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Theresa May touches down in the United States -

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Before their meeting - the president's first

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with a foreign leader - Mrs May addresses

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She signals a change in UK foreign policy -

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with clear echoes of that of Mr Trump.

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The days of Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries

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in an attempt to remake the world in our own image are over.

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Stepping down for the first time from Air Force One,

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President Trump looks ahead to his meeting with Mrs May.

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I am meeting with her tomorrow, I don't have my secretary there,

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they want to talk trade, so I will have to handle it myself.

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But Mr Trump's comments approving of torture may prove something

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of a stumbling block among the diplomatic niceties.

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No post-Brexit slowdown, as the UK economy grows

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Prison suicides at record levels in England and Wales -

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and a huge increase in attacks on staff.

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It is like a soldier on a battlefield, you don't know

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On top of that, you have got the fear, am I going

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The Brexit bill is published, causing tension within Labour,

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which tells its MPs - you must vote for it.

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And one of the leading contemporary art prizes in the world -

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won tonight by a British artist and film-maker.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Manchester United went behind

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Theresa May has arrived in America at the start of a trip

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which she hopes will pave the way for a post-Brexit trade deal

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She'll be the first foreign leader to hold talks with Donald Trump,

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when she meets the new president at the White House tomorrow.

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This evening, she addressed a Republican conference

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in Philadelphia, in a speech where she sought to find common

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But the Prime Minister's bid to launch a new era

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of co-operation with America risked being overshadowed -

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by a row about President Trump's support for torture,

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Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is travelling

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with Theresa May and has just sent this report.

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Opposites attract. Theresa May's hope. But how close does she want to

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get to him? The Prime Minister made a quieter arrival, making her way

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down the windy steps in Philadelphia. Her convoy speeding

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towards her debut in Trump land, here to make friends. No hate, no

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fear. A reminder right outside the 5-star hotel where they were both to

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speak, Donald Trump has many enemies as well. The Prime Minister's warm

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up tax was the president himself. Is he ready for her? I'm meeting with

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the Prime Minister tomorrow, as you know. Great Britain. I'm meeting

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with her tomorrow. I don't have my secretary, they want to talk trade,

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so I'll have to handle it myself. LAUGHTER

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Which is OK. Then it was her turn, with, as you would expect, fulsome

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reference to the French -- friendship across the Atlantic. It

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has been America's destiny to bear the leadership of the free world and

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to carry that heavy responsibility on its shoulders, but my country,

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the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, has been proud

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to share that burden and to walk alongside you at every stage.

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APPLAUSE CHEERING

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But this is much more than a meet and greet. Theresa May came with a

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serious message for Republicans and the World Cup. Under her leadership,

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no more Western conflicts like Iraq, or Afghanistan, she suggested. This

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cannot mean a return to the failed policies of the past. The days of

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Britain and America intervening in sovereign countries in an attempt to

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remake the world in our own image are over, but nor can we afford to

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stand idly by, when the threat is real and when it is in our own

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interests to intervene. We must be strong, smart and hard-headed, and

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we must demonstrate the resolve necessary to stand up for our

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interests. And a warning perhaps directed at the president over an

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assertive Russia. When it comes to Russia, as so often it is wise to

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turn to the example of President Reagan, who, during his negotiations

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with his opposite number Mikhail Gorbachev, used to abide by the

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adage, trust, but verify. With... APPLAUSE

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With President Putin, my advice is to engage, but beware. Noticeable as

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well, her praise for the Republicans, and President Trump's

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controversial win. Because of what you have done together, because of

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that great victory you have won, America can be stronger, greater and

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more confident in the years ahead. Even before she touched down though,

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Theresa May had a taste of how much political trouble closeness to

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President Trump could cause. Number Ten believes the risk is worth it,

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because there's a big opportunity as well, but this new friendship could

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cause fireworks. Every time Donald Trump's speaks his mind. Suggesting

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torture, banned under British and international law, works. I want to

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do everything within the bounds of what you're allowed to do legally,

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but do I feel it works? Absolutely I feel it works. Prime Minister was

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adamant Britain won't change its laws and signalled we might stop

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sharing intelligence with America if torture was brought back. Here among

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the Republican top brass, the unlikely -- the idea is unlikely to

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fly. The deep-seated policy in American culture is not to torture.

