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0:00:11 > 0:00:13There's more scandal in Westminster and another cabinet
0:00:13 > 0:00:16minister's future is in doubt.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19A source tells the BBC Priti Patel will resign rather than face
0:00:19 > 0:00:29the sack over her meetings with Israeli politicians.
0:00:29 > 0:00:36She was thrown through the back door for showdown with Theresa May. --
0:00:36 > 0:00:37showing through.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40This is the view right now of the British Prime Minister's office -
0:00:40 > 0:00:42when we get word on Ms Patel's decision, we'll bring
0:00:42 > 0:00:43it straight to you.
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0:01:32 > 0:01:34Hello and welcome - I'm Katty Kay in Washington,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Christian Fraser is in London.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38There is nothing 'strong or stable' about the current
0:01:38 > 0:01:40British government.
0:01:40 > 0:01:50The Prime Minister lost her defence secretary last week,
0:01:50 > 0:01:51tonight
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Mrs May may be forced to sack another cabinet collegue,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55the International Development Secretary, Priti Patel.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Ms Patel was formally reprimanded, on Monday, for a series of meetings
0:01:58 > 0:02:00she held in Israel with senior government officials
0:02:00 > 0:02:02while on holiday, none of them sanctioned by the Foreign Office.
0:02:02 > 0:02:04Today she was hauled back from Uganda, after news emerged
0:02:05 > 0:02:08of other undisclosed meetings.
0:02:08 > 0:02:13Our diplomatic editor James Landale has the story.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17This afternoon, Priti Patel arrived back from Kenya,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20avoiding the queues and cameras, enjoying this perk of ministerial
0:02:20 > 0:02:24office for perhaps the last time.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29The International Development Secretary had been summoned back
0:02:29 > 0:02:35to London after more details had emerged of her undisclosed meetings
0:02:35 > 0:02:37while on holiday in Israel, a secret diplomacy that opposition
0:02:37 > 0:02:39parties believe broke ministerial rules.
0:02:39 > 0:02:42Well, what she's done it she has shown us that she hasn't got
0:02:42 > 0:02:44respect for the job itself, she has breached the Ministerial
0:02:44 > 0:02:47Code by not being transparent, by not making sure that
0:02:47 > 0:02:56all the meetings were listed, and the Prime Minister should have
0:02:56 > 0:02:59sacked her as soon as she found out that she'd breached that code.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02The controversy began when Ms Patel went on holiday to Israel in August.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05I heard some rumours about what you have got up to,
0:03:05 > 0:03:08checked them out, and then last Friday I reported that Ms Patel had
0:03:08 > 0:03:10held a number of meetings with officials and charities
0:03:10 > 0:03:12without telling the Foreign Office, as would be expected.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14That afternoon, she challenged my report, telling the Guardian
0:03:14 > 0:03:16that the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, did
0:03:16 > 0:03:18know about the visit.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21But it emerged on Monday that she had been summoned
0:03:21 > 0:03:23to Downing Street to be reprimanded by the Prime Minister and reminded
0:03:24 > 0:03:27of ministerial rules.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29She issued a statement apologising, and admitting there had
0:03:29 > 0:03:31been 12 secret meetings, including one with
0:03:31 > 0:03:33Israel's Prime Minister.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37Downing Street hoped that would be that.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40But on Tuesday morning, I reported that after the trip,
0:03:40 > 0:03:44Ms Patel suggested using British aid money for Israeli army work
0:03:44 > 0:03:51in the Golan Heights.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54Then Ms Patel departed on a prearranged trip as it emerged
0:03:54 > 0:04:00that Downing Street had not known about the plan to help the Israeli
0:04:00 > 0:04:02army, then it emerged overnight that Ms Patel had two further
0:04:02 > 0:04:04meetings with senior Israelis in September,
0:04:04 > 0:04:06without following usual procedures, without civil servants present.
0:04:06 > 0:04:12After all this, it was no surprise she was ordered back to London.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15There were also reports that Ms Patel had taken the controversial
0:04:15 > 0:04:18step of visiting an Israeli army field hospital in the Golan Heights,
0:04:18 > 0:04:26an area not recognised by the British Government.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28So why did Priti Patel act as she did?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Some MPs believe she simply didn't realise what she
0:04:30 > 0:04:31was doing was wrong.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Others say she doesn't like officialdom and has
0:04:33 > 0:04:35a history of doing things without telling civil servants.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38Others suspect she was pursuing her own private foreign-policy.
0:04:38 > 0:04:39Politics is not a game...
0:04:39 > 0:04:42All this matters not just because there is a risk of policy
0:04:42 > 0:04:46confusion but because government is based on Cabinet responsibility,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the idea that the men and women around this table speak as one
0:04:49 > 0:04:55and are accountable to Parliament and the public as one.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Tonight, her ministerial colleagues were hardly rushing to her defence.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58Quick question?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00Priti Patel, do you think she should resign?
0:05:00 > 0:05:03I'm going to leave it or not to the Prime Minister,
0:05:03 > 0:05:04thank you very much.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06But some allies did come to her aid.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08Priti should not resign, she has clearly been foolish,
0:05:08 > 0:05:13she is a workaholic, she should have had officials
0:05:13 > 0:05:19with her, they would have briefed her, they would have
0:05:19 > 0:05:21reported back and made sure that the Foreign Office
0:05:21 > 0:05:26knew what was happening.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28She didn't do that, it was an error of judgment,
0:05:28 > 0:05:33but she has been a good Secretary of State.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37This evening, Priti Patel was being driven to Westminster
0:05:37 > 0:05:38to the learn her fate.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40She has apologised for her behaviour, but her apparent lack
0:05:40 > 0:05:43of candour about her holiday in Israel may mean she is coming
0:05:43 > 0:05:45to the end of the ministerial road.
