Hello and welcome to bbc news. President trump says congressional leaders are having serious discussions about tightening gun controls in the us in the aftermath of two Mass Shootings in the past week. Mr trump said senior members of the Republican Party were on board and hed also discussed the issue with the influential gun lobbyists, the National Rifle association. However with senators on their summer recess, theres no prospect of any immediate legislation. We need intelligent background checks, 0k . We need intelligent background checks, ok . This isnt a question of nra, republican or democrats. I will tell you, i spoke to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday. He is totally on board. He said, ive been waiting your call. Is totally on i spoke to senators that in some cases, friends of mine, but ready hardline senators, hardliners and when i say that i say that in a positive way, hardline on the second amendment. And they understand, we dont want insane people, mentally ill people, bad people,
Andrew harper. Hope for 4,500 British Steel workers, after a tentative deal to rescue the company from insolvency. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with gavin. England take early wickets but it is looking like an. Second ashes test in australia. Second ashes test in australia. Thanks, gavin, and chris has all the weather. Yes it looks pretty tricky for their cricket but we are looking ahead to the Weather Forecast for the weekend. And will be looking back at the infamous flood in cornwall. And will be looking back at the infamous flood in cornwall. Thanks, chris. Also coming up the peculiar story of the abandoned wiltshire village evacuated 50 years ago, and thats remained uninhabited ever since. Hello, everyone, this is afternoon live. A Police Officer has been killed as he was investigating a reported burglary in berkshire. Thames Valley Police say pc Andrew Harper died following a serious incident on a road near the village of ufton nervet. Ten people have been arrested. Bo
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Japan have reopened down over 1 . A us ban has kicked in, barring Government Agencies from buying equipment made by some of chinas biggest tech firms. It comes as president Trumps National security advisor visits london, while stressing the uk is ready to strike a trade deal with the uk after brexit, he said the involvement of the chinese Telecoms Firm huawei in building the uks 56 mobile infrastructure could be put off until after the uk leaves the eu. Todays us ban stops Government Agencies buying from huawei and a host of other chinese firms, including telecoms equipment maker zte, and hikvision, which makes security cameras. Huawei in particular has been described as a National Security threat, amid fears it could be used by the Chinese Government to spy, something huawei says it would never do. But the ban also comes amid mounting trade tensions between the us and china, with america due to impose a 10 tariff on an additional 300 billion in chinese imports on the 1st of september.
Message he wants to get out there. We are first in the queue, we will get these trade deals. It will all be ok if we leave the eu without a deal on 31 october. Yes, and if anything i think we have to be really careful, because President Trump has a history of reneging on things that he has said in public, particularly with world leaders. All we have to do is think about his very close bromance with the french president s, macron, and how that has salad. He was very close with justin trudeau, and that is now more distant. So a note of caution based on past behaviour. What we discussed earlier, which was quite interesting, was how john earlier, which was quite interesting, was howjohn bolton was discussing the fact that we can do it by bit, therefore we can avoid theissues it by bit, therefore we can avoid the issues that are tricky, like the National Health service, if that is up National Health service, if that is upforgrabs, Like National health service, if that is up for grabs, like