To save the coastline. President trump has tried to distance himself from the send her back chants directed by his supporters at a black democratic congresswoman, a former refugee, at a North Carolina rally on wednesday. The president has claimed he was not happy with the chanting, but video footage makes it plain he made no attempt to stop it. From the podium he had specifically named ilhan omar and three other congresswomen of colour, who have criticised him. The bbcs nick bryant watched the whole rally. Donald trump has been raising the racial temperature in this country all week. Tonight he tried to cool things down a little, amidst concerns within his own party that he has been playing with political fire. This is a rally that will be talked about for decades to come. After the racism of Donald Trumps original attacks on the four congresswomen of colour came the kind of racial demagoguery weve not heard or seen from a modern day american president. First, he singled them out by name. Representative ilhan omar. Crowd boos. Representative Alexandra Ocasio cortez. Crowd boos. Go back to where you came from was his message to the congresswomen earlier this week, three of whom were born in the usa. His latest advice if you dont like america, then leave. Tonight i have a suggestion for the hate filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down. They never have anything good to say. Thats why i say, hey, if they dont like it, let them leave. Let them leave. Crowd chants send her back. Send her back was the shout, and donald trump made no attempt to calm the crowd. For 15 seconds, president ial silence. Today, though, he tried to distance himself from the chants. Earlier, Republican Leaders told the white house we cannot be defined by that cry. I was not happy with it. I disagree with it. But again, i didnt say i didnt say that, they did. Newly elected and on the left of their party, the congresswomen call themselves the squad. Alexandra Ocasio Cortez describes herself as a democratic socialist, and the president as a racist. Ilhan omar, a muslim born in somalia, has been condemned for remarks about israel her critics claim are anti semitic, and for saying of september the 11th, some people did something. This was her response today, to mr trump. We have said this president is racist. We have condemned his racist remarks. I believe he is fascist. Tonight at the oval office, he looked more conventionally president ial, but the angry mood of the North Carolina rally speaks more of the age of trump. A poll has suggested almost 60 of republicans support the president s racist tweets. But as we have been saying, there are these moderate conservatives who are much more uneasy about them, and they are such a key demographic, perhaps the decisive demographic in next years president ial election. Well, theres been a huge reaction in congress on thursday. Chuck schumer, leader of the democratic minority in the senate, criticised senior figures in the Republican Party for their silence about President Trumps comments. This is a moment. There is no john this is a moment. There is nojohn mccain anymore. When this kind of bitter racism emerged at his town hall meeting, he rejected it, publicly, when somebody used it against then candidate obama. It went down in history as one of his finest moments. Where are the fine moments of my colleagues . 53 of them on the republican side and not one has spoken out strongly enough. Not one. But some republicans have spoken out against donald trump. Republican adam kinzinger, said the chants were ugly. He tweeted the chairman of House Republicans campaign arm, tom emmer, on thursday criticised the send her back chant that animated the crowd at Donald Trumps rally, but stopped short of calling the president racist. Meeting in montreal, canadian prime Ministerjustin Trudeau and European UnionCouncil President donald tusk, condemned Donald Trumps comments at the rally. I want everyone in canada to know that those comments are completely unacceptable and should not be allowed or encouraged in canada. It is difficult to understand some fact, some worlds. It is difficult to understand some fact, some words. And sometimes if you feel that something is totally unacceptable you have to react. Despite business, despite interest for me, those values are so much more important than trade. Maybe i am Old Fashioned but i will never change my opinion here. I asked taylor griffin, former Republican Party candidate and editor of roughly explained dot com if he thought donald trump was a facist. I think there is an important distinction here. Fascists have a plan. Donald trump is hamming it up for the audience and it is getting out of control. Donald trump woke up this weekend and not strategically deciding to stir all these up. He woke up on the wrong side of the bed. He was mad and he is impulsive and he sent a tweet out. This kind of stuff works for him because his base, his supporters, really love it when he is in the middle of a fight, when he is in the middle of a fight, when he is angry that middle media, the liberals in the country and when he is politically incorrect, they love it. Saying having an up, this is just what he does, to see the most powerful man in the world, an old white man, mocking, abusing, threatening for women of colour, all of them elected representatives simply because they disagree with him, the Historical Echoes are surely chilling and it suggests the future under a second trump term could be a very dark place. There are none of us could be a very dark place. There are none of us were could be a very dark place. There are none of us were proud of this, even some Trump Supporters think he is going too far. It is important to have a distinction here. He is not capable. He does not have some master plan for a fascist america. He is someone