0:05:45 > 0:05:46James Landale, BBC News.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48Our chief political correspondent Vicki Young has been
0:05:48 > 0:05:50following today's developments and joins us now from Westminster.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55It has been a strange day. People following her through the airport
0:05:55 > 0:05:59and finally she has arrived at Downing Street and it is rumoured
0:05:59 > 0:06:04that the Prime Minister is not there yet. You might have thought given
0:06:04 > 0:06:08the pressure on Prime Minister but they would want to get this out of
0:06:08 > 0:06:12the way quickly.Things have moved on in the last few minutes. Theresa
0:06:12 > 0:06:15May had another engagement, she came back to Downing Street and they have
0:06:15 > 0:06:20been in together for about 25 minutes. But Priti Patel we
0:06:20 > 0:06:25understand has now just left Downing Street by the back gate. We do not
0:06:25 > 0:06:30know what the outcome of the meeting has been. So they would have been
0:06:30 > 0:06:34going through exactly what has come about since their last face-to-face
0:06:34 > 0:06:38meeting on Monday. The big question is whether things that Priti Patel
0:06:38 > 0:06:42did not tell the Prime Minister on Monday which have now emerged and
0:06:42 > 0:06:45have not been clarified. If so I think she will no longer have her
0:06:45 > 0:06:52job.Of course she is a more junior member of the Cabinet compared to
0:06:52 > 0:06:56the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon who went last week. But this cabinet
0:06:56 > 0:07:00is finely balanced, there is a balance between Brexiteers and
0:07:00 > 0:07:04Remainer is and that is why it is difficult for the Prime Minister
0:07:04 > 0:07:09this week.I think so and also looking back, losing two cabinet
0:07:09 > 0:07:14ministers in one week, that has not happened since under Tony Blair in
0:07:14 > 0:07:181988 and then he had a huge parliamentary majority, riding high
0:07:18 > 0:07:22in the opinion polls. Theresa May does not have that luxury so
0:07:22 > 0:07:26anything like this which would destabilise the cabinet is a problem
0:07:26 > 0:07:30because they have so much else to get on with. If you are Theresa May,
0:07:30 > 0:07:36we spend most of her time talk about Brexit and that is still going on
0:07:36 > 0:07:39but we have not been discussing that because of these other things. That
0:07:39 > 0:07:43is not a good position for any government to be in and especially
0:07:43 > 0:07:46weakened by the general election result and now struggling to
0:07:46 > 0:07:52progress with Brexit. The bill coming back to the Houses of
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Parliament and having to get all that through and she is having to
0:07:55 > 0:07:59deal with wayward ministers.While we do not know exactly what her
0:07:59 > 0:08:07future is and what the decision is if one has been made. But if she was
0:08:07 > 0:08:09to go is -- is there a difference for Theresa May over whether she
0:08:09 > 0:08:14resigns or is sacked?Insiders to know about these things say often
0:08:14 > 0:08:19this is the wrangle but goes on, whether you are allowed to resign or
0:08:19 > 0:08:23whether you are sacked. You may know quite often there is this exchange
0:08:23 > 0:08:27of letters coming out afterwards and it all sounds like it has been
0:08:27 > 0:08:30rather friendly. In this circumstance I think it is
0:08:30 > 0:08:36difficult, she has been ordered back Priti Patel, from an overseas trip.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Therefore everyone knows she has been ordered back. It is then quite
0:08:39 > 0:08:44hard to let her resign but from her point of view if she wants to come
0:08:44 > 0:08:48back and have a political career then she would prefer to be in that
0:08:48 > 0:08:52position. For Theresa May she might want to look like she has got a grip
0:08:52 > 0:08:59of the situation.For the moment, thank you. Just to show you some
0:08:59 > 0:09:03pictures of Priti Patel who we understand has just left... No, that
0:09:03 > 0:09:13is Boris Johnson who is in the United States at the moment. No, we
0:09:13 > 0:09:15do not have those. Let's
0:09:15 > 0:09:17There have been questions over the future of the British
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Foreign secretary too..
0:09:19 > 0:09:21On Tuesday, Boris Johnson faced calls to apologise, and even resign,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23over comments he made about a British woman who's
0:09:23 > 0:09:24being held in prison in Iran.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27But today he flew here to Washington where he's been discussing
0:09:27 > 0:09:29the Iran nuclear deal with members of Congress.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Last month Donald Trump refused to recertify the Iran nuclear deal -
0:09:32 > 0:09:38placing the future of the agreement largely in the hands of Congress.
0:09:38 > 0:09:46This is pretty serious. Serious for the Prime Minister but also in what
0:09:46 > 0:09:50Priti Patel has done. When government ministers go on these
0:09:50 > 0:09:57visits to Israel, there would be all kinds of prodigal in place, civil
0:09:57 > 0:10:03servants, ambassadors, and agreed government position. And also
0:10:03 > 0:10:07security sweeps of the room and all the security going with a visit like
0:10:07 > 0:10:12that. Presumably she has gone there perhaps using her medications and
0:10:12 > 0:10:16all that put together puts a politician in a potentially
0:10:16 > 0:10:20precarious position, open to blackmail. And that is why I think
0:10:20 > 0:10:26it is seen as so bad by her Cabinet colleagues. And also if you
0:10:26 > 0:10:30considered the Prime Minister, although she is trying to hang on to
0:10:30 > 0:10:34a minister people think should have been sacked on Monday, what preceded
0:10:34 > 0:10:38it does it set for other ministers if you're allowed to go almost
0:10:38 > 0:10:45freelance to a country. That would not set the best example. So quite a
0:10:45 > 0:10:48serious case, perhaps more serious than what Boris Johnson is accused
0:10:48 > 0:10:56of doing.Yes, in terms of what it opens ministers up to potentially
0:10:56 > 0:10:58but also more serious in terms of how it reflects on the Prime
0:10:58 > 0:11:05Minister. If this is what happens, and it is clearly a breach of
0:11:05 > 0:11:09protocol and standards, then why did the Prime Minister not just sack her
0:11:09 > 0:11:15immediately. Even if Priti Patel is sacked tonight if there is a delay
0:11:15 > 0:11:19and the story lingers for a few days it already makes the Prime Minister
0:11:19 > 0:11:23look weaker than she needs to do. Always much better to get in front
0:11:23 > 0:11:29of these things.Exactly. Too weak to sack a minister and too strong to
0:11:29 > 0:11:33be got rid of herself. That is the current predicament in British
0:11:33 > 0:11:35politics. An extraordinary time.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Democrats in America are smiling today -
0:11:37 > 0:11:39and they haven't done much of that this past year.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Last night's democratic victories in local elections were the best
0:11:42 > 0:11:44news they've had since Donald Trump shattered their dreams,
0:11:44 > 0:11:46defied expectations and won the White House exactly
0:11:46 > 0:11:50one year ago.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Two Governorships in two states doesn't mean Democrats are by any
0:11:52 > 0:11:55means back in charge - but they feel a message
0:11:55 > 0:11:57has been sent.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59A message that opposition to President Trump can
0:11:59 > 0:12:02translate into actual votes.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05In Virginia in the state legislature they flipped 14
0:12:05 > 0:12:07seats from red to blue, the biggest Democratic
0:12:07 > 0:12:10pick-up in over 100 years.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12In New Jersey the Democrats snatched the governorship
0:12:12 > 0:12:13from the Republicans.
0:12:13 > 0:12:18And they won a tight mayoral race in New Hampshire.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21We were in Virginia yesterday for the election -
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Larry Sabato is still there - at the University of
0:12:24 > 0:12:30Virginia's Center for Politics in Charlottesville.
0:12:30 > 0:12:36Thank you for joining us. Looking at the Virginia race, was it a win for
0:12:36 > 0:12:47the Democrats or a loss for Donald Trump?If resulted in a win for
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Democrats but Donald
0:12:50 > 0:12:50Trump, Donald Trump, the reasons why they were the winners. That sums up
0:12:50 > 0:12:55the race because the Democrat running for governor is a delightful
0:12:55 > 0:12:59man and highly intelligent but pretty boring. There is no way he
0:12:59 > 0:13:03could excite the crowd. No way he could have excited this kind of
0:13:03 > 0:13:07turnout which really was massive compared to the last race for
0:13:07 > 0:13:11governor. And the vast majority of the increase with Democrats, they
0:13:11 > 0:13:15showed up to vote unlike last member when they left Hillary Clinton high
0:13:15 > 0:13:23and dry.Ed Gillespie ran a pretty impressive campaign. In the last few
0:13:23 > 0:13:27weeks of the campaign he tied himself closely to President Trump
0:13:27 > 0:13:31and his policies and ideology. But he did not get many facts from the
0:13:31 > 0:13:36president. This is what President Trump tweeted from his Asia trip
0:13:36 > 0:13:40this morning about Ed Gillespie. He worked hard but did not embrace me
0:13:40 > 0:13:45or what I stand for. How does that help President Trump with
0:13:45 > 0:13:52Republicans?Well obviously it doesn't. That was not a very
0:13:52 > 0:13:57gracious tweet. I know that would shock people but President Trump
0:13:57 > 0:14:01could be ungracious! But also it is false and that is what is important.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05It is absolutely untrue that Ed Gillespie did not tie himself to
0:14:05 > 0:14:10Trump and his issues. In fact he was out trumping President Trump,
0:14:10 > 0:14:17stressing Confederate Monument and football players taking the lead
0:14:17 > 0:14:21during the national anthem and immigration and Latino gangs even
0:14:21 > 0:14:26more than Trump has done. With some fishes television ads on which he
0:14:26 > 0:14:30spent millions. It was saturated coverage of these advertisements.
