:00:22. > :00:32.Donald Trump used similar words as he had on Twitter to describe the
:00:33. > :00:37.Attorney General. And disappointed in him. He should not have refused
:00:38. > :00:47.himself immediately after taking office. His son-in-law has again
:00:48. > :00:56.been questioned over Russia. The US Congress is set to slap new
:00:57. > :00:59.sanctions on Russia. In other news, Muslim leaders have called on
:01:00. > :01:04.worshippers to boycott a holy site in east Jerusalem after metal
:01:05. > :01:11.detectors were installed and then removed. Europe has been hit by
:01:12. > :01:13.extreme temperatures and floods. We speak to the weather team about what
:01:14. > :01:41.has been causing yet. President Trump launched a public
:01:42. > :02:01.tarried of tweet against Jeff Sessions.
:02:02. > :02:10.Then he said these words a few minutes ago. And disappointed in the
:02:11. > :02:14.Attorney General. He should not have recused himself almost immediately
:02:15. > :02:19.after he took office. And if he was going to accuse unselfish and told
:02:20. > :02:23.me prior to taking office and I would've quite simply picked
:02:24. > :02:27.somebody else. Sighting that's a bad thing not for the president but for
:02:28. > :02:41.the presidency. I think it is unfair to the presidency and that is the
:02:42. > :02:44.way I feel. Thank you. Many Americans must be wondering if the
:02:45. > :02:51.president is trying to pry open the office of Attorney-General to
:02:52. > :02:56.appoint someone during the August recess who will fire special Counsel
:02:57. > :03:05.Moller and shut down the Russian investigation. First, let me state
:03:06. > :03:08.for the record now Democrats will never go along with the recess
:03:09. > :03:24.appointment of that situation arises. Be ready to use tools in our
:03:25. > :03:30.action to stymie action. If Jeff Sessions recused himself some months
:03:31. > :03:49.ago, why is Donald Trump saying all the snow? Robert Moller is hiring a
:03:50. > :03:56.crack team. We are looking at possible business dealings with
:03:57. > :04:02.Russia. Plus you have this house intelligence committee bringing in
:04:03. > :04:06.people. I think because this investigation has been ramped up, it
:04:07. > :04:13.may be part of the reason why Donald Trump is being more anxious and
:04:14. > :04:21.assertive. I want to point out. When Donald Trump said Jeff Sessions
:04:22. > :04:25.should've told him he would recused himself, back then we didn't even
:04:26. > :04:29.know there was an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and its ties
:04:30. > :04:34.to Russia. None of that was out in public until it was said during
:04:35. > :04:39.committee testimony. I believe that was in February or March. There was
:04:40. > :04:44.no way Jeff Sessions could tell Donald Trump he was going to recused
:04:45. > :04:48.himself from an investigation that didn't happen. That is a bit of a
:04:49. > :04:59.historical revision on the part of Donald Trump. The tweets about Jeff
:05:00. > :05:02.Sessions have become more and more vitriolic. What our voices in
:05:03. > :05:12.Washington saying about how long he could last in the job? Jeff Sessions
:05:13. > :05:16.has a lot of allies in this town. He has friends in the Senate were
:05:17. > :05:21.sticking by him. He has allies in the Conservative media. And is
:05:22. > :05:29.popular amongst the anti-administration right before
:05:30. > :05:33.Donald Trump came on the scene. Donald Trump incorporated in his
:05:34. > :05:43.campaign. He will not be an easy person to force out of his position.
:05:44. > :05:49.Donald Trump has the ability to fire Jeff Sessions. That will anger a lot
:05:50. > :05:55.of people in Washington. That would be a difficult situation if Jeff
:05:56. > :06:04.Sessions did not go quietly into the night. Health care is also an
:06:05. > :06:18.President Trump's Twitter feed. Let's bring you news update.
