:00:08. > :00:15.The winds of change continue to blow through Washington -
:00:16. > :00:19.key shifts to environmental policy and the car industry are on the way.
:00:20. > :00:21.President Donald Trump continues to unpick Barack Obama's legacy.
:00:22. > :00:25.Today, it's the environment - signing executive orders to speed
:00:26. > :00:29.construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access oil pipelines.
:00:30. > :00:31.The president comes face-to-face with the big car companies -
:00:32. > :00:37.he tells them to build cars for Americans in America.
:00:38. > :00:40.We're bringing manufacturing back to the United States bigly,
:00:41. > :00:42.we're reducing taxes substantially and we're reducing
:00:43. > :00:48.I'll speak to a senior Republican Senator about
:00:49. > :00:53.Also, in London, a ruling from the Supreme Court that
:00:54. > :00:55.goes to the very heart of the British constitution.
:00:56. > :00:57.But will this ruling complicate the timetable for Britain's
:00:58. > :01:04.The other big super power, China, asserting today its "irrefutable"
:01:05. > :01:07.sovereignty over parts of the South China Sea.
:01:08. > :01:23.Day two of week one, President Trump is stepping up
:01:24. > :01:30.The oil and car sectors were both in his sights today.
:01:31. > :01:33.Mr Trump is urging a new strategy for two very prominent
:01:34. > :01:39.The new administration is making big changes to America's stand on both
:01:40. > :01:45.This morning, the president signed two executive orders to move ahead
:01:46. > :01:48.on a pair of controversial oil pipelines, known as the Keystone
:01:49. > :01:52.Both had been stalled by the Obama administration
:01:53. > :02:01.Senator John Barrasso from Wyoming is part of the Republican leadership
:02:02. > :02:04.and he sits on the energy and the environment committees.
:02:05. > :02:07.I spoke to him a brief time ago about these new executive orders
:02:08. > :02:19.and President Trump's busy first couple of days.
:02:20. > :02:31.It looks like these signings this morning on the pipelines, that jobs
:02:32. > :02:37.are going to win. I believe it is not one or the other, I think we can
:02:38. > :02:43.have clean air, clean water, clean land and still a healthy economy.
:02:44. > :02:49.The Obama administration had so many expensive administrations, but I
:02:50. > :02:55.think Donald Trump will strike the right balance. He has done that with
:02:56. > :03:00.the right EPA administrator to join his Cabinet. Would you ever support
:03:01. > :03:05.environmental regulations? I think that the whole purpose of the EPA is
:03:06. > :03:09.important but they have lost their way in terms of the environmental
:03:10. > :03:14.protection and they cause to have the biggest problem is that we have
:03:15. > :03:21.had in the last number of years, so it is time for us to really
:03:22. > :03:25.modernise and improve the EPA so we can protect the land under water and
:03:26. > :03:31.the air, but at the same time make sure that we have as strong, healthy
:03:32. > :03:35.economy, which is what people want. Jobs are such a critical part of
:03:36. > :03:39.building an economy in a country and in terms of general well-being of
:03:40. > :03:43.the people and the quality-of-life. People in this country, it is
:03:44. > :03:53.clearly focused on having a good paying jobs. I also want to ask you
:03:54. > :03:57.about the TPP and the withdrawal of America from that. Other countries
:03:58. > :04:02.around the world said they are going to go ahead and do their own trade
:04:03. > :04:06.deals. We are looking at Mexico, Chile, China, Germany all weighing
:04:07. > :04:09.in on this. Is this really the moment for America to be pulling
:04:10. > :04:14.back from global alliances like this? Donald Trump campaigned on
:04:15. > :04:20.this so it should not be a surprise that he took this action. I am not
:04:21. > :04:25.surprised by this at all. He is a world-class trader, he has a great
:04:26. > :04:30.reputation for being able to get great deals. I am a free trader. For
:04:31. > :04:34.my homestead of Wyoming and it is important that we can export our
:04:35. > :04:41.products, our number one product is beef. When I head to the Pacific rim
:04:42. > :04:47.and visit with the President of Japan, he wants to import liquefied
:04:48. > :04:52.natural gas from the United States. You supported the temp two. Is this
:04:53. > :04:56.guy a position in which conservative doctrine of free trade is going to
:04:57. > :05:00.be thrown out of the window by republicans like yourself in order
:05:01. > :05:03.to satisfy the new president? The president gets to make these
:05:04. > :05:09.decisions as we all want fairer trade, but I think he will be able
:05:10. > :05:14.to put forward trade agreements that are going to be favourable to the
:05:15. > :05:18.United States, that are going to be good with the American taxpayers and
:05:19. > :05:22.he will continue to work on trade. My concern is in terms of China they
:05:23. > :05:28.will try to go into any void that exists. When I have been to that
:05:29. > :05:35.part of the world, what I know about China is that people in the country
:05:36. > :05:38.is related to the TPP want to be friends of the United States, but
:05:39. > :05:44.they don't want to be enemies to China. Would you have preferred it
:05:45. > :05:50.if America had not been withdrawn from the TPP? I think President
:05:51. > :05:55.Obama did not make the case. You had all three presidential candidates,
:05:56. > :06:00.Hillary Clinton, Bernie Saunders and Donald Trump all came out against
:06:01. > :06:05.the TPP so it should be no surprise to anyone that this is where we are
:06:06. > :06:11.now. I continue to be a free trader, believe in free markets and I want
:06:12. > :06:12.to be able to use overseas markets for Wyoming products. Senator John
:06:13. > :06:24.Barrasso, thank you for joining us. You start to get a feel of where the
:06:25. > :06:28.divisions might be between the administration and the republicans
:06:29. > :06:31.in Congress. He is very much in favour of the deregulation of
:06:32. > :06:35.business but not so at ease with the way the administration is going on
:06:36. > :06:40.trade deals. If I can show you a picture. We keep talking about these
:06:41. > :06:45.executive orders. Focus on the people behind. We will see a lot of
:06:46. > :06:48.these people over the next few years. Maybe you could point out one
:06:49. > :06:54.or two of them and wiping RM portent.
