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Scotland's Parliament backs a second independence referendum, | :00:08. | :00:16. | |
a decision that puts it on a collision course | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom? | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
I hope the United Kingdom Government will respect the view of Parliament. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
This is simply about giving people in Scotland a choice. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
But the British Government refuses to negotiate | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
with Edinburgh until the "Brexit process" is complete. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
We'll speak to Alex Salmond, Scotland's former First Minister, | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
President Trump plans to sweep away Obama's climate change policies. | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
Any moment now, the President is due to sign an executive order | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
to overturn environmental laws and regulations which he says | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Ford announces over a billion dollar investment in car | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
We'll ask the company whether this has anything to do | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
with President Trump's America First approach. | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
The girl's not for turning - why this statue of defiance | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
The Scottish and UK governments look to be on a collision course tonight. | :01:18. | :01:34. | |
Within the last couple of hours, the Scottish parliament has backed | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
the Scottish First Minister's demands for a second | :01:38. | :01:39. | |
The final decision to grant that vote still rests with the UK | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
Government in Westminster, and tonight they have refused | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
to even enter into negotiations with the Scottish Government | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
until the Brexit process is complete. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
That could be years away, and well outside the timetable | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith reports on a looming confrontation | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Jubilant excitement as supporters heard the Scottish Parliament had | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
Tears of joy today, but disappointment will follow. | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
They are shouting yes, the Prime Minister will soon tell | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Earlier, the debate suspended after last week's terror attack | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Scotland's future should be in Scotland's hands. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
That is what this debate is about, the future of our country, | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
how we best harness our potential as a country and overcome | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
Is she going to spend the next two years and 100% of her time | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
campaigning for Scotland to leave the UK, at the expense of governing, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
or will she roll up her sleeves from today and seek to secure more | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
powers for this parliament when they return from | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
Independence debates always excite passion and confrontation. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
We are sick of it, and most people in Scotland have had enough too. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
This Parliament needs to and must focus on the priorities | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
It is not the time to be sidetracked by yet more unnecessary division. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
So I will not take any lessons from the First Minister. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
I think I've answered the First Minister's question. | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
The result was never really in doubt, as the Greens | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
The motion, as amended, is therefore agreed. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
The First Minister can now formally ask Theresa May | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
I hope the United Kingdom Government will respect the view of Parliament. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
This is simply about giving people in Scotland a choice. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
We agree that now is not the right time for that choice, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
but that choice should be available to people in Scotland, | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
I look forward to discussions in the weeks ahead. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Nicola Sturgeon knows that Theresa May is going | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
to refuse to allow another Scottish referendum. | :04:04. | :04:04. | |
So, why bother asking for one at all? | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
The Tories say it is all part of a well rehearsed game | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
from the SNP, where they put forward proposals to Westminster | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
they know will be rejected, and then react with righteous | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Rejecting Holyrood's request for a referendum is a risk, | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
but that's exactly what the UK Government will do. | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
The Prime Minister has made her position very clear. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
Now is not the time for another referendum. | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
Nothing has been said in the Scottish Parliament | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
process would be unfair on the people of Scotland. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
The danger for the UK Government is that saying no | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
could backfire and stir up support for independence. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
But they firmly believe most Scottish voters don't want another | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
referendum and will accept that now is not the time. | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Let's speak to our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith, in Edinburgh. | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
Quite a robust response from the Scottish secretary David Mandel, and | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
he's talking about not granting a referendum until the end of the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
Brexit process, which might include the transition as well. Yes, the UK | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Government's position as they don't want to even talk about another | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
referendum or the possible timing of an independence vote until after the | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
Brexit negotiations have been completed in two years' time. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
They've made clear they're not saying they think there could be a | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
vote in two years' time, but to give Scotland a reasonable choice of what | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
they're choosing between an independent Scotland and the new UK, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
as it will be processed Brexit, they need to wait until it's bedded down | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
