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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Hello, I'm Christian Fraser, and this is Outside Source. Is Donald | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Trump in danger of pushing the Republican party too bar? -- too | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
far. A top Republican Senator issued this | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
warning to the President If Jeff Sessions is fired, there | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. If Jeff Sessions is fired, there | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
will be holy hail to pay. This could be the beginning of the end of the | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Trump presidency. Police investigating | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the Grenfell Tower fire say they have reasonable grounds | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
to suspect corporate manslaughter Israel has yielded to days | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
of Palestinian street protests by removing all additional security | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
measures around the al-Aqsa mosque. 64 years ago the fighting | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
ended in the war between North and South Korea - | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
we'll look at whether the North's recent missile tests are threatening | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
that fragile peace. And if you want to get in touch - | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
the hashtag is bbcos. Throughout the first six months | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
of this presidency the Republicans Hello, and welcome to Outside | :01:11. | :01:29. | |
Source. Throughout the first six months | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
of this presidency the Republicans on the Hill have rallied | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
to the President's side. They have defended his mistakes, | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
they have tolerated his tweets, even when the attacks are on one | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
of their own. But his very public criticisms of | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Conservative and long time | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
supporter of the President, Particularly if removing Sessions | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
is the precursor to firing special Just take a listen to this | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
from Senator Lindsay Graham. If Jeff Sessions is fired, there | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
will be holy hell to pay. Any effort to go after Jeff Mueller could be | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency. Tonight, Jeff | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Sessions is appearing on Fox News, the network says that he will be | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
responding to criticisms from President Trump. Anthony 's care is | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
in Washington for us, the president putting pressure on the attorney, | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
but he will be fighting back tonight on prime-time television? | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Yes, and I have seen some excerpts from his interview, apparently Jeff | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Sessions will say that he was hurt by Donald Trump's criticism, but he | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
goes on to defend Donald Trump, saying he is a strong president. I | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
think Jeff Sessions walks a fine line, he wants to stay on as | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Attorney General and does not want to resign, he wants to diffuse the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
situation somewhat. He has support in the Senate, there have been | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
people like Lindsey Graham who had come to his defence. They have been | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
there for 20 years, they know him and trust him. They have support in | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the Conservative media, one big Donald Trump supporter has taken the | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
side of Jeff Sessions in this ongoing feud. You may be picking a | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
fight with his Attorney General but it will not be over any time soon. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
He's not the only one coming in for public criticism. This is a tweet | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
that he sent earlier today against the Senator Lisa Markoski, from | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
Alaska. He said the following. These are really public attacks on what he | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
views as the establishment of Washington? Exactly, Donald Trump | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
campaigned as a wild card, a free agent not afraid to take on the | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Republican Party establishment. He refers to Republicans as "They", and | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
not as "Weak". With Lisa Murkowski, she ran in 2010 for re-election as a | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Republican senator from Alaska and lost in the primary due to a tea | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
party conservative like a Donald Trump kind of personality. She ran | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
as a right into the general election, and beat him. She does not | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
necessarily rely on grassroots Republicans and I think she may have | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
more of a mind towards what independent voters think rather than | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
what Donald Trump can do by rallying the troops. Anthony Zurcher, stay | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
with us, I want your thoughts on something else... | :04:39. | :04:39. | |
Not only is the President at odds with his Attorney General - | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
it would seem two of the most senior figures in his administration | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Anthony Scaramucci - the new director of communications - | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
appeared to suggest that his financial disclosure form had been | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
leaked by Reince Priebus - the president's chief of staff. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
On Wednesday, Mr Scaramucci tweeted - then deleted - this - | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
It is worth pointing out as @politico did soon after - | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
that in fact financial disclosures are public information. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Mr Scaramucci later tweeted that he was not accusing Priebus. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
But then Scaramucci called CNN this morning - and said this. | :05:28. | :05:41. | |
When a journalist who actually knows who the leakers are, they know the | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
leakers. They explained that they know who the leakers are, I respect | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
them for not telling me, they understand and respect journalistic | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
integrity however, when I put out a tweet and put his name in the tweet, | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
they assume it is him because the journalists know the leakers. If he | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
wants to explain he is not a leaker, let him do that. It isn't meant to | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
work this way, because Reince Priebus is meant to be the chief of | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
staff, he's supposed the communications director, and he is | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
meant to be reporting to him? Exactly, in the traditional White | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
House, they answer to the chief of staff but in this White House, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Scaramucci has a direct line to the president, and there are reports | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
that Scaramucci had dinner with President Trump last night. Before | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
he went on twitter against Reince Priebus and the talk-show calling | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
