:00:07. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus...
:00:09. > :00:10.The Governor of the Bank of England says Brexit
:00:11. > :00:14.will make people poorer. IS the government now
:00:15. > :00:23.It is not clear who has the upper hand.
:00:24. > :00:24.The Chancellor is playing the long game.
:00:25. > :00:27.The transition from Brexit must put the economy first -
:00:28. > :00:29.and provide stability for British business.
:00:30. > :00:32.But the UK's trade minister is on a mission -
:00:33. > :00:34.to convince America, Britain will be going it alone.
:00:35. > :00:36.Tomorrow when the Queen delivers the government's programme
:00:37. > :00:42.I think it's very important that we set out how we intend
:00:43. > :00:47.to deal with our trade once we leave the European Union.
:00:48. > :00:51.They are voting in Georgia in a massively expensive race that
:00:52. > :00:56.It's a small congressional election which has turned into a big
:00:57. > :01:03.Are Democrats as fired up as all those protests suggest?
:01:04. > :01:05.American student Otto Warmbier dies after being released
:01:06. > :01:08.in a coma from North Korea - top politicians say it's
:01:09. > :01:10.unacceptable but it's not clear what they can actually do
:01:11. > :01:30.Welcome to the programme - I'm Christian Fraser in London,
:01:31. > :01:32.Katty Kay is in Washington -- Is Brexit already
:01:33. > :01:36.In his annual Mansion House speech the Governor of the Bank
:01:37. > :01:38.of England Mark Carney, said price rises are now running
:01:39. > :01:41.ahead of wage growth and real incomes are falling again.
:01:42. > :01:43.Speaking alongside the governor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
:01:44. > :01:46.Philip Hammond was making the case for a longer transition to Brexit -
:01:47. > :01:49.he wants the UK and the EU to agree a new customs' agreement under
:01:50. > :01:51.which current border arrangements would remain in place -
:01:52. > :01:55.perhaps for some years following Britain's exit.
:01:56. > :01:57.In a moment, we'll hear from the British International Trade
:01:58. > :02:00.Secretary who's trying to whip up business in the US -
:02:01. > :02:01.but first, this report from our Economics
:02:02. > :02:08.A year on from the referendum, and cars waiting in sunny
:02:09. > :02:12.Southampton for a journey to the continent of Europe.
:02:13. > :02:15.Exports to the European Union like these are a key
:02:16. > :02:17.driver of our economy, an economy that the Chancellor said
:02:18. > :02:20.would now be at the heart of those complicated Brexit negotiations.
:02:21. > :02:24.Speaking at the Mansion House in central London, Philip Hammond
:02:25. > :02:27.said without a flexible deal with the EU, the economy
:02:28. > :02:35.When the British people voted last June, they did not vote to become
:02:36. > :02:44.They did vote to leave the EU, and we will leave the EU,
:02:45. > :02:48.but it must be done in a way that works for Britain.
:02:49. > :02:50.In a way that prioritises British jobs and underpins
:02:51. > :02:58.Alongside Mr Hammond today, the Governor of the Bank of England.
:02:59. > :03:01.He said that Brexit was likely to make people poorer
:03:02. > :03:04.and that they would need to be a transition period
:03:05. > :03:08.after the completion of the Brexit process in 2019.
:03:09. > :03:11.The Monetary Policy Committee cannot prevent weaker real income growth
:03:12. > :03:13.that is likely to accompany the transition to new trading
:03:14. > :03:20.It can support households and businesses as they adjust
:03:21. > :03:24.The two great economic offices of state -
:03:25. > :03:28.here is the Bank of England, and about two miles down the road
:03:29. > :03:30.that way the Treasury, and the leaders of those two
:03:31. > :03:33.institutions, I think, came together today to make a big
:03:34. > :03:37.point about Brexit up of the economic wealth of Britain
:03:38. > :03:39.first, they both said, even if that means some sacrifices
:03:40. > :03:45.on those controversial issues of sovereignty and strict
:03:46. > :03:58.Mr Hammond and Mk Carney spoke about struggling consumers
:03:59. > :04:00.are weary of austerity, and shoppers today admitted
:04:01. > :04:07.I think things maybe are going up in price a wee bit,
:04:08. > :04:10.and obviously if wages aren't going up, people will be feeling
:04:11. > :04:15.At the moment, I haven't really seen much of a difference,
:04:16. > :04:18.there is a lot more offers and things in supermarkets.
:04:19. > :04:20.I think they have gone up, they don't match
:04:21. > :04:27.Higher prices, Brexit, the need for a good deal.
:04:28. > :04:30.There were plenty of warnings today but the economy has been far
:04:31. > :04:34.stronger than people expected since the referendum.
:04:35. > :04:37.I don't think there is any doubt that since the Brexit referendum,
:04:38. > :04:42.Now, it is a glass half full or half empty.
:04:43. > :04:45.Clearly, that has meant there is higher inflation,
:04:46. > :04:48.and that has had a knock-on effect for real incomes, but on the other
:04:49. > :04:51.hand it has been a much-needed boost to exports, we really needed that
:04:52. > :04:54.boost because the currency was overvalued.
