:00:00. > :00:00.It could be even cooler for some on the North Sea coast with more cloud
:00:00. > :00:07.around and still the breeze. The best of any sunshine across western
:00:08. > :00:14.areas. And for nearly all of us it will be dry.
:00:15. > :00:20.Welcome to 100 days, North Korea says that it is pushing the Korean
:00:21. > :00:24.peninsula to the brink of nuclear war. Two US bombers have been taking
:00:25. > :00:31.part in military exercises alongside key allies in the region. In South
:00:32. > :00:34.Korea, an American anti-missile defence system is now fully
:00:35. > :00:39.operational, much to the displeasure of Beijing. The German Chancellor
:00:40. > :00:42.makes a rare visit to Russia for a meeting with President Hollande and
:00:43. > :00:46.put in, on Syria and Ukraine, there is plenty that divides them. Prime
:00:47. > :00:52.Minister Theresa May calls reports of her meeting with Jean-Claude
:00:53. > :00:56.Juncker " Brussels gossip" and says that she will stand her ground in
:00:57. > :01:01."Brexit" negotiations. I was described by one of my colleagues as
:01:02. > :01:04.a bloody difficult woman...! I said at the time, the next person to find
:01:05. > :01:08.that out will be Jean-Claude Juncker. The fight over sanctuary
:01:09. > :01:13.cities has stretched to Salem Massachusetts, town known for its
:01:14. > :01:17.witch trials at the end of the 17th century now navigating 21st-century
:01:18. > :01:24.immigration policies under the Trump administration. Why is Donald Trump
:01:25. > :01:27.spending so much time talking about America's seventh president, Andrew
:01:28. > :01:28.Jackson, and the American Civil War? Is history being revived or
:01:29. > :01:46.rewritten? North Korea has accused the United
:01:47. > :01:51.States of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear
:01:52. > :01:54.war, today, two US bombers flew a training exercise alongside the
:01:55. > :02:00.South Korean and Japanese air forces. The North's official news
:02:01. > :02:04.agency said it was a rehearsal for a pre-emptive nuclear strike. The
:02:05. > :02:11.Pentagon has confirmed its missile defence shield, known as Thad, is
:02:12. > :02:15.now fully operational, which will antagonise China, as well as
:02:16. > :02:18.Pyongyang. Maybe there is a twin strategy, over the weekend,
:02:19. > :02:22.President Trump called Kim Jong-un a smart cookie, even said that he
:02:23. > :02:28.would meet with him if the conditions were right. Joining us to
:02:29. > :02:33.discuss the rising tensions, the former US Defence Secretary under
:02:34. > :02:38.the Clinton administration, and now BBC world affairs analyst. Great to
:02:39. > :02:43.see you. When Donald Trump says he would be honoured to meet Kim
:02:44. > :02:53.Jong-un, that was a pretty odd use of the word...! If you -- had to --
:02:54. > :02:57.it is not a word that you use with Kim Jong-un, to say that you are
:02:58. > :03:01.willing to meet with president Kim Jong-un, OK, you can say that, under
:03:02. > :03:06.certain conditions, but take that word out of it. He is not entitled
:03:07. > :03:10.to be referred to as an honourable individual. If there was one word
:03:11. > :03:14.Donald Trump would take back, it would be that. In terms of strategy,
:03:15. > :03:22.can we reconcile on one side the demand for tighter sanctions,
:03:23. > :03:25.further isolate a shin, -- further isolation, and then on the other
:03:26. > :03:29.side, calling him a smart cookie, saying he would be honoured to meet
:03:30. > :03:32.him. That is the way in which Donald Trump keeps people off-balance, he
:03:33. > :03:37.is showing a steel fist, on the other he is saying, I would be happy
:03:38. > :03:40.to meet with you, not honoured but happy to meet with you, to discuss
:03:41. > :03:44.how we move forward, we had that approach made during the Clinton
:03:45. > :03:49.years, president Bill Clinton considering whether he should meet
:03:50. > :03:52.with the dictator's father. And we decide at the last moment, the
:03:53. > :03:56.president decided at the last moment that the North Koreans were not
:03:57. > :04:02.ready to make a concession upfront, but only wanted to talk without
:04:03. > :04:06.having any attendants, and so it was called off. One thing to make a
:04:07. > :04:10.decision like that when talking about the North Koreans, one of the
:04:11. > :04:18.most oppressive scenes in the world, but the president has made a
:04:19. > :04:23.strategy of talking favourably about strongmen, but in Egypt's president,
:04:24. > :04:27.President Erdogan of Turkey, Kim Jong-un, and the Filipino president,
:04:28. > :04:28.all of those people, you can work with them but you should not be
:04:29. > :04:38.bracing them. You can work with them, but you have
:04:39. > :04:45.specific conditions, having a meeting is important, what we have
:04:46. > :04:50.to be concerned about, we do not see -- we must be sure not to see a
:04:51. > :04:56.demolition of the high office that the president holds, when you say
:04:57. > :04:57.that you are willing to meet under virtually any conditions with
