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Beyond One Hundred Days.

The big three internet giants

are called to testify in Congress.

Lawmakers are demanding

to know what Facebook,

Twitter and Google have learnt

of Russia's interference

in the 2016 election.

New reports show Russian-backed

posts may have reached 126 million

Americans on Facebook

during the campaign.

President Trump calls

George Papadopoulos a liar -

the campaign advisor who is now

co-operating with the Russia probe

is not popular in the White House.

The head of Catalonia's independence

bid says he isn't seeking asylum

in Brussels to avoid

possible rebellion charges.

Also on the programme:

A woman tells the BBC how a senior

British Labour Party figure

persuaded her to drop allegations

of rape by a party member.

The father of the Russian Revolution

- a century on the statues

of Lenin are hard to miss,

as they were at the height

of the Soviet Union.

That means that wherever you went

in the USSR there was at least one

Lenin thinking about you,

taking care of you,

or just watching you.

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Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Donald Trump today wants to talk

about tax reform, his Asia trip,

Hillary Clinton and even

the White House's Halloween

decorations, but American

journalists, prosecutors

and lawmakers are all consumed

with the dramatic developments

in the Russia investigation.

No amount of candy is

going to change that.

Meanwhile on Capitol Hill,

the three big tech companies

are being hauled in to answer

questions about their unwitting

involvement in Moscow's bid

to meddle in the 2016 election.

In detailed disclosures sent

to Congress on Monday,

Facebook revealed the Internet

Research Agency, a Russian company

linked to the Kremlin,

had posted 80,000 ads

over two years.

Roughly 110 a day.

29 million people accessed

them directly, before

and after the election.

Those posts were liked, shared

or followed by 126 million users.

As for Twitter, in the three months

prior to the election,

the site identified more than 36,000

automated accounts, that posted

1.4 million election-related

tweets linked to Russia.

Those tweets received

approximately 288 million views.

And those who believe he should stay

put.

Whether or not his body remains

on red square, Vladimir Lenin is

little more than a museum piece now

to most Russians. A curiosity. A

relic of a lost world. These are the

live pictures from congress and that

is the head of Google giving

evidence.

Let's cross live to Capitol Hill

now where we can speak

to Congressman Joaquin Castro.

He's a Democrat who sits on the

House Intelligence Committee.

Facebook's argument seems to be that

126 million users sounds like a lot,

but in the scheme of things it is

tiny compared to the number of posts

that go up each day on Facebook. But

since it only took 80,000 votes to

decide the election in three states,

I want is possible that Facebook

decided the election?

It is

certainly an incredible amount of

Americans exposed to posts that were

basically designed by Russian agents

to influence the 2016 elections in

the United States. So 126 million

Americans is a very big deal and I'm

looking forward to hearing from

Facebook and others on what they

plan to do to combat that in 2018

and 2020.

These days when we go on

Facebook, we favourite something and

the algorithms point us to things

that our friends and colleagues

like. That is the problem here, 29

million people have direct access to

these ads, but it spreads further

and wider than that?

That's right,

what is interesting is the strategy

is they want to get it into the

blood stream of social media. Once

it is there, you have legitimate

people, Americans, citizens, voters,

who spread it. It is like starting a

small fire that spreads and because

with Facebook and other social media

companies, there is an exemption

about having a disclaimer about who

is paying for political ad, that

made it harder for Americans to

recognise that something was wrong

here.

Are you convinced these

companies now take this Serce Josly?

-- seriously? I think they are. But

what congress wants to see is a plan

of action to root this out. So far I

think Facebook has taken it more

seriously than Twitter. Twitter is

now coming along. But there should

be no excuse here. They need to talk

about exactly how they're going to

make sure that this doesn't happen

again.

Congressman stay with us

because we want to ask

you about the developments

in Bob Mueller's investigation.

Mr Trump's former campaign manager

Paul Manafort and aide Rick Gates

are spending their first day under

house arrest after being indicted

by the special counsel yesterday.

Today on Twitter, the President went

after George Papodopolous,

his former campaign foreign policy

advisor who is now

co-operating with the FBI.

Few people knew the "young,

low level volunteer named George,"

he said "who has already proven

to be a liar.

Check the DEMS."

The White House press Secretary gave

this reaction to the Mueller

investigation.

You seem obsessed

with this while there are other

things happening that people care

more about. The media refuses to

cover it, instead of the focus being

on tax cuts. If you look at the

records, the questions that I take

in here day out have more to do with

an investigation that frankly most

Americans don't care much about and

a lot less to do with policies that

impact them.

