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After the fall - President Trump tries to move on after his failure

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The White House vows to enact major tax reform and shake up how

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the government is run and act against so-called "sanctuary cities"

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But how much of Donald Trump's policy agenda is now in peril?

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The battle for Mosul as Iraqi forces renew their offensive there's alarm

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about civilian casualties caused by US air strikes.

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That is an inaccurate weapon it might be good for the tempo

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of the military operation, but it isn't necessarily good

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Also, the London terror attack - police say they have found no link

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with so called Islamic State or Al Qaida.

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But the attacker was "interested in Jihad."

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Meanwhile, Khalid Masood's mother admits crying when she heard

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when she heard about what she says was her son's "atrocity."

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Theresa May drops in on Nicola Sturgeon to discuss how

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Scotland and Brexit might work together, but did their face-to-face

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And, off the books - Democrats demand to know

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who President Trump has been meeting during his frequent golf club trips.

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Hello and welcome to 100 Days, with me Jon Sopel in Washington

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It was on the campaign trail that Donald Trump said "we're

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going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning".

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Well, fatigue is definitely settling in and for the US president,

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No, quite the opposite - the question we're all asking

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The health care bill is in tatters, tax reform is up

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in the air, his son in law, and senior White House advisor,

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we find out today is to be questioned by the Senate,

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in relation to those alleged links between Russia

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Much of the talk today here in Washington Christian

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is about Mr Trump resetting his agenda and just 67 days in.

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It has been a wild few days for the presidency -

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Monday morning at the White House and the president, believed was the

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last week behind him as he meets female entrepreneurs. And this

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message... You are really and inspiration to everybody, men and

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women. A lot of men out there are not doing what you are able to do.

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Because last week he was meeting this lost, the right wing house

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leading culprits, or white, all middle age and all causing him to

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lose his health care Bill. A former member of that group and now part of

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President... 'S team attended to explain the defeat. I think there

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was plenty of blame to go around, as we sat over the last few days to try

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and figure out what happened, what happened is Washington one. The one

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thing we learned this week is that Washington was a lot more broken

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than President Thom thought it was. Pot of those was the Thom

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highlighted, immediately after the vote was told. -- part of those was

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what President Tom highlighted. We had no Democrat support. They were

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not going to give was a single vote. Now, rallying support from across

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the aisle might be crucial. I think it is time for our folks to come

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together, and I also think it is time to potentially get a few

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moderate Democrats on board. How'd you win over the Democrats without

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further alienating the right of the Republican Party? To that, there was

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no easy answer. With me now is the former adviser to President George

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Deby Bush Terry --With me now is the former advisor

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to President George W. Donald Trump said he would change

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strategist, Ron Christie. Donald Trump said he would change

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the way people do business, but Republicans have been fighting with

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each other. It is a very important reset, that Donald Trump is now

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going to have to recognise that he's going to have to get some Democrats

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to come with him is he's going to have some legislative victories.

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Isn't the implications of that is that he will lose the freedom

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caucus? I think those 42 members are essential for getting a lot of

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things through what Nancy Pelosi can deliver a lot of head Democrats, I

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would look for a pair, something that could have bipartisan report

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and allow the president to get the victory. He needs a victory and

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needs to be up to say to the American people that this is why

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they elected him and this is what he's doing. I just wondered where

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this leaves the key relationship between the president and the House

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Speaker, Paul Ryan, who he needs to get these things through. The

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relationship is very good, you had a lock on the president this weekend

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about how hard he said Paul Ryan was working, how much he thought he was

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his partner in these endeavours and so, when they look at the wreckage

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from what happened with the health had a buckle, I think the two of

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them will have a closer relationship in the days ahead for the more

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distant one. We have had with the tensions are within the Republican

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party, if the president were to cut loose this freedom caucus, the right

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wing of the park Bury party, and join hands with some of the

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Democrats towards the centre, how likely is it that they would want to

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play ball with him? -- the right wing of the party. A fairly decent

