:00:10. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to this special edition of 100 Days+. Conservatives
:00:15. > :00:24.in America are Trinder this day for seven years. Yes, Republicans will
:00:25. > :00:30.shortly vote to repeal Obamacare. We still don't know what will be in the
:00:31. > :00:33.new package. Donald Trump could be a step closer to fulfilling a big
:00:34. > :00:37.campaign promise but it is only step. The Duke of Edinburgh will
:00:38. > :00:46.retire from public duties this autumn. At 95, it is a well earned
:00:47. > :00:50.break. Here in France, voters are three days away from picking their
:00:51. > :00:55.new president. Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron make their final
:00:56. > :00:59.pitch to voters the day after a heated debate. And we have an
:01:00. > :01:04.amazing story of survival. The server who clung to his board for 30
:01:05. > :01:09.hours speech to the BBC. I turned -- they turned around.
:01:10. > :01:27.And then they saved my life. Hello, I'm Christian Fraser in
:01:28. > :01:30.Paris. Katty Kay is in Washington. There are important stories on both
:01:31. > :01:35.sides of the Atlantic. Very shortly, we will turn to the heated debate
:01:36. > :01:39.last night and television between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
:01:40. > :01:44.We will talk to guests in Paris as well. Before that, let's focus on
:01:45. > :01:49.Washington. In the next few minutes we will have breaking news as
:01:50. > :01:54.Republicans start to vote on repealing and replacing Obamacare.
:01:55. > :01:59.Yes, the House of Representatives will start that vote shortly. There
:02:00. > :02:05.seems to have been some glitch. We expected it in the last few hours.
:02:06. > :02:09.It is a vote on President Obama's most important legacy. President
:02:10. > :02:13.Trump promised to get rid of it. In the end of those members of Congress
:02:14. > :02:17.are taking a vote, not knowing how much the replacement bill would cost
:02:18. > :02:21.are many Americans will lose their health insurance.
:02:22. > :02:25.Here is a Democrat and Republican. Any health-care bill that came to
:02:26. > :02:30.this floor should be about expanding coverage and lowering costs. We want
:02:31. > :02:34.to work with you on that. Instead, you bring a bill that will rip out
:02:35. > :02:38.care away from tens of millions of people. How can you do this to the
:02:39. > :02:42.American people? How can you do this to your constituents? This is a
:02:43. > :02:48.terrible, terrible bill. You should vote no.
:02:49. > :02:52.If we want to talk about misleading the American people, it started
:02:53. > :02:54.seven years ago and it ends today. The American people deserve better.
:02:55. > :03:01.They have been thrown under the bus seven years.
:03:02. > :03:04.President Trump has tweeted about this process, accusing Democrats
:03:05. > :03:08.effectively doing some scaremongering. He said insurance
:03:09. > :03:14.companies are fleeing Obamacare. It is dead. Our health care plan will
:03:15. > :03:19.lower premiums and the great health care acclamation Mark One of the
:03:20. > :03:27.things Democrats don't like about the plan... Somebody with stage four
:03:28. > :03:33.cancer could now pay $132,000 more per year. If you have congestive
:03:34. > :03:38.heart failure you could pay $18,000 more. And you could face an extra
:03:39. > :03:42.$17,000 per year if you happen to get pregnant. For more on the
:03:43. > :03:46.significance of this vote, we are joined by Jon Sopel. It is pretty
:03:47. > :03:49.extraordinary that we have Republicans and Democrats taking a
:03:50. > :03:54.vote on a bill that many of them have not actually even read? It is
:03:55. > :04:00.extraordinary. You can't believe it is a ledger to -- legislative
:04:01. > :04:04.process. There is a congressional budget office. That is the body that
:04:05. > :04:08.marks the homework, if you like, of Congress. They look at what is being
:04:09. > :04:14.proposed. They are independent, bipartisan. And their job is to work
:04:15. > :04:19.out what the cost would be, how many people will be affected, adversely
:04:20. > :04:23.or positively. They haven't done that with this bill. So they are
:04:24. > :04:30.flying blind. They are saying to the captain, we want to go here but we
:04:31. > :04:35.don't have a map. In the meantime you have lots of outside groups.
:04:36. > :04:39.Nobody likes a vacuum in politics. They are coming in with their own
:04:40. > :04:42.numbers. It looks like certain people will end up paying more and
:04:43. > :04:47.some people could stop getting insurance. How much of a concern
:04:48. > :04:52.with this B2 Republicans? There is always that thing in politics, what
:04:53. > :04:55.is the difference between short-term tactics and long-term strategy?
:04:56. > :04:58.Short-term tactics, the Republicans will get great headlines. Paul Ryan
:04:59. > :05:03.will get a big boost if the vote goes through, as we expected well.
:05:04. > :05:08.Otherwise it would be a catastrophe. It will be good for Donald Trump,
:05:09. > :05:11.short-term. But longer term, if you are going to create a class of
:05:12. > :05:17.losers, look at the impact that had for Barack Obama when he introduced
:05:18. > :05:24.Obamacare and suddenly people saw that there are deductibles had gone
:05:25. > :05:27.massively up. It could go back -- come back to bite the Republicans in
:05:28. > :05:32.the long-term in the most serious way.
