:00:10. > :00:13.North Korea is fast becoming the Trump administration's most
:00:14. > :00:18.How is the US going to respond to the threat,
:00:19. > :00:21.and what will the President tell the senators, who are all invited
:00:22. > :00:27.A missile-armed American submarine has arrived in South Korea,
:00:28. > :00:32.just as the North marks a military anniversary with live fire.
:00:33. > :00:36.President Trump still wants to build a wall along the southern border.
:00:37. > :00:45.The Mexican Economy Minister tell us they aren't footing the bill.
:00:46. > :00:49.If they decide to do it, it is in their own right.
:00:50. > :00:52.The only thing that is clear is there there is no way Mexico
:00:53. > :00:55.But will that wall shut down the US government?
:00:56. > :00:58.Congress is back in town, and can't even agree
:00:59. > :01:01.Also, France is getting ready for round two
:01:02. > :01:04.But today both candidates suspended the intense focus on that campaign
:01:05. > :01:07.to honour the 37-year old police officer shot dead
:01:08. > :01:14.And, Ivanka Trump heads to Berlin to defend her father's
:01:15. > :01:28.Not everyone in the audience was convinced.
:01:29. > :01:35.A US nuclear submarine pulled into a South Korean port today.
:01:36. > :01:37.A US aircraft carrier arrives there soon.
:01:38. > :01:41.And tomorrow, all 100 US Senators have been invited to the White House
:01:42. > :01:46.for a really unusual secure briefing on the crisis.
:01:47. > :01:48.Is the North Korea situation at a tipping point, or is this
:01:49. > :01:50.political theatre from the White House?
:01:51. > :01:53.Earlier today, Pyongyang carried out a major live fire military exercise
:01:54. > :01:58.to mark the 85th anniversary of the founding of its Armed Forces.
:01:59. > :02:04.It is thought to be planning a sixth nuclear test -
:02:05. > :02:07.Mr Trump says it is time to take off the blindfolds
:02:08. > :02:10.According to the New York Times today, here's what the Trump
:02:11. > :02:23.For more, I spoke to former US Ambassador to the UN
:02:24. > :02:37.Governor Richardson, how urgent do you think the North Korean situation
:02:38. > :02:43.is at the moment? Has it become more so just recently? It has become more
:02:44. > :02:48.urgent recently because the possibility of a tinderbox
:02:49. > :02:54.conflagration is increased because now the skirmishes may be hopefully
:02:55. > :02:58.not between North Korea and South Korea with artillery shells, with
:02:59. > :03:03.conventional weapons. I recalled years ago there was a brush up
:03:04. > :03:10.because a North Korean vessel shot a South Korean vessel, if fishing
:03:11. > :03:12.boat. This is the danger of conventional miscalculation,
:03:13. > :03:17.conventional mistakes. Adding to that the prospect of an exhilarated
:03:18. > :03:21.nuclear programme. Do you think Mr Trump can do what he says -- and
:03:22. > :03:27.accelerated nuclear programme. Can he solve the North Korean issue?
:03:28. > :03:30.Well, it remains to be seen. First, the US needs to develop an overall
:03:31. > :03:35.strategy. I don't think they have won. Secondly, they have to speak
:03:36. > :03:39.with one voice. You have too many Cabinet members saying different
:03:40. > :03:43.things. Third, there has to be an injection of diplomacy into this, a
:03:44. > :03:53.diplomatic deal of some kind. We don't have that. And fourth, I think
:03:54. > :03:58.we have to let China to find North Korea and see if it works. I don't
:03:59. > :04:03.know if it will work, but if they put more sanctions on China, coal
:04:04. > :04:07.exports, while exports reductions, that might help. That seems to be
:04:08. > :04:12.part of the Trump administration strategy, and it's what he says he
:04:13. > :04:17.told Xi Jinping, Chinese entities have got to enforce these sanctions
:04:18. > :04:22.all we will take action against those Chinese entities. But China's
:04:23. > :04:27.interest in North Korea not the same as the United States, and at some
:04:28. > :04:32.point could diverged. That's right, and I believe giving China some
:04:33. > :04:36.incentives, it seems President Trump is doing that, not naming them
:04:37. > :04:42.currency manipulators. Maybe some trade benefits, maybe some other
:04:43. > :04:45.cooperation we don't know about. Instead advised China to help us.
:04:46. > :04:49.Because in the past they haven't helped us. They like the turmoil on
:04:50. > :04:53.the Korean peninsular because it causes problems for the United
:04:54. > :04:56.States. They don't want north and South Korean unification, they don't
:04:57. > :05:01.want them getting together, they like the turmoil. But maybe they are
:05:02. > :05:06.changing, because Kim Jong-un, with all of these threats and weapons and
:05:07. > :05:10.ballistic missile that missiles, conventional warfare, maybe nuclear
:05:11. > :05:14.weapons. The region is very unstable. The opinion of scientists
:05:15. > :05:19.more involved about nuclear matters than I am so just that about 2020
:05:20. > :05:23.North Korea could resolve the issue of how to get a missile to the
:05:24. > :05:27.United States and a warhead that survives that journey, they could
:05:28. > :05:31.solve our problem. That would be under Mr Trump's what. Is this the
:05:32. > :05:36.new foreign policy challenge for the new president? This is more than
:05:37. > :05:41.Syria, more than the Middle East. More than Canada and Mexico. It
:05:42. > :05:45.seems that is kind of falling apart too, the relationship. But I think
:05:46. > :05:53.this involves China, one of our biggest competitors, geopolitical...
