:00:08. > :00:12.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days.
:00:13. > :00:15.At least ten people have been killed and dozens injured by an explosion
:00:16. > :00:26.on the metro system in St Petersburg.
:00:27. > :00:28.Inside the metro, there were scenes confusion as smoke
:00:29. > :00:32.The Russian president was visiting the city at the time
:00:33. > :00:42.TRANSLATION: Law enforcement and special services are working and
:00:43. > :00:46.will do all they can to try and find the cause of what has happened.
:00:47. > :00:49.President Trump says the US will solve North Korea's
:00:50. > :00:51.nuclear threat - whether China helps, or not.
:00:52. > :00:53.More gentle diplomacy back in Washington -
:00:54. > :00:55.President Trump welcomes Egypt's President al-Sisi -
:00:56. > :01:03.his first official trip to the United States.
:01:04. > :01:07.We are very much behind President Al Sisi, he has done a fantastic job
:01:08. > :01:10.and a very difficult situation. Also today - there will be no Armada
:01:11. > :01:13.heading to Gibraltar. The British Prime Minister restores
:01:14. > :01:15.some calm, laughing off the diplomatic row over the Rock,
:01:16. > :01:18.which would always be The President's envoy and son in law
:01:19. > :01:22.is quickly becoming one of the President most trusted
:01:23. > :01:34.lieutenants. I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:35. > :01:37.Christian Fraser is in London. Today we start in Russia,
:01:38. > :01:40.ten people have been killed in an explosion between two
:01:41. > :01:41.underground stations President Vladimir Putin said
:01:42. > :01:46.all causes, especially terrorism, The head of Russia's National
:01:47. > :01:52.Anti-Terrorist Committee says another explosive device
:01:53. > :01:54.was later found and made safe St Petersburg metro system sees more
:01:55. > :02:00.than two million passengers travel on the system each day -
:02:01. > :02:03.this is the first time In the immediate aftermath,
:02:04. > :02:20.passengers turned to the dead In the immediate aftermath,
:02:21. > :02:22.passengers tend to the dead and injured who have been laid out
:02:23. > :02:25.on the station platform, while others mill around the scene,
:02:26. > :02:27.smoke from the blast It's reported the explosion happened
:02:28. > :02:30.as the train was travelling And this is the damage it
:02:31. > :02:38.caused at 2:40pm local time this afternoon,
:02:39. > :02:40.once again, people trying to do This is the first incident
:02:41. > :02:50.of its kind on the metro system of Russia's second
:02:51. > :02:58.city, St Petersburg. And it happened as President
:02:59. > :03:00.Vladimir Putin was in the city, holding a meeting with the leader of
:03:01. > :03:06.Belarus. TRANSLATION: I want to express my
:03:07. > :03:09.sincere condolences to those close The law enforcement agencies
:03:10. > :03:15.and the special services are working and doing everything to find out
:03:16. > :03:19.the causes of what has happened, and to completely evaluate
:03:20. > :03:25.what happened, and the city authorities and the federal
:03:26. > :03:27.ones, too, are taking to support the families
:03:28. > :03:32.of our citizens who have The emergency services have
:03:33. > :03:37.ferried dozens of injured people to local hospitals,
:03:38. > :03:43.some in a serious condition. The entire metro system
:03:44. > :03:46.has been closed down, with investigators finding
:03:47. > :03:48.an explosive device What has happened in the city today
:03:49. > :03:56.has in the last hour been described by a top government minister
:03:57. > :04:03.as an act of terrorism. Let's go to St Petersburg, where
:04:04. > :04:20.we can speak to Sarah Rainsford. -- let's go to Moscow. Tell us a
:04:21. > :04:24.little bit about the Moscow system in St Petersburg, what sort of
:04:25. > :04:29.system do they have? It is relatively secure, or as secure as
:04:30. > :04:32.an underground target can be. It is a soft target, we always say that
:04:33. > :04:37.whenever a underground transit system is hit by what looks like it
:04:38. > :04:42.certainly was a terrorist attack. There are metal detectors, and
:04:43. > :04:48.police, a fairly heavy police presence in the Metro, and that is
:04:49. > :04:51.reinforced for big days. Of course, it is not possible to detect
:04:52. > :04:55.everything and it looks like summary managed to get a couple of
:04:56. > :05:01.home-made, as we're told, explosive devices through onto the Metro. One
:05:02. > :05:06.was found on a station platform and the other one went off inside a
:05:07. > :05:09.carriage, as it was between two stations, causing the devastation
:05:10. > :05:13.you have just seen in that report by Richard. The Russian authorities say
:05:14. > :05:17.they have opened a criminal investigation, they are looking at
:05:18. > :05:19.all options, including and especially terrorism. What can you
:05:20. > :05:24.tell us about the state of the investigation so far? The
:05:25. > :05:28.investigators are obviously going through all the CCTV footage, they
:05:29. > :05:32.will be looking for any suspects to see if anyone was behaving
:05:33. > :05:36.suspiciously, or if anyone was seen planting any devices, particularly
:05:37. > :05:41.you would assume that second one, which was discovered late in the day
:05:42. > :05:44.and made safe at a second metro station. There were reports earlier