a bit and see what the consequences of leaving the EU are going to be. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
So this sets up quite a constitutional struggle. The First | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Minister is going to go ahead and send a formal request to Theresa | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
May, to the British Prime Minister later this week, even though she | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
knows the answer is going to be known. The Prime Minister is not | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
saying never but is saying now is not the | :06:07. | :06:26. | |
time to be talking about it, not when we should be concentrating on | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Brexit. The Scottish Government are pretty determined not to take no for | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
an answer but what they can do to force the UK Government to at least | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
enter discussions about an independence referendum, that | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
remains unclear at the moment. That is a very good explanation of where | :06:36. | :06:36. | |
we stand. Thank you. Let's speak to Alex Salmond - | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
the former First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Yes | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
campaign during the We know Theresa May will not engage | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
on this. The question is, what next for you? Let's just concern what | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
happened today. A proportion of Parliament, unlike this one down | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
here, as by a substantial and clear majority voted for the people of | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Scotland have the right to exercise their self-determination. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Now, Theresa May may think she can stand against that but she won't be | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
able to, her position will crumble. Not today, not tomorrow, but over | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
the coming weeks and months, because no British Prime Minister for the | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
last generation has attempted to deny the Scottish people the right | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
to self-determination. In my lifetime is the biggest opponent of | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Scottish independence was Margaret Thatcher but even she said in her | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
autobiography that Scotland had an undoubted right of | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
self-determination and the people if they were determined on it, no | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
politician, certainly not her, would stand in their way. Theresa May, | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
taking the stance she is doing, is attempting to deny the Scottish | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
people the right to decide. Self-determination delayed is | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
self-determination denied. Will she really crumble? She will say the | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
view of the Scottish people is on her side. She's going into a very | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
complex negotiation on Brexit. She's made it very clear the Scottish | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
people can't take the view one independence until they know how | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
that process has bedded down. I put to you again, what can you possibly | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
do to change the position we are in tonight? | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
She's wrong about the view of the Scottish people. There is only one | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
poll that as our straight should the UK concede a referendum if it's | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
requested? It showed a clear majority... 60%, which you said | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
would be a prerequisite for another referendum. I never said anything of | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the sort. Nicola Sturgeon and her manifesto last year, which is what | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
counts, said if Scotland were dragged out of the European Union | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
against the will of the Scottish people, which has happened, on page | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
23 incidentally, the Scottish Government should have the right | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
call for another referendum. It was in her manifesto, Nicola Sturgeon | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
resoundingly elected on that manifesto and the Scottish | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
Parliament has voted clearly for it today. To deny that is to deny the | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
right of the Scottish people. In fact, denying self-determination and | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
no politician down here, the days of that happening... Down here this | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
spring, Brexit, Empire 2.0. Let me tell you, the days of the British | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
Empire are over and the days of British Prime Minister is denying | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
self-determination to the Scottish people are over as well. You have | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
been very critical of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Nigel | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Farage for not coming up with a clear plan. Let's focus on your | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
plan. What is the destination for Scotland if it was independent? | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Nicola Sturgeon wants a referendum in 18 months to two years. Every | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
parliament around Europe, as well as this one, will get a chance to | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
accept or reject a Brexit deal. She will bring forward a in that time | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
scale to care compare against the Brexit deal. That is the right and | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
proper way to do things. I understand that but what is the | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
destination, will you be a member of the European Union? I am certain | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
Nicola Sturgeon will bring forward a prospectus which allows for | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
continuity within the single market place. And nobody in this place is | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
at all confident the British government will be able to do that | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
as a result of the Brexit negotiations. That's why the right | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
time, the proper time, the only feasible time to decide this issue | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
is in 18 months to two years, when this parliament and every other | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Parliament around Europe gets the chance to vote on it. Why shouldn't | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
the Scottish people have the right to vote and exercise | :10:18. | :10:38. | |
self-determination on that timescale? | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
Let's remind what's going on here. This is not just about Scotland. | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Northern Ireland is in deadlock. The Welsh arts alienate it. Scotland is | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
