This whole area is the subject of territorial disputes between china and vietnam and the philippines. And others. China claims all the Maritime Territory inside this dotted red line, but its neighbours dispute this. A us warship has sailed close to triton island, which is claimed by china, taiwan and vietnam. In response, china sent military vessels and Fighter Planes to the area in response. Last night the Chinese Foreign ministry put out this statement they called it a serious political and military provocation. This was hours before a phone call between the leaders of us and china in which apparently none of this came up. I asked vincent ni from the bbcs Chinese Service to explain. They did discuss that in a very discreet way in a sense that both sides do notjuantorena relationship, they dont want a confrontational approach. It is also partly for mass consumption because this isnt the first time that it has sailed through the South China Sea and china have objected. It shows that both sides, beijing and washington, wants to keep the good momentum going on. Do these two men have a Good Relationship . Momentum going on. Do these two men have a Good Relationship7m momentum going on. Do these two men have a Good Relationship . It seems so have a Good Relationship . It seems so but i think the diplomatic honeymoon period between President Trump and president xi is approaching an end. We are seeing a more normal relationship between the us and china, meaning there is a bit of competition and a bit of collaboration. They compete on issues like Trade Deficit but they collaborate on issues such as, you know, investments into the united states. The situation in the South China Sea is delicate, as we know. As the arrival of donald trump in the white house changed the dynamic . Still too early to say but what has been changed since trump came to power is that, you know, you have a more friendly president from the philippines to the chinese, he wants a friendlier approach. When trump scrapped the tra nspacific partnership, japan is taking a more active role. It is still too early to tell whether his arrival has com pletely to tell whether his arrival has completely changed the dynamics in east asia, especially when it comes to security but we are going that way, the us is playing a less Important Role and the dynamics in asia are being formed. We are looking ahead to the ge 20 in hamburg this week. Are there major expectations of what china can take away from the meeting . After trump being elected, there is a general sense that china is taking leadership on various issues, for exa m ples leadership on various issues, for examples climate change, the Paris Agreement for a sample. Angela merkel is reportedly going to raise Theissue Merkel is reportedly going to raise the issue in front of donald trump personally and i think china is certainly going to stand up as well. 0n the sidelines of the summit, the us and china are still going to talk about issues such as north korea and taiwan, perhaps, which china will wa nt taiwan, perhaps, which china will want the us to reiterate the so called one china principle. Want the us to reiterate the socalled one china principle. We will be in hamburg on thursday night on the Ee Of The Summit beginning on the friday. Sport now, the first day of wimbledon. 0ur reporter is at the bbc sports centre. The defending champion for the men, andy murray, cruising through against Alexander Bublik of kazakhstan. He will now face dustin brown who knocked out nadal previously. Murray had been struggling with a hip injury leading up to his Title Defence but he wasnt really pushed, losing just seven games. Medvedev knocking out the Swiss Fifth Seed and three time grand slam champion, wawrinka, winning in four sets. Medvedev is world number 49 and was making his wimbledon debut. This is wawrinkas sixth first round loss at wimbledon. He was suffering from a knee injury. Venus williams broke down in her press Conference Following her victory over Ellie Smirked and is. The 37 year old was involved in a car accident in florida which resulted in the Death Ofa Florida which resulted in the death of a 78 year old man. Florida which resulted in the death of a 78yearold man. There are no words to describe how devastating and. Yeah completely speechless and. Yeah completely speechless and its just. Im just and. Yeah completely speechless and itsjust. Im just happy i should go . Eugenie bouchard, a formerfinalist, is also should go . Eugenie bouchard, a former finalist, is also out, should go . Eugenie bouchard, a formerfinalist, is also out, beaten in the first round. And in cycling peter sagan won the third stage of the tour de france. Its the eighth tour stage of his career. It was a thriller too. Simon brotherton reports. This was seen as a good looking finish for the World Champion peter sagan and so it proved as he power to the front to beat the australian Michael Matthews on the line. Dan martin of ireland was third. A way to the crowd made it look easier thanit to the crowd made it look easier than it was after such a Long Bursting Finale in which his foot momentarily came off his pedals. Thomas riding strongly to finish in eighth with chris froome in knife. Thomas stays in the yellow with froome