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[00:00:06] Live of from Washington, this is BBC News. The US senate
[00:00:09] passes a sanctions package
[00:00:11] of aimed at helping Ukraine by cutting off funds to Russia,
[00:00:15] and now faces vote in the House of Representatives. Thailand's prime
[00:00:20] of minister pledges new gun laws after a 14-year-old student shoots
[00:00:23] dead six people a school after killing two of his
[00:00:27] grandparents. A water. crisis leads to
[00:00:31] rationing in Puerto Rico as severe drought grips the
[00:00:34] island.
[00:00:44] I'm Helena Humpfrey, good to have you with us. We begin with some breaking news from
[00:00:47] Ukraine where the capital Kiev is under attack from
[00:00:51] ballistic missiles according to the city's mayor. Now Russian missile attacks
[00:00:55] have become an almost nightly occurrence with Ukraine saying that it
[00:00:58] lacks enough ad. fences to intercept them. Earlier,
[00:01:02] a Russian strikes killed three people in the district northeast of Kiev,
[00:01:06] and the US Senate earlier, overwhelmingly
[00:01:09] of passed a sanctions bill against Russia. It aims to choke
[00:01:13] off Russia's
[00:01:14] a economy and
[00:01:14] of bring an end to the war in Ukraine. The legislation targets major buyers
[00:01:18] of Russian oil and gas and
[00:01:20] a imposes additional sanctions on Russian leaders and
[00:01:23] oligarks. The measure was championed by the late Senator Lindsay Graham,
[00:01:27] and it still needs to pass the House of Representatives where. could face some
[00:01:31] resistance, that's largely because of a provision in that bill that would
[00:01:35] give President Trump the ability to impose tarifs of up to
[00:01:38] 100% on countries that are major consumers of Russian
[00:01:42] energy. Lindsay Graham's sister, South Carolina Republican
[00:01:46] Senator Darline Graham and Richard Bloomentall, the democratic senator from
[00:01:50] Connecticut, are among the lawmakers voicing support for the
[00:01:55] of of bill. An emotional day and very exciting
[00:01:57] of day for me. Russia has waged war. against Ukraine for
[00:02:01] far too long and
[00:02:03] of this bill
[00:02:03] of assist President Trump and his noble efforts to bring it to
[00:02:07] of a close. This legislation was deeply important to my brother
[00:02:11] Lindsay, and I'm grateful that this bill has achieved such a
[00:02:14] wide coalition of support. He believed that this was the
[00:02:18] most consequential piece of legislation that he had ever
[00:02:22] of led. Vladimir Putin is watching in Moscow, I'd like to think
[00:02:26] Lindsay Graham is watching
[00:02:27] in as well and proud of. what we've done, because today
[00:02:31] we send message to Vladimir Putin, you will
[00:02:34] in not win
[00:02:36] in this war,
[00:02:37] of time to come to the table for
[00:02:40] peace, your economy
[00:02:42] of already its heels is going to be throttled, even
[00:02:46] decimated. well, Dr. Galinda Nihus
[00:02:50] is a former NATO deputy
[00:02:52] of director for defense and security cooperation, she told me that the
[00:02:56] bill could make meaningful difference in constraining Russia's warm.
[00:03:00] if it passes in the house? um, I think the short answer
[00:03:04] is yes, but it's under the cavier that it's really put
[00:03:07] into into law, and it's still, it still has
[00:03:11] to go over one hurdle, but if that happens, indeed, it would
[00:03:15] be a welcome move, because so far, I think the Trump
[00:03:19] of administration has not been really spear heading the
[00:03:22] sanctions, efforts against war against
[00:03:25] Russia, so if that were confirmed, it would be good news, good
[00:03:29] news. for Ukraine, but also good news for for for
[00:03:33] for Europe, and I would argue also good
[00:03:35] in news for for the US. If you look at the
[00:03:38] of picture on the battlefield right now, many reports suggesting that
[00:03:41] Ukraine has
[00:03:44] of momentum, in but I also wonder whether you think that could be offset
[00:03:47] of if cities like Kiv, as we've been mentioning, continue to
[00:03:51] come under that intensified attack? yeah,
[00:03:55] I think what we are
[00:03:56] a seeing is really a situation of attritional
[00:03:59] in warfare uh... both sides are experiencing significant strain,
[00:04:03] mean on the Russian side the summer offensive
[00:04:06] has has failed, yeah, they only made
[00:04:10] small tactical progress in some
[00:04:13] areas, and Russia continues to
[00:04:16] terrorize Ukrainian cities, Ukraine
[00:04:19] continues to strike deep into Russian territory,
[00:04:23] they achieved to
[00:04:25] of probably knock out some 40%
[00:04:27] of the Russian refining capacities. but clearly, I mean
[00:04:31] they face critical shortages in air defense in particular and
[00:04:35] increasing civilian casualties uh due to the intensified Russian
[00:04:39] missile attacks, so uh so as I said it's
[00:04:42] a it's a war of attrition
[00:04:44] of which unfortunately continues by now longer than World War
[00:04:48] One. On that point with regards to air
[00:04:51] defenses, what do you make of President Trump shifting
[00:04:54] tone on
[00:04:56] of patriot missile licenses for Ukraine? um... Why do
[00:05:00] you think he appears
[00:05:02] of to have changed his position?
