:00:00. > :00:07.This is BBC World News Today. I'm Kasia Madera.
:00:08. > :00:12.France pauses to remember the horrific truck attack a year ago
:00:13. > :00:15.in Nice, in which more than 80 people were killed as they
:00:16. > :00:24.Just a few hours ago, he was playing host to Donald Trump -
:00:25. > :00:27.President Macron promised nothing will break the countries' alliance.
:00:28. > :00:29.A man with a knife has attacked foreign tourists
:00:30. > :00:38.Two people have been killed and several others wounded.
:00:39. > :00:41.Well, they wanted their wedding dance to be knock-out.
:00:42. > :00:42.The couple whose Dirty Dancing routine didn't
:00:43. > :01:02.Hello and welcome to World News Today.
:01:03. > :01:05.The French President Emmanuel Macron is attending a ceremony in Nice
:01:06. > :01:14.to commemorate the victims of last year's Bastille Day terror attack,
:01:15. > :01:18.Mr Macron is expected to have a private meeting
:01:19. > :01:20.with victims' families and survivors later.
:01:21. > :01:23.In the evening, there is a concert and a candelit vigil.
:01:24. > :01:27.Earlier, Mr Macron hosted President Donald Trump in Paris,
:01:28. > :01:29.at a military parade marking France's national day
:01:30. > :01:31.and the hundredth anniversary of the Americans' entry
:01:32. > :01:38.APPLAUSE Today's events were not about the
:01:39. > :01:44.ties between men but between nations.
:01:45. > :01:46.Even so, the growing personal alliance between Donald
:01:47. > :01:52.Trump and Emmanuel Macron was on display.
:01:53. > :01:55.They were joined as symbols of their two nations by Armed Forces
:01:56. > :01:57.from both America and France, beginning with a fly-past from
:01:58. > :02:05.There are soldiers led the parade together, in
:02:06. > :02:12.tribute to America's role in World War I.
:02:13. > :02:15.The US is an ally of theirs, sometimes you don't think so but
:02:16. > :02:28.France is there for us and we are there for them.
:02:29. > :02:30.president and we are proud to have him here.
:02:31. > :02:32.Speaking to crowds in central Paris, Emmanuel Macron
:02:33. > :02:36.thanked the US for the choice it had made a century ago, and said that
:02:37. > :02:38.France and America would never be divided.
:02:39. > :02:45.The France of today was one of two, with a military band playing music
:02:46. > :02:54.The changing culture here is mirrored by changing
:02:55. > :02:57.The security threats have changed over
:02:58. > :02:58.the past few years, repeated terror attacks
:02:59. > :02:59.have refocused attention on
:03:00. > :03:14.safety at home and the values that France has chosen to protect.
:03:15. > :03:16.The ceremony ended with a military band
:03:17. > :03:19.playing the city anthem of Nice, scene of the last major terror
:03:20. > :03:21.attack in the country one-year ago today.
:03:22. > :03:24.Tributes were laid in Nice to the 86 people who died in the attack
:03:25. > :03:30.This afternoon, President Macron flew from Paris, to join
:03:31. > :03:49.The debate still hangs over this country as it
:03:50. > :03:53.Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is a political commentator
:03:54. > :04:06.Of course, this has been a difficult day for France, but also at the
:04:07. > :04:10.beginning of the day, we saw that huge military parade and this
:04:11. > :04:15.reaffirmation of the relationship between France and the United
:04:16. > :04:19.States. It got off to a bumpy start between Emmanuel Macron and Donald
:04:20. > :04:23.Trump. What do you make of it today? Today they were each serving the
:04:24. > :04:28.other's interests. That was a win, win situation in so many ways.
:04:29. > :04:33.Donald Trump is under a great deal of scrutiny and criticism in
:04:34. > :04:37.America. He has lots of awkward questions being asked even in the
:04:38. > :04:42.press conference yesterday in Paris about his family's ties to rush.
