The trade secretary liam fox. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Deutsche bank starts to make the first of eighteen thousand job cuts including in london as part of a radical reorganisation. A life sentence for a life taken the parents of a child killed by a hit and run driver take their fight for tougher sentences to parliament. British airways faces a record £183m fine for last years breach of its security systems. The airline says its surprised and disappointed and 15 year old coco gauffs wimbledon dream is over, as she loses in straight sets to former world number one simona halep. Its 5pm our top story. Theresa may has insisted she has full faith in the British Ambassador in washington, Sir Kim Darroch, after the leak of emails hed written describing the Trump Administration as uniquely dysfunctional and inept. President trump has complained that sir kim has not served the uk well but mrs mays spokesman said the uks strong relationship with the white house would continue. A
And u. S. Relationships with europe. But we begin tonight with astonishing reports that the president s long time personal lawyer Michael Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Company Controlled by a Russian Oligarch close to the kremlin. Allegation first emerged in a report posted online by none other than Stormy Daniels lawyer claiming that half a Million Dollars was transferred to cohen from a companyowned by victor vekselberg, a russian tike yun. And financial records obtained by nbc support that account. And the transactions were corroborated by the daily beast and other outlets as well. Now, vekselberg, who we were just talking about, has tied to trump world with Michael Flynn in 2015 and in january 2017 he attended the inauguration which an associate in the u. S. Helped bank roll. And the head of vekselberg american subsidiary, and his cousin, donated a quarter of Million Dollars to the president s inaugural fund and another 30,000 to his campaign. Now it appear
From a Company Controlled by a Russian Oligarch close to the kremlin. Allegation first emerged in a report posted online by none other than Stormy Daniels lawyer claiming that half a Million Dollars was transferred to cohen from a companyowned by victor vekselberg, a russian tike yun. And financial records obtained by nbc support that account. And the transactions were corroborated by the daily beast and other outlets as well. Now, vekselberg, who we were just talking about, has tied to trump world with Michael Flynn in 2015 and in january 2017 he attended the inauguration which an associate in the u. S. Helped bank roll. And the head of vekselberg american subsidiary, and his cousin, donated a quarter of Million Dollars to the president s inaugural fund and another 30,000 to his campaign. Now it appears that all of this has already caught the attention of special counsel Robert Mueller. Because according to another report, muellers team has questioned vekselberg about the payments to
National intelligence, he found out on a stage in aspen while being interviewed by nbc. We have breaking news. It was announced on twitter vladamir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. Say that again. Vladamir putin coming to the did i hear you . Yeah. Okay. Thats going to be special. Director coats was not told of the decision to invite putin to washington this fall nor does he by his own admission know what went on with helsinki in that meeting oneonone with vladamir putin, nor do we. And well talk about the claim trump is making about how tough he is on the russians and these summit plans were being rolled out and whether this rewards putin for bad behavior, the Justice Department issued a dire warning about bad behavior by russia and others. Ongoing bad blaifr behavior a threat unfolding as we speak. Word of it came at the aspen forum the same place coats learned about the invite. You were in the room when coats found out about the putin invite. Talk about how this unfol
Vladamir putin coming to the did i hear you . Yeah. Okay. Thats going to be special. Director coats was not told of the decision to invite putin to washington this fall nor does he by his own admission know what went on with helsinki in that meeting oneonone with vladamir putin, nor do we. And well talk about the claim trump is making about how tough he is on the russians and these summit plans were being rolled out and whether this rewards putin for bad behavior, the Justice Department issued a dire warning about bad behavior by russia and others. A threat unfolding as we speak. Word of it came at the aspen forum the same place coats learned about the invite. You were in the room when coats found out about the putin invite. Talk about how this unfolded today. Ill tell you, its remarkable there. Clearly, as he was told there by andrea mitchell, it was clear he did not know. That was the first he was hearing about it. He also laughed it off a little bit in a way that indicated this is n