:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days.
:00:08. > :00:09.President Trump says his view of Bashar al Assad and the situation
:00:10. > :00:13.in Syria has changed after yesterday's chemical attack.
:00:14. > :00:16.At least 70 people have been gassed to death in what's been described
:00:17. > :00:22.Angry words at a crisis meeting of the UN Security Council
:00:23. > :00:31.as members reject Russia's claims that rebels were behind the attack.
:00:32. > :00:46.How many more children have to die before Russia cares? The situation
:00:47. > :00:48.in Syria is just one of the issues from address by posting King
:00:49. > :00:48.Abdullah of Jordan. Reports out of Washington that
:00:49. > :00:51.President Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon has been removed
:00:52. > :00:53.from his position on the Also, the Egalite
:00:54. > :00:58.of a French election. A four hour televised
:00:59. > :01:02.debate with 11 candidates, so what did we learn three weeks
:01:03. > :01:06.from the vote? Bringing back a classic,
:01:07. > :01:08.cinemas across the United States screen an adaptation
:01:09. > :01:10.of George Orwell's 1984 I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
:01:11. > :01:28.Christian Fraser's in London. We've seen more video today
:01:29. > :01:31.from the gas attack in Syria, Rescue workers hosing down
:01:32. > :01:44.the lifeless bodies of children Trump said he is the basher al-Assad
:01:45. > :01:48.has changed. He said the attacks across a lot of lines but he didn't
:01:49. > :01:52.say what he was going to do about it and he didn't condemn Russia. We
:01:53. > :02:04.will show you what doctors say is evidence that sarin gas was used.
:02:05. > :02:09.His patients have those pupils which do not react to the flashlight and
:02:10. > :02:17.that would be a common symptom of a sarin gas attack. Syria admits
:02:18. > :02:22.attacking a rabble target in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, but they say
:02:23. > :02:26.the bomb hit a rabble factory manufacturing gas. Western sources
:02:27. > :02:31.said that is not likely. There is no information of such a factory
:02:32. > :02:33.existing and the casualties were over a wide area indicating the
:02:34. > :02:45.chemicals came from Big Brother. Let me say a few words about recent
:02:46. > :02:52.events. Yesterday, a chemical attack, a chemical attack which was
:02:53. > :03:00.so horrific in Syria against innocent people, including women,
:03:01. > :03:08.small children and even a beautiful little baby, their deaths were an
:03:09. > :03:16.affront to humanity. These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot
:03:17. > :03:26.be tolerated. The United States stands with our allies across the
:03:27. > :03:29.globe to condemn this horrific attack and all other horrific
:03:30. > :03:30.attacks, for that matter. There were strong words exchanged
:03:31. > :03:33.earlier at the UN Security Council. Members called on Russia
:03:34. > :03:35.to stop its support for President Assad's regime,
:03:36. > :03:51.including Nikki Haley, How many more children have to die
:03:52. > :03:59.before Russia cares? The United States sees yesterday's attack is a
:04:00. > :04:03.disgrace of the highest level and assurance that humanity means
:04:04. > :04:08.nothing to the Syrian government. The question members of this council
:04:09. > :04:12.must ask themselves is this, if we are not able to enforce resolutions
:04:13. > :04:16.preventing the use of chemical weapons, what does that say for our
:04:17. > :04:22.chances of ending the broader conflict in Syria?
:04:23. > :04:27.Niki Daly sounding a lot like her predecessor. Questions about what
:04:28. > :04:27.this all means. Let's go live now to New York
:04:28. > :04:38.and our United Nations What does she mean when she talks
:04:39. > :04:41.about the idea that the United States might act unilaterally and
:04:42. > :04:48.Syria if the United Nations does not? I don't think we have got any
:04:49. > :04:51.more clarity on that than we had after listening to present tramp in
:04:52. > :04:56.the Rose Garden talking about red lines being transgressed. I think
:04:57. > :05:00.administration policy on Syria is still being formulated and they do
:05:01. > :05:05.not know what they will do next and how they will respond. It does seem
:05:06. > :05:10.that the administration has decided to take a much tougher stance toward
:05:11. > :05:15.Bashar al-Assad as a result of this latest chemical weapons attack. The
:05:16. > :05:20.evidence, Rex Tillerson was in Turkey last week saying the fate of
:05:21. > :05:25.Assad should be determined by the Syrian people. Niki Daly had a sit
:05:26. > :05:29.down with reporters here in Europe. She said that removing Assad was no
:05:30. > :05:36.longer the number one priority, it was fighting Islamic State. The
:05:37. > :05:39.Syrian opposition claims that that contributed to the attack yesterday
:05:40. > :05:44.because it created the sense of impunity. We have seen a change.
