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You're watching Beyond 100 Days. Two
big economic stories on either side | 0:00:12 | 0:00:16 | |
of the Atlantic. In the UK, and
interest rate rise for the first | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
time in a decade. And here, the US
president prepares to name his pick | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
to be the next chief of the Federal
reserve. Janet Yellen is out, Jerome | 0:00:24 | 0:00:30 | |
Powell could be in. What does
Trump's Tres tell us about the | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
future of the world's most powerful
central bank? This is the view right | 0:00:32 | 0:00:39 | |
now of the White House Rose Garden
where the president is due to | 0:00:39 | 0:00:42 | |
confirm him any time now. The
Republicans are ready to unveil | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
their plans for tax reform. Not
since Ronald Reagan has there been | 0:00:45 | 0:00:50 | |
an across-the-board tax cut. Eight
former members of the Catalan | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
government are in custody in the
grid while a court considers an | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
arrest warrant for the deposed
leader, who is in Belgium. Also on | 0:00:56 | 0:01:02 | |
the programme: Not pulling any
punches. President Trump says the | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
New York terror suspect should face
the death penalty. As part of our | 0:01:06 | 0:01:11 | |
special series on the Russian
Revolution, we've visit the place of | 0:01:11 | 0:01:15 | |
a decisive battle. But whose victory
was it? So often here, the past is | 0:01:15 | 0:01:21 | |
rewritten, reinterpreted according
to who is in power. Do get in touch | 0:01:21 | 0:01:26 | |
with us using the hashtag. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:31 | |
Welcome, I'm Christian Fraser in
London, Jon Sopel is in Washington. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:44 | |
These past few days, the focus has
been consumed by the indictments in | 0:01:44 | 0:01:49 | |
the Russia investigation, under
terror attack in New York and the | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
President's response to both.
Anywhere but where Donald Trump | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
would really want is to be focusing,
his agenda on the economy. But | 0:01:55 | 0:02:00 | |
shortly, the president is shortly to
announce who is to be the new chair | 0:02:00 | 0:02:05 | |
of the Federal reserve, and in
Congress after delays and fine | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
tuning, the Republicans have at last
been unveiling their plans for tax | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
reform. We are working to give the
American people a giant tax cut for | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
Christmas. We are giving them a big,
beautiful Christmas present in the | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
form of a tremendous tax cut. It
will be the biggest cut in the | 0:02:22 | 0:02:28 | |
history of our country. It would
also be tax reform, and it will | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
create jobs. Joining us now for a
reaction to today's announcement is | 0:02:31 | 0:02:40 | |
the former governor of Minnesota and
CEO of the lobbying group financial | 0:02:40 | 0:02:46 | |
services Round Table. What do we
know about the new guy. Will it | 0:02:46 | 0:02:52 | |
frighten the markets will reassure?
The new guy is also the old guy, he | 0:02:52 | 0:03:04 | |
has plenty of experience, this is a
steady hand on the throttle, | 0:03:04 | 0:03:10 | |
somebody experienced, probably a
continuation of the Yellen monetary | 0:03:10 | 0:03:16 | |
policy, more open and perhaps Janet
Yellen was. And the other big story | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
we have been covering is the
unveiling of the tax reform measures | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
in the house that has kind of won
the approval of the president so | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
far. How easy is it going to be to
get these measures through? He is | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
talking about getting them on the
statute book by Christmas. Is that | 0:03:31 | 0:03:35 | |
possible? It won't be easy, but I
think it will get done for this | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
reason, if you are a Republican who
has campaigned around this country | 0:03:39 | 0:03:42 | |
saying if we are ever going to get
in power we will have conquered the | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
tax reform, and they don't do this,
particularly on the heels of failing | 0:03:47 | 0:03:51 | |
to repeal and replace bar McKerr, --
Obamacare, that will not that bad, | 0:03:51 | 0:04:00 | |
so they need to get it done. And is
it a tax cut everyone? A lot of the | 0:04:00 | 0:04:06 | |
experts say it leans towards
corporations and the rich. It is a | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
good day for a number of things, for
simplifying the tax code, they are | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
estimating that 90% or more of tax
filers will be able to submit their | 0:04:13 | 0:04:18 | |
taxes on one page which will be a
lot less headache most Americans. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:23 | |
Who does provide middle income tax
relief, they are estimating for an | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
average household that make $60,000,
that could mean as much as $1200 or | 0:04:27 | 0:04:33 | |
more in their pockets, and for a
modest income person, that is real | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
money. And although a lot of the
other benefits are geared towards | 0:04:36 | 0:04:41 | |
companies and businesses, if we are
going to have good paying jobs we | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
need businesses to start and grow by
commitment and pay wages, so we | 0:04:44 | 0:04:49 | |
shouldn't take any defence or shame
in saying that we are going to grow | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
the economy, and this tax bill will
do that. We are still waiting for | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
the president to arrive. Going back
to J Powell, he is the first federal | 0:04:58 | 0:05:04 | |
chair, if it is him, that hasn't
studied for a Ph.D. In economics | 0:05:04 | 0:05:08 | |
since the 1980s. I would have
thought that qualification in | 0:05:08 | 0:05:16 | |
economics would be a prerequisite?
That are some who might argue on the | 0:05:16 | 0:05:21 | |
popular side of the debate who would
say of the ones who got us in | 0:05:21 | 0:05:25 | |
trouble, we need people with common
sense and practical experience, and | 0:05:25 | 0:05:29 | |
Governor Powell certainly has that.
And a final thought on the | 0:05:29 | 0:05:35 | |
complexity of the tax code and
changing it, everybody has little | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
concessions for mortgage relief all
this, the special interest groups | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
will want to preserve this. Yet you
are talking about fundamental | 0:05:42 | 0:05:48 | |
reform. How easy will it be to get
people to give up the special | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
interests? I do think it will be
easy, but I think it will get done | 0:05:53 | 0:05:57 | |
because of what little about
earlier. When we talk about niche | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
things being eliminated, the retort
to Congress will be looking at the | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
net effect of the whole package, so
you might lose a deduction here or | 0:06:04 | 0:06:09 | |
there, but if you look at the net
benefit, for most businesses and | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
most people it will be positive.
