:00:08. > :00:11.A good day for the US defence industry, but not
:00:12. > :00:24.Cuts to the defence Department will have to pay for the expansion of
:00:25. > :00:26.America's military. As well as the funding increase,
:00:27. > :00:28.plans to defeat so-called Islamic State will be presented
:00:29. > :00:30.by the US Defence The 43rd President
:00:31. > :00:37.criticises the 45th. George W Bush says we all need
:00:38. > :00:40.answers about the Trump team Power can be very addictive,
:00:41. > :00:48.and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media
:00:49. > :00:51.to call to account people Mistakes do happen though -
:00:52. > :01:10.we'll look at some For the NHS and welfare state
:01:11. > :01:23.if Britain leaves the EU That's the opinion of the former
:01:24. > :01:26.Prime Minister Sir John Major. And the Greek economic crisis -
:01:27. > :01:29.it goes from bad to worse, we'll speak to the former
:01:30. > :01:31.Greek Finance Minister I'm Katty Kay in Washington -
:01:32. > :01:45.Christian Fraser's in London. Big increases in defence spending
:01:46. > :01:48.offset by cuts to domestic agencies and the state department -
:01:49. > :01:51.that's what President Trump wants He's promised one of the "greatest
:01:52. > :01:56.military build ups in American history", and briefings
:01:57. > :01:58.by the White House suggest Also today, the Defence
:01:59. > :02:04.Secretary Jim Mattis is due to deliver his plan for defeating
:02:05. > :02:09.the self-styled Islamic State group. This is what Donald Trump had to say
:02:10. > :02:14.earlier about the military. We must ensure that our courageous
:02:15. > :02:19.servicemen and women have the tools they need to deter war,
:02:20. > :02:21.and when called upon to fight When I was young in high school,
:02:22. > :02:33.in college, everybody used to say Some of you were right
:02:34. > :02:41.there with me, and you remember. We never lost a war,
:02:42. > :02:44.America never lost. So we've either got to win
:02:45. > :02:54.or don't fight it at all. A few minutes ago, Mick Mulvaney,
:02:55. > :02:57.the new White House budget director, gave some more details about how
:02:58. > :03:12.the increase in military The top line number is $603 billion,
:03:13. > :03:16.a $54 billion increase. One of the largest increases in history. It's
:03:17. > :03:19.also the number that allows the president to keep his promise to
:03:20. > :03:26.undo the military sequester. The topline non-defense number will be
:03:27. > :03:29.$462 billion, a $54 billion savings. If the largest proposed reduction
:03:30. > :03:32.since the early years of the Reagan administration. The reductions in
:03:33. > :03:35.non-defense spending follow the same model as the president keeping his
:03:36. > :03:41.promises in doing exactly what he said he was going to do. It could
:03:42. > :03:45.use we give to other nations, eliminate programmes that simply
:03:46. > :03:45.don't work. That it reduces the amount.
:03:46. > :03:50.Our North America Correspondent Nick Bryant is here.
:03:51. > :03:57.Budgets have to go through Congress, it's the final word. To the extent
:03:58. > :04:00.that we can read them as a transcript or blueprint of
:04:01. > :04:06.presidential priorities, what does Donald Trump want his first budget?
:04:07. > :04:11.Well, it's clear he wants us of what he has called an historic rise in
:04:12. > :04:17.defence spending. 9%, an absolutely massive amount. He wants along with
:04:18. > :04:21.that splurge on military spending to have this binge on infrastructure as
:04:22. > :04:30.well, one of his key campaign promises was to rebuild America's
:04:31. > :04:37.roads, creaking bridges, its rundown airports. He has also said he can
:04:38. > :04:41.make these savings by cutting things like spending on the Environmental
:04:42. > :04:45.Protection Agency and also the state department, the foreign aid budget
:04:46. > :04:51.for instance. Too many people, these sums just won't add up, because he
:04:52. > :04:56.says he wants to have tax cuts and all this big spending, big-ticket
:04:57. > :05:00.items like the wall at the drop. But one thing they have signalled they
:05:01. > :05:04.are not prepared to touch is so-called entitlement spending,
:05:05. > :05:08.which accounts for about 80% of the federal budget, on things like
:05:09. > :05:15.Social Security, medical care, paying down the federal debt. It's
:05:16. > :05:20.what we call autopilots spending, it is spent already as it were. So the
:05:21. > :05:26.sums just don't seem to have been this budget. I'm young enough to
:05:27. > :05:29.remember, as are you, the days when Republic sends word deficit hawks,
:05:30. > :05:35.what they wanted to do above anything else, it was almost an
:05:36. > :05:39.issue of values and patriotism, was balanced the budget, cut the deficit
:05:40. > :05:44.down from its existing $20 trillion. It doesn't sound like President
:05:45. > :05:50.Trump is remotely concerned about deficit spending. You have a host of
:05:51. > :05:55.brick dust and historical problem. The national debt is 77% of gross
:05:56. > :05:58.domestic product -- you have a historical problem. It is
:05:59. > :06:02.unmanageable. Although this huge increase on defence spending might
:06:03. > :06:06.sound like music to the ears of the kind of a foreign-policy hawks on
:06:07. > :06:09.Capitol Hill, the people with the louder voices in recent years,
:06:10. > :06:14.especially in the Republican party, have not been the defence hawks, but
:06:15. > :06:18.the deficit hawks. You can see here a problem, a political problem, for
:06:19. > :06:24.the White House. Up until now, the congressional leadership, Paul Ryan
:06:25. > :06:28.in the house, the House Speaker, they have gone along with what the
:06:29. > :06:32.White House is done. They have been very acquiescent. But here, there
:06:33. > :06:37.might not. It's setting up this sort of battle somewhere down the road
:06:38. > :06:41.between the White House and figures like Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill, who
:06:42. > :06:45.for years have been saying, "We've got to take control of the national
:06:46. > :06:51.debt and that means tackling entitlement like Social Security".
