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The US bans electronic devices on flights from

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The UK has announced similar action on flights from six countries,

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mainly in the Middle East and north Africa.

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The ban covers laptops, tablets, and games consoles.

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It's apparently a response to intelligence suggesting terror

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The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that

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terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are

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aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks.

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We had a great meeting and I think we're going to get a winner vote.

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The President heads to Congress to try to "close the deal"

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on repealing and replacing Obamacare.

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Also, the different lives of Martin McGuiness -

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from IRA commander to Northern Ireland statesman.

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We'll hear from the US Senator who kept him at the table

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And the different faces of the Front National in France.

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We'll introduce you to Marine Le Pen's niece,

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further to the right than her aunt, and a keen supporter

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We don't know the source or the specific nature

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of the intelligence, but there are concerns on both

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And so, from this weekend, passengers flying to the US

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from eight majority-Muslim countries will be banned from carrying

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large electronic devices onto their flights.

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although the countries where the ban applies

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are slightly different - six in total,

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including Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, where these passengers

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in Istanbul were today asked to put their laptops, cameras

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The authorities point to two recent attacks,

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the downing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015,

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In this instance, 74 passengers on board escaped unhurt -

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but only because their flight had been delayed before take-off.

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Reportedly, a laptop carried onto the flight by a passenger

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was rigged with a timer device, and exploded too early, before

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In the past hour, the White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been

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The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that

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terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are

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aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attack,

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to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer objects.

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Based on this information, the secretary of Homeland Security

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and the TSA administrator have determined that it is necessary to

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Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is here.

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It will cause a lot of inconvenience for passengers, and naturally the

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question will be, what is the intelligence?

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Yes, there are different schools of thought. One is that the

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intelligence is real and what it is called evaluative intelligence in

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the US, that it is a developing and evolving threat. It is not a

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specific plot to attack a particular aircraft or error line, but there

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are Al-Qaeda and other jihadists groups with ongoing interest in

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putting bombs on board aircraft, and they have done it three times out of

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Yemen, seven or eight years ago, and there is a fear they have not given

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up trying. Other would say there is commercial interest behind this, and

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this is in some way anti-Islamic, but in the case of Britain, the ban

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applies to British Airways and five other popular British airlines, so

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they will suffer from this. People will suffer most, business

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travellers, because they cannot use their laptops in flight to do work

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on direct flights from the Middle East to Britain or the US.

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And parents to travel with their kids and do not have their tablets,

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they are essential now on flights. There is a difference in countries

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targeted under the American ban and the UK ban. What do you hear on

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that? There is inconsistency here, which

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does not make sense. The US ban includes the United Arab Emirates

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and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, both of which are close allies of the United

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States. There is a closed military basing relationship and quad core

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operation on a lot of things, including intelligence, and that is

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not popular in the UAE, and likewise Saudi Arabia, close intelligence and

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working relationship to the CIA and Saudi intelligence. They have chosen

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specific airports not mentioned in the British ban, which includes

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leather nun, which is not in the other one. It does appear a bit

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muddled -- the British ban includes Lebanon, and not the other one.

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Inside London, and the past few days, Theresa May only signed up on

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this this morning, because there were some voices saying, hang on,

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this is of a reaction. In the absence of a specific threat, are we

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not letting ourselves in for a much bigger penalty, commercially and

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diplomatically? These are supposed to be countries that are our

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friends, and will widen the gap between East and West and play right

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into the hands of people that say the West does not like Muslims, or

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the West hates the middle east. It will play into the hands of

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extremists and risks doing that. Thank you, Frank. Interesting, how

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much cooperation there has been between Washington and London on

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this, both of them coming out on this ban within hours of each other,

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even though different countries in question.

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Listening to Frank, the travel ban President Robert in place was so

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toxic and so political, in Washington, I wonder how they

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reacted to data desk -- President Trump put in place this ban.

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Bipartisanship on this, the head of intelligence and committee coming

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out and saying that while he criticised the executive order

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banning immigrants from the White House, he supports this one. This is

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an area where people are sensitive in the United States, and if they

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think the intelligence agencies have some kind of evidence or information

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there is a threat on the homeland, it would be incredibly unlikely for

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you to see political splits on that, nothing is what we are seeing from

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Democrat supporting the White House on this.