:05:54. > :05:55.I wouldn't call them friends, but geopolitical challenges. And North
:05:56. > :06:04.Korea with nuclear weapons, going after our friends in Japan and South
:06:05. > :06:09.Korea with 20,000 Americans, 30,000 American troops in South Korea,
:06:10. > :06:12.50,000 American troops in Japan. This is a brush fire that could
:06:13. > :06:17.happen with a little miscalculation. That is why we have to be very
:06:18. > :06:20.careful. I want the Trump administration policy to work, but I
:06:21. > :06:25.think they should call down the rhetoric, cool down, let's have it
:06:26. > :06:30.pre-emptive military strike on the table, don't say that. Just by...
:06:31. > :06:34.Just say all options are on the table. I have negotiated with the
:06:35. > :06:37.North Koreans, they are unpredictable. It is a cult of
:06:38. > :06:41.personality. They don't react the way that we do, they don't negotiate
:06:42. > :06:44.the way that we do. You put their back against the wall and they may
:06:45. > :06:48.do something stupid. Paul Richardson, thank you very much.
:06:49. > :06:52.It's very interesting, but Richardson is not the only person I
:06:53. > :06:56.have heard saying that the president is painting himself into a corner,
:06:57. > :07:01.Katty, with some of the rhetoric he is using. What do you think is going
:07:02. > :07:04.on tomorrow, the fact that he is inviting all 100 senators to the
:07:05. > :07:09.White House, that's pretty symbolic. Why wouldn't he go to the Senate
:07:10. > :07:11.himself? Yes, it is not just symbolic, it is almost
:07:12. > :07:18.unprecedented. I have lived here for 20 years and I have never seen
:07:19. > :07:20.something like this, a president inviting the entire Senate to the
:07:21. > :07:23.White House for a security briefing that they could, as you say, have in
:07:24. > :07:27.the Senate as well. They have secure facilities in the Senate for the
:07:28. > :07:29.spread of purpose. This is what is leading some observers here in
:07:30. > :07:34.Washington question about whether that is an element of, you know, TV
:07:35. > :07:37.performance. The sight of all of these Senators group so my trooping
:07:38. > :07:42.into the White House will be filmed on television, it adds to the sense
:07:43. > :07:45.of urgency surrounding the crisis. They won't get any different
:07:46. > :07:49.information in the White House than they would get in the Senate where
:07:50. > :07:52.it would usually happen. The issue still is what does the president do
:07:53. > :07:59.to solve this? As he has now said he wants to do. Because the military
:08:00. > :08:03.side has all of the same perils that it's had forever. A strike against
:08:04. > :08:06.North Korea is, as Bill Richardson was suggesting is still something
:08:07. > :08:09.that is very difficult. And putting pressure on the Chinese is something
:08:10. > :08:14.that has been tried before and hasn't been successful either. It
:08:15. > :08:17.will be interesting to see whether the president, with this height in
:08:18. > :08:19.pension coming out of the north, manages to come up with different
:08:20. > :08:21.solutions. So this heightened tension.
:08:22. > :08:24.Donald Trump is denying that he has changed his policy on building
:08:25. > :08:26.a controversial border wall between the United
:08:27. > :08:29.Last night he suggested demand for initial funding of the wall
:08:30. > :08:32.could be pushed back to September so that Congress can avoid
:08:33. > :08:36.But in a tweet earlier today, the US president said: "Don't let
:08:37. > :08:39.the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the wall.
:08:40. > :08:45.It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc."
:08:46. > :08:47.Congress might pay the initial up-front costs, but the President
:08:48. > :08:49.is insisting that eventually Mexico will foot the bill.
:08:50. > :08:52.Today, I sat down with Mexico's Secretary of the Economy,
:08:53. > :08:54.Ildefonso Wahardo, who is here in the UK to talk about
:08:55. > :08:59.What does he make of the threat of new tarrifs, and the President's
:09:00. > :09:08.I began by asking him about the Nafta free-trade agreement between
:09:09. > :09:12.Mexico, the US and Canada. Donald Trump has now opposed tariffs on
:09:13. > :09:17.Canadian lumber. Will he do the same to Mexico's or industry -- he has
:09:18. > :09:23.imposed tariffs. You have to remember that today's trade between
:09:24. > :09:26.the US, Mexico and Canada is regulated by Nafta. You are looking
:09:27. > :09:34.at day-to-day issues that we have to face. Lumber is not the result of
:09:35. > :09:39.Nafta, it is the result of a long-term dispute that has been
:09:40. > :09:42.persistent in the US, and Canada, the process. Having a trade
:09:43. > :09:47.agreement does not mean that you will have not have trade disputes,
:09:48. > :09:52.you have a framework of how to solve trade disputes. Today probably you
:09:53. > :09:57.have learnt that the WTO have been favouring Mexico in a tunnel dispute
:09:58. > :10:01.with US. What happens if tariffs are imposed on some of your exports to
:10:02. > :10:07.the United States? We have been very clear, basically saying that we need
:10:08. > :10:15.to improve Nafta, renegotiate Nafta. With a view to really create value.