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chance, and the other group is called the Tuesday group you are a

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group of moderate members of the House of Representatives, with a lot

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of the attention focused on the Freedom Caucus, I think the

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president has a lot of chance to pick out these moderates. I want to

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ask you one quick final question, Steve Bannon was reported to have

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said to the Freedom Caucus, those elected on the right of the party

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that this is not a negotiation you have to do is you are told. I'm

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going to guess that probably did not go down too well from people who are

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elected hearing it from someone who wasn't. It is funny, some of the

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staff members I think they think they are more powerful than what

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they are and I do not imagine an elected representative will take too

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kindly to an unelected bureaucrat telling him what to do. Great to

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have you with us. I am wondering if part of the problem here with the

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timescale, looking at some of the figures. The length of time it took

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previous Administration is to thought through complex bills like

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this one... They have Obamacare it took 187 days. It took Reagan

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something like 323 day to get tax reform through which they will take

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on next, is better deal on earth that could have put the freedom

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caucus and the moderates together in just 17 days? The benign

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interpretation of that is that no nobody could do that. It was far too

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quick, they were setting themselves on offer to timetable, they wanted

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to show massive momentum, I hate to talk as out of the reason why you

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are sitting in that studio in London and I'm sitting in the studio

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Washington, but who cares whether things get done in a hundred days,

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it is what you do that leaves a lasting legacy. On the other hand,

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they have had seven years to think about what they want to do to

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replace Obamacare, the publican party has committed itself to its

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appeal and replacement ever since. -- the Republican party. You would

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think they could have worked some of these things out. And does it take

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the shine of the President because he was supposed to be and sold

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himself as the negotiator in chief has that showing gone? I tell you

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what, often journalists set the bar, set the height at which a politician

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has to get over, we did not set it Donald Trump set it, he said it will

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be easy to fix, I'm going to make it much cheaper, poor people will have

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insurance, it is going to be fantastic and we will do it quickly.

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So, you set the bar for himself. What has happened is that he has set

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the bar and gone stumbling over it and all impact on his face. Have the

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shine,? Yes. It will take awhile to show they have learned the lessons

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from this and will be out get their legislation passed. OK, he needs a

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win. In the Middle East, Iraqi forces

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are pounding Western Mosul trying It is not going to wealth. -- it is

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not going very well. rocket launchers to target

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IS militants and the civilians Islamic State may be in retreat

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but they are putting Our Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen

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has sent this report. This is the Iraqi solution

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to an offensive that has stalled over the last week

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or so, attack again. It feels as if the air war over

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Mosul is intensifying. The gunship pilots fly low,

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they seem confident Every day a few thousand more people

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come walking out of the areas of Mosul still held by the Jihadists

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who call themselves Islamic State. Many said they have been used

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as human shields, but the response - TRANSLATION: They destroyed

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our homes, our cars, Entire families are gone,

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they are under the rubble. TRANSLATION: A lot of people died,

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children, women and men. Houses collapsed on them,

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I lost both my sons. Some very sophisticated modern

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weapons in this fight and these locally made rockets

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are used over short range. That is an inaccurate weapon,

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it might be good for the tempo of the military operation,

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but it is not necessarily good But, they want to win this

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battle and they are using Most of the people arriving

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in government-held territory are bussed out to camps,

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many said IS forced This woman said she was not escaping

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the jihadists but air strikes that used tonnes of bombs

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on a single sniper will. TRANSLATION: They destroy

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the houses where one or two They can houses into cemeteries.

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They bring the dead alp burnt. -- alp burnt.

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My children, nine of my family killed.

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They call them smart bombs, but this is stupid.

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The people of Mosul have been left with impossible choices,

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risk death in their own homes or risk death crossing a front line.

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Iraq has been shattered by the years of wars

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and sectarian conflict that

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followed the US and British invasion, it might be too late

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We're joined now by Chris Woods who runs Airwars -

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an organisation that tracks the air strikes against the so-called

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Islamic State and other groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya.