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So Theresa May is right and President Trump is wrong? I didn't

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say that. Just one of many awkward subjects the PM and president could

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discuss tomorrow, a test, even in politics true friends tell the truth

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to one another, not merely platitudes, or what they want to

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hear. Laura in Philadelphia, Theresa May clearly trying to set the tone

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of the relationship she would like the UK to have with Donald Trump.

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That's right, in the city where American revolutionaries at the time

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through off their attachment to the UK and declared independence,

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Theresa May came here with much more than brought warm words about the

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importance of our traditions and shared history. She came signalling

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for example a clean break with failed, as she suggested, foreign

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policy of the past, interventions that America and Britain had been

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involved in clearly signalling what had happened in Iraq and perhaps

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Afghanistan, where American presidents had taken British prime

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ministers into conflicts that had worked out badly, very interesting

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that she used this big, major appearance here to signal such as

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shift. But more broadly, how does the self-described hard-working

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vicar's door to reconcile herself to work with the reality TV star

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billionaire president? The answer from this speech was, with great

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care and calibration. There were subtle criticisms, warnings for

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example one Russia, but for example on Nato, where President Trump has

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expressed doubts, she said she shared some of those doubts but

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insisted Britain and America must continue to work hard, to make sure

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that Nato still really matters. As ever with Theresa May, no single

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word was wasted. Everything was in there, carefully put there, with

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meaning behind it. But tomorrow, she is off to the White House and the

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talks will turn to trade. The audience here, Republican in

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Philadelphia, is needed -- is the audience to be friends with

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President Trump than it is back home in Downing Street is well aware this

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relationship is extremely important, but they also know how controversial

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it could be. It's not so much that she's trying to walk a fine line,

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it's more like she's having to tiptoe across a tight rope across

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the whole of the Grand Canyon. Laura in Philadelphia, thank you. Our

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diplomatic correspondent James Robbins is with me. You were

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listening to Mrs May's speech in Philadelphia. One thing that stood

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out was what she appears to be signalling, a change in UK foreign

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policy. This is a hugely significant speech. Arguably the biggest by a

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British Prime Minister in the United States since Tony Blair's in Chicago

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in 1999, when he first, openly advocated armed intervention is

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against dictators, and of course that was repudiated by Theresa May

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this evening. As if to underscore the failure of current British

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policy, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier on today told a

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committee of the House of Lords that, now the policy in Britain had

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changed, and that President Assad should be permitted to run for

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election, as part of a democratic resolution of the Syrian civil war.

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That's a complete reversal of British foreign policy. Boris

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Johnson himself called it, a complete flip-flop, but he said, the

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UK had been unable at any stage to fulfil its mantra that the Syrian

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president should go. Now, by Boris Johnson saying it, it meant Theresa

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May didn't have to, but those are pretty painful words to have to

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utter. There is more in the Prime Minister's speech that we've been

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listening to. She is challenging Donald Trump, particularly over Nato

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and the UN, and the -- I think she's signalling it will be a bumpy

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special relationship. Meanwhile, President Trump had

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other things in his mind Relations between the US and Mexico

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have soured still further. Following a tweet from Mr Trump

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suggesting their meeting next week should be scrapped,

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the Mexican president The row centres on President Trump's

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plans to build a wall along the Mexican border,

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and his repeated insistence that Our North America correspondent

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Nick Bryant reports. Donald Trump's new executive toy.

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Its first ride today on Air Force One, that potent symbol of US

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presidential power. But it was the cancelled travel plans of the

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Mexican president that were wrapped the centre of a diplomatic storm.

