:00:10. > :00:11.Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus.
:00:12. > :00:13.28 years after the Hillsborough disaster, criminal charges have been
:00:14. > :00:19.Among them is the match day commander Chief Superintendent David
:00:20. > :00:26.Duckenfield who faces 95 charges of manslaughter.
:00:27. > :00:29.It is a day of mixed emotions for the families.
:00:30. > :00:31.Relief there is now some accountability but frustration
:00:32. > :00:39.This is the scene live in the House of Commons where opposition MP's
:00:40. > :00:42.are forcing a vote on the UK's long standing, public-sector pay cap.
:00:43. > :00:47.Is austerity finally coming to an end?
:00:48. > :00:51.The Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare
:00:52. > :00:59.As the Senate is forced to delay its vote we're in Kentucky
:01:00. > :01:01.where patients are just worried about getting care with
:01:02. > :01:14.That is why the United States is strong, we have always taken things
:01:15. > :01:15.and made them better, we can take health care and make it better
:01:16. > :01:18.instead of fighting. Grenades thrown from a helicopter
:01:19. > :01:21.target Venezuela Supreme Court. It comes after weeks of violent
:01:22. > :01:23.protests in which more President Trump is heading to Paris
:01:24. > :01:28.for Bastille Day celebrations - saying he's ready to reaffirm the US
:01:29. > :01:36.friendship with France. Welcome to the programme,
:01:37. > :01:39.I am Christian Fraser in London, The Hillsborough disaster
:01:40. > :01:42.is the worst tragedy English In April 1989, as an FA cup
:01:43. > :01:48.semi-final kicked off between Liverpool and Nottingham
:01:49. > :01:51.forest, a crush at one end For 28 years the families
:01:52. > :02:00.have fought for justice. Last year the Hillsborough
:02:01. > :02:02.Inquest ruled the fans But what the families still don't
:02:03. > :02:05.have is accountability. Today having reviewed
:02:06. > :02:08.thousands of documents from two seperate inquiries,
:02:09. > :02:11.the Crown Prosecution Service announced it will be prosecuting six
:02:12. > :02:13.people in connection Our correspondent Judith
:02:14. > :02:20.Moritz has the story. They've had inquiries,
:02:21. > :02:23.investigations and inquests, but the Hillsborough families have
:02:24. > :02:28.never had public prosecutions. They've fought for nearly 30
:02:29. > :02:31.years for this moment. We've got today everything
:02:32. > :02:37.we could've asked for. The decisions by the CPS
:02:38. > :02:40.in my opinion were And we look forward to the due
:02:41. > :02:48.process through the courts of law. In 1989 the police officer
:02:49. > :02:51.in charge at Hillsborough was There is sufficient evidence
:02:52. > :02:57.to charge former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield
:02:58. > :03:00.with the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 men,
:03:01. > :03:05.women and children. The match commander ordered
:03:06. > :03:08.the opening of an exit gate, through which the fans poured
:03:09. > :03:11.onto overcrowded terraces. He is charged with the manslaughter
:03:12. > :03:16.of all but one of the victims. Tony Bland died four years
:03:17. > :03:19.later, too late to be In the years after Hillsborough,
:03:20. > :03:23.Sir Norman Bettison rose through the ranks to become
:03:24. > :03:26.Chief Constable of Merseyside He is charged with misconduct
:03:27. > :03:32.in a public office, accused of lying He said he is disappointed to be
:03:33. > :03:38.charged, and will vigorously Andrew Brookes was one of those
:03:39. > :03:44.killed at Hillsborough. His sister Louise has long
:03:45. > :03:48.campaigned for justice, and was in Warrington today to hear
:03:49. > :03:53.that charges will be brought. It's another event where my
:03:54. > :03:56.parents haven't been alive to see it or to hear it,
:03:57. > :04:03.and it's not just my parents - its other Hillsborough
:04:04. > :04:05.families who have gone The families were told that 23
:04:06. > :04:16.suspects were originally Graham Mackrell was the Sheffield
:04:17. > :04:20.Wednesday company secretary - responsible for safety,
:04:21. > :04:22.he is accused of failing Peter Metcalf was the solicitor
:04:23. > :04:30.acting for South Yorkshire Police. He is charged with perverting
:04:31. > :04:33.the course of justice in relation to amendments made
:04:34. > :04:36.to police statements. At home today, he would
:04:37. > :04:42.not answer questions. Former Chief Superintendent Donald
:04:43. > :04:46.Denton, in the middle here, is also charged with perverting
:04:47. > :04:49.the course of justice, said to have overseen the process
:04:50. > :04:52.of altering the statements. Former Detective Chief Inspector
:04:53. > :04:56.Alan Foster faces the same charge, accused of being central
:04:57. > :04:58.to the process of Nobody from the Ambulance Service
:04:59. > :05:02.is being prosecuted, and no organisation will face corporate
