:00:12. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus.
:00:14. > :00:15.The British Prime Minister accuses Brussels of interfering
:00:16. > :00:22.It comes after EU estimates that the Brexit divorce bill will be
:00:23. > :00:30.Speaking after a visit to the Queen - Teresa May says Europe
:00:31. > :00:33.is hardening its stance and the European press is
:00:34. > :00:39.The European Union's stance has hardened.
:00:40. > :00:42.Threats against Bitain have been issued by European
:00:43. > :00:50.The FBI director tells the Senate he fells sick at the idea
:00:51. > :00:53.that the bureau may have influenced last year's American election.
:00:54. > :00:57.It makes me mildly nauseous that we had an impact
:00:58. > :01:02.on the election but it wouldn't have changed my decision.
:01:03. > :01:05.The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas comes to the White House
:01:06. > :01:07.as President Trump hopes something "terrific" can happen
:01:08. > :01:17.The two French presidential candidates are about to go head
:01:18. > :01:21.Just days before the election both Marine Le Pen and Emanuel Macron
:01:22. > :01:25.will square off for one last time before the ballots are cast.
:01:26. > :01:28.Ever wonder what's on the White House to do list?
:01:29. > :01:41.Well thanks to twitter the whole world knows now.
:01:42. > :01:44.I'm Katty Kay in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:01:45. > :01:47.Theresa May is back from visiting the Queen.
:01:48. > :01:49.After informing her majesty of the dissolution of Parliament
:01:50. > :01:52.ahead of the election - the Prime Minister took direct aim
:01:53. > :01:56.She effectively accused the EU of interfering in the British
:01:57. > :01:58.election and the European press of misrepresenting
:01:59. > :02:05.Her tough comments about Europe follow a now infamous German press
:02:06. > :02:08.report of a difficult dinner between Ms May and the EU Commission
:02:09. > :02:11.President Jean Claude Junker which suggested the two sides
:02:12. > :02:16.are not even in the same galaxy, let alone the same planet.
:02:17. > :02:19.The Prime Minister also reminded British voters of the perils
:02:20. > :02:34.to their own security and prosperity if the negotiations don't go well.
:02:35. > :02:40.Whoever wins on the 8th of June faces the task of getting the best
:02:41. > :02:43.possible deal for the UK from Brexit. In the last few days we have
:02:44. > :02:49.seen just how tough these talks are likely to be. Britain's negotiating
:02:50. > :02:54.position in Europe has been misrepresented in the continental
:02:55. > :02:59.press. The European Commission 's negotiating stance has hardened.
:03:00. > :03:05.Threats against Britain have been issued by European politicians and
:03:06. > :03:08.officials. All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect
:03:09. > :03:10.the result of the general election that will take place on the 8th of
:03:11. > :03:11.June. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said
:03:12. > :03:22.Mrs May is taking the wrong approach The risk to this country is a
:03:23. > :03:25.government that sets up megaphone diplomacy ahead of serious
:03:26. > :03:29.negotiations, that threatens to walk away from those talks if they do not
:03:30. > :03:33.go their way. Arguably as you work with people, you do not threaten at
:03:34. > :03:38.the start, you start with the idea and the game and the intention of
:03:39. > :03:43.reaching an agreement. Of tariff free trade access to Europe and
:03:44. > :03:44.protection of important workers, consumer and environmental rights
:03:45. > :03:46.that we have in this country. Complicating the future Brexit
:03:47. > :03:48.negotiation is the disagreement between the Commision and Britain
:03:49. > :03:50.over what the divorce Several figures have
:03:51. > :03:53.been banded around, 50, 60 billion euros today
:03:54. > :03:55.the Financial Times reports The EU's chief Brexit negotiator
:03:56. > :03:59.Michel Barnier today said the severance fee shouldn't be seen
:04:00. > :04:09.as a punishment. Alex Forsyth has been following the
:04:10. > :04:13.debate. The Prime Minister was on the back foot on Sunday after this
:04:14. > :04:17.briefing from the European Commission although others would say
:04:18. > :04:23.she is fair game because she made prep -- may Brexit a central theme
:04:24. > :04:26.of the election. It was quite an extraordinary intervention from
:04:27. > :04:30.Theresa May because we have heard about these briefing reports
:04:31. > :04:34.following the meeting, that they were just brussels gossip according
:04:35. > :04:38.to the Prime Minister but now she is labelled these accusations are some
:04:39. > :04:40.in Brussels suggesting they were interfering in the UK general
:04:41. > :04:45.election and do not want the UK to get a good deal from Brexit. Part of
:04:46. > :04:50.political calculation will be I think this may play well with voters
:04:51. > :04:53.in the UK who backed Brexit and want to see Theresa May take a tough
