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News Spanish police say one key suspect in the attack in Barcelona remains on the run they're looking for Eunice khub who they say now believe drove the van into crowds in mass from last on Thursday cherish the honey reports Spanish police had thought that 17 year old was driving the van in Barcelona he was killed along with 4 others after the 2nd attack in Cannes Brill's the teenager is reported to have used his brother's documents to rent the van but now they believe the driver was Eunice your coupe a 22 year old who was born in Morocco the authorities are also looking for 2 other members of the jihad the cell of the people who were injured in the bottle Oh no attack nearly 60 remain in hospital 15 of them in a critical condition the former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has said he will carry on pushing President Trump's right wing agenda despite being sacked Mr Bannon said he would take on the powers that be in the worlds of politics the media and business David Willis reports widely credited for helping steer Donald Trump to victory he was one of the most powerful men in the White House the driving force behind Trump's nationalist ideology his was the ethos of putting America 1st and taking back the country Steve Benen has now rejoins the right wing web site Breitbart News that he ran before leaving to join the Trump campaign a year ago he said he intends to keep fighting on the president's behalf but in an interview with a conservative magazine The Weekly Standard he was also quoted as saying the Trump presidency that we fought for and won is over. The we do of you show both the Chinese Nobel laureate who died of cancer last month has appeared in a short video asking for time to mourn is the 1st time you have been seen since her husband's funeral she said she needed more time to Cooper eat her friends say they've been unable to speak to her. The authorities in Colombia say the former Venezuelan chief prosecutor Luis ot good ideas has arrived in Bogota this is where to get said she feared for her life after being sacked by the new constituent assembly the tally of course oil reports from Bogota resort they arrived in a private flight from the island nation of I don't she came to butter together with her husband parliamentarian kind of months later that much said a statement issued by the Colombian migration of orators government sources told the b.b.c. That missile take has not asked for asylum the sort of thing I was dismissed by the Venezuelan constituent assembly research data was once a staunch ally of President Nicolas Maduro but in recent months she had become a harsh critic You're listening to the latest world news from the b.b.c. The Congress in Venezuela has rejected a move by the new body set up by President Nicolas Maduro to strip it of its powers the opposition dominated chambers so the move would not be recognized by the Venezuelan people or the international community. The Lebanese army says it's launched an offensive against the last remaining Islamic state stronghold on its northeastern border with Syria the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah says it started a joint operation with the Syrian army to target the seem strong willed from the Syrian side of the border. A court in Los Angeles has refused a legal bid by a sex abuse victim of the film director Roman Polanski to have the decades old case against him dismissed the 84 year old fled to France after being accused of drugging and raping an underage girl in 1987 in Hollywood John McManus reports Samantha Geimer was 13 years old when the film director Roman Polanski said to have plied her with champagne they had raped her Mr Polanski pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of a lawful sex with a minor and spent $42.00 days in prison before trial but then fled the United States when he feared a lengthy a census might be imposed misguide Monella $54.00 had applied to the Los Angeles Superior Court to have the case dismissed saying she wants it to move on but George Scott Gordon ruled the case couldn't be dropped and that misguide was testimony was dramatic evidence of the damage Mr Polanski had done Zimbabwe's 1st Lady Grace Mugabe who is seeking diplomatic immunity for the alleged assault of a model as should you to attend a regional leaders summit in South Africa today the wife of President Robert Mugabe is expected at the 2 d. Se d.c. Meeting as part of the 1st spouses program despite feeling to present herself to police in connection with the incident in a Johannesburg hotel earlier this week b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to Weekend from the b.b.c. World Service with me Paul Henley The Times 506 g.m.t. Coming up this hour. Who always be some who don't want to admit what happened but I hope they'll be fewer things to this memorial I hope will grave you stop trying to find the positive in what happened the new Russian memorial commemorating the millions of victims of Stalin and we'll also get more details on the departure of one of President Trump's closest allies from the White House that's all coming up but 1st to Spain where police say the terror attacks on Barcelona and the nearby town of Cambria was were being prepared for some time and the terrorists had in fact been planning something much bigger involving bombs 14 civilians were killed and scores were wounded when vehicles were driven into crowds of protesters in the separate attacks on Thursday and Friday 5 jihadists were killed by the police at the site of the 2nd attack the police are still looking for the man they believe drove the van into crowds on last round last on Thursday and the search for the remaining members of the cell is one of the biggest manhunts in Spain for decades the B.B.C.'s Paul Moss is in Barcelona and went to a vigil in which thousands of people came together to commemorate the lives of those killed. This was supposed to be the occasion for a minute's silence and silence there eventually was but the crowds are gathered in Barcelona's Plaza Catalunya today wanted also to show their defiance. No 20 mm pour they chanted which in the Catalan language means we have no fear they were standing just meters from the spot where the attacker began his deadly drive down last Romulus yesterday and everyone insisted they wanted to show that life would continue as normal think it's kind the showing that there are thing is keep them going on we keep going on our life and day one divide us Day