08/05/2017 100 Days+

The transition of power is currently underway in France.

Emmanuel Macron will officially be sworn in as the new

The President-elect was today fulfilling his first ceremonial role

alongside the man he will replace, but in a week's time

he will stand alone, with the job of uniting a deeply

It will be hard for him, because I'm sure lots of people

vote for him yesterday, but it's almost

Some of those who did not support Emmanuel Macron took

to the streets in protest today, underling the challenge ahead.

What impact could President Macron have on the Brexit negotiation?

Also: New reports say President Obama warned Donald Trump

over hiring Michael Flynn as his national security advisor.

The news comes just as the dismissed acting attorney general Sally Yates

will testify about any ties between the Trump

Cracking down on fake news - Facebook is putting out

tips on how to spot it, but could the British election be

I am Katty Kay in New York, Christian Fraser is in Paris.

Not since the days of Napoleon has a Frenchman risen to power so young

Not since World War II has a leader taken power without a party

There were very few in the established political class

who endorsed Emmanuel Macron or believed in his bid

to become president, but president he will become this

Sunday when he assumes power from Francois Hollande.

He has already resigned his leadership of the movement

It will now be re-named La Republique En Marche.

Politicians from right and left will be allowed to campaign

under its banner in next month crucial parliamentary elections,

so long as they quit the parties to which they belong.

The President-elect says he wants a coalition of the willing.

Starting our coverage, our Europe editor,

It's been a day of reflection in France.

Paying tribute to World War II fallen.

Taking stock of fresh challenges ahead.

France's brand-new President-elect here at VE Day commemorations,

taking his cue from outgoing head of state, Francois Hollande.

France's soon to be youngest ever president looked

a little unsure last night, as well.

Rehearsing for his new role, as he prepared for his

But by the time he took to the stage, Emmanuel

Macron had a confident, for many controversial, message.

To the tune of the EU anthem, he said Europe was the future

Leading Europhiles are delighted, if in understated tones.

TRANSLATION: Emmanuel Macron carries the hopes of millions

He led a courageous, pro-European campaign,

and stands for openness in the world.

Emmanuel Macron has raised high expectations, promising many

things to many people, to dramatically reform France,

caring for the fragile while boosting business,

and to be very tough on Brexit, but he doesn't have his own

government or MPs in Parliament, so is he flexing muscles

France's President-elect has made Brexit threats aplenty.

After Brexit, Mr Macron has vowed to tear up an agreement where France

prevents thousands of migrants making their way to Dover each year.

And he's talked of luring banks and businesses from the City

At a campaign event in London today, the Prime Minister said

Mr Macron's Brexit ambitions must be matched.

He was elected with a strong mandate, which gives him a strong

In the UK, we need to ensure we have an equally strong

mandate, and an equally strong negotiating position.

But domestic discontent, not Brexit, will be Mr Macron's main focus.

This was a trade union demonstration earlier today.

Macron was foisted on us by banks, lobbies and the EU elite, she says.

As a centrist politician, Emmanuel Macron faces

opposition left and right, only weeks away from a crucial

A lot of people are asking whether France is truly a divided nation.

After all, Mr Macron took 66% of the vote.

Almost 21 million people voted for him, but 11 million people voted

for the far right candidate, Marine le Pen.

When you drill into the figures you discover there were also

16 million other registered voters that either abstained or went

to the polling stations and left a blank or spoilt vote.

When you do the sums he actually took just over 43%

So, if he doesn't succeed, improve the French economy, kept

unemployment down, is the window still open that a third of French

voters voted for Marine Le Pen, is the windowsill ( other nationalist

populist to make the running and succeed where Marine Le Pen field?