:06:52. > :06:55.With that in mind, would they have to blow the spending cap put in
:06:56. > :07:01.place in 2011? It looks like it at the moment. As I said, the sums just
:07:02. > :07:08.don't seem to add up. If Trump get is when put this budget: get this
:07:09. > :07:14.budget Congress. To give you an example, if you zero down in foreign
:07:15. > :07:19.aid, it is just 1% of the budget. It puts a small dent in bringing down
:07:20. > :07:22.what is a ballooning national debt. At the moment, there is a
:07:23. > :07:25.discrepancy of $600 billion each year between the amount of money the
:07:26. > :07:29.federal government spends and the amount of money it raises through
:07:30. > :07:33.taxation, and that figure is going to balloon out over the next few
:07:34. > :07:39.years because of the increased costs of social Security and medical care.
:07:40. > :07:42.This just seems like fuzzy maths and voodoo economics, to use a phrase
:07:43. > :07:45.from the past to stop sign the president will put this to a joint
:07:46. > :07:48.session of Congress tomorrow, we will see what they make of it.
:07:49. > :07:51.Building up the military and defeating IS were, of course,
:07:52. > :07:53.both key campaign promises for Donald Trump.
:07:54. > :07:55.So what is his strategy likely to be and what chance
:07:56. > :07:59.Joining us now from New York is Dr Richard Haass,
:08:00. > :08:01.President of the Council on Foreign Relations and author
:08:02. > :08:12.Thank you for joining us. America is in a process of winding down wars in
:08:13. > :08:18.Afghanistan and Iraq. Why go now for a 9% increase in the defence budget?
:08:19. > :08:22.Well, for a couple of reasons, without defending every dollar of
:08:23. > :08:27.that increase. This effort against terrorism is not going to end, it's
:08:28. > :08:31.going to continue in Iraq and Syria, it will probably continue in two or
:08:32. > :08:36.three other dozen countries of the Middle East and Africa. This is an
:08:37. > :08:39.open-ended struggle. The United States has to prepare for more
:08:40. > :08:43.conventional conflicts, possibly something with North Korea, possibly
:08:44. > :08:47.with something in Europe involving Russia. Possibly with something Iran
:08:48. > :08:52.in the Middle East. We have to prepare the American military for
:08:53. > :08:55.the full spectrum of possible conflicts from the sort of thing we
:08:56. > :08:57.have seen in the Middle East in recent years, but not as large
:08:58. > :09:04.scale, to all sorts of more traditional battles. Plus there is
:09:05. > :09:08.cider and personnel issues, to keep people in and attract people. You
:09:09. > :09:13.add all this up, it probably does make the case for a several percent
:09:14. > :09:17.increase in defence spending. It sounds like you're not opposed to
:09:18. > :09:20.the increase in military budget. You worked in the State Department.