0:14:30 > 0:14:36And it backfired. It produced more democratic votes than additional
0:14:36 > 0:14:44Republican votes by a factor of about ten.We will cut that
0:14:44 > 0:14:49interview short. Because we've just heard the British International
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Development Secretary Priti Patel has resigned. So we go back to Vicky
0:14:53 > 0:14:59Young at Westminster. Of course it was expected, do we have any other
0:14:59 > 0:15:04details apart from the decision she has taken?Priti Patel was in there
0:15:04 > 0:15:08for about 25 minutes and we now have the official exchange of letters
0:15:08 > 0:15:12which is customary between the Prime Minister and Priti Patel. Just to
0:15:12 > 0:15:15reduce what Priti Patel had disabled but she talks about in recent days
0:15:15 > 0:15:19they had been a number of reports about her actions, she says I'm
0:15:19 > 0:15:23sorry these have served as a distraction from the work of the
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Department for International Development and the government as a
0:15:25 > 0:15:37whole. As you know
0:15:56 > 0:15:57from our discussions accept
0:15:57 > 0:15:58the high standards expected of the Secretary of State. She says her
0:15:58 > 0:16:00actions were meant with the best of intentions but she says they also
0:16:00 > 0:16:02fell below the standards of transparency and openness she
0:16:02 > 0:16:05promoted and advocated. She offered a full sum apology for what has
0:16:05 > 0:16:10happened. And offered her resignation. Clearly other things
0:16:10 > 0:16:14have come to light since Monday when the Prime Minister did not sack
0:16:14 > 0:16:18which have led to her departure from government. And the prime Minster
0:16:18 > 0:16:23has replied saying she did the right thing by resigning. So Priti Patel,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26the second Cabinet minister to be forced out of a job in just one
0:16:26 > 0:16:32week.So the Prime Minister no doubt will be hoping that Downing Street
0:16:32 > 0:16:37can draw a line under this and start to move on from this incident. What
0:16:37 > 0:16:42is the impact now on Theresa May? Well the first thing is to find a
0:16:42 > 0:16:46replacement, I'm not sure if we'll get back tonight or tomorrow. She
0:16:46 > 0:16:49will have to think of the make-up of the Cabinet, whether she feels she
0:16:49 > 0:16:54must replace her with leading Brexiteer, whether she feels she has
0:16:54 > 0:17:01to replace her with another or not. But really just the fact that this
0:17:01 > 0:17:05has been so destabilising, such a huge distraction and not for the
0:17:05 > 0:17:10same reason as former Defence Secretary Michael Fallon, that was
0:17:10 > 0:17:13allegations of sexual impropriety. This is a different issue, showing a
0:17:13 > 0:17:17lack of judgment as well however and just the kind of thing Theresa May
0:17:17 > 0:17:21could do about when she has so much else on her plate including of
0:17:21 > 0:17:26course those Brexit talks which resume tomorrow.And then her deputy
0:17:26 > 0:17:31Damian Green under investigation through the harassment thing going
0:17:31 > 0:17:36through Parliament at the moment. And criticism of Boris Johnson. Some
0:17:36 > 0:17:39people have asked why she does not just grasp the nettle and shake up
0:17:39 > 0:17:43the Cabinet and have a reshuffle and be done with it.There was
0:17:43 > 0:17:48speculation about whether she would do a wider reshuffle to try to
0:17:48 > 0:17:50reassert her authority after the summer. I think the problem with
0:17:50 > 0:17:57that, so many times, even in a position of great strength as Tony
0:17:57 > 0:18:03Blair did as Prime Minister, a reshuffle can turn out to be
0:18:03 > 0:18:09chaotic. They're not easy to do, personalities involved, who do you
0:18:09 > 0:18:15bring in or sack. You end up with resentments. Last week Theresa May
0:18:15 > 0:18:19was just replacing one person, the Defence Secretary, and those
0:18:19 > 0:18:23overlooked were unhappy. And it will be sent through the prism of Brexit
0:18:23 > 0:18:27auditory does. She may be tempted to do it but it is not always the best
0:18:27 > 0:18:32move. There are many conservatives not currently in government, from
0:18:32 > 0:18:36the younger generation if you like to feel it is time for a clear out
0:18:36 > 0:18:41and they deserve their chants about whether Theresa May will be bold
0:18:41 > 0:18:51enough to do that I'm not sure. Thank you.
0:18:51 > 0:18:531.4 billion Chinese aren't allowed to use
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Twitter, but the President of the United States is defying
0:18:55 > 0:18:58a nation wide ban and tweeting from inside the country.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00The US delegation apparently brought along special equipment so that
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Mr Trump could get round China's firewall and engage in his favourite
0:19:03 > 0:19:04social media habit.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06His rule breaking doesn't seem to have dampened Chinese
0:19:06 > 0:19:12determination to give the American leader a red carpet welcome.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15Mr Trump had tea with Premier Xi Jinping, visited
0:19:15 > 0:19:17the forbidden city and even shared pictures of his grand
0:19:17 > 0:19:19daughter, Arabella Kushner.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23The carefully-choreographed images of the visit being beamed out
0:19:23 > 0:19:26from Beijing show a real power pair - the 1st and 2nd most powerful
0:19:26 > 0:19:36leaders in the world - the question is, which one's which?
0:19:36 > 0:19:41Earlier we spoke to former UN ambassador Nicholas Burns.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Nicholas Burns, you've been pretty critical of President Trump's
0:19:43 > 0:19:46approach to American foreign policy, but when it comes to the issue
0:19:46 > 0:19:48of China as North Korea, the White House is keen
0:19:48 > 0:19:51to say the Chinese have signed on to more sanctions,
0:19:51 > 0:19:53the central Bank of China is now putting pressure on
0:19:53 > 0:19:54loans to North Korea.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57They've stepped up what they are doing in terms of helping
0:19:57 > 0:19:58America over North Korea?
