:00:10. > :00:33.The entire US senators on its way to the White House for a rare briefing
:00:34. > :00:38.on Korea. On the Korean peninsula there has been competing of force
:00:39. > :00:45.with each side demonstrating their military hardware. All options are
:00:46. > :00:47.on the table. We want to bring Kim Jong Un to his senses, not to his
:00:48. > :00:56.knees. NAFTA is one of the largest trade
:00:57. > :00:59.agreements in the world that has been in place for more
:01:00. > :01:01.than two decades. So why is the Trump
:01:02. > :01:03.administration eager to get out? No President since Ronald Reagan has
:01:04. > :01:05.succeeded in reforming America's tax code -
:01:06. > :01:07.it's that tricky. But now Donald Trump says he can
:01:08. > :01:10.break that loosing streak. The campaign posters
:01:11. > :01:14.are printed with the French For Emmanuel Macron
:01:15. > :01:19.it was less than a warm welcome in his hometown -
:01:20. > :01:21.where Marine Le Pen the White House says
:01:22. > :01:30.funding for that Mexican We go to the border where not
:01:31. > :01:34.all residents are convinced. You build a 20 foot wall,
:01:35. > :01:37.someone is just going to build a 21 Hello, I am Katty Kay in New York,
:01:38. > :01:59.Christian Fraser is in London. The US Senate is about to decamp to
:02:00. > :02:05.the White House as a top Admiral wants lawmakers a North Korean
:02:06. > :02:10.attack on the US is possible. Mr Trump has summoned his senators were
:02:11. > :02:13.briefing, quite a show. The television image of senators going
:02:14. > :02:16.into the White House make the president look assertive in the
:02:17. > :02:22.run-up to 100 days but then he has already shown his resolve coming to
:02:23. > :02:28.Korea. The Carl Vincent Battle group is now positioned. And the US
:02:29. > :02:31.Michelin is always there. The US military last night began to deploy
:02:32. > :02:35.part of an anti-missile defence system. Sparky overnight in the
:02:36. > :02:39.South. Meanwhile these are big strawberry pictures yesterday from
:02:40. > :02:43.North Korea. Hundreds of tanks lined up on the beach for a massive
:02:44. > :02:48.exercise in life fire. It is apparently only a tiny portion of
:02:49. > :02:52.the total artillery arsenal assuming these photographs are showing the
:02:53. > :03:04.real thing, they are a reminder that North Korea has a formidable
:03:05. > :03:10.fighting force. All options are on the table. We want to bring Kim Jong
:03:11. > :03:15.Un not to his knees but to the table. Russia and China do not seem
:03:16. > :03:16.to respect international agreements they have signed up to.
:03:17. > :03:20.Well among those US Senators on his way to the White House is
:03:21. > :03:24.He joined me from Capitol Hill just before he left.
:03:25. > :03:33.What do you expect from this rather unusual visit that the senators are
:03:34. > :03:38.making, you included, to the White House for this briefing. Well I
:03:39. > :03:42.certainly hope to hear an overview of the strategic plan and an
:03:43. > :03:47.understanding of the gravity of the situation. An understanding that we
:03:48. > :03:51.are in a situation that if not carefully monitored and planned and
:03:52. > :03:57.executed could be spiralling out of control. So this conversation needs
:03:58. > :04:03.to include dialogue with China and our allies and with the United
:04:04. > :04:07.Nations. The White House has been ratcheting up the language at least
:04:08. > :04:10.against North Korea in the last couple of weeks. Do you think there
:04:11. > :04:16.is a risk that America might paint itself into a corner, might actually
:04:17. > :04:20.exacerbate this crisis by the tone that is coming out of the White
:04:21. > :04:25.House? Certainly the concern is that if North Korea was to launch a
:04:26. > :04:29.ballistic missile and the US should respond with an attack on the
:04:30. > :04:31.northern Korean homeland, North Korea might respond with an attack
:04:32. > :04:38.console. This is the situation where console. This is the situation where
:04:39. > :04:43.the situation spirals out of control and into war very quickly. So as you
:04:44. > :04:49.ramp up a threat and certainly the movement of ships into the area, the
:04:50. > :04:52.destroyers better than now connecting activities with both
:04:53. > :04:57.Japan and South Korea, the movement of US nuclear submarines into the
:04:58. > :05:03.area that has more than 150 cruise missiles aboard, all to send a
:05:04. > :05:08.message but what is the aim in terms of an outcome to the situation. And
:05:09. > :05:12.how do we get there without war in. This is going to be the important
:05:13. > :05:17.component. Will it be useful at this stage for the US to tone down some
:05:18. > :05:21.of the rhetoric and tried to calm the situation? I do think I will
