24/10/2017 Beyond 100 Days

A top Republican Senator slams Donald Trump, saying

Bob Corker also questioned Mr Trump's competence

All this as the President headed to the Senate for a policy lunch.

It doesn't sound like the easiest of gatherings.

You know, it's a sad place from my perspective for our nation

and I think the worst of it is going to be

just the whole debasing, if you will, of our nation.

The US military offers more details about the deadly ambush in Niger,

but there seem to be more questions than answers.

Meet and greets in the German parliament as the far-right

takes its place in the Bundestag for the first time

The most powerful leader since Chairman Mao:

How President Xi cemented his spot at the top

Testing the limits of artistic freedom.

A controversial new film on Tsar Nicolas II

finally hits screens in Russia after months of bitter protest.

Get in touch with us using the hashtag

Hello and welcome, I'm Katty Kay in Washington

President Trump has difficulty telling the truth, he's not a good

role model for children and he is debasing America.

Those aren't ours views, they are not the views

of a Democrat, those are the opinions of a top

Senator Bob Corker is retiring next year but until then

he is speaking his mind on the subject of Donald Trump.

The powerful Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee

gave a series of interviews on US TV today in which he came close

to saying he doesn't even fully trust Mr Trump

It's not the first time the two men have tangled,

It's a sad place from my perspective for our nation and I think the worst

of it is gonna be the whole debasing of nation.

That will be the contribution that hurts most.

REPORTER: You think he is debasing nation?

just the way he conducts himself, he goes to such a low level, I do.

By now, we know what the reaction is likely to be.

Donald Trump fired back on Twitter, saying...

That back and forth continued throughout the morning.

And then the two went to a Senate lunch together

Here to help us break this all down is our political analyst

Ron Christie who served as an advisor to

I don't know where to start, it is another Tuesday in the Trump

Administration. You say you have a talk to people in the White House,

what do you make of this dispute? This is the last thing they want to

be doing now. Coupled with the fact the president has been arguing with

a gold star mother, a mother who has lost a soldier son. He needs to pass

this tax bill. So listening to the folks in the White House this

morning and I came from Capitol Hill moments ago, there is a sense of

anxiety and tension on both sides that they need to find a way to get

a ceasefire otherwise it will spiral out of control. There were a whole

list of things Bob Corker accused Donald Trump of, there was that one

about debasing America and he was asked, would you trust Donald Trump

with the nuclear codes? He refused to answer the question. We use words

unprecedented but the one who should be an adviser to the president on

foreign policy matters, the one who should be consulting with the

president and the military doesn't trust Donald Trump to have his

finger on the pulse of nuclear weapons, it is impossible. Hello, I

will give you another comment from Bob Corker, not a good role model.

It is a sad state for the American political spectrum to have

Republicans, not Democrats, Republicans, shooting at each other

in a circular firing squad. The Democrats right now are gleeful and

many I know are content to stay out of the way to let the Republicans

continue to self-destruct and then have a better prospect for them as

we head into the 2018 election, perhaps taking control of the house

of Representatives and narrowing the margin in the Senate. It is an

unprecedented day. I need a better word, but the real question for me

is, what is the readout for the Senate policy lunch going to be? How

did the president go from 52 senators, how did they receive him

and what did he have to say to them? The more attentive of our viewers

might have seen in the headlines, that something seemed to fall in

front of Mitch McConnell and the president as they walked to the

lunch. That is a Russian flag that was apparently flown by a protester

standing next to the photographers. It all goes to show how divisive

this issue has become? It is and it also shows you we're not talking

about the important issues in the American political scene. We are

talking about Russia, talking about collusion and talking about not

being a good role model. We should be talking about how can Republicans

and Democrats move forward with domestic times with low unemployment

rate to do the work with the American people. But these

distractions continue, just another Tuesday in Donald Trump's

Washington, DC. As Ron mentioned, he has just come from Capitol Hill. He

talked about the anxiety people are feeling there, earlier we spoke to

Steve Russell from Oklahoma. I was wondering what your

constituents made of the row between Bob Corker and Donald Trump? If we

were to get excited about every row between the executive and

politicians, we would be spun up all the time, I suppose. I don't know

they are paying a lot of attention to it. You are, presumably?