Tim, thank you very much indeed. | 0:06:14 | 0:06:18 | |
Lets just show you these live
pictures coming to us from the White | 0:06:18 | 0:06:25 | |
House Rose Garden. We might dip back
to that when the president arrives. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:31 | |
Jon, the president once this tax
reform through by Thanksgiving, | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
which is pretty ambitious. No
question who he holds responsible | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
for this. Have a listen to what he
said yesterday in his cabinet | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
meeting. Administration officials
including Gary Cohen will be | 0:06:41 | 0:06:48 | |
Steimbach from the trip to Asia to
remain vigilant in making sure the | 0:06:48 | 0:06:53 | |
tax cuts pass, so if I have any
problems, I will be blaming | 0:06:53 | 0:07:06 | |
Stevenage -- Manuchin. There are
always used to be saying that | 0:07:06 | 0:07:15 | |
failure is an orphaned but success
has many parents. You can be sure | 0:07:15 | 0:07:19 | |
that success will only have one name
attached to it, Donald Trump. And as | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
he heads off to China, is his head
full of this, or is it elsewhere? Is | 0:07:24 | 0:07:30 | |
it in the Russia investigation is
under all that has gone on at the | 0:07:30 | 0:07:32 | |
beginning of the week? I think that
the Asia trip, particularly the trip | 0:07:32 | 0:07:38 | |
to Korea and China is so
consequential, they fill a lot of | 0:07:38 | 0:07:45 | |
days in the President's diary. Look
at the terror attack in New York, he | 0:07:45 | 0:07:52 | |
must've had a strong instinct to go
there, but he has wanted to keep his | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
focus on what will be happening in
Japan, China, and when he goes to | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
Asia and trying to counter the
influence of China as well. He has | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
just come, so let's listen in. I am
pleased to welcome members of the | 0:08:03 | 0:08:07 | |
Calum -- Cabinet, members of
Congress and distinguished guests to | 0:08:07 | 0:08:14 | |
the White House Rose Garden this
afternoon. I also welcome the | 0:08:14 | 0:08:21 | |
chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee who has done an incredible | 0:08:21 | 0:08:26 | |
job, where is Mike? Great job,
appreciate it. As president there | 0:08:26 | 0:08:34 | |
are few decisions more important
than nominating leaders of integrity | 0:08:34 | 0:08:37 | |
and good judgment hold trusted
positions in public office. And few | 0:08:37 | 0:08:43 | |
of those trusted positions are more
important than the chairman of the | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
Federal reserve. Accordingly, it is
my pleasure and honour to announce | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
my nomination of Jerome Powell to be
the next chairman of the Federal | 0:08:51 | 0:08:59 | |
reserve. Congratulations. Just as
well it was J Powell, after we told | 0:08:59 | 0:09:10 | |
you it would be! Good timing. We
will talk a bit more about that. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:16 | |
Interest rates here in the UK have
risen for the first time in more | 0:09:16 | 0:09:19 | |
than a decade. The Bank of England's
Monetary Policy Committee has risen | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
the cost of borrowing from a quarter
to a half of percent. It means | 0:09:23 | 0:09:29 | |
almost 4 million households will
face higher mortgage payments after | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
the rise, but long-awaited good news
for savers who should get a modest | 0:09:32 | 0:09:35 | |
lift their returns. It has been ten
years since the last rate rise, and | 0:09:35 | 0:09:41 | |
we will look back at the fall it has
taken. One of the first things you | 0:09:41 | 0:09:50 | |
will notice about the iPhone is it
simple design. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:56 | |
I can just about remember interest
rate rises! With me is Vicki Price, | 0:10:27 | 0:10:38 | |
and how do we seek the appointment
of Jerome Powell? He is himself in | 0:10:38 | 0:10:44 | |
favour generally of a fairly easy
monetary policy, perhaps not as easy | 0:10:44 | 0:10:49 | |
as Janet Yellen, but certainly I
think he would be listening a lot | 0:10:49 | 0:10:53 | |
more to what Donald Trump wants to
see happen. If it is a continuation, | 0:10:53 | 0:11:00 | |
what is the point of changing? What
he is obviously aiming to do is | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
facilitate through the new
appointment some of the deregulation | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
that he wants to see into the
banking system itself, which Janet | 0:11:07 | 0:11:13 | |
Yellen didn't seem to be pleased
that. Let's talk about interest | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
rates. Although have done is take
back the quarter cut that they took | 0:11:15 | 0:11:25 | |
after the Brexit vote. Yes, but why?
The Bank of England had been pushed | 0:11:25 | 0:11:31 | |
into a corner. He was expecting they
might do something. Committee | 0:11:31 | 0:11:37 | |
members are independent, so they can
say what they think about the | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
economy, and they have sent some
confusing messages. The number who | 0:11:41 | 0:11:49 | |
you thought were in favour of
keeping rates low had been starting | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
to say we might see arise, so the
markets were anticipating it. And | 0:11:53 | 0:11:59 | |
with inflation 1% above the target,
they had to do something, but it | 0:11:59 | 0:12:04 | |
won't do much for sterling which
reacted rather negatively to the | 0:12:04 | 0:12:11 | |
fact that the words around the
injuries were not more hawkish. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
There was nothing to say that there
would be further increases soon. Did | 0:12:15 | 0:12:22 | |
it and Amanda cut? Yes, and why do
this now? The economy is showing | 0:12:22 | 0:12:29 | |
signs of slowing down. There are
huge uncertainties because of | 0:12:29 | 0:12:38 | |
Brexit, and if you raise rates now
whenever then you say around it is | 0:12:38 | 0:12:43 | |
worrying, they themselves, the Bank
of England, have downgraded their | 0:12:43 | 0:12:45 | |
own forecast for growth of the
economy, so you wonder why they're | 0:12:45 | 0:12:51 | |
doing it, I think it is just because
they had to do something. When the | 0:12:51 | 0:12:57 | |
bank was given operational
independence 20 years ago, that | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
target was one of the main thing is,
avoiding an overheating economy. Do | 0:12:59 | 0:13:10 | |
we need to get rid of the inflation
target that constrains the governor | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
of England? Perhaps, but the truth
is the inflation target has hardly | 0:13:13 | 0:13:19 | |
constrained previous governors, and
it hasn't constrained him for a | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
while. But he only has to write a
letter if the inflation rate goes up | 0:13:22 | 0:13:28 | |
to more than 1% above, so if it goes
to 3.1%, he might have to explain | 0:13:28 | 0:13:33 | |
why he hasn't raised interest rates,
but we have had the inflation rate | 0:13:33 | 0:13:39 | |
way above this current level and low
interest rates, so there is a | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
constraint on his credibility, but
there is a lot of leeway that the | 0:13:44 | 0:13:50 | |
governor can have. Vicki | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
there is a lot of leeway that the
governor can have. Vicki, thank you | 0:13:55 | 0:13:56 | |
for coming in. Gavin Williamson has
been appointed as the new Defence | 0:13:56 | 0:14:03 | |
Secretary after Sir Michael Fallon's
resignation yesterday. Sir Michael | 0:14:03 | 0:14:09 | |
resigned on Wednesday saying his
past behaviour may have fallen short | 0:14:09 | 0:14:13 | |
of the standard expected by the UK
military. He became the first | 0:14:13 | 0:14:17 | |
politician to quit after recently
revealed claims of sexual harassment | 0:14:17 | 0:14:22 | |
in Parliament. Laura Kuenssberg
reports. Who would it be? | 0:14:22 | 0:14:34 | |
Before long, Gavin Williamson
emerged with the top brass. To take | 0:14:39 | 0:14:44 | |
a proud walk across Whitehall. Into
one of the biggest jobs in | 0:14:44 | 0:14:49 | |
government. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
He has never worked in a government
department before, though. It is a | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
privilege to be able to step into
this role, and what is so amazing is | 0:14:58 | 0:15:01 | |
to have so many first-rate
world-renowned people to be working | 0:15:01 | 0:15:06 | |
with, and the armed services are the
greatest pride of our nation. Until | 0:15:06 | 0:15:12 | |
today, he was in charge of party
discipline, and last month he | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
described his approach. I don't like
the stick, but it is amazing what | 0:15:16 | 0:15:25 | |
can be achieved with a sharpened
carrot. Leftover cheesy local MP | 0:15:25 | 0:15:30 | |
pictures. In stead of managing his
constituency and 315 Tory MPs, he is | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
in charge of about 200,000 staff and
£36 billion, part of a rising to | 0:15:35 | 0:15:43 | |
regeneration and a Yorkshire and to
boot. And here is his replacement, | 0:15:43 | 0:15:48 | |
Julian Smith, the new Tory arm
twisted in chief, one of Gavin | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
Williamson's compound rates, who
seems to have inherited his | 0:15:51 | 0:15:57 | |
tarantula, yes, the giant spider the
former Chief Whip kept on his desk. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:04 | |
The new number two, Esther McVey,
who says she will add this to the | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
mix. Maybe I can bring a feminine
touch to the whip's office and work | 0:16:07 | 0:16:12 | |
with all my colleagues. The Ludik of
Gavin Williamson's Move over there | 0:16:12 | 0:16:16 | |
is simple. He is a good operator,
and Theresa May trust him, but the | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
pushback has been fierce. One senior
Tory told me he has abandoned his | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
post at a crucial time. One minister
suggested that he has outplayed | 0:16:25 | 0:16:31 | |
Number 10, saying Theresa May is so
weak, she has allowed him to in | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
point himself. And one former
minister says this Government is in | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
the grip of a bunch of boys. As
ever, the irony is rich. The man who | 0:16:40 | 0:16:45 | |
was in charge of making sure that
MPs behave has found himself in a | 0:16:45 | 0:16:49 | |
plum new job because one of his
colleagues did not. And all the | 0:16:49 | 0:16:57 | |
parties are readying themselves in
case they have to defend their side | 0:16:57 | 0:17:01 | |
from more potential allegations of
bad behaviour. The Foreign | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
Secretary, known for his interesting
private life, said today he had | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
nothing to hide. You confident your
behaviour has been what would be | 0:17:09 | 0:17:12 | |
expected a Cabinet Minister? You
bet. Thank you, Foreign Secretary. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:20 | |
Number 10 acknowledges that Every
has to do more to protect staff at | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
West must do, and there are calls
from wholesale change. We have seen | 0:17:23 | 0:17:28 | |
bullying allegations between members
of staff, allegations of sexual | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
impropriety between members and
others, and this is all about power. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
It is who holds that power and how
they use it that sets that course. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:42 | |
Laura Kuenssberg reporting from
Westminster. A few eyebrows raised | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
about Gavin Williamson's appointment
today. He is the Chief Whip, and his | 0:17:46 | 0:17:50 | |
job is to advise the Prime Minister
whether he thinks in his judgment a | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
minister can stay or should have to
go, and so he has given Theresa May | 0:17:54 | 0:17:59 | |
the advice, and poorer Michael
Fallon, I think will have to quit, | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
any idea who should replace him? I
could expect straight out of House | 0:18:03 | 0:18:10 | |
Of Cards but maybe I am too cynical.