:04:55. > :04:57.It was a day for stepping back and taking the wider
:04:58. > :05:02.An economy for consumers so uncertain, Mr Carney said
:05:03. > :05:07.there would be no interest rate rises in the near future.
:05:08. > :05:09.Sunny today, yes, but there could be more squally weather ahead.
:05:10. > :05:16.If there is this longer transition to Brexit -
:05:17. > :05:19.with the UK and EU remaining in a customs arrangement for some
:05:20. > :05:22.years - will that delay the new global trade deals Britain
:05:23. > :05:24.is hoping to strike, post Brexit. The international trade secretary
:05:25. > :05:27.Liam Fox is currently in Washington to discuss the future relationship
:05:28. > :05:45.been speaking to members of the administration about trade deals,
:05:46. > :05:48.you are now at Capitol Hill, but there is not a person in the Trump
:05:49. > :05:54.White House who does not know that Britain needs a trade deal more than
:05:55. > :05:59.the United States does. It is not a great bargaining position. We have
:06:00. > :06:03.been talking about trade between our countries and future trade policy.
:06:04. > :06:08.We are coming into this at a good time. Trade between the US and UK
:06:09. > :06:15.last year rose by 8% when global trade only rose by 1.2%. We have $1
:06:16. > :06:19.trillion worth of assets invested in our countries. The US employs about
:06:20. > :06:25.1 million people in the UK and the UK employs about 1 million people in
:06:26. > :06:29.the US. We have a good solid trade and investment relationship and our
:06:30. > :06:34.economies of -- are of similar shape. We want to get agreement in
:06:35. > :06:40.the future that will help us go down that road but it is more than just
:06:41. > :06:43.the UK and the US, it is also about how we shape the global trading
:06:44. > :06:47.environment and ensure that we have mechanisms in the future to make
:06:48. > :06:53.ourselves more agile and responsive in terms of changes in the global
:06:54. > :06:56.economy. It is pretty clear that if Britain leads the European Union
:06:57. > :07:00.without a trade deal with the United States, the country looks a lot less
:07:01. > :07:06.economically viable and everyone here knows that. Britain needs this
:07:07. > :07:09.deal more than they do. We already trade with the United States on our
:07:10. > :07:14.current rules and it would be no change. We are talking about whether
:07:15. > :07:19.we can get an even better agreement. The worst that will happen to the UK
:07:20. > :07:23.and US is that we already trade at an exceptionally high level and we
:07:24. > :07:29.hope to improve on that so there is nothing but a more optimistic
:07:30. > :07:32.picture. We have been watching Phillip Hammond today who has been
:07:33. > :07:36.making his Mansion house speech and clearly from what he is saying,
:07:37. > :07:41.there is a struggle within Cabinet about what kind of Brexit this is
:07:42. > :07:46.going to be. Can you confirm that there has been a discussion in
:07:47. > :07:49.Cabinet since the election? I do not think there is a conflict. What the
:07:50. > :07:52.Chancellor said in his speech was that we were leaving the single
:07:53. > :07:59.market and the customs union but we may need some transition time to
:08:00. > :08:02.help by businesses adapt to that. I do not think any of us have a
:08:03. > :08:04.problem with that and I think what the Chancellor has set out is
:08:05. > :08:07.actually very sensible and we need to look at the economic benefits and
:08:08. > :08:13.how we can maximise those that is exactly what we are doing in our
:08:14. > :08:16.discussions the United States. What he is talking about our customs
:08:17. > :08:20.arrangements similar to what we have at the moment within the customs
:08:21. > :08:24.union and a much longer slope, rather than this cliff edge. Does
:08:25. > :08:28.that complicated for you when you're trying to sew up these global trade
:08:29. > :08:32.deals, if we have a longer transition bound by the customs
:08:33. > :08:36.union rules? We have to discuss what sort of transition it would be and
:08:37. > :08:40.that is quite a long way off. What is clear is that we will be leaving
:08:41. > :08:44.the customs union and back gives us the opportunity to be able to do the
:08:45. > :08:50.transitional adoption of agreements that the EU already has, that the UK
:08:51. > :08:54.as a party to. It gives us the ability to make agreements with
:08:55. > :08:58.developing countries about the sort of tyrants we apply to their goats
:08:59. > :09:05.and it might help us develop their more. It enables us about the future
:09:06. > :09:12.free trading agreements. We have agreed we went to do that. What we
:09:13. > :09:14.are talking about is what sort of customs facilitation agreement there
:09:15. > :09:21.would be to ensure that we get frictionless borders and do not
:09:22. > :09:25.apply any extra costs to add a UK businesses exporting to Europe or
:09:26. > :09:29.European exporters coming to the UK. It is in the interests of everyone
:09:30. > :09:35.that we reach such an agreement. Also at Mansion House, Mark Carney
:09:36. > :09:41.was digging and he said that Brexit is already making British people