:04:58. > :05:03.another world leader who enjoys a less than stellar reputation, that
:05:04. > :05:07.diminishes the office. Meeting under the right conditions, we must spell
:05:08. > :05:10.out what the right conditions are, otherwise you are just meeting with
:05:11. > :05:15.anybody on that basis, doesn't matter what the role in the world
:05:16. > :05:20.is, what danger they may pose, he will meet and talk...? That is to be
:05:21. > :05:26.contained. He said the meeting with Chinese president was Mendis,
:05:27. > :05:30.getting on like a house on fire. A lot of people whispering, for all
:05:31. > :05:32.the great relationship they have created, the Chinese are now
:05:33. > :05:37.starting to talk, you have just come back from China, the Chinese saying,
:05:38. > :05:41.you know what, yes, we will uphold all the UN resolutions, we will
:05:42. > :05:45.impose the UN resolutions on North Korea, there is no sign of the
:05:46. > :05:50.unilateral sanctions which Washington is pushing for. No, there
:05:51. > :05:54.has not been, that is one of the reasons President Trump is starting
:05:55. > :05:58.to ratchet up the military pressure again. That has to be very carefully
:05:59. > :06:04.calibrated. There was also discussion this past week that we
:06:05. > :06:09.were pondering the possibility of a pre-emptive attack. That kind of
:06:10. > :06:14.talk, wherever it emanates from, anywhere near the White House, can
:06:15. > :06:18.in fact have a very catastrophic consequence, namely, Kim Jong-un may
:06:19. > :06:24.see this as preliminary and take pre-emptive action himself. The
:06:25. > :06:28.president has to learn as he is going along. His words really do
:06:29. > :06:34.count, even though he may not attach significant meaning to them, other
:06:35. > :06:39.countries and leaders do. Getting the whole of the President's --
:06:40. > :06:41.getting a hold of the President's messaging and making it consistent
:06:42. > :06:45.throughout the administration is important. Focusing on other parts
:06:46. > :06:50.of the messaging, in the last hour, he has been holding a phone call
:06:51. > :06:53.with president Vladimir Putin, these men have not yet met, they have not
:06:54. > :06:58.spoken since the United States bombed the air in Syria. There were
:06:59. > :07:01.Russian advisers on the ground, when that bombing took place.
:07:02. > :07:06.Earlier in the day, Vladimir Putin met German Chancellor Angela Merkel
:07:07. > :07:08.at the summariser dens in such cheap. They discussed the war in
:07:09. > :07:17.Syria. As well as the ongoing conflict in
:07:18. > :07:21.eastern Ukraine, ensuring a ceasefire was of key importance,
:07:22. > :07:25.Angela Merkel said. TRANSLATION: As the German Chancellor, I made clear
:07:26. > :07:31.that we want to want to do everything to supports a ceasefire,
:07:32. > :07:38.and help people who are in acute need. The concept of a security zone
:07:39. > :07:45.is one that one could work on more, and I believe we can talk about
:07:46. > :07:51.other challenges as well. Angela Merkel, for his part, but if Putin
:07:52. > :07:56.called for an impartial investigation into last month's
:07:57. > :07:58.poison gas attack in Syria. When it comes to allegations of Russian
:07:59. > :08:05.interference in the US election, this was his response. TRANSLATION:
:08:06. > :08:11.We never intrude into the political processes of any other countries.
:08:12. > :08:16.And we would like nobody to intrude or interfere into our own internal
:08:17. > :08:22.political lives. Unfortunately, we see the opposite. We see the
:08:23. > :08:28.opposite over decades, we have seen attempts to influence political work
:08:29. > :08:34.in Russia. Through NGOs and directly. Getting your thoughts,
:08:35. > :08:38.Hillary Clinton has been talking through the last few minutes,
:08:39. > :08:43.Russian interference, interesting, some of the comments he has made,
:08:44. > :08:48.blames Latimer Putin, also blames James Comey of the FBI, director of
:08:49. > :08:56.the FBI. Is she right -- Vladimir Putin. Latimer Putin issued fake
:08:57. > :09:01.news, that the Russians had made no attempt to try to influence the
:09:02. > :09:04.elections of the United States, according to all intelligence
:09:05. > :09:08.agencies, they were clearly responsible for aiding and abetting
:09:09. > :09:14.Wikileaks for leaking damaging information, certainly at the time,
:09:15. > :09:19.damaging information about John Podesta and Hillary Clinton. The
:09:20. > :09:23.FBI, it is unfortunate, the FBI, whether intentionally or not, ended
:09:24. > :09:25.up putting a finger on the scale, by releasing three weeks, two and a
:09:26. > :09:29.half week before the election that they were opening up more
:09:30. > :09:33.investigation, I don't think there is any question that they had an
:09:34. > :09:39.impact on the race. Whether that would have been positive or not
:09:40. > :09:43.remains a matter of speculation. Donald Trump is president, that will
:09:44. > :09:47.not be reversed at this point. Going back to President Putin, this is the