:05:33. > :05:33.This is the first step. It has to go through the House of
:05:34. > :05:39.Representatives. It is only one step in the process.
:05:40. > :05:42.The one thing it is worth reminding our viewers about is that this is
:05:43. > :05:45.what they call gateway legislation. The Republicans are keen to get on
:05:46. > :05:50.with it because it leads them onto another key campaign promise, tax
:05:51. > :05:55.reform? Yes. Tax reform would be a very big
:05:56. > :05:58.win. There are are all sorts of arguments, and I was with someone
:05:59. > :06:03.this lunchtime who has been involved in the details, saying, that is what
:06:04. > :06:06.they should have started with. But the Republicans felt health care was
:06:07. > :06:09.something they had been promising for more than seven years from the
:06:10. > :06:15.moment Obamacare had been introduced. Now if they can get
:06:16. > :06:19.health care reform, then maybe that will embolden them to go on to tax
:06:20. > :06:23.reform. But we still don't know what the costs are going to be of the
:06:24. > :06:27.reform measure that will be introduced. You can't go on to tax
:06:28. > :06:32.reform until you have worked out your budget and how much you have
:06:33. > :06:35.got to spend. There is still so much that is unknown. Anyone who says it
:06:36. > :06:39.is clear what the sequencing for legislation is going to be, health
:06:40. > :06:41.care, tax reform and the infrastructure programme, I don't
:06:42. > :06:48.think we know yet. Here is a question. What do lawsuits
:06:49. > :06:52.and eggs they both made it into the French election campaign today.
:06:53. > :06:56.Marine Le Pen was out campaigning and had eggs thrown at her
:06:57. > :07:00.entourage. She avoided a direct hit back. She didn't, however, avoid a
:07:01. > :07:09.lawsuit. Emmanuel Macron filed one against. Kristian, what is going on?
:07:10. > :07:12.It is quite interesting. There is a lot of focus about the involvement
:07:13. > :07:19.of the Russians after what happened in the United States. So scared they
:07:20. > :07:24.of some interference by the Russians, they changed their within
:07:25. > :07:27.the Emmanuel Macron campaign. Yesterday there were rumours of
:07:28. > :07:31.paper is coming out which apparently, allegedly, showed that
:07:32. > :07:36.Mr Macron had an offshore bank account in the Bahamas. It was fake
:07:37. > :07:40.news. Part of the cyber warfare attack we have seen in other
:07:41. > :07:44.elections. Today he has filed a lawsuit, effectively a defamation
:07:45. > :07:51.claim. He doesn't name anybody. It is basically against X. It is an
:07:52. > :07:55.example of just how tense things have been getting. Three days
:07:56. > :07:59.remaining. Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron back on the campaign
:08:00. > :08:01.trail. She has gone to the north. Emmanuel Macron has gone to the
:08:02. > :08:08.south. It certainly suggest the last three
:08:09. > :08:12.days will not be particularly easy going for either candidate. Today's
:08:13. > :08:19.events follow the debate last night. There were a lot of insults. Marine
:08:20. > :08:24.Le Pen accused her rival of being out of date. He accused her of
:08:25. > :08:28.spreading lies and fear. He went into the television debate a
:08:29. > :08:32.long way ahead in the polls, 20% ahead. It looks as though he did not
:08:33. > :08:39.drop the ball. When you look at how people thought of the debate he came
:08:40. > :08:44.out clearly on top. 63% of respondentss rated him as the
:08:45. > :08:51.winner. 34% picking Marine Le Pen. It was a heated debate.
:08:52. > :08:54.Here are some of the key moments. TRANSLATION: Mr Macron is the
:08:55. > :08:57.candidate of savage globalisation, economic uncertainty, social
:08:58. > :09:02.brutality, have every man for himself.
:09:03. > :09:08.You say globalisation is too hard. So is Europe. Let's shut our
:09:09. > :09:12.borders. Let others succeed, not's. You have been the Minister of the
:09:13. > :09:19.economy, an adviser to the president. Why didn't you apply at
:09:20. > :09:24.the time? Your strategy has been the same for
:09:25. > :09:28.decades. What is it? Making many lies and saying everything is --
:09:29. > :09:31.doesn't work for the country. It does work.
:09:32. > :09:37.Tax hasn't gone down. The safety of our people, the fight against terror
:09:38. > :09:41.and Islamic extremism -- extremism, you don't want to take it on. I know
:09:42. > :09:47.why. We need to close our borders straightaway, immediately. That is
:09:48. > :09:50.what I do the moment I take power. That achieves nothing. There are
:09:51. > :09:56.many countries outside Schengen that have been hit as hard as us by
:09:57. > :10:00.terrorist attacks. Since 2015, we put back border controls to fight
:10:01. > :10:05.terrorism. The Emmanuel Macron camping good
:10:06. > :10:10.humour three days out. Let's steep -- speaks to Sophie MacLachlan, one
:10:11. > :10:15.of their fundraisers. How did you get involved in the movement, on
:10:16. > :10:20.March? I have a very small company. I am the only employee. I have been
:10:21. > :10:27.very worried now for a? Years because our politicians, left and
:10:28. > :10:31.right, have not been doing much these last 30 years. I have never
:10:32. > :10:36.voted before. I voted for the first time in my life for Emmanuel Macron.
