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onwards, it will be pretty cloudy with not much sunshine to come in

the days ahead and of course the risk of snow showers from Thursday

and Friday onwards. For the first time in American

history the Vice President has to vote to confirm

a cabinet nominee. His unprecedented move

was needed to break a tie The Senate being equally divided,

the vice president votes in the affirmative. And the nomination is

confirmed. The appointment of Education

Secretary Betsy Devos leaves the Senate and the country deeply

divided. The head of homeland security

admits the travel ban should have been delayed,

but the President says he will fight for it all the way

to the Supreme Court. The White House says a wall

on the Mexican border will be "well under way" within two years,

we'll hear reaction from Texas Here the British government

makes a concession to MP's will get a final say on any

deal negotiated with Europe. And the supreme leader of Iran

says his country will stand firm Ayatollah Kahmeini urges huge

protests this Friday, for the anniversary of the 1979

revolution. From the moment she was first

introduced in late November as President Trump's nominee

for education secretary, Betsy DeVos She's a millionaire Christian

conservative philanthropist who critics said knew very little

about the job she was up for. And she was widely ridiculed

in her confirmation hearings when she was asked

about having guns in schools. You can't say definitively today

that guns shouldn't be in schools? Well, I... I will refer back to the

Senator and the school that he was talking about in Wyoming. I think

probably there I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school

to protect from potential grizzlies. Not her finest moment.

Her support for directing taxpayers dollars to privately run schools,

and her efforts to re-shape education in her home state

of Michigan made her the most high profile target

The Democrats in the Senate promised to stop her.

Two Republicans said they would also vote against her.

The vote was suddenly split at 50-50.

But in the last hour Betsy DeVos has been confirmed.

On this vote, the yeas are 50, the noes are 50.

Only after the unprecedented intervention

of the Vice President Mike Pence, who had to come to the Senate

to give his casting vote - and ensure the President

The White House press secretary is speaking, let's listen to a little

of what he has been saying. The fact we had to get to the point where the

vice president had to be pulled in to overcome the partisan logjam is

another glaring reminder of the unprecedented obstruction the Senate

Democrats have engaged in throughout this process. Obstruction is exactly

the word Democrats used to use about Republicans.

I've been speaking to the Democratic Senator Chris Coons,

who is also a member of the judiciary and foreign

I think you said you were not just voting no on Betsy DeVos but no way

on the Education Secretary that Donald Trump wants his cabinet.

What's so wrong with her? That's right, I voted no way today. No

small part because of the river of calls, e-mails and letters I've got

from people from Delaware who watched her confirmation hearing

very closely and followed the whole process of her coming to the floor

and said to me with a single voice that she is utterly unqualified to

serve as secretary of education. She has no classroom experience, she has

no school, school district management or leadership experience.