:10:16. > :10:18.We will not increase tariffs and consider trade management
:10:19. > :10:24.techniques. To start with, the order to construct from Nafta is not to
:10:25. > :10:27.think about tariffs or quotas. Complicating the relationship of
:10:28. > :10:34.course is the wall. He has been tweeting about it again today. If a
:10:35. > :10:39.border tax is brought in to pay for it, all these fees are raised, what
:10:40. > :10:44.with the repercussions by? The wall has been there from the beginning in
:10:45. > :10:50.terms of the decision that the new president is making. As long as they
:10:51. > :10:53.do it in their territory, with their own financial sources, it is their
:10:54. > :10:57.own sovereign decision to do it. We don't like it, we do not believe the
:10:58. > :11:01.walls are a solution for issues, there are better ways to handle
:11:02. > :11:05.things. But if they decide to do it is is in their own sovereign right.
:11:06. > :11:09.The only thing that is clear is that there is no way Mexico is going to
:11:10. > :11:13.pay for it. You think for instance that they are going to impose a
:11:14. > :11:17.specific tariff on imports, at the end of the day, it is US consumers
:11:18. > :11:24.that will pay for it. And any other idea that comes to mind, you have to
:11:25. > :11:28.review precisely at the end of the day who will be carrying the burden
:11:29. > :11:32.of that decision. But you are quite clear, and I think you are on record
:11:33. > :11:36.as saying, that if tariffs were imposed there would be
:11:37. > :11:44.repercussions. Obviously, because it is obvious that if you impose
:11:45. > :11:46.tariffs on your imports, the country is being aggregated, it has to
:11:47. > :11:52.analyse and respond to the consequence. Now, we don't have to
:11:53. > :11:59.anticipate, we are in a point that we would like to look at this
:12:00. > :12:05.constructively. Understanding that there are deep differences in terms
:12:06. > :12:10.of how to view the key issues, like the wall. But we believe there are
:12:11. > :12:13.ways to really try to work constructively and to really think
:12:14. > :12:18.about the new Nafta that will benefit both countries. So, if Nafta
:12:19. > :12:23.survives, and we must presume that it does, what with the opportunities
:12:24. > :12:28.before the UK? If Nafta survives, and we hope that it does, it will be
:12:29. > :12:32.very interesting to look at a Nafta agreement with the UK, which will be
:12:33. > :12:37.a very strong agreement, because there is a lot of UK investment in
:12:38. > :12:40.Mexico, Canada and the United States. And it makes a lot of sense
:12:41. > :12:45.to think of these as a way to simplify how North America relates
:12:46. > :12:52.to the United Kingdom. Do you know, has it been explored, what sort of
:12:53. > :12:57.value that would be to the UK in terms of comparison with the EU, is
:12:58. > :13:02.it as big a market? Is it a bit, could? What opportunities are there
:13:03. > :13:08.for the UK? You know, obviously the European Union has a value in itself
:13:09. > :13:11.because a grading economy market is extremely important. At the same
:13:12. > :13:14.time, when you are one of the countries that is extremely
:13:15. > :13:23.advanced, the UK service sector is very important. And somehow in the
:13:24. > :13:29.negotiations, the balance out of very vulnerable sectors limits the
:13:30. > :13:33.scope of how you can integrate. I think that, regardless of your point
:13:34. > :13:37.of view in Brexit, now it is a reality, and the UK has a tremendous
:13:38. > :13:42.advantage of hard to do the architecture of agreements that fit
:13:43. > :13:48.you and suit you well in terms of the relevant sectors. You sound like
:13:49. > :13:52.quite a fan of Brexit? I'm not, in fact what I'm trying to do is make
:13:53. > :14:00.the most of it. Because Mexico has had a very, very dynamic open trade
:14:01. > :14:08.policy. And we do highly regard our relationship with the UK. So, the
:14:09. > :14:11.Economy Minister there. I think it is interesting we are starting to
:14:12. > :14:14.hear other countries talk about how they can replace trade relationships
:14:15. > :14:18.with the United States, effectively, with trade relationships between
:14:19. > :14:21.each other. He is talking about trade relationships with the UK, the
:14:22. > :14:27.Canadians are talking to the Mexicans as well. Is this going to
:14:28. > :14:31.be the future now, people trying to circumvent a protectionist America?
:14:32. > :14:38.He told me the very thing, when the Mexican president took office, he
:14:39. > :14:41.said to the Economy Minister, I want you to diversify our portfolio so we
:14:42. > :14:45.are not so dependent on bearded states. They are looking at Britain
:14:46. > :14:50.pulling away from the EU and see a big opportunities dependent on the
:14:51. > :14:53.United States. He sees a big opportunity in Brexit committee
:14:54. > :14:56.talks about the service sector, he says it is very valuable to our
:14:57. > :15:02.country. He is not the first person who has told me about this new
:15:03. > :15:05.perhaps bigger trade agreement between Canada, the United States,
:15:06. > :15:09.Mexico and Britain, the four countries in the new trading block.
:15:10. > :15:13.I don't know what they would call it, I think Bafta has been taken! It
:15:14. > :15:18.is potentially because they do so much trade between each other, it is
:15:19. > :15:22.a potential is to. That might gather some traction in the weeks and
:15:23. > :15:26.months ahead. Interesting, that is exactly the kind of things Mr Trump
:15:27. > :15:29.doesn't want, big multilateral trade agreements. That is the flip side.
