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In London, the politicians debate whether Donald Trump | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
really is deserving of a state visit to the UK. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
In Washington, it is President's Day, | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
since Donald Trump moved into the White House. | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Nearly two million people signed a petition | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
opposing Donald Trump's state visit to Britain. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Tonight there are nationwide protests, | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
this is the scene outside the Houses of Parliament. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
The US Vice-President seeks to reassure Europe, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
but for Nato members who are lagging behind on their spending | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
- these are my words, not his - get one. | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
Hundreds of people have been arrested | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
in immigration raids across the US in recent days. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
We speak to migrants preparing to deal | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
Last night in Sweden, Twitter has fun at Donald Trump's | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
expense, but what was the President referring to? | :01:12. | :01:25. | |
I'm Christian Fraser in London, Jon Sopel is in Washington. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
a majority of British people are in favour | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
of Donald Trump coming to the UK on a state visit. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
But there's a sizeable number of people who stand opposed. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Almost two million people signed a petition | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
calling for the invitation to be withdrawn. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
That petition - in line with the law - | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
currently under way in Westminster Hall. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
We are in a position unlike any faced by any previous parliament, | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
where we have a person of a unique personality | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
in attempting to give him the best accolade we can offer anyone, | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
only been offered twice before, of a state visit. | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
This would be terribly wrong, because it would appear | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
that the British Parliament, the British nation, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
the British sovereign is approving of the acts of Donald J Trump. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
Outside that debate - in Westminster, | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
in Parliament Square, there's a demonstration under way tonight. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Let's get more now from our correspondent Nick Beake, | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
The Prime Minister has made it very clear the visit is going to go | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
ahead, so the invitation stands. I suppose the point to make to the | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
international audience is that this demonstration will not make much | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
difference. Yeah, absolutely, good evening from Parliament Square, a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
place for protest of the people for years and years. You have the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
statues of various Prime Ministers looking down on this scene unfolding | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
tonight, probably 2000 people here complaining about the prospect of a | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
visit, a state visit from Donald Trump. There is a statue of Abraham | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
Lincoln, immortalised here, the 16th American president, but the current | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
American president is why people like here tonight. They are unhappy | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
with the way he has treated migrants in his country. We heard from some | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
of the politicians in Parliament today, there was some balance there, | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
people talking about the benefits of President Trump being able to enjoy | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
a state visit, others vehemently against it. If you listen to the | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
singing tonight, if you look at the placards and hear the voices of | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
people here, they are unanimous, they do not want President Trump to | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
be coming here later in the year. Some people, interestingly, are | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
equating his stance in the last few weeks with that of Brexit, bringing | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the two things together, talking about a sense of intolerance that | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
has emerged from Brexit, and also they seem the presidency as being | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
one characterised by intolerance. We expect more speeches and more | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
singing for the next few hours or so. I should say, there have been | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
other protests in London and other British towns and cities since it | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
was announced that there will be a state visit, but to return to your | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
first point, Christian, it seems that there is little the people here | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
can do to stop President Trump enjoying a state visit in London | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
later in the year. OK, Nick, for the moment, thank you very much. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Today, Mike Pence was in Brussels to meet EU leaders | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
and also the Nato Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Today Mike Pence was in Brussels to meet EU leaders. | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
The President of the United States and the American people | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
and to do more in our common defence. | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
And the President expects real progress by the end of 2017. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
said here in Belgium just a few short days ago, | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
if you're a nation who meets the 2% target, we need your help, | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
encouraging other nations to do likewise. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
as he said, our alliance needs you to accelerate. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
- these are my words, not his - get one. | :05:27. | :05:38. | |
Vice president Mike Pence speaking in Brussels today. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Let's bring in the Republican strategist | :05:42. | :05:42. | |
