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By democrat led committees. Also on the programme. China has been celebrating 70 years of communist rule but in hong kong more violent demonstrations. The police have been using tear gas, pepper spray and live rounds to quell the protests. And what to do when your name is facing extinction . 0ne nigel brought together 400 nigels, for a night of nigel nostalgia. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. When the European Commission president Jean Claude Junker met with borisjohnson a few weeks ago, he said hed discovered something new; that this Prime Minister wanted more of a border on the island of ireland than his predecessor. And today mrjohnson confirmed it. The reality of brexit, he said, means that there must be customs checks of some description in Northern Ireland, after the uk leaves the eu. The Prime Minister has rejected briefings from the irish side that that will effectively mean a hard border, in the form of a series of customs posts some five or 10 miles back from the real border. He says more detailed plans will be unveiled later in the week. The Prime Minister has been speaking this afternoon to our Political Editor laura kuensberg. This is about whether or not the government can can come up with a deal with the European Union to protect the economy, to protect peoples jobs and livelihoods. This is not about telling people to cheer up. It couldnt be more serious. I know, but it is also a question of getting brexit done by october the slst and doing it in a way that protects the unity and integrity of the united kingdom. And we are entitled to protect our Customs Union and we are entitled to exit as a sovereign state, and we can do it in such a way as to preserve the, as i said, all those benefits that ireland has so with Great Respect to all those who are currently anxious, particularly in ireland, i do think our proposals are good and creative but i accept also, laura, that there may be hard yards ahead. There are definitely some people who are worried about new proposals for the future of the irish border and we will speak to one of them soon but first. Lets spell out where we are at the moment and what we might be moving to. The irish backstop is the mechanism to avoid a hard border in ireland. As things stand, the uk and ireland are both eu member states, so goods can cross the border without the need for checks. After brexit, the 310 mile border between Northern Ireland and the republic will be the only land border, between the uk and the eu. A failure to reach a trade agreement, would mean Northern Ireland would end up with different rules and standards, to the republic of ireland. The backstop is the insurance policy that keeps the border open, until alternative arrangements, in the form of a new trade deal, and or a combination of customs and regulatory checks, can be found. The backstop has been rejected by the Unionist Community in Northern Ireland and by the British Parliament 3 times. Joining us now to discuss the border issue further is Neale Richmond who chairs the irish senates brexit committee. Good evening, thank you for being with us. I dont know if you heard the Prime Minister speaking to laura but he says we are entitled to protect our customs territory as a sovereign customs country. Your reaction to that . I recognise that fa ct reaction to that . I recognise that fact but i think what is quite clear if you go back to the joint declaration, the British Government and the European Commission agreed to no additional infrastructure or checks on the island of ireland or the border. In talks of the ideas dismissed from the leaks last night are disappointing and go against thatjoint declaration. We want are disappointing and go against that joint declaration. We want to work with the British Government to allow them to leave the eu if that is what they want to do but leaving the eu they need to maintain their responsibilities, first and foremost, the integrity of the good friday agreement and putting in the discussion of future customs checks orany discussion of future customs checks or any other infrastructure on the border is a retrograde step that brings us back to a sad time in our history that we all thought we left behind. Unless you consider the 2017 agreement was flawed in the first place because no government, the government of theresa may included, signed up to the Customs Union or the single market. Their new relationship must surely include custom checks of some description, otherwise how do you get out of the backstop unless it is a trap . Far from it. Firstly, the 2017joint declaration and the 2018 withdrawal agreement, it is important not to confuse the two. The overall line of both the british and european side is no additional infrastructure on the border of ireland in order to maintain the integrity of the good friday agreement. We want to move towards the second phase of brexit negotiations, to negotiate that deep and meaningful trade customs and regular trade deal, that will mean there is no need for that. If that cannot be achieved of course we remain open to suggested alternative arrangements and none have been suggested so far. Finally, we need that insurance policy of the backstop, a temporary measure that would allow for rigatoni alignment for ireland and a Customs Union between the uk as a whole and the eu. It is a temporary insurance policy. We need the legal guarantees and talking about additional structures goes against the spirit of negotiations that have been held before andy keogh and a key desire of all people, including borisjohnson when desire of all people, including Boris Johnson when he was desire of all people, including borisjohnson when he was home secretary who backs that declaration. What would you accept because if britain wants to go ahead and negotiate its own tariffs and free trade deals, that is going to be some kind of check in some shape oi be some kind of check in some shape orform . Be some kind of check in some shape or form . What we said in the european side and they have been consistent, we want to negotiate that new relationship and we are open to any suggestions from the British Government but it must be respectful of the backstop and be aware of the two key pillars of the European Union on protecting the integrity of a european single market, but equally making sure the good friday agreement is maintained and kept secure. That is a responsibility of the British Government as a cool guarantor of that