:06:19. > :06:24.It is a pretty significant hurdle. It had lost their vote, would've
:06:25. > :06:32.been it for now. If they can't get to a debate, there is no way they
:06:33. > :06:38.can get Torvill. This was the very first step to getting something
:06:39. > :06:54.passed. It was a 50-50 vote broken by Mike Pence to get to this point.
:06:55. > :07:00.They will bring everything up. The night break some appeals down and
:07:01. > :07:10.try to vote on individual amendments. It will be hard to
:07:11. > :07:18.cobble together 50 Republican votes to sign off on anything. This is a
:07:19. > :07:23.big step, but they're not out of the woods. John McCain has had grave
:07:24. > :07:32.health news in recent days. He was there. He flew in from Arizona. He
:07:33. > :07:40.had brain surgery a week ago to remove a mass behind his right eye.
:07:41. > :07:45.It turned out to be a cancerous mass. He is suffering from brain
:07:46. > :07:50.cancer. It was risky friend to get on a plane. He cast a decisive vote
:07:51. > :07:56.that allowed it to proceed and give a speech about Senate traditions and
:07:57. > :08:02.bipartisanship and everyone needing to come together. A little nugget
:08:03. > :08:06.buried in his speech was that he said there was no bell out there in
:08:07. > :08:15.the Senate that he will vote yes for. He will still have to be
:08:16. > :08:23.convinced to vote for something. It shows you what a long while
:08:24. > :08:28.Republicans have in the Senate to try to cobble together a 50 foot
:08:29. > :08:39.high on anything which could be brokered by Mike Pence. Thank you.
:08:40. > :08:42.The lower house in the US is due to vote on fresh sanctions against
:08:43. > :09:05.Russia. The bill is expected to pass. Here
:09:06. > :09:09.is the Democratic whip saying... If it does pass, it will go through the
:09:10. > :09:15.Senate and be signed off by the President. What makes all this
:09:16. > :09:26.awkward as there are three separate investigations. Jared Kushner are
:09:27. > :09:35.those questioned this afternoon by the house intelligence committee.
:09:36. > :09:39.Let's cross to Washington. This will pass through the lower house without
:09:40. > :09:49.any problems we think? It looks that way. There is bipartisan support for
:09:50. > :09:51.this in the Senate and house, which is unusual. It is a
:09:52. > :10:03.Republican-controlled Congress. In a way, it is a revolt. I came, they
:10:04. > :10:12.don't have any doubts that Russia interference in the election. What
:10:13. > :10:19.they do also is the limit the President's ability to unilaterally
:10:20. > :10:26.rollback sanctions. For national security reasons, he can usually
:10:27. > :10:33.waive sanctions. But this says he asked to consult Congress first. It
:10:34. > :10:38.puts President Trump in a bind. They have said they expect him to support
:10:39. > :10:44.after changes were made. Really he doesn't have too much choice if that
:10:45. > :10:48.is going to be such a large number of lawmakers who supported they
:10:49. > :10:56.could override a veto. It has placed him in a difficult position over his
:10:57. > :11:00.Russia policy. There is opposition from the White House and Europeans
:11:01. > :11:04.worried about the expanding sanctions that would target more
:11:05. > :11:15.companies doing more business with the Russian energy sector, which
:11:16. > :11:18.might affect their business involving Russian pipelines bringing
:11:19. > :11:24.gas. There is an element of how Allah is feel about expanding
:11:25. > :11:28.sanctions on Russia. The bill includes fresh sanctions against
:11:29. > :11:35.Iran and North Korea. The US ambassador to the UN said this about
:11:36. > :11:39.China's Corporation of America. I think they have cooperated. I was
:11:40. > :11:47.pleased with the response we got back. I think some seriousness has
:11:48. > :11:55.been shown. The true test will be what they have worked out with
:11:56. > :12:02.Russia. That is the real test. Just hearing that from the US ambassador
:12:03. > :12:13.to the UN, there are UN sanctions but also united states on sanctions?
:12:14. > :12:15.Yes, the sanctions on the bill would authorise sanctions against
:12:16. > :12:25.businesses which deal with North Korea. It would be a way of putting
:12:26. > :12:31.pressure on China because they do the most business that North Korea.
