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Mexico says it will not accept new US plans to send millions | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
of illegal immigrants back across the border. | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
And they will not hesitate to approach the United Nations | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
to defend immigrants, says the Foreign Minister of Mexico. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
The strong words come as the US Head of Homeland Security | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
and the Secretary of State head to Mexico to discuss | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
The White House will scrap guidelines that say transgender | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
students should be allowed to use bathrooms which match | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
The British IS bomber released from Guantanamo Bay and then rewarded. | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
but now a riot in a suburb of Stockholm perhaps suggests | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
that there are problems with immigration in Sweden. | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
Grass roots opposition or "professional protestors"? | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Republican Congressmen return to angry demonstrations | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
I'm Katty Kay in Washington - Christian Fraser's in London. | :01:11. | :01:28. | |
Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray has said that his country | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
will NOT accept new "unilateral" US Immigration proposals, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
and will not hesitate in approaching the United Nations | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
He went on to say that the new US proposals would be the main point | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
which will take place between Mexican officials, US | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
White House press secretary Sean Spicer spoke of a positive relation | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
between the governments ahead of that visit. | :02:04. | :02:04. | |
I would argue that we have a very healthy and robust relationship with | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
the Mexican government and Mexican officials. | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
And I think they would echo that same sentiment. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
President Nieto has echoed that as well. | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
But I think the relationship with Mexico is | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
phenomenal right now and I think there is an unbelievable and robust | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel is here. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Phenomenal, I'm not sure about is how Mexico would describe it. Well | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
the twitter exchange roughly went President Trump, you are paying for | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the wall, President Nieto, we are not. That was basically the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
diplomacy that went on between Mexico and the US. It is not | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
phenomenal. Donald Trump is sending his best men to Mexico City to try | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to get some kind of a deal. Listen to what the Mexican Foreign Minister | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
said, the government of Mexico and Mexican people do not have to accept | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose and we | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
will not accept it. There is no reason why we should. A phenomenally | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
good relationship! I would like to see one hitting the rocks. It will | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
be a big issue for Mexico because they are talking about deporting | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
millions of people and they want to send back not only the Mexicans but | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
non-Mexicans as well. And there is the question of, Mexico saying why | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
should we accept people from Central America coming into our country just | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
because you are deporting them from your country. I think it shows that | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
Donald Trump is undoubtedly following through on his election | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
campaign and he has a mandate but the problem is you need multilateral | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
discussion on such things and it seems at the moment for all that | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
there are people being sent to Mexico to smooth things over you get | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
the impression that both sides are shouting at each other instead of | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
figuring out a way that could meet the concerns of Donald Trump over | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
illegal immigrants with Mexican sensibilities saying we cannot just | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
be expected to take all these people back unilaterally. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
As we've been discussing, the chief of Homeland Security | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
and the Secretary of State are both heading south but there is so much | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
ill will toward the Trump administration in Mexico right | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
now that it doesn't look like it's going to be | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Our correspondent James Cook reports from Texas where many migrants | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
from Central America cross the border into the United States. | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
It's rodeo season deep in the heart of Texas. | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
This is a state with a proud heritage and tough people. | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Texans will tell you they are God-fearing, cattle rearing, | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Inside this arena it is strictly apolitical. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Outside, they do not mince their words. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
What do you think of the idea of a wall? | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
There's definitely some security measures that might be put in place | :05:01. | :05:18. | |
that will hopefully help alleviate some of the illegal immigrants. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
But I agree with him, you know, we need immigration. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
Most of the time they need water but you do see some carrying | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
fully automatic weapons, and you better just keep on going. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
And some parts of the frontier are easier to cross the others. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
I'm sitting here on the very edge of the United States, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
