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Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US president | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
to visit the Western Wall - placing his hand on one of the most | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
And President Trump says he could many things could happen that could | :00:49. | :01:07. | |
not happen before. But even while he's abroad | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
the president battles controversy back at home - | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
could he seems to say he didn't tell | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
the Russians the intelligence Theresa May is supposed to win this | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
election in a landslide so why Tonight the Prime Minister | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
speaks to the country - after a rethink on one of her key | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
manifesto pledges. Twitter goes wild over this photo | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
of President Trump on his weekend Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington, | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
Christian Fraser is in London. Donald Trump said today there's now | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
a unique opportunity for peace between Israelis and Palestinians | :02:00. | :02:00. | |
and the White House clearly believes he's the right man to take | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
advantage of the moment. Good luck with that, | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
is effectively the reaction of the many people who have tried | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
and failed to bring But what's new, says | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
the administration, is partly Mr Trump's skill as a negotiator | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
as well as also the emerging alignment between Israel | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
and Sunni Arab states - The President sees a peace agreement | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
as part of that effort, and after his weekend visit | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
to the Saudi capital Riyadh, he says he has found | :02:38. | :02:37. | |
new "reasons for hope". If we are willing to work together, | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
I believe that a new level of partnership is possible | :02:39. | :02:38. | |
and will happen. One that will bring greater safety | :02:39. | :02:39. | |
to this region, greater security to the United States and greater | :02:40. | :02:39. | |
prosperity to the world. This includes a renewed effort | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
at peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians and I thank | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
the Prime Minister for his commitment to pursuing | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
the peace process. I've heard it's one of the toughest | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
deals of all, but I have a feeling that we are going to get | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
there eventually, I hope. Israel's Prime Minister | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
re-stated his longstanding position that he is a partner for peace - | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
but with the same You have noted so six Hinckley the | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
common dangers are turning the former enemies into partners and | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
that is where we see something new and potentially something very | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
promising. It won't be simple but for the first time in many years and | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
for the first time in my lifetime I see a real hope for change. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Mr Trump is the first US President to arrive in Tel Aviv | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
He is also the first sitting President to visit | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
of the Israeli Prime Minister. though not in the company | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
You'll see he stood alone with his thoughts for several moments, | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
before placing a hand written note between the cracks. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Our chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
I was watching that before we came on air and it was said, common | :04:09. | :04:23. | |
enemies turning into partners. So he is buying into this idea. | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
Definitely. I have just come from Riyadh and there is a lot of talk | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
now about some Arab states including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
Emirates are, as one minister said to bringing down 70 years of hatred | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
and beginning the normalisation of relations with Israel. There is a | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
door document where they are talking about business permits and tourism | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
visas. They are trying to get a new relationship with Israel because | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
they want to work with them and other strategic goals. As far as | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Saudi Arabia is concerned it is widely known but not much talked of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
that there are contacts between the two countries, there have been some | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
senior Saudis who have visited Israel and vice versa. They have | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
been talking behind-the-scenes and both agree Errani is the main enemy. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
Now they have President Trump in the White House of reading with that. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
And when Israel looks to deal with the Palestinians it sees a wider | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
peace. That seems to be a new bargaining chip in this process. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
One of the things that struck me about this is the raccoons are | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
making it clear they will not lecture the Middle East and human | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
rights. I wonder if you are hearing other concerns from European | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
partners over issues for example like Yemen or other human rights | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
issues which might be tricky for America in this closer relationship | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
with Gulf states. They were not on the agenda. In Riyadh, many noted | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
that, not human rights. The Yemen question came up on a press | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
conference in which this American civilian -- Secretary of State said | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
if we give them better arms they will be able to target better. I | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
spoke to a senior American official in Riyadh and he said the difference | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
between Obama and Trump is that Trump will not tell the Saudis how | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
they should run the kingdom, and that is very important. They are | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
doing deals and they making new alliances. But the other thing on | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
the agenda is trying to make peace with the Palestinians and the White | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