:12:32. > :12:39.It is something the administration has pushed aggressively. At the UN,
:12:40. > :12:44.they are saying when it comes to tightening international sanctions,
:12:45. > :12:53.air and travel restrictions, possibly oil restrictions and North
:12:54. > :12:57.Korean guest workers, when they initially proposed to China were
:12:58. > :13:02.thinking of, the initial response was quite serious and she was
:13:03. > :13:08.pleased by. That her take on what is happening there. China has pushed
:13:09. > :13:17.back against the emphasis it has to do more. China would like to see a
:13:18. > :13:21.diplomatic process alongside sanctions, like negotiations so
:13:22. > :13:30.there would be a way of de-escalating rather than just
:13:31. > :13:33.escalating the situation. Thank you. Stay with us. We will have more on
:13:34. > :14:03.rising tensions in Jerusalem. BMW has ended speculation
:14:04. > :14:05.that Brexit would result in the new all-electric Mini
:14:06. > :14:08.being made outside the UK. The firm says the new model will be
:14:09. > :14:11.assembled at its plant near Oxford , The firm says the new model will be
:14:12. > :14:15.assembled at its plant near Oxford, as all previous generations
:14:16. > :14:17.of the car have been The company insists it hasn't
:14:18. > :14:20.received any commitments from the British government,
:14:21. > :14:21.regarding trading The Business Secretary, Greg Clarke,
:14:22. > :14:33.explained why he thought Britain Reinvest with the automotive sector.
:14:34. > :14:37.The environment we have created for investment in the future has led
:14:38. > :14:39.companies like BMW, and others, to recognise this is a great place to
:14:40. > :14:59.be. Our top story: Donald Trump has
:15:00. > :15:04.taken the unusual step of publicly attacking his own Attorney General,
:15:05. > :15:07.calling him a week for failing to investigate Hillary Clinton
:15:08. > :15:23.properly. Other stories been reported around the BBC right now.
:15:24. > :15:26.BBC Hindi report that six people in Mumbai have died after
:15:27. > :15:29.Emergency workers are struggling to rescue around ten people
:15:30. > :15:32.15 more have been pulled from the wreckage -
:15:33. > :15:36.Protesters in a French town have built a wall around the entrance
:15:37. > :15:39.to a former hotel to prevent it being used as a migrant shelter.
:15:40. > :15:42.They said the local authorities had failed to discuss with town
:15:43. > :15:45.residents the plan to house up to 85 migrants in the building.
:15:46. > :15:48.And among the most read on the BBC Website.
:15:49. > :15:50.Alice Cooper says he found a classic Andy Warhol
:15:51. > :15:52.artwork in his storage - more than 40 years
:15:53. > :15:56.The singer had forgotten about the work presented
:15:57. > :15:59.A similar version of the Warhol artwork sold in 2014
:16:00. > :16:09.A decision on the right for Charlie Gard's parents to take him home to
:16:10. > :16:14.die will be made within 24 hours. The matter was before the High Court
:16:15. > :16:20.today, day after Charlie's parents ended their legal fight to take him
:16:21. > :16:22.to the US for treatment. Judge said Charlie could be taken to a hospice
:16:23. > :16:30.to pass away. The legal battle over this
:16:31. > :16:33.desperately sick boy now centres Charlie needs a mechanical
:16:34. > :16:36.ventilator to breathe. Yesterday, his parents give
:16:37. > :16:40.up their fight to take him to the United States and agreed no
:16:41. > :16:50.more treatment could help him. But Charlie's mum, Connie,
:16:51. > :16:52.was back at court this afternoon to make it clear she did not
:16:53. > :16:56.want him to die in the intensive care unit where he's
:16:57. > :16:57.been since October. The parents' lawyer said
:16:58. > :17:00.it was their last wish that Charlie dies at home,
:17:01. > :17:03.for a few days of tranquillity The hospital says it won't stand
:17:04. > :17:11.in the parents' way and yet, Lawyers for the parents said