Congress man Castro,

your reaction to that, most

Americans are not interested in the

Russia investigation.

I think she

should resign as press Secretary.

She is issuing outright lies to the

American people. The folks that seem

like they're taking it least serious

tend to be the White House and her

comments reflect that. It is

disengeneral use and what you saw

yesterday, particularly the guilty

plea of George Papadopoulos is that

there is more and more evidence of

collusion between members of Trump

campaign and the Russian agents who

interfered with the 2016 election in

the United States. As the special

counsel's office said yesterday,

George Papadopoulos was just one

small part of a much larger

investigation.

What the Republicans

would say is it was Hillary Clinton

who was colluding with the Russians

and their campaign wanted dirt on

Donald Trump. Isn't that the same

thing?

Well, first, Fusion GPS was

hired by a very conservative

publication and picked up by the DNC

and the Hillary Clinton campaign.

There is no question that opposition

research is the underbelly of

politics, but when somebody does

research on another person, or

candidate, they're going to find

whatever's out there. If somebody

hasn't paid their taxes, they will

find that.

Isn't that what George

Papadopoulos said he was doing.

There is a difference between

opposition research with a foreign

Government and research among

Americans. Those are two very

different things. The dumping of

e-mails was meant to affect the

election in a direct way and that is

what it seems like he was try to

accomplish.

Thank you for joining

us. Interesting, his comments about

what is going on at the White House

and saying the press Secretary

should resign.

It is a bit Alice in

wonderland, the things that we are

hearing, it doesn't bear any

relation to what we saw in the

indictments. Have you seen the front

of White House, it is covered in

giant spiders and cob webs. I manage

there was a moment when Donald Trump

thought has Hallowe'en come early.

Not only was he trying to

concentrate on the sealed

indictments that were being opened,

but he had to play host to these

witches and monsters.

It gives me,

this is the video the White House

put out, you wond wler the president

-- wonder whether the president

isn't thinking the White House is

the haunted house and he would

rather be somewhere else. He did

hand out cannedy to a little girl

and told her it was a good thing she

didn't have a weight problem.

We

will return to that the story on

Paul Manafort and Rick Gates later.

Here in Britain, a former member

of Labour's National Executive

Committee has told the BBC

she was raped at the age

of 19 at a party event

by a party member

and was then persuaded

by a senior Labour official

to drop her allegations.

Bex Bailey is now calling

for an independent agency

to investigate reports of assault

and harassment within the party.

Our political correspondent

Vicki Young reports.

Bex Bailey has decided to speak out.

She hopes talking about her personal

ordeal will help change the way all

political parties handle allegations

of sexual misconduct.

She says she was raped

at the age of 19, and the

party didn't do enough to help.

I was seriously

sexually assaulted at

a Labour Party event by...

It wasn't an MP, but

someone who was more

senior.

To me, I told a senior

member of staff.

It was suggested to me

that I not report it.

I was told if I did

it might damage me.

I wasn't given good

advice, I wasn't given

a procedure when I asked

for

it so that I could see

what would happen if I did

report it then make a

decision.

It seemed to be there

wasn't one that existed.

Bex Bailey believes this

is a problem that goes

right through politics

at every level.

Yesterday, MPs called for a change,

and the need to give people

confidence their complaints

would be taken seriously.

One of the things it

needs is an element of

independence.

Women need to be able to report

to an independent agency

so that they know that

these issues will be

dealt with fairly,

that the

political bias will be taken out

of them, and so that they feel

they can have the confidence

to report these

difficult issues without feeling

that they will be penalised as

a result.

The Labour Party has responded

to the interview, saying,

"We would strongly recommend

that the

police investigate the allegations

of criminal actions that

Bex Bailey has mentioned."

They also say they will

want an independent

investigation into claims that

an employee acted improperly over

these 2011 allegations.

There have been rumours

at Westminster over sexual

misbehaviour and the BBC has seen

a list of claims, many unproven,

against several Conservative

MPs and ministers,

but the real concern

here

is that all political parties have

been too slow to support and

encourage those who want to speak

out about bullying, harassment and

sexual assault.

This summer, Labour beefed

up its procedures to deal

with complaints of sexual harassment

to make sure they are dealt with

sensitively.

My leader Jeremy Corbyn takes this

issue very seriously.

