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JULIA CHATTERLEY, HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: Hello, I am Julia Chatterley, we'll be back to London in just a moment as we wait for live pictures of the state banquet at Buckingham Palace. First though, these are the headlines on CNN at this hour. Buckingham Palace this hour, they're attending a banquet, the main event of the first day of the president's state visit to the U.K. President Trump will then go from pomp to politics. Tomorrow, he meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May. In Sudan, opposition leader say the military used deadly force Monday to break up a sit-in. Medics report at least 30 Demonstrators were killed with more than 100 injured. Protest groups have suspended all talks with the ruling military council following the brutal crackdown. The U.S. Secretary of State says President Trump's trade war with China is meant to level the playing field. Mike Pompeo said China has not been treating western companies the same way that Chinese businesses are treated in the west. Searchers have spotted five bodies on an unnamed peak in the Himalayan Mountains. They are apparently among 8 climbers who went missing a week ago. This as the whole party before the climb. Officials say the hikers were likely caught in an avalanche. Cosmetic retailer Sephora is closing all of its locations this Wednesday to hold diversity training, that's in response to an accusation of racial profiling made by R&B singer SZA back in April. The company's move echoes Starbucks' response to a similar incident last year. And those are the headlines at this hour, now back to Hala Gorani at Buckingham Palace. Hala.</s>HALA GORANI, HOST, GORANI TONIGHT: All right, Julia, we'll see you in a little bit. Here's the latest on what's happening in the building behind me. The state banquet may be under way, but not everyone here in London is feeling hospitable towards the American president. The Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn is among the politicians boycotting tonight's events. Joining me now is the organizer of an anti-Trump protest, Shola Mos- Shogbamimu; she's the founder of the group Women in Leadership. Thanks for joining us. So, you are protesting tomorrow.</s>SHOLA MOS-SHOGBAMIMU, FOUNDER, WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: I am protesting all through the three days that he is here, absolutely. The key sole thing about all of the protests is that no democratically elected president has the right to a license to push an agenda of divisiveness and bigotry, of hatred and prejudice, which is what Donald Trump's administration really represents. This is a man who is so weak that he calls powerful women nasty. There's a man who's waged a war on women's rights, LGBT community during his administration, you've had the Muslim ban, disaster -- everything to exclude people, and he is also the face of the far-right. He's a symbol of leadership for far-right populism. This is what we are standing up against, and it's absolutely important that we do so. Look, I refuse to stand on the sidelines and be judged by history as being complicit through my silence.</s>GORANI: I understand that you dislike the president and his policies. Can you separate the man from the office because there are those who don't support Donald Trump or what he says or his rhetoric or his policies, and say yet, this is an important relationship, we need to support at least the idea of a state visit.</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: OK, so --</s>GORANI: Extended to an American president --</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: We all absolutely respect the office of the president of the United States of America. It is the most powerful office in the world. However, the man who sits in that office, anyone who sits in that office has to earn our respect, and Donald Trump has not done that. In fact, the fact that someone like him is wielding the power and influence that, that office represents is a tragedy. It's absolutely outrageous because look at what he's doing with it. He's genuinely a global threat. Look, Sadiq Khan is absolutely right to compare him to 20th century fascists. Because everything he is doing is to push, is to -- is to exclude and segregate and to promote divisiveness.</s>GORANI: What should the U.K. according to you do then in a post-Brexit world where they need to maintain and nurture a very close relationship with the United States, knowing that in the next few years, they will need if Donald Trump is re-elected a partner on the other side of the Atlantic.</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: I think it's important that our morals, our values and our beliefs are not put at stake because our government puts us in this neurotic state of Brexit. And it is possible, I mean, we've got politicians who are meant to have zillion years of experience and diplomacy. So there's no need to pander to the influence that Donald Trump represents. We already gave him a visit last year, Hala, and that visit cost us millions of pounds, millions that should go into increasing the pay of civil servants, millions that should go into putting police, more police on the streets to combat knife crime, to go into our children's centers. All of this national things that we require.