International Peace treaty. Something that has far more eminence over any brexit discussions must be the key aim of where we are at. When you get is planned later in the week, when you engage with them honestly and properly . There is a lot of anger in the Unionist Community as well, that again rte have been briefed on non paper is that the uk government has supplied. It must be coming from the irish side because it is common of rte that he is getting hold of these papers. That is a terrible remark to make because tony is one of the best journalists. He is, but he is coming from the irish side. That is a gross accusation to make with no evidence. That is the allegation the Unionist Community are making today, they say it is an attempt to sabotage the negotiation. It is not only the Unionist Community that are opposed to it. We have to be careful with their language at the moment and accusations being made by the Unionist Community or anyone in relation to the journalists integrity in the role of the Irish Government should not be done willy nilly. We government should not be done willy nilly. We have government should not be done willy nilly. We have said we will engage and that at any credible or serious proposals by the British Government, however, none have come. We are now ten days past Boris Johnsons 30 day deadline. We look forward to receiving his papers once hes done with the business of the conservative Party Conference but time is running out. I understand that, i am time is running out. I understand that, iam not time is running out. I understand that, i am not casting any aspersions on tony, i am a good friend. I making a point that the Unionist Community said this was an attempt, whoever leaked it, to sabotage a negotiation. The Prime Minister said he is feeling his plans in relative obscurity because these things are being leaked to undermined in negotiation. Anything in obscurity is unhelpful. We are iiow in obscurity is unhelpful. We are now in october, we are due to leave oii now in october, we are due to leave on the 31st of october. If the uk is serious about a deal and an alternative proposal, they really should start sharing them with union right now. Im grateful for your time this evening, thank you. I dont think Tony Connelly will talk to me next time we go to the European Union, i hope so. The Prime Minister has been heading from one interview to another. Worthy of a cup of coffee, who would deny him that . What is this . 0h worthy of a cup of coffee, who would deny him that . What is this . Oh no disposable cups. No disposable cups. Ido disposable cups. No disposable cups. I do know michael gove has replaced all the disposable cups at the cabinet room with reusable cups. They are not allowed to disposable cups. Youll be pleased to hear, and i was, take a look at this, Boris Johnson tweeted out this, note the monkey is using, get brexit done. There is a slogan in that. Elsewhere, it was a lot and order. Priti patel promising to get tough on crime. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell Geoffrey Clifton brown who was reportedly detained as either International Lounge for trying to get someone in without a pass. What you think the International Lounge is . Is it somewhere you International Lounge is . Is it somewhere you go International Lounge is . Is it somewhere you go what you are waiting for brexit take off . I dont know. Anyway, he was rejected and the police were called on law and order a day. Not a good look. Congress might be on a break, but the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is moving quickly. In the last 12 hours, democrats have subpoenaed his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for documents related to his dealings with ukrainian officials. Its been confirmed that the us secretary of state mike pompeo who is currently in europe was on the call at the centre of the impeachment investigation. And donald trump asked australias Prime Minister for help looking into the origins of the mueller investigation. But thats not all. The Inspector General of the Intelligence Community debunked claims made by the president that the whistle blower lacked first hand knowledge of the conduct in the complaint. In a rare statement, the ig said the whistle blower stated on the form that he or she possessed both first hand and other information. That hasnt stopped trumps allies piling in behind the president. Heres the former republican speaker Newt Gingrich and to round it all off secretary pompeo has written a letter to congress, saying he wont allow state Department Officials to be bullied by committees, bringing into question how much theyll comply with recent requests. For more on all of this were joined by formerfederal prosecutorjoe moreno. Thanks for coming on the show. Lets start with mike pompeo. Basically coming out and defending state Department Officials, saying he is not going to allow them to testify, effectively. I look at this letter from the secretary and i see one word, delay. The point of this letter is to say we received your request to congress for these five members of the state department to provide information but were not going to rush into it and give everything you want. They have to have time to prepare, they have to have time to prepare, they have to have lawyers and it is going to be a while before you hear from them. The committees have said any delay in providing them with the documentation they need, they will go after that and see that as a form of obstruction ofjustice. Congress realises they cannot wait two and half years like they did the Mueller Probe. They realise the events here are fresh, they happened within the la st are fresh, they happened within the last couple of months, we wont of them in the last couple of weeks and at this point they want to hear from first hand at this point they want to hear from first hand witnesses and at this point they want to hear from first hand witnesses and see first hand witnesses and see first hand documents. First hand witnesses and see first hand documents. They first hand witnesses and see first hand documents. They are not going to wait months in the court to fight this out. The president s Approval Rating seems to be holding up Approval Rating seems to be holding up but when people are asked about impeachment things are starting to tighten. This is the latest, out today. You will see there were 57 against and 37 four. Now, look at that, a 20 jump. Against and 37 four. Now, look at that, a 20 jump. Is