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Wont be made until the end of the season, following a heavy Champions League defeat. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. President trumps most senior diplomat is making his debut on the International Stage at the g20 summit in germany. The new us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson is meeting russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov this lunchtime at a time when contacts between the Trump Administration and moscow are under the spotlight. The Us State Department says mr tillerson will try to provide a comforting message to countries uneasy about apparent changes in americas Foreign Policy positions. Well be live in germany in a moment, but first this report from wyre davies. With so much attention on his own difficulties at home, donald trump might be thankful that, for the next couple of days, the spotlight will fall squarely on the shoulders of his new Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson, attending the g20 summit in germany. Among his first meetings was with foreign secretary
Thousands of homes have been evacuated in christchurch, new zealand, after two separate fires have combined, covering nearly 5,000 acres. And, a century of the wrens the navy marks the formation of the Womens Royal Naval Service during the first world war. Its 5. 00pm. Our main story is that a potential deal to end the long running dispute on Southern Rail has been rejected by members of the Train Drivers union, aslef. In a ballot, 54 voted against the proposal which had been negotiated by the unions leaders. Southern says its hugely disappointed and will be seeking more talks as soon as possible. The union is expected to try to renegotiate the deal. But, for the moment, it means there is still no end in sight to the disruption on one of britains busiest commuter networks. 0ur correspondent, john young, is at Brighton Railway station where many commuters affected by the Southern Rail dispute travel from. More from you and what people have been saying there today . more from you and wha
station .com slash , try and get two months free. a litt we re going to diger tonight bee a little deeper and stick with the durham report a little bit longer tonight, becaus te i think it s pretty important when you understand at the highest levels ofe am the americaneric governmente undermines the voice of the people of america. now, what the durham report did is it confirmed for us what we strongl y knew for years,e that rogue actors atf the fb the highest levels, the fbi launched a series of politically motivated investigationste into president donald trump in order to undermine his presidency. the allegations were alwayss wea flimsy, but through a slow drip of thinly sourced, thinly veiled leaks and crooked agents at the bureau, they created a narrative that hamstrung the trump administration for years. they abuse their power as lawo enforcement officials to advance a political agenda. and former actinvance g attorney general matt whitaker witnessed their lies firsthand. ed thei
suppressing voices and hiding information in news that is good. that attack came after fox business network aired a thinly sourced segment on the topic the night before. now administration may be looking at whether google searches should be regulated. i think google is really taking advantage of a lot of people. i think that s very serious thing and is serious charge. we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in. you just can t do that. so i think google and twitter and facebook, they re really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful. it s not fair to large portions of the population. reporter: does the president believe or does the administration feel there needs to be some form of regulation for google or what exactly wha was the president speaking ability? we ll let you know. we re looking at it. they put out a statement, google search is not used to set a political agenda and we don t bias our results towards any