And he has a tarantula today, the | 0:18:10 | 0:18:19 | |
tarantula is called Cronos, which
makes it sounds like it devours | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
bodies! He left it on the desk of
Julian Smith, most people leave a | 0:18:24 | 0:18:35 | |
file not a tarantula! The Chief
Whip's job is to intimidate and put | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
fear into the heart of the MPs he
rules over. Having a tarantula on | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
your desk may not be a bad idea! | 0:18:42 | 0:18:46 | |
Catalan separatists have called for
protests outside the parliament in | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
Barcelona after a judge in Madrid
remanded eight as did Catalan | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
government ministers in custody. She
is still considering the requests to | 0:18:58 | 0:19:05 | |
issue an arrest warrant for Carles
Puigdemont and others. Just looking | 0:19:05 | 0:19:12 | |
down the list of those who have been
remanded in custody today, the | 0:19:12 | 0:19:17 | |
deputy vice president, the interior
minister and the former foreign | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
affairs minister who we have had on
the programme several times. It is | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
astonishing. The regional government
of Catalonia which used to run its | 0:19:24 | 0:19:31 | |
affairs from the headquarters behind
me has essentially been in this | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
rated just a few days after they all
declared independence. If you just | 0:19:34 | 0:19:39 | |
stop and think about it, all of them
are either now in prison, on bail or | 0:19:39 | 0:19:45 | |
in exile. It is a stunning reversal
of fortune. James in Barcelona, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:53 | |
thank you very much indeed for that
update. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:57 | |
Donald Trump has repeated his calls
for the man suspected of being | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
behind Tuesday's terror attack in
New York City to face the death | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
penalty. He made the comment on
Twitter, saying, the New York City | 0:20:04 | 0:20:09 | |
terrorist was happy as he was asking
to have an Isis Flag at his hospital | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
room. He killed eight people, badly
injured 12. Should get death penalty | 0:20:14 | 0:20:20 | |
excavation mark. Mr Trump also
peddled back on his call to send the | 0:20:20 | 0:20:24 | |
attacker to Guantanamo Bay, saying,
would love to send him to | 0:20:24 | 0:20:29 | |
Guantanamo, but statistically that
process takes much longer than going | 0:20:29 | 0:20:34 | |
through the federal system.
And we are also learning more about | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
the attacker Sayfullo Saipov. The
Uzbek immigrant had apparently been | 0:20:38 | 0:20:44 | |
planning the attack for more than a
year and had identified Brooklyn | 0:20:44 | 0:20:47 | |
Bridge is another possible target
and had been inspired by graphic and | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
violent propaganda videos.
Joining me now in the studios | 0:20:50 | 0:20:55 | |
Bennett Waters, a former partner at
Homeland Security and. Thank you for | 0:20:55 | 0:21:03 | |
coming in. I was struck in the
immediate aftermath of this how much | 0:21:03 | 0:21:07 | |
immediate information the police,
the FBI, seems to have gathered very | 0:21:07 | 0:21:10 | |
quickly indeed. That is true, there
has been quite a bit of information | 0:21:10 | 0:21:15 | |
that has come out in a quick period
of time, and we are still very early | 0:21:15 | 0:21:21 | |
in this investigation. There have
been pieces of information that in | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
some cases contradict others, so it
will be important to let this | 0:21:24 | 0:21:29 | |
unfold. And one of the things we
heard the New York governor saying | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
was that it was a lone wolf. But
these things are never alone wolf. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:37 | |
There are never no leads that lead
nowhere. There are a lot of lines of | 0:21:37 | 0:21:43 | |
inquiry that have to be pursued. And
that is an example of what I was | 0:21:43 | 0:21:48 | |
saying, early indications were that
there were no other attacker is | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
being sought out, and over the
course of the last 24 hours, we have | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
seen that there is a second and
perhaps even third individual, so I | 0:21:56 | 0:21:59 | |
think perhaps this investigation
needs to on fold, to follow leads | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
only to conclusions. Does it matter
that the President is saying that | 0:22:04 | 0:22:12 | |
the legal system is a joke, and that
the suspect needs to be | 0:22:12 | 0:22:22 | |
investigated, before there is even a
trial? There is quite a bit of | 0:22:22 | 0:22:25 | |
investigation to do in terms of
chasing down suspected associates, | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
interrogating his electronic
devices, his patterns of life, doing | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
all we can to understand this
individual and get to the bottom of | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
whether or not there are in fact
others involved. We are going to | 0:22:35 | 0:22:40 | |
talk to you about returnees from
Syria later today. What is the | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
American policy on that? I don't
know how many Americans went to | 0:22:44 | 0:22:47 | |
fight in Syria, but in returns of
returnees coming back from | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
Afghanistan and Syria, what is the
American government's policy, and | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
what you think Western governments
should be thinking about? We will | 0:22:56 | 0:23:00 | |
pay close attention to folks
returning from parts of the world | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
that we now have historically been
troublesome, and I think you can | 0:23:03 | 0:23:06 | |
expect to see increased attention on
those individuals as they process | 0:23:06 | 0:23:13 | |
through immigration. And going back
to what Christian was asking about, | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
the death penalty call. If you are a
prosecutor involved in trying to | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
bring this to trial, the last thing
you want are distractions which | 0:23:20 | 0:23:24 | |
could lead the defence counsel to be
able to say, my guy can't get a fair | 0:23:24 | 0:23:29 | |
trial now. Again, we are very early
in the investigation, and I think | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
that as the investigation proceeds,
law enforcement and intelligence | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
community will be doing so with an
eye on prosecution, working with the | 0:23:38 | 0:23:43 | |
federal authorities. So maybe a
little more silence from every body | 0:23:43 | 0:23:47 | |
would be a good thing? Again, I
think we will see how the | 0:23:47 | 0:23:50 | |
investigation unfolds. That was very
diplomatically put, thank you for | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
being with us!
