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Reporting from Washington, I'm Tim Willcox. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Shoes off, no liquids, and now, no laptops. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Why Britain is joining the United States in banning some | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
electronic gadgets on certain flights. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
From bombs to the ballot box - Northern Ireland's Martin | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam welcomes home two stolen paintings | :00:23. | :00:34. | |
Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in America, | :00:35. | :00:50. | |
For millions of airline passengers long haul flights could soon | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
It follows US authorities announcing a ban on laptops, iPads, | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
cameras and other devices bigger than a mobile phone being allowed | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
The order, based on unspecified threats, affects passengers on US | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
bound flights from certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And now Britain has tightened its aviation | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has more. | :01:17. | :01:28. | |
Jamelia, tedious, time consuming. Getting laptops and other devices | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
through airport security on flights from the Middle East to the UK is | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Anything bigger than a smartphone Anything bigger than a smartphone | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
will now have to go in the hold. British Airways, easyJet and four | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
other UK airlines are affected, so too are Middle Eastern and North | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Africa and carriers. It follows a similar measure by the United | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
States. The Government has said the security of the travelling public is | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
its highest priority. What has prompted this? Last year's laptop | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
bomb aboard this flight out of Somalia raised a lot of concerns. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Smuggled aboard by the group, Al Shabab, it made a hole in the plane. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
The pilot was able to land safely. The year before so-called Islamic | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
State put a bomb onto a passenger jet coming out of Egypt, killing | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
everyone on board. That device was in the mould with a new ban does not | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
apply. In Whitehall, the BBC understands there were concerns | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
about introducing the band. It does not relate to a specific plot. There | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
was bound to be a commercial and diplomatic price for this. It is | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
also yet one more incumbents for air passengers. The scope for disruption | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
is immense. People will get the wrong end of many sticks. They will | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
think it applies to all flights from the UK, as well as these six | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
countries. People will have organised only hand baggage flights. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
They will suddenly need to check things in. It is going to be, I'm | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
afraid, and a mighty muddle, until we get used to the idea. Business | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
travellers who need to work on the flight will be especially | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
inconvenienced. There is no end to the ban in sight. The ban on liquids | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
over 100 Mills is still in place. For more on this spoke a short time | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
ago with Matthew Levitt, who heads the Counter-terrorism | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
programme at the Washington How effective will this be? What it | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
will effectively do is get these items into the hole. The idea is | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
that there is better and easier screening of devices that can go | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
beneath and it is harder to do those above. They are interested in the | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
size. It is about how much explosive can be fitted in. What do you mean | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
the screening is more effective question what do they go through | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
bigger machines? Will banks have to be unpacked by more airport workers? | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
There is easier and better technology. When there are | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
questions, there will be workers to go through. You have probably | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
travelled and checked bags underneath and there is a tag on | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
their saying, we have had to go through your bag will stop that will | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
happen. It is only from certain countries, probably where the Intel | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
is coming from. It is unclear how long it will last. The trend is for | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
miniaturising agent of devices. We saw in that report the laptop and | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
the group claiming responsibility for that. It really is about the | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
evolving threats of explosives and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
has a bomb maker who has been very creative with the types of | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
explosives, what they are made out of a where he puts them. Inside a | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
person boss Max physical being in Saudi Arabia. It is the extent to | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
which they have been able to miniaturise that explosive. Is there | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
anything that can be done to the aircraft itself to sustain or | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
withstand the small explosion? You don't want any explosive to get onto | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the plane. You do not know where it will be. It is true that our | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
passengers in the immediate area, if there is something small, it will | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
have less of an effect. The do not take that risk. You want to put | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
things down there so it can go through more security checks. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Airports around the country, they are really close allies to United | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
States for that Turkey is a member of Nato. Earlier on Turkey said it | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
would appeal for study in the lobby any movement on that front all, is | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the risk so grave, that the countries will have to follow suit? | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
We do not know the nature of the intelligence was that it is possible | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