House made it clear they want to see some confidence building measures as | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
they call them, before they arrive with the Palestinians. A series of | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
steps happen taken to ease the steps and that crossing between Jordan and | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
the West Bank, to include to create new industrial zones and jobs and | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
allow more building permits. Is this enough? Is this a move in the right | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
direction? We can cross to the West Bank to join the Palestinian | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
entrepreneur, do you welcome the steps? We have seen this song and | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
dance before. Where Israel tries to make some kind of public gesture to | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
show a new US president that they are serious about peace. The reality | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
on the ground is that the boot of Israeli military occupation has been | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
on the Palestinian neck for 50 years. Incremental changes in the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
business field is not going to solve the political crisis. I wake up | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
every day trying to create jobs in Palestine and the thing that stops | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
us doing it the way we are supposed to is the Israeli Government as they | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
maintain this 50 year military occupation. I will believe it when I | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
see it, and to see it means to get the boot of occupation off our neck. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Even if it does not start by ending the occupation, by creating a | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
Palestinian state, you know better than I just how long that will take | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
and has been taking, if they make moves to make life easier for | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Palestinians, to create the possibility of creating jobs, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
encouraging investment, would that be a step, however small, in the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
right direction? Definitely, every step taken to juice the pressures of | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
this very volatile reality are welcome. But the steps need to be | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
taken in a sustainable way, and they also need to be placed into the | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
context of resolving this conflict. We may not resolve the conflict for | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
another 100 years, but will Israel remain micromanaging the Palestinian | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
economy? That cannot be sustainable. Every step forward that looks | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
positive, that allows us to breeze a bit is welcome. But we will not be | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
tricked into thinking our permit military occupier has any idea to | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
allow asked to be free. That is what has to happen for negotiations to | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
start. And what about the entry of President Trump who makes it clear | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
he has no rule book, will take a totally original way of approaching | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
the process, could that make a difference? I don't believe what he | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
says. He approached the region exactly the same way other | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
presidents did. By dumping more arms into an already collapsing region | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
where people are dying daily, propping up governments which are | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
not representative like Saudi Arabia, and then coming to Palestine | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
and on his first day here breaking international law by taking the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Israeli Prime Minister's invitation to go to the Western Wall, which is | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
in the middle of occupied territory. He would do well to read | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
international law and put people around him that don't have the | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
conflict of interest that they currently have. Thank you very much | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
for joining us. And there you get some of the cynicism and scepticism | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
of the Palestinian side, even among those who would like to see a new | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
peace process. We will hear more about the Palestinian sentiments | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
tomorrow when President Trump meets the panellists Delyn -- Palestinian | :10:42. | :10:53. | |
president. It is clear there is good chemistry between Trump and | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Netanyahu and their wives. They are having dinner now. I'm sure they | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
have a lot to talk about. Well many a US president has tried | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
and failed when it comes to striking a peace deal | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
between the Israelis One man who knows the process | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
and players well is George Mitchell, who served as President Obama's | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
Middle East Envoy. The president speaking in Israel | :11:11. | :11:22. | |
today talked of array opportunity for harmony, prosperity and peace in | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
the Middle East between Israelis and Palestinians. Do you agree there is | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
this opportunity and can he take advantage of it? I hope and pray he | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
will. It is very difficult now stop there is a high level of mistrust, | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
polarisation on both sides. The two state solution, which is the only | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
feasible solution, is the losing ground in both Israel and among | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
Palestinians. So it is a huge challenge but the effort must be | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
made because the history of the region is that when there is no | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
visible effort to bring about a resolution of conflict, violence | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
tends to flare. The danger of violence now is much greater than in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
the past because of the tremendous up evil in the entire region. I was | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
talking to senior White House officials before the trip and it | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
seemed to me they are very optimistic that sheer force of | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
personality Donald Trump can do what you, amongst others, have failed to | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
do. Do you think that is enough? I don't think personality is enough. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
But I hope and pray that it comes about by whatever means. The reality | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
is that there are huge differences between Israelis and Palestinians | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