[00:05:05] Well, I, I guess he realized that it's more complicated than he
[00:05:09] may have
[00:05:10] of thought, because it involves intellectual. party rights from the companies
[00:05:13] concerned, which apparently were not involved in the announcement he made
[00:05:17] in in Ankara, but I think
[00:05:21] Ukraine now really has to look into what other options there
[00:05:25] are, because in many ways
[00:05:28] relying on these words from from from Trump is is not a good
[00:05:32] option, so so I think they need to look into other
[00:05:36] other options which aren't perfect,
[00:05:39] but there could be this French Italian. and some
[00:05:43] T battery, which uh is in the
[00:05:46] new phase, in the new generation, which may perform
[00:05:49] better, Ukraine could also intensify its effort to
[00:05:53] hit the threat at the source, meaning destroy the
[00:05:56] launchers and the production sites, so shooting the
[00:06:00] archer as opposed to trying to intercept the arrows and in that
[00:06:04] context, if Germany would finally provide the Tourus
[00:06:07] missiles,
[00:06:08] that would be enormously helpful, because they would be highly
[00:06:11] instrumental here, um so Ukraine would
[00:06:14] probably fast-track the Frier anti-ballistic missile
[00:06:18] system together with European partners and uh
[00:06:21] well if Europeans had the courage they could activate the an
[00:06:25] old idea, the sky shield initiative to uh to actually
[00:06:29] patrol the western part of Ukraine and therefore
[00:06:33] alleviate the pressure on Ukrainians um
[00:06:36] to um to to focus on the on the eastern
[00:06:39] flank, you have argued that the west is given
[00:06:42] Ukraine just enough to survive, not enough to
[00:06:46] win, do you think that can be reversed now,
[00:06:49] or do you think it is potentially too late given what Russia has
[00:06:53] achieved over the past four years? well, I mean, we have
[00:06:57] lost very precious time since 202, I
[00:07:00] mean NATO still or the, well NATO
[00:07:04] still doesn't have a Ukraine victory strategy, I
[00:07:08] mean the the the closest to that is really
[00:07:11] the um... Ukrainian strategy of strategic
[00:07:14] neutralization, which in my mind, European allies
[00:07:17] and and the US eventually should should
[00:07:21] support, but as long as
[00:07:25] Ukraine is not part of NATO or the EU, I think on the
[00:07:28] broader strategic picture, the the best approach is to
[00:07:32] conceive the news European defense and security architecture with
[00:07:36] Ukraine and integrated as much as possible
[00:07:39] into into our work, because arguably we should... move
[00:07:42] away, we we should move away from looking at Ukraine as
[00:07:46] petitioner. Ukraine is much more than that, it's an added value
[00:07:50] to our defense and security, so we need that mind shift first and
[00:07:54] foremost in in in Europe. Now Saudi Arabia,
[00:07:58] Turkey and Pakistan have signed an historic joint defense
[00:08:01] agreement saying that attack on one country would be considered
[00:08:05] attack on all three. The countries have been looking to strengthen security
[00:08:09] cooperation amid the US-Iran war. The deal was...