:09:42. > :09:48.poorer, because rising costs are outstripping wage growth, do you
:09:49. > :09:51.agree? There are other influences on the global economy rather than
:09:52. > :09:57.Brexit. We have seen inflation rise elsewhere and we are now seeing some
:09:58. > :10:01.increases in UK experts. That seem to follow on from the devaluation,
:10:02. > :10:07.if you look at the food and drink industry, we saw a record export
:10:08. > :10:12.last year, a 10.5% increase this year. You have to take all of these
:10:13. > :10:15.things when they are aggregated. So you mean the governor is wrong? My
:10:16. > :10:20.job is to look for the opportunities that come from Brexit, one of the
:10:21. > :10:23.reasons I campaign to leave the European Union is that I believe
:10:24. > :10:28.there are great opportunities for Britain to take advantage of these
:10:29. > :10:31.growing markets and most of the global growth will come outside
:10:32. > :10:34.Europe. We have to be able to get our share of that to increase
:10:35. > :10:40.prosperity in Britain and make it sustainable in the long run. Can you
:10:41. > :10:45.confirm that tomorrow when the Queen sets out the legislative programme
:10:46. > :10:49.that there will be a trade built with vivid? My understanding is that
:10:50. > :10:53.there will be. I think it is very important that we set out how we
:10:54. > :10:57.intend to do with our trade once we leave the European Union and clearly
:10:58. > :11:02.we have to make provision for that, to ensure there are no gaps and we
:11:03. > :11:07.give adequate protection to British business and industry in terms of
:11:08. > :11:12.the global trade remedies that we have. Rowenta make sure there are no
:11:13. > :11:16.risks being run here and that is what responsible government is
:11:17. > :11:21.about. They were keen to say that there has not been a dispute in the
:11:22. > :11:25.Cabinet over a soft or hard Brexit, but specifically on the issue of
:11:26. > :11:29.what matters more, immigration policy or economic policy, you have
:11:30. > :11:33.had Michael Gove and Phillip Hammond saying that what takes priority is
:11:34. > :11:37.the economy and business, does that mean that the people who would like
:11:38. > :11:41.to see immigration policy take priority are losing the argument?
:11:42. > :11:44.The government will have a balance that is in the best interests of the
:11:45. > :11:50.country and clearly we want to ensure that if business gets access
:11:51. > :11:54.to the Labour it needs, there is a worry that people are coming to the
:11:55. > :11:57.United Kingdom and using our public services who may not be contributing
:11:58. > :12:01.to our national wealth. That is the problem that the government will
:12:02. > :12:05.deal with and will deal with that in a reasonable weight over a period of
:12:06. > :12:12.time. Thank you very much for joining us. He did a pretty good job
:12:13. > :12:15.of being a politician and not saying anything that would get him into
:12:16. > :12:20.trouble with either side but the truth is if you listen to members of
:12:21. > :12:24.the Cabinet, there does seem to be a division merging, particularly on
:12:25. > :12:28.this balance between immigration and business. Those who would like a
:12:29. > :12:32.softer Brexit and those who would like business and the economy to
:12:33. > :12:36.take precedence seem to have been emboldened since the election. I
:12:37. > :12:40.think so. There are certainly a lively discussion going on in
:12:41. > :12:44.Cabinet and I understand that he fought very hard to avoid any delay
:12:45. > :12:47.on the trade built theme in the Queen's speech. There will be no
:12:48. > :12:50.Queen 's speech next year and he wanted it in there so that the
:12:51. > :12:54.government can prepare for trade deals outside the EU and that is an
:12:55. > :12:58.important signal that we are leaving the customs union but there are
:12:59. > :13:02.other battles being fought within Cabinet, over migration and on that
:13:03. > :13:06.transition that that answer was talking about in his Mansion house
:13:07. > :13:10.speech. I was struck by the Michael Gove comment, there is an absolute
:13:11. > :13:14.commitment from the Prime Minister of all of us in Cabinet that when it
:13:15. > :13:18.comes to shape the new migration policy, the economy comes first.
:13:19. > :13:23.That is not so subtle shift away from where they were before the
:13:24. > :13:25.election. They were talking about freedom of movement coming to an end
:13:26. > :13:29.and now they are saying that people and skills and the skills that
:13:30. > :13:34.business needs must be a priority as well. We will see on Monday how far
:13:35. > :13:38.they have shifted, because David Davis will present the government
:13:39. > :13:42.offering on citizens rights to the European Commission and we will see
:13:43. > :13:46.what is in that, what are they doing to protect rights here in Europe and
:13:47. > :13:51.also going forward, for those who want to come and work here. It will
:13:52. > :13:56.be interesting to see what Doctor Fox comes up with both here and
:13:57. > :14:00.America, Americans are looking up written differently at the moment.
