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throughout the week ahead. This is BBC World News | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Today, I'm Alpa Patel. US media told Donald Trump said | :00:07. | :00:24. | |
firing James Coney believed great pressure and described him as a nut | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
job. The new revelations come as Donald Trump sets off as his first | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
overseas trip as president. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
welcomes Sweden's decision to drop an investigation | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
into an alleged rape. And its attempt to | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
extradite him from the UK: Seven years without charge while my | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
children grew up without me. Today is an important victory for me | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
and for the UN human rights system. Also ahead: The polls have closed | :00:44. | :00:59. | |
in Iran's presidential elections - after a high turnout forced them | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
to be extended three times. We start with yet more turbulent | :01:03. | :01:27. | |
development in Washington, hot on the heels of President from's | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
departure on his first foreign trip, US media published two new | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
revelations. The New York Times is reporting that | :01:34. | :01:45. | |
the president described his sacked FBI chief James Coney as a nutjob. | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
They show document summarising the meeting saying I face great pressure | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
because of Russia has taken off. The Washington post has also published | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
an article saying a current White House official has been identified | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
as a significant person of interest. In the FBI investigation into links | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
between Russia and the Tramp campaign. We will have more for you | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
with our correspondent in a moment. But both those stories were | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
published only minutes after Air Force One took off from Andrews air | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
base taking Donald Trump on his first foreign trip since becoming | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
president. They are going on a nine-day tour of Saudi Arabia, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Israel, Belgium and Italy. The trip was billed as a chance to build the | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
Wright -- visit places sacred to major religions. But could the | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
turmoil in Washington overshadow the strip? Our chief international | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
correspondent is in the Saudi carrot Talanoa | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
-- the Saudi capital where Donald Trump will arrive. The rumours are | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
staring in the region President Trump as room of them reporting, is | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
facing extreme pressure at home over the handling of the intelligence and | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
could end up cancelling this trip and then his next up in Israel. We | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
all knew this trip matters a lot to President Trump and it is certainly | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
mattering to the Saudi kingdom. It is now only hours before the | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
American president makes Riyadh in his first stop on his very first | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
foreign visit. This is the city under tight security, and a city | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
which has taken on all the stops that to make this a visit like no | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
other. Everywhere you go here you see the slogan, together we will | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
prevail. This summit, they say, like no other in history. This is the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
place full of superlatives now, not that one summer but three. A meeting | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
with Saudis, rule cueing Royal rules, Gulf leaders, of the Gulf | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
region. And leaders from across the Arab and Islamic world. It is about | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
turning the page about what they saw a infuriating relationship with | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
Obama and his retreat as they saw it, from the Middle East. They have | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
hailed President Trump from the start. That's go back to those | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
revelations in Washington. We can speak to our correspondents there. A | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
complicated story, talk us through the New York Times article. What | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
does the paper say it has seen? What it is saying is talking about this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
meeting that happened last week between Donald Trump and several | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
senior Russian officials in the Oval Office. They base their report on | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
official readout, an internal read-out of the meeting. It says | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Donald Trump says James Coney: the FBI director he fired, was a nutjob | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
and what was under a great deal of pressure about Russia and that by | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
firing James Coney, it took that the pressure off. So these were once | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
again, the revelations about Donald Trump's intent in firing James | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Comey, a view into its mind in this hell is happening in his mind, make | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
a meeting with Russian officials, has figured centrally in this | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
investigation. At the same time, we also have the Washington post saying | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
the investigation into the links between the Tramp administration and | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Russia has identified a person of interest. What more can you tell us | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
about that? The person of interest, not a suspect but this is someone | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
they consider integral to the investigation. The article lists | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
several senior club officials who have acknowledged they had ties or | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
had meetings with Russia, one is Rex Tillerson and the other Attorney | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
General 's Jeff Sessions. The final is fromson-in-law Jara killing micro | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Jared Posner. -- Jared Posner. We cannot confirm | :05:58. | :06:07. | |
anything but it sounds like the investigation is now centred or | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
looking in through the White House talent officials rather than save | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