She has not ever had a degree in education or hands-on experience of

public education except for having dedicated millions of dollars and

years of her life for advocating for vouchers, a vehicle for defunding

traditional public schools. She has also advocated for access to

taxpayer dollars through vouchers without accountability. It is her

disastrous consequences in Michigan and because of that record and are

very weak performance in her confirmation hearing that I voted no

way. As you suggest the Senate phones have been jammed with

Democrats and supporters of Democrats calling in to say they

oppose Betsy DeVos. Democratic senators were up on the floor all

night long with a Parliamentary stunned to try and stop her

confirmation, and yet you failed. On this confirmation that you have put

so much effort into opposing, Democrats have failed. Doesn't say

much for your ability to oppose the president. This will be the first

time in American history a vice president has to be called in to

cast the tie-breaking vote to make it possible for cabinet nominee to

advance. It is a reminder that in a 52-48 Republican-controlled Senate

we will only be able to stop President Trump's Road nominees if

we are able to persuade more than two Republicans to cross the aisle

and join us. Given the disastrous confirmation of Betsy DeVos, her

record of opposition to traditional public schools and her thin record

of positive ideas for how to improve education I'm really stunned that we

weren't able to persuade one more Republican to the aisle and join

with us in voting no way against Betsy DeVos. So what does it say

about your future chances of opposing Donald Trump's agenda? Even

in this case when the public did seem to call in and make their

voices heard you did not get those Republicans to support you, what are

you going to do for the next four years to oppose this agenda? It is

greatly concerning that we here in Congress with Republican control of

house and Senate aren't able to make real progress in stopping Donald

Trump unless there is a groundswell of opposition that is heard by

Republicans. I've gotten, as you mentioned, thousands of calls,

e-mails and letters, but I was likely to be a no vote given the

record of Betsy DeVos in her confirmation hearing. I don't know

that a combo double volume of calls and e-mails were sent to wavering

Republicans. Donald Trump's dizzying and concerning a Ladder Match Putin

and distancing of our vital allies, from Australia to Nato to the UK,

whether a comparable volume of opposition is being heard in

Republican offices, that's what it is going to take. OK, so for the

next four years, with due respect to yourself as a male Democratic

senator, it looks pretty much like the Democrats are emasculated in

trying to fight President Trump. We aren't going to have a difficult

uphill battle against President Trump without mobilisation from the

grassroots, speaking to Republicans in the Senate. But I'll tell you

that some of the unmeasured, I'm careful, unbalanced actions from

President Trump in just his first two weeks have raised real alarm

with Republican senators in Congress. Just in the last day

President Trump attacking a sitting federal judge in Washington state

caused real concern not just for Senator Ben Sass who has stood up to

President Trump but for Mitch McConnell, who said that the

so-called Muslim ban was perhaps still considered and that attacking

individual judges was uncalled for. I think as President Trump engages

in more and more outlandish actions you will see greater and greater

concern among Republican Senators. Thanks very much. Thank you.

The president has such a skeletal team at the moment. Let's show

people be top picks in his cabinet. Here are 15 people. The top line

have been confirmed. Ten are still to go through the process and get

the vote of the Senate. In his first ten days President Obama had ten

cabinet picks confirmed. In 17 days Donald Trump has secured just five.

Other Democrats proving a point here? Right, Donald Trump likes

making history, right? This is the slowest confirmation hearing process

for any cabinet since George Washington. I'm not sure he's going

to love that bit of history but that's what the Democrats have

decided to do. Senator Kunz said they needed to mobilise the

grassroots. I'm just wondering if this is something to coalesce

around. Is this going to prove a point to the Democratic grassroots?

I think what the Democrats are deciding is that they have no

interest in trying to combo mice with Republicans -- compromise with

Republicans, they won't get anything from the White House seems to be the

calculation. For eight years Republicans basically said no to

resident Obama and the Republican party is in great shape. The

calculation of the Democrats, being the party of obstruction did not

hurt the Republicans. My question is do they have the stomach for being

the party of opposition, they haven't always liked being in that

position. It's going to be interesting watching their strategy.

I didn't think Chris Coons sounded very confident of their chances of

opposing President Trump's agenda. Democrats say they can't confirm

the outstanding candidates because of complications

with their tax affairs, share Mr Trump's pick for labor secretary

has confirmed he employed an undocumented immigrant

as a housekeeper. In a statement Andrew Pudzer

said he immediately ended her employment when he learned

of her status. But this could delay his

confirmation even further. President Trump has had another busy

day he has been meeting with county sheriffs and veterans to talk

about his travel restrictions, he has also been reaching

out to foreign leaders. A Whitehouse statement said

the President had phone calls scheduled today with both

the Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and Turkish

President Tayyip Erdogan. Trump's nominee for the Supreme

Court, Neil Gorsuch, has been holding meetings

to try to smooth his Today he's been to see

Republican Senator Mike Crapo Last week Crapo praised Gorsuch,

saying he has a 'strong background One of the few who has been

confirmed is Rex Tillerson with Secretary Tillerson and former

state department official Elliot Abrams - who's believed

to be under consideration Abrams last served in government

in the Bush White House. There were more developments

on Brexit in parliament today Katty. You will remember they are

debating the Brexit bill. During that debate the government

Minister David Jones said there will now be a parliamentary

vote on the deal - so MP's will get a say at the end

of the negotiation with the EU. We intend that the vote will cover

not only with the withdrawal arrangements but also the future

relationship with the European Union. And furthermore I can confirm

that the government will bring forward a motion on the final

agreement to be approved by both Houses of Parliament before it is

concluded. And we expect and intend that this will happen before the

European Parliament debates and votes on the final agreement.