One day today or which is if which is to make us hate the one happen we will keep together in love. There's a couple here with a painting which they tell me symbolizes peace you brought that along today is the color white yet you can see that to mean peace we want peace around the war not just that fellow not all in my interest at all in New York on London or in Paris we want peace out there war and we have to stop the terrorists. I think so awful about this scene is it's sheer familiarity it's a different city a different country but once again we have hundreds I think maybe thousands of people gathering in a square in the wake of a terrible acts of violence trying to make sense of it trying to come to terms with it perhaps feeling that just by standing together they can begin some kind of healing process it's important for me because I'm against Bio length and I'm not afraid and I just want to show up and say no to violence who you saying no to who is this rally who is this minute silence address that everybody who things that violence is the solution for me it's not a solution in any way so I start a dialogue I know that sometimes it's not easy but I still have faith. But who would you start a dialogue with with Islamic states it's not clear they want to tour you know but we have more power than we think we have. And so the minute silence began punctuated appropriately enough by the sound of the police siren for some though it was too much. Overcome with emotion one woman shouted abuse against politicians she said were partly responsible for these kinds of attacks and at the terrorists. Amongst the crowd I found Malik who is here on holiday with manic comes from Lebanon a place which certainly knows all about political violence. How did you feel to be on holiday in Barcelona and to find violence following you here it's scary it's shocking every time we come here it's full of happiness and love and we feel ashamed kind of because I'm a Muslim myself and this is not Islam you come from a country a city of Beirut which has had plenty of experience of political violence people I've spoken to today say they want life to continue as suppose I could ask you Do you have any advice for them just stick together say strong and don't show weakness if you show weakness they will do it again and again and again we should just stick together no matter what race what religion feel aggrieved but then sure strength I want tourist in Barcelona that was the B.B.C.'s Paul Masi listening to the b.b.c. World Service on Paul Henley with weekend. Now to Washington and one of President Trump's closest allies has left his role at the White House Steve Bannon was previously editor of the right wing nationalist website Breitbart News that helped pave the way to office for Donald Trump he was subsequently brought in as the president's chief strategist whether Mr Bannon left or was pushed from his post is still unclear but what is known is that he's returned to Brown Breitbart News and is incompetent mood in an interview with The Weekly Standard magazine he apparently said and I quote I've got my hands back on my weapons I'm definitely going to crush the opposition David Willis is our correspondent in Washington I asked him if he thought Mr Bannon resigned or was fired Well Steve Bannon has said Paul that he departed voluntarily and there was a plan to coincide with the one year anniversary of him joining the Trump campaign on the 14th of August last year he said he talked with the new White House chief of staff John Kelly following the violence in Charlottesville last weekend and they agreed mutually that he would delay that departure by a couple of days because of the hubbub. Surrounding that violence and the response to it if he did resign it was pretty clear that if you like he'd been on thin ice since General Kelly's arrival General John Kelly undertook a study of the West Wing apparently and how it operated and by all accounts he kept hearing that Steve Benen was a source of leaks aimed at undermining his rivals and a disruptive force so there was a clash with John Kelly but you seldom depart the White House these days I suppose unless you also have a clash with President Trump. Yes although ideologically Perhaps he is one of the closest aligned people in the West Wing or was at least to President Donald Trump and within hours of of leaving he was saying that he would continue to support the president while conceding that his departure would signal a shift in the Trump agenda and some are saying that a new phase of the Trump presidency begins here it may not be conventional Of course given Donald Trump's nature but it may be less disruptive a little more conventional perhaps Steve Benen is returning to Breitbart News and that is generally described as a very influential job for those who are not familiar with Breitbart News Can you just explain why it's important it's a conservative magazine that is online and has become. If you like the the rallying cry for those on the right wing of the political movement the people who form it's thought the base of Donald Trump's support now it's seen as supporting white supremacy it's seen as anti Semitic and in actual fact that's led to people calling on Donald Trump to get rid of Steve Benen for the simple reason that of course white supremacy neo nazi groups are very much in the news at the moment with all these high profile departures from the White House over recent months it's easy to imagine a shouting match a day in the offices in in Washington is that completely unrealistic do you think I don't think it is completely unrealistic I mean this is the 4th member of Donald Trump's inner circle to leave the West Wing in the last month and it leaves President Trump increasingly lonely and increasingly isolated figure and wants his departure see balance that is a Vick. Free for those who wanted to see an end to what some like brand the more extreme elements in the West Wing whether it will actually lead to a better functioning White House remains to be seen I think that depends largely on who was brought in to replace some of those who've left David Willis in Washington in a few minutes we hope to go live to Bangladesh to report on flooding that has affected so far 16000000 people 1st time on is quarter past the hour on the b.b.c. World Service is the sports news and Colum Harrison Hello Caller Hi Paul thanks very much England's cricketers remain in control of the 1st Test against the West Indies an edge passed in Birmingham thanks mainly to a