:00:10. > :00:15.Mexico says it will not accept new US plans to send millions
:00:16. > :00:20.of illegal immigrants back across the border.
:00:21. > :00:22.And they will not hesitate to approach the United Nations
:00:23. > :00:26.to defend immigrants, says the Foreign Minister of Mexico.
:00:27. > :00:29.The strong words come as the US Head of Homeland Security
:00:30. > :00:31.and the Secretary of State head to Mexico to discuss
:00:32. > :00:37.The White House will scrap guidelines that say transgender
:00:38. > :00:39.students should be allowed to use bathrooms which match
:00:40. > :00:49.The British IS bomber released from Guantanamo Bay and then rewarded.
:00:50. > :00:57.but now a riot in a suburb of Stockholm perhaps suggests
:00:58. > :01:05.that there are problems with immigration in Sweden.
:01:06. > :01:08.Grass roots opposition or "professional protestors"?
:01:09. > :01:10.Republican Congressmen return to angry demonstrations
:01:11. > :01:28.I'm Katty Kay in Washington - Christian Fraser's in London.
:01:29. > :01:33.Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray has said that his country
:01:34. > :01:36.will NOT accept new "unilateral" US Immigration proposals,
:01:37. > :01:38.and will not hesitate in approaching the United Nations
:01:39. > :01:47.He went on to say that the new US proposals would be the main point
:01:48. > :01:50.which will take place between Mexican officials, US
:01:51. > :01:52.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Department of Homeland Security
:01:53. > :02:03.White House press secretary Sean Spicer spoke of a positive relation
:02:04. > :02:04.between the governments ahead of that visit.
:02:05. > :02:08.I would argue that we have a very healthy and robust relationship with
:02:09. > :02:09.the Mexican government and Mexican officials.
:02:10. > :02:11.And I think they would echo that same sentiment.
:02:12. > :02:13.President Nieto has echoed that as well.
:02:14. > :02:15.But I think the relationship with Mexico is
:02:16. > :02:18.phenomenal right now and I think there is an unbelievable and robust
:02:19. > :02:22.Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel is here.
:02:23. > :02:33.Phenomenal, I'm not sure about is how Mexico would describe it. Well
:02:34. > :02:40.the twitter exchange roughly went President Trump, you are paying for
:02:41. > :02:44.the wall, President Nieto, we are not. That was basically the
:02:45. > :02:48.diplomacy that went on between Mexico and the US. It is not
:02:49. > :02:53.phenomenal. Donald Trump is sending his best men to Mexico City to try
:02:54. > :02:58.to get some kind of a deal. Listen to what the Mexican Foreign Minister
:02:59. > :03:03.said, the government of Mexico and Mexican people do not have to accept
:03:04. > :03:07.provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose and we
:03:08. > :03:11.will not accept it. There is no reason why we should. A phenomenally
:03:12. > :03:16.good relationship! I would like to see one hitting the rocks. It will
:03:17. > :03:20.be a big issue for Mexico because they are talking about deporting
:03:21. > :03:25.millions of people and they want to send back not only the Mexicans but
:03:26. > :03:31.non-Mexicans as well. And there is the question of, Mexico saying why
:03:32. > :03:35.should we accept people from Central America coming into our country just
:03:36. > :03:43.because you are deporting them from your country. I think it shows that
:03:44. > :03:47.Donald Trump is undoubtedly following through on his election
:03:48. > :03:51.campaign and he has a mandate but the problem is you need multilateral
:03:52. > :03:56.discussion on such things and it seems at the moment for all that
:03:57. > :03:59.there are people being sent to Mexico to smooth things over you get
:04:00. > :04:04.the impression that both sides are shouting at each other instead of
:04:05. > :04:08.figuring out a way that could meet the concerns of Donald Trump over
:04:09. > :04:11.illegal immigrants with Mexican sensibilities saying we cannot just
:04:12. > :04:16.be expected to take all these people back unilaterally.
:04:17. > :04:18.As we've been discussing, the chief of Homeland Security
:04:19. > :04:21.and the Secretary of State are both heading south but there is so much
:04:22. > :04:24.ill will toward the Trump administration in Mexico right
:04:25. > :04:26.now that it doesn't look like it's going to be
:04:27. > :04:30.Our correspondent James Cook reports from Texas where many migrants
:04:31. > :04:40.from Central America cross the border into the United States.
:04:41. > :04:44.It's rodeo season deep in the heart of Texas.
:04:45. > :04:47.This is a state with a proud heritage and tough people.
:04:48. > :04:50.Texans will tell you they are God-fearing, cattle rearing,
:04:51. > :04:55.Inside this arena it is strictly apolitical.