:05:45. > :05:48.Evidence of that, the British and French came forward with the draft
:05:49. > :05:53.resolution condemning the attack. When the Americans got involved in
:05:54. > :05:58.drafting a resolution, they wanted it to be much tougher. They inserted
:05:59. > :06:01.what one UN diplomat called operational teeth into that
:06:02. > :06:06.resolution. Among which is the demand that the Syrian military has
:06:07. > :06:09.to hand over its flight logs from yesterday and give access to
:06:10. > :06:15.international inspectors looking for chemical weapons. A clear sign that
:06:16. > :06:18.the American administration, the Trump administration, is tough and
:06:19. > :06:23.stance toward the Assad regime. We have been listening to President
:06:24. > :06:27.tramp and it was interesting he didn't make any mention of Russia.
:06:28. > :06:32.His focus was on Syria. The last major attack in 2013, when gas was
:06:33. > :06:37.used, it did bring Washington, albeit not for very long, it brought
:06:38. > :06:47.them closer together. Could that happen this time? No, not at the
:06:48. > :06:53.moment, the opposite in fact. Niki Daly did condemn Russia. She give it
:06:54. > :07:00.to them with both barrels. It was similar to listening to some of the
:07:01. > :07:03.power. Indeed, arguably, she gave a more powerful and theatrical
:07:04. > :07:07.performances at the United Nations, because not only did she use those
:07:08. > :07:11.condemning words against the Russians that you play earlier,
:07:12. > :07:15.before that she actually stood up from her seat, which is very rare at
:07:16. > :07:19.the United Nations Security Council. She got up from the horseshoe table
:07:20. > :07:22.and she brandished focus of the children killed in the attack
:07:23. > :07:26.yesterday. We have grown used to seeing some on the power, her
:07:27. > :07:31.predecessor, deliver some very powerful speeches, but that was
:07:32. > :07:34.equally powerful and what was noticeable was that she was not only
:07:35. > :07:37.pointing the finger at the Assad regime, she pointed the finger
:07:38. > :07:47.strongly at Russia and that was key. Thank you. This is the location when
:07:48. > :07:51.reality comes up against Mr Trump's stated policies. He wanted the
:07:52. > :07:55.Syrian people to decide on Assad. We want to reset the relationship with
:07:56. > :08:01.Russia but facts come along and this is his big test. I think the
:08:02. > :08:05.question is exactly the one that Nick Bryant has just laid out. To
:08:06. > :08:11.what extent is this White House, in the light of the chemical attack,
:08:12. > :08:14.the horrific images that Niki Daly displayed at the end, that his
:08:15. > :08:20.daughter Ivanka Trump tweeted about yesterday, to what extent as Donald
:08:21. > :08:25.Trump turned and said I cannot tolerate the Assad regime and,
:08:26. > :08:29.therefore, I will also look at the relationship with Russia? We don't
:08:30. > :08:34.know. They love. We don't know what these lines are worth what it means
:08:35. > :08:40.when he says many, many lines have been crossed the sub what does that
:08:41. > :08:44.mean? I will policy change toward Syria because of this attack? I
:08:45. > :08:48.think it will be interesting to watch the development in terms of
:08:49. > :08:51.the relationship with Russia and whether Donald Trump has decided he
:08:52. > :08:56.will take some kind of action in Syria that he wasn't prepared to
:08:57. > :09:00.take before. He also talks tough and one issue in the past has been that
:09:01. > :09:04.when the United States talks tough it doesn't back it up with military
:09:05. > :09:08.action and he says I will not given advance warning of what I wanted
:09:09. > :09:13.militarily defeat this and some teeth behind it doesn't mean very
:09:14. > :09:17.much, does it? And did didn't mean much during the Obama administration
:09:18. > :09:19.either. He will look to the world to join in and we will look at the
:09:20. > :09:24.global reaction. Plenty of reaction to the attack
:09:25. > :09:26.in the United States. The White House not particularly
:09:27. > :09:28.quick in its condemnation, maybe we will talk about that
:09:29. > :09:32.in a second, but here is a tweet from the Democrat Senator
:09:33. > :09:34.Richard Blumenthal who sits on the Armed Services
:09:35. > :09:35.Committee in the Senate. "The world must come together to end
:09:36. > :09:38.the horrific evil in Syria, an atrocious crime taking world back
:09:39. > :09:44.to blackest chapter in history." Senator Blumenthal joins
:09:45. > :09:56.us from Capitol Hill. When you talk about the world taking
:09:57. > :10:01.action, it has taken action for six years. Here we are again, another
:10:02. > :10:06.chemical attack. It didn't take much action under President Obama. What
:10:07. > :10:10.will happen this time around? I know what I hope will happen, that we
:10:11. > :10:15.will have more than just tough talk. There are opportunities here for
:10:16. > :10:19.real action against not only the Assad regime and Bashar al-Assad
:10:20. > :10:23.must go, that has been policy, but against Russia. Sanctions are
:10:24. > :10:28.possible and that ought to be pursued, much as we did against Iran
:10:29. > :10:33.and those sanctions from Iran to the table to reach an agreement on
:10:34. > :10:37.ending the weapon development and there should be action at the United
:10:38. > :10:43.Nations in every form where we can take it because the Russians and the
