27/06/2017 100 Days+

Good lad, nice to see you, mate. Come on in. I thought you were going

to do the whole 147 thing there. We have not got time at! You did it in

just over five minutes 20 years ago. It is crazy. I have made better

ones. My This could lead to, essentially, too

big to innovate. Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News.

The Pentagon has intelligence that Syria is planning another

possible chemical attack - the White House says

Russia is quick to denounce the American threat,

President Assad doesn't seem concerned - he spent the morning

examining a Russian airfield in Syria, taking a climb

The US health care bill is on life support as key Republican senators

Google is slapped with a record breaking fine.

The European Commission says it is breaking competition rules.

Early days, but it would seem a new cyber attack is under way.

The target was Ukraine, but the problem is now spreading

Airports, banks and power systems are being affected.

And the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei sits down with the BBC to talk

about his latest work in Washington - a sprawling tribute to those

I am Katty Kay in Washington - Christian Fraser is in London.

The Pentagon says the intelligence is compelling -

it has identified planes and also the hangar in which it says

the Syrian government may be preparing another chemical attack.

The White House said to President Assad he will pay "a heavy price"

In April, a sarin gas attack on the rebel held town

of Khan Sheikhun killed at least 87 people, many of them were children.

The attack was launched from this same base.

Today the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied any

And perhaps in defiance of that US threat, he paid a visit to a Russian

airbase in the west of the country - even climbing into the cockpit

Not the image of a man cowed by American threats.

A short while ago the US ambassador to the UN,

Nikki Haley issued this statement about what the White

They have seen activities that are similar to preparations

of a chemical weapons attack, much like we saw in April.

I believe the goal is at this point, not just to send Assad a message

but to send Russia and Iran a message that if this happens

again, we are putting you on notice, and my hope is that the president's

warning will certainly get Russia and Iran to take a second look,

and I hope it will caution Assad we don't want to see innocent men,

Mr Trump has had a conversation today with the French president,

Emmanuel Macron, who apparently agreed to join the US in taking

action against Syria in the event of chemical attack.

Joining us in the studio is General Mark Kimmitt who served

as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for George W Bush.

General Kimmitt, what is the White House strategy here? Why have they

issued this warning to the Syrians? I think they have made it clear they

will not accept another attack like there was on April four. This is a

clear declaration from the United States that they are prepared to

respond the way they did before. After the attack in April and the 59

Tomahawks said, the criticism of the White House is that there was not a

follow-up strategy. Do you think there has been a more conference of

strategy designed beyond just taking action against one air force base?

Frankly I don't think there has been an overall strategy for Syria...