:09:48. > :09:52.leader of a country who has sanctioned the use of poison gas, he
:09:53. > :09:57.is now calling for an investigation, we would welcome that, but we have
:09:58. > :10:01.had more than sufficient evidence on the ground, Serin gases being used,
:10:02. > :10:07.and the president he is supporting has been responsible for that. --
:10:08. > :10:10.Sarin gas is being used. I would like to see it made up of truly
:10:11. > :10:17.independent people. Are you yet clear what US relations are with
:10:18. > :10:22.Russia? We have not had Donald Trump say anything overtly critical about
:10:23. > :10:24.Latimer Putin but we have seen the Tomahawk cruise missiles, and the
:10:25. > :10:29.invocation that Russia must have known what was going on in Syria. A
:10:30. > :10:34.phone conversation taking place today, are you clear? Russia knows
:10:35. > :10:38.what is going on, they have been participating in Syria, they have
:10:39. > :10:41.aircraft on the ground and flying in Syria, they have troops on the
:10:42. > :10:46.ground, they know what has been going on. With respect to 59
:10:47. > :10:50.missiles going into Syria, it was clear also that the Pentagon warned
:10:51. > :10:55.the Russians, get out of the way. Something is going to happen, we
:10:56. > :10:58.don't want to hurt anybody, any Russians, to be sure. It is not as
:10:59. > :11:04.if we were throwing open the gates and attacking Russia, and I don't
:11:05. > :11:08.think this issue is ever going to be cleared up, until there is
:11:09. > :11:11.clarification on what Russia's influence is in the Trump
:11:12. > :11:21.Organisation. Those investigations have to go forward. The president of
:11:22. > :11:25.Russia would undertake a campaign to directly attack the heart of the
:11:26. > :11:28.system by altering the outcome, that accusation, that is something that
:11:29. > :11:34.should not be dismissed. White thank you very much. Isn't it fascinating,
:11:35. > :11:39.at the weekend we heard Donald Trump saying, it might have been Russia,
:11:40. > :11:42.it might have been somebody else, maybe the Chinese. Thank you very
:11:43. > :11:46.much from the FBI we have had definitive work, no, it was
:11:47. > :11:50.absolutely the Russians and no one else. You wonder why he goes there,
:11:51. > :11:57.picking up the idea, we showed you that list of leaders he has got
:11:58. > :12:00.close to, it occurred to me, is it because he is a former CEO, a man
:12:01. > :12:07.who always got his way, a sneaking admiration perhaps, for people who
:12:08. > :12:12.are strong in their country and strongmen. There is a strong part of
:12:13. > :12:13.that, he likes decisive men of action, the tough guy
:12:14. > :12:18.image, and the people who can get things done. I also think it speaks
:12:19. > :12:22.of the frustration he feels at the moment, at the Democratic
:12:23. > :12:27.Constitutional apparatus of the United States, which he feels is
:12:28. > :12:32.porting him, whether it be the courts blocking his travel ban,
:12:33. > :12:36.whether it be Congress requiring a supermajority the Senate. When he
:12:37. > :12:42.has tweeted today that he only wants it to be a simple majority. I think
:12:43. > :12:46.he is finding some aspects of democracy rather tiresome and
:12:47. > :12:49.irritating. There we are, we live in a democratic system.
:12:50. > :12:54.The league's accounts of a Downing Street dinner to which Jean-Claude
:12:55. > :12:58.Juncker, European Council President, was invited, are worth reading in
:12:59. > :13:01.full, but we will boil it down to just a simple abstained, the Prime
:13:02. > :13:06.Minister said she wanted "Brexit" to be a success, Jean-Claude Junker
:13:07. > :13:10.replied, " "Brexit" cannot be a success", in other words, Theresa
:13:11. > :13:14.May looking for a story with a happy ending and Jean-Claude Juncker would
:13:15. > :13:20.prefer a Greek tragedy, serving as a cautionary tale to any other country
:13:21. > :13:23.thinking of leaving the youth. The Prime Minister dismissed this story
:13:24. > :13:26.as Brussels gossip, over the weekend, this afternoon, in a BBC
:13:27. > :13:29.interview, she was a little more forthcoming.
:13:30. > :13:34.If you look at what we did in triggering Article 50 and setting
:13:35. > :13:38.out objectives and the guidelines of the other 27 countries set out,
:13:39. > :13:42.actually there is a lot of similarity there in a lot of areas,
:13:43. > :13:47.and areas in which we agree, what we have seen recently is that at times,
:13:48. > :13:51.these negotiations will be tough. During the Conservative Party
:13:52. > :13:55.leadership campaign I was described by one of my colleagues as a bloody
:13:56. > :13:57.difficult woman...! I said at the time, the next person to find that
:13:58. > :14:05.out will be Jean-Claude Juncker! We are now joined from Westminster.
:14:06. > :14:09.Do you sense there is a hardening of the town there from Theresa May? Has
:14:10. > :14:14.she been going to the focus groups and that is what they want to see?