:14:01. > :14:04.Conversations I have had, the fact that we are leaving the European
:14:05. > :14:06.Union does make us less valuable to our American allies, there is no
:14:07. > :14:08.question about that. Hundreds have gathered for a vigil
:14:09. > :14:11.after a terror attack Faith leaders and the head
:14:12. > :14:15.of the Met Police attended 47-year-old Darren Osborne has been
:14:16. > :14:19.held on suspicion of attempted murder and alleged terror offences
:14:20. > :14:22.after the attack in Finsbury Park. 180 families directly affected
:14:23. > :14:24.by the Grenfell tower fire in west London have been given money
:14:25. > :14:28.from an emergency fund. A public inquiry has been announced
:14:29. > :14:32.by the Prime Minister and investigations into the fire
:14:33. > :14:34.safety measures that Police have named five victims
:14:35. > :14:38.of the fire which is thought Barclays Bank and four of its former
:14:39. > :14:46.senior executives have been charged with fraud and other offences
:14:47. > :14:47.stemming The ex-chief executive,
:14:48. > :14:52.John Varley, is among those The charges concern the way Barclays
:14:53. > :14:56.raised billions of dollars from investors in Qatar
:14:57. > :15:03.during the crash. We wonder what Moscow
:15:04. > :15:05.will make of this meeting. The US President has hosted
:15:06. > :15:07.the Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, at the White House
:15:08. > :15:10.where the Mr Trump was thanked It was the first face-to-face
:15:11. > :15:14.meeting between the leaders They can be certain that Vladimir
:15:15. > :15:28.Putin was watching. You know we live in crazy times
:15:29. > :15:31.when a small local election in the US attracts a whopping
:15:32. > :15:33.$56 million in campaign spending. Today's election in Georgia's 6th
:15:34. > :15:36.district has become most expensive It's also a proxy war
:15:37. > :15:43.between Democrats and Donald Trump. Here's how we got to
:15:44. > :15:45.today's mega bucks vote - The seat was occupied
:15:46. > :15:48.by Congressman Tom Price who left to join the Trump administration
:15:49. > :15:52.as health secretary. Republicans believe they can win
:15:53. > :15:55.this affluent seat that they've held since 1979.
:15:56. > :15:58.But it's close - they don't love Trump here, he only won the district
:15:59. > :16:11.by one-and-a-half points last year. The two candidates are Democratic
:16:12. > :16:14.novice Jon Ossof and Republican Our North America Correspondent Nick
:16:15. > :16:29.Bryant is in Atlanta for us. Why has this become such a big deal
:16:30. > :16:36.and how on earth is costing $56 million? If you turn on the
:16:37. > :16:40.television, you will see because every two minutes there is another
:16:41. > :16:43.political advertisement featuring either this democratic 30-year-old,
:16:44. > :16:48.this unlikely challenger, the guy who could go from long shot to big
:16:49. > :16:54.shock, Jon Ossof up against Karen Handel who is a former Georgia
:16:55. > :16:57.Secretary of State. I has it becomes all-important? Democrats here want
:16:58. > :17:00.to deliver a bloody nose to Donald Trump and that is why so much money
:17:01. > :17:06.has been poured into this race, much of it, it has to be said, from out
:17:07. > :17:11.of state. A lot of money is said to have from New York and California to
:17:12. > :17:16.try and get Jon Ossof into Congress. As you say, it is not natural Trump
:17:17. > :17:21.country, it is a Republican stronghold, this seat was
:17:22. > :17:26.represented previously by Newt Gingrich. Tom Price used to
:17:27. > :17:30.represent it as well. It was not very favourable towards Donald Trump
:17:31. > :17:38.in the last one, he only won it by over 1% of the vote, that Romney won
:17:39. > :17:43.by 23%. Last year, this district actually went for Marco Rubio. There
:17:44. > :17:49.is this feeling that his behaviour as President, the unorthodox way he
:17:50. > :17:52.carries out his daily duties in the White House has depressed that
:17:53. > :17:56.Republican vote even further. Everyone is saying that this is all
:17:57. > :18:00.about Donald Trump and if the Democrats win, it will be a sign
:18:01. > :18:03.that they can do even bigger things next year, maybe even take back the
:18:04. > :18:07.House of Representatives. During the course of this campaign, I
:18:08. > :18:14.understand that neither candidate has talked about Donald Trump very
:18:15. > :18:17.much. When I suggested to Karen Handel that this was Trump
:18:18. > :18:24.referendum, she almost bet my head of and she was very annoyed that
:18:25. > :18:28.that is the way that the media, especially the out-of-state media,
:18:29. > :18:33.has tried to present this. Jon Ossof is trying to present himself as a
:18:34. > :18:38.pragmatist, a third way Democrats, he wants to reform Obama care but
:18:39. > :18:41.not fix it, but he and in his television advertisements has made
:18:42. > :18:44.Donald Trump central to this race calling him a national
:18:45. > :18:50.embarrassment, he wants to go to Congress to hold him to account. The
:18:51. > :18:55.Trump the fact has had two distinct impacts, one is it has galvanised
:18:56. > :18:58.the Democrats. I was at their campaign headquarters on the EU vote
:18:59. > :19:02.this boat and the spirit and the energy out room was quite
:19:03. > :19:06.extraordinary and much of that was against Trump. There is a feeling
:19:07. > :19:10.that the Trump a fact has depressed the Republican vote and that is why
:19:11. > :19:14.Karen Handel is so determined to keep it on local issues and the
:19:15. > :19:18.inexperience of a candidate rather than Donald Trump in Washington.
:19:19. > :19:22.Like you say, Karen Handel is then it is not a Trump referendum but if
:19:23. > :19:26.you look at the tweets, the President is putting out, he knows
:19:27. > :19:31.how important it is for them to win it. Democrat Jon Ossof wants to
:19:32. > :19:35.raise your taxes to the highest level, he is weak on crime and
:19:36. > :19:38.security does not even live in the district, he tweeted. I wonder will
:19:39. > :19:45.he be tweeting tomorrow if they lose? They're trying to say that Jon
:19:46. > :19:48.Ossof is a carpetbagger, that he is a bit of a loony lefty and that is
:19:49. > :19:56.why he is so determined to present himself as this political centrist
:19:57. > :20:00.in a Republican stronghold. This is big reverberations, if the Democrats
:20:01. > :20:05.were to win this, it may unnerve the Republican leadership, especially
:20:06. > :20:09.ahead of the mid-term congressional leadership centre might have an
:20:10. > :20:12.impact on the move is to repeal and replace Obama can Best Obamacare.