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His plane will stay grounded after a summit between the two leaders

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scheduled for Washington next week was abruptly called off. This

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Mexican stand-off is over the great totem of the Trump presidency, the

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wall he is determined not just to build along the border, but also to

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get Mexico to pay for. But in an angry speech last night, the

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country's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, said he wouldn't foot the

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bill. So shortly before leaving the Oval Office this morning, Donald

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Trump decided to conduct his diplomacy by Tweet. If Mexico is

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unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better

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to cancel the upcoming meeting. By the time he spoke in Philadelphia,

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the Mexicans had announced the summit was off, and that earned a

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public scolding from President Trump. The president of Mexico and

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myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next

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week, unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with

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respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and I want to go a

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different route. Almost a week into his term in office it's already

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becoming clear that Donald Trump is changing the presidency more than

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the presidency is changing him. On prime-time TV last night, the former

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property tycoon gave a tour of the country's most prized piece of real

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estate and it was vintage Donald Trump. I don't want to change too

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much. I can be the most presidential ever, other than possibly the great

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Abraham Lincoln, all right? But I can be the most presidential person.

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He's still obsessed with the crowd size that his inauguration. But in a

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new interview with Fox News, he turned his attention to the group

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calling itself Islamic State, saying its fighters were thick and

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demented. The people we are going against, they don't wear uniforms,

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they are sneaky, dirty rats. And they blow people up in a shopping

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centre. And they blow people up in a church. These are bad people. The

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presidency is travelling at a hurtling pace. The late-breaking

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news tonight, that is now calling for a 20% tax on Mexican imports to

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pay for the wall. Donald Trump is clearly revelling in his seat of

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power, whether it's in the Oval Office, or at 30,000 feet.

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Beautiful, great plane. Nick Bryant, BBC News, Washington. Let's talk to

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our North American auditor Jon Sopel, at the White House. It's

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difficult to keep up with events. There's the tax with Mexico,

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executive orders, he's picking fights with Mexico. There are the

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announcements that they have anticipated and planned for, and

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there's what they call in the White House, stray voltage, where things

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haven't gone quite exactly to plan, and there's been a lot of that

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today. You've had the top team at the State Department, civil servants

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resigning en masse, you've had all manner of other things as well, the

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row over torture with the Republican leadership distancing themselves

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from him, you've had the concern over him signing an executive order

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looking into electoral fraud, even though the evidence is very scant on

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that, and indeed, so much so that apparently one of the reasons Donald

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Trump believes that, he was told it was so by the German golfer Bernhard

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Langer. These are some of the things that are moving Donald Trump in a

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certain direction. On top of that we've had the Mexican president

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announcing that he's not going to come to Washington after all. There

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seem to be limits on Twitter diplomacy. Let's talk about the

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meeting with Theresa May tomorrow. What reception is she likely to get

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there? I think she's going to get a very warm reception. I thought what

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was notable about her speech was how loudly she proclaimed her closeness

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and was very subtle about the differences, as Laura was saying,

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that she has with this administration. But this is all

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about trade, and getting a deal, if and when Britain leads the single

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market, which seems to becoming more and more certain. The thing you have

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to ask is, who needs that trade deal more? Donald Trump, or Theresa May?

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Theresa May is clearly the answer to that question, which means she's

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going to have to tread very carefully with Donald Trump, who may

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be offering her all sorts of nice things, but there may be trapped in

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there as well. Jon Sopel at the White House, thank you.

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Here in the UK, Strong consumer spending helped the economy grow

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faster than expected at the end of last year.

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Figures show it grew by 0.6% in the October to December period.

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It means the British economy expanded by two per cent last year,

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confounding predictions from some economists that there would be

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an immediate slowdown after the Brexit vote.

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The Chancellor Philip Hammond said the figures show

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the economy is robust, but warned there could be a period

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of uncertainty ahead, as our economics editor

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It was Napoleon who famously and sarcastically called us

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a nation of shopkeepers, and the Government will be pleased

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today the UK economy is still one based on consumers

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Britain's services sector, 80% of the economy, was the reason

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For shoppers in Reading, it was good business as usual.

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A lot of people thought that the referendum and the vote

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to leave the EU would mean consumers might be nervous, "What does

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the future hold?," and would stop spending.