:10:44. > :10:48.Iranians, as the world knows, are aiders and developers of this kind
:10:49. > :10:55.of Yanez, absolutely unacceptable war crime. Let's call it what it is,
:10:56. > :10:59.it is criminal in moral terms and a violation of international law and
:11:00. > :11:04.Assad should be pursued for war crimes. We are introducing
:11:05. > :11:08.legislation this week. The war crimes accountability act 2017 that
:11:09. > :11:12.will allow better collection of evidence and we should insist on
:11:13. > :11:19.access to the crime scene so we can take more of this evidence. We are
:11:20. > :11:23.sitting here again trying to figure out what the message from the White
:11:24. > :11:27.House is. We have had clarity from President tramp in the last few
:11:28. > :11:30.minutes but time and again they do not send out very clear signals on
:11:31. > :11:35.the big issues and no one is really sure who is speaking for the
:11:36. > :11:41.president, his Rex Tillerson, is Varga, said Steve Bannon? Until he
:11:42. > :11:47.sat it out, we didn't know what the American policy was. What is unclear
:11:48. > :11:51.is who is saying what the president, but also what the president is
:11:52. > :11:55.saying to the world. That is where there needs to be much more clarity
:11:56. > :12:02.of the kind Ambassador Saili provided and, quite honestly, the
:12:03. > :12:08.Trump cosiness with Russia has actually very likely contributed to
:12:09. > :12:14.the license that Assad fields, through Russia, to do this kind of
:12:15. > :12:20.heinous act. The fact the president has been so cosy with Russia gives
:12:21. > :12:25.them additional sense of freedom. To stay with this, we want to talk to
:12:26. > :12:30.you about the row over President Trump's Supreme Court. The Senate
:12:31. > :12:33.will vote on Friday, the Democrats have enough votes to hold his
:12:34. > :12:40.nomination through a tactic known as the filibuster.
:12:41. > :12:44.Republicans can get Neil Gorsuch confirmed but they'll have to change
:12:45. > :12:48.And in the future that could lead to Supreme Court candidates
:12:49. > :12:51.So why are Democrats refusing to compromise on a candidate
:12:52. > :12:53.who many say is well qualified for the job?
:12:54. > :12:56.Senator Richard Blumenthal is also on the Judiciary committee
:12:57. > :13:07.Let me ask you a political question, President Trump's approval ratings
:13:08. > :13:10.are at 35%. If his approval ratings for hire, would you be voting to
:13:11. > :13:17.confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court? I would be opposed to this
:13:18. > :13:23.nominee regardless of the Trump approval ratings and, regardless of
:13:24. > :13:28.the absolutely intolerable treatment of Meric Garland, the nominee of
:13:29. > :13:33.President Obama, almost a year ago. He was not accorded a jury or a
:13:34. > :13:41.vote. Both are being provided to Neil Gorsuch. The reason I frozen is
:13:42. > :13:44.that he has evaded, very specific questions on fundamental principles
:13:45. > :13:49.and Presidents of the United States Supreme Court. Whether he agrees
:13:50. > :13:51.with them, he refused to answer again and again, which leaves us
:13:52. > :13:59.with the inescapable conclusion that he has agreed to the Trump litmus
:14:00. > :14:04.test. He would automatically overturn provisions on gun violence
:14:05. > :14:08.and abortion. You know that President tramp might get another
:14:09. > :14:12.pic with the Supreme Court. He might get a second justice during his
:14:13. > :14:16.term. If it only takes the Republicans 50 films, he could also
:14:17. > :14:22.do the mainstream and choose some of my Conservative, doesn't worry you?
:14:23. > :14:26.I am worried about the next potential nominee, but I'm more
:14:27. > :14:30.worried about this one. As a matter of principle and conviction this
:14:31. > :14:35.nominee is outside the mainstream and every phone and the Supreme
:14:36. > :14:38.Court there are nine justices, has equal weight. Everyone is
:14:39. > :14:44.potentially a swing vote. The Gorsuch is also and he is
:14:45. > :14:48.potentially a sway vote. He can persuade others to go his way and
:14:49. > :14:59.rather than fighting the next fight, I am focusing on this one because
:15:00. > :15:01.the majority are any justice to be a bipartisan consensus. There is still
:15:02. > :15:06.a possibility for that agreement here. I want to quote a quite
:15:07. > :15:12.separate. They call it the nuclear option, the tactic Republicans might
:15:13. > :15:15.imply, because there is followed and this followed would be dangerously,
:15:16. > :15:23.perhaps disastrously, radioactive for the Senate for years to come.
:15:24. > :15:28.What did you mean? It could well effect the ruins, but also personal
:15:29. > :15:33.feelings among senators. I hope its repercussions will be limited, but
:15:34. > :15:38.it could be radioactive in terms of the ability to move things forward,
:15:39. > :15:41.legislation, and other matters and it will affect future appointments.
:15:42. > :15:47.I sincerely hope that we will get beyond this. It is good to have you
:15:48. > :15:48.with this. Thank you for coming on the programme today.
:15:49. > :15:50.One of President Trump's closest advisers, his chief
:15:51. > :15:52.strategist Steve Bannon, has been removed from his position
:15:53. > :15:54.on the National Security Council, the main group advising
:15:55. > :15:56.the President on security and foreign affairs.