:10:37. > :10:39.I joined the campaign through some friends a year ago and I have been
:10:40. > :10:45.working with a fundraising team. I am a volunteer. I worked two days a
:10:46. > :10:52.week. It has been a challenge. We started a year ago with few members.
:10:53. > :10:57.We are now 250,000. And we have over 40,000 contributors. There is a very
:10:58. > :11:03.interesting story about this. It is a party that has got up and running
:11:04. > :11:07.in EU and it is in the second round of the presidential election. It is
:11:08. > :11:09.down to 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron. But there has been a lot of
:11:10. > :11:17.fundraising going on in the background. You hired someone from
:11:18. > :11:23.-- that President Obama had used? Absolutely. We hired the same person
:11:24. > :11:26.he used for his campaign. Where you are attracted by something they had
:11:27. > :11:34.done? We liked what they had proposed. We went to grass --
:11:35. > :11:37.grassroots movements. Bottom up information. They proposed
:11:38. > :11:42.door-to-door, very new for French people. We not done more than
:11:43. > :11:44.100,000 doors. We got a lot of very interesting information which we
:11:45. > :11:50.used afterwards to create the programme. Or at least part of the
:11:51. > :11:53.programme. When you talk about the failure of Hillary Clinton's
:11:54. > :11:57.campaign in America, one of the things she forgot to do,
:11:58. > :12:01.particularly in Wisconsin, Florida etc, she forgot to get out on the
:12:02. > :12:06.ground and meet the voters. You have been doing that? We have. The
:12:07. > :12:11.campaign for the fundraising is similar to Bernie Sanders. We
:12:12. > :12:17.appealed to our members by e-mail, by social media, to help with
:12:18. > :12:21.whatever money they could, so we get donations from 1 euro to 7500, which
:12:22. > :12:26.is the maximum authorised in France because our fundraising rules are
:12:27. > :12:32.extremely strict. No companies are allowed to give any money, only
:12:33. > :12:36.people like you and I. Let's presume he wins on Sunday. The polls say he
:12:37. > :12:42.will. Let's presume he does. He will then need a parliament. There are
:12:43. > :12:46.very important elections in June for a new party such as yours. He is
:12:47. > :12:51.going to field more than 500 candidates. Half of them have never
:12:52. > :12:56.worked in politics. Where will you find them? Is not exactly half. It
:12:57. > :13:03.is one third were never worked in politics. We trained them. The rest
:13:04. > :13:07.of it is people who have been elected but not with a political
:13:08. > :13:13.party. We are talking about mayors of small cities that were not right
:13:14. > :13:16.or left. They just got elected. Some of these people will be joining.
:13:17. > :13:22.Most importantly, half of the candidates are women. That is very
:13:23. > :13:26.new. It is legal in France. We have to have half the candidates as
:13:27. > :13:30.women. Other parties put these women in zones that were not winnable. In
:13:31. > :13:36.our case the women will be in zones where we can win. Sounds
:13:37. > :13:40.interesting. Thank you. They will try to revamp the parliament in
:13:41. > :13:43.France. Emmanuel Macron is saying that not only are half the people
:13:44. > :13:48.going to be new, but they will only be able to do a certain at a time in
:13:49. > :13:53.Parliament as well. It's interesting, isn't it? He does
:13:54. > :13:57.seem to have the wind in his sales, the opinion poll we talked about.
:13:58. > :14:01.And President Obama stepping in and adore sing him. I don't know if that
:14:02. > :14:06.helps. It didn't help Brexit very much, did it?
:14:07. > :14:11.That is an interesting point. When you look at the opposition to the
:14:12. > :14:14.transatlantic trade deal at the moment, a lot of the opposition in
:14:15. > :14:21.Europe is actually here in France. And a lot of it is in support of
:14:22. > :14:27.Marine Le Pen and the far left. I'm sure there will be plenty of people
:14:28. > :14:30.like Sophie, who welcomed President Obama's involvement today, but a lot
:14:31. > :14:33.of people will say that you're open globalisation view of France is not
:14:34. > :14:39.what we want. They will not welcome it.
:14:40. > :14:42.Let's get back to the vote taking place on health care in the House of
:14:43. > :14:49.Representatives. It is under way. I am joined by Eric Kanter, a
:14:50. > :14:55.Republican from Virginia. How important is it to President Trump
:14:56. > :15:01.that this vote passes? This is a really important vote, fresher. What
:15:02. > :15:04.this vote of those is a private -- provides the pathway for overall
:15:05. > :15:11.health care reform, which was one of the major promises by Donald Trump
:15:12. > :15:16.in his presidential campaign. Repealing, replacing Obamacare has
:15:17. > :15:20.been a consistent team in election cycle after election cycle for
:15:21. > :15:26.Republicans. You are no longer in office. You can speak with a certain
:15:27. > :15:28.amount of candour. Isn't it a responsible for members of Congress
:15:29. > :15:32.to be voting on a bill that they don't know exactly what is in it?