0:19:58 > 0:19:59That is correct.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00You have to grant to President Trump.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03He's been able to work, apparently with Xi Jinping
0:20:03 > 0:20:05to convince the Chinese it is in their interest
0:20:05 > 0:20:10to increase Chinese economic pressure on North Korea.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13So we have seen decisive steps by China of the type they have not
0:20:13 > 0:20:16taken before and that is encouraging and that's what makes this
0:20:16 > 0:20:18visit by President Trump to Beijing so important,
0:20:18 > 0:20:22at this stage of the North Korean crisis.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26And combined with the President's speech in Seoul, you can feel
0:20:26 > 0:20:28the pressure ratcheting down just a little bit as diplomacy becomes
0:20:29 > 0:20:31more the centrepiece.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33I think that is where it should be.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36Is that the message he will get from Xi Jinping, do you think,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38that you have to bring down the temperature, stop
0:20:38 > 0:20:41talking about destroying the country entirely and buy
0:20:41 > 0:20:45into a more regional approach?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47I would guess that will be the Chinese advice
0:20:47 > 0:20:52to the United States.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55In fact we have heard that from the Chinese Foreign Ministry
0:20:55 > 0:20:57spokesperson, pretty consistently, over the last 60 days.
0:20:57 > 0:21:02I think the Chinese probably appreciate Rex Tillerson
0:21:02 > 0:21:08the Secretary of State and James Mattis, the Secretary
0:21:08 > 0:21:10of Defence, their message, because their message has been
0:21:10 > 0:21:12of course we will defend the United States, is attacked,
0:21:12 > 0:21:14or Japan, or South Korea, but we are really
0:21:14 > 0:21:16focused on diplomacy.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18I thought it was advantageous for President Trump to parrot that
0:21:18 > 0:21:22line yesterday and to be consistent with what his Cabinet
0:21:22 > 0:21:24secretaries have said, opposed to the bombastic rhetoric
0:21:24 > 0:21:28of the president over the past two months.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Where do you think the power balance lies at the moment
0:21:31 > 0:21:33because the president is obviously weakened at home and President Xi
0:21:33 > 0:21:38has had quite a successful congress.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41He has been elevated to a position akin to where Mao was.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Where does the power balance live this relationship?
0:21:44 > 0:21:47I think it is a unique moment in the history of the US -
0:21:47 > 0:21:51China relationship, going back to 1972.
0:21:51 > 0:21:56There is no question Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader
0:21:56 > 0:21:59since Mao Zedong and there is no question now that Donald Trump needs
0:21:59 > 0:22:03the Chinese in order to convince the North Koreans they ought
0:22:03 > 0:22:07to negotiate this crisis and not end up in a catastrophic conflict.
0:22:07 > 0:22:14I think China has a lot of influence to bring to bear.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16On the other hand, the Chinese want to see Donald Trump work
0:22:16 > 0:22:20with them co-operatively on North Korea, because they don't
0:22:20 > 0:22:23want to see him go back to the very difficult and aggressive statements
0:22:23 > 0:22:27he made against China on trade, during our campaign a year ago.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30He has kind of put those trade demands in abeyance
0:22:30 > 0:22:32because he correctly perceives North Korea is the more
0:22:32 > 0:22:36important short-term issue, so I think the influence works both
0:22:36 > 0:22:39ways, but the United States is dealing with a stronger China now
0:22:39 > 0:22:42than we ever have been before.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45To that end, does it mean Donald Trump has
0:22:45 > 0:22:48changed his strategy?
0:22:48 > 0:22:51We heard strong rhetoric about China during the campaign.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Does he now bet if he can cultivate Mr Xi as an ally
0:22:54 > 0:22:58and put their own differences on bilateral trade to one side,
0:22:58 > 0:23:03that is the best way to get something out of the Chinese?
0:23:03 > 0:23:05I think for the time being President Trump has concluded
0:23:05 > 0:23:09North Korea is the priority issue.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13You see this remarkably positive tweets by Donald Trump,
0:23:13 > 0:23:19including today, after the visit at the forbidden city the two
0:23:19 > 0:23:21leaders took together and I can't remember a time
0:23:21 > 0:23:24when the United States president has been so effusive in his praise
0:23:24 > 0:23:27for the Chinese leader and so I do think we will see North Korea
0:23:27 > 0:23:30as the focus, but the reality is trade is a major issue
0:23:30 > 0:23:32for our business community, particularly Chinese violations
0:23:32 > 0:23:33of intellectual property.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37I don't think it is realistic if the President, President Trump,
0:23:37 > 0:23:39can hold off impressing the Chinese for ever.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43Maybe he does that privately in Beijing as North Korea
0:23:43 > 0:23:45is the more public expression of where these two governments are
0:23:45 > 0:23:47trying to work together this week.
0:23:47 > 0:23:57OK, Ambassador, Nick Burns, thanks very much for joining us.
0:23:58 > 0:24:04A really interesting point, that they cannot hold off taking China to
0:24:04 > 0:24:07task for the abuse of trade practices and at some point they
0:24:07 > 0:24:12must get on with it. What about those people who supported President
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Trump and the kind of rhetoric we heard, what will they make of it
0:24:17 > 0:24:21pretty much during the election campaign when I went round those old
0:24:21 > 0:24:26abandoned steel towns in places like Ohio, the degree of knowledge about
0:24:26 > 0:24:31China and Chinese trade practices and the WTO was phenomenal, they
0:24:31 > 0:24:34knew exactly what China was doing and they knew exactly what they
0:24:34 > 0:24:40wanted.What they wanted was tariffs on Chinese steel and steel dumping.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44It was such an important issue for these manufacturing workers that it
0:24:44 > 0:24:47is hard to believe that the president can put it off for much
0:24:47 > 0:24:54longer. He has this comic is caught between a rock and a hard place, he
0:24:54 > 0:25:00needs China North Korea, he feels it is not the time to label them a
0:25:00 > 0:25:06currency manipulator and to be tougher as they may be resistance to
0:25:06 > 0:25:10that. But his base wants to see action on China and it is a critical
0:25:10 > 0:25:14issue for them. If they do not get it, they will not be happy with
0:25:14 > 0:25:19excuses.Equally they will not want him to retreat in the face of what
0:25:19 > 0:25:24Pyongyang is doing.I think they would like both, they want tough
0:25:24 > 0:25:29action on North Korea but what matters in their daily lives is
0:25:29 > 0:25:37trying -- is China and trade and not so much North Korea.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39This is Beyond 100 Days from the BBC.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Coming up for viewers on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News -
0:25:42 > 0:25:45the state that helped Donald Trump win the White House -
0:25:45 > 0:25:47a year on, do his supporters have any regrets or are
0:25:48 > 0:25:49they as fervent as ever?
0:25:49 > 0:25:50We've the view from Wisconsin.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Speaking of - how's this for a view?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55We hear from the astronaut who's spent 12 months in space -
0:25:55 > 0:25:57why he describes it as a test of endurance?
0:25:57 > 0:26:07That's still to come.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17Once again Wednesday turned out not to be a bad day for much of the
0:26:17 > 0:26:33British Isles. Further north and west sunshine was in short supply.