:04:56. > :04:58.Outside, they do not mince their words.
:04:59. > :05:00.What do you think of the idea of a wall?
:05:01. > :05:18.There's definitely some security measures that might be put in place
:05:19. > :05:21.that will hopefully help alleviate some of the illegal immigrants.
:05:22. > :05:23.But I agree with him, you know, we need immigration.
:05:24. > :05:26.Most of the time they need water but you do see some carrying
:05:27. > :05:29.fully automatic weapons, and you better just keep on going.
:05:30. > :05:34.And some parts of the frontier are easier to cross the others.
:05:35. > :05:37.I'm sitting here on the very edge of the United States,
:05:38. > :05:46.You could be across in a couple of minutes.
:05:47. > :05:49.And apart from the river, this wire is the only physical barrier.
:05:50. > :05:53.But ranchers worry about a barrier slicing through their fertile fields
:05:54. > :05:57.and one Republican congressman says that a wall would be the most
:05:58. > :06:06.expensive and least effective way to secure the border.
:06:07. > :06:09.And across that divide every week come thousands of families
:06:10. > :06:12.for whom this is a moment of pure joy.
:06:13. > :06:21.She has been on the road from Honduras for 13 perilous days
:06:22. > :06:25.Like everyone arriving here today, the family say violence and poverty
:06:26. > :06:35.It was hard because when you are an adult you understand.
:06:36. > :06:42.There are parts of the forest where you walk in the dark.
:06:43. > :06:44.And when the police came, my little girl knew she had
:06:45. > :06:53.The mass here has a Latin American rhythm.
:06:54. > :06:56.And the Catholic Church is making the moral case
:06:57. > :07:02.But this bishop says a secure border with Mexico depends on solving
:07:03. > :07:09.problems elsewhere in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
:07:10. > :07:12.People have a right to live in conditions in their own country
:07:13. > :07:14.where they are safe and secure and can provide for their children.
:07:15. > :07:17.And if they do not have those conditions, there
:07:18. > :07:23.The Americas are connected and sometimes we do not always
:07:24. > :07:32.These families have made it and are now applying for asylum.
:07:33. > :07:34.But there may soon be another physical barrier to the fulfilment
:07:35. > :07:44.Well we've already heard comments in the programme from the current
:07:45. > :07:48.Let's get reaction now from a former holder of that post -
:07:49. > :07:56.Jorge Castaneda joins us live now from Mexico City.
:07:57. > :08:04.There will be many people coming back across Europe border, how will
:08:05. > :08:08.you fight deportations to Mexico? The way I think we should fight
:08:09. > :08:15.those deportations is in the United States. In the US law-enforcement
:08:16. > :08:19.and justice system which is a very transparent, open and fair system in
:08:20. > :08:25.general. And where there are a lot of courses that can be used to fight
:08:26. > :08:29.these deportations, to fight the absence of due process which is what
:08:30. > :08:37.these new guidelines signed yesterday by general Kelly seemed to
:08:38. > :08:39.indicate. And where a series of important human rights
:08:40. > :08:44.considerations, for example not dividing families, parents who have
:08:45. > :08:48.American citizens ship, children etc, are taken into account. We
:08:49. > :08:52.should fight these tours thumbnail, fight them with lawyers, with money,
:08:53. > :08:58.with lobbies, everything we can because firstly these people have a
:08:59. > :09:03.right to be in the United States even if they entered without papers.
:09:04. > :09:07.They have since then sprung roots in the United States and that should be
:09:08. > :09:10.taken into account. The money you're talking about may come from the
:09:11. > :09:17.Mexican government. So would the idea being to launch as many court
:09:18. > :09:20.cases as you can and to jam up the American court system? Absolutely,
:09:21. > :09:28.that is what I think we should do, as many lawsuits and also as many
:09:29. > :09:32.forms of legal jamming the system. For example forcing the Americans to
:09:33. > :09:36.prove that the people they want to send to Mexico are Mexicans. Chan
:09:37. > :09:39.spread the burden of proof to them. The Americans would have to prove
:09:40. > :09:44.that the person they are deporting is a Mexican national and if they
:09:45. > :09:49.cannot we will not let him in. And so on and so forth. There are a lot
:09:50. > :09:54.of legal avenues that could be explored both on deportations, on
:09:55. > :09:59.the wall itself and on the raids and round-ups taking place in the United
:10:00. > :10:05.States. I thought one of the front pages of a newspaper in Mexico today
:10:06. > :10:10.said Donald Trump had declared war on the undocumented. If this is war,
:10:11. > :10:16.how else can you retaliate from the Mexican side within Mexico, are you
:10:17. > :10:18.for example suggesting Mexico could withhold intelligence on drug
:10:19. > :10:25.cartels or crime cartels that might be spreading into the US?