Tom Bateman is at Westminster for us.

This is what the opposition Labour Party were hoping for, a vote on a

deal. If they vote no, what happens, then?

Well, this was one of the questions asked to David Jones, the Brexit

minister that you've just seen there in the Commons. Well, you know, if

Parliament rejects the negotiated deal, what next? He said essentially

we would fall back on international trade rules, so that would involve

tariffs and things like that. Whether or not he meant to go that

far is unclear tonight. Certainly the concession he offered in saying

giving a verbal guarantee, if you like, that the British parliament

would get a say on that final Brexit deal seemed to be enough to buy off

any potential opposition. It's intriguing actually that it was

enough to see off a potential rebellion. What is happening is a

grappling for control of the Brexit process. Members of Parliament want

to have their say, and they want that say to be stamped into law. And

the government is very keen to have the right to go to the other member

states and negotiate as the British government and not having to keep

coming back to Parliament. It looks as though some MPs want to add

conditions to the bill to trigger Article 50. The government remains

on track to have control of the process. Meanwhile back row.

The row that surrounds the Commons Speaker John Bercow

He faced further criticism for voicing his opposition

to President Trump addressing the parliament during the state

visit - let's listen to what Nigel Farage had to say

The whole point of the speaker is that he is the neutral chairman of

the forum for debate. And he has breached those bounds of neutrality

in a way that I have never seen before. He has also added to that,

been deeply insulting towards the president of the USA, whether you

like him or hate him, I think some of the term is applied to him were

outrageous. And I think he should go very quickly.

Nigel Farage, there. Not surprising that he would come out against

Speaker Burke out on this issue. I want to ask you more broadly, was

this an own goal for people who don't want Donald Trump to come on

that state visit to address parliament question mark as it

brought out more voices in support of Mr Trump, perhaps. Intriguing

question. Just as the debate has been had in the US about how do you

handle Donald Trump, this completely unorthodox nonpolitician is now in

the most powerful political role in the world. We have now had the same

dynamic happening here in the UK because of course that very

trenchant opposition, with the speaker coming out, somebody in a

traditionally neutral role, said he was opposed to him speaking in

parliament because he was opposed to racism and sexism. What it has

triggered today is a bit of a backlash and a number of

Conservative MPs in the UK saying, look, what's more important is the

UK's relationship with its historical ally, with the United

States, and therefore what this requires is diplomacy, and not, as

one MP put it, the referee to get involved in the game. I don't think

it's enough to see off Mr Bercow, there is not much weight of opinion

behind it, but it has added to the view for some to stay a bit more

quiet and to try and gain traction and leveraged with the White House

behind-the-scenes. So interesting. Opponents of Donald Trump on both

sides of the Atlantic trying to figure out how to best advance their

case. In the clearest admission yet

that the President's controversial travel ban had been 'mishandled',

the head of Homeland Security John Kelly told Congress this morning

that that he wished the rollout of the executive order had been

delayed so that he could have are considering whether to reinstate

the ban later today, President Trump has said that

if he doesn't get his way he is prepared to go

to the Supreme Court. We're going to take it

through the system. It's very important for the country

regardless of me or whoever We have to have security

in our country, we have When you take some place

like Syria you take all And if you remember ISIS said

we are going to infiltrate the United States and other

countries through the migration. And then we're not allowed to be

tough on the people coming in? So we'll see what happens,

we have a big court case where we're well represented and we're

going to see what happens. This is going to be something of a

long legal battle for the White House, I suspect.

Let's talk now to Governor Tim Pawlenty -

the Republican representative for Minnesota from 2003 until 2011.

You were a lawyer. Should the appeals court, now that it's about

to hear the case from the Justice Department, from the White House on

this, reinstate, using, the President's travel ban? They may or

they may have a mixed result. The circuit hearing this is notably

liberal in its traditions, San Francisco, Seattle and other places,

so that may not be the best home-court advantage for the

administration. Wanting to keep an eye on, there is difference that

should be paid under the law to the president in International security

matters. It will be curious to see how much weight they put on that.

