:00:00. > :00:00.Theresa May is meeting leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party
:00:07. > :00:08.in Downing Street, as she seeks a deal to enable the
:00:09. > :00:13.The DUP's Arlene Foster and Nigel Dodds go into
:00:14. > :00:16.Downing Street to discuss a deal, with the terms of
:00:17. > :00:24.What price to keep Theresa May in power?
:00:25. > :00:26.We'll be getting the latest from our Assistant Political Editor
:00:27. > :00:31.Inflation hits a near four-year high, continuing the squeeze
:00:32. > :00:34.on consumers as prices rise faster than wages.
:00:35. > :00:37.An inquest opens into the deaths of the victims of the London Bridge
:00:38. > :00:41.terror attack, and hears five of them were stabbed.
:00:42. > :00:46.One of Donald Trump's top advisers, Jeff Sessions, will testify over
:00:47. > :00:50.claims Russia tried to meddle in last November's election.
:00:51. > :00:55.A year after her murder Jo Cox's parents speak for the first time
:00:56. > :01:15.The phone rang. And it was Dan, one of Jo's aids, and he said, "Jo has
:01:16. > :01:18.been shot, I think." And that was it.
:01:19. > :01:21.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, another loss for the Lions -
:01:22. > :01:24.a penalty with just six minutes left means Highlanders win
:01:25. > :01:47.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:48. > :01:50.Talks are underway in Downing Street, as Theresa May
:01:51. > :01:53.tries to strike a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party
:01:54. > :01:57.which will enable the Conservatives to continue to govern.
:01:58. > :02:00.The Prime Minister and Arlene Foster are discussing the detailed terms
:02:01. > :02:04.of the DUP's backing for her minority government,
:02:05. > :02:06.focussing on the upcoming Brexit negotiations and their particular
:02:07. > :02:08.implications for Northern Ireland's border with the Republic
:02:09. > :02:15.The Conservatives are having to rely on the support of ten DUP MPs,
:02:16. > :02:17.after they fell eight seats short of winning an overall majority
:02:18. > :02:28.Here's our political correspondent Chris Mason.
:02:29. > :02:36.The sun is shining on Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.
:02:37. > :02:40.Just ten MPs and their leader who now wield huge powers. Are we
:02:41. > :02:46.looking at the real government? Big smiles and with good reason. The
:02:47. > :02:49.Democratic Unionists are crucial in propping up Theresa May in
:02:50. > :02:56.government. Look how excited they are. And listen carefully. The
:02:57. > :03:00.future is bright. The future's bright, the future's orange. A
:03:01. > :03:04.clever mash up of an advertising slogan and the colour traditionally
:03:05. > :03:09.associated with unionism. As the Cabinet met this morning there was
:03:10. > :03:18.an obvious question to ask. Are you up Freddie Woodward DUP? The answer
:03:19. > :03:20.is yes because... We need a stable government governing international
:03:21. > :03:23.interest in one of the ways to do that is talk to the largest party in
:03:24. > :03:27.Northern Ireland in order to make sure we can have the support for a
:03:28. > :03:32.Queen's Speech which will enable us to negotiate a good Brexit deal in
:03:33. > :03:35.due course and have policies the country needs in order to make sure
:03:36. > :03:39.our public services are working effectively and the economy grows
:03:40. > :03:44.more sustainably. What might the DUP want in return for what is expected
:03:45. > :03:48.to be an informal arrangement with the Conservatives, where they
:03:49. > :03:53.promise to back them on the most important votes in Parliament quiz
:03:54. > :03:59.Mac could involve money, extra money for roads. The DUP are against
:04:00. > :04:03.limiting pensioners who can receive the winter fuel allowance. Other
:04:04. > :04:08.parties sniff just how vulnerable the Tories are. Misses may promise
:04:09. > :04:12.the electorate a strong and stable government but what we have got is a
:04:13. > :04:15.shambles. She said we wouldn't have a coalition of chaos but that is
:04:16. > :04:20.where we are heading. The truth is the country deserves a proper
:04:21. > :04:24.government which will rule on behalf of the many not on behalf of the
:04:25. > :04:29.few. Your party is used to bunking up with another outfit with which
:04:30. > :04:32.you might not share every governing philosophy so what is wrong with
:04:33. > :04:36.what the Tories are planning now? Theresa May is trying to use this
:04:37. > :04:42.stitch up with the DUP in order to pretend nothing has changed when, in
:04:43. > :04:47.fact, everything has changed. She's got to understand that in the House
:04:48. > :04:51.of Commons everybody is a minority and nobody is going to get their own
:04:52. > :04:56.way on everything all the time. And this was the scene in Downing Street
:04:57. > :05:08.a few minutes ago. Are you ready to drive a hard bargain? What is your
:05:09. > :05:15.price? Are you happy? What price to keep Mrs May in power? Here other
:05:16. > :05:19.bouquets the Theresa May. Chin up, the message reads.
