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The US bans electronic devices on flights from | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
The UK has announced similar action on flights from six countries, | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
mainly in the Middle East and north Africa. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
The ban covers laptops, tablets, and games consoles. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
It's apparently a response to intelligence suggesting terror | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attacks. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
We had a great meeting and I think we're going to get a winner vote. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
The President heads to Congress to try to "close the deal" | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
on repealing and replacing Obamacare. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Also, the different lives of Martin McGuiness - | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
from IRA commander to Northern Ireland statesman. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
We'll hear from the US Senator who kept him at the table | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
And the different faces of the Front National in France. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
We'll introduce you to Marine Le Pen's niece, | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
further to the right than her aunt, and a keen supporter | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
We don't know the source or the specific nature | :01:10. | :01:28. | |
of the intelligence, but there are concerns on both | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
And so, from this weekend, passengers flying to the US | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
from eight majority-Muslim countries will be banned from carrying | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
large electronic devices onto their flights. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
although the countries where the ban applies | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
are slightly different - six in total, | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
including Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, where these passengers | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
in Istanbul were today asked to put their laptops, cameras | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
The authorities point to two recent attacks, | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
the downing of a Russian airliner over the Sinai Peninsula in 2015, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
In this instance, 74 passengers on board escaped unhurt - | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
but only because their flight had been delayed before take-off. | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Reportedly, a laptop carried onto the flight by a passenger | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
was rigged with a timer device, and exploded too early, before | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
In the past hour, the White House press secretary Sean Spicer has been | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
The elevated intelligence that we're aware of indicates that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
terrorist groups continue to target commercial aviation, and are | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
aggressive in pursuing innovative methods to undertake their attack, | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
to include smuggling explosive devices in various consumer objects. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Based on this information, the secretary of Homeland Security | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
and the TSA administrator have determined that it is necessary to | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is here. | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
It will cause a lot of inconvenience for passengers, and naturally the | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
question will be, what is the intelligence? | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Yes, there are different schools of thought. One is that the | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
intelligence is real and what it is called evaluative intelligence in | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
the US, that it is a developing and evolving threat. It is not a | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
specific plot to attack a particular aircraft or error line, but there | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
are Al-Qaeda and other jihadists groups with ongoing interest in | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
putting bombs on board aircraft, and they have done it three times out of | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Yemen, seven or eight years ago, and there is a fear they have not given | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
up trying. Other would say there is commercial interest behind this, and | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
this is in some way anti-Islamic, but in the case of Britain, the ban | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
applies to British Airways and five other popular British airlines, so | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
they will suffer from this. People will suffer most, business | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
travellers, because they cannot use their laptops in flight to do work | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
on direct flights from the Middle East to Britain or the US. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
And parents to travel with their kids and do not have their tablets, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
they are essential now on flights. There is a difference in countries | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
targeted under the American ban and the UK ban. What do you hear on | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
that? There is inconsistency here, which | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
does not make sense. The US ban includes the United Arab Emirates | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
and Dubai and Abu Dhabi, both of which are close allies of the United | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
States. There is a closed military basing relationship and quad core | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
operation on a lot of things, including intelligence, and that is | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
not popular in the UAE, and likewise Saudi Arabia, close intelligence and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
working relationship to the CIA and Saudi intelligence. They have chosen | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
specific airports not mentioned in the British ban, which includes | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
leather nun, which is not in the other one. It does appear a bit | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
muddled -- the British ban includes Lebanon, and not the other one. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Inside London, and the past few days, Theresa May only signed up on | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
this this morning, because there were some voices saying, hang on, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
this is of a reaction. In the absence of a specific threat, are we | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
not letting ourselves in for a much bigger penalty, commercially and | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
diplomatically? These are supposed to be countries that are our | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
friends, and will widen the gap between East and West and play right | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
into the hands of people that say the West does not like Muslims, or | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the West hates the middle east. It will play into the hands of | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
extremists and risks doing that. Thank you, Frank. Interesting, how | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
much cooperation there has been between Washington and London on | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
this, both of them coming out on this ban within hours of each other, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
even though different countries in question. | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
Listening to Frank, the travel ban President Robert in place was so | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
toxic and so political, in Washington, I wonder how they | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
reacted to data desk -- President Trump put in place this ban. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Bipartisanship on this, the head of intelligence and committee coming | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