that against and 37 four. Now, look at that, a 20 jump. Is that what is worrying the white house . Any word, yes. I worrying the white house . Any word, yes. Lam not worrying the white house . Any word, yes. I am not surprised worrying the white house . Any word, yes. Lam not surprised by worrying the white house . Any word, yes. I am not surprised by those numbers. When it came to the Mueller Probe, we learn to fax over the course of two years, we learnt little by little, some were debunked, some were not but ultimately it seemed like it would be hard for people to really digest what was being investigated in what was concluded by the special counsel. Here, the facts are very digestible. We have seen the transcript, we know what happened, we have heard from the president and ukrainian president already and people are much more open to the idea. Even without go much further, i dont like what i see here and this really could be something actionable against the president that perhaps we have not seen in the past. Why did you make of the Inspector General coming out and issuing a statement, essentially fa ct issuing a statement, essentially Fact Checking some of the comments out there about this possible. How the whistle blower out there about this possible. How the whistle blower is treated in this whole situation is almost as important as the underlying conduct because we placed so much emphasis oii because we placed so much emphasis on the fact that there is a right way to raise concerns and that is what this person did. This person did not reach, they did not spell classified information, he or she is the proper channels and raised their concerns. The idea that they are going to be threatened or misconstrued as to what he or she knows, i applaud the Inspector General because that is what we should be doing, respecting the whistle blower should be doing, respecting the whistle blower processing and encouraging people to come forward. Theres been a lot of focus on governance, the austrian and italian governments, bill barr, he is within his rights to look up the origins of the russian investigation. In his role as attorney general, can you do that without raising concerns . Yes, we know there is an active investigation about the other members of the Justice Department in the origins of the Mueller Probe. That seems legitimate and reasonable to look into. The problem is the attorney general, when he was mentioned on that transcript between President Trump and president of ukraine, it seemed like he was blurring the lines between what he had attorney general bar looking into and what he had his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani looking into, so now lawyer Rudy Giuliani looking into, so now i think it is fair to say wait a so now i think it is fair to say waita minute. So now i think it is fair to say wait a minute. Lets understand exactly what the attorney general has been doing flying around the world and was he acting in a official capacity, conducting Foreign Policy with the United States was it something more personal in defence of the president . Thank you so much. Thank you, great to be here. What has been so striking is you have congress that in theory have been on recess but the news that is coming out hourly, the developments, whether it is hearings, subpoenas being issued, comments, rebuttals from the white house administration, the difference between this and the Mueller Probe is astonishing. Yes, but good numbers for it nancy pelosi. She has been trying to tread a fine line. Worried about those purple states and house congressmen who might lose their seats in 2020 but if democrats full square behind it, that is good news for her. We will have to wait and see how those numbers hold up. I think the key question is yes and how it is helping fund raising for both parties at the moment. Now, turning to celebrations in china. China has been marking 70 years of communist party rule and its emergence as a global superpower. In beijing today they watched the biggest display of military hardware the world has ever seen. A vast parade, which emphasised just how much has changed in china since the founding of the peoples republic in 1949. But in hong kong that authority is being tested to the limit. Anti government protestors were out in force today defying a ban from holding protests. From hong kong, Rupert Wingfield hayes reports. This was hong kongs birthday present to china. They had been told to stay home, that any protest today would be illegal. Any hope the protests would pass peacefully were quickly dashed. This was Central Hong Kong this afternoon. And this, police and protesters fighting running street battles. In the middle of one such battle, this happened. As a young protester tries to strike a policeman with a metal bar, the officer shoots at almost point blank range. The 18 year old protester is expected to survive. But news of his shooting only increased their fury on the streets. We are not afraid. We will get angrier and angrier. We are not afraid of them. We have to, especially us, we have to stay in the front line and protect more people, to save the future for hong kong. As night fell the streets of hong kong began to burn. Protesters began targeting Chinese State owned banks with molotov cocktails. But as Police Reinforcements arrived, the protesters decided it was time to retreat. This is the middle of causeway bay on Hong Kong Island and you can see, here come the riot police and the water cannon. They are going to start clearing this street. This is only one of at least six different protests taking place, here. With the water cannon speeding after them and the riot police close behind, the protesters fled into the back streets. And so, began a game of cat and mouse. On a Street Corner we found this group of angry local residents cursing the police. Up above, they had a suspected protester cornered. As the police marched him away, the crowd screamed at them, gangsters, we curse your whole family this is how deep the divisions have now become, here. This is now the new normal. Were joined now by mei fong, director of strategy at the centre for public integrity. Thank you for coming on the programme. You just heard our reporter basically saying this is the new normal but it is hard to imagine that is acceptable to the leadership in beijing. No, not at all, this was exactly what the protesters wanted to happen. On one hand you have the pomp and ceremony in beijing on down south was writing. This was the picture