:00:00. > :00:12.Sophocles and Socrates - now please be upstanding for the
:00:13. > :00:25.The US Secretary of State is in Moscow
:00:26. > :00:28.but there's no sign America and Russia are any closer
:00:29. > :00:31.After a meeting of foreign ministers in Italy -
:00:32. > :00:34.can anything be done to get President Putin to change his mind?
:00:35. > :00:36.Rex Tillerson touched down in Moscow with a tough
:00:37. > :00:38.message about the future of the Syrian regime.
:00:39. > :00:41.It's clear to us that the reign of the Assad family is coming
:00:42. > :00:45.to an end but the question of how that ends and the transition itself
:00:46. > :00:48.President Putin fired back - saying enemies of the Syrian leader
:00:49. > :00:52.are planning future chemical attacks simply to discredit him.
:00:53. > :00:57.And the video everyone is talking about -
:00:58. > :01:00.a passenger is forcibly removed from a United plane and the company
:01:01. > :01:04.A fire destroys a migrant camp in France housing
:01:05. > :01:09.The blaze spread to large parts of the camp near the port of Dunkirk -
:01:10. > :01:18.Plus - a debate still rages in the US over whether to get your
:01:19. > :01:24.child vaccinated: We travel to Vashon Island to see
:01:25. > :01:32.if Donald Trump is helping the fuel the trend of worried parents.
:01:33. > :01:34.Hello, I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:01:35. > :01:38.Rex Tillerson likes to think he has a good relationship
:01:39. > :01:41.with Vladimir Putin - the Russian President even gave him
:01:42. > :01:45.But there was no warm welcome for the new US Secretary
:01:46. > :01:52.He flew in for talks on Syria - and the Russian promptly lambasted
:01:53. > :01:54.America for indulging in Iraq style war tactics.
:01:55. > :01:56.The US wants Moscow to drop its support
:01:57. > :02:01.On Monday in Italy, the British Foreign Secretary
:02:02. > :02:04.had told reporters this was a window of opportunity.
:02:05. > :02:07.It's time, he said, for Putin to face the truth.
:02:08. > :02:11.Germany and Italy are opposed to further sanctions.
:02:12. > :02:13.The only agreement said the Secretary of State is that
:02:14. > :02:25.It is clear to all of us that the reign of the Assad family is coming
:02:26. > :02:29.to an end but the question of how that ends and the transition itself
:02:30. > :02:35.could be very important in our view to the jury ability and the
:02:36. > :02:41.stability of a unified Syria -- the durability. And the outcome going
:02:42. > :02:47.forward. So that is why we are not presupposing how that occurs. But I
:02:48. > :02:52.think it is clear that we see no further role for the Assad regime
:02:53. > :02:55.longer term, given that they have effectively given up their
:02:56. > :02:56.legitimacy with these type of attacks.
:02:57. > :02:59.Today President Putin shot back - saying the US strike on Syria
:03:00. > :03:04.And then he went on to state - with no evidence -
:03:05. > :03:09.that enemies of President Assad are planning further chemical
:03:10. > :03:21.weapons attacks in Syria, just to point blame at the regime.
:03:22. > :03:23.similar provocations, I can't call them any differently,
:03:24. > :03:25.are being prepared in other parts of Syria, too.
:03:26. > :03:27.Including the southern suburbs of Damascus where they are preparing
:03:28. > :03:31.to release some sort of substance again.
:03:32. > :03:33.Well, for reaction from Moscow, we've been speaking to our
:03:34. > :03:36.correspondent there, Steve Rosenberg.
:03:37. > :03:47.After the stalemate it would seem as if Rex Tillerson is coming to Moscow
:03:48. > :03:54.in some sort of holding role. I think so. He still believes that he
:03:55. > :03:58.can get a deal with the Russians and he doesn't believe this is an
:03:59. > :04:05.impossible mission. He does have formed with the Russians, when he
:04:06. > :04:10.was an or an executive, he was quite close to people high up in the
:04:11. > :04:17.Russian leadership -- an oil executive of the he was given an
:04:18. > :04:21.award in fact by Vladimir Putin, but it would be much harder for Rex
:04:22. > :04:25.Tillerson to secure the political privacy is seen, a U-turn by the
:04:26. > :04:30.Kremlin on Syria, because if President Assad is Russia's key
:04:31. > :04:36.military ally in the Middle East, no doubt about that. And the Russians
:04:37. > :04:39.have invested heavily in him, militarily and politically and
:04:40. > :04:44.financially, to make sure that Assad stays in power, and in the eyes of
:04:45. > :04:51.Moscow President Assad is not only a figure they believe guarantees
:04:52. > :04:55.against an is the mist takeover of civic but he is the guarantor of
:04:56. > :05:02.Russian interests -- an Islamist takeover. It will take some in very
:05:03. > :05:06.special indeed, very special for Rex Tillerson to convince the Russians
:05:07. > :05:13.to rethink their support for President Assad and if that actually
:05:14. > :05:17.happens then maybe that will only happen if the Russians come to the
:05:18. > :05:25.conclusion, if they ever do, that Assad has become a liability, for
:05:26. > :05:33.Russia. It seems that President Assad is going to stay, that is what
:05:34. > :05:37.the Russians want, but why do Vladimir Putin give this slightly
:05:38. > :05:41.bizarre press conference just as Rex Tillerson was arriving, in which he
:05:42. > :05:46.spoke about these new attacks and a conspiracy theory that President
:05:47. > :05:56.Assad was about to be slander by the opposition? Bizarre things happen
:05:57. > :06:01.all the time here, but our press conferences happen all the time in
:06:02. > :06:04.Russia, but this is the narrative that the Kremlin and the Russian
:06:05. > :06:09.authorities have been putting out -- but bizarre press conferences. They
:06:10. > :06:12.believe President Assad was not behind the chemical attack last
:06:13. > :06:15.week, they have made that clear in foreign ministry statements and
:06:16. > :06:19.Kremlin statements, and the fact that Vladimir Putin was talking
:06:20. > :06:24.about further provocations being planned, as he put it, that puts
:06:25. > :06:28.extra pressure on Rex Tillerson and it reinforces the Russian line that
:06:29. > :06:32.Moscow does not believe that President Assad was behind that
:06:33. > :06:40.attack. Steve, thanks for joining us.