and all the core issues. But they could be overcome if there were not | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
the very deep hostility and mistrust that exists, not just amongst the | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
peoples but the leaders. When the president and Prime Minister in 2010 | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
I was in the room. Secretary Clinton was the only other person. And it | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
did not bring traction in the way we had hoped. That if they met it would | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
give them reason to continue. It validated their worst concerns about | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
the other. So what this President's team seemed to believe is that if | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
President Trump can build a good relationship with Netanyahu you and | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
president of us then that will be a catalyst, he will be able to do | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
something different because he is a good negotiator. Do you see that in | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Mr Trump? Do you see that capacity? I hope it is there. For the sake of | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
peace in the middle east and for American interests. So far at least, | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
the conflict has not been able to be resolved on the basis of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
personality, and there have been many strong and powerful | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
personalities involved. A dozen presidents, 20 secretaries of state. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Many Israeli and Palestinian leaders. At times and circumstances | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
change, they are not the same now as they were six or seven years ago and | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
much different than ten or 20 years ago. So it is possible, not likely | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
at this time, but I commend the effort. The president has made it | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
clear during this trip that the primary focus of America's foreign | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
policy in the Middle East is Iran. He will around the Gulf state | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
friends and the Israelis and use that as a way to distance the world | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
from Iran. Is the degree to which she is doing that appropriate and | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
helpful? I feel the trip was most useful in the following respects: | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Isis and Al-Qaeda and those affiliated with them want the | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
conflict to be and to be seen as a conflict between all of Islam and | :15:04. | :15:10. | |
all of the West, led by the US. Donald Trump's prior rhetoric and | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
team a slim ban on all Moslems, played right into Isis's point of | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
view. It furthered the impression that they wanted further to. In this | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
trip he has essentially reversed that position. So if nothing else | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
happens on this trip, that makes it significant. We did not get to Iran, | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
we will have to come back to that. Thank you for coming in. | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
A lot of people were saying that strange in rhetoric is welcome. You | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
were saying in that interview, you were at the White House last week, | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
and one of the first things they did when they got off the plane in | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
Riyadh was signed $100 billion arms deal with the Saudis. Surely that | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
has unnerved the Israelis somewhat. Why do you tell us what they are | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
trying to do with the Gulf Arab states? It's interesting. That arms | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
deal, I think, it is part of getting sunny Gulf states to get part of the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
Burton sharing. And I hear from the White House that it is about the | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
fight against extremism and about providing a counterweight to Iran. | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
Throughout the trip to Riyadh, and to Israel, there was the conference | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
restraint of this will give us ballast against Iran. Interestingly, | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Donald Trump has not ripped up the Iranians nuclear deal. So is some of | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
this rhetoric to appease people who want America to take a tougher | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
stance? The aim is to get Arab states to have a counter to run | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
themselves. But the evidence is is it would become like a Nato deal | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
from Gulf Arab states. And that is exactly the language they use. A | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
Nato type arrangement against Iran. We said last week. | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
We said last week it was a good time to leave Washington and the furore | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
that surrounded the President, with the appointment of special | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
He was asked if he betrayed a source. | :17:16. | :17:27. | |
Just so you understand, I never mentioned the word | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
Never mentioned it during theatconversation. | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
You were all saying I did, so you had another story wrong. | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
I think that is the first time we have heard the president confirm | :17:35. | :17:47. | |
what intelligence sources had been keen here not to confirm which is | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
that Israel was the source of the information handed to the Russians! | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
Allies who are worrying about whether they can share secrets with | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Donald Trump, the fact that he will confirm things in public that are | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
meant to be secret, and clearly wanted to... But when he sticks to | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
the strip -- script he's good. But you saw him, he shut everybody up | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
and wanted to make that point. Yeah, he had to get that in, didn't he? | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
There and in Washington the enquiries and Congress will continue | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
while he is away. And the Sunday television talk shows were full of | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
it, including reaction to a late-breaking story from Friday. | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
There was another report from that conversation in the Oval Office. I | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
just fired the head of the FBI, said the president. He was crazy, a | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
here is some of the weekend reaction. I don't remember exact | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
what he said. He said he feels hamstrung. I'm almost speechless, I | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