You could be across in a couple of minutes. | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
And apart from the river, this wire is the only physical barrier. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
But ranchers worry about a barrier slicing through their fertile fields | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
and one Republican congressman says that a wall would be the most | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
expensive and least effective way to secure the border. | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
And across that divide every week come thousands of families | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
for whom this is a moment of pure joy. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
She has been on the road from Honduras for 13 perilous days | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
Like everyone arriving here today, the family say violence and poverty | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
It was hard because when you are an adult you understand. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
There are parts of the forest where you walk in the dark. | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
And when the police came, my little girl knew she had | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
The mass here has a Latin American rhythm. | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
And the Catholic Church is making the moral case | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
But this bishop says a secure border with Mexico depends on solving | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
problems elsewhere in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
People have a right to live in conditions in their own country | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
where they are safe and secure and can provide for their children. | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
And if they do not have those conditions, there | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
The Americas are connected and sometimes we do not always | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
These families have made it and are now applying for asylum. | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
But there may soon be another physical barrier to the fulfilment | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Well we've already heard comments in the programme from the current | :07:35. | :07:44. | |
Let's get reaction now from a former holder of that post - | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
Jorge Castaneda joins us live now from Mexico City. | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
There will be many people coming back across Europe border, how will | :07:57. | :08:04. | |
you fight deportations to Mexico? The way I think we should fight | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
those deportations is in the United States. In the US law-enforcement | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
and justice system which is a very transparent, open and fair system in | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
general. And where there are a lot of courses that can be used to fight | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
these deportations, to fight the absence of due process which is what | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
these new guidelines signed yesterday by general Kelly seemed to | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
indicate. And where a series of important human rights | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
considerations, for example not dividing families, parents who have | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
American citizens ship, children etc, are taken into account. We | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
should fight these tours thumbnail, fight them with lawyers, with money, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
with lobbies, everything we can because firstly these people have a | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
right to be in the United States even if they entered without papers. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
They have since then sprung roots in the United States and that should be | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
taken into account. The money you're talking about may come from the | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Mexican government. So would the idea being to launch as many court | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
cases as you can and to jam up the American court system? Absolutely, | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
that is what I think we should do, as many lawsuits and also as many | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
forms of legal jamming the system. For example forcing the Americans to | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
prove that the people they want to send to Mexico are Mexicans. Chan | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
spread the burden of proof to them. The Americans would have to prove | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
that the person they are deporting is a Mexican national and if they | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
cannot we will not let him in. And so on and so forth. There are a lot | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
of legal avenues that could be explored both on deportations, on | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
the wall itself and on the raids and round-ups taking place in the United | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
States. I thought one of the front pages of a newspaper in Mexico today | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
said Donald Trump had declared war on the undocumented. If this is war, | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
how else can you retaliate from the Mexican side within Mexico, are you | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
for example suggesting Mexico could withhold intelligence on drug | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
cartels or crime cartels that might be spreading into the US? | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Intelligence on those but also reduce our security cooperation | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
which has been exemplary since 2001. On issues such as terrorism and | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
other forms, other problems and threats to the United States | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
security as well as stop doing the dirty work of the Americans for them | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
on the southern border and try to seal it off from Honduras and | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
Guatemala, who flee the violets in those countries. Only to want to go | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
to the United States. We have been now stopping them for two years and | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
there's no reason why we should continue to do that. We have a lot | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
of negotiating chips and obviously there are dangers in this. The | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
United States supplies more or less half of the natural gas that is | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
consumed in Mexico every day. The gas lines, the pipelines come from | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Texas and other areas of the United States was up the president of the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