out and saying that while he criticised the executive order | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
banning immigrants from the White House, he supports this one. This is | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
an area where people are sensitive in the United States, and if they | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
think the intelligence agencies have some kind of evidence or information | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
there is a threat on the homeland, it would be incredibly unlikely for | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
you to see political splits on that, nothing is what we are seeing from | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Democrat supporting the White House on this. | :06:42. | :06:41. | |
We will keep our eye on that. President Trump has been | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
on Capitol Hill today, trying to win over those Republicans on the right | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
whose support is still wavering He had a stern warning for lawmakers | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
who are digging in - give me your vote, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
or you might just lose your seat They are heading to a first | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
vote on Thursday - the House speaker Paul Ryan, | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
who is the author of the bill, The numbers on his side still look | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
a little shaky, though. Trump was here to do what he does | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
best, and that is to close the deal. He is all in, and we are all in, | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
to end this Obamacare nightmare. Let's speak to our resident | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
commentator, the former Republican We heard Paul Ryan trying to sound | :07:25. | :07:37. | |
optimistic and it is not looking great for the White House on this? | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
It is not and there are two diverging groups and playback could | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
torpedo this deal from going through. The most conservative | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
members of the house, 46 members of the house freedom Congress, saying | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
the Government is spending too much. Then the Republicans who are more | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
moderate, the Tuesday group, they meet for lunch on Tuesdays, and they | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
say there is nothing of safeguard in the bill to protect elderly people, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
and it is to harsh on one of our support systems here, Medicaid. And | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
Paul Ryan has a thin tightrope to walk to get the moderate and the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
more conservative to agree. You have had conversations over the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
past week with the White House, are they going under siege on this and | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
the budget? Over the last two weeks, my | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
communications the White House, there is a sense they need to do a | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
better job of selling it to the American people what policies they | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
are undertaking and why they are good for American people. Often we | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
speak on it more than once a day, that is the severity and the urgency | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
they have right now... They recognise they have a problem? | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
I think they do otherwise we would not have so much feedback back and | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
forth. I want to set this in the context of | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
the headlines this morning, and they are all about the Russian | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
investigation and the investigation being at the door of the White | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
House. I wonder, on Congress today, on the Hill, talking to people, does | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
this in any way make him toxic? It could and there is discussion in | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the United States as to whether or not the Russian Government had | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
specific influence of the election outcome. There are a lot of people | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, who want | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
to know, worthy associates of President Trump involved in having | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
this conversation with the Russians? -- were they? And if so, why were | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
they not transparent? Saying to the American people whether or not | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
conversations may have been had. This potentially is a problem for | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
the White House, because as we heard yesterday from the FBI director, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
these investigations with the Russians and the drug administration | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
continue. If, as you suggest, from your phone | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
calls with the White House this week, they understand they have a | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
munitions problem, why doesn't the president in this instance, the | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Russia allegations, say, OK, I got it wrong? President Obama did not | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
wiretap me in Trump Tower and I was mistaken. | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Having worked with President Bush, the hardest thing for a president to | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
do is look at the American people and say, I am sorry and I messed up. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
With this president and administration, it will not come any | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
time soon. Thank you. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
He was known as the hardest of the hard men - | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
a boy from the Bogside in Derry who rose to become | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
And it was perhaps because Martin McGuinness | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
was so prominent - and so feared - in Northern Ireland, | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
that he was finally able to bring the Republican side | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Mr McGuinness died last night aged 66. | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
The former Deputy First Minister, who resigned his post in January, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
had been suffering from a rare heart condition. | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
Our correspondent Chris Buckler has been looking back at his life. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
To paint a true picture of Martin McGuinness, | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
He was a paramilitary who once embraced violence, | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
but also a peacemaker who reached out to rivals, a man who could be | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
Born in Londonderry, into a large Catholic family, | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Martin McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
In that time of violence, he joined the IRA, quickly | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Can you say whether the bombing is likely to stop in the near future, | :11:12. | :11:23. | |
Well, I always take into consideration the feelings | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
The 1970s saw him become one of the faces of ruthless | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Irish republicanism, and he was jailed for terrorist | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
McGuinness has changed considerably from the young man who used | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
to swagger around the no-go areas in Londonderry, as commander | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
What had started as a fight for civil rights had | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Yet, alongside the many bombings and shootings, | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Martin McGuinness saw opportunities at the ballot box for | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the IRA. | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