:05:45. > :05:47.in the day that some suspect had been identified. Other reports
:05:48. > :05:52.suggesting two arrest warrants had been issued but there has been no
:05:53. > :05:55.further confirmation of that. At the moment very broad words, simply
:05:56. > :06:00.saying a criminal case has been opened under the title of terrorism
:06:01. > :06:04.but that other possibilities are still being investigated. But
:06:05. > :06:08.certainly, as I say, two explosive devices and the suggestion from any
:06:09. > :06:11.officials, including the Prime Minister, they are using the
:06:12. > :06:13.language, talking about a terrorist attack. Sarah, for the moment, thank
:06:14. > :06:16.very much. When President Trump meets
:06:17. > :06:18.Xi Jinping in Florida later this week, North Korea will be high
:06:19. > :06:24.on the agenda. In an interview with
:06:25. > :06:26.the Financial Times published today, Mr Trump says "If China is not
:06:27. > :06:30.going to solve North Korea, we will. But what are the options
:06:31. > :06:34.open to the White House? William Cohen was Secretary
:06:35. > :06:37.of Defence under President Bill Clinton, and is now a BBC
:06:38. > :06:44.world affairs analyst. When the White House and President
:06:45. > :06:49.Trump talk about all options available to North Korea, what are
:06:50. > :06:54.the ones that have not been available so far? They could
:06:55. > :06:58.certainly decide on shutting off the Korean banking system as such, and
:06:59. > :07:02.try to wring about a collapse of the regime. That is one of the options,
:07:03. > :07:06.saying that if the regime is not going to change its course, then we
:07:07. > :07:11.intend to engage in regime change. They could try to bring that about
:07:12. > :07:14.several ways, one would be to go at the heart of the financial heart,
:07:15. > :07:18.what remains of it, in North Korea, to try to bring about a collapse.
:07:19. > :07:23.Second, the ultimate thing would be using a military strike or a cyber
:07:24. > :07:31.strike against North Korea. That entails a lot of risk. We have
:07:32. > :07:36.800,000 North Koreans not very far from downtown Seoul. They have lots
:07:37. > :07:40.of artillery pieces that could destroy Seoul, and the consequences
:07:41. > :07:46.of a military strike could be quite severe, both China and for the South
:07:47. > :07:50.Koreans. So it would be the last option one should look to. We have
:07:51. > :07:53.seen a pick-up in the number of missile launchers and test from the
:07:54. > :07:56.North Koreans. How much more serious is this thread becoming, and how
:07:57. > :08:02.much more seriously are they taking it in China, where you have just
:08:03. > :08:04.come back from? I think they are climbing up this ladder of
:08:05. > :08:08.provocation to the point where they might not be offered to climb back
:08:09. > :08:12.down again. That's a problem. That's the problem. One of the reasons I
:08:13. > :08:17.think it is important for President Xi Jinping to meet with President
:08:18. > :08:20.Trump, and when I was in China I thought that the United States
:08:21. > :08:25.wasn't ready, I thought President Xi Jinping was ready but not the United
:08:26. > :08:31.States because we don't have the team fully in place. But each day
:08:32. > :08:35.that goes by is more danger, so I am happy they are meeting sooner rather
:08:36. > :08:38.than later. Then President Trump can weigh upon the President of China,
:08:39. > :08:45.saying please do more, because if you don't then we have few options
:08:46. > :08:48.and they are not very good. The former secretary of defence said he
:08:49. > :08:53.had to work up a plan for President Obama, and that plans daily --
:08:54. > :08:57.clearly still exists. If there was a military implication --
:08:58. > :09:02.intervention, what with the implications be in the region.
:09:03. > :09:06.Questionable one, what would China be doing. Number two, how would you
:09:07. > :09:10.be able to contain the escalation of the conflict as such will stop
:09:11. > :09:13.number three, how many millions would be fleeing into China, how
:09:14. > :09:18.many would-be fleeing into South Korea and what would be the of
:09:19. > :09:23.engagement? Would this be South Koreans welcoming the influx of
:09:24. > :09:27.several million people and the same for the Chinese? The consequences
:09:28. > :09:32.there are quite good. They are convex and they are serious. The
:09:33. > :09:35.President's interview with the Financial Times is fascinating, and
:09:36. > :09:37.one of the things they seem to be suggesting in the White House is
:09:38. > :09:42.that they see the prospect of a grand bargain in China, which would
:09:43. > :09:46.include the issue of North Korea but also trade conflicts. Do you think
:09:47. > :09:50.this White House has the capacity to reach some kind of bargain with
:09:51. > :09:54.China that has not been reached before? I think it has the capacity
:09:55. > :10:00.to do so. The question I have is is this premature? I think it is
:10:01. > :10:04.important that they establish a relationship so they can talk to one
:10:05. > :10:07.another, President Trump and President Xi Jinping, and the
:10:08. > :10:10.similar is of their meeting and hopefully shaking hands would send a
:10:11. > :10:14.very calming signal to the rest of the world, especially that part of
:10:15. > :10:17.the world. The third thing would be can he strike a big bargain, yes.
