:00:12. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days.
:00:14. > :00:16.It's now official - the UK will be holding a general
:00:17. > :00:21.After a debate in the Commons - MPs overwhelmingly approved
:00:22. > :00:24.the motion, for the third time in as many years the UK will stage
:00:25. > :00:36.The ayes to the right 522. The noes to the left 13.
:00:37. > :00:38.The Prime Minister says a win will strengthen her hand
:00:39. > :00:42.But Theresa May has confirmed she will not be taking part
:00:43. > :00:52.Every vote for the Conservatives will make me stronger when I
:00:53. > :00:53.negotiate for Britain with the European Union.
:00:54. > :00:55.In just four days the people the French will be
:00:56. > :00:59.We'll be going live to France where some of the final
:01:00. > :01:01.rallies are underway. Also...Do you happen to have
:01:02. > :01:04.Last week Donald Trump said he was sending a US warship
:01:05. > :01:07.to the Korean peninsula - the pictures show a different story
:01:08. > :01:15.Liberal resistance to President Trump wasn't enough to put
:01:16. > :01:18.a Democrat in Congress from Georgia - and yet, the party
:01:19. > :01:30.Not another one! For gods sake, I can stand it.
:01:31. > :01:34.If you're feeling a case of election fatigue you are NOT alone.
:01:35. > :01:36.Going back to the ballot box isn't sitting well
:01:37. > :01:48.I'm Christian Fraser in London, Katty Kay's in New York.
:01:49. > :01:51.It's less than two years since Britain's last general election,
:01:52. > :01:54.ten months since the Brexit referendum, nine months since
:01:55. > :01:58.Theresa May entered Downing Street - and in case you are counting,
:01:59. > :02:01.it's 49 days until Britain goes to the polls...
:02:02. > :02:06.The opposition Labour party was never likely to turn down
:02:07. > :02:09.an opportunity to try to eject a Conservative government.
:02:10. > :02:12.And MPs from both sides voted overwhelmingly in favour of
:02:13. > :02:25.The ayes to the right 522. The noes to the left 13.
:02:26. > :02:28.Opposition MP's say they are up for the fight even though the polls
:02:29. > :02:31.suggest Mrs May could be returned with an even greater
:02:32. > :02:40.Let's get a flavour of that debate from the House of Commons earlier.
:02:41. > :02:46.There are three things the country needs, a strong economy, strong
:02:47. > :02:52.defence and strong stable leadership. That is what our plans
:02:53. > :02:57.for Brexit and plans for a stronger Britain will deliver. And that is
:02:58. > :03:01.what the Conservative Party will be offering at this election. And we
:03:02. > :03:05.will be out there fighting for every vote. Whereas the right honourable
:03:06. > :03:13.gentleman opposite would bankrupt our economy, we can add offences and
:03:14. > :03:25.is simply not fit to lead. Mr Speaker, we welcome the general
:03:26. > :03:30.election. But this is a Prime Minister who promised there would
:03:31. > :03:39.not be one. A Prime Minister who cannot be trusted. She says it is
:03:40. > :03:45.about leadership. Yet she is refusing to defend her record in
:03:46. > :03:50.television debates. She has chosen an early election, let's not buy
:03:51. > :03:54.this nonsense, not because she needs a mandate to deliver Brexit. The
:03:55. > :04:00.Labour Party has given heard that mandate. She is acting on the narrow
:04:01. > :04:03.majority of the referendum in 2016. She has chosen the selection because
:04:04. > :04:09.she looked across the dispatch box and could not resist the temptation
:04:10. > :04:15.of doing the political equivalent of taking candy from a baby and facing
:04:16. > :04:18.a Labour Party in a general election.
:04:19. > :04:21.Our Political Correspondent Rob Watson has been following today's
:04:22. > :04:32.David Cameron's manifesto not even half implemented apart from that
:04:33. > :04:40.referendum pledge. And Brexit will be I suppose the defining thing in
:04:41. > :04:46.this campaign. Absolutely. And in a strange way I think it is hard to
:04:47. > :04:51.imagine a British election where the stakes could be higher. After all
:04:52. > :04:56.this will be about who gets to shape post Brexit Britain and its future.