[00:08:12] announced a meeting between the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the
[00:08:16] Turkish President Richeb Taip Erdogan and the Pakistani prime minister
[00:08:20] Shabad Sharif in the holy city of Mecca. Saudi Arabia has
[00:08:24] faced direct attacks by Iranian forces as well as
[00:08:27] by Iran aligned to hoothi fighters in Yemen and the effective
[00:08:31] closure the straight of Formus has also limited
[00:08:35] exports of Saudi oil. Well the announcement comes as Iran and
[00:08:38] Iman continue to work a framework deal to set
[00:08:42] shipping rots through the straight and I'm
[00:08:46] joined in the studio this evening by Phil Stewart, chief national security
[00:08:50] reporter at Reuters, thank you very much for joining us this evening, so
[00:08:54] just to begin with, talk us through this collective defense pact, what
[00:08:58] do you think it says about concerns over the threat level, but
[00:09:01] also with regards to potential support from the United
[00:09:05] States? well, there's two ways to look at this, all those three countries
[00:09:09] are allies the United States, but Saudi Arabia has historically... dependent on the
[00:09:13] US for lot of its protection and it support, and so for the
[00:09:17] Saudies to now sign this agreement really speaks to the kind of knife's
[00:09:20] edge of threat it perceives, as it faces
[00:09:24] real hostilities from Yemen's hoothies and also
[00:09:28] warnings from Iran that, this kind of pact is not going to protect them,
[00:09:32] instead its policies need to change. well let's talk more about
[00:09:35] what Saudi Arabia is experiencing the threat level right now,
[00:09:39] including those attacks that we've seen from the hooties. inside
[00:09:43] Yemen, but also the threat level for for Saudi
[00:09:47] Arabia concerned that they will experience major attack, right? I
[00:09:51] mean, the Saudis are under unprecedented pressure, and
[00:09:54] you know, what you're what you're really worried about if you're Middle East
[00:09:57] National Security expert is new configration between Saudi Arabia and
[00:10:01] Yemen. you were, there was a war that came to an end, and there was a lot of
[00:10:05] hope that that war would be in the past, and what you're seeing right now is sort the
[00:10:09] beginnings of a potential reignition of that conflict, saw the Saudi Arab, you
[00:10:13] saw Saudi Arabia join the United States on in strikes against a
[00:10:17] run-back militia in Iraq, that was unprecedented,
[00:10:20] and then and and actually now you're seeing these these new warnings, Moran as
[00:10:24] a... pact is taking place, so really movement the chessboard here,
[00:10:28] and we're not sure what the next move will be, at the same time we're hearing from
[00:10:32] Iran and a man that they could be close to what a
[00:10:36] configuration the straight would actually look like, and those shipping
[00:10:40] roots, I mean, what do you think potentially deal could look like
[00:10:43] here, and do you think it's something that ultimately President Trump would
[00:10:47] be okay to say, you know, let's go ahead with this, even
[00:10:51] if it's a compromise. You know, it's amazing, if you listen to... what's
[00:10:55] coming out of Iran, absolutely not would, it won't be acceptable to President
[00:10:59] Trump, but then again, uh, the president is saying that they're close to deal that would
[00:11:03] allow for the free flow of commerce through the straight, what Iran is saying is
[00:11:07] that it's going to regulate the straight, all the traffic coming into the straight would be
[00:11:10] regulated by Iran, all the outbound traffic be regulated by
[00:11:14] Oman, and and there may even be fees involved, and the president
[00:11:17] was out publicly speaking about how they have achieved every
[00:11:21] goal that they sought in these negotiations, how could that be? to president
[00:11:25] Trump, yeah, it's certainly difficult one to to
[00:11:29] square, and that brings us to the question if there would still be the potential for back
[00:11:33] and forth over the question the straight of course, which was open before all of
[00:11:37] this, what about the nuclear question, of course, something the administration has
[00:11:40] said was the ultimate aim in all of this,
[00:11:43] denying Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, how
[00:11:47] far off could any potential negotiations and deal be there
[00:11:50] exactly, right now everything we've seen since April 8th is
[00:11:54] more or less has
[00:11:55] been a battle over the straight off, okay? And the big question, the
[00:11:59] big question
[00:11:59] that President Trump raises, is the future of Iran's nuclear program, and that is not
[00:12:03] even close to being resolved right now. Right now, people are just trying
