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Us president dog Johnson has admitted to meeting a Russian lawyer during his father's presidential campaign what could be the impact for Trump Sr It is less terror and he can easily claim that the 1st he's hearing about it and he probably is going to be very upset with. The Iraqi prime minister claims Mosul has been liberated from so-called Islamic states we'll hear from our correspondent there Syria will be discussed today when the u.s. Secretary of state to Rex Tillerson meets the Turkish president and music legend Taj Mahal tells us why he's got the blues with African Americans are not mad at us on this concern the African American community is not there to enjoy the fortunes of young musicians take in that kind of pride in their culture. Hello I'm Gerri Smith with the b.b.c. News president tram's legal team says he was unaware that his eldest son met a Russian lawyer after she claimed to have damaging information about his election opponent Hillary Clinton the meeting took place 2 weeks after Mr Trump won the Republican nomination last year John Wolfsthal who was President Barack Obama's senior advisor told the b.b.c. Just how serious the claim was this is not evidence of a crime but it is further information that undermines the confidence that the American people have in the president which isn't part what we believe the Russian government was going to achieve 5 senior members of the European Parliament have strongly criticized Britain's offer of subtle status to e.u. Citizens living in the United Kingdom after breaks it a joint letter from the parliament's breaks a coordinator gave a half stars and the leaders of the 4 main political groups was published in European newspapers Damian committee because reports from Brussels the leaders of 4 political groups which together account for 2 thirds of all votes in the parliament pointed out in their letter that they have the power to reject any breaks it deal before it can go ahead the leaders say they will not indorse anything that removes rights already acquired by citizens they say the u.k. Proposal falls short as it would take away right citizens have today and create new red tape undone certainty for millions the letter says this contradicts promises made by the leave campaign that e.u. Citizens will be treated no less favorably after Breck's it the British government says the letter contains a number of in accuracies and is likely to cause needless concern to citizens. A fresh round of u.n. Sponsored peace talks on Syria is due to begin in Geneva later today the previous round ended in May without making any real progress the u.n. Deputy special envoy for Syria Ramsey as a d.n. Ramsey said a truce which came into effect on Sunday was a positive development that could help support the political process the NATO secretary general u.n. Stoltenberg is in Ukraine where his due to meet President Petro Poroshenko today they're expected to discuss the possibility of Ukraine joining the alliance in the future the u.s. Secretary of state regs to listen has also just visited the country as our correspondent Jennifer share reports from Kiev on Sunday Rex Tillerson became the 1st member of the trumpet ministration to visit Kiev as his boss tweeted about working more closely with Moscow the u.s. Secretary of state told Ukraine that Russia needed to make the 1st move towards peace and that sanctions would remain until there was a withdrawal from Crimea and eastern Ukraine on Monday discussions will turn to Ukraine's future ahead of need to again Stoltenberg will hold talks with the president before addressing parliament Jonah Fisher Well news from the b.b.c. a Ruling is expected in Britain today on the legality of arms exports to Saudi Arabia the case has been brought by a pressure group which argues that the u.k. Has broken international humanitarian law by selling weapons that have been blamed for civilian deaths in Yemen the Saudis have conducted air strikes against Hooty rebels there for more than 2 years the British government rejects the claim Austria has banned a Turkish government minister from entering the country to attend an event marking the anniversary of last year's failed coup in Turkey an Austrian foreign ministry spokesman said a visit by Nihad subject she would represent a danger to public order and security. On Friday the Netherlands took a similar decision when it said the Turkish deputy prime minister was not welcomed to join a ceremony by Turkish expatriates there the government of the Canadian province of British Columbia has announced a fund of nearly 80000000 u.s. Dollars to help victims of raging wildfires hundreds of firefighters are tackling nearly 140 blazes which broke out on Friday following weeks with little rainfall more than 7000 people have been evacuated from their homes an album of drawings by the 18th century British artist Thomas Gainsborough has been discovered the royal residence Windsor Castle art historians have described the find as thrilling his Rebecca Jones a blue leather bound album has been sitting on a shelf at Windsor since the reign of Queen Victoria the 25 drawings in sight were attributed to the artists or Edwin Lenz here who made the bronze lines in Trafalgar Square but after studying the style and subject of the drawings the historian Lindsay Stainton concluded they were actually early works by Gainsborough are drawn with black and white chalk They depict the landscape around Sabrine Suffolk where Gainsborough was born the reports from Rebecca Jones and there's the latest news from b.b.c. News. Thank you for that hello welcome its news day from the b.b.c. World Service candy shop and tunnel with Yes good morning we are in the United States Turkey and in France and in Iraq where the country's prime minister Hyder other baddie says the city of Mosul has been liberated from the Islamic state also bring you up to date with what's happening at Wimbledon today Matthew Kenyon is at the All England Club for us this morning it's manic Monday all the big names playing so will be telling you who is playing later and news of Wayne Rooney's transfer back to Everton he's been playing for Manchester United for 13 years he's going back to the club he started at Cannae Listen to this I've just read the shocking news he's given to me says I've kept it quiet for the last 