:17:12. > :17:18.they would pay private nurses to take over his care and later seek
:17:19. > :17:22.to recover the costs from the NHS. But the court heard
:17:23. > :17:24.there were practical issues to be resolved,
:17:25. > :17:27.for example, whether Charlie's ventilator would fit
:17:28. > :17:30.through their front door. Great Ormond Street Hospital said it
:17:31. > :17:33.wanted to honour the parents' wishes but the care plan must be safe
:17:34. > :17:53.and spare Charlie all pain. The hospital says it won't stand
:17:54. > :17:56.in the parents' way and yet, Lawyers for the parents said
:17:57. > :18:00.they would pay private nurses to take over his care and later seek
:18:01. > :18:03.to recover the costs from the NHS. But the court heard
:18:04. > :18:05.there were practical issues to be resolved,
:18:06. > :18:07.for example, whether Charlie's ventilator would fit
:18:08. > :18:09.through their front door. Great Ormond Street Hospital said it
:18:10. > :18:12.wanted to honour the parents' wishes but the care plan must be safe
:18:13. > :18:15.and spare Charlie all pain. Charlie is a child who requires
:18:16. > :18:18.highly specialised treatment. It must be provided in a specialist
:18:19. > :18:22.setting by specialists. The dispute over where and how
:18:23. > :18:24.soon Charlie should die typifies the utter breakdown
:18:25. > :18:26.in the relationship between The judge said this was a matter
:18:27. > :18:30.crying out for mediation. Great Ormond Street said it offered
:18:31. > :18:32.that but the parents refused. The judge said the parents
:18:33. > :18:34.were entitled to decide where they spent the next few days
:18:35. > :18:37.but this should not That would be unacceptable
:18:38. > :18:40.as it would simply extend This woman lost her son,
:18:41. > :18:44.Guy, when he was five. He was profoundly
:18:45. > :18:45.disabled and tube fed. She, too, had searched
:18:46. > :18:48.for a cure for his condition. They've got to learn to let him go
:18:49. > :18:51.at all sorts of levels. Stuff happens and they must not
:18:52. > :18:53.be bitter because it What they've got to do is look
:18:54. > :18:58.at all the positive things. The hospital has offered
:18:59. > :19:01.a compromise for Charlie to be transferred to a hospice,
:19:02. > :19:03.where doctors from Great Ormond Street would supervise his
:19:04. > :19:05.palliative care and death Charlie's parents said they want
:19:06. > :19:09.days, not hours, and a hospice Israel has removed metal detectors
:19:10. > :19:29.from outside a holy site in East Jerusalem after uproar
:19:30. > :19:31.from Palestinians over It's known to Jews as
:19:32. > :19:34.the Temple Mount and Muslims Relative calm restored at the gates
:19:35. > :20:01.to the third holiest site in Islam. Palestinian worshippers now hope
:20:02. > :20:04.to enter after a week of protests So Israel's removed the metal
:20:05. > :20:07.detectors that were just there. Instead, it says it's going to do
:20:08. > :20:10.what it calls smart checking, using more surveillance around
:20:11. > :20:12.the old city. It follows over a week
:20:13. > :20:14.of violence and tensions that The removal of all these cameras
:20:15. > :20:18.and the removal of all these gates prove that there were not
:20:19. > :20:20.needed for security. It was a political measure by Israel
:20:21. > :20:24.to impose fact on the ground Guns were taken inside
:20:25. > :20:31.the Al-Aqsa Mosque grounds and used to kill two Israeli policemen
:20:32. > :20:33.at the Gates. When the mosque was re-opened
:20:34. > :20:35.with new metal detectors, Palestinians continued praying
:20:36. > :20:41.outside, accusing Israel of using security as an excuse
:20:42. > :20:44.to extend its control over the site which is also the holiest place
:20:45. > :20:50.for Jews and known as Temple Mount. In clashes with Israeli
:20:51. > :20:56.Security Forces, five And in this West Bank settlement,
