Last tuesday was hugely controversial. Then on friday, Donald Trump Tweets this. James coney better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he sta rts of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press because of that sweet, there are lots of questions and there is growing pressure to say if those tapes exist. This is the republican Lindsey Graham saying you cannot be cute about tapes, if there are any tapes of this conversation they need to be turned over. You would expect the democrats to be critical. Here is senator chuck schumer. Perhaps needless to say, there is no sign of the tapes. There is no sign of an apology. There was no sign of sean spicer, the White House Press secretary earlier, he was asked about this. I made it clear last week that the president has nothing further to say. Does that mean the president will deny. . |i further to say. Does that mean the president will deny. . I said i was very clear. The president will have nothing further. I understand. Alexis, i made it clear what the president s position is much issue. Live from washington, our correspondent. Anthony, this is quite well worn manoeuvre by the president , drawing out something controversial and then opting out of any evidence. Right, exactly. We saw it with the tweet several months ago about barack it with the tweet several months ago about ba rack obama it with the tweet several months ago about barack obama wiretapping trump tower. We heard it with his boasts about his crowd size and allegations of widespread voter fraud, millions of widespread voter fraud, millions of voters. The game plan, the operational attitude that the white house has taken, in these types of situations is to be quiet about it and hope it all goes away. Well it has gone away generally, in the past, but these things have a tumour to perfect. More and more in the mainstream media. These things have a cumulative effect. In this particular instance they continued to press him about it, even donald trump in an interview on fox news on saturday evening said he did not wa nt to saturday evening said he did not want to have anything to add on it. I think the white house is nervous that they are either going to admit that they are either going to admit that there was no wiretapping, and Make Donald Trump look like a liar, oi Make Donald Trump look like a liar, orsay Make Donald Trump look like a liar, or say there was wiretapping in the oval office and then they are opening themselves up to subpoenas and investigations are all sorts of other cans of worms that might be even more damaging to the white house. Well that is a story about the former director of the fbi. Here are for people who could take over. Mrtrump are for people who could take over. Mr trump saying he mean in the new fbi director by friday. We have the acting fbi director andrew mackay. Republican senatorjohn paul in. New york appeals judge michael garcia, republican senatorjohn paul in. New york appealsjudge michael garcia, a Senior Lawyer called alice fisher. There are a couple of other major candidates as well. Rather than talking candidates, tell me about the role. Its a political appointee . It is. Supposed to be detached from politics, though. It is setup for a 10 year term, sun fbi director is supposed to extend beyond anyone. Historically, when they are pointed fbi directors, they are looking for someone who is partisan. Not a senator, but someone who comes up from law enforcement, in the pastjudges have been chosen. There are a fewjudges on this list. Someone who has not been mired down in day to day politics and can try to strike an impartial, somewhat deferential tone when they take that fbi job, because often times, as we saw with coney, they are tasked with investigating politicians on both sides of the political divide. Just before i let you go, we have talked about donald trump most days outside source. There is no letup, is there . No. There is really not. Last week we thought it was going to be a run up preparing for donald trump s trip abroad, and instead the comey story broke and it became a dominating news story for the rest of the week. There is never a break. And you will be here to take us through it. Anthony, live as he a lwa ys through it. Anthony, live as he always is from washington, dc. Another story involving donald trump is about us and israel. This is david friedman, donald trump chose him as the new Us Ambassador to israel. Today he arrived to start thejob. He is controversial in some causes because he supports moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. We know donald trump is considering that option. Tom bateman has more. President trump may have gained something of a reputation for keeping people getting on a number of issues. Certainly this one is no exception, not whether he will or will not move the us embassy to jerusalem. We have a further glimpse into his thinking over the weekend, when his Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson said that the president was thinking carefully about the impact it would have on the Peace Process. This drew a very Quick Response from israels Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, who of course favours such a move. He said it would not damage the Peace Process but instead would shatter what he called the Palestinian Fa Ntasy what he called the palestinian fantasy that jerusalem is what he called the Palestinian