:10:26. > :10:29.Intelligence on those but also reduce our security cooperation
:10:30. > :10:33.which has been exemplary since 2001. On issues such as terrorism and
:10:34. > :10:38.other forms, other problems and threats to the United States
:10:39. > :10:41.security as well as stop doing the dirty work of the Americans for them
:10:42. > :10:49.on the southern border and try to seal it off from Honduras and
:10:50. > :10:53.Guatemala, who flee the violets in those countries. Only to want to go
:10:54. > :10:56.to the United States. We have been now stopping them for two years and
:10:57. > :11:02.there's no reason why we should continue to do that. We have a lot
:11:03. > :11:07.of negotiating chips and obviously there are dangers in this. The
:11:08. > :11:13.United States supplies more or less half of the natural gas that is
:11:14. > :11:18.consumed in Mexico every day. The gas lines, the pipelines come from
:11:19. > :11:23.Texas and other areas of the United States was up the president of the
:11:24. > :11:28.United States has the legal authority to stop exports of natural
:11:29. > :11:31.gas to Mexico. That is a real threat to Mexico, absolutely. He may even
:11:32. > :11:37.have used it in private, we do not know. The fact is this is escalating
:11:38. > :11:40.every day. And at some point Mexico will have to put its foot down.
:11:41. > :11:52.Thank you very much. Sounds like the war that is
:11:53. > :11:54.escalating faster than either side might be planning for.
:11:55. > :11:57.Let's get the thoughts again of Brad Blakeman -
:11:58. > :11:59.a Republican strategist and former senior White House
:12:00. > :12:10.What did you make of our previous guest, the idea that if the
:12:11. > :12:15.Americans start to send back millions of immigrants, some of whom
:12:16. > :12:19.are not even Mexican, into Mexico, the Mexicans could retaliate and
:12:20. > :12:24.imagine what might continue in particular is the idea of
:12:25. > :12:29.retardation with drug cartels and intelligence surrounding them. It is
:12:30. > :12:33.amazing the brazen way a former Mexican official basically threatens
:12:34. > :12:36.the US that they do not even want to take back their own citizens or as
:12:37. > :12:41.he told you, those who have come through his country to enter the
:12:42. > :12:44.United States. What kind of neighbour is that Bill allows not
:12:45. > :12:49.only their own people to flee so they're not a burden on their
:12:50. > :12:52.country but facilitates others, in committing crimes here in the United
:12:53. > :12:56.States. That is not a good neighbour. You may not like it but
:12:57. > :13:00.it could end up as he suggested being a problem for the US. I want
:13:01. > :13:05.to ask about one of the things that comes up in these new guidelines
:13:06. > :13:09.from the Department of Homeland Security, a question of town, the
:13:10. > :13:12.guidelines saying immigrants routinely victimise Americans. As
:13:13. > :13:15.you know I'm sure that is not actually the case and there is a
:13:16. > :13:20.lower crime rate in fact amongst immigrants in this country than
:13:21. > :13:24.amongst Americans. Here is the problem. They have already committed
:13:25. > :13:27.a crime by being in our country illegally. We have a right to
:13:28. > :13:31.provide for our citizens first and foremost. But the president talks
:13:32. > :13:35.about America first we should not be ashamed of that. We are a welcoming
:13:36. > :13:39.country, we welcome millions of people into our country but you've
:13:40. > :13:44.got to come in the right way. I do not think your country would permit
:13:45. > :13:48.the kind of infiltration of illegal aliens and nor should our country.
