:00:08. > :00:12.A top Republican Senator slams Donald Trump, saying
:00:13. > :00:16.Bob Corker also questioned Mr Trump's competence
:00:17. > :00:24.All this as the President headed to the Senate for a policy lunch.
:00:25. > :00:42.It doesn't sound like the easiest of gatherings.
:00:43. > :00:44.You know, it's a sad place from my perspective for our nation
:00:45. > :00:47.and I think the worst of it is going to be
:00:48. > :00:49.just the whole debasing, if you will, of our nation.
:00:50. > :00:52.The US military offers more details about the deadly ambush in Niger,
:00:53. > :00:54.but there seem to be more questions than answers.
:00:55. > :00:57.Meet and greets in the German parliament as the far-right
:00:58. > :00:59.takes its place in the Bundestag for the first time
:01:00. > :01:07.The most powerful leader since Chairman Mao:
:01:08. > :01:10.How President Xi cemented his spot at the top
:01:11. > :01:12.Testing the limits of artistic freedom.
:01:13. > :01:14.A controversial new film on Tsar Nicolas II
:01:15. > :01:16.finally hits screens in Russia after months of bitter protest.
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:01:19. > :01:32.Hello and welcome, I'm Katty Kay in Washington
:01:33. > :01:36.President Trump has difficulty telling the truth, he's not a good
:01:37. > :01:38.role model for children and he is debasing America.
:01:39. > :01:40.Those aren't ours views, they are not the views
:01:41. > :01:43.of a Democrat, those are the opinions of a top
:01:44. > :01:46.Senator Bob Corker is retiring next year but until then
:01:47. > :01:49.he is speaking his mind on the subject of Donald Trump.
:01:50. > :01:54.The powerful Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee
:01:55. > :01:57.gave a series of interviews on US TV today in which he came close
:01:58. > :01:59.to saying he doesn't even fully trust Mr Trump
:02:00. > :02:03.It's not the first time the two men have tangled,
:02:04. > :02:11.It's a sad place from my perspective for our nation and I think the worst
:02:12. > :02:16.of it is gonna be the whole debasing of nation.
:02:17. > :02:18.That will be the contribution that hurts most.
:02:19. > :02:20.REPORTER: You think he is debasing nation?
:02:21. > :02:43.just the way he conducts himself, he goes to such a low level, I do.
:02:44. > :02:46.By now, we know what the reaction is likely to be.
:02:47. > :02:54.Donald Trump fired back on Twitter, saying...
:02:55. > :02:57.That back and forth continued throughout the morning.
:02:58. > :02:59.And then the two went to a Senate lunch together
:03:00. > :03:10.Here to help us break this all down is our political analyst
:03:11. > :03:12.Ron Christie who served as an advisor to
:03:13. > :03:20.I don't know where to start, it is another Tuesday in the Trump
:03:21. > :03:25.Administration. You say you have a talk to people in the White House,
:03:26. > :03:29.what do you make of this dispute? This is the last thing they want to
:03:30. > :03:35.be doing now. Coupled with the fact the president has been arguing with
:03:36. > :03:40.a gold star mother, a mother who has lost a soldier son. He needs to pass
:03:41. > :03:44.this tax bill. So listening to the folks in the White House this
:03:45. > :03:48.morning and I came from Capitol Hill moments ago, there is a sense of
:03:49. > :03:52.anxiety and tension on both sides that they need to find a way to get
:03:53. > :03:57.a ceasefire otherwise it will spiral out of control. There were a whole
:03:58. > :04:05.list of things Bob Corker accused Donald Trump of, there was that one
:04:06. > :04:09.about debasing America and he was asked, would you trust Donald Trump
:04:10. > :04:16.with the nuclear codes? He refused to answer the question. We use words
:04:17. > :04:20.unprecedented but the one who should be an adviser to the president on
:04:21. > :04:24.foreign policy matters, the one who should be consulting with the
:04:25. > :04:28.president and the military doesn't trust Donald Trump to have his
:04:29. > :04:32.finger on the pulse of nuclear weapons, it is impossible. Hello, I
:04:33. > :04:43.will give you another comment from Bob Corker, not a good role model.
:04:44. > :04:47.It is a sad state for the American political spectrum to have
:04:48. > :04:52.Republicans, not Democrats, Republicans, shooting at each other
:04:53. > :04:56.in a circular firing squad. The Democrats right now are gleeful and
:04:57. > :05:00.many I know are content to stay out of the way to let the Republicans
:05:01. > :05:05.continue to self-destruct and then have a better prospect for them as
:05:06. > :05:09.we head into the 2018 election, perhaps taking control of the house
:05:10. > :05:15.of Representatives and narrowing the margin in the Senate. It is an
:05:16. > :05:20.unprecedented day. I need a better word, but the real question for me
:05:21. > :05:25.is, what is the readout for the Senate policy lunch going to be? How
:05:26. > :05:29.did the president go from 52 senators, how did they receive him
:05:30. > :05:33.and what did he have to say to them? The more attentive of our viewers
:05:34. > :05:37.might have seen in the headlines, that something seemed to fall in
:05:38. > :05:42.front of Mitch McConnell and the president as they walked to the
:05:43. > :05:47.lunch. That is a Russian flag that was apparently flown by a protester
:05:48. > :05:53.standing next to the photographers. It all goes to show how divisive
:05:54. > :05:58.this issue has become? It is and it also shows you we're not talking
:05:59. > :06:02.about the important issues in the American political scene. We are
:06:03. > :06:05.talking about Russia, talking about collusion and talking about not
:06:06. > :06:11.being a good role model. We should be talking about how can Republicans
:06:12. > :06:14.and Democrats move forward with domestic times with low unemployment
:06:15. > :06:19.rate to do the work with the American people. But these
:06:20. > :06:25.distractions continue, just another Tuesday in Donald Trump's
:06:26. > :06:33.Washington, DC. As Ron mentioned, he has just come from Capitol Hill. He
:06:34. > :06:34.talked about the anxiety people are feeling there, earlier we spoke to
:06:35. > :06:45.Steve Russell from Oklahoma. I was wondering what your
:06:46. > :06:51.constituents made of the row between Bob Corker and Donald Trump? If we
:06:52. > :06:57.were to get excited about every row between the executive and
:06:58. > :07:02.politicians, we would be spun up all the time, I suppose. I don't know
:07:03. > :07:11.they are paying a lot of attention to it. You are, presumably?
