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