:15:33. > :15:38.They don't know how much it'll cost and they don't know what it will to
:15:39. > :15:41.health care premiums. I don't think that business is fairly accurate.
:15:42. > :15:46.Because what happens typically in this process is the Congressional
:15:47. > :15:52.budget office scores the base bill. We have had that score. We have had
:15:53. > :15:59.that for some time. But the previous version of the bill? If you look at
:16:00. > :16:03.the amendments that have been offered, they have been offered with
:16:04. > :16:09.certain dollar amounts. We know the additional spending over the period
:16:10. > :16:14.was amounting to little over 20 billion. The latest amendment was an
:16:15. > :16:18.$8 billion amendment that they proffered and adopted yesterday. It
:16:19. > :16:23.is not quite accurate to say they are Ant budget projections. I think
:16:24. > :16:27.numbers -- members also know this is the first step in a process. This
:16:28. > :16:32.bill will go to the Senate and will likely be changed in significant
:16:33. > :16:37.ways. There may be counting on the Senate to change it. If it comes to
:16:38. > :16:41.a member of Congress who is a Republican in a moderate district,
:16:42. > :16:47.who is up for re-election, how much of a problem could voting for this
:16:48. > :16:54.bill cause them? In the end what matters most is what the product is.
:16:55. > :16:59.Once this measure works his way through the process and is finally
:17:00. > :17:03.voted on, and goes on to the president for signature, it depends
:17:04. > :17:10.what is in that law. Clearly there is an understanding on both sides
:17:11. > :17:13.that Obamacare is in a death spiral. We have just heard yesterday and
:17:14. > :17:20.other major insurer has pulled out of yet another state. My state in
:17:21. > :17:24.particular, Virginia. And what we are seeing is people are not going
:17:25. > :17:29.to have any choices for health care coverage, the way that it was
:17:30. > :17:35.promised when the Obamacare legislation was first passed. This
:17:36. > :17:39.would be an improvement. The vote has now passed. The Republicans do
:17:40. > :17:44.have the vote. They have the numbers. 216 Republicans have voted
:17:45. > :17:51.for the bill, 19 against. Donald Trump has got his win. A big moment
:17:52. > :17:56.for him. It is a big moment. An initial step in a process. The bill
:17:57. > :18:03.will then go to the Senate. The work will begin there.
:18:04. > :18:07.Just listening to this, standing in a country where they have one of the
:18:08. > :18:11.best health care services in the world, they have a high number of
:18:12. > :18:17.doctors, they spend, comparative to America, and awful lot less per
:18:18. > :18:21.person, a lot less of their GDP. There will be people in Europe
:18:22. > :18:25.saying, why is it so difficult for America to find the ideal health
:18:26. > :18:29.care system? We in America, as you know, have a
:18:30. > :18:34.different health care system. We believe in the private sector. Our
:18:35. > :18:39.health care is largely run with competitive forces in the private
:18:40. > :18:43.sector, with the introduction of Obamacare about seven years ago, it
:18:44. > :18:50.took a turn towards much more government involvement. And so this
:18:51. > :18:52.hybrid system that resulted from Obamacare, I think, will be
:18:53. > :18:57.corrected. There will be a large participation by the government.
:18:58. > :19:03.Obviously are a senior health care programme is the largest health care
:19:04. > :19:08.programme. Add the indigent programme of Medicaid and you still
:19:09. > :19:11.have the government being the largest pay for health care. People
:19:12. > :19:19.want a choice. They don't want the government to impose it upon them.
:19:20. > :19:21.That is the thrust behind the kind of repeal and replace reform that we
:19:22. > :19:26.are seeing undertaken in Congress right now.
:19:27. > :19:33.OK, thank you very much. We are seeing it happen right now.
:19:34. > :19:38.Republicans they want to pray that this bill doesn't hurt their chances
:19:39. > :19:42.of getting re-elected. They may want to start praying today. In America
:19:43. > :19:50.it is national day of prayer. In the White House, it was marked with
:19:51. > :20:04.Christian music. # Our father, who art in heaven.
:20:05. > :20:14.# Hallowed be thy name. # Thy kingdom come, I will be done.