:07:12. > :07:15.Certainly, we are always concerned, particularly with regard to foreign
:07:16. > :07:19.policy and how that might be impacted. Congressman, how do you
:07:20. > :07:25.think it might affect the President's ability to get things
:07:26. > :07:30.done? It is important on two aspects. We cannot keep making this
:07:31. > :07:36.about personalities. On either side of these types of spats. When we go
:07:37. > :07:41.around poking one another in the eye, we want to poke the other eye
:07:42. > :07:46.and it will accelerate beyond. We have to focus on the policy. I think
:07:47. > :07:51.the president, he has a good, strategic vision for the things he
:07:52. > :07:55.wants to do. Unfortunately, unlike times in the past, when he can
:07:56. > :07:59.choose to do business with a corporation or not and then move
:08:00. > :08:04.onto another corporation, the only thing he has to work with is, in
:08:05. > :08:08.this case, Republicans in Congress primarily and then Congress as a
:08:09. > :08:14.whole. We are all he has and it serves well to focus on policy. We
:08:15. > :08:19.are, as members of this body, show some difference in respect as well.
:08:20. > :08:23.We understand why Bob Corker feels able to speak the way he does, he is
:08:24. > :08:29.standing down but the president is there for the duration. Does he need
:08:30. > :08:34.to engage? Why he is on Twitter taking on Bob Corker when he is
:08:35. > :08:40.meeting the Senate? I cannot pretend to know what is in the mind of the
:08:41. > :08:46.president. My own observations are, as he sees people that attack, he
:08:47. > :08:50.has a propensity to push back. I think him not coming from any
:08:51. > :08:55.political background might account for some of that. I think what you
:08:56. > :08:59.have, people are going to hate us from the right, the left and
:09:00. > :09:05.anything in between, often on anything we do. Even if we come up
:09:06. > :09:09.with a great idea, people will hate it on principle because that is the
:09:10. > :09:13.nature of politics. The president, not coming from that environment,
:09:14. > :09:18.he's probably adjusting to some of that. Is it a proper adjustment? We
:09:19. > :09:23.can debate that until the cows come home. New have a man in his 70s, who
:09:24. > :09:29.has had habits of success in his past. He has habits of behaviour
:09:30. > :09:31.that are not likely to change after seven decades.
:09:32. > :09:34.We will be hearing more from Steve Russell in a moment.
:09:35. > :09:37.We're getting the first official accounts of what happened
:09:38. > :09:40.in the West African country three weeks when four US servicemen
:09:41. > :09:42.were killed by fighters linked to so-called Islamic State.
:09:43. > :09:44.And there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
:09:45. > :09:46.America's top general Joseph Dunford, spoke
:09:47. > :09:53.Early morning on October 3rd, 12 members of a US special
:09:54. > :09:55.operations task force and 30 Nigerien forces left Niamey
:09:56. > :10:02.on an information-gathering mission to the village of Tongo.
:10:03. > :10:09.on an information-gathering mission to the village of Tongo Tongo.
:10:10. > :10:10.The following morning, October 4th, the troops
:10:11. > :10:14.They come under attack by about 50 IS-affiliated fightersf fourth
:10:15. > :10:17.October morning Troops start return to base Come under attack by 50
:10:18. > :10:19.IS-linked One hour later, the soldiers requested back-up.
:10:20. > :10:21.Within minutes, a drone arrives - providing live
:10:22. > :10:46.It became evident, one soldier was missing. Two days later, Sergeant
:10:47. > :10:51.Johnson's body was found and handed over to the US military. Let's hear
:10:52. > :10:56.again from Steve Russell, the Republican had a long career in the
:10:57. > :10:57.US Army himself and is currently head of the house armed services
:10:58. > :11:07.committee. What are the questions you would
:11:08. > :11:14.like answered by this investigation? First, I think we have to look at
:11:15. > :11:19.what was the nature of what we were doing in Niger. I think many people
:11:20. > :11:23.in the United States and it is probably true in Great Britain and
:11:24. > :11:29.our other allies, we have had troops there a long time. Many Americans,
:11:30. > :11:32.some members of Congress seem to be shocked we have operations in these
:11:33. > :11:37.countries but foreign assistance has been the hallmark of our special
:11:38. > :11:42.forces since their inception. We have to put these things in context.
:11:43. > :11:46.We have to allow the military to get accurate answers. This was an
:11:47. > :11:52.ambush, which means it was unexpected. It was in a remote area,
:11:53. > :11:57.it was in cooperation with troops in remote villages in remote areas. We
:11:58. > :12:04.have to allow the very isolated nature of the incident time to sift
:12:05. > :12:07.through all of those facts. I am very grateful to the French and
:12:08. > :12:15.Great Britain for all of the things that have gone on in subzero Africa
:12:16. > :12:20.in the fight against Al-Qaeda affiliate is, Isis affiliate, Boca
:12:21. > :12:29.Pahrump, we have co-operated a lot and most of our citizens are not
:12:30. > :12:34.engaged on that on a day-to-day basis. Congressman Steve Russell
:12:35. > :12:40.from Oklahoma, thank you for joining us. My pleasure.
:12:41. > :12:47.He said not many people will be paying much attention to this part.
:12:48. > :12:53.Those senior Republicans who have had things to say about Donald
:12:54. > :13:01.Trump, Senator McCain, Bob Corker, is the rot setting in? It might be
:13:02. > :13:04.tempting to look at what happened and think the floodgates will open
:13:05. > :13:09.and the Republican party will turn on Donald Trump. That might be the
:13:10. > :13:12.view of some people who are critical of the president in Europe and the
:13:13. > :13:18.UK. I don't think what Bob Corker did today is going to suddenly lead
:13:19. > :13:22.to a lot of Republican senators breaking with President Trump. There
:13:23. > :13:28.have been six who have publicly said things opposing him, Senator McCain
:13:29. > :13:34.and Bob Corker, the most outspoken. But senators are concerned about
:13:35. > :13:38.their own constituencies. In some of their states, the president is more
:13:39. > :13:43.popular than they are. So don't expect suddenly, even though they
:13:44. > :13:49.say it in private, a whole load of Republican senators will take on
:13:50. > :13:52.Donald Trump. The polls did tell us he is more popular.
:13:53. > :13:54.The Catalan regional government says it will go to Spain's
:13:55. > :13:56.constitutional court to try and preserve its autonomous powers.