:05:03. > :05:05.charges over Hillsborough, A couple of names that we didn't
:05:06. > :05:14.expect, and a few that we think There will be six people facing
:05:15. > :05:20.criminal charges who might not have done if we hadn't have been
:05:21. > :05:22.resilient and all stuck together Professor Phil Scraton has spent
:05:23. > :05:28.years working to expose what happened at Hillsborough,
:05:29. > :05:31.and says the passage of time must have had an effect
:05:32. > :05:35.on the number of charges. If we'd had the kind
:05:36. > :05:38.of investigation then that we have had now,
:05:39. > :05:41.and the kind of attention paid to the detail of prosecutable
:05:42. > :05:44.charges then as we have now, I think we would see a lot
:05:45. > :05:48.more prosecutions. The youngest to die at Hillsborough
:05:49. > :05:51.was just ten years old. There have long been
:05:52. > :05:58.calls for justice. Now, nearly 30 years
:05:59. > :06:00.after they died, those said to be responsible will face trial,
:06:01. > :06:03.and the prospect of jail. We're joined now by the BBC's
:06:04. > :06:23.Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman. It is a hugely significant day for
:06:24. > :06:28.the families, 28 years since the tragedy. And the first time the
:06:29. > :06:33.state has brought criminal charges. That may confuse some people because
:06:34. > :06:37.of course there has been an inquest with the jury and that reached a
:06:38. > :06:41.finding that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed. But an inquest is
:06:42. > :06:46.not a criminal trial. It does not apportion guilt, does not apportion
:06:47. > :06:51.responsibility. The thing but both have a legal effect is if you get a
:06:52. > :06:56.finding of unlawful killing, that is when the criminal justice system
:06:57. > :07:00.kicks in. And there is not an absolute obligation but a very high
:07:01. > :07:04.expectation that if you have that finding of unlawful killing than the
:07:05. > :07:07.police will investigate and the CPS will consider criminal charges and
:07:08. > :07:12.that is what has happened here. So as you say for the first time in 28
:07:13. > :07:18.years we're going to have prosecutions through the criminal
:07:19. > :07:21.courts and we will know at the end of those that will determine whether
:07:22. > :07:24.any one individual should bear responsibility, criminal
:07:25. > :07:30.responsibility for what happened on the day. The focus has been on Chief
:07:31. > :07:35.Superintendent David Duckenfield, manslaughter by gross negligence.
:07:36. > :07:40.That is known as a common-law offence, a judge created defence and
:07:41. > :07:43.what it means is the prosecution must prove David Duckenfield O the
:07:44. > :07:49.Santa died a duty of care, Bezy bridge that duty of care so badly
:07:50. > :07:56.that effectively he committed a criminal act. So bad mistake is not
:07:57. > :08:00.enough, the conduct must be so serious that the jury concluded he
:08:01. > :08:02.committed a criminal act. That places the bar pretty high and it
:08:03. > :08:06.has been a difficult offence in the past to prosecute. It has been 28
:08:07. > :08:13.years, how much easier with the trial have been if it had happened
:08:14. > :08:18.closer to the tragedy, are we now rely on memories that could be
:08:19. > :08:22.faulty? There's a huge amount of documentary evidence and that is in
:08:23. > :08:27.the hands of the authorities. Of course there will also be testimony
:08:28. > :08:31.from people who were there no doubt, who will have to give evidence about
:08:32. > :08:35.what took place on that fateful day 28 years ago. That is always
:08:36. > :08:40.difficult and challenging and will test human memory. Of course we have
:08:41. > :08:45.been prosecuted in this country very many historic sexual abuse crimes,
:08:46. > :08:48.some extending back way beyond 28 years. And some have been
:08:49. > :08:55.successfully prosecuted. So in general terms the time lag of 28
:08:56. > :09:01.years is no reason why a successful prosecution cannot be brought. But
:09:02. > :09:03.memories will indeed be tested. Clive Coleman speaking earlier.
:09:04. > :09:06.America spends more on health care than any other
:09:07. > :09:07.industrialised country - but it regularly ranks lower
:09:08. > :09:10.than other countries in the quality of its care.
:09:11. > :09:13.Try fixing this problem however and you end up in a whole heap
:09:14. > :09:16.That's what President Trump has just discovered.
:09:17. > :09:18.He's staked much of his political capital on replacing Obamacare -
:09:19. > :09:23.The Republican leader of the Senate has had to pull a vote
:09:24. > :09:25.on the issue this week - largely because the party's
:09:26. > :09:28.Last night President Trump summoned all 52 Republican senators
:09:29. > :09:33.to the White House to persuade them to vote for the bill.
:09:34. > :09:36.Today he says his reforms will pass.
:09:37. > :09:41.This will be something really special if we can get it done.
