And more scenes like this are expected in texas. The president denied that he bears responsibility for anti immigrant sentiment. Right now the president is flying down to el paso, a city where emotions are still very raw. I would like him to bring unity, not only to el paso, texas. But to our country. Also on the programme. British supermarkets say the government must set aside Competition Laws so they can work with suppliers to tackle Food Shortages in the event of a no deal brexit. Brexit will mean jobs for one group of meps well speak to one of the politicians elected in may who can only take her seat in brussels when the uk meps leave theirs. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington, and Christian Fraser is in london. Donald trump says hes in favour of background checks for people buying guns in america. But he doesnt think theres any appetite for banning assault weapons. The president made the comments as he was leaving the white house to visit the sites of two Mass Shootings. But as he touched down in dayton, ohio, he was met by protests people saying mr trump hasnt done enough to control guns and that his own rhetoric has fuelled the kind of racial animosity that was behind the attack in el paso. Mr trump himself denied that today. No, i dont think my rhetoric has at all. I think my rhetoric, it brings people together. Mrtrump speaking a mr trump speaking a short time ago. And we can now talk to the dayton city commissioner chris shaw. He is there for us. Mr shah, did you welcome the president s visit today to la pthorne . Welcome the president s visit today to lapthorne . Mr shaw. Two dayton, ohio. I did not. He was greeted at the air force base. But isnt it habitual for president s, seen to be the most important person in times like this, president 0bama, president clinton and president bush all went to Mass Shootings, isnt it normalfor all went to Mass Shootings, isnt it normal for the all went to Mass Shootings, isnt it normalfor the president to all went to Mass Shootings, isnt it normal for the president to visit the families of the victims and the people affected by the people affected by these situations . M most certainly is. These are strange times we are living in with this president. Normally they should be the console in chief, and that is certainly not the case here. Mr shaw, there is a long delay on the line but lets persevere. You say you are looking for action. What specifically does meaningful gun control look like for you . Well, there are many proposals out there. I know one thing for sure. We need to get these weapons of war off of our neighbourhood streets. They are devastating, it is devastating for the citizens, for our Police Department and first responders, and we just have to make sure that the congress is working on eliminating machine guns from our neighbourhoods. Yeah, and the republican governor of ohio is calling for background checks on all sales, the president today saying he is in favour of background checks. Does that go far enough for you . And with that have stopped the shooting in dayton, hanley, at the weekend . No, i dont believe it would have andl no, i dont believe it would have and i dont believe it is far enough dayton, ohio. We need to take weapons of war off the streets. You would not have people armed with bazookas or tanks so why would they have machine guns on our street . Mr shaw, nine people lost their lives. Sorry, go ahead. Nine people lost their lives in dayton over the course of the weekend. Their lives in dayton over the course of the weekendlj their lives in dayton over the course of the weekend. I wasjust saying. Go ahead. Yes, iwasjust going to say that the red flag proposal is a good one to have. If you see something, say something, and alert authorities. The people who lost their lives in dayton, theirfamilies are who lost their lives in dayton, their families are still suffering. How is the town responding to what happened over the course of the weekend . Yes, thank you. We are trying to ta ke yes, thank you. We are trying to take care of them as best possible. We are providing Mental Health counselling services for them, and just trying to be very supportive. We are a very Strong Community here in dayton, ohio, and this event will not define us as a community, but it is going to take some time and we have to pull together, and we will get through this together. And we saw some very heroic action on the police in dayton. It is possible that many more would have died had they not acted as fast as they did . That is correct. They responded and neutralised the threat within 24 seconds, which isjust amazing. It speaks to their training, and it speaks to their training, and it speaks to their courage. Ijust would hope that our senators and other elected officials would be just as courageous in their work as oui just as courageous in their work as our fine Police Department was in theirs. Ok, chris shaw, city commissioner, thank you very much for joining commissioner, thank you very much forjoining us. We are very much focused on gun control and the president s reaction but it is obviously worth focusing on the families there. If the scene in dayton was awkward for the president , it could be even more so when he lands in el paso in a couple of hours time. The attack in texas specifically targeted hispanic immigrants the people mr trump says are invading america. And when he held a press conference on monday at the white house after the shootings, President Trump did call for the country to come together. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and White Supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in america. Hatred works the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul. Yeah, that sounded good. But the conciliatory tone didnt last. Today mr trump tweeted this. Beto phony name to indicate hispanic heritage orourke, who is embarrassed by my last visit to the great state of texas, where i trounced him, and is now even more embarrassed by polling at i in the democrat primary, should respect the victims and Law Enforcement and be quiet it wasnt the only tweet he sent today. He also attacks the government in dayton who he said was linked to elizabeth warren, and the Antifa Movement on the left in america. A very divisive day all in all, katty . Yes, and there are also people saying this whole thing is overblown, that there isnt a problem with White Supremacy in the country, and so it has caused. Just the amount of division over this issue is particularly intense, and so sadly these last two night attacks almost seem to have made it even more intense. We can now speak to gary 0donoghue who is in el paso. Gary, the president did not get a particularly friendly reception in dayton, ohio. I imagine there will be more protests when he goes down to el paso, from what people are saying down there . Yeah, certainly one protest and maybe more are already organising, particularly groups working with issues around the border with people coming across the border with people coming across the border, human rights organisations. Theyve been organising for is not one of them was interviewed this morning saying, you know, this is personal. Im a hispanic and donald trump and his language brought about what happened here on saturday, incited it to happen, in effect. Yes, well you get a debate about gun laws particularly in dayton, ohio, with the governor bringing his views to bear on red flag laws, here the question will be much more about the motivation behind the gunman plus my actions and the fact that he did seem actions and the fact that he did seem to target notjust a group of people but a whole community, really. And that community will feel that right around the country. Before he left the white house today, gary, he did respond to that criticism, and we have played a little bit of it. He went on to say, my critics are political people. They are looking for political gain as much as possible. Ive tried to stay out of that. Can he really say that with any credibility . Well, i think it was not quite in the same breath, but perhaps in a sentence or two night later he went on to talk about the gunman being inspired potentially by support for Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren, and antifa and all those type of thing is, well then i dont really think the president can suggest he is sort of above the politics of these things. He is up to his neck in the politics of these things, as he always is sol politics of these things, as he always is so i dont really think the president can suggest. Gary 0donoghue, thank you very much. Here are some statistics, katty. A federal investigation going on into tonight of the shootings. Two of these shootings. Lets hear from Tucker Carlson on fox news. White supremacy thats the problem. This is a hoax. Just like the russia hoax. Its a Conspiracy Theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power. Thats exactly whats going on. Its not a hoax, is it . Well, not according to the head of the fbi, who was testifying just last month, christopher wray, in the senate, and this is what he said. I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases weve investigated are motivated by some form of what you might call white supremacist violence. There you have the head of the fbi saying this is a problem, 100 domestic terrorist arrests since last october, and the overriding issue there in domestic terrorism is this growth in White Supremacy. So thatis this growth in White Supremacy. So that is coming from the head of the fbi and other Law Enforcement people are saying the same thing. It is something fbi agents want more focus on, more resources to deal with, so it is something they are saying the numbers would suggest there is a growth in, white supremacist violence. It is hard to see how it isa violence. It is hard to see how it is a hoax. Of course we should say the president did call it out on monday and did call it out again today. Yeah. Now, borisjohnson isnt bluffing. Eu leaders now accept it, and with talks stalled it seems both sides are now working on the most likely scenario, a no deal brexit. This week every British Government department was ordered to set out in detail what they had done or perhaps not done this past year to prepare for no deal. Yeah, and just today, the uk Food Industry asked the government to waive aspects of competition law so firms can co ordinate supplies with one other, to direct food around the country after a no deal brexit. They had asked theresa mays government to relax the restrictions before christmas, but the government did not want to go there. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam reports. They call it a rolling motorway, the 20 minute turnaround of a channel tunnel freight train. Fresh fish, medical products, car parts even thoroughbred horses are exported and imported in a system built on zero checks but that is now changing. Vladimir is picking up a trailer of fresh food thats come overnight from spain to be imported into britain. Estas frutas these fruits peaches. Uno es carga par tesco, y otro tesco. This lorry park at the mouth of the channel tunnel in france is full of refrigerated trucks, the embodiment of britains dependence on fresh food and its even more at the end dependence on imports of fresh food and its even more at the end of october, just when the uks scheduled to leave with an increasingly likely no deal brexit. The government says the overall food supply will be fine. The Food Companies are rather sceptical about what they see as the governments optimism about the impact of a no deal brexit on the supply of fresh food. I think if we do leave without a deal on october 31 there will inevitably be bumps on the road, but it is myjob to make sure we are as ready as possible for all contingencies. The Food Companies are rather sceptical about what they see as the governments optimism