30/03/2017 100 Days

Brexit is under way and the EU is fighting back.

"Those who would challenge European unity threaten

their own communities", so says the President

We must say, loud and clear, that nationalisms and separatisms

which try to weaken the EU are the opposite

The French President tells the British that talks on trade

will only begin once the UK has agreed a divorce bill

In London, Parliament prepares to convert thousands of EU laws

We want a smooth and orderly exit and the Great Repeal Bill

The Senate Intelligence Committee says Russia tried to hijack US

democracy with a campaign of disinformation on social media.

The President is spoiling for a fight with the conservative

Republicans who blocked Healthcare reform.

Day one of Britain's two year countdown to Brexit.

European leaders have been setting out boundaries

In Paris, the French and German presidents put on a united front,

insisting the terms of the UK's withdrawal - including a bill

for outstanding debts Britain will pay when it leaves -

will need to be agreed first before there is any talk

The European Council President, Donald Tusk -

who will steer the negotiations - believes Brexit will

He said the remaining 27 countries must fight the populism which has

We must say, loud and clear, that nationalisms and separatisms

which try to weaken the EU are the opposite

Those who take aim at European unity, threaten also

their own communities, weakening their own

Words such as security, sovereignty, dignity and pride must return

Settling the exit bill - estimated by the European Commission

to be 60 billion euros - $64 billion -

will be the first big hurdle when the talks get under way in mid

The British Prime Minister said last night the UK

would honour its commitments, but the British Government disputes

Lets speak to Yo-Anne Pascu, he is Vice-President

of the European Parliament who joins us now from Brussels.

Thank you very much for joining us on the programme. You're welcome.

Negotiations, we are one day in, there is disagreement on even the

basics, on the numbers? In a way we are havele launched ourselves, both

of us, Britain and ourselves on an adventure. We do not know what is in

front of us. And how many obstacles we'll have to overcome. In a way, we

have to adjust our pace and find the right way to start the negotiations

in earnest and find solutions to the problems which confront us both. I

mean, are you heartened things are off to a good start, though? Sorry?

Do you have faith that things are off to a good start? Well, I think,

you know, we have to do that. Nobody has done it before and we are

confronted with a situation we never envisaged and we have to adjust to

it. We have to really find a solution to come to a compromise. If

we manage to do that, in the two years in front.

Us, it will be OK. If we don't, then, you know, we have a new

situation which we will also have to confront. I hope, in the end, after

this initial adjustment period, we will get on the way with our

negotiations. Can I take you back to what the French and German leaders

are saying today, there must be an agreement on the divorce settlement

before they discuss the shape of the future relationship, would you go

along with that? Well, I would say, you know, in the good order of

things, you cannot start building something until you clear the field

before. In a way, this makes sense. It's logical. I'm a Romanian from

Transylvania and I have a German education, if I could say so, to me

it makes sense that we have, first, to clear the field and then to start

building the new house. Yes. The Europeans are taking a hardline on

this. A former Conservative leader, Michael Howard, said to me yesterday

I should read Article 50 of the Treaty. I did that today. I will

read you a part of it. "When a state withdraws the Union should

negotiation and conclude an agreement with that state setting

out the arrangements for its withdrawal while taking account for

the framework of its future relationship" it's there in black

and white. The two must be done hand in hand? It's a matter of

interpretation. It's not. It's there in black-and-white. Well, anything

is a matter of interpretation. In politics, this is the situation. The

constructive ambiguitiy which is practiced especially by Britain, you

know, with so much success until now, permits everyone to look at the

thing and interpret and understand what he wants. This is the beauty of

it. Everyone understands from the same phrase what he wants to

understand. Here you know we will have to make room, you know, for

political interpretations because everything is political. It should

not be applied as such 100%. We should expect ourselves, you will do

the same in other fields, and this is, you know, the beginning of the

game. It's political. Plenty of to-and-fro to come. We are very

grateful for your time. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Meanwhile, in the British Parliament, the business

The Government has published a first draft of the Great Repeal Bill,

which will end the supremacy of European Law over

Labour's Keir Starmer, who will lead parliamentary scrutiny

of Theresa May's negotiation, said the job of the opposition had

While the Brexit Secretary, David Davis - Britain's

chief negotiator - said he wanted a clean break.