poor man thought we were the campaign manager since disconnected | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
from the campaign. All Michael Flynn, who was the national Security | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
adviser who was fired because he was not upfront about his conversations | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
with that Russian ambassador. Fast moving events in Washington, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
meanwhile Donald Trump is on a plane to Riyadh, what do you think has | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
reaction will be? All of these stories broke about an hour after | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
the doors closed on S Air Force One, he has called this a witchhunt and | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
was tweeting about it. He will feel like this is a pressure put on him | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
by a media treating him unfairly, another word he used in a recent | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
speech. I'm convinced it's not going to be happy about this. The problem | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
for him is he will land in Saudi Arabia where it will be difficult to | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
classic negotiations and closely watched meetings, going forward and | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
in Italy, Israel, Brussels, and he will have journalist asked him about | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
this probably more than what they want to be talking about which is | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
his foreign trip. Going back to the New York Times, how damaging could | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
this article be? How reliable are those sources? The New York Times | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
says that there facing these on an official read-out fixing the basic | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
these on a official read-out which is a document produced by the | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
government or the White House itself, then circulated internally. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
They have seen presumably this document which is authentic from a | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
reliable source. The White House itself isn't specifically denying | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
these were words that Donald Trump said, that he talked about relieving | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
pressure, they are fraying it as being part of the Tramp negotiations | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
with Russia, inventing them to cooperate on the policy goals. As | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
far as the serious goes, this points towards intent, for firing the FBI | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
director, in soon another data point. He was pressured by Donald | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
Trump it is alleged, to stop the investigation, and early reports | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
suggested it was because of Russia. suggested it was because of Russia. | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
We will see. It is serious though, and I think Donald Trump's critics | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
will point it to an example of where possible obstruction of justice. You | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
mentioned intent, what do you think Donald Trump means by great pressure | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
on James Comey? That is the big question. Last week, Trump said that | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
he had the Russian investigation in mind when he fired James Kammy. -- | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
James Comey. I don't want to get into Donald Trump's mind here, he | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
has a tendency to talk of the cost and choosing words indelicately, but | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
it is obvious that he is upset about the way James Comey was dealing with | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
this investigation. The ordinary grandstand. They expect the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
investigation to go on, but that James Kammy was mishandling it, | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
according to the White House. Thanks for joining us. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
The founder of the wikileaks website, Julian Assange, | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
says it's a "victory" that Swedish prosecutors are ending | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
their investigations into claims he carried out a sexual assault. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
He's been taking refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
Speaking to the media - he said he would not be leaving it, | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
because he could still be arrested by police in London. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Ecuador's Foreign Minister called on the UK to allow Mr Assange | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
On the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy Julian Assange emerged this | :10:06. | :10:16. | |
afternoon to have his say on the end of the Swedish | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
Today is an important victory for me and for the UN human rights system. | :10:19. | :10:37. | |
Seven years without charge while my children grew up without me. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
That is not something that I can forgive, it is not | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
But prosecutors in Sweden have not cleared Julian Assange, | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
they have simply said they can't pursue the case any further. | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
TRANSLATION: There are now no further measures | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
remaining which are possible to advance the investigation. | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
In order to proceed, it would be necessary | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
for Julian Assange to be formally served notice of the crimes | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
This was a measure that was to have been conducted during an interview | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
in London, but Mr Assange refused to make this possible. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
This complex international drama began in August 2010 when two women | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
alleged that Julian Assange had sexually assaulted them | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
In December that year he was detained in Britain under | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
In May 2012 the Supreme Court upheld a decision to extradite him | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
And in June Mr Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy in London | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
The Metropolitan Police mounted a 24-hour guard at the embassy. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
By October 2015 it had cost over ?30 million. | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
Julian Assange is no longer wanted on an international arrest warrant | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
but the Metropolitan Police say that if he stepped out of the embassy | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
they are still obliged to arrest him for failing to surrender to a London | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