[00:12:07] to, stabilize the world economy by ensuring the free flow of
[00:12:10] energy. Everything else is going to
[00:12:12] have to wait to later date, and we don't even know when that later date might
[00:12:16] conceivably be, given how far we are away from the resolution these
[00:12:19] negotiations. And phil, I do just want to ask you what you make the latest
[00:12:23] comments that we've had from president. about the stockpile
[00:12:27] of munitions, um, he said today that some US weapons
[00:12:30] are tighter, but still insisting, look, America has plenty of
[00:12:34] other weapons and tools to use, I mean, does this
[00:12:38] change at all, perhaps where Iran might plan next
[00:12:42] in this conflict? you know, Iran is a real disadvantage when it comes
[00:12:46] to you, fighting the United States directly, but they're what they're doing is fighting
[00:12:49] asymmetrically, they're fighting, they're fighting by challenging the United States in
[00:12:53] its bases, in its countries that... it's has alliances
[00:12:57] um,
[00:12:57] but the US has also sought to fight this war using standoff
[00:13:01] weapons, not fighting directly, not sending troops in as they did in Iraq or
[00:13:05] in Afghanistan, carving up the country into different commands, and so
[00:13:09] the use of weapons that can reach Iranian targets with precision,
[00:13:13] those those those munitions are being used and they've been used at extraordinary
[00:13:17] levels, and if the US wants to keep fighting that kind of war and playing
[00:13:20] defense when Iran fires at it, that could be a real problem,
[00:13:24] phil. du it there, chief national security reporter at
[00:13:28] Vouters, great to have your reporting, thank you very
[00:13:30] much. now police in Thailand say that a
[00:13:34] 14-year-old student has killed at least eight people in gun
[00:13:37] attacks at his home and school on the outskirts of Bangkok. The
[00:13:41] Thai Prime Minister said the teenager killed his grandparents and five teachers
[00:13:45] before taking his own life. Thai me media later reported that
[00:13:49] a school student had died from their injuries and at least
[00:13:53] 30 other people were injured. in the attacks. now despite strict
[00:13:57] gun laws that punish illegal firearms possession with up to 10
[00:14:01] years in prison. Thailand has one the highest rates of civilian gun
[00:14:05] ownership in southeast Asia. It's estimated that
[00:14:08] 40% of guns there are possessed illegally.
[00:14:12] And our southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head has this report. We must warn
[00:14:15] you, it contains distressing details from the
[00:14:18] outset.
[00:14:23] Fear and panic a... secondary school
[00:14:26] classroom as shots ring out in the
[00:14:29] corridor, staff
[00:14:33] frantically evacuated the children, this is a big school with
[00:14:37] around 300 pupils. police
[00:14:41] officers and ambulances were on the scene within minutes, but it
[00:14:45] took time to find the gunman. by the time they did
[00:14:49] he taken his own life. he was identified as a
[00:14:52] 14-year-old boy,
[00:14:54] a st.
[00:15:00] At first, I thought there were sounds of firecrackers or someone banging onto
[00:15:03] something loudly,
[00:15:05] but then
[00:15:05] we started realizing they were not,
[00:15:09] and then it started getting more
[00:15:10] frequent,
[00:15:13] like throughout the morning, ambulances carried the injured to
[00:15:17] hospital, once the shooting had stopped, distressed
[00:15:21] families rushed to the school seeking information about missing.
[00:15:26] so what we know so far is that the young gunman reached the fourth floor of
[00:15:30] this building and was able to move along firing multiple
[00:15:34] shots into each the classrooms hitting teachers.
[00:15:37] and his fellow pupils, what we don't know is how someone
[00:15:41] so young managed to get hold of a gun and that much
[00:15:44] ammunition,
[00:15:48] later in the day, the tai prime minister visited the scene,
[00:15:52] he says gun laws have already been tightened, but
[00:15:56] Thailand still has some the highest levels of gun crime in the
[00:15:59] region, the horrific incident here today,
[00:16:03] just one more grim statistic. Jonathan Head, BBC
[00:16:07] News! Nonteburi, Thailand. More than
[00:16:10] 180,000 households and businesses in Puerto Rico are
[00:16:14] ratioing water with the island in the grip of severe drought.
[00:16:18] Well July was San Juan's driest month since record
[00:16:22] keeping began back in 1899. The governor of
[00:16:25] Puerto Rico said that the situation is out of our hands and blamed the
[00:16:29] water shortages on climate conditions. Well CBS news
[00:16:33] correspondent Lilia Luciano has the latest now from Puerto Rico.