:10:18. > :10:21.This would be the prelude to that, and it would be an important one but
:10:22. > :10:25.I don't think you can do that in one meeting. It will be a process and it
:10:26. > :10:29.will have to take some time and planning, and it needs to have the
:10:30. > :10:32.full state Department, Secretary of State Tillerson needs a deputy, he
:10:33. > :10:36.needs the staff to help fill out all of the things that needs to be done.
:10:37. > :10:39.One final point, the Chinese are very eager to work with the United
:10:40. > :10:42.States, they are eager for their president to come and sit down and
:10:43. > :10:47.start talking of ways to reduce the trade imbalance, and how to
:10:48. > :10:51.establish a modus vivendi for the United States and China to move
:10:52. > :10:53.forward. Everyone hoping that there is not some kind of crisis that
:10:54. > :10:58.intervenes in the meantime. Thank you for joining us.
:10:59. > :11:01.Neil Gorsuch is getting one step closer to being America's next
:11:02. > :11:05.Mr Trump's nominee is being debated by the Senate Judiciary Committee -
:11:06. > :11:08.he then gets voted on by the full Senate on Friday - and that's
:11:09. > :11:16.The Democrats now look set to do what's called a filibuster -
:11:17. > :11:19.which would force the Republicans to find 60 senators
:11:20. > :11:22.As things stand they only have 59 - including a few Democrats
:11:23. > :11:24.and Independents who will vote for Gorsuch.
:11:25. > :11:27.Which means Republicans will go for the nuclear option -
:11:28. > :11:30.they will change the rules to override the filibuster
:11:31. > :11:33.for a Supreme Court pick so they will only need a simple
:11:34. > :11:40.That's understandable - it's complicated.
:11:41. > :11:42.The bottom line however is that Trump will get his nominee confirmed
:11:43. > :11:45.and Senate rules will have been changed in the process -
:11:46. > :11:48.which could have a huge impact on the nature of future
:11:49. > :12:01.So are the Democrats doing the right thing to filibuster? That is the
:12:02. > :12:05.first thing. There are political questions and long-term questions.
:12:06. > :12:08.The political question is for Democrats in conservative states, do
:12:09. > :12:12.they want to be seen to reject a nominee who is generally regarded in
:12:13. > :12:17.the mainstream of Conservative thinking? That could cause them
:12:18. > :12:20.problems electorally at home, but this business of changing the rules
:12:21. > :12:24.is important because it will mean that if President Trump gets a
:12:25. > :12:28.future pick, and some of the Supreme Court justices, as we have pointed
:12:29. > :12:32.out before, are elderly and frail, then he only needs 50 votes to get
:12:33. > :12:35.that person chosen, and that could mean he goes outside of the
:12:36. > :12:39.mainstream of judicial thinking. So it has a long-term impact. So you
:12:40. > :12:43.have a Conservative for a Conservative peer, which surely the
:12:44. > :12:47.Democrats is not a huge problem. The problem comes down the line, if you
:12:48. > :12:53.get a more liberal member at the bench replaced by a Republican. But
:12:54. > :12:57.here is a thought, if you don't get bipartisan agreement on a Supreme
:12:58. > :12:59.Court pick, the reason there are bipartisan agreements is because the
:13:00. > :13:03.level set much higher, you need some agreement from both sides of the
:13:04. > :13:06.house, but if you don't have that, then the court becomes more
:13:07. > :13:12.political, and surely people then lose faith in it? The court has
:13:13. > :13:16.always been political, ever since George Washington started with his
:13:17. > :13:20.own supporters back in the 1700s. So I think the idea that the American
:13:21. > :13:24.Supreme Court, which is clearly divided and has been for a long
:13:25. > :13:27.time, five to four Republican Democrat, is not political, is
:13:28. > :13:32.slightly fanciful. You are probably too young to remember this, but back
:13:33. > :13:38.in 2000, the Supreme Court decided in the election race on Al Gore
:13:39. > :13:42.against Bush. It was a totally political decision. It could mean
:13:43. > :13:45.you get summary more extreme nominated next amaranth and stop
:13:46. > :13:51.lots of Supreme Court justices have only been confirmed with 5253 votes.
:13:52. > :13:56.Not a lot of bipartisanship on that court. But you are right, America is
:13:57. > :14:02.becoming more stream, I suspect. It was the Chads. I remember that. --
:14:03. > :14:06.more stream. You would think that all of these issues like North
:14:07. > :14:10.Korea, and what else have we got on our plate, she's in pain visiting,
:14:11. > :14:13.Al Sisi is here and the Supreme Court justice, that might be what
:14:14. > :14:15.the President Trump was tweeting about but not so much. This is what
:14:16. > :14:27.he tweeted out this morning. He won! Why is he still going on
:14:28. > :14:28.about Hillary Clinton?! Rather than thinking about all those other
:14:29. > :14:38.things. The problem with this of course,
:14:39. > :14:41.Christian, it means he is focused on these issues and attention focuses
:14:42. > :14:44.on these issues and we carry on talking about these issues, not the
:14:45. > :14:50.kind of things we should be talking about. Doesn't speak about his
:14:51. > :14:55.character? There are one or two editorials about today that say it
:14:56. > :14:59.does. I think it reveals something, these tweets, the idea that he can't
:15:00. > :15:04.let some thing go, like the fact of Hillary Clinton, and whether she was
:15:05. > :15:07.under surveillance and the whole election. He won, like you say. You
:15:08. > :15:11.think you would be able to let that go and rise above it. The
:15:12. > :15:15.surveillance issue and how that irritates him, that he is running
:15:16. > :15:23.into problems with that. I feel the tweets are a reflection of his
:15:24. > :15:27.early-morning id, which this morning was not very happy. Talking about
:15:28. > :15:31.rising above it, it takes us nicely to the issue of Gibraltar. To the
:15:32. > :15:35.relief of many, the Prime Minister Theresa may has today confirmed the
:15:36. > :15:40.UK will not be going to war with Nato ally, Spain, over the British
:15:41. > :15:49.territory of Gibraltar. She confirmed their approach the Brexit
:15:50. > :16:10.negotiations was definitely jaw jaw, rather than war war, in her words.