13 years but I've actually been wearing Everton pajamas at home with my kids. So that we're going to delight Manchester you know. If you're mostly United fans apologies for that he said I've had to keep it quiet not me more taxes and everything here on the program and I'm a plus 447-786-2850 extension 85 there's more to listen to the best bits of a programme via our website to b.b.c. World Service dot com forward slash news day. Let's get more now on those reports in the American media that one of President Trump's sons met a lawyer with links to the Russian government after being offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton this meeting took place during the 2016 presidential race shortly after Donald Trump's nomination the Republican candidate and the New York Times quotes Donald Trump Jr as saying that the lawyers statements were vague and ambiguous and nothing came off the meeting a statement from the president's lawyers says he was not aware nor present during that meeting John Gacy is a political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax media and he told me who was at that meeting hall manifold. Or who was then the campaign chairman and Donald Trump Jr And one other person Donald Trump Jr gave a reason as to why he he had met with this a Russian that was different to the one where we're hearing now but let's go to he's initial initial explanation as to why that meeting took place clearly it was initially about adoption the adoption of Russian children by Americans has been limited by the Kremlin Ok but that reason was not the only reason for the meeting we now have a different reason and that changed on Sunday so what's the 2nd reason that has emerged as to why this meeting took place the 2nd reason was that this person from Russia claimed or people in the Trump campaign claimed that she had information that was damaging to Secretary Clinton the Democratic nominee against Donald Trump Sr And so it was that Donald Trump Jr went in and had a meeting with her along with Mr Mann afford and the Other Campaign operatives. And political campaigns we know collect opposition research all the time from from various quarters but I suppose rarely from sources linked to foreign governments and I think that would be very rare one has to go back in history to find something similar to this but for actually sharing information on a candidate not taking action in the public arena that's almost unprecedented Ok So going back to the 2 different explanations again how damaging could this meeting now be for President Trump himself well I am in the minority on this commie and I do not think it is damaging in fact it is less damaging because he can easily claim that this is the 1st he's hearing about it he's reading about it when you and I are reading about it and he probably is going to be very upset with his son not to mention these other 2 veterans of the campaign for going along with a meeting like that he's basically said that he was not aware of that meeting but how is this going to play out in terms of how are the Republicans going to come back on this and what will the Democrats be saying at the start of this coming week let's put it on the table the Democrats are going to say Gotcha we told you so there is a trump Alliance and whatever the president said what ever President Hu or Foreign Minister Lavrov said just does not add up about the best the president can get from it all is to say he knew nothing about it which would also be a line of defense for his previous statement that he did not have any dealings with the Russians himself. That's John Gazey He's a political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax media in the United States many of you getting in touch on social media commenting on this story to us here at Newsday Patrick he's in Jamaica says the truck go get is again and this time his son I believe that there should have been some form of dialogue between Trump and his son with regards to the meeting of the Russian and his son the American election system seems to be an open loop and the Americans have kept the Russians out of their affairs as Patrick's view what seals you can Texas plus full 477-862-0508 extension 5 almost 12 minutes past the hour on News Day No Iraq where the country's 2nd largest city Mosul has been liberated from the so-called Islamic state that's according to the Prime Minister why the. Baby the prime minister has already visited the city to congratulate the Iraqi forces although there are still reports that a small group of guys fight is a clinging on in one area of the city a lot of fence correspondent Jonathan Bale was in Mosul in the hours leading up to the prime minister's arrival yesterday earlier I asked him if indeed Mosul has been liberated you know it was interesting that even though. Iraq's prime minister office issued a statement when he was on his way up some hours or so in the city he was declaring the liberation of the city and the victory of Iraq's security forces he did not make that call will announce from where he was here and that may have been because he got a briefing from his commanders which showed that there were still pockets of resistance and certainly we see in 2 separate areas where there's being. Fighting not intense fighting the fighting and we've been told are a snipers are still in those pockets of resistance so you can't say it's completely liberated but it's clear that our u.s. Is is is soon going to be militarily defeated in the city and indeed Iraqi forces that we've been with through much of this battle have now. Back pull back let me go in and these forces that were preparing for the next battle in probably tell us . It certainly is nearing the end but the still pockets of resistance to clear and we're getting an idea of how horrific this whole thing cabined if you will as been residents I mean you've seen it with your own eyes tell us what you think yes it means this is being happening all the way through this battle where areas a liberated a will that there's a corridor or where people can get through. An instances where people have being shot by snipers of the trying to run away to freedom but yesterday what we saw in these the final few pockets of r.s. Control families just look feeble and weak you clearly hadn't had food and water clean water for a long time. A lady's women mostly and