:00:00. > :00:08.The battle lines are drawn - Jeremy Corbyn will fight
:00:09. > :00:11.Owen Smith for the leadership of the Labour Party.
:00:12. > :00:14.The two men will spend the summer appealing to party members,
:00:15. > :00:17.after Angela Eagle decided to withdraw.
:00:18. > :00:20.I think it's in the best interests of the Labour Party that we now come
:00:21. > :00:22.together so we can have one candidate.
:00:23. > :00:30.So I am announcing tonight that I am withdrawing from this race.
:00:31. > :00:32.For Owen Smith, the former work and pensions spokesman,
:00:33. > :00:35.an MP for just six years, he says it's time to move
:00:36. > :00:41.I can be not just the next Labour leader but a Labour Prime
:00:42. > :00:45.That is what I intend to prove to the country.
:00:46. > :00:50.But Jeremy Corbyn says he's confident that party members
:00:51. > :00:57.We'll be looking at the battle ahead and asking how
:00:58. > :00:59.likely it is that Labour will have a new leader by September.
:01:00. > :01:03.Will all Russian athletes be banned from the Olympics in Rio?
:01:04. > :01:05.The International Olympic Committee says it's seeking legal advice
:01:06. > :01:12.In Turkey, a strong show of support for the president,
:01:13. > :01:17.Thousands more public servants are suspended.
:01:18. > :01:19.A daughter and mother shot dead in Lincolnshire.
:01:20. > :01:25.It's thought the gunman - who also died - was the husband.
:01:26. > :01:30.# We'll keep on fighting to the end.#
:01:31. > :01:32.And at the Republican Convention, it's not Donald Trump
:01:33. > :01:37.making the headlines, it's his wife.
:01:38. > :01:41.British cyclist, Mark Cavendish, pulls out of the Tour de
:01:42. > :01:43.France claiming continuing would have a detrimental
:01:44. > :02:06.effect on his preparations for the Rio Olympics.
:02:07. > :02:10.The contest for the Labour leadership - to take
:02:11. > :02:12.place over the summer - will feature Jeremy Corbyn
:02:13. > :02:16.and Owen Smith, the party's former spokesman on work and pensions.
:02:17. > :02:18.Angela Eagle, who'd been the first to challenge Mr Corbyn,
:02:19. > :02:21.has pulled out of the race, and she's backing Mr Smith,
:02:22. > :02:27.who won the backing of more Labour MPs in a party ballot.
:02:28. > :02:29.Jeremy Corbyn says he's confident of holding on to the job,
:02:30. > :02:32.despite losing the support of most Labour MPs, because party
:02:33. > :02:41.Our political editor Laure Kuenssberg reports.
:02:42. > :02:44.Saving Labour is the slogan, with lefleaters trying to catch
:02:45. > :02:47.you on the evening commute, they now know whose name
:02:48. > :02:55.The man who claims he can stop Labour from disaster not yet well
:02:56. > :02:59.I want to say to all members of the Labour Party tonight,
:03:00. > :03:02.young and old, long-standing and new members, I can be their champion.
:03:03. > :03:06.I am just as fanatical as Jeremy Corbyn.
:03:07. > :03:09.I am just as radical as Jeremy Corbyn.
:03:10. > :03:11.Jeremy deserves our gratitude for helping Labour
:03:12. > :03:13.recover its radical roots but we need a new generation
:03:14. > :03:16.of Labour men and women to take this party forward.
:03:17. > :03:18.Many of those members will say they have someone like that
:03:19. > :03:23.who was chosen overwhelmingly by them, less than 12 months ago.
:03:24. > :03:27.We have now an opportunity, Jeremy and I, to debate the future
:03:28. > :03:36.I will take Jeremy Corbyn on on the issues.
:03:37. > :03:39.I have ideas that can turn the slogans we have had in recent
:03:40. > :03:46.He was a BBC journalist and then a lobbyist for a big
:03:47. > :03:52.Then elected in 2010 as the member for Pontypridd.