they wanted the world to see. |j writing. This was the picture they wanted the world to see. I guess, the lesson is they have taken to heart and remembered what happened in tenements where all those years ago. There was more violence than seen ago. There was more violence than seen before but some restraint, would you say . The problem is there does not appear to be any leadership of this. It is spiralling out of control, that is the square there but as with this choir, the protesters had no recourse but to show a demonstration so they can indicate what they want. This is where they are showing what they want. Howd you get to break in this, does someone like carrie lam have to go for things to move forward or is she dug in and we carry on like this . It doesnt seem as if there is any way out. What happened with hong kong is that the population is becoming increasingly polarised. When i was covering hong kong ten years ago for the wall streetjournal, people are still willing to say, i am hong kong but hong kong is proud of china. Now we are people saying we are hong kong, we do not want to be part of china. We see protesters throwing molotov cocktails, there are vandalism, windows are being smashed. It is much more confrontational, almost a new generation of protesters since the umbrella movement, who have got much more serious about this. That is right, what we are seeing is an escalation. He is an escalation. It used to be people with umbrellas with children peacefully protesting on the streets but now we are seeing tear gas. We have heard about live rounds being fired, i can only see escalation going ahead. We are going to have to leave it there but very quickly before we go, we havent talked about china and this display of military might. Xi jinping has made it very clear he wants china to remain united and so it is unlikely that he is going to take what is going on in hong kong and allowed them the freedoms they have asked for. As the message for more, for america in this, for example . think if there is anything to be said what is going on there and america wants to retain its position as global leader, now is the time to say something. Thank you very much for coming in. If like me you are prone to forgetting peoples names, you may find comfort in this next story. In the cotswalds there has been a gathering of nigels. 433 nigels from around the world who gathered at a pub in worcestershire to celebrate a night of nigel ness. Why, you might ask . Well, because the nigels are a dying breed. Less than 8 nigels were born in england and wales last year, and it was time to make a stand. The man behind the idea was nigel smith thats him on the right landlord of the fleece inn. Among their number was the regions mp Nigel Huddleston there was a nigel from cyprus and a nigel from texas who won the coveted award of furthest travelled nigel. And together they drank ale. Nig ale. Like it. And the beauty of a night like this is that your drinking if you turnaround it is, hate nigel. Hey nigel. Unless you came across the local photographer who was called dave. In 1963 it was pete nigel, there we re in 1963 it was pete nigel, there were 5500 names that year. Peak. In 2016 less than three which is the minimum number reported by the office of national statistics, less than three in the whole of the uk. A night well overdue. This is beyond 100 days from the bbc. Coming up for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news turkey warns it has no choice but to go it alone after efforts to set up a safe zone in Northern Syria fail to yield results. Hello there. It has been a very wet 24 hours or so, especially across england and wales when we started tuesday off with around 7a flood warnings. However, that number did start to fall through the course of the day. But i am pleased to say, if youre fed up of all this rain, that midweek it is looking drier with some sunshine. This evening and overnight, the showers and thunderstorms will clear away from central and southern england and wales, and we will start to see a cooler and drier air mass moving south with largely clear skies. A few showers will still affect northern scotland where it will be windy, but a cold night to come with a touch of frost for Northern England and central and southern scotland. That is because we are importing our air all the way down from the north. Not far from the artic, in fact. You can see the blue hue right across the uk so it means it is going to be a really chilly start to wednesday. In fact, the coldest start we have had of the season so far. However, there will be plenty of sunshine around and for many it will stay dry and sunny all day. Quite a keen wind blowing across northern and eastern scotland down the eastern side of england, that will feed in a few showers here, but elsewhere it should be dry. Top temperature around 1a or 15 degrees but generally in the low teens for most. Now, just want to draw your attention to Hurricane Lorenzo which was a major storm a couple of days ago. It is now continuing to weaken fairly rapidly as it is moving closer towards our shores. There has been a bit of uncertainty as to where it would end up but it is now looking like it will arrive across western parts of ireland through thursday to bring some gales and heavy rain. And then push across the British Isles and also introduce much milder air right across the board, you can see those blue colours being pushed back northwards. This is how thursday is shaping up. It looks like it will be a dry start, plenty of sunshine across much of the country but heavy rain and gales across ireland will push into Northern Ireland and into irish sea coasts, into western parts of britain by the end of the day. Those temperatures will be creeping up slowly from the south. It still could be quite a cool one across the north east. It looks like the remnants of Hurricane Lorenzo continue to ease down. In fact, it fizzles out quite quickly as it pushes across the uk during friday. Well start off with some fairly strong winds and outbreaks of rain which will tend to ease away southwards, many places becoming drier and the winds also becoming lighter as well. Still mild in the south, little bit milder in the north too. This is beyond 100 days. With me, Michelle Fleury, in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. Our top stories Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the chances of the brexit deal are good plus he thinks the eu doesnt want the uk to stay beyond october 31st. We do think