We're being clear that we want a smooth and orderly exit

and the Great Repeal Bill is integral to that approach.

It will provide clarity and certainty for businesses,

workers and consumers across the United Kingdom

All rights and protections derived from EU law must be

All rights and protections - no limitations, no qualifications

Our political correspondent, Rob Watson, is in Westminster.

Good to see you. You too. We know why it's called the Great Repeal

Bill it will get rid of the European Act. Really, the title is the

biggest misnomer known to man. It will not repeal very much, is it?

All those rulings and regulations will be shifted on to the UK statute

book? You are stealing my best lines. It's an oddly named Bill. The

first thing to say, anyone who finds other parliaments ways and means and

legislators baffling look away now. To get to it, it's a Bill that does

something in three parts. Number one the repeal bit. That does apply,

getting rid of the idea that Britain does whatever Europe says. The

second bit, absolutely, the biggest cut and paste in history. Basically,

what this Bill will do is say - we will not follow European law. Guess

what, all that stuff, all those rules and regulations. It's thought

there are tens of thousands accumulated over 40 years, we will

transfer them over into UK law. Why? Because when Britain leaves the

European Union in two years' time the idea is that there shouldn't be

a legal black hole. It does one other thing as well, which is not

all of these laws or tens of thousands of regulations will be

applicable. The Government is saying we will go through them all and get

rid of some of them. Plenty of good lines there. Thank you very much for

the moment. A lot going on then, Michelle, on the fist day. We had

news today about a bank that was moving to Europe, Lloyd's of London.

They are moving a subsidiary, 100 jobs. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, is

it something we should be concerned about or is this brass plating where

they are trying to get an address and foothold in Europe so that they

are part of the European Union? Well, look, I think it's like any

business, they are looking at the laws of the land. In some cases,

they will be required to have a presence, as you say, brass plating,

in Europe if they want to continue funding, doing, performing certain

operations. That being said, there is a huge part of the financial

market, a huge part of certain of their activities in which London

remains the centre. So while there is a lot of concern, teeth gnashing

about what it will do as London as a financial centre it will remain

important to the financial world. Let's turn to news

here in Washington. There are now a series

of congressional hearings and investigations that are looking

into the Russia's inteference The House Intelligence Committee

held its first public At that session the FBI director,

James Comey, confirmed the FBI is leading its own investigation

into alleged links between Russia Today, the Senate Intelligence

Committee invited in cameras for Among 20 people summoned to give

evidence will be the former National Security Adviser,

Mike Flynn, who was forced to resign last month,

and the President's son-in-law The stakes are high for Senate

investigation given the disarray we have witnessed

in the House investigation. The infighting between Republicans

and Democrats brought that inquiry By contrast, the Senate Committee

appears an example of bi-partisan The ranking Democrat,

Mark Warner, and the Republican chair, Richard Burr,

stand side by side promising We will always say to you,

this investigation scope will go Russia's goal, Vladimir Putin's

goal, is a weaker United States - weaker economically,

weaker globally, and that should be a concern to all Americans

regardless of party affiliation. Just before today's

committee hearing started, Russian President Vladimir Putin

dismissed the US intelligence TRANSLATION: Did the Russian

government attempt to influence TRANSLATION: At one time Reagan

debating, I think about taxes and addressing the Americans said -

"read my lips" - no! Well, one man who has

already given evidence, earlier today in fact,

is Former FBI special agent Clint Watts, who is now a fellow

at the Foreign Policy Research We heard Putin there, basically,

saying, no Russia was not involved. What did you make of that? Is I

don't know why we would believe him. He is not honest to his own people

in his own country. I surely wouldn't believe him in this

context. For three years, two colleagues and I have watched

Russian influence online. It's a deliberate strategy over those three

years. It's not covert. What tends to be pushed around in the media is

that it's a hidden hand. The hacking we hear with about now of people's

accounts was hidden and come to light due to investigations the

influence is not. You can go to state sponsored Russian outlet, do

analysis and see how they want to manipulate it. You talk about the

influence of Russia, their tactics. Are you concerned we could see the

tactics employed in up coming European elections? It's already

happening. They are focussed on the German and French elections. They

will steer their candidates towards the per ferd outcome they would

like. I know that you dashed straight to us from this intel

committee hearing, so we should play a bit of that. It's interesting what

you had to say. Let's just show our viewers.