:05:20. > :05:24.Our Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith is in Downing Street.
:05:25. > :05:31.Assuming there is a deal, how stable will it be? I think in the short
:05:32. > :05:37.term it probably will be quite stable and what we will see today is
:05:38. > :05:40.smiles, handshakes, photo opportunities because both parties
:05:41. > :05:44.have a mutual self interest in reaching some sort of accommodation,
:05:45. > :05:49.they agree on many of the big issues like Brexit and virulent opposition
:05:50. > :05:53.to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. From Theresa May's perspective she
:05:54. > :05:58.needs a deal to have a majority in the Commons and from the DUP's point
:05:59. > :06:02.of view, they hope there is going to be money for Northern Ireland, funds
:06:03. > :06:06.for economic regeneration and reconstruction. The difficulty is
:06:07. > :06:11.down the line. One of the reasons is because this isn't a coalition, it
:06:12. > :06:15.is a day by day arrangement, it means ministers have to put their
:06:16. > :06:20.arms around DUP MPs and say, come on, you can join us today. It is a
:06:21. > :06:26.much more wheeling dealing politics which isn't Mrs May's strong point.
:06:27. > :06:32.It is also a very small majority, giving Mrs May a six seat majority.
:06:33. > :06:36.David Cameron had a 17 majority and even then he suffered a whole load
:06:37. > :06:40.of defeats on things like tax credits, personal independent
:06:41. > :06:45.payments, Sunday trading. The real fear is once the DUP have got their
:06:46. > :06:49.crowbar in, they start to exert the leveraged, they start to demand much
:06:50. > :06:54.more contentious issues, possibly around things like the future of
:06:55. > :06:58.parades in Northern Ireland or foreign funding for Sinn Fein. Then
:06:59. > :07:00.it might be much harder to hold this deal together. Norman Smith, thank
:07:01. > :07:01.you very much. But whatever deal is done
:07:02. > :07:03.between the Conservatives With talks scheduled to get under
:07:04. > :07:08.way to try to restore power-sharing in Stormont,
:07:09. > :07:10.Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has warned that no arrangement
:07:11. > :07:12.between the Conservatives and the DUP would be good
:07:13. > :07:26.for Northern Ireland. This is all very edgy. That's right.
:07:27. > :07:29.Here in Northern Ireland, before the early hours of Friday morning nobody
:07:30. > :07:33.thought they'd see what has just happened in Downing Street, the site
:07:34. > :07:38.of Arlene Foster going through the door of Number Ten, holding the keys
:07:39. > :07:42.to power, as it were. But that is now what has happened and ever since
:07:43. > :07:45.it became clear that was going to be the situation, the DUP were going to
:07:46. > :07:49.be in a position of influence, there's been a clamour of opinion as
:07:50. > :07:53.to what the DUP should be asking for, everything from parading to
:07:54. > :07:56.measure specific to Northern Ireland on Brexit. One thing that has come
:07:57. > :08:02.up is that Northern Ireland should get more economic assistance, if not
:08:03. > :08:06.cold, hard cash for infrastructure projects them for tax breaks to help
:08:07. > :08:10.out businesses. Everyone watching to see what comes out of the talks this
:08:11. > :08:15.afternoon but there is another Di mentioned to this. The DUP are
:08:16. > :08:18.involved in two sets of negotiations, one in London, one in
:08:19. > :08:23.Stormont, where discussions are continuing to restore the government
:08:24. > :08:27.that collapsed in January. Sinn Fein have said they are not at all happy
:08:28. > :08:32.of the prospect of a deal between the DUP and the Conservatives. Gerry
:08:33. > :08:38.Adams has said it would not be good for the people of Northern Ireland.