:09:21. > :09:26.Would you think it's a good idea to pay for it, as this budget suggests,
:09:27. > :09:29.by a 30% cut in the State Department? The short answer is no,
:09:30. > :09:35.and it is not just that spending which will be eliminated. Where we
:09:36. > :09:38.get tremendous payoff, Bob Gates made a very powerful defence of what
:09:39. > :09:46.the State Department was doing in terms of aid and diplomacy. Domestic
:09:47. > :09:49.spending, things like the Centre for disease control, education. There
:09:50. > :09:54.are important parts of American society we need to invest in, this
:09:55. > :09:58.is our future, this is what makes us a competitor. There is a guns versus
:09:59. > :10:03.butter dichotomy which I feel we are setting up. I would argue for a 3%
:10:04. > :10:07.or 4% increase in defence and a much smaller reductions, if any, on
:10:08. > :10:14.domestic. The big issue you've got is the lack of cutting of
:10:15. > :10:16.entitlements. We have a deal with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,
:10:17. > :10:20.disability. This is the fastest parting -- fastest-growing part of
:10:21. > :10:26.the government, we can't drown that out. As you know, we have one other
:10:27. > :10:29.problem. The rising costs of financing American debt. Interest
:10:30. > :10:34.rates are only heading in one direction, which is up. That'll make
:10:35. > :10:39.the cost of paying for American debt that much more expensive. Again, if
:10:40. > :10:42.we're cavil, will have a budget consisting of defence and paying
:10:43. > :10:46.interest on the debt and entitlements, and there'll be
:10:47. > :10:49.nothing left for American society. Some of this money the president
:10:50. > :10:54.wants to go towards shipbuilding is that they can have a more robust
:10:55. > :10:59.presence in, you know, key international waterways, the likes
:11:00. > :11:04.of the South China Sea. That is a strange strategy for a man who has
:11:05. > :11:06.talked about America first and looking internally, putting a much
:11:07. > :11:14.bigger footprint on the foreign stage. I welcome that I think you're
:11:15. > :11:18.talking about a rebalanced to Asia which the last administration began,
:11:19. > :11:23.you need a greater area of naval presence in the Pacific, in the
:11:24. > :11:27.Indian Ocean near the Persian Gulf. At some point quality doesn't
:11:28. > :11:31.substitute for quantity, so there is a case for increased defence
:11:32. > :11:37.spending. It often matters as much or more on what you spend, how you
:11:38. > :11:41.spend it. One big problem is Congress getting involved in wanting
:11:42. > :11:46.to make sure that every aeroplane shows up, getting built in 45
:11:47. > :11:49.states, it might not be the most economical way to build an
:11:50. > :11:54.aeroplane, but it is the best way to protect the programme.
:11:55. > :11:56.The feud between Mr Trump and the media keeps growing.
:11:57. > :11:58.On Friday several news organisations, including
:11:59. > :12:00.the BBC, were excluded from a White House press briefing.
:12:01. > :12:02.Then on Saturday the President announced he wouldn't be attending
:12:03. > :12:04.the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.
:12:05. > :12:09.Hitting back, a New York Times op-ed today branded Trump
:12:10. > :12:11.The media received support from an unlikely source today,
:12:12. > :12:13.from the former President George W Bush.
:12:14. > :12:16.Not only did he say that "we all need answers'' on the extent
:12:17. > :12:19.of contact between Donald Trump's team and the Russian government,
:12:20. > :12:21.he also had this warning for the President over his
:12:22. > :12:27.I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy.
:12:28. > :12:31.We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.
:12:32. > :12:35.I mean, power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive.
:12:36. > :12:39.And it's important for the media to call to account people
:12:40. > :12:48.One of the things I spend a lot of time doing was trying to convince
:12:49. > :12:50.a person like Vladimir Putin for example to accept the notion
:12:51. > :12:59.It's kind of hard, you know, to tell others to have an independent free
:13:00. > :13:09.press when we're not willing to have one ourselves.
:13:10. > :13:13.Some people here are suggesting that George Bush has been more critical
:13:14. > :13:15.of Donald Trump in one interview so far than he was of Barack Obama over
:13:16. > :13:17.the course of eight years. Here to discuss is Frank Sesno -
:13:18. > :13:20.who spent more than two decades at CNN, where he served
:13:21. > :13:22.as White House correspondent, He's now the director of the School
:13:23. > :13:33.of Media and Public Affairs Why is the president ratcheting up
:13:34. > :13:39.of this war of words and actions, indeed, with the American press now.
:13:40. > :13:43.And will it work? Well, why is the ratcheting it up? It plays to his
:13:44. > :13:47.base. There is a tremendous traction for blaming the media in this
:13:48. > :13:50.country among conservatives and others who really do believe that
:13:51. > :13:55.there is a very liberal press that is hostile to this president and
:13:56. > :13:59.conservative values generally. Secondly, it deflect attention from
:14:00. > :14:02.some of the stories that would otherwise be gaining traction about
:14:03. > :14:14.the disarray and disorganisation in his White House, despite the fact
:14:15. > :14:17.that they say it's running like a well oiled machine. It is not, and
:14:18. > :14:19.people who have been through transitions in the White House
:14:20. > :14:21.before will freely say so. Republicans and Democrats alike.