:14:15. > :14:17.Probably, further evidence of a dinner date that did not go quite as
:14:18. > :14:21.well as bland and this morning, the Tory sources were briefing there
:14:22. > :14:24.would be no briefing war against the European Commission after these
:14:25. > :14:28.leaks... As you say, they have wrapped it up this evening, Theresa
:14:29. > :14:31.May coming up, still saying that much of what was said in the leaks
:14:32. > :14:36.was Brussels gossip but coming up with this strong line that she wants
:14:37. > :14:39.to be a bloody difficult woman in these talks. Of course there is
:14:40. > :14:43.election in the air but perhaps this gives us a little more insight that
:14:44. > :14:47.the tone of these talks may be more difficult than she had planned, a
:14:48. > :14:50.tiny morsel more evidence that there might possibly be something like no
:14:51. > :14:53.deal. Just to give you one example of the difficulties, in the
:14:54. > :14:57.interview Theresa May was asked about the rights of expats, it is
:14:58. > :15:01.felt she wants to be able to say quickly and decisively that EU
:15:02. > :15:06.nationals living in the UK and vice versa can remain where they are and
:15:07. > :15:09.the deal is done, now she could only say there may be some reassurances
:15:10. > :15:13.at an early stage. Of course there is an election in the air, but maybe
:15:14. > :15:18.frustration behind-the-scenes as well. Do you think there is a sense
:15:19. > :15:23.in which there is strategy here, on the part of the European Union,
:15:24. > :15:27.almost to put Theresa May on the defensive for this period during the
:15:28. > :15:30.elections before the real negotiations get underway
:15:31. > :15:34.post-election? Definitely, the French and German elections coming
:15:35. > :15:41.up, the EU not wanting to make leaving the group and attracting
:15:42. > :15:46.option. -- attractive. This may help Theresa May on the campaign Trail,
:15:47. > :15:49.her reaction tonight, speaking in an area where the overwhelming majority
:15:50. > :15:52.voted to leave, maybe they want to hear this message, she also wants to
:15:53. > :15:56.steal the limelight from Labour in another day when they had a big
:15:57. > :16:00.announcement to make, a Conservative strategist, former director of
:16:01. > :16:03.communications, for David Cameron, said just by using the phrase,
:16:04. > :16:07.bloody difficult woman, she will get ahead of Labour and capture the
:16:08. > :16:09.headlines, which she has successfully done, but it has also
:16:10. > :16:12.given the opposition parties the opportunity to say that this is
:16:13. > :16:17.Theresa May heading towards a cliff edge, that she has no plan, other
:16:18. > :16:21.saying she should be beginning these talks with a sense of goodwill. That
:16:22. > :16:23.is certainly not the feeling here tonight. For the
:16:24. > :16:31.moment, thank you very much. This week in the French will go to the
:16:32. > :16:33.polls in the second round of the French political election, Emmanuel
:16:34. > :16:37.Macron and Marine le Pen trying to win over supporters from round one.
:16:38. > :16:44.Yesterday, supporters of Francois Fillon may have noticed something in
:16:45. > :16:46.the May Day speech from Marine Le Pen, not just the same sentiments
:16:47. > :17:19.but using exactly the same words! Put the two speeches side-by-side
:17:20. > :17:20.commuter need to speak French, it as badly as I do, you will see how
:17:21. > :17:48.remarkably similar they are our! Do you think we could soon have a
:17:49. > :17:51.quiz question, what does Marine Le Pen have in common with Melania
:17:52. > :17:57.Trump? LAUGHTER That is it, it causes the
:17:58. > :18:02.similarities between the Republican convention last year, that happened
:18:03. > :18:05.there. -- it calls for. This would be really embarrassing were it not
:18:06. > :18:12.for the fact that there was clearly smart thinking, in Front Nationale
:18:13. > :18:17.thinking, because it has been said, this was intentional, he owned up to
:18:18. > :18:21.it, what we are trying to do is show Francois Fillon long's supporters
:18:22. > :18:26.that we think the same. I suspect it did not start out that way! They
:18:27. > :18:32.changed it, but that is the intention, anyway. Do you think
:18:33. > :18:35.there is strategy in there? In a sense, they want to do what happened
:18:36. > :18:39.in the US, the populist left, supporting Bernie Sanders, a lot of
:18:40. > :18:40.those people felt they could not vote Hillary Clinton and went
:18:41. > :18:48.straight to Donald Trump? There are some on the hard left who
:18:49. > :18:51.were naturally Front Nationale voters who will probably come back,
:18:52. > :18:59.she needs to pull a lot of those Francois Fillon voters. Even if she
:19:00. > :19:02.did not win on Sunday, and she is 20 points behind, she has pulled the
:19:03. > :19:06.debate further to the right, even Emmanuel Macron is talking about
:19:07. > :19:09.French nationality and French people standing proud, what is going to be
:19:10. > :19:12.interesting is the debate tomorrow night, he has been locked in a
:19:13. > :19:17.bunker all day, apparently, because he knows, really, he must perform
:19:18. > :19:20.tomorrow night, he only has to get through that gate and he is going to
:19:21. > :19:27.become the next president. Venezuelan opposition protesters
:19:28. > :19:32.have blocked main roads in the capital city Caracas, demonstrators
:19:33. > :19:37.rejecting president Madeira's call on Monday for a new constitution,
:19:38. > :19:40.and instead demanding an election. The country has been in economic
:19:41. > :19:47.crisis which has seen violent protests over the last month. --
:19:48. > :19:51.President Maduro. US lawmakers are threatening airline executives with
:19:52. > :19:59.legislation to force improvements if meaningful results in customer
:20:00. > :20:04.service are not realised. And passenger was dragged off and
:20:05. > :20:07.overbooked flight last month, and the Chief Executive Officer of
:20:08. > :20:08.United Airlines, Oscar Munoz, has been apologising.