:13:57. > :13:59.Madrid is moving to reassert control over the authorities in Catalonia,
:14:00. > :14:02.after a disputed independence referendum at the
:14:03. > :14:05.The Spanish Senate is set to authorise the transfer
:14:06. > :14:09.A British man who went to Syria to fight against so called
:14:10. > :14:13.Jack Holmes, who was 24, is said to have been killed
:14:14. > :14:15.as he cleared landmines from the city of Raqqa.
:14:16. > :14:19.The former IT worker first travelled to the region two years ago and had
:14:20. > :14:30.The Olympic torch for next year's Winter games has been let at a
:14:31. > :14:34.ceremony in Greece. The torch will travel in a relay around Greece
:14:35. > :14:36.before travelling to the host nation in South Korea. The Winter games
:14:37. > :14:40.will begin in February. For the first time since
:14:41. > :14:42.the Second World War, Germany has a far right party
:14:43. > :14:47.sitting in the Bundestag. The Alternative fur Deutschland
:14:48. > :14:51.promised a "new era" for the country The AfD's presence as the third
:14:52. > :14:55.biggest party in parliament is a blow to Chancellor Merkel's
:14:56. > :14:57.conservatives. It's left her in a
:14:58. > :14:59.tricky position too. She's having to horse trade policies
:15:00. > :15:01.and allegiances in order to form She's trying to bring together three
:15:02. > :15:05.parties with quite different views We're joined now from Berlin
:15:06. > :15:12.by senior correspondent for the German Handelsblatt
:15:13. > :15:24.newspaper Moritz Koch. It is very good to see you. 92 MPs
:15:25. > :15:31.in the Bundestag that the AFD have, it is not a small number, is it? Not
:15:32. > :15:36.at all. It is obviously concerning. This is the first time, as you
:15:37. > :15:41.already pointed out, since the Second World War, we have some
:15:42. > :15:51.genuine fascists in the Bundestag. But it is important to note that
:15:52. > :15:55.today's Germany is not as it used to be and the AFD, as the far right
:15:56. > :16:01.party is called, is quite a diverse group. You have xenophobes, you have
:16:02. > :16:04.people who despise democratic values but also you have regular
:16:05. > :16:10.conservatives. This is a challenge to German democracy. But I think it
:16:11. > :16:14.can handle it. Tell us about the coalition the Chancellor is building
:16:15. > :16:22.and how it will affect the way she behaves in Europe? That actually is
:16:23. > :16:28.the main issue right now. European reform. The coalition, first of all,
:16:29. > :16:32.it is likely she will be able to form this coalition between the
:16:33. > :16:40.Green party, her own conservative bloc and the Liberal Democrats. But
:16:41. > :16:47.it is not absolutely clear. We will have long negotiations, in the
:16:48. > :16:55.meantime Germany will not be able to take any kind of meaningful position
:16:56. > :17:00.and after that, it remains to be seen. Because Angela Merkel will now
:17:01. > :17:06.have two govern with two political fractions that are sceptical about
:17:07. > :17:13.any further transfer of power to Brussels. The Liberal Democrats and
:17:14. > :17:18.the Christian social union, the Bavarian wing of her Conservative
:17:19. > :17:21.Party. Stay with us, we are going to talk about Brexit because the
:17:22. > :17:26.president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has told the European
:17:27. > :17:27.Parliament that the EU must stay united in the Brexit talks or face
:17:28. > :17:38.defeat. It is up to London how this will
:17:39. > :17:45.end. With a good deal, no deal, or no Brexit. But in each of these
:17:46. > :17:46.scenarios, we will protect our common interest only by being
:17:47. > :17:56.together. Donald Tusk earlier today. Is there
:17:57. > :18:03.a chance that on the issue of Brexit the EU 27 are not going to stay as
:18:04. > :18:08.united as they have been so far? There is certainly the chance, but
:18:09. > :18:13.as far as Germany is concerned, I think it is quite clear that Germany
:18:14. > :18:20.is completely aligned with the EU, at this point. It is also not the
:18:21. > :18:26.most pressing issue for Germany right now, to be honest. It is not
:18:27. > :18:30.very controversial. I think all major German parties want to have a
:18:31. > :18:35.good relationship with Britain. They want strong ties to Britain, German
:18:36. > :18:41.businesses don't want any kind of trade interruption. At the same
:18:42. > :18:44.time, everybody feels like Britain has to pay its bills and that the
:18:45. > :18:52.ball is now in the Court of Theresa May. So it remains to be seen what
:18:53. > :18:57.the British government will offer in the next round of negotiations. It
:18:58. > :18:59.is very good to speak to, thank you for being with us.
:19:00. > :19:01.Meanwhile, Austria's conservative leader has invited the far-right
:19:02. > :19:04.for talks to form a new coalition government - Sebastian Kurz
:19:05. > :19:05.said his People's Party and the Freedom Party,
:19:06. > :19:07.the FPO, had similar positions on tax cuts
:19:08. > :19:11.The step paves the way for the Freedom Party's return
:19:12. > :19:16.to government after more than a decade in opposition.
:19:17. > :19:19.But Mr Kurz has warned that his party is pro-European,
:19:20. > :19:23.The People's Party won last week's parliamentary election,
:19:24. > :19:29.The only other option available to Mr Kurz to form a majority
:19:30. > :19:31.government is a coalition with the Social Democrats,
:19:32. > :19:42.a relationship that failed last they time they tried it.
:19:43. > :19:48.Reformed this programme to talk about populism in Europe, Brexit and
:19:49. > :19:53.Trump and how it was affecting elections in Europe. It did look
:19:54. > :20:01.after the Dutch and French elections, populism was on the way
:20:02. > :20:08.out. But we have had Sebastian Kurz in Austria, we have had Catalonia.