:05:22. > :05:25.know a lot more about this after this meeting of the White House. And
:05:26. > :05:31.here more details about our conversation with our allies, South
:05:32. > :05:35.Korea and Japan and China. We have been focusing a lot on the nuclear
:05:36. > :05:41.threat from North Korea but you saw those extraordinary pictures coming
:05:42. > :05:45.out of the life fire exercise of conventional weapons. Another
:05:46. > :05:48.indication of how quickly even just on a conventional military level,
:05:49. > :05:56.mistakes can be made and the threat that this poses to soldier song that
:05:57. > :06:00.-- just south of the border. North Korea has artillery that could
:06:01. > :06:06.destroy the city of cell and they're prepared to act on short notice. So
:06:07. > :06:09.your point is right. Some of your Democratic colleagues have expressed
:06:10. > :06:15.concern about this trip to the White House, they think somehow it is an
:06:16. > :06:20.act almost of political theatre. The normal thing would have been for you
:06:21. > :06:25.to have been briefed in the secure facilities in the Senate. There's no
:06:26. > :06:29.question this is political theatre. You have 100 senators heading to the
:06:30. > :06:33.White House instead of having three or four brief is coming to the
:06:34. > :06:41.Senate. The Senate where we have appropriate rooms for top-secret
:06:42. > :06:45.conversations. The White House when is no such room. So this is about
:06:46. > :06:51.theatre, I've little doubt that the president show up for a few moments,
:06:52. > :06:54.he will have cameras with him, I think there is a tremendous amount
:06:55. > :07:02.of political theatre here. But you are going anyway? Yes, the situation
:07:03. > :07:07.in North Korea is one we all have to take extremely seriously. And I do
:07:08. > :07:14.want to have the chance to have my colleagues and myself question the
:07:15. > :07:17.administration over their objectives, their plans, how they
:07:18. > :07:22.intend to respond to certain things if they occur. What is the outcome
:07:23. > :07:23.if they are looking to achieve. We have to leave it there, thank you
:07:24. > :07:31.very much. The president said the other day I'm
:07:32. > :07:34.not sure Kim Jong Un is as strong proceedings he is. No one in
:07:35. > :07:38.Congress is downplaying the threat of North Korea but I get the sense
:07:39. > :07:42.from that interview that they are concerned that the president is
:07:43. > :07:47.painting himself into a corner. I think there are two forming groups
:07:48. > :07:52.of opinion about what to do right now about North Korea. As the crisis
:07:53. > :07:56.seems to get more urgent. There are those who believe the president is
:07:57. > :08:00.doing the right thing by putting pressure publicly and visibly with
:08:01. > :08:03.the senators going down, ratcheting up the language against North Korea.
:08:04. > :08:06.They think that is useful and sending a message that this is not
:08:07. > :08:11.an administration to be messed with. And those on the other side who
:08:12. > :08:15.think we should be toning down the rhetoric at the moment because the
:08:16. > :08:25.risk of some kind of mistake, of provoking North Korea into doing
:08:26. > :08:28.something I do with conventional or nuclear weapons get increased by the
:08:29. > :08:30.rhetoric is hot as it is at the moment. So those are the
:08:31. > :08:33.counterpoints if you like in national security communities at the
:08:34. > :08:38.moment. As everyone recognises that the threat is very real from North
:08:39. > :08:43.Korea. Let's look at something happening just as we were coming on
:08:44. > :08:48.air. The financial markets are responding to reports that the White
:08:49. > :08:52.House has drafted in order to pull the US out of the North American
:08:53. > :08:55.Free Trade Agreement. Of course Mr Trump railed against this agreement
:08:56. > :09:01.during his campaign and called it a job killer. But pulling America out
:09:02. > :09:04.of Nafta would come as still as something of a surprise. It is one
:09:05. > :09:09.of the largest trade agreements in the world, signed originally in 1994
:09:10. > :09:12.by President Clinton. The White House has confirmed that the head of
:09:13. > :09:17.the National trade Council has drafted an executive order with
:09:18. > :09:23.Steve Bannon and it is now being reviewed. The Canadian dollar and
:09:24. > :09:27.Mexican peso have fallen on these news reports. The Canadian and
:09:28. > :09:33.Mexican share prices are also down. We were joined by the chief economic
:09:34. > :09:40.adviser for Alliance. What you make of these reports estimate it is part
:09:41. > :09:45.of the negotiation approach that the Trump administration is taking. I
:09:46. > :09:53.think the probability of the US pulling out of Nafta is very low.
