28/11/2017 Beyond 100 Days

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Donald Trump travels to Congress

desperate for a political win.

But even today his tweets

seem to get in the way -

top Democrats cancel a meeting

after he disses them online.

The President has insulted so many

Senators that Capitol Hill isn't

exactly friendly territory -

but he needs them now

to pass tax reform.

Why is this Native American

princess suddenly part

of a fierce political debate?

President Trump calling a US

Senator Pocahontas has

created a firestorm.

North Korea has fired a missile and

it raises tension in the region.

Also on the programme...

The Pope avoids any mention

of the Rohingya on a visit

to Myanmar despite previously

describing their treatment

as religious persecution.

And tens of thousands of tourists

remain stranded in Bali

as authorities prepare

for the eruption of

the volcano - Mount Agung.

Hello and welcome.

I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

Donald Trump has so far

had a spectacularly

uneventful presidency -

that is, if you measure it in terms

of legislative achievements.

He knows that and his

Republican party knows it.

Which is why they are both racing

to get a big tax reform bill passed

before the end of the year.

Everyone agrees America's overly

complex tax system needs changing.

It hasn't been reformed

since Ronald Reagan

was in the White House.

And while there is still

disagreement on some of the finer

point of the proposal -

this is the best shot

the Republicans have this year

of getting something done.

Which is why Mr Trump went

to Capitol Hill this morning

to try to persuade members to vote

in favour of these reforms.

Republican Senator Rob Portman sits

on the finance committee,

he joined us earlier and I asked him

how high the stakes

are for this bill.

I think it is really

important for the economy

and families I represent.

Our tax code is broken.

Everybody agrees

with that, by the way.

There is no disagreement

that there needs to be reform.

The thing is how you reform it.

If we don't do something,

we'll continue to lose jobs

and investment overseas.

We'll continue to have the situation

where middle-class families

have an excessive burden and wages

haven't gone up in the United States

for the last couple of decades.

This is an important way

to boost middle-class family

incomes but we need to get

this economy moving.

It will help working

families even more.

In terms of the political states

for the Republican Party?

You know, it's important

to get things done.

I believe voters decide

not based on one issue

or another but they decide

on whether you are accomplishing

them that affects them

and their families.

This one does.

You are deficit hawk.

You spent a lot of your career

trying to bring down

the American deficit.

There are economists out

there who see this plan adds

something like $2 trillion

to the American deficit.

How will you supporting it?

I support the other economists

who say this is going to decrease

the deficit for the reason

that the only way you get this debt,

$20 trillion, which doubled

in the last eight years,

and the deficit down,

you have to grow the economy

and you have to constrain spending.

It's a combination of things.

You met President Trump yesterday

at the White House and you described

that as a good meeting.

His relations with some

of your colleagues haven't been

particularly friendly recently.

Is it a problem for the Republican

party in trying to get legislation

passed when the President is openly

critical of senior

members of the party?

It doesn't help but in this

case it is interesting.

People don't view this as a tax cut

from the White House.

They view this as a tax reform

and a separate proposal that

comes out of Congress.

On the other hand,

we are working together

with the Treasury Department,

the White House to come up

with something that really works

in terms of getting the economy

moving and providing

middle-class tax relief.

It is different then some proposals

that are viewed as coming

from the Administration.

Let me ask you about another issue

facing your party which is the race

in Alabama and the judge Roy Moore

continued to deny allegations

against him of sexual abuse.

The President seems to have

accepted his denials.

Where do you stand on that?

Do you think the women

who have accused boy Moore

Do you think the women

who have accused Roy Moore

of sexually abusing them,

or teenagers, one was 14

at the time, or credible or do

you believe Judge Moore?

No one knows all of the facts

but I have found these women come

forward on the record

and found their accounts

to be credible.

There has been some cooperation.

I think there is substantial

credibility behind

these allegations.

That's why for a long time

I did not endorse Roy Moore,

I endorsed the Republican who ran

in the primary.

I have said it will be best

if he would step aside and have not

found his responses to be

as credible as the women

who have come forward.

The voters of Alabama

will decide this.

Not you, not me.

We'll see what happens.

Senator, you've always been a sober

voice in your party reflecting

on the state of the party.

Are you concerned that

if Roy Moore is elected the next

Republican Senator of Alabama,

the perception will be

that the Republican Party has become

a party that in the interests

of political expedients and getting

tax reform passed is prepared

to elect somebody who has

been accused of sexually

molesting a child?