:16:11. > :16:18.This led to this reaction from the former Conservative leader, Michael
:16:19. > :16:22.Howard. Another woman by Minister sent a task force halfway across the
:16:23. > :16:27.world to protect another small group of British people against another
:16:28. > :16:30.Spanish-speaking company, hashtag country, and I am absolutely clear
:16:31. > :16:35.that our current woman Prime Minister will show the same resolve
:16:36. > :16:38.in relation to Gibraltar as her predecessor did. Either he knew his
:16:39. > :16:42.maths or he had come well-prepared for that interview. Today, Prime
:16:43. > :16:56.Minister Theresa May was asked about it and this is what she had to say.
:16:57. > :17:00.My focus will be to get the best trade deal for the UK and for
:17:01. > :17:03.Gibraltar. We will be working closely with the Gibraltar
:17:04. > :17:07.government as we have been over recent months. We will continue to
:17:08. > :17:12.do that to ensure that we get a result from these talks that is in
:17:13. > :17:15.both our interests. So are you running out war? We are focusing on
:17:16. > :17:21.talking with the rest of the EU, starting a formal negotiations and
:17:22. > :17:24.ensuring that at the end of them we see a result that will be in the
:17:25. > :17:30.interests of the UK and in the interests of Gibraltar. But actually
:17:31. > :17:35.I think will be in the interests of the 27 member states of the European
:17:36. > :17:39.Union as well. So not many people think we are going to go to war with
:17:40. > :17:43.Spain over Gibraltar but five days after Article 50 was triggered, it
:17:44. > :17:55.does not bode well for the tone of negotiations, does it? I will score
:17:56. > :18:00.them both, the EU and outside a degraded for diplomacy. It is a
:18:01. > :18:03.hugely important issue to the people of Gibraltar that the government has
:18:04. > :18:09.made it abundantly clear that if they want to stay British, then they
:18:10. > :18:12.are not going to have any compromise on sovereignty. I can tell you,
:18:13. > :18:18.though, that I spoke to someone very close to the FCO today and they are
:18:19. > :18:24.incandescent about Michael Howard's interference in this. Apoplectic was
:18:25. > :18:29.the word used in the conversation I had. It doesn't make it very easy
:18:30. > :18:33.for the Prime Minister. How does she make concessions to the European
:18:34. > :18:37.Union during the course of an of this is how people will respond from
:18:38. > :18:40.her own side? Both sides have to be pretty sensible because there are
:18:41. > :18:45.issues where both sides will get pretty animated. The point to make
:18:46. > :18:49.is that there are other areas that share land borders with the UK.
:18:50. > :18:52.Northern Ireland, the military bases in Cyprus, and just looking what
:18:53. > :18:55.they said about their is, they said we need imaginative solutions to
:18:56. > :18:58.Northern Ireland and Cyprus, but they did not apply the same to
:18:59. > :19:01.Gibraltar, and you can only imagine that is because they shovelled in
:19:02. > :19:06.this line at the behest of the Spanish at the last minute, which
:19:07. > :19:09.was probably a bit of a silly move. Let's move back to President Obama,
:19:10. > :19:13.who was not a particularly good friend to Egypt by the way. He
:19:14. > :19:18.broadly supported the 2011 revolution. He turned a blind eye to
:19:19. > :19:20.a military coup the years later that opposed the Muslim brotherhood, but
:19:21. > :19:27.then seemed somewhat indifferent to the new president Alcacer. You could
:19:28. > :19:30.never understood -- decide whether he was a strategic partner or a
:19:31. > :19:36.brutal dictator and perhaps in the end the administration treated him
:19:37. > :19:41.as both. President Al Sisi is the first Arab leader to be invited to
:19:42. > :19:45.the White House. Com came to repost a crucial Middle East relationship
:19:46. > :19:49.but what does that entail? First, what some of the US president had to
:19:50. > :19:55.say. I just want to let everybody know in case there
:19:56. > :19:58.was any doubt that we are very much behind President Alcacer. He has
:19:59. > :20:06.done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. We are very
:20:07. > :20:15.much behind Egypt and the people of Egypt, and the United States has
:20:16. > :20:19.backing, and we have strong backing. We have very much, as you and I will
:20:20. > :20:22.soon be talking, we are building up our military that will be the
:20:23. > :20:25.highest probably that we have ever had.
