25/08/2016

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0:00:01 > 0:00:04Well, the Trump campaign want their TV audiences

0:00:04 > 0:00:07to see their candidate not as extreme or divisive,

0:00:07 > 0:00:15but part of a much wider anti-establishment movement.

0:00:15 > 0:00:18Then it was back to the political roughhouse.

0:00:18 > 0:00:21Hillary Clinton is a bigot.

0:00:21 > 0:00:23And afterwards, the verdict on Nigel Farage?

0:00:23 > 0:00:27Many here believed they were in the same fight as Britain.

0:00:27 > 0:00:29We love him, he's wonderful, an inspiration to us.

0:00:29 > 0:00:33And we want to do the same thing, we want to take our country back

0:00:33 > 0:00:35just like you all did.

0:00:35 > 0:00:37And as for Nigel Farage?

0:00:37 > 0:00:39Are you comfortable being seen as an ally on stage

0:00:39 > 0:00:41with Donald Trump?

0:00:41 > 0:00:46Well, look, you know, there was nothing tonight in that

0:00:46 > 0:00:49speech that he gave, I don't think by anybody,

0:00:49 > 0:00:54that could be construed as extremist or unpleasant.

0:00:54 > 0:00:56Nigel Farage left, his moment in American politics

0:00:56 > 0:00:59over, but he stepped into a fierce political battle,

0:00:59 > 0:01:03with Hillary Clinton today denouncing the Trump campaign

0:01:03 > 0:01:06as linked to America's far right.

0:01:06 > 0:01:12Gavin Hewitt, BBC News, Jackson, Mississippi.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15The French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, known as the queen

0:01:15 > 0:01:19of knitwear, has died aged 86. She'd been suffering

0:01:19 > 0:01:21from Parkinson's Disease.

0:01:21 > 0:01:24She began her career as a window dresser but by the Sixties

0:01:24 > 0:01:27had became a fixture of the Paris fashion scene.

0:01:27 > 0:01:30Her striped knitwear designs, which were seen as an alternative

0:01:30 > 0:01:34to formal suits, earned her a famous following, including

0:01:34 > 0:01:37Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn.

0:01:37 > 0:01:39The French President, Francois Hollande, was one

0:01:39 > 0:01:41of the first to pay tribute, describing her as a pioneer,

0:01:41 > 0:01:44not only in creating fashion, but also an attitude that

0:01:44 > 0:01:50helped to liberate women.

0:01:51 > 0:01:53Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.

0:01:53 > 0:01:57Here, it's time for the news where you are.