:20:57. > :21:01.a Palestinian stabbed to death three Then an Israeli embassy guard
:21:02. > :21:10.killed two Jordanians, Jordan is the custodian
:21:11. > :21:19.of Jerusalem's mosques. Overnight, amid fears of a wider
:21:20. > :21:21.escalation, the metal detectors Israel is making sure there
:21:22. > :22:00.is a real freedom of Jerusalem. 50 years after Israel captured
:22:01. > :22:02.unoccupied the old city of Jerusalem, it remains at the heart
:22:03. > :22:10.of this conflict. 50 years after Israel captured
:22:11. > :22:13.the old city of Jerusalem, recent pictures have shown once
:22:14. > :22:15.again how it remains Greece has sold its government debt
:22:16. > :22:30.to international investors The Greek government managed
:22:31. > :22:33.to raise 3.5 billion dollars in a move which could signal the end
:22:34. > :22:36.of austerity in the country. Since 2010, Greece has received
:22:37. > :22:39.around 380 billion dollars of emergency funding,
:22:40. > :22:41.but this has come with certain Greece's creditors -
:22:42. > :22:44.which include the International Monetary Fund and the EU -
:22:45. > :22:46.have insisted that the government raise taxes and slash
:22:47. > :22:48.pensions in order to improve Our economics correspondent
:22:49. > :23:13.Andrew Walker explains why today's This is a tall in the water. There
:23:14. > :23:18.were offers to buy more than twice that amount. I think this is a view
:23:19. > :23:23.that Greece has done an awful lot to improve the position of its public
:23:24. > :23:33.finances. Back in the red this year. But not a large deficit. Think they
:23:34. > :23:37.recognise things a great deal. They take the view that probably if it
:23:38. > :23:42.comes to the crunch, the rest of the eurozone would be unlikely to want
:23:43. > :23:48.to see Greece getting into a default and perhaps once again reigniting
:23:49. > :24:02.fears of contagion from five years ago.
:24:03. > :24:04.General Motors says it's going to manufacture fewer cars
:24:05. > :24:07.in the US due to a build-up of stock on its forecourts.
:24:08. > :24:08.The biggest carmaker in the United States reported
:24:09. > :24:11.a 14% drop in profits in the last three months.
:24:12. > :24:14.Let's get more with Michelle Fleury who joins us from New York.
:24:15. > :24:20.Some of this news was expected. We are seeing American car sales coming
:24:21. > :24:26.off a record high in 2016, so people had expected that perhaps 2017 might
:24:27. > :24:35.not be as strong. This is a continuation of that trend. The
:24:36. > :24:42.company had to take a write-down on several of its other deals. You may
:24:43. > :24:46.recall it sold off some of its assets in Europe. All of this as it
:24:47. > :24:53.tries to become more focused and shift its strategy on to more
:24:54. > :24:57.fast-growing markets such as India and China. The announcement by GM
:24:58. > :25:03.saying they will build fewer cars in the US will be up setback for
:25:04. > :25:10.President Trump's plans for more American jobs. Donald Trump give an
:25:11. > :25:15.interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he said he had heard from
:25:16. > :25:19.the Chief Executive of Apple saying the company was ready to build three
:25:20. > :25:24.big plants in America. We haven't had confirmation of that ourselves,
:25:25. > :25:30.but it is worth pointing out that if you look ever since Donald Trump
:25:31. > :25:36.came into office he made a point of prioritising America first and spoke
:25:37. > :25:42.of creating jobs here and factories. That lead to companies responding to
:25:43. > :25:48.the pressure and to talking about doing more to create jobs in the
:25:49. > :25:51.past, Apple has said it will create a $1 billion fund. Presumably some
:25:52. > :25:58.of that money will be used for these plans. Thank you. We will be back in
:25:59. > :26:11.a few minutes. Stay with us. In a moment, the latest on the
:26:12. > :26:13.weather across