We take a zero tolerance approach

to any allegations of harassment,

both within Parliament

and our party, and

he said he will work

with Theresa May to find

an overarching system where people

can feel confident that

if they make a complaint

it is dealt with seriously.

Everyone seems to agree

that the system must improve,

but taking the politics out of these

sensitive issues will not be easy.

Vicky Young, Westminster.

It's not entirely clear

what Charles Puigdemont

was doing in Brussels today -

sight-seeing perhaps,

eating good food, or maybe escaping

the long arm of the Spanish courts.

The Catalonian separatist leader

insists he's not actually

seeking asylum and for its part

Brussels says it certainly didn't

invite him for a visit,

nor does it recognise his so far

failed independence bid.

It all adds to the confusion

surrounding his plans

and the future of the region.

Mr Puigdemont told a news conference

that if he'd stayed in Spain it

would have provoked a violent

reaction from the

Spanish government.

He insists he is still Catalonia's

legitimate president

even though Madrid has dismissed

all the separatist leaders and wants

to charge Mr Puidgemont

with rebellion and sedition.

I'm not here in order to demand

political asylum. This is not about

a Belgian question. I'm here in

Brussels as the capital of Europe.

This is not a matter of the...

Question of the Belgium politics. It

has no relationship. I'm here in

order to act with freedom and

safety.

Tim Willcox joins us

now from Barcelona.

How much disappointment is there

among separatist members, rank and

file, at Carles Puigdemont

hot-footing it to Brussels and

staying there?

Well, do you know

quite a lot. I have been speaking to

some hard lined supporters who think

he has betrayed them. He has gone

and left some members of his former

cabinet here to face the music and

that music could start soon. He

talks of freedom and safety. He said

he is not seeking asylums, but he

has has set up a web-site of his

government in exile. A lot of his

supporters find that offensive. They

say in the Franco erow the people

who left did so -- era the people

who did leave would have been

killed. One other development is the

Attorney General has already put

perspective charges against Carles

Puigdemont and members of his

cabinet to the national court, the

judge has now decided that she wants

to hear from Carles Puigdemont and

the others and she has summoned them

to Madrid on Thursday morning with

that hearing expected to run over to

Friday as well. Very serious

charges. Charges of sedition and

rebellion and misuse of public funds

that could lead to a prison sentence

of 30 years. I wouldn't put a lot of

money on Carles Puigdemont willingly

returning to Madrid to make that

appearance. Because he said he

doesn't think he will get a free and

fair trial by the Madrid

authorities.

On that point, this

could at some point put the

Europeans in a sticky position, the

Prime Minister of Belgium said he

has the same rights and

responsibilities as any other

European citizen. But if he is

charged with those crimes, you can

imagine they will have to hand him

back to the Spaniards?

Well yeah, if

there is an international arrest

warrant what, happens then? On the

point of the Belgian Prime Minister,

the last thing he wants to do is

have a spat with Spain. He has made

that very clear. But remember he is

in a fragile coalition and the

largest member of his coalition, its

leader is saying we won't turn our

back on our Catalan friends and he

said that they would defend and

support puj. -- Carles Puigdemont.

So it is another looming headache at

the least for the EU. And indeed for

the supporters of Carles Puigdemont

and the former government here in

Catalonia. Because they talk about

betrayal, millions of them thought

that Carles Puigdemont was going to

take them to independence. He has

now fled the country. He is not

going to come back until he gets

some commitments from Madrid, which

I don't think he will get, and some

of his supporters say this has put

the cause for independence back many

years, although Carles Puigdemont

said he will take part in elections

called for in December. Something

which had he announced himself would

have prevented according to Spain

the entire implementation of direct

rule.

Thank you very much.

I'm joined now in the studio

by spokesperson for

the Catalan National Assembly

in England Carles Suarez.

Do you feel betrayed?

Not let's not

forget that the last time that the

Spanish state put into jail a

Catalan president he was

assassinated.

But that is not going

to happen now.

He has been asked a

30 year sentence for organising a

referendum.

Aren't revolutionaries

supposed to stand and fight. These

leader.

But it is a democratic

revolution. These revolutions are

winnable in polls. That is what we

did and we are going to do again in

December.

What about the opposition

to Mariano Rajoy in Catalonia, why

is not very visible. There is no

sign of people taking to the streets

or you know the Government going

into the Catalan Parliament and...

That is true.

Why is that not

happening?

Independence was

proclaimed on Friday. Carles

Puigdemont and members of his

government have gone into exile in

Belgium. It is true home rule from

Spain is controlling the territory.

