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More women accuse Republican Senate

candidate Roy Moore of molesting

them when they were teenagers.

But sexual harassment

is not partisan.

A popular Democratic Senator has

also just been accused

of groping a woman.

As allegations against the Alabama

judge mount, Ivanka Trump says

there's a special place in hell

for people who abuse children.

Roy Moore is due to speak shortly.

We'll take you live

to Birmingham when he does.

Back here in Washington,

Democratic Senator Al Franken

is apologising after a woman

releases this image of him groping

her during a trip overseas in 2006.

Still under house arrest, a smiling

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

meets the army chief and mediators,

but the military remains in control.

Also on the programme:

No deal on Brexit would be a rough

deal for German car manufacturers.

18000 German jobs are at risk.

Is Berlin now ready to negotiate?

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I need water, help.

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The joke that's backfired

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Trump's very own Watergate.

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Hello and welcome,

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

One Democratic Senator and one

aspiring Republican Senator

are under fire today over

allegations they molested women.

Al Franken, a Democrat

from Minnesota, has just been forced

to apologise after a TV reporter

accused him of sexually

harassing her.

The other US politician under

pressure over abuse allegations

is Republican Roy Moore of Alabama.

New accusations in the press today

bring the total number of women,

who have come forward to eight.

The President still hasn't

spoken on the Moore case

but his daughter has,

telling the AP she has no reason

to doubt the victims' accounts.

One of the eight victims,

Beverley Nelson, produced a school

yearbook bearing the signature

of Roy Moore.

In fact he had signed

it Roy Moore DA.

But now his lawyer is casting

doubt on that signature

and wants it testing.

We demand that you immediately

release the Yearbook to a neutral

custodian so that our expert,

you can send your expert as well

if you would like to,

so that our expert can look at it.

Not a copy on the Internet,

the actual document so that we can

see the lettering, we can see

the ink on the page,

we can see the indentations

and we can see how old is that ink.

Is it 40 years old

or is it a week old?

Release the yearbook

so that we can determine is it

genuine or is it a fraud?

Let's get more on this

from our North America correspondent

Rajini Vaidyanathan.

She's in Birmingham Alabama.

The tactic of Roy Moore's lawyer

there seems to be to discredit the

women who have accused him of

harassing them when they were

teenagers, is that right?

That is

right. Certainly that doesn't fit

with the reaction that some voters

have to these accusations. Even

before that news conference

yesterday and number of Republicans

that I have spoken to here simply do

not believe these allegations, they

say they want proof. So by

discrediting that yearbook signature

and saying it needs to go for

testing and handwriting analysis it

plays into the idea that these

accusations, and more women have now

come forward since yesterday, it

plays into the idea that many people

have that this is fake news.

The

women have come forward, we are

expecting a press conference. I have

seen the stage and their IDs big

signs saying Roy Moore, the Senate,

and I expect there are signs he is

not pulling out of the race.

No,

this is a gathering of faith leaders

who are there to endorse Roy Moore

and stand-by site beside him. They

said they are confident the voters

of Alabama will not be fooled by

suspiciously timed allegations and

says he is the right man for this

state because of his position on

things like abortion. Yesterday I

was in Montgomery talking to

Republican voters who

across-the-board said they stand-by

Roy Moore. Here in Birmingham we

talked to some Republican voters who

actually believe he should step

aside and they are now torn as to

whether they would vote for

Democrats in this race if he does

not step aside, or whether they

would just stay away from the ballot

box.

We talked about how tribal

American politics is at the moment,

but when you look at this case, it

is not about party, not necessarily

about the individual, it is about

the voters of Alabama versus the

establishment in Washington.

Absolutely, that is what it comes

down to. A lot of people I have

spoken to in Alabama say people in

Alabama do not like being told what

to do. Roy Moore is a very

bombastic, controversial figure. He

is anti-gay, Andy Islam, you does

not believe in evolution. But they

are conservative, evangelical view

is that many people here who support

him believe are being eroded. They

are railing against the Washington

elite. Roy Moore seems to treat

almost as much as Donald Trump. He

says the Washington elite are out to

get him. He has been sending a lot

of messages to Mitch McConnell, a

senior Republican in the Senate. He

does not want people in the

establishment to get involved in

what he says is a different way of

life here. That is what it comes

down to. Roy Moore is determined to

stay in this race and those who

support him say it is because we do

not want to be told by the

establishment that he should go.

Democrats are picking up steam and

Doug Jones is making some lead in

the polls now.

Thank you, we will

keep an eye on that press conference

for you when and if Roy Moore starts

speaking. We will bring you what he

has to say. Talking of people

behaving badly...

Talking of people behaving badly...

The other US politician facing

criticism is Al Franken,

the former comedian turned

Democratic Senator for

the state of Minnesota.