second overall. Matthews is in third. In a few minutes returned to the crisis in brazil, a political crisis where the president is being charged with accepting bribes, but one third of the cabinet is under investigation. Elizabeth campbell has been elected by her party as the new leader of the royal borough of kensington and Chelsea Council this evening, following the resignation of the former leader in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, in which at least 80 people are known to have died. Richard lister has the latest from kensington and chelsea town hall in west london. She was said to be a slightly controversial not immediately associated with the area around Grenfell Tower. She was said to be a slightly controversial choice initially insofar as she was on the cabinet of the former council leader, who resigned on friday, acknowledging that his leadership had caused issues. He was becoming a distraction after the criticism his cabinet received after the tragedy. Councillor Elizabeth Campbell came out after being nominated and elected by the conservative group on the council and the first thing she did was make this apology. The first thing i want to do, i want to apologise. This is our community and we have failed it when people needed us the most. No ifs or buts, no excuses. I am truly sorry. As new leader, i will appoint a new cabinet tomorrow and things are going to change. The first thing im going to do is to reach out to our communities so we can begin to heal the wounds. The second thing im going to do is phone up sajid javid, the secretary of state, and ask for more help. I dont know at this stage what that help will be, but i know that the thing we need is a plan for the community in North Kensington and that is what im going to do. She has still to be approved by a meeting of the full council. You will recall there were real problems the last time the council tried to meet because the media were determined to attend and there were various Court Room Battles in order to ensure that it was enabled. Ultimately, when the media got in, the Council Meeting was abandoned. This time the council will have to formally vote and elected councillor campbell into this new position. Because the conservatives have a majority, that will happen european ministers have refused a request from italy to open up other ports to migrant rescue boats, after the country warned the latest wave of migrants was unsustainable. In germany, 18 people have died in a motorway crash. A bus was carrying close to 50 elderly passengers from saxony, and it hit a truck in northern bavaria. Jenny hill has more. The heat was so intense, there was no chance of rescue. Nothing firefighters could do, they said, to help the people left inside. It is thought the coach ran into the back of a lorry, before bursting into flames. There were 48 people on board. Those who got out in time, were all injured, some critically. Everyone else, all of them pensioners, died on the bus. Translation the heat must have been so intense, that nothing inflammable is left on the bus. All that is left are steel parts, so one can imagine what this must have meant for the people inside the bus. This afternoon, recovery of the dead, and the beginning of an investigation. The crash happened during an Early Morning trafficjam. The speed and ferocity of the ensuing fire has shocked many. Translation we know of a large number of victims and a large number of injured. Our thoughts are with victims relatives and we wish them a quick recovery from the bottom of our hearts. Police say that they have recovered all of the victims from the wreckage. It has emerged they were German Tourists on their way to italy. What should have been the start of a holiday ended in one of the worst Road Accidents in this countrys history. Last year brazils president Dilma Rousseff was impeached. Politics has not got any more stable. When Dilma Rousseff left michel temer took over. Hes now been charged with accepting bribes. We covered that a few days ago. Plus a third of the cabinet are under investigation for alleged corruption. Athird. You can imagine what this is doing for brazilians and their view of politicians. Katy watson is our correspondent there. Here she is in rio dejaneiro. A week is a long time in brazilian politics and it ended up looking like this stop a general strike and protesters on the streets, angry with the government. It started badly for the president after he was charged with accepting bribes. Nearly two months of investigations painted michel temer as a corrupt leader in trench in dirty politics but he isnt giving up. He is blaming people for trying to stop razzle from moving forward and he said they would never succeed. Stop brazil. They stopped issuing passports last week because of a budget crisis. The Government Department in charge of Printing Passports has found it frustrating but the printers are still at work, Stockpiling Supplies and waiting for the budget to be increased and then they can get back to issuing the documents. The Police Department and the justice ministry, documents. The Police Department and thejustice ministry, they documents. The Police Department and the justice ministry, they are already asked for more budget and then varies