United States has the legal authority to stop exports of natural | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
gas to Mexico. That is a real threat to Mexico, absolutely. He may even | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
have used it in private, we do not know. The fact is this is escalating | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
every day. And at some point Mexico will have to put its foot down. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Thank you very much. Sounds like the war that is | :11:41. | :11:52. | |
escalating faster than either side might be planning for. | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
Let's get the thoughts again of Brad Blakeman - | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
a Republican strategist and former senior White House | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
What did you make of our previous guest, the idea that if the | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
Americans start to send back millions of immigrants, some of whom | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
are not even Mexican, into Mexico, the Mexicans could retaliate and | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
imagine what might continue in particular is the idea of | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
retardation with drug cartels and intelligence surrounding them. It is | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
amazing the brazen way a former Mexican official basically threatens | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
the US that they do not even want to take back their own citizens or as | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
he told you, those who have come through his country to enter the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
United States. What kind of neighbour is that Bill allows not | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
only their own people to flee so they're not a burden on their | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
country but facilitates others, in committing crimes here in the United | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
States. That is not a good neighbour. You may not like it but | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
it could end up as he suggested being a problem for the US. I want | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
to ask about one of the things that comes up in these new guidelines | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
from the Department of Homeland Security, a question of town, the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
guidelines saying immigrants routinely victimise Americans. As | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
you know I'm sure that is not actually the case and there is a | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
lower crime rate in fact amongst immigrants in this country than | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
amongst Americans. Here is the problem. They have already committed | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
a crime by being in our country illegally. We have a right to | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
provide for our citizens first and foremost. But the president talks | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
about America first we should not be ashamed of that. We are a welcoming | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
country, we welcome millions of people into our country but you've | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
got to come in the right way. I do not think your country would permit | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
the kind of infiltration of illegal aliens and nor should our country. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Where a sovereign country, will respect the rights of Mexico and | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
they should respect us as well. If they cannot provide further people | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
then they should not come to the United States and expect us to | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
provide for their people. But America has been complicit in this | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
kind of immigration. We have open borders, we provided work and that | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
is why there must be a compassionate way to deal with the illegals that | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
are here. Whether it be a pathway to citizenship, work permits, there's | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
no question that we have some vulnerability and liability in this | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
situation. So so-called herds must prevail but with nothing to be | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
ashamed of in securing our border and making sure we provide for our | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
citizens first. We should just point out that President Obama deported | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
2.5 million people. More than any other US president in the 20th | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
century. So he had a record on deporting people. But just to pick | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
up one issue from that memo, it says in future agents will be able to | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
detain anyone even if there is a cause to believe that that person is | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
in violation of the immigration laws. This is the point I want to | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
put to you, that will make policing a lot more difficult. People will go | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
underground, they will be afraid to come forward with information and | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
police forces in inner cities might lose a crucial source of | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
intelligence. We also have another problem, Sanctuary cities. We have | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
mayors and governors in states providing sanctuary to illegals and | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
who refused to call for it with federal officials regarding federal | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
law. They must also be dealt with. But there's a silver lining, if we | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
start the crackdown and the president delivered to a wave of his | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
people to come out of the shadows and give them a relief either by | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
work permits or a pathway to citizenship, that could go a long | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
way for people to come out of the shadows. But right now we must | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
secure the border and crackdown on illegal aliens who are in our | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
country and providing crimes against our citizens. Thank you very much. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
That is a good point that this was playing well for the president in | :15:56. | :16:07. | |
the polls. Many people in favour of tackling crimes in the cities and | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
many will think the president is doing the right thing. Consistently | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