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Good to see you. We have had a good illustration from Germany there as

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to why it is so difficult to keep track of Hazzard is underground. --

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front Jeremy Corbyn. How do you monitor our -- a good

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illustration from Jeremy Corbyn. How do you measure who is killed? We

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look at mostly Iraqi social media, the information is disbursed but a

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lot of information does come out from the perspective of the

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civilians, it can be videos, testimonies, obituaries or so on. We

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pulled the material together and make a provisional assessment about

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the quality of those claims and then we try and work with the military 's

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two festival drawback attention to these allegations and see whether

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they are valid or not. -- to first of all. We are talking in the

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context of some fairly murky reports from the west of Mosul, where scores

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of people were killed reportedly by a Coalition air strike. From your

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monitoring, what you think this change in the last few weeks? We

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have seen with the west Mosul campaign a huge increase in alleged

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civilian casualties from Coalition actions. Not just the blood across

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the border in Syria as well. Nat Derry -- not just bought Mosul. We

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are seeing the highest number of them have ever been recorded. The

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Mosul around 70% of the allegations are what we grade as contested, they

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may have been claimed to be Coalition actions but they may be by

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artillery, or by so-called Islamic State themselves using took bombs or

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mortars or other means. So, we know a large number of civilians are

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dying in Mosul as the report made clear, what we do not necessarily

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know is what is killing them. Generally speaking, most of the fire

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going in the Mosul right now is incoming fire from the Coalition,

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from Iraqi forces and unfortunately that is what is killing most of the

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civilians right now, we think. We have heard Donald Trump say that we

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have got to be less politically correct in the way we fight these

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battles, do you think there has been any change in the rules of

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engagement for US forces when they oppose keeping these aspects? A

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difficult question, the word we keep on getting from the Pentagon is, no,

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the rules of think agent has not changed, but Iraqi official keep on

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saying that they have. It is easier to get an American air strike now

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than it was a few months ago. That gets more complicated as we do not

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know if it is related to Kurt Cochran coming in all the response

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to the very fierce recent battle in East Mosul -- to Trump coming in.

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One of the criticisms at the time was that they weigh not getting the

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table as support that they needed, so we may be seeing an increase that

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is to do with Trump will changes or it could be a response to that early

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battle that came just as Donald Trump came in. There is a clear

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picture in Syria, that we are seeing an enormous increase in reported

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civilians deaths and we're looking at bombings of towns and villages

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that are lightly populated compared to Mosul, that indicates that the

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strikes are more frequent and that they are taking more risk with

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civilians. I think what we're seeing in Syria is more of an indication of

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the rule change under Donald Trump, but if there is a change, the

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Pentagon and the White House being very tight lipped about it. Yes, it

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is subtle. Thank you very much the moment.

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Returning now to the Trump administration's 'to-do' list.

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We've already heard what happened to health care but what does that

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Among the big-ticket items he promised during

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the campaign was fixing the country's crumbling

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It could even be an issue that wins bipartisanship support -

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but as James Cook reports from America's tallest dam,

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at Oroville in Northern California, it will be no easy task.

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The tallest dam in the richest nation on earth is no

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Last month after heavy rain it overflow channels began to crumble.

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Nearly 200,000 Californians had to flee.

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Now the water level has fallen, the damage is laid bare.

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What happened here at the Oroville Dam is a wake-up call

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in a country where infrastructure spending has been out

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The lesson is simple - the longer you put off

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repairs or upgrades, the greater the risk and the higher

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But, that is exactly what the US has been doing,

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more than 2000 American dams are rated as both deficient and high

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hazard, which means failure would lead to loss of life.

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I think we have been doing what we thought was enough,

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but clearly we have missed a few things.

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When I say we, it is a global it is the regulators,

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it is our third-party independent consultants, and that is,

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a catastrophic event but we are all learning from this.