Thank you so much for giving us your time, starting with those | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
demonstrations, I wonder what they were make of it in the White House, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
that people are protesting about the democratically elected US president? | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
I don't think they'll make much of it, they are used to it, frankly! | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
There have been many protests since the President's election, since his | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
inauguration, but they haven't slowed him down. He made certain | :06:14. | :06:27. | |
promises, among them to work with other country to spread the cost | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
around more, and his mind has not changed. In terms of a state visit | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
to the UK, he wants to work with the UK and trade issues, and on limiting | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
the effects of Islamic terror, and a number of other issues, of course, | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
there is far more that unites our countries than divides them. I am | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
sure he will take these protests in his stride and just, you know, full | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
speed ahead, as he has been. And you said about the pledges he made | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
during the election - he made it clear he wanted Nato countries to be | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
spending more on their own defence, 2% of GDP, smart move to centre the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
vice president over to meet EU leaders, Giamatti is, Defence | :07:10. | :07:20. | |
Secretary is well? Absolutely. -- GM -- Jim Mattis. A very smart move at | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
a time when some world leaders may be an easy because he is such an | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
unconventional politician, sending leaders from the administration over | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
to reaffirm the relationships and to outline the goals going forward is | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
absolutely a good way to manage expectations. Brian, we should mark | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the day, one month since Donald Trump walked into the White House. I | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
was looking back to see what President Obama had achieved by this | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
point, he and signed into law a stimulus package, expanded health | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
care for children, and they bill on equal pay for women. Donald Trump | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
has signed 23 executive orders, but it doesn't feel as if an awful lot | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
is happening. Well, that is odd, because it has been a fire hose at | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
the White House, just generating news and information and plans. He | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
has rolled back a number of regulations related to the coal | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
industry, he has rolled out a new Supreme Court justice nominee, he | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
has instituted a number of policies aimed at, of course, bedding | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
refugees and other programmes. These working with Congress now, a new | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
health care programme. And of course getting his cabinet through. It has | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
been a very busy month, I don't think there has been a shortage of | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
news. In tens of legislation, Congress has rolled out a 200 day | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
plan, whereas normally it might be a 100 day plan, but that indicates | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
there is a lot of legislation coming through the pipeline that will be | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
moving probably later this year. Date with us. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
While we are discussing strategy, Jon, | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
we should talk about his attitude to the press. | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
The media is the enemy of the American people | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
You were on the receiving end of it on Thursday. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Let's just remind ourselves of how that went. | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Here is another beauty. It's a good line. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Yeah, sure. Mr President... | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
On the travel ban... We could banter back and forth. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
On the travel ban, would you accept that | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
that was a good example of the smooth running of government? | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Yeah, I do, let me tell you... Were there any mistakes in that? | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Wait! Wait! I know who you are, just wait. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
We had a very smooth roll-out of the travel ban. | :09:46. | :09:56. | |
I love that! I know who you are! What you make of the strategy, Jon? | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
I think that if you look down the ages, every president has tried to | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
communicate directly with the electorate without the mediation of | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
newspaper journalists or people like us. You go back to the Second World | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
War, it was Roosevelt with his fireside chats. Today, Donald Trump | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
as 25 million followers on Twitter, he wants to go to rallies where he | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
can address the crowds, like we saw over the weekend. I think that part | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
of the strategy absolutely makes sense. The other thing about Donald | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Trump is your loves to have an enemy. When he was running for the | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
Republican nomination, it was lying Ted, low-energy Jeb, then Krug and | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
Hillary. He needs an enemy now, and he's determined to make the enemy | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
us, and we must resist the temptation to fall into the trap of | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
thinking we are the opposition. But there are people on both sides of | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
the house, John McCain was saying this weekend, if you want a free | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
democracy, you need an adversarial press, and people on both sides are | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
concerned about the tone. Yeah, and there are people who would want him | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
to dial it back. The idea of saying that journalists are the enemy of | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the people, I think that went too far for some people, but broadly | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
speaking, I think a lot of trump supporters believe that we are the | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