:03:53. > :03:55.Before resigning from Jeremy Corbyn's team,
:03:56. > :03:57.he was Shadow Welsh Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State
:03:58. > :04:08.He wants to rewrite Labour's famous clause four of the constitution, to
:04:09. > :04:11.include a specific promise to fight inequality.
:04:12. > :04:14.Just a few weeks ago he said he would not run.
:04:15. > :04:17.Having changed his mind completely it seems...
:04:18. > :04:19.How do you decide between the two of you?
:04:20. > :04:22.He persuaded his colleagues he was a better bet than his rival
:04:23. > :04:26.Angela Eagle was the first to have the guts to challenge
:04:27. > :04:30.Jeremy Corbyn with support from 20 or so your MPs, tonight,
:04:31. > :04:37.We need to have a strong and united Labour Party so we can
:04:38. > :04:40.be a good opposition, take the fight to the Conservative
:04:41. > :04:46.I am announcing tonight that I will be supporting Owen Smith
:04:47. > :04:52.Even with her help and the vast majority of Labour MPs,
:04:53. > :04:54.Owen Smith will have to take this on.
:04:55. > :05:01.Jeremy Corbyn with his huge swell of Labour Party members.
:05:02. > :05:05.For Labour, the last few months have been ugly.
:05:06. > :05:12.The summer contest might be more fraught still.
:05:13. > :05:18.Laura's in Westminster you tonight. How do you rate Mr Smith's chances
:05:19. > :05:22.of beating Mr Corbyn? The reason Angela Eagle dropped out with such
:05:23. > :05:26.dignity, the reason why Owen Smith was very warm about her and dropped
:05:27. > :05:29.heavy hints of having her side by side alongside him during the
:05:30. > :05:33.campaign, is because, finally, some people might say, most Labour MPs
:05:34. > :05:37.have found a way that they actually believe they'll be able to take
:05:38. > :05:46.Jeremy Corbyn on. Not necessarily beat him, but after months of angst,
:05:47. > :05:48.after months of rum beings, unhappiness -- rumblings,
:05:49. > :05:51.unhappiness on the benches, they are united in a contest that is now
:05:52. > :05:55.under way. They know they need to stick together if they have a
:05:56. > :06:00.chance, because they're taking on Jeremy's mountain of support from
:06:01. > :06:03.the membership that he built over the long, hot, last summer and has
:06:04. > :06:07.continued to build in the months since then. If the contest were
:06:08. > :06:11.tomorrow, it's extremely likely that Jeremy Corbyn would hold on. He
:06:12. > :06:16.might even increase his share of the vote. But it's not tomorrow. There
:06:17. > :06:20.are two months of what will be hard campaigning, what may be ugly
:06:21. > :06:23.campaigning, in some circumstances, ahead. If Owen Smith has shown
:06:24. > :06:27.anything in the last couple of weeks, coming almost from nowhere to
:06:28. > :06:31.be the person to take the position as being the challenger, is that he
:06:32. > :06:37.has the energy and he has ambition to give it a very good try. Labour
:06:38. > :06:42.MPs, in a funny way tonight, are relieved that, at least, the path to
:06:43. > :06:46.a contest, after so much confusion and so much unhappiness, is actually
:06:47. > :06:51.now clear and the contest is on. Laura, once again thanks very much.