:08:39. > :08:41.The leader of the SDLP said that if there is an economic package as a
:08:42. > :08:45.result of the discussions in London then it should reflect economic need
:08:46. > :08:51.not the DUP's political priorities. Both parties say it showed the
:08:52. > :09:01.British government cannot be an impartial broker at Stormont. James
:09:02. > :09:02.Brokenshire has says it could be separate to stabilising the
:09:03. > :09:03.government in Stormont. A few months ago the mantra was that
:09:04. > :09:06."Brexit means Brexit." Now, though, it's increasingly
:09:07. > :09:08.unclear what that means, and the EU is beginning to show
:09:09. > :09:10.signs of impatience. The EU's chief negotiator
:09:11. > :09:12.Michel Barnier urged London to start talks "very quickly" and appoint
:09:13. > :09:15.a negotiating team that is "stable, The European Parliament's Guy
:09:16. > :09:21.Verhofstadt said the EU is growing impatient as it waits to learn
:09:22. > :09:24.the UK government's Live now to Gavin Lee
:09:25. > :09:41.in Strasbourg. The message from various we are
:09:42. > :09:46.ready. It is. They are ready and becoming impatient, those were the
:09:47. > :09:50.words of Guy Verhofstadt, the EU Parliament's Brexit negotiator, who
:09:51. > :09:54.will have a say in the final part of the deal towards the end of the
:09:55. > :09:58.process. Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator for Brexit, gave an
:09:59. > :10:01.interview with a number of newspapers published this morning in
:10:02. > :10:05.which she said he cannot negotiate with himself and said whilst he is
:10:06. > :10:09.aware of the problems in the UK, what he wants is somebody who is
:10:10. > :10:16.stable, accountable, and has a mandate to come to the table and
:10:17. > :10:30.quickly. He doesn't see it at this stage to extend the deadline.
:10:31. > :10:35.Interesting as well, the German finance minister today talking about
:10:36. > :10:38.there being an open door if, for any reason, the British decided Brexit
:10:39. > :10:43.wasn't something they were seeking. Absolutely not the case when you
:10:44. > :10:46.speak to people here, including Guy Verhofstadt, he said he used to
:10:47. > :10:55.think like that but now he is absolute. We are on a course of
:10:56. > :11:00.Article 50. It has been triggered. The other reason why we have to
:11:01. > :11:04.start hopefully next week is we have only a time frame of less than two
:11:05. > :11:08.years. Everything has to be behind us on the 29th of March 20 19. Guy
:11:09. > :11:10.Verhofstadt. Inflation in the UK has risen
:11:11. > :11:13.to its highest rate for four years. Figures out from the Office
:11:14. > :11:15.for National Statistics show it rising to 2.9% in May,
:11:16. > :11:18.up from 2.7% the previous month, keeping inflation above the Bank
:11:19. > :11:20.of England's 2% target. Here's our economics
:11:21. > :11:25.correspondent Andy Verity. The weakness of the pound
:11:26. > :11:28.since the referendum should have helped tourist towns
:11:29. > :11:30.like Stratford-upon-Avon, but the businesses trying to attract
:11:31. > :11:34.Chinese or American tourists import much of what they sell, and they're
:11:35. > :11:39.being squeezed by higher costs. Business owners know they can't
:11:40. > :11:42.always pass on those costs No profit grows where
:11:43. > :11:48.no pleasure is taken. Certain items, for example
:11:49. > :11:50.on the afternoon tea, the salmon - in six months now
:11:51. > :11:54.it has gone over ?4 a kilo. Cocoa for the chocolate cake, again,
:11:55. > :11:58.has gone up quite remarkably. These are things like butter -
:11:59. > :12:00.August last year, Bought some yesterday,
:12:01. > :12:04.?1.18 a packet. Fish, including salmon,
:12:05. > :12:06.was one of the fastest risers, The average price of
:12:07. > :12:13.all goods rose by 3%. That is the first time in years
:12:14. > :12:15.that have gone up faster Competitive businesses like this one
:12:16. > :12:23.don't want to raise their prices because of the risk that customers
:12:24. > :12:26.get put off and go elsewhere, so they're trying to find other ways
:12:27. > :12:31.to trim their costs. But, eventually, they'll be
:12:32. > :12:33.faced with a choice - raise their prices or see
:12:34. > :12:35.their profits wiped out. And the biggest upward pressure
:12:36. > :12:39.on that cost is labour. The higher minimum wage is one
:12:40. > :12:42.reason for the higher cost one of the biggest upward pressures
:12:43. > :12:47.on inflation in recent weeks. But overall wages aren't keeping up
:12:48. > :12:49.- prices are now rising Inflation probably hasn't
:12:50. > :12:55.reached its peak, it could go I don't think that we're