:15:57. > :16:00.A White House aide has told US media the reshuffle is 'not
:16:01. > :16:15.I have to save the whole fuss about Steve Bannon being on the national
:16:16. > :16:20.Security Council in the first place was that he is a political figure.
:16:21. > :16:25.He is the political adviser to the president. He fix it campaign issues
:16:26. > :16:28.and election issues and re-election issues and intelligence on the
:16:29. > :16:34.national Security Council is meant to be pure intelligence that is not
:16:35. > :16:38.subject to political interpretation. That was what people in the national
:16:39. > :16:42.security world were upset about him being put on the national Security
:16:43. > :16:45.Council and that is why in being removed from the National Security
:16:46. > :16:48.Council is being seen as a victory for the people who are supporting
:16:49. > :16:55.national security. We talk about power struggles in the inner circle.
:16:56. > :16:59.Does this tell us that JP McMaster, the national security and fast --
:17:00. > :17:05.adviser, is getting a grip and discovered his power base? When I
:17:06. > :17:09.heard this news I tweeted that it looks like the ship is being rated a
:17:10. > :17:13.bit in the White House and swinging back in favour of national security,
:17:14. > :17:17.which would be McMaster and away from politics, which would be
:17:18. > :17:20.Bannon. The White House spin is there is no big deal, he was happy
:17:21. > :17:23.to come of the National Security Council and he was only there to
:17:24. > :17:28.look over the shoulder of Michael Flynn the national security adviser
:17:29. > :17:33.who was demoted. That is their spin on it. I think this is the forces of
:17:34. > :17:34.McMaster asserting themselves in the photos.
:17:35. > :17:37.Let s go back to President Trump's press conference a little earlier.
:17:38. > :17:39.He has been holding talks with King Abdullah of Jordan.
:17:40. > :17:42.It's the second Arab leader he has met this week,
:17:43. > :17:44.ahead of that crucial meeting with the Chinese President
:17:45. > :17:50.Let s have a listen to what else he had to say.
:17:51. > :17:55.The king has been a leader in calling for a plan to defeat Islamic
:17:56. > :18:02.State once and for all and I am with you on that. We are both leaders on
:18:03. > :18:08.that, believe me. That is what we speak about the date and that is
:18:09. > :18:13.what we are going to do. It will be a shorter fight than a lot of people
:18:14. > :18:14.are thinking about, believe me. We have made tremendous strides as we
:18:15. > :18:22.have discussed. I don't want to sound too sceptical
:18:23. > :18:26.that we are in this position became President Trump has said, as he did
:18:27. > :18:29.during the campaign, I have a secret plan and it will work marvellously
:18:30. > :18:34.and I'm not quite tell you what it is because that would undermine the
:18:35. > :18:39.efficacy of the plan, but at some point that plan has to be put into
:18:40. > :18:43.action. He says if we told you what the plan was we would have a
:18:44. > :18:46.disaster as opposed to the fight against most of which has been hard
:18:47. > :18:50.and taking a long time and that shows you how difficult it defeat
:18:51. > :18:56.Islamic State. At some point we have to know what the president is saying
:18:57. > :19:00.when he says he will fix everything. I saw between the US entered last
:19:01. > :19:03.night about the State Department comment on this missile being fired
:19:04. > :19:08.from North Korea and it was short. It was 40 words long and it said we
:19:09. > :19:12.have spoken enough about North Korea, we don't need to say any
:19:13. > :19:17.more. He talks tough and he says time is running out for North Korea.
:19:18. > :19:21.Their time will come, there is a point when you have to either quite
:19:22. > :19:27.serious diplomacy behind it or some military teeth. That tweeted about
:19:28. > :19:33.11 o'clock Washington time, you should be in bed. I am attentive.
:19:34. > :19:36.There have been some testy exchanges in the European Parliament
:19:37. > :19:38.today over the future of the Brexit negotiation.
:19:39. > :19:40.The Parliament in Strasbourg has been setting down its red
:19:41. > :19:43.Guy Verhofstadt, the parliament's chief negotiator, had his say.
:19:44. > :19:45.So too did Nigel Farage, who, rather undiplomatically,
:19:46. > :19:55.compared his fellow MEP's to gangsters.
:19:56. > :20:01.You are behaving like the mafia. You think we are a hostage, we are not.
:20:02. > :20:12.We are free to go. We are free to go. This... I know. I know. I do
:20:13. > :20:17.understand. I am convinced and 100% sure about one thing, that there
:20:18. > :20:23.will be one day another young man or young woman who will try again. Who
:20:24. > :20:30.will lead Britain again into the European family once again.
:20:31. > :20:35.That suggests the tone will be combative over the next two years.
:20:36. > :20:37.But the European Commission's chief negotiator Michel Barnier,
:20:38. > :20:40.who is the main figure in these talks, was a bit more considered.