He's been accused by Leanne Tweeden

a TV reporter of groping in 2006

while they were travelling abroad

to visit US troops.

During that official trip,

Ms Tweeden says Mr Franken forced

a kiss on her during a performance

of a skit for the soldiers.

She also released this photo taken

during one of their flights and it

pretty much speaks for itself.

The Senator has just

released a statement

apologising for his behaviour.

And he has been referred

to the Senate Ethics Committee.

Our political analyst

Ron Christie, who worked

in the George W Bush White House,

is in the studio with me.

Ron, how many people are there

sitting on Capitol Hill today

thinking to themselves I am feeling

nervous?

Probably about 200. I

worked on Capitol Hill for about

eight years and I referred to it as

the last plantation. There were

things pretty much that you could do

if you wanted to do. They do not

have sexual harassment laws in

place. All the laws that apply to

any American citizen do not apply to

those representatives and senators.

I would put it at over 100 certainly

who are very nervous and consulting

lawyers right now.

Al Franken has

come out with a statement saying he

respects women and women should come

forward with these stories and he is

very sorry for his behaviour. Can he

survive this given that photograph?

Not a chance. You look at the

statement about this. The Democrats

do not want a Roy Moore type problem

on their hands. The Democratic

governor says that if he should be

stepped down and forced out, they

can replace him. But there is no way

this current wave of allegations

will mean that he survives.

When we

talk about the President's

legislative programme, and he wants

to get it done by Christmas, how

does the Alabama race fit into this?

Very strongly. Good day to you. I

was talking to two Republican

members of Congress who headed over

to meet with the present when the Al

Franken situation evolved. They are

very nervous. They said why is the

president coming to Capitol Hill to

meet with us? Why does he not have

the votes? The reason is he has not

been very hands on in this tax

reform process and the Senate bill

is drastically different from the

House, but they need to move it out

of the House to go to a conference

committee to reconcile the bills

from the two chambers. I think it

will be very close for them to find

a way to get to Christmas and have

built on the President's desk for

him to sign.

If Doug Jones snatches

the seed and the Democrats take it,

we are then talking 49-51 in the

Senate. We know there are people in

the Senate, Len Johnson is one of

them and Susan Collins is another,

who does not like the tax reform

Bill, could it come down to that

seek whether or not he gets his

legislative programme through?

I

think so. The vice president of the

United States is in a position to

cast a tie-breaking vote.

Republicans do not have a vote to

spare. The best political outcome

for the Republicans is for Doug

Jones to win this race because we do

not have to deal with expelling him

for having the terrible circumstance

of having him in the Senate. Johnny

Isaacson from Georgia has indicated

he wants to support this package. I

believe the seat in Alabama vacated

by Jeff sessions is really important

and right now it is too close to say

who will come out on top in this

Bill?

I thought it was interesting

asking how many members might feel

nervous and he mentioned the number

200 and he was not joking. There is

a widespread problem on Capitol Hill

with this issue. We booked Ron to

come onto this programme to talk

uniquely about tax reform. During

the course of the morning we heard

more people coming out with

allegations against Roy mover and we

had the story about Al Franken. When

this happens it derails the news

agenda and that affects members and

how they vote and the President's

legislative capabilities.

People

might be saying why are you focusing

on a Senate race in Alabama? Why

does it matter? It matters because

this could undermine the President's

legislative programme. If the

numbers look dodgy for the

president, Alabama becomes

important. The other thing is that

people will think, hey, this looks

like what is going on at the House

of Commons. Some come forward and

then one or two MPs are in the dock

and three or four Moore and suddenly

there is an avalanche of these cases

and that derails what governments

what to do. There is a very similar

thing between the two parliaments

going on at the moment and it will

be very interesting to watch.

Both

sides of the Atlantic, people

behaving not very well.

Both sides of the Atlantic,

people behaving not very well.

There is an enormous sense

of anticipation in Zimbabwe,

but still precious little news

on what might happen next.

Robert Mugabe remains

under house arrest.

We have seen pictures

of him today in a meeting.

It is reported he is resisting

pressure to step down.

But it seems pretty clear by now,

the generals don't much care

for Mr Mugabe's chosen successor,

his wife, Grace, whose

whereabouts are unclear.

South Africa has sent government

ministers to Harare for crisis talks

with both Mr Mugabe and the military

leaders who are in charge.

From Harare, the BBC's

Shingai Nyoka reports.

It looks like normal life.

The daily commute to work,

children going to school.

But look more closely.

Tanks on street corners,

and what you can't see

behind closed doors,

delicate and intense horse

trading over Zimbabwe's

future is taking place.

And here is the evidence -

the first images of Robert Mugabe

since he was placed

under house arrest.

It has to be said that the

93-year-old still looks in charge.

One of the people in the shot

is an envoy from South Africa,

and here he is with the general

who many believe

ordered the takeover.