:13:49. > :13:51.Where a sovereign country, will respect the rights of Mexico and
:13:52. > :13:55.they should respect us as well. If they cannot provide further people
:13:56. > :13:59.then they should not come to the United States and expect us to
:14:00. > :14:04.provide for their people. But America has been complicit in this
:14:05. > :14:07.kind of immigration. We have open borders, we provided work and that
:14:08. > :14:13.is why there must be a compassionate way to deal with the illegals that
:14:14. > :14:19.are here. Whether it be a pathway to citizenship, work permits, there's
:14:20. > :14:23.no question that we have some vulnerability and liability in this
:14:24. > :14:25.situation. So so-called herds must prevail but with nothing to be
:14:26. > :14:31.ashamed of in securing our border and making sure we provide for our
:14:32. > :14:36.citizens first. We should just point out that President Obama deported
:14:37. > :14:41.2.5 million people. More than any other US president in the 20th
:14:42. > :14:45.century. So he had a record on deporting people. But just to pick
:14:46. > :14:51.up one issue from that memo, it says in future agents will be able to
:14:52. > :14:55.detain anyone even if there is a cause to believe that that person is
:14:56. > :14:59.in violation of the immigration laws. This is the point I want to
:15:00. > :15:03.put to you, that will make policing a lot more difficult. People will go
:15:04. > :15:06.underground, they will be afraid to come forward with information and
:15:07. > :15:11.police forces in inner cities might lose a crucial source of
:15:12. > :15:16.intelligence. We also have another problem, Sanctuary cities. We have
:15:17. > :15:20.mayors and governors in states providing sanctuary to illegals and
:15:21. > :15:24.who refused to call for it with federal officials regarding federal
:15:25. > :15:28.law. They must also be dealt with. But there's a silver lining, if we
:15:29. > :15:32.start the crackdown and the president delivered to a wave of his
:15:33. > :15:37.people to come out of the shadows and give them a relief either by
:15:38. > :15:40.work permits or a pathway to citizenship, that could go a long
:15:41. > :15:44.way for people to come out of the shadows. But right now we must
:15:45. > :15:48.secure the border and crackdown on illegal aliens who are in our
:15:49. > :15:55.country and providing crimes against our citizens. Thank you very much.
:15:56. > :16:07.That is a good point that this was playing well for the president in
:16:08. > :16:11.the polls. Many people in favour of tackling crimes in the cities and
:16:12. > :16:14.many will think the president is doing the right thing. Consistently
:16:15. > :16:19.been tougher on border security is something the majority of Americans
:16:20. > :16:23.to write. I think the question will be does he really want 11 million
:16:24. > :16:29.people to be deported because if they take the criteria as being that
:16:30. > :16:31.anyone in the country who is there illegally, presumably they want all
:16:32. > :16:37.of those 11 million people to go. How would Americans respond to that
:16:38. > :16:41.if we suddenly had mass deportations I wonder if there would not be some
:16:42. > :16:50.unease about whether that really reflected what the country like. Now
:16:51. > :16:53.there is a headline about bathrooms and it featured in the press
:16:54. > :16:57.conference today at the White House. The Trump administration is going to
:16:58. > :17:02.revoke the federal guideline forcing public schools to let transgendered
:17:03. > :17:05.children whose bathrooms that use bathrooms and locker room matching
:17:06. > :17:12.their chosen identity. Why is that now a big issue? I knew you would
:17:13. > :17:14.love this. So the number of transgender children is not clear,
:17:15. > :17:18.we do not know how many people it might affect in public schools. It
:17:19. > :17:23.is a big political issue and it was during the course of the election
:17:24. > :17:27.campaign. Arguably for Democrats who made transgender bathrooms in public
:17:28. > :17:34.schools, something president Obama put guidelines in place for, a big
:17:35. > :17:38.issue. A lot of working-class and Democratic voters potentially said
:17:39. > :17:47.hold on, the Democrats are talking about transgender bathrooms and I'm
:17:48. > :17:49.concerned about my job. I think it lost them significant support in
:17:50. > :17:52.some of those key rust belt states and certainly lost them North
:17:53. > :17:58.Carolina. It had one of his BAFTA laws in place. A big political
:17:59. > :18:02.issue. -- bathroom laws. You are saying the Democrats lost sight of
:18:03. > :18:06.what was really important. It lost them support because it showed them
:18:07. > :18:10.to be out of touch with working-class voters and their
:18:11. > :18:17.concerns. They were focused on identity politics and not the issues
:18:18. > :18:21.of jobs and the economy. The politics and economics of bathrooms!
:18:22. > :18:24.The White House says it will soon publish a new travel order
:18:25. > :18:26.to replace the one that was set aside by the Appeals
:18:27. > :18:30.The key parts of that original Order suspended travel from seven
:18:31. > :18:34.It is expected the new draft will make an exception for green
:18:35. > :18:42.It is said to tighter and more streamlined
:18:43. > :18:44.than the original order - so will it cause
:18:45. > :18:47.Before we talk further, let's remind you how
:18:48. > :19:12.This is wrong, and we are going to fight it.
:19:13. > :19:22.We're going to have a very, very strict ban and we're
:19:23. > :19:25.going to have extreme vetting, which we should have had in this
:19:26. > :19:51.This is not, I repeat not, a ban on Muslims.
:19:52. > :19:55.The judge's decision, effective now, puts a halt
:19:56. > :19:56.to President Trump's unconstitutional and
:19:57. > :20:22.We will be doing something very rapidly having to do with additional
:20:23. > :20:24.You will be seeing that sometime next week.