:20:41. > :20:49.To succeed we need to devote the first phase of negotiations
:20:50. > :20:56.exclusively to reaching an agreement on the principles of the exit. We
:20:57. > :21:01.are not proposing to be tactical or create difficulties for the UK. On
:21:02. > :21:05.the contrary, it is an essential condition to maximise our chances to
:21:06. > :21:19.reach an agreement together within two years. He is clearly not a
:21:20. > :21:23.populist. Mr Farage is more of a populist. They all played their
:21:24. > :21:27.part. If you had seen before the debate began, how they work each
:21:28. > :21:31.other, Nigel Farage comes down the steps and he shakes the hand of
:21:32. > :21:36.Jean-Claude Younger, his nemesis, and he shakes the hand of Mr Barnier
:21:37. > :21:40.and they are pleased to see him. You know what you will get from them.
:21:41. > :21:47.Look at this. Hello, how lovely to see you. You are not suggesting it
:21:48. > :21:53.is an act, are you? It is a performance? There is a very bizarre
:21:54. > :21:57.relationship that goes on behind the grandstanding in that parliament, I
:21:58. > :22:00.have seen it first hand and they get on a lot better than you might think
:22:01. > :22:05.when you play some of the stuff they say. I think it was all planned out,
:22:06. > :22:06.the whole thing is a show. If you were go into the bookshops
:22:07. > :22:09.here in Washington this afternoon Christian,
:22:10. > :22:10.you might find that one or two have sold out
:22:11. > :22:13.of George Orwell's book 1984. In what's become known
:22:14. > :22:15.as the Trump bump , sales of Orwell's 1984 increased
:22:16. > :22:20.by 9,500% since The novel shot to the top
:22:21. > :22:27.of Amazon's bestseller list. The last sales spike was in 2013
:22:28. > :22:30.following the Edward Snowden Today across the United States two
:22:31. > :22:52.hundred cinemas are screening This week on Tuesday at more than
:22:53. > :22:58.200 community cinemas, crows can add to see 1984. This film, made in the
:22:59. > :23:02.1980s, is an adaptation of George Orwell's novel detailing the
:23:03. > :23:05.experiences of a man who exists in a dystopian future, in a big
:23:06. > :23:10.totalitarian state. Among the crowd was a sense of anticipation. I
:23:11. > :23:14.haven't seen it in a few years, I am curious to go back and see what
:23:15. > :23:17.resonates now. The man who co-organised these 1984
:23:18. > :23:21.international screenings believes the film is timely in the age of
:23:22. > :23:27.Trump. Which was making 84 because it is a work that is really
:23:28. > :23:35.resonating with a lot of people at this moment in the United States and
:23:36. > :23:38.even around the world. The truth in 1984 is manufactured, it isn't
:23:39. > :23:43.rooted in reality. Many commentators were startled when Trump president
:23:44. > :23:48.David Kelly and Conway used the phrase alternative facts in
:23:49. > :23:53.referring to a true event. John Spicer, our press secretary, give
:23:54. > :23:57.alternative facts to that. Using a controversial film from 30 years ago
:23:58. > :23:59.as it applies to treat the Trump administration might appeal to
:24:00. > :24:04.opponents of the president but to his supporters might come across as
:24:05. > :24:08.facile, unfair and meddling with the truth. After all, the United States
:24:09. > :24:15.doesn't have anything like the totalitarian government depicted in
:24:16. > :24:19.1984. The film-maker was on a panel to discuss 1984. She warns against
:24:20. > :24:23.drunk to close comparisons between the Trump administration and the
:24:24. > :24:28.film. I grew up in a totalitarian regime in communist East Germany
:24:29. > :24:32.which certainly is closer to what we see in 1984 and what we see right
:24:33. > :24:37.now. Right now we live in a democracy and we should be aware
:24:38. > :24:41.that we actually have influence of the things that are happening. It is
:24:42. > :24:46.not a totalitarian regime. The war is waged at the Reading group
:24:47. > :24:50.against its own subjects. When people might interpret 1984
:24:51. > :24:55.differently, no one can deny the ongoing currency of Orwell's work,
:24:56. > :24:59.which many say is being helped by the Trump presidency. The novel is
:25:00. > :25:03.back on the bestseller lists and in a few weeks a stage version of the
:25:04. > :25:05.will open on Broadway. It has also been talk of another big screen
:25:06. > :25:18.adaptation. The film and the book. The have 20
:25:19. > :25:22.seconds to say something profound and George Orwell. When I was in
:25:23. > :25:26.France they used to go to the barricades to protest against their
:25:27. > :25:27.leaders. In American's America they grab the popcorn. What happened to
:25:28. > :25:32.militant demonstrations? You're watching One Hundred
:25:33. > :25:34.Days from BBC News. Stay with us, still to come
:25:35. > :25:37.for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News:
:25:38. > :25:39.The gloves are off. The second French presidential
:25:40. > :25:41.descends into a slanging match. And a new First Lady,
:25:42. > :25:45.with a new approach. She's chosen to stay in New York
:25:46. > :25:49.rather than move to the White House and she's kept her official role
:25:50. > :25:52.to a minimum. We find out more about Melania Trump
:25:53. > :25:55.and how she compares so far That's still to come
:25:56. > :26:12.on One Hundred Days, from BBC News. Good evening. Very interesting
:26:13. > :26:17.weather as we head into the weekend. Before then the next few days will
:26:18. > :26:21.probably be dry or rather cloudy as we start to get more sunshine over
:26:22. > :26:25.the weekend, especially in England and Wales, it will warm up
:26:26. > :26:28.considerably. For many this we will have sky is a bit like this over the
:26:29. > :26:34.next couple of days. This picture was taken in train and the thin
:26:35. > :26:38.cloud was built southward across many parts of England and Wales.