But his narrative of why this is

being done, because he wanted to

avoid another brutal, violent act

from the Spanish state. What he is

saying it, let's go a bit slower.

Let's not take to the streets and

defend the republic street by

street. But let's try to regain the

mandate and that will happen in the

elections in December.

Was it just

too early for you to call the

referendum on independence. Were you

not ready for it. It doesn't look

like you had the steps in place

after the vote.

I know where you're

coming from. It is not readiers

because the preparations for 2014

referendum. I don't think it is a

question of design of how to go from

the proclamation to independence. He

decided to take a step back and go

the process slower, keep the calm

and peace in the country. We also

want sprain did on referendum on

referendum with the brutality of the

police. He doesn't want civil

servants to be put in that position.

I understand your point, but this is

directing to a re-mandate for

independence.

Thank you very much.

It is hard to see how it doesn't

look like a victory for Madrid, but

nay didn't handle it well on

referendum day, but they seem to be

getting most of what they want now.

You were talking of revolutionaries.

It's one hundred years

since the Russian Revolution,

an event that would define

the 20th century.

All this week our Moscow

correspondent Steve Rosenberg

will be crossing Russia to report

from cities connected

to that historic event.

Today he's in Moscow, the final

resting place of Vladimir Lenin.

In the second of his special series

Steve looks at how modern Russians

view the founder of Bolshevism.

In a park outside Moscow,

these are the ghosts of

communism past.

Like a freak show of fallen idols.

And the Red Star of this show

is Vladimir Lenin, who led

the Russian revolution.

There were an estimated

14,000 statues of

this man in the Soviet Union.

That means that wherever

you went in the USSR,

there was probably at least one

Lenin thinking about you.

Taking care of you.

Or just watching you.

But communism did more

than make statues of him.

It preserved his body

and put it on display.

"Lenin is more alive

than the living," declared

one Soviet slogan.

A whole scientific

institute was set up to

maintain the corpse.

Over time, it has had

to replace some skin and

flesh with plastics

and other material.

Lenin's Red Square Mausoleum

was a site of pilgrimage in

the late USSR - the late

revolutionary quite literally

cult viewing.

It's one of the ironies of the

Russian Revolution that the man who

led it, the Bolshevic who waged war

on the church and once

declared, "There can be nothing more

abominable than religion," that this

man, Vladimir Lenin,

ended up the closest thing

communism had to a God.

His body put on display

here in the mausoleum and deified

like a Soviet saint.

But 100 years after Lenin's

revolution, might it now be

time to consign the mausoleum

to history and commit

his body to the ground?

I believe that he should be buried.

This symbol of the revolution

should find its proper

place, not on the red Square.

Over our dead body, says

the Communist Party.

"No one is going to lay a finger

on him," the party leader says,

"and if anyone dares to try,

we'll chase them away."

Stanislas has a connection

to the burial business.

His company decorates

funeral accessories.

There is a Lenin connection too -

he is Vladimir Lenin's great,

great grand nephew.

One idea, Stanislas says,

is to bury Lenin in

the mausoleum to satisfy those

who think he should lie in the

ground and those who believe

he should stay put.

Whether or not his body remains

on Red Square, Vladimir

Lenin is little more than a museum

piece now to most Russians.

A curiosity.

A relic of a lost world.

I'm loving this series, we should

have Steve on the programme every

night, whether or not it is the

anniversary of the Russian

revolution.

I remember reporting on

the war in Ukraine and every where

you walked there was statues of

Lenin and they were pulling them

down when I was there and they have

pulled down about 1,300. In Putin's

Russia, they don't know what to do

with them, whether to take them town

or honour them. That tells you how

complicated their history is.

There

will be one day of President Trump.

The official portraits

of President Donald Trump

and Vice President Mike Pence

have been released.

Copies of the portraits will be

printed by the Government Publishing

Office and distributed to post

offices, federal agencies and other

government buildings.

They look like school photographs.

Why has it taken so long to get

these. Nine months since he took

office. It talk President Obama

three months.

I think it is to do

with Donald Trump and image. He is

somebody who all his career has been

very focussed on visuals, whether

when he was doing The Apprentice or

working in television, the look of

things and the lighting when he did

the Republican convention, the

lighting of it, the stage setting,

all important to Donald Trump. I

don't know if that is why it has

taken so long. But these photo

matter to him. I think we should

produce one for you. I could see an

official portrait.