:09:42. > :09:43.Always tough - probably the toughest subject
:09:44. > :09:46.from the standpoint of approval cos every state is different -
:09:47. > :09:50.We have a tremendous opiod problem and some states are more affected
:09:51. > :09:53.by that than others but overall I have to tell you this
:09:54. > :09:57.It will really have a lot of very very happy people
:09:58. > :10:03.So we are working very hard on healthcare and I think
:10:04. > :10:06.we are going to have a great answer and hopefully we are
:10:07. > :10:20.Joining us now is Matt Schlapp, chair of the American
:10:21. > :10:32.Republicans cannot do something like changing American health care
:10:33. > :10:36.despite having the house and Senate. In the Senate takes the
:10:37. > :10:45.supermajority of 60 votes but on the legislation that using they just 50.
:10:46. > :10:48.So... It is put up or shut up time. We ran against Obamacare and said it
:10:49. > :10:54.is destroying American health care. We said we had good solutions and it
:10:55. > :10:58.is time for Republicans to explain those, debate and passed them, time
:10:59. > :11:01.for action. The president also said in the campaign that because he was
:11:02. > :11:06.such a good negotiator at this was going to be pretty simple, he was
:11:07. > :11:10.going to be able to fix it even though others have not managed to.
:11:11. > :11:13.Well we're making too much of the delayed vote, the same thing
:11:14. > :11:17.happened twice in the house. The delayed vote I think is good for the
:11:18. > :11:22.bill, it will make it better. As they make changes. I predict it will
:11:23. > :11:30.get past this month. The Republican senators, coming up to the July the
:11:31. > :11:33.4th weekend, they're going to go home and hear from their
:11:34. > :11:39.constituents and I think this bill has something like a 12% approval
:11:40. > :11:44.rating. It is hard to come up with a bill but only 12% of Americans
:11:45. > :11:48.support. They're not going to have a holiday. Well the American people
:11:49. > :11:52.actually in four elections, Obamacare was the number one issue
:11:53. > :11:58.and in four elections the American people said we do not like it. It is
:11:59. > :12:02.now more popular and in what the Republicans are proposing. When you
:12:03. > :12:06.get into the details are hard decisions to make and when you get
:12:07. > :12:09.to the details it is not so popular but these constituents, when the
:12:10. > :12:13.senators get home they will demand that they hold to the campaign
:12:14. > :12:18.promise, show us your version of health care reform. We having debate
:12:19. > :12:23.also in the UK about austerity and it seems you have similar problem
:12:24. > :12:27.there. One of the problems we have here, some people want to bring down
:12:28. > :12:30.the deficit, others like Susan Collins are more to the centre and
:12:31. > :12:35.they're saying look at all these people that will be pulled off
:12:36. > :12:39.Medicaid. And the problem is you have competing interests within the
:12:40. > :12:44.same party. Well I loved that in the UK they can use the word is dirty.
:12:45. > :12:48.Politicians here are scared of that word. They talk about how everyone
:12:49. > :12:51.will benefit and what Republicans tend to talk about is giving people
:12:52. > :12:57.choices and options. So here we have this Medicaid programme and
:12:58. > :13:01.Obamacare pushed millions on to Medicaid. The problem with that it
:13:02. > :13:05.is health care for poor people and unpopular. Republicans want to get
:13:06. > :13:10.people back off Medicaid and into the private health insurance market.
:13:11. > :13:13.That is what the debate is, how do you prop these individual private
:13:14. > :13:18.markets are up again and what is the process by which we give people more
:13:19. > :13:22.choice. So if premiums do not come down poor people cannot afford
:13:23. > :13:27.insurance. Exactly right, what happened with Obamacare is premiums
:13:28. > :13:30.went up so dramatically that you had American saying in spite of
:13:31. > :13:37.subsidies I cannot afford it and they are working away from it. --
:13:38. > :13:42.walking away. Thank you very much for coming in. It is important for
:13:43. > :13:43.Donald Trump politically that he manages to do that.
:13:44. > :13:46.Some of the states that have given the most support to President Trump
:13:47. > :13:48.have also been places that have the most people
:13:49. > :13:52.In the state of Kentucky more than 420,000 people have been
:13:53. > :13:54.insured through the expansion of the programme for
:13:55. > :14:08.This is what Donald Trump described as forgotten America.
:14:09. > :14:10.Eastern Kentucky used to be coal country.
:14:11. > :14:18.It is now blighted by ill-health and an opioid crisis.
:14:19. > :14:24.Clinics are seeing far higher rates of cancer,
:14:25. > :14:27.diabetes and heart disease than the rest of the US.
:14:28. > :14:33.And years of working at the coal face have taken its toll on some.
:14:34. > :14:36.We're talking about a lung transplant.
:14:37. > :14:39.They gave me an option to do the transplant,
:14:40. > :14:56.When the mines shut, he lost his job and his health insurance.
:14:57. > :15:00.But his treatment is free due to Obamacare reforms.
:15:01. > :15:02.Let's see if we can get you in this week.
:15:03. > :15:05.Doctor Reading was voted country doctor of the year.