Certainly, we are always concerned, particularly with regard to foreign

policy and how that might be impacted. Congressman, how do you

think it might affect the President's ability to get things

done? It is important on two aspects. We cannot keep making this

about personalities. On either side of these types of spats. When we go

around poking one another in the eye, we want to poke the other eye

and it will accelerate beyond. We have to focus on the policy. I think

the president, he has a good, strategic vision for the things he

wants to do. Unfortunately, unlike times in the past, when he can

choose to do business with a corporation or not and then move

onto another corporation, the only thing he has to work with is, in

this case, Republicans in Congress primarily and then Congress as a

whole. We are all he has and it serves well to focus on policy. We

are, as members of this body, show some difference in respect as well.

We understand why Bob Corker feels able to speak the way he does, he is

standing down but the president is there for the duration. Does he need

to engage? Why he is on Twitter taking on Bob Corker when he is

meeting the Senate? I cannot pretend to know what is in the mind of the

president. My own observations are, as he sees people that attack, he

has a propensity to push back. I think him not coming from any

political background might account for some of that. I think what you

have, people are going to hate us from the right, the left and

anything in between, often on anything we do. Even if we come up

with a great idea, people will hate it on principle because that is the

nature of politics. The president, not coming from that environment,

he's probably adjusting to some of that. Is it a proper adjustment? We

can debate that until the cows come home. New have a man in his 70s, who

has had habits of success in his past. He has habits of behaviour

that are not likely to change after seven decades.

We will be hearing more from Steve Russell in a moment.

We're getting the first official accounts of what happened

in the West African country three weeks when four US servicemen

were killed by fighters linked to so-called Islamic State.

And there are still a lot of unanswered questions.

America's top general Joseph Dunford, spoke

Early morning on October 3rd, 12 members of a US special

operations task force and 30 Nigerien forces left Niamey

on an information-gathering mission to the village of Tongo.

on an information-gathering mission to the village of Tongo Tongo.

The following morning, October 4th, the troops

They come under attack by about 50 IS-affiliated fightersf fourth

October morning Troops start return to base Come under attack by 50

IS-linked One hour later, the soldiers requested back-up.

Within minutes, a drone arrives - providing live

It became evident, one soldier was missing. Two days later, Sergeant

Johnson's body was found and handed over to the US military. Let's hear

again from Steve Russell, the Republican had a long career in the

US Army himself and is currently head of the house armed services

committee. What are the questions you would

like answered by this investigation? First, I think we have to look at

what was the nature of what we were doing in Niger. I think many people

in the United States and it is probably true in Great Britain and

our other allies, we have had troops there a long time. Many Americans,

some members of Congress seem to be shocked we have operations in these

countries but foreign assistance has been the hallmark of our special

forces since their inception. We have to put these things in context.

We have to allow the military to get accurate answers. This was an

ambush, which means it was unexpected. It was in a remote area,

it was in cooperation with troops in remote villages in remote areas. We

have to allow the very isolated nature of the incident time to sift

through all of those facts. I am very grateful to the French and

Great Britain for all of the things that have gone on in subzero Africa

in the fight against Al-Qaeda affiliate is, Isis affiliate, Boca

Pahrump, we have co-operated a lot and most of our citizens are not

engaged on that on a day-to-day basis. Congressman Steve Russell

from Oklahoma, thank you for joining us. My pleasure.

He said not many people will be paying much attention to this part.

Those senior Republicans who have had things to say about Donald

Trump, Senator McCain, Bob Corker, is the rot setting in? It might be

tempting to look at what happened and think the floodgates will open

and the Republican party will turn on Donald Trump. That might be the

view of some people who are critical of the president in Europe and the

UK. I don't think what Bob Corker did today is going to suddenly lead

to a lot of Republican senators breaking with President Trump. There

have been six who have publicly said things opposing him, Senator McCain

and Bob Corker, the most outspoken. But senators are concerned about

their own constituencies. In some of their states, the president is more

popular than they are. So don't expect suddenly, even though they

say it in private, a whole load of Republican senators will take on

Donald Trump. The polls did tell us he is more popular.

The Catalan regional government says it will go to Spain's

constitutional court to try and preserve its autonomous powers.

