27/11/2017 Beyond 100 Days

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The one-time wild child of Britain's

royal family is a bachelor no more.

Prince Harry will marry his American

girlfriend Meghan Markle

in the spring of next year.

He's the 33-year-old

grandson of the Queen.

She's a 36-year-old

actress and divorcee.

They revealed they got engaged

in secret earlier this month.

I could barely let him finish

proposing.

And then there were hugs

and I have the ring on her finger

and I was like, can I give you the

rink was my goal, yes, the ring!

As for the royal rock -

the prince included stones

from his mother Diana's collection

and designed the ring himself.

In Washington, Congress is back

in town with a full to-do list,

but it's allegations

of sexual misconduct

which dominate the political news.

Also on the programme:

Before Brexit talks go any further -

the issue of the Irish

border must be resolved.

That's the position in Dublin.

Britain wants a trade deal first.

A major eruption looms

on the Indonesian island of Bali,

shutting down its only airport

and stranding thousands of tourists.

Get in touch with us

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Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

She looked nervous,

he was rather awkward -

it was a typical engagement

announcement.

Except that he's a British prince

and she's an American actress.

All of which excites Americans

who can't get enough today

of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry

announcing they're getting married.

They made their first official

engagement appearance this afternoon

She wore a ring he had designed.

The diamond by the way

comes from Botswana.

And it's surrounded by two diamonds

from his late mother's

personal collection.

The statement from Harry's father,

Prince Charles, said:

His Royal Highness the Prince

of Wales is delighted to announce

the engagement of Prince Harry

to Ms Meghan Markle.

The wedding will take

place in spring 2018.

The Queen and Prince Phillip

said they were

"delighted for the couple

and wished them every happiness."

The new Royal couple have just

given their first interview

to our colleague Mishal Hussein.

How did you first meet?

Er...

Yes, we first met.

We were introduced, actually,

by a mutual friend, who we will...

We should protect her privacy.

Protect her privacy, yeah.

A little too much of that.

And, but, it was literally

through her, and then we met once

and then twice back-to-back,

two dates, in London last July,

beginning of July, and then

it was I think about three,

maybe four, weeks later that

I managed to persuade her to come

and join me in Botswana,

and we camped out with each other

under the stars, and we spent...

She came and joined me

for five days out there,

which was absolutely fantastic.

So, then we were really

by ourselves, which was crucial,

to me, to make sure that we had

a chance to get to know each other.

Your friend who introduced you -

was she trying to set you up?

Yes, it was definitely a setup.

It was a blind date.

It was a blind date, for sure.

And it's so interesting

because we talk about it now,

and even then, you know,

because I'm from the States,

you don't grow up with the same

understanding of the Royal Family,

and so, while I now understand very

clearly there is a global interest

there, I didn't know much about him,

and so the only thing I had

asked her when she said she wanted

to set us up was one question -

I said, is he nice?

Because if he wasn't kind, it didn't

seem like it would make sense,

so we went and met for a drink,

and I think very quickly into that,

In the case of your relationship,

unlike for most people,

there's this whole layer of what it

means to get involved with someone

from the Royal Family.

How much of a sense did you have,

Meghan, of the enormity

of what you were getting

into and what it might

mean for your life?

I think I can very safely say,

as naive as it sounds now,

having gone through this learning

curve in the past year and a half,

I did not have any understanding

of just what it would be like.

I don't think either of us did.

We've both said that.

Even though we knew

that it would be...

I tried to warn you as much

as possible, but I think both of us

were totally surprised

by the reaction after the first five

or six months that we had

to ourselves of what would actually

happen from then, so you can have

as many conversations as you want

and try and prepare as much

as possible, but we were totally

unprepared for what

happened after that.

The scrutiny.

Well, all sorts.

I think also because...

There's a misconception

that, because I worked

in the entertainment industry,

that this would be something

I would be familiar with.

Even though I'd been on my show

for six years at that point,

and working before that,

I've never been part of tabloid

culture, never been in pop

culture to that degree,

and lived a relatively quiet life,

even though I focused so much

on my job, so that was a really

stark difference out

of the gate, but...

And I think we were just hit so hard

at the beginning with a lot

of mistruths that I made the choice

to not read anything.

Positive or negative,

it just didn't make sense.

Instead, we focused all

of our energies just

on nurturing our relationship.

On us, yeah.

On us.

And some of that scrutiny -

and you ended up making a very

public statement about it -

some of that scrutiny was centred

around your ethnicity, Meghan.

When you realised that,

what did you think?

Of course it's

disheartening, you know.

It's a shame that that is

the climate, in this world,

to focus on that, or be

discriminatory in that sense.

But I think, at the end of the day,

I'm really just proud of who I am

and where I come from,

and we have never put

any focus on that.