there will be other checks will carry on baggage to enable these | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
things to go back at the carry on. There are flights from certain | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
places like United States. It is less likely that this will be | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
something we will have 11 years on, as we do with the liquid gel will | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
have to see how the threat pans out. Thank you very much. | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
On Capitol Hill here in Washington, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
today faced more hours of questioning from lawmakers. | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
The topics ranged from US policy on abortion and torture, | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
to allowing cameras in the courtroom and Gorsuch's own past rulings. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
But perhaps foremost on lawmakers' minds was the issue | :06:50. | :06:50. | |
of judicial independence, and whether Judge Gorsuch | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
would operate separately from the politics of Washington. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
Let's go live to Laura Trevelyan on Capitol Hill for us now. | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
Very keen to make people realise he is his own man. Absolutely. In doing | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
so, he is blunting one of the key lines of the attacks from the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Democrats. They want to stress how important judicial independence is | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
under this president. Neil Gorsuch said he believed in the separation | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
of powers he said they gave me a gavel and not rubber-stamp. He said | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
no man is above the law, not even the president. On the hot button | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
issues which could camp up in front of the Court, a Republican senator | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
had this to say about what resident tramp said about abortion in 1973. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
-- president Trump. I would have walked out the door. It | :07:49. | :08:04. | |
is not what judges do. I don't do it at that end of Pennsylvania Avenue | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
and they should not do it at this end. | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
This has been billed as a grilling of Neil Gorsuch. The atmosphere has | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
seen quite -- seemed quite warm at stages. There is no disguising the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
fact that Democrats are sought about the fact that President Obama's | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
nominee never got the chance to have the nomination hearing that Neil | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Gorsuch is going through. They are divided as to how far they can go in | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
opposing him, given that Neil Gorsuch has shown himself to be | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
erudite, highly qualified, able to cope with the pressure. He seems | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
barely to have put a foot wrong. It is a big dilemma for Democrats. Do | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
they throw the kitchen sink at this? It is difficult for them right now. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Thank you very much. The other big story on Capitol Hill | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
is the fight over the new health care bill. It is close. The real | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
winners and losers could be those in states like Pennsylvania. This was | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
such a huge issue for Trump on the campaign trail. He is finding that | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
health care is Commper gated. We all remember that rallying cry on the | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
campaign Trail to repeal and replace Obamacare. He is repealing a banner | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
care. We saw that as an executive order on day one. -- Bama care. He | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
has come up with some will call Trump care. It looks slightly | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
different, very different if you are a Democrat. President Obama help the | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
most vulnerable and the sick. A lot of that will be shrunk and withdrawn | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
foot. Making insurance is compulsory and stop insurers having to find | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
insurance premiums for their workers for the bidders more market-driven | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
and there is less subsidy. The funding is through tax credits for | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
the bus is very much a businessman's. He has come up with | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
something in the past month that everyone has hated. The moderate | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Republicans have been very spooked by anon parties and budget office | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
saying millions of Americans could be uninsured over the next decade. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
On the right of the party, the real conservatives, they say they hate | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
it. They think it does not repeal enough and that it will be too | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
expensive for the Government. Just very briefly on the numbers, it will | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
be tight, will it? The numbers on Capitol Hill. We talked to | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
congressmen there this morning, some on the right of the party. They | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
think it will not pass. All he needs to lose our 22 votes. We think the | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
numbers against him are between possibly 25, 30 five. He might try | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
to cancel the vote on Thursday altogether. It does not look good if | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
you are President and cannot get the first piece of legislation through. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Rebel and jihadist forces in Syria say their latest | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
assault on the capital, Damascus, is sending a powerful | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
message to the government just days before another round of peace talks. | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
They say it shows they can still mount a major attack | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
on what is regarded as Syria's most heavily protected city. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
The Syrian military response has included moving dozens of tanks | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
into the city centre, airstrikes, and artillery fire. | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
You're watching BBC World News America. | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
We'll speak with the US negotiator of the Northern Ireland peace | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
South Korean prosecutors have spent 14 hours questioning | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
the former President, Park Guen-haye over her involvement | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
in the growing corruption scandal that led to her impeachment. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
