28/06/2017 100 Days+

Hello and welcome to One Hundred Days Plus.

28 years after the Hillsborough disaster, criminal charges have been

Among them is the match day commander Chief Superintendent David

Duckenfield who faces 95 charges of manslaughter.

It is a day of mixed emotions for the families.

Relief there is now some accountability but frustration

This is the scene live in the House of Commons where opposition MP's

are forcing a vote on the UK's long standing, public-sector pay cap.

Is austerity finally coming to an end?

The Republican promise to repeal and replace Obamacare

As the Senate is forced to delay its vote we're in Kentucky

where patients are just worried about getting care with

That is why the United States is strong, we have always taken things

and made them better, we can take health care and make it better

instead of fighting. Grenades thrown from a helicopter

target Venezuela Supreme Court. It comes after weeks of violent

protests in which more President Trump is heading to Paris

for Bastille Day celebrations - saying he's ready to reaffirm the US

friendship with France. Welcome to the programme,

I am Christian Fraser in London, The Hillsborough disaster

is the worst tragedy English In April 1989, as an FA cup

semi-final kicked off between Liverpool and Nottingham

forest, a crush at one end For 28 years the families

have fought for justice. Last year the Hillsborough

Inquest ruled the fans But what the families still don't

have is accountability. Today having reviewed

thousands of documents from two seperate inquiries,

the Crown Prosecution Service announced it will be prosecuting six

people in connection Our correspondent Judith

Moritz has the story. They've had inquiries,

investigations and inquests, but the Hillsborough families have

never had public prosecutions. They've fought for nearly 30

years for this moment. We've got today everything

we could've asked for. The decisions by the CPS

in my opinion were And we look forward to the due

process through the courts of law. In 1989 the police officer

in charge at Hillsborough was There is sufficient evidence

to charge former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield

with the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 men,

women and children. The match commander ordered

the opening of an exit gate, through which the fans poured

onto overcrowded terraces. He is charged with the manslaughter

of all but one of the victims. Tony Bland died four years

later, too late to be In the years after Hillsborough,

Sir Norman Bettison rose through the ranks to become

Chief Constable of Merseyside He is charged with misconduct

in a public office, accused of lying He said he is disappointed to be

charged, and will vigorously Andrew Brookes was one of those

killed at Hillsborough. His sister Louise has long

campaigned for justice, and was in Warrington today to hear

that charges will be brought. It's another event where my

parents haven't been alive to see it or to hear it,

and it's not just my parents - its other Hillsborough

families who have gone The families were told that 23

suspects were originally Graham Mackrell was the Sheffield

Wednesday company secretary - responsible for safety,

he is accused of failing Peter Metcalf was the solicitor

acting for South Yorkshire Police. He is charged with perverting

the course of justice in relation to amendments made

to police statements. At home today, he would

not answer questions. Former Chief Superintendent Donald

Denton, in the middle here, is also charged with perverting

the course of justice, said to have overseen the process

of altering the statements. Former Detective Chief Inspector

Alan Foster faces the same charge, accused of being central

to the process of Nobody from the Ambulance Service

is being prosecuted, and no organisation will face corporate

charges over Hillsborough, A couple of names that we didn't

expect, and a few that we think There will be six people facing

criminal charges who might not have done if we hadn't have been

resilient and all stuck together Professor Phil Scraton has spent

years working to expose what happened at Hillsborough,

and says the passage of time must have had an effect

on the number of charges. If we'd had the kind

of investigation then that we have had now,

and the kind of attention paid to the detail of prosecutable

charges then as we have now, I think we would see a lot

more prosecutions. The youngest to die at Hillsborough

was just ten years old. There have long been

calls for justice. Now, nearly 30 years

after they died, those said to be responsible will face trial,

and the prospect of jail. We're joined now by the BBC's

Legal Correspondent Clive Coleman. It is a hugely significant day for

the families, 28 years since the tragedy. And the first time the

state has brought criminal charges. That may confuse some people because

of course there has been an inquest with the jury and that reached a

finding that the 96 fans were unlawfully killed. But an inquest is

not a criminal trial. It does not apportion guilt, does not apportion

responsibility. The thing but both have a legal effect is if you get a

finding of unlawful killing, that is when the criminal justice system

kicks in. And there is not an absolute obligation but a very high

expectation that if you have that finding of unlawful killing than the

police will investigate and the CPS will consider criminal charges and

that is what has happened here. So as you say for the first time in 28

years we're going to have prosecutions through the criminal

courts and we will know at the end of those that will determine whether

any one individual should bear responsibility, criminal

responsibility for what happened on the day. The focus has been on Chief

Superintendent David Duckenfield, manslaughter by gross negligence.