:06:41. > :06:46.Nick Burns, as Rex Tillerson arrives in Moscow, how much leverage does
:06:47. > :06:50.he really have over Russia to try to get them to
:06:51. > :06:56.Actually, I think the United States has very little leverage here.
:06:57. > :06:59.The Russians of course are the dominant military power
:07:00. > :07:03.in Syria, they have air power on the ground, they have a naval
:07:04. > :07:06.base, they are aligned to the Syrian government.
:07:07. > :07:09.The Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are fighting with them,
:07:10. > :07:14.Of course we have been fighting the Islamic State,
:07:15. > :07:16.we have been working with Syrian Kurds, but it's
:07:17. > :07:19.very much an imbalance of power right now.
:07:20. > :07:22.And I just don't think that President Putin is going to be
:07:23. > :07:25.pushed off his position, that he's going to be a stalwart
:07:26. > :07:28.supporter of President Assad and try to keep that regime alive.
:07:29. > :07:33.And in fact their goal is to win the war.
:07:34. > :07:36.So I appreciate what Secretary Tillerson is trying to do
:07:37. > :07:39.and that is to move the Russians towards negotiations over
:07:40. > :07:44.It's an uphill climb given the power disparity between the US and Russia
:07:45. > :07:47.Right, but I can imagine the White House responding
:07:48. > :07:52.by saying, hold on a second, we just launched 59 missiles,
:07:53. > :07:54.we have shown that American military might is back again.
:07:55. > :08:03.And doesn't that give us more negotiating power?
:08:04. > :08:05.I think it does provide the US with a little credibility.
:08:06. > :08:08.I favoured what President Trump did in firing the cruise missiles
:08:09. > :08:11.in response to the sarin gas, the chemical weapons attack.
:08:12. > :08:14.You never want to normalise the use of chemical weapons, they needed
:08:15. > :08:21.But look, what has happened over the last 48, 72 hours,
:08:22. > :08:24.is the administration has been all over the map in what they
:08:25. > :08:28.Sean Spicer, we will respond to barrel bombs, Nikki Haley,
:08:29. > :08:32.Rex Tillerson, we're going to defend against all
:08:33. > :08:40.This is not a credible policy and there needs to be some
:08:41. > :08:43.discipline both in what they say but also very importantly,
:08:44. > :08:47.And I just don't think in the space of a week,
:08:48. > :08:54.the administration has been able to formulate and agree
:08:55. > :08:56.inside the White House what is it exactly they're seeking here.
:08:57. > :08:59.So I think that Secretary Tillerson, who is a very skilled person,
:09:00. > :09:05.is at a significant disadvantage going into this discussion in Moscow
:09:06. > :09:07.because Putin knows exactly what is trying to do.
:09:08. > :09:09.Nick Burns, do you think there is a chance that
:09:10. > :09:12.President Trump might look at what happened in Syria last week
:09:13. > :09:14.and the American attacks and think to himself,
:09:15. > :09:18.I did it in Syria, I can now do it in other countries around the world.
:09:19. > :09:24.That he might decide this is the model, for example,
:09:25. > :09:34.I had an article in the FT over the weekend, the Financial Times,
:09:35. > :09:37.saying essentially this, that this worked as a tactic once.
:09:38. > :09:40.But if you try to translate, or take what happened in Syria,
:09:41. > :09:43.if you are the Trump administration, and apply it to North Korea,
:09:44. > :09:50.North Korea is a far more powerful foe.
:09:51. > :09:56.And so I think the Trump administration cannot believe that
:09:57. > :09:59.somehow one size fits all and that one policy can be transferred
:10:00. > :10:02.In fact probably a much more dangerous problem,
:10:03. > :10:04.the problem of North Korea with nuclear weapons.