From either the United States or its coalition partners such as the

United Kingdom. That has to be part of any solution. The solution cannot

simply be military. It has to be diplomatic and I'm glad to see that

the French have started pushing very hard to try to put this back on the

table. General Kimmitt, President Trump obviously wants to look like

he is the strong man on the world stage, and I suppose that upshot of

this is you can head it off, but the flip side is that if they use these

weapons you have to follow it through? We have already

demonstrated we will follow through and I think the most encouraging

news today is that President Assad denied he was preparing for a

chemical attack and that demonstrates to me that President

Trump's words have had deterrent effect, not only for Bashar

al-Assad, but also his supporters in Iraq and Iran. The problem is,

though, of course, if there was a second attack, the Russians might

not be as tolerant as they were lasting? That is a choice the

Russians have to make. Clearly they are the puppet Masters behind Bashar

al-Assad, as are the Iranians. The only reason Bashar al-Assad is in

power today is due to his support from those two countries, so they

have to make a decision, to keep corrupt murderer in power, or move

towards a diplomatic solution. The military situation has been getting

more tense. We have seen Russian and American jets flying very close to

each other, the Americans have downed a Syrian planes. The Russians

did not like that. What other risks at the moment of some kind of

miscalculation in Syria? That is my greatest worry as well because the

Russians have turned off that channel. We had a strong

communications channel between ourselves, the coalition nations,

and the Russians, to make sure there was not any kind of accidental

shutdown, accidental problem, inside the ear, but that can only be done

if they deconstruction channel remains open, so it is up to the

Russians in my mind to open -- to reopen the channel so that we do not

have the skin of things you're suggesting. Thank you for coming in

to join us. The interesting thing, Katty, we are focusing a lot on

Mosul and the fire that is now underway in Raqqa, but we don't talk

in the media a lot about the endgame, what may, after Raqqa. Is

there any discussion of that? Yes, I think the general was right. There

is not a political strategy here in the United States and nor is there

with the coalition, post-punk-mac, if there is to be opposed Assad. We

seem to be in -- post Assad if there is to be opposed Assad. I spoke to a

politician today and said there is no appetite for the United States to

get more involved militarily in Syria, either from Democrats or

Republicans. The president, whilst issuing this threat on the chemical

weapons level, is very aware that lack of engagement. Talking of that

lack of support, Republican senators are running away from their own

plans to change American health care. It looks like they are

cancelling a vote on the bill this week and all Republican senators

have now been invited to the White House.

The it is not popular, not with the voters, the health care industry, or

even with the president, who said it is means, so the chances of

fulfilling that key campaign promise to immediately replace Obamacare

appears to be slipping away. We are joined by our North American

reporter Anthony Zurcher. Things are moving very fast. We expected a vote

on health care in the next couple of days and that is now changing.

Exactly, and that is the bottom line. The votes were not there for

the Republicans to pass this. Remember, they needed 50 of the

senators to get this over the finish line. We had heard from Republican

centre senators, moderates and conservatives with misgivings about

the bill, some of them, such as Susan Collins of Maine, who was

pretty definitive in her opposition, and it looks more like they will not

be able to pull it together so it has been delayed, consideration of,

until after this 4th of July recess, which begins on Friday. Senators

have gone back to their home districts for a week and they come

back to DC for three weeks in July then after that they are gone for

all of August. During that July period they will have to talk about

raising the debt ceiling, passing a budget, they have a very crowded

legislative calendar, and this is just one more thing put on their

plate. Anthony Zurcher, thank you very much for joining us. It will be

odd, Christian, watching the sight of 52 Republican senators going down

to the White House when they don't actually have something to vote

about. Just before we heard about this vote being delayed, I discuss

the health care battle with Republican Congresswoman from

Tennessee, a big supporter of Donald Trump's, and I asked her what she

would tell her constituents who now face the prospect of losing their

health care insurance under this Republican plan. The people of

Tennessee have already been hurt. You have to go back in and look at

what the placement of the Affordable Care Act in the marketplace did, and

people in Tennessee have seen their premiums go up by 176%, across the

board, since the Affordable Care Act went on the books. Congresswoman,

you were a big supporter of President Trump's and he called this

bill mean. I assume you would see that and the president is wrong? I

think on this the president and I would have a disagreement. When you

see the increase in Medicaid spending at 20% over the next ten

years, I think that is generous dart-mac any time you see... --

generous dart-mac any time you see... The president will say what

he is going to say but I know that our goal has been to make health

care more affordable and more accessible. You seen Medicaid

spending rise 20%. Katty, I have to tell you, for some of the Democrats,

they wanted to visit 100%, but they want a single-payer system and the

American people do not want a system. They want patient centred

health care where they, the individual, can make those decisions

with their physicians. Congresswoman, the public and have

had seven years to come up with a plan to repeal the bill. They have

been speaking about it for that long. Why is it that difficult for

you? Why did you not have the plan ready to go? We had any part of that

plan ready to go. Indeed, we had over 100 bills that were available.

We had amended the Affordable Care Act 54 times, and you get to a point

where they health care marketplace is imploding, so you do have to, in

order to work within the budget, within the constraints, you have to

go in and tweak the provisions you have to. They are the same

provisions we have been talking about since we were at the

President's health care summit back in 2010, so you have to adjust it so

that if it is within the budget framework and, yes, it takes a long

time. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, thank you for joining us.

