:00:00. > :00:13.Reporting from Washington, I'm Tim Willcox.
:00:14. > :00:15.Shoes off, no liquids, and now, no laptops.
:00:16. > :00:17.Why Britain is joining the United States in banning some
:00:18. > :00:20.electronic gadgets on certain flights.
:00:21. > :00:22.From bombs to the ballot box - Northern Ireland's Martin
:00:23. > :00:34.The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam welcomes home two stolen paintings
:00:35. > :00:50.Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in America,
:00:51. > :00:55.For millions of airline passengers long haul flights could soon
:00:56. > :01:03.It follows US authorities announcing a ban on laptops, iPads,
:01:04. > :01:06.cameras and other devices bigger than a mobile phone being allowed
:01:07. > :01:11.The order, based on unspecified threats, affects passengers on US
:01:12. > :01:14.bound flights from certain countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
:01:15. > :01:16.And now Britain has tightened its aviation
:01:17. > :01:28.Our security correspondent Frank Gardner has more.
:01:29. > :01:34.Jamelia, tedious, time consuming. Getting laptops and other devices
:01:35. > :01:40.through airport security on flights from the Middle East to the UK is
:01:41. > :01:44.Anything bigger than a smartphone Anything bigger than a smartphone
:01:45. > :01:49.will now have to go in the hold. British Airways, easyJet and four
:01:50. > :01:53.other UK airlines are affected, so too are Middle Eastern and North
:01:54. > :01:59.Africa and carriers. It follows a similar measure by the United
:02:00. > :02:03.States. The Government has said the security of the travelling public is
:02:04. > :02:08.its highest priority. What has prompted this? Last year's laptop
:02:09. > :02:14.bomb aboard this flight out of Somalia raised a lot of concerns.
:02:15. > :02:22.Smuggled aboard by the group, Al Shabab, it made a hole in the plane.
:02:23. > :02:26.The pilot was able to land safely. The year before so-called Islamic
:02:27. > :02:30.State put a bomb onto a passenger jet coming out of Egypt, killing
:02:31. > :02:35.everyone on board. That device was in the mould with a new ban does not
:02:36. > :02:39.apply. In Whitehall, the BBC understands there were concerns
:02:40. > :02:44.about introducing the band. It does not relate to a specific plot. There
:02:45. > :02:49.was bound to be a commercial and diplomatic price for this. It is
:02:50. > :02:55.also yet one more incumbents for air passengers. The scope for disruption
:02:56. > :02:59.is immense. People will get the wrong end of many sticks. They will
:03:00. > :03:04.think it applies to all flights from the UK, as well as these six
:03:05. > :03:08.countries. People will have organised only hand baggage flights.
:03:09. > :03:13.They will suddenly need to check things in. It is going to be, I'm
:03:14. > :03:21.afraid, and a mighty muddle, until we get used to the idea. Business
:03:22. > :03:24.travellers who need to work on the flight will be especially
:03:25. > :03:27.inconvenienced. There is no end to the ban in sight. The ban on liquids
:03:28. > :03:32.over 100 Mills is still in place. For more on this spoke a short time
:03:33. > :03:35.ago with Matthew Levitt, who heads the Counter-terrorism
:03:36. > :03:46.programme at the Washington How effective will this be? What it
:03:47. > :03:51.will effectively do is get these items into the hole. The idea is
:03:52. > :03:54.that there is better and easier screening of devices that can go
:03:55. > :04:00.beneath and it is harder to do those above. They are interested in the
:04:01. > :04:04.size. It is about how much explosive can be fitted in. What do you mean
:04:05. > :04:08.the screening is more effective question what do they go through
:04:09. > :04:12.bigger machines? Will banks have to be unpacked by more airport workers?
:04:13. > :04:22.There is easier and better technology. When there are
:04:23. > :04:24.questions, there will be workers to go through. You have probably
:04:25. > :04:27.travelled and checked bags underneath and there is a tag on
:04:28. > :04:30.their saying, we have had to go through your bag will stop that will
:04:31. > :04:37.happen. It is only from certain countries, probably where the Intel
:04:38. > :04:43.is coming from. It is unclear how long it will last. The trend is for
:04:44. > :04:48.miniaturising agent of devices. We saw in that report the laptop and
:04:49. > :04:58.the group claiming responsibility for that. It really is about the
:04:59. > :05:04.evolving threats of explosives and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
:05:05. > :05:07.has a bomb maker who has been very creative with the types of
:05:08. > :05:13.explosives, what they are made out of a where he puts them. Inside a
:05:14. > :05:17.person boss Max physical being in Saudi Arabia. It is the extent to
:05:18. > :05:22.which they have been able to miniaturise that explosive. Is there
:05:23. > :05:27.anything that can be done to the aircraft itself to sustain or
:05:28. > :05:31.withstand the small explosion? You don't want any explosive to get onto
:05:32. > :05:36.the plane. You do not know where it will be. It is true that our
:05:37. > :05:40.passengers in the immediate area, if there is something small, it will
:05:41. > :05:44.have less of an effect. The do not take that risk. You want to put
:05:45. > :05:48.things down there so it can go through more security checks.
