:00:08. > :00:10.The US bans electronic devices on flights from
:00:11. > :00:16.The UK has announced similar action on flights from six countries,
:00:17. > :00:20.mainly in the Middle East and north Africa.
:00:21. > :00:23.The ban covers laptops, tablets, and games consoles.
:00:24. > :00:25.It's apparently a response to intelligence suggesting terror
:00:26. > :00:32.The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that
:00:33. > :00:34.terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are
:00:35. > :00:40.aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks.
:00:41. > :00:45.We had a great meeting and I think we're going to get a winner vote.
:00:46. > :00:47.The President heads to Congress to try to "close the deal"
:00:48. > :00:51.on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
:00:52. > :00:54.Also, the different lives of Martin McGuiness -
:00:55. > :00:57.from IRA commander to Northern Ireland statesman.
:00:58. > :01:00.We'll hear from the US Senator who kept him at the table
:01:01. > :01:04.And the different faces of the Front National in France.
:01:05. > :01:06.We'll introduce you to Marine Le Pen's niece,
:01:07. > :01:09.further to the right than her aunt, and a keen supporter
:01:10. > :01:28.We don't know the source or the specific nature
:01:29. > :01:30.of the intelligence, but there are concerns on both
:01:31. > :01:35.And so, from this weekend, passengers flying to the US
:01:36. > :01:39.from eight majority-Muslim countries will be banned from carrying
:01:40. > :01:42.large electronic devices onto their flights.
:01:43. > :01:45.although the countries where the ban applies
:01:46. > :01:47.are slightly different - six in total,
:01:48. > :01:51.including Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, where these passengers
:01:52. > :01:55.in Istanbul were today asked to put their laptops, cameras
:01:56. > :02:01.The authorities point to two recent attacks,
:02:02. > :02:05.the downing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015,
:02:06. > :02:13.In this instance, 74 passengers on board escaped unhurt -
:02:14. > :02:15.but only because their flight had been delayed before take-off.
:02:16. > :02:18.Reportedly, a laptop carried onto the flight by a passenger
:02:19. > :02:22.was rigged with a timer device, and exploded too early, before
:02:23. > :02:29.In the past hour, the White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been
:02:30. > :02:33.The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that
:02:34. > :02:36.terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are
:02:37. > :02:40.aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attack,
:02:41. > :02:44.to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer objects.
:02:45. > :02:46.Based on this information, the secretary of Homeland Security
:02:47. > :02:49.and the TSA administrator have determined that it is necessary to
:02:50. > :02:59.Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is here.
:03:00. > :03:05.It will cause a lot of inconvenience for passengers, and naturally the
:03:06. > :03:09.question will be, what is the intelligence?
:03:10. > :03:16.Yes, there are different schools of thought. One is that the
:03:17. > :03:22.intelligence is real and what it is called evaluative intelligence in
:03:23. > :03:26.the US, that it is a developing and evolving threat. It is not a
:03:27. > :03:31.specific plot to attack a particular aircraft or error line, but there
:03:32. > :03:34.are Al-Qaeda and other jihadists groups with ongoing interest in
:03:35. > :03:39.putting bombs on board aircraft, and they have done it three times out of
:03:40. > :03:44.Yemen, seven or eight years ago, and there is a fear they have not given
:03:45. > :03:47.up trying. Other would say there is commercial interest behind this, and
:03:48. > :03:53.this is in some way anti-Islamic, but in the case of Britain, the ban
:03:54. > :03:56.applies to British Airways and five other popular British airlines, so
:03:57. > :04:01.they will suffer from this. People will suffer most, business
:04:02. > :04:04.travellers, because they cannot use their laptops in flight to do work
:04:05. > :04:08.on direct flights from the Middle East to Britain or the US.
:04:09. > :04:12.And parents to travel with their kids and do not have their tablets,
:04:13. > :04:18.they are essential now on flights. There is a difference in countries
:04:19. > :04:21.targeted under the American ban and the UK ban. What do you hear on
:04:22. > :04:26.that? There is inconsistency here, which
:04:27. > :04:31.does not make sense. The US ban includes the United Arab Emirates
:04:32. > :04:37.and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, both of which are close allies of the United
:04:38. > :04:39.States. There is a closed military basing relationship and quad core
:04:40. > :04:45.operation on a lot of things, including intelligence, and that is
:04:46. > :04:49.not popular in the UAE, and likewise Saudi Arabia, close intelligence and
:04:50. > :04:58.working relationship to the CIA and Saudi intelligence. They have chosen
:04:59. > :05:01.specific airports not mentioned in the British ban, which includes
:05:02. > :05:08.leather nun, which is not in the other one. It does appear a bit
:05:09. > :05:13.muddled -- the British ban includes Lebanon, and not the other one.
:05:14. > :05:17.Inside London, and the past few days, Theresa May only signed up on
:05:18. > :05:21.this this morning, because there were some voices saying, hang on,
:05:22. > :05:27.this is of a reaction. In the absence of a specific threat, are we
:05:28. > :05:30.not letting ourselves in for a much bigger penalty, commercially and
:05:31. > :05:34.diplomatically? These are supposed to be countries that are our
:05:35. > :05:38.friends, and will widen the gap between East and West and play right
:05:39. > :05:41.into the hands of people that say the West does not like Muslims, or
:05:42. > :05:46.the West hates the middle east. It will play into the hands of
:05:47. > :05:51.extremists and risks doing that. Thank you, Frank. Interesting, how
:05:52. > :05:54.much cooperation there has been between Washington and London on
:05:55. > :05:56.this, both of them coming out on this ban within hours of each other,
:05:57. > :06:01.even though different countries in question.