been tougher on border security is something the majority of Americans | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
to write. I think the question will be does he really want 11 million | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
people to be deported because if they take the criteria as being that | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
anyone in the country who is there illegally, presumably they want all | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
of those 11 million people to go. How would Americans respond to that | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
if we suddenly had mass deportations I wonder if there would not be some | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
unease about whether that really reflected what the country like. Now | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
there is a headline about bathrooms and it featured in the press | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
conference today at the White House. The Trump administration is going to | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
revoke the federal guideline forcing public schools to let transgendered | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
children whose bathrooms that use bathrooms and locker room matching | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
their chosen identity. Why is that now a big issue? I knew you would | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
love this. So the number of transgender children is not clear, | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
we do not know how many people it might affect in public schools. It | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
is a big political issue and it was during the course of the election | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
campaign. Arguably for Democrats who made transgender bathrooms in public | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
schools, something president Obama put guidelines in place for, a big | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
issue. A lot of working-class and Democratic voters potentially said | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
hold on, the Democrats are talking about transgender bathrooms and I'm | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
concerned about my job. I think it lost them significant support in | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
some of those key rust belt states and certainly lost them North | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Carolina. It had one of his BAFTA laws in place. A big political | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
issue. -- bathroom laws. You are saying the Democrats lost sight of | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
what was really important. It lost them support because it showed them | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
to be out of touch with working-class voters and their | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
concerns. They were focused on identity politics and not the issues | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
of jobs and the economy. The politics and economics of bathrooms! | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
The White House says it will soon publish a new travel order | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
to replace the one that was set aside by the Appeals | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
The key parts of that original Order suspended travel from seven | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
It is expected the new draft will make an exception for green | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
It is said to tighter and more streamlined | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
than the original order - so will it cause | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
Before we talk further, let's remind you how | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
This is wrong, and we are going to fight it. | :18:48. | :19:12. | |
We're going to have a very, very strict ban and we're | :19:13. | :19:22. | |
going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
This is not, I repeat not, a ban on Muslims. | :19:26. | :19:51. | |
The judge's decision, effective now, puts a halt | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
to President Trump's unconstitutional and | :19:56. | :19:56. | |
We will be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional | :19:57. | :20:22. | |
You will be seeing that sometime next week. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
In addition we will continue to go through the court process | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
and ultimately I have no doubt we will win that particular case. | :20:28. | :20:39. | |
Well Christian the one thing we know is that the world is watching | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
closely what happens here in Washington - | :20:43. | :20:43. | |
and the immigration ban only increased that attention. | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
Former Democratic Congresswoman - now president of the | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
What you think the impact of this immigration ban has been as regards | :20:53. | :21:05. | |
the United States and its standing amongst its allies? Well the band | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
will be replaced by something different imminently, some pieces of | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
that have already been produced. But I think the reaction worldwide is | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
somewhat confused. Many people thought it was harsh and certainly | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
the process of explaining it and rolling it out was confused. People | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
were in transit and they were held back in various airports, people had | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
a green card, at least initially they were not deemed to be valid | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
travel documents and so forth. And so I think most people would agree, | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
maybe not a few in the White House, that the process was terrible. And | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
the relevant secretaries were not consulted. I think reaction | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
worldwide to many of the Trump activities is confused. I was in | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Munich at the security conference and there were 30 heads of state | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
there and 75 defence ministers. And those from Europe and certainly are | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
very confused about whether President Trump will support the | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
European Union or despite the promises of the vice president, will | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
support Nato. I was going to ask about that, to me watching that | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Munich Security conference it seemed to me a string of American officials | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
from the Trump administration made the right noises for Europeans, said | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
the right things about Nato and European Union. You spoke to | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
European allies, do they trust that those people, those representatives, | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