:09:54. > :09:58.However, they will use this to get attention from Mexico and Canada to
:09:59. > :10:06.try to reform certain elements of Nafta. Are you saying that this is
:10:07. > :10:10.just a negotiating tactic? Yes, I think this is part of the approach
:10:11. > :10:15.they have taken with several other areas. And so far it has worked. So
:10:16. > :10:17.the administration is continuing the administration is continuing
:10:18. > :10:25.with what has worked for them so far. Just to be clear, if the
:10:26. > :10:27.American -- the Americans did pull out of Nafta bought with the
:10:28. > :10:35.economic impact be not just on Canada and Mexico, but globally as
:10:36. > :10:40.well. For the three members of Nafta, Canada, the US and Mexico, it
:10:41. > :10:47.would mean the return of that phrase we thought had been put away for a
:10:48. > :10:52.long time, stagnant inflation. They would suffer a hit on growth and
:10:53. > :10:57.high inflation. So both consumers and producers would be worse off.
:10:58. > :11:03.For the rest of the world it would add to the destabilisation of
:11:04. > :11:08.existing structure. You see Brexit as an element of that. So this would
:11:09. > :11:09.be destabilising both for the three economies within Nafta and the
:11:10. > :11:20.global economy as well. We are finding with Brexit it is not
:11:21. > :11:26.easy to unpick a deal with the single market. Is at the same with
:11:27. > :11:29.Nafta, because car parts for example go back and forth across the border
:11:30. > :11:33.many times. You cannot replace something with nothing so you need a
:11:34. > :11:40.replacement because supply chains have gone right across borders. This
:11:41. > :11:45.is a very complicated equation. The reason why Brexit has been a slow
:11:46. > :11:50.Brexit is because people realised early on that you have to have good
:11:51. > :11:55.alternatives. And I think for any trade arrangement that has been in
:11:56. > :12:00.existence for a long time, whether Brexiteer Nafta, you must have an
:12:01. > :12:04.alternative. We will carry on watching the markets and this story.
:12:05. > :12:09.Stay with us for another big announcement on plans for tax reform
:12:10. > :12:14.by Donald Trump of the American taxes are so complicated that
:12:15. > :12:18.American taxpayers spend 7 billion hours every year filling in their
:12:19. > :12:21.tax returns. So the promise of simplifying the system has enormous
:12:22. > :12:25.appeal. But it has proved almost impossible to do. Here is what
:12:26. > :12:31.Donald Trump would like to do. He plans to cut corporate tax rates
:12:32. > :12:40.from 35 to 15%, a drop of 20%. There would be taxed breaks for childcare
:12:41. > :12:44.expenses. And also a cut in tax rates for individuals. The exact
:12:45. > :12:52.figure still to be worked through. But it is not clear how the White
:12:53. > :12:55.House plans to pay for these cuts. Here was Gary Cohn just a short time
:12:56. > :12:57.ago. The president is going to seize this
:12:58. > :13:00.opportunity by leading the most significant tax reform legislation
:13:01. > :13:02.since 1986 and one of the biggest We have been working
:13:03. > :13:08.on this very long time. We have had great meetings, we had
:13:09. > :13:11.a great meeting last night with the leadership of the
:13:12. > :13:14.house in the Senate, we have agreed on many of
:13:15. > :13:16.the important principles We look forward to working together
:13:17. > :13:20.with the house and the Senate very closely
:13:21. > :13:31.in the weeks ahead. One of the reasons of course that
:13:32. > :13:35.financial markets have been so giddy ever since Donald Trump was elected
:13:36. > :13:41.is exactly this promise of tax reform and particularly a cut in the
:13:42. > :13:45.corporate tax rate down to 15%. Do you think it is important now that
:13:46. > :13:50.the White House lays out how it is going to pay for that proposed tax
:13:51. > :13:55.cut? It is very important and there are two elements to the tax plan.