:15:06. > :15:08.Half his patients receive government funded Medicaid.
:15:09. > :15:10.He warns about making this debate political,
:15:11. > :15:22.We will not be a pioneer, but we can take what they have done
:15:23. > :15:26.and use it and build it to make it the best programme in the world.
:15:27. > :15:29.That is why the United States is as strong as it is,
:15:30. > :15:31.we have always taken things and make them better.
:15:32. > :15:34.Why can't we take health care and make it better instead
:15:35. > :15:43.But some fear that the Donald Trump this county voted for may cut care.
:15:44. > :15:46.He not thinking about little people, I don't know what he's thinking.
:15:47. > :15:49.He did promise he would not take away Medicaid, and here we are.
:15:50. > :15:55.Promised a lot to get into office, that is what he promised.
:15:56. > :15:57.So many people here have told us that Obamacare
:15:58. > :16:04.Hard-working middle income families say their insurance
:16:05. > :16:09.premiums have risen, and they're struggling.
:16:10. > :16:12.They ask why should they be paying, why should they be
:16:13. > :16:17.And that question is raised more often as opioid abuse
:16:18. > :16:26.I wanted to use it to come off everything.
:16:27. > :16:28.Courtney is four months pregnant, she has been given medication
:16:29. > :16:34.Her first son was born dependent on drugs.
:16:35. > :16:37.This time she is determined to get the help she needs.
:16:38. > :16:40.I will always have that fear of getting back on drugs.
:16:41. > :16:42.But I'm excited, more excited than nervous,
:16:43. > :16:46.because I cannot wait to just be back normal.
:16:47. > :16:48.That probably sounds crazy to say, but I just can't wait
:16:49. > :16:52.to have my life back together, you know.
:16:53. > :16:55.And be able to focus on other things other than getting
:16:56. > :16:58.Doctors say this kind of intervention will
:16:59. > :17:10.And save what is becoming a lost generation.
:17:11. > :17:12.This community is finding ways to look after its own,
:17:13. > :17:16.They are hoping Washington is listening and will not
:17:17. > :17:38.I would love to play like that! Let's just talk about the polls
:17:39. > :17:45.because I saw a poll today, deeply unpopular this Senate bill. 12% I
:17:46. > :17:48.think in favour. And these people as you said, these senators all going
:17:49. > :17:53.back to their home towns and cities over this next few days and they're
:17:54. > :17:57.going to get it in the year. Yes in the end this is about people and
:17:58. > :18:02.patients and people families and the person who has a child that has
:18:03. > :18:07.asthma and someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer. It is easy
:18:08. > :18:09.for politicians to sit in Washington and fight between Republicans and
:18:10. > :18:19.Democrats but they're about to go home and we'll hear from people with
:18:20. > :18:22.real issues, will ride to saying this is the most powerful country in
:18:23. > :18:24.the world and why can we not fix something as basic as providing
:18:25. > :18:27.health care to poor people. That will be the message they're getting
:18:28. > :18:29.and we will see when the comeback whether it galvanises them to fix
:18:30. > :18:35.something that America has found inexplicably difficult to fix for
:18:36. > :18:38.the past few years. We were talking about austerity in the UK and we
:18:39. > :18:41.have news from House of Commons. An amendment to the Queen 's speech
:18:42. > :18:50.tailored by the Labour Party has failed to pass. This was on the
:18:51. > :18:53.public sector pay cap, that vote went 393 against and 309 in favour.
:18:54. > :18:55.They've almost cleared the house now. More on that later in the
:18:56. > :18:59.programme. Quiz time - what do
:19:00. > :19:01.a port in Los Angeles, the Russian Central Bank
:19:02. > :19:03.and a chocolate factory They've all been hit by that
:19:04. > :19:09.cyber attack that spread So far at least 64 countries have
:19:10. > :19:22.been hit by the attack. The virus started in Ukraine
:19:23. > :19:24.which had 80 percent The attackers demanded
:19:25. > :19:33.a 300 dollar ransom in BitCoin from companies
:19:34. > :19:35.who were hit. He's Executive Chairman
:19:36. > :19:41.of The Chertoff Group and Former Secretary of Homeland
:19:42. > :19:44.Security. Michael Chertoff, who is behind this
:19:45. > :19:46.latest cyber attack? There is a lot of
:19:47. > :19:51.speculation about it. What we do know is it appears
:19:52. > :19:53.that this particular type of encryption ransomware has been
:19:54. > :19:58.out there for a while. And the question is how is it
:19:59. > :20:00.getting into systems. Some of it apparently is through
:20:01. > :20:03.a vulnerability in Microsoft that should've been patched,
:20:04. > :20:06.that some people have not patched. Some of it may be
:20:07. > :20:08.coming in through other For example e-mail phishing or other
:20:09. > :20:16.ways of evading antivirus. We know the Ukrainians
:20:17. > :20:22.think it is the Russians. Absolutely the Ukrainians
:20:23. > :20:24.think is the Russians. Taking advantage of getting