:15:30. > :15:32.The US Congress is back in town, and they have quite a to-do
:15:33. > :15:35.As we've mentioned, tomorrow Senators will have a briefing
:15:36. > :15:38.on North Korea, and then we'll also get new proposals on tax reform.
:15:39. > :15:40.But, probably most importantly, they need to fund the government
:15:41. > :15:45.A brief time ago, I spoke with Republican Congressman Dave Brat
:15:46. > :15:51.about the legislative priorities ahead.
:15:52. > :16:00.I asked him how he thinks the first 100 Days are going. Let's start with
:16:01. > :16:03.the status of the wall, we had the Mexican Economy Minister saying
:16:04. > :16:08.there is no way his government is going to pay for it. If Mexico
:16:09. > :16:13.doesn't pay for it, you prepared to do so? Can Congress pick up the
:16:14. > :16:17.bill? Yes, we are talking about a dying payment of a few billion
:16:18. > :16:20.dollars, this is one of the signature issues of the President --
:16:21. > :16:24.a down payment. Everybody knows the president gets a little leeway in
:16:25. > :16:28.the first year, but not in Washington, DC and not in the swamp
:16:29. > :16:32.right now. We own all three branches of government now and it is a $4
:16:33. > :16:36.trillion budget and our party, the Republican party, is at the mercy of
:16:37. > :16:44.eight Senate Democrats. And the American people are just
:16:45. > :16:47.exasperated. Burnie on the left was a symbol of that, Trump on the
:16:48. > :16:50.Republican side for visible of that. And so I think we've got to plough
:16:51. > :16:53.through the some way. I think President Trump will get burned this
:16:54. > :16:56.one time, but then he will learn the leveraged that he knows so well from
:16:57. > :16:58.New York and learn how to apply that leveraged going forward. You have
:16:59. > :17:03.just come back from your recess breakdown in Virginia. How do your
:17:04. > :17:07.constituents think the president is doing and how do you think he is
:17:08. > :17:11.doing? I think he's doing fine. I mean, it's a new environment for
:17:12. > :17:14.him, right? We've got the health care bill, I think we're going to
:17:15. > :17:20.get that out next week. I'm in the freedom vice president Kayumova, a
:17:21. > :17:25.very good negotiator. The Supreme Court is favourable, the stock
:17:26. > :17:28.market is up, everybody. The biggest deal is the tax package. If that
:17:29. > :17:35.goes through, I think you are going to see an economic pop. The markets
:17:36. > :17:39.or looking forward to that. Like JFK, it's nonpartisan. JFK did a tax
:17:40. > :17:42.cut that was similar, Regin did the same and he got growth for a decade
:17:43. > :17:46.and a half afterwards. That is what we need more of, and that is what
:17:47. > :17:57.the election was about. If he gets the job going and we are successful,
:17:58. > :18:00.if we don't have jobs and a couple of years the American people are
:18:01. > :18:02.going to judge us. Up until now, the president has not had a single
:18:03. > :18:05.legislative success. In 90 days, I don't know if Duminy legislative
:18:06. > :18:09.successes up here in the past, we accumulated 20 trillion in that and
:18:10. > :18:13.put our kids 100 trillion in liabilities. I'm not aware of any
:18:14. > :18:17.raving success appear. At least he's trying to move the ball in the right
:18:18. > :18:21.direction. Usually we move it in the wrong direction in this city and we
:18:22. > :18:25.are bankrupting the country, we have had 2% economic growth in the past
:18:26. > :18:31.two years. I'm dying to see some good legislation. I don't know who's
:18:32. > :18:33.doing. I think we are getting on track. What he figures out this
:18:34. > :18:39.piece, I think it will be eight gold mine. -- a gold mine. I got an
:18:40. > :18:41.e-mail today from the White House, it has got quite a long
:18:42. > :18:47.list of what it considers its historic accomplishment leading up
:18:48. > :18:50.to the 100 day mark. It's a really long list. Despite their boss trying
:18:51. > :18:53.to play down the event come the end of the week.
:18:54. > :18:56.So, how will history look back at the last few weeks compared
:18:57. > :18:59.Joining us from Austin, Texas now is presidential
:19:00. > :19:09.Mr Brinkley, you heard the Congressman saying that everything
:19:10. > :19:15.is going swimmingly. You have said it couldn't get much worse. Who's
:19:16. > :19:22.right? Well, it's been a very disastrous first 100 Days. There's
:19:23. > :19:25.been no real accomplishment. He pushed through the repeal and
:19:26. > :19:29.replace the Affordable Care Act, which was the crown jewel of his
:19:30. > :19:35.first term yelling with Congress, and it blew up in his face. He's
:19:36. > :19:39.also had a problem of the Russian election probe kind of hanging over
:19:40. > :19:44.him. He never really has been able to get his footing yet, Donald
:19:45. > :19:49.Trump. You are looking at 100 Days, the reason that we do that is that
:19:50. > :19:52.Franklin Roosevelt came in, 15 major pieces of legislation, got the
:19:53. > :19:57.country going. And John F. Kennedy struggled during his 100 Days but he
:19:58. > :20:01.decided to unify the country just weeks after his 100 Days with the
:20:02. > :20:06.moonshot, putting the first man on the moon. Donald Trump seems to be
:20:07. > :20:11.kind of having gay hangover effect from the 2016 campaign. And the
:20:12. > :20:17.surprise -- having a hangover effect. The surprise is the repeal
:20:18. > :20:22.and replace the Affordable Care Act. Give us a sense of historical
:20:23. > :20:25.perspective? How much should we judge the ultimate success of an
:20:26. > :20:33.American President on these first few months? I've never been that
:20:34. > :20:38.keen on the 100 Days bid, but it's tracking in the 21st century, it is
:20:39. > :20:45.sort of a media term for, you know, doing a quick checkup on how a
:20:46. > :20:49.president has been. Barack Obama got the 100 Days passed, but he passed
:20:50. > :20:54.the stimulus package and save General Motors from going bankrupt.