:04:57. > :05:01.Absolutely enormous stakes. But in some ways it could be as tedious as
:05:02. > :05:05.it is exciting. We already know what the shape of the campaign will be
:05:06. > :05:10.from the Prime Minister, absolutely Brexit all the way. Only I can
:05:11. > :05:18.provide the strong leadership needed to give written the best steer on
:05:19. > :05:22.Brexit. We also have a steer on what Labour will be about, not about
:05:23. > :05:29.Brexit but austerity and the government failing to deliver on
:05:30. > :05:33.some of those campaign promises. I imagine in your coverage of British
:05:34. > :05:36.politics you have taken a moment to watch what is going on on this side
:05:37. > :05:40.of the Atlantic and we've seen some extraordinary flip-flops and U-turns
:05:41. > :05:44.on policy from the president. He does not seem to be paying a
:05:45. > :05:50.political price for those. Do you think Theresa May risks pay any
:05:51. > :05:53.price for her U-turn on calling a snap election? That is a good
:05:54. > :05:57.question and not the only one commission made a U-turn on Iraq
:05:58. > :06:00.said, she was on the remaining side but has become an enthusiastic
:06:01. > :06:05.Brexiteer. I think it is one of the risks she takes, is there a chance
:06:06. > :06:10.that the voters will see it not just as a U-turn but also a bit of
:06:11. > :06:15.flagrant opportunism. The voters know the opposition in this country
:06:16. > :06:23.is very weak. So that I think of the danger along with the other part of
:06:24. > :06:28.the risk, just the mechanics of the referendum. Worth remembering 48% of
:06:29. > :06:33.people voted to remain and Theresa May is the kind of Queen of Brexit,
:06:34. > :06:37.she needs to be careful she does not alienate all those voters as well.
:06:38. > :06:42.In a way I think that issue of opportunism, getting the message
:06:43. > :06:45.right for remainders and livres alike is perhaps even more of a
:06:46. > :06:50.challenge than any acts as a station is about you turning. -- livres.
:06:51. > :06:52.The Conservative politician John Redwood is a longstanding
:06:53. > :06:55.supporter of Brexit, and one of the MPs who voted today
:06:56. > :06:58.to approve the General Election on June 8th.
:06:59. > :07:06.Good evening. There will be many people coming back to that point who
:07:07. > :07:11.voted for the Conservative manifesto in 2015 who will feel quite cheated
:07:12. > :07:15.only half of that enacted. I do not agree at all and the public do not
:07:16. > :07:20.agree either. The polling taking today on Theresa May and her
:07:21. > :07:23.decision backed by Parliament to have an early election gets a strong
:07:24. > :07:27.endorsement by the public. They accept that the public made an
:07:28. > :07:32.important and defining decision to leave the EU because the previous
:07:33. > :07:37.government fulfilled his pledge to give everyone the right to make that
:07:38. > :07:40.decision. And except that the present government needs a new
:07:41. > :07:46.mandate to get on with it and get a better deal than we would be able to
:07:47. > :07:49.get if the leadership of the government was constantly being
:07:50. > :07:53.snapped up by a group of MPs who have not accepted the result of the
:07:54. > :07:56.referendum. Some would say if Theresa May wins a bigger majority
:07:57. > :08:00.than the UK may get a softer Brexit because the Prime Minister will be
:08:01. > :08:05.able to compromise as she will have to do with some of the European
:08:06. > :08:09.leaders. Without having to fear the hard Brexiteers on her own
:08:10. > :08:14.backbenchers. And she might in some ways point to you as obviously
:08:15. > :08:18.someone who does not really want to compromise on Brexit. That is
:08:19. > :08:23.particularly silly analysis because if you look at the arithmetic of the
:08:24. > :08:31.current House of Commons, there is a large remain majority. Most MPs
:08:32. > :08:35.voted remain. And so we were not in a position to pressurise the Prime
:08:36. > :08:42.Minister. She chose to implement Brexit fully and there is no such
:08:43. > :08:45.thing as hard or soft Brexit. There is a good Brexit which is what she's
:08:46. > :08:49.trying to achieve and the first thing you have to do wish some
:08:50. > :08:54.opposition parties had not understood is you cannot stay part
:08:55. > :08:58.of the single market without paying contributions and accepting the
:08:59. > :09:01.supremacy of the court, accepting many European laws and freedom of
:09:02. > :09:04.movement which go with the single market. In that respect the
:09:05. > :09:09.government is realistic and in agreement with our European
:09:10. > :09:12.partners. Let me rephrase this slightly differently, it looks like
:09:13. > :09:16.the promised will have to make concessions to the Europeans in the
:09:17. > :09:21.course of these negotiations, either any concessions you think she might
:09:22. > :09:25.make if she expanded her majority after the election that she would
:09:26. > :09:31.not done beforehand. Particularly thinking of the ?50 billion divorce
:09:32. > :09:35.bill. How happy would you be with that? That is nonsense, there is no
:09:36. > :09:38.requirement under the treaties to pay the divorce Bill, the Prime
:09:39. > :09:42.Minister has made clear that we will pay the monies which we are owing
:09:43. > :09:46.which basically is the continuing contributions we have to make as a
:09:47. > :09:51.member up until the point we leave. The cable for -- offer fantastic
:09:52. > :09:55.concessions as part of the package we are offering to our current
:09:56. > :10:00.partners in the EU, we offers tariff free access to our market and no new
:10:01. > :10:03.barriers in access to our market which is fantastic for them because
:10:04. > :10:08.they sell us more than we sell them. I do not think we need to go beyond
:10:09. > :10:14.making those kind of generous compromises which I am happy to make
:10:15. > :10:17.as is the Prime Minister. I do not hear the Europeans say it is a
:10:18. > :10:21.ridiculous proposition that Britain should pave the divorce Bill.