Part of the reason active measures works, and it does today -

in terms of Trump Tower being wired tap - is because they

So Putin is correct, he can say that he's not influencing

anything because he's just putting out his stance, but until we get

a firm basis on fact and fiction in our own country,

get some agreement about the facts, whether it be -

do I support the intelligence community or a story

I read on my Twitter feed, we're going to have a big problem.

I can tell you, right now today, grey outlets,

that are Soviet pushing accounts, tweet at President Trump

during high volumes, when they know he's online,

So if he's to click on one of those or cite one of those,

Are you saying that some of this is entirely legal. What they are doing

is pumping out misinformation to Republican supporters, to Trump

campaigners who hover it up and recite it or recycle it as fact?

Yes. The overt propaganda that anyone can look on the internet is

the standard party line in Russia. Where it gets a little bit weird

though is in social media. Their use of automated bots, fake accounts

that look like people, they are pushing a message on their behalf

and their use of covert accounts used for hacking, both in terms of

social engineering to get into people's accounts and to influence

their opinions. That is where it's a little bit more covert and a lot

less overt. During your evidence or the information you gave to the

Senate hearing today you talked about yourself being targeted? Sure.

I received notification two weeks after I wrote about this, November

2015, the FBI visited the Foreign Policy Research Institute let them

know I'd been targeted with a cyber-attack. They don't tell you

who targeted it came two weeks after I talked about fake social media

accounts being controlled by Russia. We have been talking a lot about,

you gave testimony in the Senate and what is going on in the House, are

you confident we can find out what has been going on here and whether

there has been involvement on the side of the Trump camp? In terms of

the information warfare going on I can't speak to the Trump campaign

members. What I don't understand is why Stone would say he's in contact

with one of the hackers or why he would know about WikiLeaks. I don't

know why they would cite a fake Russian prop gang da story after it

had been debunked or why President Trump would get those lines fed to

him. What is the connection between humans and this online information

campaign. Thank you very much. It's hard to believe this time last

week we were talking about President Trump's health care

plan and its chance of becoming law. couldn't get the Freedom Caucus -

the conservative members of his own At the time he blamed

the Democrats, but today we got The Freedom Caucus will hurt

the entire Republican agenda if they don't get

on the team, fast. We must fight them,

Dems, in 2018! Our North America Editor,

Jon Sopel, is watching Trump is going to battle with

members of the party he is meant to be working with? Never let it be

said that Donald Trump is afraid to pick a fight. He goes after the

Democratic Party, you might expect it and the Freedom Can you suss, 30

plus Republican tea party house members who sunk his Health Care

Bill. Donald Trump has been talking about how it could be resurrected.

You think - why are you going after your tea party members if you are

trying to get them on board. Maybe what his real strategy is to prize

enough Democrats away so they will backed a revise healthcare reform

Bill. Paul Ryan is the Speaker of the House. He was asked about it. He

gave it the same enthusiastic response as you would having root

canal treatment. But if this Republican Congress

allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good,

I worry we'll push the President I mean, have you reached out

to the Democrats yet to work No, I'm trying to get

this Bill passed. Nancy and I see things

very, very differently. Then you guys are not

on the same page. The President of the United States

saying he's going to work You don't want - Yeah,

I know he's been saying that, Because I want a patient centred

system, I don't want Where is this new majority going to

come from that Donald Trump is talking about? Also, what kind of

concessions is he going to have to make to winsome of these Democrats,

especially when be you are talking about healthcare and, further

down-the-line, budget talks, tax reform? Well, you name it. The

problems are piling up. We have already heard about the possibility

that the administration, the government could run out of money by

the end of April. Almost coinciding with his 100 days in office. One of

the things that he has put in his spending bill is to fund money for

that wall that Mexico was going to pay for, but isn't. So he's asking

Congress to pay for it. They don't want to. If he hasn't got the votes

to get that through. What does he do? Does he either give up on the

immediate plans to build the wall? Or does he go-ahead and push it in

and the spending bill gets voted down and government shuts down. On

that, too, he's between a rock and a hard place. I was thinking today,

Jon, about the irony of this, you have ideologues standing next to the

President who thought they could speak openingly to the Freedom Can

you suss and his Budget Secretary who was a under foing member and

still they can't control them? One of the interesting critiques I've

seen is that Donald Trump is trying to be a President as an ideologue.