:20:26. > :20:32.President Trump speaking to Mr Al Sisi. Joining me now is Michelle
:20:33. > :20:37.gun. She is now the Carnegie endowment for International peace.
:20:38. > :20:42.They queue for coming, how different will be the Russian should between
:20:43. > :20:47.the Trump White House and Egypt and the Obama won? Actually at the
:20:48. > :20:52.beginning of the Obama White House, President Obama himself pushed the
:20:53. > :20:58.reset button with Egypt, feeling that his predecessor George Bush was
:20:59. > :21:03.too hard on Mubarak. It is ironic, in a way President Trump is doing
:21:04. > :21:08.the same thing with Al Sisi. It is true that later on in the Obama
:21:09. > :21:12.presidency, he saw that the degree of human rights abuses, political
:21:13. > :21:16.repression, economic mismanagement, and an economy very much donated by
:21:17. > :21:21.the Egyptian military, were really problematic and made Egypt in some
:21:22. > :21:24.ways a less useful ally for the United States. There was real
:21:25. > :21:27.concern in the Obama White House, and I think there will be eventually
:21:28. > :21:31.in the Trump White House as well, that what was going on inside Egypt
:21:32. > :21:35.was actually fuelling radicalisation, and in a way
:21:36. > :21:38.fuelling terrorism. Although for the moment this White House has made it
:21:39. > :21:42.clear it will not raise the issue of human rights, at least in public or
:21:43. > :21:46.in meetings like this one. They will prefer to do it in other ways. What
:21:47. > :21:50.could Mr Trump get from the Egyptians that Mr Obama didn't?
:21:51. > :21:56.Notably there are no Egyptian planes flying over Raqqa and supporting the
:21:57. > :21:59.coalition against Isis, for example. That is true, but not because
:22:00. > :22:03.President Al Sisi was upset with President Obama and with help that.
:22:04. > :22:08.There are two reasons for that, first of all Egypt has its own
:22:09. > :22:12.insurgency based in the Sinai. It is an indigenous Egyptian group and
:22:13. > :22:14.affiliated itself with Isis. The Egyptian military is tied up with
:22:15. > :22:18.fighting it and terrorism problem and I have to say not doing it very
:22:19. > :22:22.effectively. Secondly I think there is really a question as to whether
:22:23. > :22:27.the Egyptian air force would be able to operate in theatres like that, in
:22:28. > :22:31.Syria or Iraq. Frankly it is not as capable as some of the other air
:22:32. > :22:37.forces, even the other Arab air forces such as the Jordanian or the
:22:38. > :22:41.UAE air forces. The truth is as well since America really stepped away
:22:42. > :22:45.from Egypt during the Obama years, Egypt stepped closer to Russia and
:22:46. > :22:48.that is a problem, isn't it, for the White House, because you have
:22:49. > :22:52.Russian control in Syria, you have the Iranians closer to the Russians
:22:53. > :22:58.and then you have Egypt, you know, in their quarter as well. That is
:22:59. > :23:03.not something they would like. I think it is the case that Al Sisi
:23:04. > :23:08.has grown closer to Russia and Putin. I don't think it was because
:23:09. > :23:11.of the relationship with Obama. Al Sisi and Putin of a much birds of a
:23:12. > :23:19.feather, they see things in a similar way, both in terms of seeing
:23:20. > :23:23.Islamic terrorism as a major threat and believing in applying a good
:23:24. > :23:28.deal of domestic repression. And Al Sisi also likes to really lay one
:23:29. > :23:33.foreign power off another. He has done this with the Saudis and others
:23:34. > :23:37.as well. So I think that whether Trump gets very close to SEC, as we
:23:38. > :23:43.see him doing today, or not, we are still going to see a close Al Sisi -
:23:44. > :23:47.Putin relationship. Thank you for joining us in the studio. Christian,
:23:48. > :23:50.you were in Egypt as the BBC correspond and before you went to
:23:51. > :23:54.Paris and stop this issue that the show was talking about about the
:23:55. > :23:59.economic situation in Egypt, that only seems to be deteriorating under
:24:00. > :24:04.the current Egyptian administration, doesn't it? There is a reform
:24:05. > :24:08.programme which many people would welcome but the currency has been
:24:09. > :24:13.hugely devalued. When I was there back in 2008- 09, it was five
:24:14. > :24:16.Egyptian pounds to the dollar. It is now 18. That is pretty good for the
:24:17. > :24:23.economy in some ways. I understand that over the Christmas period, the
:24:24. > :24:26.hotels in Aswan and Luxor were full, 100% occupancy, which boosts the
:24:27. > :24:31.economy, and it brings an investment because it is cheaper to be in
:24:32. > :24:35.Egypt. But the problem is there are so much poverty in Egypt, and it is
:24:36. > :24:38.such an informal economy that when you devalue the currency, you get
:24:39. > :24:41.inflation as well, so it is very hard for them. The one thing you
:24:42. > :24:45.always have to remember about Egypt is that a quarter of the population
:24:46. > :24:49.is under the age of 30, and half of them are very poor. That population
:24:50. > :24:53.growth is picking up again, so the economy has to pick up at the same
:24:54. > :24:57.rate. So the best thing that the Americans can do, and I don't know
:24:58. > :25:00.if we are in that sort of situation where America invest outside the
:25:01. > :25:04.country at the moment, is that they start pouring money into Egypt. A
:25:05. > :25:10.youth bulge and high under climate is not a great combination. Egypt
:25:11. > :25:14.has both of them. They want dollars and they want American companies.