:10:22. > :10:26.They're bound to try it on but there's no legal requirement, or
:10:27. > :10:33.self-satisfied that. Any sensible reading of the treaty can see there
:10:34. > :10:37.is no provision to charge a country that has exercised its right to
:10:38. > :10:40.leave the European Union and also I must confess there is no right for
:10:41. > :10:43.us to demand a share of the assets that the European Union has built up
:10:44. > :10:50.during our membership. There is no right to do do that and they have no
:10:51. > :10:56.right to levy a sport the opportunities. You are a member for
:10:57. > :11:03.Wokingham, 56% voted remain. Does that give you some sticky times on
:11:04. > :11:07.the doorstep # love factually inaccurate, the results were
:11:08. > :11:12.declared by local authority area and I represent parts of Wokingham and
:11:13. > :11:18.parts of West Berks. The fact is we gave the decision to the people to
:11:19. > :11:22.make and now all Conservative MPs and practically all Labour MPs have
:11:23. > :11:26.come to the same conclusion that we have to get on and implement the
:11:27. > :11:27.wishes of the British people as determined in the referendum vote.
:11:28. > :11:29.Thank you very much. So today the political parties
:11:30. > :11:32.in Britain will be busy organising candidates,
:11:33. > :11:33.reserving battle buses, But nothing compared
:11:34. > :11:38.to what we spend here on elections I was just taking a look
:11:39. > :11:42.through some of Donald Trump's campaign figures, from announcing
:11:43. > :11:44.his candidacy to winning the White House -
:11:45. > :11:50.take a look at this. So his campaign lasted 510 days,
:11:51. > :11:53.compared to your 49 days, he took part in 14 debates -
:11:54. > :11:56.three of them of course with Hillary Clinton and he spent -
:11:57. > :12:13.wait for it - 332 million dollars. How much did they spend overall?
:12:14. > :12:16.That $332 million might look with double for the price of a mass of
:12:17. > :12:20.country like the US and its democracy. The final figure if you
:12:21. > :12:28.include all the outside spending was a whopping $2.6 billion. I think the
:12:29. > :12:35.UK spent something like 35 million, that is bargain basement democracy.
:12:36. > :12:41.I have got it here. The sixth largest parties spent 39 million,
:12:42. > :12:47.the toy spent the most at 15 million, 3 million more than Labour.
:12:48. > :12:51.And I look and thought how does that compare so Hillary Clinton spent $36
:12:52. > :12:55.million on advertisements in Texas alone in the last couple of couple
:12:56. > :13:01.of weeks of the campaign. In a state that she had no chance of winning.
:13:02. > :13:05.Texas is a big state of course. When Americans hear these numbers and
:13:06. > :13:10.they get so used to it, they're so used to this kind of outside,
:13:11. > :13:13.outsized campaign spending, the cannot believe about the British
:13:14. > :13:18.elections that there are so cheap and so short. I kind of wish they
:13:19. > :13:21.could not just believe it but would adopt some of those practices here
:13:22. > :13:25.as well because it is getting out of control. And those numbers in terms
:13:26. > :13:28.of money are only going to get bigger the next time around.
:13:29. > :13:30.There's a dose of election fever in the Spring air,
:13:31. > :13:33.before Britain holds its poll - the French will vote this
:13:34. > :13:36.Sunday in the first round of their presidential election.
:13:37. > :13:38.And the big question is whether France is heading
:13:39. > :13:41.for the kind of seismic change we've seen both the Brexit vote
:13:42. > :13:45.According to polling there, the main centre right and centre
:13:46. > :13:50.There are four candidates in the running for the second round,
:13:51. > :13:55.with Marine Le Pen of the Far Right doing well.
:13:56. > :13:57.Our correspondent Thomas Fessy has been testing the mood
:13:58. > :14:00.in the northern town of Amiens, where centrist candidate -
:14:01. > :14:10.It was once a stronghold of the left but not any more.
:14:11. > :14:12.Here in Amiens, yet another factory about to close down.
:14:13. > :14:15.These workers feel that globalisation has passed them by.
:14:16. > :14:22.and they blame the political establishment.