:04:54. > :05:02.stance in these negotiations. But it is a gamble because of course some
:05:03. > :05:06.40% of the UK population did not back Brexit and may not like the
:05:07. > :05:09.tone of Theresa May suggesting she is going very hard into the talks
:05:10. > :05:13.and a course from the EU perspective Theresa May might be in election
:05:14. > :05:17.periods in the UK but if she comes back is by Minister she will have to
:05:18. > :05:21.sit down around the table with the people that she is making these
:05:22. > :05:26.accusations about to conduct those negotiations. EU sources have
:05:27. > :05:29.dismissed suggestions from Theresa May of interference in the election
:05:30. > :05:33.is just pure fantasy, they seem to recognise there is an election
:05:34. > :05:37.period in the UK which may be part of it but in the last few days the
:05:38. > :05:43.tension around these Brexit talks has been ramped up. We heard Michel
:05:44. > :05:50.Barnier today saying the settlement for the Brexit process should not be
:05:51. > :05:56.seen by the British as a punishment. But $100 billion, I imagine that's
:05:57. > :06:00.how it is being seen in the UK. This is likely to be one of the most
:06:01. > :06:04.difficult first issues in these talks when we get beyond this
:06:05. > :06:09.general election period. The EU position confirmed today by Michel
:06:10. > :06:12.Barnier, their chief negotiator, is that the UK must meet its financial
:06:13. > :06:16.commitments and any payment should be seen as bad, not a bill or
:06:17. > :06:23.punishment but then just settling the account that they owe. The EU so
:06:24. > :06:31.far has refused to put a figure on it, various numbers being banded
:06:32. > :06:35.around. Today David Davis the Brexit secretary said they would not pay
:06:36. > :06:39.anywhere near the region of 100 billion euros to leave. So there's
:06:40. > :06:45.going to be an argument over this but I think you can add into this
:06:46. > :06:48.some degree of positioning and deliberate political play by both
:06:49. > :06:51.sides if they can talk up the numbers now may be able to come down
:06:52. > :06:54.and reach a compromise which they can take back to their respective
:06:55. > :06:58.parties and look like it was a success. But do not think the issue
:06:59. > :07:09.will be easily resolved. Well tomorrow we have local
:07:10. > :07:14.elections across the UK. And six areas across England for the first
:07:15. > :07:19.time will be electing their responsible for economic development
:07:20. > :07:25.in their region. Professor John Curtis is with us. I just want to
:07:26. > :07:30.talk about this public spat between Brussels and Downing Street. Is
:07:31. > :07:35.there any polling suggesting the Prime Minister is right, that they
:07:36. > :07:40.are undermining her at home? There is no evidence to suggest the
:07:41. > :07:42.European Union has so far been successful in undermining her at
:07:43. > :07:49.home. There is polling evidence to suggest that those who voted leave
:07:50. > :07:51.in the European referendum have increasingly swung to the
:07:52. > :07:56.Conservative Party including since the election was announced on the
:07:57. > :08:00.Tuesday after Easter. As a result that is a significant factor that
:08:01. > :08:05.helps to push the Conservatives up in the opinion polls even since the
:08:06. > :08:10.election was announced. One example, for the election about a quarter of
:08:11. > :08:13.those who said they would still vote for -- was that they did vote for
:08:14. > :08:19.Ukip said they would switch to the Conservatives. That is now 40%. And
:08:20. > :08:21.overall somewhere between three fifths and two thirds of leave
:08:22. > :08:28.voters are now saying they will vote for the Conservatives. So what
:08:29. > :08:34.Theresa May needed to do today I think was to instil confidence in
:08:35. > :08:38.those voters that she indeed has a realistic prospect of delivering the
:08:39. > :08:43.kind of Brexit she says she wants to deliver. Clearly the risk to her
:08:44. > :08:47.from the mood music of the last few days is that perhaps it gives the
:08:48. > :08:53.opposition the chance to argue that maybe she may not be as successful
:08:54. > :08:57.after all. So I think she was trying to avoid possible damage because of
:08:58. > :09:02.the moment at least wrapping the flag around herself and pointing at
:09:03. > :09:10.the contrast to the opposition has proved successful. Local elections
:09:11. > :09:15.tomorrow, do people vote in local elections as they do in a general
:09:16. > :09:19.election but you can take something from it but not simply read it
:09:20. > :09:23.directly. To some degree people vote the same way and broadly speaking a
:09:24. > :09:27.party that is doing well across the country as a whole will tend to do
:09:28. > :09:31.well in local elections and vice versa. One party for whom this tends
:09:32. > :09:35.to be an exception is the Lib Dems. They tend to be past masters at
:09:36. > :09:41.doing well in local elections but not so well in general elections.