:20:15. > :20:18.-- thy will be done. That was the scene in the rose garden earlier
:20:19. > :20:21.today. President Trump then signed an executive order allowing churches
:20:22. > :20:26.to be more political. The president said he will not allow people of
:20:27. > :20:31.faith to be bullied any more. I should point out that that executive
:20:32. > :20:36.order that he has signed is already facing legal contest from the
:20:37. > :20:39.American civil Liberties Union. They say the actions today are a
:20:40. > :20:43.broadside to the country's long-standing commitment to the
:20:44. > :20:46.separation between church and state. They are referring to the sixth
:20:47. > :20:49.Amendment of the American Constitution, which says you have to
:20:50. > :20:59.have separation. I have a six lane carriageway behind
:21:00. > :21:05.me. Was that as bad as it sounded?! Worse? I can tell by your laughter
:21:06. > :21:14.it was worse! It was quite odd. It was a strange scene. Move on,
:21:15. > :21:18.quickly! Let's go from France to Buckingham
:21:19. > :21:23.Palace. The Duke of Edinburgh will stop carrying out public engagements
:21:24. > :21:26.this autumn. Prince Philip, 96 next month, made the decision himself
:21:27. > :21:29.with the full support of the Queen. The Queen will continue with a full
:21:30. > :21:34.programme of official engagements. Peter Hunt is in London. Peter, I
:21:35. > :21:41.would imagine there is broad support for Prince Philip on this? He's five
:21:42. > :21:45.years old. He deserves a rest? Yes, on this global programme, can
:21:46. > :21:49.viewers think of anybody else at the age of 95, 96, who is on the global
:21:50. > :21:53.stage and still functioning in the way that he has done until now? In
:21:54. > :21:58.one way it is not that much of a surprise. In the UK, people
:21:59. > :22:01.generally retire in their 60s. He is doing it in his 90s. It was
:22:02. > :22:05.something he highlighted in an interview with the BBC for his 90th
:22:06. > :22:09.birthday. He said he had gone past its sell by date. It has taken in
:22:10. > :22:13.six years to act on his own advice because, in part, there has been a
:22:14. > :22:16.lot going on for the royal family. The Queen became the longest bring
:22:17. > :22:22.-- serving monarch in British history. She celebrated her Diamond
:22:23. > :22:25.Jubilee and her 90th birthday. At the start of this year he finally
:22:26. > :22:28.felt he could act on what he said all those years ago and start to
:22:29. > :22:35.withdraw from public life. Good for him. I'm 52 and I feel like I could
:22:36. > :22:39.do with a rest. The Queen will not be giving up her duties and will be
:22:40. > :22:43.taking on more commitments? I'm not sure she will be taking on more
:22:44. > :22:49.commitments. She will not give up any offer duties. The reality of the
:22:50. > :22:55.age of being a 90-year-old elected head of state in the United Kingdom
:22:56. > :23:01.and 15 other countries means she has started to do less. Investitures.
:23:02. > :23:05.Ceremonies in London and in Windsor where people in public life are
:23:06. > :23:10.awarded knighthoods, that involves standing for about one hour. She is
:23:11. > :23:13.doing fewer of those and giving them onto other royals, like Prince
:23:14. > :23:22.William, Prince Charles and Princess Ann. She, in a statement, welcomed
:23:23. > :23:26.what Prince Philip was doing. But I think privately she will feel a
:23:27. > :23:30.sense of loss, really. Obviously she -- he is still in her life. But in
:23:31. > :23:33.terms of public performances, not having him there would be quite
:23:34. > :23:39.striking for her. What is noticeable when you see them together is how he
:23:40. > :23:42.helps to lighten the mood. I saw him when he was slightly younger,
:23:43. > :23:47.lifting people over crash barriers so they could meet the Queen. And
:23:48. > :23:51.he, crucially, we are talking about a British royal family in a very
:23:52. > :23:56.good place at the moment, that wasn't always the case. The house of
:23:57. > :24:00.Windsor in the 1980s and 1990s had terrible problems, not least the
:24:01. > :24:03.public and painful collapse of the marriage of Princess Diana and
:24:04. > :24:08.Prince Charles. Then we had her death. The worst week in the Queen's
:24:09. > :24:11.rain. Everybody around the couple say Prince Philip 's advice always
:24:12. > :24:16.got better the worse the problem was.
:24:17. > :24:19.I have to tell you both ably quick story. When I was Paris
:24:20. > :24:23.correspondent here a couple of years ago I was invited to the state
:24:24. > :24:28.dinner the Queen attended. And afterwards, on the terrace at the
:24:29. > :24:31.back of the lycee Terrace -- Palace, President Hollande mingled with
:24:32. > :24:34.journalists. The Queen was still there. He didn't speak very good
:24:35. > :24:38.English but he did get across that they come here to the Arc de
:24:39. > :24:44.Triomphe to look at the flame of the unknown soldier. He said there were
:24:45. > :24:47.more crowds for her than there were for his inauguration. What he was
:24:48. > :24:53.incredulous about was the stamina of the woman. The Queen was just
:24:54. > :24:57.extraordinary, he said. She was still on the terrace in the evening.
:24:58. > :25:06.It is exhausting work? Yes. The our we commented on him stepping down.
:25:07. > :25:09.We're making clear that she is not. She does public engagement and we
:25:10. > :25:15.will be seeing her continue to do that at this age of 91 when, as is
:25:16. > :25:18.obvious to people watching, plenty of people far younger have retired
:25:19. > :25:22.and put on the slippers. That is not something the Queen will be doing
:25:23. > :25:26.any time soon. Peter Hunt, thank you. This is also
:25:27. > :25:30.getting a lot of attention in the United States. The royal family
:25:31. > :25:34.still very popular, despite our little misunderstanding a couple of
:25:35. > :25:42.hundred years ago, with Americans. They watch and follow Royal Avenue
:25:43. > :25:45.is consistently. And the news that Prince Philip was stepping down was
:25:46. > :25:54.headline news all day. You are watching 100 Days+ from BBC News.