:06:55. > :06:59.Get a new team Trump! Behind the president on the left, the man with
:07:00. > :07:03.the dark hair is rinsed pre-bursts. He is the conduit between the White
:07:04. > :07:10.House and the Republican Party. He will be a big liaison figure. Kelly
:07:11. > :07:17.and Conway was the campaign manager for Donald Trump, the first woman to
:07:18. > :07:23.run a presidential campaign. The tall gentleman with a green tie,
:07:24. > :07:27.that is Jarrod Kushner. He is the husband of Ivanka Trump and he is a
:07:28. > :07:31.special adviser to the president. There has been quite a lot of fuss
:07:32. > :07:35.about nepotism and whether it was OK for him to work in the White House.
:07:36. > :07:39.He is very close to the president and will be a key figure
:07:40. > :07:44.particularly on international affairs. The gentleman with a blue
:07:45. > :07:51.shirt and yellow tie, Steve Bannon, maybe the most controversial pose in
:07:52. > :07:55.that photograph, he ran Breitbart news, right Wing News site, very
:07:56. > :08:01.controversial and hard hitting. He is the person who was behind Donald
:08:02. > :08:08.Trump's inaugural address. A strong nationalist, vary in favour of
:08:09. > :08:12.Brexit and close, wanting to develop ties, with Marine Le Pen of the
:08:13. > :08:16.National front. He will be a figure in Europe as well as here in the
:08:17. > :08:21.states. Marine Le Pen was in Trump Tower is
:08:22. > :08:25.just the other week. We were saying in the headlines that he has been
:08:26. > :08:30.meeting the bosses of the car industry. He is very good at this
:08:31. > :08:36.good cop, bad cop relationship. He hits them with these tariffs, that
:08:37. > :08:41.they will have 35% tariffs, then he showers them with love and
:08:42. > :08:45.croissants. Let's have a listen to this conversation.
:08:46. > :08:48.We're going to make process much more simple for the auto companies
:08:49. > :08:50.and everybody else who wants to do business in the United States.
:08:51. > :08:52.You'll find us to be from very inhospitable
:08:53. > :08:58.I think we'll go down as one of the most friendly countried.
:08:59. > :09:01.I think we'll go down as one of the most friendly countries.
:09:02. > :09:05.I have friends who want to build in the United States.
:09:06. > :09:07.They go many many years and then they can't get their environmental
:09:08. > :09:10.permit, over something that nobody ever heard of before.
:09:11. > :09:13.I am to a large extent an environmentalist,
:09:14. > :09:15.I believe in it, but it's out of control and we're
:09:16. > :09:21.And we're going to either give you your permits or we're not
:09:22. > :09:23.going to give you your permits, but you're going to
:09:24. > :09:27.And generally speaking, we're going to be giving you your permits,
:09:28. > :09:39.Not for a lot of environmentalists, they will not agree with him that he
:09:40. > :09:43.is the environmentalist. This is another new thing that people will
:09:44. > :09:47.have bigger Tuesday in America, a different way of presidential
:09:48. > :09:50.intervention directly and American businesses. That wants it
:09:51. > :09:54.particularly well with republicans. It'll be interesting to see how
:09:55. > :10:01.those car executives feel about Donald Trump in a few years.
:10:02. > :10:08.What is this word bigly? The Trump administration says it is
:10:09. > :10:13.not bigly home and they say it is big league, but I am hearing ugly,
:10:14. > :10:17.too. We will have to get used to that as well.
:10:18. > :10:19.If you have these powers of executive order you can do with G1,
:10:20. > :10:22.bigly days. Just before we came on air,
:10:23. > :10:24.the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, held a briefing
:10:25. > :10:27.for the media, his Let's have a listen
:10:28. > :10:42.to what was on the agenda today. Does the president believes that
:10:43. > :10:46.millions voted illegally in this election and what evidence do you
:10:47. > :10:50.have of widespread voter fraud in the selection, if that is the case?