:20:09. > :20:15.became the president, the courts have continually stood in his way,
:20:16. > :20:19.the latest setback, a ruling in San Francisco which blocked White House
:20:20. > :20:24.attempts to block of federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. It is
:20:25. > :20:27.often the large Democrat cities where local authorities do not
:20:28. > :20:33.cooperate with the authorities in tracking people down. As we report,
:20:34. > :20:34.smaller communities like Salem, Massachusetts, are also in the midst
:20:35. > :20:48.of a fierce debate. We are being persecuted as if we
:20:49. > :20:52.were criminals, terrorists, bad people. But immigrants are the
:20:53. > :20:58.foundation of every economy. No matter what country you are in.
:20:59. > :21:03.Victoria, not her real name, is one of America's 11 million illegal
:21:04. > :21:07.immigrants. Almost two decades ago, she outstayed her Visa. She knows
:21:08. > :21:16.she could be taken away from her three children at any time. Loads of
:21:17. > :21:22.families have been separated. And not because they are criminals.
:21:23. > :21:27.Because he says he is going after criminals but it is not just them.
:21:28. > :21:32.Salem's infamous past as the site of the witch trials in the 17th century
:21:33. > :21:35.is a huge draw to the million or so tourists who come here each year,
:21:36. > :21:43.the liberal New England atmosphere is also a huge draw to outsiders of
:21:44. > :21:50.another kind, the council says 15% of the 40,000 population were born
:21:51. > :21:54.outside the United States. Salem has declared itself a sanctuary for
:21:55. > :21:57.peace, city officials cannot ask residents about their immigration
:21:58. > :22:03.status, it is designed to reassure immigrant groups. Somewhere around
:22:04. > :22:10.five, 8%. City residents do not want sailing to be a sanctuary city, they
:22:11. > :22:13.are gathering names to try to force a referendum, they feel it could
:22:14. > :22:19.cost the city money and annoy Washington. -- these citizens. I
:22:20. > :22:27.think it is a way to antagonise Donald Trump. Our president is doing
:22:28. > :22:31.nothing other than suggesting that people follow the laws. The Salem
:22:32. > :22:34.police Department knows any pressure to cooperate further with
:22:35. > :22:38.immigration officials will fall on the shoulders of its officers. Its
:22:39. > :22:44.chief sees big problems in alienating immigrants. We have had a
:22:45. > :22:48.few incidents of domestic violence, where the fact that the immigration
:22:49. > :22:53.status was being used against them, and they were reluctant to come
:22:54. > :22:59.forward. They went through probably several different kinds of abuse.
:23:00. > :23:03.The numbers of undocumenteds being deported without conviction has
:23:04. > :23:11.risen, Victoria is thinking long and hard about the future of her own
:23:12. > :23:17.family. I ask a friend to stay with my children and then to send them to
:23:18. > :23:20.me, in my country. We are not safe, practically, practically nobody is
:23:21. > :23:33.safe, and we have to have a plan B. Of all the controversies Donald
:23:34. > :23:37.Trump has walked into, his potted history of the American Civil War is
:23:38. > :23:41.one of the more peculiar... In an interview published Monday, the US
:23:42. > :23:47.president expressed his view that war might have been averted if the
:23:48. > :23:49.former US president, Andrew Jackson, had still been around to stop it, he
:23:50. > :24:10.said: president Andrew Jackson had been
:24:11. > :24:13.dead more than a decade and a half before the American Civil War
:24:14. > :24:26.started in 1861, last night President Trump doubled down:
:24:27. > :24:33.the thing is, John, when I read this, it is... It is his lack of
:24:34. > :24:36.intellectual curiosity, presidents should have a better sense of the
:24:37. > :24:41.history of the nation if they are going to become part of it.
:24:42. > :24:47.You wonder why then, why now, why is this being raised, when you can
:24:48. > :24:50.think of some of the serious issues that the president is dealing with
:24:51. > :24:55.and once the nation's attention on, to suddenly go down this bizarre
:24:56. > :24:59.rabbit hole, the American Civil War, still a deeply contested piece of
:25:00. > :25:03.history, and Andrew Jackson, when he was president, kept a large number
:25:04. > :25:06.of slaves, hardly could be considered an abolitionist. That
:25:07. > :25:12.raises allsorts of other issues. Was there a hidden agenda? Was there
:25:13. > :25:16.some kind of revisionism going on of history, you cannot think there is
:25:17. > :25:20.much upside for the president in raising this in this particular way.
:25:21. > :25:27.He continually does it, not just on this, it is the fact he fills space,
:25:28. > :25:30.he talks about Russia, hacking, talks about things that caused him
:25:31. > :25:33.so much pain and people in his office probably say, stop talking
:25:34. > :25:38.about this, he does not, he keeps going, creating more and more
:25:39. > :25:40.problems for poor old Sean Spicer. You had to help him out! You are
:25:41. > :25:51.watching 100 days plus, and still to come: residential
:25:52. > :25:59.adviser, designer, mother, author, is Ivanka Trump the most influential
:26:00. > :26:03.first daughter ever? And, the server found alive after 30 hours at the,
:26:04. > :26:05.it was not the ride of his life, but he will not be forgetting at any
:26:06. > :26:13.time soon. Temperatures reached into the high
:26:14. > :26:16.teams to near 20 degrees in the warmest part of western Britain
:26:17. > :26:26.today, helped, of course, by the sunshine. Swansea to Cardiff, as
:26:27. > :26:30.high as 20 today, in north-west Scotland. It has been much cooler
:26:31. > :26:34.along North Sea coast, with the breeze of the siege is 10 degrees.