:10:05. > :10:13.OK, Nick Burns, thanks very much for joining us.
:10:14. > :10:22.This is what Sean Spicer has had to say. Russia is on an island with it
:10:23. > :10:29.comes to its lack of acknowledgement of what happened, and the facts are
:10:30. > :10:33.on our side and the actions of Syria are reprehensible and Russia have
:10:34. > :10:36.been partial to several international agreements that Syria
:10:37. > :10:41.is not holding up to and also Russia needs to hold up to. The president
:10:42. > :10:45.has been clear with his stance towards Russia and we are going to
:10:46. > :10:51.be very forceful, as will Rex Tillerson during his visit, to make
:10:52. > :10:52.sure that we let Russia know that they need to live up to the
:10:53. > :10:56.obligations they have made. One of the issues we haven't
:10:57. > :10:59.discussed is what would happen If the Russians stepped aside
:11:00. > :11:03.and let the war play out. Our Security Correspondent
:11:04. > :11:12.Frank Gardner is here. In that scenario the situation would
:11:13. > :11:15.be one where you would have Islamic State, Al-Qaeda state and the other
:11:16. > :11:21.proxies fighting it out for Damascus. That is the risk. Russia
:11:22. > :11:26.has a huge amount of self interest in staying in Syria, used to have
:11:27. > :11:33.all sort of client states over the Middle East, Libya, Yemen, Egypt,
:11:34. > :11:37.but it has lost bows and now only has Syria, but it would like to stay
:11:38. > :11:42.there. -- it has lost those. It looks at what happened in Libya,
:11:43. > :11:50.Russia signed up to the UN Security Council resolution that applied a
:11:51. > :11:58.no-fly zone to stop AIDS massacre by -- to stop a massacre by Colonel
:11:59. > :12:06.Gaddafi. Libya now, is an basic set story question not know, it is a
:12:07. > :12:13.complete basket case. -- is it a success story? Assad is a monster
:12:14. > :12:16.and he has murdered so many people in that country's dreadful civil
:12:17. > :12:22.war, but to Vladimir Putin he symbolises stability. If you have a
:12:23. > :12:29.rushed and forced departure of Assad you risk the collapse of the regime
:12:30. > :12:33.and the worry is that you have Al-Qaeda and Isil shooting it out on
:12:34. > :12:40.the streets of Damascus and that will make the last six years look
:12:41. > :12:45.like a picnic. General McMaster gave an interview yesterday in which he
:12:46. > :12:50.said the sequencing of this was important and he said the defeat of
:12:51. > :12:58.Isis should come first. That reassures you that there won't be a
:12:59. > :13:02.vacuum? Yes, the ten General McMaster is a very wise and
:13:03. > :13:10.considered officer -- lieu tenant general. He's not afraid of speaking
:13:11. > :13:13.truth to power, but the sequencing will be difficult and it won't
:13:14. > :13:21.necessarily be at the choosing of Washington. As someone said earlier,
:13:22. > :13:24.America isn't pulling the strings, Russia and Iran are pulling the
:13:25. > :13:34.strings, and what you don't want is the situation we had in Iraq after
:13:35. > :13:38.2003, after years of total -- totalitarian rule, the heart was
:13:39. > :13:43.ripped out and the country imploded, and it became a playground for
:13:44. > :13:48.terror groups. Syria already has terror groups but it is important
:13:49. > :13:51.they don't gain ground. If you dismantle the Assad regime too
:13:52. > :13:55.quickly, so the timing and the sequencing of this is incredibly
:13:56. > :13:57.important. Not to repeat the mistakes of 2003. Thanks for joining
:13:58. > :14:05.us. We are looking at a situation where
:14:06. > :14:10.we have the risk of not only Iraq, but Libya, and maybe Egypt, you
:14:11. > :14:13.remove one strongman and you leave a country with nobody protecting the
:14:14. > :14:19.situation on the ground and a certain amount of chaos, and Islamic
:14:20. > :14:23.extremism steps in. We have heard from Sean Spicer this evening and
:14:24. > :14:29.Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, but we haven't heard from Donald Trump.
:14:30. > :14:34.Yes, he hasn't mentioned the word Russia and Moscow ever since those
:14:35. > :14:41.attacks or the word Iran, but those will be the big buyers. We will talk
:14:42. > :14:51.about Iran later -- the big players. We have a breaking news story from
:14:52. > :14:55.Germany. The football club Russia Borussia Dortmund said there has
:14:56. > :15:02.been an explosion near their team bus, and one person has been
:15:03. > :15:11.injured. We are hearing that the explosion was in front of the team
:15:12. > :15:14.bus as it set off to the stadium. We understand the bus was on the way to
:15:15. > :15:15.this stadium ahead of their Champions League match against
:15:16. > :15:27.Monaco. We will come back to that. There's a
:15:28. > :15:31.good chance that game will be suspended.