I don't think so.

I think the proposal will be

done before he is sworn

in if he wins his election or hey

if his opponent wins the election

when he is sworn in.

The election is not

until December 12.

We are on track to get the proposal

from the Senate in the next week

and have a short conference

with the house and then final vote.

I don't think that

will affect tax reform.

I think it is important

that we as Republicans

focus on the issues

and I mentioned that earlier.

One is tax reform and

the other is health care.

You know Democrats will use

this against you in

the mid-term elections.

I suppose although a lot

of Republicans in the Senate

at least have been asked about this

issue and have a similar

view to mine.

I don't know it will be effective.

What I do think is we have to get

away from the distractions

and focus on delivering

for the people we represent.

If we do that, I think the politics

tends to fall in place.

Senator, thank you very

much for joining me.

Thank you.

There are so many distractions.

And Christian, I mentioned in that

interview the president's tendency

to insult members of his own party

and it doesn't stop there.

We've come up with this small

montage of those he has

personally taken aim at.

For the record he has

focused his ire on 20% of Republican

senators and the list goes

on from there.

We have a tweet about a meeting

today.

No surprise when he sent that out.

They don't see any point meeting

when the President doesn't think

there is a chance of making a deal.

At some point the adults will return

to Washington.

The trouble is - every time

Republicans want to focus on serious

issues like tax reform,

Mr Trump says something

which creates a distraction.

He did it again yesterday.

At a ceremony in the Oval Office

with Native Americans,

veterans of the Second World War,

Mr Trump started talking

about Pocahontas, his nickname

for Democratic senator,

Elizabeth Warren.

Very, very special people.

You were here long before

any of us were here

although we have a representative

in Congress who they say was here a

long time ago.

They call her Pocahontas.

But you know what?

I like you.

The President has been asked many

times by Native Americans to stop

using the name Pocahontas

as an insult.

For those who don't know.

She was the daughter of a 17th

century chief kidnapped

by the English army,

who later converted to Christianity.

When the opportunity arose

for her to return to her people,

she chose to remain

with her captors.

The story has been widely

documented, most famously

in a Walt Disney film.

When Mr Trump uses the term

to mock his political

rival, Elizabeth Warren,

it's in the context

of a claim she made in a job

application in 2012.

The Democratic Senator said she had

Native American ancestry -

but was unable to support the claim

with any paperwork.

This is classic Donald Trump. He

goes off script and engages mouth

before brain, critics say. There are

these racial undertones. There is no

way he would have said that when he

not standing next to Native

Americans.

I don't think you would

have had us learn about Pocahontas

in a room of war veterans that

white. A pollster said one of the

things that supports him and finds

most appealing about Donald Trump is

when he is not politically correct

and calls people out there being too

political correct. The White House

operation has got into a discussion

about Pocahontas and whether it is a

racial slur. He feels for the 33% of

Americans that support him, this is

the kind of thing they want to be

able to hear. It has forced them to

respond. Trying to get tax forms

through, they are talking about this

and not about other issues. It

doesn't help in getting legislation

through.

In the last half an hour,

we're getting reports that

North Korea has fired

a ballistic missle.

That's coming from the

Reuters News agency.

It has said to have flown East.

Japan detected radio signals that

they have been preparing for another

missile launch. These are pictures

from August when North Korea test

fired other missiles including the

Intercontinental ballistic missiles

as tensions increased over the

breaking stories. Have you heard any

more about this?

I haven't heard any

more than what has been released to

the press. It doesn't surprise me.

Kim Jong UN will continue to do what

he has been doing unless he is

stopped. The only way he can be

stopped without a military solution

is if the Chinese government shuts

down his ability to survive

economically. The willingness to do

that will continue to see him test

and test until he is satisfied he

has the capability of breach of the

United States with a nuclear

warheads where we are now. Nothing

much has changed and the President

went and visited and got the red

carpet laid out for him but little

in the way of substance has come out

of that in terms of getting control

and sending the signal to the North

Koreans that their testing is no

longer going to be accepted by the

Chinese. I don't think we are

willing to do that and we will see

more and more testing by the North

Koreans.

The Pentagon has said there

is a probable missile launch from

North Korea. The White House had

been pleased to see we haven't had a

missile launch for a reasonably long

period of time since the summer and

they were saying that was because

the President has been speaking

tough about North Korea. This seems

to have broken that streak. What are

the options now?