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We will keep our eye on that. President Trump has been

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on Capitol Hill today, trying to win over those Republicans on the right

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whose support is still wavering He had a stern warning for lawmakers

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who are digging in - give me your vote,

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or you might just lose your seat They are heading to a first

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vote on Thursday - the House speaker Paul Ryan,

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who is the author of the bill, The numbers on his side still look

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a little shaky, though. Trump was here to do what he does

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best, and that is to close the deal. He is all in, and we are all in,

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to end this Obamacare nightmare. Let's speak to our resident

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commentator, the former Republican We heard Paul Ryan trying to sound

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optimistic and it is not looking great for the White House on this?

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It is not and there are two diverging groups and playback could

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torpedo this deal from going through. The most conservative

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members of the house, 46 members of the house freedom Congress, saying

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the Government is spending too much. Then the Republicans who are more

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moderate, the Tuesday group, they meet for lunch on Tuesdays, and they

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say there is nothing of safeguard in the bill to protect elderly people,

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and it is to harsh on one of our support systems here, Medicaid. And

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Paul Ryan has a thin tightrope to walk to get the moderate and the

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more conservative to agree. You have had conversations over the

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past week with the White House, are they going under siege on this and

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the budget? Over the last two weeks, my

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communications the White House, there is a sense they need to do a

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better job of selling it to the American people what policies they

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are undertaking and why they are good for American people. Often we

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speak on it more than once a day, that is the severity and the urgency

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they have right now... They recognise they have a problem?

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I think they do otherwise we would not have so much feedback back and

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forth. I want to set this in the context of

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the headlines this morning, and they are all about the Russian

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investigation and the investigation being at the door of the White

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House. I wonder, on Congress today, on the Hill, talking to people, does

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this in any way make him toxic? It could and there is discussion in

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the United States as to whether or not the Russian Government had

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specific influence of the election outcome. There are a lot of people

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on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, who want

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to know, worthy associates of President Trump involved in having

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this conversation with the Russians? -- were they? And if so, why were

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they not transparent? Saying to the American people whether or not

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conversations may have been had. This potentially is a problem for

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the White House, because as we heard yesterday from the FBI director,

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these investigations with the Russians and the drug administration

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continue. If, as you suggest, from your phone

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calls with the White House this week, they understand they have a

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munitions problem, why doesn't the president in this instance, the

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Russia allegations, say, OK, I got it wrong? President Obama did not

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wiretap me in Trump Tower and I was mistaken.

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Having worked with President Bush, the hardest thing for a president to

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do is look at the American people and say, I am sorry and I messed up.

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With this president and administration, it will not come any

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time soon. Thank you.

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He was known as the hardest of the hard men -

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a boy from the Bogside in Derry who rose to become

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And it was perhaps because Martin McGuinness

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was so prominent - and so feared - in Northern Ireland,

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that he was finally able to bring the Republican side

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Mr McGuinness died last night aged 66.

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The former Deputy First Minister, who resigned his post in January,

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had been suffering from a rare heart condition.

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Our correspondent Chris Buckler has been looking back at his life.

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To paint a true picture of Martin McGuinness,

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He was a paramilitary who once embraced violence,

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but also a peacemaker who reached out to rivals, a man who could be

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Born in Londonderry, into a large Catholic family,

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Martin McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's

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In that time of violence, he joined the IRA, quickly

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Can you say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future,

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Well, I always take into consideration the feelings

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The 1970s saw him become one of the faces of ruthless

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Irish republicanism, and he was jailed for terrorist

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McGuinness has changed considerably from the young man who used

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to swagger around the no-go areas in Londonderry, as commander

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What had started as a fight for civil rights had

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Yet, alongside the many bombings and shootings,

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Martin McGuinness saw opportunities at the ballot box for

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Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the IRA.

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Even then, the language of threat remained.

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We don't believe that winning elections, and winning

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any amount of votes, will bring freedom in Ireland.

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At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of IRA

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But after years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s,

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IRA ceasefires offered the opportunity for talks

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Not only would they shake hands, after the signing

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of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each

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Eventually, at its head was the unlikely partnership

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of two former enemies - Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness.

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The firebrand unionist and radical republican became so close

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that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers.

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There were republicans who continued to threaten that political progress.