:15:32. > :15:33.Last month the CEO of United Airlines, Oscar Munoz,
:15:34. > :15:36.was named by one PR Magazine, as US Communicator of the Year.
:15:37. > :15:40.In the past 48 hours he has lost that title,
:15:41. > :15:42.with his comments on a passenger's re-accomodation - yes,
:15:43. > :15:48.apparently in corporate speak that is a real word.
:15:49. > :15:50.I'm sure you've all seen the video, the customer filmed
:15:51. > :15:53.being forcibly removed from his seat by air marshals and dragged down
:15:54. > :15:55.the aisle of an overbooked plane, bloodied and visibly shaken.
:15:56. > :15:58.But for anyone who's flown recently it's worth seeing again.
:15:59. > :16:12.In response to that extraordinary episode, the
:16:13. > :16:14.CEO Oscar Munoz sent out an email saying -
:16:15. > :16:17.that he 'regrets the situation' - adding that the airline had followed
:16:18. > :16:19.'established procedures' - and that the passenger
:16:20. > :16:28.Well, as you could possibly imagine, the internet's
:16:29. > :16:30.gone into meltdown - with one of United's
:16:31. > :16:45.rivals immediately taking advantage of the situation:
:16:46. > :16:54.Our colleague is on their way back from Denver and they have just said
:16:55. > :16:59.this on Twitter. We have not heard from him since! Maybe he has been
:17:00. > :17:10.very accommodated. So how does a company get itself out
:17:11. > :17:13.of PR disaster like this? With us is public relations
:17:14. > :17:23.consultant Jason Mollica. Could United Airlines have handled
:17:24. > :17:29.this any worse? From start to finish. A catalogue of how not to do
:17:30. > :17:35.it. It will be a case study of how not to handle your public relations
:17:36. > :17:38.at a time of crisis or building crisis, and if you look at
:17:39. > :17:48.everything from the statement to how it was handled, it makes me cringe a
:17:49. > :17:56.little bit, as a PR pro, to hear a CEO put out a statement saying this,
:17:57. > :18:01.or at least the airline putting one on his behalf, and there is nothing
:18:02. > :18:03.coming about this message, to say we apologise, and we want to make sure
:18:04. > :18:09.we keep your business, nothing about that at all -- nothing calming. And
:18:10. > :18:14.by the way they should not have beaten up the person in the first
:18:15. > :18:21.place. That is even more important. It will probably not stop me flying
:18:22. > :18:27.with that airline, but Bishop was collapsed, down 4%. -- but the share
:18:28. > :18:34.price collapsed. China are very upset about this as well. It shows
:18:35. > :18:38.you just how it could be, an American airline, but it doesn't
:18:39. > :18:47.matter because it has a worldwide effect on their business. Big is
:18:48. > :18:55.going -- biggest growing participation probably in China.
:18:56. > :19:00.Yes. These things linger, it has hashtags and people make jokes about
:19:01. > :19:03.this and this will go on for awhile, especially people are making jokes
:19:04. > :19:12.and it has gone past the 48-hour mark and there is no stopping it.
:19:13. > :19:17.Until they rescue it. If you can't get people to get off the plane,
:19:18. > :19:24.surely you wave a cheque book at them, and you offer more money. Why
:19:25. > :19:30.did that not happen in the first place? It should have, really. Let's
:19:31. > :19:34.be honest, the first thing you want to do is to make sure that people...
:19:35. > :19:37.They are your clients, your customers and you don't want to do
:19:38. > :19:42.something like this and make it seem like they don't matter. This man was
:19:43. > :19:45.dragged off and basically they just needed to put a leash on this person
:19:46. > :19:48.and you could consider they were acting like he was an animal and
:19:49. > :19:55.that is not what you want to put forward. As a business in general.
:19:56. > :19:58.They should have said, and it is his right as a passenger, he bought the
:19:59. > :20:02.ticket, he could stay on the plane, the last thing you want is to have
:20:03. > :20:06.this video pop up all over the world, showing an agent forcibly
:20:07. > :20:12.removing this person from a plane he had a ticket for, is just a bad
:20:13. > :20:15.situation round for United Airlines. To be honest, it will take them
:20:16. > :20:24.along time to recover from this, I believe. Jason, thanks for joining
:20:25. > :20:27.us. United Airlines likes to call itself, fly the friendly skies, that
:20:28. > :20:35.is the slogan, but not so friendly today. The stock market has
:20:36. > :20:42.accommodated millions of dollars of their capital, down 4% in trading.
:20:43. > :20:46.We failed to mention that it was three United Airlines employees who
:20:47. > :20:51.they wanted to get on the plane. Put them in a car and sent them away.