The White House

doesn't have any options in terms of

looking for a military solution

unless there is a last resort. I

think you will find them saying

diplomacy is not over. Ultimately,

it is only the Chinese with the help

of the Russians but principally be

Chinese who can shut down the

lifeblood going into North Korea.

Namely the economic assistance they

provide, the trade they provide that

allows him to continue to test

missile after missile while

depriving his people of much-needed

elements for their survival. He is

able to do this with the help of the

Chinese and others. Unless we are

able to shut that down, lest the

Chinese are willing to shut that

down, we will continue to see him

doing what he has been doing.

The

Japanese Prime Minister has ordered

an emergency meeting of Cabinet

ministers over that launch. It is

difficult for North Korea's

neighbours. Donald Trump was there

during his trip of Asia. What do

they do in response?

Japan should

consider deploying the missile

system on Japanese territory. The

system will move from navel to

ground-based but I would go further.

I would say to the Japanese people,

they need to have a greater

capability of defending themselves.

That would emphasise that the South

Korea. That combined with China

doing what it has to do, it has a

chance of bringing about a peaceful

solution. Absent that, we will

continue to be on edge in terms of

Kim Jong UN firing missile after

missile. The Japanese people have

reason to worry. One might be armed

with a nuclear warhead and it might

not fly over the country. It might

go awry and kill people. They have a

lot to be concerned about. Not too

long ago a group of parliamentarians

from South Korea approached me and

wanted me to endorse their desire to

reintroduce tactical nuclear weapons

on South Korea territory. There are

a number of reasons why that is not

a great idea but I think the

rationale behind it is they no

longer feel confident the United

States would defend their interests

if it came to defending San

Francisco or Seattle or anywhere in

the United States. They are losing

confidence in the United States and

I think there was going to be a

greater portion for the South

Koreans to develop their own

capability and if that happens,

Japan will not be too far behind.

This is something that is very

serious. We fought hard to prevent

proliferation of nuclear weapons in

that region and I think if the North

continue to do what it is doing, it

will put up its own development of

weapons systems and it will start to

erode. That is not good for those

countries and the world. That is

something the Chinese have to take

into account.

For the moment, thank

you for that. To confirm another

missile has been confirmed.

Confirmation from the Pentagon at

18:30pm, we detected a missile

launch. We are in the process of

assessing the situation and will

provide additional details.

A political crisis in Ireland

which threatened to bring down

the country's minority government

seems to have been averted.

The controversy centred around

what Deputy Prime Minister,

Frances Fitzgerald, knew of a plan

to discredit a police

whistle-blower.

There was due to be a vote

of no confidence this

evening, which could have forced

a snap election at a crucial

time in the run up to

next month's EU summit.

But she has now resigned.

Our correspondent, Chris Page

is in Dublin for us.

A crisis averted but critical things

coming up in the Brexit discussions.

This is a very important window for

the teashop to press their case.

There has been a major political

crisis in Dublin as Ireland is

playing a prominent role in the EU's

negotiations with Britain on the

subject of the UK's departure from

the European Union. This is the only

EU states with a land border with

the United Kingdom and what will

happen on that land border after

Brexit has become huge issues in

these negotiations. They say they

want to keep friction as low as

possible about how that can be

achieved in the context of Brexit is

unclear. Many times over the last

few days, a tad looks like the Irish

Prime Minister was going to be

heading to that important EU summit

next month while fighting election

campaigns here in his own country.

The background to this crisis was

around the Deputy Prime Minister,

Frances Fitzgerald. It was about how

much she knew about a planned by

lawyers to discredit a

whistle-blower during and inquiry.

The main opposition party who

sustained the minority government by

not opposing them in important votes

like the budget, they have set the

Deputy Prime Minister have their

stand -- had to stand down or else

they would bring down the government

and table no vote. The leading part

in the coalition of which the Prime

Minister leads, said they didn't

want an election close to Christmas.

Frances Fitzgerald has resigned and

government has been damaged and many

in Dublin wouldn't be surprised if

there is a general election in this

country early next year.

Thank you

very much.

Pope Francis has urged the leaders

of Myanmar to respect human rights

and justice but he made no reference

to the country's Rohingya muslims,

who've been forced to flee

in their hundreds of thousands.

His failure to use the term

and to avoid any criticism

of the Myanmar government

is being criticised by aid groups.

Since the end of August -

more than 620,000 Rohingyas have

escaped what the UN calls 'ethnic

cleansing' and have crossed

into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Martin Bashir has the details.