:12:56. > :13:01.going to see the Bank of England raising rates any time soon,
:13:02. > :13:03.though, because we're seeing a slowdown in activity,
:13:04. > :13:06.and they will be more conscious of the risks to the economy,
:13:07. > :13:09.rather than the risks of inflation The Bank of England hadn't thought
:13:10. > :13:15.inflation would get this Up until now, most members
:13:16. > :13:20.of the committee at the bank that sets interest rates had been
:13:21. > :13:23.convinced it's temporary, so there's no need to head it off
:13:24. > :13:26.with an early rise in rates. A lucrative part of the City
:13:27. > :13:32.of London's financial trading could be forced to move
:13:33. > :13:34.to continental Europe, The European Commission is expected
:13:35. > :13:39.to say later that it wants the EU to regulate the clearing
:13:40. > :13:43.of Euro denominated transactions. At the moment, hundreds
:13:44. > :13:45.of billions of euros move Our business correspondent
:13:46. > :13:57.Jonty Bloom is here. We need to explain what this is. And
:13:58. > :14:01.how big a deal it is if the city loses it. Clearing is just the same
:14:02. > :14:05.as when you clear a check. If I pay you a check and you paid it into
:14:06. > :14:11.your bank account you can take the money out until it clears. This is
:14:12. > :14:13.that on a massive scale. It is every Euro transaction which has to be
:14:14. > :14:18.cleared in the same way which accounts to hundreds of millions if
:14:19. > :14:22.not billions of euros a day. 70% of that passes through London even
:14:23. > :14:26.though we have never been in the Eurozone. There have been attempts
:14:27. > :14:31.in the past by the eurozone to get that business done inside the euro
:14:32. > :14:35.area. That failed, stopped in the courts. Because of Brexit, they are
:14:36. > :14:39.trying again, the European commission saying they will want to
:14:40. > :14:42.regulate those firms in London and if they don't like what they see or
:14:43. > :14:46.if they don't like being regulated, they are happy to move to the
:14:47. > :14:51.Eurozone, forcing them if they don't like what they see. That matters to
:14:52. > :14:54.London because it is a big business input in tens of thousands of
:14:55. > :15:03.people, involving vast amount of cash. More importantly, they see
:15:04. > :15:06.this as the first attack on their strength. There are lots of cities
:15:07. > :15:08.in the Eurozone, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, which would love the
:15:09. > :15:12.business going on in London and the city sees this as an attempt to grab
:15:13. > :15:14.the business and that will carry on for a long time.
:15:15. > :15:17.Inquests have opened and been adjourned into the deaths
:15:18. > :15:19.of five of the victims of the London terror attacks.
:15:20. > :15:21.Eight people were killed, and dozens injured, when three
:15:22. > :15:24.attackers drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge,
:15:25. > :15:25.then stabbed people in nearby Borough Market.
:15:26. > :15:27.Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports
:15:28. > :15:39.They were young, they'd come from around the world to make their lives
:15:40. > :15:43.in London. Now a coroner will have to decide how they came to be
:15:44. > :15:49.murdered by three young men with knives on a warm summer's night.
:15:50. > :15:53.Sara Zelenak was 21, and no pair from Australia. The court heard she
:15:54. > :15:58.was found with a stab wound in her neck. Graham-mac, 32, was an
:15:59. > :16:04.entrepreneur from London. He was found in the street with a stab
:16:05. > :16:07.wound in his chest. Kirsty Boden was 28, another Australian victim, a
:16:08. > :16:13.staff nurse at a London hospital. She died from a chest wound.
:16:14. > :16:18.Sebastien Belanger was the fourth victim, he was 36, French, a chef
:16:19. > :16:24.who was stabbed in the chest. Ignacio Echeverria was 39, a Spanish
:16:25. > :16:30.analyst for HSBC who is said to have fought back against the attackers.
:16:31. > :16:33.He died stabbed in the back. The family of Sara Zelenak were in court
:16:34. > :16:37.to hear the coroner offered his condolences. He said it was a
:16:38. > :16:42.terrible time and he will consider in detail the causes of all eight
:16:43. > :16:47.deaths. The police investigation is in full flow. The coroner, as is
:16:48. > :16:51.normal in these cases, said he would suspend his inquiry until the police
:16:52. > :16:54.had finished. But he said the families of the victims would be
:16:55. > :17:00.given full details about how their loved ones died. Britain's most
:17:01. > :17:04.senior counterterrorism officer today made a further call for help
:17:05. > :17:12.in dealing with the threat. He told the Times...