:20:09. > :20:12.And then you have two regions in Italy that has probably been missed
:20:13. > :20:18.by many, that voted under the control of the secessionist Northern
:20:19. > :20:21.league and they voted for more independence from Rome. Those forces
:20:22. > :20:29.are still there and you're's mainstream politicians would do well
:20:30. > :20:31.to listen to what is going on at the European periphery? Yes, they have
:20:32. > :20:35.had to respond to the right. We have seen it here in the United States,
:20:36. > :20:39.the Republican party being pulled to the right by Steve Bannon. We have
:20:40. > :20:44.seen it in the Netherlands as well. To what extent do the established
:20:45. > :20:49.parties pulled themselves, in which case, whether they win or not, they
:20:50. > :20:52.are having an impact? Yes, that was the issue in France with the last
:20:53. > :20:54.government being pulled to the right a little bit with the success of
:20:55. > :20:57.Marine Le Pen. A controversial new film
:20:58. > :20:59.has premiered in Russia after months of protests,
:21:00. > :21:00.threats and violence. 'Matilda', which tells the story
:21:01. > :21:03.of a romance between the then-future Tsar Nicholas II and a ballerina,
:21:04. > :21:12.has attracted huge attention ever since Orthodox activists
:21:13. > :21:14.led by a Russian MP began The film has become the latest
:21:15. > :21:17.test case of artistic freedom in Russia, our
:21:18. > :21:19.Moscow Correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports
:21:20. > :21:21.from the premiere in St Petersburg. This is how extremists responded
:21:22. > :21:24.to a film about Russia's last czar. They torched two cars and rammed
:21:25. > :21:32.another one into an empty cinema. Matilda is Russia's most
:21:33. > :21:38.controversial film in years. A love story about a ballerina
:21:39. > :21:43.and a future czar. More soap opera than biopic,
:21:44. > :21:46.it has become a test of artistic freedom here,
:21:47. > :21:49.as the violence and calls Despite the threats,
:21:50. > :21:57.Matilda made it to opening night. With the arsonist arrested,
:21:58. > :21:59.celebrities, socialites and stars poured in for
:22:00. > :22:03.the Saint Petersburg premiere. After months of threats,
:22:04. > :22:06.violence and controversy, Matilda is finally getting its moment
:22:07. > :22:10.on the red carpet. Some foreign stars are not
:22:11. > :22:12.here and we are told that is because of security concerns
:22:13. > :22:15.but for the director, the fact the film has made it this
:22:16. > :22:21.far is a reason to celebrate. TRANSLATION: I hope there are no
:22:22. > :22:24.incidents now so that people can come to the cinema and watch
:22:25. > :22:27.the film in peace. But I think this is a victory,
:22:28. > :22:31.not so much for me or for Matilda, It is a failure, however,
:22:32. > :22:40.for this MP, who campaigned Nicholas II is an Orthodox saint
:22:41. > :22:47.so this woman insists the love But Nicholas and Matilda
:22:48. > :22:53.did have a romance and the proof is amongst the dusty documents
:22:54. > :22:58.in this theatre archive. The dancer's diaries
:22:59. > :23:01.record late-night trysts On these pages at least,
:23:02. > :23:10.it goes no further. TRANSLATION: Even these diaries say
:23:11. > :23:14.that if anything happened it wasn't I think that is why
:23:15. > :23:20.there has been protest. But the director puts a Barbie doll
:23:21. > :23:26.with Ken and makes them kiss and roll around
:23:27. > :23:34.in a passionate embrace. Even at the premiere,
:23:35. > :23:37.the director was harangued. This man told him his film
:23:38. > :23:41.was a threat to national security. But after this gala performance,
:23:42. > :23:49.Matilda will hit screens across the country with extra
:23:50. > :24:09.security for cinemas just in case. When somebody says a film as a
:24:10. > :24:11.threat to national-security without having actually seen it, you know
:24:12. > :24:13.there are questions to be asked. The Clintons aren't usually renowned
:24:14. > :24:15.for being shy and retiring. But this picture has
:24:16. > :24:17.emerged of Bill Clinton You will see what we mean. Looks
:24:18. > :24:32.like Sean Spicer in the bushes. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas
:24:33. > :24:34.before his press secretary took the snap and tweeted the photo
:24:35. > :24:43.with the caption: "Everything's Did you see the concert in Texas at
:24:44. > :24:54.the weekend? There was a great weekend. You had George W Bush
:24:55. > :24:59.behind Bill Clinton. President Obama was there and he whispers something.
:25:00. > :25:07.And then President Obama starts to laugh and he'd does what kids do,
:25:08. > :25:12.like naughty schoolboys at the back, trying not to laugh. That is exactly
:25:13. > :25:19.my image of you when you were about 12 years old. What do you mean about
:25:20. > :25:25.12? It is my image of you on this programme. This is another great
:25:26. > :25:30.moment. There was also the presidents with Lady Gaga, who was
:25:31. > :25:34.there with them. I think George W Bush said he would sing with her. I
:25:35. > :25:37.would sing with her as well, I wouldn't do it very well.
:25:38. > :25:39.This is Beyond 100 Days from the BBC.
:25:40. > :25:42.Coming up for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.
:25:43. > :25:45.Not since Chairman Mao has a Chinese leader wielded such power.
:25:46. > :25:47.We'll be finding out why the Communist Party wants
:25:48. > :25:51.From politics to painting - and the 19th Century selfie.
:25:52. > :25:54.We take a look at the enduring work of Paul Cezanne as a collection
:25:55. > :25:56.of the French master's work goes on display in London.
:25:57. > :26:16.Today was very overcast across the UK. Tomorrow, some sunshine on the
:26:17. > :26:21.way. The good news is it is going to stay mild, if mild weather is what
:26:22. > :26:25.you want. I don't think anybody will be complaining too much about that.
:26:26. > :26:30.Mild, south-westerly winds coming in and it will be long before we get
:26:31. > :26:35.cold northerly wind. But for the time being, we still have cloud
:26:36. > :26:38.around this evening, some of it is rain bearing so we have rain and
:26:39. > :26:43.drizzle around particularly the central areas of the UK and in
:26:44. > :26:48.Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, some showers. In East
:26:49. > :26:55.Anglia, some showers. This is where the mildest weather will be tonight.
:26:56. > :27:00.This is the morning, the rush hour so drizzle and low cloud across
:27:01. > :27:04.Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. Throughout most of the West Country,
:27:05. > :27:08.Cloud hugging the south coast, maybe a bit of cloud across the South and
:27:09. > :27:13.east midlands and North Woods, drier weather and in the Western Isles of
:27:14. > :27:18.Scotland, we have some showers. Temperatures closest to nine or 10
:27:19. > :27:24.degrees. What will happen tomorrow? This weather front with the low,
:27:25. > :27:28.grey cloud and drizzle thrown in, starts to fall apart and most of the
:27:29. > :27:34.cloud shifts further south, so the vast majority of the UK on Wednesday
:27:35. > :27:39.will have a fine, bright if not sunny day, lovely weather across the
:27:40. > :27:43.Midlands and northern England. The far south clanking daily-macro
:27:44. > :27:49.hanging on to the cloud. It looks like the cloud might shift north,
:27:50. > :27:54.but still a bright day and mild. 18 in London but fresher across
:27:55. > :27:58.Scotland, only 12 or 13. The wind is changing direction and that will be
:27:59. > :28:02.a feature, a change in the weather as we head towards the end of the
:28:03. > :28:06.week and into the weekend. We haven't got too much of the
:28:07. > :28:09.south-westerly wind any more, it is more of a westerly, north-westerly
:28:10. > :28:15.developing and those temperatures are dropping. As we go through the
:28:16. > :28:19.weekend, they are coming straight from the north so temperatures are
:28:20. > :28:23.set to take, not necessarily a massive dive, but closer to what we
:28:24. > :28:25.normally expect at this time of the year. Kent will be down to around
:28:26. > :30:14.13. That is the latest. This is Beyond 100 Days, I'm Katty
:30:15. > :30:19.Kay in Washington, Kristian Frazier is in London.