:09:42. > :09:50.But the complication about these local elections, the seats being
:09:51. > :09:58.fought were not just bought into the 15 but it is a different political
:09:59. > :10:01.climate. In 2013 when elections in England were on asphalt, you could
:10:02. > :10:08.did extraordinarily well. We expect that to fall away. In Scotland in
:10:09. > :10:13.2012 the SNP did not do anything like as well as they did in the
:10:14. > :10:18.general election of 2015. So parties may go up and down as compared with
:10:19. > :10:27.the last local elections, it does not necessarily tell you about the
:10:28. > :10:30.general election. A question on polling, you had a string of
:10:31. > :10:35.opposition candidate saying this election is about a series of
:10:36. > :10:40.things, Theresa May and the Conservative Party saying really is
:10:41. > :10:45.about Brexit. How do the voters feel, is it seen as a Brexit
:10:46. > :10:48.election in the UK? Given the extent to which leave voters have
:10:49. > :10:53.congregated around the Conservative Party, two next dashed to an
:10:54. > :10:59.increasing extent or leave voters it seems to be a Brexit election. But
:11:00. > :11:01.on the remain inside the voters still fragmented between
:11:02. > :11:05.Conservative, Labour and Lib Dems and remain voters at least are
:11:06. > :11:10.certainly not in agreement with each other as to which party best
:11:11. > :11:13.represents their view. But the National health service and economy
:11:14. > :11:23.are also issues that voters are concerned about.
:11:24. > :11:26.The Director of the FBI is sick at the thought that he may have
:11:27. > :11:29.influenced the US election - he was referring to his announcement
:11:30. > :11:31.10 days before the poll that he was reopening
:11:32. > :11:33.the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
:11:34. > :11:35.James Comey was testifying before the Senate.
:11:36. > :11:39.The FBI chief also refused to rule out whether Mr Trump or anyone
:11:40. > :11:42.from his campaign is a target in the Russia hacking investigation.
:11:43. > :11:45.He says he has no regrets about the way the whole email
:11:46. > :11:47.affair was handled - even though it clearly
:11:48. > :11:59.This was terrible, it makes me mildly nauseous to think we may have
:12:00. > :12:03.had some impact on the election but honestly, it would not change the
:12:04. > :12:08.decision. Everyone who disagrees with me as to come back to October
:12:09. > :12:12.28 and stare at this and tell me what you would do. Would you speak
:12:13. > :12:18.or conceal. I could be wrong but we honestly made a decision between
:12:19. > :12:22.those choices that even in hindsight I would make the same decision.
:12:23. > :12:24.Mr Comey's testimony comes as both the FBI and Congress
:12:25. > :12:26.are investigating Russia's interference in the election.
:12:27. > :12:29.So how will his comments affect those probes?
:12:30. > :12:31.Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger sits
:12:32. > :12:38.on the Foreign Affairs Committee, I spoke to him a short time ago.
:12:39. > :12:44.What did you make of the FBI director saying that it made him
:12:45. > :12:48.feel rather sick to think the FBI might have influenced the election,
:12:49. > :12:53.you think it did? The president says it helped Hillary Clinton, Hillary
:12:54. > :13:02.Clinton says it helped the president. From this perspective he
:13:03. > :13:06.says we are independent, and so I think he obviously has some kind of
:13:07. > :13:13.heartache about the idea that maybe he had an effect. There's no that
:13:14. > :13:17.Russian -- Russia tried to influence the election as they will try to do
:13:18. > :13:20.around the world. We need to get to the bottom four of what really
:13:21. > :13:29.happened and move on and make sure we guard against that in future
:13:30. > :13:33.elections. He was questioned repeatedly be about why he released
:13:34. > :13:37.the information about the Clinton investigation but not above the
:13:38. > :13:40.Russian investigation into people surrounding President Trump and his
:13:41. > :13:46.campaign. Where you convinced by his answer? I trust him implicitly, I
:13:47. > :13:51.think he's a very good person and someone that just wants to do right
:13:52. > :13:56.by the FBI and the American people as law enforcement. I'm not in the
:13:57. > :14:00.FBI, I do not even do investigations so why one part would be released
:14:01. > :14:05.and not the other I leave up to him what I trust him as the Judas Yate
:14:06. > :14:09.of what to release or not to release. I satisfied with the pace
:14:10. > :14:15.into investigations into the Russian role in the election is right we all
:14:16. > :14:21.want answers now, no doubt about that. These take a long time and
:14:22. > :14:24.even if today we put an independent investigation we will be talking
:14:25. > :14:28.about beer and a half, two years to get the answers, it is takes a long
:14:29. > :14:32.time. I would love to have the answers tomorrow but I think it is
:14:33. > :14:35.important they do their work in a bipartisan way and we get the right
:14:36. > :14:44.answers to defend against the next election. We know how Putin does
:14:45. > :14:48.$40, he is a very small country in comparison to what the old soviet