That is known as a common-law offence, a judge created defence and

what it means is the prosecution must prove David Duckenfield O the

Santa died a duty of care, Bezy bridge that duty of care so badly

that effectively he committed a criminal act. So bad mistake is not

enough, the conduct must be so serious that the jury concluded he

committed a criminal act. That places the bar pretty high and it

has been a difficult offence in the past to prosecute. It has been 28

years, how much easier with the trial have been if it had happened

closer to the tragedy, are we now rely on memories that could be

faulty? There's a huge amount of documentary evidence and that is in

the hands of the authorities. Of course there will also be testimony

from people who were there no doubt, who will have to give evidence about

what took place on that fateful day 28 years ago. That is always

difficult and challenging and will test human memory. Of course we have

been prosecuted in this country very many historic sexual abuse crimes,

some extending back way beyond 28 years. And some have been

successfully prosecuted. So in general terms the time lag of 28

years is no reason why a successful prosecution cannot be brought. But

memories will indeed be tested. Clive Coleman speaking earlier.

America spends more on health care than any other

industrialised country - but it regularly ranks lower

than other countries in the quality of its care.

Try fixing this problem however and you end up in a whole heap

That's what President Trump has just discovered.

He's staked much of his political capital on replacing Obamacare -

The Republican leader of the Senate has had to pull a vote

on the issue this week - largely because the party's

Last night President Trump summoned all 52 Republican senators

to the White House to persuade them to vote for the bill.

Today he says his reforms will pass.

This will be something really special if we can get it done.

Always tough - probably the toughest subject

from the standpoint of approval cos every state is different -

We have a tremendous opiod problem and some states are more affected

by that than others but overall I have to tell you this

It will really have a lot of very very happy people

So we are working very hard on healthcare and I think

we are going to have a great answer and hopefully we are

Joining us now is Matt Schlapp, chair of the American

Republicans cannot do something like changing American health care

despite having the house and Senate. In the Senate takes the

supermajority of 60 votes but on the legislation that using they just 50.

So... It is put up or shut up time. We ran against Obamacare and said it

is destroying American health care. We said we had good solutions and it

is time for Republicans to explain those, debate and passed them, time

for action. The president also said in the campaign that because he was

such a good negotiator at this was going to be pretty simple, he was

going to be able to fix it even though others have not managed to.

Well we're making too much of the delayed vote, the same thing

happened twice in the house. The delayed vote I think is good for the

bill, it will make it better. As they make changes. I predict it will

get past this month. The Republican senators, coming up to the July the

4th weekend, they're going to go home and hear from their

constituents and I think this bill has something like a 12% approval

rating. It is hard to come up with a bill but only 12% of Americans

support. They're not going to have a holiday. Well the American people

actually in four elections, Obamacare was the number one issue

and in four elections the American people said we do not like it. It is

now more popular and in what the Republicans are proposing. When you

get into the details are hard decisions to make and when you get

to the details it is not so popular but these constituents, when the

senators get home they will demand that they hold to the campaign

promise, show us your version of health care reform. We having debate

also in the UK about austerity and it seems you have similar problem

there. One of the problems we have here, some people want to bring down

the deficit, others like Susan Collins are more to the centre and

they're saying look at all these people that will be pulled off

Medicaid. And the problem is you have competing interests within the

same party. Well I loved that in the UK they can use the word is dirty.

Politicians here are scared of that word. They talk about how everyone

will benefit and what Republicans tend to talk about is giving people

choices and options. So here we have this Medicaid programme and

Obamacare pushed millions on to Medicaid. The problem with that it

is health care for poor people and unpopular. Republicans want to get

people back off Medicaid and into the private health insurance market.