that our proposals are good and creative, but i accept also that there may be hard yards ahead. Mike pompeo has accused a Congressional Committee of trying to intimidate, bully and treat his employees improperly with their subpeonas to question five state Department Officials. Coming up in the next half hour. A new bipartisan report calls for the us to halt the withdrawal of troops from syria, contradicting the president s previous messages. And the runaway catering cart that causes chaos at one of the us busiest airports. Watch out. The Brexit Debate once again is centreing around the issue of the irish border. After brexit day, it will be the only land border between the uk and the eu. At the minute the border is invisible after the troubles in Northern Ireland ended, customs check points between the two countries were abolished. Brexit would mean Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland would both adhere to potentially different rules, different regulations and different taxes on goods. Borisjohnson has said checks will be necessary but hasnt revealed how they would be done. 0ur ireland correspondent emma vardy is answering some of the key questions. How does the border work now . Well, that is easy. It doesnt look like a border at all, just a bump on the tarmac. And its an open border, because the rules on either side are the same. So there are cars and lorries passing here all the time without the need to stop for any checks. But it wasnt always like this, though. During the 30 years of conflict here, the border had militarised checkpoints which often came under attack and because a large part of the population believed that the island of ireland as a whole should be one country, ending the violence meant removing any physical sign of a border, at all. What might the border look like in the future . Thats the key question thats been holding up brexit. And causing uncertainty for thousands of businesses here, north and south. Anything entering the eu has to meet its rules, so after brexit, goods will have to be checked somewhere. But the idea of customs posts are hated by many people who want the border to continue to look and feel invisible, as it is today. The Prime Minister, though, believes technology can help, such as using gps to track goods but the eu doesnt believe that technology is quite ready, yet. Are there any solutions . There is one idea when it comes to farming and food. These cows in Northern Ireland, well, they could all be treated as irish cows. Following the same food standards and regulations across the island of ireland. That would mean no need for checks on beef products crossing the irish border, but this kind of idea doesnt work for all products, so another option is moving that irish border into the irish sea, having the whole island of ireland following the same eu rules and regulations across all products. But this would be deeply unpopular with unionists, who dont want to see any differences between Northern Ireland and Great Britain when it comes to doing business. Joining us now from the tory Party Conference in manchester is Mike Cherry National chairman of the federation of Small Businesses. He has been looking at this issue quite closely. Somebody on twitter just said to me quite rightly that there is no homogenous Unionist Community i Northern Ireland. Different parts of the community when different things. What do you think is a solution that would suit them all . Clearly as far as fsb members are concerned, they need to retain that frictionless border, because lets not forget, we have many more Small Businesses in Northern Ireland and the whole of the Large Business community and the Public Sector combined. Therefore whether it be our employees going across the border to work in the south or the north, whether it is witnesses who are producing items, Farm Products in the north, and then tra nsfer Farm Products in the north, and then transfer their produce to be processed at the south, or vice versa, processed at the south, or vice versa , many processed at the south, or vice versa, many of those businesses are transferring across the border, many times a day. And i think we have to reflect that on how frictionless it must be to retain the trade to retrain the economics between both north and south. So there would be some of the Unionist Community who would be full square behind the backstop would be full square behind the ba cksto p to would be full square behind the backstop to keep the border open and the status quote. Whereas there are other parts of the community that are deeply opposed to it. Status quo. You have to ask the Union Community that particular question. Clearly, fsb in Northern Ireland are very supportive of the original withdrawal agreement, we will certainly hope that they proposals that were leaked out last night do not materialize because they would add complexity and cost and will be unworkable to the business community. And we hope that the uk government and the Prime Minister will suddenly come forward with something that is not only workable, but keeps that frictionless border open for trade and for our businesses to continue doing that trade for our employees to go from job tojob from trade for our employees to go from job to job from business to business as they do at the moment. That is the conundrum. Everybody is facing that. It is a frictionless border compatible with what borisjohnson may try and pursue, which is possibly a free trade agreement, the ability to set its own tariffs . Clearly, at the present time, you have got to resolve this problem, that you have a good friday agreement that has to be respected, but also you have to accommodate the frictionless border that Business Needs and if we can come up with some sort of technology that accommodates that, then that is all well and good. We very much look forward to seeing what the government proposals will be in detail, we do understand that there are obviously ongoing negotiations, and we have to reflect how business operates over there. If these customs post that we have talked about last night, that will be set back from the border, if they were pa rt back from the border, if they were part of the solution, would Jordan Smiler members be able to use Something Like that or would be purely therefore large angry businesses . Your smaller businesses. That is something you have to ask the government about those particular issues. Clearly, it is not be the room is a possibility that some sort of technology can be