[00:16:37] What you can see of course is this dry ground, we are
[00:16:41] standing in what is part of Puerto Rico's or San
[00:16:44] Juan's largest drinking water supply, this is the
[00:16:48] reservoir that feeds most residents
[00:16:52] the capital city of San Juan and adjacent areas, this is
[00:16:55] Carraiso, and yes, as the governor said, this is
[00:16:58] dire, most severe drought that San
[00:17:01] Juan and this area in general has experienced in more than 120
[00:17:05] years, the problem is... not just the dry
[00:17:08] conditions, the drought, but there's also issues with the setiment, where we are
[00:17:12] standing, this is all impacting the the the supply
[00:17:16] of water to people. we are talking about years of
[00:17:20] mismanagement, underfunding it an aging water
[00:17:24] infrastructure, all of that existed before this drought. the
[00:17:28] drought is only aggravating conditions. today i had the opportunity to talk to
[00:17:32] the president the water authority and i said, look, i understand the drout is the
[00:17:35] reason why you're having to rashion water. water, but every Puerto Rican who has
[00:17:39] tens of thousands them, who have seen water shortages
[00:17:43] for more than three months, sometimes days on end understand that it
[00:17:47] is not just the drought, so there's a great deal of
[00:17:51] frustration, people are taking to the streets and protest and
[00:17:54] demanding change. It's not just this administration, this has been piling
[00:17:58] on for years, but some the people I talked to uh here in San Juan, the
[00:18:02] mood is they're feeling like they're not being heard, what they're saying
[00:18:06] is, look, we are. not seeing the solutions implemented fast enough, i
[00:18:10] asked about whether the federal government fema could play a role and the
[00:18:14] president the authority told me, well they have provided
[00:18:18] some funding uh for some the management, but right now the
[00:18:22] urgency is the drout, so i said so how do you fix that?
[00:18:25] and basically the answer i got over and over is we need
[00:18:29] it to rain, of course that is something that not the Puerto Rican people or the Puerto
[00:18:33] Rican government uh can solve at this point, no human.
[00:18:37] cause rain, so the feeling here is
[00:18:41] top of rolling power outages that have gone on for years
[00:18:45] and years, worsening after hurricane Maria
[00:18:48] because of that infrastructure that was aging, that was
[00:18:52] underfunded and that was mismanaged, now they have even
[00:18:55] more urgent need for that most important resource that
[00:18:59] is water. lilia luciano there in puerto rico, now
[00:19:03] in his first speech is president of Colombia, Abdullah...
[00:19:07] This per year vowed to restore order and eradicate
[00:19:10] narcoterrorists as he addressed soldiers a military
[00:19:14] garrison following his inauguration, well in one of his first
[00:19:17] acts, Stella Esprier announced that Colombia will join the shield
[00:19:21] the Americas program founded by Trump, ally the
[00:19:25] US president, he has offered to engage in joint military operations
[00:19:29] with the United States and to host American troops in
[00:19:33] Colombia. Argentinian president Xavier Melle, US acting
[00:19:37] attorney. general Todd Blanche and President of FIFA Janny
[00:19:40] Infantino attended the inauguration on Friday.
[00:19:44] BBC Mundows Colombia correspondent Jose Carlos Cueto Lopez told
[00:19:48] told US, excuse me, us, what voters can
[00:19:52] expect from the new president. Well, Colombia can
[00:19:55] expect and I don't fast own security. Um, deltoria has already
[00:19:59] promised to increase military spending, has given an
[00:20:03] ultimatum to um drug traffickers and armed groups, which
[00:20:06] is surrender to the justice system or face a
[00:20:10] strong um military action, he's
[00:20:14] also has pledged to bomb narco camps and narco
[00:20:18] vessels, which is a strategy that echos a bit uh the one the
[00:20:22] Trump administration, the trump administration military campaign in South
[00:20:25] American Waters, which has killed around
[00:20:29] 200 people since last August, um,
[00:20:33] the lesp also said that Colombia will be joining the shield of...