0:26:33 > 0:26:39This frontal system coming in from the Atlantic now bringing rain into
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Scotland and eventually Northern Ireland. Overnight we have the
0:26:43 > 0:26:51prospect of thicker cloud moving south east. Before that temperatures
0:26:51 > 0:26:56really fall away, maybe even some frost until the cloud just raises
0:26:56 > 0:27:02temperatures later on in the night. First thing on Thursday morning,
0:27:02 > 0:27:08enough cloud still to produce some rain across East Anglia and the
0:27:08 > 0:27:16south-east. North of that brightening up pretty quickly in the
0:27:16 > 0:27:22morning across Cumbria and Northumberland. For Northern Ireland
0:27:22 > 0:27:25and the greater part of Scotland a decent start to the day although
0:27:25 > 0:27:29windy from the start and remaining soul across the far north of
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Scotland. Plenty of showers rattling along on that westerly wind. Through
0:27:33 > 0:27:39the afternoon those brighter skies moving down through Wales and into
0:27:39 > 0:27:45the Midlands. The very far south probably stuck with the cloud
0:27:45 > 0:27:54through most of the day. On Friday, the very best of the sunshine North
0:27:54 > 0:28:06and east. Still quite noticeably windy from any. That front really
0:28:06 > 0:28:11gets its act together Friday night into Saturday. Once that has moved
0:28:11 > 0:28:16away we open the floodgates to really quite cold air. Pretty much
0:28:16 > 0:28:22from the word go, single figure temperatures at the weekend. In
0:28:22 > 0:28:25spite of the presence of some sunshine and some wintry showers on
0:28:25 > 0:28:31the higher ground and even accumulating snow in the voice of
0:28:31 > 0:28:37Scotland. Sunday pretty similar.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18This is Beyond 100 Days, with me Katty Kay in Washington -
0:30:18 > 0:30:19Christian Fraser's in London.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20In the last half hour, Britain's international
0:30:20 > 0:30:22development minister, Priti Patel, has resigned
0:30:22 > 0:30:24after failing to disclose all she knew about her unauthorised
0:30:24 > 0:30:25meetings with Israeli leaders.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28American voters deliver a forceful rebuke to Donald Trump and his party
0:30:28 > 0:30:30with Democrats winning the first state-wide elections
0:30:30 > 0:30:33since the President came to power.
0:30:33 > 0:30:35Coming up in the next half hour -
0:30:35 > 0:30:37Fresh allegations are levelled at the Hollywood star Kevin Spacey -
0:30:37 > 0:30:40we hear from an alleged victim.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43Why this astronaut describes 12 months in space as an 'endurance' -
0:30:43 > 0:30:47but the view certainly made up for it.
0:30:47 > 0:30:57Let us know your thoughts by using #Beyond-One-Hundred-Days.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07Another day, another crisis in the British government.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09This time the international development minister, Priti Patel,
0:31:09 > 0:31:11has resigned after failing to disclose all she knew
0:31:11 > 0:31:16about her unauthorised meetings with Israeli leaders.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18This morning the Prime Minister Theresa May ordered her back
0:31:18 > 0:31:21from a trip in Africa.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24She's the latest Cabinet member caught up in a whirlwind of scandals
0:31:24 > 0:31:25rocking the government.
0:31:25 > 0:31:30Let's go straight to Westminster where our chief political
0:31:30 > 0:31:36correspondent, Vicki Young, can tell us more.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41Have you got any more on this decision in Downing Street over wide
0:31:41 > 0:31:47to let her resign, rather than having has sacked?We don't. I
0:31:47 > 0:31:52presume that Theresa May just decided she would give her colleague
0:31:52 > 0:31:56the dignity of resigning. In the letter from Priti Patel, it's clear
0:31:56 > 0:32:00she acknowledges what she's done wrong, saying that her actions were
0:32:00 > 0:32:05meant with the best of intentions but they fell below the standards of
0:32:05 > 0:32:08transparency and openness. She offers a fulsome apology to the
0:32:08 > 0:32:17Prime Minister and to the government and offers her resignation. I guess,
0:32:17 > 0:32:20having had so long to think about it on the plane, Priti Patel decided
0:32:20 > 0:32:25that was what she was going to do. The response from Theresa May is
0:32:25 > 0:32:29interesting, pointing out that work has to be done formally, though
0:32:29 > 0:32:34Britain and Israel are strong allies. That is why you have a
0:32:34 > 0:32:39system in place, why you have the civil service, and why meetings like
0:32:39 > 0:32:44that are documented, so that it is transparent, so that everyone knows
0:32:44 > 0:32:50who ministers are giving access to. She says, I accept your apology and
0:32:50 > 0:33:01I welcome your clarification over your trip to Israel over the summer.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04Now that's further details have come to light, it is right that you have
0:33:04 > 0:33:07decided to resign. So clear that she would have been sacked if she hadn't
0:33:07 > 0:33:11resigned.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12Well, today, the Jewish Chronicle, quoting two sources,
0:33:12 > 0:33:16reported that number ten WAS told about Ms Patel's meeting -
0:33:16 > 0:33:17in August.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19Just before Priti Patel resigned,
0:33:19 > 0:33:22we talked to Stephen Pollard - Editor of the Jewish Chronicle -
0:33:22 > 0:33:24and to the political columnist with the Sun newspaper
0:33:24 > 0:33:25Trevor Kavanagh.
0:33:25 > 0:33:33Downing Street aren't annoying -- are denying your report today. Why
0:33:33 > 0:33:39are you so confident in its?I have to separate sources who are
0:33:39 > 0:33:43completely separate and are unconnected. Both have told me
0:33:43 > 0:33:48pretty much exactly the same thing, which is that at a meeting before
0:33:48 > 0:33:52the UN General Assembly in September, Priti Patel and Theresa
0:33:52 > 0:34:00May discussed one of the ideas that Priti Patel had in turn discussed
0:34:00 > 0:34:04with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when she met him in August
0:34:04 > 0:34:09in Israel, and there was reference made to wait trip to Israel. Downing
0:34:09 > 0:34:16Street are insisting that the first that anyone knew about that meeting
0:34:16 > 0:34:21was Friday of last week. My two separate sources tell me that that's
0:34:21 > 0:34:26simply not the case. I have another aspect of the story, which I now
0:34:26 > 0:34:31have a third source four, which is that the list that Priti Patel
0:34:31 > 0:34:39produced on Monday of her 12 unauthorised meetings in Israel,
0:34:39 > 0:34:43that it was apparently not full disclosure, and we learned last
0:34:43 > 0:34:48night there were two other meetings, one of which was an official from
0:34:48 > 0:34:52the Israeli Foreign Ministry who she met in New York when they were both
0:34:52 > 0:34:56there for the UN General Assembly. The fact that Priti Patel supposedly
0:34:56 > 0:35:01didn't tell Number 10 about that meeting is what has done for her
0:35:01 > 0:35:08today. I have been told by my original to sources, but also by a
0:35:08 > 0:35:14third source, who has contacted me since this was made public, a very
0:35:14 > 0:35:17reliable source, to confirm that it's true that Priti Patel did tell
0:35:17 > 0:35:24Number 10 on Monday about that extra meeting, Number 10 asked her, told
0:35:24 > 0:35:29her, not to put that extra meeting in her statement, for whatever
0:35:29 > 0:35:35reason they may have.Mr pollard, this all sounds like an airport
0:35:35 > 0:35:40political thriller. What is your sense of the motivation for ten
0:35:40 > 0:35:43Downing Street telling Priti Patel that those meetings shouldn't
0:35:43 > 0:35:51mentioned to anybody.RB honest, I haven't got a clue. It bonkers. I'm