At the embassy this evening his supporters were jubilant. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
But in Sweden, the woman who accused him of rape issued | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
a statement saying he was evading justice, and expressing her shock | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
that the investigation was being shelved. | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Julian Assange was not held without charge with for seven years. | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
He was subject to extradition proceedings with in the EU, | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
under the European arrest warrant scheme he would have received | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
a fair trial in Sweden had he chosen to go back. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
The reason this has lasted seven years is entirely down | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
to him seeking refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy rather | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
than going to face trial in a country that has governed | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
The founder of Wikileaks says it was fear that he would be | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
extradited to the United States for leaking classified information | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
that drove him through the doors of the Ecuadorian Embassy. | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
So despite today's dramatic twist in this long-running | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
diplomatic and legal saga, tonight he is back inside. | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
The polls in Iran's presidential election have now closed | :13:08. | :13:20. | |
after a high turnout forced officials to extend voting | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
by six hours.The incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is facing | :13:23. | :13:38. | |
strong competition from hardliner Ebrahim Raisi - | :13:39. | :13:39. | |
who is proposing a tougher stance on the West. | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Wisley is a reporter from BBC's Persian service. When will we get a | :13:45. | :13:55. | |
result? Sometime in the afternoon -- morning Saturday. It just closed a | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
few minutes ago at midnight run time it is unprecedented. The | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
announcement of the final results will take longer. Interesting that | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
was at a high turnout, what prompted that? Absolutely. What is at stake? | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
This might decide around was on her future at the end of the day. The | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
state-run TV and media have bombarded the audiences with themes | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
of people participation and so on, because the regime wants a high | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
voter turnout because it will give more legitimacy. Reform minded | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
people want to turn up because they want to stop the victory of Abraham | :14:31. | :14:41. | |
raised the, but his stop supporters want to stop the current incumbent. | :14:42. | :14:53. | |
We can now go to a senior reporter at the Carnegie endowment. Tell us | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
how important the Iranian nuclear deal plays into the selection? -- | :14:59. | :15:10. | |
into this election? The current president has a deal to deliver on | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
the nuclear programme but there will be disappointment at how he has | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
carried it out. If he is re-elected, they will remain a strong advocate | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
in Tehran for the trade deal, if Hassan Rouhani loses and Ebrahim | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Raisi wins, then his two main parents, Obama and Tehran,, will | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
have left the scene. Then he will be under the care of. I want to feel | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
ambivalent about the deal won he will be | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
fixing apart from the nuclear deal, what can you tell us about what the | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
Iranians are voting on with macro Iranians elections are always an | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
free, an fair and unpredictable, and only six individuals were allowed to | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
run. I think that the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, was the most | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
moderate options that many Iranian moderate voters have. Ebrahim Raisi | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
on the other hand, is in many ways a mini me of it around's supreme | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
leader who wants to stay loyal to revolutionary principles, animosity | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
to the United States, a regime which retains its Islamic piety, so I | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
think even though the fact it was a close election, there was a stark | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
choice between these two candidates and competition between them is | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
genuine. But the big question will be, this election was rigged | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
beforehand given so many candles were disqualified, the big question | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
is, will also be big after the votes are counted? -- read after the votes | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
are counted? That remains to be seen. How will the West be seen | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
after this election? Much of the West including the United States is | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
in such internal disarray, that it in such internal disarray, that it | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
is very inward focused, the Trump administration views they run very | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
differently than the Obama administration. The Trump | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
administration is very cynical about Iran, so if Hassan Rouhani wins I | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
don't think it will change that view and if Ebrahim Raisi wins they will | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
be more cynical. I think it will help the cause of hawks in | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Washington who want to isolate Iran if Ebrahim | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Ebrahim Raisi wins because it will show the European countries that | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Ebrahim Raisi is a hardliner, a bad guy. Worth if Hassan Rouhani and his | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
Foreign Minister, will break Iran looks like it is run by a more | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
pragmatic and reasonable actors. Give us an idea, please, about how | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Iranians feel about this election. Has it divided the country? | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
Definitely. The country might settle for political pundits and historians | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
and sociologist, it might settle the issue of where it run stand in terms | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