:13:56. > :14:01.One most people would agree on, tax reform. Simplifying the tax system,
:14:02. > :14:06.making it easier, making it transparent and making it less
:14:07. > :14:10.captive by special interests. The majority of people would agree on
:14:11. > :14:16.this. The other element is aggressive tax cuts. Which is the
:14:17. > :14:22.other element of the Trump administration, hear people need
:14:23. > :14:28.details because it is very simple, it is a race between economic growth
:14:29. > :14:33.and debt. If economic growth when fine but if debt wins then the
:14:34. > :14:37.economy will be worse off. So what people are going to be looking at
:14:38. > :14:41.closely when the details come out, how much growth will this promote
:14:42. > :14:46.and will it be enough to offset what is likely to be a higher deficit. It
:14:47. > :14:51.is a fascinating topic. Just today in the UK the opposition Labour
:14:52. > :14:56.Party said we want to pay for doctors and nurses by putting up
:14:57. > :14:59.corporate tax rates so big business pays for it. And in America they
:15:00. > :15:04.have completely the opposite attitude. I just wonder, is there
:15:05. > :15:10.any evidence at all that cutting corporate tax rates so low actually
:15:11. > :15:15.does what is is meant to do. The evidence is it is not sufficient so
:15:16. > :15:19.if you just do that and nothing else, profits will go up but the
:15:20. > :15:25.rest of the economy will not feel it. That is the concern. That you
:15:26. > :15:28.may end up simply by altering the distribution among corporations and
:15:29. > :15:33.the rest of the economy. So it is not sufficient. To make it
:15:34. > :15:37.sufficient you have to move on a number of other areas and that is
:15:38. > :15:42.why it is important to put this tax plan in the context of what else is
:15:43. > :15:51.going to happen to enhance productivity of labour, on education
:15:52. > :15:55.reform, on infrastructure building. Thank you very much. That is the
:15:56. > :16:01.issue, are the tax cuts pro-corporate profits or
:16:02. > :16:03.pro-economic growth. And that I think is where the debate is at the
:16:04. > :16:16.moment. Russia now and the administration
:16:17. > :16:18.will want to keep the reform this weekend -
:16:19. > :16:22.what they will not want to talk Because it has now emerged
:16:23. > :16:28.Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor who stood down
:16:29. > :16:30.in February, did not disclose foreign payments he had received
:16:31. > :16:32.from Russia and Turkey. General Flynn would have
:16:33. > :16:34.needed special permission for his appearance at a gala in 2015
:16:35. > :16:37.sponsored by Russia Today, For his work lobbying on behalf
:16:38. > :16:40.of the Turkish government, he was paid more than half
:16:41. > :16:43.a million dollars. Here was the reaction
:16:44. > :16:45.from the Republican Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Jason
:16:46. > :16:46.Chaffetz. That money was received by General
:16:47. > :16:49.Flynn, we believe that it was. As a former military
:16:50. > :16:54.officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia,
:16:55. > :16:56.Turkey, or anybody else and it appears as if he did
:16:57. > :17:04.take that money. It was inappropriate
:17:05. > :17:06.and there are repercussions for the But this was the response
:17:07. > :17:10.from the White House. To ask for every call and contact
:17:11. > :17:14.that a national security adviser Right now, to ask the White House
:17:15. > :17:21.to produce documents that were not in the possession of
:17:22. > :17:25.the White House is ridiculous. Everything that he did was prior
:17:26. > :17:29.to coming to this White House. There is nothing that is being asked
:17:30. > :17:32.for in respect to his That would be a matter for them
:17:33. > :17:36.to look into, not for us. Again, that would need
:17:37. > :17:45.to go to General Flynn. I am puzzled. The White House seems
:17:46. > :17:49.to be saying we did not know what was going on with general Flynn
:17:50. > :17:52.before he came to the White House war before he came to the campaign.
:17:53. > :17:57.We were running these pictures of general Flynn at this dinner with
:17:58. > :18:01.President Putin, this particular picture, before the inauguration.
:18:02. > :18:06.They must have known that he was being paid for an event like this
:18:07. > :18:11.put up or at least could have been. There are two big issues, one is the
:18:12. > :18:14.White House vetting process under the Trump administration. The
:18:15. > :18:20.questions about whether Michael Flynn was properly vetted or what
:18:21. > :18:23.Donald Trump just a keen to have him in office that they took his word
:18:24. > :18:27.when he killed in those forms and they did not check what he had
:18:28. > :18:30.actually building. The second issue I think, surrounding why the White
:18:31. > :18:35.House is not giving up these documents. There is no evidence at
:18:36. > :18:39.all yet that the Trump campaign had links with Russia to try to
:18:40. > :18:42.influence the American election but every time the White House says
:18:43. > :18:48.we're not going to give up these documents people get suspicious.
:18:49. > :18:50.Smoke and fire and all that. So the White House is not doing yourself
:18:51. > :18:55.any favours by not being transparent on this issue. Flynn had to go and
:18:56. > :18:59.why not be clear about what actually happened.
:19:00. > :19:02.President Trump may have given up the push to fund his border wall
:19:03. > :19:05.in the spending bill that has to pass this week but that
:19:06. > :19:07.doesn't mean he's giving up on the key campaign pledge -
:19:08. > :19:10.shrugging off questions about how it will be paid for.
:19:11. > :19:12.Landowners in Texas have received letters ordering them
:19:13. > :19:15.to sell their land to the government to make way for the wall -
:19:16. > :19:18.while more than 200 building firms have submitted bids to construct
:19:19. > :19:20.the barrier - said to be over 16-hundred kilometres long.
:19:21. > :19:22.As our North America Correspondent James Cook reports
:19:23. > :19:25.from El Paso in Texas - at least one of the bidders has been
:19:26. > :19:34.On the US-Mexico border a bizarre beauty contest is about to begin.
:19:35. > :19:39.Some 200 companies have submitted bids to build Donald Trump's wall.
:19:40. > :19:43.Soon a handful will be invited to make prototypes.
:19:44. > :19:45.The bids include some eye-catching designs.
:19:46. > :19:48.There is a wall in the medieval style.