:20:25. > :20:27.In addition we will continue to go through the court process
:20:28. > :20:39.and ultimately I have no doubt we will win that particular case.
:20:40. > :20:42.Well Christian the one thing we know is that the world is watching
:20:43. > :20:43.closely what happens here in Washington -
:20:44. > :20:45.and the immigration ban only increased that attention.
:20:46. > :20:52.Former Democratic Congresswoman - now president of the
:20:53. > :21:05.What you think the impact of this immigration ban has been as regards
:21:06. > :21:11.the United States and its standing amongst its allies? Well the band
:21:12. > :21:14.will be replaced by something different imminently, some pieces of
:21:15. > :21:19.that have already been produced. But I think the reaction worldwide is
:21:20. > :21:24.somewhat confused. Many people thought it was harsh and certainly
:21:25. > :21:29.the process of explaining it and rolling it out was confused. People
:21:30. > :21:32.were in transit and they were held back in various airports, people had
:21:33. > :21:37.a green card, at least initially they were not deemed to be valid
:21:38. > :21:42.travel documents and so forth. And so I think most people would agree,
:21:43. > :21:48.maybe not a few in the White House, that the process was terrible. And
:21:49. > :21:52.the relevant secretaries were not consulted. I think reaction
:21:53. > :21:56.worldwide to many of the Trump activities is confused. I was in
:21:57. > :22:00.Munich at the security conference and there were 30 heads of state
:22:01. > :22:05.there and 75 defence ministers. And those from Europe and certainly are
:22:06. > :22:09.very confused about whether President Trump will support the
:22:10. > :22:13.European Union or despite the promises of the vice president, will
:22:14. > :22:18.support Nato. I was going to ask about that, to me watching that
:22:19. > :22:22.Munich Security conference it seemed to me a string of American officials
:22:23. > :22:25.from the Trump administration made the right noises for Europeans, said
:22:26. > :22:31.the right things about Nato and European Union. You spoke to
:22:32. > :22:36.European allies, do they trust that those people, those representatives,
:22:37. > :22:40.actually reflect the positions of the president. Vice President Mike
:22:41. > :22:44.Pence said he was speaking for the president. I've no doubt that he was
:22:45. > :22:48.speaking for the president. However he did not take questions from a
:22:49. > :22:54.very sophisticated audience and nor did the Secretary of Defence.
:22:55. > :22:59.Everyone else who appeared there took questions including Angela
:23:00. > :23:03.Merkel and the foreign ministers of Iran and Russia and elsewhere. They
:23:04. > :23:10.all did and that left the impression that maybe the Trump administration
:23:11. > :23:17.was not prepared to go to the second level. At any rate I think the
:23:18. > :23:21.bottom line was there waiting to hear from President Trump Presley.
:23:22. > :23:24.They see is Twitter messages as being out of sync with some
:23:25. > :23:30.statements from his own cabinet and they're worried that he may have a
:23:31. > :23:35.very, maybe marching to a different beat and he is driving all of this
:23:36. > :23:38.ultimately, driving this foreign policy and not the government which
:23:39. > :23:44.has very few confirmed people in it and people who take Rex Tillerson,
:23:45. > :23:51.was not even in Washington for official state visit for Canada and
:23:52. > :23:55.Israel. I was going to ask you about Rex Tillerson because he is going to
:23:56. > :24:01.Mexico tomorrow and he will be very much in full view. But there is a
:24:02. > :24:05.feeling that there are others taking away parts of his brief, Jared
:24:06. > :24:13.Kushner, the son-in-law of the present looking after the Israel
:24:14. > :24:18.brief. And then you know we have President Trump's lawyer coming to
:24:19. > :24:22.the White House with a potential deal on Ukraine. It feels as if he
:24:23. > :24:29.is constantly being undermined. The Ukraine deal has been denied, so I'm
:24:30. > :24:33.assuming there is no veracity to that. In terms of Rex Tillerson been
:24:34. > :24:37.undermined, he does not have a state department staff at the top to help
:24:38. > :24:41.him. He is an experienced businessman but not an experienced
:24:42. > :24:46.diplomat and his choice for deputy was rejected after meeting with
:24:47. > :24:52.President Trump. It is hard to do a huge job like that basically solo.
:24:53. > :24:55.So he gets high marks, the Wilson Centre knows him well and we
:24:56. > :25:02.certainly respect his business service. But he has an uphill climb
:25:03. > :25:06.as do others. The Obama White House in Venice was a pretty top-down
:25:07. > :25:10.White House as well. But again the Cabinet departments were fully
:25:11. > :25:17.staffed and the President's style totally different from the style of
:25:18. > :25:20.this president. Thank you very much. Fascinating to think how much allies
:25:21. > :25:25.are watching what is happening here in the US and almost all of them
:25:26. > :25:32.confused about what the White House really wants. It is an issue. You
:25:33. > :25:34.have the vice president and James matters almost contradicting what
:25:35. > :25:38.the president said during the campaign. Of course that is what
:25:39. > :25:40.Europe -- Europe and Nato want to hear.