moving for an independence referendum and the English are split | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
50-50. This is not a Prime Minister in Westminster in command of the | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
political environment. On that disunited basis, which she has | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
created, she is moving into the most difficult European negotiations to | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
stop for more than a generation. The Prime Minister... It will be evident | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
for all to see. Michelle here in Washington. Just pick up on this | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
idea, if you go back to the first referendum, one of the key questions | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
many Scots had was what with the economy look like, what with the | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
currency but like? Here we are talking about a second referendum, | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
talking about the timetable for that to take place. Will people, when | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
they vote on this, have any idea of what the economic landscape might | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
look like? Of course they shall. As you will remember, in the first | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
referendum campaign, December 2013, there was presented in a prospectus | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
White Paper of 670 pages. Many, many people in the Brexit referendum last | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
year would have loved that sort of prospectus in order to judge how to | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
vote. I'm quite certain Nicola Sturgeon will outline the same kind | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
of White Paper with the same kind of guidance for people as is right and | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
proper in a referendum campaign. Alex Salmond, thank you very much | :11:51. | :11:51. | |
indeed. A great pleasure. These are certainly momentous days | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
for the UK. They are. Tomorrow Theresa May | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
serves official notice on Brussels that Brexit will be underway. The | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
two dear negotiation will start tomorrow. And today I think is a | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
very good illustration of the challenge that she's going to face, | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
not only negotiating with the European Union, which will be | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
complex in itself, but also keeping her own party onside this. The | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
staunch Brexiteers within her party who want their cake and eat it, but | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
also those constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Remember, it's the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
conservative and Unionist party, she is a Unionist, she wants to keep all | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
the countries together as part of the United Kingdom going forward and | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
that will be a very difficult task. And we haven't even touched on what | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
the other EU members think. Like Spain, or Belgium, who would | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
possibly be opposed to an independent Scotland joining the | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
European Union because it might giving courage and there succession | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
as part of their country as well. Not an easy challenge for the | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
Scottish Government, if it was to get that referendum. | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Meanwhile, President Trump has just signed an executive order rolling | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
back many of President Obama's climate change policies. | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
The energy independence order begins the process | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
of withdrawing and re-writing President Obama's Clean Power Plan. | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
The White House says it will restore thousands of lost jobs | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Begins the process of withdrawing and re-writing | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
The White House says it will restore thousands of lost jobs to coal | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
This is Wayne spoke in Pennsylvania. You come to a place like this, the | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
coal mine, as hopefully you can see through the drizzle behind me, is | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
literally physically part of the time. It is the reason this area | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
prospered, but that has all been taken away in recent years. Not just | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
this mine but several mines in this region have shut down in recent | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
years. People have really struggled, have really struggled, but they have | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
got used to the idea that if they want to move forward and have a | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
future here they have to diversify in terms of industry, and along | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
comes Donald Trump and says in effect that he can turn back the | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
clock, can make coal king again and that is a message people here wanted | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
to hear. The coal mine here closed | :14:15. | :14:15. | |
more than a year ago. Hundreds of well-paid | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
miners were laid off. Rightly or wrongly, many blame | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
the policies of the last policy. Either losing their houses, | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
trucks, their cars. If it was up to make, | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
every coalminer in this country would be working, | :14:29. | :14:41. | |
because the fact is, we've been mining coal in this | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
country for 200 years. Open it back up, get | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
the guys back to work. Nearly 70% of people | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
here in a traditionally Democratic The fact he said he would reverse | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Obama policies on carbon emissions President Obama said | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
he was introducing these regulations to curb America's reliance on coal | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
cuts because of concerns over climate change, | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
but this government's more dismissive attitude towards global | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
warming is something that's alarming environmentalists, | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
and its promise to reopen coal mines As well as overturning rules to stop | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
offering new government leases for coal mines, | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
Donald Trump plans to cut funding for America's environmental | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
protection agency by around a third. The man he appointed to head | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the organisation says he's not even sure human activity | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