Some of the day's other news. | 0:23:55 | 0:24:08 | |
Myanmar's leader Aung Sang Syi Kyi
has been accused of not doing enough | 0:24:09 | 0:24:12 | |
to stop the ethnic cleansing of
Rohingya Muslim is. And Theresa May | 0:24:12 | 0:24:22 | |
has hosted her Israeli cant --
counterpart Binyamin Netanyahu on | 0:24:22 | 0:24:33 | |
the Balfour declaration, with
Palestinians regarding the Balfour | 0:24:33 | 0:24:41 | |
declaration as an historical
injustice. A lot of interest in that | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
today, the Balfour agreement. We
have had high-profile people | 0:24:45 | 0:24:52 | |
speaking about it here in London,
and what I picked up from a lot of | 0:24:52 | 0:24:55 | |
interviews on breakfast radio
stations is that we are no nearer | 0:24:55 | 0:25:03 | |
Peace than at any other time, and
there is still great bitterness. You | 0:25:03 | 0:25:09 | |
wonder how Donald Trump can be so
positive about a peace agreement. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:13 | |
But I was hearing stuff from the
weekend from people saying that | 0:25:13 | 0:25:18 | |
under the table there are all sorts
of things happening across the | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
region where there is cause for some
optimism. Maybe that is people | 0:25:22 | 0:25:26 | |
whistling to keep their spirits up,
but you would have to say the moment | 0:25:26 | 0:25:30 | |
it doesn't look great, but there are
apparently talks going on with all | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
sorts of people. This is Beyond 100
Days from the BBC. Coming up for | 0:25:34 | 0:25:42 | |
viewers on the BBC News Channel,
Trump's Asian adventure. What sort | 0:25:42 | 0:25:47 | |
of reception of the deals will he
get from his Pacific partners? And I | 0:25:47 | 0:25:52 | |
will be sitting down with the
parents of the man known as jihadi | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
Jack. What should the West do with
returnees from Syria? Still to come. | 0:25:56 | 0:26:04 | |
Good evening. It's very quiet
weather at the moment, slow-moving, | 0:26:10 | 0:26:16 | |
the best | 0:26:16 | 0:26:16 | |
weather at the moment, slow-moving,
the best of the sunshine today | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
across Scotland, but we will see
cloud spilling in across Northern | 0:26:18 | 0:26:22 | |
Ireland, heading into western
Scotland. South of the cloud, one or | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
two clear skies overnight, but we
will find more fog forming in | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
places, the Somerset Levels didn't
really clear all day. More fog | 0:26:31 | 0:26:35 | |
forming across the south, then we
have cloudy skies across the | 0:26:35 | 0:26:39 | |
Midlands and East Anglia, and
eastern Scotland could see a touch | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
of frost with clearer skies for
longer. The fog is going to be | 0:26:44 | 0:26:48 | |
across southern parts of England
through the morning rush hour, | 0:26:48 | 0:26:51 | |
perhaps not clearing until 11
o'clock or so. Areas of the West | 0:26:51 | 0:26:58 | |
Country will see the worst of the
fog, then cloudy skies as you head | 0:26:58 | 0:27:02 | |
northwards perhaps producing one or
two spots of drizzle. Cloudy across | 0:27:02 | 0:27:07 | |
Northern Ireland, continuing to push
its way to Scotland, and we have a | 0:27:07 | 0:27:10 | |
bit of rain in the far north-west of
Scotland. Quite a week weather | 0:27:10 | 0:27:15 | |
front, not making huge progress
cheering the day. Stronger winds, | 0:27:15 | 0:27:19 | |
otherwise across the UK wind will be
light, the fog slowly lifting, | 0:27:19 | 0:27:22 | |
perhaps just into low cloud, while
we will see the sunshine trying to | 0:27:22 | 0:27:33 | |
come out, it is rather half-hearted
on the whole, a lot of dry weather, | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
but a lot of cloud and temperatures
just about getting into double | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
figures. Things change overnight,
the band of rain coming down across | 0:27:38 | 0:27:42 | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, a
little heavy at times. We start to | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
see showers coming back into
Northern Ireland, temperatures | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
dropping away but on the whole
because of cloud and rain, it will | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
be a much milder night, and we are
not so worried about fog. But the | 0:27:52 | 0:27:57 | |
mildness won't last because of
north-westerly wind over the weekend | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
will bring some colder air. We start
the weekend with cloud across | 0:28:00 | 0:28:05 | |
England and Wales, wetter weather
across eastern England doesn't | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
really clear away until the middle
part of the afternoon. It takes a | 0:28:08 | 0:28:12 | |
while for the cloud to break.
Showers continuing to run into the | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
north-west on Briscoe wins where
temperatures will be no better than | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
eight or 9 degrees. Chilly Saturday
night, hopefully a bit more | 0:28:19 | 0:28:25 | |
sunshine, particularly across the
eastern side of England, some | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
scattered showers in the wind. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
comments This is Beyond 100 Days
with me, Christian Fraser in London, | 0:30:13 | 0:30:19 | |
and Jon Sopel is in Washington. | 0:30:19 | 0:30:26 | |
with me, Christian Fraser in London,
and Jon Sopel is in Washington. | 0:30:26 | 0:30:30 | |
Eight former members of the Catalan
government are in custody in Madrid. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:39 | |
Coming up, what to do with returnees
to Britain from IS territories? I | 0:30:39 | 0:30:43 | |
will be sitting down with the
British man known as Jihadi Jack. | 0:30:43 | 0:30:47 | |
Surely you want to bring back some
of those kids who have seen this, | 0:30:47 | 0:30:50 | |
and who have very clearly said, I
stand against this. Surely that is | 0:30:50 | 0:30:56 | |
how to counter this in an
intelligent way rather than just | 0:30:56 | 0:30:58 | |
shooting them. We are dropping
ourselves to their very same level | 0:30:58 | 0:31:01 | |
of doing that and as far as I can
see that is advocating murder. You | 0:31:01 | 0:31:06 | |
can get it out yourself using the
hashtag Beyond 100 Days. On Friday | 0:31:06 | 0:31:15 | |
Donald Trump will embark on his
first official visit to Asia as US | 0:31:15 | 0:31:20 | |
president. It will also be his
longest foreign trip since his | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
arrival in the White House. He will
be taking in five countries in all, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
and this is the root... Starting in
the Japanese capital Tokyo, and from | 0:31:27 | 0:31:31 | |
there he is on to Seoul in South
Korea, then Beijing in China and | 0:31:31 | 0:31:36 | |
from there he jets off to Vietnam,
to Danang and Hanoi, before ending | 0:31:36 | 0:31:46 | |
his trip in the Philippine capital
of Manila. The security adviser gave | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
more details on his visit, and no
surprise what was top of that | 0:31:50 | 0:31:56 | |
agenda... North Korea is a threat to
the entire world, so all nations of | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
the world must do more to counter