Madrid is moving to reassert control over the authorities in Catalonia,

after a disputed independence referendum at the

The Spanish Senate is set to authorise the transfer

A British man who went to Syria to fight against so called

Jack Holmes, who was 24, is said to have been killed

as he cleared landmines from the city of Raqqa.

The former IT worker first travelled to the region two years ago and had

The Olympic torch for next year's Winter games has been let at a

ceremony in Greece. The torch will travel in a relay around Greece

before travelling to the host nation in South Korea. The Winter games

will begin in February. For the first time since

the Second World War, Germany has a far right party

sitting in the Bundestag. The Alternative fur Deutschland

promised a "new era" for the country The AfD's presence as the third

biggest party in parliament is a blow to Chancellor Merkel's

conservatives. It's left her in a

tricky position too. She's having to horse trade policies

and allegiances in order to form She's trying to bring together three

parties with quite different views We're joined now from Berlin

by senior correspondent for the German Handelsblatt

newspaper Moritz Koch. It is very good to see you. 92 MPs

in the Bundestag that the AFD have, it is not a small number, is it? Not

at all. It is obviously concerning. This is the first time, as you

already pointed out, since the Second World War, we have some

genuine fascists in the Bundestag. But it is important to note that

today's Germany is not as it used to be and the AFD, as the far right

party is called, is quite a diverse group. You have xenophobes, you have

people who despise democratic values but also you have regular

conservatives. This is a challenge to German democracy. But I think it

can handle it. Tell us about the coalition the Chancellor is building

and how it will affect the way she behaves in Europe? That actually is

the main issue right now. European reform. The coalition, first of all,

it is likely she will be able to form this coalition between the

Green party, her own conservative bloc and the Liberal Democrats. But

it is not absolutely clear. We will have long negotiations, in the

meantime Germany will not be able to take any kind of meaningful position

and after that, it remains to be seen. Because Angela Merkel will now

have two govern with two political fractions that are sceptical about

any further transfer of power to Brussels. The Liberal Democrats and

the Christian social union, the Bavarian wing of her Conservative

Party. Stay with us, we are going to talk about Brexit because the

president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has told the European

Parliament that the EU must stay united in the Brexit talks or face

defeat. It is up to London how this will

end. With a good deal, no deal, or no Brexit. But in each of these

scenarios, we will protect our common interest only by being

together. Donald Tusk earlier today. Is there

a chance that on the issue of Brexit the EU 27 are not going to stay as

united as they have been so far? There is certainly the chance, but

as far as Germany is concerned, I think it is quite clear that Germany

is completely aligned with the EU, at this point. It is also not the

most pressing issue for Germany right now, to be honest. It is not

very controversial. I think all major German parties want to have a

good relationship with Britain. They want strong ties to Britain, German

businesses don't want any kind of trade interruption. At the same

time, everybody feels like Britain has to pay its bills and that the

ball is now in the Court of Theresa May. So it remains to be seen what

the British government will offer in the next round of negotiations. It

is very good to speak to, thank you for being with us.

Meanwhile, Austria's conservative leader has invited the far-right

for talks to form a new coalition government - Sebastian Kurz

said his People's Party and the Freedom Party,

the FPO, had similar positions on tax cuts

The step paves the way for the Freedom Party's return

to government after more than a decade in opposition.

But Mr Kurz has warned that his party is pro-European,

The People's Party won last week's parliamentary election,

The only other option available to Mr Kurz to form a majority

government is a coalition with the Social Democrats,

a relationship that failed last they time they tried it.

Reformed this programme to talk about populism in Europe, Brexit and

Trump and how it was affecting elections in Europe. It did look

after the Dutch and French elections, populism was on the way

out. But we have had Sebastian Kurz in Austria, we have had Catalonia.