of the centre, periphery, urban, rural, modern. It is a tight race | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
and the focus of Ebrahim Raisi has been the urban and the rural with | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
promises of job and economic benefits, three times what they are | :18:44. | :18:44. | |
getting. The reformers have called getting. The reformers have called | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
this impractical. The effects of those promises for a population that | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
has not seen the benefits of the promises of Hassan Rouhani, is very | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
strong. I don't think can take it for granted that he can win or lose | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
at this stage. Thank you both for being weather. Won being with us. | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
Next, we have the sport news including a Russian billionaire's | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
bid to buy Arsenal. The polling stations are all | :19:23. | :19:46. | |
prepared for what will be the first truly free elections in the many's | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
history. It was a remarkable climax to what will surely the most | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer. It's been a peaceful | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
funeral demonstration so far but the police are at the crowd, we don't | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
know why. The ritual is established here, they were in good spirits but | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
Branson. In the last hour, East Timor has become the world's newest | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
nation. The challenges ahead are daunting. But for now, at least, it | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
is time to celebrate. US media are reporting that Donald | :20:23. | :20:46. | |
firing FBI director James Comey firing FBI director James Comey | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
eased great pressure on him, it comes as Mr Trump heads off on his | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
first foreign trip. The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange | :20:53. | :20:52. | |
says he will neither forgive nor forget, after Sweden said | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
it was dropping its investigation The disgraced former | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner is facing a prison sentence | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
for sending obscene messages He pleaded guilty in federal court | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
to "sexting" a 15-year-old girl. Before his fall from grace, | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
he'd been a high profile figure in the Democratic Party, | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
with links to Hillary Clinton, His or your sport. There is usually | :21:20. | :21:37. | |
on the ownership of the Premier League double club Arsenal. The | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
minority shareholder has made a bid of around ?1 billion to buy out the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
majority chair. It's understood this bird has been rejected. The manager | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Arsene Wenger is still keeping people guessing. His contract | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
expires after the FA Cup final next Saturday when the board are expected | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
to discuss his position. Arsenal's final league match is at home | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
against Everton, on Sunday, could that be his last | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
I think what is most important for us is to win the football game | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
After that, what happens to me is less important. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
I am here to serve the club and the best way | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Meanwhile, lots of other Premier League managers have been giving | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
their final pre-match news conferences of the season. Jurgen | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
Klopp's Liverpool need to beat Middlesbrough on Sunday to be sure | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
of a top four finish, regardless of the result. Klopp says they will be | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
spread strengthening the squad during the summer. We aren't just | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
working on the players, we have a lot of people around and have good | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
positions for different players, but it's not that we want to talk about, | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
we want the team better. Every year. What I wanted to say, it's not that | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
easy because we have already agreed cueing been a good side. If we have | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
our first 12 to 14 players, the world is not full of players, that | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
makers plan immediately. Week you can be sure we will speak to them. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Myriad Sharapova says she will not Myriad Sharapova says she will not | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
procure a wild card for Wimbledon and will go by qualifying. She has | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
relied on wild card sense her doping ban. He was denied a wild card to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
the French Open but her ranking allows her to enter Wimbledon | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
qualifying in which he needs to win three matches in a rotary the first | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
round. Rafael Nadal's unbeaten run on clay is over. The Spaniard was | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
knocked out of the opening info by Dominic Thiem, losing in straight | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
sets 6-4, 6-3. He will face Djokovic or del Potro in the semis. Zverev | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
will take on John Isner in the other five semifinal. As expected, the | :24:14. | :24:29. | |
Colombian filling with the lived up to his billing as the fastest man in | :24:30. | :24:38. | |
this year 's tour. Tom the moon position of race leader. | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
Some goal for you now. Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from next week whether | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
BMW PGA championship. He announced he is suffering from the same rib | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
injury he suffered in the off-season were trying out as new clubs. That's | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
all the sports for now. Let's remind you of our top story this hour, toe | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
Joe Mellor two -- two new revelations in | :25:08. | :25:20. | |
Washington. The what New York Times says the president described his | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
sacked FBI chief James Comey as a real attempt to nutjob. Won as a | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
realtor two. It also says the pressure is off. The Washington Post | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
says a White House staffer has been announced as a key figure in the | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
investigation into the front campaign. We'll have more of that in | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
the next hour. Goodbye for now. | :25:53. | :25:56. |