:20:13. > :20:20.That will certainly emboldened the Democrats, real -- a real morale
:20:21. > :20:24.booster. A lot of Democrats feel they cannot win back the Senate,
:20:25. > :20:29.they are defending a lot of seats but they think they can wrestle back
:20:30. > :20:33.control of the House and that is a tantalising prospect because if they
:20:34. > :20:36.do win back the House, they win subpoena power and they would be in
:20:37. > :20:41.charge of some of those committees that have been carrying out the
:20:42. > :20:45.probes into Donald Trump and that, for them, is a tantalising prospect.
:20:46. > :20:47.Nick Bryant in Georgia. Thank you. With me now is Ron Christie -
:20:48. > :20:57.the former advisor to Thank you for coming in. At this
:20:58. > :21:01.stage is it more important for Democrats to win this to show that
:21:02. > :21:04.they are galvanised against Donald Trump or is it more important for
:21:05. > :21:08.Republicans to win it to show they can hold on seats. I think it is
:21:09. > :21:12.more import of the Democrats, they have spent a lot of money. I am so
:21:13. > :21:19.glad you agree with me. They spent a lot of money here and I find it
:21:20. > :21:23.fascinating that Jon Ossof only has 700 donors in Georgia. It has come
:21:24. > :21:28.from California, Massachusetts and New York. The Democrats are angry
:21:29. > :21:31.and looking for a way to find some way to send a message to Donald
:21:32. > :21:37.Trump and I think that is what this race is all about, 26 million
:21:38. > :21:40.dollars. They have had to near losses recently, in cancers and
:21:41. > :21:47.Montana and they really need to win Georgia. I am intrigued about how
:21:48. > :21:54.flippant you are about the cost. All the parties that the UK party spent
:21:55. > :21:58.was around ?40 million. Was never a debate in the US about what you
:21:59. > :22:03.spend? This is the sixth district of Georgia! Britain has bargain
:22:04. > :22:11.basement democracy. Cheap and cheerful. Is deliver a debate about
:22:12. > :22:15.it? I think there is a lot of discussion. You have Jon Ossof
:22:16. > :22:20.spending 26 million and the Republican contender spending about
:22:21. > :22:22.the same amount, over $50 million for a conversion are some people are
:22:23. > :22:28.scratching their heads and saying, if you're going to spend this amount
:22:29. > :22:31.of money for a district in the suburbs of Atlanta, what does this
:22:32. > :22:36.mean about reforming the amount of money spent in other elections? We
:22:37. > :22:40.have breaking news from the White House and that is the fact that we
:22:41. > :22:44.have a press briefing taking place. We have been missing it and it is
:22:45. > :22:48.Sean Spicer before he might possibly be leaving the podium, he is
:22:49. > :23:01.speaking to the press again. Right here. Keep taking your selfies. It
:23:02. > :23:06.is those who put, we have had a couple of vacancies. We have been
:23:07. > :23:09.seeking input from individuals and meeting with potential people who
:23:10. > :23:12.may be of service to the administration. I do not think that
:23:13. > :23:16.should come as a surprise but we are always looking for ways to do a
:23:17. > :23:20.better job of articulating the message of the President and his
:23:21. > :23:22.agenda and we will continue to have those discussions internally and we
:23:23. > :23:30.have an announcement we will you know. That White House briefing is
:23:31. > :23:33.over and we keep hearing the possibility of a big staff shake-up.
:23:34. > :23:37.I think he is out and from what I have been hearing is that this is
:23:38. > :23:44.the first wave of a white out shake-up. There were kick him
:23:45. > :23:48.upstairs to take the communications director job, get someone who has a
:23:49. > :23:52.less combative relationship to do the briefings. Will they keep doing
:23:53. > :23:57.press briefings? I have not known and administration who has been so
:23:58. > :24:00.camera shy. There is a value to the American public in having members of
:24:01. > :24:05.the press question the press secretary. No question. We have
:24:06. > :24:09.never seen a President like theirs, one who puts tweets out several
:24:10. > :24:12.times a day. I think the President believes he is as best press
:24:13. > :24:18.secretary and I think that is why you have seen a diminished role at
:24:19. > :24:23.the White House podium. He is need -- he will need a strong and robust
:24:24. > :24:25.communications director. The White House is saying that Mr Trump will
:24:26. > :24:30.make an announcement this week on the existence of any tapes or
:24:31. > :24:36.conversations with the former FBI director, whether those tape --
:24:37. > :24:42.tapes exist. They will need a strong man in that position. Or woman.