We've just focused on who we are

as a couple, and so,

when you take all those extra layers

away, and all of that noise,

I think it makes it really easy

to just enjoy being together,

and tune all the rest of that out.

What was it like

introducing Meghan to your

father and your brother?

Um...

What was it like?

It was exciting.

I mean, I'd been seeing her for

a period of time when I literally

didn't tell anybody at all,

and then William was

longing to meet her,

and so was Catherine,

and being our

neighbours, we managed to get that

in quite a few times now,

and Catherine's been

absolutely amazing.

She's been wonderful.

As has William as well.

They've been fantastic support.

And then my father as well,

we've had a couple...

No, more than that.

A handful of teas and meetings

and all sorts of gatherings over at

his place as well, so the family

together have been absolutely solid

support, and my grandparents as well

have been wonderful throughout this

whole process.

And you met the Queen?

Yes, I have a couple of times.

What's that like?

It's incredible.

First, to be able to meet her,

through his lens, not just

with his honour and respect for her

as the monarch but the love he has

for her as his grandmother, those

layers have been important for me so

when I met her I had a deep

understanding and of course

incredible respect for having

that time with her.

We've had a really...

She's an incredible woman.

And the corgis took

to you straight away!

The last 33 years of

being barked at, this

one, walking in, the corgis.

Tell us about the ring.

The ring is obviously yellow

gold, because that's her favourite,

and the main stone

itself I sourced from Botswana,

and the little diamonds either side

are from my mother's

jewellery collection,

to make sure

that she is with us

on this crazy journey together.

It's beautiful.

And he designed it.

It's incredible.

Yeah.

Make sure it stays on that finger!

Of course.

What does it mean to

you, Meghan, to have

those stones on your finger that

once belonged to Princess Diana?

I think everything about Harry's

thoughtfulness and the inclusion of

that, and obviously not being able

to meet his mom, it's so important

to me to know that she's

a part of this with us,

What do you think your mother

would have thought of Meghan,

or said about Meghan?

They'd be thick as thieves,

without question.

I mean, she would be over the moon,

jumping up and down,

so excited for me, but then,

would probably have

been best friends with Meghan, so it

is days like today when I really

miss having her around and being

able to share the happy news,

but with the ring and everything

else that's going on,

I'm sure she's with us,

you know, jumping up

and down somewhere else.

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle,

thank you both very much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Christian, I know you are a big

romantic. Tell me you didn't love

that!

Let's get some stateside reaction

to today's announcement

from Charlotte Triggs.

She's a Senior Editor

at People Magazine and joins

us now from New York.

Charlotte, listening to Meghan

Markle, she is articulate, poised,

seems very confident, her life is

about to change dramatically. How

much does it change the whole

equation that she is an American?

You know, I think it just makes it

even more of a dramatic story. Kate

first met William when they were

students together, people knew her

for years and years. Meghan is

really quite unknown and the fact

that she is an American who is

having this fairy tale experience, I

think all the women out there are

able to project their own kind of

fantasy onto her of meeting a prince

of foreign lands and getting married

and becoming Royal.

There was a huge

amount of attention here paid to

Diana when Kate and William got

married, that was a big story here

in the United States. For your

readers, is this going to be as big

a deal?

Yes, I think this is a huge

deal because, you know, it is not

everyday that you have someone like

this, an American actress, from

relatively humble beginnings he gets

to become if not a princess, a

duchess. Part of the family. It is

something that really captivates

this country. People are really

not... We don't have the culture of

royalty in United States ourselves.

The closest we had was probably the

Kennedys and saw people love to

imagine this life of Cassells and

diamonds and royals that is not

something you get to see here every

day so I think it is a big deal as

people, you know, has covered the

Royals for years and years. We had

Diana on our cover 58 times, she was

on our cover more than anyone else,

so I think there is a great addition

in this country of royal watching,

as it were.

Do you think your

magazine and others will start to

look at the history of its? The last

time an American marries a Royal was

when Edward VIII was forced to

abdicate after marrying Wallis

Simpson. Times are very different

now and so I wonder if the Americans

would say this is really the Royal

family coming into the modern age?

Right, I think that is totally true.

The fact of the matter is that she

is not your traditional candidate to

be someone marrying into the family.

She is divorced which was previously

something they didn't really go for

but the fact of the matter is that

it is a new age, a new generation

and both William and Harry have

decided that they want to kind of

take control of their lives and

marry who they want to marry and I

think it has really shown how much

the Royal family has changed since

those days that people would be

forced to abdicate the throne.

Charlotte Triggs, thank you very

much for coming in. And you can see

the full interview on the BBC News

Channel and BBC World News from

8:30pm GMT in about an hour and 20

minute's time.

Al Franken, the Democratic

Senator from Minnesota,

says he's embarrassed and ashamed

by his behaviour towards women.