That's no he is. If only the real Donald Trump, the populous, would

stand up, there will be things he would agree with the Democrats over.

There will be things where he will find himself at odds with the

Freedom Can you suss he goes too close to them but not close enough

to satisfy them. He has to work out, where is his majority going to come

from on a pile of issues. Does he move towards the Democrats and leave

the Freedom Caucus behind or get them united. How does he do that

without upsetting moderner rate Republicans. I think he thought

force of personality would be enough. I will speak to them, they

will come over, I am anticipate the great deal maker. His first go at

that didn't end up terribly well. No, quite. The realities of the job

clearly coming to hit him at home. Jon Sopel, our North America editor,

thank you very much. A judge in Hawaii has

extended the suspension of President Trump's new travel ban.

Which means people from six mostly Muslim states can still enter

the country while it's Many of America's biggest businesses

have spoken out against the order Mr Trump says the ban will stop

terrorists entering the country and has previously pledged to take

the case "as far We know President Trump

enjoys a round of golf - so much so, he conducts much

of his weekend business at the so-called winter,

or Southern, White House - He owns that course,

his name's also on a golf club Christian, apparently he's not such

a bad golfer either. Well the former world number one,

Greg Norman, was quite complimentary about Mr Trump,

and not just about his swing. Our sport reporter, Seth Bennett's

been speaking to the man known His flexibility, for a 70-year-old

guy, is pretty darn good. He hits a ball out

there a fairly long way. I'm not saying - You're not just

being nice though because he's - No, I've played with him quite

a few times. And, back to his golf swing, no,

I'm not embellishing that or just saying it,

I would tell you if I thought he had a crappy swing, right,

but he actually gets Are you surprised that Rory McIlroy

got the stick he got? He did get a lot for it, wrongly so,

because if the President of the United States asks you to go

play golf, you go play golf with the President

of the United States. A great story, if I give

you analogy, I got a phone call from the White House and it said

that the President will be in Australia on such and such

a date, he would love to play You know, "I don't

want to play with him." So you know he what I did,

I called up President Bush, 41. I said, "Mr President,

I've got to seek your advice, I just got a call from

the White House a they're requesting we play golf with President Clinton

in Australia and I'm not a big fan, I'm not a Democrat, I'm

a Republican, my views and beliefs He said, "Great, let me tell you,

respect the position of You go play golf

with the President." This is why I can say with complete

authority, within myself, I was an idiot because it turned out

to create one of the great friendships that I have,

to this day. Because, when I got to know him,

he was just a wonderful guy. You know, there will be times

when he would even call me up, when the whole Tiger Woods thing

was going on, right. He would call me up and say, "Greg,

you are the only person, you're his neighbour,

go down and talk to him. You would go - this is pretty cool,

getting that type of call. You know, it's going back

to respecting the position of That's all I ask everybody

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is like for people living with war. Is US intervention

making any difference? It's been a warm day in the

north-east of Scotland, the wind direction changed. That is the

picture in Aberdeenshire. The highest temperatures to the

south-east of England. Kew Gardens beautiful day. Clearer skies to

England and Wales as the wet weather transferred its way towards the

Irish Sea but continues toing bring some persistent rain across the

north-west of England. More rain overnight. One or two showers to

central and eastern areas. The wetter weather out towards the

Westheading into Scotland. There will be heavy rain over the hills,

foo. With the cloud around it will be a mild night, 11-12 degrees

typically. Tomorrow, early sunshine across eastern parts of England. A

line of showers. That is it pushing eastwards through the morning. The

main focus of the wet weather is going to be further north and west.

The heavier rain moving away from western parts of Wales, continuing

across Northern Ireland, the far north-west of England. Cumbria will

be wet to begin with. Rain to central and southern Scotland.