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New York venue jersey dedicate the huge Lincoln Tunnel under the Hudson

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River... In the past century the US saw

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two big building booms. The first came in the 1930s

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when Roosevelt's New Deal put millions of Americans to work

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on projects like this one. The second was in the 50s and 60s

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with the construction of the interstate highway system

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and minutes after he was elected president,

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Donald Trump promised further. We're going to rebuild

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our infrastructure. Which will become,

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by the way, second to none. Mr Trump is particularly scathing

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about America's airports. Once icons of progress,

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he now calls the third World. But Los Angeles International

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is already spending billions on more gates,new rail links and smarter

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terminals, funded not by the government

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but by passengers views But, it is today's

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experience third World? We are an incredible and robust

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airport, we have fantastic facilities here already,

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but we are taking them to that next level which will be

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the gold standard airport. Showcase projects are one

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thing but when it comes to more mundane the pair,

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roads and bridges, pipes and dams, Life as we knew it in the

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21st-century of the United States is going to increasingly look

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like what is normal in the part of the world,

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especially Latin America, It is just not going to be

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a 21st-century western country. The challenge, it seems,

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is not to make America great again, The family of Kurt Cochran,

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the American tourist killed in last week's attack in Westminster say

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they have been through a "humbling and difficult experience" ,

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but have been helped Mr Cochran and his wife Melissa,

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from Utah, were on a trip to celebrate their wedding

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anniversary, when they were hit The moment Cally Massoud began his

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attack, we now know he was driving at up to 76 miles an hour across

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Westminster Bridge, killing and injuring as he drove. This afternoon

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his mother issued a statement condemning the attack and

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emphasising that she does not condone her some's actions not

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support his beliefs. She said" I am so deeply shocked, saddened and

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numbed by the actions my son has taken that have killed and injured

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innocent people in Westminster... 'S and those victims included American

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couple Kurt Cochran and his wife. It'd been their first time in London

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and their first ever visit outside of the USA, they had been on a tour

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of Europe to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Kurt Cochran

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was killed after being thrown from the bridge to the pavement below. A

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single bunch of flowers marks where he's fouled. Melissa suffered

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multiple injuries and is in hospital. -- where he fouled. Today,

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13 members of his family spoke publicly for the first time. From

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Utah they are Mormon family who have found strength in their faith. It is

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hard the most of us to imagine what it is like to lose in this way, can

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you give us some sense of the impact on your family? It is brought close

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together. We love and support each other so much and I think it has

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made is even that much stronger. Kurt Cochran run a music studio back

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home, and infuse elastic supporter of local bands. -- and infuse the

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Astec supporter of local bands. There have been two beat concept in

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his honour. What the families had shown today is what happens when you

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are suddenly affected by an event of this magnitude. It has brought with

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it trauma, grief and the them forgiveness. Nonu 's harbour any ill

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will or harsh feelings towards this. Haase none of us. We love our

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brother, we love what he brought to the world. -- non-others. To date

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buyers would this was a chance but Tobias Ellwood

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to remember all of those killed. Last week a chair of the House

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committee did something extraordinary, he went behind his

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fellow committee members and shared previously undisclosed intelligence

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directly with the White House, information he said have come from

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the zone source, we do not know who that source was, or we didn't. It

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undermines the committee's independence, but now we are

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learning a bit more about that source. Yes. You see him there

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walking out of the White House, the building behind as the old executive

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building which is the White House overflow, if you like, well a lot of

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employees of the White House where the mother works. It seems he went

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there the day before in end Uber car, to have a meeting, so maybe

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that is the source of the information, maybe it was summoned

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from the White House gave in the information that he went back to the

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White House... Which signifies what? It is turning into a bizarre spy

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mystery. In the sense that, he got information from the White House

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that event back to the White to muddy the water, or what was the

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significance of that? I would love to be able to give you a definitive

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answer to that, no idea. In two we hear from the man himself to explain

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what a nappy was doing and where the information came from, I have a bit

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of a problem trying to explain it is actually what it was. -- to explain

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what an art it was he was doing. Certainly, the questions are piling

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up for him. It gets murkier by the day.