A military band announces the

arrival of Pope Francis. The rich

pageantry, a world away from the

terror felt by more than 600,000

Rohingyas who have fled into

Bangladesh in what the United

Nations has called textbook ethnic

cleansing. Today, Pope Francis met

with Myanmar's defective leader, and

Sang Suu Kyi to name them Rohingyas

as victims. The civilian leader who

shares power with the army spoke

first acknowledging the focus where

Rohingyas have lived for

generations.

As we address

long-standing issues, the support of

our people and of good friends who

only wish to see us succeed in our

endeavours has been invaluable.

She

chose to speak little about the

crisis. Expectations shifted to Pope

Francis.

TRANSLATION: The future of

Myanmar must be peace based on

respect for the dignity of each

right of the member of society. No

one excluded.

Pope Francis praised

the UN but did not referred to the

accusation that to has engaged in

ethnic cleansing. While he said the

future of this nation must include

all people regardless of their race

and religion, he did not use the

word, Rohingyas. Those working with

Rohingyas see the Pope surrendered

his moral authority by not offering

an explicit criticism. Many in a

country that 75% Buddhist were

relieved he didn't mention the

Rohingyas by name.

TRANSLATION: It

was wise to not use the word. The

world is having the wrong message.

The Pope may have been mindful about

repercussions for another religious

minority. Christians make up 6% of

the population here and many have

travelled to take part in a special

Mass where Pope Francis will preside

tomorrow.

Before the Pope left for Myanmar

many raised concerns

about whether this visit was a good

idea, including Father Thomas Reese,

a jesuit priest who writes a column

for the Religion News Service.

He said..

For more on why -

Father Reese joins us now.

Why shouldn't he have gotten?

He was

put in a difficult situation. His

heart is always with refugees and

the people who are suffering. If he

used the term, Rohingyas, there

would be a backlash. The radical

Buddhist monks would rise up and

lead people in attacking the

Christians. It is very hard to be

diplomatic and prophetic at the same

time.

You are a historian of the

Catholic Church. If you support one

religion, you would lead to the

persecution of another religion and

it was the argument that Pope Pius

faced in the Second World War and it

didn't end well for him.

It was a

tragedy. Pope Francis did a really

good job of balancing the two things

because he spoke out about peace

based on respect for the dignity and

rights of everybody. Everybody knows

what he was talking about. Nobody in

the press corps missed what he was

saying. They also talked about the

hostility and conflict that Myanmar

has suffered. He was talking about

the need for reconciliation, the

need the piece, the need for the

respect human rights. Everybody

knows he was talking about the

Rohingyas and other ethnic groups

that are discriminated against in to

.

I know the nuncio is play a very

important role in terms of quiet

diplomacy and I would imagine the

Pope at the same ballast that if you

are too strident, you -- lose that

leveraged. If you are too soft, you

are accused of appeasement.

This is

the challenge he faced in going to

the country. Trying to balance those

things, being prophetic and

protecting your own people. It is

very difficult. He did a pretty good

job. We have to remember he is not a

miracle worker. If he goes there and

says you shouldn't do that, they got

the guides. It is a situation where

the Christians are such a small

minority and have been suffering

persecution themselves. This makes

it difficult for him.

Thank you very

much for coming in to join us.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers

on the BBC News Channel

and BBC World News -

they are the diplomatic posts that

sell the US to the world and many

remain vacant in key

countries - we'll be asking why?

And the airline pledging to put more

women in the cockpit -

we speak to the Qantas

chief about how intends.

That's still to come.

If you thought it was called today

come the next few days will get

colder still. We have more showers

coming in for eastern areas into

parts of Yorkshire and it added to

the chill. A subtle change in wind

direction will blow those showers

away from Wales and the south-west.

With the air getting colder, though

showers are turning wintry. Enough

wind to prevent widespread frost.

Northern Scotland, those wintry

showers keep going although not as

many as today by the morning

tomorrow. Frosty start across most

of Scotland and sunshine through the

sunshine -- central belt. New

showers and a mix of rain, sleet and

snow. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and

into the East Midlands. Still dry in

the south-east and colder and

brighter start across Wales and the

south-west of England. We are seeing

more showers down the eastern side

of the UK. This is where we have the

coldest and strongest winds. Many

other areas getting away with a dry

day. Still will be called but

doesn't feel quite so bad.

Temperatures similar to those of

today. We have high pressure to the

west of the UK. No pressure to the

east and all our areas come down

from the north. We have colder air

and it will get colder. More

widespread frost on Sunday morning.