:05:49. > :05:55.Airports around the country, they are really close allies to United
:05:56. > :05:58.States for that Turkey is a member of Nato. Earlier on Turkey said it
:05:59. > :06:03.would appeal for study in the lobby any movement on that front all, is
:06:04. > :06:07.the risk so grave, that the countries will have to follow suit?
:06:08. > :06:10.We do not know the nature of the intelligence was that it is possible
:06:11. > :06:18.there will be other checks will carry on baggage to enable these
:06:19. > :06:21.things to go back at the carry on. There are flights from certain
:06:22. > :06:25.places like United States. It is less likely that this will be
:06:26. > :06:31.something we will have 11 years on, as we do with the liquid gel will
:06:32. > :06:35.have to see how the threat pans out. Thank you very much.
:06:36. > :06:37.On Capitol Hill here in Washington, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
:06:38. > :06:40.today faced more hours of questioning from lawmakers.
:06:41. > :06:42.The topics ranged from US policy on abortion and torture,
:06:43. > :06:49.to allowing cameras in the courtroom and Gorsuch's own past rulings.
:06:50. > :06:50.But perhaps foremost on lawmakers' minds was the issue
:06:51. > :06:52.of judicial independence, and whether Judge Gorsuch
:06:53. > :06:54.would operate separately from the politics of Washington.
:06:55. > :07:04.Let's go live to Laura Trevelyan on Capitol Hill for us now.
:07:05. > :07:12.Very keen to make people realise he is his own man. Absolutely. In doing
:07:13. > :07:16.so, he is blunting one of the key lines of the attacks from the
:07:17. > :07:21.Democrats. They want to stress how important judicial independence is
:07:22. > :07:26.under this president. Neil Gorsuch said he believed in the separation
:07:27. > :07:30.of powers he said they gave me a gavel and not rubber-stamp. He said
:07:31. > :07:34.no man is above the law, not even the president. On the hot button
:07:35. > :07:42.issues which could camp up in front of the Court, a Republican senator
:07:43. > :07:48.had this to say about what resident tramp said about abortion in 1973.
:07:49. > :08:04.-- president Trump. I would have walked out the door. It
:08:05. > :08:07.is not what judges do. I don't do it at that end of Pennsylvania Avenue
:08:08. > :08:12.and they should not do it at this end.
:08:13. > :08:21.This has been billed as a grilling of Neil Gorsuch. The atmosphere has
:08:22. > :08:27.seen quite -- seemed quite warm at stages. There is no disguising the
:08:28. > :08:30.fact that Democrats are sought about the fact that President Obama's
:08:31. > :08:35.nominee never got the chance to have the nomination hearing that Neil
:08:36. > :08:39.Gorsuch is going through. They are divided as to how far they can go in
:08:40. > :08:43.opposing him, given that Neil Gorsuch has shown himself to be
:08:44. > :08:48.erudite, highly qualified, able to cope with the pressure. He seems
:08:49. > :08:54.barely to have put a foot wrong. It is a big dilemma for Democrats. Do
:08:55. > :08:56.they throw the kitchen sink at this? It is difficult for them right now.
:08:57. > :09:06.Thank you very much. The other big story on Capitol Hill
:09:07. > :09:16.is the fight over the new health care bill. It is close. The real
:09:17. > :09:26.winners and losers could be those in states like Pennsylvania. This was
:09:27. > :09:31.such a huge issue for Trump on the campaign trail. He is finding that
:09:32. > :09:37.health care is Commper gated. We all remember that rallying cry on the
:09:38. > :09:44.campaign Trail to repeal and replace Obamacare. He is repealing a banner
:09:45. > :09:49.care. We saw that as an executive order on day one. -- Bama care. He
:09:50. > :09:55.has come up with some will call Trump care. It looks slightly
:09:56. > :10:05.different, very different if you are a Democrat. President Obama help the
:10:06. > :10:10.most vulnerable and the sick. A lot of that will be shrunk and withdrawn
:10:11. > :10:14.foot. Making insurance is compulsory and stop insurers having to find
:10:15. > :10:19.insurance premiums for their workers for the bidders more market-driven
:10:20. > :10:23.and there is less subsidy. The funding is through tax credits for
:10:24. > :10:28.the bus is very much a businessman's. He has come up with
:10:29. > :10:36.something in the past month that everyone has hated. The moderate
:10:37. > :10:43.Republicans have been very spooked by anon parties and budget office
:10:44. > :10:49.saying millions of Americans could be uninsured over the next decade.