in. To say that Scaramucci did not do this without the approval of | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Donald Trump would be a stretch, I think we are seeing reports now, | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
even, from anonymous sources saying that Donald Trump has lost faith in | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
his chief of staff, Reince Priebus. I think the writing is on the wall | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
for him. It isn't a particularly tenable position that he finds | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
himself in. The president likes it this way, he likes them all at | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
loggerheads. I don't know if it is good for his recruitment. Thank you | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
very much, Anthony Zurcher in Washington. | :07:16. | :07:16. | |
On Wednesday out of the blue Donald Trump tweeted this - | :07:17. | :07:32. | |
Today, a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, seen by reporters, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
said this... We will continue, it goes on... To | :07:36. | :07:53. | |
treat all of our personnel with respect. Laura Bicker, he has put | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
out this tweet but there are no instructions for the Pentagon, that | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
is it? They have finally issued a statement, they have said that they | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
too are waiting on the White House for directions. You saw the letter | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying, hang on, we will wait. | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Everything will stay as it is. This leaves several thousand members, | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
transgender members of the US Armed Forces, in utter limbo. They wonder | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
whether or not they will be discharged or whether or not they | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
can continue to serve. If this goes ahead we have heard a number of | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
court challenges are being prepared by the like of the American Civil | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Liberties Union. Court proceedings could be in the wings, when or if | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
this goes ahead. Let's look at the timing of this. When it comes to the | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
timing, you have just heard of everything else going on in the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
White House. It's almost at war with itself, even with its two main | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
members of staff. When it comes to why now, they may be trying to | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
change the subject, for instance, all getting the conservative base on | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
side. Also, there was the little matter of a bill, alleged to have | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
been going through Congress which included taking out military | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
provision and taking out spending money on transgender operations and | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
transgender procedures. That bill was also including the border wall | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
along with Mexico. Was Trump trying to avoid a fight over this bill? And | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
going ahead with this, without Pentagon approval? That seems | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
exactly what has happened. Very interesting. Laura Bicker, good to | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
see you. Thank you for being with us on Outside Source. | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
Police investigating the Grenfell Tower fire say | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
they have reasonable grounds to suspect corporate manslaughter | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
A letter sent by the Metropolitan Police | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
to Grenfell residents says that both Kensington and Chelsea Council | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
which runs social housing in the borough have been told | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
that there are grounds for considering corporate | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
manslaughter charges against both organisations. | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
Frankie McCamley is in west London and explained | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Corporate manslaughter, when police are investigating this comment they | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
look at the company as a whole. They will not be looking at individuals. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
They will not be charging individuals. I have been here at a | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
vigil taking place. A lot of families and relatives who lost | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
loved ones, coming together to remember some of those who died in | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
the fire, which happened a few hundred metres from where I am | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
stirred. This announcement was made through a letter, as you mentioned. | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
It was sent by the Metropolitan Police, who had been conducting a | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
criminal investigation into the fire at the Grenfell Tower and they say | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
they have seized a huge amount of material. They say they have carried | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
out a number of... They have taken a number of witness statements. They | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
saved from the initial assessment of all of the material, they have come | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
to the conclusion that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council and Kensington and Chelsea | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
tenancy management organisation, the company operating the Grenfell | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
Tower, may have committed the offence of corporate manslaughter. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
They also said that leaders of these two organisations are going to take | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
part in police interviews in what they call "Due course". As the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
information was coming through, we were watching a vigil taking place | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
and spoke to residents from the Grenfell Tower, speaking to those | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
who had lost families. Some say they are extremely relieved to see this | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
but others say they have completely lost faith in a lot of the services | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
and want to see more action. They don't just want to see letters or | :11:53. | :12:02. | |
hear words. We also spoke to the leader of Kensington and Chelsea | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Council, Elizabeth Campbell, who said that she welcomed the move. She | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
said residents deserved answers and she would cooperate in any way | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
possible. It is important to note nobody has been charged and this | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
investigation is still ongoing. Stay with us on Outside Source - | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
still to come... 64 years ago, fighting ended in the | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
war between North and South Korea but the country never signed a peace | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
deal. A US general today warned time is running out for a lasting | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
peaceful folk because solution to the situation. -- lasting peaceful | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
solution to the situation. Figures out today reveal how | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
many prisoners have been accidentally released from jails | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
in England and Wales. The Ministry of Justice says 71 | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
inmates or suspects were incorrectly freed in the year to March - | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
the highest number since Meanwhile, the number of assaults | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