:14:23. > :14:24.TRANSLATION: Parties of the right and left play
:14:25. > :14:30.Laws are being passed, but not implemented.
:14:31. > :14:37.None of the candidates talk about relocations, he says,
:14:38. > :14:42.except for perhaps Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Melenchon,
:14:43. > :14:52.Like Anthony and Christine, many here look to the extremes.
:14:53. > :14:55.Four days to go before the vote, and only two thirds of French voters
:14:56. > :15:02.Last-minute deciders may prove the current polls wrong,
:15:03. > :15:04.and traditional parties worry they may suffer from a potentially
:15:05. > :15:11.Evelyn has always voted for the Republicans,
:15:12. > :15:16.but this time around, she tells me, trust is broken.
:15:17. > :15:22.TRANSLATION: I am not going to vote for people who have been
:15:23. > :15:27.Whether it is one side or the other, they always promised a lot
:15:28. > :15:32.Distrust of the political elite, job losses and calls for change,
:15:33. > :15:34.the stories from Amiens resonate across France,
:15:35. > :15:36.and will determine the direction the country decides to take.
:15:37. > :16:01.Hugh Schofield is in Marseille where the National Front candidate
:16:02. > :16:11.There has been a lot of attention on that rally because the attack block
:16:12. > :16:17.the police uncovered a few days ago. How does that affect her support
:16:18. > :16:22.base here? Of course in a sense it plays into her speech, her
:16:23. > :16:29.discourse. She said from the start that terrorism is one of the grave
:16:30. > :16:33.threat is that France faces. And it is clear that when there is a
:16:34. > :16:37.terrorist threat and it looks like it was a serious threat, that was
:16:38. > :16:43.thwarted by police, that innocent days into the message she's trying
:16:44. > :16:47.to get across about tougher immigration and so on. She got
:16:48. > :16:50.herself into a bit of a pickle in the last couple of days because she
:16:51. > :16:56.said had she been in power there would not be any of these attacks.
:16:57. > :17:05.The Toulouse killer would not have existed in her watch. And people are
:17:06. > :17:11.saying you may be tough on terrorism but practically speaking, there's no
:17:12. > :17:14.way even you will have 1% rise on the kind of attacks we've seen in
:17:15. > :17:20.France. Marseille was one of the best places in the 1980s to come out
:17:21. > :17:23.in support of the National front. Is it, the party says it has changed
:17:24. > :17:31.since then, has the support base changed as well, who is Marine Le
:17:32. > :17:40.Pen reaching out to in Marseille? Well in a rally like this it is the
:17:41. > :17:43.core, what has happened in the past week, she has been riding high in
:17:44. > :17:49.the opinion polls for months. And she sought qualification for the
:17:50. > :17:55.second round as a shoo-in. But she cannot feel the way tonight. The
:17:56. > :18:05.emergence of Jean-Luc Melenchon, the resilience of Francois Fillon, that
:18:06. > :18:09.has rattled the National front can. So the message tonight is to reach
:18:10. > :18:17.out to the core vote, make sure that they turn out on Friday. Because all
:18:18. > :18:27.could be decided by a small margin. Thank you so much. Let's turn to
:18:28. > :18:30.Amiens and Thomas. I should tell viewers that you normally report
:18:31. > :18:33.from West Africa and you have gone home to get a feel for the election.
:18:34. > :18:40.What has surprised you about the tenor of the debate? I think what is
:18:41. > :18:45.extremely surprising is to see the level of indecision amongst voters.