affects climate change. But is all of this even | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
going to bring back jobs? Trump said many times, | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
I love coal miners, I love We're going to bring back coal, | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
we going to bring back coal. And so this is the livelihood | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
of this county. A lot of people, a lot of my | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
friends, and so they believed it. I don't know how | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
you bring back coal. Many mines shut down simply | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
because of economics, there were cheaper ways | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
of producing energy. If the jobs don't return, | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
after hopes have been raised, people here might one day feel | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
all that's really happened is a distraction from truly | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
modernising American industry and a devastating setback | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
in the fight against climate change. That report, we can listen to the | :16:33. | :16:47. | |
president. We have an impressive group here to | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
celebrate the start of a new era in American energy and production and | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
job creation. The action I'm taking today will eliminate federal | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
overreach, restore economic freedom and allow our companies and our | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
workers to thrive, compete and succeed on a level playing field for | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
the first time in a long time. It's been a long time, fellas. I'm not | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
just talking about eight years, a lot longer than eight years, you | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
people know it may be better than anybody. | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Thanks as well to the many distinguished members of Congress | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
who have taken the time to be here. I want to thank all of our industry | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
leaders who are with us, and to share our determination to create | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
jobs in America for Americans. And thank you all so, I spotted you in | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
the audience, thank you. That is what this is all about, bringing | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
back our jobs, bringing back our dreams and making America wealthy | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
again. I also want to thank the dedicated public servants who are | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
with us this afternoon. You're doing important work to protect our health | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
and public resources. So important. Finally I want to | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
acknowledge the truly amazing people behind me on the stage, our | :18:14. | :18:25. | |
incredible coalminers. APPLAUSE We love our coalminers. | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
Great people. Over the past two years I've spent time with the | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
miners all over America. They told me about the struggles they've | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
endured. Actually, in one case, I went to a group of miners in West | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Virginia. You remember, Shelley. I said, how about this... Why don't we | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
get together, we'll go to another place and you'll get another job? | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
You won't mind any more do you like that idea? They said no, we don't | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
like that idea we love to mine, that's what we want to do. I said if | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
that's what you love to do, that's what you're going to do. I was very | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
impressed. They loved the job, that's what their job is, I fully | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
understand that. I grew up in a real estate family and until this recent | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
little excursion into the world of politics I could never understand | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
why anybody would not want to be in the world of real estate. Believe | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
me. So I understand it, and we're with you 100% and that's what you're | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
going to do, OK? APPLAUSE | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
The miners told me about the attacks on their jobs and their livelihoods. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
They tell me about the efforts to shut down their minds, their | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
communities and their very way of life. I made them this promise... We | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
will put our miners back to work. APPLAUSE | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
We've always do -- we've today on taking bold action to | :20:05. | :20:16. | |
follow through on that promise. My administration is putting an end to | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
the war on coal. We're going to have clean coal, really clean coal. With | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
today's executive action I am taking historic steps to lift the | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
restrictions on the American energy. To reverse government intrusion and | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
to cancel job killing regulations. APPLAUSE | :20:37. | :20:46. | |
And by the way, regulation is not just in this industry but every | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
industry. We're doing them by the thousands, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
every industry. We going to have safety come water, clean air but so | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
many are unnecessary and so many are job killing. We're getting rid of | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
the bad ones. One by one we are keeping promises and putting power | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
back into the hands of the people. First today's energy ended the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
patented his action for an immediate re-evaluation of the so-called clean | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
Power plan. APPLAUSE Perhaps... Perhaps no single | :21:28. | :21:39. | |
regulation threatens our miners, and companies more than this crushing | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
attack on American industry. Second, we're lifting the ban on federal | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
leasing for coal production. Third, we're lifting job killing | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
restrictions on the production of oil, natural gas, clean coal and | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
shale energy. And finally we are returning power to the states where | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
that power belongs. States and local communities know what is best for | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
them. They understand it, they get it, they have been doing it for a | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
long time. It was taken away from them and not handled well. They are | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
the ones that we should now and will now empower to decide. My action | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