:06:02. > :06:04.Listening to Frank, the travel ban President Robert in place was so
:06:05. > :06:10.toxic and so political, in Washington, I wonder how they
:06:11. > :06:15.reacted to data desk -- President Trump put in place this ban.
:06:16. > :06:19.Bipartisanship on this, the head of intelligence and committee coming
:06:20. > :06:22.out and saying that while he criticised the executive order
:06:23. > :06:26.banning immigrants from the White House, he supports this one. This is
:06:27. > :06:29.an area where people are sensitive in the United States, and if they
:06:30. > :06:33.think the intelligence agencies have some kind of evidence or information
:06:34. > :06:37.there is a threat on the homeland, it would be incredibly unlikely for
:06:38. > :06:41.you to see political splits on that, nothing is what we are seeing from
:06:42. > :06:41.Democrat supporting the White House on this.
:06:42. > :06:43.We will keep our eye on that. President Trump has been
:06:44. > :06:46.on Capitol Hill today, trying to win over those Republicans on the right
:06:47. > :06:49.whose support is still wavering He had a stern warning for lawmakers
:06:50. > :06:54.who are digging in - give me your vote,
:06:55. > :06:56.or you might just lose your seat They are heading to a first
:06:57. > :07:00.vote on Thursday - the House speaker Paul Ryan,
:07:01. > :07:03.who is the author of the bill, The numbers on his side still look
:07:04. > :07:08.a little shaky, though. Trump was here to do what he does
:07:09. > :07:16.best, and that is to close the deal. He is all in, and we are all in,
:07:17. > :07:24.to end this Obamacare nightmare. Let's speak to our resident
:07:25. > :07:37.commentator, the former Republican We heard Paul Ryan trying to sound
:07:38. > :07:41.optimistic and it is not looking great for the White House on this?
:07:42. > :07:44.It is not and there are two diverging groups and playback could
:07:45. > :07:49.torpedo this deal from going through. The most conservative
:07:50. > :07:51.members of the house, 46 members of the house freedom Congress, saying
:07:52. > :07:57.the Government is spending too much. Then the Republicans who are more
:07:58. > :08:00.moderate, the Tuesday group, they meet for lunch on Tuesdays, and they
:08:01. > :08:04.say there is nothing of safeguard in the bill to protect elderly people,
:08:05. > :08:12.and it is to harsh on one of our support systems here, Medicaid. And
:08:13. > :08:18.Paul Ryan has a thin tightrope to walk to get the moderate and the
:08:19. > :08:22.more conservative to agree. You have had conversations over the
:08:23. > :08:25.past week with the White House, are they going under siege on this and
:08:26. > :08:28.the budget? Over the last two weeks, my
:08:29. > :08:31.communications the White House, there is a sense they need to do a
:08:32. > :08:34.better job of selling it to the American people what policies they
:08:35. > :08:38.are undertaking and why they are good for American people. Often we
:08:39. > :08:42.speak on it more than once a day, that is the severity and the urgency
:08:43. > :08:46.they have right now... They recognise they have a problem?
:08:47. > :08:49.I think they do otherwise we would not have so much feedback back and
:08:50. > :08:52.forth. I want to set this in the context of
:08:53. > :08:56.the headlines this morning, and they are all about the Russian
:08:57. > :09:01.investigation and the investigation being at the door of the White
:09:02. > :09:09.House. I wonder, on Congress today, on the Hill, talking to people, does
:09:10. > :09:13.this in any way make him toxic? It could and there is discussion in
:09:14. > :09:15.the United States as to whether or not the Russian Government had
:09:16. > :09:19.specific influence of the election outcome. There are a lot of people
:09:20. > :09:23.on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, who want
:09:24. > :09:28.to know, worthy associates of President Trump involved in having
:09:29. > :09:33.this conversation with the Russians? -- were they? And if so, why were
:09:34. > :09:36.they not transparent? Saying to the American people whether or not
:09:37. > :09:40.conversations may have been had. This potentially is a problem for
:09:41. > :09:43.the White House, because as we heard yesterday from the FBI director,
:09:44. > :09:46.these investigations with the Russians and the drug administration
:09:47. > :09:49.continue. If, as you suggest, from your phone
:09:50. > :09:53.calls with the White House this week, they understand they have a
:09:54. > :09:56.munitions problem, why doesn't the president in this instance, the
:09:57. > :10:01.Russia allegations, say, OK, I got it wrong? President Obama did not
:10:02. > :10:06.wiretap me in Trump Tower and I was mistaken.
:10:07. > :10:09.Having worked with President Bush, the hardest thing for a president to
:10:10. > :10:14.do is look at the American people and say, I am sorry and I messed up.
:10:15. > :10:17.With this president and administration, it will not come any
:10:18. > :10:21.time soon. Thank you.
