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Trump Backtracks on Questioning Russia's Interference in the US Presidential Election

Trump says he accepts US intelligence conclusion that Russia interfered in 2016 election.

President Trump has said he accepts that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 US elections -- directly contradicting his assertion made in Helsinki after his summit with Vladimir Putin; today marks the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth. We hear from one of his granddaughter's about the hundreds of poignant letters he wrote during the 27 years he was a political prisoner; and Yemen's exiled president, Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi, has acknowledged that the Saudi-led military intervention to restore him to power was taking much longer than he had hoped.

53 minutes

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Wed 18 Jul 201804:06GMT

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  • Wed 18 Jul 201804:06GMT