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But when a police officer was killed, the then deputy first

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minister stood side-by-side with the chief constable to condemn

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They are traitors to the island of Ireland.

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Alongside the words, there were actions on all sides.

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The Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA.

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Yet, after the Troubles, royal and republican were able

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Thank you very much, I am still alive!

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However, relationships at Stormont always seemed strained

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after Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister,

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to be replaced by Peter Robinson, and then Arlene Foster.

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Earlier this year, with his ill health by then obvious,

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Martin McGuinness walked out of government, amid a row

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between Sinn Fein and the DUP, the boy from Derry's Bogside

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retiring as deputy first minister after years in the IRA.

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My heart lies in the Bogside and the people of Derry.

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The past actions of the IRA will colour many people's views

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But as a republican who worked towards reconciliation,

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he will be remembered as a key figure in changing Northern Ireland.

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Amazing looking back at that life and those images from that time.

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Another prominent figure in those peace talks was George Mitchell,

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the US envoy to Northern Ireland during that pivotal time.

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He knew Martin McGuinness well and gave me this reaction.

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Senator Mitchell, when you went to Northern Ireland in the mid-'90s

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and you started dealing with Martin McGuinness,

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what made you think that you could trust him,

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He was obviously a political leader, chosen by the people

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When the peace talks began, all of the delegates were elected.

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They represented the people of Northern Ireland,

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Trusting one another, it was a case of accepting

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the will of the people of Northern Ireland,

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who would represent them in the negotiation.

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Martin McGuinness was obviously intelligent, articulate,

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a strong and effective leader of his community

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And in that way he participated in and come along with leaders

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on both sides, helped to reach the decision to end

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the violence and to move towards democratic and peaceful ways

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And many would say he had blood on his hands.

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Whilst you were in the process of negotiating with him during those

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years leading up to the Good Friday agreement, did you ever

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I never discussed past actions with Martin

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or with any other participant in the Northern Ireland

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Many of them were in a similar circumstance, where they had been

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The problem was, they were embedded in the past, and I was trying to get

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them to look to the future, so the last thing I wanted to do

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was to get them focused on and talking about the past,

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when I was trying to get them to talk about the future.

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But this transformation from leader of the IRA,

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somebody who had been convicted in the 70s for crimes

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related to the IRA, and actions related to the IRA,

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to being seen today as one of the key peacemakers,

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I think that's what people struggle with in Martin McGuinness,

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Were you convinced throughout that this transition was genuine

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I did not make judgments of that kind.

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What I did was tackle each problem on a daily basis,

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participate with the leaders and try to get them to look forward,

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and try to get them to understand that, whatever the circumstances

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of the democratic and peaceful future work, they would be better

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than returning to the conflict that had predominated that society.

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And Martin McGuinness accepted the challenge, was instrumental

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in bringing his community and his side along in the peace

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process, and that's what I think he will be remembered for.

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I think that the ultimate iconic picture of the Northern Ireland

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peace process will be Ian Paisley as the First Minister

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of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness as the Deputy

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First Minister, embracing each other, serving the people

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of Northern Ireland through a democratic process,

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and appearing to enjoy each other at the same time.

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We have mixed reactions to his death.

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We have got Tony Blair saying that, as you have suggested,

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he was instrumental in the peace process and it could not have

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And then you have Norman Tebbit, whose wife, of course,

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was put in a wheelchair because of the 1984 IRA

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bombing in Brighton, saying that the world will be

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a sweeter place now that he has died.

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It sounds to me like you side more with Tony Blair.

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Well, I speak for myself, and not for others.

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One of the most difficult issues in the peace process was how

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to resolve that of prisoners, on both sides, who had been

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It was very, very disconcerting to the survivors and the families

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of victims that some of them were able to go through

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The British and Irish governments asked me to meet with those groups

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and I did and they talked about the agreement,

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and I said to them that no-one can solve or end their grief.

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It is human and it is understandable.