:06:52. > :06:53.The International Olympic Committee says it's seeking legal advice
:06:54. > :06:55.on whether all Russian competitors should be banned from
:06:56. > :07:00.It follows an independent report, which uncovered a state-run
:07:01. > :07:03.doping programme at the Winter Olympics
:07:04. > :07:08.The IOC has ruled that all Russian athletes who competed in Sochi must
:07:09. > :07:10.now have their samples re-tested for doping, as our sports
:07:11. > :07:24.With little more than two weeks to go until Rio, doping has cast a
:07:25. > :07:29.shadow over sports show piece event. The scathing report into
:07:30. > :07:34.state-sponsored cheating in Russia has led to demands for their banning
:07:35. > :07:36.from the Games. Today the IOC held emergency talks but delayed one of
:07:37. > :07:43.the biggest decisions it's ever faced. We will have to take a very
:07:44. > :07:49.difficult decision, also in legal terms, this is on the one hand,
:07:50. > :07:54.between a collective ban for all Russian athletes and, on the other
:07:55. > :07:59.hand, the natural right to the individual justice for every clean
:08:00. > :08:04.athlete in the world. Russia's track and field team, including the
:08:05. > :08:08.Olympic champion in pole vault, is already banned from Rio. Today she
:08:09. > :08:12.was one of 68 athletes who began an appeal in the court of arbitration
:08:13. > :08:18.for sport. That decision, expected on Thursday, could have a bearing on
:08:19. > :08:21.what the IOC does. Sport's governing bodies may be asked to decide. For
:08:22. > :08:25.now, disciplinary action against Russian officials has begun. The
:08:26. > :08:29.sports minister, barred from attending Rio. Preparations for
:08:30. > :08:34.winter sports events to be staged in Russia have been halted. And all
:08:35. > :08:37.samples given by Russian athletes during the 2014 Sochi Games will be
:08:38. > :08:41.re-analysed, with any cheats named. There's a part of me that worries
:08:42. > :08:45.that the IOC are not strong enough and they don't have a backbone. They
:08:46. > :08:49.will do the least they can possibly get away with. There is another part
:08:50. > :08:57.of me that really hopes that they understand that they made a massive
:08:58. > :09:02.mistakes in the 70s and 80s. At all levels of sport, the Olympics are
:09:03. > :09:07.held up as a unifying force. But the Games find themselves at a
:09:08. > :09:12.cross-roads, with Rio down the track amid the biggest doping scandal in
:09:13. > :09:15.its history, the IOC faces making an unprecedented call with serious
:09:16. > :09:21.political ramifications. Not since the boycotts of the 1980s have the
:09:22. > :09:25.Games been contested without one of its major players, but the risk is
:09:26. > :09:31.that banning Russia could cause serious divisions. This swimming
:09:32. > :09:35.event outside Moscow was supposed to be a final warm up for Russia's
:09:36. > :09:40.Olympic squad, but right now, Rio feels a long way off.
:09:41. > :09:44.TRANSLATION: It's not fair. We train hard. We put in the effort. The
:09:45. > :09:51.decision on whether we go to the Olympics doesn't depend on us. We're
:09:52. > :09:55.really worried. President Putin's portrayed the crisis as politically
:09:56. > :09:59.motivated, but for a leader who's used sport to show case his country,
:10:00. > :10:01.isolation from its grandest stage would be unthinkable. Russia's place
:10:02. > :10:04.in Rio hangs by a thread. The Turkish government has taken
:10:05. > :10:07.more drastic measures in the wake Some 40,000 state employees -
:10:08. > :10:11.including judges and teachers - The decision follows the detention
:10:12. > :10:16.of more than 6,000 soldiers. The government wants
:10:17. > :10:18.the United States to extradite a cleric, Fetullah Gulen,
:10:19. > :10:22.whom it accuses of plotting the coup, though he
:10:23. > :10:26.vehemently denies it. Our special correspondent
:10:27. > :10:28.Fergal Keane looks at what President Erdogan might do next