an internal process of then varies an internal process of the congress to get it approved. Michel temers Approval Ratings are the lowest for any president in 30 yea rs the lowest for any president in 30 years but despite that, despite the protests a nd years but despite that, despite the protests and criminal charges against him, he is hanging on because what is the alternative . Brazilians seem to be running out of ideas. There is no work, that is the problem. We dont know what to do about the politics. Wejust problem. We dont know what to do about the politics. We just put one president out and the second is having the same problem now. We lost. You have given up . Not given up, just trying to find somewhere to keep going. These are unprecedented times, michel temer is the first sitting president to face charges but experts say that little will change. Right now it is as if time is frozen in brazil and everyone is counting the clock to see when we can overcome this. I think the only way to do it is to wait for the 2018 elections when we are going to draw the line between past and present. The Winds Of Change may have started blowing in brazil but for now, stability is better than uncertainty. Taking the easy option is tempting. Im not sure i have ever will therefore linked from the beach and politics to another story about the beach and politics. What a story newjersey governor Chris Christie finds himself in. Hes closed some beaches due to an impasse on the state budget. And then was seen on the beach. This was mr christie initial response. Ididnt i didnt get any sun today. There are no lifeguards, there is no one to pick up the garbage, there is no one providing any service at the state park. Next . Excuse me, next he said he was and the governors residents, thats the way it goes, if you run for governor you can have a residence there. He said he did not get any sun but then these pictures emerged. You can see him shading from the sun with some members of his family on a beach, when you see the wider shot you where lies it is completely empty because the governor shut it down. This is a difficult one to explain away. Nada tawfik in new york has been talking about governor christies approach. There were jokes on social media suggesting he was trying to beat his own record for lowest Approval Rating is because he has the lowest Approval Ratings of any governor measured. This is likely to further worsened that. He was known for his bluntness and bravado but the optics are terrible. He closed island beach, one of the nicer beaches in new jersey, i can say that having gone there for quite a while. Other beaches are open but it was his response to why he was there. He said that is the way it goes, if you are governor you can have a residence there as well. And increasingly people are feeling that he doesnt care any more. He is coming to the end of his second term, he has little prospects of representing newjersey in washington because of his low Approval Ratings so he is giving off the typical governor christie attitude but it is infuriating taxpayers who say that they governor shouldnt have access to a beach that taxpayers dont. To put a line under this, his Lieutenant Governor who is running to replace him under the bus aimed that if she were governor, his actions are beyond words and she would not be doing it. This is quite a fall from grace. In 2012, covering superstorm sandy, governor christie was being celebrated for his performance. Absolutely and when i covered his re election as governor he boasted, to washington, dc, look at what were doing in newjersey, we a model of how parties can work together. He was repositioning himself, running against donald trump but after that scandal it showed the personality that his opponents had been pushing through. He was a man, even though he wasnt criminally charged and denied being involved in a scandal that close the George Washington bridge in new york for political retribution, his opponents said that this is how his administration works, he doesnt work across the aisle, instead he uses bullying tactics. This hurt him in newjersey, and that, with his support of donald trump, means that his Approval Ratings have been tanking since. When might the Beachesin Tanking since. When might the beaches in new jersey tanking since. When might the beaches in newjersey reopen . Tanking since. When might the beaches in new jersey reopen . They are, as governor Chris Christie tweeted them are going on a pr offensive, 190 miles of the beach are open, municipal beaches, federal beaches but the state beaches are the ones that are closed, that the governors residents was on one of them, which is where he was pictured. Another republican doing things his own way. Many of you probably saw this video yesterday. This is a clip from donald trump on the wwe, but with the cnn logo over his opponents face, some felt it was incitement to attack journalists, others thought it was a joke and nothing more. The video came from a reddit account. It has a history of negative postings. I thought that the clip from the president connected nicely with another report featuring local wrestling in kentucky and a bad guy that donald trump would love to take on, called Progressive Liberal. Thats what