:14:22. > :14:24.Finally, it is a message that allows, I think the president to try
:14:25. > :14:26.to inoculate himself from setbacks and criticism to come. The more you
:14:27. > :14:32.demonise or marginalise the media, the less in this way of thinking,
:14:33. > :14:36.the media may factor in down the line. That being said, huge
:14:37. > :14:41.criticism is proper for the media. That is out there. It's the way he's
:14:42. > :14:45.going about it, the personal vindictiveness and going as the
:14:46. > :14:48.former president said, in an institutional way against a
:14:49. > :14:54.fundamental pillar of the democracy. As we were suggesting earlier, the
:14:55. > :14:57.American press's reputation is not particularly strong. You have
:14:58. > :15:02.alluded to it. I did see one poll that showed that actually the media
:15:03. > :15:05.is more popular at the moment than president Trump. That's quite a feat
:15:06. > :15:09.for the president Trump to have achieved that. Is there a sense this
:15:10. > :15:15.might be producing a bit of a backlash? Yeah. I mean, it is
:15:16. > :15:19.phenomenal. Donald Trump is the ultimate media irony. He is a media
:15:20. > :15:23.creation who ran against the media to be elected. He has been railing
:15:24. > :15:29.against the media since it's been elected, and other media are showing
:15:30. > :15:33.signs of remission. It was a poll that you cited, and more Americans
:15:34. > :15:36.said that they trusted for credibility the media than the
:15:37. > :15:43.president of the United States. He is playing a dangerous game. I was
:15:44. > :15:46.just going to say, there's obviously a lot of concern within the White
:15:47. > :15:49.House not just with the president about the leaks to the press that
:15:50. > :15:54.was particularly taken by one quoted in the New York Times from the
:15:55. > :15:58.communications director, who says if this fight against leaks is leaked,
:15:59. > :16:03.they'll be big trouble. And of course, it was leaked. They clearly
:16:04. > :16:06.have big problems with leaks. Does that say something about how the
:16:07. > :16:11.administration is being run? Yes. Having covered other White Houses,
:16:12. > :16:14.the more competition in the White House, the more power centres, the
:16:15. > :16:19.more leaks there. I think that is what they are experiencing now. They
:16:20. > :16:24.also read against anonymous sources. And yet the budget briefing that the
:16:25. > :16:28.of management and budgeted today, there's insisted on being anonymous,
:16:29. > :16:33.their names were not attached. Welcome to Washington. Washington is
:16:34. > :16:36.a town that leaks, there is a lot of people here who know a lot of
:16:37. > :16:39.people, it is easy to league without getting caught. We have
:16:40. > :16:44.whistle-blowing protection in this country that protects people leaking
:16:45. > :16:50.information about wrongdoing. They will have to get used to it. One
:16:51. > :16:54.British toy today is Amber Rudd using the term fake news to describe
:16:55. > :17:00.criticism she doesn't like. How corrosive to think that term is --
:17:01. > :17:06.British story. Very corrosive. This is one of my biggest concerns as a
:17:07. > :17:13.journalist, former journalist and an educator now, because we're
:17:14. > :17:17.confusing the public with this. Fake news is deliberately, maliciously,
:17:18. > :17:21.completely fictitious creation of information to mislead and
:17:22. > :17:25.misdirect. News you don't like, including unfair or sensational
:17:26. > :17:30.reporting, may be irresponsible ruse. But it's not fake news. Fake
:17:31. > :17:34.news is exploding around the world -- responsible news. People need to
:17:35. > :17:37.be informed about it. People in public life should be joining with
:17:38. > :17:44.news organisations to figure out what they can use is and how public
:17:45. > :17:48.needs to distinguish from it. We should be allowing the public that
:17:49. > :17:57.is informed with real facts. Thank you for joining us. I want to get a
:17:58. > :18:00.Brexit in the second, but does this phenomenon of the antipathy we have
:18:01. > :18:04.seen develop between President Trump and the media, I using that develop
:18:05. > :18:08.in Europe as well, or is it uniquely American? I have seen it here. In
:18:09. > :18:12.Britain. I just mentioned Amber Rudd, getting criticism over child
:18:13. > :18:16.refugees and used that term fake news. And it became a story today
:18:17. > :18:21.that suddenly is crossing the Atlantic and politicians and Jeremy
:18:22. > :18:26.Corbyn has also talked in interviews on the BBC about fake news and
:18:27. > :18:29.alternative facts. Those mannerisms and those sort of catchphrases that
:18:30. > :18:32.we have Donald Trump are in some part ridiculed over here, the bowels
:18:33. > :18:35.are being used as well by politicians. I think Frank is right.