Four women have now accused him

of sexual misconduct

and he'll be the subject

of an ethics investigation.

Just a short time ago, Franken spoke

outside his Senate office

saying he has been doing a lot

of reflecting and he again

apologized for his actions.

I know that I've let a lot of people

down, the people of Minnesota, my

colleagues, my staff, my supporters

and everyone who has counted on me

to be a champion for women. To all

of you, I just want to again say I

am sorry.

Senator Franken isn't the only

elected official in the US having

to answer allegations against him.

On Sunday, congressman John Conyers

stepped down as the ranking Democrat

on the House Judiciary Committee.

The civil rights hero had to give

up his powerful position

pending an investigation

into sexual misconduct.

All this as Roy Moore

continues his run to become

a US Senator from Alabama

after multiple women have come

forward alleging sexual harassment,

some while they were minors.

Joining us now is journalist

Jay Newton Small,

who has covered congress

and is author of

Broad Influence: How Women Are

Changing The Way America Works.

Thank you for coming in. What is

interesting, I think about the Al

Franken case is it has raised here

in the States at least the whole

issue of relativity around sexual

harassment. Are some allegations

worse than others? XL apologises

profusely, does that somehow

exonerate them later on? Is Al

Franken is sort of sign of the

evolving to meet all sexual

harassment?

I think there should be

two categories. One should be for

Roy Moore. Aged to be a bipartisan

issue where Americans would say

abusing a child was very different

than just has the state make

sexually harassing women or other

people versus people like Al Franken

or really the president himself,

Donald Trump, and any number of

other politicians who have been

accused of this. Those are people

who have been accused of potentially

groping or touching inappropriately

women and, yes, there are definitely

different kinds and different levels

of rate so some people have been

accused of using power to abuse

women, saying too much younger

women, 19 or 20 rows just beginning

their careers that they would have a

career as they sleep with him, that

sort of thing.

But there is a

question of whether there should be

a different standard for a sitting

senator like Al Franken and if you

have been elected to office, you to

hold yourself to a higher standard.

No doubt, it is a huge debate in

America today I do not know. You

look at Hollywood and the media, no

question, the minute these

accusations come out, you are out.

This is not what we do, it is not

good for business. In politics,

things are much murkier because

there are questions about

allegations being politically

motivated, someone potentially being

paid to say these things coming into

play and that is why there is an

investigation and are the steps

where you can go to ethics

committees to have an arbitrator to

understand who is at fault here and

whether these people should step

down, whether they should be

penalised or not.

Christian, I hear

this is much more widespread than

you might imagine on Capitol Hill.

I wonder if perhaps one of the

problems might be how they have

historically been investigated. I

read about an archaic law that said

later had of confidentiality and

more than that the boy is going to

be settlements, the sect sick bag

settlements are kept -- the

settlements are kept confidential.

We have a gruff year of settlements

from the last ten years. This is the

amount of money that had been paid

out to various women. The figure is

$934,000 paid out in 2017. I am

trying to think what would happen

here in the UK taxpayers were told

that there was a slush fund for

paying out to sexual harassment

victims.

It is absolutely

unquestionable that this process

needs to be completely overhauled

and I think there is agreement on

Capitol Hill but not enough is being

done. There is a huge amount of

outrage that taxpayer money would be

involved, these agreements were kept

secret and that is both sides of the

aisle. You hear it from everybody

including leadership, even the

Republicans, so there is no question

that there will be a very close

examining of this process and it

will be overhauled but the question

as to what extent and that remains

to be seen.

Thank you for coming in.

That is an extraordinary point that

she was making, you could make a

complaint against someone you're

working for, a senator or

congressman and then you would be

sitting in the same office while

this 30 day period elapsed and you

were talking to the lawyers and you

would still have to work with this

person and there would be no person

in between you and a senator or

congressmen that you could talk to.

Yes, I went through the steps that

it took to file a complaint of

sexual harassment in the US Congress

and it is still identifying and Cobb

located and lengthy, the whole

process, that in all wonder women

don't apply. Not only is there at

the time of working in the office of

someone you have already accused of

sexual harassment but you're not

allowed to talk to anyone, not your

lawyer and not your therapist

potentially about what is going on

so really it is a process that is

almost made to feel and made to me

that the accusers never come forward

and file complaints against men who

are very powerful and this is the

complaint about Capitol Hill and

Westminster, it is an institution

where there are a lot of men, a

disproportionate number of men in

powerful positions and young women

who depend on those men for their

careers.

Yes, it is about getting the system

in place that works.

This week is a critical one

for the Brexit negotiations

and right now the issue of Ireland

is the biggest obstacle to progress.

The Irish government says it

won't accept any Brexit outcome

that leads to a hard border

between north and south.

The Irish hold a veto if they don't

like the way the talks are going.