:20:25. > :20:30.the exploit and being able to deploy It looks like whoever is behind
:20:31. > :20:35.the attack was trying to cause chaos rather than trying to
:20:36. > :20:38.raise a lot of money. They were asking I think for 300
:20:39. > :20:41.dollars and only 30 people paid Typically in ransomware they don't
:20:42. > :20:46.ask for exorbitant sums of The business model for criminals
:20:47. > :20:50.in this particular line of The business model is relatively
:20:51. > :20:57.small amounts of money so You make the money in volume
:20:58. > :21:05.and generally the model is they will restore access
:21:06. > :21:12.to the data when you pay. If they do not do that then again
:21:13. > :21:15.people will stop paying. Only 30 people paid,
:21:16. > :21:17.not a great business In this case perhaps the execution
:21:18. > :21:21.has not been what the more Whether people will then start
:21:22. > :21:25.to lose their data, and whether that then inspires more people to pay,
:21:26. > :21:27.remains to be seen. In both the WannaCry
:21:28. > :21:30.case and in this case it seems that actually
:21:31. > :21:34.the damage was contained. Do you still stand by the idea
:21:35. > :21:38.that it is not a question of if but when the world faces a major
:21:39. > :21:41.cyber attack that is not contained and where the damage is
:21:42. > :21:43.substantially greater than either of I do stand by that because as
:21:44. > :21:55.I said the ransomware episodes generally speaking are ways
:21:56. > :21:57.of extorting money for criminal Attacks carried out by terrorists
:21:58. > :22:01.or where there is a geopolitical issue, for example
:22:02. > :22:03.the shutdown of Ukrainian power last Christmas and the Christmas before
:22:04. > :22:06.by the Russians, those are much more damaging because the objective is
:22:07. > :22:09.not to extort money, the objective And we have seen
:22:10. > :22:14.examples of that, in How concerned are you about the
:22:15. > :22:24.prospect that there will be a major I think as with many people
:22:25. > :22:31.in the intelligence field, I believe this is probably the most serious
:22:32. > :22:33.threat we currently face. First of all the terrorists,
:22:34. > :22:35.although they have not yet used cyber
:22:36. > :22:38.as a destructive tool rather than a recruiting tool, they may yet decide
:22:39. > :22:44.they want to do that. You have the north Koreans
:22:45. > :22:46.who have shown very little restraint and have
:22:47. > :22:48.access to cyber weapons. And I do think as we get rising
:22:49. > :22:51.tension around the world, there is a greater likelihood that
:22:52. > :23:06.you will see cyber as a domain of We must leave it there, thank you.
:23:07. > :23:11.That quite a few people are talking this way. Some French newspapers
:23:12. > :23:15.have comments from the cyber security agency there and of course
:23:16. > :23:19.they had Eilish -- they had an issue during the election. They were
:23:20. > :23:25.saying we're going to be in a permanent state of warfare in the
:23:26. > :23:28.short time in cyber and will need a collective effort, a global effort
:23:29. > :23:34.to tackle some of this cyber warfare. Everyone coming together.
:23:35. > :23:38.And they said when you look at the WannaCry attack, 250,000 computers
:23:39. > :23:44.in one in 50 countries affected. Including Russia. India and Taiwan
:23:45. > :23:50.and companies like that. So it's spread so far and wide. And it is
:23:51. > :23:54.not just about the hackers and these groups trying to undermine security
:23:55. > :23:58.and that kind of thing, it is when that kind of technology is then used
:23:59. > :24:06.by other states to activate triggers in nuclear power stations or trains
:24:07. > :24:10.or in the defence arena. So they're saying everyone is going to have to
:24:11. > :24:15.come together shortly to tackle this. Not just one country. Because
:24:16. > :24:19.you're only as strong as your weakest link is we've just seen with
:24:20. > :24:23.the Ukraine attack, as have all come from Ukraine, 80% of it there but
:24:24. > :24:29.spread so far and wide because of course we are so interconnected.
:24:30. > :24:30.When it gets into the wig part of the system it can spread to other
:24:31. > :24:33.countries. -- the weakest part. On Monday we told you that
:24:34. > :24:35.Emmanuel Macron had invited Donald Trump and Melania to Paris
:24:36. > :24:38.for Bastille Day - Some had suggested the two
:24:39. > :24:51.Presidents weren't You'll remember this handshake which
:24:52. > :24:57.became a power struggle. And also that incident at Nato on the
:24:58. > :24:59.sidelines of the Nato summit, it seemed a manual Macron was not
:25:00. > :25:05.especially taken with what Donald Trump was saying but he has accepted
:25:06. > :25:08.the invitation. It is marking the 100th anniversary of the United
:25:09. > :25:12.States joining France at the end of the First World War. So marking
:25:13. > :25:16.that. But of course other things to talk about. They will perhaps
:25:17. > :25:21.forsake the handshake and go for the kiss on the cheek this time around.