And then you have two regions in Italy that has probably been missed

by many, that voted under the control of the secessionist Northern

league and they voted for more independence from Rome. Those forces

are still there and you're's mainstream politicians would do well

to listen to what is going on at the European periphery? Yes, they have

had to respond to the right. We have seen it here in the United States,

the Republican party being pulled to the right by Steve Bannon. We have

seen it in the Netherlands as well. To what extent do the established

parties pulled themselves, in which case, whether they win or not, they

are having an impact? Yes, that was the issue in France with the last

government being pulled to the right a little bit with the success of

Marine Le Pen. A controversial new film

has premiered in Russia after months of protests,

threats and violence. 'Matilda', which tells the story

of a romance between the then-future Tsar Nicholas II and a ballerina,

has attracted huge attention ever since Orthodox activists

led by a Russian MP began The film has become the latest

test case of artistic freedom in Russia, our

Moscow Correspondent Sarah Rainsford reports

from the premiere in St Petersburg. This is how extremists responded

to a film about Russia's last czar. They torched two cars and rammed

another one into an empty cinema. Matilda is Russia's most

controversial film in years. A love story about a ballerina

and a future czar. More soap opera than biopic,

it has become a test of artistic freedom here,

as the violence and calls Despite the threats,

Matilda made it to opening night. With the arsonist arrested,

celebrities, socialites and stars poured in for

the Saint Petersburg premiere. After months of threats,

violence and controversy, Matilda is finally getting its moment

on the red carpet. Some foreign stars are not

here and we are told that is because of security concerns

but for the director, the fact the film has made it this

far is a reason to celebrate. TRANSLATION: I hope there are no

incidents now so that people can come to the cinema and watch

the film in peace. But I think this is a victory,

not so much for me or for Matilda, It is a failure, however,

for this MP, who campaigned Nicholas II is an Orthodox saint

so this woman insists the love But Nicholas and Matilda

did have a romance and the proof is amongst the dusty documents

in this theatre archive. The dancer's diaries

record late-night trysts On these pages at least,

it goes no further. TRANSLATION: Even these diaries say

that if anything happened it wasn't I think that is why

there has been protest. But the director puts a Barbie doll

with Ken and makes them kiss and roll around

in a passionate embrace. Even at the premiere,

the director was harangued. This man told him his film

was a threat to national security. But after this gala performance,

Matilda will hit screens across the country with extra

security for cinemas just in case. When somebody says a film as a

threat to national-security without having actually seen it, you know

there are questions to be asked. The Clintons aren't usually renowned

for being shy and retiring. But this picture has

emerged of Bill Clinton You will see what we mean. Looks

like Sean Spicer in the bushes. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas

before his press secretary took the snap and tweeted the photo

with the caption: "Everything's Did you see the concert in Texas at

the weekend? There was a great weekend. You had George W Bush

behind Bill Clinton. President Obama was there and he whispers something.

And then President Obama starts to laugh and he'd does what kids do,

like naughty schoolboys at the back, trying not to laugh. That is exactly

my image of you when you were about 12 years old. What do you mean about

12? It is my image of you on this programme. This is another great

moment. There was also the presidents with Lady Gaga, who was

there with them. I think George W Bush said he would sing with her. I

would sing with her as well, I wouldn't do it very well.

This is Beyond 100 Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

Not since Chairman Mao has a Chinese leader wielded such power.

We'll be finding out why the Communist Party wants

From politics to painting - and the 19th Century selfie.

We take a look at the enduring work of Paul Cezanne as a collection

of the French master's work goes on display in London.

Today was very overcast across the UK. Tomorrow, some sunshine on the

way. The good news is it is going to stay mild, if mild weather is what

you want. I don't think anybody will be complaining too much about that.

Mild, south-westerly winds coming in and it will be long before we get

cold northerly wind. But for the time being, we still have cloud

around this evening, some of it is rain bearing so we have rain and

drizzle around particularly the central areas of the UK and in

Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, some showers. In East

Anglia, some showers. This is where the mildest weather will be tonight.

This is the morning, the rush hour so drizzle and low cloud across

Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. Throughout most of the West Country,

Cloud hugging the south coast, maybe a bit of cloud across the South and

east midlands and North Woods, drier weather and in the Western Isles of

Scotland, we have some showers. Temperatures closest to nine or 10

degrees. What will happen tomorrow? This weather front with the low,

grey cloud and drizzle thrown in, starts to fall apart and most of the

cloud shifts further south, so the vast majority of the UK on Wednesday

will have a fine, bright if not sunny day, lovely weather across the

Midlands and northern England. The far south clanking daily-macro

hanging on to the cloud. It looks like the cloud might shift north,

but still a bright day and mild. 18 in London but fresher across

Scotland, only 12 or 13. The wind is changing direction and that will be

a feature, a change in the weather as we head towards the end of the

week and into the weekend. We haven't got too much of the

south-westerly wind any more, it is more of a westerly, north-westerly

developing and those temperatures are dropping. As we go through the

weekend, they are coming straight from the north so temperatures are

set to take, not necessarily a massive dive, but closer to what we

normally expect at this time of the year. Kent will be down to around

13. That is the latest. This is Beyond 100 Days, I'm Katty

Kay in Washington, Kristian Frazier is in London.