Yes, absolutely. Don't forget Jean-Luc Melenchon, who did well in

the first round boat. Nearly 50% of the French people voted for a

Eurosceptic candidates. Yes, absolutely, if he doesn't do the

business over the next five years people will look at those figures

and say he didn't really have the mandate and there is a risk that one

of those two leaders will come back and may well hunt Mr Macron. The

reaction here in America this has been bubbling from with joy from

Democrats. I keep reminding people here that she did get one third of

the boat, Marine Le Pen. -- vote. So who is the man who will become

the next President of France? At 39 years of age, he has limited

political experience. He spent just two years

as the Economy Minister in the socialist government

of Francois Hollande. His performances in the TV

debates were polished, on the campaign trail he appeared

confident and in charge of his brief, but what about the man

behind the politician? Tonight, the French voters will see

a side to Emmanuel Macron The French network TF1 are to screen

a fly-on-the-wall documentary. It's called Emmanuel Macron:

Behind The Scenes Of The Victory . I have been speaking

to director Yann L'Henoret. He followed Mr Macron for eight

months, getting extraordinary access along the way,

including the final moments last night before he made

his acceptance speech. The most intriguing moment is this

meeting between him and the centrist grandee, Francois Bayrou, he thought

he was too young but was prepared to give him a go. Exactly. It was a

very special sequence to shoot because Francois Bayrou was coming

and was a little shy. He knew I was filming this meeting, which was a

private one. I had to be very discreet and I did not look at him

in the eye, for example. I just thought I would take my shots.

Just a couple of weeks ago at the Whirlpool factory Marine Le Pen

comes and stands with the workers outside the factory well he is

inside with the bosses. He gets very tough with the staff. Very.

He was disappointed that he didn't get... He thought he was doing

everything right and Marine Le Pen was in the light and he was not. I

think he thought it was unfair to be treated like this, so he gathered

all of his group and said that he could not do it any more like this.

He had to go and meet all the people, and that is what he is going

to do anything for the next five years. Fascinating. It does sound

like Yann L'Henoret is a fan of Mr Macron. When you were speaking to

the director, what did he say about the evolution he sort of Mr Macron

in the campaign, did he change in anyway as he got closer to the

possibility of becoming President of France? Yes, I think you did.

Obviously, there was a period and they had to build trust between each

other as he was filming, but it was true that there was an evolution

Emmanuel Macron. In the minutes -- at the beginning he worked in

no-hoper. He got the sense he said through the campaign that he was

starting to grow into the role. That moment there were you saw him at the

factory telling his staff that he had to go out and take risks or

otherwise he would be like Francois Hollande, he said that was the

moment that he became the leader. The other interesting aspect was the

role that his wife plays. Although he is very collegiate with the rest

of his staff, when he comes off the televised debate has been at a rally

he turns to her first and says, was a good? She writes his speeches,

instruct him on where he has gone wrong. I think she will play a

prominent role when he becomes president. One other thing come he

is 39 years old. What have you done with your life up until now?

President of what exactly? I have got to really up my game. I am even

the number two on this programme! Never!

There's breaking news out of Washington today

about the investigation into the Trump campaign's

This was when Donald Trump visited Barack Obama in the White House two

What we didn't know, until today, is that

during their 90 minute meeting, Mr Obama personally warned Mr Trump

not to hire General Michael Flynn as part of the new administration.

Now Obama allies are telling US reporters about the highly unusual

Just a brief time ago, Sean Spicer addressed the reports

It is true that the president... President Obama made it known that

he wasn't a fan of general Flint, which shouldn't come as a surprise

to anyone given that general Flynn had worked for President Obama, was

outspoken critic of the shortcomings, specifically as it

related to his lack of strategy in confronting Isis and other threats

facing America. The question you have to hazard yourself is if

President Obama was truly concerned about General Flint, why didn't he

suspend his security clearance? Why did the Obama administration let him

go to Russia for a speaking engagement and gap as the? -- get

In the next few minutes we will hear a lot more

about these ties to Russia, and Mr Flynn, when the former acting

Attorney General Sally Yates testifies about Russian interference

Here's what led to today's testimony.