Fantasy Thatjerusalem is not the capital of israel. The stakes are pretty high around this debate of what the president is going to do. One thing we know is we simply do not know. He has a couple of weeks to decide whether he will sign a waiver that would prevent the embassy from moving or carry on with law for the embassy to move to jerusalem. All of the key things will be how much emphasis he gives this issue when he arrives in this region injust a this issue when he arrives in this region in just a few weeks time. Thank you. Now, while others watching tom i havejust thank you. Now, while others watching tom i have just pulled thank you. Now, while others watching tom i havejust pulled up Roger Federer s website and hit the news button. You find this. Roger to focus on the grass on hard court season,in focus on the grass on hard court season, in other words, focus on the grass on hard court season, in otherwords, he focus on the grass on hard court season, in other words, he is not going to the french open. Lets speak to our Sports Correspondent live from the sports centre. What are you . He is getting old. We all are, arent we . You and me. He is making a calculated decision to play on his best surface. 17 of his grand slams have come from grass and hard court services. Only one has come from the french open. He is making a calculated decision to say right, im not going to bother about switching my whole game for clay. Im going to concentrate on grass and pick my opportunities i can maybe add another grand slam. Surely, the former rap on the dow has had something to do with it all here. Rafal nadal. He is unbeaten on this clay court season. He has won in barcelona, madrid and monte carlo. He is probably thinking that rafael will be too good for me, some i will sit out on weight. I will do good at wimbledon because i have done it seven times before and maybe ican do done it seven times before and maybe i can do it eight times. |j done it seven times before and maybe i can do it eight times. I get the practicality and the theory of the decision, nonetheless it is a moment to pause, isnt it . He is opting out ofa grand to pause, isnt it . He is opting out of a grand slam. He has not done that for years and years. Interesting he said i might be back next year, so sorry to the french open fans but i will see you next year. You know what, you can say things and down the track you could get injured. His body is getting old andi get injured. His body is getting old and i know for the fans who love him and i know for the fans who love him and he is a peoples favourite. They will be sorely missing him. It doesnt detract from the strength of a tournament as well, not having such a great player there, not having the aussie open champion. Roger has make the decisions to prolong his game, because he loves being on court, he loves being on the circuit. But if he grinds it down as he used to, he is not going to get much more life out of his career, i would say. Thank you. Wimbledon comes hot on the heels of the french open, it has always been tough to do both. Lets talk about cricket. There is a possibility of a Strike Hanging over the upcoming ashes series between australia and england. Australias players are in a long running contract dispute. As if we had not already have a big dose of Nick Marshall maccormack, he has been busy today, reporting on the story as well. A standoff between the players and cricketers and australian bosses has escalated. Chief boss sent an e mail telling cricketers they would not be paid afterjune 30, cricketers they would not be paid after june 30, unless cricketers they would not be paid afterjune 30, unless they accept a proposal pay overhaul. The key issue which both sides of the dispute are around 20 million distributed over the next five years. Cricket australia have offered an increase in australian male and female player pay packets, but State Cricketers will now be excluded from sharing in future revenue models. Australias cricketers are standing as one. Mitchell starc tweeted, makes for interesting mens and womens ashes, hinting that there will not be a series between england and australia if this is not resolved. The fast bowler pat cummings wrote players or staying strong. Hashtag fair share. Former australia test Bowler Mitchelljohnson tweeted this. Former international Kevin Pietersen stoked the fire. Hinting at a forfeit. Australias mens team will be contractually obliged to play in the champions trophy next month, but augusts test series in bangladesh is under threat. Unless the situation is resolved. Australias womens squad for the World Cup Injune and july will be played in advance and employed only until the end of the tournament in england. Away from all the threats, both Cricket Australia and its players will want this sorted amicably. For now, there just is not cricket. Thank you. But taking care of every element of the outside Sports Section today. Later on the programme we will turn into a much more serious matters, the situation in yemen is already very serious, because of the conflict there, but there is now a second outbreak of cholera. All the details to come. With a week to go until the deadline to register to vote in the General Election, more than one quarter of young voters still are not on the electoral roll. Our social Affairs Correspondent has been looking at theissues the issues that young people want