that threat. That is happening. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:06 | |
But the president recognises we are
running out of time, and will ask | 0:32:06 | 0:32:10 | |
all nations to do more. In
particular the president will | 0:32:10 | 0:32:15 | |
continue to call on all responsible
nations, especially those with the | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
most influence over North Korea, to
isolate the North Korean regime | 0:32:18 | 0:32:23 | |
economically and politically. That
was McMaster in the White House, and | 0:32:23 | 0:32:30 | |
joining the now is William Cohen,
the former Defence Secretary. Thank | 0:32:30 | 0:32:37 | |
you for joining us. It is easy to
think this trip is all about North | 0:32:37 | 0:32:41 | |
Korea because that will be the focus
I suspect from a lot of the | 0:32:41 | 0:32:44 | |
politicians and journalss travelling
with him, but it is wider than that? | 0:32:44 | 0:32:48 | |
Much wider than that. Firstly,
looking to the Chinese, they are | 0:32:48 | 0:32:52 | |
very strategic in their thinking and
planning and the United States has | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
been very tactical -- journalists
and politicians. In terms of policy | 0:32:56 | 0:33:03 | |
towards the entire region. The
council, the transpacific | 0:33:03 | 0:33:07 | |
partnership, that alienating many of
the Asian countries and I met with | 0:33:07 | 0:33:11 | |
them personally when they were here
in the spring. They felt they had | 0:33:11 | 0:33:15 | |
been betrayed in the sense they had
wasted seven years negotiating this | 0:33:15 | 0:33:19 | |
agreement and it was tossed
overboard. So there is still some | 0:33:19 | 0:33:23 | |
resentment there. What will our
policy be in the region? He will | 0:33:23 | 0:33:26 | |
have to really sure up those
relationships, starting perhaps even | 0:33:26 | 0:33:30 | |
in South Korea. Again,
strategically, look what the Chinese | 0:33:30 | 0:33:33 | |
have just done. They have renewed
their relationship with the South | 0:33:33 | 0:33:37 | |
Koreans because they had put some
prohibitions on trading beer, | 0:33:37 | 0:33:41 | |
because we put the anti-missile
system in on South Korean territory | 0:33:41 | 0:33:47 | |
that cut off relations for some time
with the South Koreans, so they are | 0:33:47 | 0:33:50 | |
back on track, just before the
president gets there. You're the | 0:33:50 | 0:33:54 | |
president going to South Korea as
part of the trip, and he will try to | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
the need -- you have the president
going. He has accused the south | 0:33:58 | 0:34:03 | |
Korean president of being an
appeaser, so the relationship will | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
be a little more tense than with
Japan with the president has a | 0:34:06 | 0:34:10 | |
closer relationship with Private
Minister Shinzo Abe, so it will be | 0:34:10 | 0:34:14 | |
different in each place, but we
don't seem to have a coherent | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
strategy for the Asia-Pacific
region. Should we expect anything | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
concrete to come out in terms of
North Korea, apart from warm words, | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
and this is a problem that has to be
dealt with? I think the Chinese will | 0:34:25 | 0:34:29 | |
try to persuade the president that
we need to take a long review, that | 0:34:29 | 0:34:32 | |
the pressure is working, be patient,
do not engage in bombastic verbal | 0:34:32 | 0:34:39 | |
assaults on the North Korean regime.
I think they will take much slower | 0:34:39 | 0:34:45 | |
posture towards this, and we should
anticipate that. Strategically, I | 0:34:45 | 0:34:49 | |
should say from a business point of
view, the Secretary of commerce is | 0:34:49 | 0:34:53 | |
bringing some top business people
who will likely strikes deals but | 0:34:53 | 0:34:57 | |
that will not go with the
fundamental structural relationship | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
we have with China. Thank you for
coming in, great to have you with | 0:35:00 | 0:35:03 | |
us. Jon, I mentioned he was going to
Hanoi and Danang in Vietnam, and | 0:35:03 | 0:35:13 | |
another thing that might happen is a
meeting with President Vladimir | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
Putin, due to take place on the
economic corporations. He denied any | 0:35:16 | 0:35:21 | |
decision had been taken, but I just
wonder if it is possible in light of | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
what is going on in Washington at
the moment? Well, remember, they met | 0:35:24 | 0:35:30 | |
at the G20 in Hamburg this summer.
They then had a private meeting with | 0:35:30 | 0:35:35 | |
only a Russian translator present,
so I kind of think, what is normal | 0:35:35 | 0:35:40 | |
protocol? What is the conventional
way of behaving? It doesn't normally | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
apply with President Trump. If he
thinks there is business to be done | 0:35:44 | 0:35:48 | |
and to be had with Vladimir Putin, I
suspect that meeting will probably | 0:35:48 | 0:35:52 | |
go ahead. OK. On the Russian theme,
so let's check in with Moscow | 0:35:52 | 0:35:58 | |
correspondent Steve Rosenberg who
has all week been travelling across | 0:35:58 | 0:36:00 | |
Russia for a series of special
reports, revisiting the 1917 | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
revolution that would end centuries
imperial rule. Starting his journey | 0:36:04 | 0:36:09 | |
in St Peter's back he is now 6000
kilometres away -- starting in St | 0:36:09 | 0:36:16 | |
Petersburg. Talking about how would
take a hundred years and civil war | 0:36:16 | 0:36:21 | |
before the Bolsheviks would
establish control over the whole | 0:36:21 | 0:36:23 | |
of... TRANSLATION: This man and the
Russian Revolution have one thing in | 0:36:23 | 0:36:32 | |
common, they are both 100 years old.
Born in 1917, she has survived three | 0:36:32 | 0:36:37 | |
famines, for the format worse. In
his lifetime. --. Four worries. How | 0:36:37 | 0:36:49 | |
does a nation survive that kind of
century? Because they are strong and | 0:36:49 | 0:36:55 | |
patriotic, he says. We love our
motherland and we are ready to die | 0:36:55 | 0:36:57 | |
for it. His home is in the Russian
far east and your China is closer | 0:36:57 | 0:37:07 | |
than Russia, in Khabarovsk. More
than 6000 miles east of St | 0:37:07 | 0:37:20 | |
Petersburg. It would take a brutal
civil war before the Bolsheviks | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
conquered this area. Soviet
mythology painted the reds as | 0:37:23 | 0:37:30 | |
triumphant heroes, and
anti-Communist White Army as | 0:37:30 | 0:37:33 | |
deservedly crushed. But this version
of history is crumbling. Just like | 0:37:33 | 0:37:40 | |
the battle site memorial to the red
mark heroes, and that is because the | 0:37:40 | 0:37:46 | |
official view of the revolution has
changed in Russia. To those in power | 0:37:46 | 0:37:51 | |
here today, Red October is no longer
a national celebration. In Russia it | 0:37:51 | 0:37:57 | |
is not just the future that is
unpredictable. So is the past, and | 0:37:57 | 0:38:01 | |
that applies to the Russian Civil
War, the Russian Revolution, to | 0:38:01 | 0:38:04 | |
almost any period of this country's
history. So often here the past is | 0:38:04 | 0:38:10 | |
rewritten, reinterpreted, according
to who is in power. In this school | 0:38:10 | 0:38:17 | |
museum which is open to the public,
they display guns and bayonets | 0:38:17 | 0:38:22 | |
unearthed in the forest. They try
not to take sides, red or white, but | 0:38:22 | 0:38:26 | |
not everyone welcomes that.