The US president makes a rare trip to Capitol Hill, he has got into a

real row with the foreign relations committee. One Republican lawmaker

told us they should cool it. We are all he has and it serves well to

focus on policy and we ought to, as members of this body, show some

deference and respect as well. America's top general promises of

all investigation following the deaths of four soldiers in niche

air. And coming up in the next half an

hour, pressing the flesh in Pakistan, what does Rex Tillerson

want from America's at times fractious allies?

Who is responsible for posting these ads during last year's election?

Congress launches an investigation to find out. Let us know your

thoughts using the hashtag... Pakistan's Prime Minister has told

the US Secretary of State that his country has produced results

fighting Islamic militants in the region. He'll so reaffirmed

Pakistan's commitment to the war on terror. Relations between the two

allies have been restrained with Mr Tillis and in Asia to outline

president from's is strategy for the region, including more cooperation

with India, Pakistan's archrival. We are joined by the former ambassador

to be US the Pakistan Hussain Haqqani. On the issue of the new

approach, many Americans would say the relationship with Pakistan over

the last two years, the US hasn't had a very good deal and maybe it is

time for a new approach, to be tougher, cut that work? I think

toughness might work whether previous policy has failed and

Pakistan has continued to support the Caliban was saying we do not. At

times saying yes we do but also having concerns about India so the

consensus in DC is to get tough on Pakistan. How they will be do it

remains to be seen because right now, Secretary of State Tillis's

America for our stay in Pakistan is not going to be enough to change

something that has gone downhill over 16 years. Yes, Rex Tillerson,

when he was in Afghanistan, said Pakistan needs to take a clear eyed

view of the situation they are confronted with. Do you think

Pakistan is ready to do that? What would it do to get them there? --

what would it take? Pakistan on the one hand and needs America's

assistance and support. And its policy is essentially not something

that does deal with America's priorities. It does not want certain

Jihadi groups including Al-Qaeda Caliban to be out of business but

America wants them all eliminated. The question is, what will the

United States do to try and coerce Pakistan to change it? Some comments

that have dropped on Reuters in the last hour "They do not need our

territory anymore", talking about the Taliban, 47% of the territories

under direct control of the Taliban and he quotes the ineptitude of

America and allied forces for not bringing an end to the conflict. The

Pakistani Foreign Minister is essentially addressing a Pakistani

audience. Pakistanis have been led to believe there is nothing wrong

with Pakistan's policy and it can simply continue to get through with

denial. It has been denying it does anything. The Sheriff used to Sabine

Lavan was not in Pakistan, -- the president used to say some of the

lard and was not in Pakistan and later on, when he retired, he was

found in Pakistan and said that they did continue to support the ideas,

so what the Foreign Minister says will not influence anything in

Washington where people do believe that Pakistan has a policy of

duality. It is not going to endear the Pakistanis to Donald Trump, the

way he rolls. The Pakistanis do have some leverage because everything

flows through Pakistan to the background airbase. -- to the

airbase. I think the Pakistani estimation of how important the

ground line of communications are for the United States is somewhat

exaggerated. When America had more than 100,000 troops, obviously it

needed more supplies. When it has fewer troops, it needs less supplies

and I think the United States may actually tried to show to the

Pakistanis that we can get by without needing you as our logistics

route. If that happens, then Pakistan will be in a tough spot,

because Pakistani assumption has always been America needs us. If

America says we don't really need you, we would like you to be on our

side but we don't really need you as much as you think we do, then

Pakistan will have to shape up. Very interesting, want to watch. Hussain

Haqqani, thank you very much indeed. It is exhausting work, this

international diplomacy. You meet all the dignitaries and the hangers

on and there is a protocol to shaking hands. Can we just go back

to these pictures of Rex Tillerson? What is the protocol question mark

how long do you shake the handful, a couple of seconds? Three shakes is

usually enough and you make your way down the line and then you find

yourself face-to-face with the Pakistani Prime Minister, who goes

for, number two, three, four, this is the longest handshake. Rex

Tillerson's arm nearly falls. I was going to see if it was a world

record, it is not, but all of the others...

