30/11/2017 Beyond 100 Days

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

Washington and London - not such a

special relationship after all.

First Donald Trump retweets

discredited far right videos,

then he attacks the Theresa May

on Twitter,

then she calls him out on camera.

This alliance is suffering.

In an extraordinary transatlantic

spat, he tells her to focus

on her own problems.

She tells him retweeting those

videos was a bad idea.

I'm very clear that

retweeting from Britain First

was the wrong thing to do.

Reports here suggest Rex Tillerson

may be out within weeks

as US Secretary of State -

just more instability

in an already precarious world.

Especially true in North Korea -

after the latest missile test.

The US warns Pyongyang's

leadership will be "utterly

destroyed" if war breaks out.

Also on the programme...

Why fewer Europeans want

to call the UK home -

net migration to Britain

sees its biggest fall on record.

And all this airline

wants for Christmas is...

Some pilots.

Why you might not be home

for Christmas if you've

bought an American Airlines ticket.

Get in touch with us using the

hashtag, #beyond100days.

Hello, I am Katty Kay in Washington,

Christian Fraser is in London.

Calmly, deliberately and very

clearly, the British Prime Minister

roundly criticised the American

President today.

I can't remember such

a direct rebuff in this

relationship in modern history.

Mrs May, on camera, told

the American president he'd done

the wrong thing in retweeting

far right videos.

Her decision to speak out

followed his decision

to attack her on Twitter

late last night.

"@Theresa-May, don't

focus on me," he wrote,

"focus on the destructive

Radical Islamic Terrorism

that is taking place

within the United Kingdom.

We are doing just fine!"

But London was focusing on him.

In the UK parliament they postponed

normal business for an urgent debate

on the President's tweets -

and what the diplomatic

response should be.

There were calls for

President Trump's state visit

to the UK to be cancelled.

Our political correspondent

Alex Forsyth reports.

This was a trip focused on building

relationships around the world,

but while Theresa May was meeting

kings and ministers in Jordan...

Yes, there are many challenges...

..A major diplomatic row

was brewing elsewhere.

President Trump had been personally

rebuked by Downing Street

for sharing far right videos online.

His response to Theresa May -

on Twitter, of course -

"Don't focus on me, focus

on the destructive radical

Islamic terrorism that's

taking place in the UK."

Her tour of the Middle East

suddenly required diplomacy

of a different kind.

The fact that we work together does

not mean that we are afraid to say

when we think the United States has

got it wrong,

and be very clear with them.

And I'm very clear that

retweeting from Britain First

was the wrong thing to do.

He tweeted, effectively telling

you to stay out of his business.

Is that acceptable behaviour

from a supposed ally?

It's an enduring relationship

that's there because it's

in both our national interests.

So what of the much anticipated

state visit to the UK

by President Trump?

An invitation for a state visit has

been extended and has been accepted.

We have yet to set a date.

Thank you.

In her speech here,

Theresa May had little choice

but to respond to this tweet.

It was aimed directly at her.

This, another test

of her leadership, how

to maintain authority,

yet de-escalate a potential row

with a friend.

The US president forging

friendships of his own...

You have been a great friend

and we appreciate it very much...

..Has so far shown little regret

for his original tweet sharing

videos from the far right group

Britain First.

Thank you very much,

everybody, thank you.

The Communities Secretary said he'd

endorsed the view of a vile,

racist organisation and he'd refused

to let it go and say nothing.

And he wasn't the only

politician to express a view.

She should never have

invited him within a few weeks

of him being elected.

Every other American president has

had to wait for years.

They have to settle down and we've

had to be sure about who it is

that we are inviting.

It's very difficult to see how

you can continue to rely

on the goodwill of somebody

who is fundamentally evil,

racist, completely contrary

to our own set of values.

So while the Prime Minister

practised diplomacy

in the Middle East, relations

elsewhere were tested.

Theresa May, once again under

scrutiny, not just at home

but around the globe.

Alex Forsyth, BBC News, Jordan.

With me is the former

British Ambassador to

the United States Sir Christopher

Meyer.

Good to have you with us.

Thank you.

Said Kim Darragh has made a formal

and led to the White House. How

would he go about that and who is he

speaking to?

It is essential that

the government backs him up on

something like this. If I was in

Washington I would expect to see the

chief of staff may be, in that case

General Kelly or maybe the National

Security adviser, General McMaster.

I would not ask to see the president

himself. Maybe Kim did try to see

the president. I would be some

prized. That is how he would feed it

into the White House machine, so

they understand, they clock that

this is a serious matter that needs

to be dealt with.

The concern there

and here is those people might not

seem to have his ear. They do not

seem to be listening to anyone.

The

White House is like everyone else

around the world, you either try to

work with Trump or a round trump. It

is a problem for them and it is a

problem for us. It is a problem for

other countries. There is nothing

novel about this. I think whether

this comes as a tiny blip on the

backside of the British American

relationship, or whether it

continues to be a difficult issue

and depends entirely on how much

rancour, how much irritation there

is inside the strange personality

that is Donald Trump. If he wants to

continue this, he will continue

this. If he doesn't, he will bring

it to a halt. Today you are his

friend, tomorrow you are his enemy

and vice versa.

In practical terms,

what suffers when you have a

spat diplomatic relations. In my

time living in Washington, I do not

remember a British Prime Minister

calling out an American president

like this on camera so clearly and

so directly. What are the downsides?

To be frank with you, I think

Theresa May has played this exactly

right. She has struck a Thatcher

like to, standing up for everybody

and reminding everyone of the

important role at the heart of this

relationship. If you go back to 1945

you will see these that's happening

all the time. The water is usually

close over them pretty fast. The

difference this time is that this

bat has been fought out, if I can

use this word, in public.

Previously, we have got out of them

pretty fast because they have tended

to be in private. But now in the age

of social media Trump and his 45

million followers had seen his

tweets. The Prime Minister has been

obliged to rebuke him in public. I

cannot remember any time in my

career as a diplomat, a British

Prime Minister calling out an

American president in public. It is

unusual but it is the way things are

done today. She has struck the right

balance between striking a balance

between firmness and reminding

everybody that there are common

interests at stake.

Sir Christopher,

good to see you. Come back soon.

The recently arrived US ambassador,

Robert Woody Johnson is settling

in to his new home here in London.

And like all good ambassadors,

currently getting a feel

of what his adopted country is like,

what the people are thinking.

So on his Twitter feed he has

invited people to get in touch

#askwoody with their questions

which he is going to answer

live on Periscope next

week, take a look.

I think it is important to get all

the points of view that you can and

find out what people are thinking

across this country. I am willing to

listen to what you have to say. I am

interested in your point of view,

particularly the people outside of

London. Send me your questions using

hashtag ask Woody.

Of course,

perhaps he did not anticipate was

the events of this week, cue a

barrage of sarcastic tweets.

Yes, here are a couple that

are fit for family viewing.

Paul O'Reilly asks the ambassador:

"How can the country

of Lincoln, Twain, FDR,

MLK, Edison, JFK, Steinbeck et al

have such an inarticulate

and unintelligent POTUS?

Meanwhile Nicolas Jones wonders,

"Do you find it easier,

in the current climate,

to pretend you're a Canadian?

#AskWoody."

Ambassador Johnson seems to have

taken it in his stride.

This is his response.

"Thank you for your

questions and feedback.

I have relayed your

concerns to Washington.

The US & UK have a long history

of speaking frankly with each other,

as all close friends do.

Our relationship is strong,

vital and enduring."

Interesting he did not use the word

special.

Heather Conley is a former

State Department Official

for European Affairs.

She is now at the Center for

Strategic and International studies.

She joins me now. Is there any

upside you can see with the

president picking this fight with

Britain and re-tweeting these

anti-Islamic far right videos?

Are

absolutely none. He is putting into

question one of our most valuable

relationships, and he is spreading

hate, whether that comes from

Britain First, or whether it comes

from within our own country. As

leaders, we have to stand up against

hate and incitement to violence, and

unfortunately, the president does

not view his role in that way. What

shocks me the most in some ways, not

that we are having this back and

forth, he attacks and

counterattacks, whether you are Kim

Jong Un or Theresa May. But what

shocks me is there is not the

outrage by all members of Congress,

by members of the Cabinet, to say

this is not right. We protect

speech, even hate filled speech, but

we have to speak out when we say it

is not right. That is what is

missing here in Washington and the

president does not suffer political

consequences.

And here is what is

confusing, there are plenty of

people on Capitol Hill who have

extensive background in foreign

affairs, they know the damage

something like this does needlessly

to the United States. At what point

does the party or someone close to

the president, Mattis, Kelly or

McMaster, stand up and say the price

that you are paying for these tweets

is not worth it?

I think there was

an expectation at the beginning of

the administration that the

generals, as we like to call them,

would be the stabilising force that

would bring the gravitas and

intelligence to this, and it seems

that force cannot be the stabilising

presence we wanted. The president is

going to use that Twitter account,

not what time, no matter what

subject, and they can't control it,

but what they do need to be reminded

of, and I think Prime Minister may

understand that, others need to do

it as well, there is continued

damage to US relationships. The most

important military relationships we

have as he keeps doing this. This is

a pattern. The Manchester tweets,

the London tweets, this is an area

where the president continues to do

damage to our valuable

relationships.

Heather, while we have got you with

your state department hat on, let me

talk about another person he has a

difficult relationship with,

seemingly so, that is the Secretary

of State Rex Tillerson. There is

speculation that he is going to be

replaced by the CIA director. He was

asked about this today at a press

briefing. Let's see what he had to

say.

Thank you very much everybody.

Thank you.

I think Rex Tillerson has

cancelled an event. The speculation

cannot do him any good. But it

undermines him.

There has been

speculation about Rex Tillerson's

longevity for some time. As Katty

knows this is a city with lots of

rumours. It is ironic because Rex

Tillerson just delivered a speech on

the US UK special lotion ship again.

They cannot get more ironic against

the backdrop of questions about how

long secretary Tillerson can remain

in power -- the US UK special

relationship. After a year in

administration of thing has settled

down. We do not have clear policies

on pressing issues and potentially

we have another leadership change.

Morale in the State Department is

extremely low. Secretary Tillerson

had a contentious relationship with

the president. Once again, we are

thrown into great uncertainty at a

time of extraordinary global

instability. Again, our hearts sink

for our colleagues at the State

Department but again, US foreign

security policy is not as strong as

we need it to be today.

Heather

Connolly, thank you for coming in.

We will keep watching Rex Tillerson.

The talk is weeks, but why would you

sit in office for weeks when you

know your successor is being lined

up around the?

As Heather said it is

such a critical time when you are

dealing with North Korea. I have

been looking on Twitter today and

there has been all sorts of reaction

to the re-tweeted videos. Let me

show you one. This is from a senior

general. He was the commanding

general of the US Army Europe.

It is extraordinary that he felt he

had to tweak that and someone else

had to get in contact. It is pulling

up the strings of the relationship.

On one side you could set where are

all those people on Capitol Hill and

the Senators, and in the

administration even, who are calling

the president out on this. I have to

say I was at a meeting early this

morning and I bumped into two

Senators and one congresswoman and

the first thing they asked me, is

President Trump still going to be

invited to the UK and you could see

the look of shock and sadness on

their faces. They are dismayed.

There are plenty of people in this

town who are dismayed by what is

happening and what has happened in

the last 24 hours.

Interesting.

Let's move on and look at some other

stories.

Dutch authorities are investigating

how a lethal chemical was smuggled

into a court in The Hague -

enabling a Bosnian Croat

war criminal to kill himself.

Slobodan Praljak drank

the small vial of liquid

during a televised court appearance.

He had just learned that his appeal

against a 20-year sentence for war

crimes in Bosnia had been rejected.

Pope Francis has thanked Bangladesh

for its humanitarian response

to Muslim refugees fleeing Myanmar

but again avoided

using the term Rohingya.

The Pope was criticised

for not using the term

on his visit to Myanmar -

where they do not recognise Rohingya

as an ethnic group -

but he said it's a grave crisis.

And Disney has cast the Chinese

actor Liu Yifei in a leading role

in one of its upcoming films,

in response to widespread

criticism of Hollywood that

studios are "whitewashing".

Thousands took part in an online

campaign calling for an

Asian actress to take the role

of the Chinese heroine Hua Mulan -

a young woman who dresses up

as a man to join the army.

Ireland says it needs "significantly

more clarity" from the British

government on the future

of the Northern Ireland border,

before it will allow Brexit talks

with the EU to move forward.

The Republic wants free movement

to continue between North and South.

However Theresa May's coalition

partners - the DUP -

say there can be no special deal

to keep Northern Ireland

in the single market.

Our Ireland correspondent

Chris Buckler reports

from the Irish border.

On the island of Ireland,

culture does not recognise borders,

and neither do people.

Uilleann pipes are one

of the traditional sounds

of this land, and in his workshop

that sits just a mile

from where Northern Ireland meets

the Republic,

Martin Gallen makes the pipes.

He's closely watching the slow

negotiations to try to carve out

a deal that will see the UK leave

the EU,

and he fears it will mean a return

of checks on the Irish border.

They're promising

that there would be no

hardening of the border,

but I honestly can't see how they're

going to stand by that promise.

The European Union doesn't

want a return of customs posts

on the border,

bridges and roads that connect

Northern Ireland and the Republic.

It's been offering the chance

for Northern Ireland to stay

inside the customs union and single

market, even if the rest

of the UK leaves.

That's to the fury of unionists,

whose support the Conservatives

rely on Westminster.

If there is any hint that, in order

to placate Dublin and the EU,

they're prepared to have

Northern Ireland treated differently

than the rest of the United Kingdom,

then they can't rely on our vote

because they have undertaken

an agreement with us -

our votes for their

support for the union.

That's a fear of a move

towards a united Ireland,

and it would probably mean

new checks for ships

crossing the Irish Sea,

effectively creating a border

between two parts of the UK.

But there could be benefits for

Northern Ireland's troubled economy.

This border business

park was opened in 2013

using £6 million of public money.

Four years on, all 22

acres lie largely empty.

Last month one firm did finally sign

up to take a site here.

And others might be more likely

to follow after Brexit,

if being based here means you can

trade either within the EU

or as part of the UK.

Just as we have for our people,

we can choose identity,

whether it be British or Irish,

our products can be

exactly the same.

And if we take this opportunity,

we become probably one of the most

attractive and best locations

anywhere in the world.

No-one wants new barriers

in the cities and towns that sit

all along this border,

and the Irish government

are still prepared to stand

in the path of trade talks

to ensure that.

This is an historic moment

and we are not going to allow

the re-emergence of a physical

border on this island.

And the European Union

will support us on that,

so there's going to be

no need to use a veto.

That does sound, though,

that if you had to use a veto,

you would be prepared to use it.

The EU side, in my view,

will not progress phase two

unless we make sufficient progress

in all three areas.

And it's the border that's

the sticking point?

The border's the sticking point.

Ireland's uilleann pipes were once

known as the union pipes, but no one

is sure of the consequences once

this island is at the edge of two

unions, both the EU and the UK.

Chris Buckler, BBC News,

at the Irish border.

Our correspondent Chris Page

is on the Irish border.

Chris, there are reports in the

Times newspaper today that the UK

Government is considering devolving

a package of measures to Stormont to

enable them to converge their custom

systems with the South. How would

that help solve the problem?

That

report in The Times has certainly

sparked debate once again about the

future of the international frontier

which is just behind me here. It

might not look like a border but

that is what it is. Northern Ireland

is on that side of the river. Here

we're just about inside the Irish

Republic. No checkpoints, no

barriers, no passports being shown

to guards. What all sides of the

Brexit negotiations says they all

want the border to remain that way,

without any physical checkpoints,

but there is disagreement about how

that happens. According to the story

in The Times this morning, as you

say, British negotiators are posing

to allow Northern Ireland an option

to continue to follow the rules of

the European customs union, even if

the UK doesn't. That would mean

devolving more powers to the

Northern Ireland assembly, Northern

Ireland's regional governments, so

they could continue to line

themselves with Customs regulations

in the Republic of Ireland, which

would be in line with European Union

regulations. A few problems with

that. The government department in

London which is responsible for the

Brexit negotiations has not

commented on this story. Some other

sources have said they should be

cautious about that story. But

perhaps the biggest issue is the

Democratic Unionist Party, the party

which as used or an Chris Buckler's

report, is propping up the

Conservative government at

Westminster. They hold the balance

of power in the UK Parliament and

they have said they will not

tolerate anything which would create

trade barriers between Northern

Ireland and the rest of the UK. If

you did have that situation

unfolding where the -- there would

be effectively a Customs border in

the Irish Sea. The DUP have said

they might prepare to withdraw their

support for the government on that

basis.

It is a tricky one, thank

you.

OK, Christian, I may not be the

sharpest knife in the toolkit or as

our Australian producer would say,

the coldest beer in the fridge, but

how does passing this problem on to

Stormont Fixit? That is not fixing

it it is saying it is too

compensated for us to fix, please

can you do it? It is not a solution

to a problem?

No, I then think it

is. If the North converges with the

South, used to have a problem moving

goods from the UK mainland

effectively into Northern Ireland.

They would still have to put a

border in the Irish Sea.

Just

passing the buck on the

decision-making?

Guess, but in some

point in this, the Irish have a veto

when it comes to the European

Council meeting in two weeks' time

and we will take the programme

therefore that, they are in a

relatively powerful position that

the Taoiseach knows they do not want

to push the UK too far them if they

push them away from the table then

the UK goes to WTO rules and we

still have the same problem. I think

when it comes down to it, at the end

of the day, it is like the First

Minister of Gibraltar said to us,

they have a

very difficult border between

Gibraltar and Spain, that have to be

a lot of goodwill on both sides, and

it remains to be seen whether they

can find that goodwill and, my is

within the European Council and move

onto the next stage.

I think a

message to people in the future if

you hold a referendum then to think

about this as they learned in

Catalonia.

Now, December is upon us,

people looking ahead to their plans

for the Christmas break,

and many around this country have

already booked their flights home.

But - spare a thought for those

who've bought a ticket

with American Airlines.

A glitch in the airlines computer

system has meant that too many

pilots have been given time off

between the 17th and

the 31st of December.

It is believed 15,000 flights don't

have sufficient crew assigned.

Pilots are now being offered

more money to cancel

their holiday plans.

The note -- do you know, that never

happens at the BBC.

Know, everyone

is queueing up to cover the

Christmas shifts! I would never say

I will come back to fill the shifts.

Imagine cancelling your holidays and

imagine working on Christmas Day,

Mrs Fraser! Yes, I am working on

Christmas Day!

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

this North Korean missile went

farther than any before it -

what Pyongyang's latest test tells

us about its nuclear capacity.

And why fewer people

are moving to the UK.

The latest figures show

the biggest fall in net

migration on record -

what impact, in any,

will have it on the economy?

That's still to come.

Hello once again. We are about to

write another page in this Winter 's

tale across the British Isles.

Across the Highlands it could dip

down to minus eight degrees. In one

of the towns and cities you will be

close to freezing. For some, there

is a decidedly wintry look about

proceedings. Through this evening

and overnight, we will keep the

wintry showers coming across the

eastern parts of the British Isles.

Out towards the West, certainly in

the countryside, it will be a really

chilly night. A widespread frost

here, but the cloud and the Brive

will just generate those showers out

towards the east, and there could be

a bit of a nice problem. More likely

here than out towards the west,

where it will be a decidedly frosty

start. Nothing too frosty across the

northern and western Isles. Here,

the first signs of something milder

will stop away from eastern side of

the British Isles, much of central

and western England and Wales,

dried, fine crisp start. A cold one

again. Out towards the east, seeing

the first signs of something that

had milder creeping into the mix.

Many of the showers on Friday, more

likely at the lower levels, to be

watery rather than wintry. All the

while the best of the sunshine out

to western areas. Anywhere near the

Irish Sea coast, there are showers

drifting down an unusable north sea

breeze. The temperatures are a

little bit higher than was the case

through Thursday. As we get on

towards the weekend, so we have cut

off the supply of North and easterly

breezes. We are beginning to see a

waft of slightly milder air coming

in from the Atlantic to submerge

eventually the greater part of the

British Isles. That will not mean we

will see an awful lot of sunshine,

it has to be said. It will break

times to the eastern side of the

Pennines, but at least underneath

that blanket of cloud, at least by

day and night, the temperatures will

be that little bit higher,

especially so as we into Sunday.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington.

Christian Fraser is in London.

Our top stories:

The British Prime Minister says

the posting of inflammatory videos

by President Trump will not

undermine the relationship

between the two countries.

Reports in the US suggest Secretary

of State Rex Tillerson could be out

of his post within weeks.

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Now Russia has joined

in the diplomatic row

surrounding North Korea,

as it blames America

for provoking Kim Jong-un

"to snap" and possibly step

up his nuclear missile programme.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei

Lavrov has rejected a call

by the American envoy to the UN

Security Council to sever ties

with the North after its latest

ballistic missile test on Wednesday.

Mr Lavrov is calling for the US

to attend new talks to review

the situation as the effectiveness

of the current sanctions has come

to an end, but he says America has

ignored these requests.

Our correspondent Paul Adams

reports from Seoul.

North Korea says it is

now a nuclear power.

Yesterday's launch hailed

by Pyongyang is a milestone.

But what do the pictures, released

a day later, actually tell us?

The rocket is huge.

Look at Kim Jong Un

in the black coat.

He's five seven.

Experts say the engine

technology is new,

and the transporter,

longer than ever.

But it's what we can't see

that really matters.

Was the tip heavy enough

to simulate a nuclear warhead?

North Korea says it was.

Donald Trump has made

thwarting the North Korean

leader a top priority.

It's not going so well.

Little rocket man...

Is a sick puppy.

At the UN last night, fresh

condemnation and more dire warnings.

The dictator of North Korea made

a choice yesterday that brings

the world closer to war.

And if war comes, make no mistake,

the North Korean regime

will be utterly destroyed.

The North Korean leader seems

less than intimidated.

His latest rocket flew longer

and higher than ever,

with a range thought to be in excess

of 8000 miles.

Kim Jong Un says he's

achieved his nuclear ambitions.

Most experts believe

there is lots of difficult

testing still to be done.

But it's just possible that

in the next 12 months or so,

everybody, including Donald Trump,

is going to have to get used

to the fact that North Korea does

indeed have usable nuclear weapons.

Paul Adams, BBC News, Seoul.

Let's get the thoughts

of Bill Richardson.

He's the former Governor

of New Mexico and a former

ambassador to the United Nations.

You have dealt with North Korea on

several occasions. Why do you think

that Kim Jong-un suddenly decided to

launch another missile?

I think he

was upset. A little diplomacy was

going on. Don't should miss out for

a 60 days and we will talk, then

instead the US administration puts

him on the terrorism list, which I

don't think was a smart move. They

could do that later. Throw him a fig

leaf, a little diplomacy. I'm not

condoning his behaviour, but I think

the president and the administration

gets there are mixed messages.

Pre-emptive military strike, utter

destruction, sick little puppy. Then

secretary Rex Tillerson, the State

secretary and the Defence Secretary

are moderate, they are restrained,

saying that have diplomacy. Mixed

messages. We are escalating again I

think unnecessarily.

Are we

escalating at a time when North

Korea say, look, we have done our

testing, we know we are a nuclear

power, some people would suggest

that they would be ready to

negotiate now. Is there a risk we

miss this signals, missed the

moment?

I'm not condemning their

activity but North Korea has always

said that once we achieve a level of

being able to head the United

States, then we are ready to talk.

We have reached the point where Kim

Jong-un has announced that. I have

always said that Kim Jong-un has an

endgame, and his endgame is when he

will be ready to negotiate. We

should have taken advantage of that.

The fact that 474 days he didn't

shoot a new killer missile at all or

an intercontinental ballistic

missile, then we put on the

terrorism list and the president

goes to Asia and calls him fat and

small. Name-calling doesn't work in

diplomacy. It might work in real

estate deals and in reality TV, but

here we are escalating again.

Diplomacy has not worked and the

very reason they have proceeded with

this programme, despite all the

pressure he has been under, is

because they see the missiles as an

assurance from the existential

threat that they face. To give them

up, why go all through the pain they

have been to?

You need to make an

extra effort at diplomacy. But maybe

we'll work his you say that the

North Koreans, all right, don't

should miss out for a certain period

of time, 30 days, and we talk and

maybe reduce our military activity

with South Korea. Some variation of

that, but when the Secretary of

State is not allowed to negotiate

and he is diminished by the

president who says you are wasting

your time negotiating, if you are a

North Korean families you say, they

don't want to negotiate so we will

continue our efforts to restore

nuclear capability.

The one thing

you do notice about the large side

of this missile is that it is closer

to pay on your -- a lot closer to

the North Korean capital.

There are

25 million South Koreans that are

vulnerable to artillery and other

operations. There are a Americans in

South Korea. 50,000 in Japan. Yes,

we would win a fight with North

Korea, but at what cost? The

collateral damage would be huge.

What are the options? Sanctions

aren't working too well, so move to

another option, it is called

diplomacy. Explore every possible

avenue to cool things down and start

talking.

Ambassador Bill Richardson,

I'm sorry for you that we had to

graduate of New Mexico, sorry for

you but happy for us.

Net migration in the UK,

the difference between the numbers

of people arriving and leaving,

has fallen sharply in the year

after the Brexit referendum.

The figures have fallen

by around a third compared

to the previous year.

That's because there are fewer

people coming from Europe.

Our correspondent Tom Symonds looks

at why the numbers are going down

and what it could mean

for the UK economy.

Is this the start not

of an exodus but of a Brexodus?

We are now getting some numbers.

French business consultant

Cyril is planning to go,

Polish mathematician

Dominika Czerniawska had already

gone back to Warsaw.

London still is the best city

of the European Union

but when it is not in

the European Union it loses so much

appeal Berlin, Amsterdam,

and for some people Warsaw

are far more attractive.

Investment has dried up and I work

in financial services and my clients

have started to move jobs

and because I am their consultant,

the jobs will be elsewhere.

They are among thousands who have

spent the months since that night

calculating their future

is in a post-Brexit Europe.

Descisions which are reflected

in the biggest to date.

Since the vote, 572,000 people have

arrived to live in the UK

but 342,000 have left.

The difference is that crucial

net migration figure,

230,000 more people living in the UK

than a year ago.

But following the Brexit vote,

that figure has fallen sharply

by 106,000, the biggest fall

since records began.

Many employers are deeply worried

about the loss of potential workers

but not Ken Beswick who runs

a stationery firm in South Wales.

This has been a land

of milk and honey.

The people of Great Britain have

suffered because of it for far too

long and so the drop to a quarter

of a million we welcome

but after having said that,

a quarter of a million extra people

is like another city of people

being added to the country

and straining resources.

So some professional Europeans

in office jobs are leaving

and there has also been a fall

in the number of people coming

here looking for work,

but a Brexodus, it is still the case

that 107,000 more Europeans came to

Britain in the last year than left.

The numbers today are quite

dramatic but you have to put

them in perspective.

We are only back to levels of net

migration we saw in 2014

so it is not a historical anomaly

and the vast majority of EU citizens

in the UK are not going anywhere,

they have been here for a long time

and emigration does not qualify

as a Brexodus at this point.

Some businesses like hotels

depend on foreign workers.

Francesca came from Italy

after the Brexit vote.

I can see that as soon as I came

here in London I applied for a job

and had the chance to start work

here and I think it is amazing

and not all the cities can give

you this opportunity.

As for the government,

it wants to cut net migration

by more than half again.

Tom Symons, BBC News.

I guess that is the issue about your

response to that headline figure.

That is exactly why people who voted

to leave the European Union voted to

leave the European Union. One of the

big reasons is that they didn't want

that figure to be as high.

There are

lots of reasons where people voted

for Brexit under immigration is one

of them. It is the reason why Labour

have had such an issue with that

over the years. People did want to

see that figure coming down. Grace

is a concern for the government and

has expressed a lot by people on

both sides, if you reduce the

numbers do you reduce the skills

coming into the country? Justine

Greening today was at the school

summer that the Department for

Education and she was talking about

new kind of apprenticeships. People

used to be able to get a really good

apprenticeship places like

Rolls-Royce, near where I lived.

These days the edges between 16 and

18 the skills are just not there,

and that is the reason why

businesses have been keen to employ

from overseas.

It makes me think of

our conversation yesterday about

robots taking jobs anyway. Better

make sure we are teaching people the

right skills, right?

Migraines affect one in seven

people across the world

and they are crippling.

Sometimes the symptoms

will last several days.

But now, a new approach

in treatment, discovered

in two clinical trials,

has shown the number and severity

of attacks can be cut significantly.

In recent trials, two new antibodies

have been used to neutralise

the chemical in the brain

which causes the pain

associated with a migraine.

Our health correspondent

James Gallagher has the story.

Tania Dutton was just 11

when she started having

devastating migraines.

They interfere with her passion

for music, causing immense

pain for days, speech

problems and blackouts.

Tania has to wear special glasses

even indoors, as bright light

can trigger an attack.

They can be debilitating.

For me, it feels like

someone is taking a knife

and stabbing my head repeatedly.

The pain is so bad that

you can't open your eyes,

you can't move, you can't speak.

Migraines are complex

and poorly understood.

But discovering what is

changing in the brain

is leading to new treatments.

Scientists at Kings College London

have been investigating one

chemical in the brain.

It's been implicated in both

the pain and sensitivity

to light in migraine.

Now antibodies have been developed

that neutralises that chemical

to prevent an attack.

Trials on two new antibodies

have been published.

The first was on nearly

1,000 people.

50% of patients given the therapy

had their migraines cut in half.

A second antibody was tested

on more than 1100 people.

It helped 41% of people

halve their migraines.

It is hoped the drugs could give

some patients their lives back.

These treatments are the first

migraine specific preventive ever.

For the most substantial

neurological cause of disability

on the planet, that is a huge

advance for all of us.

For Tania, that could mean freedom

from the constant worry

of a migraine attack.

To have a medication or a treatment

that is specifically designed

to help migraine is going to help

a lot of people.

The drugs could be available next

year if they are approved.

James Gallagher, BBC News.

Those medicines that cannot come

soon enough.

Those medicines that

cannot come soon enough.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come: The investigation

into alleged Russian meddling

in the US election just got a little

more personal for the president as

his son-in-law faces more questions.

One of the so-called Chennai Six

who was released from an Indian

prison on Monday has spoken

of his relief and delight

at regaining his freedom

after four years.

Nick Dunn, a former soldier,

was among six Britons

acquitted of weapons charges

by an Indian court.

He's been speaking to our India

correspondent Sanjoy Majumder.

Former paratrooper Nick Dunn

has just been released

from an Indian prison,

one of six Britons arrested four

years ago and charged

with smuggling weapons.

You have got to do

a proper investigation.

You have got to know

that person is guilty.

This wasn't like that.

It was, "we don't

care, you're guilty."

He's now traded his cramped, squalid

prison cell for a plush hotel room.

His sister, Lisa, has come out

to India to take him back home.

And he just can't wait.

It's going to be like four

Christmases that I've

missed rolled into one.

It's going to be the best Christmas

my family could ever wish for.

It's been a long, desperate wait for

justice inside this Chennai prison.

Nick and his mates were part

of a crew of 35 on board an American

ship seized off the Indian coast.

On Monday, an Indian court threw

out all the charges.

The men were finally free.

I was out training, one

of the guys shouted us over.

I could hear it in his voice,

it was excitement.

And he went, "full acquittal."

And I...

Stopped in my tracks

and it was like someone just slapped

us, because it was like a shock,

you know, and it was

an amazing feeling.

While they were in prison waiting

to learn their fate,

the men's families led a massive

campaign back home to

press for their release.

You are watching Beyond 100 Days.

Donald Trump is never happier

than when he is in a fight,

but even by his standards this has

been a particularly

volatile few weeks.

He has picked a long running

fight with Levar Ball,

father of a basketball player,

he has defended the Alabama

candidate Roy Moore

against allegations of sexual abuse.

There was the tweet that Time

magazine was planning

to award him Person of the Year

- they weren't.

The throw-away remark

about Pocohontas at a ceremony

for Navaho veterans.

The spat with the minority leaders

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi,

and now the re-tweeted videos.

Media commentators here

detect an acceleration.

But why?

Is the President reacting

to the pressure he is under?

There's North Korea,

there's tax reform and,

of course, there is always

the Russia investigation.

Katie Bo Williams is the national

security reporter for the Hill

and joins me here in the studio.

Katie, we haven't talked about the

Russian investigation a lot recently

because there has been so much other

news, but it does seem to be getting

closer to the White House in the

last day or two.