An added complication

is a corruption investigation

in Ireland that threatens to bring

down the minority government

of Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.

There is a confidence vote

in parliament tomorrow.

If it goes the wrong way

for Mr Varadkar we could be looking

at a snap election before Christmas?

We're joined now from Dublin

by the Irish Minister

for Local Government

and Electoral Reform

John Paul Phelan.

Very good to see you, thank you for

coming on the programme. I know that

you have put the onus for this on

the British Government. Brexit is

there doing, so they have to come up

with a solution, but what would be a

solution that would work for the

Irish Government?

Well, the most

important thing from the point of

view of the people in socially

Republic of Ireland and I would say

in the North of Ireland two is the

protection of peace. I am of an age

that I grew up, growing up and going

to school were at the discussion in

the news was what has happened in

the North of Ireland and our

relationship in the North of Ireland

the previous night normally by way

of someone or a number of people

dying. We have a peace process which

has been successful for 20 years,

very successful, but anything that

might impinge on impact and that

obviously is priority number one for

the Irish Government.

You wield

extraordinary power at the moment

with this veto, but if you were to

exercise a veto within the European

Council when they meet in a couple

of weeks, you could push Britain to

wards WTO rules and that if that

were the case, there would be a hard

border between North and South and

that is something you are keen to

avoid.

It is, but it is something

that so far the British Government

at least have been emphasising that

they are keen to avoid too. The

problem from our perspective is that

there is a summit on the 13th or

14th of December and while

sufficient progress has to be

recorded at that stage to advance to

the next stage of the negotiations,

no real, I suppose, hard to detail

has been produced yet by the British

Government as to how the issue of

the Irish question might be

resolved. There has been movement on

the cost of the divorce settlement,

if you like, and indeed on the

rights of EU citizens in Britain

and, indeed, British citizens in the

EU but the third piece, the Irish

peace, hasn't seen any movement yet

other than both sides stating their

position that they don't want to be

hard border to exist on the island

of Ireland but no concrete proposals

to as to how that can be avoided.

As

you said, the Prime Minister and

Liam Fox has reiterated again that

they do not want any physical

structures along a 300 odd mile

border, but you are demanding that

there is some kind of written

confirmation of that or declaration

of that. It sounds like you don't

really trust them, is that the case?

It is not that we don't trust

them,...

Why do you want it in

writing them?

Because up to this

point, there have been a lot of

words but not a lot of detail and I

do not think it is unreasonable. The

Irish Government's first

responsibility is to the people of

Ireland. We have a close

relationship with Britain, closer

than it has been in the history of

our state, but it is also fair to

say that we have a responsibility to

the citizens who we represent here

to ensure that there is concrete

proposals before the next stage of

negotiations is entered into.

Can

you tell us what you are hearing

from the other members of the

European Union, whether they are

giving new support for your position

on the border?

The European union

right from the start in its first

documents last June outlined, I

suppose, that the Irish issue was

one of the three main issues that

had to be considered throughout

these negotiations and that view has

not changed from the European Union.

What happens if the vote of

confidence goes against you tomorrow

and there is a snap election? That

will put Leo Varadkar in a very

difficult position. He is probably

going to dig in, isn't he? It would

be worse for him at the polls if he

didn't.

The one thing on the Irish

side of this whole debate that has

been clear is that there is no

political division between any of

the parties, be it the ones that are

in Government or the ones in

opposition, on the need to avoid the

hard border between the North of

Ireland and the Republic. That in

itself wouldn't be much of an issue,

I think.

Pretty chaotic though.

Well, we have minority governments

everywhere including in Britain and

we are actually used to them in a

sense in the Republic of Ireland. We

have had many of them before,

several in my lifetime, but there

is, as you pointed out at the start,

there are negotiations going on

tonight between Leo Varadkar and the

Leader of the Opposition and their

two main advisers. I am not party to

them but the discussions have

advised snick happens over the last

few nights. Nobody fancies the idea

of a general election in the

Republic of Ireland before

Christmas.

Good to talk to you,

thank you very much for coming on.

Thank you.

Incredible pictures

showing from Bally. The island's

Orly airport is closed, thousands of

tourists are stranded. People will

be forced to leave their homes if

necessary.

A giant cloud of rocks, glass,

crystal and gas spews out

of Bali's tallest volcano.

Life near Mount Agung goes on,

even as the authorities

urge locals to leave.

The hope - that there won't be

the death and destruction wrought

by the volcano last time around.

That was in 1963.

In a country with a history

of volcanic eruptions,

this was one of the worst.

More than 1,000 died.

The orange glow today, magma visible

at the top of the volcano.

A clue that a full-scale

eruption could come soon.

As the magma has moved up

through the volcano,

it's heated water inside,

creating steam and pressure,

hurling fragments of rock thousands

of metres into the air.