:10:51. > :10:54.The president does believe that. He stated that before. He has stated
:10:55. > :10:59.his concerns over voter fraud people voting illegally in the campaign. He
:11:00. > :11:04.maintains that belief based on studies that people have presented
:11:05. > :11:08.to him. What evidence? Senator Ryan today said there was no evidence.
:11:09. > :11:12.Other groups have said that they don't agree with the assessment by
:11:13. > :11:15.the president. As I said, believe the president has believe that for a
:11:16. > :11:19.while based on studies and information that he has.
:11:20. > :11:21.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, was listening.
:11:22. > :11:32.Why do this? Why get yourself into a position where you're doing a huge
:11:33. > :11:35.amount of business popular with the American public, then the thing that
:11:36. > :11:40.dominates the press conferences Donald Trump saying something that
:11:41. > :11:45.wasn't true? Because 90% of the time Donald Trump is driving the central
:11:46. > :11:49.message about jobs, what he was elected to do, and there is a bit of
:11:50. > :11:53.Donald Trump, whether it is the size of the crowd at his inauguration or
:11:54. > :11:57.the number of people that voted for him in the popular vote, he gets
:11:58. > :12:00.distracted. He is obsessed by those numbers. In the campaign he used to
:12:01. > :12:06.talk about hollow and many more people went to his rallies than
:12:07. > :12:10.Hillary Clinton's. He is doing it still. He hasn't let go of the fact
:12:11. > :12:15.that he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million. What was telling
:12:16. > :12:20.about that clip from Sean Spicer was what evidence have you got? Where
:12:21. > :12:27.are these reports? What he went on to say afterwards was well there was
:12:28. > :12:33.a nonpartisan body who had a research paper in 2008. Hang on,
:12:34. > :12:37.thought we were talking about 2016! He seems to be extrapolating from an
:12:38. > :12:40.early report about what potentially could have happened before to
:12:41. > :12:47.explain why he did not win the popular vote in November, but with
:12:48. > :12:52.absolutely no evidence of voter fraud in that election. No one has
:12:53. > :12:57.reported anything like that in terms of what unfolded in November across
:12:58. > :13:02.the 50 states. We should cover the other and use because otherwise this
:13:03. > :13:07.becomes the big distraction, we spent our time talking about this.
:13:08. > :13:13.What are the other headlines? The defence of the Keystone XL pipeline,
:13:14. > :13:17.saying he was a champion of the environment but also that this would
:13:18. > :13:21.create thousands of jobs, the US is there to enable these things. The
:13:22. > :13:25.other things we will be looking out for in days to come and the leading
:13:26. > :13:31.up to who could be the Supreme Court choice for him.
:13:32. > :13:35.I have read through the week a lot of these comment pieces from some of
:13:36. > :13:38.the big writers in the American press who are concerned about the
:13:39. > :13:42.relationship they have at the White House. It seems to me that they will
:13:43. > :13:46.have to start packing up on the facts, calmly and deliberately
:13:47. > :13:50.deconstructing what this administration says. Is that the way
:13:51. > :13:55.they need to go about it rather than reacting in a panicked way? I think
:13:56. > :13:59.it is a really challenging environment. What we need to do is
:14:00. > :14:05.when something is paid and the factually incorrect, we are, in the
:14:06. > :14:09.media, our reputation, and the BBC in particular, and being objective
:14:10. > :14:13.and impartial and telling the truth, so if we see something that is not
:14:14. > :14:18.truthful we should point about. We should not be obsessed by just
:14:19. > :14:21.trying to trip up Donald Trump, looking peevish, looking entitled,
:14:22. > :14:26.like we don't like him or are angry or cross in any of our reporting. We
:14:27. > :14:29.have to be fair and balanced but just say, hang on, that can't be
:14:30. > :14:35.allowed to stand if it is not correct. It is our responsibility to
:14:36. > :14:39.do that and that is what our audience expects of us. Some of the
:14:40. > :14:43.people in the White House could not believe that they weren't being
:14:44. > :14:47.treated with all the dignity that they deserved. Well, I think they
:14:48. > :14:50.need to get over themselves because Donald Trump will do press
:14:51. > :14:54.communication in a very different way and about mean that some of my
:14:55. > :14:58.esteemed colleagues at the White House might have a slightly bruised
:14:59. > :15:05.ego, live with it. Something you would never have, of course.
:15:06. > :15:08.Any more news on the Supreme Court? All of these executive orders will
:15:09. > :15:13.change things temporarily in America. They can be reversed, the
:15:14. > :15:18.Supreme Court not so much. The Supreme Court appointment is going
:15:19. > :15:21.to be probably all things being equal, the most consequential
:15:22. > :15:26.decision that Donald Trump is going to make in his presidency because
:15:27. > :15:33.the person who gets appointed, and it is likely to be somebody quite
:15:34. > :15:39.conservative, someone who believes in toughening the laws on abortion.