:30:20. > :30:23.The US president makes a rare trip to Capitol Hill, he has got into a
:30:24. > :30:27.real row with the foreign relations committee. One Republican lawmaker
:30:28. > :30:32.told us they should cool it. We are all he has and it serves well to
:30:33. > :30:36.focus on policy and we ought to, as members of this body, show some
:30:37. > :30:41.deference and respect as well. America's top general promises of
:30:42. > :30:43.all investigation following the deaths of four soldiers in niche
:30:44. > :30:47.air. And coming up in the next half an
:30:48. > :30:52.hour, pressing the flesh in Pakistan, what does Rex Tillerson
:30:53. > :30:54.want from America's at times fractious allies?
:30:55. > :30:57.Who is responsible for posting these ads during last year's election?
:30:58. > :31:01.Congress launches an investigation to find out. Let us know your
:31:02. > :31:19.thoughts using the hashtag... Pakistan's Prime Minister has told
:31:20. > :31:21.the US Secretary of State that his country has produced results
:31:22. > :31:26.fighting Islamic militants in the region. He'll so reaffirmed
:31:27. > :31:35.Pakistan's commitment to the war on terror. Relations between the two
:31:36. > :31:41.allies have been restrained with Mr Tillis and in Asia to outline
:31:42. > :31:46.president from's is strategy for the region, including more cooperation
:31:47. > :31:49.with India, Pakistan's archrival. We are joined by the former ambassador
:31:50. > :31:54.to be US the Pakistan Hussain Haqqani. On the issue of the new
:31:55. > :31:57.approach, many Americans would say the relationship with Pakistan over
:31:58. > :32:02.the last two years, the US hasn't had a very good deal and maybe it is
:32:03. > :32:04.time for a new approach, to be tougher, cut that work? I think
:32:05. > :32:10.toughness might work whether previous policy has failed and
:32:11. > :32:20.Pakistan has continued to support the Caliban was saying we do not. At
:32:21. > :32:26.times saying yes we do but also having concerns about India so the
:32:27. > :32:29.consensus in DC is to get tough on Pakistan. How they will be do it
:32:30. > :32:34.remains to be seen because right now, Secretary of State Tillis's
:32:35. > :32:40.America for our stay in Pakistan is not going to be enough to change
:32:41. > :32:44.something that has gone downhill over 16 years. Yes, Rex Tillerson,
:32:45. > :32:47.when he was in Afghanistan, said Pakistan needs to take a clear eyed
:32:48. > :32:50.view of the situation they are confronted with. Do you think
:32:51. > :32:55.Pakistan is ready to do that? What would it do to get them there? --
:32:56. > :32:59.what would it take? Pakistan on the one hand and needs America's
:33:00. > :33:04.assistance and support. And its policy is essentially not something
:33:05. > :33:10.that does deal with America's priorities. It does not want certain
:33:11. > :33:18.Jihadi groups including Al-Qaeda Caliban to be out of business but
:33:19. > :33:21.America wants them all eliminated. The question is, what will the
:33:22. > :33:29.United States do to try and coerce Pakistan to change it? Some comments
:33:30. > :33:36.that have dropped on Reuters in the last hour "They do not need our
:33:37. > :33:40.territory anymore", talking about the Taliban, 47% of the territories
:33:41. > :33:46.under direct control of the Taliban and he quotes the ineptitude of
:33:47. > :33:50.America and allied forces for not bringing an end to the conflict. The
:33:51. > :33:53.Pakistani Foreign Minister is essentially addressing a Pakistani
:33:54. > :33:57.audience. Pakistanis have been led to believe there is nothing wrong
:33:58. > :34:01.with Pakistan's policy and it can simply continue to get through with
:34:02. > :34:08.denial. It has been denying it does anything. The Sheriff used to Sabine
:34:09. > :34:13.Lavan was not in Pakistan, -- the president used to say some of the
:34:14. > :34:20.lard and was not in Pakistan and later on, when he retired, he was
:34:21. > :34:24.found in Pakistan and said that they did continue to support the ideas,
:34:25. > :34:26.so what the Foreign Minister says will not influence anything in
:34:27. > :34:31.Washington where people do believe that Pakistan has a policy of
:34:32. > :34:35.duality. It is not going to endear the Pakistanis to Donald Trump, the
:34:36. > :34:38.way he rolls. The Pakistanis do have some leverage because everything
:34:39. > :34:45.flows through Pakistan to the background airbase. -- to the
:34:46. > :34:50.airbase. I think the Pakistani estimation of how important the
:34:51. > :34:54.ground line of communications are for the United States is somewhat
:34:55. > :34:58.exaggerated. When America had more than 100,000 troops, obviously it
:34:59. > :35:01.needed more supplies. When it has fewer troops, it needs less supplies
:35:02. > :35:08.and I think the United States may actually tried to show to the
:35:09. > :35:14.Pakistanis that we can get by without needing you as our logistics
:35:15. > :35:19.route. If that happens, then Pakistan will be in a tough spot,
:35:20. > :35:22.because Pakistani assumption has always been America needs us. If
:35:23. > :35:25.America says we don't really need you, we would like you to be on our
:35:26. > :35:30.side but we don't really need you as much as you think we do, then
:35:31. > :35:35.Pakistan will have to shape up. Very interesting, want to watch. Hussain
:35:36. > :35:40.Haqqani, thank you very much indeed. It is exhausting work, this
:35:41. > :35:43.international diplomacy. You meet all the dignitaries and the hangers
:35:44. > :35:47.on and there is a protocol to shaking hands. Can we just go back
:35:48. > :35:51.to these pictures of Rex Tillerson? What is the protocol question mark
:35:52. > :35:54.how long do you shake the handful, a couple of seconds? Three shakes is
:35:55. > :35:58.usually enough and you make your way down the line and then you find
:35:59. > :36:09.yourself face-to-face with the Pakistani Prime Minister, who goes
:36:10. > :36:14.for, number two, three, four, this is the longest handshake. Rex
:36:15. > :36:18.Tillerson's arm nearly falls. I was going to see if it was a world
:36:19. > :36:27.record, it is not, but all of the others...
