoot people, | :25:05. | :25:18. | |
They don't seem to understand that the majority of | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
what we actually do is to help people. | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
I mean, have there been too many shootings? | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
Policing in the US is under intense scrutiny, and the president has been | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
at the forefront of saying things have to change. | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
The police force here is seen as something of a role model | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
in the way it engages with the community. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
A storm comes in, and one of the sources of rumbling | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
discontent in Frederick and across the country is the ethnic | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
Here, it is 87% white and the chief is desperately trying to change | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
To attract minority candidates we are having a difficult time, | :25:55. | :26:07. | |
just like every other law enforcement agency | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
Every community meeting I go to, I usually talk about recruiting. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
You know, if you know somebody, yourself or maybe a family member | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
that could be interested in this job, have them come on in. | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
I need you to turn around and put your hands behind your back. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Back at the apartment after a long wait, the partner returns home | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
The woman put into sheltered accommodation. | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
This is the mundane face of nearly all policing in the United States, | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
It is the 0.1% of cases where lethal force is deployed that is doing such | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
damage to the reputation of the police and race relations. | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
There is definitely a lot of mistrust, so I think that, | :26:47. | :26:57. | |
you know, it is really important to get out there and to show people | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
that we are not just a uniform, that we are human beings behind | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
the badge, with families and caring, and you know that what we are doing | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
is actually out here, because we all want to help. | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
Jon Sopel, BBC News, Frederick, Maryland. | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
There are reports of an incident taking place in Nice in France, | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
where they are celebrating Bastille Day where there have been fireworks. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
These people are Football League the scene. A vehicle has ploughed into | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the crowd. Eyewitnesses reported that there are several people lying | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
Donald Trump, the Republican candidate in the US | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
presidential election is reported to have chosen a member | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
of his party's right-wing Tea Party movement as his running mate. | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
The Trump campaign hopes that Mike Pence, who's | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
governor of Indiana, will help to attract socially | :27:57. | :27:58. | |
The mother of a 13-month-old girl who was sexually abused | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
by her father before her death has said she is "angry and disappointed" | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
at a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 - | :28:14. | :28:15. | |
after being found with serious injuries at her home | :28:16. | :28:17. | |
The CPS said this morning there was "insufficient evidence | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
to provide a realistic prospect of conviction". | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
Prince Harry has been tested for HIV in a bid to raise awareness - | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
and to encourage others to do the same. | :28:33. | :28:34. | |
According to the latest figures there are thought to be around | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
18,000 people who are unaware that they have the virus. | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
Prince Harry said he took the step of being publicly tested to help | :28:41. | :28:54. | |
Prince Harry, who tested negative, said he took the step | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
of being publicly tested to help | :28:58. | :28:58. | |
At least 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone | :28:59. | :29:06. | |
It's a practice now being described by the United | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
Kenya is one of the countries most affected - one in five | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
between the ages of 14 and 49 have been cut. | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
Our Global Health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has been to Kenya | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
as it works to eradicate the practice. | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
A warning, the piece contains a graphic description of FGM. | :29:21. | :29:22. | |
Determined and brave, most of these girls ran away from home | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
because they were about to be mutilated or forced to marry. | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
In some tribes the tradition, where parts of a girl's vagina | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
are removed, marks the point a girl becomes a woman. | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
It happened to this teenager when she was just seven years old. | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
It was all so difficult, you feel like you want to faint, | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
you want to cry, even drowning out that whole... | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
Two years later her father told her she must marry a man in his 60s. | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
All of these girls risked their lives by running away, | :30:05. | :30:13. | |
but here they have a future, they're getting an education | :30:14. | :30:15. | |
and they're no longer at risk of being mutilated, | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
and crucially these girls won't go on to harm their own daughters. | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
Agnes Pareyio, who runs the rescue centre and the school, | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
is trying to stamp out the brutal custom in her ancient | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
She introduced me to women in a nearby village, | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
including a former cutter, who did a demonstration | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
This is the vagina here, so you scrape the side | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
of the vagina, and take off the clitoris here. | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
It emerged the cutting used to happen right where we stood. | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
It's difficult to imagine how terrifying this experience | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
And she's screaming, I guess? | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
Kenya banned female genital mutilation in 2011. | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
The UN's agency for children says young girls are far less | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
likely to be cut today, but old customs die hard. | :31:15. | :31:23. | |
TRANSLATION: This is a tradition that is very important to us, | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
the Masai people, otherwise the girls would want | :31:27. | :31:28. | |
We are not allowed to do it any more, otherwise I would cut my | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
seven-year-old daughter until she bleeds a lot. | :31:34. | :31:40. | |
In these deeply traditional patriarchal communities away | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
from the big cosmopolitan cities, many men still demand that women | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
are cut, but attitudes are changing and these Masai tribe cricketers | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
are helping to lead the charge, refusing to marry any | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
We use it as a way to bring our youth together, | :31:56. | :32:01. | |
to bring the community together, to tell them that female genital | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
In the long run I believe it will have changed society. | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
Definitely it will happen in my lifetime, I know. | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
And you can see and hear more about the issue of FGM across BBC | :32:15. | :32:26. | |
News tomorrow on radio, TV and online. | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
Golf now, and both Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose are well placed | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
following their first rounds at the Open at Royal Troon. | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
McIlroy is on 2-under par and Rose is on 3-under, five shots behind | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
The American had this shot to set the lowest ever first round score | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
He came agonisingly close but had to be satisfied | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
with an 8-under 63 - the joint lowest first round score. | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
England's cricketers have made a steady start to the first test | :32:56. | :32:57. | |
Newcomer Jake Ball took his first wicket - | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
as the visitors were limited to 77 for 3 at one stage. | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
But it was the veteran batsman Misbah Ul Haq who stole the show - | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
hitting a century to help Pakistan recover to 282 for 6 at the close. | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
The 42-year-old became the oldest player to score a century | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
in the modern game - celebrating with some press ups. | :33:19. | :33:23. | |
There have been extraordinary scenes in the Tour de France today | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
where the defending champion, the British cyclist Chris Froome, | :33:27. | :33:28. | |
was forced to abandon his bike and start running up | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
Froome had been knocked off, after a pile-up involving | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks has the story | :33:36. | :33:45. | |
The climbs of Mont Ventoux are intense enough, without having | :33:46. | :33:47. | |
The yellow jersey is running up the Tour de France. | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
But in farcicle scenes, Chris Froome's desperation to retain | :33:53. | :34:00. | |
the lead saw him turn triathlete, running bikeless up the mountain. | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
It may have looked like a crowd-pleaser but Froome | :34:06. | :34:07. | |
was far from pleased with the crowds. | :34:08. | :34:09. | |
And this is why - their desire to get in the faces of the riders, | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
meant a camera bike had to stop suddenly, sending | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
Richie Port and in turn Froome, smashing head first | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
By the time Froome was finally able to grab a useable bike, | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
he had already lost major ground on his rivals. | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
Furiously shaking his head as he crossed the line. | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
But with his dream of a third tour win hanging in the balance, | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
the jury decided that the result shouldn't stand, leaving one very | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
happy Froome to tweet: Still in the yellow jersey. | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
So Froome keeps his lead, then but perhaps not his patience | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
There have been new images coming in on the breaking story happening in | :34:49. | :35:02. | |
Nice in France. Reports that a vehicle drove into the crowds in | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
Nice in France as they celebrate Bastille Day. One news agency has | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
been reporting that a vehicle ploughed into the crowd at the end | :35:12. | :35:17. | |
of the fireworks, and eyewitnesses reported that there were several | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
people believed to be injured lying in the street. | :35:21. | :35:22. |