:18:46. > :18:51.When you speak to people around town they tell you they might just decide
:18:52. > :18:54.at the last minute, that they will look at the programmes and also see
:18:55. > :19:02.what the candidates are saying in the last few days and that will help
:19:03. > :19:07.them decide. I think it has never happened before that we have such an
:19:08. > :19:12.unpredictable election where we have four candidates really that could
:19:13. > :19:16.actually make it to the run-offs. I was thinking back five years and I
:19:17. > :19:21.covered the election and I was thinking about Francois Hollande and
:19:22. > :19:25.the promises he made and it was change now, he was going to change
:19:26. > :19:30.the country and there was this uplifting mood. And then he promised
:19:31. > :19:35.he would reduce unemployment, down below the 10% and he failed. It took
:19:36. > :19:40.him four years to do that. So many broken promises and in a town like
:19:41. > :19:46.Amiens were traditionally they voted Socialist, they must be sick and
:19:47. > :19:52.tired of politics. Exactly and the level of distrust in the political
:19:53. > :19:58.class is huge. As you said we are in the heart of the rust belt here and
:19:59. > :20:02.it used to be a bastion for the left parties. Over the last few years
:20:03. > :20:07.Marine Le Pen and the National front have been able to scoop up the
:20:08. > :20:13.disappointed votes amongst the working class that used to vote
:20:14. > :20:17.socialist or Communist years ago. And again I think there is a concern
:20:18. > :20:26.this time around that the region might turn to a populist insurgency
:20:27. > :20:33.like Marine Le Pen. I think a lot of people here are telling us that they
:20:34. > :20:40.are pessimistic about the future and that is what strikes me a lot. The
:20:41. > :20:47.only people, I think there was a survey two weeks ago saying that
:20:48. > :20:51.surprisingly the voters who are sure to vote for Emmanuel Macron of the
:20:52. > :20:56.most optimistic but if you look into the statistics of these voters there
:20:57. > :21:01.are also the more well off people, the kind of middle to upper class
:21:02. > :21:12.people of France who have safety in their jobs and their lives. And the
:21:13. > :21:17.working class feel kind of let down by years of socialist party
:21:18. > :21:23.government that has not changed their daily life. There are
:21:24. > :21:27.similarities between what is going on there and here and also the
:21:28. > :21:31.United States. Thank you very much. And we will be in Paris tomorrow,
:21:32. > :21:37.looking forward to that. Four days of the elections. One thing that is
:21:38. > :21:41.different is what young voters are doing because we saw young voters in
:21:42. > :21:46.the UK vote against Brexit, young voters vote against Donald Trump in
:21:47. > :21:49.the US. It looks increasingly like young voters might be looking at
:21:50. > :21:54.Marine Le Pen and saying you know what, we think that is a good
:21:55. > :21:58.option. That could be a reflection of the high youth unemployment rate.
:21:59. > :22:01.But I think it will be fascinating to watch how the young voters cast
:22:02. > :22:07.their ballots this weekend and in the second round as well. As Thomas
:22:08. > :22:10.said, looking at unemployment rates which are stubbornly high in France
:22:11. > :22:17.of course it is the young people who have suffered the most. And the
:22:18. > :22:20.surprising thing, you see people on university campuses campaigning for
:22:21. > :22:26.Marine Le Pen. When I first went there in 2010 it was not the done
:22:27. > :22:30.thing to put such posters up in the university. But that is changing,
:22:31. > :22:34.she's taken the party a little bit in a softer direction and people are
:22:35. > :22:38.prepared to go out and campaign for her. We will be there over the next
:22:39. > :22:42.few days and we have an action packed programme tomorrow with many
:22:43. > :22:45.people coming to speak to us. And we will be there of course on Sunday
:22:46. > :22:47.night with the results programme and a special edition of 100 days on
:22:48. > :22:55.Monday from Paris with the result. Let's turn our attention
:22:56. > :22:58.to North Korea now and China says it's seriously concerned
:22:59. > :23:00.about Pyongyang's nuclear programme - but - is opposed to talk of action
:23:01. > :23:03.that could raise tensions China's foreign ministry
:23:04. > :23:05.spokesman was probably by the American Vice President,
:23:06. > :23:09.Mike Pence in Japan earlier today. Addressing troops on the huge
:23:10. > :23:11.American aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan,
:23:12. > :23:24.Mr Pence told troops At the destruction of the president
:23:25. > :23:27.of the policy United States will be continue to work diligently with
:23:28. > :23:32.Japan, our allies across the region, China and the wider world, to bring
:23:33. > :23:36.economic and diplomatic pressure to bear on the regime in North Korea.
:23:37. > :23:40.We will do so until they abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile
:23:41. > :23:48.programmes. As all of you know readiness is the key and use the
:23:49. > :23:51.instrument of American policy should know, all options are on the table.
:23:52. > :23:54.Mike Pence addressing the naval staff on the Ronald Reagan -
:23:55. > :23:57.all options currently on the table but I would say Katty that
:23:58. > :23:59.if you are trying to convince people of your resolve,
:24:00. > :24:01.and you are serious about projecting a military deterrent,
:24:02. > :24:04.then it really does help if you know where your ships are?
:24:05. > :24:08.It's emerged that another aircraft carrier -
:24:09. > :24:10.the USS Carl Vinson - and other warships that
:24:11. > :24:12.were supposedly sailing towards North Korea were in fact
:24:13. > :24:17.Last week President Trump said an "armada" was being
:24:18. > :24:20.sent to the coast off the Korean Peninsula,
:24:21. > :24:25.But the strike group was instead off the coast of Indonesia moving
:24:26. > :24:36.Well because the US Navy posted images on its website which show
:24:37. > :24:38.the Carl Vinson transiting through the Sunda Strait at
:24:39. > :24:42.the weekend, between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra -
:24:43. > :24:45.en route to exercises with the Australian navy.