Good to be with you. Thank you. That is the point that she made there,

isn't it, Katty, that if they can't get this through after seven years,

seeing this would be the first thing they would do, this is what we want

above all else, there are good to be huge political repercussions? Yes,

and remember during the campaign this was the thing that would happen

on the first day, replacing and repealing Obamacare. President Trump

during the campaign sold himself as the master of the art of the deal,

he was the guy who would fix this, and I think you said at one point

during the campaign it would be relatively simple for him to fix

this because he would be able to get Republicans to do the deal in a way

nobody else had got them to do it. I think we would call this the

learning curve, that the president is realising health care is very

complicated, that individual members have very conjugated political

calculations, and frankly if he calls the bill mean, it probably

doesn't win himself very many supporters because all of those

senators no wavering on signing, they will think, who will have my

back? Will the president have my back if I see numbers, or will he

just call it mean again? Which doesn't help me. Health care. And

2018 is just around the corner. Yes, it is complicated.

The nuclear disaster site at Chernobyl in Ukraine

is undergoing manual radiation checks after a wave of cyber

attacks in the country hit its operating systems.

The country appears to be the victim of a widespread hack that's spread

Government ministries, power companies, banks and airports

all reporting major problems with their computer systems.

And as we know by now - so interconnected is the world -

that very often it quickly spreads elsewhere.

We are now getting reports that major companies in the US,

Netherlands, France, Norway and the UK are reporting

I'm joined now by our security correspondent, Gordon Corera.

I saw you in the corridor earlier furtively watching Twitter to see

where it was going. What do we know? LAUGHTER

Every minute you are seeing new reports about it. This one

particularly seems to be spreading fast. It started in the Ukraine and

at first looked like something pretty serious but pretty localised

in Ukraine, where energy, banks, systems to do with the metro and the

airport, had been hit, but it looked like something within Ukraine

largely, but then quite largely we started to get reports further

afield, the big Russian oil producing firm got hit, then we

heard the port of Rotterdam was hit, and WPP, a large global advertising

firm based in the UK, was hit, US pharmaceutical firm, big companies

getting hit, and it was moving pretty fast. It is not yet clear,

you know, quite how far and how global it will go, but certainly the

speed is worrying people. It is surprising then, because when you

talk about big companies, they usually a pretty good software

systems that are being updated. What is the tricky thing about this? Is

that this ransom were again where they demand payment? Exactly. So for

people affected, their computer screen gets locked and they get a

message saying we will not unlock and decrypt your data unless you pay

a ransom. In this case, $300 in bitcoins into an account, bitcoins

being the anonymous way of paying, supposedly. This is similar but not

the same as the run somewhere attack about a month ago. This is similar

but it actually looks in some ways faster and more upgraded. It is not

yet clear, though, how much damage it will do, but I think we haven't

got a handle yet on how many companies and countries will be

affected, and how much damage it will do to them. Whether they will

be able to recover quickly. It is possible this could be more serious,

but it is still early days. But, Gordon, is there a risk that because

some of these cyber attacks do seem to be contained, like you said not a

huge amount of damage apparently from this one or the run somewhere

attack last time either, is there a risk people start getting complacent

-- or from the run somewhere attack last time either. It depends really

on your organisation and how dependent you are on your computer

systems. Do you have the back-ups to be able to deal with this. We saw in

the UK in May when an number of NHS, National Health Service, trusts were

hit, and were having to cancel patient operations. That is a kind

of real-world consequences for a cyber attack, where they couldn't

get the patient records in time for an operation and they could not

schedule and properly, so you can see that when you start getting

real-world consequences, not just that you can't use your computer

system for an hour or your website is down, that is the kind of thing

which really affect companies and institutions, so I think it will

depend on how serious this is and how many are hit, but I think is

another company is hit it has an impact, see, you know, CEOs and

others saying, why did we get hit and others did not get hit?