:20:52. > :20:53.You don't need to drag people off the plane. Maybe they will next
:20:54. > :21:03.time. We will see. Let's move on. In Sweden, a failed Uzbek asylum
:21:04. > :21:05.seeker accused of last Friday's truck attack in Stockholm has
:21:06. > :21:07.appeared in court. A lawyer for Rakhmat Akilov who's
:21:08. > :21:09.39, said he'd admitted to carrying out what he called
:21:10. > :21:12.a "terrorist crime". Four people were killed
:21:13. > :21:14.when a hijacked beer truck ploughed There's been a blast in the mainly
:21:15. > :21:18.Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Reports say the explosion
:21:19. > :21:21.was in a police compound - bringing down a roof
:21:22. > :21:24.and injuring four people. Tensions are high in Turkey,
:21:25. > :21:26.in the run-up to Sunday's referendum on the President's
:21:27. > :21:31.constitutional role. A huge fire has destroyed
:21:32. > :21:33.a camp housing about 1500 The fire took hold after several
:21:34. > :21:37.people suffered knife wounds in At least ten people
:21:38. > :21:42.were hurt when flames tore through the closely-packed huts
:21:43. > :21:44.at the Grande-Synthe camp, Our correspondent,
:21:45. > :21:52.Gavin Lee, was there. This is what happened
:21:53. > :21:56.to the migrant camp. It was 2am this morning,
:21:57. > :21:58.when numerous fires were lit I'm told by some of the migrants,
:21:59. > :22:04.before they left, that they watched fighting between Afghan migrants
:22:05. > :22:08.and some men from Iraqi Kurdistan. It was over something petty,
:22:09. > :22:10.over a football game that turned But there had been big pressures
:22:11. > :22:15.here because some of these shacks that are now burnt,
:22:16. > :22:19.there had been up to nine people, men, families, inside,
:22:20. > :22:22.because of the number of people that have come from Calais camps six
:22:23. > :22:27.months ago, which closed. The amount of people
:22:28. > :22:28.here just increased There's a kitchen over the other
:22:29. > :22:33.side, 500 Afghan men Aid agencies say that this
:22:34. > :22:37.was a moment waiting to happen. This is all over this huge camp
:22:38. > :22:47.by the main road close to where people were trying to stow
:22:48. > :22:50.away with the lorries. I spoke to a few of the migrants
:22:51. > :22:54.as they were leaving. This is where you
:22:55. > :23:03.were sleeping, here? The police are telling
:23:04. > :23:15.you to move away. Well, the police are moving the last
:23:16. > :23:19.few migrants away from here. The site is now completely empty,
:23:20. > :23:22.I would say about 50% They've been told to go
:23:23. > :23:25.to emergency shelters, where I've been told
:23:26. > :23:33.there is room for 900. There are 1500 people here and many
:23:34. > :23:37.migrants have said they will just They will set up other
:23:38. > :23:46.makeshift camps. This comes just before the French
:23:47. > :23:49.elections, so this is a big issue and is bound to play in the election
:23:50. > :23:54.campaign. Politicians scrambling with how to respond. The main
:23:55. > :23:57.candidates have spoken about it and they have said the agreement needs
:23:58. > :24:01.to be renegotiated and the border needs to be put back in the UK and
:24:02. > :24:05.you can bet with Brexit that will be a big issue on the other side of the
:24:06. > :24:07.election. The big issue in Britain and France.
:24:08. > :24:10.The North Korea question - and how to handle an increasingly
:24:11. > :24:11.belligerent regime - is clearly uppermost
:24:12. > :24:16.Because he's keeping the issue very much alive on Twitter.
:24:17. > :24:31.This is the latest from this morning.
:24:32. > :24:39.We can show our viewers some pictures from today, it's a big week
:24:40. > :24:44.in North Korea. Kim Jong-un was sitting in front of the special
:24:45. > :24:49.People's assembly. Those figures behind him, his father and
:24:50. > :24:54.grandfather. They also cult-like figures in North Korea and they are
:24:55. > :24:57.the 680 deputies from the political elite who are each chosen to
:24:58. > :25:01.represent their regions, but you get a good feeling of this cult of
:25:02. > :25:07.personality in North Korea. And what he says goes. Every time we see
:25:08. > :25:13.those pictures from North Korea, so bizarre. Even the clapping,
:25:14. > :25:15.perfectly in sync and everyone doing exactly what they are meant to do,
:25:16. > :25:22.because a aways the fear if you don't do that -- there is always the
:25:23. > :25:29.fear if you don't do that, you could end up with your head on the block.