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Trump's son-in-law is going to overhaul government to make it

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quicker, slicker and he's going to appear before the committee on

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Russia, as well. He has a busy time as well as sorting out Middle East

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peace. We surely the nepotism tweets alone, for the moment. You're

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watching 100 putter days. Still to come for viewers on the BBC

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News Channel and BBC World News - the British Prime Minister heads

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north for her first face-to-face meeting with the Scottish leader

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since a new push for independence - does it look like they got anything

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solved? And governing from the golf course ,

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why Democrats want a record of everyone Donald Trump meets

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at his weekend resort That's still to come on 100

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Days, from BBC News. After a rather gloomy start we

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enjoyed some sunshine, but some others did not. This was the rather

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gloomy scene earlier this afternoon. Boy, did that have an effect on the

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temperatures, some others did not get above seven or 8 degrees. That

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was the exception, most places enjoyed lots of fantastic sunshine

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no more shows than the Highlands of Scotland. -- no more so. This was

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the scene looking westwards on the coast of Ayrshire. A dry evening.

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Overnight some of the low cloud will become extensive. Must of mist an

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mag around particularly in the east. Some players will keep these clear

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skies and where it happens it will be a cold night, as we've seen in

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some country spots, in the west of Scotland,. Some showers turning up

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across parts of Wales... Very scattered affairs and some heavy

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ones putting up to Northern Ireland and into parts of Scotland. Ahead of

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that, much cloudy day for most of Scotland and it will be much cooler

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than has been the last few days. There is the name pushing into the

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south-west. The odd shower passing into parts of the Midlands and

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eastern England. They will be very scattered, many places avoiding them

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but they could be quite Scott. It will feel pleasantly warm. Some

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brightness. Wales and south-west brightness. Wales and south-west

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England, but not as we head into the evening, some dampness turning up

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here. This is tomorrow evening. Damp and dreary across western areas.

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Quite gusty wind across northern areas. Further south and east, not

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much rain, plenty of cloud but it will be a mild feeling day in most

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places. As we looked through the week, most northern and western

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areas are going to catch the rain, succession front come in and

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something could be quite heavy. This one front, briefly will introduce

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some really warm air from the neck continent. See how the map turned

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yellow and orange, here. Somebody somewhere across the more South

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eastern part of England could be knocking on the door at 20 degrees,

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whether 70 and west it is cloudy and breezy and wetter.

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Welcome back to One Hundred Days, with me Jon Sopel in Washington

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Donald Trump's spokesman has said the White House 'learned a lot'

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despite having to withdraw the President's Healthcare

:30:21.:30:21.

proposals, and is looking at ways it can improve 'how

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Also ahead - we'll look what the jailing of a Russian

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opposition leader for taking part in an anti-corruption rally means

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A crucial week for the UK, the Prime Minister will notify

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the European Union on Wednesday that Britain intends to leave,

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Today Theresa May has been in Scotland where

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she has been meeting the Scottish First

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It's the first face-to-face meeting since the Scottish National Party

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demanded a new independence referendum.

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Our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith reports.

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Theresa May knows this could be awkward, she's here to talk about

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her Article 50 letter. She is here to press had armed for a referendum

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on independence, so no handshakes, no press conferences, just a couple

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of souvenir photographs but neither woman looks like they are enjoying

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it. I start contrast, their first meeting eight months ago, then it

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was called a good working relationship. Now Nicola Sturgeon

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says the PM has not listened to her in Brexit, Mrs May says she will

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reject any request for a vote on Scottish independence. My position

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is not going to change, that now is not the time to be talking about a

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second independence referendum because it wouldn't be fair on the

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Scottish people to ask them to make that decision when the facts aren't

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clear and also because now is the time when we need to pull together

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to make sure we get the best possible deal for the UK including

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the people as Scotland's. I'm told that the meeting was businesslike,

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cordial and probably the then kissed meeting yet. They were offering more

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powers for the Scottish Parliament, they hoped but they say they got

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moody and on that. And when Nicola Sturgeon told the Prime Minister how

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she plans to make the formal request race got it referendum, the Prime

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Minister said simply you know my position on that. The first

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ministers says, it should be clear on 18 to 24

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months' time which is when the Scottish Government wants to hold

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that referendum. We both agree now is not the time to give people that

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choice. Since we both appear to be in agreement as to when the terms of

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Brexit will become clear, that would underline my view, that is the right

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time. In a speech, she said she wants to build a more united nation.