Ms Park travelled voluntarily from her home to the prosecutor's | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
She's always denied wrongdoing but as she arrived to be | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
interviewed, she apologised to the country. | :12:28. | :12:28. | |
Hidden in the motive Cade, Park Guen-haye. As an ordinary citizen, | :12:29. | :12:54. | |
the prosecutor calls her in and she complies. I am sorry, she said, to | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
the Korean people. But it is not clear what she is sorry for. Two | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
weeks ago, when she was evicted from the presidential palace, she was | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
defiant. Her innocence, she said, would emerge. Others are also facing | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the heat, like the patriarchs who control the biggest businesses in | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
South Korea, the head of some sun is on trial. The ex-president's best | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
friend has been charged accused of getting money from business. Park | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
Guen-haye is said to have favoured donors in return. Outside, her | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
supporters, angry at what they call political persecution. This | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
symbolises the whole division of the country. There will be an election | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
in two months' time. There may well be a movement to the left of the | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Government. Even after that, the divisions will remain. Park | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
Guen-haye still has her fans. The prosecutor probably is not one of | :14:06. | :14:06. | |
them. Martin McGuinness, the former IRA | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
leader turned deputy first minister of Northern Ireland has died | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
at the age of 66. He'd been suffering | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
from a rare heart condition. From one of the Provisional IRA's | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
most senior and ruthless commanders, responsible for many deaths and acts | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
of terror he went on to embrace electoral politics and became | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
a principal architect of the peace process that led to the 1998 | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
Good Friday Agreement. To paint a true picture of Martin | :14:37. | :14:53. | |
McGuinness, you have to accept contradictions. He was a | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
paramilitary who once embraced violence but also a peacemaker who | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
reached out to rivals. A man who could be seen in very different | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
lights. Born in Londonderry into a large Catholic family, Martin | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's divides became prevalent. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
In that time, he joined the IRA, quickly rising through its ranks. | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
Can you say whether the bombings are likely to stop in the near future in | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
response to demands? I would take into consideration the feelings of | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
the people. He became one of the faces of ruthless Irish | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
republicanism and was jailed for terrorist offences in Dublin. He | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
changed considerably from the own man he is to swagger around the no | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
go areas in Londonderry as commander of the provisional IRA. What started | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
as a fight for civil rights has become a vicious battle. Alongside | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
the many bombings and shootings, Martin McGuinness sought | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
opportunities for Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the irony. | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
Even then, the language remain. We don't believe winning elections and | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
any amount of votes will bring freedom. In the end of the day it | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
will be the cutting edge of the IRA who will bring freedom. After years | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
of chaos, in the 1990s, the ceasefires offered the opportunity | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
for talks between unionists and Republicans. Would you like to shake | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
hands? There are no guns here. Not only would they shake hands, after | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each other. | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Eventually at its head was the murky partnership of two former enemies. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. The firebrand and Unionist radical | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Republican became so close they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
There were Republicans who continue to threaten that political progress. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
When a police officer was killed, the then Deputy First Minister stood | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
side by side with the chief Custer Paul to condemn the dissident | :17:13. | :17:20. | |
groups. -- Chief Constable. They are traitors to Ireland. Alongside the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
words there were reactions from all sides. The Queen was a cousin Lord | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. After the troubles, they put their | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
differences aside. Relationships at Stormont always seemed strange. As | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister to be replaced by Peter | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
Robinson and then Arlene Foster. His ill-health became obvious. Martin | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
McGuinness walked out of government. The boy's from the Bogside retiring | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
as First Minister after years in the irony. It breaks my heart. My heart | :18:01. | :18:14. | |
lies in the Bogside and with the people of Derry. The past actions of | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
the IRA will colour many people's you of Martin McGuinness. As a | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Republican who work towards reconciliation, he will be | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
remembered as a key figure in a changing Northern Ireland. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
The Queen has sent a message of condolence to the widow of Martin | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
McGuinness. Another prominent figure in those | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
peace talks was George Mitchell, the US envoy to Northern Ireland | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
during that pivotal time. He knew Martin McGuiness well, | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
and earlier my colleague Katty Kay spoke to him as part of the BBC"s | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
100 Days programme. Senator Mitchell, when you went to | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
Northern Ireland in the mid-90s and you started to deal with Martin | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
McGuinness, what made you think that you could trust him, given his past | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