:24:43. > :24:47.Absolutely. No question. The notion we are talking about, recordings,
:24:48. > :24:53.tapes, up whatever he may have done, sometimes he is his own worst enemy,
:24:54. > :24:58.things come on Twitter, where he makes these comments and then you
:24:59. > :25:01.have a special counsel, investigating this administration. I
:25:02. > :25:06.think it is safe to say that this administration needs a strong man or
:25:07. > :25:09.woman at the podium as well as the communications shop, to make sure
:25:10. > :25:12.they can write this ship sooner rather than later. The real question
:25:13. > :25:18.is whether the President actually wants that would prefer to do his
:25:19. > :25:23.communications himself. Saturday Night Live are going to miss Sean
:25:24. > :25:26.Spicer. So are we! He does provide good copy. He does.
:25:27. > :25:29.You're watching One Hundred Days Plus from BBC News.
:25:30. > :25:33.Still to come for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News -
:25:34. > :25:35.another escalation - as the US accuses North Korea
:25:36. > :25:38.of murdering an American student, we'll get the thoughts of one
:25:39. > :25:42.ambassador who's negotiated with the regime.
:25:43. > :25:45.And how hot does it have to get before planes are grounded?
:25:46. > :25:47.If you're sweltering in Europe - spare a thought for America's
:25:48. > :26:09.southwest...That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.
:26:10. > :26:16.Today was not quite as hard as yesterday, hot enough though, lots
:26:17. > :26:20.of blue skies in many parts of the UK, a beautiful picture here from
:26:21. > :26:26.Devon. Temperatures in the South East cut up to 31, yesterday we
:26:27. > :26:31.district out at 33 degrees. A contrast on the North Sea coast, 17
:26:32. > :26:34.degrees. What will happen over the next 24 hours, the heat will peak in
:26:35. > :26:38.the south tomorrow and then we have got some thunderstorms on the way
:26:39. > :26:42.and they will mostly affect the north and south of the UK as well.
:26:43. > :26:47.Temperatures at 9pm tonight, still very hot in the south, uncomfortable
:26:48. > :26:53.going to bed, 15 degrees, a lot fresher in Newcastle around nine
:26:54. > :26:57.o'clock this evening. Tonight, we are seeing the threat of one or two
:26:58. > :27:00.showers, may be isolated thunderstorms in the north-west of
:27:01. > :27:05.the UK, to the south of that in the morning, that hot air starts pumping
:27:06. > :27:09.in once again from the near continent. Already at eight o'clock
:27:10. > :27:13.we are talking about temperatures into the 20s, across the south of
:27:14. > :27:17.the country, is still around the mid teens, and noticed these little
:27:18. > :27:20.blobs of blue, these are the showers and potential thunderstorms that
:27:21. > :27:23.could affect Northern Ireland or the South West of Scotland into the
:27:24. > :27:35.north of England and further north as well and here, a lot fresher
:27:36. > :27:38.first thing are talking about temperatures of 12 or 14 degrees.
:27:39. > :27:40.Not everyone is getting the heat. Big north and south split. We have
:27:41. > :27:43.that hate resurging from France and the near continent, very hot air,
:27:44. > :27:48.exceptionally hot, in the North vicar cloud and the possibility of
:27:49. > :27:54.some thunderstorms. 34 as possible, in London, if that happens, we get a
:27:55. > :28:00.whole of 34 degrees and back and be the hottest day in 40 years, more
:28:01. > :28:03.than 40 years. Then, weapons united that Thursday, fresher and cooler
:28:04. > :28:10.area starts pushing them, but look at that, thunderstorms are rumbling
:28:11. > :28:14.through Bill West of the UK. By Thursday, that heat will be pushed
:28:15. > :28:19.into the continent and look at the drop, still 26, warm in London but
:28:20. > :28:22.mostly in the teams across the West and north. Bacuna trend will
:28:23. > :28:26.continue into the weekend, some of us will have a little bit of rain
:28:27. > :30:10.and not an awful lot of sunshine on offer. Goodbye.
:30:11. > :30:12.Welcome back to One Hundred Days Plus with me Katty Kay
:30:13. > :30:14.in Washington, Christian Fraser is in London.
:30:15. > :30:17.Our top story - the Bank of England governor says Brexit
:30:18. > :30:21.But on a trip to America, the UK's trade minister
:30:22. > :30:23.tells this programme, there are opportunities
:30:24. > :30:33.My job is to look for the opportunities that come from Brexit.
:30:34. > :30:36.One of the reasons i campaigned to leave the european union
:30:37. > :30:38.is i believe there are great opportunites for britian
:30:39. > :30:40.to take advantage of those growing global markets.