:14:49. > :14:51.union does and we will give this information to our allies. President
:14:52. > :14:56.Trump had a conversation with Vladimir Putin just yesterday I
:14:57. > :15:01.think. He has also said he would consider meeting the North Korean
:15:02. > :15:04.leader Kim Jong Un. You have said before you would not meet with
:15:05. > :15:08.leaders of countries that kill their own people. What you think of the
:15:09. > :15:12.comments from President Trump, his repeated phone calls with President
:15:13. > :15:17.Putin and saying he would meet Kim Jong Un? A phone call with Putin to
:15:18. > :15:22.me is fine, I do not know what was discussed. They now a player in the
:15:23. > :15:27.Middle East, I think we allowed them to be. I think President Trump
:15:28. > :15:31.probably regrets it, maybe using the term, I would be honoured to meet
:15:32. > :15:34.Kim Jong Un. But I think the idea is that now is not the time for
:15:35. > :15:39.one-on-one negotiations, we need to put more pressure on and make it
:15:40. > :15:44.clear we have a credible military option, which we do. And hope the
:15:45. > :15:47.military instrument of power is enough to back the diplomatic
:15:48. > :15:52.instrument of power to get us to a solution. If ultimately that means
:15:53. > :15:57.the president decides in his best interests, for him or the
:15:58. > :16:00.administration to meet with Kim Jong Un well we will evaluate that when
:16:01. > :16:04.it happens. But now is definitely not the right time. It only
:16:05. > :16:13.emboldens a leader that starves his own people. History will judge James
:16:14. > :16:18.Comey and his intervention but he said the cloud of doubt will hang
:16:19. > :16:23.over the objectivity of the FBI. He has a problem because just 32% of
:16:24. > :16:26.Americans actually trust the FBI at the moment. Another of those
:16:27. > :16:31.institutions for which trust is declining. He was asked why he
:16:32. > :16:34.publicised the reopening of the investigation into the Hillary
:16:35. > :16:39.Clinton e-mails and not that of the Russia probe into the top campaign
:16:40. > :16:43.and he said the Clinton won had been going on for a long time but the
:16:44. > :16:44.President Trump one was new. A lot of Democrats on the committee were
:16:45. > :16:48.not convinced by that answer. For decades the issue of how
:16:49. > :16:51.to achieve peace in the Middle East has eluded US presidents
:16:52. > :16:53.and other world leaders. But touting himself as the ultimate
:16:54. > :16:56.deal maker Donald Trump says Today he welcomed Palestinian leader
:16:57. > :17:01.Mahmoud Abbas to the White House for a series of discussions and said
:17:02. > :17:04.he was willing to play any role which would help
:17:05. > :17:07.bring about an agreement. The Palestinians and Israelis must
:17:08. > :17:12.work together, to reach an agreement that allows both peoples to live,
:17:13. > :17:15.worship and thrive and prosper in peace, and I will do whatever
:17:16. > :17:18.is necessary to facilitate the agreement to mediate,
:17:19. > :17:24.to arbitrate anything they would like to do,
:17:25. > :17:30.but I would love to be a mediator or facilitator and we
:17:31. > :17:34.will get this done. For more on this meeting
:17:35. > :17:37.we are joined now by Martin Indyk - who formerly served
:17:38. > :17:39.as President Obama's special envoy for
:17:40. > :17:48.Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. A lot of optimism both from
:17:49. > :17:54.President Mahmoud Abbas and President Trump. Justified? Not by
:17:55. > :17:58.the facts on the ground. If the will of President Trump was enough to
:17:59. > :18:02.resolve this problem then there would be reason for optimism. But
:18:03. > :18:06.we've learned from bitter experience that the will of the United States
:18:07. > :18:16.president alone cannot do it. It is the parties themselves that must
:18:17. > :18:17.make difficult compromises and Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu both
:18:18. > :18:21.faced domestic political difficulties that constrain them
:18:22. > :18:25.from making a deal. Is there a chance that it would take a
:18:26. > :18:31.president like President Trump who's seen as having close relations with
:18:32. > :18:35.Israel to be able to build up Abbas in this way and perhaps make a
:18:36. > :18:48.breakthrough? I think building up is what we saw here, in that clip.
:18:49. > :18:56.Abbas did not endorse a two state solution. But nevertheless he did
:18:57. > :19:02.treat Abbas as an equal. As a leader. He is under siege from
:19:03. > :19:09.Hamas, under siege from both Egyptian, Jordanian, leaders who do
:19:10. > :19:14.not think he should represent the Palestinians and here is a drug is
:19:15. > :19:23.presenting him as the leader who is going to make peace. -- here is
:19:24. > :19:27.Donald Trump. Some things that Americans have done unilaterally to
:19:28. > :19:32.complicate the issue. They appointed ambassador to Israel in David
:19:33. > :19:40.Friedman was known to be a donor to illegal settlements. Yes on both of
:19:41. > :19:44.those issues President Trump has walked back from what he was
:19:45. > :19:48.expected to do. He had said he would move the embassy on the first day
:19:49. > :19:56.but has not done it and now it is just under serious consideration.