Sometimes it is because they have not invested enough in IT security

so those questions start to cascade through and around organisations,

why some are getting hit and not others. Interesting. Gordon, for the

moment, thank you. Christian, we are in the wrong business. We need to be

in the cyber security business! Yes, mass of money. Massive growth

industry. If you type "Google and competition

law" into your browser this evening, you will see the American tech

company has been hit with a record 2.4 billion euro fine

by the European Union. There's also a good chance,

you will be viewing that story through Google search,

perhaps on a Google browser, maybe even on a phone or computer

that is running Google's It photographs our streets,

it's building our future cars, it has extraordinary access

to our personal information And the European Commission believes

the company is rigging online shopping searches

by promoting its own shopping It's the giant which dominates

online search, and now it's been hit with a record fine,

over ?2 billion, after rivals claimed that Google had

trampled on their business. The fine was imposed by Europe's

competition commissioner, gaining a reputation for taking

an powerful American Google has abused its market

dominance as a search engine by giving illegal advantages

to other Google products, The charges that it uses search

engine might to favour its own Right at the top appears the Google

box with a series of adverts. If I click on these,

Google earns money. What you are not seeing

prominently - in fact, way down, out of sight -

are rival price comparison sites. They are not getting the clicks

and not earning the money. One of those rivals

says that today's fine One of those rivals, Kelkoo,

says that today's fine Without competition,

Google can charge merchants With competition, you end up

with lots of people like ourselves, companies, competing on prices

which brings the price down. But Google says big rivals

like Amazon provide plenty of competition when it comes

to choosing products, and Brussels doesn't understand

the modern consumer. Get your products on Google, other

sites, and with mobile shoppers... And there is wider concern

in the United States at what some see as interference

in a ground-breaking company. A former adviser to three presidents

says consumers won't benefit. This could lead to, essentially,

too big to innovate. If you are so big, you be

careful about innovating, because you could bring down

the raft of the European Commission on you and pay large amounts

of money to the European treasury. For more than a decade

the European Commission has been taking on the American technology

giants and today it makes clear that its battle against what it sees

as unfair competition will continue. We're joined here in the studio

by Ana-Rita Rego who is the London managing editor of market

insight publication MLEX. Welcome to the studio. Thanks for

coming. This is a company that can move it servers, regional officers,

wherever it wants, so perhaps the most pressing argument here is that

there are few governments in the world, and perhaps the EU is only

sort of body, who could do it? So good we in this case. The UK is very

well positioned because Google has operations in several of those

countries and they have oversight and competition matters. People are

saying, good people just move away from the EU? It can't because it has

services here and wants to sell its services in Europe and for that

reason has to comply with the European competition laws. Ana-Rita,

it is Katty in Washington. I have to say sitting on this side of the

Atlantic it looks increasingly like European jealousy on American

innovation. The Europeans have not managed to come up with big search

engines themselves and they're taking about an European companies?

There are several US companies behind these complaint and that have

welcomed the European Commission's decision, so it is not... It's just

an opinion, like any other. At the same time the European Commission

has fined European companies billions of euros as well. Recently

there was a decision in the trucking industry, so many would contest that

bias against US firms. Something we were seeing this morning in our

meeting here, actually when you go surfing on Google for a product, you

do also, if you are a smart online shopper, you look at Amazon, or you

might look at eBay, so you don't confine yourself to Google, do you?

That is part of Google's argument, look at Amazon, eBay, they are doing

very well on this shopping sector of the market. They are my competitors

as well. So Google is trying to dissolve its position in that market

and join to the commission that its conduct is not hampering any rivals.

And perhaps more from the others, because there may be a president set

location? That remains to be seen. Companies are a bit tetchy about

involving themselves in theirs' fears, but we will see. OK, Ana-Rita

, thank you much. Katty, the one thing we know about Donald Trump...

He does follow the poll numbers, and I know that because I follow his

Twitter feed. I am not too sure he is going

to like the latest results They have surveyed

people in 37 countries - Donald Trump travels like an

American president and has the powers of an American president.