Even then, the language of threat remained. | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
We don't believe that winning elections, and winning | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
any amount of votes, will bring freedom in Ireland. | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of IRA | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
But after years of killings and chaos, in the 1990s, | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
IRA ceasefires offered the opportunity for talks | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Not only would they shake hands, after the signing | :12:25. | :12:37. | |
of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Eventually, at its head was the unlikely partnership | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
of two former enemies - Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
The firebrand unionist and radical republican became so close | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
that they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
There were republicans who continued to threaten that political progress. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
But when a police officer was killed, the then deputy first | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
minister stood side-by-side with the chief constable to condemn | :13:09. | :13:10. | |
They are traitors to the island of Ireland. | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
Alongside the words, there were actions on all sides. | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
The Queen's cousin Lord Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
Yet, after the Troubles, royal and republican were able | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Thank you very much, I am still alive! | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
However, relationships at Stormont always seemed strained | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
after Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister, | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
to be replaced by Peter Robinson, and then Arlene Foster. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
Earlier this year, with his ill health by then obvious, | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Martin McGuinness walked out of government, amid a row | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
between Sinn Fein and the DUP, the boy from Derry's Bogside | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
retiring as deputy first minister after years in the IRA. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
My heart lies in the Bogside and the people of Derry. | :14:02. | :14:15. | |
The past actions of the IRA will colour many people's views | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
But as a republican who worked towards reconciliation, | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
he will be remembered as a key figure in changing Northern Ireland. | :14:29. | :14:43. | |
Amazing looking back at that life and those images from that time. | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Another prominent figure in those peace talks was George Mitchell, | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
the US envoy to Northern Ireland during that pivotal time. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
He knew Martin McGuinness well and gave me this reaction. | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Senator Mitchell, when you went to Northern Ireland in the mid-'90s | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
and you started dealing with Martin McGuinness, | :14:58. | :14:58. | |
what made you think that you could trust him, | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
He was obviously a political leader, chosen by the people | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
When the peace talks began, all of the delegates were elected. | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
They represented the people of Northern Ireland, | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
Trusting one another, it was a case of accepting | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
the will of the people of Northern Ireland, | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
who would represent them in the negotiation. | :15:36. | :15:36. | |
Martin McGuinness was obviously intelligent, articulate, | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
a strong and effective leader of his community | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
And in that way he participated in and come along with leaders | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
on both sides, helped to reach the decision to end | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
the violence and to move towards democratic and peaceful ways | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
And many would say he had blood on his hands. | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
Whilst you were in the process of negotiating with him during those | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
years leading up to the Good Friday agreement, did you ever | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
I never discussed past actions with Martin | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
or with any other participant in the Northern Ireland | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
Many of them were in a similar circumstance, where they had been | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
The problem was, they were embedded in the past, and I was trying to get | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
them to look to the future, so the last thing I wanted to do | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
was to get them focused on and talking about the past, | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
when I was trying to get them to talk about the future. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
But this transformation from leader of the IRA, | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
somebody who had been convicted in the 70s for crimes | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
related to the IRA, and actions related to the IRA, | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
to being seen today as one of the key peacemakers, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
I think that's what people struggle with in Martin McGuinness, | :16:55. | :16:56. | |
Were you convinced throughout that this transition was genuine | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
I did not make judgments of that kind. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
What I did was tackle each problem on a daily basis, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
participate with the leaders and try to get them to look forward, | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
and try to get them to understand that, whatever the circumstances | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
of the democratic and peaceful future work, they would be better | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
than returning to the conflict that had predominated that society. | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
And Martin McGuinness accepted the challenge, was instrumental | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
in bringing his community and his side along in the peace | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
process, and that's what I think he will be remembered for. | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
I think that the ultimate iconic picture of the Northern Ireland | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
peace process will be Ian Paisley as the First Minister | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness as the Deputy | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
First Minister, embracing each other, serving the people | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
of Northern Ireland through a democratic process, | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
and appearing to enjoy each other at the same time. | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
We have mixed reactions to his death. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
We have got Tony Blair saying that, as you have suggested, | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
he was instrumental in the peace process and it could not have | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
And then you have Norman Tebbit, whose wife, of course, | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
was put in a wheelchair because of the 1984 IRA | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
bombing in Brighton, saying that the world will be | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
a sweeter place now that he has died. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