:24:46. > :25:02.I am distressed about this because I had the idea that in the plotting
:25:03. > :25:06.room at the Pentagon, pushing their ships around the world map but
:25:07. > :25:09.clearly not, they do not know where they are. The politics are
:25:10. > :25:12.interesting, the White House dampness in the lap of the Pentagon
:25:13. > :25:16.and said they were briefed by the Pentagon that this was happening.
:25:17. > :25:19.The head of the Pentagon was speaking in Saudi Arabia and gave
:25:20. > :25:24.the bumbling answer. Basically trying to say do not worry, it is
:25:25. > :25:29.heading to Korea but not just quite yet. Maybe I think it is about
:25:30. > :25:32.Donald Trump and that comedy made about sending the Armada and his
:25:33. > :25:34.desire to project American strength and power but it did not work so
:25:35. > :25:37.well. You're watching One Hundred
:25:38. > :25:41.Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:42. > :25:44.News Channel and BBC World News: Nail-bitingly close in Georgia,
:25:45. > :25:47.where the Democrats almost take a congressional seat
:25:48. > :25:50.from the Republicans. And, from Greece, we'll hear
:25:51. > :25:53.from the child migrants who've been settled into local schools,
:25:54. > :25:55.as their families begin to put down That's still to come
:25:56. > :26:18.on One Hundred Days, from BBC News. Another quiet evening and for the
:26:19. > :26:21.remainder of the week the weather is going to remain unsettled. If
:26:22. > :26:26.anything just a touch warmer especially across some southern and
:26:27. > :26:29.eastern areas. But it stays pretty cloudy and in fact a lot of cloud
:26:30. > :26:35.across the Atlantic out there ready to swing in our way. Most of the
:26:36. > :26:44.cloud has been across more northern parts of the country. But the cloud
:26:45. > :26:48.is now moving further south. Tonight it is not going to be especially
:26:49. > :26:54.cold, a lot of cloud across the UK and even some spots of rain.
:26:55. > :26:58.Temperatures no lower than around eight or 9 degrees for most city
:26:59. > :27:05.centres. In the south just a bit fresher because those guys will be
:27:06. > :27:10.clear for longer. -- skies. Tomorrow morning lots of sunshine across the
:27:11. > :27:15.South as we had today. The wind is light and the Sun strong, and then
:27:16. > :27:18.central areas, Wales, the Midlands come into Yorkshire and
:27:19. > :27:23.Lincolnshire, a little bit more cloud and some spots of rain.
:27:24. > :27:26.Generally speaking the rest of the country moving north a fair bit of
:27:27. > :27:30.cloud through Thursday morning. The rest of Thursday morning and into
:27:31. > :27:36.the afternoon, some of the cloud syncing South Sophie are not quite
:27:37. > :27:39.so sunny tomorrow. More cloud than blue sky on Thursday and
:27:40. > :27:44.temperatures more or less the same. Perhaps a little higher across some
:27:45. > :27:48.northern areas at around 14, 15 degrees. Then on Friday a subtle
:27:49. > :27:53.difference in the north, a bit of a change, we expect some rain moving
:27:54. > :27:59.in to the Western Isles. Not so much across eastern parts of Scotland. To
:28:00. > :28:04.the south of that didn't cloud for most of us but temperatures getting
:28:05. > :28:11.up to 17 degrees. Then the weekend, high pressure across the UK, not
:28:12. > :28:15.seeing clear blue skies but settled weather and light wind. And if the
:28:16. > :28:19.clouds break up it should feel fairly pleasant. But the far north
:28:20. > :28:24.of the country starts to see Chile air coming in behind this cold
:28:25. > :28:29.front. Early next week, Sunday into Monday, we will see low-pressure
:28:30. > :28:30.sweeping across Scotland. That is something that we are watching but
:28:31. > :30:21.this forecast could change. Welcome back to 100 Days. Christian
:30:22. > :30:33.Fraser is in London. Our top story: Eyes to the right, 522, nose to the
:30:34. > :30:39.left, 13 -- noes to the left, 13. Every vote for the Conservatives
:30:40. > :30:43.will make me stronger when I negotiate with the European Union.
:30:44. > :30:46.And we will find out from Greece how child migrants are being settled
:30:47. > :30:49.into local schools as their families realise they won't be able to travel
:30:50. > :31:01.further into Europe. Let's take a look at Georgia,
:31:02. > :31:04.Georgia in America. The southern state is where a Democrat has come
:31:05. > :31:09.within a whisker of taking back a congressional seat that has been
:31:10. > :31:15.held by the Republicans the decades. He took just over 48% of the vote
:31:16. > :31:23.against 17 candidates. He needed 50% to secure the set. He was just 3000
:31:24. > :31:27.votes short and well now face a run-off against his Republican rival
:31:28. > :31:32.who won just under one fifth of all the votes cast. The set was left
:31:33. > :31:35.vacant when Congressmen Tom Price resigned to join the Trump
:31:36. > :31:41.administration as Secretary of Health and Human Services. So, a
:31:42. > :31:45.challenge for the Republicans, not that you would know it, judging by
:31:46. > :31:57.Mr Trump's tweet. He was in a fairly bullish mood.