actually reflect the positions of the president. Vice President Mike | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Pence said he was speaking for the president. I've no doubt that he was | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
speaking for the president. However he did not take questions from a | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
very sophisticated audience and nor did the Secretary of Defence. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Everyone else who appeared there took questions including Angela | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
Merkel and the foreign ministers of Iran and Russia and elsewhere. They | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
all did and that left the impression that maybe the Trump administration | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
was not prepared to go to the second level. At any rate I think the | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
bottom line was there waiting to hear from President Trump Presley. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
They see is Twitter messages as being out of sync with some | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
statements from his own cabinet and they're worried that he may have a | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
very, maybe marching to a different beat and he is driving all of this | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
ultimately, driving this foreign policy and not the government which | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
has very few confirmed people in it and people who take Rex Tillerson, | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
was not even in Washington for official state visit for Canada and | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
Israel. I was going to ask you about Rex Tillerson because he is going to | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
Mexico tomorrow and he will be very much in full view. But there is a | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
feeling that there are others taking away parts of his brief, Jared | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Kushner, the son-in-law of the present looking after the Israel | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
brief. And then you know we have President Trump's lawyer coming to | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the White House with a potential deal on Ukraine. It feels as if he | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
is constantly being undermined. The Ukraine deal has been denied, so I'm | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
assuming there is no veracity to that. In terms of Rex Tillerson been | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
undermined, he does not have a state department staff at the top to help | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
him. He is an experienced businessman but not an experienced | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
diplomat and his choice for deputy was rejected after meeting with | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
President Trump. It is hard to do a huge job like that basically solo. | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
So he gets high marks, the Wilson Centre knows him well and we | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
certainly respect his business service. But he has an uphill climb | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
as do others. The Obama White House in Venice was a pretty top-down | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
White House as well. But again the Cabinet departments were fully | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
staffed and the President's style totally different from the style of | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
this president. Thank you very much. Fascinating to think how much allies | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
are watching what is happening here in the US and almost all of them | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
confused about what the White House really wants. It is an issue. You | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
have the vice president and James matters almost contradicting what | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
the president said during the campaign. Of course that is what | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Europe -- Europe and Nato want to hear. | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
You're watching 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
and BBC World News - foe turned friend - | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron gets | :25:48. | :25:49. | |
Francois Bayrou says he's doing it to stop what he called | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
'the failure of France' - that's still to come on 100 | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
We have some stormy weather on the way. Doris bearing down on the UK | :25:57. | :26:21. | |
and it will strike tomorrow morning. Before that happens we also have a | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
period of snow affecting parts of Scotland through the course of | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
tonight. Into the early hours of the morning and certainly the Southern | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
uplands have an amber warning in force and still through the central | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
lowlands as well. The real story later on will be the wind from storm | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Doris, slamming into north-western parts of England. North Wales as | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
well another warning from the Met office. In more detail now, gusts of | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
up to 80 miles an hour in places, inland as well, very strong and | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
damaging winds moving through the Midland into East Anglia and further | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
south also feeling the effects of the storm. There could be some | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
overturned vehicles and some structural damage in places by the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
time we are finished with this storm. Stay tuned to your forecasts | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
and take care. Mexico says it will not accept | :27:12. | :30:07. | |
President Trump's plans to send millions of illegal immigrants | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
back across the border. The former Mexican Foreign Minister | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
told us his country The fact is this is escalating every | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
day and at some point Mexico's Coming up - Republican Congressmen | :30:22. | :30:31. | |
return to angry demonstrations at their local town halls - | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
but the White House calls the crowds This is 100 Days with me | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
Christian Fraser in London - You might remember on Monday we were | :30:42. | :30:54. | |
talking about President Trump's weekend rally in Florida | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
and his vague but - pointed - critique of Sweden's | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
immigration policy. You look at what is happening last | :31:04. | :31:17. | |
night in Sweden, Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden! They took in | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