double century from former captain Alastair Cook he made 243 in England's 1st innings total of 514 for 8 declared West Indies were 4441 in reply when rain stopped play so their resume 470 runs behind Pat Murphy reports the main tension surrounding 61 over the play was whether hours to cook got a triple 100 after falling just short with 2946 years earlier on the ground cooked last night with Milan for 65 and a clatter wickets before he went l.b.w. For 243 prompting and the media declaration and conditions ideal for the seamen swing bowlers Jimmy Anderson had Craig Brathwaite caught behind for nought but the weather then closed them and Wesson is relieved to be spared further punishment Well it's a day night Test match play will resume at 1330 local time that's 1230 g.m.t. Football in Spain the Premier League it began on Friday night but the 1st 2 games of the new season Leganes beat Al of as one nil and Valencia beat last powerless by the same score both matches were preceded by a minute's silence for the victims of Thursday's terror attacks in Barcelona and camp rails and that will be repeated before all games played in Spain's top 2 divisions this weekend and Germany by in Munich began the defense of their blunders league title with a high win again. By Leyva Koos and Robert Levin dusky was among the score is in a $31.00 victory the serene in Munich and in France right a mile Falcao scored the only goal of the game is Monaco won at Metz So that's 3 wins out of 3 now for the champions at the start of their title defense engulf the United States while on top after the 1st day of the saw Haim Cup in Iowa Europe led after the morning foursomes but the Americans then won all of the afternoon 4 balls and the holders lead by 5 and a half points to 2 and a half points going into the 2nd day our correspondent in Carter reports the American steamroller through all 4 afternoon 4 balls completing their 1st ever clean sweep to take control at the end of the 1st day Europe led 2 and a half to one and a half after the initial foursomes but in the better ball format the u.s. Team were irrepressible Brittany Lang a Brittany Lincecum were 8 under par through their 1st 9 holes in their match while rookie down you know carrying one in both the morning and the afternoon with Charley Hull nursing a wrist injury Europe a right up against it as America equalled their biggest 1st day lead by moving 3 points clear tennis in the top seed Rafa on the dollars out of the Cincinnati Masters Nadar who becomes world number one on Monday was beaten in straight sets by Nate Carey us who won 6275 here and I face Daveed for rare who put out the number 3 seed dominant team in the other semifinal Grigor Dimitrov will play the American Shawn is now in the women's singles the world number one and defending champion Carolina Pliska beat Caroline Wozniak in straight sets and she'll now face the Wimbledon champion card Binya Muga Ruth who came from a set down to beat because nets of her in the other semifinal Simona Halep will play Sloane Stephens how to become world number one if she wins the tournament but you have a contest 6476 while Stevens beat you guess of Germany 6176 thank you very much that was column Harrison this mark this month rather marks 80 years since Stalin's Great Terror reached a peak in the Soviet Union. When hundreds of thousands of people were executed as counter-revolutionaries later this year Russia's 1st ever national monument to the victims of political repression will be unveiled the 1st pieces are already being slotted into place in the center of Moscow but it's happening at the same time as Stalin is increasingly hailed in Russia as a great war time leader and effective manager so the artist who designed the new memorial hopes his work will serve as a reminder of the full horror of Stalin's crimes Sarah Rainsford reports they give yet notion Buffy had hit yet unlike the other goal of a spent 6 years in a Stalinist labor camp for telling a joke I knew that though it sounds ridiculous now a former teacher tells me but in 1051 she was labeled an enemy of the people and sense to Siberia yet it is now almost 98 she walks truly out to meet me in her yard leaning on a stick but this woman was once forced to lay railway sleepers made of cement in temperatures that plunged to minus 56 degrees Celsius in that that allele. But after a while I was exhausted and got sick for me the hardest part was chopping good I was a c. To go and I wasn't very good at it so my food ration of us got to say 300 grams that's nothing at that which I guess. It was psychological it tough too many people went out of their minds they couldn't cope we get hilly. Now Russia is preparing to pay its respects a huge bone sculpture is being winched into place beside Moscow's central Ringrose eventually it will form the 1st ever national memorial here for the millions of Soviet citizens arrested from prisons and executed during Stalin's brutal and power not room just because it's cool the ball of grief and it's made up of jagged forms with no face that said progress us from here at the news the artist is the old friend and he tells me it will curve like a giant slide when it's complete a reminder of a repressive machine that mowed down innocent victims it's a cup after all for him yes for most it was a catastrophe on a universal scale one of the greatest human Atrocitus it was impossible for me not to be affected by that so this work is an expression of feelings of fear and alarm it depicts the lives that risk great stout ruthless Well that's a stab at him you know. Over the years so we propaganda will come of it just all in a timely manner. But in modern day Russia some prefer to gloss over about history Stalin was once they acquired by Soviet propaganda now flooding may Putin has won that Russia's enemies demonizing the Stalin excessively as a form of attack he is increasingly remembered as the man who led Soviet troops to victory over the not says and. Tops opinion polls here as an outstanding historical figure. But you don't have to go to Siberia to see the suffering that Stalin caused because through the water along. With my squire here I meant to be ticketed a bitch on the banks of the Moscow Canal is a giant waterway it feeds Russia's capital with mortar from the vulgar river but it was built at the height of Stalin's rule using forced labor including political prisoners the gulag was right in the heart of Moscow Dimitri police a few Russians know that and even fewer cash cow tough winning of their 2nd part of