Frosty out there in the countryside.

Call data, Thursday. Though showers

coming back into Northern Ireland

and West Wales and the four West

Wales -- far West Wales. The area is

cold enough temperatures for many of

us are struggling around three

Celsius. Maximum temperature in the

afternoon. Slight changes towards

the end of the week. High pressured

to the west of us and we will draw

in some milder Atlantic air. Slowly

but surely from the north-west, we

will see cloud increasing and little

rain or drizzle. Sunshine for

England and Wales will stop --.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories.

North Korea launches another

ballistic missile tests.

President Trump heads to

Capitol Hill to push for tax reform.

A leading Republican tells us it's

time to get things done

for the American public.

I do think as a party we need to try

to get away from the distractions

and focusing on delivering for the

people we represent.

Coming up, is

there a brain drain at the US State

Department? Watching and waiting in

Bali, thousands of visitors now

stranded after a volcano threatens

to blow.

Let us know your thoughts

by using the hashtag

'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'.

Today US Secretary of

State Rex Tillerson addressed

strengthening western alliances -

what he didn't mention

was the growing concern in America

about the brain drain

at his own state department.

When Trump took over in January

there were 39 people in the state

department's top two

most senior ranks.

There were 431 in

the next level down.

Now look at the picture today.

There are just 19 left in that first

group and only 369 in the second.

More have said they will leave soon.

There are still no US

ambassadors in critical

places like South Korea,

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan -

that's just to name a few.

For more on the consequences I'm

joined now by former US defense

secretary William Cohen.

If you believe the state department,

8000 odd people is a bloated

bureaucracy then surely it is a good

idea to get rid of some people.

I

think any institution is subject to

being reviewed in terms of its size

and efficiencies with that is

something every agency should go

through. What is taking place in the

State Department however seems to be

a decimation of that department

itself, are hollowing out of key

tell the people. Now in full

disclosure, I have been the

beneficiary of that, in the past six

months I've had four top diplomats

coming to my firm. So that loss has

been my game but I wish it had not

been the case, I would rather these

individuals stayed in the state of

department and continued to

represent the American people. But

they decided to leave. I'm blessed

they decided to come with me but

nonetheless a great loss to the

country.

Why does this

administration appeared to want to

downsize the American diplomatic

infrastructure?

I really cannot

fathom the thinking of the president

in this but it appears he resents

the State Department and seems to

blame it, whether it is too bloated

or simply is existence, responsible

for negotiating all these so-called

bad deals that he feels he should be

negotiated each of these deals on an

individual basis, as a transaction

that only he should carry out. And

so one way to get at this problem is

simply to start getting rid of the

people who have been there. These

are people who have years of

experience and have been responsible

for being on the front lines,

they're warriors and they at risk

physically as well as

psychologically in being in these

places throughout the world, that

are very dangerous. Rosol how

dangerous Benghazi was and we put

people out there and we need our

best people there who are dedicated

to helping solve problems through

diplomacy.

Not so much the way it is

perceived from outside of the

country, but it is how it is

perceived in the country as well. I

read today that new applicants to

the State Department fell by one

third in the year to October which

is incredible. At what point does

Congress get involved and stop this?

I think the point is now, the point

is to have Congress intervened and

say what is the role of the State

Department, what missions need to be

carried out and do we have the right

people and amount of people

necessary to accomplish that. I

recall going to Capitol Hill with my

colleague, Secretary Madeleine

Albright and testifying on behalf of

getting more money into the State

Department. Bobby Gates who served

in the Bush administration and Obama

administration called for more money

for the State Department and Jim

matters currently the Secretary of

Defence saying we need more

resources for the State Department

rather than less. So if you look

back and say Henry Kissinger, Dean

Baker, Doctor Schultz, and John

Kerry and others including Madeline

Albright said that they have worked

all their lives to build an

institution which seeks to promote

peace and diplomacy rather than

getting us into war is. So you need

a strong military but you have to

have the negotiators out there are

behalf and that is not being done to

the degree it needs to be. So now is

the time for Congress to take

action.

Thank you for coming in to

join us. Just some breaking news on

that missile that North Korea has

fired in the last hour or so, the

Japanese government estimates it

flew from -- for 15 minutes and

landed in the exclusive economic

zone in Japan. I think that is the

area in the sea, not talking about

Atlantic actually in Japan but

actually in the sea. What they

regard as the exclusive economic

zone of Japan. So we will try to get

some that.