:10:29. > :10:31.in a country that appears They celebrate the man of the hour
:10:32. > :10:41.and the fall of his enemies, "In this issue of the homeland,
:10:42. > :11:02.we're not going to leave our country to these people,"
:11:03. > :11:13.the president said. But before he could go on, the crowd
:11:14. > :11:16.chanted back: To the president's loyalists, this
:11:17. > :11:29.is a fight for national survival, the purging of the disloyal
:11:30. > :11:35.is described as cleansing. New images of the coup
:11:36. > :11:39.are being broadcast on state television, a reminder to the people
:11:40. > :11:43.of military violence to be avenged, like this air strike
:11:44. > :11:49.on the Presidential Palace. Ahmet Hamdi Ozsarac has known
:11:50. > :11:53.the president for nearly 30 years TRANSLATION: Has this made him
:11:54. > :12:00.stronger? Yes. He is stronger among
:12:01. > :12:03.the people and in the state. Such attempts won't be
:12:04. > :12:06.tried again by anyone The message we have internationally
:12:07. > :12:12.is that despite such an event, a leader who stopped this,
:12:13. > :12:19.with the people, will feel stronger. Turkey feels like a nation turning
:12:20. > :12:22.inward, certainly away from the West, with its criticisms
:12:23. > :12:27.and pleas on human rights. Defiant anti-Western rhetoric
:12:28. > :12:31.is nothing new here, but it has sharpened
:12:32. > :12:34.in the last few days. President Erdogan came close
:12:35. > :12:37.to being overthrown, His backers see Western
:12:38. > :12:43.support for his survival At worst, they see
:12:44. > :12:49.complicity in the coup. Turkey and its military
:12:50. > :12:52.matter hugely to the West, not only as part of the Nato
:12:53. > :12:57.alliance, but also the air campaign The fear is that an escalating
:12:58. > :13:04.crackdown creates more instability. At a time when all around us
:13:05. > :13:10.institutional order has collapsed, in the Middle East in particular,
:13:11. > :13:13.but elsewhere too, that is the most dangerous situation
:13:14. > :13:16.for Turkey to find itself in. We need to rebuild our institutions
:13:17. > :13:19.and rebuild our institutions as in A plural and democratic state
:13:20. > :13:39.feels far away tonight. Live to Istanbul tonight. What is
:13:40. > :13:48.your sense of the next steps that the president might now take? What
:13:49. > :13:53.we know for sure is that the purge will continue. State officials have
:13:54. > :13:57.been alleging the existence of a vast conspiracy, not just involving
:13:58. > :14:03.the military, but judges, academics, all the centres of influence in this
:14:04. > :14:06.society. Now tomorrow the president will chair a meeting the national
:14:07. > :14:09.Security Council. He says he will announce something very important
:14:10. > :14:12.after that. Could that mean increased security powers by this
:14:13. > :14:18.time tomorrow night, we'll know for sure. That won't go down well in the
:14:19. > :14:21.West. Remember, the United States needs Turkish territory to launch
:14:22. > :14:25.its air strikes against the so-called Islamic State in Syria and
:14:26. > :14:31.the EU needs Turkish cooperation in order to stop refugees using Turkish
:14:32. > :14:38.soil to reach Europe. So any European response is likely to be
:14:39. > :14:39.largely retorical. Thanks very much. Our special correspondent there in
:14:40. > :14:41.Istanbul tonight. The group which calls
:14:42. > :14:43.itself Islamic State has posted a video online,
:14:44. > :14:46.showing a teenager claimed to be the Afghan refugee,
:14:47. > :14:49.who attacked passengers with an axe The person on the video
:14:50. > :14:54.is heard promising to carry Police have already said
:14:55. > :14:59.they found a homemade flag of the so-called Islamic State
:15:00. > :15:01.in the 17-year-old's room. Five people were injured,
:15:02. > :15:03.two of them seriously, in the attack near the southern
:15:04. > :15:05.city of Wurzburg. Our correspondent Tom Burridge sent