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:25:48. > :25:49.the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron gets
:25:50. > :25:53.Francois Bayrou says he's doing it to stop what he called
:25:54. > :25:56.'the failure of France' - that's still to come on 100
:25:57. > :26:21.We have some stormy weather on the way. Doris bearing down on the UK
:26:22. > :26:25.and it will strike tomorrow morning. Before that happens we also have a
:26:26. > :26:29.period of snow affecting parts of Scotland through the course of
:26:30. > :26:34.tonight. Into the early hours of the morning and certainly the Southern
:26:35. > :26:37.uplands have an amber warning in force and still through the central
:26:38. > :26:42.lowlands as well. The real story later on will be the wind from storm
:26:43. > :26:46.Doris, slamming into north-western parts of England. North Wales as
:26:47. > :26:52.well another warning from the Met office. In more detail now, gusts of
:26:53. > :26:57.up to 80 miles an hour in places, inland as well, very strong and
:26:58. > :27:01.damaging winds moving through the Midland into East Anglia and further
:27:02. > :27:04.south also feeling the effects of the storm. There could be some
:27:05. > :27:09.overturned vehicles and some structural damage in places by the
:27:10. > :27:11.time we are finished with this storm. Stay tuned to your forecasts
:27:12. > :30:07.and take care. Mexico says it will not accept
:30:08. > :30:16.President Trump's plans to send millions of illegal immigrants
:30:17. > :30:19.back across the border. The former Mexican Foreign Minister
:30:20. > :30:21.told us his country The fact is this is escalating every
:30:22. > :30:31.day and at some point Mexico's Coming up - Republican Congressmen
:30:32. > :30:37.return to angry demonstrations at their local town halls -
:30:38. > :30:41.but the White House calls the crowds This is 100 Days with me
:30:42. > :30:54.Christian Fraser in London - You might remember on Monday we were
:30:55. > :31:00.talking about President Trump's weekend rally in Florida
:31:01. > :31:03.and his vague but - pointed - critique of Sweden's
:31:04. > :31:17.immigration policy. You look at what is happening last
:31:18. > :31:22.night in Sweden, Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden! They took in
:31:23. > :31:24.large numbers, having problems like they never thought possible.
:31:25. > :31:27.In fact nothing happened on the Friday night.
:31:28. > :31:29.And soon the confusion gave way to ridicule.
:31:30. > :31:32.Mr Trump responded - he was referring he said
:31:33. > :31:35.to a Fox News report about rising crime in Sweden.
:31:36. > :31:38.But then something did happen on Monday night.
:31:39. > :31:41.Riots broke out - in Rinkeby, a predominantly immigrant
:31:42. > :31:47.Ten cars were set on fire, shop fronts were smashed and police
:31:48. > :31:50.fired warning shots to disperse an angry crowd.
:31:51. > :31:53.So is the President right to highlight problems that Sweden
:31:54. > :31:56.has had with immigration? We can speak to Ylva Johansson,
:31:57. > :32:01.Swedish Minister for Employment and Integration.