There's been another extraordinary

twist in the Alabama Senate race.

If you don't already know,

the Republican candidate

for the seat Roy Moore has been

accused of sexual

harassment by 8 women.

Well yesterday the Washington Post

reported that a woman had approached

them claiming she'd had a sexual

relationship with Moore in 1992,

that led to an abortion

when she was just 15.

Except it wasn't true.

A false story that appears to be

the work of a conservative

organisation here that uses

deceptive tactics to embarrass

its liberal targets.

The Post did its due diligence

and began to suspect

the story wasn't true.

It didn't print the report.

The paper HAS now released

a video of their journalist

interviewing the woman

and catching her inconsistencies.

I am also frankly wanting to know

who you might be working for now.

I

still do work.

There is a bit of an

issue there. I just want to ask you

to explain that because we call the

company you that you work for and

they said you did not work there. Do

you still have an interest? In

combating the lies of the liberal

MSM?

So this is Project Veritas

paying someone to pretend that she

was raped.

Well they will not

answer, they suspect it might be

that they saw her going into the

office of Project Veritas but they

have not confirmed she works for

them.

But someone claiming she was

raped to discredit women who made

allegations against Roy Moore. I

cannot help thinking that this

backfires on more and more because

the Washington Post would say we did

due diligence shown the other eight

women we have reported on must

therefore be telling the truth

because we found the one where she

was not telling the truth.

Take that

thinking which is logical and

perhaps rational thinking and flip

it on its head and put it in a very

tribal context where people who

already believe what are effectively

fake news organisations like this

will just carry on believing it.

Social scientists have a phrase for

this, how people become embedded in

their own beliefs when presented

with contrary evidence. For the

people who are believers of Project

Veritas and everything they do to

discredit the liberal media, the

fact that the Washington Post comes

out with this looking like an

organisation that does due diligence

will not change their minds. They

will carry on believing Project

Veritas and even probably believing

that this woman and what she said,

believe everything the organisation

does. We're living in such a tribal

world where being confronted with

evidence that challenges your

beliefs does not change your beliefs

makes them actually more hardened.

You have the Washington Post with

enormous resources but for those

local papers, maybe they do not

report it in the future to the

detriment of that system.

President Trump is actively

considering ''when and how'' to move

the US Embassy in Israel

to Jerusalem, according

to Vice President Pence.

Moving the embassy to the Israeli

capital was one of the President's

campaign promises.

The move would strengthen

US ties with Israel,

but Palestinian authorities warn

the US could derail

the peace process.

Details of the last conversations

with the crew of a missing Argentine

submarine have been revealed.

The Argentina Navy says the San Juan

reported that water had

entered the sub's snorkel

causing its battery

to short-circuit.

The battery had been isolated

and a second one used to continue

the journey underwater

back towards base.

A huge international search

for the vessel is underway

in the South Atlantic.

44 crew members are on board.

In the next hour Canadian Prime

Minister Justin Trudeau will issue

a formal apology to the LGBTQ

community for historical

legislation, policies

and practices that led

to their oppression

and discrimination.

It's the second major apology issued

by the prime minister

as part of the country's

'history week' celebrations.

Last week Mr Trudeau formally

apologised to thousands

of aboriginals who were removed

from their families decades ago

in the so-called 'sixties Scoop'.

Thousands of visitors are stranded

on the Indonesian island of Bali

after aircraft were stopped

from using its only airport -

for a second day - over fears

a local volcano may erupt.

Mount Agung is sending gas,

ash and smoke thousands

of meters into the air.

From Bali - Hywel Griffiths

sent this report.

With ash billowing overhead and

tremors growing underground mount a

going shows no sign of slowing

interruption. Thick muddy flows

already spilling from the surface,

they are dangerous but not as

devastating as the red-hot lava

which could follow. In the mountains

shadow they have been preparing for

months, everyone knows the drill,

these children have been reassured

there will be safe as long as the

evacuation plan is followed. For the

thousands forced from their homes,

two months ago, when the tremor

started, the wait has been

unbearable. And there's no way of

knowing when it will end.

TRANSLATION:

I have two young

children, what will we do.

The

impact at the eruption is already

spreading, more than 800 flights

have been cancelled and the only way

in and out is by boat. It feels like

a good time to leave.

It is quite

scary, it seems pretty close at the

minute. Not sure if it is due to

corrupt or in the middle of it.

But

some here are determined to stick to

everyday life. Whatever the risks.