:25:22. > :25:25.He does not like being away from home, that surprised me, he does not
:25:26. > :25:30.like travelling much. And that is twice in the space of ten ways, --
:25:31. > :25:42.ten days. Apogee 20 and then in Paris. -- at the G20.
:25:43. > :25:48.Still to come, a police officer steals a helicopter to launch an
:25:49. > :25:52.attack on the Venezuelan Supreme Court. And we hear from John supple.
:25:53. > :26:13.That's still to come on 100 Days Plus, from BBC News.
:26:14. > :26:21.There is more rain on the way, today most of the heavy rain has been
:26:22. > :26:25.falling across northern parts of England and also the far South West
:26:26. > :26:29.of England. It will remain wet through tonight and into tomorrow.
:26:30. > :26:36.Not quite as wet as it was across some eastern areas, in the last 24
:26:37. > :26:39.hours or so. In Suffolk to 90 millimetres of rain, a lot of
:26:40. > :26:47.rainfall in a relatively short space of time. It has been overcast across
:26:48. > :26:53.the UK today, the cloud was thinner in Scotland. The bad weather has
:26:54. > :26:58.come in through this area of low pressure which is very slow moving.
:26:59. > :27:03.And the rain clouds are over us for a considerable amount of time put up
:27:04. > :27:08.raining in same place for a long time. The rain across the North of
:27:09. > :27:12.England and into southern and eastern Scotland during the morning
:27:13. > :27:17.and rain across Wales and the south-west. This is rush hour on
:27:18. > :27:22.Thursday morning, you can see it is still dry across the south-east and
:27:23. > :27:28.east Anglia and and central Midlands and Southern Wales. Further north,
:27:29. > :27:30.it is damp and the heavier rain nudging into Northern Ireland and
:27:31. > :27:35.falling across the north-east of England through the Borders into
:27:36. > :27:42.south west and central parts of Scotland. Through the course of
:27:43. > :27:47.tomorrow the rain continues to make its slow journey north but then
:27:48. > :27:57.slowly starts to pivot back our West and South again. Temperatures around
:27:58. > :28:02.14 degrees in Glasgow, 13 in Belfast. Up to 20 degrees in London.
:28:03. > :28:05.Again a slow-moving area of low pressure stretching right into the
:28:06. > :28:10.Baltic as well, even worse over there. But this giving us all the
:28:11. > :28:14.poor weather across western part of the country and on top of that the
:28:15. > :28:18.strong wind blowing as well. So pretty chilly in some areas. But the
:28:19. > :28:21.chance of it is some sunshine developing through the course of the
:28:22. > :28:27.afternoon in the south-east. But some showers still on the cards. It
:28:28. > :28:30.looks as though the weekend is looking more promising and
:28:31. > :30:07.especially Sunday, some sunshine on offer.
:30:08. > :30:16.Almost 30 years after Hillsborough - six people are told they face
:30:17. > :30:18.criminal charges for their role in Britain's worst ever sporting
:30:19. > :30:29.disaster when 96 people died at a football match in in 1989.
:30:30. > :30:31.President Trump is facing more delays in his plan
:30:32. > :30:33.to replace Obamacare - and he's laying the blame
:30:34. > :30:44.The Venezuelan government is hunting for a rogue policeman
:30:45. > :30:47.who attacked the Supreme Court with a helicopter and grenades.
:30:48. > :30:50.This is not the plot of a bad thriller.
:30:51. > :30:52.There have been anti government protests there for months -
:30:53. > :30:55.but we haven't seen anything yet quite like this.
:30:56. > :31:00.A police officer hijacking a helicopter to attack government
:31:01. > :31:08.buildings is a dramatic escalation of the turbulence in the country.
:31:09. > :31:11.No one was injured in the incident which President Nicolas Maduro has
:31:12. > :31:19.Eric Farnsworth is vice president of the organisation
:31:20. > :31:31.70 people have died in the protest lasting commands in Venezuela. Does
:31:32. > :31:36.this mark a tipping point? It sank clear but you can anticipate the
:31:37. > :31:38.situation will become more volatile. Whether or not this individual
:31:39. > :31:44.incident is a tipping point, I think there will be additional influence
:31:45. > :31:47.forthcoming. The government is becoming increasingly repressive,
:31:48. > :31:51.the people becoming increasingly desperate and there is a deadline
:31:52. > :31:55.here of 30th of July whether government has called for the
:31:56. > :31:59.constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. That has caused
:32:00. > :32:04.concern among Venezuelans. Some may turn to desperate measures. This was
:32:05. > :32:10.not a guy in the street, this was someone who was a formula policeman
:32:11. > :32:15.-- former policeman, hijacked helicopter, why attack the Supreme
:32:16. > :32:17.Court? It is essentially the agent of enforcement of what the
:32:18. > :32:22.government has been trying to do for the last several months and years.