the war is the strongest and our logical and Ian Rush right now and it's very hard for many people to think about things. And about as. Good and let's say an appropriate to its style and. At the same time saw the light as being even are. We doing history will be hard assuming the new memorial is huge and its creator believes that when children pass it they will ask questions should I ask you about models will always be some who don't want to admit what happened. But I hope they'll be fewer things to this memorial I hope will gradually stop trying to find the positive in what happened brutality the ration of innocent people can never be justified I did not go on your show. Yet a goal of over survived that brutality but a huge cost she tells me her youth was the woman in the gulag she was 8 months pregnant when she was arrested and she lost her baby after that she says life became pointless. So the memorial is long overdue recognition of the horror of millions i.e. An ordinary less chaotic shriveling is what happened needs to be exposed so that it's never pitted they say things go in spirals but that was a black spiral it was a frightening time God forbid it should be repeated Unfortunately the rest till supporters of that system that I need yet they are not hard to find as I leave you are in the sunshine on her bench another woman calls out to me she'd been watching as we talked when she criticizing Russia she demands to know pointing to Vieira she'd better not the woman wants or would give her what for that report from Moscow who is by Sarah Rainsford more than 16000000 people have now been affected by seasonal flooding across a swathe of South Asia the floods in Nepal Bangladesh and India are thought to have killed about 500 people and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says it's becoming one of the worst humanitarian crises in the region in years the b.b.c. Sanjoy Majumder is in one of the worst affected areas Curry Graham in North Bangladesh and he joins me now live welcome Sanjoy What's the situation where you are now. Well this is this is the part of Bangladesh the northern districts are joining India which have been very badly have. Acted and the reason that's the case is because 2 major rivers the Brahmaputra of the German are flow into Bangladesh from India and these in this area and over the past few days the levels of water in these 2 rivers extremely high and that's the reason that this area has been so badly affected entire villages have been submerged I was told earlier today that 3000 schools have either been submerged have been badly damaged and have been shut down many people have had to move out of their homes into temporary relief shelters but the concern now is that the situation could worsen further south from where I am this this but this part is very has been very badly affected but there's a sense perhaps it's not going to get much worse the concern now is that central Bangladesh could be the next part of the country to be hit because there are there's a concern that the weather could worsen over the next few days and the route of those rivers coming in from India continue to swell across the monsoons come every year this must be way out of the ordinary though. Yes and if you look at when you started this report you talked about the regional situation Nepal India and Bangladesh and if you look at the map basically there that's affected is the southeast part of Nepal where River into the eastern part of India that's been badly affected and then flow into Bangladesh So basically what's been happening is that a combination of the heavy rain that we see this time of the year which causes river waters to swell and then basically it just flows downstream from there last week and it was very very. And it's come all the way to where I am which is in Bangladesh that's the reason that the Red Cross is so concerned they're volunteers are working alongside with the government to try and get supplies of aid to the people affected quickly as they can what about supply lines are people getting food and medical care that they need. Well the government's disaster relief teams quite confident that they're able to get supplies in place but. There is a lot of concern among victims that whatever's coming through is simply not enough a lot of people have been affected 3000000 people affected one way or the other in Bangladesh alone and the so the pace of relief relief supplies at least 4 people at the end at the end of where you know where they are receiving them is simply not quick enough or even substantial enough the problem of course is in this part that the road and rail links have been cut off in many parts so the only way to reach those affected is either by boat or from the air what does it look like one of the worst flooded areas what's the appearance of them basically you say you have to get in only by boat. Yes that's right so what you see is basically large parts of the countryside simply underwater you can see houses where you know the lower half of the house is underwater. Scenes in which people are just clinging on to whatever they have by way of possessions and trying to get out you know one man carrying a cyclonic there are there are sort of people on their beds as surrounded by water basically trying to figure a way out of the area or waiting for someone to come get them and yes the only way across a lot of these areas is basically by boat and that's the way they're getting to people either to bring them supplies or get them out Sanjoy Majumder our correspondent in North Bangladesh thank you very much we have a podcast by the way in which you can hear the best bits you need to search for b.b.c. Weekend break that's what it's called here with the World Service. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the u.s. 