:15:06. > :15:17.this report from Bavaria. One witness compared the scene
:15:18. > :15:19.afterwards to a slaughterhouse. A 17-year-old refugee apparently
:15:20. > :15:22.from Afghanistan, who arrived in Germany without his parents,
:15:23. > :15:24.attacked several passengers on a moving train with
:15:25. > :15:29.an axe and a knife. The teenager was shot dead by police
:15:30. > :15:33.as he ran from the train. Today, the attacker's body
:15:34. > :15:36.was taken from the scene, he'd spent the last two
:15:37. > :15:39.weeks in a foster home. In his bedroom, police found
:15:40. > :15:41.evidence linking him TRANSLATION: A hand drawn IS flag
:15:42. > :15:50.was found in the perpetrator's room Police are investigating this
:15:51. > :15:56.evidence pointing to There is currently no knowledge
:15:57. > :16:01.of links to other suspects. The so-called Islamic State
:16:02. > :16:03.published this video, In a statement, the group claimed
:16:04. > :16:13.responsibility, but the authorities in Bavaria said there was no
:16:14. > :16:15.evidence that the boy was directed The 17-year-old spent much
:16:16. > :16:21.of the past two years at this migration centre for
:16:22. > :16:23.unaccompanied minors. 14,000 children came here to Germany
:16:24. > :16:28.last year without their parents. Last night's violent attack by one
:16:29. > :16:31.teenager will focus minds on how to protect others from extremist
:16:32. > :16:40.ideology and propaganda. Tonight, a small demonstration
:16:41. > :16:42.at the local train station The actions of one teenager
:16:43. > :16:49.will intensify the debate. What are the implications of last
:16:50. > :16:51.year's open door migration policy for security
:16:52. > :16:53.across this country? Downing Street has insisted that
:16:54. > :17:09.reducing net migration to tens of thousands a year
:17:10. > :17:13.remains a target. The statement came after
:17:14. > :17:16.the new Home Secretary, to be drawn on specific figures
:17:17. > :17:23.and said the Government was committed to bringing migration
:17:24. > :17:26.down to "sustainable levels." The International Monetary Fund says
:17:27. > :17:28.the British referendum vote to leave the EU has depressed
:17:29. > :17:30.the world economic outlook. In a new report, the IMF has
:17:31. > :17:33.lowered its forecast for global growth to 3.1% and its prediction
:17:34. > :17:36.for the UK economy is even more But as our economics editor,
:17:37. > :17:43.Kamal Ahmed, reports the IMF didn't forecast a recession in the UK
:17:44. > :17:46.despite the strong warnings it gave Nearly a month ago and scenes
:17:47. > :17:53.of jubilation, contrasted with scenes of despair,
:17:54. > :17:55.as Britain voted to leave Britain left hanging on the end
:17:56. > :18:01.of the line, as investors feared Today, a little less gloomy
:18:02. > :18:21.from Maurice Obstfeld, We saw financial markets fall out of
:18:22. > :18:25.bed. You might have worried they would have knock-on effects. Some
:18:26. > :18:37.might have seized up, market could have become disorderly. That didn't
:18:38. > :18:41.happen. You have said that Britain will grow, yes, a significant
:18:42. > :18:44.downgrade will grow faster than Germany, faster than France, faster
:18:45. > :18:49.than Italy next year. Do you worry that some people might accuse you of
:18:50. > :18:54.scaremongering? I think losing, you know, more than a percentage point
:18:55. > :18:57.off of growth for the next two years is not a good thing. I think that's
:18:58. > :19:05.a pretty bad outcome. Now since the referendum,
:19:06. > :19:08.we have been able to follow two key economic indicators,
:19:09. > :19:10.sterling and the stock market. On the day of the vote,
:19:11. > :19:13.the pound hit $1.50, as the markets gambled the UK
:19:14. > :19:17.would vote to remain. When the result became clear,
:19:18. > :19:24.we saw a massive drop, down to $1.28 over fears
:19:25. > :19:27.of an economic slowdown in the UK. Since then, it's gone a little
:19:28. > :19:33.stronger, up to $1.31. Some political stability has