In villages, some have no

choice but to stay put.

"I'm scared but I don't have the

money to leave," says this woman.

But some tourists are still there,

as even experts struggle to predict

what this volcano will do next.

Incredible pictures there.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

from actress to princess -

we've more on the woman

who'll marry Prince Harry.

And incredible new details

about Mugabe's downfall

and the moments leading

up to his resignation.

Did China have a role to play?

That's still to come.

Briefly, we have had milder air

across the UK today that

temperatures are going to fall over

the next few days. Cold air is due

to return from the North with

northerly wind replacing this mild

west to south-westerly winds that we

had to date together with all this

cloud. The cloud has brought us some

outbreaks of rain which is sinking

southwards out into the endless

channel. Clear skies and showers

following overnight, most of them in

Northern Ireland, Wales, wintry

showers across the northern half of

Scotland as well. Cold tonight,

still not that holds just yet. A

patchy frost across the North and

perhaps icy patches in northern

Scotland where we have those

showers. There will be wintry

missing the show was here as well,

particularly over Highland and

Grampian, maybe sleet and snow as

well for the Southern uplands around

the borders. A number of showers

packing in all those cold winds

across from Northern Ireland,

pulling them over the Irish Sea.

Further North of England, most

showers initially near the coast and

many inland areas will start dry,

sunny and cold. Towards the

south-east of England, the Southwest

will see some showers, frequent

showers during the day across the

western side of Wales, lots of

showers for Northern Ireland is as

well. Wintry showers continue for

Scotland and those showers get blown

inland through the morning, down

towards the Midlands and East Anglia

in the afternoon. That is a change

is the day goes on. It will be a

cold day than today, will feel

colder today especially with some

stronger winds, too. This is the

general pressure pattern that we

will have over the next few days.

High pressure over to the west of

the UK, low pressure to the east,

the isobars coming all the way down

from the North still another cold

day on Wednesday, more frost rounds,

fewer showers over Northern Ireland,

Wales and the Southwest. A few

showers still for Scotland but more

showers down the eastern coastal

counties of England. Many places

inland will be dry, quite sunny but

also pretty cold out there as well.

Similar sort of look to the weather

as we move from Wednesday into

Thursday. Pressure pattern is not

really changed at all. Wind

direction is crucial so we are

getting more of wind coming in off

the North Sea, hence more showers

down the eastern side of England and

fewer showers for Northern Ireland,

Wales and the Southwest. In between,

lots of sunshine but another cold

day.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

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'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'

If some reason you HAVEN'T heard -

we learned today that

Britain's Prince Harry is to marry

the American actress Meghan Markle.

So what do we know about her?

Well, she is 36, divorced

and describes herself as a "strong,

confident, mixed-raced woman".

She grew up in Los Angeles

and until she met Prince Harry

was best known for playing

Rachel Zane in the US

TV drama Suits.

She's also campaigned for gender

equality and a variety

of humanitarian causes -

as our Royal Correspondent

Daniella Relph explains.

Have you heard?

There is breaking news out

of London this morning.

Drum roll, please.

Prince Harry and American

actress Meghan Markle

are engaged - yay!

Congratulations, Harry and Meghan.

We don't know you,

but congratulations!

But we will all get to know

Meghan Markle much better

over the next few months.

She is no ordinary royal fiancee.

Her early acting career

was made up of small

television and film

parts and adverts.

There was also a stint

opening the boxes

on the TV programme Deal Or No Deal.

It's Meghan Markle!

Wow, you're pretty.

Good, you've hit on me.

We can get it out of the way

that I am not interested.

No, I'm sorry...

Before her big break

in the legal drama Suits.

But she sometimes took

issue with the way her character,

Rachel Zane, was portrayed.

This season, every script seemed

to begin with

"Rachel enters wearing a towel."

And I said, "Nope, not

doing it any more."

Not doing it, and I called

the creator and I was like,

"It's just gratuitous."

We get it, you've

already seen it once,

so I think that at a certain point,

you feel empowered enough

to just say no.

Meghan Markle will bring

something different

to the British Royal family.

Born and brought up here

in the United States, she is a

proud American but she's also

a campaigner with strong

opinions and, if possible,

she won't want her marriage

to limit that side her life.

Her humanitarian work

has taken her around the world,

here in Rwanda.

She's focused

on gender equality.

Particularly as an advocate

for United Nations women.

It's really hands-on,

being part of this.

It feels really nice.

I think her passion

for other people and wanting

to create social change is

something, with that platform, can

only be positive.

I bet she'll be fine,

she'll be great in fact!

Meghan Markle grew up in this

affluent neighbourhood of Los

Angeles and went to

a private Catholic school.

She's mixed race, the daughter

of divorced parents.