:20:55. > :20:58.You could track achievements. Let's call it 20 years from now, the
:20:59. > :21:03.Donald Trump presidential library, maybe kids will swoon over the 100
:21:04. > :21:08.Days! It was just a time of confusion. And the president stepped
:21:09. > :21:12.on his message a lot with his Twitter community, the country right
:21:13. > :21:18.now is more on unified than ever. He never seemed to be able to strike a
:21:19. > :21:23.note -- is more dis- unified. History may seem a lost opportunity,
:21:24. > :21:27.it is not doing jobs and infrastructure, dams, bridges,
:21:28. > :21:31.highways, dumping that may have been able to pull the country together
:21:32. > :21:35.for the honeymoon season -- something that may have been able to
:21:36. > :21:39.pull the country together. Is it possible to judge, not just with
:21:40. > :21:42.this president but with all presidents, how effective a
:21:43. > :21:45.legislative programme is in 100 Days? They all try to rush things
:21:46. > :21:50.through to get some points on the board. I just wonder if all
:21:51. > :21:55.legislation suffers as a result? Well, that's a great question. And
:21:56. > :21:59.you said it perfectly. Yes, people try to put points on the board. I'm
:22:00. > :22:04.simply saying, Donald Trump didn't put any point on the board, it
:22:05. > :22:08.doesn't mean he won't come before. But some presidents have successful
:22:09. > :22:13.out of the gate runs, some don't. I mean, Ronald Reagan was beloved
:22:14. > :22:18.after his first 100 Days, but the country kind of pulled for him to
:22:19. > :22:22.heal after he was shot, he had very high public approval ratings. It is
:22:23. > :22:27.a kind of rough barometer, but it is important when you campaign and say
:22:28. > :22:31.you are going to build a wall, he said he was going to repeal and
:22:32. > :22:35.replace Obamacare, they have got the White House and they couldn't get
:22:36. > :22:40.the job done, that looks like incompetence or at the very least
:22:41. > :22:44.the inability to tally votes properly before you put all of your
:22:45. > :22:49.chips on something that goes that he wires. Douglas Brinkley,
:22:50. > :22:57.presidential historian, thank you. -- on something that goes haywire.
:22:58. > :22:59.Donald Trump has often used his daughter Ivanka
:23:00. > :23:01.as a surrogate, attending events and defending his record.
:23:02. > :23:04.That was her mission today at a G20 summit in Berlin.
:23:05. > :23:06.But it didn't really go down so well with the crowd.
:23:07. > :23:08.Ivanka sat alongside the German Chancellor,
:23:09. > :23:10.Angela Merkel, and the IMF chief, Christine Lagarde,
:23:11. > :23:12.and defended her father's record on women and families.
:23:13. > :23:17.He's been a tremendous champion of supporting families,
:23:18. > :23:26.You can hear the reaction from the audience.
:23:27. > :23:33.Some attitudes towards women your father has publicly displayed
:23:34. > :23:38.in former times might leave one questioning whether he's such
:23:39. > :23:48.I think the thousands of women who have worked
:23:49. > :23:51.with and for my father for decades when he was in the private sector
:23:52. > :23:53.are a testament to his belief and solid conviction
:23:54. > :23:56.in the potential of women, and their ability to do
:23:57. > :24:15.What do you make of that? She was good, she is an impressive speaker
:24:16. > :24:23.on the public stage. She does make a case for his -- her father. His
:24:24. > :24:27.record is mixed. He has passed an executive order, bills to try and
:24:28. > :24:31.get more women into science. But he has revoked a fair pay order that
:24:32. > :24:35.helped women. And earlier he signed an executive order stopping federal
:24:36. > :24:38.funds for international groups that perform or advisable shunt. Women's
:24:39. > :24:44.groups are saying it is a mixed record. -- or advise abortions. The
:24:45. > :24:49.international reproductive fund is what he cut, which is crucial. It
:24:50. > :24:52.focused on women in Africa, that hardly empowers them. They don't
:24:53. > :24:58.have control over reproductive rights in that sort of thing. Just
:24:59. > :25:03.separate to that. What about Angela Merkel in fighting her, as with the
:25:04. > :25:07.regime she has, to Berlin? -- inviting her. They are trying to
:25:08. > :25:10.make the point, there is a lot of data on this, that there so many
:25:11. > :25:15.global studies now that show that companies that employ more women
:25:16. > :25:21.actually make more money. This study has been done by Columbia, IMF,
:25:22. > :25:24.Goldman Sachs, that was the point of this gathering. But it got hijacked
:25:25. > :25:28.by the politics of Donald Trump, I think we are living in that kind of
:25:29. > :25:32.era word, you know, you try to talk about issues and Donald Trump comes
:25:33. > :25:36.into the picture. That is what Ivanka found out in Berlin today.