What he does not seem to have is the world's respect. According to the

nonpartisan Pew Research Centre, only 22% of people surveyed in 37

countries have confidence in Mr Trump will do the right thing for

the world. 64% felt the same about President Obama when he left office.

It's not even close. Compare to develop world leaders Mr Trump comes

last in terms of global confidence. He falls behind Germany's Angela

Merkel, the Chinese president, and even Vladimir Putin, a full 5%

behind the Russian leader. Part of this is personal, and parties

policy. Let's start with the politics. Of three of his major

initiatives, more than 70% of those surveyed disapproved. Those include

withdrawing from international climate initiatives, and trade

deals, and building that famous wall. Then there is the personal.

Three quarters of those surveyed found him arrogant. More than 60%

think he is intolerant, even dangerous. On the upside, more than

half described Mr Trump is a strong leader, and quite a few found him

charismatic. But then there is the broader question. Do his American

supporters care about any of this? Perhaps it is exactly what America

First is all about, not minding what the world thinks of you. For them,

this could be a validation that President Trump is getting it

exactly right. STUDIO: It is interesting he is

behind President Putin. I would have thought he would have done better

than him. There we are. Your last point is true. It is not about

making Frans great again, is it? It is about making America great, so

probably his base does not care in the slightest -- it is not about

making France great again. Yes, I remember doing the 2004 campaign,

when he was running for real action, and there was that big spike in

feeling because of Iraq, and I remember people in Europe saying,

surely this will cost President Bush the re-election, because of the

world does not like America it will affect American voters, but quite

the contrary. President Bush's supporters felt that if the world

and not like him he must not be doing something wrong. So don't

underestimate that, if the capacity does not have the liking of other

countries, it is not any bad thing. The tricky thing is, though, I

suppose, looking from the outside in, there is so much inconsistency,

and I suppose he and his allies don't know whether he is coming or

going, Nato, in or out, that kind of inconsistency irritates outside

world. We have spoken about this before. Particularly European allies

who don't know which member of the administration really speaks for the

administration, whether President Trump says one thing about Nato,

then we'll see something else the next day, and that makes it very

hard for countries to make positives of the factors they have to deal

with America, the biggest country, military, mark in the world, they

have to deal with President Trump, and so do we. Which is why we're

here. You're watching 100 Days Plus. Still to come... Nicola Sturgeon's

SNP lost 21 seats in the general election, and we look at what that

means for an independence referendum and Brexit. Plus... The Royal

household has been given a raise. We look at where the Queen's money is

being spent. All still to come on 100 Days Plus.

Good evening. The weather is a fickle business. We have gone from

summer scorcher to a cloudy drizzly day over. Some heavy sharp showers

developing in the south-east corner, some with rumbles of thunder. It is

this cloud and outbreaks of rain drifting northwards overnight.

Keeping a few showers into Scotland, but it is a pretty wet picture

across England and Wales. That is how we stuck our day on Wednesday,

the best of the weather on Wednesday will perhaps be up in the far north

through much of Scotland, where it will stay dry. Not particularly

warm. And breaks of rain into Northern Ireland, the Scottish

Borders, down into England and Wales and the south-west. Slow improvement

into the south-east corner. Highest values here 20 degrees, but all

changed yet again on Thursday as that area of low pressure drifts

further north bringing some heavy rain into Scotland and gale force

gusts of wind further south, somewhat quieter for at least a day.