:26:39. > :26:42.They would-be breaks here and there. They are more likely in eastern
:26:43. > :26:46.Scotland and North East England. It could be chilly but with club we
:26:47. > :26:50.will sit around 7 degrees or so. The cloud, due to this area of high
:26:51. > :26:54.pressure for many parts of the UK, the wind will be light. Further
:26:55. > :26:58.north we have differences across Scotland because we will have this
:26:59. > :27:03.Atlantic went around the top of the high pressure. That will drag more
:27:04. > :27:06.moisture, cloud and drizzle for western Scotland eastern Scotland
:27:07. > :27:11.will get some sunshine, helped by the mountains and the wind breaking
:27:12. > :27:13.up the cloud. A similar story for north-east imminent. Northern
:27:14. > :27:17.Ireland will be cloudy on Thursday and, as you can see, there is a lot
:27:18. > :27:21.of talent for inland and Wales. Difficult to pick up where the
:27:22. > :27:25.sunshine for the record will be the incident with the brightness at
:27:26. > :27:30.times. The bridge is about 14 degrees or so where we do get
:27:31. > :27:34.sunshine. Friday is d j vu again. Generally dry and party. The best of
:27:35. > :27:38.the sunshine for eastern Scotland and north-east England. That is
:27:39. > :27:43.because the position of the eye. Into the weekend, this is where it
:27:44. > :27:47.gets interesting. Beehive moves into the near continent. The weather
:27:48. > :27:51.fronts from the north-west of the UK. We will draw up a southerly wind
:27:52. > :27:56.that will pick up more sunshine and bring some air across inland and
:27:57. > :28:00.Wales. This is the picture for Saturday. A fine day. More sunshine
:28:01. > :28:06.away from the far north-west. That will see temperatures rising higher,
:28:07. > :28:10.perhaps 16 or 17 degrees. It is on Sunday, across England and Wales,
:28:11. > :28:15.when we will have sunshine. Eastern Scotland will get some sun.
:28:16. > :28:19.Elsewhere the weather front will approach to bring some rain later in
:28:20. > :28:23.the day. In this corner of the UK temperatures will not be quite so
:28:24. > :28:26.high. Moving to England and Wales and it gets warmer and warmer and we
:28:27. > :30:07.could hit 23 Celsius on Sunday in the south-east.
:30:08. > :30:10.Welcome back to One Hundred Days with Katty Kay in Washington,
:30:11. > :30:16.President Trump firmly blames Bashar al Assad for yesterday's
:30:17. > :30:21.At least 70 people were gassed to death in what's been described
:30:22. > :30:25.And it wasn't a debate - it was a marathon.
:30:26. > :30:28.The French presidential candidates took to the stage for four hours.
:30:29. > :30:40.Did anyone actually watch the whole thing?
:30:41. > :30:43.The US President, Donald Trump, has condemned a deadly
:30:44. > :30:46.chemical attack in Syria as an affront to humanity.
:30:47. > :30:49.At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
:30:50. > :30:51.The attack happened as leaders gathered in Brussels
:30:52. > :31:03.The images we've seen yesterday from Syria remind us all that
:31:04. > :31:07.here we have a responsibility to unite for real with a serious
:31:08. > :31:09.engagement the international community, the regional players,
:31:10. > :31:12.but also the Syrian parties to make this.
:31:13. > :31:15.All the evidence I have seen suggests that this was the Assad
:31:16. > :31:18.regime who did it in the full knowledge that they were using
:31:19. > :31:27.illegal weapons in a barbaric attack on the own people.
:31:28. > :31:30.The use of chemical weapons is a crime against humanity.
:31:31. > :31:40.Those responsible must be held accountable and brought to justice.
:31:41. > :31:43.Let's speak now to Mark Malloch Brown, the former
:31:44. > :31:45.Deputy Secretary General at the United Nations.
:31:46. > :31:53.He's also served as a Foreign Office minister in the UK government.