0:35:51 > 0:35:59not making allegations. I'm not talking about conspiracies. All I'm
0:35:59 > 0:36:04doing is reporting what at first to sources gave me about this whole
0:36:04 > 0:36:10affair, and which since I went public today, a third source has now
0:36:10 > 0:36:16confirmed.Let's turn to Trevor Kavanagh. This is a mysterious
0:36:16 > 0:36:20kettle of fish. Why would Priti Patel need to meet so many Israelis
0:36:20 > 0:36:25in the first place?She was being aided and abetted in this by one of
0:36:25 > 0:36:31the Tory party's biggest donors, Lord Pollock, who has donated
0:36:31 > 0:36:38something like nearly half a million pounds to the Tory coffers. She is
0:36:38 > 0:36:42very ambitious, as a would-be leader of the party, so you could add two
0:36:42 > 0:36:48and two together and make a link. But it's inexplicable, as Stephen
0:36:48 > 0:36:52pollard has suggested, that any of this has been done at all and has
0:36:52 > 0:36:57been done in the way it has. Inexplicable. I think the government
0:36:57 > 0:37:03is reeling from the fact they cannot explain it. The cabinet is in
0:37:03 > 0:37:09disarray. The Prime Minister looks weak. How serious is this for the
0:37:09 > 0:37:16Prime Minister it couldn't be more serious, if indeed Stephen pollard's
0:37:16 > 0:37:19sources are accurate, and I would trust the sources because they would
0:37:19 > 0:37:29be matchless. If there has been a cover-up, it takes this story beyond
0:37:29 > 0:37:34the fact that Priti Patel has been going to Israel and having secretive
0:37:34 > 0:37:38meetings. It could be the beginning of the end if that turned out to be
0:37:38 > 0:37:43the case, but we are a long way of knowing for sure about that.We talk
0:37:43 > 0:37:50a lot on this programme about fake news. The spectators says this is
0:37:50 > 0:37:58like fake government. In a way, her weakness is her strength, because
0:37:58 > 0:38:03they cannot get rid of her, and at the same time, they cannot have an
0:38:03 > 0:38:06election. They cannot have a leadership election, because it
0:38:06 > 0:38:12would be six weeks in the middle of the Brexit negotiations. They can't
0:38:12 > 0:38:17have a general election because I suspect Labour would sweep to power.
0:38:17 > 0:38:26So they will limp on for as long as they can with a crippled Prime
0:38:26 > 0:38:30Minister and a crippled government. Some people would say that losing
0:38:30 > 0:38:37one minister is unfortunate but losing two is careless in the space
0:38:37 > 0:38:42of a week. We also have to other ministers who are under a cloud. At
0:38:42 > 0:38:48some point you have to say, the buck stops with the boss, and maybe she
0:38:48 > 0:38:55isn't very good about making decisions about who to put in power.
0:38:55 > 0:39:00Yes it's about making a fine balance between the Brexiteers and the
0:39:00 > 0:39:08remainers. The committee for exiting the European Union went over to
0:39:08 > 0:39:13Brussels to meet Michel Barnier, the chief negotiator from the EU. You
0:39:13 > 0:39:20have the other countries in the EU sitting down together to talk about
0:39:20 > 0:39:25the relationship. Is the Prime Minister and is hard government
0:39:25 > 0:39:30going to be in place when we get to the end of this process? It
0:39:30 > 0:39:33complicates the whole thing, and it's the last thing the Prime
0:39:33 > 0:39:38Minister wants to be concentrating on now.I think we said that strong
0:39:38 > 0:39:43and stable is not the word for anything right now.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45The Hollywood actor and theatre director Kevin Spacey
0:39:45 > 0:39:47is facing fresh allegations of sexual misconduct tonight.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50The US journalist Heather Unruh has told reporters that her son
0:39:50 > 0:39:52was sexually assualted by Mr Spacey last year.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Mr Spacey has not responded to any of the allegations.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57The actors union Equity told the BBC that the problems of sexual
0:39:57 > 0:39:58harrasment were endemic in the industry.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00Our Special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.
0:40:00 > 0:40:08In July 2016, actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted my son.
0:40:08 > 0:40:12The tears of a mother in Boston today, revealing what she claimed
0:40:12 > 0:40:14happened to her son.
0:40:14 > 0:40:22The victim, my son, was a starstruck straight 18-year-old young man,
0:40:22 > 0:40:27who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual
0:40:27 > 0:40:33predator, or that he was about to become his next victim.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Journalist Heather Unruh's tweet about Kevin Spacey
0:40:36 > 0:40:39last month triggered all the allegations against him.
0:40:39 > 0:40:44Today, she went public and the police are now investigating.
0:40:44 > 0:40:47To Kevin Spacey, I want to say this.
0:40:47 > 0:40:51Shame on you for what you did to my son.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54The BBC has interviewed more alleged victims.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Chris Nixon did not have to speak out, but wanted to make clear
0:40:57 > 0:41:01Kevin Spacey's behaviour was part of a pattern.
0:41:01 > 0:41:05It is not just sleazy, it is predatorial.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08He did what he did, because he knew he'd get away with it.
0:41:08 > 0:41:12The one-time barman met Kevin Spacey in London in 2007, when he alleges
0:41:12 > 0:41:16the actor groped him.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18Kevin Spacey sat down on the sofa next to me,
0:41:18 > 0:41:21asked if it was my girlfriend, then reached over and grabbed...
0:41:21 > 0:41:25He then describes a sexually explicit action and words.
0:41:25 > 0:41:29A couple of weeks after the party at his place,
0:41:29 > 0:41:32he was in the bar, reached forward, grabbed my waistband and said
0:41:32 > 0:41:35something to the effect of, if I can make it up to you,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38let me make it up to you.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40So I went back upstairs, was standing behind the bar
0:41:40 > 0:41:43thinking, what the hell just happened again with that
0:41:43 > 0:41:46I was in work so I could not make a scene about it.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48I told him in no uncertain terms where he could go.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51The BBC also spoke to an American film-maker who did not
0:41:51 > 0:41:52want to be fully identified.
0:41:52 > 0:41:55In the 1990s, he was a junior crew member on a film
0:41:55 > 0:41:57Kevin Spacey directed.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59He claims the actor sexually harassed him, something he mentioned
0:41:59 > 0:42:04to another man working on the film.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07He said, you too, how?
0:42:07 > 0:42:09I said, do you mean, you too?
0:42:09 > 0:42:12He said, he was touching you and flirting with you?
0:42:12 > 0:42:14I said, yeah, it was awful.
0:42:14 > 0:42:20He said, yeah, he did that to me.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23The first week we were all out at a bar and he grabbed my butt
0:42:23 > 0:42:27and I turned round and I said to him, Kevin, if you ever do that
0:42:27 > 0:42:31again, I will kick your ass, so leave me alone.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34In the UK, the actors' union says sexual harassment
0:42:34 > 0:42:37in the industry is endemic.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Can those at the old Vic theatre, where Kevin Spacey
0:42:40 > 0:42:42worked for 11 years, really have been in the dark?
0:42:42 > 0:42:45The theatre initially said it had no complaints against him,
0:42:45 > 0:42:47but it has now appointed external advisers to investigate.
0:42:47 > 0:42:51Kevin Spacey has not responded to any of the latest allegations.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54Previously, he said he needed to examine his own behaviour.