:10:50. > :10:55.On the right of the party, the real conservatives, they say they hate
:10:56. > :10:59.it. They think it does not repeal enough and that it will be too
:11:00. > :11:05.expensive for the Government. Just very briefly on the numbers, it will
:11:06. > :11:09.be tight, will it? The numbers on Capitol Hill. We talked to
:11:10. > :11:14.congressmen there this morning, some on the right of the party. They
:11:15. > :11:19.think it will not pass. All he needs to lose our 22 votes. We think the
:11:20. > :11:24.numbers against him are between possibly 25, 30 five. He might try
:11:25. > :11:31.to cancel the vote on Thursday altogether. It does not look good if
:11:32. > :11:34.you are President and cannot get the first piece of legislation through.
:11:35. > :11:37.Rebel and jihadist forces in Syria say their latest
:11:38. > :11:39.assault on the capital, Damascus, is sending a powerful
:11:40. > :11:42.message to the government just days before another round of peace talks.
:11:43. > :11:45.They say it shows they can still mount a major attack
:11:46. > :11:47.on what is regarded as Syria's most heavily protected city.
:11:48. > :11:49.The Syrian military response has included moving dozens of tanks
:11:50. > :11:57.into the city centre, airstrikes, and artillery fire.
:11:58. > :11:59.You're watching BBC World News America.
:12:00. > :12:00.Still to come on tonight's programme:
:12:01. > :12:04.We'll speak with the US negotiator of the Northern Ireland peace
:12:05. > :12:12.South Korean prosecutors have spent 14 hours questioning
:12:13. > :12:15.the former President, Park Guen-haye over her involvement
:12:16. > :12:19.in the growing corruption scandal that led to her impeachment.
:12:20. > :12:22.Ms Park travelled voluntarily from her home to the prosecutor's
:12:23. > :12:27.She's always denied wrongdoing but as she arrived to be
:12:28. > :12:28.interviewed, she apologised to the country.
:12:29. > :12:54.Hidden in the motive Cade, Park Guen-haye. As an ordinary citizen,
:12:55. > :13:04.the prosecutor calls her in and she complies. I am sorry, she said, to
:13:05. > :13:09.the Korean people. But it is not clear what she is sorry for. Two
:13:10. > :13:15.weeks ago, when she was evicted from the presidential palace, she was
:13:16. > :13:20.defiant. Her innocence, she said, would emerge. Others are also facing
:13:21. > :13:23.the heat, like the patriarchs who control the biggest businesses in
:13:24. > :13:31.South Korea, the head of some sun is on trial. The ex-president's best
:13:32. > :13:36.friend has been charged accused of getting money from business. Park
:13:37. > :13:44.Guen-haye is said to have favoured donors in return. Outside, her
:13:45. > :13:49.supporters, angry at what they call political persecution. This
:13:50. > :13:54.symbolises the whole division of the country. There will be an election
:13:55. > :13:58.in two months' time. There may well be a movement to the left of the
:13:59. > :14:05.Government. Even after that, the divisions will remain. Park
:14:06. > :14:06.Guen-haye still has her fans. The prosecutor probably is not one of
:14:07. > :14:16.them. Martin McGuinness, the former IRA
:14:17. > :14:20.leader turned deputy first minister of Northern Ireland has died
:14:21. > :14:24.at the age of 66. He'd been suffering
:14:25. > :14:27.from a rare heart condition. From one of the Provisional IRA's
:14:28. > :14:30.most senior and ruthless commanders, responsible for many deaths and acts
:14:31. > :14:34.of terror he went on to embrace electoral politics and became
:14:35. > :14:36.a principal architect of the peace process that led to the 1998
:14:37. > :14:53.Good Friday Agreement. To paint a true picture of Martin
:14:54. > :14:57.McGuinness, you have to accept contradictions. He was a
:14:58. > :15:02.paramilitary who once embraced violence but also a peacemaker who
:15:03. > :15:08.reached out to rivals. A man who could be seen in very different
:15:09. > :15:13.lights. Born in Londonderry into a large Catholic family, Martin
:15:14. > :15:19.McGuinness came of age as Northern Ireland's divides became prevalent.