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But an agreement made less likely that others

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would share their tragedy in the future, and so I urged

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them to understand that, at least for the people

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of Northern Ireland, a better future would lie with it

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in the peace process that succeeded rather than a one that failed,

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even though those who were involved in that process themselves

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Fascinating they are. I was just thinking back to 2012, when I was

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sent by the BBC to Derry to watch a football match, Derry City versus

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Linfield, and Linfield drew their support from Protestant

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working-class, and the match was put any pedestal because it was bringing

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Catholics and together. Martin McGuinness Walkden, for many years,

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and he came and sat behind me -- Martin McGuinness sat behind me and

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you could tell by the erection of people sitting in that stand how

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much respect he commanded in that part of Derry. It was a reminder

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that night, just why he was so important. Derry won the game 3-1,

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and by the end of the evening, it has descended into a sectarian riot

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with houses being attacked around the stadium, and police had to take

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the bus is out and the windows were smashed in buses. It reminded me

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that, without his interaction in the Good Friday peace agreement, it

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would probably still be where we were back on that night in 2012, and

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in the heart of the troubles. Yes, and that was 2012.

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He had divided opinion and some people will never forget them but he

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has an important legacy in the peace and negotiation.

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The genius of George Mitchell was keeping everyone at the table when

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it was difficult. You saw in 2012 how divided it was and he managed to

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do it in the 1990s. Some of the other stories

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we're following today: President Trump's nominee for the US

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Supreme Court has reaffirmed the independence of the judiciary,

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saying he would have no difficulty Neil Gorsuch appeared before

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senators on the Judiciary Committee, which is considering his

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appointment. Judge Gorsuch also said that he

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would have "walked out the door" if Mr Trump had asked him

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to overturn a ruling that legalised abortion -

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a law that varies in each state. I have offered no promises on how we

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will, in any case, to anyone, and I don't think it's appropriate for a

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judge to do so, no matter who is doing the asking. And they don't,

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because everybody wants a fair judge to cover their case with an open

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mind, and decide on the facts and the law.

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Neil Gorsuch a short time ago. The British Foreign Secretary

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is travelling to Washington to help Boris Johnson will meet

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with senior officials from the Trump administration,

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after the White House sparked a diplomatic row by repeating

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unsubstantiated claims that British Mr Johnson will also attend a summit

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to discuss the campaign against the so-called

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Islamic State group. And two paintings by

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Vincent van Gogh, which were stolen in a smash-and-grab raid in 2002,

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have been returned The works had been taken

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on the orders of an Italian crime family, and were found last year

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during a police raid in Naples. The museum director called

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their return one of the "most special days in

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the history of the museum". Katty, this caught the attention

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of our team today - the bitter online battle

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between President Trump The latest instalment between the

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Donald and the terminator. They have had a bizarre row over ratings, and

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Arnold Schwarzenegger had a bit of fun overnight talking about

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President Trump's approval rating. Donald, the ratings are in,

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and you got swamped. I mean, when you take away

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after-school programmes from children, and meals on wheels

:23:18.:23:25.

for the poor people, that's not what you call

:23:26.:23:29.

"making America great again". Arnold Schwarzenegger there, I am

:23:30.:23:43.

not sure about the lighting. I never thought I would have to say I would

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your the Terminator speaking about meals on wheels and after-school

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programmes. It is pretty central...

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I will be as cynical as you are sometimes and think it is all cooked

:23:55.:24:00.

up. It does great things for his ratings, and not for Donald Trump's

:24:01.:24:04.

ratings either. Perhaps they are in cahoots.

:24:05.:24:07.

Perhaps the lighting explains why the Apprentice approval ratings are

:24:08.:24:13.

so poor. An e-mail was sent to day about people talking about Donald

:24:14.:24:16.

Trump's twitching, saying it is getting in the way, and not only

:24:17.:24:19.

Democrats but people on the Republican side as well.

:24:20.:24:23.

Yes, it is interesting that the approval rating is down to 37%.

:24:24.:24:30.

-- tweeting. There is a steady decline in his

:24:31.:24:33.

approval ratings and one thing interesting over the last weeks is

:24:34.:24:37.

the number of people who support Donald Trump who are starting to say

:24:38.:24:42.

that the tweeting is not helpful. I hear it all the time from

:24:43.:24:45.

Republicans on Capitol Hill, like Rob Christie earlier was on the

:24:46.:24:50.

programme earlier, that he has to stop the tweeting, and when he does

:24:51.:24:54.

stop the tweeting, the White House functions better. It is interesting

:24:55.:24:57.

to watch his supporters and people who voted for him, and whether they

:24:58.:25:01.

are starting to get fed up of all of the drama and the drama that comes,

:25:02.:25:06.

let's be honest, from half of the tweets.