:25:55. > :25:57.Still to come reviewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News, the
:25:58. > :26:01.amazing story of the surfer who survived more than 30 hours clinging
:26:02. > :26:07.to his board in the Irish Sea. He thought he wouldn't be found
:26:08. > :26:11.alive. And from Paris, I will be looking at the economics in France
:26:12. > :26:17.and how employment or unemployment plays into Sunday's election.
:26:18. > :26:24.Good evening. A lovely day for a large part of the United Kingdom.
:26:25. > :26:28.Plenty of sunshine. This is the view at mid-afternoon in the Highlands of
:26:29. > :26:33.Scotland. It wasn't sunny for all. Mid-afternoon in the south-west of
:26:34. > :26:36.London. Lots of clothes but little rain. It was quite cloudy for many
:26:37. > :26:40.Southern counties, parts of south Wales as well. Thickening cloud
:26:41. > :26:47.pushing its way in on the breeze from the North Sea may bring the odd
:26:48. > :26:52.spot of rain. That will be in the south-east and East Anglia. Clear
:26:53. > :26:58.skies further north. A chilly night. No major problems in towns and
:26:59. > :27:00.cities. Five to 7 degrees. In rural parts of northern inland and
:27:01. > :27:05.northern Scotland we will see a touch of frost. A chilly start for
:27:06. > :27:08.some. It could be grey around the north and north-east of Scotland.
:27:09. > :27:12.Elsewhere, a lovely start with plenty of sunshine. And there is a
:27:13. > :27:17.good deal of sunshine to be had in Northern Ireland. Most of northern
:27:18. > :27:20.England as well. Wales, the Midlands, across to East Anglia, a
:27:21. > :27:25.lovely start to the day. Always breezy and cooled and North Sea
:27:26. > :27:28.coast. Breezy along the south coast as well. That is where we will see
:27:29. > :27:33.most of the cloud. The southernmost counties in particular seem that
:27:34. > :27:36.lead. That cloud will be there or thereabouts as you go through the
:27:37. > :27:42.day. Quite breezy. A dry day pretty much everywhere. Spells of sunshine
:27:43. > :27:46.for Wales, much of the Midlands and the northern half of the UK
:27:47. > :27:53.generally. Still cool. Head further west and inland, temperatures up to
:27:54. > :27:57.18 degrees. Quite a warm day. Through the evening, there may be a
:27:58. > :28:00.few spots of rain in the Midlands. Rain getting into Cornwall as well.
:28:01. > :28:05.This weather front in the south-west will not amount to much. Rainfall
:28:06. > :28:08.will not be widespread on Saturday. It is confined to the strath
:28:09. > :28:13.south-west of England. It may skirt its way along South Coast later.
:28:14. > :28:18.Most places will be dry as well. The odd shower possible for the North.
:28:19. > :28:22.The western side of Scotland doing well, 17 or 18 degrees. This week
:28:23. > :28:25.weather front drift away to was the near continent in the second part of
:28:26. > :28:30.the weekend. The winds fall much lighter across most parts of the UK.
:28:31. > :28:33.Stella breeze and Sea coast. Head further west, temperatures should be
:28:34. > :28:36.higher. These guys will be brighter as well.
:28:37. > :30:04.-- the skies. Members of the US House of
:30:05. > :30:26.Representatives have voted to repeal People in this country, they want to
:30:27. > :30:29.have a choice. They don't want to have a government impose upon them
:30:30. > :30:32.the kind of health care they need their families.
:30:33. > :30:34.The French Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has filed a lawsuit
:30:35. > :30:36.after his nationalist rival Marine Le Pen alluded
:30:37. > :30:51.to an alleged offshore account during Wednesday's debate.
:30:52. > :30:53.Returning now to the French Presidential election.
:30:54. > :30:56.As Marine Le Pen and Emanuel Macron make their final arguments
:30:57. > :30:58.to the voters, economic issues have taken centre stage.
:30:59. > :31:01.Compared to Germany, France's economic performance has
:31:02. > :31:02.fallen behind, and youth unemployment is
:31:03. > :31:18.one in four Young adults unemployed and a lot of talk last night about
:31:19. > :31:23.the economics and also about tax affairs as well. We are going to
:31:24. > :31:26.speak to an economist who is with us.
:31:27. > :31:30.With me now is Eric Chaney, economic advise to the Institute Montaigne.
:31:31. > :31:36.He has just arrived this minute so he's going to step into the picture!