:15:20. > :15:23.In that time, he joined the IRA, quickly rising through its ranks.
:15:24. > :15:32.Can you say whether the bombings are likely to stop in the near future in
:15:33. > :15:37.response to demands? I would take into consideration the feelings of
:15:38. > :15:40.the people. He became one of the faces of ruthless Irish
:15:41. > :15:44.republicanism and was jailed for terrorist offences in Dublin. He
:15:45. > :15:49.changed considerably from the own man he is to swagger around the no
:15:50. > :15:54.go areas in Londonderry as commander of the provisional IRA. What started
:15:55. > :15:59.as a fight for civil rights has become a vicious battle. Alongside
:16:00. > :16:05.the many bombings and shootings, Martin McGuinness sought
:16:06. > :16:11.opportunities for Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the irony.
:16:12. > :16:14.Even then, the language remain. We don't believe winning elections and
:16:15. > :16:18.any amount of votes will bring freedom. In the end of the day it
:16:19. > :16:24.will be the cutting edge of the IRA who will bring freedom. After years
:16:25. > :16:29.of chaos, in the 1990s, the ceasefires offered the opportunity
:16:30. > :16:35.for talks between unionists and Republicans. Would you like to shake
:16:36. > :16:41.hands? There are no guns here. Not only would they shake hands, after
:16:42. > :16:46.the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, they joined each other.
:16:47. > :16:52.Eventually at its head was the murky partnership of two former enemies.
:16:53. > :16:56.Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. The firebrand and Unionist radical
:16:57. > :17:03.Republican became so close they were nicknamed the Chuckle Brothers.
:17:04. > :17:09.There were Republicans who continue to threaten that political progress.
:17:10. > :17:12.When a police officer was killed, the then Deputy First Minister stood
:17:13. > :17:20.side by side with the chief Custer Paul to condemn the dissident
:17:21. > :17:25.groups. -- Chief Constable. They are traitors to Ireland. Alongside the
:17:26. > :17:31.words there were reactions from all sides. The Queen was a cousin Lord
:17:32. > :17:38.Mountbatten was killed by the IRA. After the troubles, they put their
:17:39. > :17:42.differences aside. Relationships at Stormont always seemed strange. As
:17:43. > :17:49.Ian Paisley stepped down as First Minister to be replaced by Peter
:17:50. > :17:56.Robinson and then Arlene Foster. His ill-health became obvious. Martin
:17:57. > :18:00.McGuinness walked out of government. The boy's from the Bogside retiring
:18:01. > :18:14.as First Minister after years in the irony. It breaks my heart. My heart
:18:15. > :18:24.lies in the Bogside and with the people of Derry. The past actions of
:18:25. > :18:28.the IRA will colour many people's you of Martin McGuinness. As a
:18:29. > :18:31.Republican who work towards reconciliation, he will be
:18:32. > :18:38.remembered as a key figure in a changing Northern Ireland.
:18:39. > :18:42.The Queen has sent a message of condolence to the widow of Martin
:18:43. > :18:44.McGuinness. Another prominent figure in those
:18:45. > :18:46.peace talks was George Mitchell, the US envoy to Northern Ireland
:18:47. > :18:49.during that pivotal time. He knew Martin McGuiness well,
:18:50. > :18:51.and earlier my colleague Katty Kay spoke to him as part of the BBC"s
:18:52. > :19:00.100 Days programme. Senator Mitchell, when you went to
:19:01. > :19:05.Northern Ireland in the mid-90s and you started to deal with Martin
:19:06. > :19:12.McGuinness, what made you think that you could trust him, given his past
:19:13. > :19:18.record? He was obviously a political leader, chosen by the people of
:19:19. > :19:22.Northern Ireland. When the peace talks began, all of the delegates
:19:23. > :19:26.were elected. They represented the people of Northern Ireland. So it
:19:27. > :19:31.another, it was wanting to accept another, it was wanting to accept
:19:32. > :19:38.the will of the people of Northern Ireland. Martin McGuinness was
:19:39. > :19:44.intelligent, articulate, a strong and effective leader of the
:19:45. > :19:51.community and his point of view. In that way, along with leaders on both
:19:52. > :19:57.sides, they helped to reach the decision to end the violence and
:19:58. > :20:00.move towards democratic and peaceful ways of resolving disputes. Of
:20:01. > :20:05.course he is a controversial figure. Many would say he had blood on his
:20:06. > :20:08.hands. Whilst you were in the process of negotiating with him
:20:09. > :20:14.during the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement did you ever
:20:15. > :20:18.discuss his past actions with him? I never discussed past actions with
:20:19. > :20:21.Martin or any other participant in the Northern Ireland peace process.