:25:30. > :25:32.Interesting, that message he put out on Twitter, if President Trump is
:25:33. > :25:35.thinking that he had the success in Syria with a one off strike and if
:25:36. > :25:44.he thinks he can repeat that in North Korea which also has nuclear
:25:45. > :25:45.weapons, he should perhaps speak -- perhaps the reconsidering that
:25:46. > :25:49.option. You're watching 100
:25:50. > :25:50.Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers
:25:51. > :25:53.on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News -
:25:54. > :25:55.the debate in the US over whether to get your child
:25:56. > :25:57.vaccinated: We travel to Vashon Island to see
:25:58. > :26:00.if Donald Trump is helping the fuel And as the clock ticks down
:26:01. > :26:05.towards that vital 100 days marker, how will Donald Trump's
:26:06. > :26:18.new administration be judged? More clout in the next few days with
:26:19. > :26:23.the threat of a view more -- more cloud in the next few days with the
:26:24. > :26:27.threat of some more rain. The weather front will bring rain across
:26:28. > :26:31.western Scotland, sliding south to Glasgow and Galloway and into parts
:26:32. > :26:34.of Northern Ireland, blustery conditions, not much rain to the
:26:35. > :26:39.east of Scotland and dry in much of England and Wales. Away from parts
:26:40. > :26:45.of Cumbria later on. Temperatures not as low later as they were last
:26:46. > :26:50.night, and not as sunny to start the southern half of the UK tomorrow.
:26:51. > :26:53.Maybe a few showers in the Ares of silly and also Cornwall, but they
:26:54. > :27:00.will be some breaks in the cloud -- the Isles of Scilly. It is a dry
:27:01. > :27:07.pitch of much of Wales and England. -- picture for much. Fabrics of rain
:27:08. > :27:12.easing off in Northern Ireland and unfreeze and Galloway, outbreaks of
:27:13. > :27:15.rain. Mixture of sunshine and blustery showers, and that will
:27:16. > :27:21.continue through the day with gusty winds and a brighter day in much of
:27:22. > :27:25.Scotland. In the afternoon across much of northern England, a few
:27:26. > :27:30.showers, but turning grey through Wales and the Midlands and East
:27:31. > :27:37.Anglia, some rain, but mostly dry, especially Southern counties, where
:27:38. > :27:39.again 15-16 is possible, but even the cooler air reaches here on
:27:40. > :27:44.Thursday and there will be a cold start with a ridge of high pressure.
:27:45. > :27:48.Maybe sunshine around and maybe even a touch of frost. Crowding over many
:27:49. > :28:00.areas, a few showers possible, but for most it will be predominantly
:28:01. > :28:05.dry. -- clouding over. Good Friday, plenty of cloud, with spots of rain,
:28:06. > :28:08.not a huge amount of rain, the odd shower, the best of the brightness
:28:09. > :28:16.in the southern parts of England and southern Scotland. Dry weather on
:28:17. > :28:19.Saturday in parts of Scotland. Sunday, the wettest conditions in
:28:20. > :28:22.the north and not too much rain in the South and then Easter Monday has
:28:23. > :28:27.a ridge of high pressure starting to build, and that means for Easter
:28:28. > :28:30.weekend there will be more rain around compared to recently, but
:28:31. > :30:09.still dry and sunny weather to enjoy, as well.
:30:10. > :30:14.I'm Katty Kay in Washington - Christian Fraser is in London.
:30:15. > :30:17.The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flies to Moscow,
:30:18. > :30:20.to try to persuade Russia to abandon its support
:30:21. > :30:27.And - he's in listening mode today - but how
:30:28. > :30:30.is Donald Trump's Presidency shaping up, as he nears that
:30:31. > :30:35.We'll take a look at some of the challenges facing a man
:30:36. > :30:45.who promised a whole new way of doing business in Washington.
:30:46. > :30:48.Iran's Defence Minister warned today that any further US action in Syria
:30:49. > :30:52.The comments followed a White House warning that any
:30:53. > :30:54.more chemical attacks, or possibly even barrel bomb
:30:55. > :30:56.attacks, by the Syrian regime could prompt another
:30:57. > :31:02.Moscow announced today it will hold a meeting with Iran
:31:03. > :31:06.and Syria at the end of this week - so as the three countries
:31:07. > :31:08.plot their strategy, is the US ready for any consequences
:31:09. > :31:13.Joining us now is former US state department official
:31:14. > :31:15.Vali Nasr who is now Dean of the Johns Hopkins School
:31:16. > :31:29.There has been a lot of focus on Russia since these chemical attacks
:31:30. > :31:35.in Syria. But Iran is the country in a way that has the most to lose from
:31:36. > :31:39.Donald Trump and American aggression or potential aggression in that
:31:40. > :31:46.region. How do you think they will respond. I think Iran and Russia are
:31:47. > :31:50.on the same page when it comes to the Donald Trump threat to their
:31:51. > :31:55.strategy in Syria. The Russians have a lot to lose, I think both of them
:31:56. > :32:01.are trying to create a deterrent against the US so Iran is making a
:32:02. > :32:05.military warning that if you do something they may be a retaliatory
:32:06. > :32:09.measure, the Russians have access to talking to the Trump administration
:32:10. > :32:14.and they will use the diplomatic channels essentially to convey the
:32:15. > :32:18.same message. They want to tell the Trump administration the major
:32:19. > :32:23.point, do not get in our way, do not get in the war and we will not do
:32:24. > :32:28.anything provocative, but do not do anything. And what kind of
:32:29. > :32:34.retaliatory measures might Iran have at its disposal? There are a variety
:32:35. > :32:41.of means, there are US troops on the ground in Iraq and US installations.