Her mother, a yoga teacher

and her father, a TV

lighting director.

In the early days of her

relationship with Prince Harry some

of the media coverage

unsettled them,

Prince Harry releasing

a

statement suggesting coverage

had racial undertones.

It felt racist to me,

like there was an attempt to

make her seem like an outsider.

So, yeah that was pretty startling.

This will be a whole

new world for Meghan

Markle.

Swapping the small screen

for a far bigger stage.

Ms Markle's parents Thomas Markle,

a lighting director,

and Doria Ragland, a social worker

and yoga instructor have welcomed

the news: "We are incredibly happy

for Meghan and Harry.

Our daughter has always been

a kind and loving person.

To see her union with Harry,

who shares the same qualities,

is a source of great joy for us

as parents."

In been being slightly bookish about

the story and then the interview

started and you were totally

riveted. You have outed me on live

television. I thought it was a good

interview. It was interesting

television. I thought it was a good

interview. It was interesting to see

her because he is very impressive

and to hear from her was the most

interesting part.

Super articulate

and confident. Let's move on.

A group of German business leaders

wants the Brexit vote reversed

in exchange for a comprehensive deal

on immigration and free movement.

They've even got a catchy slogan -

"Exit from Brexit" -

but is it remotely realistic?

The group of seven influential

figures is warning that Germany must

do more to prevent losing "its most

valuable partner within the EU".

Not a view you hear expressed

from Europe very often.

I'm joined now by one of the leading

voices from the group.

Good to see you, thank you for

joining us. Exit from Brexit, that

is not really going to float. 70

million people in Britain are

committed to it.

Our call is not

addressed to Britain, it is

addressed to Brussels because we

have seen the effects of Brexit and

not only bad for Britain, this is

quite obvious if you look at the

economic results. It is long-term

also bad for Europe because with

Britain the last nation with common

sense in my opinion leaves the

European Union we need these

advocates for freedom and self

responsibility and autonomy. The

second reason is it is our opinion

and conviction that Brexit is not

only the fault if you wish of the

British, I think it is the fault of

Brussels. Brussels has always done

much to much centralisation and

harmonisation. It is like Britain

having joined a football club and

then the club management decided to

play golf. Then I asked myself who

has really left him? We are

addressing Brussels and what

Brussels to give a deal to Britain

which Cameron wanted and they quit

sure with such a new deal the

situation in Britain would also

change.

That ship has sailed. I was

at that conference before the

referendum and David Cameron urged

people in the remit to give him a

deal that he could sell back at home

but the problem has always been that

Federalists within the room did not

want to play ball. And now Britain

has chosen the path that he wants to

go down. There is no deal turning

back?

This is not the first time

that any European Union referenda

took place and the situation changed

and a new deal was put on the table.

Then the country decided otherwise.

Let's not forget and you alluded to

it, the European Union was not ready

at that time to give Cameron the

necessary autonomy which Cameron

believed rightfully he needed. Add

in the meantime most European

countries think that kind of

autonomy to control its own

aggression is necessary for all

other countries. -- control its own

immigration. Even Angela Merkel has

changed their policy of 180 degrees

solicit US is different and if I see

two trains running on the same track

against each other I think it is

irresponsible not to try to stop

them.

Let's be realistic, it is not

up to Brussels to decide whether

Brexit and will be reversed. That

was a referendum taken by the

British people had voted in favour

of it so realistically, you said

that effort is now Brexit, if that

is the should be a better deal, what

can the EU offer Britain that would

constitute a better deal?

You are

quite right. It needs a strong

better deal. In needs a deal which

Cameron wanted at that time. For

instance a clear and own

responsibility for immigration.

Europe was not ready to do that at

that time. I am quite convinced

there are many national governments

who are ready to do that and when

you say it is a realistic, we now

that the majority of Europe

Parliament can consider to be

remainders and I was always

attacking the European negotiation

strategy in regards to your country

because the behaved absolutely and

arrogantly.

You have a group of

business leaders behind you but you

do not actually have the support of

any political parties for this

position?

We have absolutely no

illusions. Berlin would say this is

the responsibility of Mr Barnier and

Brussels and Brussels would say it

is up to Britain to make the next

move and Britain would see exactly

what you said. However the situation

is so obviously wrong for both that

it is necessary to try to change the

situation and that is what we are

trying to do.

On that point, would

it be damaging for Germany? We keep

saying the no deal scenario is very

damaging for the German car industry

and manufacturing, do you agree?

I

absolutely agree. Whether a deal or

no Deal, it is both bad for Germany.

Think of the current situation,

sales of German cars have dropped by

20% in the UK. That is about the

same amount we experience when we

had the financial crisis. Look at

the Ukip, the British pound has

collapsed, you have inflation of 3%.