:20:22. > :20:29.Many of them were in a similar circumstance. The problem was, they
:20:30. > :20:34.were embedded in the past. I was trying to get them to look to the
:20:35. > :20:38.future. The last thing I wanted to do was to get them focus on and
:20:39. > :20:45.talking about the past when I was trying to get them to talk about the
:20:46. > :20:48.future. But this transformation from leader of the IRA, as somebody who
:20:49. > :20:52.have been convicted in the 70s for crimes related to the IRA and
:20:53. > :20:56.actions related to the IRA committed being seen today is one of the key
:20:57. > :21:00.peacemakers, I think that is what people struggle with in Martin
:21:01. > :21:06.McGuinness personally? Were you convinced that was a genuine
:21:07. > :21:11.transition and had really been made? You'll occur I did not make
:21:12. > :21:18.judgments of that kind. What I did was tackle each problem on a daily
:21:19. > :21:23.basis. Participate and try to get them to look forward and understand
:21:24. > :21:27.that whatever the circumstances of the Democratic peaceful future work,
:21:28. > :21:33.they would be better than returning to the conflict that had dominated
:21:34. > :21:38.society. Martin McGuinness accepted that challenge was instrumental in
:21:39. > :21:43.bringing his community and his side along in the peace process. That is
:21:44. > :21:48.why I think he will be remembered. I think that the ultimate, iconic
:21:49. > :21:53.picture of the Northern Ireland peace process will be Ian Paisley as
:21:54. > :21:57.the First Minister of Northern Ireland, Martin McGuinness as Deputy
:21:58. > :22:01.First Minister, embracing each other, serving the people of
:22:02. > :22:03.Northern Ireland through a democratic process and appearing to
:22:04. > :22:09.enjoy each other at the same time. Art lovers in Amsterdam
:22:10. > :22:11.are celebrating the return, and re-hanging of two paintings
:22:12. > :22:17.by Vincent van Gogh. The images, a seascape,
:22:18. > :22:22.and a depiction of a church attended by the artist's father,
:22:23. > :22:25.were stolen in 2002 on the orders They were found last year
:22:26. > :22:28.during a police raid in Naples. The BBC's Anna Holligan has
:22:29. > :22:32.more from Amsterdam. After 14 years and a traumatic
:22:33. > :22:36.journey, the paintings Now protected by thick screens,
:22:37. > :22:44.they're not taking any chances. Two early works by one
:22:45. > :22:46.of the Netherlands' We have no idea what happened
:22:47. > :22:53.to them in the intervening years. In this beach view, a small
:22:54. > :22:56.piece in the lower left But it does not really disturb
:22:57. > :23:01.the image as such too much, and the small church
:23:02. > :23:06.is practically unharmed. It took opportunist thieves less
:23:07. > :23:09.than four minutes to break in through the roof using
:23:10. > :23:11.a rope and sledgehammer, rip the paintings from the nearest
:23:12. > :23:15.wall with brutal force, and escape before the police
:23:16. > :23:19.arrived, leaving a hole Italian police arrested
:23:20. > :23:26.two men in 2016. They'd been investigating
:23:27. > :23:28.allegations of drug trafficking, but apparently one detainee
:23:29. > :23:30.confessed that the network The Italian authorities
:23:31. > :23:43.were proud of their work. These two works are of vast historic
:23:44. > :23:46.and sentimental value. The Sea View at Scheveningen is one
:23:47. > :23:49.of only two seascapes painted by Van Gogh during his time
:23:50. > :23:53.in the Netherlands. The wind was so blustery that day it
:23:54. > :23:56.blew tiny grains of sand The Congregation Leaving
:23:57. > :24:00.the Reformed Church in Nuenen was a gift for Van Gogh's mother
:24:01. > :24:05.after she'd broken her leg. He changed it after his father
:24:06. > :24:07.died to include images The museum is deliberately
:24:08. > :24:14.displaying the paintings as they were found, with slight
:24:15. > :24:16.damage representing Now, anticipating the moment they're
:24:17. > :24:22.back in the admiring public eye. inside the Van Gogh
:24:23. > :24:41.museum in Amsterdam. That is it. You can find plenty more
:24:42. > :24:50.on the website. And to reach me and most of the BBC
:24:51. > :24:54.team simply go to Twitter - For all of us here at
:24:55. > :24:57.World News America, thank you for watching and please
:24:58. > :25:09.tune in tomorrow. More spring sunshine on the way by
:25:10. > :25:13.the weekend and into next week as well. On Tuesday we seem to jump
:25:14. > :25:15.back into winter.