:31:54. > :32:01.When you listen to those reactions, my heart sinks because I think we
:32:02. > :32:09.been here before and nothing changes but will it this time? I very much
:32:10. > :32:15.doubt it. Before we had the Obama administration which was too dense
:32:16. > :32:20.did and did not show enough resolve when Assad crossed that red line
:32:21. > :32:23.with chemical weapons and now the Trump administration has so
:32:24. > :32:29.prioritised the fight against Isis that it leaves it with no room to
:32:30. > :32:34.pressure Assad and its new Russian ally in terms of the fight against
:32:35. > :32:41.Isis. We have struggled from one bad policy on Syria to apparently new
:32:42. > :32:45.and equally bad one. We did here Nikki Haley ticking on the Russians
:32:46. > :32:49.this morning but we don't know if that will be repeated by the White
:32:50. > :32:52.House. You have suggested that President Assad thinks he has more
:32:53. > :32:57.wiggle room with Trump than he did with Obama but the whole point of
:32:58. > :33:01.the Trump administration if it wants to project strength and he is the
:33:02. > :33:07.man people will not cross. He wants to do that but very much where
:33:08. > :33:12.American national interests are directly engaged. As far as his
:33:13. > :33:16.definition of national interests, that is the fight against Isis, the
:33:17. > :33:22.rest is secondary and almost redundant. While I'm sure he will be
:33:23. > :33:28.frustrated and, like any of us, shocked and dismayed by the human
:33:29. > :33:32.casualties, it isn't strategically his priority, or at least it hasn't
:33:33. > :33:39.been until now. And along the way, his attacks on the UN sharply
:33:40. > :33:45.undermine its authority to intervene and try to get some state on this
:33:46. > :33:50.kind of action. The trouble is that these pictures will be beamed into
:33:51. > :33:55.Muslim homes around the world. Can there be a greater rallying cry for
:33:56. > :34:03.Islamist terrorism than this kind of crime going unpunished? I suspect
:34:04. > :34:05.not. It is a first and sadly predictable step in terms of where
:34:06. > :34:11.we are headed in terms of Middle East policy. What President Trump
:34:12. > :34:16.must be quickly discovering is that it is a lot more complicated than it
:34:17. > :34:25.seemed from the campaign trail. This kind of stuff is a great recruiter
:34:26. > :34:28.to Muslim or any other kind of extremism for that point. This is a
:34:29. > :34:33.very bad moment for the people who have died and been injured but much
:34:34. > :34:38.more broadly for the region and international affairs. There will be
:34:39. > :34:41.this renewed debate about safe zones and no-fly zones but if you have
:34:42. > :34:45.those, and it might be easier with Turkey now involved in the northern
:34:46. > :34:49.part of the country, but you also have to have the appetite for
:34:50. > :34:55.policing them which possibly means bringing down Syrian or even Russian
:34:56. > :34:59.aircraft. That's right. The reason there is so much certainty that this
:35:00. > :35:04.was an official government action was that it was apparently delivered
:35:05. > :35:07.from the air and the only people who have the capacity to put planes in
:35:08. > :35:12.the air at the moment and go unchallenged is the Syrian
:35:13. > :35:16.government. Indeed, if we move to a solution like no-fly zones, almost
:35:17. > :35:22.certainly it will lead to some kind of combat and it is not quite clear
:35:23. > :35:26.that it could not draw, at the worst extreme, America and Russia into
:35:27. > :35:33.some direct military exchanges. This is very delicate stuff, we are
:35:34. > :35:36.walking on broken glass here. It was something Donald Trump spoke about
:35:37. > :35:41.in the campaign, that he supported the idea of no-fly zones. You say
:35:42. > :35:46.that is not necessarily the easiest option. In simple language, what
:35:47. > :35:50.could the world do right now to stop these kind of atrocities? The reason
:35:51. > :35:54.it is not the easiest option is because you need agreement among the
:35:55. > :35:58.principal parties that they will respect it and not get drawn into
:35:59. > :36:02.conflict over the maintenance of the no-fly zones so if you can get a
:36:03. > :36:07.diplomatic deal it is still doable but the more fundamental issue
:36:08. > :36:15.remained getting, turning a ceasefire into a proper peace
:36:16. > :36:20.process with a movement toward a transitional government in Damascus.
:36:21. > :36:23.That has been set back by the fact that this administration has
:36:24. > :36:29.declared it is not such a priority for them and they are the Assad as
:36:30. > :36:31.likely to state which undermined the prospect of negotiation. Mark
:36:32. > :36:32.Malloch Brown, thank you for joining us.