</s>GORANI: So what -- now that he's here --</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: Yes --</s>GORANI: So, yes, you know, I know your ideal situation would be no visit at all, but the visit is unfolding. Is there any positive that could come from it from your -- from your vantage point?</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: Well, you know, if it was possible for Donald Trump -- I mean, to be honest with you, it was possible for him to take a good look at the responses he's getting from the people power that the United Kingdom represents, he should take that -- he should take a note in that and say look, maybe there's something about his behavior that he should change. But he is never going to change. This is a man that before he left for the United Kingdom made condescending remarks to Theresa May, was already endorsing Boris Johnson and promoting Nigel Farage. I mean, goodness, they're all cut from the same cloth. The only difference between Boris and Trump is that Boris has better hair.</s>GORANI: So --</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: This is -- this is a man that keeps on moving --</s>GORANI: So the answer is no --</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: No, but --</s>GORANI: Nothing positive, but if -- look at any kind of silver-lining here because I guess would it be -- would it be worse to not nurture this relationship at all as you said?</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: We will always have a special relationship with the United States of America. All we're saying is having a relationship during the Trump administration does not require you pandering to his influence, does not require you normalizing his behavior and acting as though what he does is acceptable, it's not acceptable. Our government should use its platform to call him out on the wrong things that he is doing, quite frankly. Because as I said, he is a global threat.</s>GORANI: So you'll be at the protest tomorrow and we'll see if the number's compared to last year's protest. We know that the inflatable Trump baby --</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: Yes, Trump baby will be there --</s>GORANI: Will be making it. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, thanks very much for joining us.</s>MOS-SHOGBAMIMU: Thank you --</s>GORANI: I will -- in fact, you'll be hearing from a Republican as well a little bit in a few minutes who supports Donald Trump, so we have all views here represented. Thank you, Shola, appreciate it. The state banquet is under way at Buckingham Palace behind me. The toasts and anthems are expected any moment now. Let's go to CNN's Pamela Brown for more. What more can you tell us about what the evening has in store for the president, Pamela?</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, this is the main event, capping off a very busy day for President Trump. He has arrived there at Buckingham Palace for this lavish opulent state dinner. It's a state dinner that he's only the third U.S. president to have the honor of attending a state visit, this overall state visit. It's really an honor for President Trump. And so tonight is the state banquet. Queen Elizabeth has signed off on every single detail for the dinner, this is a menu that has been six months in the works. A hundred and fifty people will be attending, including several White House officials, and of course the royal family. So this is quite an opulent affair, capping off as I said a very busy day with the president having lunch at Buckingham Palace, tea at Clarence House. He went to Westminster Abbey to lay a wreath as well, he was able to review the royal British guards with this opening ceremony. So this has certainly been a day that President Trump seems to have really enjoyed. He's been relishing all of the attention. I mean, this is a very fancy affair, white tie there tonight for the state dinner. And tomorrow, the president also has a very busy day here in London. There will be a business round table with the Prime Minister, other business leaders, and his daughter Ivanka will also be attending we're told by a U.S. official. He'll then be meeting, discussing -- having more discussions with Theresa May, and we do expect there to be a joint press conference after. And there's been a lot of talk about the special relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain. But there does appear to be some cracks in that relationship over some key issues on foreign policy, on Iran, on China, and then of course, there's climate change. And just recently, President Trump had accused British intelligence of spying on his campaign. So there certainly is a lot for the two leaders to talk about. But at the same time, Theresa May is stepping aside in just a few days. And so, it's unexpected that any concrete deliverables will actually be coming out of the meetings tomorrow.</s>GORANI: All right, Pamela Brown, thanks very much. The special relationship has a few cracks in the surface from trade deals to cyber security. We break down the bones of contention. Stay with us.