'They can leave' Trump defends tweets

President Trump defends tweets many see as racist, critical of 4 Democratic Congresswomen all of whom are non-white, saying "They can leave". On the same day the Trump administration announces that from tomorrow, Central American asylum seekers should seek refuge in the first country they travel through.

Also in the programme: the Iranian foreign minister tells the BBC that as tensions with the US and its allies in the Persian Gulf increase, "if there is a war then I do not think anyone will be safe in our region". And does the eating disorder anorexia nervosa have physiological as well as psychological roots?

(Photo: Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L), Ayanna Pressley (C), and Rashida Tlaib (R) attend a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on 15 July 2019. Without identifying them by name, President Trump attacked the three minority lawmakers in a tweet, saying they should "go back" to their countries. The three freshman congresswomen are natural-born US citizens. Credit: EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo)