29/11/2017 Beyond 100 Days

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President Trump creates a firestorm

by retweeting videos from a far

right British group.

The inflammatory images

are anti-Muslim - Downing Street

says he shouldn't have done it.

Far right groups in both the UK and

the US bank the president for the

retweets. Britain First says it is

pleased with the publicity.

The tweets drews condemnation

in Parliament, but at

the White House they are defending

the President's decision.

Look, again whether

it is a real video.

The threat is real, and that is

what the President is talking about.

And another one is gone.

One of the biggest stars

in US television has been

fired after allegations

of sexual misconduct.

Also on the programme.

I am rejecting the court's ruling.

Stop please.

Please sit down.

A dramatic turn at an appeal

hearing in The Hague,

when a war criminal poisons himself

inside the court and

then dies in hospital.

The cost of divorce.

The UK will pay double what it

offered the EU just two months ago

in the hope it will pave the way

to trade talks.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag #Beyond100days.

Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington,

Christian Fraser is in London

and Donald Trump is causing outrage

on both sides of the atlantic.

We don't know why the President

of America chose to retweet

incendiary, unverified,

anti-Muslim videos posted

by the convicted leader

of a far-right British group -

but we do know that doing so has

incensed America's closest ally.

The videos are from the account

of the British fascist

Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader

of the group, Britain First.

She was convicted last year

of a hate crime on a Muslim woman.

Currently, she is on bail facing

four charges of religiously

aggravated harassment.

Nick Bryant reports.

CHANTING.

Britain First is a far right

anti-Muslim group with a small

membership that often engages

in publicity stunts to try

to raise its profile.

Early this morning, it

received a huge propaganda

gift from Donald Trump,

the America First president.

On his Twitter feed,

he retweeting three inflammatory

videos from the group's deputy

leader, the first claiming

to show a Muslim migrant

packing a man on crutches.

This is the Fransen in action.

Earlier this month, she was charged

with using threatening behaviour

during speeches she made above us.

For her, these presidential retreats

are manna from heaven.

God bless you, Trump, she tweeted.

God bless America.

There has been a despairing

response from the family

of the murdered MP Jo Cox,

who was killed by a right-wing

extremist who shouted

"Britain first".

Britain First is hate

against Muslims and Donald

Trump is the president

of our nearest ally,

and the fact that he didn't check

first or didn't even think

about the content of those tweets

before doing it, I think suggests

that his judgment is hugely lacking.

Downing Street has said it was wrong

for the president to have done this,

but added that his invitation

to make a state visit to better

next year still stands.

As for the White House,

it is unapologetic.

The threat is real.

The threat needs to be addressed.

The threat has to be talked about,

and that is what the president

is doing in bringing that up.

Previous US administrations have

liked to think of themselves

as beacons of democratic values,

but that has not been a high

priority for the Trump White House.

Many people around the world will be

saddened and sickened to see

the president of the United States

appearing to validate tweets

from a far right group.

Ten months into this unorthodox

and provocative presidency,

Donald Trump still has

the capacity to shock.

Nick Bryant, BBC News, New York.

Let's get reaction

from Westminster -

Nadhim Zahawi is a Conservative

member of the Common Foreign Affairs

Select Committee and joins us

now from Westminster.

Given that the president now knows

where these tweets have come from

and has seen the reaction in the UK

should he delete them and apologise?

I hope

should he delete them and apologise?

I hope that he will delete them.

I've written to him tonight to

explain to him why he tweeting this

far right fascist failed group in

the UK is completely wrong. We spend

many resources both at the Foreign

Office and in the State Department

and other parts of government in the

US and the UK trying to combat the

ideology, this criminal ideology of

Daesh and other groups who actually

dehumanise our society to try and

get young men who were influenced by

these images that they put out then

blow themselves up. For us to engage

in retweeting that dehumanise the

Muslim community in Great Britain is

simply playing into their hands. The

only people happy tonight other

fascists and the terrorists that we

are spending not just financial

resources but human lives are going

into defeating them, and we are

doing a good job in countries like

Iraq and Syria and elsewhere, but

you only really defeat them when you

defeat the ideology in such -- and

by playing into their hands on such

a naive way is wrong and

unfortunate. In my letter I say to

the president but he takes his

presidency seriously and I hope on

his visit to the UK he will join me

in Coventry and Birmingham and other

parts of our country, London,

Manchester and Edinburgh and

Glasgow, to see how the Muslim

community is so integrated, and how

our country is so diverse and as he

would put it so beautiful!

I

understand that you think the visit

should go ahead but how much damage

do retweets like this do to the US-

UK relationship, particularly over

issues like counterterrorism?

I

guarantee that all the great men and

women who work in counterterrorism

in the UK across Europe, in the

United States, would be heartbroken

to night. The amount of effort they

put into this, I know this because

in my role on Foreign Affairs

Committee I get to visit those

countries where we are combating

Daesh and other terrorist groups.

They will be heartbroken tonight

because much of their work will be

undone by the sort of freak --

retweeting. It plays into their

narratives, the narratives of the

terrorists. They say this is what

these societies think of you, that

is why you should go out and attack

them back. You are playing directly

into their narrative.

Thank you.

And with us here in Washington

is our political analyst

Ron Christie who served

as an advisor to

President George W Bush.

You were listening with me to Nadhim

Zahawi speaking, do you think any of

that goes through Donald Trump's

mind when he decides to press

retweet and videos like this?

No.

What really worries me is where is

the president getting this

information? Is he looking at

YouTube and far right-wing groups in

the UK and saying, I really like

this? Or is it someone like Steve

Bannon feeding it to him? This is

very destructive. It is destructive

to the way America is perceived

around the world and frankly

destructive to the way the president

conducts himself in office. I'm

stunned and angered by these

retweets. This is so far beneath the

dignity of the office that he holds.

The thing that worries me is he and

his supporters love this.

Everybody

knows the president now acts to play

to his base, he's done it again.

Explain to us the processes that

were in place in the George W Bush

administration. That would have

prevented this kind of thing from

happening. We all remember the

speech the president gave after 911

at the grand Mosque in Washington,

why aren't those things in place in

Washington today? Why isn't there

someone who has the power to go and

say this is counter-productive?

The

current White House chief of staff

is there to manage the staff and not

manage the president. With us, the

staff managed the president. Any

piece of paper that went to the

President's descant been reviewed by

senior staff, any statement, any

speech, anything he would otter

would have had review. I spent so

much of my time doing paperwork. I

can tell you with 100% certainty

there is no staff control over him

and Twitter, and I think it's

dangerous to the office he holds.

I'm sure you're aware there has been

a furious reaction across the

political do abide in the UK today.

What those people might say is where

is the furious reaction in the

Republican party in the United

States? When are they going to rein

him in?

That is an excellent

question. As an establishment

Republican I can say this is

repugnant and where is the outrage?

At this juncture it shows you how

far the President's political

standing is on Capitol Hill. They

are having their own discussions and

negotiations about trying to move

tax reform legislation. Frankly

there has been a lot of ignoring of

the president and his antics as they

tried to figure out what can we

pass, what can we do to make sure we

get re-elected in the next election

cycle. It doesn't surprise me sadly

that they aren't talking about this,

because they are in their own

self-preservation mode.

You've got

King Abdullah of Jordan in

Washington today. This is a time

when he needs a Muslim coalition in

the Middle East. He spent a lot of

time on that, meeting the Crown

Prince in Riyadh. And yet he doesn't

seem to see the conflict of interest

that he's sending out this sort of

stuff and at the same time saying we

are one of your closest allies?

This

is an excellent follow one question.

If the George W Bush White House

protocol we had in place, we had a

scripted response of how is the

president going to interact with the

king of Jordan. Now we are talking

about a tweet that has offended

leaders and nations around the

world. The president needs to

maintain a sense of decorum so he

doesn't step over his own message.

We are talking about bigotry,

fascism and tweets, not one of our

strongest allies who is here to show

off our relationship in Washington,

DC today.

Thank you. Ron is normally

a mild mannered kind of guy when he

comes on 100 Days but I could feel

it sitting here next to him in the

studio, the level of anger he is

feeling.

It's not just about the dignity of

the presidential office, it's about

damage done to the US UK

relationship and about damage done

to America's standing once again

around the world under this

president.

I'm going to call it race

baiting and it's not the first time

he's done it. We've talked about on

Monday his use of the term

"Pocahontas" when he's standing next

to Navajo veterans. On Wednesday he

has revised the claims around

Obama's birth certificate. And now

this. He vowed that he would be a

president to everyone in the United

States and its hard to square that

with the events this week. He has

offended every minority and ethnic

group going. It's difficult to see

who else there is left to a friend.

This issue of Muslims is important

and it's important that Ron raised

Steve Bannon because he has been a

propagator of this message. During

the campaign it was President Trump

who said Muslims hated the West and

hated Americans and I think this

comes from that place as well.

A former Bosnian Croat general has

died at a UN tribunal in The Hague

after drinking a phial of poison.

Slobodan Praljak had just been

told his appeal against a 20 year

sentence for war crimes

had been rejected.

As the verdict was being read out

the 72-year old general raised

a small brown bottle to his lips

and drank it in full

view of the cameras.

Anna Holligan reports

from The Hague.

This was supposed to be a routine

hearing, but as his final

judgment was being read out,

Slobodan Praljak

swallowed something.

Slobodan Praljak

is not a war criminal.

I am rejecting the court ruling.

I have taken poison.

This courtroom is now a crime scene.

Don't take away the glass he used

when he drank something.

Proceedings were immediately halted.

We suspend.

Please, the curtains.

Cameras captured a few

moments of confusion before

the live broadcast was cut.

Slobodan Praljak was a commander

of the Bosnian Croat forces,

guilty of destroying Mostar's iconic

Ottoman-era bridge and

persecuting Muslims.

Outside the court,

the ambulances arrived.

Fire crews wearing oxygen tanks

on their backs ran inside.

This was not the ending

the court had envisaged.

This UN tribunal was set up

before the end of the war,

and has surpassed expectations

by dealing with every one

of the 161 suspects.

But the fact that one of them

was able to smuggle in a deadly

poison and take it in front

of the live cameras will

leave an indelible mark

on this court's legacy.

While it has faced allegations

of bias from politicians

on all sides, many of the victims

believe this institution has given

them some form of justice.

Now the question is,

how could an institution with such

tight security and impressive record

allow such a fatal lapse?

Anna Holligan, BBC News, The Hague.

That is the weirdest story. Let's

look at Brexit.

The British government has

significantly increased the amount

of money it's prepared to offer

the European Union as part

of the Brexit process.

The BBC understands the UK has

agreed to pay between 40

and 50 billion euros over several

years in an attempt

to kick-start the negotiations

on a future trade deal.

It is a lot more than the 20 billion

euros Theresa May was offering.

The EU's chief negotiator

Michel Barnier said today

the negotiation is not yet over -

more work is needed before

trade talks can begin -

but the reaction in Brussels has

been broadly positive.

Let's catch up with our political

correspondent Vicki Young

who is in Westminster and our Europe

correspondent, Damian Grammaticas

who is in Brussels.

Positive noises on the cash but I'm

reading comments that have dropped

in the last few minutes from the

Irish European Commission member

Phil Hogan who says we need written

commitments from the UK and what

they intend to do to resolve the

issue that the border.

Yes. This is

two of the three big issues that are

under discussion at the minute.

These are all the issues that relate

to the UK's withdrawal and exit from

the EU. They have to be settled at

this stage. On the money, the UK has

come forward with this big offer.

The EU side still saying this is

still under negotiation, they are

waiting for Theresa May to come here

on Monday when she will have a

meeting with the president of the

European Commission Jean-Claude

Juncker. They need all of this

detailed very carefully if they are

to sign off on that side of things

and say there has been sufficient

progress. Equally, the Irish issue

is a really difficult one. They're

the EU's position and the Irish

position is that what the UK is

playing at the minute is unworkable.

That is that the UK wants to leave

all of the EU structures, its

internal market, customs union, and

have no border controls on the

frontier between Northern Ireland

and the Republic of Ireland. The

Irish and the EU saying that is an

walkable, how are they going to

resolve this, they are waiting for

answers from the UK -- that is

unworkable.

The fact Brussels is

happy with this amount of money that

seems to have been offered from

Westminster, presumably that will

make Brexiteers unhappy, how are

they going to spin this one because

it's so much more than what was

mooted in September?

Presentation

will come into it but probably not

yet. It's important to say that

Britain hasn't signed the cheque.

This is a long-term promise, if you

like. The reaction from the

so-called Brexiteers today has been

split. There have been a few he's

got up in the House of Commons and

said this is outrageous, we have

could it be back to capitulate and

legally we don't have to pay a

single penny. Others say it should

be tied to whatever trade deal we

get, it should be tied to a

free-trade deal. Then there are

others on the remains I to say

everyone has been conned by people

like Boris Johnson who went around

Britain in a bus saying you will get

£350 million back once we leave the

European Union. Then there are the

pragmatists and they are on all

sides, they are the majority House

of Commons who felt this would have

to happen. But we have commitments,

they are ongoing commitments, this

is needed to be done in order to

move to the next stage and the

long-term they feel if we leave the

European Union we are paying a net

amount of around £8.5 billion a year

and in the longer term it could save

us money.

Critical meeting on Monday

between Theresa May and Jean-Claude

Juncker. We shouldn't lose sight of

the fact that in a couple of weeks'

time in the European Council meeting

there are 27 countries who will have

their own say on this.

Yes, and

that's a crucial point, because it's

part of the reason why the EU is

saying this is not all settled yet.

First we have to get over the hurdle

of next week when the deadline is

there for the UK to have done enough

to satisfy the EU's negotiators.

What those negotiators then say if

they are happy we'll go to the 27

other countries in the EU in the

middle of December, at their big

summit when they will be here. They

will be the ones who will sign off

and say yes, they are happy with

what the UK is now proposing, or

know they are not. If they say nope

we have a serious problem. If they

say yes they are happy it will then

be the green light to move things

forward to discussing the future

ties between the UK and the EU. But

still, the indications are there are

still some difficult issues. The

money isn't totally settled yet. The

issue of Ireland isn't and neither

is the issue of how to deal with

citizens left on the two sides, and

what sort of courts will guarantee

their rights in the future.

Thank

you.

The White House says

America will impose more

sanctions on North Korea

following yesterday's missile test.

President Trump also spoke

to the Chinese leader after the test

and asked Beijing to do everything

possible to press North Korea.

But it's still not clear how

effective any of this will be.

The President's assurances

North Korea will be dealt with,

belies the reality of the situation.

There are no good options.

The last test was mid September.

And there had been some optimism

in Washington that Mr Trump's tough

talk was given Pyongyang

pause for thought.

Optimism seemingly misplaced.

This missle flew higher and longer

than any missile fired before.

Bruce Klingner, was the CIA's

Deputy Division Chief for Korea

and is now at the Heritage

Foundation.

You have told us before that you

think North Korea is in the endgame

towards creating a nuclear missile,

to being able to have the capacity

to send it long distances. When

Donald Trump says he can handle the

situation it will be handled, what

does he actually mean?

There's a lot

of uncertainty. Earlier this year

the Trump administration had several

comments that suggested it was

considering a military attack, even

if we didn't feel North Korea was

about to attack. That kind of talk

has been toned down in recent

months. Rex Tillerson's response

seemed to focus more on pressure and

diplomacy rather than a military

strike. The additional sanctions

could be taking the gloves off and

secondary sanctions against Chinese

violators of US law, or it could be

preventing the executive order of

the month ago where it would be

giving businesses the choice to

either do business with North Korea

or use the US financial system.

What

did you learn from this latest test

that you might not have known

before, in terms of North Korea's

progress in being able to create the

missile and have it delivered a

long-distance?

There have been a

lots of downplaying of North Korean

capabilities and people are

surprised when they do exactly what

they say they are going to do. But

yesterday's launch showed was that

it is a new ICBM. Whereas before the

other to the estimated range was

half of the continental United

States perhaps including New York

and Washington, yesterday's launch

had been flown on a normal

trajectory would encompass the

entire continental US.

I had to

check the stats to make sure someone

had hadn't got it wrong. It went

2800 miles into the air, ten times

above the height of the

International Space Station.

Exactly. What North Korea has done

with a three ICBM launches is flown

them to an unusually high trajectory

so as not to fly over Japan. With

their intermediate-range missiles

they've recently flown twice over

Japan and many of us had expected

the next ICBM test would be a

long-range distance test into the

Pacific which would require flying

over Japan but also enable them to

demonstrate their range capability

more blatantly as well as to show a

re-entry vehicle capability. I still

think they will do that test but it

will perhaps be the next one.

Lets

be realistic, sanctions aren't going

to stop this regime. We have been

saying we will have to do something

about it. We now entering the

critical window?

We should point out

that if the metric is that North

Korea hasn't abandoned its nuclear

weapons, of course diplomacy has a

25 year record of failure and eight

international agreements that North

Korea hasn't abided by. Sanctions

serve a number of purposes beyond

getting them to abide by UN

resolutions and their commitments.

They are enforcing UN resolutions

and US and international law. They

are imposing a penalty or pain and

those that violate them. It also

puts in place measures to make it

harder for North Korea to import

items including money from illicit

activities and it puts in place

harder proliferation or counter

proliferation measures. I would

argue on four of the five it's been

successful.

Thank you.

It's interesting, listening to

Bruce, he clearly said there are no

good options. But doing anything

other than what we are doing at the

moment but Abe retaliatory strike,

that's not an option either. We had

to carry on with the sanctions and

hope that something comes on the

table.

The president has been more

restrained than he normally is on

this case.

This is Beyond 100

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Coming up for viewers on the BBC

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claims of sexual misconduct

against one of the biggest names

in American television.

And the view from Gibraltar,

we speak to the territory's

Chief Minister about what sort

of future he'd like for the Rock

in a post-Brexit Britain.

That's still to come.

It's going to be a cold night

tonight with frost more widely. A

lot of cloud we had across crossing

land areas and towards the West will

melt away. We'll have clear skies.

We are likely to keep some cloud in

eastern areas of the UK where we had

some showers today. We've also got

some strong winds for eastern

Scotland, eastern coastal areas of

England, where we will see showers

continuing overnight. More showers

from Northern Ireland clipping West

Wales and the far south-west of

England. There is a risk of icy

patches overnight. Lowest

temperatures inland with those

clearer skies, widespread frost. The

tickly cold in the countryside. --

particularly cold in the

countryside. Away from northern

Scotland, the rest of Scotland

bright and sunny. Wintry showers and

rain showers across Northern

Ireland. Coldest air down the

eastern coastal areas with a mixture

of rain, hail, sleet and snow. Back

into some showers just running into

Pembrokeshire and towards Cornwall.

Those showers in the West will

continue on and off all day. Those

strong winds will continue to blow

some showers down eastern coastal

areas of Scotland and England. Some

of them will be wintry. A large

parts of the UK tomorrow will be dry

and quite sunny as well. But it will

be a cold day. Temperature is no

better than 3-4. Towards the end of

the week and the first day of

December, we will see some cloud

coming into Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Much brighter with sunshine

the England and Wales. Showers down

eastern side of England. There will

be a cold wind. For most, the wind

becoming lighter. Those temperatures

struggling up to 4-6. Bing is

changing as we head into the

weekend. High-pressure shrinking

towards the West. Allowing these

weak weather fronts to topple in

around the top of that, coming in

from the Atlantic. The really cold

air gets squeezed away to the near

continent. Instead we get more of a

westerly wind. That will tend to

lift the temperature is drawing in

milder air. It comes with a good

deal of cloud. By the second half of

the weekend a little more sunshine

for Scotland and Northern Ireland

and temperatures could be in double

figures.

This is Beyond 100 Days, with me,

Katty Kay, in Washington.

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories:

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President Trump was wrong to retweet

three anti-Muslim videos posted

by a far-right British group.

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after drinking poison

during the final hearing of

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for the former Yugoslavia.

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The workforce is in for some big

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Another big TV star in America has

been fired for sexual misconduct.

Matt Lauer, morning anchor for NBC

News, is arguably the biggest,

highest paid name so far to succumb

to the wave of allegations.

Lauer's termination

came after a detailed

complaint from a colleague

about inappropriate

sexual behaviour.

And NBC thinks it wasn't

an isolated incident.

It comes just a week after CBS News

fired its morning anchor,

Charlie Rose for similar reasons.

Together these two sackings mark

a sea change in the industry.

Mr Lauer's co-host Savannah Guthrie

broke the news on the Today

show this morning.

For the moment, all we can say is

that we are heartbroken. I am

heartbroken for Matt, here's my

dear, dear friend and my partner and

he is beloved by many, many people

here. And I am heartbroken for the

brave colleague that came forward to

tell her story and any other woman

who have their own stories to tell

and we are grappling with a dilemma

that so many people have faced these

past few weeks, how can you

reconcile your love for someone with

the revolution that

they have behaved badly. And I don't

know the answer to that, but I do

know that this recognition that some

many organisations have gone through

is important, it's long overdue and

it must result in workplaces were

all women, all people, few safe and

respected.

And for more we're joined

by Paul Farhi who reports

on the media for the Washington

Post.

Will we see that the change now? --

-- the sea change now.

They just keep following like

dominoes. It sends a strong message

to people that the workplace has

changed. This conduct is intolerable

and companies will not put up with

it any longer.

Is it something particular about

American television organisations

and stars, the smell Star is at the

top, that allows this kind of

culture to fester or has allowed it?

Yes, I think so. People in the

television business become very

powerful. It's a kind of business in

which there are many, many people

who would like to be in it and very

few jobs within it. That magnifies

the power of the people who run the

business. We saw this last year with

Fox News and the editing of Roger

Ailes as a hassle, Bill O'Reilly,

and some of the stars of that. But

it turns out that that was just

endemic, part of the endemic weave

that we are seen throughout the

business. I also say it is not just

television. It is politics, in

government and in Hollywood. These

three industries are very attractive

to people and, again, the people who

run these businesses having a lot of

power over the people who want to be

in these businesses.

It's also about

money, isn't it? It was interesting

that money that rumours were doing

the rounds earlier this week and NBC

has tried to get ahead of the car.

That is right. We were stealing

about Matt Lauer last night. We

tried to check it but couldn't get

anywhere. They pre-empted whatever

reporting was going on and we had

some was. They announced it

themselves. What's interesting here

is that most of these studies have

been broken by news organisations

outside, from the outside. This is

one of the rear instances where the

story was broken from the inside.

NBC News and the today show were the

first to report on themselves.

The

anchors are being the ones that are

fired. They are the ones who have

committed these infringements on

other women, but the organisations

have protected these anchors for a

long time and we haven't heard

stories of managers at the spec

networks also been called to

account.

Should they be? Will they

be? Your premise is a little bit

suspect. We haven't seen women come

forward to accuse some of these

anchors up until now and I do

believe that result of the Hardy

Wednesday in effect. This wave that

has come about. -- Harvey Weinstein.

It's certainly true in the case of

Fox News that the guy who ran the

company had known the report about

himself and could probably get away

with his own harassing behaviour.

What is new is that women feel

emboldened to come forward and

complain about the treatment that

they have had to suffer for so many

years.

Thank you very much.

You have written a piece for BBC

online about why this is happening

in America, why there are more

allegations within the media

industry in the United States.

Why do you think that there is? I

did not write the piece, but I was

reading it this morning. It is to do

with UK libel was, which are much

stricter and so these allegations

are not in to come forward as much

in the UK. The onus is on proof from

the accusers aside and that is very

often hard to get. I honestly can't

believe it's because this is not

happening in Britain. This is not a

uniquely Britain -- American

phenomenon. It's true that American

anchors are paid much more, I think

Matt Lauer was being paid $25

million. It does foster a culture

where these people are treated on an

elevated platform and have a huge

amount of power. I don't think in

which a kid themselves that is not

happening in other countries as

well. The BBC presenters who have

been convicted for these sorts of

claims, so there we go.

The British Prime Minister Theresa

May is in the Middle East,

making her first to Iraq

where she met with her

counterpart Haider al-Abadi.

Mrs May praised the country's

efforts in the battle

against the so-called Islamic State.

As well as praising local security

forces and pledging UK support,

she also reiterated British support

for a united Iraq, two months

after a bitterly-contested

referendum in Kurdistan.

Mrs May is now in Saudi Arabia.

Will our jobs soon

be taken by robots?

And if they are, what happens

to the millions of people

thrown out of work?

Those are the big questions

behind a major new report

by the McKinsey Global Institute.

It finds that as many as 800 million

workers could be replaced

by machines by 2030,

including a third of the work force

in the US and Germany.

Anything that is repetitive

is at risk, things

like administrative work,

preparing fast food

or operating machinery.

On the other hand, your job

is probably safe if it

involves managing people or applying

a particular expertise.

So where does that leave

everyone else in between.

-- So where does that leave

everyone else in between?

Joining us from San Francisco

to explain more is James Manyika.

He's a senior partner at McKinsey.

Thank you for joining us. 800

million people could be out of work

by 2030, what does that do to our

societies?

Thank you for having me.

I think the thing to keep in mind is

that we have heard job losses due to

technology for a very long time in

different sectors, agriculture,

manufacturing and so forth. In

addition to do jobs that could be

lost, we are also going to create

jobs that will grow. I think the

balance of it is that in fact we

will come out OK. At least that's

what the scenarios suggest.

But not

everybody will come out OK, right?

Well, we will come out OK in the

sense that we are going to have

enough work for everybody. The big

question is how we handle the

transitions between the occupations

that will decline and for that will

go. Those transitions, in mind, the

biggest question, because that is on

to require changing occupations,

learning new skills and

transitioning to new sectors and new

activities. That is the big

question, but we take comfort from

the fact that there will be enough

work for everybody.

It will be in

the longer term. In the short term,

this transition you speak of, is it

a to this rise in populism that we

have seen in political terms on both

sides of the Atlantic?

I think the

rise in populism is interesting. In

our minds, that has largely been in

an economic sense, driven to the

stagnation we have seen an wages cut

across advanced economies. It is

striking when you look at what will

happen on that front in the last

decade in most advanced economies,

especially the United States, the

UK, France and a few others, where

in, stagnated for a huge proportion

of our working households.

I'm

fascinated by this. I remember in

the French election, the Socialist

candidate propose a policy of taxing

robots so that every robot that was

manufactured with pay for the loss

of jobs. He was laughed out of court

for that, but maybe that's the

solution?

I think it's an

interesting example you give but

there's something substantive behind

it. If you take into account the

income of most advanced economies,

the share of the national income

that goes to wages has been

declining at the expense of capital,

so if we are going to have economic

output come from a combination of

work done by people and capital

investment in equipment and

technology and so forth, to an

interesting question to ask, how do

we reflect that in economic systems?

Not sure taxing robots, but it does

raise an important question.

If

there will be a robot sitting in the

seat in a few years' time, maybe I

can go to the beach early. Will we

be structured way that we all work?

In many ways, we have done that

already. If you look at the history

of the last 100 years. We are

working fewer hours on aggregate.

Really? Yes. For a few individuals

like yourself, the hours worked have

actually gone up, but if you look at

the entire workforce, we are working

fewer hours. One of the key

questions here, another has been a

lot of anxiety about whether they

will be enough work, we think there

will be. The question of transition

is important. The reason these

transitions are important is because

companies as well as governments

have paid a lot less attention to

on-the-job training for workers. If

you look at the trends in the last

20 or 30 years, much we spend as

government or companies has actually

been going down at a time when we

will need on-the-job training to

with those transitions and that is

one of the key, important things we

tried to emphasise.

Thank you for

joining us.

If I get this right, you would like

to earn $19 million a year, it was

linking yesterday but today it has

gone up to 25 million, but you would

also like to go to the beach more?

More than I do at the moment.

How does the job description run? It

does not. I could do with a few more

robots in this studio, to help us

out.

The interesting thing about this, I

was just thinking about it, is the

advantage has been with the third

world countries, because of cheap

labour, but now, perhaps, it tilts

back to the first world countries

because they spend more on research

and development. They can harness

the talent in first world economies,

so maybe this will affect developing

countries perhaps more than the

first world countries.

That is the discussion that people

are having here because there is a

link in the populism we have seen

and this is that robots wanted the

people's jobs and this is creating a

certain amount of fear but actually

the focus has been on the United

States and Donald Trump, but if you

are an -- a developing country whose

advantages due have a cheap labour

force and then that labour force

gets replaced by robots can you

watch your most important advantage.

What will you do with all those

people out of work in those

countries?

Interesting subject.

A German court has ruled that

a former SS guard at the Auschwitz

concentration camp must serve

a prison sentence despite his age.

Oskar Groening is now 96.

He became known as the book keeper

of Auschwitz because he counted

money taken from Jewish prisoners

as they arrived at the death camp

He's been sentenced to four years.

Flights have resumed

from the international airport

in Bali after three days

of disruption caused

by an eruption of Mount Agung.

Up to 100,000 people have been

ordered to evacuate the area close

to the volcano and thousands

of tourists have been stranded.

A Saudi Prince has been freed

in a billion dollar deal

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come, Presidential

prose and policy -

Here in the UK, a man who a judge

ruled had probably sexually

assaulted his baby daughter before

she died has been giving evidence

at an inquest into her death.

13-month-old Poppi Worthington died

after sustaining unexplained

injuries at her home in 2012.

A police investigation

into her death was botched

and the verdict at the first inquest

quashed by the high court.

Today Poppi's father,

Paul Worthington, who has

always denied wrongdoing,

refused to answer questions 69 times

at today's second inquest.

Our correspondent

Danny Savage was there.

Poppi Worthington's life

was tragically short.

The saga surrounding her unexplained

death is very long.

13-month-old Poppi died

nearly five years ago.

She'd been rushed to hospital

in Barrow after being found

unconscious at home

early one morning.

Many months later, a family court

judge found that Poppi's father

had probably sexually

assaulted her shortly

before her death.

Today, he was bundled

through the back door

of the coroner's court

under police guard.

Paul Worthington denies any

wrongdoing and has never been

charged, but he's been called

as a witness at the inquest

into his daughter's death.

Screened from the public but not

the press, he agreed that Poppi

was as fit as a fiddle

and would wake up just before 6am.

But when asked about events closer

to the day that Poppi died,

he kept replying, "I refer

to my previous statements.

I rely on the right not

to answer under rule 22."

That rule states no witness

at an inquest is obliged

to answer any question

which might incriminate them.

Last year, Cumbria police was

heavily criticised for its handling

of the investigation

into Poppi's death.

That report detailed a catalogue

of mistakes made by detectives,

saying that crucial evidence

was thrown away, witnesses weren't

You're watching

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Gibraltar and its future once

Britain leaves the European Union

is likely to be another point

of tension in the

Brexit negotiations.

The rock is a British

Overseas Territory located

at the southern tip of Spain,

overlooking the narrow gap

between Europe and Africa.

And of huge strategic importance,

historically, because it gives

the Royal Navy control of shipping

in and out of the Mediterranean.

80,000 people cross

the Spanish-Gibraltar

border every week.

The economy is hugely

dependant on the ability

to travel back and forward.

Gibraltarians have always voted

overwhelmingly to remain British

but in the Brexit referendum

they also voted overwhelmingly

to remain in the European Union.

So are they suddenly thinking that

dual citizenship might

be a better way to go?

A question I put to Gibraltar's

chief minister Fabian Picardo.

Just because we don't have the same

view as to our future membership of

the European Union with the United

Kingdom doesn't mean we change our

minds about that which is an --

which is most dear to us, our

identity and our sovereignty and

membership of the British island of

nations.

You don't believe you might be an

afterthought or forgotten in this

initial part of the negotiation?

I

don't think we are an afterthought.

Spain has put Gibraltar at the

centre.

One of the things that is important

to understand is that we do not have

a common travel agent -- area with

Spain or the European Union and

Gibraltar as the United Kingdom have

had. This is since before the

European Union was in Paris. The

issue is that the right to movement

in Gibraltar and Spain are entirely

different to the issues today in

Northern Ireland. We have a frontier

for goods and we have a frontier for

immigration purposes, between

Gibraltar and the rest of the

European Union and that is now,

whilst we are members of the

European Union... But that is

forward. It is very forward. It the

issue is one of goodwill and

understanding, not so much an issue

of the laws or whether one inside

the area.

And efforts being made

that border -- border much harder to

cross?

It would have to explain

themselves to the citizens who would

be made to wait to access their

places of work and to return to

their homes in the evenings. I don't

think in modern politics one wants

to be the politician explaining to a

citizen why you are putting up a

barrier which is unnecessary for

security or other reasons and simply

creating a hand and the movement.

You seem trusting. .

Put it this way. If that were not to

be the case it would be the first

time in the history of Anglo Spanish

relations. I am an eternal optimist

and I hope every Gibraltarian will

be proved wrong and Spain will not

try and use this moment to try and

advance its sovereignty claim. If

they do Gibraltar knows its future

is with the UK and our future

prosperity is in continuing the

single market between Gibraltar and

the UK. The British government is

committed to maintaining and

enhancing our access to that market.

We will do very well indeed in the

future both in the context of that

relationship with the UK and in the

context of the relationship the UK

will have with other trading nations

around the world.

will have with other trading nations

around the world. I have assurances

that they will not do the deal was

the European Union FSB -- spend the

rest to exclude Gibraltar from it.

you very much indeed.

A look ahead to tomorrow's show.

The Irish border in

a post-Brexit Britain.

We report from either side

of the frontier as part of a special

day of coverage on the BBC.

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Now here in Washington, DC,

speech writers are never at a loss

for work but only a few make it

to the White House.

David Litt is part of that elite

club and for nearly five years

he helped write the words

for President Obama on everything

from health care to climate change.

His specialty though was comedy

and if you think writing

about policy is hard,

just try getting laughs out of both

Democrats and Republicans.

Mr Litt is now out with a new memoir

and we caught up with him

to discuss his experience.

I remember the first day I watched

through the states -- negates the

White House, thinking, wait a

second, they are actually going to

let me in? I was a speech writer for

President Obama from 2011 to 2016, I

and offer -- I am an offer of a new

book on the those years. At had done

some improv comedy in college, so it

was nice to have a niche in 2012,

becoming more or less the token

in-house funny person for the White

House.

Welcome to the White House

correspondents dinner, the night

when Washington celebrate itself.

When these joke speeches came up, I

got to punch above my weight class a

little bit and take responsibility

of a speech that otherwise might not

have gotten if it was more serious.

My name is Barack Obama, my mother

was born in Kansas, my father was

born in Kenya and I was born, of

course, in Hawaii.

I can remember

with each of those jokes what I was

feeling when the president read

them. You live or die in that

moment. If you like to joke that he

would add a little something, a to

waive or ad-lib outline, make it his

own.

I know Republicans are still

sorting out what happened in 2012,

but one thing the likely on is the

need to do a better job reaching out

to minorities. And, like, can be

self-centred but I can think of one

minority they could start with.

Hello?

In the Obama administration,

Schumer was a chance for us to tell

a little bit of truth about

Washington that we wouldn't have

gotten the tail otherwise. The most

important thing that a politician

can do when they tell jokes is to be

self-deprecating. Especially in a

democracy, to recognise that they

are extraordinarily powerful, but

they are human beings, they make

mistakes and they have faults.

Some

people still say I am arrogant and

aloof, condescending. Some people

are so dumb. No wonder I don't read

with them.

You would sure this thing

that started as a thought in your

head become the President's words

and that was just a magical

transformation. It still boggles my

mind reading -- writing about it.

I need a set -- I need a

scriptwriter.

It's worth remembering that in 2011

as one of those correspondence

dinners, Barack Obama made fun of

Donald Trump and everybody thinks

that it is when he made fun of

Donald Trump that he decided he

would run for the presidency and

when.

She had the last laugh.

So be careful who you joke about

when you are president of the United

States, because you could change the

world.

Coming up next on BBC

World News, Ros Atkins

is here with Outside Source

and for viewers in the UK,

we'll have the latest headlines

from Julian Worricker.

For now from Katty Kay

in Washington and me,