You are a Republican but you've also been pretty critical of Donald

Trump. During the campaign you once said that he was unfit for office

and you weren't going to vote for him. What do you think about the

travel ban more broadly? I think he campaigned on it, nearly half the

country voted for him and for that approach. And we need to strike the

right islands between illegal immigration and our security. In the

past it has been out of balance and out of control to some degree. And

this is only a 90 day ban, so the idea that it is somehow permanent or

going to be more than what has been sent it is overreaching. You are

from Minnesota, one of the largest Muslim populations in the United

States, I'm sure you are aware that many Muslims see this as religious

this cremation, I'm sure they do in your home state as well. How does

America get round the perception that it has taken up a position that

seems antithetical to its constitution? Again, we certainly

appreciate immigration. The very idea of American exceptionalism.

These are refugee patterns from some of the most troubled countries in

the world, places you would probably not travel yourself without fear for

your security. These aren't the only Muslim countries in the world. It is

a band limited to 90 days on seven countries that some the most

troubled in the world, I don't think. I wonder if I could get your

thoughts on the comments from the speaker of the parliament here in

London, Mr Bercow, who voiced his opposition to Donald Trump

addressing MPs and peers in parliament. He says "Our opposition

to racism and sexism and our support for equality before the law and an

independent judiciary are hugely important to us." Is that a slap in

the face for Republicans? Those are some of the concerns I shed in the

campaign about candidate Donald Trump, but he is the president of

the United States. For this gentleman, I am not familiar with

him, to work to disinvite him from speaking to Parliament is something

he may want to take into consideration. He's going to need

Donald Trump for things like helping with the bilateral trade agreement

after Brexit. So are those concerned something that rational? Of course,

but you have to look at the whole relationship. Sticking his thumb in

the eyes of President Trump may not be in the best interests of the UK

when it comes to negotiating a trade deal. Precisely. When you look at

those who've been to address parliament, we've had the America

Kuwait, Xi Xinping of China. Kuwait are allowed to address parliament

but not your President. That's what you call a double standard. This is

an individual who is obviously playing games and not acting in the

best interests of his country. Very briefly, I wanted to ask you, you

are also involved in financial services, there has been a big

business backlash against this travel ban, what are you hearing?

Business leaders are generally in favour of legal rational

immigration. Our organisation hasn't taken a formal position but many

business leaders are concerned or opposed in their individual or

corporate capacity is. Thank you for coming in.

If you follow Mr Trump's Twitter account, you'll know that

when the President is awake, he usually has a view on something.

That is a reference to Mr Trump's comments on Fox News on Sunday

about President Putin being a "killer", and the other part

of that tweet is of course his rising frustration with Iran -

and the nuclear deal that was signed by his predecessor.

Well, in Iran today, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah

Khameini said President Trump had revealed what he called

Lets talk more about the Iranian reaction with Rana Rahimpour -

The White House said the Ayatollah needs to recognise there is a new

president in town and Donald Trump will take actions as he sees fit.

There are many different factions in Iran, they will not all see it in

the same way, why don't you just give us an impression of how Donald

Trump is perceived in Iran. Although there are different factions in

Iran, anti-American is is in every faction. So that is universal? If

you can call it universal in Iran, yes. In order to be part of the

establishment you have to be anti-American. Of course there are

different degrees of being anti-American. The most radical

would be the supreme leader and some of his closest allies. I think

President Rouhani and the Foreign Minister and the people involved in

the nuclear negotiation last year, they are more pragmatic. And in the

long-term they would prefer to have some sort of relationship with

America. But they don't see that happening any time soon. We keep

bringing these eminent Republicans onto the set and I keep asking them,

aren't you going to undermine the moderates here? Each one says the

hardliners in Iran are undermining the moderates. How would you see it?

Is he pushing the moderates to the side? He definitely is, he

definitely is. What happened today, one of the leaders of the opposition

came out and said that on the 10th of February which is the anniversary

of the Iranians republic and every year there are huge demonstrations,

he asked the opposition to join that, and he said that if it comes

to defending our country, we are all united and we are together and we

have to put aside our disagreements. So what's happening is that it's

actually mobilising people, and that's exactly what the supreme

leader once. This is a great gift to the supreme leader. Despite all the

differences, he now has this course, and he's going to ask people to get

together and be in his side and be anti-American. OK, just very quickly

because we haven't got very long, there is this getting together on

Friday, the anniversary of the revolution, should we be watching

numbers on the streets for a sign as to the mood in town? It's very

difficult to find out how many of those people are there because they

genuinely still believe in the causes of the Islamic Republic and

the revolution that happened in 1979, or how many are there because

it's almost like a street festival, there are food stalls and a lot is

going on. So many people are there out of curiosity or to get gift

bags. It's very difficult to say what's the real reason for people to

go out there. Thank you very much. Rana will join me for Facebook live

tonight. You're watching One Hundred

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fighting for their futures in France as a former president