Ms Yates was asked by the Trump administration to stay

on in the role until the President's nominee, Jeff Sessions,

could take over President Trump then fired Yates in January

after she refused to defend his travel ban immigration order.

In a statement, Sean Spicer accuses Sally Yates of betraying

Today, Congress will question Ms Yates about her warnings

to the Trump team about the former national security advisor

Michael Flynn and his contacts with Russia.

Among those questioning her will be Democratic senator Amy Klobuchar,

Are you surprised that President Obama intervened personally on the

issue of Donald Trump hiring General Flynn, and how unusual would that

be? I would imagine it is pretty unusual but this is someone that

President Obama had fired from his administration, so that is also

really unusual. President Obama didn't terminate a lot of his senior

people, so that would be why it would be so unique. The second thing

it is that it backs up other things we had been hearing. I haven't heard

about the President Obama news until today. We have heard the actual

Attorney General, Sally Yates, back then also warned them and I will be

asking the questions about that today. This a series of warning that

for good reason our intelligence officials are dealing with the man

who basically lied to the vice president of the United States,

someone who spoke to the Russian ambassador on the very day that

President Obama had announced the expansion of sanctions against

Russia. There is a whole series of conduct is here that our

intelligence sources have tracked, conveyed to the people they were

supposed to, then those people in good faith for warning the incoming

administration than the actual administration about this problem.

Donald Trump is suggesting this is Barack Obama's fault because it was

Barack Obama who give General Flint security clearance in the first

place. OK, first of all Barack Obama fired General Flynn. Secondly, years

went by since that happened, so there had to be a new vetting

process. Third, the reason that President Trump and his team seem to

be giving his dad General Flynn was so loyal to President Trump. I have

a lot of friends from high school who are loyal to me but that doesn't

mean I put them in as national-security adviser. There are

a lot of reasons to question President Trump waking up this

morning than blaming President Obama for something that was clearly his

decision and after they had been warned by the Acting Attorney

General of the United States that this was a big security breach, but

he had lied to the vice president, lied to government officials, he

actually left this man in his position for 18 days. You will be

interviewing Sally Yates shortly in the congressional hearings. What is

the one thing you would like to hear from her fact could move this

investigation/ Mark it is important that we establish her warnings were

formal. There are some indications that they could have been more

casual. I think whatever she can say that is not classified will be

important in terms of exactly what she knew and what she believes that

means. Also, remember the director will also be there. He has already

in his testimony talked about Vladimir Putin's major focus on

trying to hurt Hillary Clinton in the selection and trying to bring

her down in the selection. I hope this will inject some seriousness

into the administration coming forward with the information. 17

intelligent agencies in the United States have firmly said that a

foreign power was trying to influence our elections. This should

not just be a concern about one political party or a election, it is

the concern of all democracies around the world. That is why I want

an independent commission to our panel of experts and, with

recommendations of what we do have this happens again and how we can

prevent it. As Senator Amy Klobuchar indicated

there, there has been more than one temp two pass the buck.

President Trump gave it another go on Twitter today.

General Flynn was given the highest security clearance

by the Obama Administration - but the Fake News seldom likes

He also tweeted: Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how

classified information got into the newspapers soon

He is busy trying to smear Sally Yates bid through that week. A lot

of people at home will be wondering if we keep hearing about this Russia

investigation but when will it come a head? I am almost beginning to

feel sorry for General Flint at the moment. Nobody wants to own this

guy. He has been left at the cold, he is by lawyers. Night Donald Trump

and saying it is all Barack Obama's fault. I think the real issue, why

it matters to people here in the United States, two people in France,

Britain, Germany later on this year, is that this really is all about

Russian involvement in the democratic process. Glad your Putin

and his cohort is's attempts to undermine Western democratic

processes. That is why these investigations are important.