large numbers, having problems like they never thought possible. | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
In fact nothing happened on the Friday night. | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
And soon the confusion gave way to ridicule. | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
Mr Trump responded - he was referring he said | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
to a Fox News report about rising crime in Sweden. | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
But then something did happen on Monday night. | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
Riots broke out - in Rinkeby, a predominantly immigrant | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
Ten cars were set on fire, shop fronts were smashed and police | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
fired warning shots to disperse an angry crowd. | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
So is the President right to highlight problems that Sweden | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
has had with immigration? We can speak to Ylva Johansson, | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
Swedish Minister for Employment and Integration. | :31:57. | :32:01. | |
I have never heard of a minister for integration, is that specific to | :32:02. | :32:07. | |
Sweden? I don't know actually! Let me read | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
the some of the comments I read this morning. This is from an appointed | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
member of a local board in Rinkeby where the riots were and he says, | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
the situation in Rinkeby is not good, the police don't have control | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
over the area. If you said you had a problem with integration in Sweden, | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
you would be called a racist. That is not true. Of course, there are | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
problems with integration but you have to realise, of course, we are a | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
society on earth, we're not paradise. People commit crimes. We | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
have that problem. When we compare Sweden to other countries, we have a | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
low level of crime. We have a low level of violence and deftly | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
violence. We have quite a strong society and we are quite well | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
equipped to handle all sorts of challenges we are facing. Last year, | :33:03. | :33:09. | |
Sweden, 9.5 million people, granted residency to 150,000 immigrants in | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
one year. That is a lot to deal with and if you look at the polls, it is | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, on the rise and | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
they could be the biggest party they say, by 2018. That would suggest a | :33:26. | :33:31. | |
lot of people have concerns. I don't think the racist party will be that | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
big and they are not rising in polls any more. Of course, having these | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
are so many refugees in a short time, of course that causes some | :33:42. | :33:46. | |
problems. We have huge housing problems, we have problems with | :33:47. | :33:53. | |
teachers, not enough teachers in schools and of course challenges to | :33:54. | :33:57. | |
help people to learn Swedish coming to the labour market, but cannot see | :33:58. | :34:03. | |
a connection between crimes and immigration. We have been an | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
immigration country for 20 years. We have taken a lot of immigrants to | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
Sweden and that the same time, the crime level has gone down. So we | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
can't see that connection. But those newcomers coming to my country, they | :34:20. | :34:26. | |
are human beings, as we are who already live here, and some people | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
commit crimes and that is a problem but most people do not and that is | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
the same for us who live here and those newcomers. I wanted to put to | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
use something Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
party has said about Sweden, calling Stockholm the rape capital of | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
Europe, possibly even of the world. His implication is that actually | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
with an influx of immigrants and particularly a lot of young male | :34:54. | :34:55. | |
immigrants, the crime rate particularly around sexual crimes | :34:56. | :35:05. | |
has risen in the capital. He does not really know what he's talking | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
about. When we make service about... If any woman has been... If there | :35:12. | :35:18. | |
has been a rape towards her or sexual harassment, we can see the | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
level is going down and down and down. But we encourage women to | :35:22. | :35:28. | |
actually report to the police and we also broaden the scope of what we | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
define as a rape, because we would like every woman, because every rape | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
is one rape too many. We encourage every woman to report to the police | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
so we have a high level of reporting to the police and it is good they | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
report and of course, it is bad if rape is committed, but when we make | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
service at the actual level of rapes is not high in Sweden. I realise you | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
are not the Foreign Minister but I want to ask you a question of | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
diplomacy. I surprised where you buy the comments of Donald Trump over | :36:01. | :36:03. | |
the weekend and by the perception at least that he was picking a rather | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
curiouser row with somebody who is an ally of the United States? I was | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
very surprised and I think also all Swedes were. Does it and you? Why do | :36:15. | :36:23. | |
you think you did it? You must ask him. The President of course can say | :36:24. | :36:30. | |
whatever he wants. I was very surprised and started to make a lot | :36:31. | :36:33. | |
of jokes here in Sweden about that speech. It gave rise to quite a lot | :36:34. | :36:39. | |
on Twitter. I have to say, I did enjoy reading some of the Twitter | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
entries over the last few days but there we are. Minister, thank you | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
for being with us. It was around about this time | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
yesterday that we were talking about the French Presidential | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
candidate, Emmanuel Macron - he was campaigning here in London, | :36:53. | :36:54. | |
trying to secure the votes of 200,000 expats who | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
call the city home. Today, Mr Macron got a welcome boost | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