:10:22. > :10:23.He was known as the hardest of the hard men -
:10:24. > :10:26.a boy from the Bogside in Derry who rose to become
:10:27. > :10:29.And it was perhaps because Martin McGuinness
:10:30. > :10:31.was so prominent - and so feared - in Northern Ireland,
:10:32. > :10:34.that he was finally able to bring the Republican side
:10:35. > :10:36.Mr McGuinness died last night aged 66.
:10:37. > :10:39.The former Deputy First Minister, who resigned his post in January,
:10:40. > :10:41.had been suffering from a rare heart condition.
:10:42. > :10:47.Our correspondent Chris Buckler has been looking back at his life.
:10:48. > :10:50.To paint a true picture of Martin McGuinness,
:10:51. > :10:55.He was a paramilitary who once embraced violence,
:10:56. > :10:58.but also a peacemaker who reached out to rivals, a man who could be
:10:59. > :11:06.Born in Londonderry, into a large Catholic family,
:11:07. > :11:08.Martin McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's
:11:09. > :11:11.In that time of violence, he joined the IRA, quickly
:11:12. > :11:23.Can you say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future,
:11:24. > :11:29.Well, I always take into consideration the feelings
:11:30. > :11:34.The 1970s saw him become one of the faces of ruthless
:11:35. > :11:37.Irish republicanism, and he was jailed for terrorist
:11:38. > :11:41.McGuinness has changed considerably from the young man who used
:11:42. > :11:44.to swagger around the no-go areas in Londonderry, as commander
:11:45. > :11:51.What had started as a fight for civil rights had
:11:52. > :11:57.Yet, alongside the many bombings and shootings,
:11:58. > :11:59.Martin McGuinness saw opportunities at the ballot box for
:12:00. > :12:06.Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the IRA.
:12:07. > :12:08.Even then, the language of threat remained.
:12:09. > :12:10.We don't believe that winning elections, and winning
:12:11. > :12:12.any amount of votes, will bring freedom in Ireland.
:12:13. > :12:15.At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of IRA
:12:16. > :12:21.But after years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s,
:12:22. > :12:24.IRA ceasefires offered the opportunity for talks
:12:25. > :12:37.Not only would they shake hands, after the signing
:12:38. > :12:39.of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each
:12:40. > :12:43.Eventually, at its head was the unlikely partnership
:12:44. > :12:49.of two former enemies - Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness.
:12:50. > :12:53.The firebrand unionist and radical republican became so close
:12:54. > :13:00.that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers.
:13:01. > :13:04.There were republicans who continued to threaten that political progress.
:13:05. > :13:08.But when a police officer was killed, the then deputy first
:13:09. > :13:10.minister stood side-by-side with the chief constable to condemn
:13:11. > :13:18.They are traitors to the island of Ireland.
:13:19. > :13:21.Alongside the words, there were actions on all sides.
:13:22. > :13:24.The Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA.
:13:25. > :13:27.Yet, after the Troubles, royal and republican were able
:13:28. > :13:33.Thank you very much, I am still alive!
:13:34. > :13:40.However, relationships at Stormont always seemed strained
:13:41. > :13:41.after Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister,
:13:42. > :13:46.to be replaced by Peter Robinson, and then Arlene Foster.
:13:47. > :13:49.Earlier this year, with his ill health by then obvious,
:13:50. > :13:51.Martin McGuinness walked out of government, amid a row
:13:52. > :13:55.between Sinn Fein and the DUP, the boy from Derry's Bogside
:13:56. > :14:01.retiring as deputy first minister after years in the IRA.
:14:02. > :14:15.My heart lies in the Bogside and the people of Derry.
:14:16. > :14:23.The past actions of the IRA will colour many people's views
:14:24. > :14:28.But as a republican who worked towards reconciliation,
:14:29. > :14:43.he will be remembered as a key figure in changing Northern Ireland.
:14:44. > :14:47.Amazing looking back at that life and those images from that time.
:14:48. > :14:49.Another prominent figure in those peace talks was George Mitchell,
:14:50. > :14:52.the US envoy to Northern Ireland during that pivotal time.
:14:53. > :14:54.He knew Martin McGuinness well and gave me this reaction.
:14:55. > :14:57.Senator Mitchell, when you went to Northern Ireland in the mid-'90s
:14:58. > :14:58.and you started dealing with Martin McGuinness,
:14:59. > :15:02.what made you think that you could trust him,
:15:03. > :15:10.He was obviously a political leader, chosen by the people
:15:11. > :15:19.When the peace talks began, all of the delegates were elected.
:15:20. > :15:29.They represented the people of Northern Ireland,
:15:30. > :15:33.Trusting one another, it was a case of accepting
:15:34. > :15:35.the will of the people of Northern Ireland,
:15:36. > :15:36.who would represent them in the negotiation.
:15:37. > :15:38.Martin McGuinness was obviously intelligent, articulate,
:15:39. > :15:40.a strong and effective leader of his community
:15:41. > :15:44.And in that way he participated in and come along with leaders
:15:45. > :15:46.on both sides, helped to reach the decision to end
:15:47. > :15:49.the violence and to move towards democratic and peaceful ways
:15:50. > :15:59.And many would say he had blood on his hands.