:04:43. > :04:48.Looking presidential and being greeted in Paris about President
:04:49. > :04:52.Emmanuel Macron and having this whole trip in Europe with this
:04:53. > :04:57.important speech that he made, that was relieving the pressure of it. In
:04:58. > :05:06.terms of Emmanuel Macron, he is making the point that the diplomatic
:05:07. > :05:16.point centre of Europe is no France. His wife came yesterday morning and
:05:17. > :05:19.they had talks. Two weeks ago, the received Vladimir Putin at
:05:20. > :05:26.Versailles. Now he has Donald Trump next to him. You have this idea that
:05:27. > :05:30.especially since Britain has left the European Union, France is the
:05:31. > :05:33.major nuclear power, major military power is bidding for Europe. Of
:05:34. > :05:38.course, we saw the vulnerability of fans as well. That horrific attack
:05:39. > :05:44.that happened exactly one year ago. The commemorations taking place.
:05:45. > :05:51.This shocked the city to the heart of France itself. That is...
:05:52. > :05:54.Certainly, it's important, but it's also something that is bringing the
:05:55. > :05:59.French together, rather than spotting them apart. The fact that
:06:00. > :06:02.President Emmanuel Macron gives such important to this whole event was
:06:03. > :06:11.one way of bringing the French together. At the same time,... I
:06:12. > :06:16.would say that it in many ways was important. The other thing is that
:06:17. > :06:20.unfortunately France as a European nation, as much as we have in
:06:21. > :06:24.Britain shown, we are in the same situation. It brings our comment
:06:25. > :06:31.destiny and threat together more than anything else I should say.
:06:32. > :06:37.Political commentator and columnist at the Telegraph, thank you very
:06:38. > :06:41.much for sharing your thoughts. We hope that President Trump at that
:06:42. > :06:45.whirlwind trip across Europe and he is now on his way back home but he
:06:46. > :06:49.is facing a barrage of questions about his son. That is because of
:06:50. > :06:53.new revelations that a former Soviet spy was in the room when Donald
:06:54. > :06:56.Trump Junior met a Russian lawyer during last year's presidential
:06:57. > :07:11.campaign. Lots to discuss. It seems like the story is changing
:07:12. > :07:15.everything a day. Where are we now? When Mr Brooke, the meeting was
:07:16. > :07:20.supposed to be about adoption. Whether or not Americans could adopt
:07:21. > :07:24.Russian babies. That is what Donald Trump Junior said. As the days wore
:07:25. > :07:28.on, the story started shifting. The New York Times kept finding out
:07:29. > :07:35.more. When it became clear that they were going to publish another story
:07:36. > :07:39.revealing that in fact the whole pub point of the meeting was to find
:07:40. > :07:43.dirt on Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump skip to the New York Times and
:07:44. > :07:47.published the e-mail exchange that he had with this Russian lawyer or
:07:48. > :07:50.at least the prison is that of the meeting. Now, it transpires that
:07:51. > :07:59.another person was in the room and this person is a US citizen, but
:08:00. > :08:03.Russian born and had ties to the Russian intelligence. The plot
:08:04. > :08:08.thickens, it becomes more and more murky. The big question of all is,
:08:09. > :08:12.how much did Donald Trump, the president of the United States, know
:08:13. > :08:18.about this meeting and did it constitute any form of collusion or
:08:19. > :08:22.was it as the trumps are trying to say, just simply a run of the mill
:08:23. > :08:26.meeting to find out what they could about the opposition? Obviously,
:08:27. > :08:32.there are so many questions. The Democrats are continuously applying
:08:33. > :08:36.pressure on the companies to in, but so I know the Republicans
:08:37. > :08:38.increasingly. This is the big problem for the Trump
:08:39. > :08:45.administration, because as all this is unfolding, you have the Senate
:08:46. > :08:49.hold-up on Capitol Hill trying to work through the highly contentious
:08:50. > :08:52.health reform bill. The Senate leader has already told them they
:08:53. > :08:58.cannot go on their education and the sort this out. That is what they
:08:59. > :09:03.want to be focusing on. In the meantime, all this suspicion and
:09:04. > :09:09.speculation about Russia continues to engulf the White House, which
:09:10. > :09:15.means that Donald Trump isn't giving any guidance to legislation such as
:09:16. > :09:17.the health care reform. It's a massive, massive distraction. The
:09:18. > :09:20.Republicans have had to deal with this ever since he took office and
:09:21. > :09:27.we are becoming sick and tired of it. The issue is, at what point do
:09:28. > :09:32.they break ranks and say, enough is enough. I wonder if Donald Trump is
:09:33. > :09:37.looking forward to coming back home. As always, thank you very much for
:09:38. > :09:45.the time being. Another attack on a tourist resort in Egypt.