from a potential rival - this man, veteran campaigner | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
Francois Bayrou, who's offered to back him, | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
rather than stand against him. I know the French have a history of | :37:10. | :37:19. | |
voting tactically, they did it in 2015 when they thought Marine Le Pen | :37:20. | :37:23. | |
was going to do well and parties coalesced against her. How much is | :37:24. | :37:32. | |
this going to help Macron, what does Francois Bayrou normally poll? He | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
got 9% in the last election which was disappointing to him but that | :37:37. | :37:39. | |
was about 3 million votes. This could come down in the first round | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
to a couple of percentage points so it could be quite significant. It | :37:44. | :37:47. | |
increases this feel-good factor around Emmanuel Macron at the | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
moment. That someone like Francois Bayrou, the perennial third man in | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
French politics for a long time, he has said he is a good thing and | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
something he wants to get behind. Then compare that with what is | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
happening in the party that Macron left, the Socialist party, there | :38:07. | :38:16. | |
could be a similar alliance between the centre and the hard left. A | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
comment tonight, says, I would not time itself to the Socialists, it | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
would be like hanging myself to a hearse. You can see this is good for | :38:26. | :38:35. | |
Macron. You will have to fight with me for the right to go and cover | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
those French elections because I can see you are angling for it right | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
now! That is the advantage of being in London of course! Thereof flights | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
from Washington and Paris, I can tell you! | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
Britain's Supreme Court has upheld the government's right to set | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
a minimum wage that its citizens must earn before bringing a foreign | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
A rule adopted five years ago requires people to be earning more | :38:56. | :39:01. | |
than $23,000 before their spouses can join them. | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
The court ruled that the measures don't breach | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
Turkey's president Tayyip Erdogan could meet US President Donald Trump | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
The two leaders were already likely to meet on the sidelines | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
of a Nato summit in May - but a presidential spokesman | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
in Ankara said on Wednesday that efforts were being made for both men | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
A woman has been appointed as Britain's most | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
Cressida Dick becomes the first female to head | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
the Metropolitan Police in London in its 200-year history. | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
Her selection is not without controversy - | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
in 2005 she was the commander in charge of the operation | :39:44. | :39:45. | |
in which the innocent Brazilian - Jean Charles de Menezes - | :39:46. | :39:48. | |
The US space agency Nasa has announced the discovery of seven | :39:49. | :39:54. | |
Earth-sized exo-planets. They're called exo-planets | :39:55. | :39:56. | |
because they orbit stars other than our sun. | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
The planets are circling an "ultracool" dwarf star | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
called Trappist One, located about 39 light years away. | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
Scientists believe these newly discovered worlds could hold life. | :40:07. | :40:13. | |
I think I have a headache just thinking about that, how many light | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
years? How many minutes is that? The streets of Washington DC | :40:18. | :40:20. | |
are pretty empty this week because Senators and Congressmen | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
have returned home to take questions Some of them are getting | :40:24. | :40:25. | |
a rather frosty welcome. This was the scene that greeted | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch The protest was one of many | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
across the country, at town hall The demonstrators confronted | :40:36. | :40:42. | |
lawmakers about issues ranging from the President's immigration | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
plans to his tax returns. He wrote - "The so-called angry | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
Sad!" It appears that has made a return to | :41:02. | :41:14. | |
Twitter lexicon. I thought that under the US constitution, everyone | :41:15. | :41:16. | |
had every right to exercise their right to assemble. So why have they | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
been allowed to protest outside town halls? -- why are they not allowed? | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
There is nothing to stop them. The indication from Mr Trump was that | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
these people were stopping some sort of organised protest. A lot of what | :41:32. | :41:40. | |
these people complained about is to do with Obamacare and the | :41:41. | :41:45. | |
replacement to Obamacare. The White House, remember, said they would | :41:46. | :41:49. | |
repeal and replace Obamacare on day one. That was the campaign promise | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
of Donald Trump. The White House has said in the last few hours that the | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
replacement part of the proposition will not come until the middle of | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
March. The President's idea is that this is not organic, people coming | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
out of their own volition, but an organised event with left-wing | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
agitators bussing people in? Yes, and remember at the beginning of the | :42:11. | :42:18. | |
Obama administration in 2009, the Democrats also went back to their | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
districts, around this time of year, held town halls and faced angry | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
crowds, equally frustrated with health care reform and didn't like | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
what the White House was proposing. It had an impact on those Democratic | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
congressmen and women and they then come back to Washington and talk to | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
the White House and say hold on a second, our voters are not happy and | :42:40. | :42:42. | |
we are getting all of this. So we may change the way we vote. | :42:43. | :42:49. | |
Well, coming up on the BBC News Facebook page, | :42:50. | :43:04. | |
We will be back at the same time tomorrow. | :43:05. | :43:12. |