:25:07.:25:08.

During the hearing yesterday in Congress, the Democrats were

:25:09.:25:13.

watching the Twitter feed in seat he tweeted while James Comey was giving

:25:14.:25:16.

evidence, and in fact he did. That is the world we live in.

:25:17.:25:21.

React to this will talk about it all night. That is the new politics at

:25:22.:25:22.

the White House. We'll be continuing on the BBC

:25:23.:25:23.

News Channel and BBC World News. You're watching

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100 Days from BBC News. As the candidates in the French

:25:27.:25:28.

presidential race throw first punches in their TV debate,

:25:29.:25:31.

we report on the traditional socialist voters being

:25:32.:25:34.

drawn to the far right. And office politics -

:25:35.:25:39.

she's not a government employee, but she is getting her own office

:25:40.:25:41.

in the White House. We look at Ivanka Trump's role

:25:42.:25:45.

in her dad's administration. That's still to come

:25:46.:25:48.

on 100 Days, from BBC News. Warnings of snow and ice overnight

:25:49.:26:15.

into the morning rush hour. Firmly into cold are now and you will have

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noticed the chills certainly. In extra sunshine and showers, but

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thickening cloud gathering in the Southwest approaches, bringing a

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change. The showers turning into longer spells of rain for Wales, and

:26:27.:26:30.

the south-west of England. Heavy rain and snow over hills. That will

:26:31.:26:36.

move northwards with cold air across Scotland, threatening snowfall

:26:37.:26:39.

across the hills of northern England and Southern uplands as well. Lowest

:26:40.:26:42.

temperatures in Scotland, called over the snowfields, not just call

:26:43.:26:49.

but I see. Some wintry showers overnight for northern Scotland,

:26:50.:26:52.

perhaps fewer by the morning, but icy patches are likely. Similarly

:26:53.:26:57.

across southern part of Scotland, wetter weather bumping into the

:26:58.:27:00.

southern uplands. Snow over the hills across the Northern Pennines

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and the fells. That wetter weather not far away from Northern Ireland.

:27:05.:27:08.

Rain at lower levels generally and follow that band of wetter weather

:27:09.:27:11.

across East Wales, adding to Midlands and central and southern

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England by M. Eastern England may start to dry up with sunshine, but a

:27:17.:27:21.

cold wind picking up ahead of all other rain. Further north, snow over

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the hills should beat out. We have this broad band of rain. Moving

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slowly northwards and eastwards. Stuck under that. It will feel cold.

:27:29.:27:33.

Behind it, south Wales and southern England will get sunshine and

:27:34.:27:35.

showers, and could be happy with hail and thunder. Temperatures up to

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double figures. To the north, wet weather across much of Scotland dry

:27:41.:27:45.

with sunshine. Another frosty night overnight. To the south, still some

:27:46.:27:50.

rain around by Thursday, but generally rain. Not as much of it.

:27:51.:27:54.

Blown towards the west, with cold wind and wetter weather peters out.

:27:55.:27:58.

We will see sunshine as well. Sunniest weather and lightest winds

:27:59.:28:01.

for Scotland and Northern Ireland, were it should be a good day. That

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is because we are underneath this area of high pressure. That high

:28:05.:28:08.

pressure extends southwards, building across the whole of the UK,

:28:09.:28:11.

pushing rain away from southern England on Friday. Introducing a

:28:12.:28:15.

chilly wind across more Southern counties of the UK, but elsewhere

:28:16.:28:18.

the winds will be like, skies will be clear overnight, and we could

:28:19.:28:22.

well have frost around as well. It means by day we will have some

:28:23.:28:25.

sunshine, and in the sunshine it should be quite warm.

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The US bans electronic devices on flights from eight

:30:12.:30:18.

majority Muslim countries, while the UK announces similar

:30:19.:30:20.

action on flights from some countries in the Middle East

:30:21.:30:22.

After the death of Martin McGuinness the party face up to a new challenge

:30:23.:30:37.

in the peace process. We will be live.

:30:38.:30:39.

We are just over four weeks away from the first round of the French

:30:40.:30:42.

election, and last night the main candidates took

:30:43.:30:44.

part in the first of three televised debates.

:30:45.:30:46.