:32:02. > :32:07.I have never heard of a minister for integration, is that specific to
:32:08. > :32:12.Sweden? I don't know actually! Let me read
:32:13. > :32:18.the some of the comments I read this morning. This is from an appointed
:32:19. > :32:22.member of a local board in Rinkeby where the riots were and he says,
:32:23. > :32:27.the situation in Rinkeby is not good, the police don't have control
:32:28. > :32:33.over the area. If you said you had a problem with integration in Sweden,
:32:34. > :32:39.you would be called a racist. That is not true. Of course, there are
:32:40. > :32:43.problems with integration but you have to realise, of course, we are a
:32:44. > :32:48.society on earth, we're not paradise. People commit crimes. We
:32:49. > :32:52.have that problem. When we compare Sweden to other countries, we have a
:32:53. > :32:56.low level of crime. We have a low level of violence and deftly
:32:57. > :33:02.violence. We have quite a strong society and we are quite well
:33:03. > :33:09.equipped to handle all sorts of challenges we are facing. Last year,
:33:10. > :33:15.Sweden, 9.5 million people, granted residency to 150,000 immigrants in
:33:16. > :33:20.one year. That is a lot to deal with and if you look at the polls, it is
:33:21. > :33:25.the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats, on the rise and
:33:26. > :33:31.they could be the biggest party they say, by 2018. That would suggest a
:33:32. > :33:34.lot of people have concerns. I don't think the racist party will be that
:33:35. > :33:41.big and they are not rising in polls any more. Of course, having these
:33:42. > :33:46.are so many refugees in a short time, of course that causes some
:33:47. > :33:53.problems. We have huge housing problems, we have problems with
:33:54. > :33:57.teachers, not enough teachers in schools and of course challenges to
:33:58. > :34:03.help people to learn Swedish coming to the labour market, but cannot see
:34:04. > :34:09.a connection between crimes and immigration. We have been an
:34:10. > :34:12.immigration country for 20 years. We have taken a lot of immigrants to
:34:13. > :34:19.Sweden and that the same time, the crime level has gone down. So we
:34:20. > :34:26.can't see that connection. But those newcomers coming to my country, they
:34:27. > :34:29.are human beings, as we are who already live here, and some people
:34:30. > :34:34.commit crimes and that is a problem but most people do not and that is
:34:35. > :34:40.the same for us who live here and those newcomers. I wanted to put to
:34:41. > :34:44.use something Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence
:34:45. > :34:49.party has said about Sweden, calling Stockholm the rape capital of
:34:50. > :34:53.Europe, possibly even of the world. His implication is that actually
:34:54. > :34:55.with an influx of immigrants and particularly a lot of young male
:34:56. > :35:05.immigrants, the crime rate particularly around sexual crimes
:35:06. > :35:11.has risen in the capital. He does not really know what he's talking
:35:12. > :35:18.about. When we make service about... If any woman has been... If there
:35:19. > :35:21.has been a rape towards her or sexual harassment, we can see the
:35:22. > :35:28.level is going down and down and down. But we encourage women to
:35:29. > :35:33.actually report to the police and we also broaden the scope of what we
:35:34. > :35:38.define as a rape, because we would like every woman, because every rape
:35:39. > :35:42.is one rape too many. We encourage every woman to report to the police
:35:43. > :35:46.so we have a high level of reporting to the police and it is good they
:35:47. > :35:51.report and of course, it is bad if rape is committed, but when we make
:35:52. > :35:57.service at the actual level of rapes is not high in Sweden. I realise you
:35:58. > :36:00.are not the Foreign Minister but I want to ask you a question of
:36:01. > :36:03.diplomacy. I surprised where you buy the comments of Donald Trump over
:36:04. > :36:08.the weekend and by the perception at least that he was picking a rather
:36:09. > :36:14.curiouser row with somebody who is an ally of the United States? I was
:36:15. > :36:23.very surprised and I think also all Swedes were. Does it and you? Why do
:36:24. > :36:30.you think you did it? You must ask him. The President of course can say
:36:31. > :36:33.whatever he wants. I was very surprised and started to make a lot
:36:34. > :36:39.of jokes here in Sweden about that speech. It gave rise to quite a lot
:36:40. > :36:42.on Twitter. I have to say, I did enjoy reading some of the Twitter
:36:43. > :36:46.entries over the last few days but there we are. Minister, thank you
:36:47. > :36:49.for being with us. It was around about this time
:36:50. > :36:52.yesterday that we were talking about the French Presidential
:36:53. > :36:54.candidate, Emmanuel Macron - he was campaigning here in London,
:36:55. > :36:58.trying to secure the votes of 200,000 expats who
:36:59. > :37:02.call the city home. Today, Mr Macron got a welcome boost
:37:03. > :37:05.from a potential rival - this man, veteran campaigner
:37:06. > :37:09.Francois Bayrou, who's offered to back him,
:37:10. > :37:19.rather than stand against him. I know the French have a history of
:37:20. > :37:23.voting tactically, they did it in 2015 when they thought Marine Le Pen
:37:24. > :37:32.was going to do well and parties coalesced against her. How much is
:37:33. > :37:36.this going to help Macron, what does Francois Bayrou normally poll? He
:37:37. > :37:39.got 9% in the last election which was disappointing to him but that
:37:40. > :37:43.was about 3 million votes. This could come down in the first round
:37:44. > :37:47.to a couple of percentage points so it could be quite significant. It
:37:48. > :37:52.increases this feel-good factor around Emmanuel Macron at the
:37:53. > :37:56.moment. That someone like Francois Bayrou, the perennial third man in
:37:57. > :38:00.French politics for a long time, he has said he is a good thing and
:38:01. > :38:06.something he wants to get behind. Then compare that with what is
:38:07. > :38:16.happening in the party that Macron left, the Socialist party, there
:38:17. > :38:22.could be a similar alliance between the centre and the hard left. A
:38:23. > :38:25.comment tonight, says, I would not time itself to the Socialists, it
:38:26. > :38:35.would be like hanging myself to a hearse. You can see this is good for
:38:36. > :38:38.Macron. You will have to fight with me for the right to go and cover
:38:39. > :38:43.those French elections because I can see you are angling for it right
:38:44. > :38:46.now! That is the advantage of being in London of course! Thereof flights
:38:47. > :38:49.from Washington and Paris, I can tell you!