This flower seller lives within the

exclusion zone but is refusing to

leave. She will run if the lava

comes, she laughs. To the day the

island has been hit by tropical

storms and blackouts, just adding to

the sense of destruction. As

everyone here waits to see how the

eruption will end.

Extraordinary pictures, it reminded

me of one that I reported on about

15 years ago and it was spitting out

enormous amounts of sulphur dioxide

which of course turns into acid

rain. And carbon dioxide also coming

from the ground into these pockets

and when the wind does not blow and

it is cold in the morning it settles

in these pockets called elephant

graveyard and the children would

walk out from their villages and

walk through these pockets and die.

Because they cannot breathe. So the

UN had to put up signs around these

villages to remind people not to

walk in low-lying ground. It was

quite extraordinary.

Amazing, you

think of it just as a spectacle but

then you realise how destructive it

can be for people living there.

Still to come, how many pilots in

the world are women. The figure

could surprise you. We asked the

boss of Quantas how he intends to

get more females involved.

The UK has some of the highest

levels of stillbirth

in western Europe.

Now for the first time,

parents of stillborn babies

are to be routinely offered

an independent investigation

into what went wrong.

Here's our Health Correspondent,

Dominic Hughes.

Amanda is a busy mum,

but she lives with a terrible loss.

Hi, Riley-moo.

Hi, mummy.

She enjoyed a normal

pregnancy and labour

with her second baby,

but shortly after the birth her

daughter, Tallulah, died.

The response from the

hospital didn't help.

They said, you know,

often there aren't any answers.

It was the first thing I was told,

not to get my hopes up

that there would be answers.

That many babies just die in labour

and no-one really knows why.

Unfortunately, by the time the

inquest came around, the hospital

had lost all the blood results,

the cord results, so we had

nothing really to go on.

But the histologist

at the inquest said,

looking at her and doing

the post-mortem, there

was no explanation.

It's this kind of situation Health

Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants to end.

Among the measures announced today

is an independent review of every

unexplained death during labour,

rather than hospitals

conducting their own investigations.

When I talk to parents whose

heart has been broken

by something that's gone wrong,

in those very small numbers

of cases, what they say is,

it's not about the money,

they just want to know that the NHS

has learned from what went wrong,

so that that same mistake isn't ever

going to happen again.

Without doubt there has been some

real progress over the last decade

when it comes to reducing the number

of stillbirths and neonatal deaths,

which is when a baby dies

within four weeks of being born,

but the UK still lags some way

behind other European countries.

The vast majority of 700,000 births

a year pass off without incident,

but each day there are around

nine stillborn babies.

Roughly 50 women die in England each

year from issues related

to pregnancy and around 50,000

babies are born prematurely.

Too many families are

being left to deal with

the devastating loss of a baby.

Care is improving,

but there are concerns that

progress is still too slow.

Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

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He is the highest paid airline chief

in the Asia-Pacific region -

he's looking to mustard seeds

to help power his planes,

he wants more women in cockpits

and he put a million dollars

of his own money into supporting

same-sex marriage in Australia -

we are talking about the Qantas CEO,

Alan Joyce.

He was paid 19-million-US-dollars

last year after turning

the airline's fortunes around

through painful cost-cutting

and restructures.

Not bad for the boy from suburban

Dublin who now calls Sydney home.

I've been speaking to Mr Joyce

from Qantas's London headquarters -

from where the first direct service

to Australia will be

launched next March.

This is a game changer, the first

time Australia and Europe have been

connected nonstop. The only two

continents in the world but do not

have it and when you put in direct

services nonstop you get people

travelling for the first time, more

business, people really seeking out

our services. And this will no doubt

be a great success.

You are thinking

about using mustard seeds to fire

plane.

We're looking into the

potential of growing mustard seed

crops in Australia which do not

impact on the food supply, which we

do not want, they do not take much

water so they will not impact the

water supply and they can be

converted into aviation fuel.

Here

at Heathrow, this big new lounge is

a big investments you must have

confidence in Brexit.

We have some

confidence between the links between

Australia and the UK, they are

strong links going back a long time.

Economic links are huge.

As a Dublin

boy do you worry about Brexit and

the row there is at the moment about

the border?

Being back in Ireland

the issue around the border is

concerning everyone and Irishman

abroad, one of the great things in

the past 20 years has been the peace

process and the increase in trade

between Northern Ireland and the

Republic and I think anything that

endangers that, no one wins. I think

it is a concern in Ireland and I can

understand why.