TRANSLATION: The Soviet Union wasn't | 0:38:26 | 0:38:33 | |
that long ago. This teacher says
that what we see now about the White | 0:38:33 | 0:38:38 | |
Army does not go down well with
supporters of the USSR. Back in his | 0:38:38 | 0:38:45 | |
flat, the centenarian shows me the
commendation he got from Josef | 0:38:45 | 0:38:49 | |
Stalin. His view of the past is
unlikely to change. TRANSLATION: | 0:38:49 | 0:38:56 | |
Revolution Day is like my second
birthday. It is the birthday of the | 0:38:56 | 0:39:00 | |
USSR. And that is unshakeable
loyalty, to a country which no | 0:39:00 | 0:39:09 | |
longer exists. Steve Rosenberg, BBC
News, Khabarovsk. Fascinating stuff. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:18 | |
Now, what should happen to
foreigners who travelled to Syria | 0:39:18 | 0:39:21 | |
and end up being captured by the
opponents of the so-called Islamic | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
State? That is the question raised
by the case of a British man held by | 0:39:24 | 0:39:28 | |
Kurdish fighters. The parents of the
man known as Jihadi Jack say not | 0:39:28 | 0:39:32 | |
enough is being done by the UK
Government to bring him home. Yes, | 0:39:32 | 0:39:38 | |
John and Sally have been charged
with funding terrorism having said | 0:39:38 | 0:39:42 | |
money to their son in Syria and I
have been speaking to them about | 0:39:42 | 0:39:46 | |
their son Jack Letts and what they
know about his whereabouts. We know | 0:39:46 | 0:39:48 | |
he was charged last week by the
Kurds of belonging to IS and the | 0:39:48 | 0:39:54 | |
last time his mother spoke to him
was in July. He told us he's being | 0:39:54 | 0:40:01 | |
held for months in solitary
confinement, that he is receiving | 0:40:01 | 0:40:04 | |
very little food. He is not allowed
out of his cell at all. He used to | 0:40:04 | 0:40:08 | |
be allowed out for half an hour mark
then it was reduced to ten minutes, | 0:40:08 | 0:40:12 | |
then no time at all. How did he come
to be there? He was in Raqqa in | 0:40:12 | 0:40:20 | |
hating, desperately trying to get
out, as everyone else was, and we | 0:40:20 | 0:40:24 | |
knew that -- he was in Raqqa in
hiding. The last message he sent was | 0:40:24 | 0:40:30 | |
pretty harrowing, saying that if I
try to escape and they catch me | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
because they are hunting me, Isis
was hunting him, he said they would | 0:40:33 | 0:40:37 | |
kill him immediately, because he had
already been imprisoned several | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
times, so he basically said goodbye,
mum and dad, this will not in doubt | 0:40:40 | 0:40:44 | |
well, but thank you for believing in
me. The next thing we heard was | 0:40:44 | 0:40:49 | |
three weeks later he had escaped,
and from what he told us, and we | 0:40:49 | 0:40:53 | |
have not had a detailed conversation
about it yet, but somehow with | 0:40:53 | 0:40:57 | |
people smuggler he got out and was
picked up with a group of refugees | 0:40:57 | 0:41:01 | |
from Raqqa. And he has been charged
since then? Only in the last week, | 0:41:01 | 0:41:06 | |
yes. What other penalties? I assume
the penalty is death they are, I | 0:41:06 | 0:41:11 | |
have no idea. But their legal
system, it is a self-declared | 0:41:11 | 0:41:21 | |
autonomous zone, so I think the
whole legal code is still being | 0:41:21 | 0:41:23 | |
worked out. We have no idea. We have
a clip of your son speaking from the | 0:41:23 | 0:41:27 | |
jail, from June. Let's just show our
viewers that. We will just go to the | 0:41:27 | 0:41:32 | |
territories for a bit and then
continue to territory, -- to Turkey, | 0:41:32 | 0:41:36 | |
we thought, then as soon as we got
the position we were imprisoned, not | 0:41:36 | 0:41:40 | |
sure how long exactly, a week,
maybe, and after that I was in | 0:41:40 | 0:41:44 | |
solitary confinement until now.
Still am. When you watch that, what | 0:41:44 | 0:41:48 | |
do you think of this state of mind?
He told us, and he says he fears he | 0:41:48 | 0:41:54 | |
is losing his mind. He has
hallucinated, he thinks he is going | 0:41:54 | 0:41:57 | |
mad. Let's talk about what is being
done. If anything, do you think, | 0:41:57 | 0:42:03 | |
being done by the British
Government? By the British | 0:42:03 | 0:42:08 | |
Government, from what we know,
nothing at all. We have been told by | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
the Foreign Office when we have
tried to talk to them about it, they | 0:42:11 | 0:42:16 | |
just keep repeating the mantra that
our policy is we strongly advise | 0:42:16 | 0:42:20 | |
people not to go to Syria, because
it is a very dangerous place. Well, | 0:42:20 | 0:42:24 | |
we know that, but beyond that, after
pushing, they basically admitted to | 0:42:24 | 0:42:30 | |
us, well, not basically, but they
did admit, that the policy is not to | 0:42:30 | 0:42:34 | |
do anything to help anybody come
back from Syria. So you have now | 0:42:34 | 0:42:39 | |
approach the Canadians? Yes, almost
six months ago, right ago, because | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
Jack is a Canadian and British
citizen, as I am, we all are, have | 0:42:43 | 0:42:51 | |
been my life, and the Canadians said
we take allegations of torture very | 0:42:51 | 0:42:55 | |
seriously and we will do everything
we can. The Foreign Minister told | 0:42:55 | 0:42:59 | |
the BBC the other week that because
many of these fighters went to die | 0:42:59 | 0:43:01 | |
in Syria, and they really only want
to die fighting the enemy, that in | 0:43:01 | 0:43:07 | |
most every case it was better to
kill them... What seems to be | 0:43:07 | 0:43:11 | |
happening is a link between
everybody who went to Syria, that | 0:43:11 | 0:43:14 | |
they should be killed, or everyone
shouldn't, and if you look at the | 0:43:14 | 0:43:18 | |
tabloid writers that is what they
are referring to. Anyone who went to | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
Syria should be killed, open season
on anyone who went, does that | 0:43:22 | 0:43:27 | |
include the ambulance drivers,
surgeons, health workers, medics, | 0:43:27 | 0:43:30 | |
who went for religious reasons,
religious motivations, not to join | 0:43:30 | 0:43:34 | |
and fight with Isis? But Rory
Stewart speaks to the concerns a lot | 0:43:34 | 0:43:38 | |
of people will have, the Government
first responsibility is to the | 0:43:38 | 0:43:43 | |
public at home, and bringing people
back, is it not importing ideologies | 0:43:43 | 0:43:49 | |
that could put people at risk? Yes,
and I have as much beer as anyone | 0:43:49 | 0:43:53 | |
walking the streets of that type of
situation, but this is not a | 0:43:53 | 0:43:58 | |
situation -- I have as much fear is
anyone else. But this is not about | 0:43:58 | 0:44:03 | |
putting the against the wall and
shipping them on the head. That is | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
doing exactly what they are doing.
We have the rule of law. What a | 0:44:05 | 0:44:09 | |
British values? To the disappear the
minute you cross the border? But do | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
you understand, Sally, why people in
this country will not want to see | 0:44:13 | 0:44:16 | |
people who have travelled to IS
territory back on the head. That is | 0:44:16 | 0:44:19 | |
doing exactly what they are doing.
We have the rule of law. What a | 0:44:19 | 0:44:22 | |
British values? Do they disappear
the minute you cross the border? But | 0:44:22 | 0:44:24 | |
do you understand, Sally, why people
in this country will not want to see | 0:44:24 | 0:44:27 | |
people who have travelled to IS
territory back in be very clear. I | 0:44:27 | 0:44:33 | |
think everyone who comes back from
Syria should be detained and | 0:44:33 | 0:44:37 | |
probably arrested and locked up
until you can be really sure they | 0:44:37 | 0:44:40 | |
have done nothing wrong... Yes,
absolutely. I have no problem with | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
that. Of course we support that. It
is democracy and the rule of law. | 0:44:43 | 0:44:48 | |
Due process. Putting someone up
against the wall and shooting them | 0:44:48 | 0:44:51 | |
in the head is not due process and
it is not a British or Canadian | 0:44:51 | 0:44:55 | |
value. That is all we're asking for.