though that will say things that are way out of what is a cce pta ble things that are way out of what is acceptable adult behaviour and his supporters love it because they love the reaction to it. They see this as a fight with the left who they see as communists and all other sorts of things and it excites them, it engages them, even if they are not really races. How do you think politically it is my play. The more moderate republicans may be a key demographic and are unhappy with what donald trump is saying. Other people may not like him very much but his administration is doing enough on abortion, taxes, the Supreme Court that they will vote for him again . There are a lot of people who say that i like the economy, it is going well, hes well enough. But the problem is this really starts to get embarrassing. I do not like. I love coming on bbc news but i do not like coming on and explain what the president of the United States is saying in this sort of tone. I think, for a lot of people they are going to start being a lot more sceptical, start looking at some of the Democratic Candidates very closely it would otherwise have voted for him. As excited as his base get and as much as they cheer, thatis base get and as much as they cheer, that is what is going to win him the election, the voters on the cusp and like the economy but are a little sceptical of trump but this might be the thing that pushes them over the line and they will vote democratic and that is a problem. President trump has announced that the us military shot down an iranian drone, in the strait of hormuz. He said staff on the uss boxer took defensive action as the drone came within 1,000 yards of a us navy ship. Its the latest action in mounting tension in the gulf region between iran and the us and its allies. Ramzan karmali reports. This, according to iran was the moment that it sees the panamanian flagged tanker. The circling speedboats were manned by members of the Iranian Revolutionary guard. Once on board, they say they found a million litres of fuel which they allege was being smuggled out of iran. Later, President Trump said the us military had shot down an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz. He said staff on the uss boxer took defensive action as the drone came within 1000 yards of a us navy ship. These latest incidents reflect the mounting tension in the gulf region between iran, the us and its allies. In may, the us tightened up sanctions that it reimposed on irans oil sector after it unilaterally withdrew from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. In retaliation, president Hassan Rouhani said that it would be scaling back its commitment to that deal. Since then, the white house has blamed iran for two separate attacks on oil takers in the guld of oman in may and june, an allegation that tehran has denied. Iran has also shot down a us surveillance drone, over the strait of hormuz, again under disputed circumstances. And its notjust the two countries at odds here. Uk warships have been shadowing british oil tankers in the area since iran threatened to seize one in response to the impounding of an iranian tanker off gibraltar, earlier this month. The uk claimed that the tanker was suspected of breaking eu sanctions against syria. This led to another denialfrom tehran. The us has beefed up operations in the regions since withrdrawing form the nuclear deal, and is asking its allies to help protect strategic waters off iran and yemen. We believe that is an international responsibility, not a United States responsibility. But the United States is very happy to be part of the solution, and were going to work very aggressively with our partners both in the region and with those partners internationally that move commerce through this critical part of the world. The latest incidents have led to more demands and denials from both sides. Iran said it had no information about a missing drone, while the us has insisted iran should release the seized tanker immediately. Ajudge in new york has ruled that the disgraced american financier, jeffrey epstein, must remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. Mr epstein, who once counted bill clinton and donald trump among his friends, denies the charges. Our correspondent, nada tawfik, explains how the prosecution thought epstein could be a flight risk. Ultimately, the judge sided with prosecutors who argued that jeffrey epstein, who is a registered sex offender, remained a danger to the community and a flight risk and they pointed to evidence they found at his mansion. They found in his safe, a foreign passport with a fake name, piles of cash, diamonds as well as many, many lewd photographs of young women and girls. And so they said that he had not changed his ways and that he had the means and motive to flee. The judge said the suggestion by the defence that mr epstein could remain on house arrest with an electronic monitoring bracelet was just not adequate. Even though mr epstein offered to pay for armed guards 24 7 and to put up 100 million in collateral. Stay with us on bbc news, still to come the australian outpost that brought millions the now Iconic Images of the moon landing how one Radio Telescope helped relay history. After months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the eurozone. The immediate prospect of greece going bust, in the worst crisis to hit the eurozone, has been averted. Emergency services across Central Europe are stepping up their efforts to contain the worse floods this century. Nearly 100 people have been killed. Broadway is traditionally called the great white way by americans, but tonight its completely blacked out. Its a timely reminder to all americans of the problems that the Energy Crisis has brought to them. Leaders meet in paris for a summit on pollution, inflation and third