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No, I haven't seen any difference personally.

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I think consumer spending will maintain itself and, long-term,

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I think we are in a terribly unstable situation, I really do.

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We have got nothing that is filling us with confidence.

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They drove a myriad of warnings before the referendum.

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There would be a hit to the value of people's homes,

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Material slowdown in growth, notable increase in inflation.

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Higher prices, less growth means less jobs, so higher unemployment.

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We are indeed a nation of shoppers and, frankly,

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those gloomy predictions before the referendum haven't come to pass.

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Consumer confidence is still strong, business confidence is still strong,

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but with inflation rising and Britain actually still to start

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the process of leaving the EU, which of course we haven't done yet,

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The Chancellor meeting apprentices at Microsoft, near Reading,

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a company that is investing in the UK.

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I met him later and asked him about the Bank of England

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forecast which said growth could slow next year.

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Is this economic pain cancelled or is it delayed?

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What the figures today show is that the UK economy continues

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to be resilient and continues to confound the sceptics.

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Of course, we recognise that as we go into this period

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of negotiation with the EU, and as we absorb the impact

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of the depreciation of sterling last year, there will be more uncertainty

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ahead during the course of this year.

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British-built cars off to the continent today,

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a mark of optimism, as production reached a 17-year high

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There is still, though, the Brexit shadow.

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We are getting comments from a number of our members saying

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they are sitting on their hands, waiting to see what the future

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will hold, and looking for greater certainty about future

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relationships, especially with Europe.

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Britain's growth last year was the highest of any

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Are we still waiting for the full Brexit effect?

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The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says his MPs will face a three-line

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whip compelling them to vote to trigger Article 50, allowing

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That's prompted one shadow minister to quit the front bench in protest.

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A two-line bill on the issue entered the Commons today,

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Our Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar

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John, first of all, what's in the bill, and will it

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Yes, Theresa May hoped to get Brexit started without getting an OK from

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Parliament, the Supreme Court said we need this. You could write it on

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the back of an envelope and have room to spare, it gives her

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authority to get the negotiations to leave going, and take it from there.

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It will pass comfortably, by the look of things, because most MPs

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have decided they cannot defy the referendum, and Jeremy Corbyn has

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told his MPs they can try to influence the outcome, but they

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cannot stop Brexit. How cookie is it for Jeremy Corbyn? It is difficult

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for Labour. The Tories were always the party with a running schism over

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Europe, and now it is Labour's term, because their MPs come from areas

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that voted to leave. He has persuaded some of these unhappy

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ministers to go along with this, but one of them has resigned. Others

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will vote against it. He will have to decide whether to sack them. It

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leaves Labour split on tactics and policy, and ministers confident of

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getting at least to the starting line of this marathon over an

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obstacle course towards Brexit. There's been a record rise

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in suicides, assaults and self-harm inside prisons in England and Wales,

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and the latest figures are a stark reminder of the crisis

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in the penal system. There were 354 deaths

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in prison custody last year. Nearly 6,500 staff were assaulted

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in the year to last September. And incidents of self-harm are up

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by nearly a quarter. Our Home Affairs

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Correspondent June Kelly has been speaking to one prison officer

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about life inside the prison walls. Life in our jails is getting worse,

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for staff and prisoners. The rise in assaults, suicides

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and self-harming is relentless. The sense of crisis in the system

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was underlined by a riot in Birmingham prison,

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where inmates posed Just one of a string of jail

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disturbances in recent months. Amid the volatile atmosphere,

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today's figures show that in the past year a record number

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of prisoners have It's very hard when you've got

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members of your family who... Sarah is a long-serving

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prison officer, whose She describes having to deal

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with a teenage suicide. A self-inflicted death

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is an horrific experience. You feel, is there something

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more I could have done? I came on duty, and I went

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to perform a roll check. I lifted the flap, and this young

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man was suspended in his cell. We lay him on the bed, and I saw

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a note to his sister on the side, and I saw it was his birthday,

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and I thought, what a waste. Just describe the thoughts in your

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head as you're going into work. When you open a door,