was more than 26,000, with attacks on prison officers | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
at a record high of more than 7,000. With me is our Home Affairs | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Correspondent, June Kelly. Staff shortages, overcrowding, the | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
prevalence of drugs like spies in jails means some inmates are out of | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
control and a lot of the time and gang culture in jail, imported from | :13:14. | :13:23. | |
the outside world -- spice. The prison officers Association says the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
system is out of control but the government disagrees. They say there | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
is a recruitment drive going on to get more staff in which is underway. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
The Justice Secretary David Liddington today said these figures | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
show the importance of improving safety and security in our prisons. | :13:38. | :13:55. | |
This is Outside Source, our lead story... | :13:56. | :13:56. | |
A senior Republican has warned Donald Trump that firing special | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
prosecutor Robert Mueller could be the beginning of the end | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Let's have a look at what the BBC language services are reporting | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
today... BBC Arabic is reporting that France | :14:07. | :14:07. | |
plans to set up "hotspots" in Libya to process asylum seekers, | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
in a bid to stem the flow President Macron said the move | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
would stop people not eligible for asylum from "taking crazy | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
risks". This is one of our most | :14:17. | :14:25. | |
watched videos online - truck loads of snow has arrived | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
at a zoo in Lapland so that resident polar bears have some snow to play | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
in in the warm weather. Palestinians have returned to a holy | :14:32. | :14:45. | |
site in east Jerusalem for the first time in two weeks after Israel | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
removed controversial security measures. The complex is in the old | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
city, and there have been intensive diplomatic efforts to resolve the | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
crisis involving the United States, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Thousands | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
pack the narrow streets. For nearly two weeks, most Muslims into recent | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
and did not go inside of this mosque. At first, Israel blocked | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
access after two policemen were shot dead at the al-Aqsa mosque. Then, | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Palestinians refuse to enter in protest at new security measures | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
from Israel, but then they were removed. You can see how many people | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
answering this call to prayer. Palestinians saw the extra security | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
as a way of Israel extending control over the site, the third holiest | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
place in the land and the most holy place for Jewish people. Israel | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
denied that. But when the crowd tries to force open a gate kept | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
closed by Israeli police, the mood of celebration turned sour. This is | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
how Muslim worshippers prayed in recent days. And streets outside of | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the old city walls, in occupied East Jerusalem. Until, overnight, | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
scaffolding and barriers are dismantled, to cheers. Already, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Israel removed metal detectors and cameras. TRANSLATION: Respect and | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
appreciation for our people into recent. Christians and Muslims. It | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
was their resistance and steadfastness. As tensions rose this | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
week, five Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli security | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
forces. In this West Bank settlement, a Palestinian teenager | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
stabbed to death three Israelis in their home. Now it is hoped the | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
dangerous excavation will be reversed. I am confident that things | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
will come down step-by-step. After all, it is our duty and policy to | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
keep the status quo, enabling Muslims, Christians and Jewish | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
people to pray in their holy places. But this latest crisis has only | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
deepened the mistrust between Israelis and Palestinians. Just at a | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
time when there are fresh international efforts to restart | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
peace talks. Ian and Snell, BBC News, Jerusalem. | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
More bad tidings for the social media company, twitter. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
It's share price has tumbled following another | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
This is what happened today - shares fell by more than 13%. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
But even more worrying is the fact that the value of the company has | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
fallen by nearly 60% since it listed its shares back in 2013. | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
Let's get more on this with Samira Hussain in New York. | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Samira Hussain joins us from New York. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
It is quite dramatic, isn't it? What has happened to Twitter? Boom, | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
indeed. The big problem for Twitter is it did not gain any more new | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
users in the last three months of the year. To put that in | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
perspective, in the last three months of this year, Facebook added | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
70 million new users. That has always been a big problem with | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
Twitter. We are not seeing a lot of user growth, which is really | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
disappointing for the company. When you look at the advertising revenue, | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
those sales were disappointing so investors are not very happy with | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
Twitter. They are struggle eyes -- struggling to monetise their user | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
base. And what about Amazon? Sales have increased at 25% but when you | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
look at profits for the quarter, that fell by 77%. That's really | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
significant, that is because they have just been spending money, hand | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
over foot. They have been investing in a lot of video streaming and they | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
made that they purchase for the upscale supermarket, Wholefoods. And | :19:19. | :19:30. | |
what about the owner? He has become the richest man in the world, but | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
because it is so dependent on the stock price Amazon, when one Amazon | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
share hit $1071, he became the richest man in the world but | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
whenever it dips lower, he gives up his spot... A cold sweat? Exactly! I | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
think he will get over it, I think he can sleep at night! He has $90 | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
billion, I think he is OK! I think he will be fine! Thank you very | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
much. Twitter may be struggling | :20:03. | :20:03. | |