:17:13. > :17:17.We need communities to be more assertive and calling out extremists
:17:18. > :17:21.and radicals among us, we need to be occasions and in the based based
:17:22. > :17:25.companies to show more responsibility. The Government was
:17:26. > :17:30.considering further powers to make them take more action. That is a
:17:31. > :17:33.measure of last resort, what is more important is that we develop ever
:17:34. > :17:36.greater co-operation between security and intelligence services
:17:37. > :17:39.and tech companies within the confines of the Lord when sure that
:17:40. > :17:46.this material never reaches the internet in the first place. Traders
:17:47. > :17:52.hope to reopen Borough Market tomorrow, a show of defiance against
:17:53. > :17:54.the man who brought terror here. Tom Symonds, BBC News, Southwark.
:17:55. > :17:59.Theresa May is meeting the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
:18:00. > :18:01.in Downing Street, as she seeks a deal
:18:02. > :18:02.to enable the Conservatives to govern.
:18:03. > :18:06.We hear from the parents of a Muslim convert
:18:07. > :18:07.who travelled to territory controlled by so-called
:18:08. > :18:09.Islamic State about why they want the British Government
:18:10. > :18:15.Coming up in sport, six-times Paralympic champion David Weir
:18:16. > :18:16.has announced he'll retire from track racing
:18:17. > :18:18.at the Anniversary Games next month.
:18:19. > :18:30.after winning his seventh London Marathon in April.
:18:31. > :18:33.The pressure on Donald Trump over alleged links between his campaign
:18:34. > :18:38.In the latest appearance before US lawmakers,
:18:39. > :18:42.US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, he's the most senior member
:18:43. > :18:44.of President Trump's administration to testify before a Senate committee
:18:45. > :18:47.looking into allegations that Russia had tried to meddle in last
:18:48. > :18:51.It comes less than a week after the former
:18:52. > :18:53.FBI chief James Comey appeared at a similar hearing.
:18:54. > :19:03.Jeff Sessions is the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration
:19:04. > :19:06.to face questions about Russia's alleged meddling
:19:07. > :19:14.A one-time close adviser and loyal supporter of Donald Trump,
:19:15. > :19:16.Mr Sessions' relationship with the President has become
:19:17. > :19:22.At one point, he reportedly offered to resign.
:19:23. > :19:26.Today, he'll face tough questions - and may refuse to answer.
:19:27. > :19:30.He'll be asked to explain his role in the firing of James Comey,
:19:31. > :19:33.the FBI chief, who gave evidence to the committee last week.
:19:34. > :19:37.I was fired because of the Russia investigation,
:19:38. > :19:39.why was the Attorney General involved in that chain?
:19:40. > :19:43.I don't know, and so I don't have an answer for the question.
:19:44. > :19:45.Mr Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation
:19:46. > :19:46.following media reports about meetings he'd had
:19:47. > :19:52.meetings that he'd earlier failed to acknowledge.
:19:53. > :19:54.The stakes are high, because Democrats on the committee
:19:55. > :19:58.will be pressing Mr Sessions to clarify on-the-record statements
:19:59. > :20:02.he made during his confirmation hearing in January.
:20:03. > :20:04.He said then that, as an adviser to Donald Trump,
:20:05. > :20:06.he didn't communicate with Russian officials
:20:07. > :20:13.during the presidential election campaign.
:20:14. > :20:15.With the White House engulfed in scandal and much
:20:16. > :20:17.hingeing on today's hearing, Donald Trump has been
:20:18. > :20:20.In an unusual move, with the cameras rolling,
:20:21. > :20:22.his most senior officials took the opportunity, one by one,
:20:23. > :20:29.A somewhat surreal scene, as Washington braces itself
:20:30. > :20:32.for yet another day of high drama and political intrigue.
:20:33. > :20:42.Our correspondent Jane O'Brien is in Washington for us now.