Loyalty has been a tradable

commodity within ZANU-PF for many

years, and in these uncertain times,

that loyalty is shifting rapidly.

Representatives from neighbouring

African states have arrived

in Zimbabwe to facilitate a deal

that could determine whether

President Mugabe stays or leaves.

Robert Mugabe's power

is ebbing away.

There will be no change

unless he resigns or agrees

to a handover plan.

Although the Army has set

things going, ZANU-PF,

the party Mugabe created,

might force him out.

Mugabe's former deputy,

believed to be behind it,

has several cards he could play.

He has the support of the war

veterans, the influential group

who kept Mugabe in power who now

appear to have turned against him.

The other power groups that will be

key in any negotiations

are the party's youth

and women's league.

The military want to ensure that his

departure is done by the book.

Mr Mugabe needs to be

persuaded to resign.

That is the obvious route to take.

If one starts taking

the impeachment route,

the ill-health route and trying

to get the Parliamentary vote,

this could be a long and protracted

process and the outcome

could be uncertain.

That would mean that the military

needs to remain in control over that

period, and then we have an extended

period of unconstitutionality, which

is obviously highly undesirable.

Zimbabwe is once again at the centre

of regional crisis talks.

People I talked to in Harare want

a speedy resolution.

We don't have many ways about it.

Mugabe must go.

That is the only way.

Mugabe should step down.

He is supposed to step down.

This is the first step.

This is the first step.

As negotiations continue,

a nation waits.

Mugabe maybe 93 years old,

but he is still a shrewd,

sharp and some would

say cunning negotiator.

The ultimate comeback kid.

He has not been in power for 37

years for no reason. He is a master

tactician.

He is a master tactician.

The UK Brexit secretary David Davis

was in Berlin today to speak

to German business leaders.

Yesterday, a close ally of

the German Chancellor Angela Merkel

said he was "more optimistic"

about the prospects of a UK-EU deal

after a meeting with Theresa May.

Berlin's concern about a no deal

scenario has been heightened

by a Deloitte report,

published over the summer,

which suggests a hard exit

would hurt German car manufacturers.

About a fifth of all cars produced

in Germany last year

were exported to the UK

If there were no deal.

were exported to the UK.

If there were no deal.

Deloitte estimates that revenue

from sales of German cars in the UK

could fall by E12.4bn -

that's a drop of about 18%.

It also expects that

in the year of withdrawal,

German car exports to the UK

would fall by 255,000 units -

a decline of almost a third.

And then there's this sobering

forecast from Deloitte -

all of that would mean that 18,000

jobs in the German car industry

would be put at risk.

We can speak to Volker Treier,

the number two at the German chamber

of commerce and industry.

Good evening. Our German businesses

starting to worry about the no deal

scenario?

Absolutely. We are

worrying about the exit negotiations

going on in Brussels and our concern

is that we are heading to and no

deal scenario. But our major concern

is that the integrity of the single

market is going to be threatened if

we had a deal which put the UK in a

position where they are better off

and like an avenue of pick and

choose and other EU members would

follow it. There are two concerns

right now.

Some of those concerns

would be answered by a future

negotiation, and negotiation about

the future trading relationship.

Michel Barnier says nothing is

agreed until everything is agreed.

Would it not be better to get on

with that discussion about the

future and put the cash to one side?

It will all come out in the wash

anyway.

But the clock is ticking

down and that is for sure. The

greater the risk of a no deal

scenario that means that both sides

have to be very much clearer on

their position and maybe have to

head for compromises and

concessions. But that does not only

mean for the side of the European

Commission, but also from the UK's

position we need more clarity and we

need an idea of what they are

heading for after hopefully a

transitional period. What kind of

trade relations do they want to have

after all?

If Deloitte is right and

there would be a pretty devastating

impact on the German car industry

and on other German industries as

well if there is indeed no deal,

does that mean that you and your

colleagues are actively talking to

the German government to try to

persuade them to come up with a

better deal, one that the UK can

accept?

First of all, we have an

agreed sequencing of who is

negotiating and what should be

negotiated first and we transferred

the responsibility to the Brussels

level to Michel Barnier, our chief

negotiator. That means that there is

right now no pressure at all. We are

discussing but we are looking at

what is happening there. One thing

is also clear, we need the integrity

of the single market. There should

not be no deal scenario at any

price. We have to take care of the

integrity of the single because this

could create even greater damage to

German business relationships after

all.