:18:36. > :18:40.That's rhetoric they are being used. Former British Prime Minister John
:18:41. > :18:42.Major has broken months A staunch "Remainer" himself,
:18:43. > :18:45.Mr Major warned before the referendum that a vote to leave
:18:46. > :18:47.would poison Europe Here's what he's been saying
:18:48. > :18:55.in London in the past hour. I've watched with growing concern
:18:56. > :19:03.as the British people have been led to expect a future that seems to be
:19:04. > :19:06.unreal and overoptimistic. Obstacles are brushed aside
:19:07. > :19:08.as if of no consequence, whilst opportunities are inflated
:19:09. > :19:10.beyond any reasonable I have absolutely no wish
:19:11. > :19:22.to re-enter it in any capacity. I do not seek publicity more often
:19:23. > :19:26.than not I shy away from it. But I can't ignore what I
:19:27. > :19:31.learned in government. Nor can I forget the people
:19:32. > :19:33.who voted to leave Europe in the belief that it might
:19:34. > :19:37.improve their lives. If events go badly,
:19:38. > :19:42.their expectations will not be met. And whole communities
:19:43. > :19:55.will be worse off. John Major joining the former Prime
:19:56. > :19:58.Minister Tony Blair as well, who criticised the Brexit process. Does
:19:59. > :20:02.this make any difference? He's being very tough on Brexit, he is a remain
:20:03. > :20:08.a macro, will people listen, will it make any difference? I don't think
:20:09. > :20:11.it is altogether different from what we heard from another former Prime
:20:12. > :20:15.Minister, Tony Blair a couple of weeks ago. He does say in this
:20:16. > :20:19.speech, and I have read it throughout, that if there was a hard
:20:20. > :20:23.Brexit, there will be cuts to the NHS and welfare State. And there
:20:24. > :20:26.will be some sympathy on some parts of the Brexit side for that,
:20:27. > :20:31.particularly those who don't want to see how Brexit. He also has some
:20:32. > :20:34.experience of what it's like negotiating in Europe, so he does
:20:35. > :20:39.concede at least that the Prime Minister needs to be given some
:20:40. > :20:43.slack. You might remember back in 1997, when he was negotiating on the
:20:44. > :20:48.single currency, that famous quote when he said whether you agree with
:20:49. > :20:51.me or disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when
:20:52. > :20:56.I'm negotiating on behalf of the British nation. I'm sure Theresa May
:20:57. > :21:00.would certainly have sympathy with that amid a negotiation she's going
:21:01. > :21:07.into. One last thing, he says that there needs to be more charm in the
:21:08. > :21:10.debate. Then he goes on, in my view, to associate Brexit with some of the
:21:11. > :21:14.worst characteristics of populism. He says Brexit is giving rise to a
:21:15. > :21:19.mixture of bigotry, prejudice and intolerance. I know, speaking to a
:21:20. > :21:25.lot of people who voted for Brexit, that that metropolitan view of
:21:26. > :21:29.Brexit is frowned on. And I don't think it will win him many friends.
:21:30. > :21:33.So not as charming as it might be? It won't win many friends on the
:21:34. > :21:37.Brexit side, and papers will pick up on that tomorrow.
:21:38. > :21:39.We're always looking out for the stand out 'moments'
:21:40. > :21:41.in awards ceremonies, and last night's oscars proved to be
:21:42. > :21:44.more memorable than most - when the best picture award,
:21:45. > :21:52.and biggest prize of the night, was handed to the wrong film.
:21:53. > :21:53.Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers have
:21:54. > :21:55.since apologised for the mix up which put Warren Beatty
:21:56. > :22:22.Will provide the love, the compassion and the humanity that
:22:23. > :22:29.will narrate the story of our lives tomorrow.
:22:30. > :22:37.Moonlight, You guys won Best Picture.
:22:38. > :22:42.I'm afraid they read the wrong thing.
:22:43. > :22:44.This is not a joke, Moonlight has won Best Picture.
:22:45. > :23:03.I still can't watch it. It is excruciating. The media have had
:23:04. > :23:06.great fun with this today. People in glass houses. What we've done is
:23:07. > :23:14.pulled out a couple of things where the media got it spectacularly wrong
:23:15. > :23:19.as well. This is a headline in the Chicago daily Tribune in November 19
:23:20. > :23:26.48. The polls and pundits, no room for doubt, Thomas Dewey would defeat
:23:27. > :23:29.Harry Truman, except he didn't. That paper might have been pulped and
:23:30. > :23:34.everybody might have forgotten it worked for the fact that Mr Truman
:23:35. > :23:39.on his way to Washington came a train to St Louis and someone handed
:23:40. > :23:43.him a copy of that front page. The Chicago Tribune didn't like him and
:23:44. > :23:48.he'd like them. Sadly, you don't even have to go that far back,
:23:49. > :23:53.because there was an incident in 2016, just on the eve of the last
:23:54. > :23:58.election, that have a look at this picture. This is Hillary Clinton's
:23:59. > :24:04.hand signing a copy of Newsweek cover with the title, you can see a
:24:05. > :24:10.guy, Madam President. They had run two covers, there she is on the 7th
:24:11. > :24:16.of November in Pittsburgh and she signs the copy. That was as close as
:24:17. > :24:19.she came to having herself be declared president. They had to
:24:20. > :24:28.recall 125,000 copies and pulp them. I here you can buy them on eBay. I
:24:29. > :24:31.found one of, this one goes back to June 2000 15. I've been digging
:24:32. > :24:35.around in the archives all day. This was the day Donald Trump declared he
:24:36. > :24:41.was running for presidency, have a look. Thanks. I wonder why people
:24:42. > :24:45.with very little chance of actually getting into the oval office run for