:19:34. > :19:35.returned and the Bank of England has made it clear it
:19:36. > :19:37.will support the economy. Let's take the FTSE 250
:19:38. > :19:41.of leading UK companies, a pretty good barometer
:19:42. > :19:50.of the economy. Again, the FTSE 250 hit a 2016 high
:19:51. > :19:54.of 17,277 on the day of the vote. This was followed by a huge drop
:19:55. > :19:57.and quite a big amount of volatility, as uncertainty
:19:58. > :20:00.gripped the markets. Now it's back up to
:20:01. > :20:08.nearly 17,000 again. Many companies that export,
:20:09. > :20:10.for example, are helped There's clarity about
:20:11. > :20:15.the politics and about policy. Also financial markets have
:20:16. > :20:18.proved very resilient. The biggest danger is that we talk
:20:19. > :20:20.ourselves into a self-fulfilling downturn, but as long
:20:21. > :20:27.as we don't do, that I think we should be confident
:20:28. > :20:29.about pulling through this. The effects of the vote on June
:20:30. > :20:32.23 are still working Whether it will be tears or some
:20:33. > :20:36.hearty cheers remains to be seen. Lincolnshire Police say three people
:20:37. > :20:46.killed in a shooting near a swimming pool earlier today were all known
:20:47. > :20:49.to each other. The man and two women died
:20:50. > :20:51.outside the leisure centre The police are not looking
:20:52. > :20:55.for anyone else in connection Our correspondent, Danny Savage,
:20:56. > :21:02.has sent this report. A leisure centre car park
:21:03. > :21:04.in a Lincolnshire town centre which, just after 9.00am this morning,
:21:05. > :21:07.became a murder scene. This is where local people say a man
:21:08. > :21:10.shot dead his wife and daughter The BBC understands the two women
:21:11. > :21:20.who died were 19-year-old Charlotte Hart and her mother
:21:21. > :21:22.Claire Hart, who was 50. The man involved was
:21:23. > :21:29.57-year-old Lance Hart. Many local people
:21:30. > :21:31.heard the commotion. The first two were
:21:32. > :21:34.a few seconds apart. The third one was slightly longer,
:21:35. > :21:38.several seconds apart. They sounded to me a bit
:21:39. > :21:41.like shotguns, but again that wasn't sinister because there is a gun
:21:42. > :21:50.maker in the town and he tests guns. As 999 calls came in,
:21:51. > :21:52.paramedics were told to approach Police soon said there was no
:21:53. > :21:59.indication it was terrorist related. Late this afternoon,
:22:00. > :22:02.they gave more details. CPR was attempted on both women,
:22:03. > :22:05.but I'm sad to report that both We believe a shotgun was involved
:22:06. > :22:10.in the incident and are currently investigating the circumstances
:22:11. > :22:17.of this tragic incident. During the day a house,
:22:18. > :22:19.believed to be the family home, Neighbours say Lance and Claire Hart
:22:20. > :22:23.had other grown-up children who'd left home and the house
:22:24. > :22:28.had recently been sold Why the family were torn apart
:22:29. > :22:34.by such awful events isn't clear, but the shooting in a town centre
:22:35. > :22:37.car park has left those that tried Danny Savage, BBC News,
:22:38. > :22:47.Spalding. In Iraq, the battle to recapture
:22:48. > :22:53.territory controlled by so-called Islamic State
:22:54. > :22:55.is now making progress. Late last month, Iraqi forces seized
:22:56. > :23:07.the city of Fallujah. Now, they're moving closer
:23:08. > :23:09.to the IS stronghold As the campaign intensifies,
:23:10. > :23:11.there's growing concern about the country's humanitarian
:23:12. > :23:14.crisis as 3.5 million people The BBC's chief international
:23:15. > :23:19.correspondent, Lyse Doucet, sent this report from near Sharqat,
:23:20. > :23:21.whichis some 40 miles south A gunner on guard, leaving Baghdad
:23:22. > :23:26.and flying north to see the Iraqi We're travelling with the Army chief
:23:27. > :23:34.to see the latest battlefield success against so-called Islamic
:23:35. > :23:39.State. IS's black fires still burn