It sounds to me like you side more with Tony Blair. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Well, I speak for myself, and not for others. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
One of the most difficult issues in the peace process was how | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
to resolve that of prisoners, on both sides, who had been | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
It was very, very disconcerting to the survivors and the families | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
of victims that some of them were able to go through | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
The British and Irish governments asked me to meet with those groups | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
and I did and they talked about the agreement, | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
and I said to them that no-one can solve or end their grief. | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
It is human and it is understandable. | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
But an agreement made less likely that others | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
would share their tragedy in the future, and so I urged | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
them to understand that, at least for the people | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
of Northern Ireland, a better future would lie with it | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
in the peace process that succeeded rather than a one that failed, | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
even though those who were involved in that process themselves | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
Fascinating they are. I was just thinking back to 2012, when I was | :19:30. | :19:49. | |
sent by the BBC to Derry to watch a football match, Derry City versus | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Linfield, and Linfield drew their support from Protestant | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
working-class, and the match was put any pedestal because it was bringing | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Catholics and together. Martin McGuinness Walkden, for many years, | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
and he came and sat behind me -- Martin McGuinness sat behind me and | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
you could tell by the erection of people sitting in that stand how | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
much respect he commanded in that part of Derry. It was a reminder | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
that night, just why he was so important. Derry won the game 3-1, | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
and by the end of the evening, it has descended into a sectarian riot | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
with houses being attacked around the stadium, and police had to take | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the bus is out and the windows were smashed in buses. It reminded me | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
that, without his interaction in the Good Friday peace agreement, it | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
would probably still be where we were back on that night in 2012, and | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
in the heart of the troubles. Yes, and that was 2012. | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
He had divided opinion and some people will never forget them but he | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
has an important legacy in the peace and negotiation. | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
The genius of George Mitchell was keeping everyone at the table when | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
it was difficult. You saw in 2012 how divided it was and he managed to | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
do it in the 1990s. Some of the other stories | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
we're following today: President Trump's nominee for the US | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Supreme Court has reaffirmed the independence of the judiciary, | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
saying he would have no difficulty Neil Gorsuch appeared before | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
senators on the Judiciary Committee, which is considering his | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
appointment. Judge Gorsuch also said that he | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
would have "walked out the door" if Mr Trump had asked him | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
to overturn a ruling that legalised abortion - | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
a law that varies in each state. I have offered no promises on how we | :21:33. | :21:49. | |
will, in any case, to anyone, and I don't think it's appropriate for a | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
judge to do so, no matter who is doing the asking. And they don't, | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
because everybody wants a fair judge to cover their case with an open | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
mind, and decide on the facts and the law. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Neil Gorsuch a short time ago. The British Foreign Secretary | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
is travelling to Washington to help Boris Johnson will meet | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
with senior officials from the Trump administration, | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
after the White House sparked a diplomatic row by repeating | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
unsubstantiated claims that British Mr Johnson will also attend a summit | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
to discuss the campaign against the so-called | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Islamic State group. And two paintings by | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Vincent van Gogh, which were stolen in a smash-and-grab raid in 2002, | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
have been returned The works had been taken | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
on the orders of an Italian crime family, and were found last year | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
during a police raid in Naples. The museum director called | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
their return one of the "most special days in | :22:44. | :22:44. | |
the history of the museum". Katty, this caught the attention | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
of our team today - the bitter online battle | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
between President Trump The latest instalment between the | :22:55. | :23:06. | |
Donald and the terminator. They have had a bizarre row over ratings, and | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
Arnold Schwarzenegger had a bit of fun overnight talking about | :23:12. | :23:12. | |
President Trump's approval rating. Donald, the ratings are in, | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
and you got swamped. I mean, when you take away | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
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 | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
your the Terminator speaking about meals on wheels and after-school | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
programmes. It is pretty central... | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
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 | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
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 | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
noticed the chills certainly. In extra sunshine and showers, but | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
thickening cloud gathering in the Southwest approaches, bringing a | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
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 | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
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 | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
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 | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
the hills should beat out. We have this broad band of rain. Moving | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
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 | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
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 | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
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. | :28:26. | :30:11. | |
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. | :31:04. | :31:15. | |
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. | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
State medical care, access to social housing and so on, | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
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. | :43:00. | :43:10. |