It would need

some air-brushing.

The BBC budget

doesn't run to a statue.

Perish the

thought I would say that had any

air-brushing but mine would.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

we've more from Capitol Hill

as lawmakers pour over those

incredible figures from Facebook,

which say millions of Americans

were exposed to Russian material

during the US election.

And not that George,

the other George -

namesakes the world over sympathise

and stand in solidarity

with George Papadopolous -

the financial planner,

not the former Trump campaign aide!

That's still to come.

Thankfully Hallowe'en weather is

quiet in many parts. Particularly

for England and Wales. Just the odd

splash of rain in northern England.

Wetter in northern Scotland. And

some rain over night in Northern

Ireland too. But for many dry with

clearer skies in England and Wales

with some mist and fog patches and

into Wednesday morning the focus for

wet weather will be in Scotland.

Mainly from the southern Highlands

down to Glasgow and Edinburgh and

the north coast of Northern Ireland.

The east coast of Scotland will be

brighter. England and Wales after

that morning mist and fog should be

fine. More sunshine than today. It

should feel warmer. Temperatures up

to 15 or 16 Celsius. Brighter

conditions in the east of Scotland.

But still wet weather in the south

of Scotland, linked to this front

which will edge southwards, bringing

thicker cloud and mist and fog. But

a cheerer night and cold in

Scotland. It does mean into

Thursday, other than this weak

front, with a zone of cloud, that

will continue to push into the

southern parts of England and Wales,

some rain and drizzle. Much of

northern England and Northern

Ireland will have a fine day. Not

warm. But you will have the sunshine

to compensate. More cloud for all of

us into Friday. The best of bright

skies in the east. Some rain in the

north-west of Scotland and Northern

Ireland. And we will see another

feature through Friday night

bringing heavy rain into England and

Wales. That becomes the dominant

feature. But it doesn't stop us from

seeing colder air for the weekend.

That will push across all parts and

bring us a mixed weekend. A weekend

full of fireworks for some with

sunshine and some showers in the

north and west. For all a chilly

breeze too.

This is beyond 100 days.

Representatives of Google Facebook

and Twitter are testifying before a

US senators to determine whether

Russia used their services to try to

sway the 2060 presidential election.

President Trump has called former

campaign adviser George Papadopoulos

liar. And coming up, China has new

tougher penalties for anyone found

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beyond 100 days. President Trump is

said to be seething as he watched

the developments yesterday in the

Mueller investigation. George

Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty and

was now cooperating with the FBI.

Russia is it clear did attempt to

make contact with the Trump campaign

and offered so-called dirt on

Hillary Clinton in the form of

e-mail. It is also not clear from

detailed disclosures that fake news

was disseminated on Facebook,

Twitter and Google for years. In the

weeks after the election Mark

Zuckerberg said the idea that fake

news on Facebook had influenced the

vote was crazy. But two months ago

the social media site announced a

$100,000 had been spent on US

political advertisements by an

operation likely based in Russia. In

September Mark Zuckerberg retracted

his earlier statement, he said it

was the longer crazy that fake news

could have influenced the election.

Facebook handed in information on

3000 advertisements linked to Russia

to Congress. And of course today we

learned that they could have been

spread to 126 million people. Our

North America technology

correspondent is here and watching

all of the hearing. We heard the

intelligence committee then told

that the social media giants are

beginning to take this more

seriously. What is your view on

this?

That is the impression they're

trying to give. Today we heard the

testimony from the three companies.

They have all been keen to stress

that they have done a thorough

investigation into the nature of

this problem but also have been

working on solving the problem for

several years. Google said it had a

team in place since 2014 to try to

combat this. But some of the

questions from the panel to the tech

companies are quite revealing about

where the investigation might be

going. So they asked which other

countries may also be trying to

influence American voters.

Potentially whitening is out there.

And also the nature of some of the

messages and interestingly Facebook

saying that after the election had

finished the nature of what Russian

backed groups were hosting was sent

to disrupt the validity of the win.

So it seems that the goal has been

to destabilise the American

democratic system. So revealing

hearing so far and still to on

Wednesday as well.

The president of

courses take is this did not happen,

it could mean anyone. He refers to a

£400 bloke sitting on a bed. It will

be harder for them to stick to the

line.