:32:42. > :32:46.Also they have rockets in that theatre of war. Also they may hit
:32:47. > :32:53.against American allies in the region. We have just been getting
:32:54. > :32:57.news from the White House, we had that briefing from Sean Spicer, the
:32:58. > :33:02.White House press spokesman, he said that Hitler did not even think to
:33:03. > :33:11.using chemical weapons. That's just have a listen. We did not use
:33:12. > :33:14.chemical weapons in World War II. Someone as despicable as Hitler did
:33:15. > :33:20.not even think to using chemical weapons. So if you are Russia you
:33:21. > :33:29.have to ask yourself is this the country you and a regime you want to
:33:30. > :33:36.align yourself with. Clinton has just tweeted asking if he may be to
:33:37. > :33:41.go to the Holocaust memorial down the road. Something that is often
:33:42. > :33:46.overlooked, it is Iran and its proxies that control the situation
:33:47. > :33:49.on the ground. We talk about Russia having the leverage over Assad but
:33:50. > :33:54.if the situation is going to change in Syria it is going to be on the
:33:55. > :34:00.ground and that is the Iranians that control the ground. They do control
:34:01. > :34:05.the ground, they're running the ground operation with the support of
:34:06. > :34:08.Russian air power. This is a conjoined military intelligence
:34:09. > :34:13.operation. And we often do not appreciate how tightly the Iranians
:34:14. > :34:17.and Russian alliance is in propping up Assad. So it is a mistake to
:34:18. > :34:24.think you could just lean on the Russians to abandon Assad and lean
:34:25. > :34:29.on the Iranians to abandon Assad and Russia. You're dealing with Iranians
:34:30. > :34:33.Russian conjoined strategy. This is further complicated by the situation
:34:34. > :34:39.of course in Iraq where Shia militias are working alongside Iraqi
:34:40. > :34:45.government forces helped by US forces in the city of Mosul to try
:34:46. > :34:50.to oust Islamic State from there. That is exactly where the Iranian
:34:51. > :34:55.leverages, Iranians retaliation would come in Iraq, not necessarily
:34:56. > :34:59.in the form of a direct attack but they could make the military
:35:00. > :35:02.campaign against Mosul get much more complicated and create a lot more
:35:03. > :35:06.headaches for Washington. Thank you very much.
:35:07. > :35:14.News coming in from that Borussia Dortmund game. They were playing
:35:15. > :35:17.against Monaco, there has been an explosion near a bus and one player
:35:18. > :35:21.has been taken to hospital. Police now think the game is postponed. So
:35:22. > :35:22.the game will not take place this evening.
:35:23. > :35:25.Vaccines save millions of lives around the world every year.
:35:26. > :35:27.But there is concern among American doctors that President Trump
:35:28. > :35:29.is about to open up a deeply contentious issue.
:35:30. > :35:31.He's pledged to commission a new vaccine safety committee
:35:32. > :35:34.which will investigate - among other things - the link
:35:35. > :35:39.At the moment the US vaccination rates remain high overall,
:35:40. > :35:41.but there are an increasing number of families deciding not
:35:42. > :35:47.Some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country are on Vashon Island
:35:48. > :35:51.The BBC's global health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has
:35:52. > :36:02.Welcome to Vashon Island, a few miles off the Seattle coast.
:36:03. > :36:08.It's a small, affluent community that embraces natural, clean living.
:36:09. > :36:11.These children's parents want the absolute best for them.
:36:12. > :36:14.Like any medication, vaccines can cause mild and in very
:36:15. > :36:22.But the scientific consensus on them is clear - they are safe,
:36:23. > :36:28.These mums however are still unconvinced.
:36:29. > :36:31.We live in a society that values profit over public health.
:36:32. > :36:34.And so we really have to do our own research to find
:36:35. > :36:40.There was a huge amount of evidence that it was harmful,
:36:41. > :36:43.even if they weren't ways we could scientifically prove it,
:36:44. > :36:47.it was just talking from one mother to another.
:36:48. > :36:49.Here on Vashon Island like many other parts
:36:50. > :36:52.of the United States parents can opt out of vaccinating their children
:36:53. > :36:57.But the issue has caused deep divides in this
:36:58. > :37:04.Four-year-old twins Lilani and Scarlet are getting right up to
:37:05. > :37:11.There has never been any doubt that that is the right thing to do.
:37:12. > :37:15.It may be painful but these shots protect against deadly
:37:16. > :37:17.diseases including measles, which before vaccines used to kill
:37:18. > :37:21.hundreds of children every year in the US.
:37:22. > :37:25.Whooping cough is also a major concern.
:37:26. > :37:28.If we don't immunise enough of the children in the school,
:37:29. > :37:32.then on a fairly regular basis whooping cough epidemics can come
:37:33. > :37:35.through and grow in the school, and the most dangerous part is those
:37:36. > :37:38.infections can be taken home and little babies can be infected
:37:39. > :37:46.This is the man who wants to chair a vaccine safety committee
:37:47. > :37:54.He completely dismisses the scientific consensus on vaccines.