record? He was obviously a political leader, chosen by the people of | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Northern Ireland. When the peace talks began, all of the delegates | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
were elected. They represented the people of Northern Ireland. So it | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
another, it was wanting to accept another, it was wanting to accept | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
the will of the people of Northern Ireland. Martin McGuinness was | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
intelligent, articulate, a strong and effective leader of the | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
community and his point of view. In that way, along with leaders on both | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
sides, they helped to reach the decision to end the violence and | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
move towards democratic and peaceful ways of resolving disputes. Of | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
course he is a controversial figure. Many would say he had blood on his | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
hands. Whilst you were in the process of negotiating with him | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
during the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement did you ever | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
discuss his past actions with him? I never discussed past actions with | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Martin or any other participant in the Northern Ireland peace process. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Many of them were in a similar circumstance. The problem was, they | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
were embedded in the past. I was trying to get them to look to the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
future. The last thing I wanted to do was to get them focus on and | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
talking about the past when I was trying to get them to talk about the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
future. But this transformation from leader of the IRA, as somebody who | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
have been convicted in the 70s for crimes related to the IRA and | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
actions related to the IRA committed being seen today is one of the key | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
peacemakers, I think that is what people struggle with in Martin | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
McGuinness personally? Were you convinced that was a genuine | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
transition and had really been made? You'll occur I did not make | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
judgments of that kind. What I did was tackle each problem on a daily | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
basis. Participate and try to get them to look forward and understand | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
that whatever the circumstances of the Democratic peaceful future work, | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
they would be better than returning to the conflict that had dominated | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
society. Martin McGuinness accepted that challenge was instrumental in | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
bringing his community and his side along in the peace process. That is | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
why I think he will be remembered. I think that the ultimate, iconic | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
picture of the Northern Ireland peace process will be Ian Paisley as | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness as Deputy | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
First Minister, embracing each other, serving the people of | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Northern Ireland through a democratic process and appearing to | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
enjoy each other at the same time. Art lovers in Amsterdam | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
are celebrating the return, and re-hanging of two paintings | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
by Vincent van Gogh. The images, a seascape, | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
and a depiction of a church attended by the artist's father, | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
were stolen in 2002 on the orders They were found last year | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
during a police raid in Naples. The BBC's Anna Holligan has | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
more from Amsterdam. After 14 years and a traumatic | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
journey, the paintings Now protected by thick screens, | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
they're not taking any chances. Two early works by one | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
of the Netherlands' We have no idea what happened | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
to them in the intervening years. In this beach view, a small | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
piece in the lower left But it does not really disturb | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
the image as such too much, and the small church | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
is practically unharmed. It took opportunist thieves less | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
than four minutes to break in through the roof using | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
a rope and sledgehammer, rip the paintings from the nearest | :23:10. | :23:11. | |
wall with brutal force, and escape before the police | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
arrived, leaving a hole Italian police arrested | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
two men in 2016. They'd been investigating | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
allegations of drug trafficking, but apparently one detainee | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
confessed that the network The Italian authorities | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
were proud of their work. These two works are of vast historic | :23:31. | :23:43. | |
and sentimental value. The Sea View at Scheveningen is one | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
of only two seascapes painted by Van Gogh during his time | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
in the Netherlands. The wind was so blustery that day it | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
blew tiny grains of sand The Congregation Leaving | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
the Reformed Church in Nuenen was a gift for Van Gogh's mother | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
after she'd broken her leg. He changed it after his father | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
died to include images The museum is deliberately | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
displaying the paintings as they were found, with slight | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
damage representing Now, anticipating the moment they're | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
back in the admiring public eye. inside the Van Gogh | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
museum in Amsterdam. That is it. You can find plenty more | :24:23. | :24:41. | |
on the website. And to reach me and most of the BBC | :24:42. | :24:50. | |
team simply go to Twitter - For all of us here at | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
World News America, thank you for watching and please | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
tune in tomorrow. More spring sunshine on the way by | :24:58. | :25:09. | |
the weekend and into next week as well. On Tuesday we seem to jump | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
back into winter. | :25:14. | :25:15. |