:31:58. > :32:11.I love he said that he would was glad to be of help. He has said he
:32:12. > :32:15.will go down in campaign in Georgia, but who knows if that will help? The
:32:16. > :32:19.White House had this reaction? This was a big loss for them. They went
:32:20. > :32:27.all in on it, they said their goal was to get over 50% and they came up
:32:28. > :32:30.short. Jon Sopel is in Washington for us. Jon, if this was a
:32:31. > :32:34.performance review, it might sound something like, you can keep your
:32:35. > :32:39.job but you've got to do a lot better than you have been doing. Is
:32:40. > :32:43.that fair? Yes, except if you are Donald Trump who wouldn't accept
:32:44. > :32:48.that at all, he would say as a result of his intervention we won,
:32:49. > :32:52.we stopped getting what he wanted! When the play-off comes in June we
:32:53. > :32:58.will win the seat and show that the Republicans are still doing really
:32:59. > :33:01.well, all thanks to me. But I think the more sober reflection would be,
:33:02. > :33:05.my goodness, there was a 24% swing against the Republicans to the
:33:06. > :33:11.Democrats in this special election in Georgia, and that is a wake-up
:33:12. > :33:16.call which says we cannot rely and take our base for granted. There are
:33:17. > :33:20.some real serious issues out there, and people maybe I'm not that happy.
:33:21. > :33:25.That may be the conclusion Donald Trump will reach, but there are many
:33:26. > :33:31.Republicans who are taking the view. I guess the counterargument might be
:33:32. > :33:37.that this is an area of Atlanta that is well-heeled suburban types, this
:33:38. > :33:41.is a state where you and I even spoke during the course of the
:33:42. > :33:44.election campaign about the possibility of Georgia becoming a
:33:45. > :33:48.democratic state, and actually you can't read too much into this one
:33:49. > :33:55.district, and Republicans might well be safe in the more conservative
:33:56. > :33:58.areas. It is certainly true that you should never read too much into one
:33:59. > :34:02.special election, whether it is being held in Georgia or in Britain
:34:03. > :34:07.during the course of Parliament, wherever it happens to be, you can
:34:08. > :34:10.over interpret. But there are things you can take out for both sides. The
:34:11. > :34:15.Republicans will be massively relieved that he didn't get over 50%
:34:16. > :34:19.and win, because that would have change the narrative about from
:34:20. > :34:24.failure and what has gone wrong in these 100 days. They have been able
:34:25. > :34:27.to push it away, the Democrats did well but not quite well enough, and
:34:28. > :34:31.they have been questions about how they campaign in the seat and could
:34:32. > :34:42.they really start winning these kind of places in Kansas as well that was
:34:43. > :34:46.an election recently. If Donald Trump popularity slides, then these
:34:47. > :34:50.seats could fall the Democrats' way with consequential outcomes for who
:34:51. > :34:53.controls the House of Representatives, but how much more
:34:54. > :35:01.difficult it would make governing for Donald Trump. Jon, Katty Kay and
:35:02. > :35:06.I have been comparing election spends, we sped 39,000,020 15, and
:35:07. > :35:11.the Americans spent something over 2 billion, but I imagine is when it
:35:12. > :35:17.comes to Georgia, they will throw the kitchen sink at this. Yes, and
:35:18. > :35:23.the Democrats already have. This was a special race for one congressional
:35:24. > :35:27.district, and $7 million was spent in the campaign, so he raised a lot
:35:28. > :35:34.of money. And the money is almost inexhaustible. The huge difference
:35:35. > :35:38.with the British election is you don't have paid TV advertising,
:35:39. > :35:43.whereas in America it is saturation bombing by 32nd advert spots.
:35:44. > :35:53.# I wonder whether it drives the
:35:54. > :35:57.electorate of thing, I am going to go on holiday to a state where there
:35:58. > :36:03.is no spending. But yes, they will throw the kitchen sink at this,
:36:04. > :36:07.because there is so much symbolic prestige.
:36:08. > :36:11.The UK voters will need a time-share, there are six weeks
:36:12. > :36:13.still to go! And the takeaway from this one is
:36:14. > :36:18.that the Republicans can't afford to lose this. Donald Trump can't afford
:36:19. > :36:23.to have the Republicans lose their seat because then all of the
:36:24. > :36:26.headlines will be about how Republicans are doing badly and his
:36:27. > :36:30.presidency is doing badly, it will be seen as a direct referendum on
:36:31. > :36:38.how he is doing, so I think you are right. A lot of money will pour into
:36:39. > :36:42.Georgia. Our thanks to Jon in Washington.