bad guys in all of this, that Donald Trump is the purveyor of truth, and | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
sometimes it will be our job to say, do you know what, what he said is | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
not as truthful as first appears. But it will be contentious, I think | :11:39. | :11:39. | |
it is there to say. The Russian ambassador | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, has died suddenly | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
while at work in New York. The veteran diplomat had been | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
ambassador to the UN since 2006. President Putin is said to be | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
deeply upset by his death. The Russian leader said he valued | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
Mr Churkin's professionalism The cause of death wasn't | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
immediately known. He was one day short | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
of his 65th birthday. US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
arrived in Baghdad this morning on an unannounced visit | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
to assess the war effort. US-backed Iraqi forces | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
have launched a new push from their remaining stronghold | :12:10. | :12:10. | |
in the city of Mosul. the US military is not in Iraq | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
"to seize anybody's oil", distancing himself from previous | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
remarks by President Trump. Russia's decision over the weekend | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
to recognise passports issued by separatist authorities in eastern | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Ukraine has been denounced today They say the action is not in line | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
with the Minsk peace accord. But President Putin's | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said it was a humanitarian move | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
to help struggling residents in the rebel regions, | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
who have faced a transport blockade imposed by Ukrainian nationalist | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
volunteer battalions. The North Korean ambassador to | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
Malaysia has denounced the country's investigation into the death of Kim | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
Jong-nam as politically motivated and has called for a joint probe. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Malaysia responded with a statement saying the Commons were culled from | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
delusions, lies and half-truths. -- the comments. Earlier Malaysia said | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
it was recalling its ambassador to Pyongyang amid increasing tension | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
between the two nations. Here in the UK, the Upper | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
House of Parliament, the House of Lords, | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
is debating the legislation that will give the Government | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
a green light to begin The Government does not have | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
a majority in the upper chamber, and there are many peers who oppose | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Britain's withdrawal. to speak over the two days | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
of debate. So this Bill is the legal means | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
by which to give the Prime Minister power to commence withdrawal | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
negotiations and nothing more. My Lords, this Bill is not | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
the place to try and shake the terms of our exit, | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
restrict the Government's hand before it enters | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
into complex negotiations, This Bill is the beginning | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
of a process and a discussion we will be having in this House | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
and the other place "Brexit means Brexit" was perhaps | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
the most unwise of statements It just served to | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
highlight that void. But, my Lords, until the two years | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
of negotiation have ended, and until the pompously | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
and hopelessly inaccurately named Great Repeal Bill and consequently | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
gestation has been completed, none of us know what | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Brexit will look like. And that has created | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
and fuelled uncertainty for business, for science | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
and for environmentalists. And worryingly for both EU citizens | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
living and working in the UK and UK citizens living and working | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
in other EU countries. We got used to Theresa May Saint | :15:02. | :15:13. | |
Brexit means Brexit, we just heard that clip from Baroness Smith in the | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
House of Lords, code of lords, could the Lords make it that Brexit does | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
not mean Brexit? They will not stop it, and I don't think they want to | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
stop it, so I think you'll some early contradictory things | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
happening. There will be vigorous opposition from the piers, because | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
they Amour Propre European. Many of them are longer in years, and of | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
course their philosophy is based in Europe. -- they are more | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
pro-European. I think you will see amendments put forward, and the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Government may suffer some defeats because they have no majority in the | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
House of Lords. The Prime Minister was sitting on the sidelines, daring | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
them to put amendments forward. But it would be in Congress for a house | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
which is not selected to stop the will of the people, to get in a way | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
of a democratic decision? You might see a bit of ping-pong as the Bill | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
goes backwards and forwards, but the Prime Minister will comfortably meet | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
that deadline by the end of March to serve Article 50, the formal process | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
to exit the European Union. So a bit of a delay, but nothing much more | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
than that. There have been a series | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
of immigration raids in cities across the US in recent weeks, | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
as President Trump makes good on his election promise to increase | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