Very good to talk to you. Thank

you for joining us from Berlin. I

spotted a tweet from the CEO of

Goldman Sachs today. He says in the

UK lots of hand-wringing from CEOs

over Brexit. Reluctant to say, but

many wish for a confirming vote, in

other words a second referendum on

the decision. I do not know if you

follow him, he does not tweet very

often. Five or six since the middle

of October. The general pattern is

he is frustrated. He keeps tweeting

about how he is off to Frankfurt and

how we likes the food in Paris. But

I am spare sceptical. Our economics

editor says that after initial

projections, JP Morgan said they

would lose 4000 jobs initially, now

that is 1000. The chief executive of

Barclays said Brexit was no more

complicated than setting up a

holding company in America which the

bank was obliged to do last year. In

October he was saying I am off to

Frankfurt. Now he is saying let's

have a second referendum.

Maybe he

should pass that message onto 10

Downing Street who are making it

complicated. The argument I have

heard from investors in the US is

that we are on hold, we do not know.

We did not pull out immediately and

job numbers did not decline

immediately, but it will depend on

what kind of deal is done. If there

is no deal and the Bank of England's

early estimates of 75,000 jobs lost

in the city of London proved to be

accurate, then those numbers will go

up again. Everyone is thinking we

need to know what this deal is going

to be.

Who says we do not put both

sides Brexit?!

Police investigating

the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy say

the remains of all those

who were killed in the blaze

have been recovered.

71 people are now known to have died

when the fire ripped through the

24-storey tower block in June.

A number of children

and a still-born baby

were among the victims.

The Lebanese prime minister,

Saad Hariri, is reported to have

accepted an invitation to visit

France.

The French foreign minister

is in Saudi Arabia, where Mr Hariri

has remained since making the shock

announcement that he was

resigning, 12 days ago.

France, the former colonial power

in Lebanon, has been working

to resolve the ensuing crisis.

We all like to be punctual,

but the Japanese have taken

punctuality to a whole new level.

A Japanese train company has

apologised after one of its Tokyo

commuter trains left the station

20 seconds early.

Japanese train companies pride

themselves on punctuality.

In a statement Tskuba Express

gave its 'deepest apologies'

for the early running,

saying the driver failed

to check the time.

That is the best story of the day.

That is the best story of the day.

When President Trump took

to the airwaves in a live address

on foreign policy on Wednesday

evening, it wasn't long before

he was lighting up social media.

People mostly weren't

talking about the success

of his recent Asian tour however.

Instead, they were

talking about this...

Take a look.

17,000 jobs. Can I have water?

Japanese manufacturers, Toyota...

When they put Marco on to review

President Obama's speech, do you

remember that catastrophe? And he is

like this. I need water, I need

water, help me, I need water, help.

It is Rubio.

I thought he started off quite well.

I quite liked the side told to avoid

the spill. He went over one side to

avoid water on his suit. But then it

was quite amateurish because he goes

for the two handhold of the bottle

and nobody does that. Then that

brings attention on the hands and he

does not like the attention on his

hands, so work to do on that.

What

do you think? Were you saying

something? I was drinking a glass of

water, I did not hear you.

I do not

think he could have done it in a

more awkward way.

It is very easy to

mock people for making mistakes on

TV, we do it all the time. If you do

it, you expect it will come back to

you when you make a mistake

yourself, right?

The end of a long

flight, coming back from Asia. He

went looking for the bottle and he

found it and I thought he made a bit

of a mess of it, but there you are.

This is Beyond 100 Days. Coming up:

We will speak to the husband of the

British Iranian woman who is still

in a ter Ranby Prison and the

campaign to free her after 19 months

in Iranian custody.

And the conflict that started in

secrecy and ended in failure. What a

new documentary tells us about the

Vietnam War.

Cold air is spreading south across

the UK and widespread frost

overnight. It was fairly mild today,

but temperatures dropped in the

afternoon in Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Showers falling snow on

high heels of northern Scotland.

This cloud and patchy rain is the

leading edge of cold air. It will

cover all of us as we go through the

night as the very last of the spots

of rain cleared away from the

south-east of England. Overnight it

is quite windy with gales in the far

north of Scotland. Many places will

be dried, clear and there will be

light winds in northern Scotland.

Town and city centres may just hold

above freezing, but you do not have

to travel far out into the suburbs

and the countryside to find those

temperatures well below freezing.

Some of us will be scraping the ice

off the car in the morning. This is

how it looks in the morning. Plenty

of sunshine once it is up, but a

very brisk cold start. Showers in

northern Scotland from the word go

and with very strong winds. Western

parts of Scotland may get away with

it. Most of England and Wales,

Northern Ireland and southern and

eastern parts of Scotland will be

dry. Long, sunny spells further

south. Temperatures for most will'

this. Temperatures drop quickly as

we go through Friday evening. We

will see patchy rain spreading into

Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Filters southwards on Saturday. But

on Saturday the best of the sunshine

will be in Scotland. In the North

East it will still be windy. Frost

on Saturday night and Sunday

morning. Then a weather front coming

in from the west. It moves north

eastwards across the UK. We will

keep you updated on that. Any

sunshine on Sunday will be on the

eastern side of the UK and in the

West it will cloud over and turn a

little less chilly.