0:42:54 > 0:43:04Lucy Manning, BBC News.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13Here's a confession - I am not one of those people
0:43:13 > 0:43:15who has ever dreamed of being an astronaut.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Actually the idea terrifies me.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20But I am totally in awe of anyone brave enough to lock themselves
0:43:20 > 0:43:24in a tin can and float out into thin air.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Which is exactly what astronaut Scott Kelly did -
0:43:26 > 0:43:29not just for a week or even a month, but for 340 days.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31Kelly went for a scientific mission to measure what impact
0:43:31 > 0:43:35being in space for that long would have on the human body.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38What made it particularly compelling for the researchers
0:43:38 > 0:43:41is that he has a twin, who stayed here on earth
0:43:41 > 0:43:42so the scientists could do comparisons.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Scott is back from space and he's written a book
0:43:45 > 0:43:46about it called Endurance.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48I'm an astronaut.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52We go to space, and I think if we're going to go to Mars some day,
0:43:52 > 0:43:56we have to know how to live and work in space for longer periods of time.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59The space station is the perfect place to do that.
0:43:59 > 0:44:00We do a lot of work.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03We wake up at like 6am.
0:44:03 > 0:44:08The workdays are kind of broken up into three general activities.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11Either you do a scientific experiment or you're repairing
0:44:11 > 0:44:13hardware that broke, or you're just kind of generally
0:44:13 > 0:44:16maintaining the space station - stuff we need to do on a regular
0:44:16 > 0:44:18basis to keep it operating.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21And also you do a lot of exercise in space.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24So I am not a scientist.
0:44:24 > 0:44:31I was a scientific subject.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33I was also the operator of a lot of experiments.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36I like to think that, years from now, when we look
0:44:36 > 0:44:38at the whole suite of experiments we did, whether it was research
0:44:38 > 0:44:42that was Mischa and I, about us being in space for a year,
0:44:42 > 0:44:44or this comparative study with my brother, I hope
0:44:44 > 0:44:48that we learn things that will allow us to venture to Mars some day.
0:44:48 > 0:44:53Our planet is incredibly beautiful, brilliant blue in most places.
0:44:53 > 0:44:58You get the sense that we are lucky to have this incredible
0:44:58 > 0:45:01place that we call home, but at the same time, certain
0:45:01 > 0:45:08parts of the Earth are almost always covered in pollution.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10The atmosphere looks extremely fragile, so having this privileged
0:45:10 > 0:45:12position to look at our planet...
0:45:12 > 0:45:16It changes you.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19Well, I think I learned that I can deal with a lot of hardship
0:45:19 > 0:45:22and still be able to function, but I also think, at the same time,
0:45:22 > 0:45:26I was changed by just having this privileged view of the planet.
0:45:26 > 0:45:36Astronauts call it "the overview effect",
0:45:38 > 0:45:41or this orbital perspective, when you look at Earth,
0:45:41 > 0:45:42very peaceful-looking, very beautiful, but often not,
0:45:42 > 0:45:45and I think it makes you more empathetic to the human
0:45:45 > 0:45:50condition and the condition of our planet, perhaps.
0:45:59 > 0:46:04Not convinced?The review is not quite so shabby. I'm just not a very
0:46:04 > 0:46:07brave person.
0:46:07 > 0:46:08This is Beyond 100 Days.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11Still to come - Why these Wisconsinites don't mind
0:46:11 > 0:46:13if President Trump's a trifle unfiltered - we hear
0:46:13 > 0:46:19from those who voted for him, a year after the US election.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22The trial has begun of a woman charged with murdering her
0:46:22 > 0:46:23ex-boyfriend following a suspected acid attack.
0:46:23 > 0:46:26The jury has heard Mark Van Dongen was left paralysed from the neck
0:46:26 > 0:46:29down and lost his left leg, ear and eye.
0:46:29 > 0:46:32He ended his life in a euthanasia clinic 15 months later
0:46:32 > 0:46:35saying he couldn't bear the pain any longer.
0:46:35 > 0:46:41He died in Belgium at the start of this year -
0:46:41 > 0:46:43more than a year after attack took place in Bristol.
0:46:43 > 0:46:44Berlinah Wallace denies murder.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47Our correspondent Jon Kay reports from the trial in Bristol.
0:46:47 > 0:46:48Together for five years.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51Mark van Dongen, who was an engineer from Holland, and Berlinah Wallace,
0:46:51 > 0:46:54a fashion student from South Africa.
0:46:54 > 0:46:57They lived in this Bristol flat.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59The prosecution claims that she bought a bottle
0:46:59 > 0:47:02of sulphuric acid on the internet and threw it over him
0:47:02 > 0:47:03as he lay in bed.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06He spent more than a year in hospital.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Paralysed from the neck down, he lost a leg and an eye,
0:47:09 > 0:47:12and was said to be grotesquely scarred.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15The court heard he screamed when he saw himself in a mirror.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18Before the jury was shown videos of Mark van Dongen speaking
0:47:18 > 0:47:21to police, they were warned they might be shocked
0:47:21 > 0:47:23and upset by it.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25In the footage, they saw the engineer propped
0:47:25 > 0:47:28up in a hospital bed, struggling to speak, with scars
0:47:28 > 0:47:31across his face and his upper body.
0:47:31 > 0:47:38He told a police officer that he'd woken up that night to see
0:47:38 > 0:47:40to see Berlinah Wallace standing there laughing.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43He claimed she was jealous about another woman he'd started
0:47:43 > 0:47:46to see, and that she threw the acid at him saying, "If I can't
0:47:46 > 0:47:47have you, no one will."
0:47:47 > 0:47:51The 48-year-old denies murder and throwing a corrosive fluid.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54The jury was told she thought it was a glass of water,
0:47:54 > 0:47:58and her barrister asked them to keep an open mind.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00The prosecution said, after 15 months, Mark van Dongen
0:48:00 > 0:48:04returned to his family in Belgium and asked to die at a legal
0:48:04 > 0:48:06euthanasia clinic.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09The prosecution argues he was driven to that point by his suffering,
0:48:09 > 0:48:13and that Berlinah Wallace is therefore guilty of murder.
0:48:13 > 0:48:14The trial continues.
0:48:14 > 0:48:19Jon Kay, BBC News.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28You're watching Beyond 100 Days...
0:48:28 > 0:48:31One year ago today we all watched in amazement as the US
0:48:31 > 0:48:33election results rolled in - upending predictions.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36Nowhere more so than in Wisconsin, where polls had predicted a clear
0:48:36 > 0:48:37win for Hillary Clinton.
0:48:37 > 0:48:40Mr Trump won the state by just 22,000 votes.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43The BBC's Laura Trevelyan was at the Trump victory party
0:48:43 > 0:48:46in New York on election night, and remembers that winning Wisconsin
0:48:46 > 0:48:51was one of the biggest upsets of the evening.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54Now, a year on, she's gone there to ask his supporters
0:48:54 > 0:48:58what they feel now.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01Welcome to Wisconsin - Trump country now.