:32:23. > :32:28.It has been an instrument of the government, so one could anticipate
:32:29. > :32:32.that was the target. We don't know his motivation, we can't find him or
:32:33. > :32:42.talk to him, but we don't know. Why is now one weighing in regionally?
:32:43. > :32:49.There have been failed to do conclusive investigation. This is a
:32:50. > :32:55.question many of us have asked. There's a regional meeting in
:32:56. > :32:59.Cancun, Mexico. They have failed to take action against Venezuela. They
:33:00. > :33:03.believe the situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the question
:33:04. > :33:06.is what can meaningfully do about it in a way that respects the
:33:07. > :33:11.principles of sovereignty and the traditions of the American system,
:33:12. > :33:16.it's a real conundrum. You get into a downward spiral in the situation.
:33:17. > :33:21.Looks at the currency today, it took around 3000 to buy one US dollar at
:33:22. > :33:28.the start of the year and at around 8000. Inflation is out of control,
:33:29. > :33:31.bordering on hyperinflation. If you have access to dollars at the
:33:32. > :33:36.preferred exchange rate, as the government and it supports do, you
:33:37. > :33:39.can make a lot of money through currency manipulation. If you are
:33:40. > :33:43.the common Venezuelan people trying to survive, this is a desperate
:33:44. > :33:48.situation. It's hitting people really hard, where they live
:33:49. > :33:52.literally and figuratively. Just the ability to conduct your daily
:33:53. > :33:56.affairs. The economy is spinning downward without any particular end
:33:57. > :34:01.in sight. This country sitting on some of the largest oil reserves in
:34:02. > :34:05.the world? This is the irony. It has, by some estimates, the large
:34:06. > :34:18.two --. Oil sector has been destroyed.
:34:19. > :34:24.The president has a problem, he's never been as popular as Hugo
:34:25. > :34:30.Chavez. I'm assuming with not being out by anything in the shops and the
:34:31. > :34:37.demonstrations, the population is declining? It's very low. Estimates
:34:38. > :34:41.have 20%, including many of his former base. That poorer people are
:34:42. > :34:45.also turning against them because they can't get food or medical
:34:46. > :34:49.attention, the streets are unsafe. But popularity is declining. So the
:34:50. > :34:54.government is increasingly turning to repression ticket stay in power
:34:55. > :35:00.because it is running out of options to. Thank you. Extraordinary
:35:01. > :35:05.pictures of the helicopter and Supreme Court.
:35:06. > :35:08.These are difficult times for the White House press corps.
:35:09. > :35:10.Increasingly the administration is putting obstacles in their way.
:35:11. > :35:12.The briefings have not been cancelled - not entirely -
:35:13. > :35:15.but they are being downgraded, bit by bit, from "briefings"
:35:16. > :35:16.to "gaggles," from on-camera to off-camera.
:35:17. > :35:19.And the President - well - he has not held a full press
:35:20. > :35:26.Yesterday for the first time in a week, the cameras were allowed in.
:35:27. > :35:29.At the podium was the deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders,
:35:30. > :35:32.spoiling for a fight - but so were the reporters
:35:33. > :35:43.If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off, it is
:35:44. > :35:52.just an absolute Thai raid from a lot of people in this room. But news
:35:53. > :35:59.outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, news
:36:00. > :36:03.stories without sources, have, you mentioned a story where they had
:36:04. > :36:10.reporters resigning. This administration has done that as
:36:11. > :36:14.well. Why anyone of us, replaceable, if we don't get it right, the
:36:15. > :36:19.audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us. You have
:36:20. > :36:24.been elected to serve for four years at least. There's no option other
:36:25. > :36:27.than that. We come here to ask you questions, you provide the answers
:36:28. > :36:33.and what you did was inflammatory to people all over the who see once
:36:34. > :36:39.again, the President's right and everyone else's fake news. Everyone
:36:40. > :36:44.in here is trying to their job. I disagree completely, first of all.
:36:45. > :36:48.If anything has been inflamed, it's the dishonesty that often takes
:36:49. > :36:53.place by the news media. I think it's outrageous for you to accuse me
:36:54. > :36:54.of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to the
:36:55. > :37:06.question. John, that must have been found
:37:07. > :37:11.there. On one level, I hate talking about this subject because it seems
:37:12. > :37:14.so self-referential for us to talk about how the White House is
:37:15. > :37:19.treating the press or how the press is treating the White House, I'm
:37:20. > :37:24.sure the American people here want to hear about bigger policy issues.