:19:49. > :19:52.Another which doubles as a nuclear waste store.
:19:53. > :19:55.This one, made of solar panels, and even a design for a barrier
:19:56. > :20:07.This will be 30 feet high and then six feet below in the footing.
:20:08. > :20:14.Michael Evangelista said he had to search his soul before bidding,
:20:15. > :20:17.as a Latino who wants to build the wall, he has received
:20:18. > :20:29.I know that you're trying to build that wall and I think it's
:20:30. > :20:36.There are plenty of people out there like me that would love
:20:37. > :20:45.So why on earth did he get involved at all?
:20:46. > :20:47.Members of my own family were initially upset about it.
:20:48. > :20:49.But when they understood and I explained to them
:20:50. > :20:52.that the reason why we are entering this conversation is
:20:53. > :20:55.because we do not want this wall to have lethal options including
:20:56. > :20:59.The border wall is a reality and if it is going to be done,
:21:00. > :21:04.A treaty with Mexico prohibits building on the edge
:21:05. > :21:08.Instead the proposed route slices through private property.
:21:09. > :21:11.This is where they want to build a wall.
:21:12. > :21:14.This would be part of the section that they want, 60 feet wide
:21:15. > :21:20.But it would be no man's land because who is going
:21:21. > :21:24.Noel Benavides has received a government letter telling him his
:21:25. > :21:32.We need access to the river, we have water rights,
:21:33. > :21:35.we have several feet of water rights from the river that right
:21:36. > :21:40.now we're not using, but in the future we probably will.
:21:41. > :21:43.A wall, you go back in history, it has never worked.
:21:44. > :21:52.You've got a 20 foot wall, but someone is
:21:53. > :21:54.going to build a 21 foot ladder to go over it.
:21:55. > :21:58.In fact all along the border there is scepticism.
:21:59. > :22:00.Here in Texas opposition to lengthening and strengthening
:22:01. > :22:03.this barrier comes not just from President Trump's
:22:04. > :22:12.But also from quite a few Republicans.
:22:13. > :22:24.Now he is battling his own president on the home front.
:22:25. > :22:27.I think building a wall from sea to shining sea is the most expensive
:22:28. > :22:29.and least effective way to do border security.
:22:30. > :22:31.We should be using technology, we should be using people,
:22:32. > :22:35.we should be increasing intelligence on the bad guys that we are trying
:22:36. > :22:38.to stop and stop them before they get to our border.
:22:39. > :22:41.These are all things that are better use of American taxpayer dollars.
:22:42. > :22:44.The White House continues to claim that the cost of a bigger,
:22:45. > :22:46.better barrier, will be met in the end by Mexico.
:22:47. > :22:50.But President Trump still insists that his wall will be built.
:22:51. > :23:00.James Cook, BBC News, El Paso in Texas.
:23:01. > :23:04.Well it will be built but the question is who is going to pay.
:23:05. > :23:06.The President is sending his best wishes today
:23:07. > :23:11.to the First Lady, Melania Trump - it is her birthday.
:23:12. > :23:15.He is not sending his fond wishes however to the US
:23:16. > :23:19.of San Francisco has just blocked the President's executive
:23:20. > :23:21.order to withhold money from sanctuary cities -
:23:22. > :23:24.those are cities that offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
:23:25. > :23:27.It is the third time judges have blocked one of his orders -
:23:28. > :23:30.and each time the stop has come from the ninth circuit
:23:31. > :23:34.Once again the President took to twitter this
:23:35. > :23:38.First the Ninth Circuit rules against the ban and now it
:23:39. > :23:40.hits again on sanctuary cities-both ridiculous rulings.
:23:41. > :23:52.There is a technical issue because the judge is not part of the ninth
:23:53. > :23:56.circuit. He would appeal to that but we are getting into legal details.
:23:57. > :24:00.There is an issue here and the president had a point that there
:24:01. > :24:03.seems to be more liberal and more conservative courts in the US and
:24:04. > :24:06.that may come as a surprise to people who live in countries where
:24:07. > :24:11.judges are not politically appointed. But here they are by
:24:12. > :24:16.presidents and you end up with what is called for shopping work if you
:24:17. > :24:19.have a political cause you go to a conservative court or a more liberal
:24:20. > :24:25.court and you hope your calls will be heard by one of the judges there.
:24:26. > :24:28.So he thinks there are too many liberal judges in San Francisco and
:24:29. > :24:32.of course Democrats are going to San Francisco. The thing is there has
:24:33. > :24:37.been a lot of anger on the front pages today saying he and he goes
:24:38. > :24:42.again, criticising the judges. Some people would say you know what,
:24:43. > :24:46.judges are big boys and girls, they know the rough-and-tumble of the
:24:47. > :24:52.legal world, they make big decisions, they do have much power.