:09:46. > :09:48.Two foreign women have been killed and four others wounded in an attack
:09:49. > :09:51.on a coastal resort by a man armed with a knife.
:09:52. > :09:54.The attack took place at the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
:09:55. > :09:56.The authorities say the two killed were German -
:09:57. > :09:58.intial reports had identified them as Ukrainian.
:09:59. > :10:00.The latest reports say two of the wounded are Czech nationals.
:10:01. > :10:02.Authorities say the assailant has been arrested.
:10:03. > :10:06.What we know so far is that two ladies were killed.
:10:07. > :10:09.According to the governor of the Red Sea, they were
:10:10. > :10:12.I mean, they were not coming for a short visit, but
:10:13. > :10:15.We also know that four others have been wounded
:10:16. > :10:18.and they have already been admitted to a nearby hospital,
:10:19. > :10:20.where they are receiving treatment for their wounds.
:10:21. > :10:22.According to the Ministry of interior, the attacker managed to
:10:23. > :10:26.sneak into the holiday resort through swimming from a nearby
:10:27. > :10:33.He stabbed six ladies before he got arrested, and he is
:10:34. > :10:35.currently being interrogated by police authorities.
:10:36. > :10:37.This is the second incident to happen in
:10:38. > :10:51.Last year, in January 2016, a couple of attackers managed
:10:52. > :10:54.At that time, these attackers were said to
:10:55. > :11:02.Up till now, we did not know what the motivations
:11:03. > :11:05.behind these attacks are, but they will definitely raise questions
:11:06. > :11:08.about how tight the security measures put in place at such an
:11:09. > :11:11.And the big question will be about the
:11:12. > :11:13.impact that this will have on the tourism industry
:11:14. > :11:20.in Egypt as a whole, which is already struggling.
:11:21. > :11:23.Two Israeli police officers have been killed in a shooting
:11:24. > :11:35.Police say three attackers, all of them Arab-Israelis,
:11:36. > :11:38.were shot dead after fleeing to a nearby sensitive holy site.
:11:39. > :11:40.After the attack, the Israeli authorities took the rare step
:11:41. > :11:42.of closing the al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers.
:11:43. > :11:47.In the grounds of one of Jerusalem's holiest sites, Israeli police
:11:48. > :11:50.pursue three men fleeing after shooting as their officers outside.
:11:51. > :11:54.There is a hail of gunfire and the attackers are killed
:11:55. > :11:58.in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a place that is
:11:59. > :12:01.known to Jews as Temple Mount and the regular flash point in the
:12:02. > :12:06.Ambulances rushed the injured to hospital, but to the
:12:07. > :12:15.The attackers were all found to be Arab
:12:16. > :12:19.It was just inside this gate that the shooting
:12:20. > :12:23.Now Israeli police have locked down the area.
:12:24. > :12:25.Normally, big crowds of Palestinian worshippers would be heading inside
:12:26. > :12:32.to the al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers.
:12:33. > :12:34.But today, in a very unusual step, the compound is being closed.