:15:40. > :15:44.At the moment the Supreme Court is balanced, for liberals for
:15:45. > :15:47.conservatives. If it becomes five republicans, abortion law can
:15:48. > :15:51.change, which will be a big thing for social policy in this country.
:15:52. > :15:57.Not just for the term of Donald Trump, but for years going forward.
:15:58. > :15:58.Thank you for joining us, Jon Sopel. There are big changes coming up in
:15:59. > :16:00.this administration, Christian. Some of the other key developments
:16:01. > :16:03.in Washington today now. President Trump is planning to keep
:16:04. > :16:06.James Comey as head of the FBI, according to media reports
:16:07. > :16:08.here in the US. Mr Comey was strongly criticised
:16:09. > :16:11.by Democrats in the run up to November's election
:16:12. > :16:13.for re-turning to an investigation The bureau is still investigating
:16:14. > :16:16.potential ties between Russia A former American Defence Secretary
:16:17. > :16:22.says he's concerned the new leadership is giving
:16:23. > :16:25.an impression the US is retreating Robert Gates, who was also a former
:16:26. > :16:30.director of the CIA, told the BBC Mr Trump's policies
:16:31. > :16:33.could well be exploited Mr Gates, who served
:16:34. > :16:37.in the George W Bush and Barack Obama administrations,
:16:38. > :16:39.says China, Iran or Russia, will step into any vacuum
:16:40. > :16:50.that is left by the US. More now on Mr Trump's
:16:51. > :16:52.senior appointments. A Senate committee has
:16:53. > :16:53.approved Ben Carson as the new Housing Secretary,
:16:54. > :16:55.allowing the nomination But there are delays
:16:56. > :17:03.on the confirmation of Jeff Sessions, who Donald Trump
:17:04. > :17:07.wants as his Attorney General. The top Democrat on the Senate
:17:08. > :17:10.Judiciary Committee has Senator Diane Feinstein said
:17:11. > :17:14.the women's march at the weekend The role of the Attorney General
:17:15. > :17:22.she said is to defend equal rights. One thing we want to do in this
:17:23. > :17:25.programme is connect the dots between the new political trends
:17:26. > :17:28.on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain made its decision last year,
:17:29. > :17:34.but supporters of leaving the European Union may well
:17:35. > :17:36.think their populist revolution is moving a lot
:17:37. > :17:41.slower than America's. Who gets to pull the
:17:42. > :17:43.trigger on divorce? Today, the Supreme Court
:17:44. > :17:45.decided the Prime Minister, She will need parliament's approval
:17:46. > :17:49.before handing in the formal notice to quit the European Union,
:17:50. > :17:52.known as Article 50 From the sidelines,
:17:53. > :18:08.I was there to watch. Democracy, said Abraham Lincoln, is
:18:09. > :18:13.the government of the people, by the people, for the people. In his
:18:14. > :18:18.statue outside the Sabine Court today, they were debating that very
:18:19. > :18:22.issue. The ruling, when it came, made clear that the court was not
:18:23. > :18:25.trying to frustrate the vote to leave the European Union. The
:18:26. > :18:28.judgment would only determine whether government could start the
:18:29. > :18:37.Brexit process without Parliamentary consent. Today, via majority of 8-3,
:18:38. > :18:40.the Supreme Court rules that the government cannot trigger article 50
:18:41. > :18:47.without an act of Parliament authorising it do so. The government
:18:48. > :18:50.then defeated. But the 11 judges also had to decide whether
:18:51. > :18:54.Westminster can take this decision alone or whether the devolved
:18:55. > :19:00.government of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland should also have a
:19:01. > :19:05.say. On the devolution issue, the court unanimously rules that UK
:19:06. > :19:09.ministers are not legally compelled to consult the devolved legislatures
:19:10. > :19:13.before triggering article 50. The verdict was welcomed by the former
:19:14. > :19:17.Attorney General Dominic Grieve, he told me that irrespective of how
:19:18. > :19:21.people had voted last June, this was a good day for Parliamentary
:19:22. > :19:24.democracy. I always took the view that the idea that you could trigger
:19:25. > :19:28.article 50 without a vote of Parliament was an extraordinary
:19:29. > :19:33.thing to do because so much primary legislation has enacted. I wasn't
:19:34. > :19:38.apprised of the decision of the High Court and I wasn't surprised by the
:19:39. > :19:42.decision of the Supreme Court, that seems to rub us to stand up for our
:19:43. > :19:46.historic liberties. Having promised to trigger article 50 by the end of
:19:47. > :19:50.March, the ideal solution for the Prime Minister would be to purchase
:19:51. > :19:56.the single line of legislation before the Parliament for peers and
:19:57. > :19:59.MPs to rubber stamp. Short, simple, difficult for opposing MPs to amend,
:20:00. > :20:03.except government lawyers have been advising the Prime Minister that if
:20:04. > :20:10.use can somebody till now, she could be exposing herself to future legal
:20:11. > :20:12.challenges somewhere down the line. The Secretary of State...