It is almost Trumpian, isn't it? 30 seconds is from's longest.

Speaking of which, there were two pictures today in the American

papers. Jury member Rex Tillerson said he was going to Kabul, but was

he? We have now learned these pictures are Baghram airbase. It is

like spot the difference pictures. You can see the clock, which has

American Zulu time on it, that has been airbrushed out and also, a fire

alarm above Ashraf Ghani. One interpretation of this is that the

Afghans would very much have liked Rex Tillerson to come to Kabul but

they don't have control of the countryside and couldn't guarantee

his safety, so they airbrushed it out to make it look as if he was in

Kabul and not at Baghram airbase. Yes, it says volumes about the

sensitivity us on both side, the Americans don't feel they can go

into Kabul because it isn't safe enough and they cannot guarantee

security and the Afghans don't want to show that they actually went to

Baghram. It doesn't make for the easiest relationships. I love the

way you say it was a tiring business, is the shoes speaking as

an ambassador? He has been to a lot of countries in

the last few days. 50 bombs, incidentally, fell on the airbase

when Jim Mattis, the Defence Secretary, went there, so they were

right to take precautions with his safety.

Which is why they have to be careful. A former top spy in Britain

has warned that more than 5,500 supporters of the so-called Islamic

State group have returned to their home countries. The report says

Britain has one of the largest populations of returning fighters.

More than half of the 850 who travelled to Iraq or Syria are now

back in the UK. Can you's Supreme Court is set to

rule on whether a rerun of the presidential election can go ahead

on Thursday. -- Kenya's. The main opposition leader Odinga has again

urged his supporters to boycott the rerun, saying it is a sham.

Britain is to hold a national memorial service to remember victims

of the Grenfell Tower fire in west London. The service will be held at

St Paul's Cathedral on the 14th of December, exactly six months after

the tragedy. 1,500 free tickets will be offered to people in the area

around the tower block. And if you thought switching to

e-cigarettes would help you get around smoking bans, think again.

New York state is outlawing vaping in indoor public spaces, meaning no

more electronic lighting up in restaurants, cafes and bars. The law

into effect in 30 days. Can governments prevent Russia from

meddling in their elections by regulating social media platforms?

That is the question facing the US Congress as the rather obscure

information technology subcommittee begins hearings.

Traditional media any US is already subject to all sorts of rules about

their activities but Facebook, Twitter and you Juba are exempt. In

light of Russia's involvement in the last election, critics say they

should have to disclose who is paying for their online ads.

Republican ombudsman will hurt shares that committee and I spoke

him earlier. -- will hurt. They were actively engaged in trying

to influence our election in this last election and will likely do

that in the future. What we are exploring today in the subcommittee

hearing is how political ads, disclosures, disclaimers, should be

done in traditional media and in new media. You have called this the

biggest Russian covert operation in the United States, that is quite a

claim. I think it is the most important covert action in the

history of mother Russia. What they were trying to accomplish was not

impacting who became an elected, because there is no impact on our

voting count machines, this was trying to drive a wedge between the

White House, the intelligence community and the American public.

The Russians are engaged in asymmetrical warfare for a long

time, trying to erode trust in our democratic institutions and one way

to do that is trying to get involved and influence elections. You are

painting a broad picture of what Russia has been doing. President

Trump says this is a small problem. Is he wrong? Well, can we put

context into how much the adverts by work? I don't think we had enough

information but asymmetrical warfare by adverse areas the Russians is a

serious concern -- adversaries. Many have said Russia is one of the

greatest concerns to this country. We are seeing them do this activity

all over Europe. This is not the first time they have done something

like this. They are trying to undermine trust in the European

institutions as well. There is a reason they are against the EU and

Nato, because that has led to 70 years of prosperity and peace in

Europe and has been a counter to Russian influence. Congressman,

thank you very much for joining us. I was listening

to great interest with that because that debate is as relevant here in

Britain as it is in Congress. I have a letter here, from Damian Collins,

the chair of the Digital culture media and sport select committee and

he wrote five days ago, as you can see, to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of