:16:00. > :16:02.Whilst you were in the process of negotiating with him during those
:16:03. > :16:05.years leading up to the Good Friday agreement, did you ever
:16:06. > :16:11.I never discussed past actions with Martin
:16:12. > :16:13.or with any other participant in the Northern Ireland
:16:14. > :16:19.Many of them were in a similar circumstance, where they had been
:16:20. > :16:26.The problem was, they were embedded in the past, and I was trying to get
:16:27. > :16:30.them to look to the future, so the last thing I wanted to do
:16:31. > :16:33.was to get them focused on and talking about the past,
:16:34. > :16:38.when I was trying to get them to talk about the future.
:16:39. > :16:41.But this transformation from leader of the IRA,
:16:42. > :16:44.somebody who had been convicted in the 70s for crimes
:16:45. > :16:50.related to the IRA, and actions related to the IRA,
:16:51. > :16:54.to being seen today as one of the key peacemakers,
:16:55. > :16:56.I think that's what people struggle with in Martin McGuinness,
:16:57. > :17:00.Were you convinced throughout that this transition was genuine
:17:01. > :17:05.I did not make judgments of that kind.
:17:06. > :17:09.What I did was tackle each problem on a daily basis,
:17:10. > :17:13.participate with the leaders and try to get them to look forward,
:17:14. > :17:17.and try to get them to understand that, whatever the circumstances
:17:18. > :17:22.of the democratic and peaceful future work, they would be better
:17:23. > :17:28.than returning to the conflict that had predominated that society.
:17:29. > :17:34.And Martin McGuinness accepted the challenge, was instrumental
:17:35. > :17:37.in bringing his community and his side along in the peace
:17:38. > :17:39.process, and that's what I think he will be remembered for.
:17:40. > :17:43.I think that the ultimate iconic picture of the Northern Ireland
:17:44. > :17:46.peace process will be Ian Paisley as the First Minister
:17:47. > :17:49.of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness as the Deputy
:17:50. > :17:53.First Minister, embracing each other, serving the people
:17:54. > :17:56.of Northern Ireland through a democratic process,
:17:57. > :18:01.and appearing to enjoy each other at the same time.
:18:02. > :18:04.We have mixed reactions to his death.
:18:05. > :18:07.We have got Tony Blair saying that, as you have suggested,
:18:08. > :18:10.he was instrumental in the peace process and it could not have
:18:11. > :18:13.And then you have Norman Tebbit, whose wife, of course,
:18:14. > :18:15.was put in a wheelchair because of the 1984 IRA
:18:16. > :18:17.bombing in Brighton, saying that the world will be
:18:18. > :18:22.a sweeter place now that he has died.
:18:23. > :18:25.It sounds to me like you side more with Tony Blair.
:18:26. > :18:28.Well, I speak for myself, and not for others.
:18:29. > :18:34.One of the most difficult issues in the peace process was how
:18:35. > :18:37.to resolve that of prisoners, on both sides, who had been
:18:38. > :18:41.It was very, very disconcerting to the survivors and the families
:18:42. > :18:47.of victims that some of them were able to go through
:18:48. > :18:53.The British and Irish governments asked me to meet with those groups
:18:54. > :18:59.and I did and they talked about the agreement,
:19:00. > :19:02.and I said to them that no-one can solve or end their grief.
:19:03. > :19:04.It is human and it is understandable.
:19:05. > :19:07.But an agreement made less likely that others
:19:08. > :19:11.would share their tragedy in the future, and so I urged
:19:12. > :19:17.them to understand that, at least for the people
:19:18. > :19:23.of Northern Ireland, a better future would lie with it
:19:24. > :19:27.in the peace process that succeeded rather than a one that failed,
:19:28. > :19:29.even though those who were involved in that process themselves
:19:30. > :19:49.Fascinating they are. I was just thinking back to 2012, when I was
:19:50. > :19:54.sent by the BBC to Derry to watch a football match, Derry City versus
:19:55. > :19:56.Linfield, and Linfield drew their support from Protestant
:19:57. > :20:01.working-class, and the match was put any pedestal because it was bringing
:20:02. > :20:08.Catholics and together. Martin McGuinness Walkden, for many years,
:20:09. > :20:11.and he came and sat behind me -- Martin McGuinness sat behind me and
:20:12. > :20:14.you could tell by the erection of people sitting in that stand how
:20:15. > :20:18.much respect he commanded in that part of Derry. It was a reminder
:20:19. > :20:24.that night, just why he was so important. Derry won the game 3-1,
:20:25. > :20:27.and by the end of the evening, it has descended into a sectarian riot
:20:28. > :20:31.with houses being attacked around the stadium, and police had to take
:20:32. > :20:36.the bus is out and the windows were smashed in buses. It reminded me
:20:37. > :20:39.that, without his interaction in the Good Friday peace agreement, it
:20:40. > :20:45.would probably still be where we were back on that night in 2012, and
:20:46. > :20:51.in the heart of the troubles. Yes, and that was 2012.
:20:52. > :20:56.He had divided opinion and some people will never forget them but he
:20:57. > :20:58.has an important legacy in the peace and negotiation.