Democrats are saying that they are being stonewalled, not getting the

information that they need to push these investigations forward, both

in the Senate or in the house and this could take a long time, which

is also why some of them are saying we need an independent investigator

because they don't trust the republicans to carry this through

faithfully. On General Flynn, he has offered to give some evidence to the

Senate so long as he is not charged. What is going on with that? Both

republicans and Democrats have said they will not give him immunity. The

people on the committees would like to question him but they haven't

done so yet. He is a key part of this. So far, as far as we know, he

was steps from the oval office as national security adviser, he had

access to the top secret in the country, yet he had this past with

Russia that is some inexplicable. That is an extraordinary situation

for the country to find itself in. Who's responsibility

is it to stop fake news? Facebook clearly thinks it should

at least be seen to try. Ahead of the UK election,

the tech giant has placed ads in several British newspapers

with ten tips on how to spot After facing criticism in the US

campaign that fake news stories spread on Facebook affected

the election, the tech giant clearly Our technology correspondent

Rory Cellan Jones reports. It's a term that became familiar

during last year's American Fake news stories made up

to make money or act And its Facebook which has taken

much of the blame for spreading Now the social network says it's

doing everything it can to tackle With these newspaper adverts

part of that effort. Facebook says it is to bring up

the battle against fake news. It is giving its users a guide

to spotting what it calls false news, it is closing tens

of thousands of fake UK accounts which might spread misinformation,

and it is working with fact checking organisations during

the election campaign. So, what happens if a friend shares

what you think is a fake Well, it's not blindingly

obvious but you go here, go down to report post,

I think it shouldn't be on Facebook is the choice here, you continue,

then you get the option at the bottom of its

fake news story. And once you have done

that you should end up with an independent

fact checking organisation. One of those organisations thinks

the social network needs to do more. There is a responsibility

for Facebook to look at how do we change Facebook itself to make it

easier for people to spot the sites that are not what they are cracked

up to be on things that need to be Yes, this is good stuff

from Facebook but it should In Germany there is already

a drive to combat fake news in the run-up to their elections

and with our own general election just over four weeks away

the parties know that Facebook They will have identified

exactly the types of voters they would like to target

and the types of messages they would like to target them

with an Facebook will be the means Not only that, Facebook will be

the means by which they understand the response to those messages

and they will change them and evolve More than 30 million people

will get news and political messages from Facebook

during the election campaign. A social network says

it is doing its best to make sure There was plenty of the music

through and adds Emmanuel Macron during this campaign, including an

allegation a week ago that he had an offshore account in the Bahamas. All

of that proven to be untrue. The French media were very disciplined

in not reporting those e-mails and documents that were hacked from the

En Marche party that were circulated on the web.

You are watching 100 Days Plus from BBC News.

Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News:

We visit the Chicago church where half the congregation

is undocumented immigrants - it's giving sanctuary to families

I'm here in Paris, where we are looking

at Emmanuel Macron's first 24 hours as President-elect in France.

That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.

The weather has been very dry lately and there is more dry weather on the

way for most of this week. There is a change on the way. At the time we

get to Friday that QB thunderstorms around, but in the short term the

weather is looking good. This picture was taken earlier today in

Scotland. The East Coast has been very cloudy. A lot of cloud across

many used in areas stretching from Easter in Scotland through Yorkshire

down into the south-east, but these western areas enjoying the sunshine.

No change this evening so starry skies across western areas, whereas

in the east we keep that blue, grey skies with the wind coming in the

North Sea. Amateurs not desperately low tonight, seven or eight degrees.

Tomorrow morning, across Scotland, waking up to Crystal clear blue

skies there. Stunning weather for Belfast, not a bad Randy Irish Sea,

most of coastal of Wales. Further inland there might be more cloud

around. Beautiful in Cornwall and western parts of Devon. In central

and eastern areas, up to Newcastle, probably staying on the cloudy side.

Tomorrow, eastern and central areas will remain cloudy and some of them

will stay pretty chilly. If you are in Norwich or how little feel cold,

temperatures barely into double figures, whereas 18 degrees for

Belfast. Then we will have a cold night tomorrow night into Wednesday.