:24:46. > :24:49.the presidency. He says that he's the most successful of all the
:24:50. > :24:53.Republican candidates, that's what he told a newspaper in Iowa
:24:54. > :24:57.recently, pointing to his business record in saying that he's the guy
:24:58. > :25:00.that can fix America. At one point during that rather rambling stream
:25:01. > :25:03.of consciousness announcement speech, he even said that we need to
:25:04. > :25:08.fix the immigration problem and it needs to start with a walk, and by
:25:09. > :25:13.the way underwear best person in America to build walls. So I guess
:25:14. > :25:20.that is ushered by the way, I'm the best person in America. I'm
:25:21. > :25:26.sceptical. That President Trump to you! I did point you in the
:25:27. > :25:31.direction of that clip. Even the best get it wrong! You're watching
:25:32. > :25:35.100 Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:36. > :25:45.News Channel and BBC World News. The shooting of an Indian immigrant
:25:46. > :25:49.in Kansas a hate crime? Will hear from his family and friends? We will
:25:50. > :25:53.take a closer look at Donald Trump's approval ratings. They are at a
:25:54. > :25:55.record low for this stage in a presidential term. That is still to
:25:56. > :26:16.come for viewers. Everything except the kitchen sink
:26:17. > :26:20.today. Rain, hail, snow, sunshine as well. Weather watchers have been
:26:21. > :26:26.doing as proud. This shot taken in the Highlands earlier on. A covering
:26:27. > :26:31.of snow. We have variety over the next few days. A real mottled look
:26:32. > :26:37.to things. Cons of cloud producing heavy showers, but gaps in between,
:26:38. > :26:44.nailing down exactly where the gaps will arrive is not easy. Showers
:26:45. > :26:48.likely overnight. Ice is a more widespread hazard up and down the
:26:49. > :26:52.UK, freezing fog patches mixed in. Weather winds full light, because it
:26:53. > :26:56.will be called on. Temperatures close to or below freezing in many
:26:57. > :27:03.places out of town in particular. By morning, a clump of rain, pushing
:27:04. > :27:06.across the West of Scotland. Snow mostly on higher ground. It had
:27:07. > :27:10.south-eastward through the morning. Ahead of that, a lot of sunshine.
:27:11. > :27:15.The bright and sunny start for many. I wouldn't call up the odd shower
:27:16. > :27:18.from the word go, even some eastern counties of England. -- wouldn't
:27:19. > :27:24.rule out. You will need a few layers, because they'll be a notable
:27:25. > :27:28.breeze. Judges will fall when the showers coming. These continue to
:27:29. > :27:35.track way south-eastwards. Redbrick temperatures will fall. Barring
:27:36. > :27:41.that, it brightens up -- behind that. Dry weather here. Not exactly
:27:42. > :27:45.warm, temperatures held in single figures nationwide. When showers,
:27:46. > :27:49.Ron, they fall by a few degrees. We say goodbye to this chap. As we head
:27:50. > :27:53.into Tuesday, we look to the south-west from the next feature
:27:54. > :27:56.coming off the Atlantic. Ahead of that, cold and frosty for many
:27:57. > :27:59.places on Wednesday, the best of the sun shone across central and
:28:00. > :28:04.northern areas. This front of entry will bring some rain into the
:28:05. > :28:08.south-west, a question about how far north that extends. Another chilly
:28:09. > :28:13.there, particularly in northern areas. A strong jet stream propels
:28:14. > :28:17.bands of rain in our direction again, and the behaviour of the jet
:28:18. > :28:21.stream, the King will determine how far north areas of rain extent later
:28:22. > :28:28.on in the week with some snow mixed in as a doctor in the kink. Rain and
:28:29. > :30:09.shine, and the ongoing risk of some snow.
:30:10. > :30:11.Welcome back to 100 Days with Katty Kay in London,
:30:12. > :30:20.A huge boost for the US military spending power,
:30:21. > :30:23.as Donald Trump says he wants to boost the defence budget
:30:24. > :30:30.And a vigil for the Indian-born victim of a shooting in Kansas,
:30:31. > :30:36.we'll hear from some of his family and friends.
:30:37. > :30:38.No country has suffered as much through the Eurozone
:30:39. > :30:44.And yet, after seven years of austerity there are signs
:30:45. > :30:49.the country could be slipping into recession again.
:30:50. > :30:52.The Deputy Foreign Minister has told the BBC that
:30:53. > :30:54.in the current political climate, Europe's politicians should be
:30:55. > :30:58.wary about the demands they put on his country.
:30:59. > :31:02.Greece needs 7 billion euros to pay its debts in July.
:31:03. > :31:04.In return for more money the creditors -
:31:05. > :31:07.who return to Greece tomorrow - want more reform.
:31:08. > :31:23.In a courtroom on outskirts of Athens, frustration with deficit and
:31:24. > :31:31.debt and deadlines from banks boils over. The man in the striped shirt
:31:32. > :31:33.is a lawyer, coming to process a repossession order on a building
:31:34. > :31:41.whose owners couldn't pay their mortgage. The activists have come to
:31:42. > :31:45.stop him. He can't get the case heard because he can't make himself
:31:46. > :31:51.heard and it's abandoned for the day. A victory in the fightback
:31:52. > :31:58.against austerity, the protesters. 50% of Greek people are poor, the
:31:59. > :32:02.limits of indignity and we are here to protect those people who cannot
:32:03. > :32:11.protect themselves because the state does not protect these people. After
:32:12. > :32:18.years of cuts, many Greeks feel the IMF and the Eurozone leaders are
:32:19. > :32:22.preparing to demand more. Traders in the Athens fish market say that
:32:23. > :32:27.business has fallen by 70% since the debt crisis begun to bite seven
:32:28. > :32:34.years ago. They warned that they and their customers can't take any more.