:19:57. > :20:01.But the possibility that it could happen was reiterated. They said
:20:02. > :20:08.again it was under serious consideration and will be so in my
:20:09. > :20:11.estimation for another four years. That is what serious consideration
:20:12. > :20:18.means. On the settlement issue what is interesting is notwithstanding
:20:19. > :20:24.what you said about the ambassador to Israel, who is a strong supporter
:20:25. > :20:29.of settlement activity, the president himself in front of
:20:30. > :20:37.Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected there to be settlement restrained.
:20:38. > :20:42.And in fact there has been. Since that visit. So actually he's doing
:20:43. > :20:49.things which indicate to me a seriousness about his desire to do
:20:50. > :20:56.it. Thank you very much. And that is why we need diplomats like modern to
:20:57. > :21:03.translate for us. It is interesting the idea of pulling people close and
:21:04. > :21:05.saying, you are my friend. Much harder to break trust when, it is
:21:06. > :21:09.like having your favourite teacher and you do not want to let them
:21:10. > :21:13.down. I wonder if that is part of this secret as negotiator, that he
:21:14. > :21:18.tells them they are his best friend and they do more for him. We have
:21:19. > :21:23.seen this in China in particular, the importance of personal
:21:24. > :21:29.relationships to Donald Trump and he stressed his ability to build
:21:30. > :21:35.relationships with Xi Jinping. It will be interesting whether he talks
:21:36. > :21:39.about the personal relationship also with Malouda bass. Imagine it worked
:21:40. > :21:42.with his business dealings and we will see if that translates into
:21:43. > :21:44.politics and it is about how well you could build up personal
:21:45. > :21:46.relationship or not. In just four days the French
:21:47. > :21:49.will chose their next President - and a high stakes TV debate tonight
:21:50. > :21:51.between Marine LePen and Emmanuel Macron may help voters
:21:52. > :21:54.make their decision. For two and a half hours
:21:55. > :21:56.the candidates will be questioned on their policy positions
:21:57. > :21:59.as the voters make their choice. Our correspondent Thomas Fessy
:22:00. > :22:02.is in the city of Troyes - once a bastion of France's old textile
:22:03. > :22:19.industry and now crippled If we put this in metaphorical
:22:20. > :22:22.terms, what Macron is doing tonight effectively in this TV debate is
:22:23. > :22:27.walking across a carefully polished marble floor holding the precious
:22:28. > :22:34.ming vase and all he has to do is not to drop it. Exactly, I think a
:22:35. > :22:42.lot of people are waiting to see how Macron is going to handle these
:22:43. > :22:49.debates. 15 years ago in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen went into the
:22:50. > :22:55.run-off, his contender Jacques Chirac refused to hold a debate with
:22:56. > :22:59.him. It is the first time that a candidate has accepted to hold a
:23:00. > :23:04.discussion with a far right candidate, tonight Marine Le Pen.
:23:05. > :23:09.And of course we anticipate some kind of animated discussion. It is a
:23:10. > :23:14.key point in this campaign, they have much to convince, both
:23:15. > :23:19.candidates will be trying to convince voters to turn out on
:23:20. > :23:24.Sunday. A lot of people you know are saying they cannot identify with
:23:25. > :23:28.either candidate. And so they're planning to abstain or stay home. So
:23:29. > :23:34.that will be the last chance for both candidates to convince these
:23:35. > :23:38.people to turn out. Obviously a big challenge for the manual Macron, a
:23:39. > :23:42.lot of people think he's young and does not have the experience.
:23:43. > :23:45.Tonight is the possibility for him to prove them wrong. A big night for
:23:46. > :23:56.a manual Macron. Thank you. I have forsworn polls but I'm going
:23:57. > :24:01.to fall off the wagon. I have not seen a poll yet which puts a manual
:24:02. > :24:07.Macron less than around 20 points ahead of Marine Le Pen. Is there an
:24:08. > :24:11.increasing feeling that the vote this weekend is a foregone
:24:12. > :24:15.conclusion? Yes although you would be brave to say that in the context
:24:16. > :24:23.of what has happened with Brexit and Donald Trump. But the polls are
:24:24. > :24:26.pretty good and I was looking at the polls from 2012, and they were close
:24:27. > :24:31.to the mark. So I think it is unlikely that Marine Le Pen can do
:24:32. > :24:37.anything. What is interesting tonight is what damage she might do
:24:38. > :24:42.to him longer term but she will flag him up as part of the establishment
:24:43. > :24:46.etc. If things do not go ) quickly in the first six months then they
:24:47. > :24:52.might start thinking about Marine Le Pen. And I'm going to be there, did
:24:53. > :24:55.I tell you that? Several times! I will be there for the results
:24:56. > :25:03.programme on Sunday and I hope that you will join me for that.