That is what the debate is, how do you prop these individual private

markets are up again and what is the process by which we give people more

choice. So if premiums do not come down poor people cannot afford

insurance. Exactly right, what happened with Obamacare is premiums

went up so dramatically that you had American saying in spite of

subsidies I cannot afford it and they are working away from it. --

walking away. Thank you very much for coming in. It is important for

Donald Trump politically that he manages to do that.

Some of the states that have given the most support to President Trump

have also been places that have the most people

In the state of Kentucky more than 420,000 people have been

insured through the expansion of the programme for

This is what Donald Trump described as forgotten America.

Eastern Kentucky used to be coal country.

It is now blighted by ill-health and an opioid crisis.

Clinics are seeing far higher rates of cancer,

diabetes and heart disease than the rest of the US.

And years of working at the coal face have taken its toll on some.

We're talking about a lung transplant.

They gave me an option to do the transplant,

When the mines shut, he lost his job and his health insurance.

But his treatment is free due to Obamacare reforms.

Let's see if we can get you in this week.

Doctor Reading was voted country doctor of the year.

Half his patients receive government funded Medicaid.

He warns about making this debate political,

We will not be a pioneer, but we can take what they have done

and use it and build it to make it the best programme in the world.

That is why the United States is as strong as it is,

we have always taken things and make them better.

Why can't we take health care and make it better instead

But some fear that the Donald Trump this county voted for may cut care.

He not thinking about little people, I don't know what he's thinking.

He did promise he would not take away Medicaid, and here we are.

Promised a lot to get into office, that is what he promised.

So many people here have told us that Obamacare

Hard-working middle income families say their insurance

premiums have risen, and they're struggling.

They ask why should they be paying, why should they be

And that question is raised more often as opioid abuse

I wanted to use it to come off everything.

Courtney is four months pregnant, she has been given medication

Her first son was born dependent on drugs.

This time she is determined to get the help she needs.

I will always have that fear of getting back on drugs.

But I'm excited, more excited than nervous,

because I cannot wait to just be back normal.

That probably sounds crazy to say, but I just can't wait

to have my life back together, you know.

And be able to focus on other things other than getting

Doctors say this kind of intervention will

And save what is becoming a lost generation.

This community is finding ways to look after its own,

They are hoping Washington is listening and will not

I would love to play like that! Let's just talk about the polls

because I saw a poll today, deeply unpopular this Senate bill. 12% I

think in favour. And these people as you said, these senators all going

back to their home towns and cities over this next few days and they're

going to get it in the year. Yes in the end this is about people and

patients and people families and the person who has a child that has

asthma and someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer. It is easy

for politicians to sit in Washington and fight between Republicans and

Democrats but they're about to go home and we'll hear from people with

real issues, will ride to saying this is the most powerful country in

the world and why can we not fix something as basic as providing

health care to poor people. That will be the message they're getting

and we will see when the comeback whether it galvanises them to fix

something that America has found inexplicably difficult to fix for

the past few years. We were talking about austerity in the UK and we

have news from House of Commons. An amendment to the Queen 's speech

tailored by the Labour Party has failed to pass. This was on the

public sector pay cap, that vote went 393 against and 309 in favour.