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Who they see now believe drove into the van in crowds into crowds and last round last on Thursday they had previously said beer was wanted in connection with the 13 deaths in the city he was killed along with 4 other men following a subsequent attack in the resort of Cumbria. The former White House chief strategist Steve bannana said he will carry on pushing President Trump's right wing agenda despite being sacked Mr Bannon has confirmed he returned to the Breitbart News website said he would take on the powers that be in the world of politics the media and business of course in Los Angeles has refused to dismiss a sexual assault case against the film director Roman Polanski despite the victim Samantha Geimer requesting an end to it Ms guy I was 13 when the incident took place 40 years ago in June she said the case should be dismissed. They would do if you show Ball the Chinese Nobel laureate who died of cancer last month as appeared in a short video asking for time to mourn is the 1st time you shot has been seen since her husband's funeral there have been continuing calls for her to be released from de facto house arrest but the Chinese authorities say that you Sharr is free and want to do more in peace. The Lebanese army says it's lost an offensive against the last remaining Islamic state stronghold on its north eastern border with Syria and Zimbabwe's 1st Lady Grace Mugabe who seeking diplomatic immunity for the alleged assault of a model issued you to attend a regional leaders summit in South Africa today the wife of President Robert Mugabe is expected at the meeting despite feeling to present herself to police in connection with the incident. B.b.c. News. Hello welcome if you weren't with us before you with weekend from the b.b.c. World Service I'm Paul Henley coming up on the pro What is your main. What have you here. Do you work for. A new play about the ordeal of a British Iranian woman currently imprisoned in Iran now joining me until 730 g.m.t. On the program our 2 guests today their class Spencer here in the studio senior research fellow Middle East and North Africa program and 2nd century initiative which I might get used to explain in a moment Clare at the Chatham House think tank in London and in our Berlin studio is a Congo who is a journalist poet and musician among other things Welcome back to the program Mussa tell me why you moved to Berlin this is relatively recently wasn't it about 3 years ago you know I needed a change really I think I'd sort of come to my time in London and I was really enjoying travelling and living in Europe and I studied French and German at school a few years kind of thought was nice approaching to becoming for European really and a lot of people think that Berlin captures a certain spirit of London quite a few years back that it's basically the new center of artistic activity in Europe I'm always wary of his comparisons to him a burden has evolved in its own when deserve the same praise really and I think it's a unique city so I would with all respect I reject the analogy but you do lots of things including music in what context so I make sure a new protocol p.b.x. So we do I suppose the best summary is politics poetry and spoken word hip hop singing so I sing a few songs I rap some of them are spoken word some of them say yes but a mix but you know current affairs relationships all kinds of issues that we cover it sounds a fascinating way of making a living class Spencer the 2nd century initiative one of the things that you are involved in what is it well it's to prepare for and celebrates the. 1st Century We hope there'll be many more of Chatham House which was formally instituted in 1920 so we're looking ahead to push it on fairly solid basis it's a funding initiative but it's also a way of celebrating the fact that Chatham House is 100 years old and Random House is somewhere where basically important people from all over the world including members of the British government come together to discuss world affairs and world policy that's right there's 2 sides to it it's a membership organization so we bring together everybody from business journalism people who are seen to be influences of policy and it's seen as a one of those go to the news for heads of state when they're passing through London actually to make speeches but we also do research we have behind the scenes round tables there's all sorts of other activities going on and famously when you discuss things at Chatham House it's behind closed doors and you're not supposed to mention what you freely talked about there well this is where the famous Chatham House rule gets misinterpreted what is right well I ought to learn it of by heart but it's on the website basically you can use the information which is discussed it is to be if if the discussion is under the Chatham House rule it's normally tribute to particular ways that even if you're not given someone's name they can't be recognised in the venue can't be recognised either class Spencer and most of Congo are our guests welcome both now there's not been a week of president trumps presidency without its share of controversy and intrigue but this past week has been pretty high on the list the killing of heaven Heyer last weekend had been protesting against a rally a far right white supremacists in Charlottesville Virginia opened up a national wound that has only deepened since president trumps responses not been most people can agree consistent on Saturday he blamed the violence on all but on Monday. Reading from a teleprompter he directly condemned the clue Klux Klan neo nazis and white supremacists However whatever fact that had on calming public anger was quickly on done when the president went off script during a he said news conference at Trump Towers in New York I think there's blame on both sides and I have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either but only. And if you reported it accurately you would say. You're not serious about the matter that this is the sharpest roll to the protests you did this to music. Group but you also had people that were very 5 people on both sides you had people in that group excuse me excuse me I saw the same pictures as you did you had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very very important statue and then renaming of a park from Robert e. Lee to another name you see what I meant by heated the B.B.C.'s Nick Bryant was at that news conference and has been reflecting. Trump Tower is a place I tend to associate with Donald Trump's campaign for the White House rather than his presidency it's where he launched his insurgent bid for the Republican nomination at a time when most of us thought ridiculous the idea that he would even come close to succeeding but I would return to this model atrium many times during the course of last year's contest usually on nights when he won key primaries when the politically impossible started to become real I was there in fact when he secured the Republican nomination and so loud was my piece to camera that night in that echo chamber of a lucky that I briefly stopped to Ministre x. He thought I was a heckler and so too did his security detail which rushed towards