:26:35. > :26:39.We picked up one or two showers to end the day across parts of England,
:26:40. > :26:45.drifting west, may clip a few spots, before they die away. A lot of cloud
:26:46. > :26:49.coming, could see a bit patchy rain reaching some of us, clearer skies
:26:50. > :26:53.across the northern and western parts of the UK. Turning out to be
:26:54. > :26:58.chilly in rural spots, touch of frost in a few places, more
:26:59. > :27:05.especially in the Scottish glens. This is the picture tomorrow
:27:06. > :27:10.morning, apart from the odd fog patch, for many of us it will stay
:27:11. > :27:15.that way. Into Wales and south-west England at this stage, area of cloud
:27:16. > :27:18.covering much of East Anglia and south-east England, and from it,
:27:19. > :27:22.some of us will be on the downside with a bit patchy rain. Quite a cool
:27:23. > :27:29.north-easterly breeze holding temperatures down. Quite a grave for
:27:30. > :27:31.some, damp day, cool in the breeze, some of this cloud will push a
:27:32. > :27:35.little bit further north and west, covering more of England and Wales
:27:36. > :27:38.this afternoon, northern counties of northern England and yet again
:27:39. > :27:42.through Scotland and Northern Ireland, we will see plenty of
:27:43. > :27:46.sunshine. Warmth further west, temperatures reaching into the high
:27:47. > :27:50.teams, cool along North Sea coast, with breeze from the sea. What are
:27:51. > :27:56.we talking about, some of us hanging around nine, 10 degrees. Wednesday,
:27:57. > :27:59.showers dotted about, especially England, where cloud is beckoning,
:28:00. > :28:03.and Thursday, England and Wales team cloudy with a few showers, but still
:28:04. > :28:08.some sunshine spells covering much of northern England, Northern
:28:09. > :28:12.Ireland and Scotland. Warmest in the sunshine the further west you are.
:28:13. > :28:16.Most of us on Friday looking dry, breezy picture, easterly wind,
:28:17. > :28:19.temperature contrast between East and West in the UK. I will show you
:28:20. > :28:22.the picture going into the weekend, high pressure to the knot,
:28:23. > :28:27.maintaining the East or north-easterly flow, keeping places
:28:28. > :30:11.dry, variable cloud, and sunshine spells.
:30:12. > :30:14.Welcome back to One Hundred Days Plus, I'm Jon Sopel in Washington -
:30:15. > :30:20.In South Korea an American anti-missile defense system
:30:21. > :30:31.is now fully operational - much to the displeasure of Beijing.
:30:32. > :30:35.And the dramatic rescue at sea as a stranded surfer survives 30 hours
:30:36. > :30:45.with nothing but his board. Presidential advisor,
:30:46. > :30:47.mother, now author - Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka comes
:30:48. > :30:51.in many different guises. But what role does she really
:30:52. > :30:58.fill In the White House? She certainly holds great
:30:59. > :31:00.sway with her father - today she has released a book
:31:01. > :31:02.on the subject of empowering Last week you might remember
:31:03. > :31:05.there were some boos when she suggested her father had
:31:06. > :31:08.championed the same rights. Yesterday she gave an interview
:31:09. > :31:11.on the challenges she has faced moving from the corporate world -
:31:12. > :31:26.to the unfamiliar surroundings Government moves at a different
:31:27. > :31:32.pace. It was constructed to and in some ways intended to. But I think
:31:33. > :31:37.being an entrepreneur and coming from a business perspective that can
:31:38. > :31:44.be challenging. But I think that tension is good. You push to try to
:31:45. > :31:51.get more done and I think bringing an innovative entrepreneurial
:31:52. > :31:51.mindset to government and government initiatives and projects is a
:31:52. > :31:53.positive thing. Well, for more on Ivanka Trump's
:31:54. > :31:56.role inside the White House we are joined now by Judy Kurtz,
:31:57. > :32:09.a columnist at the Hill. It is worth saying that she has a
:32:10. > :32:14.powerful role. No question. The president greatly values her
:32:15. > :32:21.opinion. At the same time that influenced only goes so far and I
:32:22. > :32:29.think her critics want to perhaps be a moderating force. And she's never
:32:30. > :32:32.going to be that much of a moderating force for her father
:32:33. > :32:36.because she is not the president, not in the Oval Office and not the
:32:37. > :32:40.one making the decisions. Presumably she would be the one person who
:32:41. > :32:45.could say to him you have got to rethink this or you said that badly.