:25:37. > :25:37.But not a bad channel for Angela Merkel to aim at, she has a route
:25:38. > :25:40.into the White House. You're watching 100
:25:41. > :25:41.Days from BBC News. Still to come for viewers on the BBC
:25:42. > :25:45.News Channel and BBC World News... Now it's down to two,
:25:46. > :25:47.who will the supporters of the ousted presidential
:25:48. > :25:49.candidates cast their votes for? We've some new polls
:25:50. > :25:51.to share with you. And, a post promoting
:25:52. > :25:53.President Trump's Florida resort finds its way
:25:54. > :25:57.onto State Department websites. Should it have been
:25:58. > :25:59.there in the first place? That's still to come
:26:00. > :26:15.on 100 Days from BBC News. Good evening. Quite a mixed bag of
:26:16. > :26:20.weather across the UK earlier on today. In northern Scotland it was
:26:21. > :26:23.like we jumped back into the middle of winter with widespread snow, even
:26:24. > :26:28.slowed further south in Staffordshire. It was lying on the
:26:29. > :26:32.cars and roofs. A bit of sign trying here as well and sunny spells and
:26:33. > :26:37.showers in Dudley. A real mixed bag. We started on a decent note with
:26:38. > :26:41.some sunshine, but showers developed quite widely and spread south on a
:26:42. > :26:46.cold wind coming down from a long way north. Another cold night ahead.
:26:47. > :26:49.A frosty night for many of us, and we are not done with the wintry
:26:50. > :26:53.showers yet. The next few hours have a good crop of them, they tend to
:26:54. > :26:58.fade away from western areas, we will keep a few going along the
:26:59. > :27:01.eastern coast, where it stays windy. Further west where the skies are
:27:02. > :27:05.clear and winds are lighter, that is where we expect the lowest
:27:06. > :27:11.temperatures, the blue tinge shows a widespread frost, just a degree or
:27:12. > :27:15.two above freezing, below freezing in roar spots. But a lot of
:27:16. > :27:20.sunshine, just the odd shower clipping the tip of Cornwall. Cloud
:27:21. > :27:24.in the Midlands and the East generally. Showers in East Anglia up
:27:25. > :27:27.into Yorkshire, more wintry over higher ground. The north-west and
:27:28. > :27:31.much of Scotland and Northern Ireland, a cold but a bright start
:27:32. > :27:36.with a good deal of sunshine. One or two showers in the north-west. The
:27:37. > :27:39.main focus for showers through Wednesday will be central and
:27:40. > :27:43.eastern parts of England. One or two of those will be heavy with thunder
:27:44. > :27:48.and hail mixed in. Showers are few and far between in the western
:27:49. > :27:51.areas, reasonable day with a few spells of sunshine. Northern
:27:52. > :27:55.Ireland, only eight or 9 degrees. In 11 or 12 for Cardiff and London.
:27:56. > :27:59.Through the evening, still a few showers for the first part of the
:28:00. > :28:06.evening, but they become fewer before fading away. Cloud is
:28:07. > :28:09.gathering in the North and West without bricks of ring. That will be
:28:10. > :28:11.if each of things as we get on into Thursday. A week weather front is
:28:12. > :28:15.slipping south, bringing cloud and rain. Behind that we have slightly
:28:16. > :28:18.less cold or even milder air. Temperatures rising by a degree or
:28:19. > :28:25.so in England and Wales, the effect will be noticeable in Scotland and
:28:26. > :28:29.Northern Ireland. Cloud and patchy rain for England and Wales, dries up
:28:30. > :28:30.in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Glasgow and Belfast to 11 or 12
:28:31. > :30:11.degrees. Welcome back to 100 Days,
:30:12. > :30:13.I'm Katty Kay in Washington, A missile armed American submarine
:30:14. > :30:20.has arrived in South Korea as a former UN ambassador warns
:30:21. > :30:36.President Trump to be wary. This is the biggest foreign policy
:30:37. > :30:37.challenge for the new president, more than Syria, more than the
:30:38. > :30:39.Middle East. And the UK's opposition Labour party
:30:40. > :30:47.clarifies their position on Brexit. The French President
:30:48. > :30:49.Francois Hollande has called for unity in the long,
:30:50. > :31:01.difficult fight against terrorism. He made the remarks at a public
:31:02. > :31:05.memorial for police officer, Xavier Jugeles, who was shot dead
:31:06. > :31:09.on the Champs Elysee in Paris last week -
:31:10. > :31:11.500m where we were broadcasting Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
:31:12. > :31:17.also attended that ceremony. On policy - Mr Macron,
:31:18. > :31:19.is an advocate of open borders, and has urged people not to give
:31:20. > :31:22.in to fear. Ms Le Pen however wants France
:31:23. > :31:25.to reintroduce border controls and to deport all foreigners
:31:26. > :31:40.on the terror watch-list. When you left Paris yesterday to
:31:41. > :31:44.what extent was this playing into the final round of the election. I
:31:45. > :31:48.think terror will come into the debate quite strongly next week when
:31:49. > :31:52.they sit down for this televised debate on Wednesday. Last night
:31:53. > :31:57.actually Marine Le Pen stood away from the National front, she stood
:31:58. > :32:02.down as their president. I can see why she did it, but I think the
:32:03. > :32:07.problem for her if she is synonymous with the National front brand. The
:32:08. > :32:11.pen name is synonymous with that. But she is trying to stand as
:32:12. > :32:16.presidential candidate rather than National front candidate. I looked
:32:17. > :32:22.at some opinion poll figures last night, from one of the polling
:32:23. > :32:25.agencies had done for the magazine Paris match. They're looking at
:32:26. > :32:36.where its supporters are going from other camps especially from Jean-Luc
:32:37. > :32:41.Melenchon. 51% would go to Macron and just 19% to Le Pen. The economic
:32:42. > :32:48.platform is virtually the same for Jean-Luc Melenchon and Le Pen. Just
:32:49. > :32:53.to distance yourself from the party name, is that going to do it for
:32:54. > :32:56.her? I think she is going to say forget the National front, I'm in
:32:57. > :33:02.line with your anti-globalist, nationalist economy view of life.