brought forward, that the digitalization of customs checks and things like that are some of the a nswe rs things like that are some of the a nswers to things like that are some of the answers to these problems, but you have to reflect how business actually crosses that border, several times a day, employees process to the producers and vice ve rsa process to the producers and vice versa to continue doing their trade in goods and services. Thank you for being with us, mike. For months the us and turkey have been working to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria, but today, president erdogan announced that his country has no option than to act alone, warning of unilateral military actions. This comes after the release of a new report urging the Trump Administration to halt a planned troop withdrawal from syria in order to fight the resurgence of the so called islamic state. It argues that american leaders must stay engaged in syria because it holds long term risks for Us National Security and because the eight year conflict there is nowhere nearfinished. Im joined now by co chairs of the syria study group, Michael Singh and dana stroul. Thank you both forjoining us. If i can thank you both forjoining us. If i ca n start thank you both forjoining us. If i can start with you. End of march, you saw the humiliation for isys, perhaps saying the he does too far, but certainly a humiliation. Do they still have the power to organize and orchestrate an attack . Perhaps saying the feet. They do. Our group was charged by congress for assessing the situation independently what we found was isys is not really defeated. The territory that they want sale has been taken from it. But isis is already morphing into an insurgency, it still has upwards of 15,000 members, some of those are in detention camps, some of those have blended into society. Already see the mounting attacks within syrian cities that i wouldnt put it past them through plot external attacks as well. And frankly they are not the only terrorist group in syria that could be fighting such attacks. Ifi that could be fighting such attacks. If i could bring you in, dana, you have this problem where there is this risk of an insurgency but at the same time, you have an administration a president elected saying he would try and pull out troops, and there are Many Americans who support that idea. One of the core points that our report try to make is that the us military engagement is not the same as our military engagements in afghanistan or iraq. There is a rising sentiment that both the president has made in the American Public about getting out of these forever wars. In our point in the report is that this is not a forever work and it is a very light military engagement, just in northeastern syria, with a very capable local partner, the serine defense forces. This is a type of military engagement the United States cant sustain. If there is political will and committed leadership. Syrian defense forces. Some reports on the report of the Times Newspaper from tony lloyd, who has been to these camps, the detainee camps in Northern Syria, says they are jams with hundreds of backsliders, some of them look like concentration camps. It isa them look like concentration camps. It is a problem that the International Community is not yet got to grips with. This is another issue that are report really try to highlight. In these camps, you have 2000 foreign fighters as well as several young isisi detainees and then another idp can cause the camp that has women and children and families. We argued that right now the Syrian Defense forces do not have the capacity or the will to indefinitely maintain control and custody in these facilities are not safe. We call on and many countries from which isis fighters came to to repatriate from which isis fighters came to to re patriate them from which isis fighters came to to repatriate them immediately in the United States as taking action in select European Countries already have we are arguing for more funding and support to the stf at this moment in time to help maintain custody and we should also note that alanda has a long history of filling its rings from prison breaks and this is a serious risk right now in syria. Mike, we heard from our home secretary this week that she is not going to invite one of those who went back to mary ed is fighter. No sign they want to take back the fighters and plenty of other governments are saying the same. A real good the lead mechanic for the governments to do with these people back. A real policy conundrum. Most governments feel that same way. A sentiment that most governments do not want these people back. There really is no simply off loading of this problem because our local partners in syria really like the resources or the capacity to do this and so if countries are not going to repatriate their citizens and this is not just repatriate their citizens and this is notjust the uk but countries like iraq, and syria itself which really has a functioning government, i think it is been sort of necessary for western government to provide those partners with the resources and expertise to manage these populations. Very briefly, how would you summarize your recommendations . I think you summarize your recommendations . Ithink our you summarize your recommendations . I think our recommendations that makes area and still a problem which impacts our national security. It requires committed high level political leadership, and requires we devote the resources so we consolidate the gains we make rather than the squad of them. Rather than the squad of them. Rather than to squander them. Thank you both for coming in today. A rogue runaway vehicle has brought havoc to chicagos ohare airport. Take a look at this catering cart spiralling out of control. Christian, the machines are fighting back i thought this was a preview of the upcoming terminator movie. Laughter look how close it is to the £50 million plane. Nothing the workers can do as it picks up speed. But then this fast thinking tug operator comes up with a plan and takes it out with his vehicle. What about that. The Company Involved said a water bottle had fallen onto the accelerator pedal and it flipped into reverse. Here is the hero. He is jorge manalang. This is the company who controlled these vehicles. I like their statement. They say he displayed quick thinking and he said i was just doing myjob. Which seems to be. Laughter was that when everybody says in a situation like that. I