me ready to bundle me at through those famous golden doors so when I return to Trump Tower this week possibly through many more or less of security I was struck by the change in podium last year at ball the Trump campaign logo this time it was him blazing with the seal of the presidency the 1st time that's happened since he took the oath of office in January what unfolded of course was far from Presidential a bop rule of a news conference a verbal battle with reporters that felt like witnessing a fight in the cheap seats at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx much to the astonishment of reporters much to the shock of some of his staff Donald Trump reverted to his original position on the deadly violence in Charlottesville look buzz sides were to blame he implied a moral equivalence between anti races protesters some of whom had last stand on the neo nazis white supremacists and k.k.k. Members who descended on this pretty Virginian college town heavily armed and eager evidently to fight. I stood throughout with my arm raise trying to get a question in the New York Times with the next they published a photo which made it look like I was saluting this America 1st president but it was the man in center frame that a call the photographers attention John Kelly the former Marine general and the new chief of staff brought in to impose order on this chaotic White House the pictures showed him stony faced seemingly disbelieving that the president was trampling over the words he read from a nor secure the why has the day before singling out far right groups for criticism and I can attest that Kelly also had a face of thunder when this press availability came to an angry end that face betrayed the disapproval and disbelief of many Republicans as I listened to what appeared to be the more authentic voice of Donald Trump and watched as he seemed reluctant pained even to castigate the racist jokes in Charlottesville without talking also of an even less of blame my abiding memory from that afternoon will not be of Trump's angry demeanor or the friends of General Kelly what will linger in the mind is a question shouted by an African-American Cameron Yes a cameraman breaking with usual protocols but determined to have his voice heard the question went unanswered but it was uttered with a dignified and piercing rage what message does this send to Iraq children. The B.B.C.'s Nick Bryant on an extraordinary week in Mr Trump disbanded 2 advisory panels of chief executives and chief strategist and close confidant Steve Bannon left his post to be discussing the circumstances of that a bit later but what do you think of President Tom's behavior Congo 1st of all of this news conference Well 1st I think it's been validated by the fact there been no resignations in protest from the administration the wider public and party and I think the most damning indictment of his behavior is. The refusal of the mother of have a high who was killed in the protest to speak with him and I think unfortunately as those 2 facts sort of say all relieved that he's operate with impunity ultimately and and that he's harming people who are trying to make his country better place but you think he's a long way away from ending his presidency with this I think so I think so I mean he look look he's done in the past he's done you know arguably. As brutal things in relation to the health of the health care bill has of the proposals that would harm millions of Americans he hasn't brought jobs back as promised so you know I think he's I think he's actually got plain sailing for next few months but I think he's harm himself that much this week Claire he was basically right to say there was violence on both sides of that demonstration in Charlottesville wasn't he. Well I'm not sure I think that the the issue is over the moral equivalence here that you know there is clearly what has been called a hate group with the instigators of the protest and that is what people are concerned about and that's what the question at the end of your report he didn't go as far as saying that one side was as bad as the other he said there was violence on both sides and that's not really in dispute well and he was saying there were good people on both sides but I think it's the fact it's creating such an ease given that a person was killed. In this violence that usually it's expected that the president all the senior leaders of the country will say something which will calm the situation I think the real problem is what he was saying was not interpreted as calming the situation but actually opening the door for more incidents of this and of course it will all started over the remover of a Confederate monument and there are many more of those around the u.s. So this is probably not going to be an isolated incident to what extent do you think the president was saying what he believed and what is it was exhorting stand was he simply scared of losing some of his core support which most people acknowledge some of it comes from nationalists and white supremacy I don't think he was afraid that all of his core supporters remain pretty stable I think it's about I think still about 80 percent of course support here it'll amount so you know I think he's he's very happy with that and the New York Times has recently reported that actually the administration was shocked because Trump was being far more honest in public now than you normally has and these represent his private views you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service I'm Paul Henley with weekend. Here's a reminder of today's main news Spanish police are looking for the man they now believe drove a van into crowds in the city of Barcelona confirmed an earlier suspect was shot dead. Our correspondent Guy Hedgecoe says several other suspects are in custody 4 men have been detained 3 Moroccans and one man from the Spanish city of Millia in North Africa and the Catalan police have also said that they believe there is a very strong link between 1st of all that the 1st van attack and the other car attack encountered Real's those 2 attacks which killed people but also that there is a link between those and the explosion in a property in the town of. A few hours before the 1st attack and at the time your thought he saw it was maybe something to do with the production of illegal drugs but now they're saying they think that that was some kind of base for the terrorists that they were using when they were planning a big attack possibly with gas canisters because those gas