:33:03. > :33:05.You are voting for Jean-Luc Melenchon for those reasons but not
:33:06. > :33:08.for me because you do not like the National front brand. If you look at
:33:09. > :33:14.the supporters of Francois Hollande, one third will go to Marine Le Pen,
:33:15. > :33:19.the Roman Catholic vote, 41%, more right, going for the centre and
:33:20. > :33:23.Macron then for Le Pen. So she's trying to say I am the mother of the
:33:24. > :33:28.nation and bring back nationalism to friends and I will get rid of the
:33:29. > :33:33.elite that have performed so badly over the course of the last ten
:33:34. > :33:39.years and Mr Macron is more of the same so vote for me and not for the
:33:40. > :33:43.National front necessarily. It will be very interesting to see whether
:33:44. > :33:48.making that move and take myself out of the party will actually persuade
:33:49. > :33:50.voters. Let's move on to the British election.
:33:51. > :33:52.Today Theresa May took the UK General election campaign to Wales,
:33:53. > :33:54.a Labour stronghold, where she said this election
:33:55. > :33:57.is about giving her a clear mandate through the Brexit talks.
:33:58. > :34:01.Every single vote for me and the local Conservative candidate
:34:02. > :34:04.will be a vote for a stronger Wales, for a stronger United Kingdom, and,
:34:05. > :34:18.as I say, will strengthen my hand in those important
:34:19. > :34:22.And a vote for any other party would be a vote for a week
:34:23. > :34:24.and failing Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by a coalition
:34:25. > :34:26.of chaos which would risk our national future.
:34:27. > :34:28.But on the Labour side today they were clarifying
:34:29. > :34:32.The Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer said Labour accepted that
:34:33. > :34:35.free movement of people could not continue but suggested EU nationals
:34:36. > :34:40.'could' still be allowed in if they had a guaranteed job
:34:41. > :34:45.offer - while taking aim at the prime minister.
:34:46. > :34:52.If Theresa May gets another five years in power,
:34:53. > :34:55.she'll take it as a green light to sideline Parliament,
:34:56. > :34:57.ignore opposition and drive through a reckless Tory Brexit.
:34:58. > :35:02.Joining us now from Westminster is the BBC's Eleanor Garnier.
:35:03. > :35:09.to pick up that quote from Keir Starmer, people with a guaranteed
:35:10. > :35:15.job offer could come to the UK. Are we saying could or will? I think we
:35:16. > :35:20.are saying should, if that helps. What he was saying today was that he
:35:21. > :35:24.understands that Labour understands that with the current membership of
:35:25. > :35:29.the single market it would mean freedom of movement would have to
:35:30. > :35:32.end that he said we need an immigration system that works for
:35:33. > :35:40.the economy so there needs to be into the UK to support business. So
:35:41. > :35:45.if you have a job offer you can come here. How that is managed in terms
:35:46. > :35:49.of permits and work visas are still something to be sorted out but he
:35:50. > :35:53.said the last thing we want is for businesses to go bankrupt here so
:35:54. > :35:57.here's a few and that of the whole Shadow Cabinet as he said, the top
:35:58. > :36:01.team of the opposition parties, he said was their view that those with
:36:02. > :36:04.work permits could come over here. I think it is to be seen whether the
:36:05. > :36:14.whole of the Shadow Cabinet are signed up to that position but that
:36:15. > :36:19.is how he put it today. We have said during the programme that Labour has
:36:20. > :36:22.just clarified its present position. We are edging up towards half a
:36:23. > :36:27.million new registered voters now. If those voters, some of them want
:36:28. > :36:31.to take a stand against Brexit still, do they have any other clear
:36:32. > :36:39.option other than the Liberal Democrats. I think that is what the
:36:40. > :36:42.Liberal Democrats want to hear, they're the only pro-European party
:36:43. > :36:46.out there for young people especially to look to. But I think
:36:47. > :36:50.what the Labour Party needs to do and what they have tried to do today
:36:51. > :36:55.is show they are pro-European and also flexible when it comes to the
:36:56. > :37:01.negotiations. The short Brexit has been huge for weeks and months. And
:37:02. > :37:05.I think it has come to just weeks before a general election and Labour
:37:06. > :37:11.is trying once again to clarify its position. The referendum was almost
:37:12. > :37:15.one month ago so it is a difficult task for Keir Starmer and the Labour
:37:16. > :37:18.Party to do when we are so close to the election. And when Theresa May
:37:19. > :37:23.is putting out a clear message, saying no to the single market,
:37:24. > :37:28.noted the customs union, note of freedom of movement. And note of the
:37:29. > :37:31.European Court of Justice. So unless the Labour Party manages to put the
:37:32. > :37:36.issue of Brexit to bed, it is not going to get a hearing on the issues
:37:37. > :37:41.it wants to talk about such is the NHS, being an anti-austerity party,
:37:42. > :37:45.social care, unless it manages to draw a line under Brexit and present
:37:46. > :37:49.something that is palatable and clear to the electorate. Then it is
:37:50. > :37:52.not going to get traction on those other issues and I think it has left
:37:53. > :37:55.it late in the day to convince the voters that it knows what it is
:37:56. > :38:03.talking about when it comes to Brexit. Thank you very much.