world debt. This morning, theyjoined the revolution celebrations for a show of military might on the champs elysees. Finally, wildlife officials in australia have been coping with a penguin problem. Fairy penguins have been staggering ashore and collapsing after gorging themselves on a huge shoal of their favourite food, pilchards. Some had eaten so much they could barely stand. This is bbc world news. The latest headlines President Trump has sought to distance himself from racist chanting aimed at a somali born congresswoman, during his election rally on wednesday. He said he was not happy about people shouting, send her back. The us says its forces shot down an iranian drone that approached an american vessel near the strait of hormuz. But iran says it has no information about a downed drone. Theres been an outpouring of sympathy injapan and around the world after an arson attack on an animation production studio in kyoto, killed at least 33 people. The police are holding a 41 year old man in custody, suspected of deliberately starting the blaze. Local media said he did not appear to have any ties to kyoto animation. The more we learn about this attack, the more horrific the details become. As the fire crews have gone through this charred and blackened building, they have found more and more bodies. Many of them apprently crowded onto stairs as people tried to escape onto the roof of the building as the fire tore through it in a very, very short amount of time. As to the allegation that this was a deliberate attack, the police are saying they have a 41 year old man in custody. They say he went into the bottom of the building, the first floor of the building, with a can of petrol or gasoline, and then spread it around the floor there and set fire to it. And they claim eyewitnesses heard him shout, die, as he did that. So really a truly horrific scene there. The younger brother of the man who bombed the Manchester Arena in 2017 has appeared in court charged with the murder of 22 people who were attending a pop concert. Hashem abedi was extradited to the uk from libya on wednesday. The prosecution alleges he made detonator tubes for the bomb used by his brother and bought chemicals that were used in the explosives. Daniel sandford reports. Flown back from libya yesterday, this morning brought to his First Court Appearance in an armoured police van, hashem abedi back in britain for the First Time Since the Manchester Arena bombing. In the dock, he confirmed his name and his british citizenship, and then listened as the names of all 22 people he is accused of murdering were read out. He is also accused of attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. His older brother salman abedi detonated the bomb. Hashem abedi is accused of helping him, of buying the car where bomb parts were stored, purchasing two key chemicals used to make the explosive, and manufacturing the detonator tubes. His lawyer said he denied any involvement, and was happy to come back to clear his name. He said he had been held in solitary confinement for two years, and had been tortured. The hearing lasted just 11 minutes, and then he was driven out again. Hashem abedi has now been taken away to prison, where hell remain until a Court Appearance at Oxford Crown Court on monday. It is the end of more than two years of difficult negotiations with the government and military groups in war torn libya, and there was even a last minute hitch yesterday, when the private jet that was to fly him back to Biggin Hill Airport developed a fault. Daniel sandford, bbc news, at westminster magistrates court. Officials in afghanistan say a car bomb has exploded killing at least 12 people and injuring 60. It happened near the entrance to police headquarters, several government started firing in the building afterwards. The taliban has admitted responsibility. Britains parliament has made it more difficult to force through an ideal brexit, it will be harder to suspend parliament, a move that borisjohnson, favourite to become pragmatist has not ruled out. Here in the uk some 2 million cubic metres of sand is being pumped onto a beach in norfolk to help save an eroding stretch of coastline. A giant dune will be created to protect a gas terminal which is crucial to the uks gas supplies. Our science correspondent Rebecca Morelle went to see how its being done. A crumbling norfolk cliff, and perched on top, bacton terminal, which supplies one third of the uks gas. But the coastline here is eroding so fast, in a few years, it could be lost. This, though, could be the answer a £20 million experiment, on a vast scale, using sand to fight back the encroaching sea. This is a 24 7 operation. Every hour, 10,000 cubic metres of sand is being pumped out. And, over the course of just a few weeks, it is going to create a massive sand dune, standing up to seven metres high and stretching for six kilometres. Thats nearly four miles along the coast. It is the first time this has been tried in the uk. The problem is so big and so unsolvable that it needs something radical like this, so the massive volume of sand, and then using the wind and the waves and the tides to move the sand to where it needs to be over time, to provide 15 20 years of protection. This dredger is full of sand collected further along the coast from a licensed site. It then delivers it to the shore using a long pipe, releasing a mixture of sand and water. It is carefully shifted into position, working section by section to create the sandy barrier. When youve got National Infrastructure like this, its clearly being affected, and people can afford to pay to protect this. Where you cant afford to protect the coast, do you just let it go . In some places, thats already happening, mainly in areas where its just natural farmland anyway. Using sand is a change of approach for se