:20:59. > :21:04.The genius of George Mitchell was keeping everyone at the table when
:21:05. > :21:06.it was difficult. You saw in 2012 how divided it was and he managed to
:21:07. > :21:08.do it in the 1990s. Some of the other stories
:21:09. > :21:11.we're following today: President Trump's nominee for the US
:21:12. > :21:13.Supreme Court has reaffirmed the independence of the judiciary,
:21:14. > :21:16.saying he would have no difficulty Neil Gorsuch appeared before
:21:17. > :21:22.senators on the Judiciary Committee, which is considering his
:21:23. > :21:26.appointment. Judge Gorsuch also said that he
:21:27. > :21:29.would have "walked out the door" if Mr Trump had asked him
:21:30. > :21:32.to overturn a ruling that legalised abortion -
:21:33. > :21:49.a law that varies in each state. I have offered no promises on how we
:21:50. > :21:52.will, in any case, to anyone, and I don't think it's appropriate for a
:21:53. > :21:57.judge to do so, no matter who is doing the asking. And they don't,
:21:58. > :22:01.because everybody wants a fair judge to cover their case with an open
:22:02. > :22:05.mind, and decide on the facts and the law.
:22:06. > :22:07.Neil Gorsuch a short time ago. The British Foreign Secretary
:22:08. > :22:09.is travelling to Washington to help Boris Johnson will meet
:22:10. > :22:12.with senior officials from the Trump administration,
:22:13. > :22:14.after the White House sparked a diplomatic row by repeating
:22:15. > :22:17.unsubstantiated claims that British Mr Johnson will also attend a summit
:22:18. > :22:23.to discuss the campaign against the so-called
:22:24. > :22:27.Islamic State group. And two paintings by
:22:28. > :22:30.Vincent van Gogh, which were stolen in a smash-and-grab raid in 2002,
:22:31. > :22:32.have been returned The works had been taken
:22:33. > :22:39.on the orders of an Italian crime family, and were found last year
:22:40. > :22:43.during a police raid in Naples. The museum director called
:22:44. > :22:44.their return one of the "most special days in
:22:45. > :22:50.the history of the museum". Katty, this caught the attention
:22:51. > :22:54.of our team today - the bitter online battle
:22:55. > :23:06.between President Trump The latest instalment between the
:23:07. > :23:11.Donald and the terminator. They have had a bizarre row over ratings, and
:23:12. > :23:12.Arnold Schwarzenegger had a bit of fun overnight talking about
:23:13. > :23:15.President Trump's approval rating. Donald, the ratings are in,
:23:16. > :23:17.and you got swamped. I mean, when you take away
:23:18. > :23:25.after-school programmes from children, and meals on wheels
:23:26. > :23:29.for the poor people, that's not what you call
:23:30. > :23:43."making America great again". Arnold Schwarzenegger there, I am
:23:44. > :23:46.not sure about the lighting. I never thought I would have to say I would
:23:47. > :23:50.your the Terminator speaking about meals on wheels and after-school
:23:51. > :23:54.programmes. It is pretty central...
:23:55. > :24:00.I will be as cynical as you are sometimes and think it is all cooked
:24:01. > :24:04.up. It does great things for his ratings, and not for Donald Trump's
:24:05. > :24:07.ratings either. Perhaps they are in cahoots.
:24:08. > :24:13.Perhaps the lighting explains why the Apprentice approval ratings are
:24:14. > :24:16.so poor. An e-mail was sent to day about people talking about Donald
:24:17. > :24:19.Trump's twitching, saying it is getting in the way, and not only
:24:20. > :24:23.Democrats but people on the Republican side as well.
:24:24. > :24:30.Yes, it is interesting that the approval rating is down to 37%.
:24:31. > :24:33.-- tweeting. There is a steady decline in his
:24:34. > :24:37.approval ratings and one thing interesting over the last weeks is
:24:38. > :24:42.the number of people who support Donald Trump who are starting to say
:24:43. > :24:45.that the tweeting is not helpful. I hear it all the time from
:24:46. > :24:50.Republicans on Capitol Hill, like Rob Christie earlier was on the
:24:51. > :24:54.programme earlier, that he has to stop the tweeting, and when he does
:24:55. > :24:57.stop the tweeting, the White House functions better. It is interesting
:24:58. > :25:01.to watch his supporters and people who voted for him, and whether they
:25:02. > :25:06.are starting to get fed up of all of the drama and the drama that comes,
:25:07. > :25:08.let's be honest, from half of the tweets.
:25:09. > :25:13.During the hearing yesterday in Congress, the Democrats were
:25:14. > :25:16.watching the Twitter feed in seat he tweeted while James Comey was giving
:25:17. > :25:21.evidence, and in fact he did. That is the world we live in.
:25:22. > :25:22.React to this will talk about it all night. That is the new politics at
:25:23. > :25:23.the White House. We'll be continuing on the BBC
:25:24. > :25:26.News Channel and BBC World News. You're watching
:25:27. > :25:28.100 Days from BBC News. As the candidates in the French
:25:29. > :25:31.presidential race throw first punches in their TV debate,
:25:32. > :25:34.we report on the traditional socialist voters being
:25:35. > :25:39.drawn to the far right. And office politics -
:25:40. > :25:41.she's not a government employee, but she is getting her own office
:25:42. > :25:45.in the White House. We look at Ivanka Trump's role
:25:46. > :25:48.in her dad's administration. That's still to come
:25:49. > :26:15.on 100 Days, from BBC News. Warnings of snow and ice overnight
:26:16. > :26:18.into the morning rush hour. Firmly into cold are now and you will have
:26:19. > :26:23.noticed the chills certainly. In extra sunshine and showers, but
:26:24. > :26:26.thickening cloud gathering in the Southwest approaches, bringing a
:26:27. > :26:30.change. The showers turning into longer spells of rain for Wales, and
:26:31. > :26:36.the south-west of England. Heavy rain and snow over hills. That will
:26:37. > :26:39.move northwards with cold air across Scotland, threatening snowfall
:26:40. > :26:42.across the hills of northern England and Southern uplands as well. Lowest
:26:43. > :26:49.temperatures in Scotland, called over the snowfields, not just call
:26:50. > :26:52.but I see. Some wintry showers overnight for northern Scotland,
:26:53. > :26:57.perhaps fewer by the morning, but icy patches are likely. Similarly
:26:58. > :27:00.across southern part of Scotland, wetter weather bumping into the
:27:01. > :27:04.southern uplands. Snow over the hills across the Northern Pennines
:27:05. > :27:08.and the fells. That wetter weather not far away from Northern Ireland.