I didn't think that is good for you

us. It is not so unrealistic and

there can only appeal to all those

British people remain and exit who

discover how difficult it is, try to

register and to our platform which

is called new deal for Britain and I

am quite sure if we all get together

and ask these politicians to admit

they made mistakes, they may perhaps

come to their senses and come up

with a new deal for Britain which

would also be a new deal for Europe.

Thank you for joining us.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali

Yildirim says the UK's decision

to leave the European Union has left

the EU 'entirely confused'.

In London, Mr Yildirim told

reporters the EU would need

to revisit its vision on the future.

Despite that message,

the Prime Minister made it

clear his country still wishes to be

a part of the EU.

Pope Francis has met with Myanmar's

army chief on the first day

of his visit to the country,

which has been accused

of 'ethnic cleansing' against its

Muslim Rohingya minority.

He's due to give a speech

in the capital on Tuesday.

And he's been urged not to use

the word 'Rohingya' -

a term not recognised by Myanmar -

to avoid future persecution

of Christians in the country.

Two pharmaceutical firms -

one American, the other German -

have said they will invest more

than a billion dollars in the UK -

creating more than 1,800 jobs.

The deals coincide with the launch

of the government's industrial

strategy white paper,

which is aimed at supporting more

research and development,

encouraging firms to embrace

new technology, and

boosting the economy.

Robert Mugabe was a

wily old politician.

For 37 years he'd hung

on as President in Zimbabwe

by eliminating opponents

and rewarding his most

loyal henchmen.

But now we discover from leaked

intelligence documents,

that for several weeks before

the coup, the President's former

allies were plotting against him.

The 93-year old WAS aware plans were

afoot but he couldn't stop them.

The chief of the army

General Chiwenga decided weeks ago

that Grace Mugabe must be stopped.

On a recent visit to Beijing he was

given the support of the Chinese.

AND on his return to Harare,

the General managed to evade capture

- only because his soldiers

outnumbered Mugabe's secret police

who were waiting at the airport.

Some of his soldiers were disguised

as baggage handlers.

All these details were gathered

by the Reuters News Agency,

Ed Cropley is their bureau chief

in sub-Saharan Africa.

We kind of knew for some time that

whether these divisions within Zona

PF but it was not abundantly clear

that they were trying to bring in

Beijing to not stop the coup. What

you say is correct. We have known

for more than a year that it had

been these massive rifts between the

factions loyal to Robert Mugabe's

wife and factions loyal to the no

president was backed by the

military. The temperature has been

rising, increasing between these two

sides and most recently in the

run-up to the punch by Robert Mugabe

which now appears to be the moment

that really did launch the crew.

What's fascinating about these

documents is what grace was up to an

innately crew was unfolding. She was

tried to get help.

People inside

Zimbabwe were desperately trying to

know and discover what was going on.

We have been reporting them are not

personnel characters heading towards

the capital and the afternoon, one

of them broke down beside it would

you have to pity the driver this

armoured vehicle on the day of the

coup has tanked breaks down. But

people in Johannesburg like myself

were furiously trying to call anyone

be good to find out...

She was

trying to get social media taken off

here.

That is exactly right. Where

we were confused, so was Grace

Mugabe. She called ministers and

supporters who tries to get social

media shuts down because of the

photographs of armoured personnel

carriers and troop carriers

converging on the capital. They

thought it was a major security risk

and assumed that the way to shore up

their position was to shut down the

media. One of the most telling

details is the defence Minister who

puts on a call to the journal who we

know was leading the coup from

headquarters and the defence

Minister calls and says, can you

tell us what is going on, we hear

them may be a coup, do you have any

information? From what we are told

he replied to him, thank you I will

look into it and get back to you.

Now we know he never got back to him

at all.

We mentioned the extent with

the general came back from China and

arrived and allow the Secret Service

forces, describe that incident a bit

more. It is telling of how far the

military was compared to go.

It is

an extraordinary incident that

crystallises the highest extension

of the game. Robert Mugabe's spies

had got wind of meetings in China

according to information we have

received and after the purge, we do

not yet know exactly what they

discussed in China but certainly on

the Mugabe side of things they put a

and B together and came up with see

he called the chief of police who

are told to pick up at the airport.

We understand the former chief of

the intelligence services had been

commissioned to drop treason charges

against the general survey was

walking right into essentially a

trap, illegal trap that would put

him away for later he was convicted

and that of course is a few actually

lived to tell the tale. He gets on

the phone because like everything

and Zimbabwe have legs like cases so

he says we're up against 100 secret

policeman at the airport and needs

to double that. The information we

have is that as many as 250, 300

special forces troops and six at

service agents are in the airport

disguise as baggage handlers and

security guards.

... Amazing story.

The reporting is fantastic. So glad

everyone leaked that information to

you. Thank you.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days.