They've almost cleared the house now. More on that later in the

programme. Quiz time - what do

a port in Los Angeles, the Russian Central Bank

and a chocolate factory They've all been hit by that

cyber attack that spread So far at least 64 countries have

been hit by the attack. The virus started in Ukraine

which had 80 percent The attackers demanded

a 300 dollar ransom in BitCoin from companies

who were hit. He's Executive Chairman

of The Chertoff Group and Former Secretary of Homeland

Security. Michael Chertoff, who is behind this

latest cyber attack? There is a lot of

speculation about it. What we do know is it appears

that this particular type of encryption ransomware has been

out there for a while. And the question is how is it

getting into systems. Some of it apparently is through

a vulnerability in Microsoft that should've been patched,

that some people have not patched. Some of it may be

coming in through other For example e-mail phishing or other

ways of evading antivirus. We know the Ukrainians

think it is the Russians. Absolutely the Ukrainians

think is the Russians. Taking advantage of getting

the exploit and being able to deploy It looks like whoever is behind

the attack was trying to cause chaos rather than trying to

raise a lot of money. They were asking I think for 300

dollars and only 30 people paid Typically in ransomware they don't

ask for exorbitant sums of The business model for criminals

in this particular line of The business model is relatively

small amounts of money so You make the money in volume

and generally the model is they will restore access

to the data when you pay. If they do not do that then again

people will stop paying. Only 30 people paid,

not a great business In this case perhaps the execution

has not been what the more Whether people will then start

to lose their data, and whether that then inspires more people to pay,

remains to be seen. In both the WannaCry

case and in this case it seems that actually

the damage was contained. Do you still stand by the idea

that it is not a question of if but when the world faces a major

cyber attack that is not contained and where the damage is

substantially greater than either of I do stand by that because as

I said the ransomware episodes generally speaking are ways

of extorting money for criminal Attacks carried out by terrorists

or where there is a geopolitical issue, for example

the shutdown of Ukrainian power last Christmas and the Christmas before

by the Russians, those are much more damaging because the objective is

not to extort money, the objective And we have seen

examples of that, in How concerned are you about the

prospect that there will be a major I think as with many people

in the intelligence field, I believe this is probably the most serious

threat we currently face. First of all the terrorists,

although they have not yet used cyber

as a destructive tool rather than a recruiting tool, they may yet decide

they want to do that. You have the north Koreans

who have shown very little restraint and have

access to cyber weapons. And I do think as we get rising

tension around the world, there is a greater likelihood that

you will see cyber as a domain of We must leave it there, thank you.

That quite a few people are talking this way. Some French newspapers

have comments from the cyber security agency there and of course

they had Eilish -- they had an issue during the election. They were

saying we're going to be in a permanent state of warfare in the

short time in cyber and will need a collective effort, a global effort

to tackle some of this cyber warfare. Everyone coming together.

And they said when you look at the WannaCry attack, 250,000 computers

in one in 50 countries affected. Including Russia. India and Taiwan

and companies like that. So it's spread so far and wide. And it is

not just about the hackers and these groups trying to undermine security

and that kind of thing, it is when that kind of technology is then used

by other states to activate triggers in nuclear power stations or trains

or in the defence arena. So they're saying everyone is going to have to

come together shortly to tackle this. Not just one country. Because

you're only as strong as your weakest link is we've just seen with

the Ukraine attack, as have all come from Ukraine, 80% of it there but

spread so far and wide because of course we are so interconnected.

When it gets into the wig part of the system it can spread to other

countries. -- the weakest part. On Monday we told you that

Emmanuel Macron had invited Donald Trump and Melania to Paris

for Bastille Day - Some had suggested the two

Presidents weren't You'll remember this handshake which

became a power struggle. And also that incident at Nato on the

sidelines of the Nato summit, it seemed a manual Macron was not

especially taken with what Donald Trump was saying but he has accepted

the invitation. It is marking the 100th anniversary of the United

States joining France at the end of the First World War. So marking

that. But of course other things to talk about. They will perhaps

forsake the handshake and go for the kiss on the cheek this time around.

He does not like being away from home, that surprised me, he does not

like travelling much. And that is twice in the space of ten ways, --

ten days. Apogee 20 and then in Paris. -- at the G20.

Still to come, a police officer steals a helicopter to launch an

attack on the Venezuelan Supreme Court. And we hear from John supple.

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

There is more rain on the way, today most of the heavy rain has been

falling across northern parts of England and also the far South West

of England. It will remain wet through tonight and into tomorrow.

Not quite as wet as it was across some eastern areas, in the last 24

hours or so. In Suffolk to 90 millimetres of rain, a lot of

rainfall in a relatively short space of time. It has been overcast across

the UK today, the cloud was thinner in Scotland. The bad weather has

come in through this area of low pressure which is very slow moving.

And the rain clouds are over us for a considerable amount of time put up

raining in same place for a long time. The rain across the North of

England and into southern and eastern Scotland during the morning

and rain across Wales and the south-west. This is rush hour on

Thursday morning, you can see it is still dry across the south-east and

east Anglia and and central Midlands and Southern Wales. Further north,

it is damp and the heavier rain nudging into Northern Ireland and

falling across the north-east of England through the Borders into

south west and central parts of Scotland. Through the course of

tomorrow the rain continues to make its slow journey north but then

slowly starts to pivot back our West and South again. Temperatures around

14 degrees in Glasgow, 13 in Belfast. Up to 20 degrees in London.