:24:53. > :24:56.Why should they not be criticised. I do not think it is undermining the
:24:57. > :25:01.credibility of the judges, not saying so-called judges which she
:25:02. > :25:05.had done before. 18 of the 25 judges on the ninth circuit Court were
:25:06. > :25:09.appointed by Democratic presidents for them and they tend to be more
:25:10. > :25:12.Democrat. So he has a point but the thing is Republicans have played
:25:13. > :25:15.this game before because under Barack Obama conservatives went to
:25:16. > :25:21.court syntaxes which tended to be more conservative in order to return
:25:22. > :25:26.some of the executive orders of President Obama. So both sides play
:25:27. > :25:28.this game. He has 147 judges to appoint.
:25:29. > :25:30.You're watching 100 Days from BBC News.
:25:31. > :25:38.Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
:25:39. > :25:44.How do you contain the threat that is North Korea. Senators are going
:25:45. > :25:47.to the White House for a special briefing. And in France Emmanuel
:25:48. > :25:51.Macron was booed by factory workers in his hometown. The reception was
:25:52. > :25:57.much warmer for his rival, we will be finding out why. That is all
:25:58. > :26:18.still to come. Try and sunny day for some for
:26:19. > :26:22.others the shower clouds are still around and some of them pretty
:26:23. > :26:29.menacing. They continued through the night and so far we have the raider
:26:30. > :26:37.charts, development with power -- parts of the South and east. We
:26:38. > :26:41.still have that chilly northerly airflow but Scotland and Northern
:26:42. > :26:44.Ireland not feeling as cold as it did yesterday. The showers get
:26:45. > :26:50.heavier across eastern England into the afternoon and some rumbles of
:26:51. > :26:54.thunder and hail mixed in with that as well. Showers also affecting
:26:55. > :26:57.parts of the East Midlands but further west due showers around
:26:58. > :27:04.through the afternoon, many places will be dry. Temperatures still on
:27:05. > :27:07.the low side for the time of year. Across the North of England. But
:27:08. > :27:12.with the wind slightly larger than yesterday not feeling quite so cold.
:27:13. > :27:19.Into the evening across Northern Ireland and men in Scotland pure
:27:20. > :27:24.showers around. The showers this evening in East Anglia and the
:27:25. > :27:27.south-east quickly fade away. But occasional rain in Scotland and
:27:28. > :27:33.Northern Ireland, keeping temperatures up through the night.
:27:34. > :27:37.The chill is still on though with southern parts of England and Wales
:27:38. > :27:43.and temperatures below freezing in some areas. So cold and frosty start
:27:44. > :27:48.across the South but a bright start here clouding over. A cloudy and
:27:49. > :27:52.damp start for Northern England but slowly brightening up. Only a few
:27:53. > :27:57.showers and increasing amounts of sunshine breaking through into the
:27:58. > :28:01.afternoon. Still feeling a bit chilly further south. Into Friday
:28:02. > :28:06.with slowly start to lose the northerly Akpro. Many places dry
:28:07. > :28:12.after a frosty start. Temperatures slowly on the up back into double
:28:13. > :28:16.figures quite widely. And the trend continues into Saturday with a
:28:17. > :28:19.southerly airflow. Saturday looks like the birthday of the bank
:28:20. > :28:24.holiday weekend at the moment because by Sunday and Monday low it
:28:25. > :28:30.comes into play bringing windier but also milder weather. But also some
:28:31. > :28:31.rain at times. We will keep you updated on night over the next few
:28:32. > :30:10.days. Welcome back to 100 Days with me,
:30:11. > :30:26.Katty Kay, in New York Donald Trump invites the entire US
:30:27. > :30:30.Senate to the White House for a briefing on North Korea.
:30:31. > :30:34.I have little doubt that the President will show up
:30:35. > :30:36.for a few moments, that he will have cameras with him.
:30:37. > :30:39.I think there is a tremendous amount of political theatre here.
:30:40. > :30:41.There are reports that the White House has drafted
:30:42. > :30:44.an order to pull the US out of the North American Free
:30:45. > :30:48.Mr Trump has called the trade agreement with Canada
:30:49. > :31:01.More now on one of our main stories - and in the next hour the US Senate
:31:02. > :31:10.As a top US admiral warns lawmakers that a North Korean attack
:31:11. > :31:13.on the US is quite possible, Mr Trump has summoned all the senators
:31:14. > :31:21.They are all heading down there at. -- down there right now.
:31:22. > :31:25.For more, let's talk to Congressman Bradley Byrne,
:31:26. > :31:32.Everybody agrees that the crisis is real and seems to be getting more
:31:33. > :31:39.urgent. What does the Trump administration hoped to do about it?