to monetise its user base, but its rival Facebook isn't | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
suffering from the same problems. The Silicon Valley giant posted | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
another set of bumper figures yesterday and it's looking to become | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
a leader in the field Our technology reporter | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Chris Foxx has more. I am inside Facebook's virtual | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
reality chat room, which Facebook says is the most immersive way we | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
will have conversations over the Internet in future. Rachel from | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Facebook joins me. Why will people want to chat in this way? I think | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
you can see, we are here together even though we aren't in the same | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
space. We are together with each other which is a special thing and I | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
think that I can see you nodding, you can see my hand movements and | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
you get the idea of my body language just by being in Facebook space with | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
me. If I want to change the view, you can pass me one of these grapes? | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Can I take this from you? This is fun... And I put it into the | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
centre... And now we are in someone's house... Is this Mark | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Zuckerberg's house? There he is, with his dog. And there is his | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
daughter, learning how to walk. A baby's eyed view of the house. It is | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
very surreal. The Virgin Group has sold a 31% | :21:19. | :21:19. | |
stake in its Virgin Atlantic airline to the French carrier Air | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
France-KLM. In a joint statement, | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
the two companies said that the deal would provide | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
"convenient flight schedules with competitive fares and | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
reciprocal frequent flyer benefits." Good news for those of you heading | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
off for your summer holidays. Earlier we spoke to the chief | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
executive of Virgin Atlantic- he explained what the deal | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
could mean for the I think there is a number of | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
different passengers it adds value for. For the virgin passengers who | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
are in the UK, the biggest thing is how we can coordinate our frequent | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
flyer programmes to offer more destinations they can earn M Miles | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
on, not just Delta flights and other flights, but also the KLM flights to | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
everywhere they fly. Plus, they can use those miles for Virgin Atlantic, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
frequent flyer miles to go to new places on air France and KLM's | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
network. We can make our programme quite a bit better. | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
Earlier, we had an update from a US Army general. He said that time was | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
running out for a peaceful solution to the North Korea crisis, although | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
he did support diplomatic efforts, doesn't everybody? That was the | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Army's chief of staff and he said the most recent missile tests on the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
4th of July show that they are advancing faster than anyone | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
expected. He added North Korea is getting more dangerous as the weeks | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
go by and, no coincidence, he was asked for those comments. To the day | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
it is 64 years since fighting ended in the war between North and South | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Korea. In the north, they call it "Victory Day". This is the scene in | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
Pyongyang, and in South Korea, a very different scene. This is South | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
Korea, they call it Armistice Day. Military staff and international | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
representatives gather near the border and call for restraint in the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
North. Of course, the fighting ended 64 years ago. There never was a | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
peace deal between the North and the South. The signs article sides | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
signed an agreement here, part of the demilitarised zone between the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
two countries. You see how they face off against one another but it has | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
always remained a fragile peace, as Karen Allen reports from steel. The | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
year of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. It | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
was a bitter civil war in the 1950s which led to a divided Korean | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
peninsula. Since then, the North has tried to develop a nuclear weapons. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Initially with help from the Russians. Since then, we have seen | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
five nuclear tests, most recently carried out only last year. And | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
under Kim Jong-un, we have also seen the testing of the first | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
intercontinental ballistic missile. We may not have a nuclear warhead | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
yet but that could still be to come. Even so, apart from military might | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
and big headlines, what does having a nuclear weapons give to North | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Korea? Most people in the West see nuclear weapons as a security | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
guarantee and a deterrent against any foreign attack or invasion but | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
in North Korea it is more than that. They are symbolic of the advanced | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
technology, they are symbolic of an instrument which makes the state | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
more powerful and more capable. The leadership that leads the state | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
narrative is that nuclear weapons and their delivery systems are a | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
necessary condition to achieve economic prosperity. The North | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Korean mindset is abandoning these weapons is abandoning hope for | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
economic prosperity. The US has tried to put pressure on North Korea | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
to freeze its nuclear programme and has tried to get countries like | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
China to apply what influence it can. But, nuclear potion sea is such | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
an important part of the North Korean psyche that any kind of | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
international ban is likely to be considered an assault on | :25:44. | :25:44. | |
country's national identity. STUDIO: Karen Allen reporting from Seoul. | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
Plenty more to come, we talk about the forest fires in France, the | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
situation in Venezuela and, if you are on antibiotics, should you | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
finish the course? I will tell you all about it... | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
Hello and good evening. There is something wrong with the weather at | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
the moment. A mix of sunshine and heavy April showers today. More this | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
evening and overnight. Eddie | :26:19. | :26:19. |