:25:04. > :25:08.This is Rabbi Shmuley - TV personality you will know well -
:25:09. > :25:11.Alongside the White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
:25:12. > :25:14.The Rabbi was there to celebrate Israel's Independence Day.
:25:15. > :25:15.Nothing particular remarkable about the photograph.
:25:16. > :25:18.Until - you look beyond at the white-board behind them
:25:19. > :25:21.and there you will see, Steve Bannon's giant to do list.
:25:22. > :25:24.Complete with ticks and check marks next to each "completed" items.
:25:25. > :25:27.Now some of these proposals we know well - if we zoom in a little
:25:28. > :25:30.you will see there is the pledge there "to build the border
:25:31. > :25:32.wall and EVENTUALLY make Mexico pay for it".
:25:33. > :25:36.Down there at the bottom - is that plan to move the US embassy
:25:37. > :25:49.Number four is his plan to suspend the Syrian refugee programme -
:25:50. > :25:53.I am not quite sure why there's a tick next to that one, the last
:25:54. > :25:58.But this is my favourite bit - look how long the immigration list is.
:25:59. > :26:01.And look how long the list of proposals is on Obamacare.
:26:02. > :26:16.You're watching 100 Days Plus from BBC News.
:26:17. > :26:22.Not per day for cloud spotting in Northern Ireland, barely cloud in
:26:23. > :26:28.the sky. For most of us just blue sky from dawn until dusk.
:26:29. > :26:33.Temperatures in the high teens. But very different for many across East
:26:34. > :26:36.Anglia and south-east England, cloudy and breezy, also damp in
:26:37. > :26:43.places and quite cold at just around nine Celsius. Overnight we keep some
:26:44. > :26:52.cloud across parts of England and Wales so here the temperature is not
:26:53. > :26:56.going down too far. Some clear spells for parts of Wales, Northern
:26:57. > :27:02.England and Scotland and Northern Ireland. Turning quite chilly in
:27:03. > :27:05.rural areas with some pockets of frost in Scotland going into the
:27:06. > :27:09.warning. A bit more cloud filter name across Scotland, not the clear
:27:10. > :27:19.blue skies tomorrow but good sunny spells. Further south we have more
:27:20. > :27:23.cloud, a few brighter breaks within it. But even from the word go into
:27:24. > :27:29.the Midlands and East Anglia, south-east England, the chance of a
:27:30. > :27:36.shower. We have this cool north easterly breeze which is if anything
:27:37. > :27:39.more noticeable tomorrow. The chance of a shower into southern England
:27:40. > :27:49.going into the afternoon but again some brighter breaks possible.
:27:50. > :27:54.Temperatures held down along North Sea coasts by that breeze. Higher
:27:55. > :28:03.temperatures to the west in the sunshine. Variable cloud and sunny
:28:04. > :28:08.spells on Friday and a breezy day with the chance of the odd shower in
:28:09. > :28:12.the South. Into the weekend a lot of uncertainty about this weather
:28:13. > :28:18.system coming up which may bring -- may bring some rain. But it is far
:28:19. > :28:23.from certain at this stage. Elsewhere perhaps a shower but most
:28:24. > :28:27.places looking dry. The breeze using a bit during the day and by Sunday
:28:28. > :28:31.the wind is going to be much lighter. West is best for any
:28:32. > :28:32.sunshine on Sunday. Rather cloudy to the east and most places ending the
:28:33. > :30:07.weekend drive. Welcome back to 100 Days Plus,
:30:08. > :30:10.I'm Katty Kay in Washington - The British Prime Minister,
:30:11. > :30:14.Theresa May, has accused some European politicians of issuing
:30:15. > :30:16.threats over the Brexit negotiations, with the aim
:30:17. > :30:18.of influencing next The FBI director James Comey has
:30:19. > :30:24.defended his decision to announce an investigation
:30:25. > :30:27.into Hillary Clinton just before America is in the grip of an opioid
:30:28. > :30:44.epidemic which is growing, despite national calls
:30:45. > :30:45.to tackle the problem. In Huntington, West Virginia
:30:46. > :30:48.the death rate is more than ten And from this opioid addiction has
:30:49. > :30:52.come a heroin epidimic, which the authorities blame
:30:53. > :30:54.on the cheap availability By the time the authorities had
:30:55. > :31:00.imposed tighter regulations on prescription drugs,
:31:01. > :31:02.those already hooked were turning The emergency services in Huntington
:31:03. > :31:06.are barely able to respond Video journalists Tom Bateman
:31:07. > :31:10.and Howard Johnson have been to the front lines of this fight
:31:11. > :32:11.and a warning their film contains Steve Williams mayor of the city of
:32:12. > :32:18.Huntington, it is a town of just under 50,000 people, our County is
:32:19. > :32:24.96,000 people, yet over a five year period, just a five year period,
:32:25. > :32:28.there was over 40 million, 40 million doses of opiates that were
:32:29. > :32:39.distributed in this County alone. The numbers speak for themselves.