the deportation of illegal migrants. Whether the number of raids | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
is actually higher than under the previous administration isn't | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
yet clear, but there is concern in many immigrant communities | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
about how they should respond as Rajini Vaidyanathan | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
found out in Maryland. President Trump's crackdown | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
on illegal immigration has seen hundreds arrested | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
in raids in recent weeks. The government says | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
they're only targeting people but some of those detained don't | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
even have criminal records. There are fears the net | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
is being cast much wider. Oscar is handing out leaflets | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
to educate people on what to do if an immigration officer | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
knocks on the door. Many residents here are | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
undocumented immigrants, and after recent raids | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
in the area, they are on edge. I'm scared, because I've got | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
family here, I've got my son, I've got my brothers, | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
and I've got my wife. We came here to live more better | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
and eat food on the table. President Trump's pledge | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
to increase deportations because they think that it might be | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
the immigration department. This mother of four, | :17:46. | :17:57. | |
who didn't want to be identified, When someone knocks on the door, | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
I ask you it is first, and if I recognise the person's | :18:00. | :18:13. | |
voice, then I open the door. One of my friends' husbands | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
was arrested by immigration. and they surrounded | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
them and arrested them. Nationwide, there have been protests | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
against President Trump's deportation policies, | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
but many argue that they're not that different | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
from those his predecessor. President Obama was nicknamed | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
the deporter-in-chief for the high that his administration | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
removed from the US. The President of | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
the United States... President Trump stressed the need | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
to deport serious criminals. I said it, day one, | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
they are going out, But for the most part, | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
get them the hell out of here, bring them back | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
to where they came from. But recently leaked memos suggest | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
his team are considering wider policies which could affect greater | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
numbers of undocumented immigrants. Many support tougher | :19:11. | :19:12. | |
deportation policies. Most people come in here wanting | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
to have a better lifestyle, or better standard of living, | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
but the fact is there are others who come with them who mean us harm | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
or just are bad people. And the only way to stop those | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
is to stop everyone. undocumented immigrants | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
already in the US, the impact of President Trump's | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
policies on their future is unclear. For some, that uncertainty | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
is creating anxiety. Rajini Vaidyanathan, | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
BBC News, Maryland. President Trump caused some | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
confusion at his Florida rally on Saturday when out of the blue | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
he said, "Look what happened | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
last night in Sweden." Well, yesterday he qualified | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
the comments, he was referring he said to a story | :20:04. | :20:04. | |
that was broadcast on Fox News about immigrants in Sweden | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
on Friday night. And he's been tweeting | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
about it again today. "Give the public a break, | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
the fake news media is trying to say that large-scale | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
NOT!" But he hasn't been | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
the only one His comments sparked a huge | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
social-media reaction, many using the hashtag | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
#lastnightinsweden. MUSIC: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
(A Man After Midnight)" by ABBA # And I'm watching the late show | :20:37. | :20:57. | |
in my flat all alone # How I hate to spend | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
the evening on my own # Blowing outside the window | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
as I look around the room # And it makes me so | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
depressed to see the gloom # Gimme, gimme, gimme | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
a man after midnight # Won't somebody help me | :21:18. | :21:33. | |
chase the shadows away... # Rather tragically, I will be humming | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
that for the rest of the day! Let's bring in Brian Morgenstern | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
again, a Republican strategist. Thank you for listening to ABBA with | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
us! Was that effective trolling of Donald Trump, or are we missing the | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
point of what he is saying? Well, the trolling of the president can be | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
hilarious, I think there is a issue here, and it is that Sweden has, in | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
fact, based on a report this week, has had problems assimilating | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
refugees, and it has resulted in Sanogo zones where police have | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
trouble, and there have been attacks by refugees, as well as attacks upon | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
refugees. There have been some crimes committed, and so there are | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
problems there, and that was the main issue. He was imprecise with | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
his words, which has blown up into the story. But the voters, the | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
electorate, see something much more important there and sees the | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
president being attacked in this way, rather than having the issue | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