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you don't know what you're I've had everything from urine,

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faeces, televisions thrown at me. Prisons are awash with drugs

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and psychoactive substances All adding to the underlying

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problems of staff shortages Vulnerable prisoners are suffering

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in the increasingly-threatening I'm very clear that the levels

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of violence in our prisons are too high, and the levels of self harm

:23:16.:23:20.

are too high. Since I became Justice Secretary,

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I've focused on dealing That's why we're investing

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an extra ?100 million. 2,500 extra prison officers across

:23:27.:23:30.

the estate, so that we are able to have a caseload of one prison

:23:31.:23:36.

officer for every six prisoners. But Sarah says the challenge

:23:37.:23:42.

is not recruiting staff, It's like a soldier

:23:43.:23:44.

on a battlefield. You don't know what you're

:23:45.:23:48.

going to be faced with. And on top of that,

:23:49.:23:51.

you've got the fear. "Am I going to make

:23:52.:23:54.

it home tonight?" I've never been in fear

:23:55.:23:56.

of my life until now, and we just don't get paid enough

:23:57.:24:02.

to have that fear every day. And there's a lot more detail

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about the pressures on the prison You can find it

:24:09.:24:11.

at bbc.co.uk/prisons. Tam Dalyell, the former Labour

:24:12.:24:18.

MP for West Lothian, He'll be remembered for his

:24:19.:24:20.

persistent questioning of Margaret Thatcher over

:24:21.:24:25.

the sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War and his

:24:26.:24:28.

campaigning against other conflicts. His family said he had

:24:29.:24:32.

devoted his life to public service. Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day,

:24:33.:24:39.

marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

:24:40.:24:42.

at the end of the Second World War. Commemorations are being held

:24:43.:24:45.

there to remember the six million Jews and others that were murdered

:24:46.:24:48.

by the Nazis. Our special correspondent

:24:49.:24:51.

Allan Little has been to Auschwitz and met one woman

:24:52.:24:53.

who survived her time 72 years ago this week,

:24:54.:24:55.

Soviet troops entered Auschwitz. This was not the only extermination

:24:56.:25:06.

camp in Nazi-occupied Europe. But it was where the evidence

:25:07.:25:09.

was best preserved of the crime that On this railway platform,

:25:10.:25:13.

Nazi officers separated those chosen to live and work from those sent

:25:14.:25:20.

immediately to die. These pictures showed

:25:21.:25:26.

Jews transported here Susan Pollock, 13,

:25:27.:25:28.

was chosen to live. There were no hugs

:25:29.:25:35.

or kisses or embrace. The dehumanisation

:25:36.:25:45.

started immediately. It was just as if I had

:25:46.:25:51.

lost all my feelings. These railway lines extended

:25:52.:26:02.

to almost every corner of Europe, and to the active collaboration

:26:03.:26:11.

of Norwegian civil servants, French police, Polish train drivers,

:26:12.:26:15.

Ukrainian paramilitaries. When it was over, a great public

:26:16.:26:21.

silence descended on Europe. After the war, the nations

:26:22.:26:24.

of Europe were so preoccupied by their own victimhood

:26:25.:26:27.

that they did not pay much attention to the uniqueness

:26:28.:26:30.

of what had happened here. The Jews who survived found

:26:31.:26:34.

that the world beyond these perimeter fences did not

:26:35.:26:37.

want to hear their stories. It was only really in the 1960s,

:26:38.:26:40.

nearly 20 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, that popular

:26:41.:26:44.

consciousness began to confront what Europe collectively

:26:45.:26:48.

had done to its Jews. International law

:26:49.:26:56.

changed immediately. At the postwar Nuremberg trials,

:26:57.:27:01.

two new crimes entered the judicial lexicon for the first time,

:27:02.:27:04.

crimes against humanity Before 1945, if a state wished

:27:05.:27:08.

to kill half its population, there was no rule of international

:27:09.:27:16.

law that said you could not do that. The change that occurred,

:27:17.:27:19.

as we know sadly, has not prevented horrors from taking place,

:27:20.:27:23.