:30:41. > :30:42.And coming up - a water-bombing aircraft crashes in Portugal
:30:43. > :30:44.as the fire emergency, which has killed 64 people
:30:45. > :31:14.And with given in Portugal as there are questions about whether a major
:31:15. > :31:17.highway was not blocked off. At least 64 people died in the fire
:31:18. > :31:19.since Saturday and the government has declared a state of emergency in
:31:20. > :31:20.the forested Our correspondent James Reynolds has
:31:21. > :31:26.travelled to Varzeas, where a fifth of the population has
:31:27. > :31:30.died in the blaze. This afternoon, Portugal
:31:31. > :31:32.despatched more planes The government is yet
:31:33. > :31:43.to make this region safe. The relief effort is too late
:31:44. > :31:48.for the village of Varzeas, it's lost one in five
:31:49. > :31:53.of its residents. Sisile Tina told me
:31:54. > :31:56.she knew all the victims. On Saturday afternoon, the village
:31:57. > :32:18.watched the forest catch fire. "There was a massive
:32:19. > :32:22.noise", Amal told us, "We'd never seen anything like it",
:32:23. > :32:29.said Valdemar, "it all happened Residents were then forced
:32:30. > :32:35.to take an immediate, terrifying decision -
:32:36. > :32:38.stay here and risk getting caught by the flames or drive off
:32:39. > :32:44.in search of safety. Many drove, it proved
:32:45. > :32:51.to be a fatal mistake. On this road, flames
:32:52. > :32:56.engulfed many in their cars. Mario Pinhal told Portuguese TV
:32:57. > :32:58.that his family tried His wife, Suzanna and their
:32:59. > :33:05.daughters Joanna and Margarita drove Everyone has been kind,
:33:06. > :33:15.but I just want my wife Mario and his parents barely
:33:16. > :33:24.escaped in the car behind. "We should have died",
:33:25. > :33:27.Mario mother's cries, Mario Pinhal's home remains
:33:28. > :33:34.standing, it is a shattering monument to his family's
:33:35. > :33:40.decision to flee. If they'd simply stayed put,
:33:41. > :33:42.they would have all survived. James Reynolds, BBC
:33:43. > :33:52.News, central Portugal. The European Court of Human Rights
:33:53. > :33:55.has ruled Russia's 'gay propaganda' law is discriminatory
:33:56. > :33:57.and encourages homophobia. The law bans the promotion
:33:58. > :34:01.of homosexuality to minors but judges ruled it breaches rules
:34:02. > :34:05.on freedom of expression and did not The Kremlin says it will review
:34:06. > :34:12.the court's decision. Football manager Jose Mourinho has
:34:13. > :34:15.been accused of tax fraud. Spanish prosecutors investigating
:34:16. > :34:19.Mourinho's time as Real Madrid's head coach say he did not declare
:34:20. > :34:21.income from the use The Manchester United manager
:34:22. > :34:27.is accused of defrauding Spain of 3.7-million dollars between 2011
:34:28. > :34:36.and 2012. Donald Trump may have condemned
:34:37. > :34:38.the brutality of the North Korean regime following the death
:34:39. > :34:40.of American student Otto Warmbier but John Mcain
:34:41. > :34:42.has gone even further. The Republican US Senator says
:34:43. > :34:44.Otto Warmbier was murdered He died just days after arriving
:34:45. > :34:51.back in the US in a coma. Otto Warmbier was 'bright,
:34:52. > :34:53.intelligent and likeable' - according to a fellow traveller
:34:54. > :34:56.who met him on a trip It was on that trip he was arrested
:34:57. > :35:01.and imprisoned for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster
:35:02. > :35:04.from a hotel. He died yesterday, surrounded by his
:35:05. > :35:06.family in a Cincinnati hospital. Here's what the president
:35:07. > :35:12.had to say today. It's a total disgrace
:35:13. > :35:14.what happened to Otto, it should never ever have been
:35:15. > :35:19.allowed to happen. Frankly if he had been
:35:20. > :35:21.brought home sooner, I think the result would have been
:35:22. > :35:26.a lot different. He should have been brought
:35:27. > :35:28.home that same day. The result would have been
:35:29. > :35:43.a lot different. Such a sad story with so many
:35:44. > :35:47.questions and everyone saying what a great guy Otto Warmbier was and how
:35:48. > :35:51.he fell victim to the regime. But we do not really know what happened, at
:35:52. > :35:54.what stage she got these brain injuries that put him into, and what
:35:55. > :35:55.the circumstances where. Well among those who aided in Otto's
:35:56. > :36:11.release was Former US Ambassador There are still questions about the
:36:12. > :36:15.captivity of Otto Warmbier and what happened to him. You helped to get
:36:16. > :36:25.him out of North Korea, when did you know that he was in a coma? I found
:36:26. > :36:28.out when the news was reported to the American State Department. I
:36:29. > :36:34.have met with the North Korean is 20 times in the past year, I had sent a
:36:35. > :36:37.delegation to try to get Otto out in exchange for humanitarian
:36:38. > :36:42.assistance. So I learned a year later after he was in a coma, this
:36:43. > :36:48.was a crime of humanity what the North Koreans did, a gross human
:36:49. > :36:54.rights violations and cover-up. This optimism excuse, sleeping pill, he
:36:55. > :36:58.might have been tortured, he might have been abused. This is wrong and
:36:59. > :37:03.there should be some kind of punishment for the North Koreans. I
:37:04. > :37:06.imagine it would make any kind of negotiation with the North Koreans
:37:07. > :37:09.more difficult but also it is an indication of the fact that you and
:37:10. > :37:14.others did not know and it shows how little we know about what is
:37:15. > :37:21.happening in North Korea, how limited our intelligence is. It