and a candidate from the same party face separate scandals - we've

the latest reaction from Paris. The weather is certainly going to be

a lot better this evening compared to what we had yesterday, in fact

some clearer skies today across the West of the UK and a touch of frost,

but this is not the case for everybody. Some wind and a bit of

rain flirting with the Eastern counties of the UK and some showers

occurring across the south-west of the country and those showers will

continue, at least for a time into tonight. Some western areas getting

missed, fog patches and a touch of frost. Around freezing very early on

Wednesday morning. Zooming into the South for Rush hour, the weather is

looking quite across Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, most of

Wales. Thick cloud across the Midlands, the Southeast. All the way

up the spine of the country, particularly eastern areas, thicker

cloud. Patchy rain. It will not feel doesn't in the morning, Leeds and

Hull, 4 degrees, outbreaks of rain. This is the Frost across western

areas. Northern Ireland, Western Isles, at least inland away from the

coast, touch of frost. On Wednesday it remains fairly cloudy. We may

start to see that whether changing, transitioning into something a

little bit colder, those cold easterly winds starting to set in.

Norwich only a high of three degrees, Newcastle four degrees.

Still some sunshine and maybe temperatures of seven to nine across

western areas. Wednesday evening we will see a touch of frost again, so

Thursday morning frosty across parts of the UK, and then that colder air

well and truly establishes itself across the UK for Thursday. So,

nippy wind, temperatures dropping, low single figures for most of us.

Three degrees across Yorkshire, only six in Plymouth, four in Belfast.

That cold will just become more apparent through the course of

Friday until we get some wintry showers, initially, we are thinking

across Yorkshire, north-east, possibly eastern Scotland, and look

at these temperatures, only three degrees. Summary for the end of the

week, cold, biting easterly wind, rather cloudy and occasional snow

showers. Welcome back to 100 Days -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington, history the Vice President has been

forced to vote in order And coming up, how do Mexicans

in Texas feel about the planned border wall which should be under

construction within two Let's turn to the fun and games

of the French Presidential election. The centre right candidate

Francois Fillon is tumbling in the polls over allegations

he paid his wife a salary Today we learn the former

President Nicolas Sarkozy - from the same party -

will stand trial over allegations of fraud,

relating to the financing Christian, you covered French

politics for a long time. Three or four senior French politicians under

investigation of some kind. All those at the top of the polls

fighting some allegation. Marine Le Pen facing allegation she paid her

bodyguard from European Parliamentary funds. Now this

mysterious story following Emmanuel Macron that he has been leading a

double life of some kind, and allegation that he is married to his

former teacher but has a gay lover. He has joked that off and said last

night physically I'm so busy I'm not up to that. But the real problem is

for the right wing party, now called the Republicans. And of course

Nicolas Sarkozy also obtained the party because they're looking into

his campaign financing. I followed him into thousand 12 and these were

really high pitch events, champagne and people with flags and this is

one here in front of the Eiffel Tower. People saying this is great

but how is he paying for this. Because there is a 22 million euros

cap on presidential campaign funding. It turns out this event

company where writing outfalls in voice is which they passed onto

Nicolas Sarkozy does not party to the tune of 18 million euros. The

big question for the magistrates and this is where Sarkozy comes in, did

he know about it and did he ordered his office to follow those built in

a different direction. So lets talk about those

polls with Bruno Jeambart It is clear it is bad news for

Francois Fillon who was the favourite for the French

presidential election because after five years of false or her longed

people are dissatisfied with the way things are going on in the country.