:38:04. > :38:05.On Monday night Arkansas carried out back to back executions,
:38:06. > :38:08.becoming the first US state to put more than one inmate to death
:38:09. > :38:14.The deaths came after numerous court challenges and as the state races
:38:15. > :38:18.to use a part of the three drug protocol before it expires.
:38:19. > :38:22.The BBC's Aleem Maqbool has covered this story extensively for us
:38:23. > :38:37.This morning I was reading there were a number of stays of execution
:38:38. > :38:41.but eventually two men were executed on the same night. Yes it was an
:38:42. > :38:45.extraordinary evening and has been so much drama around these
:38:46. > :38:49.executions. But as you said this started because Arkansas wanted
:38:50. > :38:52.these eight executions to happen in ten days because one of the drugs
:38:53. > :38:58.expires at the end of the month. Some of the legal action to hold off
:38:59. > :39:02.these executions was about how effective this drug was because
:39:03. > :39:06.there have been several cases around this country where this legal --
:39:07. > :39:10.lethal injection cocktail has not worked. In one case a couple of
:39:11. > :39:17.years ago in Arizona man took almost two hours to die and in another case
:39:18. > :39:22.in Oklahoma man took 43 minutes. Yesterday it looked like the first
:39:23. > :39:28.execution of a man named Jack Jones, a convicted rapist and murderer, had
:39:29. > :39:32.passed off OK. He came into the chamber and it took him apparently
:39:33. > :39:38.14 minutes to die. But then when the second man was brought him he was in
:39:39. > :39:42.the execution chamber, on the padded bed, and suddenly at that point he
:39:43. > :39:46.was told that there was a stay of execution because there had been
:39:47. > :39:50.problems with the first execution according to lawyers. You have been
:39:51. > :39:55.down in Arkansas covering the story, I know our viewers around the world
:39:56. > :40:00.will look at this and think it is barbaric. So many execution is
:40:01. > :40:04.happening so fast because the drug about to expire. But the drug
:40:05. > :40:10.companies are distancing themselves from what Arkansas is doing as well.
:40:11. > :40:14.That is why I think it will become even more difficult for states to
:40:15. > :40:20.put people to death. Not only was that action about the fact that
:40:21. > :40:23.there are suffering involved for some of these people but now the
:40:24. > :40:26.drug companies are saying we do not want to sell these drugs to states
:40:27. > :40:31.any more because now we know what they're used for. They were sold to
:40:32. > :40:35.be states on a medicinal basis because they were going to be used
:40:36. > :40:39.for therapeutic uses. Now they find out what they're used for they do
:40:40. > :40:42.not want to sell any more. There had been stays of execution on that
:40:43. > :40:48.basis but the Supreme Court in the end ruled that the executions could
:40:49. > :40:51.go ahead. That is what Arkansas had this problem because after the drug
:40:52. > :41:15.runs out they do not know where they're going to get it from.
:41:16. > :41:18.Donors at a conference in Geneva have pledged nearly one point
:41:19. > :41:19.one billion dollars - that's 857million pounds -
:41:20. > :41:22.to Yemen to help relieve what the UN is calling the "world's
:41:23. > :41:26.The United Nations had previously asked for more than two billion
:41:27. > :41:28.dollars as aid groups warn the country is on
:41:29. > :41:32.Two years of war between a Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's
:41:33. > :41:36.government and Houthi rebels have devastated the country.
:41:37. > :41:39.And Sir Elton John is recovering at home after cancelling a series
:41:40. > :41:42.of shows in America due to what's been described as a potentially
:41:43. > :41:46.Sir Elton - who's 70 - fell ill while on tour
:41:47. > :41:50.The President calls his Mar E Lago resort in Florida his
:41:51. > :41:53.But of course he shares it with his paying guests.
:41:54. > :41:56.It is part of the Trump business empire, the fees have gone up
:41:57. > :41:59.since he became President, and every time he stays there,
:42:00. > :42:00.his brand gets some more valuable publicity.
:42:01. > :42:03.And what if the federal government was also marketing
:42:04. > :42:08.The US state department was forced to react quickly this week
:42:09. > :42:10.to criticism of a blog on its website that was promoting
:42:11. > :42:13.What's more, several American embassies republished it.
:42:14. > :42:17.We did try to take a look at that blog on the US embassy's UK page,
:42:18. > :42:22.Yes - the State Department has taken it down, saying that it regrets
:42:23. > :42:38.The White House said they had no idea that this was going up.
:42:39. > :42:43.Let's do some marketing of our own and tell viewers that we're going to
:42:44. > :42:55.be carrying on after 100 days. We have a special programme on Friday,
:42:56. > :42:59.days on Friday. -- 99 days. We will be here on Monday as well and we
:43:00. > :43:01.hope you will be with us tomorrow as well. We will be back at the same
:43:02. > :43:04.time.