:32:40. > :32:45.Most of our call-outs are for drug, they probably make up something of a
:32:46. > :32:52.third of our calls, fires generally are about 15%, to 10% of our calls,
:32:53. > :32:59.so obviously the drugs are much... Sorry about that. That's me.
:33:00. > :33:18.That's an overdose. Come on. Responding to an overdose of a
:33:19. > :33:20.middle age man in a grocery store, he has been reported 911 and we are
:33:21. > :33:50.currently there now. What we got? His mum is outside.
:33:51. > :33:55.Hey buddy. What is his name? Timmy. How long you been doing heroin? Just
:33:56. > :34:00.lay there. Has it been a while since you done it? Have you been doing it
:34:01. > :34:07.for a while. We are going to stand you up against the wall. Get your
:34:08. > :34:13.bearings. Do you start on open yoids first
:34:14. > :34:22.before you move on to heroin. Yes. How did you get into it. I was, pain
:34:23. > :34:27.pills and I have 've been trying to get off. I would soon be able the
:34:28. > :34:31.hear from these companies that say we'll come in and partner with you
:34:32. > :34:36.to be Abe to fight this addiction, rather than spend their time saying
:34:37. > :34:42.if it's not our fault. We are just a business. When I was in the
:34:43. > :34:47.investment business, if I was giving advice to somebody, that caused harm
:34:48. > :34:52.to them, I would lose my career, lose my license and possibly have to
:34:53. > :34:54.pay money: Do no harm and there is plenty of harm that we can point to
:34:55. > :35:20.all around. Well, extraordinary film, the
:35:21. > :35:25.statistics are staggering. Let us look at them. 91 people die every
:35:26. > :35:29.day from open owed abuse in the US, although that is probably hiring
:35:30. > :35:35.because there is no standardised way of measures whether the death is a
:35:36. > :35:42.result of open yoid abuse. The US makes 5% of the world population yet
:35:43. > :35:46.consumes 52% of the world's prescription open oweds and round
:35:47. > :35:54.80,000 Americans are currently in prison for open yoid related crimes.
:35:55. > :35:59.So, where has it gone wrong? At almost every level. Things I have
:36:00. > :36:05.heard from people who work in this field. About 10 years ago the
:36:06. > :36:08.measurements for how well a doctor was performing, started to include
:36:09. > :36:12.the question of how well they relieved pain, at that point doctors
:36:13. > :36:19.were judged on pain relief, and there was a spike in open yoid
:36:20. > :36:24.prescriptions, they then lead to the heroin addiction. The people who are
:36:25. > :36:33.pushing heroin, are very good at data mine, they get access to data
:36:34. > :36:37.about towns where prescriptions are high, then they go in an start
:36:38. > :36:43.selling heroin because they know people are addicted to those pain
:36:44. > :36:46.relief. So they target specific towns, they know where... They
:36:47. > :36:50.target specific towns and that I have the data on which towns are
:36:51. > :36:52.vulnerable. It is stunning. Incredible.
:36:53. > :36:55.It was a police killing that sparked days of protest
:36:56. > :36:58.across the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana - and once again it
:36:59. > :37:00.highlighted the poor state of relations between the police
:37:01. > :37:04.This was the mobile phone footage that later emerged of two white
:37:05. > :37:10.officers appearing to hold down and shoot Alton Sterling
:37:11. > :37:13.He died of gunshot wounds to the chest and back.
:37:14. > :37:16.Today the US Justice Department confirmed it will not charge the two
:37:17. > :37:20.For more let's talk to the BBC's Aleem Maqbool,
:37:21. > :37:34.Start selling heroin because they know people are addicted to those
:37:35. > :37:36.pain relief. So they target specific towns, they know where... They
:37:37. > :37:39.target specific towns and that I have the data on which towns are
:37:40. > :37:40.vulnerable. It is stunning. Incredible.
