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