Still to come - Deck

the Presidential halls

as the White House turns

into Tinsel Town and Melania Trump

gives her Twitter followers a tour

of this year's decorations.

West Yorkshire Police say the five

victims of a fatal car crash

in Leeds over the weekend,

were all in the vehicle

when it hit a tree.

Two men and three boys died

in the incident on Saturday night

in the Meanwood area of the city.

Danny Savage reports.

The scene of Saturday

night's terrible crash

remains sealed off today.

The search for evidence to establish

how and why a stolen car

careered off a straight road.

The tree it hit is scarred,

as are some of the people

who were first on the scene.

When I arrived here in the early

hours of Sunday morning,

this was a catastrophic scene.

All the witnesses,

all the police officers,

all the emergency services

that were here would have seen

absolutely a scene of total carnage.

Named locally, the

youngest victims were

Ellis and Elliott Thornton, who were

brothers aged just 12 and 14.

Also in the car was

15-year-old Darnell Harte

along with 24-year-old

Robbie Meerun

and father of two

Anthoney Armour who was also 24.

The Renault Clio was stolen

and some of the people in it

were known to police.

It's also understood there were

six people in the car at the time

which is designed to take

a maximum of five passengers.

The one survivor, aged 15,

was arrested on Saturday night.

He remains in custody

as the families of those who died

struggled to deal

with the aftermath.

Six former British soldiers,

who've been in prison in India

since 2013 are to be released.

The so called "Chennai Six"

were arrested along with 29

others on weapons charges,

while working as security guards

on ships in the Indian Ocean.

Their families are now waiting

to hear when they'll

be returning home.

In Cricket - England have lost

the first Ashes Test

in Brisbane by ten wickets.

Australia needed just 56 runs

to win on the final day -

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Days...Almost two years ago a state

of emergency was declared in Flint,

Michigan when it was found

the city's water supply

was contaminated with lead.

What had started as a cost cutting

measure resulted in multiple

illnesses and an outbreak

of Legionnaire's disease that killed

at least 12 people.

Flint got a lot of attention

but water quality is still a real

concern across the US.

Analysts have found that more

than 1,000 water systems serving

3.9 million Americans,

have water that fails

the safety standard for lead.

As part of his America First series

- the BBC's Aleem Maqbool has

travelled to Flint for this report.

The only thing unusual about what

happened in Flint is the agencies

responsible got caught.

Before she even knew about the lead

poisoning, Kerry Webber recalls her

shock when she took a daughter to

the hospital.

They should meet pass

tougher skin that you could see the

bone in her wrist and there was

literally a line that was not

calcified bone, it was late. -- it

was led.

It is not...

The crisis either Flint became

national news because of the number

of people affected in such an

extreme and shocking way. But

scientists are worried that millions

of Americans and other parts of the

country are also being poisoned by

the water in their homes but of the

do not know it. And fact what has

been found to contain even more

poisonous lead levels than in Flint

and dozens of towns around the

country and it is happening like a

dead in Flint because of money.

We

have not accepted in this country

that water, affordable safe cooking

water is a basic human right. If you

cannot afford to get clean, safe

water that is just your tough luck.

The mayor of Flint was told it was

safe because the state wants to save

money.

I needed to do more that the

local level to bring an independent

expertise, people who did not have

an adherence to these old standards.

And families have toxic water most

impunity is where so many do not

have a voice. -- in communities were

so many do not have a voice.

Flint

is poor. The we did not matter. You

are looking at your children go

through this 100,000 people and

knowing that none of them matter

enough, that is hard to take.

It was

a big issue during the election

campaign and those people are still

without access to clean water. One

woman who counted how many bottles

of water took to cook a Thanksgiving

meal, she eagle and Flint having to

use 15 bottles of water to cook

their meal. It is a real issue for

people clearly not just in Flint but

adding the country. It is a question

of how much costs will be cut, make

savings with services to people and

we're having this discussion as

America is about to a big tax cut

plan which will not help with

revenue. That has been a good CDs

that, we should get him on to talk

about that.

It's a time-honoured tradition

here in Washington -

regardless of who occupies it -

the White House turns

into tinsel-town.

It was a first for Melania Trump

who unveiled the Christmas

decorations to a group of children

from a nearby military base.

Afterwards, she took part

in an arts and craft session,

which appears to have won

the approval of those involved.

Mrs Trump tweeted about

the festive frills -

posting a video to her @FLOTUS

account, showing off

the Christmas colours.

The White House says

she designed it all herself.

This year's theme

-"Time-Honored Traditions" -

aims to pay respect to 200 years

of holiday traditions

at the White House.

And the centrepiece?

160-kilos of gingerbread shaped

into a replica of the White House.

I think viewers will look just like

that when you make your post

gingerbread will stop. I have

delegated to Mrs Fraser. Forget