about the impact of a no deal brexit on the supply of fresh food. They anticipate having to coordinate where trucks like these go in the united kingdom, together. That would be illegal under competition law. They want some guarantees from government. In the event of a no deal brexit, if were going to co operate to smooth out shortages of food, retailers with retailers, manufacturers with retailers, we need a cast iron assurance from the secretary of state for business that that wont be seen as a breach of competition law. But till now the government has not deemed it necessary. One reason it is getting a little less pessimistic. Bbc news has learnt that the government has now twice lowered the secret assumption about the disruption to cross channel freight from a no deal brexit. Why . Because of this facility, un used at the moment, never before needed, to check british exports into the eu. Last year the governments reasonable worst Case Scenario for no deal was that for 3 6 months only one or two in every ten freight lorries crossing the channel would make it through normally, with the restjoining dues. With the restjoining queues. In april this secret assessment shared with industry, but not the public, was up to around four and ten on account of new preparations made of the french side of the border. In the past few days, that has been further raised to around half of all lorries. Better than it was, but it still means thousands of lorries stuck on motorways in kent and around calais. We are not going to have frictionless trade on day one no deal, in spite of some progress that has been made on preparedness and contingency plans on all sides. This tunnel was built on franco british cooperation. For trade to continue to flow smoothly through it, as much depends on what happens here in france is preparations back home. Faisal islam, bbc news, calais. The uk government says it is scaling up preparations to avoid as much disruption as possible. In his first week in office mrjohnson pledged an additional £2. 1 billion funding specifically for no deal preparations. It will go to recruiting 500 extra borderforce officers, upgrading infrastructure around ports, managing traffic disruption in kent, and expanding freight capacity, warehousing, and medicine stockpiles. On top of that, the Prime Minister has also set up three new cabinet committees to help preparations. The exit organisation committee, headed by michael gove, is meeting on a daily basis to plan for an orderly brexit. Im joined now by claire fox, brexit party mep for the northwest. The brexit party campaigned to leave without any further delays. You have just seen that extract on food and what the Food Industry are saying. Are you aware we might not be ready to leave on october 31 . Ive no doubt we could have been better prepared, because part of the brexit partys point and the broader political point, over the last three years there has been so much prevarication, it is almost as if the government of the day and parliament with it and all of the different trade federations, saying, basically, were probably not going to go, and if we do it there will be minimum disruption, so or the rhetoric preparing for a no deal didnt feel like it really meant much. Referring to the food and drink federations, they were assured by people like philip hammond, look, we are going to try and stop this and make this as easy for you as possible. In some ways, i dont think anyone. They said they had asked at christmas and the government didnt go there, presumably because they didnt think no deal was a realistic option. Presumably because they didnt think no deal was a realistic optionm is because people have been trying actively, you know, this is a well trodden political path, there have been attempts to thwart that, as it were. I been attempts to thwart that, as it were. Lam been attempts to thwart that, as it were. I am making the been attempts to thwart that, as it were. Lam making the point been attempts to thwart that, as it were. I am making the point that it would just be utterly stupid to say there are no challenges from no deal, but i do think they have been talked up, and a lot of organisations and Companies Just through their own volition have got on with preparing for no deal. I dont think Government Departments are as prepared as they are, as they should be. And i do feel, to his credit. You almost past that off,we are where we are, lets just get on with it. But we are where we are and therefore people are saying we shouldnt go through with it. But these decisions about whether we should leave the eu where politically mandated by the british people, and they are notjust technical challenges. And the impact of yet once more sidelining democracy would be far more serious for britain and for the future than dealing with some of the technical problems that we might face. Im not trying to say that we have got no preparations in place. When you actually do talk, even to big corporate some are being quite civic about leaving, they have said, of course we have to prepare, so i think it is not as bad as people say. Im simply making the point that the way Boris Johnson has conducted himself since becoming Prime Minister, and im no fan of his or the tories, im a bit sceptical, but in fact theyve done what i thought the British Government should have done three years ago, so government should have done three years ago, sol government should have done three years ago, so ijust think we can be better prepared, no doubt about that. Are you concerned at all that we re that. Are you concerned at all that were there to be a general election before october 31, with the brexit party running, you inadvertently play the role of spoiler, as happened in the by election, and potentially help remain instead of leave . Potentially help remain instead of leave . I think that is a real challenge for the brexit party and it depends on the circumstances under which the general elec