was just doing my everybody says in a situation like that. I wasjust doing myjob. think he may have. That is a pushback tug. He may have a second career as a stu ntman. Pushback tug. He may have a second career as a stuntman. That was pretty good. I like the workers who try tojump on it. They pretty good. I like the workers who try to jump on it. They lost £50,000 of drink and smacks them are going on to win the planes. There was a loss involved. This is beyond 100 days. Still to come. Singing. The sound of her voice has echoed through the tunnels of the los angeles subway, and now across social media. Well take a listen to the mysterious metro singer. The duchess of sussex has been carrying out solo engagements on the penultimate day of the royal couples Southern Africa tour. Meghan attended the university ofjohannesburg and took part in a discussion about the challenges faced by young women in accessing Higher Education. The duchess then visited a charity to talk about the problem of gender based violence. Meanwhile, prince harry is in malawi, visiting Health Outreach programmes, before making his way to south africa in the evening. Nomsa maseko reports. Excitement as the duchess of sussex visited the university ofjohannesburg. She was here for the first of two solo engagements of the day. Meghan markle attended a roundtable discussion about access to Higher Education with the association of commonwealth universities. When a woman is empowered, it changes everything in the community. And starting an educational atmosphere is really a key point of that. By meeting female academics here at the university ofjohannesburg, and a group of women activists in cape town, the duchess has made Women Empowerment the crucial message of her visit to south africa. A message which strikes a chord in a country where women are increasingly making their voices heard. Today is prince harrys last day in malawi, one of the poorest countries in Southern Africa. That country also faces political and economic instability following allegations of vote rigging earlier this year which prompted widespread protests. The duke visited a remote clinic which serves nearly 25,000 residents. And he was shown how the uk funded facility works and its importance to the specific Health Care Challenges of the area. Prince harry arrives injohannesburg this evening and will be reunited with his wife and son, archie. In the three months from april tojune this year, a total of 15 Million Pounds was donated to britains 16 Political Parties thats more than double the sum they received in the First Quarter of this year. Sounds a lot, until i tell you that Bernie Sanders who is currently running third among democrats for 2020 raised 25 Million Dollars for the Third Quarter that is most successful fundraising period of his president ial campaign. Much of it was from small donations with the average amount being just 18 dollars. In comparison Pete Buttigieg raised 19 Million Dollars during the same period, which is an impressive sum, but its down by almost six Million Dollars on the previous quarter. Which dwarfs uk spending. But then cash is king when it comes to us political campaigns and at this point in the race if you dont have it you are in trouble. On sunday, beto orourke, one of those struggling to get some traction, talked of the pressure of bringing in the dollars. So saying, hey, if you do not give me 1. 7 million, im leaving the race, or if i dont qualify for this next debate stage, i am gone. It is kind of raising the ante, or the bar, for how we compete for those dollars. I could maybe do a Facebook Live stream with a kitten and say, we dont want anything to happen to the kitten. Laughter. Send your 5 and 10, your 15 and miss whiskers will be fine. The kitten ransom always works. Beto orourke first came to National Prominence during his senate run against ted cruz last year. It was particularly noteworthy because he almost won as a democrat in solidly republican texas. But there are signs republicans are worried texas may no longer be a safe red state. Six House Republicans are retiring before the next election. And democrats think they have a chance of picking up some of those seats. With me now is our north america reporter anthony zurcher. I want to get back to that in a moment but if we can go back to the amount of money Bernie Sanders is a raising from sub kind of small donations come even though in the polls he is slipping to third place. Clearly many people are still feeling the burn. Absolutely. Remember Bernie Sanders has done this before. He ran a primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016 in that is where he built up a nationwide Campaign Infrastructure they didnt go anywhere in the ensuing years after he ended the campaign, he basically turned the key on and started up again. About this time last time around four yea rs this time last time around four years ago, he raced about 26 million, so he has the same base and they are more than willing to donate money to keep them going and what that means is that even if he is sliding in the polls, Elizabeth Warren is becoming more popular populace, it will have the money and the support to around for a long time. When he is a vote of confidence. Where does the whole impeachment inquiry fit into this . That will suck a lot of oxygen out of the room. I think that a lot of Democratic Candidates like the ones who are not at the top three, joe biden, warren, bernie, iworry this is going to freeze the campaign in place. If you are cory booker, he will be very happy, getting 6 million last quarter, he did the 1. 