:31:40. > :31:43.You are seeing a multilayered response, first working with the
:31:44. > :31:48.Chinese, who have a lot of influence with North Korea. We are seeing some
:31:49. > :31:51.effects, the Chinese doing some things to bring the North Koreans
:31:52. > :31:59.back in a bit. You are seeing the Trump administration pushing primary
:32:00. > :32:05.and secondary economic sanctions. That will also have a good effect.
:32:06. > :32:09.The third layer is the military power we are showing, letting them
:32:10. > :32:13.know we are serious and we have assets to bring to bear in that part
:32:14. > :32:17.of the world if necessary. The third layer is the last option we want to
:32:18. > :32:23.use but we have to show them that we have it and have the will to use it
:32:24. > :32:28.if necessary. We can see the Senators getting in buses and going
:32:29. > :32:32.to the White House. That is being televised, it is part of the display
:32:33. > :32:39.of America and the White House taking this seriously. Kym Nelson
:32:40. > :32:55.has no incentive to give up his nuclear arsenal. -- Kim Il-Sung. If
:32:56. > :32:58.they give it up that is the end of them as a nuclear state. You will
:32:59. > :33:05.never get them to voluntarily riddling quiz them. I don't
:33:06. > :33:10.anticipate any thing permanent but at least temporarily we can get them
:33:11. > :33:17.to stand down. The Chinese have the biggest stick here. President Trump
:33:18. > :33:22.I think is right to work with the Chinese to get him to back off at
:33:23. > :33:27.least for a period of time. You are right, he sees this as a threat to
:33:28. > :33:32.his personal existence, because the regime in his mind is at stake. He
:33:33. > :33:37.believes he will be at stake as long as he is considered to be a nuclear
:33:38. > :33:41.power. We can't accept North Korea as a nuclear power because of the
:33:42. > :33:47.danger not just the people in that part of the world but to people in
:33:48. > :33:55.the US and other parts of the world. Admiral Harry Harris, who heads the
:33:56. > :33:59.Pacific Council, said the US is weighing whether it needs to put new
:34:00. > :34:07.missile interceptors on Hawaii on which is in range of Kim Jong-un's
:34:08. > :34:13.missiles. Is that debate the US has to have, protection on US soil,
:34:14. > :34:18.things like missile protection? I was there for his testimony today
:34:19. > :34:23.and I think he was painting a very realistic picture of the us. The
:34:24. > :34:28.ultimate decisions for that are up to the ticket of branch but it is
:34:29. > :34:32.our obligation to authorise and appropriate the money to pay for it
:34:33. > :34:37.so we will be part of that decision. I think he is wise to tell us the
:34:38. > :34:41.things he told us. We may have to do a number of things we are not
:34:42. > :34:50.accustomed to doing to make sure we are protecting the US, Hawaii and
:34:51. > :34:58.the West Coast. I was of course confusing my Kims, the younger one
:34:59. > :35:02.with his grandfather. That is the ultimate issue, the North does not
:35:03. > :35:06.want to give up its nuclear weapons and it believes that if it does so
:35:07. > :35:12.that will be the end of the state. How can any country negotiate to get
:35:13. > :35:16.it to do so? Even the Chinese, it seems to me, don't have that power,
:35:17. > :35:25.if they had that interest. That is the problem, how you get
:35:26. > :35:29.leverage. The New York Times said they have enough material to make
:35:30. > :35:33.nuclear bombs every six or seven weeks, they would have an arsenal as
:35:34. > :35:41.big as Pakistan in a short period of time. We have seen the pictures of
:35:42. > :35:47.the beach, that is 2% of what Kim has in terms of conventional
:35:48. > :35:50.weapons. North Korea is not easily neutralised and this is what these
:35:51. > :35:55.senators and congressmen are saying, that it has to be, you would think,
:35:56. > :36:01.a diplomatic solution somehow, but how do you get the leverage?
:36:02. > :36:06.You have to imagine that Kim Jong-un is sitting in Pyongyang, watching
:36:07. > :36:10.what happened to Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, who gave up his nuclear
:36:11. > :36:15.weapons and found himself out of office and out of life, thinking, it
:36:16. > :36:20.didn't work then, I am not going to go down that same route.