:20:13. > :20:16.Nonetheless, the government will take that risk. Confident that night
:20:17. > :20:20.MPs will support the timetable they have set out. This will be a
:20:21. > :20:25.straightforward bill. It is not about whether or not the UK should
:20:26. > :20:31.leave the European Union. That decision has already been made by
:20:32. > :20:35.the people of the United Kingdom. In exchange for their support, the
:20:36. > :20:39.opposition will want guarantees of a meaningful -- meaningful vote at the
:20:40. > :20:43.end of the process. Scottish nationalists don't rule out a second
:20:44. > :20:47.referendum on Scottish independence. The decision is looming for
:20:48. > :20:51.Scotland. Are we prepared to allow her future to be dictated by a
:20:52. > :20:54.Westminster government that is going down a path that I think the
:20:55. > :20:59.majority of people in Scotland don't want to go down, or are we going to
:21:00. > :21:02.take our future into your own hands? The Westminster Parliament is
:21:03. > :21:07.sovereign, says the court, and only Parliament can change the law.
:21:08. > :21:11.Ultimately, they have underscored the very foundation of Britain's
:21:12. > :21:12.unwritten constitution and as Abraham would say, these important
:21:13. > :21:16.principles, are inflexible. Our chief political correspondent
:21:17. > :21:27.Vicki Young is in Westminster. I am always conscious with my former
:21:28. > :21:32.as a Paris and Rome correspondent that we are guilty of a bit of
:21:33. > :21:37.navel-gazing in London. Let's think about the Europeans. Will they be
:21:38. > :21:41.worried that what has happened might affect the Brexit timetable? Well, I
:21:42. > :21:46.don't think it will, is the truth. I think there are many people, many
:21:47. > :21:50.voters in this country who voted for Remain who are looking at this
:21:51. > :21:52.judgment today thinking this is the big moment, this would give
:21:53. > :21:57.Parliament the chance to block except and I think they will be
:21:58. > :22:01.disappointed. I have been speaking to MPs and peers and there just
:22:02. > :22:04.isn't the appetite for a fight. It is quite difficult to explain to
:22:05. > :22:11.people who look think most Labour MPs are ardent Remainers, why
:22:12. > :22:13.wouldn't the -- why wouldn't they take this opportunity? But they
:22:14. > :22:18.don't want to be seen to be standing in the wake of the British people.
:22:19. > :22:22.Equally, in the House of Lords today, we have senior figure
:22:23. > :22:26.standing up to say it would be foolish, unwise and completely wrong
:22:27. > :22:31.for an unelected House of Lords to block a referendum, to block what
:22:32. > :22:36.the government wants and what the House of Commons is going to vote
:22:37. > :22:40.for. So the government is adamant that they will stick to that
:22:41. > :22:47.self-imposed timetable of triggering article 50 by the end of March, so I
:22:48. > :22:52.think that is going to happen. People here have been asking me
:22:53. > :22:57.about this, the state of the union. We heard Nicola Sturgeon they're
:22:58. > :23:00.clearly not happy with this. We know that Donald Trump has supported
:23:01. > :23:06.Brexit and Brexit hazard supporters here, but people are and confused
:23:07. > :23:09.about what will happen to the United Kingdom. Are we looking at a
:23:10. > :23:15.shrunken United Kingdom after this? Nicola Sturgeon predicted that this
:23:16. > :23:20.would bring a second independent referendum for Scotland a step
:23:21. > :23:27.closer. Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom, just a year ago
:23:28. > :23:31.or so, she can't call another referendum. It has to come from
:23:32. > :23:36.Westminster. Her argument is that the type of Brexit that Theresa May
:23:37. > :23:41.is aiming for, taking the UK out of the single market for example, that
:23:42. > :23:45.is not what Scotland voted for. She would like Scotland to become
:23:46. > :23:49.independent and be a part of the European Union. The court today
:23:50. > :23:54.ruled that Scotland will not get a say on all of this at this point. Of
:23:55. > :23:58.course, Nicola Sturgeon doesn't want to have a referendum unless she is
:23:59. > :24:01.convinced she will win. At the moment the polls suggest that
:24:02. > :24:06.wouldn't happen. I think she will bide your time. Certainly, she is
:24:07. > :24:10.issuing these warnings regularly. Obviously it was a defeat for the
:24:11. > :24:14.government, but that clarified an awful lot of them, particularly on
:24:15. > :24:19.Scotland and whether they had a veto. But also the issue of Northern
:24:20. > :24:23.Ireland. The Assembly collapsed the recently. That problem also taken
:24:24. > :24:28.out of the picture. Lots of people were very concerned about this, but
:24:29. > :24:32.if the Supreme Court today had ruled that not just Scotland but the Welsh
:24:33. > :24:36.Assembly and also in Northern Ireland, if they were given the say,
:24:37. > :24:40.how would they do that? Northern Ireland is having a general
:24:41. > :24:44.election. Who would feedback the views of the people of Northern
:24:45. > :24:48.Ireland? They were extremely concerned about all of that. The
:24:49. > :24:53.headline is that the government did not get its way today, they were
:24:54. > :24:57.defeated. If you go below that, it could've been a lot worse for the
:24:58. > :25:01.government today and I think they are sighing with relief that they
:25:02. > :25:06.probably can stick to the timetable. Vicki Young in Westminster, there is
:25:07. > :25:09.certainly an awful lot going on on both sides of the Atlantic, which is
:25:10. > :25:10.exactly why we are doing this programme.