addressed in this election. Meet the millennials. Birmingham has one of the highest numbers of 18 to 2a year olds in europe. Its the generation least likely to vote, but one facing huge uncertainty about the future. Amano is a 21 year old graphic designer. For him, the big issue in this General Election is brexit. I do feel like we are going to be the ones that bear the burden. Being in the european union, it kind of subsidised art and music programmes and a lot of the public facilities that we enjoy in birmingham in particular, so that would be kind of one of the things that id be looking out for. Birmingham has five universities. The cost of studying is a big talking point. Second year Art Student Phoebe says shes undecided about who to vote for, but University Fees would be her big issue. Its definitely the fees that are a worry. Youre coming in already preparing yourself for that debt. I came into first year like, ok, im already nine grand in debt. I think it would definitely be an amazing thing if we followed along the lines of, say, scotland and we did Free Education and just made sure people have the a levels and the grades to get in. Whether studying or in employment, Money Worries come high up on the list for millennials. Angelo still lives at home with his dad. He would like to own his own place but unaffordable housing and the cost of living means hes unable to fly the nest. Whilst im working, ive got to have a car. Car insurance nowadays is ridiculous. But my second year is likei,700 quid. My rent with my dad, thats another couple of hundred quid a month. Thats half my wages gone, ive not even touched them. I cant see myself moving out for another three or four years now. Theres no shortage of issues facing millennials. The challenge is ensuring their political voice is heard. Contrary to popular belief, we are actually quite engaged our lead story concerns president emmanuel macron. He has travelled to berlin, his first foreign trip as president. Still pretty impressive given he has only been in thejob for 2h hours or so. He says he wants to reinvigorate relations with germany and what he is calling a historic juncture germany and what he is calling a historicjuncture for germany and what he is calling a historic juncture for europe. Germany and what he is calling a historicjuncture for europe. I want to bring you the latest on the humanitarian situation in yemen. The Newest Development comes in the form ofa Newest Development comes in the form of a second outbreak of cholera in a year, we know a State Of Emergency has been declared in the capital. That is controlled by houthi rebels. The number of reported cases nationwide is now over 8000, close to 200 people have died since the end of april. The director of operations for the red cross working on this is describing hospitals that are overflowing. He shared this image to prove it. This is one patient on the bed and another sleeping under the bed. The bbc russia presents on bbc arabic, she has been helping me with the story. This is part of the Bigger Picture of the main thing. There are 27 Million People living in yemen, there are actually 2 million internally displaced people. Those who are considered food insecure 70 million and those without access to Drinking Water are a0 million. Cholera is a bit too dangerous, because of the situation in yemen at the moment, and travelled in one week to reach the number that you have just mentioned, 8500 week to reach the number that you havejust mentioned, 8500 people affected. Presumably as with other humanitarian issues in yemen, the main problem is getting help into the country. Absolutely. If we remember earlier in 2016, there was the siege which was considered at the siege which was considered at the time the second worst situation after the mud i siege, so this is quite severe. Yemen is the other country beside somalia that has the threat of famine on a very high scale, according to the un and the other humanitarian organisations. The effectiveness of cholera is that this is the second time there is an outbreak, it already collected, if i may say, the lives of 8000 people and more, so if there is a third outbreak may be uncontrollable with the war situation. Unfortunately this conflict will not end soon. It is too complex for that. What can be done, with the un like to be done prevent a third outbreak . The un is trying not to be involved between the two rivals. All the humanitarian organisations are trying to do at the moment is negotiate with both sides the correlation led by saudi arabia, and the houthi to try to get safe access into the cities and towns and villages affected by a different humanitarian disasters. The problem is, after the targeting of some of the humanitarian organisations by the Saudi Coalition and the houthi, this has been recorded on Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and in the un itself, it is becoming more and more difficult to reach and guarantee that when they get the promise that they are there they will not be targeted. That does not happen. They have pulled out of some cities. Especially those under the houthi. In the capital and in the south, after they declared the breaking up of the country. We have had saris from yemen, china and the uk, us australia and germany and france. Next on outside source, to north korea. These pictures came in over the weekend. Thats a north Korean Missile launch