Take care. Welcome back to One

Hundred Days Plus. The White House puts

Syria's President Assad on warning: it says he'll pay a heavy price

if he launches another This was a clear declaration from

the US that they are prepared to respond to the Syrian regime the way

they responded before. Computer systems around

the world have been hit It's thought to have exploited

the same weaknesses used by last Per capita - Qatar is the richest

country in the world. But for three weeks it has

been treated as a pariah by its closest neighbours

and it is feeling the effects. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain

have all cut off air, land and sea links with Qatar,

accusing the small gas rich state of supporting regional terrorism

and opening up to their arch-rival - The Qatari government received

a list of conditions from Saudi Arabia last week,

and included in the list was a demand they close down

the TV network Al Jazeera. The US Secretary of State Rex

Tillerson has called for a diplomatic solution,

today he has been holding meetings Our State Department correspondent

Barbara Plett Usher joins now. We are getting mixed signals from

the American administration but President Trump has tweeted that

Qatar have been financers of terrorism and then Rex Tillerson

saying the other Gulf countries need to make reasonable demands. Where

does Qatar stand with regard to America? A good question because you

get different signals from the White House and State Department. The

White House has seemed to be siding with the Saudis on this and the

State Department trying to be more neutral and de-escalate the

situation. So it is Rex Tillerson meeting with foreign ministers and

discussing quite closely with various parties and trying to get

them to come to some kind of solution. He has actually taken some

sharp stands on Qatar, on their side. He said that the Gulf states

admitted be reasonable and then he said it would be difficult for Qatar

but find something that you can talk about. And today in the meeting with

the Foreign Minister from Cava, he is going to try to press the US to

take a more active role in backing them in their dispute. The Minister

latched onto those words that Rex Tillerson used and said the demands

were not in fact reasonable. America has quite a stake in this because

they're trying to forge a closer relationship with Saudi Arabia but

also have a big military base in Doha. So how do the act in the

middle of this as an honest broker? What is interesting is the way the

Americans are behind the scenes on this. As you said they have a lot at

stake, they key allies in fighting the war on terrorism as each others

throats, and they have this big base in Caparo which has been isolated by

the others. And then last week you have the White House spokesman

saying we think it is a family issue that they can sort out by

themselves. Without the Americans trying to fix it. You have Rex

Tillerson in the background trying to fix it with that meeting today

with the Foreign Minister of Qatar. We know that the Saudi Foreign

Minister is in town. My sense is he's going to see how things go

through the week, what develops, whether these groups can find some

manoeuvrability to find a solution and if by Friday, the deadline, they

have not, we will see them if he takes a more public and active role.

Thank you for the moment. Perhaps the only crumb of comfort

the British Prime Minister takes from the recent election,

is that north of the border it has put the First Minister,

Nichola Sturgeon, on the back foot. In Scotland the campaign was fought

largely on independence. Ms Sturgeon was pushing for another

referendum by the spring of 2019 before the Brexit negotiation

has been completed. Trouble is, she lost 21 of the SNP's

56 seats at Westminster. So today - taking into

account public opinion - Ms Sturgeon informed the Scottish

parliament she is re-setting her timetable -

she is delaying the legislation We will not seek to introduce the

legislation for an independence referendum immediately. Instead we

will in good faith redouble our efforts and put our shoulder to the

wheel in seeking to influence the Brexit talks in a way that protects

the interests of Scotland. Ian Blackford is the SNP

leader in the House I spoke to him earlier and asked him

why Nicola Sturgeon had We recognise there is an opportunity

now to protect the interests of the people of Scotland and all the

people of the rest of the UK, arguing that we must retain access

to the single market and the customs union. That is going to be an

important short-term priority. A desire for the Scottish referendum

on independence was based on the probability that Scotland was going

to be dragged out of Europe and the single market against its will. What

we now have said is we will seek to protect the interests of the people

of Scotland, we have retained the commitment we have two referendum on

Scottish independence at the end of the Brexit process. If we're not in

a position... When would that be, 2021? We're saying the Brexit

process should be known by 2019. I think is important but the people of

Scotland will be asked to vote on the deal on the table at that time.