children young babies to look to Miss Lois Alyssa Popham assigned to play we're crying it was pretty breaking and then also looking at the devastation of the of the city itself pretty much every building has been damaged or completely destroyed a lot of them you have to say look like they've been destroyed and strikes and a number of families telling us that they lost loved ones in the strikes because I s. Were using that as is and using them as human shields. We did have an idea of how many civilians have lost their lives in this battle so far but I think you know over the next few months that that sort of problem that issue that. This battle is coolest will come to the fore and questions I'm sure will be a. 2 of them Bill there in Mosul speaking to me in the last hour now let's look at the headlines you're listening to see from the b.b.c. Well that's what county shop and Tim McDonald The headline this is President Tom's legal team say he didn't know that he son had met a Russian lawyer with links to the Kremlin doing the Us election campaign sports now with Matthew on Center Court at Wimbledon and I can see it rather more clearly can it because the man's just going to clean the windows on the commentary box which was very kind of him looking forward to a fantastic day here Monday they call it white because everyone who's left in the single straws both men's and women's takes to the court later on today probably Day match of the day in the menstrual it's Roger Federer against Grigor Dimitrov who was once known as Baby fades because his style was thought to compare favorably to the Swiss great things have moved on a bit since then and Federer is still the man but that could be a tough test for him in the women's stroll watch out for Angelica but they top say you'd hear at the moment against copying your Muguruza French Open winner from last year that could be a real clash today at Wimbledon at 1830 g.m.t. Will round it all up for you here on the baby sate you mentioned Wayne Rooney's left Manchester United he's gone back to Everton is revealed his choice of nights where Everton pajamas throughout the last 13 years and tourney aridity has moved from Roma to Chelsea no word on what he wears at night Somali car out of the African Champions League callously triply saw them off with a true all draw yesterday Leslie triply go through to the quarter finals as to us and our share Terry bought us one the Formula One world Formula One title in Austria Richie Porte out of the Tour de France and Caroline Thomas out of the Tour de France as well. Thank you Matthew I think he was making you know Matthew who way through the very Give us a bizarre Now let's go to Turkey where the u.s. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson will meet President Oh on in the next few hours in Istanbul this is happening just hours after thousands of people marched in Istanbul in calling for justice and protesting against mass arrests carried out by President the ones government over the last year. Mark Owen is joining us from Istanbul a high mark of this is a relatively peaceful protest despite the state of emergency What's the latest. There was enormous Carney I mean hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul it was the culmination of a 3 and a half week long March from Ankara to Istanbul 450 kilometers long that had been led by tens of thousands of people along the way in calling for our Don't let justice they are protesting what they see as the erosion of Turkish democracy the fact that in the past year since the failed coup more than 50000 people have been arrested 150000 people have been sacked or suspended Turkey is the world's biggest jailer of journalist there's journalists there's a feeling that the Turkish government that President add one has used this opportunity to crush all dissent so they were calling for that for the rule of law for justice it passed off peacefully The question now is whether they can channel this energy and create some kind of political movement to challenge the head one government in the next elections in 2019 and now we have the years they can go state Rex Tillerson meeting with President as a one what can we expect from these talks. Difficult talks I think Mr Tillotson was here to receive an award from the world petroleum conference that's happening this time at the moment remember he was head of Exxon Mobil before he became secretary of state and then he's used the opportunity to met to meet or the Turkish foreign minister and president one turkey in the u.s. Have fraught relations namely over 2 issues Syria where they disagree over the Kurds that the u.s. Backed the Kurdish militia in Syria that is trying to fight against so-called Islamic state to drive ins out of Raka Turkey sees the Kurdish militia as terrorists linked to their own Kurdish restive movement the p.k. K. But also they disagree over effect will argue Lend-Lease the man who the Turkish government believes orchestrated last year's failed coup he's been living in Pennsylvania since 1909 the Turks want to extradited the u.s. Says it's got to go through the justice system so. It is they are very very big sticking points and we understand that during the 2 hour long meeting between president and one of us to tell us and these issues were work we're debated in a in a pretty lively fashion there was a lot of hope for a new era in relations between Turkey and the u.s. Under Donald Trump but I think the trump honeymoon period is well and truly over as relations relations proved particularly sour at the moment Ok The B.B.C.'s Mark Lowen in Istanbul 20 posed no news day for the b.b.c. World Service let's talk business news now Philip is here morning again Philip Normally when we talk about passports being in relation to bricks and the like it's to do with our banks do business around Europe but we're talking about passports for a very different reason today yes we talk about proper passports a little books that you have to take with you when you go abroad do assuming that you're not within some kind of free travel zone of the European Union the moment all room somewhere say between Australia and New Zealand however certain passports are more powerful than our passports this shouldn't be a surprise some countries have many more agreements and many more friends around the world so right now the new rankings are out.