The candidates clashed over the economy, the future

:30:47.:30:48.

of the European Union, Brexit and the ever divise

:30:49.:30:50.

The two frontrunners in the presidential race -

:30:51.:30:58.

the Front National leader Marine Le Pen and the independent

:30:59.:31:01.

centrist Emmanual Macron - were involved in some heated

:31:02.:31:03.

exchanges, particularly over immigration.

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TRANSLATION: The best way to send a signal,

:31:16.:31:19.

an honest signal that says we can't welcome you any more,

:31:20.:31:21.

is to cut off all the suction pumps of immigration.

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State medical care, access to social housing and so on,

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The trap you're falling into, Mrs Le Pen, with your provocations,

:31:28.:31:31.

To make the more than 4 million French people whose religion

:31:32.:31:36.

is Islam and the great majority who are not into communitarianism

:31:37.:31:40.

but who live in our republic is to make them enemies

:31:41.:31:43.

That was the debate last night. I'll ask you about that in just a minute,

:31:44.:31:51.

Christian, but we have had news in the last hour that the French

:31:52.:31:56.

interior Minister Bruno Le Roux has resigned, stepped down, over

:31:57.:31:59.

allegations that sound pretty similar to those levelled against

:32:00.:32:02.

Francois Fillon, employing his family members. It is not illegal so

:32:03.:32:07.

why has he had to step down? It is a market area and I think there are

:32:08.:32:11.

many a politician in front to make come unstuck this way. It is not

:32:12.:32:18.

illegal to employ family members as long as they do the work, of course,

:32:19.:32:20.

but there is a problem about morality. The problem is that his

:32:21.:32:24.

two daughters had a total of 24 jobs and were paid a lot of money to do

:32:25.:32:29.

those jobs. He has been in talks today with Bernard Cazeneuve, the

:32:30.:32:32.

interior secretary, and he has gone. I dare say he might have been

:32:33.:32:36.

pushed, although he resigned, because the last thing a Socialist

:32:37.:32:41.

candidate wants is something like this, comparing him to Francois

:32:42.:32:44.

Fillon. It is hard enough without something like this, an

:32:45.:32:47.

investigation into Bruno Le Roux, so he has gone, and I am also being

:32:48.:32:54.

told that the big satirical newspaper in France, they have

:32:55.:32:57.

another story on Francois Fillon tomorrow, about an introduction he

:32:58.:33:04.

made between the CEO of the et al and President Putin, from which he

:33:05.:33:10.

was paid a few years ago -- Totale and President Putin. Making a big

:33:11.:33:14.

splash during the election campaign, the newspapers. They are giving it

:33:15.:33:20.

to Emmanuel Macron, the polls, do you agree? Yes, just, I think. They

:33:21.:33:25.

are putting him in the centre, and he is not a populist, so in a

:33:26.:33:29.

powerful position because he can pull from right and left which is

:33:30.:33:32.

what he is trying to do. Last night he had to do some dancing, really.

:33:33.:33:37.

Because both candidates on either side of him were trying to pull, or

:33:38.:33:41.

push, him in either direction. Francois Fillon, he was saying he

:33:42.:33:45.

was the former economy minister, really of the left, so you will get

:33:46.:33:50.

more of the same, and on the left he was saying, he is not really one us,

:33:51.:33:54.

he is a corporate man, a former banker, really of the right, so key

:33:55.:34:00.

is having to be quite nimble and he could come across as quite bland, so

:34:01.:34:04.

I don't think he really landed a knockout punch last night, certainly

:34:05.:34:07.

on Marine Le Pen, and that is where we will go now. There is a lot of

:34:08.:34:11.

talk about who will support Marine Le Pen in this election, and our

:34:12.:34:17.

Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson has been taking a closer look.

:34:18.:34:22.

A year ago Boris and his husband Eric left the urban rat race

:34:23.:34:26.

With an orchard, a vegetable garden and pet chickens.

:34:27.:34:29.

Named after President Hollande's girlfriends.

:34:30.:34:30.

Boris describes himself as an orphan of the Socialist party,

:34:31.:34:39.

pushed away by what he sees as the left's cosying

:34:40.:34:42.

Now, he says he feels most at home with the leader

:34:43.:34:49.

of the Front National, Marine Le Pen.