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But it is Scottish independence on the agenda, at the Holyrood

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parliament tomorrow and they will almost certainly vote to call for a

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second referendum. Well, the polls say support

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for Scottish independence has grown since the last vote in 2014,

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but still the majority wish I've been speaking to Scotland's

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first home-grown billionaire Sir Tom Hunter and I asked him

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what he would make of another vote. My feeling is that people in

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Scotland are kind of fed up. There has been too much politics, one of

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the great things about the 2014 referendum, was the whole country

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got engaged. Everybody really got engaged in the politics and the

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debate and we had a referendum and we had a result. I think people are

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a bit fed up, and I'm not quite sure we're going into same level of

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engagement if another referendum comes quite so soon. Our economy is

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lagging behind the rest of the UK, we are about one third behind the

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rest of the UK in terms of economic growth. Our education system, we

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have had the worst results ever. And we have had this government in place

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now for ten years. I think one of the problems and I think we are in

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difficult times for democracy, is that there is no effective political

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opposition in Holyrood. And there is no effective political opposition in

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Westminster either. So I think, these are dangerous times for

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democracy. Are you suggesting from what you say that the SNP and others

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have used this criticism, are concentrating too much on

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independence at the expense of some of the biggest issues for society? I

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think it has always been very convenient for most governments in

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Scotland, to blame the bogeyman in Westminster. Or perhaps, in Theresa

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May's case, the bogey woman in Westminster. And that takes the

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scrutiny, on what has actually been happening in Scotland, we have had

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devolved powers now for some time, we have had an SNP government for

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the past ten years, so I tend to listen less to what people say, and

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really watch what people do. And if you look at the track record here in

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Scotland, it's not that great. Were about to trigger Article 50 and

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Brexit, the Brexit negotiation will be under way, how is that going to

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affect your business and how would that affect your business in

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Scotland were for a period outside its biggest market, the rest of the

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UK and also the rest of the European Union? We are entering Brexit. We

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are entering the unknown, no country has ever left the European Union. So

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from a business point of view, that adds to uncertainty. I guess I am an

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optimist, so we are going to have to make the most of the situation we

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find ourselves in, but in terms of is this a reason that Scotland

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should leave the rest of the UK, it may be but I wouldn't be asking that

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question right now. We need to wait and see what Brexit actually means,

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and we must always remember in Scotland, we do four times as much

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business with the rest of the UK, than we do with Europe. So often and

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this was the case last night, the debate is framed by oil and the

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price of oil which we know is rock bottom at the moment, but surely

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Scotland as an independent country could attract new business, it could

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be a more nimble economy? Yes I mean the last time already news and the

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taxation flowing from that was central to it, since the last

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referendum, oil revenues have dropped 97%. It is quite incredible.

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But they may reverse, they are never going to get back to where they

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work, but there is news of another oil find off the west coast of

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Scotland just this weekend. But I think, what we should be talking

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about is how we built Scotland's economy into the robust economy

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which we need. If we look at what was talked about in the SNP

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conference we should be, they hardly talked about the Scottish economy

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and what measures we need to take to build a robust and sustainable

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healthy economy. Sir Tom I am very grateful for your time, thank you

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for coming on the programme. Some interesting

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talks from Sir Tom Hunter about education Scotland, he thinks that

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the SNP are putting world their desire for independence in front of

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things that would benefit Scotland. We are going to put those things

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tomorrow to Satanic Salmond, the former SNP leader, so that it will

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be interesting to get his thoughts. STUDIO: If that would be very

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interesting. -- STUDIO: That would be.