Again a slow-moving area of low pressure stretching right into the

Baltic as well, even worse over there. But this giving us all the

poor weather across western part of the country and on top of that the

strong wind blowing as well. So pretty chilly in some areas. But the

chance of it is some sunshine developing through the course of the

afternoon in the south-east. But some showers still on the cards. It

looks as though the weekend is looking more promising and

especially Sunday, some sunshine on offer.

Almost 30 years after Hillsborough - six people are told they face

criminal charges for their role in Britain's worst ever sporting

disaster when 96 people died at a football match in in 1989.

President Trump is facing more delays in his plan

to replace Obamacare - and he's laying the blame

The Venezuelan government is hunting for a rogue policeman

who attacked the Supreme Court with a helicopter and grenades.

This is not the plot of a bad thriller.

There have been anti government protests there for months -

but we haven't seen anything yet quite like this.

A police officer hijacking a helicopter to attack government

buildings is a dramatic escalation of the turbulence in the country.

No one was injured in the incident which President Nicolas Maduro has

Eric Farnsworth is vice president of the organisation

70 people have died in the protest lasting commands in Venezuela. Does

this mark a tipping point? It sank clear but you can anticipate the

situation will become more volatile. Whether or not this individual

incident is a tipping point, I think there will be additional influence

forthcoming. The government is becoming increasingly repressive,

the people becoming increasingly desperate and there is a deadline

here of 30th of July whether government has called for the

constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution. That has caused

concern among Venezuelans. Some may turn to desperate measures. This was

not a guy in the street, this was someone who was a formula policeman

-- former policeman, hijacked helicopter, why attack the Supreme

Court? It is essentially the agent of enforcement of what the

government has been trying to do for the last several months and years.

It has been an instrument of the government, so one could anticipate

that was the target. We don't know his motivation, we can't find him or

talk to him, but we don't know. Why is now one weighing in regionally?

There have been failed to do conclusive investigation. This is a

question many of us have asked. There's a regional meeting in

Cancun, Mexico. They have failed to take action against Venezuela. They

believe the situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the question

is what can meaningfully do about it in a way that respects the

principles of sovereignty and the traditions of the American system,

it's a real conundrum. You get into a downward spiral in the situation.

Looks at the currency today, it took around 3000 to buy one US dollar at

the start of the year and at around 8000. Inflation is out of control,

bordering on hyperinflation. If you have access to dollars at the

preferred exchange rate, as the government and it supports do, you

can make a lot of money through currency manipulation. If you are

the common Venezuelan people trying to survive, this is a desperate

situation. It's hitting people really hard, where they live

literally and figuratively. Just the ability to conduct your daily

affairs. The economy is spinning downward without any particular end

in sight. This country sitting on some of the largest oil reserves in

the world? This is the irony. It has, by some estimates, the large

two --. Oil sector has been destroyed.

The president has a problem, he's never been as popular as Hugo

Chavez. I'm assuming with not being out by anything in the shops and the

demonstrations, the population is declining? It's very low. Estimates

have 20%, including many of his former base. That poorer people are

also turning against them because they can't get food or medical

attention, the streets are unsafe. But popularity is declining. So the

government is increasingly turning to repression ticket stay in power

because it is running out of options to. Thank you. Extraordinary

pictures of the helicopter and Supreme Court.

These are difficult times for the White House press corps.

Increasingly the administration is putting obstacles in their way.

The briefings have not been cancelled - not entirely -

but they are being downgraded, bit by bit, from "briefings"

to "gaggles," from on-camera to off-camera.

And the President - well - he has not held a full press

Yesterday for the first time in a week, the cameras were allowed in.