:20:43. > :20:48.High-stakes, as we were hearing, how nervous will Donald Trump be? Well,
:20:49. > :20:53.Donald Trump has already tweeted this morning that fake news has
:20:54. > :20:59.never been so wrong or so dirty. He wasn't specific about what he meant
:21:00. > :21:03.by that, but we can intuit that he is pretty upset about the whole
:21:04. > :21:06.thing. Now, of course, the whole testimony from James Comey last week
:21:07. > :21:13.was supposed to lay all these issues to rest, and what we are now
:21:14. > :21:18.discovering is that, far from doing that, it's raising even more
:21:19. > :21:22.questions about Russian meddling in the presidential election, the Trump
:21:23. > :21:26.campaign's possible involvement in that, and it is now embroiling
:21:27. > :21:29.senior members of the Trump administration. It is how many
:21:30. > :21:32.threads can continue to be pulled before we come to the end of this
:21:33. > :21:37.saga, and of course that is what Donald Trump is desperately hoping
:21:38. > :21:43.for. He tried to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation by firing
:21:44. > :21:47.James Comey, we now know that that decision has come back to bite him
:21:48. > :21:53.in the backside with ferocity of a swarm of hornets. So yes, he is
:21:54. > :21:57.upset, yes, he is worried, but more to the point, how worried are
:21:58. > :22:00.Republicans? Because while this is going on and we are all talking
:22:01. > :22:03.about these endless hearings, they can't get their political agenda
:22:04. > :22:09.under way, they can't concentrate on tax reform, health care reform,
:22:10. > :22:13.lived the debt ceiling or put into place Mr Trump's infrastructure
:22:14. > :22:15.plan. So there is a lot at stake here. Jane O'Brien, thank you very
:22:16. > :22:17.much. The European Court of Human Rights
:22:18. > :22:20.will rule later on whether doctors treating ten-month-old Charlie Gard,
:22:21. > :22:22.who is terminally ill, It would be against
:22:23. > :22:25.the wishes of his parents, who want to take their son
:22:26. > :22:28.to the US for experimental treatment
:22:29. > :22:30.for a rare genetic disorder. agreed with specialists
:22:31. > :22:33.at Great Ormond Street Hospital that he should be allowed
:22:34. > :22:36.to die with dignity. Our medical correspondent
:22:37. > :22:39.Fergus Walsh reports. Charlie Gard cannot see, hear,
:22:40. > :22:43.move, cry or swallow. and kept alive
:22:44. > :22:50.with a mechanical ventilator. His parents, Chris Gard
:22:51. > :22:52.and Connie Yates, have raised ?1.3 million
:22:53. > :22:53.through crowdfunding for experimental treatment
:22:54. > :22:59.in the United States. They say they simply want
:23:00. > :23:03.the best for their son. We know that even if it doesn't
:23:04. > :23:08.work, which I think it will, we know that we have done
:23:09. > :23:13.everything that we can for him. But doctors,
:23:14. > :23:14.including independent experts, say the treatment cannot
:23:15. > :23:16.improve his condition. One concern is that Charlie
:23:17. > :23:17.may experience pain while it had the utmost
:23:18. > :23:29.sympathy for his parents, it was not in Charlie's interests
:23:30. > :23:39.to subject him to futile treatment which might simply
:23:40. > :23:41.prolong his suffering. Today, a panel of seven judges
:23:42. > :23:43.at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
:23:44. > :23:45.will consider written If they decide to take on the issue,
:23:46. > :23:50.a full hearing will be organised. If not, then the parents'
:23:51. > :23:53.legal battle to take their son abroad will be over,
:23:54. > :23:54.and from midnight, Great Ormond Street Hospital
:23:55. > :23:57.will be free to switch off Charlie's ventilator and
:23:58. > :24:03.provide only palliative care. The son of an Oxfordshire farmer
:24:04. > :24:10.who travelled to territory controlled by so-called
:24:11. > :24:12.Islamic State as an 18-year-old has turned up
:24:13. > :24:15.almost three years later, in a prison run
:24:16. > :24:21.by a Kurdish militia. Jack Letts told the BBC that
:24:22. > :24:24.he walked across the front line, His parents are now asking
:24:25. > :24:27.the British Government to find him and fly him back
:24:28. > :24:29.to Britain. Here's our home affairs
:24:30. > :24:38.correspondent Daniel Sandford. Jack Letts was the white
:24:39. > :24:43.middle-class boy from Oxford, 80 news old and just out of school, who
:24:44. > :24:46.ran off to live in territory controlled by so-called Islamic
:24:47. > :24:51.State. -- 18 years old. That was more than two and a half years ago.
:24:52. > :24:56.Since then, he claimed that the BBC, he has travelled all over IS
:24:57. > :24:58.territory. Using the encrypted messaging app Telegram, he said he
:24:59. > :25:03.had been injured in an explosion but that he was not fighting at the
:25:04. > :25:12.time. He said he had fallen out with IS leadership and been put in
:25:13. > :25:14.prison. He said five weeks ago he left, crossing the front line
:25:15. > :25:17.through a minefield using a people smuggler. Supposedly, we were going
:25:18. > :25:19.to go to Kurdish territories for a bit, then continue to Turkey, and
:25:20. > :25:23.then as soon as we got here, got arrested and put in prison. In
:25:24. > :25:27.prison for a few days, not sure how long exactly, around a week maybe,
:25:28. > :25:32.and then after that I was in solitary confinement until now. He
:25:33. > :25:37.told the BBC thought he was being held just outside a Syrian town on
:25:38. > :25:42.the border with Turkey held by the YPG, the Kurdish militia fighting
:25:43. > :25:50.Islamic State. It is about 150 miles from he is struck gold of Raqqa.