The butchers and cities will dip all the way down to just 2 degrees.

There will be a grass frost here. Then we have a fine day. Thicker

cloud for the Northern Isles, and it will be cold. That was the into

Thursday, we will start to see some changes as this low pressure will

send thicker cloud and spots of rain and our direction. It will be heavy

rainfall. Further north it is looking absolutely fine, 17 degrees

in Glasgow. Into Friday, we could even see some thunderstorms

developing across southern and central areas and through the

weekend the trend is for the south-westerly winds to pick up and

trying cloud and rain, so rain is on the way.

The French president-elect Emmanuel Macron is beginning

the process of forming a government, while his fledgling political

movement now targets a parliamentary majority in next months elections.

The former acting Attorney General Sally Yates,

will testify in the Senate in a few moments about Russian interference

in the US election and the Trump team's associations with Moscow.

A foreign power was trying to influence our election and this

Should not be just a concern of one political party or election, it

should be the concern of democracies around the world.

Emmanuel Macron now faces the reality of winning.

His victory came as a huge relief to European Union allies -

Angela Merkel said he carries the hopes of millions of French

people, and of many in Germany and the whole of Europe.

But after all the euphoria last night, Mr Macron is straight back

into it today and there's no respite from campaigning.

A little earlier I spoke with one of his senior adviser

about his first 24 hours on the job.

Yesterday, he already spoke with the Prime Minister

Today, he's receiving messages from the President of Chile, he had

a telegram from President Putin of Russia, so this is

where he is going to manage first his team then

and get messages from people from all over the world.

What is your thinking when it comes to PM?

It's a very symbolic position at a time when he doesn't

He says he has someone in his mind, I will tell

He want somebody to be strong, politically strong,

to make sure they have experience with Parliament.

As you know, we have elections coming up,

To reform France, present Macron wants to have a strong majority,

We won the election, we understand that this country

is angry and expecting a lot of things.

We want to build something new which is going to be

With that in mind, in the pictures we have seen today, he is close

thing he will lean left, is he someone who can

The symbol is much more what happened.

It is not necessarily about being close to Higham.

It is a new president, Emmanuel Macron resigns.

At the time, the president was Hollande.

He resigned because he wanted to go further.

But he doesn't need anything more than unity

between two men and is aware of the position of power.

He wants to go further with Europe and deeply integrating Europe

that clearly has implications for Britain and Brexit.

When he came to Downing Street, he said he wanted to bring

back French companies, and it couldn't be possible

to Brexit to be better than being in the EU.

He will be extremely careful about Brexit.

He says he will speak with Great Britain

He wants to protect the French people as you know, we have many

I think his message was really clear, as you pointed out,

He wants to be vigilant, cautious, he wants to protect France,

who wants to work for the best interests of the French people.

One final issue, outside the issue of scull the framework of the EU,

there is the Le Touquet agreement between Britain

Lets see what happens, I will not comment on that at this moment.

It is not a tricky issue at the moment, I just slept

for two ours and we need to be careful of the words

We will try to do something that has never been done before.

Coming from a civil society, I know from a long time ago,

So I will not comment at this when you do an interview.

So I will not comment at this moment.

Christian, that's interesting - she's not commented on the border

issue but this morning Emmanuel Macron's chief economic

adviser told the BBC that Mr Macron would be a hard negotiator -

but he wouldn't want to punish Britain for its

Yes, it is clearly a sensitive issue for them.

And they do intend to discuss it in the weeks ahead.

Emmanuel Macron himself suggested that he wants to renegotiate

Here's what Theresa May had to say earlier today.