:32:46. > :32:51.Is it that she wants to change policy or is she just a bit softer,
:32:52. > :32:57.Carnicer warmer around the edges? I think she certainly has the softer
:32:58. > :33:01.appeal as the public face of the White House. Her stepmother of
:33:02. > :33:07.course Melania Trump is in New York right now and in some ways she's
:33:08. > :33:11.filling that role of first Lady. That she has rejected that actually
:33:12. > :33:15.saying she's not the first lady but it seems to be the role she is
:33:16. > :33:20.taking. She is going to have an effect and maybe offer some guidance
:33:21. > :33:24.and her opinion on some issues, childcare being one of them.
:33:25. > :33:33.Maternity leave. Planned Parenthood? Planned Parenthood. She tried to
:33:34. > :33:36.speak with the President on that subject and they then spoke out
:33:37. > :33:42.against terror. But I do not think she is going to be that voice in the
:33:43. > :33:46.room on issues such as Russia, international issues. It remains to
:33:47. > :33:50.be seen what her role is and I do not think she completely knows yet.
:33:51. > :33:56.This is uncharted territory by the public and also for her. She has
:33:57. > :34:00.this strange role, not to play the fact that she's the woman amongst
:34:01. > :34:03.the load of men and therefore she is the softer moderating voice but she
:34:04. > :34:09.does have this extraordinary relationship which perhaps no one
:34:10. > :34:13.else has ever had, she was in the year of the President and can change
:34:14. > :34:19.his mind but also her husband who is equally very powerful and the White
:34:20. > :34:25.House. That is right and I think she spoke with the New York Times, it is
:34:26. > :34:29.a big profile piece on her and not a coincidence I think it came out the
:34:30. > :34:34.same day as her book which she said she's not marketing and all proceeds
:34:35. > :34:40.are going to charity. I think this latest interview is the way for her
:34:41. > :34:43.to maybe, more like a public coming out. There has been a lot of mystery
:34:44. > :34:48.surrounding her lately even though she was a force to be reckoned with
:34:49. > :34:53.on the campaign trail and very out there for her father. Lately she has
:34:54. > :35:00.been taken a lot of flak and heat for nepotism concerns, and maybe
:35:01. > :35:04.being complicit, she was mocked for being that. So this is a way for her
:35:05. > :35:10.to defend yourself and also defend her brand. For years from now or
:35:11. > :35:19.perhaps eight years, she will have a major fashion brand, lifestyle brand
:35:20. > :35:24.to go back to. Thank you very much. The interesting thing is we just
:35:25. > :35:28.have to get used to a new normal in Washington. The first Lady is not
:35:29. > :35:32.around and Ivanka Trump is now playing that kind of role, filling
:35:33. > :35:37.in for the president and going with him to think. I think is a still the
:35:38. > :35:41.extent to which she's something different and part of a battle or
:35:42. > :35:44.whether she is just part of the same White House. The trick is trick is
:35:45. > :35:50.there is no hidden agenda for her, she will be a reassuring voice for
:35:51. > :35:53.him. Yes and I was struck by something she said, I miss daughter,
:35:54. > :36:00.I known him his entire life antitrust me, I do not have a hidden
:36:01. > :36:04.agenda, I'm not looking to help myself. And that makes a huge
:36:05. > :36:09.difference in politics because your suspicions of most of the people
:36:10. > :36:13.around you. And if it comes to fight and there are outside advisers and
:36:14. > :36:18.Ivanka Trump, she is still going to be there at the end of the fight.
:36:19. > :36:22.How long before they start talking about her as a future president!
:36:23. > :36:25.The first day in a new job is pretty daunting for most of us.
:36:26. > :36:27.But Britain's former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne
:36:28. > :36:30.tweeted that he was 'excited' to be starting his new role as editor
:36:31. > :36:32.of the London newspaper the Evening Standard today.
:36:33. > :36:34.Mr Osborne announced in March he'd be swapping the world
:36:35. > :36:37.of politics for journalism - an announcement that drew criticism
:36:38. > :36:40.from opposition politicians who called on him to quit as an MP.
:36:41. > :36:43.Mr Osborne has since announced he is stepping down from that role.
:36:44. > :36:52.George Osborne's new working hours mean he will probably
:36:53. > :36:55.wake up at 5am each day, but this morning, he looked eager
:36:56. > :37:01.It is very exciting to be starting in the new job and it is a really
:37:02. > :37:04.important time in our country where people are going to want
:37:05. > :37:05.the straight facts, the informed analysis,
:37:06. > :37:08.so they can make the really big decisions about
:37:09. > :37:13.The Evening Standard is going to provide that and it's
:37:14. > :37:21.Keen to show familiarity with newspaper jargon,
:37:22. > :37:25.Osborne will have been relieved that at least his pass worked.
:37:26. > :37:27.But outside the Standard's offices in Kensington, central London,
:37:28. > :37:34.London's cab drivers say the former Chancellor was too close to Uber,
:37:35. > :37:41.the private hire firm, allegations that he denies.
:37:42. > :37:43.When George Osborne turned up for work this morning,
:37:44. > :37:46.he would have had the same priorities as any new newspaper
:37:47. > :37:49.editor - get to know staff, talk about his editorial vision -
:37:50. > :37:52.but it's clear that his time as editor is going to be dogged
:37:53. > :37:55.Staff are relieved he is stepping down as an MP, but there
:37:56. > :37:59.is still concern about his work for BlackRock and it is clear that
:38:00. > :38:00.London's cab-drivers intend to disrupt his editorship.