[00:20:37] Americas, which is this initiative coalition of
[00:20:40] security and um and political
[00:20:44] allies that other countries in Latin America are member of like
[00:20:47] Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, it is. expected that as early as
[00:20:51] today or um or early
[00:20:54] tomorrow could be signing uh his first and
[00:20:57] security forders are those are likely to be uh concerning security
[00:21:01] issues. well it was bad news for the US economy on
[00:21:05] Friday, new data showing fewer jobs created than expected for the
[00:21:09] month of July, or jobs numbers in May and June
[00:21:13] were also revised down. well the US unemployment rate though
[00:21:17] dipped a 10th of
[00:21:18] a percent
[00:21:18] to 4.1%. due to drop in the number of people
[00:21:22] looking for work, well with inflation still running high at annual rate
[00:21:26] of 3 and a half percent, the US faces the prospect of a weakening
[00:21:30] job market alongside higher
[00:21:32] prices. now Hunter Biden has told the
[00:21:36] BBC that he is the most privileged person there is after receiving a
[00:21:40] presidential pardon from his father, former US president Joe
[00:21:44] Biden. In a wide ranging interview with the BBC's news knight, Hunter
[00:21:48] Biden acknowledged that his pardon... was not a good choice for America or for
[00:21:52] his father's legacy, the pardon covered his federal gun
[00:21:55] conviction, tax case that he plaid guilty to, and any
[00:21:59] federal offenses committed between 2014 and
[00:22:02] 2024. Here's clip from that interview with Padio
[00:22:06] Connor, here's here's another of his own decisions which is
[00:22:10] attracting controversy as well, which is a pardon for his son
[00:22:13] for you, Hunter, and it does lead to
[00:22:17] critics saying that this is a problem in the... american system,
[00:22:21] it looks like favor to the family, which is another word that
[00:22:25] for critics for a corruption, which you've criticized the Trump
[00:22:28] administration for, do you think that he went too far as
[00:22:32] dad in issuing a pardon to
[00:22:35] you? well,
[00:22:39] here's what all i know is that
[00:22:41] i
[00:22:46] am the most privileged person as it relates to... that that there could
[00:22:50] possibly be, I was one of one, um, and I'm eternally
[00:22:54] grateful for it, I am eternally grateful for it, because I
[00:22:58] think that Donald Trump is proven to be exactly who my
[00:23:02] dad thought he was going to be, as it relates to the
[00:23:05] revenge and retribution that he would seek on his political
[00:23:08] enemies, he spent in the first hundre days alone, he
[00:23:12] mentioned or criticized my dad or me, six times a
[00:23:16] day, and if I was a uh in the in the...
[00:23:20] federal bureau of probation or uh god
[00:23:24] forbid a uh a prison, then
[00:23:28] I think that he would had hold on my family that was uh that would make
[00:23:31] it not just unbearable but um incredibly unjust and
[00:23:35] unfair. He's proven that he does not believe in
[00:23:39] the separation of powers or the independence the justice
[00:23:42] department or any of it any of its uh its parts,
[00:23:46] including the federal bureau of probation.
[00:23:50] and that's
[00:23:50] the decision that my dad made. now here's the here's the real
[00:23:54] answer to your question though, what you're saying, was it good for our
[00:23:57] constitution? was it good for the American people? was it good for my dad's legacy?
[00:24:01] no, on all accounts. it was, it, it, it was not,
[00:24:05] it it, it was, it's something that is easily
[00:24:09] criticized and for good reason, and i am, i, and
[00:24:13] i can't pretend otherwise. all i know is that i'm grateful that he
[00:24:16] did it for me, and all i can say to anybody out there. is that what
[00:24:20] would you have thought of my dad if he did not do that for me and left me to
[00:24:24] the
[00:24:25] uh to the whims in uh of Donald Trump? what would you think
[00:24:29] of a dad uh that would say i'll i'll i'll
[00:24:33] put you a prison controlled by guy who's made it clear that he's willing to
[00:24:37] do just about anything uh to uh to get his way for
[00:24:41] himself and so but no you're right patty
[00:24:45] it uh it is um it's it's not fair i was the
[00:24:48] only one in the world that could have gotten what i got from the only
[00:24:52] person in the world who could give it, my father. did you have that
[00:24:56] conversation with him using similar words that you've
[00:25:00] shared with with me just
[00:25:01] now?