but it does mean that when horrors occur, there is now at least

:27:24.:27:26.

an objective standard which says to governments that as a matter

:27:27.:27:30.

of international law you cannot It took half a century

:27:31.:27:35.

for those powers to be used. But dozens have been convicted

:27:36.:27:41.

and jailed by international courts for genocide and crimes

:27:42.:27:45.

against humanity in Bosnia, The internet is full of claims

:27:46.:27:48.

that the destruction But the testimony of

:27:49.:27:55.

survivors is a warning We are not talking about barbarians,

:27:56.:28:00.

primitive society. The Germans were advanced,

:28:01.:28:09.

educated, progressive, Maybe the civilisation

:28:10.:28:16.

is just a veneer. I think we all need to be very

:28:17.:28:26.

careful about any hate propaganda, because it has got the potential

:28:27.:28:32.

to erupt, and then it is It's considered to be one

:28:33.:28:36.

of the leading international prizes Held every two years,

:28:37.:28:48.

Artes Mundi was founded in 2002. And within the past hour the winner

:28:49.:28:53.

of the ?40,000 prize has been The celebrated British artist

:28:54.:28:56.

and filmmaker John Akomfrah Here is the winner of

:28:57.:29:01.

the 2017 Artes Mundi. It is a film, but not

:29:02.:29:12.

of the Oscar-winning variety. It's more a series of vignettes,

:29:13.:29:15.

reflecting on the harrowing nature It's by the Ghanaian-born,

:29:16.:29:18.

London-based artist John Akomfrah, whose own family were forced to flee

:29:19.:29:24.

persecution, and like millions today, experienced what it can feel

:29:25.:29:27.

like to move to another country. Imagine this, if you're

:29:28.:29:33.

a child of migrants, you sort of live with this,

:29:34.:29:35.

and if you've lived for as long as I have,

:29:36.:29:38.

you've heard this for awhile. I remember this

:29:39.:29:42.

conversation in the '60s. Conversations about whether or not

:29:43.:29:45.

there were too many of you here, It's such a tragic topic and then,

:29:46.:29:55.

when you pull it into art, you give I don't always do things

:29:56.:30:08.

which are beautiful. But, I mean, I don't shun it just

:30:09.:30:18.

because the subject's tough. In fact, that's the reason

:30:19.:30:24.

why you bring to bear certain formal questions,

:30:25.:30:26.

to think about ways in which you can make something which feels

:30:27.:30:30.

to people outside of it like, "I wouldn't touch that,

:30:31.:30:39.

I wouldn't watch that," as a sort of prelude,

:30:40.:30:41.

as a kind of an invitation. Other artists taking part

:30:42.:30:48.

in the prize include the French-Algerian Neil Beloufa

:30:49.:30:50.

and American Amy Franceschini. Among the judges was a curator

:30:51.:30:53.

deemed by one publication to be the most-powerful person

:30:54.:30:59.

in the art world. Where, I asked, does she think this

:31:00.:31:00.

prize fits into a landscape already I think Artes Mundi is very

:31:01.:31:04.

important for the UK, because the awards you have

:31:05.:31:08.

in the UK are national. It's for British artists,

:31:09.:31:11.

or British-based artists, so what the UK didn't really have

:31:12.:31:16.

in a very eminent way So I think it fills

:31:17.:31:21.

a gap, an important gap. The judges said they awarded

:31:22.:31:29.

the prize to John Akomfrah for the way in which his work

:31:30.:31:32.

explores migration, To speak of these things

:31:33.:31:34.

at this moment, they said, Newsnight is getting

:31:35.:31:37.

underway over on BBC Two. Tonight, Theresa May is in the US,

:31:38.:31:46.

getting ready to forge a new relationship with the leader

:31:47.:31:51.

of the free world, so does she put trade first and leave

:31:52.:31:54.

the ticking off until later? And we revisit Trainspotting on the

:31:55.:31:57.

eve of the long-awaited sequel. Here on BBC One it's time

:31:58.:32:01.

for the news where you are.

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