today is the latest in a series of steps to create American jobs and to | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
grow American wealth. We're ending for theft of American prosperity and | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
rebuilding our beloved country. We approved the permit to finally build | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
the keystone XL pipeline and cleared the way to completion of the Dakota | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
accessed pipeline. Thousands and thousands of jobs. APPLAUSE | :22:50. | :23:02. | |
There is President Trump, rolling back Obama's clean power plan. | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
And fulfilling, as he does that a campaign promise. A fairly bruising | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
few days, the White House, so this puts them back on the front foot. It | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
will feel a bit like a win for the White House staff behind. And that's | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
important, isn't it, Michelle? Yes,. What's interesting is Donald Trump | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
won and came to power on the grounds of being a businessman, on the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
grounds of his experience. What you are seeing here is essentially he is | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
saying he is putting economic policy, in his view, ahead of | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
environmental policies. A shift from the Obama administration, which | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Republicans felt had overstepped the mark and gone too far. There would | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
be many Republicans who would probably back him on that. They are | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
not as in tune with President Obama's climate plans as perhaps... | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
The Democrats were and obviously this is part of that. They've never | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
really embrace climate change, so I'm sure there are plenty of people | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
in his own party who are applauding today. Let's just move on. The wife | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
of the Westminster attacker Khalid Masood says she is shocked by the | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
killings here in London last week. In a week she said she totally | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
condemned her husband's actions. He ran down and killed three | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
pedestrians Westminster bridge and stabbed a police officer to death | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Parliament last Wednesday. People in the Australian state of Queensland | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
are assessing the damage after Cyclone deadbeat brought torrential | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
waning gusts of wind up to 260 kilometres an hour. The Prime | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
Minister said military helicopters and ships are being sent to deliver | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
aid to the states north, where tens of thousands of homes are without | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
power. A convicted criminal known as Carlos the jackal has been convicted | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
for life of the 1974 grenade attack on a Paris store that killed two | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
people. Judges found Carles Gil to throw the explosive. The 67-year-old | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
is already serving two life sentences in France for other | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
murders and attacks. You're watching One Hundred | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
News Channel and BBC World News - from Mexico to Michigan - | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
why Ford is investing Did Donald Trump have anything to do | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
with it? And eye-balling Wall Street's bull - | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
the steely girl staring down big business and why New York City wants | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
to keep her for the moment at least. That's still to come on 100 | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
Days, from BBC News. Today some of us enjoyed them really | :25:46. | :26:11. | |
warm sunshine. For others very wet with some very heavy thunderstorms. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
That gives you a flavour of what's to come through the rest of this | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
week. Some spots will be nudging 20 degrees but for others quite a lot | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
of heavy rain and temperatures as a consequence will be rather | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
disappointing. Thing is turning more unsettled from the West. We have | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
already had some thunderstorms this afternoon in parts of the Midlands. | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
This damp weather will spread to other areas. A dreary end of the | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
night and lots of cloud cover but that will help prevent temperatures | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
dropping to low. No. Anything but a rather murky start to your Wednesday | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
morning. Some mist around as well. This slow improvement, some sunshine | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
for Scotland for a time at least, although it won't last forever | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
because the rain will be piling up the Irish Sea and eventually engulf | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
much of Scotland. A disappointing end to the day here with some heavy | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
rain, particularly out west. Dry weather holding on in the far north. | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Northern Ireland, hopefully some dry spells developing through the | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
afternoon but not to be relied upon. A lot of rain in the north-west. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Rain in the west of Wales. Just nudging into far south-west of | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
England. Further east, a lot of dry weather. Dry but quite cloudy, quite | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
a humid feel, 15-16. That is nothing compared with the temperatures we | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
could potentially see on Thursday. Warm air wafting up from the near | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
confident and could send the mercury soaring as high as 20 or 21 in parts | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
of East Anglia, the south-east. The north and west, markedly cooler and | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
that's because a lot of cloud. Further rain, particularly up | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
through the Irish Sea, Chris Daniels getting quite a lot of rain. Dry | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
across parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, best of the | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
temperatures Southeast. By Friday further wet weather piling in from | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
the West. That was slowly move eastwards. This is a cold front. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
That cold front will push the warm air away. A fresher feel to things | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
as we start the weekend. Going to see a fair few showers around on | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