:32:35. > :32:40.TRANSLATION: We don't believe them, they always want more cuts. Always
:32:41. > :32:45.new cuts and there are never new jobs. If the IMF and Eurozone impose
:32:46. > :32:52.more austerity, nothing will change. Investment will make things better
:32:53. > :33:00.but austerity won't stop Brake problems with debt have an agent
:33:01. > :33:03.feel. -- Greek problems with debt. The Greek government say that the
:33:04. > :33:08.changes are part of a wave of populism around the world that are
:33:09. > :33:16.going to help it to resist demands from its creditors for new cuts. All
:33:17. > :33:21.the people of Europe, especially Greece because we have been hit by
:33:22. > :33:26.austerity. We must work harder than the rest of Europe. This is the real
:33:27. > :33:31.question, how to reverse austerity. I think there is hope of that
:33:32. > :33:38.because the elite cannot govern as they have in the past. Plenty of
:33:39. > :33:41.Greeks want their government to push back hard against any calls for more
:33:42. > :33:48.austerity. These protesters are coming is. Not likely to be part of
:33:49. > :33:53.any government but certainly part of a drumbeat of discontent against any
:33:54. > :33:58.deal with international creditors that would mean further hardship
:33:59. > :34:03.here -- these protesters are communists. They have talked about
:34:04. > :34:07.light and the end of the tunnel on Greek debt but the meeting from
:34:08. > :34:11.meetings like this is that it's a tunnel that keeps getting longer and
:34:12. > :34:15.a light that never seems to get any brighter.
:34:16. > :34:17.Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece.
:34:18. > :34:33.320 billion euros of debt in Greece, can the country ever recover with
:34:34. > :34:40.substantial debt relief? The simple answer is no. I stood for election
:34:41. > :34:44.and became finance minister, I wanted to restructure the debt and
:34:45. > :34:48.have a decent fiscal policy and make the reforms necessary to bring about
:34:49. > :34:51.recovery. That will never happen because the biggest creditor,
:34:52. > :34:54.Germany, is going into an election, they wouldn't countenance debt
:34:55. > :35:05.relief and they say it wouldn't set the right example for countries like
:35:06. > :35:10.Spain that have report. The question is, is it going to be restructured
:35:11. > :35:21.upfront, giving an opportunity for the economy to recover. -- Spain
:35:22. > :35:25.that have reformed. Or is the cow going to die and there will be no
:35:26. > :35:30.milk? Some would say that this cycle has gone on for seven years, it is
:35:31. > :35:35.never-ending, why not cut the ties with the Eurozone and do what all
:35:36. > :35:40.countries do when they are in this mess, devalue the currency, default
:35:41. > :35:43.on the debt and structure reform? Even we were in a situation like
:35:44. > :35:48.Britain in the early 90s with the exchange rate mechanism, when you
:35:49. > :35:54.have the unsustainable fixed exchange rate and it changed as it
:35:55. > :36:02.did under Norman Le Mans, my good friend, of course you do it --
:36:03. > :36:08.Norman Lamb on. We didn't have a currency that was stuck to the Euro,
:36:09. > :36:12.we had the euro. You're saying you can't do it, if you go back to the
:36:13. > :36:17.drachma? Anything is possible but the costs are immense. To do what
:36:18. > :36:20.you suggested, you need to announce a devaluation 12 months before it
:36:21. > :36:25.happens because that's how long it takes to create a new currency
:36:26. > :36:31.before you devalue it. Imagine if Harold Wilson had to announce 12
:36:32. > :36:36.months in advance the devaluation in the 60s. Some would say that if you
:36:37. > :36:42.take the Eurozone to the cliff edge and say you are going to just
:36:43. > :36:48.default on this, the alternative is that they may consider debt release.
:36:49. > :36:53.That is what I did but my Prime Minister did not back me at the last
:36:54. > :36:56.moment. He betrayed you. I would knew such emotive language, I think
:36:57. > :37:00.he undermined himself and now he has to sign on the dotted line of
:37:01. > :37:06.agreements which he knows are designed to fail. He might say that
:37:07. > :37:08.you found out to your cost that it isn't as easy finding a solution
:37:09. > :37:15.when you are in the job. I was always telling him, I was warning
:37:16. > :37:18.him it was going to be difficult. For three years before we get into
:37:19. > :37:24.government together, I was telling him that the first thing that would
:37:25. > :37:30.happen the ECB, the central bank is going to pick up the phone and
:37:31. > :37:36.threaten us with bank closures. My reason for taking over the finance
:37:37. > :37:41.ministry was the time -- was designed so that Mario Draghi would
:37:42. > :37:44.come to the table with a decent agreement with some compromise.