[00:25:05] yes, yeah, after, we were very, very, very
[00:25:09] clear, and i want people to understand this, is that when i say that my dad and did not
[00:25:13] talk about a pardon is because the fact that there is
[00:25:17] no way that you can have those kinds of discussions that would not be become public
[00:25:21] by virtue of somebody
[00:25:23] uh that uh with the ability to supp and putting under oath asking that. we
[00:25:27] did not have that discussion until he granted me the pardon. i know why he
[00:25:31] made the decision now because he's talked about it, he's talked about it publicly and we've
[00:25:35] talked about it as family and the refer all the reasons that i just
[00:25:39] told you. hunter Biden there speaking to the
[00:25:42] BBC's news night. well you're up to date for all the latest you can always go to our
[00:25:46] website bbcnews.com or of course down.
[00:25:50] load are apply back at the top the hour with more bye for
[00:25:53] now.
[00:26:06] 'hello there, there's still some hot weather around across many parts of Europe,
[00:26:10] we have had record temperatures earlier in the week. this weatherfront though has
[00:26:14] been pushing its way eastwards, bringing a zone of heavy and thundery
[00:26:17] downpors and dropping the temperatures to a certain extent, high pressure then
[00:26:21] building in behind that bringing the sunshine and pushing any rain
[00:26:25] further north into - scandinavia, so got this zone of heavy and
[00:26:29] thundery showers across eastern Europe, perhaps extending into Romania'.
[00:26:32] onto the Balkans as well, and you could get few storms breaking
[00:26:36] out over the apenines in Italy, also
[00:26:39] some thunderstorms are likely here in the north of Iberia over the pyranees
[00:26:43] to the south, it's still dry, hot and sunny and some heat beginning
[00:26:47] to build here across France as well, the cooler air is
[00:26:50] certainly here in the north around Scandinavia in particular, and we'll
[00:26:54] continue to see some rain at times particularly so on Sunday
[00:26:57] into Norway, could see few more thundery showers though breaking out here
[00:27:01] across France. and onto the Alps on Sunday, those showers across
[00:27:05] eastern parts of Europe are tending to die away as the high pressure extends its
[00:27:09] way in and brings some more sunshine. now looking further
[00:27:12] ahead, there's more heat to build across western parts of Europe, from
[00:27:16] Iberia through France onto the Alps into the UK as well.
[00:27:20] further east we are going to find few showers and those weather
[00:27:24] conditions affecting parts of Scandinavia, but in the southeast and through the
[00:27:28] Mediterranean it dry, hot and
[00:27:30] sunny.
[00:27:42] The wash of blue, that color of
[00:27:46] nature, the seas, the sky, it's
[00:27:50] so immersive. If you are fully in the moment, you are totally
[00:27:53] responding in the moment to everything that's happening, and when you're doing theater
[00:27:57] that can change night after night, it's a living, breathing,
[00:28:01] active. thing: I suppose to the outside world, the most
[00:28:05] visible part the London film festival is the red carpet, and this year it
[00:28:09] brought out some the biggest names in the film industry. I think there is
[00:28:13] too little architecture in this world. We desperately need
[00:28:16] places that bring peace, that bring positivity.
[00:28:20] Inspiring arts and culture on BBC
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[00:28:53] now, it was like a horder's
[00:28:57] house. there were items that people had intended to
[00:29:01] have buried with their love.
[00:29:10] Canyons forensic team had over a thousand items to
[00:29:13] clean, catalogue and return. They included wedding
[00:29:17] pictures, sports memorabilia and love
[00:29:20] letters. The relief those families have to be
[00:29:24] able to take back that control and to be able to restore the dignity to their loved
[00:29:28] one and to be able to send them off and in the way that they intended all along is
[00:29:32] is. incredibly
[00:29:32] rewarding,
[00:29:38] second funerals took place across the city for the victims,
[00:29:42] including Jasmine's baby Sunny Beverly, well we come
[00:29:46] often, I'll just sit with
[00:29:49] him.
[00:30:10] Now on BBC News from the vibrant streets of Cuba to the beautiful beaches
[00:30:14] of Barbados, Clive My explores his family roots a
[00:30:17] Caribbean adventure, celebrating the energy, creativity and
[00:30:21] joy of a place he considers close to
[00:30:24] paradise.
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[00:30:36] Before I was born, my mom and dad moved from the Caribbean to
[00:30:40] Britain. We had exactly the same plate in
[00:30:43] Bolton. It's a small world. I
[00:30:47] loved our family holidays here. This is how I remember my mom doing it. I saw you
[00:30:50] peel a green banana. But this trip is much more. This
[00:30:54] would have been a party room. Oh lord, of
[00:30:57] course. I'm off to discover.