:27:09. > :27:11.Rain at lower levels generally and follow that band of wetter weather
:27:12. > :27:16.across East Wales, adding to Midlands and central and southern
:27:17. > :27:21.England by M. Eastern England may start to dry up with sunshine, but a
:27:22. > :27:25.cold wind picking up ahead of all other rain. Further north, snow over
:27:26. > :27:28.the hills should beat out. We have this broad band of rain. Moving
:27:29. > :27:33.slowly northwards and eastwards. Stuck under that. It will feel cold.
:27:34. > :27:35.Behind it, south Wales and southern England will get sunshine and
:27:36. > :27:40.showers, and could be happy with hail and thunder. Temperatures up to
:27:41. > :27:45.double figures. To the north, wet weather across much of Scotland dry
:27:46. > :27:50.with sunshine. Another frosty night overnight. To the south, still some
:27:51. > :27:54.rain around by Thursday, but generally rain. Not as much of it.
:27:55. > :27:58.Blown towards the west, with cold wind and wetter weather peters out.
:27:59. > :28:01.We will see sunshine as well. Sunniest weather and lightest winds
:28:02. > :28:04.for Scotland and Northern Ireland, were it should be a good day. That
:28:05. > :28:08.is because we are underneath this area of high pressure. That high
:28:09. > :28:11.pressure extends southwards, building across the whole of the UK,
:28:12. > :28:15.pushing rain away from southern England on Friday. Introducing a
:28:16. > :28:18.chilly wind across more Southern counties of the UK, but elsewhere
:28:19. > :28:22.the winds will be like, skies will be clear overnight, and we could
:28:23. > :28:25.well have frost around as well. It means by day we will have some
:28:26. > :30:11.sunshine, and in the sunshine it should be quite warm.
:30:12. > :30:18.The US bans electronic devices on flights from eight
:30:19. > :30:20.majority Muslim countries, while the UK announces similar
:30:21. > :30:22.action on flights from some countries in the Middle East
:30:23. > :30:37.After the death of Martin McGuinness the party face up to a new challenge
:30:38. > :30:39.in the peace process. We will be live.
:30:40. > :30:42.We are just over four weeks away from the first round of the French
:30:43. > :30:44.election, and last night the main candidates took
:30:45. > :30:46.part in the first of three televised debates.
:30:47. > :30:48.The candidates clashed over the economy, the future
:30:49. > :30:50.of the European Union, Brexit and the ever divise
:30:51. > :30:58.The two frontrunners in the presidential race -
:30:59. > :31:01.the Front National leader Marine Le Pen and the independent
:31:02. > :31:03.centrist Emmanual Macron - were involved in some heated
:31:04. > :31:15.exchanges, particularly over immigration.
:31:16. > :31:19.TRANSLATION: The best way to send a signal,
:31:20. > :31:21.an honest signal that says we can't welcome you any more,
:31:22. > :31:24.is to cut off all the suction pumps of immigration.
:31:25. > :31:27.State medical care, access to social housing and so on,
:31:28. > :31:31.The trap you're falling into, Mrs Le Pen, with your provocations,
:31:32. > :31:36.To make the more than 4 million French people whose religion
:31:37. > :31:40.is Islam and the great majority who are not into communitarianism
:31:41. > :31:43.but who live in our republic is to make them enemies
:31:44. > :31:51.That was the debate last night. I'll ask you about that in just a minute,
:31:52. > :31:56.Christian, but we have had news in the last hour that the French
:31:57. > :31:59.interior Minister Bruno Le Roux has resigned, stepped down, over
:32:00. > :32:02.allegations that sound pretty similar to those levelled against
:32:03. > :32:07.Francois Fillon, employing his family members. It is not illegal so
:32:08. > :32:11.why has he had to step down? It is a market area and I think there are
:32:12. > :32:18.many a politician in front to make come unstuck this way. It is not
:32:19. > :32:20.illegal to employ family members as long as they do the work, of course,
:32:21. > :32:24.but there is a problem about morality. The problem is that his
:32:25. > :32:29.two daughters had a total of 24 jobs and were paid a lot of money to do
:32:30. > :32:32.those jobs. He has been in talks today with Bernard Cazeneuve, the
:32:33. > :32:36.interior secretary, and he has gone. I dare say he might have been
:32:37. > :32:41.pushed, although he resigned, because the last thing a Socialist
:32:42. > :32:44.candidate wants is something like this, comparing him to Francois
:32:45. > :32:47.Fillon. It is hard enough without something like this, an
:32:48. > :32:54.investigation into Bruno Le Roux, so he has gone, and I am also being
:32:55. > :32:57.told that the big satirical newspaper in France, they have
:32:58. > :33:04.another story on Francois Fillon tomorrow, about an introduction he
:33:05. > :33:10.made between the CEO of the et al and President Putin, from which he
:33:11. > :33:14.was paid a few years ago -- Totale and President Putin. Making a big
:33:15. > :33:20.splash during the election campaign, the newspapers. They are giving it
:33:21. > :33:25.to Emmanuel Macron, the polls, do you agree? Yes, just, I think. They
:33:26. > :33:29.are putting him in the centre, and he is not a populist, so in a
:33:30. > :33:32.powerful position because he can pull from right and left which is
:33:33. > :33:37.what he is trying to do. Last night he had to do some dancing, really.