:25:51. > :25:55.Jack Letts had an average middle-class childhood. All we have
:25:56. > :25:59.wanted is getting to safety... They will stand trial later this year
:26:00. > :26:02.accused of sending their son money for terrorist purposes, which they
:26:03. > :26:06.deny, saying the money was to help them escape. They tell me now we use
:26:07. > :26:11.a Kurdish prison, they want the British Government to intervene. We
:26:12. > :26:15.suddenly got a message out of the blue, saying that he was in a safe
:26:16. > :26:21.zone, and it was the news we have been waiting for for three years,
:26:22. > :26:27.ever since he went out their plans. -- out there. And now we want to get
:26:28. > :26:31.him home. He will have to account for himself, and I completely
:26:32. > :26:35.understand that. If he has anything to do with IS, I want nothing to do
:26:36. > :26:39.with him. I really despise any group that is extremists like that. The
:26:40. > :26:44.Foreign Office said it would not comment on Jack Letts' case, saying
:26:45. > :26:47.only it cannot provide consular support in Syria, but it is
:26:48. > :26:52.understood officials have been trying to locate him. Neither the
:26:53. > :26:53.BBC nor his parents have heard from him for 12 days. Daniel Sandford,
:26:54. > :26:56.BBC News. On Friday, it will be exactly
:26:57. > :26:58.a year since the murder She was stabbed and shot
:26:59. > :27:02.in her constituency by a man who supported
:27:03. > :27:04.the extreme right. Her family have since spoken
:27:05. > :27:06.about their wish for her to be remembered for what she achieved
:27:07. > :27:09.in life, and this weekend, they're encouraging people
:27:10. > :27:11.to join together with neighbours, friends and their community
:27:12. > :27:14.at events in her memory. Our correspondent Catherine Burns
:27:15. > :27:16.has been speaking to Jo Cox's sister and parents
:27:17. > :27:24.about their daughter's legacy. I still miss the sound
:27:25. > :27:29.of her coming down the drive... Gordon and Jean Leadbeater say
:27:30. > :27:32.they're private people, but as the anniversary
:27:33. > :27:34.of their daughter's death approaches, they've agreed
:27:35. > :27:36.to talk to us. What were you doing
:27:37. > :27:38.when you got that call? We'd just sat down
:27:39. > :27:40.about five minutes. And then the phone rang,
:27:41. > :27:46.and it was Dan, one of Jo's aides. And he just said,
:27:47. > :27:51."Jo's been shot, I think." And we jumped in the car,
:27:52. > :28:01.I remember us jumping in the car, and we couldn't get near,
:28:02. > :28:04.and we set off running. And I don't know...
:28:05. > :28:06.I don't know how we ran, how we managed to get there
:28:07. > :28:11.into the middle of Birstall. In this case, it was a police
:28:12. > :28:18.inspector, comes into the room, and he has to tell you.
:28:19. > :28:20.And we know. In fact, he doesn't
:28:21. > :28:22.have to tell you - And he said, "I'm sorry to say
:28:23. > :28:28.she didn't make it." One of the things that Kim
:28:29. > :28:31.said afterwards was, "Our family is broken now,
:28:32. > :28:34.but we will mend over time." We'll always be broken,
:28:35. > :28:39.because there's a piece missing. But, yeah, I think,
:28:40. > :28:43.to the outside world, we do appear strong,
:28:44. > :28:47.all of us. But there's a lot of days
:28:48. > :28:51.when the bad is bad. The low times for us
:28:52. > :28:56.are when we turn the television on and see terrorist acts -
:28:57. > :29:01.Westminster Bridge, Manchester - because that's when
:29:02. > :29:06.it brings everything back. For me, the ambulances, the sirens,
:29:07. > :29:13.I'm back there again in Birstall. So this is not what you'd expect
:29:14. > :29:17.your average MP to be like, is it? but this was Jo, just very,
:29:18. > :29:23.very relaxed, very comfortable, and just embracing
:29:24. > :29:25.the situation she was in. Jo's sister Kim tries to focus
:29:26. > :29:27.on happier times. That is absolutely stunning,
:29:28. > :29:29.isn't it? Yeah, that's the birthday karaoke,
:29:30. > :29:33.with the Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson,
:29:34. > :29:37.I Know Him So Well, which was our party piece
:29:38. > :29:39.when we were kids. And it was re-enacted
:29:40. > :29:43.for my birthday last year badly. # Looking back, I could have
:29:44. > :29:47.made it differently... # I think there must be
:29:48. > :29:52.a difference between denial and disbelief,
:29:53. > :30:04.I can't believe it's happened. I just cannot believe it's happened.