This is Beyond 100 Days with me,

Katty Kay, in Washington.

And Christian Fraser in London.

Our top stories:

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Roy Moore remains defiant.

He's not stepping aside,

despite growing accusations

of sexual misconduct.

Still under house arrest,

the Zimbabwean president,

Robert Mugabe, meets a military

general and South African mediators,

as the army retains control

of the country.

Coming up in the next half-hour:

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60 years ago, this Leonardo Da Vinci

masterpiece was auctioned

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Now, the Salvatore Mundi

becomes the most expensive

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And, bringing a new focus

to the Vietnam War.

Film-maker Ken Burns joins us

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Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe,

is meeting regional envoys in Harare

to try to negotiate a way

through the political

crisis in the country.

He has been held under house

arrest since the military

took over yesterday.

It is reported Mr Mugabe wants

to stay on as president

until next year's elections.

But his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai,

the main opposition leader,

has called for him to be

replaced by a power-sharing

transitional government.

Speaking to the BBC a short time

ago, this was the UN

Secretary-General's reaction

to the crisis.

Well, I

Well, I never like to see military

involved in politics, but I have to

recognise it is a confusing

situation. I hope, first of all,

that there is no loss of blood, that

this is done peacefully, and I hope

that we will be able to lead to a

political, democratic solution, and

that the next elections are free and

fair for the people of Zimbabwe to

choose their own future.

And we can speak to our

correspondent Ben Brown,

who's in Zimbabwe.

There is a moment in a takeover like

this where the momentum is with the

army but, the longer it goes on, it

sometimes starts to take back the

other way. Looking at these

photographs of Robert Mugabe

alongside the head of the Army,

smiling, do you think there might be

some concern in Harare that that is

about to happen?

Well, I've got to

say, it's one of the strangest coups

I've ever covered. A real softly

softly to if you like. If you shots

fired, but not many and now as you

say, the man who led that coup, the

man in charge of the Zimbabwean

defence forces, sitting on a sofa,

smiling, with Robert Mugabe, the man

he is supposed to have toppled. It

seems they are having talks along

with some South African mediators

and a catholic priest in there as

well. Talks about what to Mugabe

does now. It depends who you

believe, in terms of the sources

close to those talks. Some sources

are saying, actually, Mr Mugabe is

trying to cling onto power. He has

been in power for 37 years in this

country, 37 years of rule, or

misrule, some would say, and he is a

wily a cunning operator. Other

people are saying, actually, he is

on his way out. He could even resign

tomorrow. According to these

reports, there is a plan, and the

Army plan is that the former vice

president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is

going to take over as president and

as his Prime Minister, there will be

Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition

leader, the leader of the MDC, the

great rival of Robert Mugabe for

many years, and that those two men

together will form a transitional

government or maybe three to five

years, paving the way to new

elections and trying to restore the

battered economy.

So the future is

unclear at the moment. What is the

present like? What is Zimbabwe like

today since you have gone into the

country? Are people nervous,

euphoric, what is the atmosphere?

I

think they are potentially euphoric,

but they don't want to show that

euphoria yet, because for those

reasons I have outlined they don't

know what's going on and whether Mr

Mugabe might still be around, not

just tomorrow but for months or even

years. So, on the whole, people

we've talked to are happy, but there

was no dancing in the street, shall

we say. It's very relaxed. It

doesn't seem tense, considering

there has been a military takeover.

People are going about their normal

daily lives, really. And they are

hopeful, I think they are hopeful,

but also potentially a little

fearful that their hopes would be

realised. As I say, 37 years, the

economy of this country has gone to

ruin. We have had hyperinflation,

massive unemployment. It's a

desperately sorry state of affairs

here. And many, many millions of

people in Zimbabwe just hoping for a

better future.

Ben Brown in

Zimbabwe, thank you. It's amazing

even to see those daily news

slogans, with more are they -- with

Mugabe under house arrest, given

what a tight control he has had on

the press and opposition

politicians. Quite extraordinary to

see that from the streets of

Zimbabwe.

It is heartbreaking to look

at the photos of the daughter

of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

They show a child clearly

adored by her mother,

now having to grow up without her.

The girl is now with her Iranian

family in Tehran - and her father,

who is in the UK, says that each

time he speaks to her on the phone

she seems to understand less

and less of what he says.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office is

still considering whether to grant

diplomatic protection

to the British-Iranian

mother being held in Iran.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was jailed

in April 2016, accused of spying,

a charge she denies.

Her case was complicated two weeks

ago when the British Foreign

Secretary, Boris Johnson,

said she was in Iran to

"train journalists".

He has since apologised

and retracted his statement.