canisters blew up that kind of ruin their plans and so they pushed ahead with what may have been a kind of plan b. Instead which is what we saw in the streets of Barcelona and in countless Guy Hedgecoe reporting other headlines from our newsroom Steve Benen says he will continue to take on President Trump's opponents despite having been sacked as the president's chief strategist and a judge in Los Angeles has rejected a petition to drop rape charges against the film director Roman Polanski. Now if you're a native English speaker whose only recourse when you're in a restaurant abroad is to point and gesture Feedly at pictures on a menu and you probably find life relatively easy in Germany where English is pretty widely spoken maybe too widely in Berlin according to one government minister that in a newspaper interview recently junior finance minister Yes Sean says it drives him up the wall when he's in Berlin and the way it is can only speak English he thinks all those living in the country should make learning German a priority so should his country be bracing itself for an Anglo phone takeover Mr Spann joins us now on the line from Germany good long has spawn other really cafes in Berlin where you can get understood in German Good morning Paul yes there are there you have dressing studios where you only can speak English I do know I do want to present a view very international city and of course people in the service should speak English also to serve tourists people business people from or from abroad but they should speak German as well you know my parents for example they don't speak any English why the Shouldn't they be able to order a coffee in the German capital in German you are talking about immigrants workers are you who aren't speaking in German only in English I'm not talking about about German nationals insisting on speaking English well there are even one or 2 places where try to speak English then you have fingers are betting and they only speak that one even if you keep on talking in German to them there's an attitude of the speech actually I don't like that I want to speak be able to order in German at least the coffee I mean someone who moved to Germany wants to work there in the service just to take an order in German for coffee should be possible now I have friends in Berlin and lived in Berlin myself who say that when they try to speak English when they're arranging bureaucratic things they've been told off very soundly in banks and in dogs even speak German with the biggest country in Europe speak German Now that's a newfound confidence isn't it. Well no I think that's quite normal if I would go to a civil servant and London and would start to speak just German I think you would say speak English please so I mean in general it's quite normal and that's the ball diversity in Europe with Europe it's not just one language it's diversity it's several languages and I think you can expect from someone who moves to another city to another country that is at least tries to learn the new language of course as I said Berlin is a very international people City want to attract tourists and business people from abroad and that is why people in the service even in the civil service should speak English to at least some birds to start a conversation about only English is something I actually find a bit annoying and I think I think most people immediately you're one foot 5 pm going as well if I went to London and only smoke jumper Yeah and I think August so most people listening will know exactly where you're coming from on the other hand you know Bullen's adapting it's in a process of change English happens to be the international language it's only in the last decade or so that Berlin has become truly a global city you know that's the price you pay really isn't it for before attracting immigrants suddenly from all over the world who can more easily speak in the international languages just what happens. As I just said that's true and that's true for business definitely but if you're broke in the service and there's an attitude and that is actually about what annoys me that's an attitude in some restaurants in some studios of only speak English just because to to to to want to be hipster to want to be in I think it's very provincial actually then I say that's a drum and capital you should be able to realize actually if you're in Rome Helsinki Prague to London or balloon because of a different language it's a different culture and as I just said if you if you move to another country in Europe and you want to list there you should at least learn some parts of the different language of course it is very good it's good for me as well when I mean to tell you that I can speak English because I don't speak any Italian That's great but if I run Italian I would love to to order my coffee and Roman telling us about it not just in English so I think that's a quite normal attitude that people in their own country expect to be able to to order something or to talk to people in the service in their own mother tongue Mussa akong you live in Berlin all these lessons you've learned I mean she really enjoys speaking German I find it really rewarding and I feel that you know I wouldn't have as many close German friends as I do in such a short time without speaking German well and it's been really rewarding for me as an experience you do get rewarded for it don't you get points at the speaking German in some parody and model will try and reply in English actually sounds silly but I was in a date a few months ago and it hadn't spoken any genital we're not going anywhere until it's been ruled upon remounted level but you know sort of slight joking aside I see the gentleman's point I also would say that it depends where you live in the city because I live in freedom sign and quite frankly on that street almost no one speaks English to me when I go out and about our didn't speak any German I think this morning until I got on that on our spoke German to the people here in the studio to the taxi driver and you know I just think you get more out of life in the city rather than. It has to be a negative thing I think if you come to a city like Pearl and I don't speak any German at all but you know I think that's your loss because you just get so much more from the city in the long term as well if you make the effort to connect trespassing I think that's a more positive point value to him to progress well I think musos is making a point that maybe this is going on in the cosmopolitan