:31:37. > :31:41.He is taking off his scarf! Sorry to drag you straight onto camera! Tell
:31:42. > :31:47.us a bit about last night's debate. A lot of talk yesterday about
:31:48. > :31:49.unemployment, which is of course a key issue, and particularly in the
:31:50. > :31:54.areas of the north of the country where Marine Le Pen has done so
:31:55. > :31:58.well. Which of the candidates do you think has the answer? There is only
:31:59. > :32:02.doubt the only candidate has an answer about the labour market is
:32:03. > :32:07.Macron. Because he has reforms. Whether these are the best one could
:32:08. > :32:11.imagine, I'm not totally sure, but she has absolutely nothing. She
:32:12. > :32:15.doesn't want to change anything. She just wants to close the borders,
:32:16. > :32:19.like the US did in 1930, and she tries to tell people, if we close
:32:20. > :32:24.the borders everything will be fine. We will get jobs. But there is no
:32:25. > :32:29.change whatsoever in the labour market. How can you reduce
:32:30. > :32:34.unemployment if you don't change things? You from the business world
:32:35. > :32:39.and of course you are in favour of a Emmanuel Macron, but many Le Pen
:32:40. > :32:42.supporters will say, what has globalisation really done for us?
:32:43. > :32:47.What has the EU really done? It's taken away our factories and jobs
:32:48. > :32:53.and brought us nothing. We have exactly the same debate in the US,
:32:54. > :32:58.France, the UK. Not in Germany, by the way, where they are happy with
:32:59. > :33:03.globalisation. France is a small economy in a big world. If France
:33:04. > :33:08.cannot export and it has to import, it will be even poorer. And that is
:33:09. > :33:12.the answer that is not that easy to tell people. Not really because of
:33:13. > :33:15.China but because of the incredible technological changes we are seeing.
:33:16. > :33:23.So if you tell these people, we need to export, if you put barriers on
:33:24. > :33:26.imports, there will be barriers for exports, and then it will be very
:33:27. > :33:32.hard to hear that, but it's the truth. What they need to do is cut
:33:33. > :33:38.spending. It's the highest government spending in the world.
:33:39. > :33:46.You spend far too much money on the public sector. That's absolutely
:33:47. > :33:52.right. 56% of the French GDP is made of public spending, of which half is
:33:53. > :33:55.for the government and half is for the welfare state, so unemployment,
:33:56. > :34:04.pensions and health care. This is too much. It was probably a bit
:34:05. > :34:10.ambitious to want to cut it to 50%. Macron wants to cut it to 53, 50
:34:11. > :34:14.four. Still very high. France is more likely to drift towards a
:34:15. > :34:17.Swedish Danish model rather than the UK or US because there is this
:34:18. > :34:22.welfare state and people want to keep it, so you have to streamline
:34:23. > :34:28.the welfare state but not get it aggressively. This would not be
:34:29. > :34:32.accepted by the population. Thank you very much indeed for your
:34:33. > :34:36.thoughts. A lot of focus on Emmanuel Macron if he does win this election
:34:37. > :34:41.on Sunday and the sorts of reforms he can put in place.
:34:42. > :34:43.Yes. Interesting. We mentioned this before.
:34:44. > :34:45.Three days before the election and Emmanuel Macron has
:34:46. > :34:48.Barack Obama made a video which the centrist candidate
:34:49. > :34:52.I'm not planning to get involved in many elections now that I don't
:34:53. > :34:57.But the French election is very important to the future of France
:34:58. > :34:59.and the values that we care so much about.
:35:00. > :35:01.Because the success of France matters to the entire world.
:35:02. > :35:04.I also want you to know that I am supporting Emmanuel Macron
:35:05. > :35:19.Barack Obama there! Didn't work for him very well! I have done so poor
:35:20. > :35:31.in the studio. I know you are itching to talk about Barack Obama!
:35:32. > :35:35.-- Jon Sopel. This is not great. He intervened very strongly in the
:35:36. > :35:38.Brexit debate, didn't turn out so well! But fascinating scenes at the
:35:39. > :35:49.House of Representatives. Big win for Donald Trump. But they also
:35:50. > :35:58.started singing the song from the end of the 1960s... No. "Goodbye".
:35:59. > :36:03.The Republicans saying goodbye to Obamacare. Not yet. They then filed
:36:04. > :36:06.out and there were buses waiting to take them for high fives at the
:36:07. > :36:14.White House in the rose garden, and as they came down the steps, childs
:36:15. > :36:22.of "Shame, shame" from Democrats, so this fight is not over. -- chancing
:36:23. > :36:27.of "Shame". People will be thinking, if this is going to affect me, and
:36:28. > :36:32.also a lot of pressure then on senators to say, do you really want
:36:33. > :36:35.to back this? Where does your gut go with this vote now that the
:36:36. > :36:39.president has had a winner on, with which of the song they were singing
:36:40. > :36:51.from which every decade, does Obamacare get repealed? Finally. Is
:36:52. > :36:55.that it? Trumpcare has passed the first hurdle. It now exists. I think
:36:56. > :37:01.the president will be using all his considerable muscle to try to get
:37:02. > :37:04.senators on board, to do deals that will make further amendments if
:37:05. > :37:10.necessary to get the Senate support, and maybe it will. Christian, do
:37:11. > :37:18.members of Parliament sing songs from the 1960s when bills are
:37:19. > :37:24.passed? LAUGHTER
:37:25. > :37:31.He's been stunned into silence! I think we've lost Christian in
:37:32. > :37:35.Palace. You can -- in Paris. There has been other news going on around
:37:36. > :37:38.the world, not necessarily in US or here in Europe.