If they had to

choose, let's hope they do not, but

if they had to choose other better

aligned with the UK then Europe?

I

think that is a difficult choice.

You're in a position, Ireland has

benefited significantly from the EU

and there is big support in Ireland

for being part of it and hopefully

some option will come out that

allows Ireland to be part of the EU

and have the important links with

the UK which we've had for a long

time.

It is a very delineated

industry in terms of where men and

women work. Traditionally women in

the cabin and men in the cockpit.

How do you get more women flying

planes and fixing planes, engineers?

Good question, the statistics are

terrible worldwide, 3% of pilots are

female. Qantas actually has 5% so I

could say we are almost twice the

world average but still a terrible

statistic. What we're doing, we have

recently signed a 10-year commitment

which means we will get to parity

within ten years.

You are an openly

gay man, some might say you took a

gamble in the recent referendum in

Australia, putting $1 million of

your own money into the referendum

campaign. It was successful. But I

read that you took some personal

flak for that.

Yes and I think when

you take a leadership you about

anything you always get people

criticising you for that. You got a

pie in the face. I did, one guy was

very worked up and threw a party at

me. I might take a break for a

second and just clean-up. There was

a lot of criticism but the

overwhelming support I got from the

general public walking around

terminals, and from staff, and from

people in the general community that

just thought it was fantastic. And

that showed up in the numbers. When

you look at the business case it is

really strong for businesses,

shareholders will invest in

companies that have social

responsibility as a key part of

their strategy. You also have

employees who will seek out

companies now that they believe

represent themselves. For example,

80% in recent surveys want to work

for a company that has a social

conscience. And we're now starting

to appear as the number one employer

of choice in Australia as a

consequence of this stance. And

customers, the LGBT community are

five times more likely to buy a

product or service they believe

represent them. And some members

have said in Australia there will be

40, 50,000 gay couples getting

married in the next year or two.

And

with the CEO of Qantas like to get

married?

I'm still waiting for my

partner to ask me! But hopefully

that will happen.

An impressive

character, very forward-thinking

boss. He took over, the share price

was $1 and went up to $6 after the

restructuring. 17 hours on a flight

to Perth, would you last that long?

No, far too long. $19 million, you

think is worth it?

We are in the

wrong business!

And 3% of pilots

worldwide are women.

You could make

the argument being a pilot is

difficult and you need to go away

from home and travel a lot and if

you have kids it is difficult. But

many women work on planes, so I do

not think that argument holds water.

No reason we should not have more

women flying planes. I think that is

outrageous that is just 3%. We could

retrain!

If you're hanging out for more

details on next year's

most anticipated wedding

between Prince Harry and US actress

Meghan Markle, you're in luck.

It's now been revealed Harry

and Meghan will marry at St George's

chapel in Windsor in May -

and the Royal family

will foot the bill.

Kensington Palace says Ms Markle,

a Protestant, will be baptised

into the Church of England

and confirmed in the coming months.

Ms Markle also intends

to take UK citizenship.

She went to a catholic girls school.

If she was raised a Catholic of

course it might have disqualified

her I guess in the past.

They

changed the law two years ago.

Their first royal engagement will

take place in Nottingham on Friday.

We are going to send Christian up

there, he is so keen! One other

little fact that interested me, she

has two dogs and Prince Parry said

the corgis loved her. One is a

Labrador called Bogart and another

is a beagle called guy but she has

got to leave the Labrador at home

because he's too old to fly to the

UK. She's leaving him at home to go

off and married Prince Charming.

When she has been married ten years

she will not do that! In our house I

come behind the rabbits!

They would

have been leaving you behind and

taking the rabbits with them, I

reckon!

I know my role!

So poor old

Bogart staying because he's too old

to travel. I have a dog now and I

think I would find that very

difficult. Not the kind of thing you

want to say to your spouse! We're

being told that President Trump is

going to speak in the next ten

minutes or so about that missile

launch in North Korea. And also in

Japan they have had emergency

ministerial meetings, the missile

landing in their economic zone in

Japan. So now we have had another,

the first since September and the

implications course quite serious.

And we had the former US Defence

Secretary talked about that on the

programme and saying this was an

alarming development because there

had been this hiatus but now they're

back at it.

A look ahead to tomorrow's show -

We'll be speaking to

the Chief Minister of Gibraltar -

that idiosyncratic rock perched

on the southern tip of Europe

that is however part of the UK.

He's worried about what Brexit'll

mean for his people,

hemmed in as they are, by Spain.

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