center of the in rather more than it is in residential neighborhoods so maybe the maybe you need for an approach there my other reflection is I speak French and Spanish and little bit of Arabic. I've always found with German that actually Germany is a bit of a victim of its own success because so many Germans speak such good English I'll give you an example I think that's very myth actually got well you know I think there's also an etiquette coming out of which I find very impressive but I've been to conferences where you where you approach a group of German speaking amongst themselves they glides rather like the Dutch to seamlessly into English which I found very polite when somebody is not German turns up you don't get that from the Spaniards and French youngest son out soil outside the higher level speak English sorry outside the high level conference venues Germans actually don't grow up you don't watch films in German you watch them dubbed unlike the Scandinavians and the Dutch and you don't Germans don't have that level of fluency that it's right isn't it that they should be more confident about speaking the majority language now what the majority language being damaged German Well of course look I've just been to Berlin myself and also Sulzberger in Austria where they also speak German I think one of the problems is if you are internationally links Germany is only spoken really in those 2 places was if you were Spanish speaker it's the whole of Latin America minus Brazil and even their Brazilians and speaking Spanish French is still very much an international language I think the problem is you have to be living in Germany to speak German and here I do sympathize with the minister Mr Quick word do you think this is a battle you can win. Well 1st of all Brazilians to speak Portuguese by the way but nevertheless I mean they speak Spanish within Latin America Ok you meant it that way nevertheless yes they get support I get many many you know if even from San Francisco people tell me you're right there are others that say well Berlin is a it's an international city calm down and carry on but what I see is that people are discussing it all over Germany all over Europe more or less so I think it's Rush discussing it and perhaps it makes some people to realize that for people I said again like my parents that never spoke a word of English because they never had that at school it is always very very odd situation actually when they go with me to a restroom and I have to translate for them what's going on Ok thank you in the in the in the middle of their own capital thank you Younge on who is a minister in the German government thank you very much for joining us laws on the ordeal of a British Iranian woman jailed in Iran will be highlighted at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival not the names of Garri Ratcliffe was arrested by revolutionary guards during a family visit to Tehran last year with her then 2 year old daughter she was accused of security offenses and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment at a secret trial described by the un as a mockery of justice a play based on half light will be showing for a week from tomorrow in Edinburgh Caroline wholly went along to rehearsals. What is your name not only you know I have my home here. You well. It's more than 16 months since a visit to Tehran with her daughter turned into a living nightmare for Nazanin to Goree reckless and. Display called Looking for mummy reconstructs what's happened in the lives of her and her husband Richard he's been campaigning from London for her release. Following her to be interrogated like the 45 day. You know I do. I have to check. Right. Place based on letters the Nazanin has written from jail as well as what she and her Iranian family have told her husband over the phone and on interviews with Richard he's played by Nathan finances but should no one I knew had heard of it which was very surprising such an outrageous story so I think it's get out there and let him people know that this is happening there's so much about this story is just I think I'll break just in the reasons as well. I think that that's something that has to be known by other people but this is going to have the. 15th of August. Revolution. Just 00000000 sentenced to 500 is innocent in cigar Iraq has already now missed over a 3rd of her daughter's life Gabrielle are known in Farsi as Keyes who is being brought up by her Iranian grandparents allowed only short visits to her mother in jail by d.c. . Myself I do it. Forgive me for the night I was not by a side to hold a war this will have a full suite some of the most poignant scenes are those when we hear in her own words from Nazanin herself played by actor Sarver see you asked me if I would have seen the making in one doesn't mean to go Iraq with the mansions for freedom I would like to stick that one cheek to mark my freedom. I would love to marry here again. The best thing that ever happens. Richard Ratcliffe went to East London to watch one of the rehearsals my job as I see it and I should leave it is to bring a home and to be strong enough to do so crying on the sofa isn't going to change that. A try not to feel too much bookkeeping than to keep pushing and keep Clinton said to have the story back you have to feel a bit of that nothing's Latinists and. Just the sort of the piercing what she misses. That cutting. My tears the flowers. Happy that 80. This is the 2nd birthday away with your brother and I thought there was. Not that embrace. But no. Happy birthday to. The shining red apple of my life. My beautiful girl with the sign. Might be seen. As a means of Gary Radcliffe now knows that her ordeal has been made into a play which she told her during one of the phone calls he's allowed with her although she's currently suffering from severe depression he says that she's happy it's happening they both are I think it's a comfort and. It's important for her not to feel forgotten. Caroline wholly own a play that's up for an award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this week you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service the program's weekend b.b.c. Weekend break is the podcast of the highlights of this program from a Saturday and Sunday editions Stay with us if you can. I m Corey Flintoff former Moscow bureau chief for n.p.r. Joined me on Tuesday night August 22nd at 6 pm at Pepe auditorium for a resurgent Russia in the time of trouble I'll discuss the history of Libya Mir Putin's presidency.