:30:05. > :30:09.Despite their grief, one year on, the family is keen to create a
:30:10. > :30:14.legacy for Jo. Going forward, build the children, they won't go away,
:30:15. > :30:19.but we have to be positive, and we are being. And Jo's children have
:30:20. > :30:21.got so much of her, and Brendan, in them. That is a great legacy, and we
:30:22. > :30:24.do have that. That was Catherine Burns speaking
:30:25. > :30:26.to Jo Cox's parents and sister ahead of the anniversary this Friday
:30:27. > :30:38.of her death. Time now for a look at the weather,
:30:39. > :30:43.Nick Miller is here. Useless weather factor lead, June 13 has a rather
:30:44. > :30:47.special place in UK weather history, it is the only summer day on record
:30:48. > :30:52.in the UK where the temperature has not reached 30 Celsius. You know
:30:53. > :30:56.what? It is not doing it again today, better luck next year!
:30:57. > :31:00.Tomorrow some of the us will get quite close, but by no means all,
:31:01. > :31:06.big weather contrasts across the UK at the moment. For some of us, it
:31:07. > :31:09.feels and looks like summer, but look at the cloud in Scotland and
:31:10. > :31:13.Northern Ireland, the best of the sunshine for part of England and
:31:14. > :31:17.Wales. You can see that all in play on the satellite picture over the
:31:18. > :31:21.past few hours. If you have got sunshine, you are closer to high
:31:22. > :31:24.pressure, weather more settled as a result. Scotland and Northern
:31:25. > :31:28.Ireland, closer to low pressure, breeze, cloud, and breaks of rain,
:31:29. > :31:32.and that is the picture this afternoon. The best sunshine across
:31:33. > :31:35.southern England, where you are closest to that area of high
:31:36. > :31:41.pressure, so this is for a Clarke, a range of temperatures, high teens in
:31:42. > :31:45.south-west England. -- Bora clock. Further north, some cloud around
:31:46. > :31:51.parts of Wales and the Midlands, some sunny belles too. You may catch
:31:52. > :31:54.a shower, most of us will not, but we have had showers already. Closer
:31:55. > :31:59.to low pressure in Northern Ireland and Scotland, some outbreaks of
:32:00. > :32:09.rain, brighter breaks in eastern Scotland, temperatures nearer 20
:32:10. > :32:12.Celsius. This evening and tonight, lower temperatures in rural spots,
:32:13. > :32:18.fog patches developing, but not lasting long in the morning. High
:32:19. > :32:21.pressure exerted its influence a glass England and Wales tomorrow,
:32:22. > :32:26.more sunshine, warm as a result, patchy cloud developing, isolated
:32:27. > :32:30.showers in northern England, but closer to that low pressure, many of
:32:31. > :32:35.us will be dry, but a weak weather system moving through with some
:32:36. > :32:38.outbreaks of rain. A big contrast in temperature, warmer for England and
:32:39. > :32:41.Wales, temperatures pegged back by cloud in Scotland and Northern
:32:42. > :32:47.Ireland. The warmth comes with a price, high UV levels in places,
:32:48. > :32:51.high and very high pollen as well, so take precautions. Wednesday
:32:52. > :32:54.evening, away from the rain, most of us tomorrow evening will be dry, but
:32:55. > :32:59.another weather system waiting in the winds in the Atlantic, and that
:33:00. > :33:02.will bring outbreaks of rain to parts of Scotland and Northern
:33:03. > :33:05.Ireland, pushing right through England and Wales with a few
:33:06. > :33:09.showers, more breeze, more cloud, eventually feeling cool and fresher.
:33:10. > :33:12.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime:
:33:13. > :33:14.Theresa May is meeting the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
:33:15. > :33:17.in Downing Street, as she seeks a deal to enable
:33:18. > :33:22.That's all from the BBC News At One, so it's goodbye from me,
:33:23. > :33:26.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.