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The Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny,

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has appeared in court in Moscow, after his arrest on Sunday

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The court rejected the request and Navalny was sentenced

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Our Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, was

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Well I'm standing outside a Moscow court has in the spring blizzard, a

:38:46.:38:52.

short while ago, the Russian opposition activist, Navalny was

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found guilty of organising a mass protests and he was fined the

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equivalent of $350 and then he was found guilty of disobeying the

:39:08.:39:10.

police and poor that he was sentenced to 15 days in jail. This

:39:11.:39:16.

police van Baha'i and me has arrived to whisk him off to jail. -- has

:39:17.:39:22.

arrived. Some of his supporters held good luck signs, hoping he could see

:39:23.:39:27.

them. But then police officers came up to them and took them away.

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Earlier I managed to ask Mr Navalny how significant he thought

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yesterday's protests had been. TRANSLATION:

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It was Navalny who called the Russians onto the streets, and

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people came across the country, in dozens of towns and cities, in their

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thousands. The biggest protest was in Moscow. That was on Pushkin

:40:01.:40:05.

Square, where there were thousands of people. That protest was broken

:40:06.:40:12.

by Russian riot police. I think these protests have cemented Navalny

:40:13.:40:16.

as the unofficial leader of the Russian opposition. Meanwhile the

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Kremlin today said it respected people's rights to voice her opinion

:40:20.:40:26.

but it said that it believed that some of them had been unsanctioned

:40:27.:40:28.

and therefore illegal. A deadline for forming

:40:29.:40:33.

a new power-sharing government in Northern Ireland has

:40:34.:40:35.

passed without agreement. The two biggest parties

:40:36.:40:38.

in the devolved government, the Democratic Unionists

:40:39.:40:40.

and Sinn Fein, blamed each other for the failure of three

:40:41.:40:42.

weeks of negotiations. More time's been set aside to help

:40:43.:40:45.

reach an agreement - if not, it could lead to a return

:40:46.:40:48.

of direct rule from London. A 100-kilogram gold coin has been

:40:49.:40:57.

stolen from a museum in Berlin. The coin, which is 53 centimetres

:40:58.:41:01.

wide and three centimetres thick, features a portrait

:41:02.:41:10.

of Queen Elizabeth II. The coin, called the "Big Maple

:41:11.:41:13.

Leaf" and made in Canada in 2007, is said to have a face value

:41:14.:41:16.

of at least a million dollars. But by weight alone, it's worth more

:41:17.:41:19.

than four times that. I want to talk, just before we

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finish, only word is question is leading and it is not to a glamorous

:41:37.:41:40.

golf resort. I have been doing some sums today, I only know that it is

:41:41.:41:47.

him by his golf club and shoes. It says here that he has been on the

:41:48.:41:53.

golf course 21 out of 66 days in office and the Democrats don't like

:41:54.:41:59.

it. The they don't like it at all, one is Donald Trump said when he

:42:00.:42:02.

became President he would be so busy being president that he wouldn't

:42:03.:42:07.

have time like that dissolute person Barack Obama who spent a bit of time

:42:08.:42:11.

on the golf course, he would be working all the time. The second

:42:12.:42:15.

thing is, this idea, that when you are at the White House, everyone is

:42:16.:42:19.

clocked in and clocked out, there is a record of who he is met. Not sue

:42:20.:42:25.

much this time. Is that any different to having a private e-mail

:42:26.:42:29.

server, if you are away from the White House and off the books for a

:42:30.:42:34.

third of the time, how is that different? As a posy would say disk

:42:35.:42:37.

completely different because there is no secret communications going on

:42:38.:42:44.

that are outside of kind of things. But it is a valid point, it is a

:42:45.:42:48.

rhetorical question that I am not going to answer. That is 100 days,

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