:38:01. > :38:03.The ?650,000 a year that George Osborne earns for four days
:38:04. > :38:06.a month at BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager,
:38:07. > :38:10.leaves him exposed to accusations of a conflict of interest.
:38:11. > :38:12.With limited resources and a business model under pressure,
:38:13. > :38:16.George Osborne will need to turn the Standard's finances around.
:38:17. > :38:19.For a former Chancellor who practised austerity and is no
:38:20. > :38:21.stranger to controversy, this new job has eerie
:38:22. > :38:41.And just to show people the front page. He's picked up the main story
:38:42. > :38:44.the day, Brussels twists the knife on Brexit. The Telegraph has been
:38:45. > :38:49.looking at the editorial of newspaper incidentally and they say
:38:50. > :38:53.in the editorial which presumably he has some control over, someone has
:38:54. > :38:58.written the Prime Minister and her election can amounts to no more than
:38:59. > :39:04.a slogan. This idea that it would be strong and stable leadership from
:39:05. > :39:12.Theresa May. -- election campaign. And he put out another tweet, and he
:39:13. > :39:21.has been out with the newspaper vendor 's tonight.
:39:22. > :39:27.You could head down to Oxford Circus tube station, and see if you can
:39:28. > :39:34.find George Osborne and I will buy you a pint if you can find him! As
:39:35. > :39:38.was the serious question is, if someone who has now become a
:39:39. > :39:42.journalist or someone who is now pursuing politics by other means and
:39:43. > :39:48.still has wider political ambitions that he may be to realise through
:39:49. > :39:52.having this platform. Well let people forget of course he was the
:39:53. > :39:57.arch Remainer and very much part of that campaign. He did not always see
:39:58. > :40:01.eye to eye with Theresa May. And on that front page we have just shown
:40:02. > :40:07.there is a cartoon in the top right corner of Theresa May as Big Ben
:40:08. > :40:10.with this slogan, strong and stable leadership of not so interesting if
:40:11. > :40:14.he takes on over Brexit through the front pages. People will certainly
:40:15. > :40:23.make mention of it, that is for sure. The next story we're going to
:40:24. > :40:24.discuss I think George Osborne could have splashed on!
:40:25. > :40:27.It could almost be the plot of a Hollywood film -
:40:28. > :40:30.a surfer stranded at sea in freezing cold waters, a rescue operation
:40:31. > :40:34.Well that's what happened to Matthew Bryce, who was reported
:40:35. > :40:36.missing by his family, after he didn't return
:40:37. > :40:38.from a surfing trip off the Scottish coast on Sunday.
:40:39. > :40:40.But fortunately this story has a happy ending.
:40:41. > :40:42.After clinging to his surfboard for more than 30 hours
:40:43. > :40:44.and suffering from hypothermia, Matthew was finally rescued
:40:45. > :40:55.After more than a day drifting in the water,
:40:56. > :40:57.Matthew Bryce was found by the coastguard,
:40:58. > :41:02.He was still by the surf board he left the Argyll coast
:41:03. > :41:04.on on Sunday morning, but when he was finally rescued,
:41:05. > :41:07.on Monday evening, he was halfway between Northern Ireland
:41:08. > :41:09.and Scotland, and far from the beach near Campbelltown where he'd
:41:10. > :41:22.gone for a day's surfing in blustery conditions.
:41:23. > :41:25.This picture, taken that morning, shows how challenging the waves
:41:26. > :41:28.He'd been surfing and when he attempted to recover to shore,
:41:29. > :41:31.we believe he suffered from some cramp and was unable
:41:32. > :41:37.The current which flows through the North Channel
:41:38. > :41:39.into the Atlantic from the Irish Sea is very strong.
:41:40. > :41:44.That would have had an impact on how far he'd been drifted out.
:41:45. > :41:47.Matthew Bryce had last been seen at 9.00am on Sunday
:41:48. > :41:50.morning in St Catherines, in Argyll, on his way
:41:51. > :41:56.He was reported missing by his family when he didn't come home.
:41:57. > :41:59.A major search and rescue operation followed involving eight coastguard
:42:00. > :42:02.and RNLI teams from both Scotland and Northern Ireland,
:42:03. > :42:10.He was eventually found and rescued 13 miles out to sea
:42:11. > :42:15.That length of time in our waters, you know,
:42:16. > :42:17.overnight in the darkness, it must have been
:42:18. > :42:20.Certainly, I think another night of that, I'm afraid,
:42:21. > :42:24.I just think we wouldn't have such a happy ending.
:42:25. > :42:27.The big waves around both Scotland and Northern Ireland
:42:28. > :42:31.can carry big risks, but they attract many surfers
:42:32. > :42:35.and being prepared and wearing a good wetsuit may well have saved
:42:36. > :42:42.When he was plucked from the sea, he was suffering from hypothermia,
:42:43. > :42:44.but conscious, rescued just as evening was approaching and,
:42:45. > :42:47.in the coastguard's own words, "extremely lucky to have been
:42:48. > :42:59.Our correspondent Chris Buckler reporting.
:43:00. > :43:03.That is One Hundred Days Plus for now -