I think he's been thrown a

bone by Facebook when they said they

were trying to attack Donald Trump

as well. If we are going to get an

early morning message from the

president that might be the detail

he latches onto because there is a

running theory that these

advertisements from the Russians

were trying to attack Hillary

Clinton alone. But it seems based on

what the companies have told the

committee today that that was not

the case, it was just about staring

debate and making people talk about

inflammatory issues during the

election such as race and

immigration.

All this of course is

happening on Capitol Hill are mile

away from the White House.

Administration officials dealing

with the fallout. Joining us now for

a reaction to that is lawyer and

author Alan, thank you for joining

us. Just to get your reaction to

everything that we heard yesterday

coming out of the special Counsel

office and how serious you thought

that might be for the

administration?

Really no surprise

to anyone who has seen how criminal

law and prosecution practice here in

the US works. I predicted this three

months ago. And what the tactic is

is to try to find anyone close to

the president is vulnerable. On

taxes, online to the government, and

then inviting them and squeezing

them and trying get them to let

another domino for, some even closer

to the President. The ultimate goal

is the big domino in the Oval

Office. But the problem is it gets

people not only to sing but also to

compose. To improve their story, to

elaborate on it and even outright

lie. Because these witnesses know

that they will get a sweeter deal.

So it is a dangerous tactic.

Speaking as a lawyer, if you were

prosecuting a case like this would

someone who was at a low level like

George Papadopoulos or someone at

the higher level and sat in on

meetings like Paul Manafort, be more

useful to you potentially?

Generally

the person who is closer to the

target is more useful but in this

case they may have had the younger

person wearing a wire, they may have

a proactive cooperating witness. He

pleaded guilty to lying and you

cannot use a liar as a witness, that

is easy to cross-examine by any

defence attorney. So they wanted him

to gather evidence, hard evidence on

tape whether that worked or not, I

doubt it. If it did I think we would

know about it.

What think that

Robert Mueller, what is his tactic,

three sealed indictments yesterday,

what is he trying to say to the

administration?

I do not think he's

trying to talk to the administration

at all but talk to witnesses who

might be vulnerable and have them

come forward and say, if you come to

us proactively we will give you get

out jail card. I do not think there

is any message to President Trump

himself except perhaps to worry

because people closest to him are

vulnerable and people resent that.

Paul Manafort would never have been

investigated where he not close to

President Trump. But once they start

looking they found alleged tax

evasion, alleged laundering and then

they had him and they were able to

squeeze in. I think they will try to

do that with everyone close to

President Trump and so the message

really was more to people close to

the present than the President

himself.

Of course we should make

the point that in the indictment

yesterday with regards to Paul

Manafort there was no reference at

all to the Trump campaign or to

Donald Trump.

It might well have

been jaywalking or double parking,

it does not matter. Jaywalking

woodwork, the penalty is not severe

enough but it does not have to be

related to the crime, or the need to

do is have the ability to leverage

the indictment, to get them to

testify and provide evidence. So if

you can get something that relates

to Russia that is better. And they

did that but the other defendant,

but with Paul Manafort and gates it

is irrelevant that they had nothing

to do with the Russia probe as long

as they have him and they can

squeeze him and maybe get evidence

about the Russian probe.

Thank you

very much. This is interesting, you

heard the lawyer talking about the

possible state of mind up the

President and think he's not the

person getting the message does not

need to be so worried but the

American press reports today from

the White House still leaking like a

sieve, and it pretty clear that the

president himself was watching

television as these indictments came

down and were unsealed and is George

Papadopoulos was also revealed in

the press. And it caused a certain

amount of consternation that he was

not happy with this and the way it

was being portrayed in the press.

And the chief of staff John Kelly

last night

saying it was incredibly distracting

for the President, making his

presidency harder to accomplish with

the John Kelly interview

interesting, he said it all happened

before they joined the campaign.

It

was clear that George Papadopoulos

had gone to meet this contact here

in London when he was already on

board with the President Trump

campaign. And there are pictures of

him sitting with Donald Trump and

also with the head of this foreign

policy advisor committee. They are

both sitting there and trying to

refer to George Papadopoulos as the

coffee boy.

And it was made clear

that George Papadopoulos was

approached by the Russian operative

oddly called the professor, this is

a guy who is a Russian agent. He was

approached specifically because it

was on the Tramp campaign. Not a

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not very well! China is considering

tougher penalties for those who

disrespect the national anthem or

flag. The draft law says behaviour

could be punishable by up to three

years in prison at the moment people

who mock the national emblems can be

held in custody for up to 15 days.

This is the kind of story that can

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so football fans in particular have

been disrespecting the anthem.