:33:38. > :33:41.Because both candidates on either side of him were trying to pull, or
:33:42. > :33:45.push, him in either direction. Francois Fillon, he was saying he
:33:46. > :33:50.was the former economy minister, really of the left, so you will get
:33:51. > :33:54.more of the same, and on the left he was saying, he is not really one us,
:33:55. > :34:00.he is a corporate man, a former banker, really of the right, so key
:34:01. > :34:04.is having to be quite nimble and he could come across as quite bland, so
:34:05. > :34:07.I don't think he really landed a knockout punch last night, certainly
:34:08. > :34:11.on Marine Le Pen, and that is where we will go now. There is a lot of
:34:12. > :34:17.talk about who will support Marine Le Pen in this election, and our
:34:18. > :34:22.Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson has been taking a closer look.
:34:23. > :34:26.A year ago Boris and his husband Eric left the urban rat race
:34:27. > :34:29.With an orchard, a vegetable garden and pet chickens.
:34:30. > :34:30.Named after President Hollande's girlfriends.
:34:31. > :34:39.Boris describes himself as an orphan of the Socialist party,
:34:40. > :34:42.pushed away by what he sees as the left's cosying
:34:43. > :34:49.Now, he says he feels most at home with the leader
:34:50. > :34:55.of the Front National, Marine Le Pen.
:34:56. > :34:56.TRANSLATION: Why vote Front National?
:34:57. > :35:00.If it were her father in charge, it would be no,
:35:01. > :35:04.Back then there were skinheads, thugs and fascists in the party.
:35:05. > :35:09.With Marine it's not like that at all -
:35:10. > :35:13.there is an elegance, a bit of restraint.
:35:14. > :35:20.Marine Le Pen has tried to rid her party of the racist
:35:21. > :35:22.homophobic image it had under her father, Jean-Marie.
:35:23. > :35:24.Several of her closest advisers are now openly gay,
:35:25. > :35:26.and she expelled her father after he described the Holocaust
:35:27. > :35:34.Where Jews and gay men were once seen as outsiders,
:35:35. > :35:40.the party's target now is immigration and radical Islam.
:35:41. > :35:42.Marine Le Pen is presenting herself as the defender of minorities
:35:43. > :35:46.against what she says is a growing threat from political Islam.
:35:47. > :35:49.Gay voters, Jews and women all have something to fear, she says,
:35:50. > :35:57.and the Front National is the party to protect them.
:35:58. > :36:00.Analysts say the party is now being pulled in two directions.
:36:01. > :36:03.They have said there is a red line we shall
:36:04. > :36:05.never cross any more - it's anti-Semitism,
:36:06. > :36:07.and there Marine Le Pen is definitely different
:36:08. > :36:18.But if she goes too far on that line of the de-demonistion she will lose
:36:19. > :36:22.the voters for whom it was a party that knocked on the table strong,
:36:23. > :36:23.that wanted to shake the political system,
:36:24. > :36:43.FN traditionalists these days look not to Marine,
:36:44. > :36:46.but to her 27-year-old niece Marion, a star of the party's conservative
:36:47. > :36:48.wing, whose members say they often provide things the way
:36:49. > :36:50.they were under Jean-Marie Le Pen.
:36:51. > :36:52.TRANSLATION: I think that Marion is more like her
:36:53. > :36:59.France really needs strict leadership.
:37:00. > :37:02.It's not OK to just say, let's carry on as we are.
:37:03. > :37:11.We have to start from scratch, and Marion is better able to do that.
:37:12. > :37:14.Marion has much tougher views than her aunt on issues like gay
:37:15. > :37:16.marriage and abortion, and she's made it clear
:37:17. > :37:18.she is a fan of Donald Trump's immigration policies too.
:37:19. > :37:20.TRANSLATION: The famous Muslim ban, as Donald Trump's
:37:21. > :37:38.It's not in our programme right now, but if it turns out there's
:37:39. > :37:41.a particularly high threat coming from a country identified
:37:42. > :37:42.with or infiltrated by a radical Islam then,
:37:43. > :37:47.yes, we could temporarily ban those people from our territory.
:37:48. > :37:50.Some say Marine and Marion are a useful double act that allows
:37:51. > :37:53.the party to keep all its members on side, but the glue
:37:54. > :38:00.may only be as strong as the party's electoral score.