:25:11. > :25:13.Just a reminder that every evening after this show we hand
:25:14. > :25:17.One of us will spend 10 or 15 minutes on Facebook Live each night
:25:18. > :25:19.talking about the issues we have covered.
:25:20. > :25:21.If you want to get involved, then, of course, do
:25:22. > :25:33.You are watching 100 Days on BBC News.
:25:34. > :25:36.Coming up: We'll have a report from China looking at barriers that
:25:37. > :25:39.already exists between Beijing and Washington, and new ones that
:25:40. > :25:45.The president meets with the Big Three CEOs
:25:46. > :25:47.from the car industry, telling them it's time to start
:25:48. > :26:09.We'll be live at the New York Stock Exchange with reaction.
:26:10. > :26:17.Some of us had a lovely day today, for others it stayed grey and for a
:26:18. > :26:23.few we have fog all day. That dog will become more widespread again
:26:24. > :26:27.tonight, crossing into the Midlands. Some icy surfaces, too. Further west
:26:28. > :26:31.it will be more wild, they're a bit of light and breezy for Northern
:26:32. > :26:34.Ireland and Scotland. The fog will cause disruption in some places,
:26:35. > :26:40.tomorrow morning in particular. Some of the airports could be affected
:26:41. > :26:44.again. Icy surfaces, too, where you have that fog. For the north and
:26:45. > :26:49.West the fog will be less of a hazard. Some early sunshine and
:26:50. > :26:52.parts of South West England running into East Wales. Across Northern
:26:53. > :26:56.Ireland it should be above freezing in most places by eight o'clock.
:26:57. > :27:02.Northern Ireland and Scotland, much milder here, above freezing. A bit
:27:03. > :27:07.of drizzly rain coming in on the breeze. Still a lot of dry weather,
:27:08. > :27:13.albeit cloudy. Further east, the four bulletin to look cloud. Graham
:27:14. > :27:20.quite chilly in eastern England. Some Southwest and on into Northern
:27:21. > :27:24.counties. Distinctly chilly underneath the clouds in East Anglia
:27:25. > :27:29.and the south-east. That is a sign of things to come. From Wednesday
:27:30. > :27:32.into Thursday we will tap into a reservoir of particularly cold air
:27:33. > :27:37.which has been sitting across the heart of Europe for some time. The
:27:38. > :27:41.breeze will bring that cold air in our direction. Quite a shock to the
:27:42. > :27:46.system on Thursday, I think. A brisk south-easterly wind, the bit of
:27:47. > :27:53.cloud and maybe the odd bit of snow. You will need a few layers,
:27:54. > :27:56.particularly in central Andes to parts of the UK. Some places will
:27:57. > :27:59.struggle to get above freezing, if you had on the wind that will feel
:28:00. > :28:03.even colder. Not quite as cold on Friday, turning a bit milder from
:28:04. > :28:08.the south-west, but that cold the holding on and on the east. Most
:28:09. > :28:13.places dry, but patchy rain beginning to turn up as weather
:28:14. > :28:17.fronts dry to pushing of the Atlantic. How quickly they make
:28:18. > :28:20.inroads is still open to some died, but certainly some weather fronts
:28:21. > :28:25.there or thereabouts. There will be some rain around this weekend. On a
:28:26. > :28:29.positive note will be less cold for some than recently. Still a lot of
:28:30. > :30:09.dry weather, but watch out for areas of fog.
:30:10. > :30:12.Welcome back to 100 Days from BBC News.
:30:13. > :30:19.President Donald Trump has signed executive orders advancing
:30:20. > :30:21.the construction of two controversial oil pipelines -
:30:22. > :30:25.which President Obama had previously blocked.
:30:26. > :30:27.In meetings with car industry leaders the president told them
:30:28. > :30:30.to increase American production and jobs.
:30:31. > :30:43.We'll be live at the New York Stock Exchange with more reaction.
:30:44. > :30:46.China says it has "indisputable sovereignty" over parts
:30:47. > :30:51.The Chinese foreign ministry said today Beijing would "remain firm
:30:52. > :30:54.to defend its rights in the region," that's after the White House said
:30:55. > :30:57.on Monday the US would "make sure it protect it's own interests
:30:58. > :31:03.President Trump has already upset on China over the status of Taiwan.
:31:04. > :31:06.And during his campaign he threatened to impose some pretty
:31:07. > :31:08.punishing tariffs on Chinese imports - which could lead
:31:09. > :31:14.So how might China respond to the new US administration?
:31:15. > :31:19.Here's our Beijing Correspondent John Sudworth.