elevated. You say imprecise with his words - his fiercest critics would | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
say he has a casual association with the truth, and they would point to | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
the comment about electoral college votes on Thursday and this. How can | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
they trust their president if he doesn't get his facts right? Well, | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
look, it is always better to be clear, to be prepared, and having to | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
clean things up afterwards has been an unfortunate by-product of his | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
style, but the way he is so off-the-cuff, the way he is genuine, | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
just tells everybody exactly what he thinks, that is one of the very | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
appealing qualities that got him elected in the first place. And so | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
taking the good with the bad, understanding that there is always | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
going to be a little bit of clean up work to make things as accurate as | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
possible after he makes comments and brings an issue to the fore. Brian | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
Morgenstern, thank you for staying with us through the programme, thank | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
you for your insights on all of that and putting up with ABBA too! We owe | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
you a huge thank you. When we look at what is unfolding over the Sweden | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
thing, he is very effective at communicating and starting a debate | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
and getting people talking, and that is kind of... Everybody feels they | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
are participating in this debate with the new president. In fairness, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
you does touch on something that has affected a lot of people in Europe, | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
and that is the sort of an buzz of refugees and migrants coming to | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
European countries, and he is certainly right that Sweden were | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
greatly concerned in recent months, so much so that they said they | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
needed a break from the refugees coming. They have taken 200,000 in | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
the last two years, and for a population of 10 million that is | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
quite a lot. In terms of the problems, well, officially, the | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
crime rate has gone down since 2005. But they have had a disproportionate | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
number of people who have gone to Syria, 300, which is up there with | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
Belgium and Denmark, who we know had a particular problem. And I suppose | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
the people who are really thrilled about all of this our Twitter. You | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
know, you kind of want to see on your Twitter feed what is being | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
said, and you want to see the reaction. It is like you are part of | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
this gigantic conversation that is going on between the president and | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
people around the world. Millions of people participating in all of this | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
discussion, quite extraordinary. And not just the people, the politicians | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
are picking it up, alternative facts and fake news, he has got the | :25:27. | :25:28. | |
catchphrase is going, people are picking up on it. | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
You're watching 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
and BBC World News, Iran's message to President Trump, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
the Foreign Minister defends a deal his country | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
made with the Obama administration, and it comes with a warning. | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
And how is the science world responding | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
Are academics out of touch with America's heartland? | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
That's still to come on 100 Days from BBC News. | :25:53. | :26:11. | |
No doubt a fair few spring bulbs burst into life this afternoon, what | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
an afternoon for some, temperatures close to what they should be in May, | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
rather than the middle part of their brewery. 18 Celsius around London, | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
64 Fahrenheit. -- the middle part of February. Notice those same places | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
by the time we get to Friday, colder air is on its way back. Not too much | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
tonight, a chill across northern areas, but the breeze will keep | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
temperatures up for many. Patchy rain and drizzle, heavy at times | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
across Wales, the Midlands, but Bridges will hold up throughout, not | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
dropping much below eight or nine Celsius. -- temperatures. There will | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
be showers in the north-west Highlands and Islands, mostly dry, | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
right in the far north-west of England. Across the Midlands, Wales, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
southern England, a damp start, outbreaks of rain and drizzle | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
throughout, misty across Wales and south-west England, rain turning | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
heavier in the West. A bright start in Northern Ireland, turning wet | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
across western parts of Scotland. The best of the brighter breaks in | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
the east, the northern half of the UK finishes with wet and windy | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
weather to get you home and take you into the evening. Take a look at the | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
charge through Tuesday night and into Wednesday, deep area of low | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
pressure passing to the north of the country, strengthening winds UK | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
wide. The strongest winds will be in the north of Scotland, 70 mph gusts | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
are possible. Some wintry showers. Further south, cloud and outbreaks | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
of rain across England and Wales, confined to southernmost counties. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
By this stage already, temperatures back to where they should be for | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
this time of year, eight or 9 degrees for the vast majority. Then | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
one to watch later on, Wednesday into Thursday, stormy area of low | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