The house

intelligence committee is

interviewing a number of central

figures that are very close to the

president, either within his

administration or his family. The

committee just interviewed Attorney

General Jeff Sessions in a

closed-door setting. Next week they

are going to Doctor Donald Trump Jr,

the President's eldest son. He

doesn't have a position in the

administration, obviously, but he

has been a keen interest

investigators for a long time

because of this 26th of June meeting

that he took with the woman who

purported to be a Russian government

lawyer offering dirt on Hillary

Clinton.

Meanwhile, temp three has

been speaking to Bob Miller's team.

We are seeing reports that that

communication is ongoing. It is not

unusual for prosecutors to be in

communication with defence attorneys

when there is an active

investigation.

How close is this

getting to the President?

That is

the million dollar question. If

Robert Muller's team is able to

uncover some evidence of

coordination or collusion between

the President's campaign and Moscow,

the question is what the president

and when did he know what? Was their

direction from the principal? Was

this something that these peripheral

characters that we have seemed like

Manna fought potentially

orchestrated?

We are just looking at

pictures of Jared Kushner. He has

changed his personal statement two

or three times under pressure. The

Fed is that he know a lot. When they

are talking to him about his

relationship with Michael Flynn in

particular, he will have to be

really careful what he says this

time because they probably no more

than him.

Well, certainly whenever

you have an individual who is

talking to federal investigators,

you want to be very cautious to make

sure that your story is consistent

because we have already seen an

indictment... Sorry, I guilty plea

out of this investigation, George P.

Plus, I young campaign aide reached

a guilty plea with the Robert

Muller's team, saying he liked to

federal investigators about his

nature of contacts with Russia. That

is something Jared Kushner's defence

attorneys will be counselling him

very carefully on.

This may be one

thing that is causing a certain

amount of stress in the White House,

and North Korea. There is a lot

going on for this president and it

seems that there has been a flurry

of tweets that can only fairly be

described as in century.

We keep

asking when it is all going to end

but it is starting to fit together,

or maybe it's not. We will see.

We will see.

When Roy Aspinall spotted a man

who looked down on his luck

as he walked through a churchyard

in Wigan, here in England,

he decided to stop and chat to him.

After a few minutes, he realised,

to his astonishment,

that the stranger was in fact his

brother, who he had last seen

as a child over 20 years ago.

Judith Moritz has the story.

This is Roy Aspinall,

former infantryman with

the Queen's Regiment and this

is Billy White, until

recently sleeping rough

on the streets of Wigan.

They were strangers

until on Remembrance Day they found

themselves in the same churchyard.

Billy was sitting outside

on the wall when Roy approached him.

I saw a gentleman over

there in the corner.

He seemed like he

was on the streets.

I was hanging about here

in the churchyard because this

is where I slept sometimes.

He looked very familiar, the facial

features were similar to mine.

When he got over to me,

he started asking loads

of questions, what's my name,

who is my sister.

He turned round and said,

"I am Roy Aspinall,

and I'm your brother."

Roy grew up without

knowing his siblings.

Billy knew he had a brother

but didn't know where to find him.

After they met, they compared

birth certificates.

Roy says knowing his brother has

made him feel complete.

Like a massive jigsaw,

best to put it, but I couldn't find

that one piece to make

a pretty picture.

And it feels like I have

found that piece again.

Life-changing?

Life-changing completely, yes.

Billy is no longer homeless,

just in time for Christmas he's

moved in with his big brother.

I hear, Christian, you've had some

snowflakes in London today.

How many?

Five or six! And the trends are

still running! -- trains.

-- trains.

Well, we are also gearing up

for the festive season.

They have been turning

on the lights at the Rockefeller

Center in New York.

All very Christmassy.

This is also the time of year

when the diary fills up

with Christmas parties and usually

I go to the one the White House

throws for the press pool.

It's a pretty low key affair,

but it's a good chance to meet up

with the politicians

and fellow journalists.

At least it has been.

This year, there are some

organisations choosing not to go,

there are others who simply

haven't been invited.

And I am one of them.

No invite this year.

And I have been to quite a few.

Here's a picture of me and dad

with President Obama.

I have been with other family

members in the past we did

one with George W Bush.

I should say I am not

the only one not invited.

No quite.

In fact, one of the more surprising

ones not on the list is the veteran

White House correspondent April Ryan

who has been to this event

for the last 20 years.

She is the correspondent

for American Urban Radio Networks.

She is also a CNN contributor.

As for CNN themselves,

they have said no to the invite

"in light", they said,

"of the President's

continued attacks on them

and freedom of the press".

No, I'm not going to the White

House. Either is Jon Sopel. You

normally go in there are tonnes of

people, lots of nice food. Lovely

decorations. Then you get given a

little number and to go downstairs

and you get 20 seconds with the

president and somebody takes of

Rhoda Grant. From my understanding

it is not clear that Donald Trump

will do the photo light.

He might

not even be there. It would be

strange, these people who are

criticising him all year for stuff

just looking at my invites this

year. Their Sandringham, Jools

Holland, yes, filling up!

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