Wetter in northern Scotland as well. Low pressure will bring the wetter

weather here. That will push the rain away from Northern Ireland and

north-west England and Wales but continue to bring rain in central

and northern Scotland. To the south of that, one or two showers, but we

break the cloud up, we will get sunshine. We have fresher air, but a

decent afternoon, 15-17 degrees. Improving in Northern Ireland.

Showers waiting in the wings. In time for the weekend or the start of

the weekend we will get April showers for the first day of the new

month, chilly overnight, but a fine day on Sunday. Not a bad day to the

south-east of England, very few showers. The showers will fade away,

they will be pushed away by high pressure, it will settle things down

for the second-half of the weekend keeping the weather fronts at bay

for the time being. A dry day, fine day, sunshine in the morning after

the chilly start. Cloud around in the afternoon, but with light winds,

when you do get the sunshine, it should feel pleasantly warm.

Welcome back to 100 Days with me, Michelle Fleury, in Washington,

The French President says Brexit talks on, will only begin once a

divorce bill with the European Union has been set in place. And Ivanka

Trump is starting as an unpaid employee. How is that going to work?

The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has been meeting

with Turkish leaders amid deep disagreements on who should lead

the fight against so called Islamic State in Syria.

US special forces are working with the YPG, the Kurdish

People's Protection Units, which Ankara considers

a terrorist group, linked to the separatists in Turkey.

President Erdogan said he has stressed in their meeting

the importance of working with what he called the "right

and legitimate" elements in the fight against IS.

What we discussed today were options that are available to us.

They are difficult options, let me be very frank.

These are not easy decisions, they are difficult choices

So this has been very good, the conversations today

I think the status and the longer term status of President Assad will

Quite clearly Turkey wants to be involved in the operation to capture

the IS stronghold of Raqqa - but not alongside

A lot has been made here in Washington of the Pentagon

seemingly stepping up its operations in Syria and Iraq.

Elsewhere, there are reports that 300 American marines will be drafted

into new operations in Helmand province in Afghanistan.

We are told the Pentagon has begun resupplying Saudi Arabia

with precision weapons, for the ongoing war in Yemen.

There's also a renewed focus on Libya.

It would seem the US is getting much more active in conflicts it had

This week the BBC is focusing on six years of war in Syria.

Our Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet,

is in Homs, to the north of Damascus.

This renewed focus with the Secretary of State Tillerson,

in Turkey, what shift are we seeing coming from the US position?

Well, today one very significant shift, and hints there is trouble

over how to shift on another question, the first that Secretary

of State Tillerson has now made it clear that the long-term future,

as he put it, of President Assad is up for the Syrians to decide.

This is a very marked departure from the statements of former

Secretary of State John Kerry, who always said that

President Assad had no legitimacy, that he must step down,

that he must go and that there will not be any election,

that he must go and that there will not be any elections,

Now Secretary of State Tillerson is making clear what we already know

about President Trump, that his interest in Syria,

neighbouring Iraq is the fight against so-called Islamic State.

He wants to work with Russia, as for the internal conflict

in Syria they think that America, it is not really America's interest.

Now the second shift is one that is still being discussed.

What will America decide when it comes to whether they will work

with Syrian Kurdish forces, much admired by the US military

as a very effective fighting force, and their key Nato ally

President Erdogan of Turkey, who insists there absolutely cannot

be any strategic alliance with the Syrian Kurds,

because Turkey sees them as an off-shoot of the PKK

in Turkey, terrorist separatists in President Erdogan's eye.

What Secretary of State Tillerson said today, these are difficult

choices, our expectation is they will work with

choices, our expectation is they will work with the Syrian Kurds,

but somehow try to placatee Turkey's fears that

will threaten Turkey's own interest on its own border with Syria.

Donald Trump gave his generals 30 days to come up

We have not really seen the details of that plan,

but anecdotally we are starting to feel like they're

stepping up the bombing of IS positions in Iraq and Syria,

and we have showed people on the map other positions

around the Middle East, and in Afghanistan,

where they are stepping up military activity.

Well, what we know was the first steps taken by President Trump's

administration, which involves sending hundreds of special forces

backed up by troops and artillery into northern Syria,

was a decision that was taken at the end of President

They knew they had to do something to ratchet up

the pressure on Islamic State, both in Iraq as well as in Syria,

that the present balance of forces on the ground simply wouldn't work,

but since then, President Trump's team had been adding,

and adding in a way which is very interesting.