:36:28. > :36:31.It is almost Trumpian, isn't it? 30 seconds is from's longest.
:36:32. > :36:34.Speaking of which, there were two pictures today in the American
:36:35. > :36:45.papers. Jury member Rex Tillerson said he was going to Kabul, but was
:36:46. > :36:48.he? We have now learned these pictures are Baghram airbase. It is
:36:49. > :36:55.like spot the difference pictures. You can see the clock, which has
:36:56. > :37:00.American Zulu time on it, that has been airbrushed out and also, a fire
:37:01. > :37:06.alarm above Ashraf Ghani. One interpretation of this is that the
:37:07. > :37:11.Afghans would very much have liked Rex Tillerson to come to Kabul but
:37:12. > :37:13.they don't have control of the countryside and couldn't guarantee
:37:14. > :37:19.his safety, so they airbrushed it out to make it look as if he was in
:37:20. > :37:23.Kabul and not at Baghram airbase. Yes, it says volumes about the
:37:24. > :37:27.sensitivity us on both side, the Americans don't feel they can go
:37:28. > :37:29.into Kabul because it isn't safe enough and they cannot guarantee
:37:30. > :37:35.security and the Afghans don't want to show that they actually went to
:37:36. > :37:38.Baghram. It doesn't make for the easiest relationships. I love the
:37:39. > :37:43.way you say it was a tiring business, is the shoes speaking as
:37:44. > :37:47.an ambassador? He has been to a lot of countries in
:37:48. > :37:50.the last few days. 50 bombs, incidentally, fell on the airbase
:37:51. > :37:54.when Jim Mattis, the Defence Secretary, went there, so they were
:37:55. > :37:57.right to take precautions with his safety.
:37:58. > :38:01.Which is why they have to be careful. A former top spy in Britain
:38:02. > :38:04.has warned that more than 5,500 supporters of the so-called Islamic
:38:05. > :38:09.State group have returned to their home countries. The report says
:38:10. > :38:12.Britain has one of the largest populations of returning fighters.
:38:13. > :38:15.More than half of the 850 who travelled to Iraq or Syria are now
:38:16. > :38:19.back in the UK. Can you's Supreme Court is set to
:38:20. > :38:26.rule on whether a rerun of the presidential election can go ahead
:38:27. > :38:31.on Thursday. -- Kenya's. The main opposition leader Odinga has again
:38:32. > :38:36.urged his supporters to boycott the rerun, saying it is a sham.
:38:37. > :38:39.Britain is to hold a national memorial service to remember victims
:38:40. > :38:43.of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London. The service will be held at
:38:44. > :38:48.St Paul's Cathedral on the 14th of December, exactly six months after
:38:49. > :38:53.the tragedy. 1,500 free tickets will be offered to people in the area
:38:54. > :38:55.around the tower block. And if you thought switching to
:38:56. > :38:59.e-cigarettes would help you get around smoking bans, think again.
:39:00. > :39:03.New York state is outlawing vaping in indoor public spaces, meaning no
:39:04. > :39:06.more electronic lighting up in restaurants, cafes and bars. The law
:39:07. > :39:17.into effect in 30 days. Can governments prevent Russia from
:39:18. > :39:21.meddling in their elections by regulating social media platforms?
:39:22. > :39:23.That is the question facing the US Congress as the rather obscure
:39:24. > :39:27.information technology subcommittee begins hearings.
:39:28. > :39:30.Traditional media any US is already subject to all sorts of rules about
:39:31. > :39:35.their activities but Facebook, Twitter and you Juba are exempt. In
:39:36. > :39:37.light of Russia's involvement in the last election, critics say they
:39:38. > :39:42.should have to disclose who is paying for their online ads.
:39:43. > :39:43.Republican ombudsman will hurt shares that committee and I spoke
:39:44. > :39:57.him earlier. -- will hurt. They were actively engaged in trying
:39:58. > :40:02.to influence our election in this last election and will likely do
:40:03. > :40:06.that in the future. What we are exploring today in the subcommittee
:40:07. > :40:10.hearing is how political ads, disclosures, disclaimers, should be
:40:11. > :40:16.done in traditional media and in new media. You have called this the
:40:17. > :40:21.biggest Russian covert operation in the United States, that is quite a
:40:22. > :40:24.claim. I think it is the most important covert action in the
:40:25. > :40:30.history of mother Russia. What they were trying to accomplish was not
:40:31. > :40:34.impacting who became an elected, because there is no impact on our
:40:35. > :40:39.voting count machines, this was trying to drive a wedge between the
:40:40. > :40:42.White House, the intelligence community and the American public.
:40:43. > :40:46.The Russians are engaged in asymmetrical warfare for a long
:40:47. > :40:51.time, trying to erode trust in our democratic institutions and one way
:40:52. > :40:55.to do that is trying to get involved and influence elections. You are
:40:56. > :40:58.painting a broad picture of what Russia has been doing. President
:40:59. > :41:09.Trump says this is a small problem. Is he wrong? Well, can we put
:41:10. > :41:13.context into how much the adverts by work? I don't think we had enough
:41:14. > :41:20.information but asymmetrical warfare by adverse areas the Russians is a
:41:21. > :41:23.serious concern -- adversaries. Many have said Russia is one of the
:41:24. > :41:26.greatest concerns to this country. We are seeing them do this activity
:41:27. > :41:31.all over Europe. This is not the first time they have done something
:41:32. > :41:33.like this. They are trying to undermine trust in the European
:41:34. > :41:39.institutions as well. There is a reason they are against the EU and
:41:40. > :41:42.Nato, because that has led to 70 years of prosperity and peace in
:41:43. > :41:45.Europe and has been a counter to Russian influence. Congressman,
:41:46. > :41:50.thank you very much for joining us. I was listening
:41:51. > :41:55.to great interest with that because that debate is as relevant here in
:41:56. > :41:59.Britain as it is in Congress. I have a letter here, from Damian Collins,
:42:00. > :42:03.the chair of the Digital culture media and sport select committee and
:42:04. > :42:08.he wrote five days ago, as you can see, to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of
:42:09. > :42:14.Facebook and he says that he wants all the information supplying on
:42:15. > :42:17.examples of adverts that were purchased by Russian linked
:42:18. > :42:21.accounts, the information regarding the targeting of these adverts and
:42:22. > :42:24.pages, who they were targeted at, how many times these adverts
:42:25. > :42:28.reviewed and how much money was paid for these adverts to promote the
:42:29. > :42:33.pages. That sort of information has already been supplied to the select
:42:34. > :42:36.committee in Congress. I'm not sure it is being supplied yet to the
:42:37. > :42:39.British side but there is a great focus on what happened during the
:42:40. > :42:44.election and also during the referendum campaign.