-- Francois Hollande. So they wanted a right-wing candidate is the best

way for them to change. But now it seems it is going to be a very

difficult campaign for him. The problem is he cannot talk about

anything except this affair. Of course the man profiting from

this is Emmanuel Macron and yet he has not yet put out a manifesto and

of course he was a former minister in the Socialist government that was

so unpopular. That is one of the mysteries of this election, the fact

that people are really dissatisfied with the last government but for the

moment the new favourite is someone who was a minister for two years,

Minister of the economy and also before the campaign he wrote the

President's economic programme and was his economic counsellor for two

years. That is the strange situation and the strangest thing is that he

is gathering people from the left and the bright and it is difficult

to know how it can last the course obviously when he has to explain

what is going to do if elected, it is possible but some people both

from the left and from the right are going to be disappointed by what he

is proposing. I was wondering whether you have noticed in Europe

polling as you dig into it whether you can see anything of what might

be called the Trump effect on the French candidates, either that helps

or does not help Marine Le Pen? It is difficult to say because we know

for a long time it is always difficult to measure the level of

support for the National front, the far right has always been

underestimated in the polls and we know for a long time, in 2002 when

her father went on the run we did not see it in the polls. So were

used to that and in the last election we did not have this

problem with her but obviously with what has happened with Trump in the

US we are pretty worried about that and pretty worried also about what

is going on with Francois Fillon. This clear that now the media are

very strong and strong against him. And we really think that maybe we

also could have this kind of effect on him because it seems to be in the

new difficulties but perhaps some right voters do not want to admit

that they will vote for him in three months. This is interesting because

this is what happened in Cullingworth Donald Trump, he does

better in online and telephone poles because people do not necessarily

want to tell pollsters that they him. There is a similarity because

Marine Le Pen is the disruptor and does not have a party system behind

a bit like Donald Trump when he arrived at the White House. So she

probably would not win in the second round anyway because she will boost

to the other candidates but dodgy anyway have the infrastructure to

run a government? Well Christian we've talked a lot

about the immigration ban ordered by President Trump and one of those

caught up in it was an Iraqi translator who worked extensively

with the US government. Yes, he spent six years getting

a visa to come to America only to be pulled off a plane in Turkey

when the ban went into effect. The BBC has followed his

family's journey to start I was scheduled to depart on the

31st of January. We heard there would be a new executive order that

could affect us. When they took us off the plane I

was shaking, my world had ended. It was a devastating moment.

Hopefully this time everything will be OK, hopefully. Fingers crossed.

I do not know how to describe how I'm feeling right now. Finally, it

was a struggle. How do you feel now? I super, so much excited and happy.

A week ago I felt like everything had just fallen apart. Now I'm

feeling very blessed and privilege to be here. I want to go to the

Statue of Liberty and see Ellis Island. We always see it on movies

and stuff but I cannot believe I'm going to see it for real.

The Homeland Security Secretary said today that he expects a wall

on the US-Mexico border to be "well under way" within

Secretary John Kelly said the wall would be some kind of "physical

barrier," perhaps including a fence in some places.

So how are people on both sides of the border

In the next few weeks, our colleagues from the BBC's Mundo

Here's a taste of what Juan Paullier discovered in El Paso in Texas.

From almost anywhere here in El Paso in southern

Mexican city just on the other side of the border.

But despite being divided by the fence for almost a

decade, there is a tight bond between both communities.

Many people here cross the border every

day to go to work, to go to school, or to do some shopping.

I have been talking to people here about their

worries about what President Trump's policies will mean for the area and

there is uncertainty about what impact it

will have for these two deeply connected cities.

Juan Paullier reporting from El-Paso in Texas.

I want to talk about the Democratic minority leader in the Senate, he's

been meeting supreme court nominee Neal course such and said he felt

asked the questions he wanted especially when it comes to his

independence. He said he asked questions about things like the

Muslim ban and conflict-of-interest issues with President Trump and did

not get a satisfactory answer. Right at the start of the programme with

spoke about the Democrats gearing up for another big confirmation fight

over the Supreme Court judge. And trying really to sort out what their

opposition strategy is going to be. It sounds from the most senior

Democrat in the Senate that going to fight that hard. And it is about the

worst cabinet I've seen, another line flashing up. And that is why it

has been the slowest confirmation process in history of the United

States. But it looks as if if he gets Betsy DeVos he will get the

rest as well. That's it for today's programme -

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