The British government has no doubt

that Natalie Zebari Ratcliffe --

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was any

rani and on holiday and that was the

sole purpose of her victim stop --

of her visit. My remarks should and

could have been clearer, and I

acknowledge that the words are used

were open to being misinterpreted,

and I apologise. I apologise to

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her

family if I inadvertently caused

them any further pain.

Nazanin's husband,

Richard Ratcliffe, met

with the British Foreign Secretary

yesterday.

Mr Ratcliffe joins us

in the studio now.

I don't think there will be anybody

in the country who can't fail to be

impressed by your patience and good

temperament throughout this. But, as

a father, and I speak as a father

myself, how difficult is it not seen

Gabriella day-to-day?

It's been a

long 18, 19 months, and she's grown

up and she went out a little baby

and she is now little girl,

confident and important and changed

languages, different environment

now, and of home, home in London, in

a different way.

And he want to be

part of that.

Yeah.

I listened to

you yesterday and it seemed to me

that you are able to get information

to Nazanin, because she's more angry

about what Boris Johnson said. How

much contact do you have?

I can

telephone once a week and their

family visits. I can't call her, so

it's hard to get something to her,

but I can hear from her how she is

doing.

And she's pretty desperate?

The last couple weeks has been

particularly hard, but it's been a

long struggle. She has been in

solitary confinement for a long time

and as I said yesterday, begin to

the Foreign Secretary, I think she

is on the verge of a nervous

breakdown.

Why?

Because the tone of

her voice, the loss of emotional

control, she taught about having

panic attacks and uncontrollable and

get points.

Is that because of where

she is being held?

Suddenly the

prison isn't a great place. It's

partly a long legacy of the time in

solitary confinement, and she is on

the TV every night in Iran being

called a spy and the rest of it, and

that takes a huge toll on her.

You

have said you would like to go to

Iran with the Foreign Secretary when

he visits. Would you hope -- what do

you hope it isn't like that would

achieve?

It is much the symbolism of

it and also the practicality. I have

been on all sorts of global media

talking quite critically about Iran,

which makes it slightly less safe to

go in other circumstances. Partly it

is to go and seek. I can go to

prison and is either because I am

family. He come with me. He is the

Foreign Secretary, and that's no

small. That's the thing I asked him,

if it's possible, and he said he was

keen, but it was obviously a

question to discuss with his staff

and the Iranians.

Do you have any

sense of what the next steps might

be?

To be honest, the day has been

moving day-to-day. -- the story has

been moving. Finding out when the

Foreign Secretary is going to run is

the first step, and whether it is

possible to go. I have asked the

government to look at providing

diplomatic protection, which is a

bit more and consular assistance,

it's trying to secure her release

and deciding she has been wrong in a

severe way. They are happy to

discuss that.

Boris Johnson has said

there is more complexity to this

than the comments he fluffed, and we

are getting some detail of that

today, that there is an amount of

money that was paid to the British

government all the way back in the

1970s for military hardware that's

been kept, about 400 million, an

awful lot of money. Is that what is

stopping this from moving forward,

the return of that money? Is she

effectively being held to ransom?

His comments are not where she was

arrested. She was there on holiday.

It snowballed in different ways. I

have said before that I thought she

was a bargaining chip, because she

was doing nothing, so I don't know

why she was held. When we went to

see the Foreign Secretary yesterday,

that report had just been in the Sun

newspaper, so we took it and said,

is this what's going on? There have

been more articles today. He said he

hadn't seen it before. Obviously,

it's one of the big things, a big

amount of money. It clearly is a

debt that UK Iran and has owned for

a long time and, quite rightly, they

will be quite cross. -- that the UK

close to Iran. It feels that it is

important for all of us that law is

followed and that the rule of law by

the UK and Iran is really important

for allowing her to come home.

We

wish you and your family all the

best. Come back and talk to us,

hopefully with Nazanin. We hope that

she is safely back soon. Amazing

composure, that man.

More than 300,000 people

from Central America

and Haiti currently living

here in the United States may soon

lose their legal right

to stay in the country.

Those with TPS -

or Temporary Protected Status -

are now finding themselves

on the front line of the Trump

administration's efforts to reform

immigration policies.

For decades, the programme shielded

citizens from being sent back

to unstable countries.

But recently the benefit was ended

for those from Nicaragua, and now

Haitians have been told a decision

is coming on their status soon.

From New York, the BBC's

Nada Tawfik reports.

This woman has called New York home

for seven years. After the

devastating 2010 earthquake in

Haiti, the single mother lost

everything and slept on the street

with her newborn son. She started

over again in the United States

thanks to the temporary protected

status, or TPS programme. For

decades, it's provided short-term

work permits and refuge to those

fleeing countries ravaged by natural

disaster or war. The policy for

Haiti has been extended several

times but is now under threat, as

the administration aims to crack

down on immigration, leaving her

future uncertain once more.