We are getting hints from the President Trump's

administration, he, with his great

admiration of the US military is willing to give his commanders

on the ground more leeway in taking some of the day-to-day decisions.

That seems to involve the deployment of forces,

There are restrictions on combat troops, but not on advisers,

special forces, and we have seen in places like Afghanistan,

So yes, a President which talked about America first is deciding that

putting America first means being even a greater

presence militarily, more boots on the ground as we say,

Lyse Doucet in Homs, to the north of Damascus.

This is from a court in South Korea that has approved an arrest want

rant for the country's ousted President.

The Parliament's decision to impeach her. A court has approved an arrest

warrant for her. The North Carolina Senate has

cleared a plan to repeal a controversial law that limits

protections for lesbian, gay, A key element banned transgender

people from using toilets in accordance with their chosen

gender, earning the measure Two-thirds of the Senate approved

the repeal bill after a late-night Nicola Sturgeon who released this

picture, argues that Scotland deserves the right to choose what

path to follow in the wake of the Brexit vote. The UK Government has

already said it will block a referendum until the complicated

Brexit process has been completed. Severe weather is continuing to reek

havoc in the Australian state of Queensland,

in the wake of cyclone Debbie. Tens of thousands are still

without power on the mainland and thousands are also stranded

on resort islands in the north east, where officials have issued

new evacuation warnings ahead We take you into space now

where Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson, dressed all in white,

has ventured outside the International Space Station

on a record breaking spacewalk. It's her eighth time and breaks

a record for the most She surpasses Sunita

Williams' record. It's the 199th spacewalk

in support of space station assembly and maintenance -

on this walk they are Ivanka Trump is officially

joining her father's administration as an unpaid employee,

with the title Assistant She will be given security clearance

and an office in the White House. Ivanka - like her father -

is the sole beneficiary He put all his business interests

aside but she won't do that, is that right? She stepped aside from her

brand, the sort of the clothing line, the shoe line that bore her

name, the perfumes but the assumption was she would never join

him into a business, there were issues with that Jared Kushner was

able to do because he wasn't directly related. It is unusual to

have an immediate family relative joining in, working for the

President in this way, they said it wouldn't happen, now we are seeing

it is, I don't know if they think the ethics questions will somehow

disappear, but certainly they haven't changed since we were

talking about that few weeks ago. The thing that strikes me, while his

poll ratings are are so low he seems to be pulling people close to him

closer, so Kushner has this new job in the White House and now Ivanka

Trump with this job. It seems while he is under siege if you will he

will bringing his family close to him.

Well, here on 100 Days, we like to check in with our

audience from time to time, to find out what they make

This week we're in Massachusetts - a state that voted

for Hillary Clinton - but today we're joined, in fact,

by a Trump supporter - Cathie Digrazia.

Just wanted to ask you, how do you think Donald Trump is doing? . I

think he's doing a terrific job. I am very encouraged by some of the

appointments he has made to his cabinet. His nomination of, is

fantastic and will be great for our constitution and the Supreme Court,

so I think he is doing just a great job. Cathy, good to see you, thank

for coming on the programme. Let me talk to you about the events of the

last week, the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, that was a

central pledge of the campaign, and they have flunked that. Who do you

blame for it? Do you blame the President or the Republicans? . I am

very disappointed with our Republican leadership. And I have

been for quite some time, as well as many of the people that I know, you

reknow, who feel the same way that, the Republicans have had the ability

to prove themselves to their constituents over the past two

years, and they failed to do that. They are just exposing themselves

further with this action, frankly. It is this split, is it, between the

freedom Caucasus and the moderates that is causing the problems, are

wow with the President that the Caucasus has to be defeated? Well,

I, I think that his message is that we need to be unified, and I, I am

confident that his message is directed not just to the freedom

Caucasus or the balance of Republicans but to Democrats, and

you know, one of my greatest hopes for this presidency is he will be

able to start to mend our inability to work across the isle, to have by

partisanship, so I am hopeful for that, he is a great negotiator, that

is why we voted for him, he has had fantastic success in his

professional life, and we expect that he will carry that over and it

will translate into his administration.

Cathy, thank you very much indeed. Thanks for having me.

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