:37:25. > :37:28.However, there is something extraordinary going on and it seems
:37:29. > :37:32.the White House once did this Mertz journalism in general. That
:37:33. > :37:38.-- wants to smear journalism in general. A worrying development. The
:37:39. > :37:42.get Sarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday urging people to look at the video
:37:43. > :37:48.that she doesn't know was authentic or not. Why would you urge somebody
:37:49. > :37:53.to... She also took the view that journalists don't care whether they
:37:54. > :37:58.make things up or things are totally inaccurate. My experience, and I'm
:37:59. > :38:04.sure yours and Christians's as well, when one of screws up on says
:38:05. > :38:08.something wrong, we don't sleep that night, because accuracy is something
:38:09. > :38:15.that is drilled into all of us. John is right. The White House has
:38:16. > :38:20.political reasons for doing what it does about the media. But the issue
:38:21. > :38:22.fake news is something we have all dealt with, when the White House is
:38:23. > :38:26.encouraging people to look at bilious but not admitting if they
:38:27. > :38:32.are accurate or not. -- look at videos. That exacerbates the
:38:33. > :38:36.problem? But does she have a slight point? The New York Times and the
:38:37. > :38:41.Washington Post are infatuated with the Russia story. There is lots
:38:42. > :38:45.going on and she made this point yesterday that every little mistake
:38:46. > :38:48.we make, you stick that up there in the headlights, the things we are
:38:49. > :38:55.doing underneath, you don't need much coverage at all. -- don't give
:38:56. > :38:59.much coverage. One issue further organisations is that certain
:39:00. > :39:02.subjects drive readers or viewers and therefore, they think this is
:39:03. > :39:06.good for business. That's not the same as it being fake news, fake
:39:07. > :39:13.unease is something made up, a fiction. -- fake news. They are
:39:14. > :39:15.reporting sources people are talking to. It's very well saying you
:39:16. > :39:20.shouldn't use anonymous sources, which is something often said to us.
:39:21. > :39:25.We get called the briefings at the White House while we are told it
:39:26. > :39:30.will be from a senior source and it will not be a named person. That is
:39:31. > :39:34.the rules of engagement that for the White House and the oven to leg
:39:35. > :39:39.other government departments are choosing for their means of speaking
:39:40. > :39:43.to us. You can't then complain when people talk about it like that. The
:39:44. > :39:49.big mistake the media could make, and I have seen evidence of some of
:39:50. > :39:52.them doing that, is to make the mistake of thinking that we, the
:39:53. > :39:57.journalists, are the enemy of the White House. We are not. We're there
:39:58. > :40:01.to hold power to account, whether it be a government from the left or
:40:02. > :40:08.right. I think most journalists would say they are there to do their
:40:09. > :40:13.job by the White House press briefing room. The incidence of
:40:14. > :40:17.enemies or critics as they -- they don't see themselves as enemies or
:40:18. > :40:21.critics. But every time there is a story in newspapers or national
:40:22. > :40:28.networks that are critical or questioning the administration, for
:40:29. > :40:32.president from's supporters it justifies their opinion that the
:40:33. > :40:36.media is fake. Paradoxically, it has the impact, because I don't think
:40:37. > :40:42.many people are persuadable on either side of this argument, of
:40:43. > :40:47.shoring up his base of support. It may well do that but it can be
:40:48. > :40:50.counter-productive. The key opinion group he needs to win over other
:40:51. > :40:55.people voting on his legislation on the hill. Sometimes twisting things
:40:56. > :41:02.out, launching attack ads against the senator against you, has shown
:41:03. > :41:05.to be counter-productive. It's not a smart way of operating. Yes, go to
:41:06. > :41:11.your rallies and say look at the fake news, what a bunch of liars,
:41:12. > :41:18.and they turn round the look look at us, they have done that to me. It's
:41:19. > :41:22.not very edifying. But he's in the business of governing now, which
:41:23. > :41:25.means getting legislation passed, not just revving up your base.
:41:26. > :41:35.Before we move on from this topic of fake news. I want to draw your
:41:36. > :41:36.attention to a story in the Washington Post today.
:41:37. > :41:39.It's a story that features this framed copy of Time magazine
:41:40. > :41:42.which has hung for many years on the walls of at least five
:41:43. > :41:46.On the cover there is a photo of Mr Trump -
:41:47. > :41:48.taken before he arrived at the White House - with the words
:41:49. > :41:50."Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!"
:41:51. > :41:54.And just this week, Time Magazine have asked
:41:55. > :42:08.At Turnberry in Scotland, it was taken down the other week. So they
:42:09. > :42:10.got wind of it. I think this probably says more about the nature
:42:11. > :42:20.of this president than it does about fake news. I was at Turnberry with
:42:21. > :42:27.him about this time of year ago and the name Trump appears everywhere
:42:28. > :42:30.you go on every tee box, on every yardage marker, everywhere in the
:42:31. > :42:36.clubhouse. On every piece of merchandise you will find. And this
:42:37. > :42:41.theme, I sent my spies to the Washington office. These are the
:42:42. > :42:48.famous people who sat behind the microphone, these are the people I
:42:49. > :42:56.found. Do you want to explain this? Where am I? Why am I not on this.
:42:57. > :43:06.You've got some explaining to do. Guys, that is a fake news Time
:43:07. > :43:08.magazine cover. Go away! Thanks for watching.