Facebook and he says that he wants all the information supplying on

examples of adverts that were purchased by Russian linked

accounts, the information regarding the targeting of these adverts and

pages, who they were targeted at, how many times these adverts

reviewed and how much money was paid for these adverts to promote the

pages. That sort of information has already been supplied to the select

committee in Congress. I'm not sure it is being supplied yet to the

British side but there is a great focus on what happened during the

election and also during the referendum campaign.

Yes and in other countries, as the congressman was saying, but also

interesting that he doesn't think there is any amount of legislation

that is going to totally stop this, these hackers, the box, they are

very sophisticated and will probably find another loophole and another

way around it but it gives them a huge amount of information on what

they have been doing the social media platforms.

Still to come - The changing face of Paul Cezanne,

a collection of portraits by the French master goes on display

Here in the UK, a quarter of a million people are to get

compensation from the household goods BrightHouse, after financial

regulators found the company wasn't acting as a "responsible lender."

Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

Sasha Rhodes has a lot of paperwork for buying a bed.

It was a hire purchase deal from BrightHouse

with payments she says she has struggled to afford.

They really are exploiting the vulnerable people

It's difficult for people nowadays to afford these products out right

Imagine owning a state-of-the-art new TV for just ?11 per week.

But here is the thing, the interest rate is 69.9%.

After three years of payments, plus fees for insurance,

delivery, and installation, you would end up paying

It isn't the sky-high interest rates that have spooked the regulator,

it is the selling of products to vulnerable people

And it can lead to harm to consumers.

So, we decided we needed to do something about it.

We worked very hard alongside BrightHouse to make sure

that they meet our standards for responsible lending

Government confirmed today that people overwhelmed with debt

could be given a six-week breathing space to help get their

With borrowing on the rise, real wages falling,

and prices going up, many are vulnerable when it comes

BrightHouse has apologised, saying it has made significant

improvements, and it would be writing to affected customers

by the end of the year to explain what compensation they are due.

China's President Xi Jinping has become its most powerful

The ruling Communist Party has written his name and political

ideology in the party's constitution at the end of the National Congress.

That's China's most important political meeting.

President Xi has steadily increased his grip on power

since becoming leader in 2012 as our China Editor Carrie Gracie

More than 2,000 Communists and not a single vote against.

Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese

It's a third chapter for Communist China.

Mao united the country, his successor made it rich,

It's all a long way from the caves where he spent his teenage years

Xi Jinping had been born into the Communist elite,

but sent to the countryside when Mao purged his father.

China on the up and Xi promising quality of life at home

TRANSLATION: We want our lives to get better

TRANSLATION: Xi Jinping is very tough.

Compared to other leaders, he's great.

Xi believes in control - the party's control of the public,

his own control of the party and a campaign of fear

Xi Jinping has acquired more authority and more power

and the Chinese Communist Party has taken a step away from collective

leadership and towards a one-man rule by a very charismatic

For centuries, China's emperors ruled from behind the walls

By enshrining his vision, Xi hopes to make himself invulnerable.

The Chinese once called Chairman Mao "The Great Helmsman" and foreigners

called him "The Red Emperor", one man who dictated the destinies

Now, China has a new Red Emperor in Xi Jinping and his party

are already called him the Helmsman and the saviour of socialism.