Building on the pitch when the

Chinese flag is raised. Or the

anthem is played. -- building. And

if they face imprisonment for that

it would be quite serious indeed.

Let's bring you breaking news now,

from New York. Police say they are

investigating reports of gunfire in

the lower Manhattan area. One person

has been taken into custody we

understand. It is not yet known if

anyone has been injured. We do have

one message that is coming from

police officials. Let's see if we

can bring that up, responding to a

sports of shots fired in lower

Manhattan. That is all we have at

the moment. Still to come on the

programme, the Bank of England

warning about job losses in a

post-breadth of Britain. But we find

out if the news is all bad. -- post

Brexit.

Police said they believed one man

and five of his children aged

between four and 11 died in a fire

that ripped through a farmhouse in

Wales yesterday. Tributes have been

paid to David Cuthbertson who lived

at the property with other members

of his family. Three children

managed to escape. The investigation

into the cause of the fire is under

way.

Flowers and messages,

remembering five children who died.

The youngest was four,

the eldest 11 years old.

The farmhouse where they lived

with their father David Cuthbertson

was completely destroyed.

Police believe the 68-year-old also

died in the fire in the early hours

of yesterday morning.

The damage is so severe police can't

yet formally identify the victims.

Mary Ann Gilchrist

is a family friend.

She describes David Cuthbertson

as a devoted father,

who also had grown up

children living nearby.

I mean, what I find so horrific

is that one of the people

who were responding was his

son-in-law who works for,

you know, our retained firm.

Can you imagine?

His children are all sweet,

intelligent, and he should...

I'm sure he was very proud of them.

But I really don't think I can say

any more, not at the moment.

I'm sorry, it's too raw.

That sadness is shared

in the local village.

In the Post Office funds

and clothes are being collected

for the three children -

aged 13, 12 and 19 -

who managed to escape the fire.

We just wanted to feel

that we were doing something

as a community, and we've had people

putting piggy banks

in there, their piggy bank

money in this morning.

In the local church,

thoughts and prayers

are with the family.

A book of condolence has been

opened, and its planned

that a special service

will be held later.

You're watching beyond 100 days was

at the Bank of England has warned

75,000 jobs could be lost from the

UK financial services sector if the

UK leads the European Union without

a trade deal. Senior figures at the

back are said to be using the number

as the scenario for future planning

but are thought to be optimistic

that negotiations will be

successful. Earlier we spoke to the

BBC economics editor. The problem is

because these figures come from the

Bank of England, Brexiteers will say

that they are discredited and that

the government once again is putting

out the worst-case scenario?

I do

not think that would be quite fair.

The Bank of England has asked all

financial institutions in the city,

banks and hedge funds and others to

provide to them what they describe

as contingency plans. They were sent

to the bank over the summer and I

think this number has come from that

process. The bank, many in the city

you're right would say an ideal

scenario is the worst-case scenario.

I didn't take everyone in the bank

thinks that is what will happen

necessarily but they say they must

make sure the financial institutions

in London are prepared for what

might be described as the worst.

Some in the bag are optimistic that

there will be a much more closer

deal between financial services in

London and financial services in the

European Union and the rest of the

European Union. Not just because

that is important for the UK but

also important for the European

Union. London is the global

financial centre for Europe. It

funds not only British businesses

but also helps to fund European

governments and European businesses,

helps them to raise money. It has

got very deep capital markets and

therefore the bank, best suggestion

of 75,000 jobs I think is what many

people would describe as a

worst-case scenario. That does not

mean that London itself. Being the

global financial capital.

To what

extent do the numbers play into the

government planning as they are

going through the negotiating

process?

On financial services it is

going to be one of the toughest

challenges for the Brexit

negotiators on both sides.

Disentangling 40 years of history

where financial, London has been the

gateway to the rest of the EU. On

the British side are financial

services, we have a trade surplus

with the rest of the EU on financial

services so economically for balance

of payments in Britain financial

services are very important. And for

the European side they are important

for raising funds for European Union

companies, governments that and also

for the foreign exchange

transactions that mostly take place

in London for the rest of the

European Union. So when it comes to

the financial sector itself this is

a high-stakes, very important but of

course the free trade deal including

financial services is unusual. And

not something that usually a free

trade deal encompasses so it will be

a very challenging area for both

sides to meet. That is why I think

the banker said you must prepare for

a no deal is that is at least one

possible outcome of these

negotiations. -- the bank has said.