:23:40. > :23:43.on the horizon, but Iraq's In ghostly villages -
:23:44. > :23:49.houses half-built, Corpses of IS fighters
:23:50. > :23:56.lie here, unburied. Then, like a desert oasis,
:23:57. > :24:01.the River Tigris in sight. This crossing was once
:24:02. > :24:04.a key IS supply route. Now, a newly built bridge
:24:05. > :24:07.will hasten the army's The enemy's difacto capital
:24:08. > :24:25.is just 40 miles away. It will be the hardest of battles
:24:26. > :24:28.against IS - Daesh as it's called. TRANSLATION: We think
:24:29. > :24:31.Daesh will collapse. We know they are bankrupt and unable
:24:32. > :24:33.to hold their ground. Our orders are to liberate every
:24:34. > :24:37.square inch of Iraq. We're determined to eliminate Daesh
:24:38. > :24:39.by the end of the year. They're getting advice from western
:24:40. > :24:46.armies, Iranians too, but the Iraqis insist
:24:47. > :24:49.they'll do the fighting. We have all the equipment,
:24:50. > :24:55.but we need just the green light from US forces to say,
:24:56. > :24:57.do the operation, and we just need the jet
:24:58. > :25:00.fighters to cover the sky. A short distance away,
:25:01. > :25:06.families fleeing the Most have only
:25:07. > :25:19.the clothes they wear. 19-year-old Jashem heads his family
:25:20. > :25:27.now, a dozen to care for. "It was horrible", he tells me,
:25:28. > :25:30."Daesh kidnapped my father. There's a human cost in the war
:25:31. > :25:41.against so-called Islamic State, These people escaped
:25:42. > :25:47.with their lives, but more and more Iraqis are now entering a different
:25:48. > :25:52.kind of hell and as the campaign for Mosul intensifies,
:25:53. > :25:56.so too will the humanitarian crisis. Iraq is struggling
:25:57. > :25:59.to take back its land, To do that, it needs
:26:00. > :26:03.the world's help. Lyse Doucet, BBC News,
:26:04. > :26:13.in northern Iraq. The Foreign Secretary,
:26:14. > :26:15.Boris Johnson, has been holding talks with the US Secretary
:26:16. > :26:17.of State, John Kerry, At a news conference afterwards
:26:18. > :26:24.he faced some direct questions about the controversial comments
:26:25. > :26:27.he's made in the past about President Obama
:26:28. > :26:28.and Hillary Clinton. Our diplomatic correspondent,
:26:29. > :26:35.James Landale, reports. Today he's Foreign Secretary,
:26:36. > :26:39.sitting alongside global statesmen, but for many years Boris Johnson
:26:40. > :26:42.was a journalist, one who'd been rude about many
:26:43. > :26:44.leaders around the world. At his first news conference
:26:45. > :26:53.in his new role some of that past You've accused the current US
:26:54. > :27:02.President, Barack Obama, of harbouring a part
:27:03. > :27:05.Kenyans "ancestral dislike You've described possible
:27:06. > :27:13.future US President, Hillary Clinton as someone with,
:27:14. > :27:15."dyed blonde hair and pouty lips and a steely blue stare
:27:16. > :27:17.like a sadistic nurse You've also likened
:27:18. > :27:21.her to Lady Macbeth. Mr Johnson hit back,
:27:22. > :27:24.insisting his words had been There is such a rich thesaurus now
:27:25. > :27:36.of things that I've said that have been one way or another,
:27:37. > :27:40.through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it
:27:41. > :27:42.would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary
:27:43. > :27:45.of apology to all concerned. You have an unusually long history
:27:46. > :27:49.of - Not this one again! ...wild exaggerations and, frankly,
:27:50. > :27:51.out right lies. Just look at how uncomfortable that
:27:52. > :27:55.made the US Secretary of State, who went out of his way
:27:56. > :27:57.to praise his new colleague. This man is a very smart
:27:58. > :28:00.and capable man. That's the Boris Johnson -
:28:01. > :28:04.I can live with that. That's the Boris Johnson that
:28:05. > :28:12.I intend to work with and we intend This evening, Mr Johnson and other
:28:13. > :28:36.foreign ministers discussed Syria and Yemen which he said were more