:36:43. > :36:45.Let's get some other news from around the world -
:36:46. > :36:47.and a young protester in Venezuela has been shot and seriously injured
:36:48. > :36:51.The demonstrators are calling it "the mother of all protests".
:36:52. > :36:53.They are demanding new presidential elections take place and blame
:36:54. > :36:58.President Maduro for Venezuela's serious economic crisis.
:36:59. > :37:02.Aaron Hernandez has been found dead in prison, where he was serving
:37:03. > :37:05.Prison officials say he killed himself.
:37:06. > :37:06.27-year-old Hernandez was convicted for murdering
:37:07. > :37:21.another football player, Odin Lloyd, in 2013.
:37:22. > :37:23.Now to Greece - there are around 60,000 refugees and migrants
:37:24. > :37:27.And many have been there for months on end.
:37:28. > :37:29.Instead of quickly passing through the country as they did some
:37:30. > :37:32.years ago, many of them bound for Serbia and the EU
:37:33. > :37:34.beyond, they have been stranded in the camps.
:37:35. > :37:36.And among those most severely impacted are the children.
:37:37. > :37:39.Some have been attending their first day of school in Greece -
:37:40. > :37:42.it's supposed to be an exciting time for a child - but for some
:37:43. > :37:44.the day was ruined by Greek demonstrators who were
:37:45. > :38:30.And what is this? S it is a hard thing when you don't know the
:38:31. > :38:39.language. At first we had someone to translate. But now is the time
:38:40. > :38:45.passes by, things are better, and the children learn more words in
:38:46. > :38:49.Greek, so it is easier for us. It means a lot for the children to come
:38:50. > :38:50.here to Greek school. They are very happy and they finally have routine
:38:51. > :39:12.in their lives. The Greek children are very happy
:39:13. > :39:16.with the Syrians, because it is something different. They want to
:39:17. > :39:18.learn their names, and they have a magic way to communicate without
:39:19. > :40:11.words, by playing. Sako here is a school. We can give
:40:12. > :40:24.the education, to educate the children, the students. Difficult if
:40:25. > :40:25.they come from Syria, but we are teachers, we educate our students,
:40:26. > :40:39.only that, nothing more. A difficult situation for many
:40:40. > :40:47.families in Greece. There will be a lot of focus over the summer on
:40:48. > :40:51.those migrant routes. 21st-century Fox says after a review of sexual
:40:52. > :40:56.abuse allegations, Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox
:40:57. > :41:04.News channel. He was a real tub thumper for Donald Trump. This is a
:41:05. > :41:07.huge story in the United States, because he is the biggest staffer
:41:08. > :41:12.Fox News, the highest ratings of any programme on the channel. For them
:41:13. > :41:16.to have decided to cut their ties with him has a huge economic impact
:41:17. > :41:21.is Fox News and they wouldn't have done so unless they were really
:41:22. > :41:24.concerned about these allegations. There are allegations by five
:41:25. > :41:32.different women, reports in the New York Times that Fox has already paid
:41:33. > :41:38.out $13 billion, and focus on Rupert Murdoch as he is trying to have a
:41:39. > :41:41.takeover purchase of Sky News the UK, the organisation clearly the
:41:42. > :41:49.families decided they don't want this cloud of sexual allegations.
:41:50. > :41:52.But we discussed a few weeks ago but Donald Trump had weighed in on this
:41:53. > :41:57.was defending Bill O'Reilly without really knowing the facts of the
:41:58. > :42:04.case. It looks like Fox News is not going to do that any more.
:42:05. > :42:08.Interesting. More development on that, no doubt.
:42:09. > :42:11.So election fever grips the nation - or does it.
:42:12. > :42:13.This is the third national vote in as many years.
:42:14. > :42:16.There was a cartoon I spotted yesterday in the Telegraph newspaper
:42:17. > :42:18.which perhaps captures the mood for many in the UK.
:42:19. > :42:21.It's a parliamentary candidate on the doorstep talking to a voter,
:42:22. > :42:24.and the voter says we have got to stop meeting like this.
:42:25. > :42:26.Yes not everybody wholly enthused by another campaign -
:42:27. > :42:34.one or two feeling a little bit like Brenda of Bristol?
:42:35. > :42:42.Not another one?! There is too much politics going on at the moment I
:42:43. > :42:54.can't stand it. Why do she need to do it? Brenda, it keeps us in a job!
:42:55. > :43:00.She captures the news -- she captures the mood of the moment. We
:43:01. > :43:03.will be in Bristol tomorrow.