:25:15. > :25:20.You are watching 100 days from BBC News. Stay with us, much more coming
:25:21. > :25:25.up. For viewers on the BBC news channel and BBC World News, we have
:25:26. > :25:28.a BBC panorama special with new information about the French
:25:29. > :25:33.presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, and the funding she has for her
:25:34. > :25:36.election campaign. As the Chinese president is up for a meeting with
:25:37. > :25:40.Donald Trump, we will hear the thoughts of Asian Americans on Trump
:25:41. > :25:42.is like attitude to Asia. That is all still to come on 100 days from
:25:43. > :26:11.BBC News. Hello, good evening. We saw quite a
:26:12. > :26:14.variety of weather across the UK early on today to stop 18 degrees in
:26:15. > :26:18.the sunshine towards the south-eastern corner but we also saw
:26:19. > :26:21.quite high tree pollen levels. With tree pollen levels and the
:26:22. > :26:24.temperature is coming down a bit over the next day, because towards
:26:25. > :26:27.the north and west we have a weather front moving in, which will move
:26:28. > :26:31.through and eventually we will see some fresh Atlantic air coming in
:26:32. > :26:34.behind it. It has been quite cloudy and wept in some parts of Northern
:26:35. > :26:37.Ireland, western Scotland. As you can see, all moving its way ever is
:26:38. > :26:42.the woods, and that process continues overnight tonight. It was
:26:43. > :26:46.his rain forcing England and Wales stop things should dry up in Wales.
:26:47. > :26:49.It would be down to five or 6 degrees in major towns and cities by
:26:50. > :26:54.the end of the night. For England and Wales, in places seeing
:26:55. > :26:57.temperatures not lower than eight or 9 degrees. There will be the
:26:58. > :27:02.Deulofeu across Wales on the south-west into the morning. Not
:27:03. > :27:05.much rain left over but a lot of lay -- low cloud, great, further east as
:27:06. > :27:09.well with our chance of some rain in the south-eastern corner and some
:27:10. > :27:12.parts of East Anglia as well. Further north, still a lot of low
:27:13. > :27:15.cloud around. Not much rain. It brightens up as you head into
:27:16. > :27:23.southern and eastern Scotland, some parts of Northern Ireland since some
:27:24. > :27:26.morning sunshine. -- seeing some morning sunshine. Blowing gales
:27:27. > :27:29.towards the Northern Isles. Elsewhere, things will brighten up
:27:30. > :27:33.in Wales and the south-western in winter the afternoon but it stays
:27:34. > :27:35.pretty great for East Anglia and the south-east, still in the afternoon
:27:36. > :27:37.some rain to be had so a bit dull and damp. Temperatures down a notch
:27:38. > :27:49.or two on today. Tuesday night into Wednesday, this
:27:50. > :27:54.big area of high pressure continues the building across the UK and it
:27:55. > :27:56.will be with us for a good few days, always creating this north-westerly
:27:57. > :28:01.breeze across the North and east of the UK, so quite breezy for some.
:28:02. > :28:05.Quite a bit of cloud around as well. Maybe a shower or two in the West of
:28:06. > :28:09.Scotland but most places will be fine and dry. In spite of a lot of
:28:10. > :28:16.cloud, something a bit brighter at times. In the south-west with winds,
:28:17. > :28:18.a little bit of sunshine, shouldn't feel too bad. Tom temperatures about
:28:19. > :28:21.13 or 14 on Wednesday afternoon. The expert is through Thursday and
:28:22. > :28:25.Friday. A fair bit of cloud, a bit of a breeze for some but also a few
:28:26. > :28:45.breaks in that cloud. A little bit of sunshine.
:28:46. > :28:52.If we want nuclear power, it is so expensive that, actually, government
:28:53. > :28:57.has to put money into it. It is a classic case of market failure. If
:28:58. > :29:03.the private sector would pay for it, doesn't that mean it is not
:29:04. > :30:05.economically viable? There will be a debate about its own systems.
:30:06. > :30:08.Welcome back to One Hundred Days with me Katty Kay in Washington
:30:09. > :30:14.A reminder of our top story today: An explosion on a metro train
:30:15. > :30:27.in St Petersburg has killed ten people and injured dozens more.