:31:20. > :31:24.China was once isolated behind its Great Wall
:31:25. > :31:26.but it was here too that its emergence onto
:31:27. > :31:34.In 1972 another competitive and controversial US Republican
:31:35. > :31:42.president stood on this wall and used it as a metaphor.
:31:43. > :31:44.Richard Nixon's speech that day looked to future
:31:45. > :31:46.in which there are no walls between people, laying
:31:47. > :31:50.the foundations of course for one of the most important collateral
:31:51. > :31:59.trading relationships the world has ever seen.
:32:00. > :32:02.The benefits of that relationship has been celebrated
:32:03. > :32:06.America threatens China with 45% import duties
:32:07. > :32:12.The Chinese are not just going to take it, they're
:32:13. > :32:14.going to respond more or less in-kind probably.
:32:15. > :32:17.What are the potential dangers in Donald Trump's strategy?
:32:18. > :32:18.This is very disturbing and the consequences
:32:19. > :32:21.for the international system and for the health of the global
:32:22. > :32:33.But at a briefing by senior Chinese diplomats, I put it to them that
:32:34. > :32:39.Mr Trump is not so much attacking free trade, as unfair trade.
:32:40. > :32:42.Should China not do more to put its money where its mouth is,
:32:43. > :32:45.removing the big subsidies to state-owned enterprises,
:32:46. > :32:48.removing some of the restrictions and denial of market access that
:32:49. > :32:49.still hinders so many foreign companies trying
:32:50. > :32:59.I understand what you mean, but in general the direction
:33:00. > :33:06.is there, the effort is there, and I have very strong belief
:33:07. > :33:18.and confidence in improved environments for foreign companies.
:33:19. > :33:21.These days tourists can gaze into a period in China's history
:33:22. > :33:23.when its reluctant rulers were forced to trade
:33:24. > :33:34.Few US companies that do business in China today would dispute that
:33:35. > :33:37.significant barriers to trade remain.
:33:38. > :33:41.The question though, is whether to cajole or to coerce
:33:42. > :33:43.and Mr Trump it seems may be about to embark
:33:44. > :33:50.on upon his own version of gunboat diplomacy.
:33:51. > :33:54.Over that much traded commodity, tea, I asked about Mr Trump's threat
:33:55. > :33:56.to challenge China's territorial claims unless it makes
:33:57. > :34:07.TRANSLATION: He plays with fire, Mr Trump plays with fire.
:34:08. > :34:15.But China also has fire and it is going to burn him.
:34:16. > :34:18.It is trade of course that has made China a wealthy superpower
:34:19. > :34:32.To talk more about China we are joined by Professor Ann Lee,
:34:33. > :34:35.she is an Independent Economic Advisor to the Chinese Government.
:34:36. > :34:39.And here in London, Diane Wei Liang, she's an author, and she was one
:34:40. > :34:49.of the students involved in the 1989 Tiannamen Square protest.
:34:50. > :34:56.Diane, you are looking back towards China and looking I'm sure at social
:34:57. > :35:01.media, what do people there make of Donald Trump and some of these
:35:02. > :35:05.threats? At the beginning when Donald Trump was campaigning to
:35:06. > :35:10.become president his rhetoric had been very much against China. Some
:35:11. > :35:17.Chinese including people in the government had believed it was just
:35:18. > :35:20.rhetoric, but Donald Trump is a businessman and someone China could
:35:21. > :35:26.do business with. But as the rhetoric becomes more and more
:35:27. > :35:32.severe, now he is taking actions, taking calls from Taiwan and nothing
:35:33. > :35:37.has let up and the Chinese are very cautious and very vigilant and stop
:35:38. > :35:43.if I look at the media response within China, the response is
:35:44. > :35:51.becoming tougher as well. China is bracing itself for a trade war and
:35:52. > :35:56.perhaps even military confrontation with America. And that is it, we
:35:57. > :35:59.heard from one of the people interviewed in that film but he is
:36:00. > :36:09.playing with fire, Donald Trump. If it comes to a trade war Howwood
:36:10. > :36:16.China respond? -- how will China respond? I think they're coming up
:36:17. > :36:20.with a list of ways to respond in terms of boycotts, and slapping
:36:21. > :36:26.tariffs on American goods as well. Neither country is going to come out
:36:27. > :36:30.ahead if this happens. I will say that with China the stakes are not
:36:31. > :36:41.as severe as the years to be because exports used to be 50% of Chinese
:36:42. > :36:47.GDP and today more like 20%. And of that 20% the US makes up just about
:36:48. > :36:54.18% of exports. Solar talk about 4% of the GDP that will be affected if
:36:55. > :37:00.all exports to the US ceased to exist. Of course that will hurt the
:37:01. > :37:09.economy but it is not going to hit kill it. And I think the Chinese
:37:10. > :37:14.prefer to have stability with the US in the whole global economic system,
:37:15. > :37:21.and that was made clear by the Chinese president. And this is
:37:22. > :37:24.election year in China and so it behoves them to try to get along
:37:25. > :37:31.with Donald Trump and try to strike some kind of trade deal. You will
:37:32. > :37:35.hear in America during the course of the election campaign and you know