:28:37. > :28:38.important than his past views. But the Foreign Secretary has come
:28:39. > :28:42.to his new role with some baggage In Ohio, on the first day of
:28:43. > :28:47.the Republican National Convention, it was Donald Trump's wife,
:28:48. > :28:49.Melania, who made the headlines as she faced accusations
:28:50. > :28:51.of plagiarism following her Commentators noticed remarkable
:28:52. > :28:54.similarities with a speech made Let's join our North American
:28:55. > :29:07.editor, Jon Sopel, in Cleveland. Huw, there is a simple over arching
:29:08. > :29:12.ambition for this Republican Convention, that is to bring the
:29:13. > :29:15.party together after a particularly bruising primary season. The other
:29:16. > :29:19.thing they want to do is to convince doubters in this hall that a Trump
:29:20. > :29:23.campaign would be well run. Well organised. Disciplined and
:29:24. > :29:25.professional. So far, you'd have to say, things are not going entirely
:29:26. > :29:30.to plan. The entrance of Donald Trump
:29:31. > :29:36.was like something out of a sci-fi movie, but by the end of the evening
:29:37. > :29:39.it had become a horror show. The next First Lady
:29:40. > :29:42.of the United States... Mr Trump's only role
:29:43. > :29:46.was to introduce his Slovenian-born wife,
:29:47. > :29:48.Melania, she spoke fluently. But some of it, well,
:29:49. > :29:54.had a bit of a familiar ring to a speech Michelle Obama gave
:29:55. > :29:57.when she was hoping to be From a young age, my
:29:58. > :30:02.parents impressed on me... ...Like, you work hard
:30:03. > :30:10.for what you want in life... That you do what you say you'e going
:30:11. > :30:16.to do... ...And you do what you say
:30:17. > :30:18.and keep your promise... ...That you treat people
:30:19. > :30:20.with dignity and respect... ...That you treat people
:30:21. > :30:24.with dignity and respect. The only limit to your achievements
:30:25. > :30:27.is the strenght of your dreams... ...The only limit to the height
:30:28. > :30:29.of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness
:30:30. > :30:32.to work hard for them. ...And your willingness
:30:33. > :30:34.to work for them. Last night's Convention Hall triumph
:30:35. > :30:37.is today's public relations catastrophe with Melania Trump
:30:38. > :30:39.the butt of all sorts You know the sort of thing -
:30:40. > :30:43.I'd like to thank my speech But this isn't about Melania Trump,
:30:44. > :30:48.it's about the perception of a Trump campaign that is chaotic
:30:49. > :30:49.and dysfunctional and, as a result, the
:30:50. > :30:51.recriminations are flying. A question I put to Dr Ben Carson,
:30:52. > :30:55.former presidential hopeful and now If they were verbatim,
:30:56. > :31:00.then probably the speech But, first of all, you have
:31:01. > :31:11.to prove they were verbatim. It was pretty close
:31:12. > :31:13.to verbatim, the odd word... Wait a minute, you said "pretty
:31:14. > :31:15.close." But let's end with a bit more
:31:16. > :31:21.Melania Trump that definitely wasn't plagiarised, but now seems
:31:22. > :31:24.strangely prophetic. It would not be a Trump contest
:31:25. > :31:28.without excitement and drama. But it was drama that
:31:29. > :31:33.the Republican Party was hoping So the 19th July has been
:31:34. > :31:46.the hottest day of 2016 - so far - and that's been true of most
:31:47. > :31:49.of the United Kingdom. Some places recorded
:31:50. > :31:51.temperatures in excess But, you won't be surprised
:31:52. > :32:01.to hear me say that Thunderstorms and heavy rain
:32:02. > :32:05.are on the way for some. Temperatures by the end of the week
:32:06. > :32:09.will be back closer to average. Tonight, we'll have some
:32:10. > :32:13.politics over there - Emily's in Ohio at the Republican
:32:14. > :32:18.Convention. And, politics here -
:32:19. > :32:20.the struggle in the Labour Party. We'll ask if the two factions can
:32:21. > :32:29.possibly cuddle up Here, on BBC One, it's time
:32:30. > :32:32.for the news where you are.