:37:55. > :37:57.I don't believe government officials, I don't believe.
:37:58. > :38:02.I have to be sceptical and we all ought to be sceptical.
:38:03. > :38:04.The President's own scientifically unfounded comments in the past
:38:05. > :38:10.The beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back
:38:11. > :38:14.and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very
:38:15. > :38:20.He appealed to emotion, he appealed to fear.
:38:21. > :38:24.We know vaccines don't cause autism and we are frightened
:38:25. > :38:29.statements like this could deter families from getting vaccines.
:38:30. > :38:31.Back at the clinic, Lilani and Scarlet are getting
:38:32. > :38:37.But for their parents the greater good for the health of the island
:38:38. > :38:43.Tulip Mazumdar, BBC News, Vashon Island.
:38:44. > :38:56.Let's talk about this more. I remember nearly in 2000 when we were
:38:57. > :39:02.thinking of having children, having dinner with friends, they were
:39:03. > :39:07.talking about this sphere. It does perpetuate and you think this is the
:39:08. > :39:12.most precious thing, why would I put my child at risk. It is a very
:39:13. > :39:18.emotive decision and during the time you are talking about, early 2000, a
:39:19. > :39:20.British doctor had, but this controversial and subsequently
:39:21. > :39:25.discredited study that suggested a link between autism and vaccines
:39:26. > :39:29.which has since been totally discredited and he was struck. But
:39:30. > :39:34.it put doubt in the minds of many parents and that is something that
:39:35. > :39:39.has reverberated all over the world. And what I saw on Vashon Island and
:39:40. > :39:44.other areas, parents do not trust the authorities, do not trust the
:39:45. > :39:48.doctors, the World Health Organisation, they're all saying
:39:49. > :39:51.vaccines are safe but they talk to their friends and gold social media,
:39:52. > :40:00.they ask about the stories and come back and hear about them. Well in
:40:01. > :40:05.the case of measles, if no one vaccinate Siew have a real problem.
:40:06. > :40:08.And that happened just a few years back in California, Disneyland, one
:40:09. > :40:12.and 100 people were infected because someone came from abroad to
:40:13. > :40:15.Disneyland and infected others who were not vaccinated and those people
:40:16. > :40:20.went on to infect other people in other states as well. That also did
:40:21. > :40:26.not vaccinate. But highlighted for the first time in a long time this
:40:27. > :40:31.vaccine sceptic problem. We will have to leave it there, thank you.
:40:32. > :40:39.Just extra news on that incident in Germany, police are saying there
:40:40. > :40:43.with three explosions involving that Borussia Dortmund team bus as it
:40:44. > :40:49.went on its way to the stadium. The player injured was the Spaniard,
:40:50. > :40:55.Marc Bartra. The 26-year-old. Apparently he has been taken to a
:40:56. > :40:57.local hospital. And the quarterfinal of the Champions League, that game
:40:58. > :40:59.has been postponed this evening. We talked a little earlier
:41:00. > :41:05.about crisis management - according to Politico
:41:06. > :41:07.there is a certain amount of that going on in the White
:41:08. > :41:10.House at the moment. "White House on edge as 100-day
:41:11. > :41:18.judgment nears" is their headline. They quote a senior White House
:41:19. > :41:21.staffer - unnamed - who says "One hundred days
:41:22. > :41:24.is the marker, and we've got essentially two and a half weeks
:41:25. > :41:26.to turn everything around. This is going to be
:41:27. > :41:38.a monumental task." What to think they're going to be
:41:39. > :41:42.talking about? It is interesting, this 100 days thing in modern
:41:43. > :41:48.American politics has become a big deal, this will be the moment where
:41:49. > :41:52.we have reviews of how the administration has been doing and
:41:53. > :41:56.they will relive generals then being ousted after just three weeks,
:41:57. > :41:59.relive the health care disaster that the president has had and what the
:42:00. > :42:05.White House needs to do effectively is to give a counter narrative and
:42:06. > :42:10.say actually we had these successes, the Supreme Court justice, the
:42:11. > :42:17.deregulation they have done and the executive orders. So you have this
:42:18. > :42:20.kind of back and forth between the press and its tally of how the White
:42:21. > :42:25.House is doing and the White House and the message it wants to get out.
:42:26. > :42:29.And of course the message this evening is not going to well. Sean
:42:30. > :42:33.Spicer picked up on this comments about Hitler and chemical weapons.
:42:34. > :42:38.We brought you out earlier and that is going to get a lot of attention
:42:39. > :42:42.in the US. The message to American politicians should be just do not
:42:43. > :42:47.mention Hitler and the Second World War. I have heard politician after
:42:48. > :42:50.politician get into hot water here in America because of some reference
:42:51. > :42:56.to Hitler. It never ends well for them. If you would like to join us
:42:57. > :42:57.to get in