i want, i want to upset people. I enjoyed every second of it. We are in the bible belt, in the middle of Eastern Kentucky, he is the perfect heel. You fox news maggot there are two things you can not talk about without a fight, that is politics and religion. It isa it is a release, for sure. Saying what i think. I was working for a promoter and that event who said he, i want you to be the best bad guy you can be. I talked about how i wished he would not build a wall around mexico, talked about how he would build it around West Virginia so those people couldnt infiltrate the rest of the population. I dont agree with his political views but he is probably the best gimmick ive seen in wrestling in a long time. Weve seen it once before. When he is fighting we try and go watch him. |j it once before. When he is fighting we try and go watch him. I think im speaking for the masses. You know, the masses may not be here in Eastern Kentucky where we are now, but im speaking for the country. We dislike him not so much for his hard left views, but we dont like being told what is best for us and that Everybody Knows what is best for us. For read their arm or republicans probably there arm or republicans here in the audience but it is a good show. You arent going to find a character like Progressive Liberal in new york and los angeles, you will find it in the heartland of the bible belt. We think of things like our eula or right but at the end of the day, who can drop the elbow . you left or right. At least one Progressive Liberal won evenif at least one Progressive Liberal won even if they did not win the election. There will be plenty of them at the g20 later this week and donald trump is going to mix with them. It takes place on friday and saturday. Well be in hamburger covering the rivals and broader issues. One of the bigger issues is Global Leadership we will be in hamburg. We will be seeing how the chinese fit into the equation. We have a couple of programmes until thursday. I will see you tomorrow. You dont hear much about the jet at this time of year, because it isnt as strong as in the winter when it thrives off a strong gradient between cold and warm air. It is around at this time of year, but it isnt as strong. This week it is prone to meandering, not doing very much. It is splitting, one portion going to the north and another to the south. This circulation nears spain, it is hanging around for a few days and it is going to impact the weather. It is going to push warm weather our way with a potential for thundery downpours later this week. Tuesdays weather, we have a weather front, a system bringing some rain to Northern Ireland, scotland and Northern England and not just ireland, scotland and Northern England and notjust as tuesday begins but for much of the day. Quite cool and soggy in Northern Ireland, southern scotland, into the Northern Counties of england. South of that, some showers but sunny spells developing, a range of temperatures, from 25 in Central London to 13 degrees if you are in the rainy area. The rain hanging around until thursday but not much rain left. Still some cloud. Some areas that sort rain on tuesday may see some drizzle but not as wet. Blue skies and sunshine for more of england and wales allowing temperatures to go up further. The warmth and humidity starting to build. Some areas getting close to 30 degrees again in the sunshine. The area of low pressure, the cut off beginning to show its hand by thursday, some moisture around that. The warmth and humidity and you get some thunderstorms, initially to the south west of the uk on thursday and then pushing north. Still a bit warmer, uk on thursday and then pushing north. Stilla bit warmer, but uk on thursday and then pushing north. Still a bit warmer, but not as warm as it is to the south although temperatures may be lower because there is more cloud around. The system pushing east on friday. We are in between Weather Systems, a lot of dry weather, the chance of some heavy showers and still some feet, especially across south eastern uk. As we go from friday into the weekend, the cold front is pushing through and there will be a combined feature from the jet stream, at allowing atlantic air to come through, allowing it to be cooler and pressure over the weekend but it looks fairly unsettled, with some rain or showers and the wind picking up as well. At the weekend, more typical weather. High pressure across the south of the uk, some low pressure to the north west. A range of whether in this Summer Pattern for the uk into next week. With these Pressure Systems it looks like a north west and south east split. Northern england and Northern Ireland will see some of the wettest weather although it isnt going to bea weather although it isnt going to be a wash out. Dry and relatively warm across the south east but even here, some Weather Systems may move through from time to time. Could still be at risk the conclusion of an independent inquiry. It reveals how hundreds of Vulnerable Children in care were beaten, even tortured. Beatings, being forced down in the bat. I thought i was going to die. Theyve been getting away with it for so long. And peoples lives have been ruined because of not
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