pressure pushing eastwards across the UK, the strongest winds on the | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
southern flank. On the northern edge, some sleet and snow, an | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
indication of getting rid of the mild air, introducing cold polar air | :28:26. | :28:26. | |
to end the week. Bye for now. British politicians debate | :28:27. | :30:10. | |
whether Donald Trump really is deserving of a state visit | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
to the UK as protests take Coming up: Students and lecturers | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
at America's top science university vow to fight what they say | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
is Donald Trump's threats Relations between the US and Iran | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
have never been good. But they are an awful lot cooler | :30:30. | :30:43. | |
under this administration. The US President has made it pretty | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
clear what he think of the nuclear deal signed by his predecessor | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
Barack Obama - Well in an interview with the BBC, | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
the Iranian Foreign Minister has hit back, telling the United States | :30:57. | :31:15. | |
to stop threatening his country. Javad Zarif was talking | :31:16. | :31:17. | |
to our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet | :31:18. | :31:19. | |
who is back here in The Americans have but Iran on | :31:20. | :31:28. | |
notice, they are threatening new sanctions so how is the Foreign | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
Minister feeling about it? As you know, it is a volatile region and | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
when there is such an escalating war of words, the concern always is is | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
it going to result in some kind of confrontation in the region there. | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
The vessels grow through the waters, there's a lot of aircraft over | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
Syria, forces on the ground, could this possibly result in a military | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
confrontation and indeed this year began with two think tank in | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
Washington saying there could possibly. Of late they are playing | :32:03. | :32:11. | |
this down, but when I spoke to Zarif, I asked if he was concerned. | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
I hope prudence will prevail because Iran is not an easy target. We are | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
not going to provoke anybody, we are not going to instigate any | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
hostility. We have never started the hostility and we are not planning | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
it, but we will defend ourselves. I do not believe people looking at our | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
history, at our capabilities, will ever make the decision to engage in | :32:40. | :32:50. | |
that misadventure. The Americans would say, when he says we are not | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
going to broker anyone, what about the proxies destabilising Syria, | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
what about their influence in Yemen, they are causing havoc all over the | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
Middle East and Saudi Arabia are pretty angry about it. Why for | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
instance with a fire a ballistic missile within the first few days of | :33:07. | :33:12. | |
the Trump Administration? You wonder whether it was a provocative gesture | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
and it is said it was carried out a gesture by the revolutionary guard | :33:18. | :33:20. | |
which is as much against the moderate side of the Iranian regime | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
that job -- Javad Zarif represent. Your point on proxies is | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
interesting. What the Saudis and Americans see as rogue state, | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
meddling, moving in with their militias in Iraq and Syria and | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
Lebanon, meddling, stoking up discontent with Shia communities in | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
Bahrain, the Iranians see as governments inviting them in. The | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
Iraqis say we have been invited, why are you saying this is somehow | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
illegal. Similarly with the missile test there is a UN resolution say | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
you cannot carry out tests of missiles capable of carrying out | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
nuclear warheads. Javad Zarif says they were conventional warheads so | :34:08. | :34:11. | |
they have every right to carry out a missile test, he said it is nobody | :34:12. | :34:16. | |
else's business. It is very good to talk to you. | :34:17. | :34:23. | |
There is a huge difference in the tone between Barack Obama and Donald | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
Trump but what about substance? Although there's been a lot of | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
bluster, there hasn't been anything Donald Trump has done to undercut | :34:32. | :34:39. | |
the nuclear deal? It's quite extraordinary because you will | :34:40. | :34:44. | |
remember he called it the dumbest deal ever but people are not talking | :34:45. | :34:52. | |
about that deal now. It is laminated, the Europeans and | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
Russians wanted to stay and frankly Iranian intelligence want it to stay | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
because if it goes, what will be left in its place? It would open up | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
a Pandora's box so let that be left to the side but they want to focus | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
on Iran's behaviour in the region. There was a UN Security Council | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
resolution and secretary Kerry had to defend it time and time again | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
which only dealt with nuclear issues but still, by neglect and | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
undermining the deal, the deal in effect could be destroyed simply by | :35:26. | :35:32. | |
it not working. I asked Javad Zarif whether he felt the deal was in | :35:33. | :35:33. | |
jeopardy. The nuclear agreeement | :35:34. | :35:57. | |
is a reasonable agreement. It's not everything they wanted nor | :35:58. | :35:58. | |
was it everything we wanted but it's a reasonable middle ground | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
and I believe if the previous administration had other options | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
they would have exercised it. So not as if we're moving | :36:05. | :36:06. | |
from friendly relations US policy towards Iran has never | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
been friendly for the last 38 years it's always been hostile | :36:09. | :36:12. | |
and our people have shown that hostility doesn't receive a positive | :36:13. | :36:15. | |
response from the Iranians. As the Foreign Minister of Iran | :36:16. | :36:17. | |
though you must be a worried man, given the war of words | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
you hear around you. No, I'm not as the Foreign Minister | :36:21. | :36:34. | |
of Iran and as an Iranian we've heard so much of it but we rely | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