Mao's one-man rule brought only China misery,

If Xi fails, we're all the poorer and if he succeeds, his drive

Professor Steve Tsang is the Director of the SOAS

He is supposed to do two terms of presidency but presumably, he could

go on and on? Well, the layered now is that he is going to stay in power

in some ways at the 20 party Congress five years from now. He

hasn't said how long he's going to stay but he has no intention of a

link which in power. And watching bad vote, that was a proper three

line whip, no dissenting voices. I think they are doing better than

three line whips. What Jie Zheng ping now wants is one McVeet once he

has said something to be done, the party will be delivering that and

the party will take it a policy -- Xi Jinping. Any party in the world

would like to have 100% votes in their favour. There is anyone

question here in Washington and that is what does Xi Jinping intend to do

with all of this power? Well, in the short term, Xi Jinping

will focus on domestic matters, consolidating more power and then he

will try to deliver his economic and other changes. And the reason he

needs to still consolidate more power is that the whole plan is to

deliver China to the promised land which requires the party to be

extraordinarily effective. So I don't think Xi Jinping is trying to

focus on the relationship with the United States in the short term. So

you seem to be suggesting that you don't think, as some do in

Washington, that he will use all of the power he is amassing to exercise

a regional or political military control? No, I don't think that'll

be the intention. The terms of external policy, he will focus more

on his pet project, the so-called "Belton Road" initiative, previously

called one belt and one road, that has gone into party charter and will

therefore be priority. It will not take the chestnuts out of the fire

for the Americans over North Korea if he can avoid it. The idea sold to

us here in the west was that as China became wealthier, it would

become more democratic, ideas would converge with the west and it would

become more open. Is that idea now dead? Xi Jinping has been very, very

clear, that idea has never been realistic and that is not the China

that he wants to see. He wants a China that will come under socialism

with Chinese characteristics and that is basically Communism as he

defines it. Very interesting, thank you and please come back again.

Absolutely. Cezanne is widely considered one

of the most influential artists of the 19th century,

both Matisse and Picasso On Thursday, a new exhibition opens

at The National Portrait Gallery in London showcasing more than 50

of Cezanne's portraits together for the first time,

some of which have never been Our Arts editor Will Gompertz

has been to see it. A portrait of an artist

as a young man. Paul Cezanne's early selfie,

painted in his 20s, when he was still learning to look

like no other artist. He would paint himself

throughout his career, making breakthroughs in technique

and tone each time. Until this final self-portrait

when the artist Picasso called "the father of us all",

revealed a lifetime's knowledge Cezanne's portraits were radical

when he painted them in the second-half of the 19th

Century and they still Not for him idealised versions

of the rich and famous and the great and the good,

he just wanted to paint ordinary people, in really ordinary

settings and thereby Even though he doesn't seek

to represent expressed emotion, obviously his interest in character,

and I think he really wanted that sense of the peoplenesses of people

regardless of social status, I mean, when you look back

in the history of portraiture, who has done that before,

and you end up with Rembrandt. Are there pictures in

this exhibition, John, where we see Cezanne the artist

take leaps forward? The first big thing is very

early, in the mid 1860s, where he makes paintings entirely

with a palette knife. Portraits had never been

painted in that way before. The next big step is in the middle

of the '70s where, after having worked with impressionists,

colour blooms in his pictures. Then by the '80s, volume is very

present with regular And then in the '90s,

all these different currents really Sitters could be reprimanded

for the slightest fidget. "Does an apple move", he'd snap,

even though it might have been the 150th session they'd attended

for a single portrait. It is fair to say, Cezanne

was something else. Quite the selfie, that is my Friday

sorted. I have got a postcard of Cezannes.

Nothing hanging on the wall? Nothing real? No, no sure thinking

of something for my birthday. Let's move on. A souring relations

between Donald Trump and senior Republicans, we have been talking

about it through the programme and as we've reported, he made a rare

visit to Capitol Hill where he attended a lunch with the party

faithful. They have come out of that lunch and

the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has been talking to

journalists and here is what he said about party unity. What I have an

obligation to do is try and achieve the greatest cohesion I can among 52

Republicans, try to achieve for the American people the agenda we set

out to achieve and tax reform is what we are about. If there is

anything that unifies Republicans, it is tax reform. We have been

looking for the opportunity to do this literally the years. We now

have a president who will sign it, who believes in what we are trying

to do and we will concentrate on what our agenda is and not any of

these other distractions that you all may be interested in. Mitch

McConnell talking about the Senate a little earlier.

On last night's show we gave a special mention

precious doggie Alfie the Minature Schnauzer.

He sent a video last card. Do we have the video? In this game, I

count this as a viewer, it is a plus one. Christian, I go away for one

day and a dog has become the star of the show. You're not kidding, says a

lot for me and Jon Sopel, doesn't it. See the same time tomorrow.

Well, today was very overcast across the UK. Tomorrow, I think, some

sunshine on the way. The good news also is that it