:34:50.:34:55.

TRANSLATION: Why vote Front National?

:34:56.:34:56.

If it were her father in charge, it would be no,

:34:57.:35:00.

Back then there were skinheads, thugs and fascists in the party.

:35:01.:35:04.

With Marine it's not like that at all -

:35:05.:35:09.

there is an elegance, a bit of restraint.

:35:10.:35:13.

Marine Le Pen has tried to rid her party of the racist

:35:14.:35:20.

homophobic image it had under her father, Jean-Marie.

:35:21.:35:22.

Several of her closest advisers are now openly gay,

:35:23.:35:24.

and she expelled her father after he described the Holocaust

:35:25.:35:26.

Where Jews and gay men were once seen as outsiders,

:35:27.:35:34.

the party's target now is immigration and radical Islam.

:35:35.:35:40.

Marine Le Pen is presenting herself as the defender of minorities

:35:41.:35:42.

against what she says is a growing threat from political Islam.

:35:43.:35:46.

Gay voters, Jews and women all have something to fear, she says,

:35:47.:35:49.

and the Front National is the party to protect them.

:35:50.:35:57.

Analysts say the party is now being pulled in two directions.

:35:58.:36:00.

They have said there is a red line we shall

:36:01.:36:03.

never cross any more - it's anti-Semitism,

:36:04.:36:05.

and there Marine Le Pen is definitely different

:36:06.:36:07.

But if she goes too far on that line of the de-demonistion she will lose

:36:08.:36:18.

the voters for whom it was a party that knocked on the table strong,

:36:19.:36:22.

that wanted to shake the political system,

:36:23.:36:23.

FN traditionalists these days look not to Marine,

:36:24.:36:43.

but to her 27-year-old niece Marion, a star of the party's conservative

:36:44.:36:46.

wing, whose members say they often provide things the way

:36:47.:36:48.

they were under Jean-Marie Le Pen.

:36:49.:36:50.

TRANSLATION: I think that Marion is more like her

:36:51.:36:52.

France really needs strict leadership.

:36:53.:36:59.

It's not OK to just say, let's carry on as we are.

:37:00.:37:02.

We have to start from scratch, and Marion is better able to do that.

:37:03.:37:11.

Marion has much tougher views than her aunt on issues like gay

:37:12.:37:14.

marriage and abortion, and she's made it clear

:37:15.:37:16.

she is a fan of Donald Trump's immigration policies too.

:37:17.:37:18.

TRANSLATION: The famous Muslim ban, as Donald Trump's

:37:19.:37:20.

It's not in our programme right now, but if it turns out there's

:37:21.:37:38.

a particularly high threat coming from a country identified

:37:39.:37:41.

with or infiltrated by a radical Islam then,

:37:42.:37:42.

yes, we could temporarily ban those people from our territory.

:37:43.:37:47.

Some say Marine and Marion are a useful double act that allows

:37:48.:37:50.

the party to keep all its members on side, but the glue

:37:51.:37:53.

may only be as strong as the party's electoral score.

:37:54.:38:00.

Power is attractive, even to those who see popularity

:38:01.:38:03.

Two says of the Front National, and moving on, and I could get told off

:38:04.:38:20.

for saying this, looking at Emmanuel Macron's age, she is 39, three years

:38:21.:38:24.

younger than your youngest President Theodore result, who was 42 -- he is

:38:25.:38:29.

39. What are you trying to say, Christian? Quite young, to become a

:38:30.:38:35.

president of France. OK, let's move on. -- Theodore Roosevelt.

:38:36.:38:44.

Let's return to the death of Martin McGuinness,

:38:45.:38:46.

the former Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.

:38:47.:38:48.

His coffin, draped in the Irish flag, has been taken

:38:49.:38:50.

It was his resignation you might remember in January that led

:38:51.:38:56.

Let's speak to the BBC's Northern Ireland political

:38:57.:39:00.

It is intriguing. Katty was just saying, it was his resignation in

:39:01.:39:09.

January that led to the elections, inevitable moment I wonder what he

:39:10.:39:14.

thought knowing he was being driven away from the Assembly for the

:39:15.:39:18.

lasting? -- a pivotal moment. I suspect he would not have wanted his

:39:19.:39:23.

career to end, he always worked to try to make the power-sharing

:39:24.:39:26.

arrangement at Stormont work, this unique coalition with pro-British

:39:27.:39:31.