:38:01. > :38:03.Power is attractive, even to those who see popularity
:38:04. > :38:20.Two says of the Front National, and moving on, and I could get told off
:38:21. > :38:24.for saying this, looking at Emmanuel Macron's age, she is 39, three years
:38:25. > :38:29.younger than your youngest President Theodore result, who was 42 -- he is
:38:30. > :38:35.39. What are you trying to say, Christian? Quite young, to become a
:38:36. > :38:44.president of France. OK, let's move on. -- Theodore Roosevelt.
:38:45. > :38:46.Let's return to the death of Martin McGuinness,
:38:47. > :38:48.the former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.
:38:49. > :38:50.His coffin, draped in the Irish flag, has been taken
:38:51. > :38:56.It was his resignation you might remember in January that led
:38:57. > :39:00.Let's speak to the BBC's Northern Ireland political
:39:01. > :39:09.It is intriguing. Katty was just saying, it was his resignation in
:39:10. > :39:14.January that led to the elections, inevitable moment I wonder what he
:39:15. > :39:18.thought knowing he was being driven away from the Assembly for the
:39:19. > :39:23.lasting? -- a pivotal moment. I suspect he would not have wanted his
:39:24. > :39:26.career to end, he always worked to try to make the power-sharing
:39:27. > :39:31.arrangement at Stormont work, this unique coalition with pro-British
:39:32. > :39:37.Unionists and Irish Republic and effectively pushed together into one
:39:38. > :39:40.coalition. So he probably, if he had been in better health, would have
:39:41. > :39:44.tried to avert the breakdown we had at the end of last year, but in the
:39:45. > :39:49.end as you say he shared some of the frustration of his party colleagues
:39:50. > :39:51.with the behaviour of their partners in government, the Democratic
:39:52. > :39:56.Unionists, and in the end felt he had no option but to pull the plug.
:39:57. > :40:05.Only twice in his life did he ever admit he was an IRA commander, and
:40:06. > :40:08.as I said earlier in the programme it was probably because he was the
:40:09. > :40:11.hardest of the hard men that he was able to bring the IRA to the table?
:40:12. > :40:14.Yes, very much a tale of two distinct lives, but those lives were
:40:15. > :40:19.interlinked. The IRA commander which Martin McGuinness was during the
:40:20. > :40:22.1970s, 1980s and 1990s, was very much the person that then allowed
:40:23. > :40:27.him to become a peacemaker, because he used that authority he had with
:40:28. > :40:31.the hard men of the IRA to steer the movement into peaceful politics, and
:40:32. > :40:36.so in evaluating his contribution to peace you have to remember he was at
:40:37. > :40:41.the very helm of this organisation which carried out so many bloody
:40:42. > :40:45.attacks during the course of the Troubles. Fascinating life. Mark,
:40:46. > :40:50.thank you very much for being with us.
:40:51. > :40:53.The Scottish Parliament has begun a two-day debate on whether or not
:40:54. > :40:55.to push for a second referendum on independence.
:40:56. > :40:58.The vote paves the way for yet more uncertainty about the future shape
:40:59. > :41:01.of the United Kingdom - here's a flavour of some
:41:02. > :41:02.today's debate in Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament.
:41:03. > :41:05.The UK Government is taking decisions entirely unilaterally that
:41:06. > :41:07.I and many many others believe will deeply damaged our economy,
:41:08. > :41:10.I and many many others believe will deeply damage our economy,
:41:11. > :41:12.our society and our standing in the world.
:41:13. > :41:15.Whether we like it or not, Scotland again faces a fundamental
:41:16. > :41:17.decision about what sort of country we want to be.
:41:18. > :41:19.The question before this chamber is simple.
:41:20. > :41:25.The answer to that question cannot be me and it cannot
:41:26. > :41:32.The decision about what kind of country we are and what path
:41:33. > :41:34.we take can only be made by the people of Scotland.
:41:35. > :41:37.How can the SNP sit here today and demand another referendum
:41:38. > :41:39.when they still cannot answer the basic questions
:41:40. > :41:47.On currency, on long-term membership of the European Union,
:41:48. > :41:56.That debate will go into tomorrow. There will be a vote and we know
:41:57. > :42:00.probably which we are to go, but we will bring you the result of that
:42:01. > :42:04.vote tomorrow. Yes, the polls have not shifted, have they, Christian?
:42:05. > :42:08.No, and I think it is pretty obvious the SNP will wind the vote. Before
:42:09. > :42:15.we go, I want to speak about Ivanka Trump, who will get her own office
:42:16. > :42:17.on the West Wing floor, security clearance, Government issued
:42:18. > :42:21.devices... What are they saying about it in Washington? Yes, very
:42:22. > :42:24.unusual to have the daughter of a president getting this kind of
:42:25. > :42:27.access. I don't know how much time you spent in the White House,
:42:28. > :42:32.Christian, but it is very small. There she is with her husband
:42:33. > :42:36.Jarryd. There was a theory put out in the Washington Post over the
:42:37. > :42:40.weekend which suggested the New York Democrats as they are dismissed in
:42:41. > :42:45.the White House by some populists are having too much power in a
:42:46. > :42:48.battle and I think that is why Ivanka Trump probably has her own
:42:49. > :42:51.office, a pushback against that report in the Washington Post.
:42:52. > :42:54.That is 100 Days - join us again, at the same time tomorrow.
:42:55. > :42:59.And in the meantime you can keep in touch with us using the hashtag
:43:00. > :43:10.For now, from Katty in Washington and me in London, goodbye.