It is important that we retain the opportunity to give the people

Scotland their said that point. So when would that be, two years after

Brexit question of what we've said is we will put on hold the process

of a bill to the Scottish Parliament that would enable that for now. But

when the Brexit deal with them we can look at the timetable Ben for a

referendum on Scottish independence if required. The important thing is

we have a mandate from the people Scotland last year from the Scottish

election result and so what we need to make sure is that people Scotland

recognise they have that insurance policy that if we need to do that,

then we can quickly bring forward proposals for a referendum on

independence. You said it is an exciting time to be in Westminster

because you could forge the debate but when you look at what you want

from Brexit, and where Labour and the Conservatives stand at the

moment, there are not many people on your platform. Obviously we do not

know what labour stand for the moment but do you see any way to

join hands with them? It is a fluid situation and yes I extended the

hand of friendship across the house. One of things that is important is

not just the parliamentarians having their say but also the

administration in Edinburgh and Cardiff and I hope there will be one

soon in Belfast as well. The government must listen to the voices

around the UK and there is a clear voice from those administrations

that they do not want a hard Brexit. So I think there is unity of purpose

that we can develop around the administration in the devolved

governments but also I have spoken to a number of MPs across the

chamber, Plaid Cymru, labour, Conservatives, wishing to remain

within the single market. I think there is a broad church can be put

together recognising that we must not come off that cliff edge. I

think is important that we retain access to the single market the

Prime Minister spoke about wanting to retain free trade but I would say

we can do that by maintaining access to the single market.

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is an outspoken

champion of human rights - views that led to his own

This week he's here in Washington promoting one of his most

significant works - 176 lego brick portraits of people

The installation is on display at the Hirshhorn Gallery

where Jane O'Brien caught up with him.

Ai Weiwei came up with the idea for Trace, a sprawling portrait

project, when he was incarcerated by the Chinese authorities in 2011.

He uses Lego bricks to create pixelated images of 176 people

he considers to be prisoners of conscience or free activists.

They have strong beliefs, they are very brave.

In most circumstances they know they could lose their life.

Most of the people you portray here have been in prison

But some of your portraits are of people who have been

How do you think visitors will react to that?

For many visitors it would be a surprise.

Very often we think we're living in free world, or a free society.

So I include Chelsea Manning, who is so brave, for me.

Like most of Ai Weiwei's works, Trace was constructed by others

It was first shown on the site of the notorious prison of Alcatraz

and it is transferring to Washington at the time of heightened

debate about the meaning of truth in politics,

fake news, and the power of social media.

A medium that Ai Weiwei has mastered.

What impact do you think President Donald Trump has

I often heard a lot of criticism, but I also think there

is a lot we want to know, how this guy really thinks.

Or even the mistakes this guy can make.

But the discussion is always on the surface, it is not really

One portrait in particular stands out.

The jailed Chinese dissident and Nobel peace laureate

who as the exhibition opened, was moved from prison to hospital

Ai Weiwei says he is symbolic of many others who suffer

They can easily make you disappear, your lawyer cannot really defend

you or your family even cannot know how you are.

In some cases even after you have served your time,

Audiences may not sympathise with the motives of every in Trace,

the broader aim of Ai Weiwei's work is to raise questions

about the nature of freedom and how it is protected

Before we came on air catti told me she was speaking to Nancy Pelosi and

tonight you're having dinner with Ai Weiwei. The circles you mix in!

The Queen is in line for a pay rise over the next two years -

one which will take her income to more than 82 million pounds,

to fund her official duties - such as travel, salaries for her

The money she receives from the tax purse has

increased over the six years by 51 million pounds.

Last year it worked out at roughly at 65

pence per taxpayer per year - a figure royal aides says

Imagine people would not begrudge her that because she is still very

popular. Around 80% of Britons approve of the Royal Family but it

is a difficult time for this to come out. Always controversial when you

talk about what we call the sovereign grand, the money used to

uphold the Royal Family. In particular this time when there not

a of money extra money being spent on public services and of course

after the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Some people obviously pick up on

some of the things like for instance ?17,000 that Prince Charles had

spent on flights between his two hands on a private jet. Those kind

of thing standing out. Doors on the Orangery. But also what they bring

into the country, around ?500 million that comes to the UK as a

result of the Royal Family and about one in six foreign visitors owing to

a Paracel Castle. So they bring money in as well. Defence will you

stand on the issue. --