Give Jack a chance to speak. He has | 0:44:55 | 0:45:00 | |
been found guilty in the court of
public opinion. Do you think you | 0:45:00 | 0:45:04 | |
will see your son again? We can't
conceive of a world where we will | 0:45:04 | 0:45:07 | |
not see him again, we go there
really. We have to believe he is | 0:45:07 | 0:45:13 | |
alive and that reason and science
and justice will prevail, because, | 0:45:13 | 0:45:19 | |
you know, we can't cope otherwise.
Top for the parents, Jon, but for | 0:45:19 | 0:45:25 | |
for governments I think. What
politician will want to be seen as | 0:45:25 | 0:45:29 | |
being soft on terrorism at the
moment when we are talking about New | 0:45:29 | 0:45:32 | |
York, London, Paris and the
incidents this week? A lot of people | 0:45:32 | 0:45:35 | |
will share of the fears, what sort
of ideology are we importing if we | 0:45:35 | 0:45:39 | |
bring them back? How can we be sure
if we rehabilitate them that they | 0:45:39 | 0:45:46 | |
will not offend again? This is the
concern from the Foreign Office... | 0:45:46 | 0:45:50 | |
The statement there. It is in fact
in touch with the cards because they | 0:45:50 | 0:46:01 | |
are part of the alliance. I suppose
one of the weaknesses of democracy | 0:46:01 | 0:46:07 | |
is that politicians often feel
impelled to do what is popular, | 0:46:07 | 0:46:11 | |
perhaps over what is right, and I
suspect people who have gone to | 0:46:11 | 0:46:14 | |
Syria to fight with Islamic State
are not exactly a popular cause, and | 0:46:14 | 0:46:19 | |
therefore the politicians will
think, you know what, I could turn a | 0:46:19 | 0:46:22 | |
deaf ear to this and no one will
criticise me too much, perhaps with | 0:46:22 | 0:46:27 | |
the exception of parents of loved
ones whose children went there. | 0:46:27 | 0:46:34 | |
Anyway, this is 100 Days, and from
one straight talker to the next, | 0:46:34 | 0:46:39 | |
this former Greek finance at Pfizer
has some words for President Trump | 0:46:39 | 0:46:43 | |
and his take on the very busy world
of economics. Yanis Varoufakis is | 0:46:43 | 0:46:48 | |
next. A sharp decline in the number
of nurses from European Union | 0:46:48 | 0:46:57 | |
countries wanting to work in the UK.
The nursing and midwifery Council | 0:46:57 | 0:47:02 | |
says there was a drop in... | 0:47:02 | 0:47:13 | |
The nurses and midwives' regulator,
the NMC, says in the year | 0:47:31 | 0:47:34 | |
to September 2016, more than 10,000
joined the UK register. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:36 | |
But this year that fell
dramatically, to around 1000. | 0:47:36 | 0:47:39 | |
And the number of EU nurses already
working here who decided to give | 0:47:39 | 0:47:42 | |
up their UK registration
rose by 67%. | 0:47:42 | 0:47:43 | |
The Nursing and Midwifery Council
says there was a drop of nearly 90% | 0:47:43 | 0:47:46 | |
in new registrations for EU nurses,
compared to the same | 0:47:46 | 0:47:49 | |
period the year before. | 0:47:49 | 0:47:50 | |
The Department of Health says
an increase in training places | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
will compensate for the fall. | 0:47:52 | 0:47:54 | |
Our health correspondent
Sophie Hutchinson has the details. | 0:47:54 | 0:47:55 | |
Around one in every 20 nurses
and midwives working in the UK | 0:47:55 | 0:47:58 | |
was trained in the EU. | 0:47:58 | 0:48:00 | |
Many are from Spain,
Portugal, Poland and Romania. | 0:48:00 | 0:48:01 | |
But according to new figures,
the numbers are declining. | 0:48:01 | 0:48:04 | |
The nurses and midwives' regulator,
the NMC, says in the year | 0:48:04 | 0:48:06 | |
to September 2016, more than 10,000
joined the UK register. | 0:48:06 | 0:48:09 | |
But this year that fell
dramatically, to around 1000. | 0:48:09 | 0:48:11 | |
And the number of EU nurses already
working here who decided to give | 0:48:11 | 0:48:14 | |
up their UK registration
rose by 67%. | 0:48:14 | 0:48:16 | |
Clearly, it's a worrying trend,
and for those who are responsible | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
for thinking about what we need
in the future, so the nurses | 0:48:18 | 0:48:21 | |
and midwives we need
in the future to care for us, | 0:48:21 | 0:48:24 | |
they'll obviously look at this
and think what can we do | 0:48:24 | 0:48:26 | |
to reverse that trend. | 0:48:26 | 0:48:27 | |
In the aftermath of the referendum
a campaign was launched to support | 0:48:27 | 0:48:30 | |
EU staff in the NHS,
but today's figures suggest that's | 0:48:30 | 0:48:33 | |
not been enough reassurance and many
EU nurses are no longer keen to work | 0:48:33 | 0:48:36 | |
in the UK. | 0:48:36 | 0:48:37 | |
The situation has been described as
alarming by the Royal College of | 0:48:37 | 0:48:40 | |
nurses. | 0:48:40 | 0:48:42 | |
Nursing. | 0:48:42 | 0:48:43 | |
The vast majority of hospitals
are telling us they are finding it | 0:48:43 | 0:48:46 | |
increasingly difficult
to recruit from overseas. | 0:48:46 | 0:48:47 | |
The numbers will come as a concern,
but unfortunately not | 0:48:47 | 0:48:50 | |
a surprise to them. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:51 | |
Many of them are still going out
to Europe and the rest of the world | 0:48:51 | 0:48:54 | |
to recruit nurses and doctors
from overseas, but it's | 0:48:54 | 0:48:57 | |
becoming increasingly
challenging at the moment. | 0:48:57 | 0:48:58 | |
The Government has said it's
ensuring the NHS has the staff it | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
needs through a 25% increase
in nurse training places. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:03 | |
Sophie Hutchinson, BBC News. | 0:49:03 | 0:49:04 | |
You are watching Beyond 100 Days. It
is a tumultuous day in economics. | 0:49:04 | 0:49:07 | |
Donald Trump has put forward his
nomination to head up the world's | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
most central bank and finally the
Republicans are planning to unveil | 0:49:10 | 0:49:14 | |
their plans for tax reform, whilst
the UK has seen an interest rise for | 0:49:14 | 0:49:17 | |
the first time in a decade. Some of
this might go over your head. Let's | 0:49:17 | 0:49:21 | |
face it. Economics can be a pretty
obex object at the best of times, | 0:49:21 | 0:49:26 | |
which is why the former Greek
finance minister Yanis Varoufakis | 0:49:26 | 0:49:30 | |
has written an new book. He wrote it
in just nine days and it is titled, | 0:49:30 | 0:49:35 | |
Talking To My Daughter About The
Economy. We have been speaking to | 0:49:35 | 0:49:40 | |
him from New York. Here in
Washington, lawmakers are proposing | 0:49:40 | 0:49:44 | |
big tax cuts, not worrying too much
about the deficit, and in the UK we | 0:49:44 | 0:49:47 | |
have seen interest rates rise for
the first time in a decade. Has the | 0:49:47 | 0:49:51 | |
world economy gone back to normal? I
am afraid the truth points to | 0:49:51 | 0:49:56 | |
exactly the opposite being the case.