:36:21. > :36:22.They are two very different prospect. Libya is an awfully lot
:36:23. > :36:26.different to North Korea. The French presidential frontrunner,
:36:27. > :36:30.Emmanuel Macron, was in his home town in northern France today
:36:31. > :36:33.but this probably wasn't Factory workers,
:36:34. > :36:45.whose jobs are under threat, booed Mr Macron as he arrived
:36:46. > :36:48.to talk to them, on somewhat No such worries for his rival,
:36:49. > :36:52.the far right's Marine Le Pen. This was a surprise visit
:36:53. > :36:55.to the same factory, arranged at the last minute,
:36:56. > :36:57.perhaps to hijack Mr Ms Le Pen's welcome
:36:58. > :37:05.was rather different. We were there last week, if you were
:37:06. > :37:14.watching. It is part of the French "rust
:37:15. > :37:16.belt", where hundreds Ms Le Pen's anti-globalisation
:37:17. > :37:24.message is going down We're joined by Agnes Poirier
:37:25. > :37:34.of the French weekly Do you think it is possible for
:37:35. > :37:40.Marine Le Pen, by turning up at factories like this, saying she is
:37:41. > :37:44.the candidate of the factory worker, not the corporation, to try to eat
:37:45. > :37:56.into Macron's support? She has nothing to lose. What we have seen
:37:57. > :38:01.since Sunday evening and Macron arriving, 32 points ahead of Marine
:38:02. > :38:08.Le Pen, he finds it difficult to think he is not already president,
:38:09. > :38:14.and that is quite dangerous. He should work. He went to celebrate
:38:15. > :38:22.his victory on the first round at a Paris brasserie with his supporters
:38:23. > :38:35.and people didn't like it so much. Jacques Chirac went through to the
:38:36. > :38:40.second round and he didn't rejoice, and the element of gravity as is
:38:41. > :38:47.probably still something that the Macron team is not grasping.
:38:48. > :38:50.Francois Hollande, the current president, today reminded Macron
:38:51. > :38:56.that it is not a done deal, that he should keep working. It is really
:38:57. > :39:00.interesting because we were talking about Hillary Clinton last week and
:39:01. > :39:06.this new book called Shattered, and the author said that her campaign
:39:07. > :39:11.had no sense of purpose, nobody had figured out how to make the campaign
:39:12. > :39:19.about something more than Hillary. I get the sense that that is going on
:39:20. > :39:23.with Mr Macron. Yes, but to be fair he is a formidable political
:39:24. > :39:30.phenomenon, if you consider that his movement didn't exist 30 months ago.
:39:31. > :39:39.The fact that he is independent and he is a centrist and is very new and
:39:40. > :39:43.very young, he is also responsible for the fact that the two mainstream
:39:44. > :39:57.political parties have disappeared for the second round. Everybody
:39:58. > :40:01.rallies around him. It is not really that Marine Le Pen loses in two
:40:02. > :40:08.weeks' time, that he should win rather than leaving it to
:40:09. > :40:14.circumstances. A lot of people will vote for him by default. He is the
:40:15. > :40:19.anti-Le Pen candidate. This is a poster that Marine Le Pen has put
:40:20. > :40:25.out. She has stood down as the political leader, if you will, of
:40:26. > :40:30.the Front National. You can't see on that poster that she is the leader
:40:31. > :40:36.of the Front National, there is a blue rose, it is very soft, she
:40:37. > :40:39.looks like the mother of the nation, choose France, she says. She is
:40:40. > :40:45.trying to stand outside the party system and say, elect me as a woman,
:40:46. > :40:53.elect me as president. She is very astute, she has proved to be a
:40:54. > :40:57.shrewd politician since being voted to the helm of her party, and she
:40:58. > :41:03.hasn't put a foot wrong sense really. You see what she is trying
:41:04. > :41:08.to do, she is trying to look already very presidential, already above
:41:09. > :41:13.parties. She stepped down and she presents herself as independent,
:41:14. > :41:20.just like Macron. She is bouncing about because she didn't do a very
:41:21. > :41:24.good campaign, a few months ago she was credited at 28%. It was a
:41:25. > :41:31.disappointment for her and her party that she managed to get 21%, which
:41:32. > :41:34.of course is enormous. Thank you very much for that. It will be
:41:35. > :41:39.interesting when they come head-to-head in the debate next
:41:40. > :41:43.Wednesday. There were clashes today between the
:41:44. > :41:47.Prime Minister Theresa May and the Leader of the Opposition Jeremy
:41:48. > :41:51.Corbyn in the final PMQ ahead of the general election in June. Mr Corbyn
:41:52. > :41:54.said the Conservative Party only represented the view of the minority
:41:55. > :41:59.but Mrs May said voting for her would mean better Brexit
:42:00. > :42:09.negotiations for Britain. The election is a choice, on the 8th
:42:10. > :42:13.of June, between a Conservative government for the few and a Labour
:42:14. > :42:20.government that will stand up for all of our people. The choice is
:42:21. > :42:26.clear. Every vote for him is a vote for a chaotic Brexit. Every vote for
:42:27. > :42:32.me is a vote to strengthen our hand in negotiating the best deal for
:42:33. > :42:35.Britain. The British Prime Minister is
:42:36. > :42:48.holding talks with the European president Jean-Claude Junker and the
:42:49. > :42:55.European negotiator. There is a summit on Friday and we will cover
:42:56. > :42:57.that because we have an extra programme on 100 days which
:42:58. > :42:58.coincides with their first meeting on