Saturday. This little ridge of high pressure will settle things down | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
come Sunday. To sum up this weekend, April showers on the menu for the | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
1st of April on Saturday. Drying up on Sunday but some chilly nights to | :28:23. | :28:23. | |
come as well. Enjoy your evening. Welcome back to 100 Days with me | :28:24. | :30:04. | |
Michelle Fleury in Washington Our headlines: Scotland's | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
parliament backs a second independence referendum, | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
putting it on a collision course Yes 69, no 59, there | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
were no abstentions. The motion as amended | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
is therefore agreed. Is this the beginning of the end | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
of the United Kingdom? And the girl's not for turning - | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
why this statue of defiance Donald Trump had some good news | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
to tweet about this morning - Major investment to be made | :30:33. | :30:59. | |
in three Michigan plants. Ford has said it will spend | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
1.2 billion dollars Before we came on air | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
I spoke to Joe Hinrichs, How much of the announcement | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
today is new investment The investment in the Romeo | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
plant is new, we have not The 200 million investment in the | :31:18. | :31:27. | |
data centre is as well. The incremental investment | :31:28. | :31:39. | |
going from 700 million So a number of these | :31:40. | :31:40. | |
are new and exciting developments. What prompted you to make this | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
further investment in the US at this These investments have been | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
in the works for a while. A number of them were committed | :31:50. | :31:52. | |
in 2015 as part of the UAW Why we are announcing today | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
is the Michigan economic development corporation met today to give | :31:56. | :32:05. | |
support for incentives So they were going to take | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
the package as part of the consideration, | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
we wanted to talk about it publicly It wasn't long ago that he pulled | :32:16. | :32:17. | |
a planned investment in Mexico now you're going ahead with this one | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
of the US. Can you explain the business | :32:23. | :32:29. | |
thinking behind it? We originally announced | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
we would building a new plant As we have seen over | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
the last couple of years, We alternated that plan to bail | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
to produce the in another Mexican That frees up money to make | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
incremental investment in the US. Trump has talked about car industry | :32:45. | :32:59. | |
about how it produces cars, where they are produced, | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
did you talk to the We shared the good news | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
about the investment today with the White House | :33:04. | :33:12. | |
administration before 8am. We always give courtesy | :33:13. | :33:13. | |
for our stakeholders including From the different jurisdictions | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
where we make announcement. We said that information | :33:16. | :33:24. | |
because we wanted to know the knees were making, | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
it's a big investment and exciting news for Michigan and the US | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
and the auto industry. You mention the tax breaks for part | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
of a decision at the local level? You've got the administration | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
talking about border tax reform. We are supportive of the initiatives | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
of the administration We think that is very much | :33:40. | :33:52. | |
a necessary for the US economy. The future infrastructure | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
investment as well. There is definitely a need | :33:57. | :34:03. | |
for that in the US. The tax support we are getting | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
the state of Michigan is about a little less | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
than $30 million over 15 years. So not the bulk of the why | :34:14. | :34:15. | |
we made the decision, but we appreciate the state's | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
support, and so with a number What has been the reaction | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
from the workers? Our workforce is extremely excited | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
about being up to make the next The cascading effects | :34:27. | :34:32. | |
of investment dollars in the auto It creates nine other jobs fair | :34:33. | :34:45. | |
every job we create. The state of Michigan | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
where supportive and excited. All of our employees are excited | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
about the investment. 80% of our sales are produced here, | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
with the largest reducer of vehicles in the US, | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
we are enforcing the manufacturing and automotive story | :35:01. | :35:02. | |
of the United States, it makes us feel good, | :35:03. | :35:04. | |
it's our home country And a friendly business | :35:05. | :35:06. | |
environment helps. So big investment in these Michigan | :35:07. | :35:18. | |
plants and president Trump is claiming this is one of his. Did you | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
get a feeling from that interviews were the they made the decision | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
because of Trump or what is already in the pipeline? Some of that money | :35:25. | :35:31. | |
as he said, was in the pipeline for a long time. Some was more recent. | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
Perhaps it was influenced by the fact we keep hearing them | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
businessmen, CEO after see that business has improved or Word or | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
improve the Tramp. I think the question though -- improved under | :35:45. | :35:52. | |
Tramp. The question is what is hat thing is that on car production. | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
We're starting to see Americans buying fewer cars, and perhaps there | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
was a sense the market has reached a peak. So it will see how this | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
marries the idea of selling cars when customers do not want as much. | :36:07. | :36:15. | |
Leading Democrats say the Republican chair of the House intelligence | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
committee must recuse himself from the investigation into Russian | :36:19. | :36:20. | |
Last week Mr Nunes by-passed his committee | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
going directly to the President with new intelligence | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
It suggested Mr. Trump and his associates | :36:26. | :36:34. | |
in the surveillance of foreign targets, by the American | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
Where did that intelligence come from? | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
Well, it now emerges he had met his 'source' on White House | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