:36:33. > :36:34.The second French presidential debate was held last night
:36:35. > :36:37.At time the debate descended into a slanging match,
:36:38. > :36:39.with 11 candidates, yes, 11, all making their pitch
:36:40. > :36:59.I like to think you watched the whole thing! I dipped in to it. It
:37:00. > :36:59.was a bit like one of those seven course French meals but less
:37:00. > :37:01.appetising! The centre right candidate,
:37:02. > :37:03.Francois Fillon, was accused of having his hand in the public
:37:04. > :37:06.purse, over that alleged "jobs for family" scandal
:37:07. > :37:10.that refuses to go away. While the Front National leader,
:37:11. > :37:12.Marine Le Pen, also came This was the moment
:37:13. > :37:16.when she was challenged by centrist frontrunner,
:37:17. > :37:21.Emmanuel Macron. I come from a region which is full
:37:22. > :37:27.of its cemeteries and I do not want to go back to that
:37:28. > :37:29.time in history. So don't ever forget
:37:30. > :37:35.where we've come from. You shouldn't present yourself
:37:36. > :37:38.as new if you trot out the old fossils which are at least
:37:39. > :37:44.50 years old. I'm sorry to tell you, Ms Le Pen,
:37:45. > :37:48.but you trot out lies we've heard for 40 years and which we heard
:37:49. > :38:02.in the mouth of your father. Those were the highlights! Not the
:38:03. > :38:08.whole four hours. It seemed that it was Marine Le Pen who was getting
:38:09. > :38:15.the most flak from the others. Using the analogy of the boxing max, the
:38:16. > :38:19.frontrunners are so far ahead of the others, Macron and Le Pen, they just
:38:20. > :38:25.need to keep going around the ring. But the others came into the ring
:38:26. > :38:31.like this guy Philippe Poutou who is a factory worker from the South of
:38:32. > :38:36.France, a militant anti-capitalist. Not even in a shirt and tie, he
:38:37. > :38:43.turned up in his pyjamas! The start landing these punches on Fillon who
:38:44. > :38:46.threatened to sue him at one stage! When the police come knocking on my
:38:47. > :38:50.door, I have to respond, saying that blue-collar workers had to respond
:38:51. > :38:59.but you lot don't have too Le Pen started to weigh in and she
:39:00. > :39:05.suffered at his hands. His surname, Poulou, means kiss. We're going from
:39:06. > :39:06.pyjamas to a high fashion. The First Lady of the United States
:39:07. > :39:09.is one of the most well-known Melania Trump is very different
:39:10. > :39:14.to Michelle Obama and immediately she set people talking
:39:15. > :39:17.with her decision to remain She is doing what she needs
:39:18. > :39:23.to do as First Lady. In the past hour she's been visiting
:39:24. > :39:27.a school with Queen Rania of Jordan, but she's kept her official role
:39:28. > :39:29.to a minimum. The President and First Lady
:39:30. > :39:32.of the United States Beautiful, always
:39:33. > :39:44.immaculately turned out. A few things you didn't
:39:45. > :39:47.know about Mrs Trump. She's 24 years younger
:39:48. > :39:50.than her husband. She is the first American First Lady
:39:51. > :39:53.to be born and raised She speaks five languages
:39:54. > :39:56.but is said to be self-conscious Our father, who art in heaven,
:39:57. > :40:06.hallowed by thy name. And a homebody who is reluctant
:40:07. > :40:09.to move from New York They are so lucky that they don't
:40:10. > :40:15.have to do this every night, right! If Melania is happy in this new job,
:40:16. > :40:18.she doesn't always show it. Perhaps it's only fitting that this
:40:19. > :40:21.unusual president should have such Let's speak now Andrew Och,
:40:22. > :40:31.a journalist who spent a year travelling around America
:40:32. > :40:33.researching First Ladies for a book He is known as "The
:40:34. > :40:46.First Ladies Man". Welcome to the programme. I'm going
:40:47. > :40:51.to play the bad cop here but she is in this hotel in New York, very
:40:52. > :40:55.different to Michelle Obama we hardly see her and it is costing the
:40:56. > :41:01.taxpayer a fortune for her to be there. Could you not be doing more?
:41:02. > :41:04.She could and her approach to first lady is unusual but not
:41:05. > :41:08.unprecedented. There were a number of others that did not spend much
:41:09. > :41:11.time in Washington or come to Washington at all and even more that
:41:12. > :41:19.were not married to the president and served as home test -- hostess
:41:20. > :41:25.duties. We have not seen this in America since 1914 when Eleanor
:41:26. > :41:30.Wilson died and the President's sister had to sit in and be the
:41:31. > :41:35.stand-in first lady. We are not used to it in modern times. For the last
:41:36. > :41:42.hundred years we have had more active first ladies, particularly
:41:43. > :41:46.the last three or four. Is it not time we gave up on this notion that
:41:47. > :41:50.we had to have a first lady who was there to cut ribbons and shake hands
:41:51. > :41:55.and look wonderful and smile at the cameras? If she wants to stay in New
:41:56. > :42:00.York, good for her. There is an angle to that. This is a non-elected
:42:01. > :42:05.and nonpaid role, the woman just happens to be married to the
:42:06. > :42:08.president. And various first ladies have taken more of a traditional
:42:09. > :42:13.role and more of an active role and what Melania is doing in protecting
:42:14. > :42:19.the sun and keeping him where he is for the time being, a lot of first
:42:20. > :42:24.ladies and first families, the Clinton and Obama and Kennedy and
:42:25. > :42:28.Roosevelt families went to great lengths to keep their children out
:42:29. > :42:32.of the public eye and give them a normal childhood as much as
:42:33. > :42:37.possible. The role is changing and the Trump ministration is an unusual
:42:38. > :42:41.one. You can say that again! Andrew Och, thank you for joining the
:42:42. > :42:45.programme. In all seriousness that has to be a re-evaluation of what a
:42:46. > :42:49.woman who happens to be married to the president is expected to do. If
:42:50. > :42:56.she wants to stay in New York, good for her. Yes, she is very different
:42:57. > :42:58.to Michelle Obama. I wonder if she might shine in that role and do him
:42:59. > :42:59.some good. We will