:42:45. > :42:46.Yes and in other countries, as the congressman was saying, but also
:42:47. > :42:51.interesting that he doesn't think there is any amount of legislation
:42:52. > :42:54.that is going to totally stop this, these hackers, the box, they are
:42:55. > :42:57.very sophisticated and will probably find another loophole and another
:42:58. > :43:00.way around it but it gives them a huge amount of information on what
:43:01. > :43:01.they have been doing the social media platforms.
:43:02. > :43:05.Still to come - The changing face of Paul Cezanne,
:43:06. > :43:08.a collection of portraits by the French master goes on display
:43:09. > :43:18.Here in the UK, a quarter of a million people are to get
:43:19. > :43:21.compensation from the household goods BrightHouse, after financial
:43:22. > :43:25.regulators found the company wasn't acting as a "responsible lender."
:43:26. > :43:30.Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.
:43:31. > :43:33.Sasha Rhodes has a lot of paperwork for buying a bed.
:43:34. > :43:35.It was a hire purchase deal from BrightHouse
:43:36. > :43:44.with payments she says she has struggled to afford.
:43:45. > :43:45.They really are exploiting the vulnerable people
:43:46. > :43:49.It's difficult for people nowadays to afford these products out right
:43:50. > :43:56.Imagine owning a state-of-the-art new TV for just ?11 per week.
:43:57. > :44:04.But here is the thing, the interest rate is 69.9%.
:44:05. > :44:09.After three years of payments, plus fees for insurance,
:44:10. > :44:11.delivery, and installation, you would end up paying
:44:12. > :44:19.It isn't the sky-high interest rates that have spooked the regulator,
:44:20. > :44:21.it is the selling of products to vulnerable people
:44:22. > :44:30.And it can lead to harm to consumers.
:44:31. > :44:44.So, we decided we needed to do something about it.
:44:45. > :44:46.We worked very hard alongside BrightHouse to make sure
:44:47. > :44:48.that they meet our standards for responsible lending
:44:49. > :44:51.Government confirmed today that people overwhelmed with debt
:44:52. > :44:54.could be given a six-week breathing space to help get their
:44:55. > :44:59.With borrowing on the rise, real wages falling,
:45:00. > :45:01.and prices going up, many are vulnerable when it comes
:45:02. > :45:12.BrightHouse has apologised, saying it has made significant
:45:13. > :45:14.improvements, and it would be writing to affected customers
:45:15. > :45:23.by the end of the year to explain what compensation they are due.
:45:24. > :45:27.China's President Xi Jinping has become its most powerful
:45:28. > :45:32.The ruling Communist Party has written his name and political
:45:33. > :45:37.ideology in the party's constitution at the end of the National Congress.
:45:38. > :45:39.That's China's most important political meeting.
:45:40. > :45:43.President Xi has steadily increased his grip on power
:45:44. > :45:45.since becoming leader in 2012 as our China Editor Carrie Gracie
:45:46. > :46:12.More than 2,000 Communists and not a single vote against.
:46:13. > :46:26.Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese
:46:27. > :46:30.It's a third chapter for Communist China.
:46:31. > :46:32.Mao united the country, his successor made it rich,
:46:33. > :46:38.It's all a long way from the caves where he spent his teenage years
:46:39. > :46:46.Xi Jinping had been born into the Communist elite,
:46:47. > :46:52.but sent to the countryside when Mao purged his father.
:46:53. > :47:00.China on the up and Xi promising quality of life at home
:47:01. > :47:09.TRANSLATION: We want our lives to get better
:47:10. > :47:14.TRANSLATION: Xi Jinping is very tough.
:47:15. > :47:18.Compared to other leaders, he's great.
:47:19. > :47:23.Xi believes in control - the party's control of the public,
:47:24. > :47:27.his own control of the party and a campaign of fear
:47:28. > :47:33.Xi Jinping has acquired more authority and more power
:47:34. > :47:38.and the Chinese Communist Party has taken a step away from collective
:47:39. > :47:41.leadership and towards a one-man rule by a very charismatic
:47:42. > :47:48.For centuries, China's emperors ruled from behind the walls
:47:49. > :47:56.By enshrining his vision, Xi hopes to make himself invulnerable.
:47:57. > :48:01.The Chinese once called Chairman Mao "The Great Helmsman" and foreigners
:48:02. > :48:05.called him "The Red Emperor", one man who dictated the destinies
:48:06. > :48:12.Now, China has a new Red Emperor in Xi Jinping and his party
:48:13. > :48:19.are already called him the Helmsman and the saviour of socialism.