:37:22. > :37:25.shows that Kim Jong Un is governing almost without any input, it could
:37:26. > :37:31.be that the foreign ministry that normally deals with these issues was
:37:32. > :37:35.sidelined and the security forces did not want to tell Kim Jong Un of
:37:36. > :37:39.the problem. That might have happened. Or maybe he knew and they
:37:40. > :37:44.felt the best thing to do was hoped that he would come out of that, and
:37:45. > :37:49.things would be OK. But I think the fact that they failed to disclose,
:37:50. > :37:52.they failed to give proper medical treatment, that possibly he was
:37:53. > :37:58.tortured right left his trial, that he is being in a coma for a year is
:37:59. > :38:02.a major violation under the Geneva Convention of the treatment of
:38:03. > :38:06.prisoners and should be some for that, they should pay for that. The
:38:07. > :38:11.issue is how you make them pay. Obviously it is such a closed and
:38:12. > :38:16.repressive regime. I know he's spent a lot of time talking to the family
:38:17. > :38:19.and we watched the father speaking brave and last week. He was critical
:38:20. > :38:24.of the Obama administration for not publicising that Otto was there and
:38:25. > :38:28.the kind of conditions he was being kept in. There are now three
:38:29. > :38:32.Americans still there and six South Koreans as well. Should we not be
:38:33. > :38:38.making more of that and keeping up the pressure and publicising the
:38:39. > :38:43.fact that they're being held? Yes and I think this is a major
:38:44. > :38:47.consideration for any future policy towards North Korea. Let's get those
:38:48. > :38:52.three Americans out and a Canadian, there is a Canadian there as well do
:38:53. > :38:56.not forget. We should also make every effort to get the North
:38:57. > :39:00.Koreans to disclose what happened. But I worked with the Obama
:39:01. > :39:04.administration on this for the past year and they were concerned, they
:39:05. > :39:08.supported my trip when I sent my delegation there. They knew what we
:39:09. > :39:15.were doing through private efforts, not necessarily government to
:39:16. > :39:18.government. So the Obama administration was deeply involved.
:39:19. > :39:23.But the North Koreans were waiting for the new administration to come
:39:24. > :39:26.in, they did not want to deal with a lame-duck administration that was
:39:27. > :39:31.leaving and so I think that this slow things down. But I give
:39:32. > :39:35.President Trump and his team credit for being aggressive and getting
:39:36. > :39:39.Otto out when they found out he had been in a coma, they demanded to go
:39:40. > :39:43.to North Korea to bring him out in an aeroplane. That was the right
:39:44. > :39:47.course of action. And we made the point that for all the strong words
:39:48. > :39:51.we've heard from John McCain, what do they do because it seems for all
:39:52. > :39:56.the pressure that Donald Trump is put on the Chinese to start ramping
:39:57. > :40:04.up the pressure on North Korea, it is not working, they're just
:40:05. > :40:07.ignoring it. China has put in a little more pressure than they have
:40:08. > :40:12.in the past but they need to do more, they need to step up. They
:40:13. > :40:16.need to realise that there is turmoil in the Korean Peninsula and
:40:17. > :40:20.it is not an interest from these missile tests destabilise the region
:40:21. > :40:25.where they want to be paramount. They should also be concerned about
:40:26. > :40:30.the human rights case, Right on their own border with Otto Warmbier.
:40:31. > :40:34.Not just because he's an American but because the North Koreans take
:40:35. > :40:39.these prisoners, they detain these individuals and use them as
:40:40. > :40:43.bargaining chips. Possibly torture. Mishandle the whole situation. China
:40:44. > :40:47.needs to step up more than they have. They've not done enough and
:40:48. > :40:52.they are the major lever we have with North Korea because they give
:40:53. > :40:57.food and fuel, energy assistance, economic assistance, coal and oil,
:40:58. > :41:02.they can do a lot more and the international community should step
:41:03. > :41:06.up on China. But also maybe the United Nations do an investigation
:41:07. > :41:11.of this Otto Warmbier case, the human rights commission. There has
:41:12. > :41:14.to be some transparency, there has to be some explanation and the North
:41:15. > :41:18.Koreans need to explain what happened to Otto Warmbier and his
:41:19. > :41:24.family. A wonderful American family that is heartbroken and unjustly
:41:25. > :41:29.treated, their son. Thank you very much. And of course for all your
:41:30. > :41:34.efforts in trying to get all these prisoners out. It is interesting
:41:35. > :41:37.talking about the prospect of retaliation, it is just not clear
:41:38. > :41:43.what that means when John McCain says it should not happen. What does
:41:44. > :41:48.retaliation look like. With a regime like North Korea. It is not easy.
:41:49. > :41:53.And the White House saying in the past few minutes that it is an
:41:54. > :41:54.increasingly remote possibility that Donald Trump will meet with Kim Jong
:41:55. > :42:00.Un. It's a close run thing on what we
:42:01. > :42:04.talk about most in Britain - or perhaps what we moan about most -
:42:05. > :42:07.it's either Brexit or the weather. Way too hot for chimpanzees,
:42:08. > :42:11.this is Whipsade zoo The temperature at London's Heathrow
:42:12. > :42:17.airport - 34 degrees today - In Arizona this week it is so hot
:42:18. > :42:41.the planes can't take off. This is Phoenix airport where more
:42:42. > :43:05.than 40 flights have been grounded That is not a fair comparison! That
:43:06. > :43:06.is in the Desert. Thank you for