don't know why someone would say something like that. But I know Mr | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
lover of is the stooge of a thug and a murderer. President Trump calls | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
this a witchhunt. What you think? I wouldn't use that term. These issues | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
are being raised in the press. People are going to the press who | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
appear to be in the know or at least pretend to be, they leak information | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
and the press reports it. These questions need to be answered. John | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
McCain. Do we take it that Comey sought this quote and went, right, | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
that's it. I'm going to testify. Let's put it this way. If I called | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
you a nut job and at how would you feel? You can call me that off air | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
but not on air! But he's a proud guy, his integrity is potent to | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
James Comey. The president has not made any friends and intelligence | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
agencies and by firing Mr Comey he can probably expect worse. I think | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
it's worth reminding everybody of the investigations that are taking | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
place. You have enquiries into Russian interference and the | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
election and links between Russia and Trump. Wheels have the in the | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Senate judicial committee into Michael Flynn. Then there's the | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
enquiry within the house oversight committee into macro one -- Comey's | :20:35. | :20:44. | |
memos. And then the Justice Department investigation lot. So | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
what they are saying is that even though Robert Muller will take the | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
lead on everything, these enquiries will continue. Is amazing they | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
getting anything else done. With that amount of enquiries into links | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
to Russia. Here is what people are starting to say, top Democrats have | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
said to me, we like the investigations, we want to make sure | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
we can keep our role in them, we don't want them all handed over to | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
the FBI. But we also don't want them wrapped up too soon because we hope | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
they are still highly of the president as he goes into the | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
mid-term elections next year cars we feel this is good for Democrats. So | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
everybody is playing a game here. And it's good, because that will be | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
seen in the public domain whereas Robert Muller will be very private. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
And could go on for years. Something that will not is the British | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
election campaign. Tonight the Prime Minister talks | :21:48. | :21:47. | |
to Andrew Neil on the BBC. And she is under pressure | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
because the polls are narrowing. Yes, when the election was called | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
the Conservative lead Now looking at a poll of polls | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
the Conservative Party is on 46%. The Labour Party at 33% | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
and the Liberal Democrats But some polls have even brought | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
the lead down to single digits. The principles on which we have | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
based our social care policy remain We need to ensure | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
that we have long-term We need to be able to | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
ensure that we can fund We are doing the honest thing | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
about putting a proposal to the British people | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
and they will make How can it be honest, | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
Prime Minister, to reject a cap in your manifesto and four days | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
later say, we are What we set out in our manifesto | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
was a series of principles. It was to say to people, | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
first of all, this is a big issue, we need to address it | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
and we are being honest that we must fix it | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
and that is what I want to do. I am not going to bury my head | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
in the sand, I am not going to play politics with it, | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
which is what Jeremy You are just going to | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
change your mind already. Prime Minister under pressure and | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
some of her promises. And just to say, viewers | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
in the UK can get up to date with all the events | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
in the general election campaign in the Election Wrap, | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
which follows 100 Days +. And if you're watching | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
in the rest of the world - we'll have more in the next edition | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
- plus we'll go live to Cardiff If you were alive to Twitter this | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
weekend, you might have seen this - a photo of Donald Trump in Riyadh | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
alongside the Egyptian President and the Saudi King at the opening | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
of a new centre that The orb on which they have placed | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
hands apparently activated a wall That is, at least, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
the official version. Yes, within minutes, | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
a caption contest was under way @NitePuddin says, "It | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
was a beautiful orb, the best orb, ask anyone, | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
@clarajeffry from MotherJones.com points out that 'orb' is 'bro' | :24:05. | :24:20. | |
My favourite is from @BillK and he says, | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, | :24:24. | :24:25. | |
Straight out of Macbeth, right? There was also up brilliant moments, | :24:26. | :24:51. | |
during a sword dance. I don't know what you do with a sword in polite | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
society. I don't think he does either. Doesn't know whether to hold | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
it up or keep it down. In a second, Melania is standing by in front of | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
him and you can tell by her expression that she is slightly | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
bemused by all this. There you are. You know we talk about a staff | :25:12. | :25:23. | |
shake-up coming at the White House? You never want to be seen at a sword | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
dance... Steve Bannon did look very uncomfortable there. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
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