:48:20. > :48:23.Mao's one-man rule brought only China misery,
:48:24. > :48:31.If Xi fails, we're all the poorer and if he succeeds, his drive
:48:32. > :48:43.Professor Steve Tsang is the Director of the SOAS
:48:44. > :48:59.He is supposed to do two terms of presidency but presumably, he could
:49:00. > :49:08.go on and on? Well, the layered now is that he is going to stay in power
:49:09. > :49:11.in some ways at the 20 party Congress five years from now. He
:49:12. > :49:16.hasn't said how long he's going to stay but he has no intention of a
:49:17. > :49:21.link which in power. And watching bad vote, that was a proper three
:49:22. > :49:25.line whip, no dissenting voices. I think they are doing better than
:49:26. > :49:32.three line whips. What Jie Zheng ping now wants is one McVeet once he
:49:33. > :49:37.has said something to be done, the party will be delivering that and
:49:38. > :49:42.the party will take it a policy -- Xi Jinping. Any party in the world
:49:43. > :49:46.would like to have 100% votes in their favour. There is anyone
:49:47. > :49:52.question here in Washington and that is what does Xi Jinping intend to do
:49:53. > :50:01.with all of this power? Well, in the short term, Xi Jinping
:50:02. > :50:04.will focus on domestic matters, consolidating more power and then he
:50:05. > :50:09.will try to deliver his economic and other changes. And the reason he
:50:10. > :50:15.needs to still consolidate more power is that the whole plan is to
:50:16. > :50:19.deliver China to the promised land which requires the party to be
:50:20. > :50:23.extraordinarily effective. So I don't think Xi Jinping is trying to
:50:24. > :50:29.focus on the relationship with the United States in the short term. So
:50:30. > :50:33.you seem to be suggesting that you don't think, as some do in
:50:34. > :50:36.Washington, that he will use all of the power he is amassing to exercise
:50:37. > :50:43.a regional or political military control? No, I don't think that'll
:50:44. > :50:51.be the intention. The terms of external policy, he will focus more
:50:52. > :50:54.on his pet project, the so-called "Belton Road" initiative, previously
:50:55. > :51:02.called one belt and one road, that has gone into party charter and will
:51:03. > :51:05.therefore be priority. It will not take the chestnuts out of the fire
:51:06. > :51:09.for the Americans over North Korea if he can avoid it. The idea sold to
:51:10. > :51:13.us here in the west was that as China became wealthier, it would
:51:14. > :51:16.become more democratic, ideas would converge with the west and it would
:51:17. > :51:22.become more open. Is that idea now dead? Xi Jinping has been very, very
:51:23. > :51:28.clear, that idea has never been realistic and that is not the China
:51:29. > :51:33.that he wants to see. He wants a China that will come under socialism
:51:34. > :51:38.with Chinese characteristics and that is basically Communism as he
:51:39. > :51:41.defines it. Very interesting, thank you and please come back again.
:51:42. > :51:42.Absolutely. Cezanne is widely considered one
:51:43. > :51:45.of the most influential artists of the 19th century,
:51:46. > :51:49.both Matisse and Picasso On Thursday, a new exhibition opens
:51:50. > :51:54.at The National Portrait Gallery in London showcasing more than 50
:51:55. > :51:57.of Cezanne's portraits together for the first time,
:51:58. > :51:59.some of which have never been Our Arts editor Will Gompertz
:52:00. > :52:03.has been to see it. A portrait of an artist
:52:04. > :52:05.as a young man. Paul Cezanne's early selfie,
:52:06. > :52:07.painted in his 20s, when he was still learning to look
:52:08. > :52:10.like no other artist. He would paint himself
:52:11. > :52:13.throughout his career, making breakthroughs in technique
:52:14. > :52:16.and tone each time. Until this final self-portrait
:52:17. > :52:19.when the artist Picasso called "the father of us all",
:52:20. > :52:21.revealed a lifetime's knowledge Cezanne's portraits were radical
:52:22. > :52:27.when he painted them in the second-half of the 19th
:52:28. > :52:29.Century and they still Not for him idealised versions
:52:30. > :52:32.of the rich and famous and the great and the good,
:52:33. > :52:35.he just wanted to paint ordinary people, in really ordinary
:52:36. > :52:38.settings and thereby Even though he doesn't seek
:52:39. > :52:48.to represent expressed emotion, obviously his interest in character,
:52:49. > :52:53.and I think he really wanted that sense of the peoplenesses of people
:52:54. > :52:58.regardless of social status, I mean, when you look back
:52:59. > :53:05.in the history of portraiture, who has done that before,
:53:06. > :53:08.and you end up with Rembrandt. Are there pictures in
:53:09. > :53:11.this exhibition, John, where we see Cezanne the artist
:53:12. > :53:16.take leaps forward? The first big thing is very
:53:17. > :53:21.early, in the mid 1860s, where he makes paintings entirely
:53:22. > :53:24.with a palette knife. Portraits had never been
:53:25. > :53:28.painted in that way before. The next big step is in the middle
:53:29. > :53:33.of the '70s where, after having worked with impressionists,
:53:34. > :53:38.colour blooms in his pictures. Then by the '80s, volume is very
:53:39. > :53:44.present with regular And then in the '90s,
:53:45. > :53:50.all these different currents really Sitters could be reprimanded
:53:51. > :53:57.for the slightest fidget. "Does an apple move", he'd snap,
:53:58. > :54:01.even though it might have been the 150th session they'd attended
:54:02. > :54:05.for a single portrait. It is fair to say, Cezanne
:54:06. > :54:18.was something else. Quite the selfie, that is my Friday
:54:19. > :54:25.sorted. I have got a postcard of Cezannes.
:54:26. > :54:30.Nothing hanging on the wall? Nothing real? No, no sure thinking
:54:31. > :54:35.of something for my birthday. Let's move on. A souring relations
:54:36. > :54:38.between Donald Trump and senior Republicans, we have been talking
:54:39. > :54:41.about it through the programme and as we've reported, he made a rare
:54:42. > :54:43.visit to Capitol Hill where he attended a lunch with the party
:54:44. > :54:48.faithful. They have come out of that lunch and
:54:49. > :54:52.the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has been talking to
:54:53. > :54:56.journalists and here is what he said about party unity. What I have an
:54:57. > :55:01.obligation to do is try and achieve the greatest cohesion I can among 52
:55:02. > :55:06.Republicans, try to achieve for the American people the agenda we set
:55:07. > :55:10.out to achieve and tax reform is what we are about. If there is
:55:11. > :55:13.anything that unifies Republicans, it is tax reform. We have been
:55:14. > :55:17.looking for the opportunity to do this literally the years. We now
:55:18. > :55:20.have a president who will sign it, who believes in what we are trying
:55:21. > :55:24.to do and we will concentrate on what our agenda is and not any of
:55:25. > :55:28.these other distractions that you all may be interested in. Mitch
:55:29. > :55:29.McConnell talking about the Senate a little earlier.
:55:30. > :55:34.On last night's show we gave a special mention
:55:35. > :55:43.precious doggie Alfie the Minature Schnauzer.
:55:44. > :55:51.He sent a video last card. Do we have the video? In this game, I
:55:52. > :55:58.count this as a viewer, it is a plus one. Christian, I go away for one
:55:59. > :56:03.day and a dog has become the star of the show. You're not kidding, says a
:56:04. > :56:10.lot for me and Jon Sopel, doesn't it. See the same time tomorrow.
:56:11. > :56:17.Well, today was very overcast across the UK. Tomorrow, I think, some
:56:18. > :56:18.sunshine on the way. The good news also is that it