:12:35. > :12:39.With police posted at every entrance to the Old City, the police
:12:40. > :12:50.say that red lines have been crossed.
:12:51. > :12:52.We'll have to consider all the security arrangements taking
:12:53. > :12:55.place on the Temple Mount, because we are in charge
:12:56. > :12:57.and we want to take care of the security of everyone
:12:58. > :12:59.who's coming to pray here, who's coming to visit.
:13:00. > :13:02.I repeat again and again, we are calling everyone and
:13:03. > :13:13.The Palestinian president did condemn
:13:14. > :13:18.While the Islamist group Hamas praised it.
:13:19. > :13:19.Meanwhile, as Palestinians were stopped from
:13:20. > :13:21.heading to the mosque to pray, tempers flavoured.
:13:22. > :13:24.The people who make the incident were killed.
:13:25. > :13:32.If the mosque will not be open, we are going to have more
:13:33. > :13:38.It is 50 years since Israel captured and occupied the Old
:13:39. > :13:47.The concern now is that this attack could be a spark
:13:48. > :13:55.Here in London, two teenagers have been arrested after a series of acid
:13:56. > :13:59.Five people had acid thrown in their faces,
:14:00. > :14:11.One is said to have life-changing injuries.
:14:12. > :14:14.The attacks were carried out at five separate locations
:14:15. > :14:16.in east London, within the space of less than 90 minutes.
:14:17. > :14:18.This report, from our home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford,
:14:19. > :14:26.contains some disturbing images from the start.
:14:27. > :14:28.In the aftermath of an acid attack last night...
:14:29. > :14:34.Police officers desperately trying to reduce the burning
:14:35. > :14:46.John Moody watched the whole thing from the window of his flat.
:14:47. > :14:50.And one of the officers said to him, quite firmly,
:14:51. > :14:55."I'm going to pour this into your eyes, keep your eyes open."
:14:56. > :14:57.The guy did exactly what he was told, because
:14:58. > :15:06.They were just dousing his head and his entire body with water,
:15:07. > :15:10.The attack on a 32-year-old moped driver here turned out to be
:15:11. > :15:13.the first of five over the next hour and a quarter,
:15:14. > :15:18.all involving acid being thrown at the victim.
:15:19. > :15:22.At every crime scene, the target had been driving a moped.
:15:23. > :15:27.was left with life-changing injuries because of the acid used.
:15:28. > :15:31.The Prime Minister said the attacks were horrific.
:15:32. > :15:32.Police have arrested a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old.
:15:33. > :15:37.National statistics for acid attacks are hard to come by but in London,
:15:38. > :15:40.they have risen from 129, two years ago, to 224, last year,
:15:41. > :15:55.and by April this year, there has already been another 66.
:15:56. > :15:57.One of the most high profile recent attacks was last month,
:15:58. > :16:00.when 21-year-old Resham Khan and her cousin, Jameel Muhktar,
:16:01. > :16:02.were targeted while sitting in their car at a traffic light.
:16:03. > :16:05.We are concerned because the numbers appear to be going up.
:16:06. > :16:08.we will enforce the law as we can,
:16:09. > :16:10.and we are working with the Home Office to see
:16:11. > :16:18.Stephen Timms is one of the MPs in east London
:16:19. > :16:21.where the problem is most acute, he has been campaigning for a change
:16:22. > :16:24.in the law and will lead a debate on acid attacks next week.
:16:25. > :16:28.I would like the Minister to confirm on Monday that the possession
:16:29. > :16:32.of acid will be an offence in future in exactly the same way that
:16:33. > :16:33.possession of a knife is an offence today.
:16:34. > :16:37.I would like the law to be changed so that sulphuric acid will only be
:16:38. > :16:42.It seems that some criminals are using the laxer rules on acids
:16:43. > :16:53.to avoid the tough laws on carrying a knife.