It's

stressful. Crying everyday. Not

knowing what to do, where you are

going to go, how you are going to

make it. It's not easy at all. I

just keep praying, asking God to do

a miracle.

New York is home to one

of the largest Haitian communities

in the country. If temporary

protected status is revoked for

those who have no other legal path

to remaining in the country, they

will either have to leave all live

in the shadows, which could

potentially mean thousands of

additional people here undocumented

and working illegally. The programme

was never meant to be permanent.

Still, immigration attorneys are now

scrambling to help their clients

stay where they have build new

lives.

These TPS nationals have

developed roots in the United States

and assimilated. They have had

children here, worked here, paid

taxes and paid into Social Security

and Medicare. So it's very difficult

to just tell them that they are not

welcome any more. Button the poorest

country in the western hemisphere

has faced renewed challenges since

the earthquake, including a cholera

epidemic and hurricanes.

The

department of homeland security says

conditions have improved enough for

immigrants to start planning their

return. But some on Capitol Hill

believe it's still too early to go

back, and have been accused --

introduced a bill to help them stay.

Haiti is in extreme dire straits. It

is a fragile system, in terms of

health care, housing, in terms of

opportunity, and there are 50,000

individuals, which is a drop in the

bucket when you look at a nation of

our size.

She says her and her son

don't even have a door they cannot

come back in Haiti and they feel

blessed for their life in America.

I

just like every day. I say, thank

you, Lord, it was a good day.

But

she can't help but wonder, long will

it last? -- how long.

That's the question for many of

these people, they don't know when

they are going to get that phone

call. It could come next week. These

are people who have lived in the

United States for years, sometimes

even decades, who often don't have

homes, like that woman, back in the

countries they came from, and what

would they return to, particularly

given the countries they come from

our unstable? It's a real change in

the United States. There is so much

drama in the Trump administration,

and sometimes we get distracted by

the amount of change on some key

policy issues like immigration, that

is really changing the nature of

this society and country. Let's move

on.

A painting - believed

to be by the Italian

master Leonardo da Vinci -

has sold at auction for a record

$450 million, including

$50 million in fees.

The painting - depicting

Jesus Christ, and known

as Salvator Mundi or

"saviour of the world" -

sold in New York for the highest

price of any work of art ever.

Bear in mind it was sold

at an auction in London

in 1958, for just $60.

That would have been a good

investment! I dream of picking up

something like that in my local

bric-a-brac stall.

You might remember that we spoke

about this painting on Monday's show

with the acclaimed novelist,

Walter Isaacson.

His new book profiles the life

and times of Leonardo.

There are fewer than 20

of his paintings in existence,

and didn't the bidders know it.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, we

move to the Leonardo da Vinci. The

masterpiece by Leonardo, previous in

the collections of three kings of

England. King Charles the first,

King Charles II and King James II.

240 million is the bait. I'm selling

at 240 million. 302 million is a

beard. 302, 305 will be next,

please. At 315 and a shake of the

head, no? What would you like? 318?

400 million. It is with Alex Rotter

at 400 million. Leonardo's painting.

$400 million is the bid. And the

piece is sold.

Isn't that extraordinary! It's not

even in very good nick. It's been

over varnished and cleaned. That's

not worth $400 million!

Is somebody

gave you that, you'd complain?

Of

course not!

There is no pleasing

some people.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come:

His documentaries have

brought history to life.

Now Ken Burns is turning his lens

on the Vietnam War, and joins us

to talk about the result.

Here in the UK, a 49-year-old man

has been arrested by police

in Dorset on suspicion of the murder

of Gaia Pope.

The teenager, who has

severe epilepsy, was last

seen nine days ago.

Earlier, police found

items of women's clothing

in a field near Swanage.

A search is now taking place

in the field and surrounding area,

as our correspondent

Duncan Kennedy reports.

This is the cliff area

above Swanage where the woman's

clothes were found.

Police have been joined

by specialist coast teams

from the coastguard and other units.

Officers say the pieces

discovered were similar

to clothing worn by Gaia.

The items of clothing were found

by a member of public

at 10:30 this morning.

Since then, this patch of coastline

has been sealed off as police have

carried out further investigations.

Gaia, who is 19, has been

missing for nine days

and has severe epilepsy.

Tonight, police said

they had made an arrest.

This afternoon, we have

arrested a 49-year-old male

on suspicion of murder.

He is believed to be known to Gaia

and is from the Swanage area.

Speaking before the police

announcement, Gaia's father

Richard said all her family

are finding her disappearance

extremely hard to deal with.

It's tough but we'll hang on in

there for her, her sisters and her

mum.

We will hang on in there for Gaia.

For her sisters, for her

mum, for everybody,

we will hang on in there.

