President trump has tried to distance himself from the send her back chants directed by his supporters at a black democratic congresswoman, a former refugee, at a North Carolina rally on wednesday. The president has claimed he was not happy with the chanting, but video footage makes it plain he made no attempt to stop it. From the podium he had specifically named ilhan omar and 3 other congresswomen of colour, who have criticised him. The bbcs nick bryant watched the whole rally. Donald trump has been raising the racial temperature in this country all week. Tonight he tried to cool things down a little, admits to concerns within his own party that he has been playing with political fire. This is a rather that will be talked about for decades to come. After the racism of donald trump s original attacks on the four congressmen of colour and the kind of racial talk we have not seen from a modern day president. He singled them out by name. Representative ilhan omar. Crowd boos. Representat
To save the coastline. President trump has tried to distance himself from the send her back chants directed by his supporters at a black democratic congresswoman, a former refugee, at a North Carolina rally on wednesday. The president has claimed he was not happy with the chanting, but video footage makes it plain he made no attempt to stop it. From the podium he had specifically named ilhan omar and three other congresswomen of colour, who have criticised him. The bbcs nick bryant watched the whole rally. This is a rally that will be talked about for decades to come. After the racism of Donald Trumps original attacks on the four congresswomen of colour came the kind of racial demagoguery weve not heard or seen from a modern day american president. First, he singled them out by name. Representative ilhan omar. Crowd boos. Representative Alexandra Ocasio cortez. Crowd boos. Go back to where you came from was his message to the congresswomen earlier this week, three of whom were born in
To save the coastline. President trump has tried to distance himself from the send her back chants directed by his supporters at a black democratic congresswoman, a former refugee, at a North Carolina rally on wednesday. The president has claimed he was not happy with the chanting, but video footage makes it plain he made no attempt to stop it. From the podium he had specifically named ilhan omar and three other congresswomen of colour, who have criticised him. The bbcs nick bryant watched the whole rally. Donald trump has been raising the racial temperature in this country all week. Tonight he tried to cool things down a little, amidst concerns within his own party that he has been playing with political fire. This is a rally that will be talked about for decades to come. After the racism of Donald Trumps original attacks on the four congresswomen of colour came the kind of racial demagoguery weve not heard or seen from a modern day american president. First, he singled them out by na
Administration, from britains top diplomat in the us, sir kim darroch. Two years of his secret e mails leaked. In one, he wrote. On Donald Trumps recent state visit to the uk, he said the president had been dazzled by the queen, but cautioned this is still the land of america first. And on foreign policy, trumps sabre rattling over iran, approving air strikes and then calling them off, was described as chaotic. Here, serious questions are being raised about the leak. The thing with diplomatic cables, and i used to work at the Foreign Office, id be quite careful about what you say which is on a personal basis in those cables, because its all very well talking about the substance of the relationship, the policies, but i think some of that may, in retrospect, be regarded as unwise. Put in a statement, the Foreign Office denied it would have any long term impact. As for the future, the ambassador compared it to a roller coaster which could lead to disgrace and downfall, but cautioned about
Thanks hugh and sarah has all the weather more rain to come. Also coming up a new streaming service to rival netftlix, the bbc and itv plan to launch britbox by the end of the year to show new commissions and classic programmes. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. Hundreds of thousands of Public Sector workers are set to get a pay rise above the rate of inflation. The treasury is expected to confirm the details on monday, but reports suggest that among those in line for rises are the armed forces, police in england and wales and teachers in england. The pay award represents one of theresa mays last Big Decisions as Prime Minister. But labour have dismissed it as insulting. Our Political Correspondent iain watson reports. On one level, its quite straightforward actually, Public Sector. Now an apparent victory for some of those in the government payroll. The treasury was going to announce an inflation busting increase next week, the figure to be leaked to the Times Newspaper today. T