:37:36. > :37:37.American voters, many of them think that the relationship between
:37:38. > :37:45.America and China has benefited China more than America. They say we
:37:46. > :37:48.did not get a good deal on North Korea, on trade, and they're quite
:37:49. > :37:52.happy to see Donald Trump standing up to Beijing, they do not buy the
:37:53. > :38:02.argument that America could lose out. Certainly there is rhetoric and
:38:03. > :38:07.risk reality. The rhetoric in the US has been largely one-sided, it has
:38:08. > :38:12.largely targeted China as the convenient whipping boy in every
:38:13. > :38:16.presidential election, that China is a currency manipulator, it is unfair
:38:17. > :38:21.in all these areas. Whereas Americans actually have benefited a
:38:22. > :38:27.great deal by working with China. China has provided a lot of very
:38:28. > :38:33.cheap goods to the US so that inflation has remained relatively
:38:34. > :38:38.low for decades now. And this has also delivered record profits to
:38:39. > :38:46.lots of US corporations which has taken the US stock market to record
:38:47. > :38:50.highs. And so a lot of these politicians that like to criticise
:38:51. > :38:53.what a bad deal they have had they fail to acknowledge that all the
:38:54. > :38:59.benefits have also accrued as a result. So again we have got to look
:39:00. > :39:04.at both sides and look at it holistically to understand the
:39:05. > :39:08.relationship. China is such a different country to when you were
:39:09. > :39:11.in Tiananmen Square as part of the protest and it is ironic that we
:39:12. > :39:15.have the country led by the Communist Party which says we can
:39:16. > :39:19.trade freely with the rest of the world. And the country is supposed
:39:20. > :39:24.to be the leader of the free market economy pulling up the drawbridge.
:39:25. > :39:29.China is taking the lead and because China has seen the benefits in the
:39:30. > :39:33.past 40 years, in its own experience, how global trade can
:39:34. > :39:40.bring people out of poverty and improve living standards. Especially
:39:41. > :39:47.with the Asian infrastructure bank in China and China is putting $100
:39:48. > :39:56.billion into lending, to trade with the world, and this year alone they
:39:57. > :39:59.had gained 25 new members including Ireland and Canada. China is taking
:40:00. > :40:07.up the role of the leader in global trade. In fact if you look at the
:40:08. > :40:12.China US relationship, from the Chinese perspective, China did not
:40:13. > :40:21.have a growing relationship with the Obama administration either. And his
:40:22. > :40:23.two big initiatives, it was very much a military constraining
:40:24. > :40:31.exercise against China and the Pacific trade pact was designed to
:40:32. > :40:37.exclude China, contain its influence in trade in the Pacific region. So
:40:38. > :40:41.China in some ways are looking at the Donald Trump administration and
:40:42. > :40:50.having had conversations with the Trump team and they're looking at
:40:51. > :40:55.possibilities for example, Trump is having a soft view on perhaps
:40:56. > :40:59.joining the Asian infrastructure bank as a member. And so they see
:41:00. > :41:07.opportunities here. And they are also ready if Trump is going to
:41:08. > :41:15.escalate conflict with China. Thank you very much. More of course
:41:16. > :41:16.throughout the Trump administration on this relationship.
:41:17. > :41:19.We saw a littler earlier, the car industry chiefs -
:41:20. > :41:21.the heads of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler -
:41:22. > :41:22.sharing breakfast with President Trump earlier today.
:41:23. > :41:26.And you might have heard him saying that he wants a big push on building
:41:27. > :41:30.Our business correspondent Michelle Fleury is on the floor
:41:31. > :41:40.How did these bosses who run multi-million pound 's
:41:41. > :41:44.organisations, how do they respond to being called in by the President
:41:45. > :41:52.and given a bit of an ear wigging on what they should be doing? Given the
:41:53. > :41:57.tongue lashing some have received in recent weeks and months, I think
:41:58. > :42:01.they're inclined to get there and pay attention. You have heard the
:42:02. > :42:04.kind of repetition from Donald Trump that he wants them to stop producing
:42:05. > :42:08.cars overseas destined for the American market, and to make them
:42:09. > :42:12.here. It was a message that he repeated quite forcefully again
:42:13. > :42:15.today saying he wants them to build plants and create jobs here in
:42:16. > :42:21.America and of course he focused on the US car industry in part because
:42:22. > :42:24.it is seen as a symbol for American manufacturing and of course that is
:42:25. > :42:28.at the heart of one of the key economic planks of Donald Trump,
:42:29. > :42:31.trying to bring back jobs and restore manufacturing. Thank you for
:42:32. > :42:32.that. We will be watching
:42:33. > :42:34.the car industry closely. A key indicator perhaps of how
:42:35. > :42:36.effective Donald Trump Before we go don't forget I'll be
:42:37. > :42:43.on Facebook Live straight after the programme,
:42:44. > :42:45.answering your questions.