:37:41. > :37:42.You have been covering this story, what is the reaction from Mr
:37:43. > :37:45.Sterling's family? It has been interesting. All eyes were on the
:37:46. > :37:50.family because of all that protest that happened last year, the family
:37:51. > :37:54.was fairly positive, they said OK, the Department of Justice has said
:37:55. > :37:56.that it doesn't meet their criteria for charging these officer, but they
:37:57. > :38:01.say they now have had more information from the Department of
:38:02. > :38:05.Justice, that will make it easier to prosecute these officers at a state
:38:06. > :38:09.level, so there is still the opportunity, you know, all the talk
:38:10. > :38:12.before now, over the last 24 hours or so of rumour that the Department
:38:13. > :38:16.of Justice was not going to prosecute, was that it was something
:38:17. > :38:21.to do with the fact that Donald Trump was always support porting the
:38:22. > :38:25.police officers, that the Attorney General has had accusations of
:38:26. > :38:29.racism of course in the past, but the Department of Justice was saying
:38:30. > :38:33.whether it was under Obama or triumph it wouldn't have made a
:38:34. > :38:37.difference there is opportunity for the state to take things forward and
:38:38. > :38:41.prosecute the officers in the case. It is becoming increasingly
:38:42. > :38:45.political here too. And the concern will be that this will raise
:38:46. > :38:50.tensions yet again in Baton Rouge and in other black communities round
:38:51. > :38:53.America. Certainly, if the state doesn't prosecute these officers is
:38:54. > :38:56.as well, but you know, there is all the talk about the current
:38:57. > :38:59.environment and you know, Donald Trump right through his campaign
:39:00. > :39:05.talked about how he supported police officers is and he was the law and
:39:06. > :39:09.order President. If you ask African-American hearse, everyone
:39:10. > :39:12.under President Obama if they expected police officers is to be
:39:13. > :39:18.prosecutes, I don't think they would have expected it then and they don't
:39:19. > :39:22.necessarily expect it now. Specific things were called for, for
:39:23. > :39:26.example police cameras, at the time of the really bad time of this last
:39:27. > :39:31.summer, has that happened any of that? It has happened in some police
:39:32. > :39:38.force, not all but it has happened. The difference will come with a
:39:39. > :39:43.different style of training, with difference in the confrontational
:39:44. > :39:47.manner in which police officers are taught to operate, to shoot first,
:39:48. > :39:51.and ask later, if they feel their life is in danger, it is to take
:39:52. > :39:53.that person out, and that hasn't changed as yet. Thank you very much
:39:54. > :40:02.for coming in. Hillary Clinton's appearance
:40:03. > :40:04.in New York yesterday made plenty of headlines when it came to the US
:40:05. > :40:08.election but there was also a strong message about empowering
:40:09. > :40:09.women around the world. She spoke of her experiences
:40:10. > :40:12.travelling around the world meeting with women and how while there has
:40:13. > :40:18.been progress, there You look at places where women's
:40:19. > :40:27.rights are being stripped away, they are the places most likely to either
:40:28. > :40:31.catalyse or protect terrorism, or create ideologies that are ant
:40:32. > :40:37.netical to women's's lives and futures. It islet no an accident.
:40:38. > :40:40.Part of what I really believe is that women's rights is the
:40:41. > :40:45.unfinished business of the 21st century. You do a lot of these
:40:46. > :40:49.empowerment discussions in America, has she got a point? Look, I do
:40:50. > :40:52.think that the evidence is there and the studies have been done, it is
:40:53. > :40:57.harder for women to run for political office than it is for men,
:40:58. > :40:59.they are judged by different standards, they are asked questions
:41:00. > :41:03.about whether they are spending enough time with their family,
:41:04. > :41:05.whether their political acareer are impacting their children. Men are
:41:06. > :41:09.never asked those questions. She has a point. I think she has to be
:41:10. > :41:18.careful about blaming the result of the last election, whether it is on
:41:19. > :41:22.the FBI director, or misogyny. She has to accept it herself. We are
:41:23. > :41:26.critical of Donald Trump, when he doesn't speak truth and she didn't
:41:27. > :41:30.refer at all yesterday to the problems on the ground, in
:41:31. > :41:36.Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, in Florida, she didn't talk about the fact the
:41:37. > :41:41.majority of white women didn't vote for her and a candidate that had
:41:42. > :41:45.negative approval ratings coming into office. Hillary Clinton didn't
:41:46. > :41:49.talk about this new book we talked about last week where it was
:41:50. > :41:55.questioned whether she had a rational for winning, that is what
:41:56. > :42:01.Democrats need to look at. They have to find a convincing candidate. I
:42:02. > :42:04.showed you a photograph. I wanted to tell you that apparently the Rabbi
:42:05. > :42:10.tweeted this with the wrong Twitter handle. He tagged the wrong Steve
:42:11. > :42:14.Bannon. In fact the Steve Bannon is from Scotland, living in the
:42:15. > :42:18.south-west and he has been deluged with messages since this went up.
:42:19. > :42:24.Not all of them favourable it is fair to say. If he is watching this
:42:25. > :42:28.is a come on to Steve Bannon of south-west of England. Why don't we
:42:29. > :42:32.have him on tomorrow to do our ordinary person of the week! There
:42:33. > :42:36.must be a slew of people, there is probably Donald Trumps round the
:42:37. > :42:44.world that are getting Twitter feeds that don't belong to the President
:42:45. > :42:50.and getting inundated. We should have a casting call. We are on the
:42:51. > :42:58.hunt for Steve Bannon of England: That is it from 100 days plus. We
:42:59. > :42:59.will be back tomorrow. I will be in Paris. Thanks for