:37:45. > :37:50.Something has changed and that is Brexit. We were told at one point
:37:51. > :37:53.that it was thought that Greece should be allowed to go. Not just at
:37:54. > :38:04.one point, for many years. Perhaps more ready to countenance that now.
:38:05. > :38:11.He was gung ho about Brexit. He has a very clear plan for the Eurozone,
:38:12. > :38:19.which involve things like Grexit, he has a very clear plan, but the
:38:20. > :38:27.Chancellor only wants to expand the crisis. Greece's collateral damage
:38:28. > :38:32.is a war between two politicians, Angela Merkel and the IMF.
:38:33. > :38:35.Some interesting thoughts, something has to give and the creditors are
:38:36. > :38:40.starting their work tomorrow in Athens. We'll bring you more news on
:38:41. > :38:42.that when they get to some kind of resolution.
:38:43. > :38:47.An American man accused of murdering an Indian immigrant,
:38:48. > :38:49.after reportedly shouting "get out of my country," is appearing
:38:50. > :38:53.Police are investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime.
:38:54. > :38:55.Rajini Vaidyanathan has travelled to Kansas to meet family
:38:56. > :39:03.and friends of the victim, Srinivas Kuchibhotla.
:39:04. > :39:12.The message and this vigil, stand by everyone. -- at this vigil. People
:39:13. > :39:18.from all faiths and communities came here to mourn a man who lived and
:39:19. > :39:22.worked in the City. 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla was an engineer
:39:23. > :39:25.who moved to Kansas from India. After work last week he went for a
:39:26. > :39:31.drink with his best friend when a man approached their table. He
:39:32. > :39:37.randomly comes up and start pointing fingers. We knew something was
:39:38. > :39:40.wrong. What did he say? He came towards me and said, which country
:39:41. > :39:46.are you from? Are you here illegally? The man was escorted out
:39:47. > :39:51.of the bar as eyewitnesses heard him shout, get out of my country, but he
:39:52. > :40:00.later returned. You are drinking beer, you're with your friend, next
:40:01. > :40:05.he is back with a gun. And I heard a pop. Next thing I know, I was on the
:40:06. > :40:13.ground. Two down, gunshot wound to the chest. We have a third with a
:40:14. > :40:17.hip wound. Srinivas was killed in the attack which left a local
:40:18. > :40:23.injured. I was more than happy to risk my attacks to help others. This
:40:24. > :40:27.man chased the gunmen, was also shot and is recovering in hospital.
:40:28. > :40:31.51-year-old Adam Purinton has been charged with murder and attempted
:40:32. > :40:36.murder and the FBI is investigating whether this was a hate crime.
:40:37. > :40:39.Srinivas and his wife had built a life together in America but in
:40:40. > :40:44.recent months he had become concerned about living here. When
:40:45. > :40:49.the recent elections happened, he was watching it so closely. I was
:40:50. > :40:58.talking to Srinivas and I was like, Will we be saved in this country? I
:40:59. > :41:04.was so worried. I think that the hate crime will be more open now.
:41:05. > :41:09.Will it be safe for us to go to the maul, will it be safe for us to go
:41:10. > :41:18.to the office? He hugged me like this and he said don't worry, we
:41:19. > :41:21.should be OK. Just days after the attack, Austins Bar and Grill has
:41:22. > :41:26.whether the two men were targeted whether the two men were targeted
:41:27. > :41:31.because of their race. For now, people here want to stress that this
:41:32. > :41:36.is a community that welcomes people from all backgrounds.
:41:37. > :41:41.So sad, what an awful story. Hillary Clinton in the last hour has tweeted
:41:42. > :41:46.about this is, saying that with about this is, saying that with
:41:47. > :41:49.threats and hate crimes on the rise, we shouldn't have to tell the
:41:50. > :41:50.president to do his job, he must speak up. That's from Hillary
:41:51. > :41:51.Clinton. A poll out over the weekend gave
:41:52. > :41:57.President Trump record low approval ratings for a new president so soon
:41:58. > :41:59.after being elected. The poll, for NBC news
:42:00. > :42:02.and the Wall Street Journal, revealed just 44% of people approve
:42:03. > :42:16.of him, rating compared He has an opportunity tomorrow, he's
:42:17. > :42:21.speaking to the joint session of Congress, it's an opportunity to
:42:22. > :42:26.reset, would you say, after 40 fairly turbulent days? He'll have to
:42:27. > :42:29.fill in some more details of his agenda, he'll have to talk about tax
:42:30. > :42:32.reform and the infrastructure bill that we haven't seen anything from.
:42:33. > :42:37.More about Obamacare. One thing More about Obamacare. One thing
:42:38. > :42:42.about that opinion poll and I think it will influence what he says to
:42:43. > :42:44.Congress, he has overwhelming support from Republicans, 85% of
:42:45. > :42:51.them still support what the president is doing. Losing some
:42:52. > :42:53.ought -- support amongst them across and independence but his base happy
:42:54. > :42:54.with what they are saying. That's it for One Hundred Days -
:42:55. > :42:58.we'll be back at the same time