08/07/2017 BBC Weekend News

Donald Trump says he's hoping for a "very powerful"

trade deal with Britain, "very, very quickly."

Speaking at the G20 summit in Germany, he also said his

proposed state visit to Britain, will go ahead.

Iraqi forces claim a decisive victory over so called

Islamic State in Mosul, saying just a few pockets

The London Fire Brigade changes policy on deploying high ladders,

after it took half an hour to send one to the Grenfell Tower disaster.

And the Lions with the All Blacks share the spoils, as they draw

President Trump says he expects "a very powerful"

trade deal with the UK to be completed "very quickly".

Speaking at the G20 summit in Hamburg, he also talked

about the special relationship between America and Britain,

and said his planned visit to the UK would go ahead.

This report from Hamburg by our Deputy Political Editor,

John Pienaar, contains some flash photograph.

Theresa May sees this relationship as key to a successful Brexit.

She was counting on warm words, encouragement.

Today, on trade, the president offered plenty of both.

We're working on a trade deal that will be a very, very big deal.

And I think we'll have that done very, very quickly.

Mrs May wants him to drop opposition to the

Not everyone will be as happy as Mrs May to see him.

Worth cultivating the US friendship with the president

and his family, his advisers, though his daughter Ivanka is both.

Meeting the Japanese leader was important,

Shinzo Abe has just done a trade deal with the EU.

Britain wants one just as favourable.

Warm words about trade and cooperation

can be comforting, even politically useful, at a summit like this.

But striking deals with America, India,

with anyone, will take hard bargaining.

And plenty of British businessmen, government officials, even Theresa

May's Chancellor, remain to be convinced that agreement around the

world could ever compensate for a tough, even harsh, deal with the

European Union. The Prime Minister insists it can be done. Mrs May is

widely seen as being weakened by the June election, but today insisted

she be bold. I've held a number of meetings with other world leaders at

this summit and have been struck by their strong desire to forge

ambitious new bilateral trading relationships with the UK after

Brexit. Do you accept that if EU leaders insist on tougher trade

terms after Brexit than those we have now there is a risk that the UK

could end up worse off? What we are doing is working to negotiate a good

comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union. I think it

in the interest of both sides to have that good trade agreement. I'm

also optimistic about the opportunities we will see around the

rest of the world. Their ambitions will be tested hard. Along with her

own hopes of carrying on much longer as Prime Minister. John Pienaar, BBC

News, at the G20 in Hamburg. Our Diplomatic correspondent

James Robbins is in Hamburg. Mr Trump wants a trade deal with us

- but on other issues there at the G20 he's been something

of the odd man out, hasn't he? He has. He changed by his very

presence the whole nature of this global gathering. After all, we know

Donald Trump is deeply sceptical of a whole range of international

multilateral agreements. Frankly, that became apparent both in the

discussions on trade, when Angela Merkel in the chair, the German

Chancellor, made clear the United States was the biggest single

barrier to getting a good outcome. It made the discussions particularly

difficult. Then of course crucially over climate change, where Donald

Trump is in a minority of one, having decided to withdraw the

United States from the Paris global climate accord. Chancellor Merkel

wanted some sort of consensus at this meeting. She realised it was

completely impossible. The final summit text would have to have two

sections. One United States only where Donald Trump frankly

emphasised his continuing commitment to fossil fuels, and the other, for

the 19. It felt more like G 19 plus one.

Iraqi state television says government forces expect

to take full control of the city of Mosul from so called

The military operation to drive the extremists

from the their main base in Iraq began eight months ago.

Jonathan Beale has just sent this report from Mosul.

It's been the fight of their lives. Their battle to retake Mosul from

the group calling itself the Islamic State started in October last year.

They've lost many comrades along the way, but today the Iraqi security

forces were firing their weapons in celebration. Claiming victory over

their enemy. John meat this joy has been achieved by the sacrifices of

our martyrs and the blood of our wounded heroes. God willing, may

happiness prevail in Iraq. After nearly nine months of brutal street

to street fighting, these Iraqi security forces believe they've

defeated IS in the city that was once their stronghold. But there are

still pockets of resistance, the occasional sound of gunfire. No one

yet knows how many civilians have lost their lives in this city. It's

still a fight for survival. TRANSLATION: Hunger, thirst, fear,

aerial bombardment. We lived in a cellar. Look at this. Our house was

destroyed on top of us. The extremists reign of terror in Mosul

may be coming to an end. But they are by no means finished in Iraq.

Jonathan Beale, BBC News, Mosul. The London Fire Brigade,

says it's modified procedures for attending high rise fires,

after the Grenfell Tower disaster. It comes as an investigation

by the BBC's Newsnight programme, has found that a high ladder engine

didn't arrive until more than half an hour after the first fire

crews were dispatched. Disaster unfolding in

the middle of the night. As the first firefighters battled

the growing inferno inside Grenfell Tower, they couldn't see

what was happening outside. Flames spreading

from floor to floor as BBC's Newsnight has

uncovered a series of apparent failings that hampered

the emergency response. Including a delay in sending

this high ladder to London Fire Brigade eventually

called in and even taller platform from neighbouring Surrey

because the capital doesn't have its Backfire, they could

not turn it off. And I don't know what time

they brought the hydraulic crane, or whatever they had, but these

guys were outnumbered. Records show London Fire

Brigade sent teams from They didn't dispatch a 30

metre aerial platform from Paddington until 1:19am,

almost half an hour after the first That equipment would have reached

higher than the floor By the time it arrived,

the fire had raced up the I have spoken to aerial appliance

operators in London who drive and operate those appliances,

and who attended that incident, who think that having that on the first

attendance might have made a London's mayor, Sadiq Khan,

speaking at today's's Pride Festival, said nothing should

detract from the bravery of the There's going to be

a public inquiry. I'm unwilling to wait for that,

though, so I've asked Danny Cotton, the commission of the London Fire

Service, to carry out an urgent The review will tell me what she

needs, what the Fire Service needs, and my promise

to her is to make sure the London Fire Service,

the Fire Brigade, get exactly what While that review begins,

the investigation continues inside Answers to all the disturbing

questions the disaster Tens of Thousands of people have

been taking part in the annual 'Pride in London' parade,

which celebrates lesbian, gay, It's exactly 50 years

since the beginning of the decriminalisation

of homosexuality, The British and Irish Lions and the

all Blacks have ended up drawing their series. A 15-15 draw in New

Zealand. In six weeks, the British

and Irish Lions have transformed from no hopers

into a genuine threat. New Zealand's fortress

invaded by a red It would set the tone

for a breathless first half. The pace not always

matched with precision. That would come from the All Blacks'

Beauden Barrett, who picked up his younger, taller brother, Jordie,

to set up the opening score. A try finished by Ngani

Laumape , but born in New Zealand's captain

was making his 100th appearance, but it was

Jordie Barrett's first test start one to remember.

The world champions' dominance wasn't

Penalties kept the Lions within reach.

Elliott Daley kicked for the horizon.

New Zealand strained every sinew to hold back the Lions.

But playing here at Eden Park is a test of

Owen Farrell could never be faulted there.

A late refereeing decision would deny the All Blacks a

As the series ended in an improbable draw.

12 years New Zealanders have waited for the return of the Lions and this

series has delivered a fitting finale, but while the tourists have

won respect, they have fallen agonisingly short of what could have