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Violence from White Supremacists, neo nazis or the kkk. Arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at uk airports or on flights see a 50 rise in the past year. A worrying rise in rural Crime Insurers say brazen thieves are forcing farmers to turn their farmyards into fortresses. And big bens bongs will fall silent next week for nearly four years for urgent repair work. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. The british team claim a successful World Athletics Championships after reaching their medal target with five in the final 2a hours in london. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. This week india and pakistan mark 70 years of independence from britain a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest Mass Migrations the w ....
reporter: joining the debate, the chief strategist steve bannon slammed white supremacists to the progressive american prospect saying, et no nationalism, it s losers, it s a fringe element. we ve got to help crush it, you know, help crush it more. at first bannon claimed he didn t know he was being interviewed. he called me. and weirdly he never said that we were off the record. reporter: but sources close to bannon said he intended them to divert attention from the president s comments on charlottesville. one source told cnn, bannon knew full well this would distract from criticism. reporter: now the white house declined to comment, but a spokesperson did weigh in on the future of the top economic advisor gary kohn who was with mr. trump on tuesday. kohn was upset by the comments, but the white house said kohn is not going anywhere. thank you so much. what do the president s two different reactions to two ....
In number, it s very insular, it s insulated, it s hard to penetrate. but you have a lot of pakistani nationals origin there, moroc n moroccans as well, ties to not only admiration for isis but other terror groups, which is a very powerful pakistani terror group. if this was indeed isis, it would be unusual for two reasons, one for the first attack in spain, two they didn t appear to be suicidal. right. if it appears they did have a getaway car or ran away, didn t kill themselves in the attack. the final thing is this, is that the power and mayhem that just an automobile can cause. and keep in mind, we ve now seen this in france, that nice attack, which killed dozens of people. this attack here, we ve seen cars used twice in canada as vehicles, of course, a different kind of extremist. white supremacist extremist, but just on saturday in charlottesville, we saw a car, of course used to very deadly effect. evan perez, u.s. officials ....
reporter: following his comments on want violence in charlottesville. but on twitter, the president is still in clean-up mode. blasting republicans who criticized him. and falsely claiming he did not put white supremacists on the same level as the people protesting them, tweeting, lindsey graham falsely stated i said there is moral equivalency between them. he also attacked arizona senator jeff flake, cheering on his primary opponent, tweeting, great to see that dr. kelly ward is running against flake jeff flake who is weak on borders, crime, and a nonfactor in senate. he s toxic. graham hit back, in the manner in which you handled the strategy, you are receiving praise from some of the most racist and hate-filled individuals and groups in our country. for the sake of our nation as our president, please fix this. gop senator bob corker lashed out at the president s reporters in tennessee saying the president has not yet has not been able to demonstrate ....
Watch it. i don t think the democrats should chase the president down monument row. i think they should talk about charlottesville and honor the memory of the woman that was opposing nazis and focus on the fact that the president seems to be an apoll gist for those guys. paul, i disagree forcefully as possible that he s an apoll gist for the nazi parties. he said there were some nice guys. listen, paul, i don t know what he was referring to in that, full-throated, full-throated rebuke of the nazi party. nazis, listen, the president has jewish grandchildren, all right. do you think, do you really think the guy that wants to embrace the people that to want wipe his grandkids out? if that s your argument, he s on firm ground with a lot of americans. he s on firm ground with white evangelicals and republicans because he does tap into the sense among many white americans that their culture is under siege, they feel that there s a sense of loss. i think that s what he s tapping into. ....