Unionists and Irish Republic and effectively pushed together into one

:39:32.:39:37.

coalition. So he probably, if he had been in better health, would have

:39:38.:39:40.

tried to avert the breakdown we had at the end of last year, but in the

:39:41.:39:44.

end as you say he shared some of the frustration of his party colleagues

:39:45.:39:49.

with the behaviour of their partners in government, the Democratic

:39:50.:39:51.

Unionists, and in the end felt he had no option but to pull the plug.

:39:52.:39:56.

Only twice in his life did he ever admit he was an IRA commander, and

:39:57.:40:05.

as I said earlier in the programme it was probably because he was the

:40:06.:40:08.

hardest of the hard men that he was able to bring the IRA to the table?

:40:09.:40:11.

Yes, very much a tale of two distinct lives, but those lives were

:40:12.:40:14.

interlinked. The IRA commander which Martin McGuinness was during the

:40:15.:40:19.

1970s, 1980s and 1990s, was very much the person that then allowed

:40:20.:40:22.

him to become a peacemaker, because he used that authority he had with

:40:23.:40:27.

the hard men of the IRA to steer the movement into peaceful politics, and

:40:28.:40:31.

so in evaluating his contribution to peace you have to remember he was at

:40:32.:40:36.

the very helm of this organisation which carried out so many bloody

:40:37.:40:41.

attacks during the course of the Troubles. Fascinating life. Mark,

:40:42.:40:45.

thank you very much for being with us.

:40:46.:40:50.

The Scottish Parliament has begun a two-day debate on whether or not

:40:51.:40:53.

to push for a second referendum on independence.

:40:54.:40:55.

The vote paves the way for yet more uncertainty about the future shape

:40:56.:40:58.

of the United Kingdom - here's a flavour of some

:40:59.:41:01.

today's debate in Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament.

:41:02.:41:02.

The UK Government is taking decisions entirely unilaterally that

:41:03.:41:05.

I and many many others believe will deeply damaged our economy,

:41:06.:41:07.

I and many many others believe will deeply damage our economy,

:41:08.:41:10.

our society and our standing in the world.

:41:11.:41:12.

Whether we like it or not, Scotland again faces a fundamental

:41:13.:41:15.

decision about what sort of country we want to be.

:41:16.:41:17.

The question before this chamber is simple.

:41:18.:41:19.

The answer to that question cannot be me and it cannot

:41:20.:41:25.

The decision about what kind of country we are and what path

:41:26.:41:32.

we take can only be made by the people of Scotland.

:41:33.:41:34.

How can the SNP sit here today and demand another referendum

:41:35.:41:37.

when they still cannot answer the basic questions

:41:38.:41:39.

On currency, on long-term membership of the European Union,

:41:40.:41:47.

That debate will go into tomorrow. There will be a vote and we know

:41:48.:41:56.

probably which we are to go, but we will bring you the result of that

:41:57.:42:00.

vote tomorrow. Yes, the polls have not shifted, have they, Christian?

:42:01.:42:04.

No, and I think it is pretty obvious the SNP will wind the vote. Before

:42:05.:42:08.

we go, I want to speak about Ivanka Trump, who will get her own office

:42:09.:42:15.

on the West Wing floor, security clearance, Government issued

:42:16.:42:17.

devices... What are they saying about it in Washington? Yes, very

:42:18.:42:21.

unusual to have the daughter of a president getting this kind of

:42:22.:42:24.

access. I don't know how much time you spent in the White House,

:42:25.:42:27.

Christian, but it is very small. There she is with her husband

:42:28.:42:32.

Jarryd. There was a theory put out in the Washington Post over the

:42:33.:42:36.

weekend which suggested the New York Democrats as they are dismissed in

:42:37.:42:40.

the White House by some populists are having too much power in a

:42:41.:42:45.

battle and I think that is why Ivanka Trump probably has her own

:42:46.:42:48.

office, a pushback against that report in the Washington Post.

:42:49.:42:51.

That is 100 Days - join us again, at the same time tomorrow.

:42:52.:42:54.

And in the meantime you can keep in touch with us using the hashtag

:42:55.:42:59.

For now, from Katty in Washington and me in London, goodbye.

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