:30:28. > :30:31.The Chinese president is on his way as the courts issue. We hear the
:30:32. > :30:39.from Asian Americans in New York. The BBC programme Panorama is set
:30:40. > :30:42.to disclose new information about how the French Presidential
:30:43. > :30:44.Candidate Marine Le Pen With less than three week to go,
:30:45. > :30:50.Le Pen is front runner to win Gabriel Gatehouse, the reporter
:30:51. > :31:02.of tonight's Panorama, You have been focusing principally
:31:03. > :31:09.on the relationship between Marine Le Pen and President Putin. That is
:31:10. > :31:14.right. With just a few weeks to go until the election, Marine Le Pen
:31:15. > :31:17.suddenly appeared in Moscow, meeting feuding in the Kremlin. It was
:31:18. > :31:22.unexpected and we scrambled to get out there. Vladimir Putin himself
:31:23. > :31:25.voiced one of the concerns that was on the minds of many people, saying
:31:26. > :31:31.we don't want to interfere in your election. That could be something
:31:32. > :31:34.that will ring a bell with people in the United States. Marine Le Pen
:31:35. > :31:40.said she would drop EU sanctions against Russia. There was a bit of a
:31:41. > :31:44.love in. There have been financial links between different rationale
:31:45. > :31:47.and Russia. The front Nationale got to loans from Russian sources with
:31:48. > :31:54.links to the Kremlin. People were asking for these loans a quid pro
:31:55. > :31:58.quo for her support for the annexation of Crimea? They said that
:31:59. > :32:05.this was the first time that they had met. I heard something different
:32:06. > :32:10.from two sources. One of them being Marine Le Pen's father, the founder
:32:11. > :32:16.of the National front. He said they had met before. Another adviser to
:32:17. > :32:20.me that she had said the Met before. I spoke to one of Marine Le Pen's
:32:21. > :32:23.advisers who brokered one of those Russian loans and credit to him that
:32:24. > :32:37.she had certainly claimed she met Putin before. She did meet Putin.
:32:38. > :32:51.This is a secret. What can I say? Did she tell you that she met Putin?
:32:52. > :32:56.I don't know. It is a secret. Murky and murkier. He talked about the
:32:57. > :33:03.relationship going back several years. What about your father? He
:33:04. > :33:06.was the guiding figure for many years. Marine the pen makes the
:33:07. > :33:10.point that she hasn't been influenced by Russian mother because
:33:11. > :33:13.-- money because the pro-Russian stance has been consistent as far
:33:14. > :33:17.back as when her father was in charge. He would Russia Russia as
:33:18. > :33:22.soon as the Soviet Union collapsed and started making connections with
:33:23. > :33:26.what were then fringe nationalist fire rate movements. Now the Kremlin
:33:27. > :33:32.has co-opted these nationalist anti-Western views. The front
:33:33. > :33:36.Nationale was once marginal and now less so. The Kremlin sees Russian
:33:37. > :33:42.nationalists and the front Nationale as an ally in their quest to break
:33:43. > :33:47.up the unity of the European Union and Nato. Those financial links are
:33:48. > :33:53.fascinating. What else did you learn while making the programme? We heard
:33:54. > :33:57.about this thing called the secret cabinet. Marine Le Pen has been
:33:58. > :34:01.trying to detoxify the party. She expelled her own father because of
:34:02. > :34:05.his associations with racism and anti-Semitism, but she is having a
:34:06. > :34:11.problem. She has got a secret Cabinet, centred around one and
:34:12. > :34:17.number. We looked into him. We saw his police fired from the 1990s when
:34:18. > :34:20.it said he had links for associate it with former Nazis, links to
:34:21. > :34:26.skinhead groups and insiders in the party told us that he is central to
:34:27. > :34:31.the financing of the party now. He is always in all the key meetings
:34:32. > :34:36.and around Marine Le Pen. They told us that he has nothing to do with
:34:37. > :34:41.the party, he runs a company that supplies posters and leaflets for
:34:42. > :34:45.the party, but these insiders have been telling us this man is very
:34:46. > :34:50.central to the financing and running of the party. Despite all this talk
:34:51. > :34:56.of detoxify the brand, if this is true, one of Marine the pen's key
:34:57. > :35:06.moneymen is someone linked to skinheads and former Nazis. For the
:35:07. > :35:11.moment, thank you very much. Some news just coming in from the US. We
:35:12. > :35:16.were speaking about the core switch in the programme. The US Senate
:35:17. > :35:22.Judiciary Committee committee has voted and devoted 11-9 to approve
:35:23. > :35:26.the Supreme Court nominee. That felt entirely on party lines. We get
:35:27. > :35:33.three days of debate now, is that right? Yes. Should we talk about
:35:34. > :35:41.Jerod Kushner? He has arrived in Iraq today. He will meet Iraqi
:35:42. > :35:44.leaders this week to hear first-hand how the battle against so-called
:35:45. > :35:52.Islamic State is progressing. How many jobs does Mr Kushner have now?