Christian, you're meant to be part

of that interview but you got lost

literally in your own BBC building!

Let's gloss that! What would you

have asked? Well I'm rather

sceptical about this because I sat

on a panel with Sir Malcolm Rifkind

last week and he said 75,000 jobs

sounds like a lot but when you look

at 1.1 million people working in the

City of London, this is less than

six or 7%. And many banks have said

we're going move, JP Morgan said

that and they have revised that now.

Swiss bank, UBS, moving 250 jobs

instead of 1000. They have to make

arrangements but as the chief

executive of Barclays said, Brexit

was no more complicated than setting

up a whole new company in America.

And I still maintain many of these

banks will move offices to big

cities but will keep the bulk of

their staff here. Take the stairs

next time! While we heard about the

labour crisis in the fruit and

vegetable picking industry but also

now the dairy industry. But some

farmers see Brexit as an

opportunity.

Imagine pure English pasture

with contented cows,

farms that have high welfare

standards, producing

high quality milk.

This is all material

for a powerful sales pitch,

and it's helping to open up

markets outside Europe.

At this plant in Birmingham,

something is happening that's

never been done before -

fresh British milk is packaged up

to be sent 4,000 miles to Qatar.

And now milk from here in Cheshire

and the surrounding counties is soon

to be transported even further

afield, to China.

The Chinese have said they find it

more simple to deal just with the UK

rather than the whole of Europe.

Would this be happening

without the Brexit vote?

I believe not.

We were sat with some very high

decorated officials from the Chinese

government and one of the comments

that was made was that, look,

it's very easy to do

a deal with one country,

very difficult to do

a deal with 27 countries.

The Brexit deal is crucial

to the industry, the vast majority

of produce is exported to Europe,

and the UK relies heavily

on dairy imports.

Let's have a look at some

of the figures about the industry.

The number of dairy farmers has

shrunk dramatically.

Around 20 years ago, there were some

35,000 dairy farmers -

now that's down to around 13.

And as for the average price

of a pint of milk, that has gone up,

by not very much though,

from around 36 pence to around 43

pence, and many dairy farmers say

that's not enough for them to earn

a decent living.

One of the main concerns for dairy

farmers now is labour.

Go on.

It takes skill to operate

the machinery and handle

the animals, but few in the UK

want to do the job, so now almost

two-thirds of dairy farms

employ foreign staff.

David Brookes relies

on his family to help

run his farm in Staffordshire.

What would it mean for the dairy

industry if controls

were placed on migrant workers?

Any farm that's been reliant

on a migrant labour force,

and there a good many that have

built up their business models

with large labour requirements,

I think they'd struggle, certainly.

This is one of the Cheshire farms

now providing the milk

to Qatar and China.

James and Rhiannan had

been considering giving

up their family business,

but not now.

We feel hopeful and it gives us

a chance to feel, right,

we can start to continue to invest

in this business and improve it.

But specific talks over a future

trade deal haven't even started.

It's up to those around

the negotiating table

to decide the future

of the UK's farming landscape.

Claire Marshall, BBC News, Cheshire.

Some breaking news we're getting

from Manhattan, several people

injured in downtown Manhattan

according to police. They have said

one person is in custody. Not much

detail apart from that. It happened

in the upmarket neighbourhood of

Chambers and West Street.

That is

close to the BBC offices, the studio

we were in when we did the programme

yesterday is down on the lower west

side. And it is where police

apparently are telling the public

not to go to that area, to avoid the

West side Highway. You can see that

there if you zoom in, close to the

World Trade Center. Anyone who has

visited may well have been in this

neighbourhood. But we are getting

very few details. We have one tweet

from the Manhattan, from the New

York Police Department and we are

responding to reports of shots fired

in lower Manhattan. More details

when they are available. That is all

we have at the moment. Of course we

will carry on following that.

Yesterday we told you about the

financial planner George

Papadopoulos who got mistaken for

the Trump aid on Twitter and he was

on the receiving end of some angry

tweets. Other users with famous

names have been through similar

mix-ups and they tweeted in

solidarity.

Singer Michael Bolton,

his tweet, let's just take a look at

that. I feel your pain, brother.

James Taylor chimed in, we should

record together. And then John

Ratzenberger joined in. Can we start

a support group? I did e-mail George

Papadopoulos today, he is with his

mother in Greece and could not come

on to speak to us. He sent me a nice

e-mail and I replied, probably the

nicest message he has had in the

past 24 hours!