On the one hand you have in the | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
United States a tax cut, federal tax
cut, which the federal budget in | 0:49:59 | 0:50:04 | |
this country cannot afford. Right at
the very same time the Trump | 0:50:04 | 0:50:13 | |
administration is antagonising
China, and major holder of US trade | 0:50:13 | 0:50:16 | |
deals. And on the other side of the
Atlantic you have exactly the | 0:50:16 | 0:50:20 | |
opposite, more of a contraction
removed by the Bank of England, | 0:50:20 | 0:50:24 | |
trying to signal a return to higher
interest rates. The one | 0:50:24 | 0:50:28 | |
characteristic of our era,
especially at this juncture, a very | 0:50:28 | 0:50:34 | |
important juncture just before
Brexit in Britain and after Trump is | 0:50:34 | 0:50:39 | |
stamping his authority, in the
United States, the order of the day | 0:50:39 | 0:50:43 | |
is one of disintegration of what
should be an integrated financial | 0:50:43 | 0:50:50 | |
and economic policy by the great
powers of the West. Do you think | 0:50:50 | 0:50:55 | |
anything has fundamentally changed
since the financial crisis? A great | 0:50:55 | 0:51:00 | |
deal has. We have had the largest
operation of concealing bankruptcy | 0:51:00 | 0:51:10 | |
through printing of public money in
the history of capitalism. That is | 0:51:10 | 0:51:14 | |
not an insignificant change, but the
fundamental incapacity of those who | 0:51:14 | 0:51:20 | |
have their hands on the levers of
economic and financial power, there | 0:51:20 | 0:51:29 | |
are fundamental incapacity to
coordinate the behaviour of our | 0:51:29 | 0:51:35 | |
governments in Europe, the United
States and China, it remains, and | 0:51:35 | 0:51:37 | |
this is why uncertainty remains the
predominant condition that | 0:51:37 | 0:51:46 | |
businesses and citizens are facing
all over the world. Yanis, you have | 0:51:46 | 0:51:51 | |
written a new book, Talking To My
Daughter About The Economy, and you | 0:51:51 | 0:51:56 | |
wrote it as we said in nine days,
and I presume you have put it in the | 0:51:56 | 0:52:00 | |
simplest language you can, and is
that because you think people are | 0:52:00 | 0:52:03 | |
ignorant about the economy? And from
that ignorance politicians take | 0:52:03 | 0:52:08 | |
their power? No, no, no, you
misunderstood me. I am pleased to | 0:52:08 | 0:52:16 | |
say the reason why I found it an
interesting exercise to put, dated | 0:52:16 | 0:52:20 | |
concept and theories -- to put
complicated concepts and theories in | 0:52:20 | 0:52:29 | |
as simple language as possible is to
understand the world I live in. We | 0:52:29 | 0:52:34 | |
economists are famous for taking
what is, did it already and then | 0:52:34 | 0:52:41 | |
spinning out of control in terms of
our own understanding of what is | 0:52:41 | 0:52:44 | |
happening. Only if you manage to
put, dated ideas in the language of | 0:52:44 | 0:52:49 | |
teenager can understand -- if you
put complicated ideas. Then only can | 0:52:49 | 0:52:54 | |
you claim to understand it yourself.
Your last book was essential summer | 0:52:54 | 0:52:59 | |
reading for the politicians involved
in the Brexit negotiation. Have you | 0:52:59 | 0:53:02 | |
had any feedback from them? No, I
haven't, and I must tell you I am | 0:53:02 | 0:53:08 | |
disappointed. The Article 50 process
is going to end up in complete | 0:53:08 | 0:53:11 | |
disaster. If you imagine that during
that two year period you will | 0:53:11 | 0:53:16 | |
negotiate a free trade agreement.
The EU is never going to negotiate | 0:53:16 | 0:53:18 | |
with you because the greatest
nightmare for Jean-Claude Juncker, | 0:53:18 | 0:53:25 | |
Mrs Merkel, and even the French
president, is a mutually | 0:53:25 | 0:53:30 | |
advantageous agreement with Britain,
because it would signal to the rest | 0:53:30 | 0:53:35 | |
of the countries around Europe you
can challenge the authority of the | 0:53:35 | 0:53:38 | |
EU and end up with a half decent
agreement. Before you go I must show | 0:53:38 | 0:53:42 | |
you some pictures of, well, if your
nemesis, Jean-Claude Juncker? This | 0:53:42 | 0:53:45 | |
is him just the other day -- is he
your nemesis? This is receiving an | 0:53:45 | 0:53:52 | |
honorary degree in Portugal. Have
you ever seen an outfit like this? | 0:53:52 | 0:53:55 | |
He doesn't look too pleased with it,
does he? Well, we academics are used | 0:53:55 | 0:54:02 | |
to fancy dress and ridiculous
attire. But allowed me to say that | 0:54:02 | 0:54:06 | |
Jean-Claude Juncker could never be
my nemesis in the EU, simply because | 0:54:06 | 0:54:09 | |
he was never significant. Every time
he tried to help, we knew we would | 0:54:09 | 0:54:14 | |
get seriously clobbered, as a
demonstration of the limits of his | 0:54:14 | 0:54:19 | |
power. Yanis Varoufakis there in
characteristic T-shirt, but perhaps | 0:54:19 | 0:54:24 | |
not the leather jacket. Four years
ago things were not looking great | 0:54:24 | 0:54:28 | |
for the US baseball team the Houston
Astros. In 2011 they lost 101 games | 0:54:28 | 0:54:36 | |
in one season, and since joining in
1962 they had never won the World | 0:54:36 | 0:54:44 | |
Series. But all that has changed...
Victory in the seventh and deciding | 0:54:44 | 0:54:49 | |
game of the LA Dodgers medley won
the championship for the first time | 0:54:49 | 0:54:53 | |
in their history, and not the only
cause for celebration. Look at what | 0:54:53 | 0:54:57 | |
happened when one of their players
was interviewed after the game. It | 0:54:57 | 0:55:03 | |
is one of the biggest compliments of
my life and right now I want to take | 0:55:03 | 0:55:06 | |
another big step in my life...
Daniela, you make me the happiest | 0:55:06 | 0:55:13 | |
man in the world. Will you marry me?
Oh, my God! | 0:55:13 | 0:55:21 | |
LAUGHTER
Sadly, she said no. | 0:55:21 | 0:55:25 | |
LAUGHTER
No, she didn't! She said yes. We | 0:55:25 | 0:55:29 | |
have had long chat about this, Jon,
about baseball. I am a big American | 0:55:29 | 0:55:35 | |
football fan, love hotdogs, but I
just don't baseball! No, it is good, | 0:55:35 | 0:55:41 | |
and that was the most exciting thing
that happened in last week's final. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:45 | |
The last one was a tedious game
after the first games being | 0:55:45 | 0:55:50 | |
fantastic. The curve ball, the
slider, the fast one, etc, there are | 0:55:50 | 0:55:54 | |
a lot of tactics involved in
baseball. I'm not sure it will ever | 0:55:54 | 0:55:58 | |
catch on around the rest of the
world. Not the World Series, though, | 0:55:58 | 0:56:05 | |
is it? It is the World Series if you
recognise America is the whole | 0:56:05 | 0:56:09 | |
world. You, living in Britain, seem
to think other countries matter, but | 0:56:09 | 0:56:13 | |
me living here, I can recognise the
truth! Is it posh rounders? | 0:56:13 | 0:56:19 | |
LAUGHTER
I think you could find your visa | 0:56:19 | 0:56:22 | |
revoked the next time you try to
come to the United States if you are | 0:56:22 | 0:56:26 | |
going to express the dishes views
like that. | 0:56:26 | 0:56:27 | |
LAUGHTER
Coming up next | 0:56:27 | 0:56:32 |