:35:53. > :35:57.He's like George Osborne. He has more jobs than those of the week. He
:35:58. > :36:01.is looking after Middle East peace, looking after the China visit, the
:36:02. > :36:06.Nafta stuff and he has this other office in the White House. Tell us
:36:07. > :36:10.about that. As if most of the world was not enough for him, this
:36:11. > :36:14.36-year-old who, along the way has made several billion dollars in
:36:15. > :36:20.illicit deals and is married to Mr Trump's. , Mr Kushner also has the
:36:21. > :36:25.job of reorganising the American government. Not a small job. He is
:36:26. > :36:30.an extraordinary man. Clean cut. There he is in Iraq with general
:36:31. > :36:35.Dunford. He is very close to President Trump. He was the factor
:36:36. > :36:38.chairman of the current campaign and you could say that blood is thicker
:36:39. > :36:41.than water because he is one of the most influential people in the White
:36:42. > :36:47.House. He has a massive portfolio and you hear stories about whether
:36:48. > :36:54.he is upset. He is meant to be a smart 56-year-old, but that is an
:36:55. > :36:58.awful lot. He clearly likes and he is clearly a smart guy. He has his
:36:59. > :37:04.own company. We have seen information the assets that he and
:37:05. > :37:10.Ivanka Trump have. They were in The Papers over the weekend. Is he still
:37:11. > :37:13.running the company day-to-day? No, he separated himself from his
:37:14. > :37:16.companies as other people in the Trump family have had to do. I was
:37:17. > :37:22.speaking to someone who worked for him. He was owner of the New York
:37:23. > :37:30.Observer and he said he is an impressive mid-30s guy, but he also
:37:31. > :37:36.has a pretty thin skin and he can be rude and brusque, was how he was
:37:37. > :37:41.described to me. Perhaps a lot like his father in law. That is what you
:37:42. > :37:47.hear about his father in law. A key person in the White House with a
:37:48. > :37:53.huge amount to do. How much have you done in 40 years? Not as much as
:37:54. > :37:57.that. I'm not running an account like ears. I need to up my game.
:37:58. > :37:59.Look at some of the other stories we are following.
:38:00. > :38:01.French authorities have tightened security around public transport
:38:02. > :38:04.in Paris following today's attack on a St Petersburg metro tunnel.
:38:05. > :38:07.The French Interior Ministry says the boost is a precautionary
:38:08. > :38:10.measure amid an extremely high terrorism threat.
:38:11. > :38:12.The British Prime Minister Theresa May has held talks with
:38:13. > :38:15.Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulqi during a three day visit
:38:16. > :38:20.Trade and increased military cooperation were expected to be top
:38:21. > :38:24.Ms May was also due to announce Britain will send military trainers
:38:25. > :38:29.to Jordan to help the country's air force fight so-called Islamic State.
:38:30. > :38:32.EU foreign ministers are meeting in Luxembourg to discuss the future
:38:33. > :38:33.role of the block in post-conflict Syria.
:38:34. > :38:36.The meeting questioned the place of President Assad in any future
:38:37. > :38:39.government but said ultimately it was up to the people of Syria
:38:40. > :38:45.Scotland's First Minister is expected to sign a joint
:38:46. > :38:47.agreement with the Governor of California on tackling climate
:38:48. > :38:50.change during her visit to the United States this week.
:38:51. > :38:53.Nicola Sturgeon will meet Governor Jerry Brown and give
:38:54. > :38:56.a speech at Stanford University on Scotland's place in the world
:38:57. > :39:04.Returning now to the high stakes meeting between Presidents Trump
:39:05. > :39:09.The BBC has been asking Asian Americans living in New York
:39:10. > :39:39.what they make of Trump's attitude to Asia.
:39:40. > :39:49.I am hopeful. I am optimistic. I think his relationship is just
:39:50. > :39:52.unsettled in the beginning. In the past almost two months, Trump has
:39:53. > :41:00.been gradually becoming mellower. I heard he is going to his resort on
:41:01. > :41:04.Thursday because it is important to get the same sort of treatment as
:41:05. > :41:12.the Japanese Prime Minister. Is that right? Yes. Juggling Asian
:41:13. > :41:15.sensibilities, is a ticking down there and having the photo
:41:16. > :41:19.opportunity. He played golf with the Japanese premier. I am not hearing
:41:20. > :41:24.that Xi Jinping will be hitting the links. He stopped golf in China. He
:41:25. > :41:34.didn't like some of the politburo playing golf. Our more attentive
:41:35. > :41:37.viewers will have noticed that Kathy was not your street. She was on
:41:38. > :41:42.holiday. It wasn't for pleasure because she was hoovering up how
:41:43. > :41:46.people think about Donald Trump in this presidency. He sent me an
:41:47. > :41:51.e-mail this morning so I can tell you what I'll think about President
:41:52. > :41:56.Trump. Come on, tell us. I could hope to go there and buried my head
:41:57. > :41:59.firmly in the snows of Utah but I didn't quite manage because I love
:42:00. > :42:04.that and the front page of the Salt Lake paper, the Salt Lake Tribune,
:42:05. > :42:08.heard the news that a majority of people in Utah view Trump
:42:09. > :42:12.favourably, which is interesting because approval ratings for Donald
:42:13. > :42:17.Trump in the state of Utah have risen, which puts them at the polar
:42:18. > :42:21.opposite of the rest of the country. 54% of people in Utah support Donald
:42:22. > :42:28.Trump, up from election day. What is that down to? He didn't actually do
:42:29. > :42:34.terribly well in Utah during the 2016 campaign. Lots of Mormons
:42:35. > :42:39.living Utah, they tend to be better edge -- educated, have higher
:42:40. > :42:42.incomes than the national average. These are not, white working-class
:42:43. > :42:46.people who are sticking firmly by Donald Trump. They are looking at
:42:47. > :42:51.what he is doing and they are simply like the fact he is delivering on
:42:52. > :42:59.his promises. Did of you to go on holiday and find that out for us.
:43:00. > :43:01.I've missed you terribly. It is good you are back. We will be back at the
:43:02. > :43:12.same time tomorrow.