Earlier this week, police released

these CCTV images of Gaia

while she was running

on a road in Swanage.

And at a petrol station in the town,

buying an ice cream

on the afternoon she disappeared.

Police divers and other search teams

have been operating in a number

of locations around the town.

Officers say those will continue

for as long as necessary.

Duncan Kennedy, BBC

News, in Swanage.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

The Vietnam War started

in secrecy in 1955 and ended

in failure in 1975.

It has overshadowed American

political life ever since.

Film-maker Ken Burns' ten-part

documentary series The Vietnam War

is a comprehensive look at the war,

told through the voices of those

who fought it, on both sides.

Earlier, we spoke to Mr

Burns to hear more about

the hidden history of the war

and its lessons for today.

Ken Burns, it's been nearly half a

decade since the Vietnam War, so

much has been written about it and

set about it and pored over and

analysed. What made you decide to

revisit the subject, and why now is

to mock

I started work on this more

than ten years ago, and I thought

back then in 2006, 2007, that the

Vietnam War was central to

understand who we were then. I think

it is even more central to

understanding who we are now. I

guess the most important thing is

for Americans, I think this is the

biggest thing in American history

since the Second World War and, in

that half-century, we've seen played

out a lot of the seeds of disunion

that were first planted during the

Vietnam War, so it raises questions

about fake news, it raises questions

about mass demonstrations, about

stolen documents, about reaching out

to a foreign power during a

political campaign, about the White

House in disarray, obsessed with

leaks.

Why did it take ten years?

You waiting for some of the archive

to become available, or was it some

of the people in the document is

series who took some time to find?

It was too important a topic to do

on the quick and dirty, as we like

to say. We need to take our time and

let it mature, our understanding of

it. I also work in public

broadcasting, so it is will grant

funded, and I have to go out with my

tin cup, asking for contributions

from corporations and foundations

and individuals to make it happen.

You told this film through the

voices of ordinary soldiers somebody

like John Musgrave, who is a marine

who speaks with incredible candour

about how he felt about the

Vietnamese, how he hated them, and

then how he felt about himself after

the war, how he hated himself

effectively, almost trying to kill

himself. How does it change the

audience's interpretation of the war

to hear it told through the voices

of the soldiers?

That such an

important question. We could have

gone to the big names and we said to

John McCain and John Kerry, you'll

be in our film but we're not going

to interview you. You are still in

the public sphere and people know

you. You want an unmediated view of

these people. So everybody we defeat

was, for the most part, completely

unknown, like John Musgrave, who

must be the central interview of the

film. -- everybody we interviewed.

It was important for the audience to

understand subsequently, we hope,

that, when you talk about wars, yes,

you are talking about the movement

of armies and the conflict between

them but, more often than not, you

are also talking about internal wars

within people, and John Musgrave is

the perfect example. Most of our

characters, suddenly half of them,

in some way undergo profound changes

within themselves as they try to

negotiate the complicated shoals and

eddies of the Vietnam War, and that

is what we were also trying to

listen to. We wanted to get the

battle is right, the sequence of the

diplomacy, all of the intricacies of

that, but we also wanted to

understand it a gut, human level

that would help people. In our

country, people don't talk about it

who went there. One of the great

bits of feedback I've had a since

the broadcast ended here, and people

are still die jesting and watching

DVDs, is they are coming up and

saying a variation of, my dad, my

grandfather, my father-in-law, my

uncle, they never talked about it,

and we watched together and now we

are speaking. So there is an

opportunity, you can tell so-called

ordinary people stories, that some

healing can take place, some sort of

reconciliation of the conflicting

aspects of the Vietnam War that

still confound us, not only

politically and socially but, I

think, also psychologically.

You

talk about history not finished, and

the final episode is called the

weight of memory. It interests me

that we still look at your

politicians through the prism of the

demand. We talk about Donald Trump

is perhaps a draft dodger, and then

we talk about Senator McCain Le

Figaro. -- through the prism of

Vietnam. 40 years on, it's still

shapes how American politicians are

seen.

It was the first war we lost.

Americans are still working out how

to understand that lost or, at

least, that failure, as we say in

the film. That will be an ongoing

conversation, I think, for a long

time, even after unfortunately those

veterans have passed away. It is

still a source of great contention

and discussion, and I hope that we

can transform some of that into some

peace, some reconciliation, and some

really significant understanding,

and I hope in some way the film that

we made adds to that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It is so powerful. I've

just watched all ten episodes. It's

a must watch. The thing that stands

out for me is, right at the end,

when all those people you've got to

know through the series go and stand

in front of the Vietnam memorial, 58

gnomes. -- 58,000 names. It's a

choker.

You are off to the south of

France for the weekend, so have a

great trip and come back full of

good food for Christmas, and I will

see you and the rest of you back

here on Monday.