:38:50. > :38:52.Britain's Supreme Court has upheld the government's right to set
:38:53. > :38:55.a minimum wage that its citizens must earn before bringing a foreign
:38:56. > :39:01.A rule adopted five years ago requires people to be earning more
:39:02. > :39:05.than $23,000 before their spouses can join them.
:39:06. > :39:08.The court ruled that the measures don't breach
:39:09. > :39:15.Turkey's president Tayyip Erdogan could meet US President Donald Trump
:39:16. > :39:20.The two leaders were already likely to meet on the sidelines
:39:21. > :39:23.of a Nato summit in May - but a presidential spokesman
:39:24. > :39:26.in Ankara said on Wednesday that efforts were being made for both men
:39:27. > :39:32.A woman has been appointed as Britain's most
:39:33. > :39:37.Cressida Dick becomes the first female to head
:39:38. > :39:40.the Metropolitan Police in London in its 200-year history.
:39:41. > :39:43.Her selection is not without controversy -
:39:44. > :39:45.in 2005 she was the commander in charge of the operation
:39:46. > :39:48.in which the innocent Brazilian - Jean Charles de Menezes -
:39:49. > :39:54.The US space agency Nasa has announced the discovery of seven
:39:55. > :39:56.Earth-sized exo-planets. They're called exo-planets
:39:57. > :40:00.because they orbit stars other than our sun.
:40:01. > :40:03.The planets are circling an "ultracool" dwarf star
:40:04. > :40:06.called Trappist One, located about 39 light years away.
:40:07. > :40:13.Scientists believe these newly discovered worlds could hold life.
:40:14. > :40:17.I think I have a headache just thinking about that, how many light
:40:18. > :40:20.years? How many minutes is that? The streets of Washington DC
:40:21. > :40:23.are pretty empty this week because Senators and Congressmen
:40:24. > :40:25.have returned home to take questions Some of them are getting
:40:26. > :40:32.a rather frosty welcome. This was the scene that greeted
:40:33. > :40:35.Senate Majority Leader Mitch The protest was one of many
:40:36. > :40:42.across the country, at town hall The demonstrators confronted
:40:43. > :40:48.lawmakers about issues ranging from the President's immigration
:40:49. > :40:52.plans to his tax returns. He wrote - "The so-called angry
:40:53. > :40:58.crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually,
:40:59. > :41:01.in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists.
:41:02. > :41:14.Sad!" It appears that has made a return to
:41:15. > :41:16.Twitter lexicon. I thought that under the US constitution, everyone
:41:17. > :41:21.had every right to exercise their right to assemble. So why have they
:41:22. > :41:28.been allowed to protest outside town halls? -- why are they not allowed?
:41:29. > :41:31.There is nothing to stop them. The indication from Mr Trump was that
:41:32. > :41:40.these people were stopping some sort of organised protest. A lot of what
:41:41. > :41:45.these people complained about is to do with Obamacare and the
:41:46. > :41:49.replacement to Obamacare. The White House, remember, said they would
:41:50. > :41:53.repeal and replace Obamacare on day one. That was the campaign promise
:41:54. > :41:57.of Donald Trump. The White House has said in the last few hours that the
:41:58. > :42:02.replacement part of the proposition will not come until the middle of
:42:03. > :42:06.March. The President's idea is that this is not organic, people coming
:42:07. > :42:10.out of their own volition, but an organised event with left-wing
:42:11. > :42:18.agitators bussing people in? Yes, and remember at the beginning of the
:42:19. > :42:22.Obama administration in 2009, the Democrats also went back to their
:42:23. > :42:27.districts, around this time of year, held town halls and faced angry
:42:28. > :42:32.crowds, equally frustrated with health care reform and didn't like
:42:33. > :42:36.what the White House was proposing. It had an impact on those Democratic
:42:37. > :42:39.congressmen and women and they then come back to Washington and talk to
:42:40. > :42:42.the White House and say hold on a second, our voters are not happy and
:42:43. > :42:49.we are getting all of this. So we may change the way we vote.
:42:50. > :43:04.Well, coming up on the BBC News Facebook page,
:43:05. > :43:12.We will be back at the same time tomorrow.