:37:39. > :37:40.University students in Venezuela will lead a fresh round of marches
:37:41. > :37:41.against President Nicolas Maduro Thursday.
:37:42. > :37:44.It comes a day after police fired tear gas and protesters hurled
:37:45. > :37:46.Molotov cocktails in rallies against the President's plan
:37:47. > :37:50.More than 300 people were reported to have been injured in the clashes.
:37:51. > :37:53.Russia, Turkey and Iran have signed an agreement to establish four
:37:54. > :37:56.The proposals drawn up by Moscow were agreed at peace
:37:57. > :38:00.It comes as an air strike near Damascus.
:38:01. > :38:04.Representatives of the Syrian armed opposition walked out of the talks,
:38:05. > :38:08.saying they could not accept the plan.
:38:09. > :38:10.Under the agreement, Syrian and Russian warplanes
:38:11. > :38:12.would stop their bombing and opposition groups
:38:13. > :38:20.Now for an update to a story we brought you earlier this week.
:38:21. > :38:22.When Matthew Bryce went out surfing on Sunday,
:38:23. > :38:24.he had no idea that his trip would soon turn into
:38:25. > :38:28.But after spending more than 30 hours stranded at sea
:38:29. > :38:31.clinging to his board, he was found and taken to hospital.
:38:32. > :38:33.Matthew and his family have been talking exclusively
:38:34. > :38:50.By the night it wasn't just my shoulders. All my limbs were numb.
:38:51. > :38:52.Matthew Bryce is exhausted, sunburnt and still recovering
:38:53. > :38:57.from more than 30 hours spent drifting alone in the Irish Sea.
:38:58. > :38:59.I would say that's probably a yellow surfboard so that
:39:00. > :39:04.This picture was taken on Westport beach in Scotland on Sunday,
:39:05. > :39:07.and Matthew believes it shows him at the start of a day's surfing
:39:08. > :39:10.before strong winds and tides pulled him far out into the water.
:39:11. > :39:12.The current changes and I can't do anything, and all this time
:39:13. > :39:15.the wind's pushing me further and further and further out.
:39:16. > :39:27.He ended up clinging to his surfboard in the Irish Sea
:39:28. > :39:29.throughout Sunday night and all of Monday, before
:39:30. > :39:32.he was eventually found closer to Northern Ireland than Scotland 13
:39:33. > :39:35.miles from the beach he left, found just as the sun was setting
:39:36. > :39:47.I was pretty certain that I was going
:39:48. > :39:53.So I was watching the sun set, I had pretty much made peace with all,
:39:54. > :40:04.And the helicopter flew right over, so I jumped off the board
:40:05. > :40:06.and I lifted the board up and I started waving
:40:07. > :40:13.And they flew right over me, I thought they'd missed me.
:40:14. > :40:29.This is the moment he was rescued from the water, and his family
:40:30. > :40:37.could finally be told that he was alive.
:40:38. > :40:39.You have this elation, and then 20 minutes later
:40:40. > :40:47.And until we got that phone call from Matthew,
:40:48. > :40:59.The search teams have apparently recovered your surfboard as well.
:41:00. > :41:01.Are you looking forward to being reunited with your surfboard?
:41:02. > :41:05.Erm...I think we'll find a good use for it.
:41:06. > :41:22.And his family are likely to make him keep that pledge.
:41:23. > :41:31.Chris Buckler, BBC News, at the Ulster Hospital in Belfast.
:41:32. > :41:39.What an extraordinary story. You know, I've taken the same pledge. I
:41:40. > :41:44.got stuck in a riptide windsurfing and I thought I was going to be in
:41:45. > :41:49.France the next day! There's nothing you can do about it once the sea
:41:50. > :41:54.gets hold of you. I tried it once and it was like being in a washing
:41:55. > :41:59.machine! That's one lucky surfer and one lucky mum, too! What you rate
:42:00. > :42:06.the chances of Marine Le Pen turning this thing around in the next couple
:42:07. > :42:10.of days, then? There a weird thing in France where everybody leaves the
:42:11. > :42:15.weekend -- leaves the cities and goes to the beaches over the
:42:16. > :42:20.weekend. Her only chance is a big abstention rate like that. And
:42:21. > :42:24.particularly on the left. I was talking to one of them on the way to
:42:25. > :42:29.the broadcast tonight and he said, I just don't know what to do at the
:42:30. > :42:33.weekend. Do I vote for Macron or just spoil my vote? And that's the
:42:34. > :42:36.dilemma many are facing on the left at the moment. So never say never,
:42:37. > :42:42.but I really think she's up against it. Christian will be in Paris for
:42:43. > :42:46.the rest of the vote and he will bring us the elections and the
:42:47. > :42:51.results as soon as they come in. In the meantime, we will see you back
:42:52. > :42:55.here on 100 Days+ next Monday. Join us then and Christian can give us
:42:56. > :42:57.the results. From Christian in Paris and me in Washington, thank you for
:42:58. > :43:01.joining us.