As for the Le Touquet agreement, it worked to the benefit of the UK and

France. Obviously, in the government will be sitting down and talking to

Mr Macron and others, about how the system has worked. Both for the

benefit of France and the UK. Read the Westminster tea leaves for

me, you have Theresa May congratulating Macron saying he got

a fair victory, but there must be some consternation in London as they

go into the Brexit negotiations that Brussels's hand strengthened. By

Emmanuel Macron's convincing victory? They probably would have

preferred Francois Fillon, but they probably wouldn't have wanted to

work with Marine Le Pen even though she might have been better for

Brexit, it would have meant serious trouble here in France. Emmanuel

Macron is a banker so he knows the world of finance, that is perhaps a

positive thing. But he wants a stronger Europe, a more reformed

Europe, and an integrated Europe. He doesn't want to let Brighton threat

that. Macron' economic credentials -- he doesn't want to let Brexit sat

on that. His economic credentials was a big part of his campaign, one

in four adults don't have up for full-time job, and there was high

unemployment. The question is what can

he actually do about France's high unemployment rate -

one in four young adults in this I've been speaking to Pierre Gattaz,

head of the employers' People will trust, business people

like me. We trust the fact that this guy is moving France into the right

direction. The business community might trust, will the people? So

many times before, we have seen presidents take on difficult issues

like pensions and labour were formed, and then they come to the

barricades and they are watered down. Francois Lance did not --

Hollande did not do that but Macron has, he announced that. Hollande did

not announce that. He said he could push it through by presidential

decree? I'm wondering if that is a gamble giving he doesn't have a

party or a movement, he doesn't have MP Polmont? The majority of the

people in France once reforms. Even if he does not either party, if he

does not have a majority in this election, he can have people from

the Republicans on the right side, and on the left side. People like

the former Minister of France, ten vote for reforms. Even if he does

not have the majority, I believe there will be some kind of

coalition. This is my hope and my bet. It should work.

As producers are tiny wee uptight full-time and you and I talk -- our

producers tell me we are uptight full-time. Can he reformed the

French economy? What do you think? There was a Prime Minister years ago

that is that we have a fertile country in France, we want a

bureaucrat and regrow taxes. That is the problem for years. Which

President will get the guts of France spending and reform the

French economy so they can grow jobs? All armed and Sarkozy both

bailed, can Macron make a difference -- Hollande and Sarkar the posts

failed. Donald Trump has made Donald

illegal immigrants here They are fighting the president's

deportation orders and offering sanctuary to families

who could be deported. The BBC's Olivia Lace Evans has gone

to visit one Chicago church that has offered to hide undocumented

families and is now challenging immigration

authorities to launch a raid. which are going to tell them, here

they are. We you will separate the family, you

will alert while the whole world is watching. The election of President

Donald Trump, it has injected an incredible amount of fear into our

community. We have five families that have

already been given a deadline, they have to carve a one-way ticket and a

they will be deported and their family will be split up. We go

through each case individually to see what we can do. We have

attorneys with us and we are fighting those cases of deportation,

individuals using whatever legal avenues open to us. At the end of

the day, we want our families as a last resort to take thanks we here

in the church. -- to take sanctuary here in the desert.

I am a US citizen and I am applied to be in the country. But somebody

made a mistake with our application. We do not have anything in Mexico.

Our whole lives, we are living here. This is the shower that we created,

now people don't have to leave the building in order to take a shower

here. That is what sanctuary is. You have to provide them with everything

they have and a home. And that is what we will do here for our

families. Right now, Donald Trump is fighting in Syria for protecting

kids that they are here in the country. US citizens kids, separated

from their mothers. I don't know how he is doing this.

One church giving sanctuary in Chicago. If you look at the numbers,

it is not clear that President Trump in the first few months of his

presidency is actually deported more people than Obama did in the same

period. The arrest numbers are up but the numbers of deportations look

about the same. One thing that is clear is that the fear level has

increased, the illegal immigrant are all talking about. They are nervous

about their status in America in a way that they were not under last

presidency. Plenty of anxieties. My trip here in Paris has come to an

end, I'll be in London tomorrow. Thanks for watching, goodbye.