grounds the very day before he shared it with the President. | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
Someone had invited him into the White House, and logged him | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
All of which begs serious questions of the chair's independence. | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
Speaking to reporters earlier today he denied any wrongdoing | :36:55. | :37:02. | |
You guys get so many opportunities to interview when you have something | :37:03. | :37:08. | |
to report global talk about it. We're not ruling out accusing. A | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
Russian investigation will continue. Are you considering stepping down? | :37:16. | :37:21. | |
Look guys, go ask... I don't know what you're talking about. Go ask | :37:22. | :37:22. | |
the other side. Well among those calling | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
for Chairman Nunes to recuse himself from this investigation | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
is Democratic Congressman Jim Himes - who sits | :37:32. | :37:32. | |
on the intelligence committee. A brief time ago I spoke | :37:33. | :37:34. | |
to him from Capitol Hill. We've seen various meetings being | :37:35. | :37:41. | |
cancelled this week by the house intelligence committee. I think some | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
people are beginning to wonder, is the world poisoned. Can the | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
committee do its job? The committee has been put into suspended | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
animation. Yesterday's meeting is a consistent meeting every week, when | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
we are first back in Washington, it was cancelled. It was rescheduled. | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
Thursday was cancelled to. Today's open hearing is the subject of con | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
cassation and it was also cancelled. I think the way for this | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
investigation to move forward is for chairman To Share With Us, Democrats | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
And Republicans Alike, The Material Here Received And The Reasons For | :38:23. | :38:32. | |
His actions, not letting them know about it. That would be a start to | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
get this investigation back on start. How common is it for people | :38:37. | :38:44. | |
to go to the White House to a secure location to read sensitive | :38:45. | :38:47. | |
documents? It's pretty uncommon. In the capital, we have our own offices | :38:48. | :38:53. | |
with secure areas in which we review the most sensitive intelligence. The | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
chairman said that for whatever reason he had to do it there. That | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
is not what is so odd. What is odd is that if this was something that | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
would be 100% innocent without any kind of political taint, let her out | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
and as the jail and tier Teran alluded that it was a proper | :39:11. | :39:16. | |
unmasking of US information or some mistake made by the intelligence | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
community, that sort of thing is precisely the reason our community | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
exists. To consider it and look at it and provide oversight of the | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
intelligence community. But the fact is almost a week later, we are | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
almost completely in the dark about this material suggests it is not | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
anything that is in the ordinary course of business. It sounds like | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
you think this is a distraction from the burger question, Russia's -- the | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
bigger question, Russia's involvement in the US election. It's | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
not a distraction. On lap to include it's a deliberate effort to change | :39:52. | :40:01. | |
the topic, to prevent the open testimony. That is not happening. | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
Don't think it's an accident is not happening. We also, I think, saw | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
that the topic shifted from the very serious allegations to from last | :40:12. | :40:18. | |
wakes hearing, the FBI investigation underway into Trump and Russia, all | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
of a sudden we're not talking about that because of this bizarre episode | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
of running to the White House, not sharing with committee, changing the | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
topic, I have to believe that this is a deliberate political effort. | :40:32. | :40:37. | |
The FYI director whispers to be meeting a panel private today, and | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
all those meetings were cancelled in the furore. It seems all the | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
meetings this week have been cancelled. There are big questions | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
about the house intelligence committee and whether it can do its | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
job. Out of the problem here is that the committee has still not seen to | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
share the relevant information that Mr Nunes had seen. A week on, | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
whether those documents that he had seen support the argument that means | :41:03. | :41:08. | |
were properly unmasked. That Mr Trump and his associates were being | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
watched. It's impossible to judge. There's a question of who were the | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
Tramp Trump came numbers speaking to. We don't know that either. Were | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
they, does this tie into the Russian investigation or not? Or is this a | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
distraction? All of this remains unknown, hence you have reporters | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
chasing Mr Nunes down the corridor trying to find out what they can. | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
Completely distracting from the work of the committee. Christian, I don't | :41:38. | :41:43. | |
know if he seen these pictures. Take a look at this. It's a statue that | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
has appeared in downtown Manhattan not far from Wall Street. That's the | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
charging bowl in the background. You're looking at the back of a | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
statue which is called the Fearless Girl, which is supposed to be facing | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
off against the charging bull. It was designed to celebrate | :42:03. | :42:05. | |
International Women's Day. There are some feisty and fearless women in | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
New York, and Michelle is one of them. Put your business hat on. It's | :42:14. | :42:21. | |
not being bullish is it the market? Generally, since the repealing of | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
Obama care collapse, the Dow has suffered a bit? I think we've seen | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
confidence shaken on Wall Street and in Washington. Over health care | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
debacle. But American consumers are still confident and it boosts the | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
market. That's all we have timed for, that's 100 days from now. You | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
can get in touch with us on twitter as well. See the next time tomorrow. | :42:47. | :43:18. | |
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