At the podium was the deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders,

spoiling for a fight - but so were the reporters

If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off, it is

just an absolute Thai raid from a lot of people in this room. But news

outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, news

stories without sources, have, you mentioned a story where they had

reporters resigning. This administration has done that as

well. Why anyone of us, replaceable, if we don't get it right, the

audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us. You have

been elected to serve for four years at least. There's no option other

than that. We come here to ask you questions, you provide the answers

and what you did was inflammatory to people all over the who see once

again, the President's right and everyone else's fake news. Everyone

in here is trying to their job. I disagree completely, first of all.

If anything has been inflamed, it's the dishonesty that often takes

place by the news media. I think it's outrageous for you to accuse me

of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to the

question. John, that must have been found

there. On one level, I hate talking about this subject because it seems

so self-referential for us to talk about how the White House is

treating the press or how the press is treating the White House, I'm

sure the American people here want to hear about bigger policy issues.

However, there is something extraordinary going on and it seems

the White House once did this Mertz journalism in general. That

-- wants to smear journalism in general. A worrying development. The

get Sarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday urging people to look at the video

that she doesn't know was authentic or not. Why would you urge somebody

to... She also took the view that journalists don't care whether they

make things up or things are totally inaccurate. My experience, and I'm

sure yours and Christians's as well, when one of screws up on says

something wrong, we don't sleep that night, because accuracy is something

that is drilled into all of us. John is right. The White House has

political reasons for doing what it does about the media. But the issue

fake news is something we have all dealt with, when the White House is

encouraging people to look at bilious but not admitting if they

are accurate or not. -- look at videos. That exacerbates the

problem? But does she have a slight point? The New York Times and the

Washington Post are infatuated with the Russia story. There is lots

going on and she made this point yesterday that every little mistake

we make, you stick that up there in the headlights, the things we are

doing underneath, you don't need much coverage at all. -- don't give

much coverage. One issue further organisations is that certain

subjects drive readers or viewers and therefore, they think this is

good for business. That's not the same as it being fake news, fake

unease is something made up, a fiction. -- fake news. They are

reporting sources people are talking to. It's very well saying you

shouldn't use anonymous sources, which is something often said to us.

We get called the briefings at the White House while we are told it

will be from a senior source and it will not be a named person. That is

the rules of engagement that for the White House and the oven to leg

other government departments are choosing for their means of speaking

to us. You can't then complain when people talk about it like that. The

big mistake the media could make, and I have seen evidence of some of

them doing that, is to make the mistake of thinking that we, the

journalists, are the enemy of the White House. We are not. We're there

to hold power to account, whether it be a government from the left or

right. I think most journalists would say they are there to do their

job by the White House press briefing room. The incidence of

enemies or critics as they -- they don't see themselves as enemies or

critics. But every time there is a story in newspapers or national

networks that are critical or questioning the administration, for

president from's supporters it justifies their opinion that the

media is fake. Paradoxically, it has the impact, because I don't think

many people are persuadable on either side of this argument, of

shoring up his base of support. It may well do that but it can be

counter-productive. The key opinion group he needs to win over other

people voting on his legislation on the hill. Sometimes twisting things

out, launching attack ads against the senator against you, has shown

to be counter-productive. It's not a smart way of operating. Yes, go to

your rallies and say look at the fake news, what a bunch of liars,

and they turn round the look look at us, they have done that to me. It's

not very edifying. But he's in the business of governing now, which

means getting legislation passed, not just revving up your base.

Before we move on from this topic of fake news. I want to draw your

attention to a story in the Washington Post today.

It's a story that features this framed copy of Time magazine

which has hung for many years on the walls of at least five

On the cover there is a photo of Mr Trump -

taken before he arrived at the White House - with the words

"Donald Trump: The 'Apprentice' is a television smash!"

And just this week, Time Magazine have asked

At Turnberry in Scotland, it was taken down the other week. So they

got wind of it. I think this probably says more about the nature

of this president than it does about fake news. I was at Turnberry with

him about this time of year ago and the name Trump appears everywhere

you go on every tee box, on every yardage marker, everywhere in the

clubhouse. On every piece of merchandise you will find. And this

theme, I sent my spies to the Washington office. These are the

famous people who sat behind the microphone, these are the people I

found. Do you want to explain this? Where am I? Why am I not on this.

You've got some explaining to do. Guys, that is a fake news Time

magazine cover. Go away! Thanks for watching.