:16:54. > :16:56.The Home Office has promised to take action but changes
:16:57. > :17:02.China is under growing pressure to release the widow
:17:03. > :17:06.of the Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who died
:17:07. > :17:08.of liver cancer under police watch on Thursday.
:17:09. > :17:12.He'd taken part in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989
:17:13. > :17:14.and was jailed after calling for political reform and greater
:17:15. > :17:18.His widow Liu Xia, has been under house arrest since 2010.
:17:19. > :17:20.But China has rejected international criticism, saying the case
:17:21. > :17:26.But on Thursday, he died in police custody
:17:27. > :17:29.with his wife at his hospital bedside.
:17:30. > :17:32.These pictures were only recently released after criticism of
:17:33. > :17:34.the Chinese authorities for blocking his medical treatment
:17:35. > :17:41.Whilst the world mourned his death, there are growing
:17:42. > :17:43.concerns for his wife, Liu Xia, who has been
:17:44. > :17:44.under house arrest for the
:17:45. > :17:59.Liu Xiaobo's course was set in 1989, during the democracy protest.
:18:00. > :18:00.Over the following years, he spent
:18:01. > :18:03.much of his life in and out of prison for trying to secure greater
:18:04. > :18:08.I think that over the long term, there
:18:09. > :18:10.is absolutely no doubt that his legacy will be important.
:18:11. > :18:12.He had the courage to stand alone, confronting
:18:13. > :18:17.one of the most powerful governments on earth.
:18:18. > :18:22.In 2010, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, but he was soon back
:18:23. > :18:33.The empty chair becoming a banned expression
:18:34. > :18:36.Chinese censorship is formidable, and few here know
:18:37. > :18:41.TRANSLATION: We know relatively little about him, so there is no way
:18:42. > :18:44.I can really give a comment on what he said.
:18:45. > :18:46.Reaction and criticism from around the world has been pouring
:18:47. > :18:54.in, much to the consternation of Chinese authorities.
:18:55. > :18:56.The Chinese mistreated him in prison,
:18:57. > :18:59.We would hope that they would have allowed
:19:00. > :19:02.him to leave the country to receive a medical care.
:19:03. > :19:09.But China has rejected international criticism, saying the
:19:10. > :19:12.case is an internal affair and foreign countries are in no position
:19:13. > :19:22.Attention has now turned to his widow, Liu Xia's fate.
:19:23. > :19:26.There is a growing chorus of international voices,
:19:27. > :19:33.including the Nobel committee, calling on Chinese authorities to
:19:34. > :19:39.allow her to leave the country should she want to.
:19:40. > :19:41.For her supporters, their top priority is to
:19:42. > :19:45.Please, do not fail again to save Liu Xia.
:19:46. > :19:50.I urge the world leaders, suspend all official interactions
:19:51. > :20:00.with Chinese Government until Liu Xia is saved.
:20:01. > :20:02.Liu Xiaobo once warned, if you want to enter hell,
:20:03. > :20:15.Over the past 20 years, China has moved from the margins
:20:16. > :20:17.of the world economy to a trading superpower.
:20:18. > :20:21.It's planning to finance and build a trillion dollar rail route
:20:22. > :20:25.This week our China Editor, Carrie Gracie has been
:20:26. > :20:34.following that 11,000 kilometre route from China to the UK.
:20:35. > :20:36.Now here is the question, shall we have jam first
:20:37. > :20:43.Lessons in the British tradition of afternoon tea from a Chinese
:20:44. > :20:51.She plans to take her pitch from an Essex
:20:52. > :20:54.A communist state, perhaps, but one with a
:20:55. > :20:59.healthy appetite for the rituals of the British ruling class.
:21:00. > :21:01.Her jam is with berries straight from
:21:02. > :21:06.China's consumer is getting choosy about food quality.
:21:07. > :21:09.A huge market, but hard to stand out.
:21:10. > :21:15.I think mostly at the beginning of the journey,
:21:16. > :21:23.The Chinese are a curious country ought to raise consumers,
:21:24. > :21:25.Another challenge, to cut the time from
:21:26. > :21:28.British strawberry farm to Chinese tea table.