on sunday. We are told it is a new type of rocket capable of carrying a Large Nuclear warhead. As is often the case with north korea, we cannot verify those claims. Here is a report with what we do know. North koreas neighbours have long feared its shorter range missiles, after sundays test, pyongyang can now threaten a much greater area. This latest missile has a range of more than a000 miles. Bringing ava didnt occui than a000 miles. Bringing ava didnt occur other asian regions into reach but not the northern america. Occur other asian regions into reach but not the Northern Americam occur other asian regions into reach but not the northern america. It can be very much a surprise, solid fuel mix the remaindercan be very much a surprise, solid fuel mix the remainder can do it very quickly, which is a big worry for the international community. The missile test is also a direct threat to the new korean leader, telling his people he wanted to reach out to his people he wanted to reach out to his neighbour. All eyes will now be turning to china. What can president xijinping do to rein in his ally . So far they have urged restraint on all sides. The Un Security Council will meet on tuesday to discuss their options. So far, their policy of sanctions appears to be failing. This is interesting from the new york times. They commissioned an experiment which asked 1700 americans to locate north korea on the map. Some of them got it right, but as you can see, some of them did not. Was interesting was that those got it right were more likely to favour Diplomatic Solutions to the current tensions between the us and north korea than those who got it wrong. Our Us Ambassador to the un is critical in deciding the approach to this issue. Here she is. What we are going to do is continue to tighten the screws. He feels it. Whether it is sanctions or press statements, we will continue. What we will start doing is rallying the troops again and saying, ok, what do we need to do next . There is a lot of sanctions left that we can start to do, whether it is with oil or energy 01 to do, whether it is with oil or energy or maritime ships, exports. We can do a lot of Different Things we have not done yet. Our are there. Our final story we have not done yet. Our are there. Ourfinal story concerns we have not done yet. Our are there. Our final story concerns Chelsea Manning who is due to leave prison this week. She leaked hundreds of thousands of classified American Government documents and was given a 35 year sentence. Barack obama intervened before leaving office. She will leave having served seven yea rs. We she will leave having served seven years. We spoke exclusively to her lawyer, nancy hollander. She is obviously excited. She is nervous. Getting out of prison after a long incarceration is not as easy as people think it is. Its a transition, there is a period of adjustment. It takes some time. It will take her some time. To adjust. But she will be fine, she is. She has a lot of resilience. And a lot she wants to do, im sure. She will start giving it as soon as she has a bit of time to act limit herself. For those people that might not be familiar with the whole background to this, tell me about chelsea and hertime in to this, tell me about chelsea and her time in prison. To this, tell me about chelsea and hertime in prison. How long it to this, tell me about chelsea and her time in prison. How long it has been and how difficult it has been . It has been very difficult for her. She has been imprisoned for almost seven years. The first, almost the first year, about 11 months, she was in Solitary Confinement by quantico, which was a marine base in virginia. It was a very difficult time for her. There was a reason for it, to be so difficult. As you may recall, the un repertoire on torture said that her condition amounted to torture. She sued the army ultimately, she was given the Transition Coalmines but they continued to fight about her hair length, and that is a huge issue for her. She was not allowed to grow her hair. We are very relieved that she is going to be out of the prison and can finish her transition. Without the anxiety of constantly fighting for what she is entitled to. What stage is that transition and now . She has received coalmines, i do not remember when they started but she has been receiving hormones. I do not know exactly what happens next, that will be up to her and her doctors. What about Gender Reassignment Surgery . That is a decision she will make. How she will do that and what she will do will be after she gets out, fortunately she will not have to confront that imprisoned. Chelsea tried to take on life in prison. How was that moment for you her lawyer . Learning that chelsea had tried to kill herself was a horrible moment. All of us. Chelsea is fragile, thats is a moment of fragility that i hope nobody ever has to go through. For the prison to punish her because she interfered with the good order of the prison by attempting to kill herself and to punish by putting her in Solitary Confinement, where she tried again to kill herself, was outrageous. I cannot think of anything worse that the prison could have done to someone who was already showing tremendous depression and anxiety. What are the next stages of this case . Ultimately we could end up this case . Ultimately we could end up in the Supreme Court of the us. She has some very significant legal