7 million or i am out, ransom, he will be happy he has some money but he will not rise in the polls. He is at 1 in all the attention is on the other three candidates. Tachtsidis. Can we call it texas . We have six republicans standing down at the end of the term. President trump there will be there the next few weeks to campaign in dallas. The republicans are worried about this. Texodus. I think are worried about this. Texodus. Ithink in are worried about this. Texodus. I think in a combination of a few things going going to texas. When is it is moving more towards the middle. Some of those congressional seats where people are retiring like will heard, where they were going to have a really tough race come 2020. There were some other ones like the one who just retired, they were in very conservative districts with the reality is the party is moving in a different direction from them, they are in the minority of the house of representatives, maybe they were a chair every committee, now they will not a chair chair every committee, now they will nota chairany chair every committee, now they will not a chair any more. The reality is life in the minority in the house of representatives sucks. It is bad. You dont get to do anything for sobriety is modicon stuff and they are throwing up their hands and say it is not worth sticking around any more. it is not worth sticking around any more. You dont get to vote on anything. Donald trump will go there. He is a divisive figure in there. He is a divisive figure in there. He is a divisive figure in there. He may not help some of those marginal districts. I suppose when you are not the chairs of these committees, it sucks even more. Especially at a time like this. I wonder when it comes to texas and where the republicans sent, they wouldnt want to be sending huge sums of money defending texas, would they . No. If texas is in actuality a swing state, that is a serious fatal threat to the Republican Party elector. If texas is in play, democrats could lose a couple of midwestern states and florida, and they can still win the presidency. The fact that the republicans have to pour resources into this and keep it from going to the democrats are coming close, that is a real serious concern for them. But texas, it is a wealthy state, an educated state, a state with a lot of summers, these are the areas that have been moving away from donald trump and the Republican Party. In a sense, it is a reflection of what is happening across the country with the realignment of parties. We will have to leave it there, anthony. As always, thank you for your insight. Anthony was beast be spending some time to texas i could tell you. Will be spending some time. 0ne one of those places we have to keep an eye on. When talking about the realignment of politics, they keep talking about texas, but the thing posters all think is the moment you see not just a posters all think is the moment you see notjust a republicans pouring money but also the democrats come or do they need to focus on other parts of the country like wisconsin, florida, parts of the carolinas. That is going to be the key areas to look for going forward. We didnt talk about donald trump fundraising, he is the king fundraiser. I want to win of his campaigns in west virginia, you can buy hats and pointy fingers,. I went to one of his campaigns. You can buy all of these teachers. He is pulling in the dollars. All of these t shirts. Since impeachment, he has been raising more money for what i gather. They have gone after support him to support us and say bacchus now. Impeachment is good for business. Before we go, i want to show my favourite video of the day. Singing. This is emily zamourka, who is homeless and sleeping rough in la at the moment. She was filmed in the subway by an lapd officer who was enjoying her singing. No one knew who she was until this video went viral. Turns out she came to america at the age of 24. She has never had any formal training. But she is a violinist. In fact she was making money from her violin playing, until it was stolen three years ago. She lost her livelihood, and shortly afterwards she was evicted from her home. But here she is talking about the singing and the video that has since gone viral on the internet. So grateful to this man, because he really changed my life. I want to thank him so very much. Because if he didnt do what he did, i was not going to be here or anywhere else and people would never know about me and my talent. It is amazing how many people are out there that wanted to hear me again and again. And i didnt even know that. Now we know about her. Well done. Well done to the la pdc officer who found her. Lapd officer. See you tomorrow. Hello there. It has been a very wet 24 hours or so, especially across england and wales when we started tuesday off with around 7a flood warnings. However, that number did start to fall through the course of the day. But i am pleased to say, if youre fed up of all this rain, that midweek it is looking drier with some sunshine. This evening and overnight, the showers and thunderstorms will clear away from central and southern england and wales, and we will start to see a cooler and drier air mass moving south with largely clear skies. A few showers will still affect northern scotland where it will be windy, but a cold night to come with a touch of frost for Northern England and central and southern scotland. That is because we are importing our air all the way down from the north. Not far from the artic, in fact. You can see the blue hue right across the uk so it means it is going to be a really chilly start to wednesday. In fact, the coldest start we have had of the season so far. However, there will be plenty of sunshine around and for many it will stay dry and sunny all day. Quite a keen wind blowing across northern and eastern scotland down the eastern side of england, that will feed in a few showers here, but elsewhere it should be dry. Top temperature around 1a or 15 degrees but generally in the low teens for most. Now, just want to draw your attention to Hurricane Lorenzo which was a major storm a couple of days ago. It is now continuing to weaken fairly rapidly as it is moving closer towards our shores. There has been a bit of uncertainty as to where it would end up but it is now looking like it will arrive across western parts of ireland through thursday to bring some gales and heavy rain. And then push across the British Isles and also introduce much milder air right across the board, you can see those blue colours being pushed back northwards. This is how thursday is shaping up. It looks like it will be a dry start, plenty of sunshine across much of the country but heavy rain and gales across ireland will push into Northern Ireland and into irish sea coasts, into western parts of britain by the end of the day. Those temperatures will be creeping up slowly from the south. It still could be quite a cool one across the north east. It looks like the remnants of Hurricane Lorenzo continue to ease down. In fact, it fizzles out quite quickly as it pushes across the uk during friday. Well start off with some fairly strong winds and outbreaks of rain which will tend to ease away southwards, many places becoming drier and the winds also becoming lighter as well. Still mild in the south, little bit milder in the north too. This is bbc news. The headlines. 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