:21:29. > :21:35.She is hoping new transport routes will help.
:21:36. > :21:41.engineering, now it's China's great age of the railway.
:21:42. > :21:49.Carrying UK hopes for post-Brexit markets.
:21:50. > :21:51.From the British end of the New Silk Road
:21:52. > :21:58.Three weeks later, and those British kids from the
:21:59. > :22:01.train are on display at a Chinese trade fair.
:22:02. > :22:09.It's a local stir-fry which captures the crowd.
:22:10. > :22:19.British companies can benefit from China.
:22:20. > :22:22.Peter Bud surveys landmarks his firm has helped put on the Beijing map.
:22:23. > :22:24.China's promised billions to build across 60 countries.
:22:25. > :22:28.And he worries UK companies are slow to seize the moment.
:22:29. > :22:37.There is the degree of cynicism about China as the market.
:22:38. > :22:40.A lot of them have had experiences way back in the past and they don't
:22:41. > :22:43.It is quite upsetting, actually, sometimes.
:22:44. > :22:47.There is more opportunity here than we are actually taking.
:22:48. > :22:56.The ancient Silk Road was about following opportunity.
:22:57. > :22:58.Back then, it was driven by private traders from
:22:59. > :23:01.The new version is Chinese state money and muscle.
:23:02. > :23:07.If it succeeds, it will make China a superpower again.
:23:08. > :23:13.Even mightier, perhaps, than the empires of old.
:23:14. > :23:22.But if it fails, it leaves a legacy of bad blood,
:23:23. > :23:24.which poisons China's future and taints even the grandeur
:23:25. > :23:38.You can see much more on her journey across the New Silk Road in Our
:23:39. > :23:43.World next week. For many couples planning
:23:44. > :23:46.to get married, the first dance is a key event -
:23:47. > :23:49.and a chance to make a big For one couple here in the UK,
:23:50. > :23:53.that meant trying to recreate the scene from the classic 1980s
:23:54. > :23:55.film, Dirty Dancing - the one you can see
:23:56. > :24:09.in the screen behind me. The move is in Dirty Dancing doesn't
:24:10. > :24:14.get much more romantic than that. I think it is just Patrick Swayze, he
:24:15. > :24:18.has got it all. And he may not be Patrick Swayze, but Sharon wanted
:24:19. > :24:23.his moves at their forthcoming wedding dance. Just thought it would
:24:24. > :24:29.be something different. Everybody has a slow dance. Without we would
:24:30. > :24:33.jazz it up little bit. Their first chance to practice, the beer garden
:24:34. > :24:40.in Weston. We had a couple of drinks and then our niece and nephew got up
:24:41. > :24:44.and they did it and Sharon turned around and said that would be a good
:24:45. > :24:46.idea for us to get a bit of practice in. This is the move they tried to
:24:47. > :25:00.recreate. You had your hands on my hips ready
:25:01. > :25:05.to lift. I did manage it and then the next thing we knew, we were flat
:25:06. > :25:10.out on the floor. I was unconscious and you were struggling to catch a
:25:11. > :25:16.breath. An ambulance and rapid response vehicle were called. I
:25:17. > :25:20.think I got knocked out and went back with my head. I think that is
:25:21. > :25:31.how I rendered myself unconscious. They had had a CT scan. They could
:25:32. > :25:35.be on an ECG as well, because about six years ago I had a mild heart
:25:36. > :25:42.attack. They were just being careful. Over six hours later, they
:25:43. > :25:44.were both discharged. The wedding is set for October next year. The
:25:45. > :25:54.choice of bands has been given a rethink. We will just have a smooch
:25:55. > :25:57.I think. I love them for actually doing that interview. Good luck to
:25:58. > :26:02.them. I hope they have a fantastic wedding. Thank you for watching.