issues, and the case will continue. But it will continue with her by our side, it will make it so much easier, because chelsea is very active in her help writing brief. It would be wonderful to do with her. Away from the legal case, what does she want to do . When she gets out . Every pa rt she want to do . When she gets out . Every part of this will be continuing her transition. Its very important to her. I look forward to working with this young woman. And i will see tomorrow at the same time. Goodbye. Several weeks the weather talk was all about High Pressure keeping it dry if you are lucky. Some sunshine and some warmth, in fact if you go back a week to last monday, this is how it looked in Northern Ireland. Plenty of blue sky, temperatures reaching 20 degrees. Fast forward seven days and this monday was a com pletely seven days and this monday was a completely different affair. It brightened up at the end of the neighbourhood was cloudy and wet for a large part of it, in fact in cou nty a large part of it, in fact in county down they receive 20 millimetres of rain. Sunspots receiving more rain in may so far gonein receiving more rain in may so far gone in the of april. Soaking in dumfries galloway. Monday not so much rain in south east england, that could well change though at the end of wednesday as we will see in a moment. High pressure is no longer on the sea, it is in a large portion of continental europe. We are under low pressure, that means well advanced and more rain to come for many of our string tuesday. It will bea dry many of our string tuesday. It will be a dry start for much of scotland and Northern Ireland but some Rain Moving East during the day, sun coming out again afterwards. This Weather System edges into the midlands, moving very slowly, pointing to a halt and leaving much of east anglia dry. The warmest weather here with some breaks, very muggy. Weather here with some breaks, very muqqy by weather here with some breaks, very muggy. By the end of the label Bill Fresher In Scotland and Northern Ireland, once the sun appears behind the rain. Clear skies here on tuesday night, it will be chillier. On wednesday, sunshine and scattered showers. But for england and wales, look at this Weather System coming back to life. Quite a heavy area brain expanding northwards. Sweeping through east anglia, a potential of some heavy thundery rain which could be disruptive. A Weather System to keep an eye on. Coming into thursday, but does pull away but it is still low pressure in control, we have changed the wind direction. The wind is lighter but it is coming not from the small, Muggy South Westerly but more from a north, north westerly going into thursday. Pulling in this caller, fresher air across the uk going into thursday. Starting to feel any different. It is still low pressure, as i mentioned. You may start dry and sunny mentioned. You may start dry and sunny on mentioned. You may start dry and sunny on thursday, allowed spilled and there will be showers breaking out and some of those could be heavy. Here is a similar picture on friday. Could be quite chilly start. Then we get the clouds building. More showers widespread on friday maybe, possibly heavy and thundery with hail slow moving and very light winds. This showery Weather Pattern continues into the weekend because you can continues into the weekend because you can see, continues into the weekend because you can see, low continues into the weekend because you can see, low pressure continues into the weekend because you can see, low pressure is still very much in control of things going from friday, into saturday. Fairly light winds around, catching showers could hang around for a while. On sunday there is a potential for some showers managing to give some longer of rain in places. Notice how the Weather Temperatures have come down. Still a fresh fuel do things but quite pleasant in the sunshine. Going into next week, where is the battle going on . You watch the weather last week with the indication that High Pressure would move in next week. Now it looks like low pressure is very reluctant to give up the game and it is going to hang around so this pattern of sunshine and showers could continue for much of next week. The best thinking at the moment is that at least the past half of the week will be showery, then High Pressure will start to build in from the atlantic, trying things a little bit, settling things a little bit, by the end of the week. There is still a lot to play for in terms of timing and until then, more rain in the forecast. Lets face it, it has been a while. Tonight at ten a meeting of the cabinets Emergency Committee to respond to the cyber attack on parts of the nhs. Routine surgery and gp appointments have been cancelled in some areas, as the Nhs In England and scotland makes a recovery. Experts say its a wake up call amid claims that the government at westminster has failed to invest properly in it. Weve been making huge efforts to modernise and invest despite all the financial pressures and thats why were able to maintain our emergency services. Well have the latest on the Services Affected and well be asking what new measures are being considered. Also tonight on the campaign trail, as theresa may promises more workers rights. One voter confronts her about cuts in welfare benefits. I want you to do something for us
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