on our people and those people make us proud because they have stood | :36:38. | :36:41. | |
bravely against any threat. Before we came back on air, we were | :36:42. | :36:52. | |
talking about a line-up on Sunday morning that took some organising. | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
Yes, all the main players in the Middle East were represented on the | :36:58. | :37:06. | |
last day of the Munich Security form, the foreign ministers who | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
could start making progress on difficult issues except they | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
wouldn't agree to appear with each other so they each appeared | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
separately. There had to be a pause in between each of them so there was | :37:19. | :37:27. | |
no awkward moments where they bumped into each other on stage. It shows | :37:28. | :37:32. | |
how far diplomacy has to go to reduce these tensions. The tensions | :37:33. | :37:42. | |
are not going to go away. Lyse Doucet Nobel Peace Prize winner at | :37:43. | :37:50. | |
some future date! Just on the news we have today of the Russian | :37:51. | :37:58. | |
ambassador the on leader announced, he was a significant figure on the | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
world stage and it seemed quite respected by his counterparts who he | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
worked with in the United Nations. That is a big loss for Russia and | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
possibly the international community as a whole. Yes, it was interesting | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
to see the British ambassador to the United Nations, you have to be | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
honest they screamed behind the scenes against Russia, they briefed | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
against each other -- they schemed. It seemed there was no love lost, | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
but at this moment he played great tribute to a diplomat of great | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
character and great skill, and he was. I often sat down with him and | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
wanted to know what he thought about Russia's role in the region because | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
you cannot understand what is happening in Syria, she will | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
understand Russia and he had a very sharp analysis as well as a really | :38:47. | :38:52. | |
colourful turn of phrase, a wicked sense of humour, and it was those | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
turns of phrase is that he often described the mayhem in the Security | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
Council that were memorable but he knew Russia's interests and | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
represented them well. I think the world has also lost a very strong | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
diplomat, friend or foe, he knew his diplomacy and he did it well. Lyse | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
Doucet, great to talk to you. Scientists are not the type | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
to let their emotions get the better of them but it's | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
fair to say that when it come to President Trump a lot | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
of them are pretty worked up. In fact, those who belong | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
to the world's largest scientific group have thrown their weight | :39:28. | :39:29. | |
behind a planned protest by researchers in Washington, | :39:30. | :39:31. | |
against the new The President's supporters say | :39:32. | :39:33. | |
the academics are out of touch with America's heartlands | :39:34. | :39:45. | |
and the voters. Our science correspondent | :39:46. | :39:46. | |
Pallab Ghosh reports from Boston. On their backs, the university in | :39:47. | :39:59. | |
the shape of a clenched fist, on their wrist the symbol of | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
resistance. Science has taken a political beating, it has been drawn | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
into a realm where we have to stand up for the necessity of science in | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
informing public policy, contributing to advancements in | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
technology and health and potentially averting the global | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
crisis we have seen in environmental and climate change. We are going to | :40:22. | :40:28. | |
cancel the Paris climate agreement. MIT is one of the leading science | :40:29. | :40:33. | |
universities in the world. Feelings among the staff and students are | :40:34. | :40:36. | |
running high, they are worried about what the Trump presidency might mean | :40:37. | :40:41. | |
for science and concerned about a White House they feel has little | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
regard for evidence when it comes to policy making. More than 600 MIT | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
professors signed an open letter opposing Donald Trump's presidency | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
just before he took office. Nancy helped organise the petition. The | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
President-elect has appointed individuals to positions of power | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
who have endorsed racism, misogyny and religious bigotry. Science is | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
not a special interest, it is not optional, it is a foundational | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
ingredient in how we as a society analyse, understand and solve the | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
most difficult challenges we face. We are paying billions and billions | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
and billions of dollars, we are going to fix our own environment. | :41:25. | :41:31. | |
This professor is a brain researcher and she is angered by the | :41:32. | :41:34. | |
president's statement that climate change is a hoax, and the setting up | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
of a commission to investigate whether vaccines cause autism. This | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
is the most frightening and serious threat we have faced in my lifetime. | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
The political tactic of denying scientific fact is a huge threat to | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
the health of our people and to our planet. And stop all payments of the | :41:57. | :42:06. | |
United States tax dollars to UN global warming programmes. President | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
Trump's supporters say the academics are an out of touch elite. The | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
people in the heartland of America who make stuff, dig up stuff and | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
grow its tough for a living elected Donald J Trump as president. The | :42:21. | :42:26. | |
people living in New York City and working in the university towns | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
across America, they did not vote for him. They lost the election and | :42:33. | :42:37. | |
will have to get used to it. There is no sign of that happening though, | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
as scientists all across the country are planning a march on Washington | :42:44. | :42:45. | |
in April. From Jon | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Sopel in Washington, and me Christian Fraser | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
in London - goodbye. | :42:56. | :43:00. |