0:49:01 > 0:49:03Hillary Clinton never even held a rally here -
0:49:03 > 0:49:06mistakenly believing this was her firewall.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09Donald Trump's victory in Wisconsin was a stunning one.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11He turned the conventional wisdom that the upper midwest
0:49:11 > 0:49:15was in the bag for Hillary Clinton right on its head.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18His message of economic populism, strong borders and national revival
0:49:18 > 0:49:22resonated with voters here.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26So, one year on, how do they feel he's doing?
0:49:26 > 0:49:28At 4:30am, Mike is up milking the cows on his wife's
0:49:28 > 0:49:31family farm in Marshfield.
0:49:31 > 0:49:34A one-time Obama voter, Mike found Donald Trump's
0:49:34 > 0:49:37outsider status appealing, and he's got no regrets.
0:49:37 > 0:49:41I think pretty good, because my portfolio
0:49:41 > 0:49:44on the stock market has been hitting an all-time high.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47He's got an iron fist, I think, I mean, he says what he wants
0:49:47 > 0:49:49to say and doesn't care.
0:49:49 > 0:49:53He might make some people mad, but I like what he's doing.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56For more than 100 years, this farm has been in the family
0:49:56 > 0:50:02of Mike's wife, Melissa, who grew up feeding calves here.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05This mother of four voted for Obama, but was attracted by Donald Trump's
0:50:05 > 0:50:06stance on immigration.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08He is trying to put the wall up.
0:50:08 > 0:50:09I think he's defeating Isis.
0:50:09 > 0:50:19Health care, I think, though, that's kind of a touchy subject.
0:50:20 > 0:50:23I feel really good about what he's doing and I'm glad I voted for him.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26I sometimes wish he would maybe keep his mouth shut on Twitter.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29There's also concern on the farm about rising health care costs.
0:50:29 > 0:50:32The entire family switched from Obama to voting for Donald Trump.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34Now, Melissa's mother Julianne worries that he's ended the payments
0:50:34 > 0:50:35which kept her insurance costs down.
0:50:35 > 0:50:39Your insurance has more than doubled?
0:50:39 > 0:50:40Yes.
0:50:40 > 0:50:44And who do you blame for that?
0:50:44 > 0:50:48I don't really know the answer to that.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50Because the subsidies were taken away, I guess
0:50:50 > 0:50:51I have to blame Trump, because he was
0:50:51 > 0:50:54the one who took those subsidies and put them
0:50:54 > 0:50:57on the insurance companies.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01Over in one of the wealthiest parts of Wisconsin, I met Robin Moore,
0:51:01 > 0:51:09a wine consultant and leading local Republican.
0:51:09 > 0:51:12She says Donald Trump and his hyperactive Twitter account
0:51:12 > 0:51:13are getting his views across.
0:51:13 > 0:51:15This is unfiltered.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17It's the unfiltered voice of our President, and so,
0:51:17 > 0:51:21on the one hand, yes, there's times I think, you know,
0:51:21 > 0:51:23the 3am thing should probably not happen,
0:51:23 > 0:51:27but for the most part I think he has a message that's resonating
0:51:27 > 0:51:31with people across the country and across winds content.
0:51:31 > 0:51:36Back on the farm it's not the Twitter feed that Donald Trump's
0:51:36 > 0:51:37record that will determine whether the family
0:51:37 > 0:51:38votes for him again.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41Given his slim margin of victory here, he can't afford
0:51:41 > 0:51:42to lose much support.
0:51:42 > 0:51:47Laura Trevelyan, BBC News, Wisconsin.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Our North America Correspondent, Nick Bryant, has covered this
0:51:49 > 0:51:55presidency from the start.
0:51:55 > 0:52:00One year on from that election Day, which I think neither of us will
0:52:00 > 0:52:07ever forget, what surprises you about the Trump administration?The
0:52:07 > 0:52:11thing that has surprised me the most is that he has changed the
0:52:11 > 0:52:16presidency more than the presidency has changed him. Right from
0:52:16 > 0:52:19Inauguration Day, that kind of shrill and dark rhetoric that
0:52:19 > 0:52:26surprised many of us. Another indication later that night, at the
0:52:26 > 0:52:31inauguration Ball, where he danced to Frank Sinatra's my way. It has
0:52:31 > 0:52:36been that sort of presidency. He asked the crowd, shall I keep using
0:52:36 > 0:52:42Twitter? That has been a sign of this kind of anti-presidency. People
0:52:42 > 0:52:47didn't vote for orthodoxy, and Donald Trump knows that, and he has
0:52:47 > 0:52:51delivered unorthodox.You wrote a piece called the time when America
0:52:51 > 0:52:58stopped becoming great. It is a very long piece! It's great, but you
0:52:58 > 0:53:05trace back Donald Trump's victory a year ago to the end of the Cold War,
0:53:05 > 0:53:11post-Reagan era in America. Why?I came here in 1984, the resurgence
0:53:11 > 0:53:19here. The Iranian hostage crisis finally came to an end. It was the
0:53:19 > 0:53:24Olympics. Americans finally started believing in themselves again. I
0:53:24 > 0:53:32think you can divide the intervening period into two 16 year chunks.
0:53:32 > 0:53:41After, it was as if America caught a bug, 16 years of dissolution and
0:53:41 > 0:53:49decline, you had the 2000 election, 9/11, the financial crash in 2008.
0:53:49 > 0:53:54Donald Trump was a product of a dissonance between those two periods
0:53:54 > 0:53:58of American life, one of great triumph and one of national decline.
0:53:58 > 0:54:07He exploited that in 2016. Christian, this is your home work! .
0:54:07 > 0:54:12It will get me to sleet tonight! Let's look at the year. I'm sure he
0:54:12 > 0:54:19would want more achievements than he has. Realistically, what has he done
0:54:19 > 0:54:28that good? Anything?Legislatively, there isn't much to talk about.
0:54:28 > 0:54:32Repealing or replacing Obamacare hasn't happened. Infrastructure
0:54:32 > 0:54:36hasn't happened. Tax reform hasn't happened yet and will be a struggle
0:54:36 > 0:54:40to get through. That's failing has been made doubly noticeable because
0:54:40 > 0:54:46we haven't got a divided government in America at the moment. Rarely, we
0:54:46 > 0:54:52have a Republican party that controls the White House, the
0:54:52 > 0:54:58Sennett and the upper house. He hasn't been able to do that. Donald
0:54:58 > 0:55:02Trump would point to the stock market and say that unemployment is
0:55:02 > 0:55:07at a 17 year low. He would say America is feared on the world stage
0:55:07 > 0:55:11by its adversaries and isn't taken for granted any more by its allies.
0:55:11 > 0:55:17He would say that's a record of accomplishment, but historically
0:55:17 > 0:55:22he's got the worst approval ratings of any first-term president at this
0:55:22 > 0:55:28stage, around 35%. Amongst Republicans, his approval rating is
0:55:28 > 0:55:42around 79%, and if the election were held again today, would you bet
0:55:42 > 0:55:44against him? In the rust belt, those three key states, Wisconsin,
0:55:44 > 0:55:46Michigan and Pennsylvania, there there is support for him there.
0:55:46 > 0:55:54Guess what Barack Obama was doing today? Turning up for jury duty. You
0:55:54 > 0:55:59can be president of the United States but you still need to fulfil
0:55:59 > 0:56:04your civic duty. His salary will be around $17 per hour.