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Donald Trump tells Israelis and

arrow partners that he's planning to

move the US Embassy to Jerusalem,

the decision altering years of

American foreign policy and setting

back efforts to broker the Middle

East peace deal. There could be

dangerous consequences for making

good on his campaign pledge, the

Palestinian leader warns Donald

Trump, maybe it is not so bad after

all, the barbican party decides to

support Roy Moore in Alabama! A

dramatic U-turn, but many never lost

the faith.

People are trying to

labour him as a paedophile, and that

word is trying to spread like

wildfire. -- label.

I don't believe

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Key American allies are warning

President Trump not to move the US

embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. We

expect the announcement from the

White House tomorrow and it is

already prompting concerns

internationally, a move fraught with

political conversations. Donald

Trump has been engaged in extensive

telephone diplomacy, calling leaders

from the region. France and Iraq

have warned against the plan but it

looks likely the US president will

recognise Jerusalem as Israel's

capital. Joining us now, North

America editor, John Sobel. Why is

he doing this now, he has so many

issues on his plate internationally,

it is not an issue you hear the base

talking about?

He has long made a

pledge, he said he wanted to move

the embassy from Tel Aviv to

Jerusalem in his campaign.

-- Jon

Sopel.

He said he wanted to

recognise Jerusalem as the capital

of Israel. A lot of people I have

spoken to who have been part of the

thinking process, they say he

started with a very limited amount

of knowledge, has been a steep

climbing curve to get him to this

point, but it looks like he wants to

go ahead with making good on the

pledge. And it is bringing an

extraordinarily response back, some

of which you have outlined. He spoke

with the Jordanian king, the

speaking with the Jordanians, it

will undermine efforts to the peace

process, and inflaming Muslims and

Christians alike. Saudi Arabia has

said it will have a detrimental

effect. The arrow bleak, dangerous

measure that would have

repercussions. In the past, Donald

Trump has ignored warnings like

that, about America in the climate

change deal. Will he ignore all

these warnings? That is what we

don't know.

Who is it in America

pushing him to do this?

A sizeable

lobby has wanted this measure to be

taken back, the eight pack group,

the pro-Israel lobby, is behind

this. -- Apac. And many Christian

groups are very supportive of Israel

and feel it is an important message

that must be sent, but against all

that, he will be totally aware of

just how many people are saying this

is a dangerous move, the status of

Jerusalem, what happens after you

have negotiated a settlement, not

before.

A man riding point on this, his

son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a man who

is not exactly steeped in foreign

policy experience.

Know, one of the

more eyebrow raising things that we

got to learn about when Donald Trump

said his son-in-law would deliver

the ultimate deal of peace in the

Middle East. As I say, I have heard

from people who have been in

conversations with him, that he is

immensely charming but when

questioned on the detail of Middle

East peace policy, he can become

rather brittle and does not want to

get involved in some of the detailed

conversations about it. This is an

immensely thorny issue that

diplomats around the world and in

America have been trying to deal

with, ever since the formation of

the state of Israel in 1948 and they

come back to some of the same issues

every time. What happens to the US

embassy? What happens to work the

capital is situated? Those issues

are not easy to resolve.

Those are

crucial issues indeed, the thoughts

of our Middle East correspondent

now, from Jerusalem, on why this is

such a sensitive issue for both

sides.

Israel sees Jerusalem as its eternal

undivided capital, it has long been

a source of frustration that there

is not recognition of its full is

referring to over the city.

Palestinians want East Jerusalem as

the future independent state's

capital. It has been the consensus

for a long time that the status of

the city should be decided in a

negotiated peace deal between Israel

and the Palestinians. -- that there

is not recognition of sovereignty.

It was captured in the Middle East

war, annexed in a move that is not

recognised internationally, so that

is all the sensitivities, and at the

moment, all countries that have an

embassy in Israel, they keep them in

or close to Tel Aviv and have

consulates in Jerusalem, this is a

big departure by Donald Trump.

Joining us now, Dennis Ross, served

as Middle East adviser to multiple

administrations, now at the

Washington Institute for

International responsibility, are

these mutually is elusive, advancing

the peace process and moving the

embassy to Jerusalem.

Not

necessarily but it depends upon how

it is done, if it is done as though

it is a move that will be made over

time, number one, if it is done in a

way that the president says clearly,

this is not prejudging the final

status of the city, that still must

be negotiated, the ancient

boundaries, Palestinian claims, all

that must be resolved in

negotiations. If he frames the issue

that way, we can manage it then.

We'll have to see what he says when

he makes the announcement but there

are concerns among Palestinians that

this looks like President Trump has

accepted the Israelis position on

one of the key final status issues.

There is no issue more sensitive or

provocative than Jerusalem. The

Palestinians... They cannot appear

to be conceding the issue of

Jerusalem without ever having had a

chance to, in a sense, make their

case, in negotiations, ensuring

their position is represented.

I am

an old cynic(!) armour king salmon

of Saudi Arabia, tells Donald Trump

that transferring the US embassy to

Jerusalem is a dangerous step that

would inflame feelings... And yet,

Jared Kushner, on the ground, spent

a lot of time with the Crown Prince,

there is no way, surely, that the

United States would take a decision

like this without Saudi Arabia being

involved. That is the line we get

from Reuters news agency.

It would

be shocking to say the least if the

US make this decision without

running it by the Saudis in advance.

It is quite possible that in fact,

when Jared Kushner was seeing the

Crown prince, that this issue was

not joined. One of the best ways to

ensure that you manage this issue

would have been in a sense to

preview it and refute it in advance

with all your Arabic partners. And

basically, elicit what would be

their suggestions about how to frame

this decision, give them time

themselves to adjust to it and

create a public posture on it which

allows them to have an explanation.

What you do not want to do with the

arrogant and especially the Saudis

is denied them their cover on an

issue that is so sensitive to them.

You do not want to put them into a

position where they have to walk

away from us, because we will need

them in any effort that is designed

to break the stalemate between

Israelis and Palestinians.

We should

not underestimate how dangerous this

is, according to reports in the

Washington Post, the word has gone

out to embassies in the region that

they need to increase security.

Again, did not quite hear that...

There are concerns in US embassies

around the world about security as a

response to this announcement.

I

think that it is a prudent course of

action, to put yourself in a

position where you anticipate that

there could be an effort by the

enemies of peace to miss portray

this and suggest that in fact, this

is already conceding all giving the

issue of Jerusalem away, taking away

from the arrows what they see as

being a core interests of various.

It is not surprising that some may

try to foment backlash and violence

against it, it is a prudent course

to ensure security measures have

been taken.

Thank you very much for

coming in. Countries around the

world often say this issue is

terribly important to them, as you

were suggesting, not always as

important as they might suggest. In

the course of this programme, we

will talk about a couple of thorny

issues, Middle East peace process,

Middle East, and also Ireland and

the Northern Irish issue, two issues

which we may have thought would have

been resolved over the course of the

last decade(!) but which are still

with us and still cause an enormous

amount of headaches!

It is we only

have one hour here, how long do we

have...

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To deal with these...

Some Russian athletes who can prove

that they are clean will be able to

appear in South Korea, under a

neutral flag.

Thanks sponsored

doping at the Sochi Olympics.

The

president of the International

Olympic committee has delivered the

decision at a press conference just

a short time ago.

Russian Olympic

community is suspended with

immediate effect. Clean Russian

athletes will be able to participate

at the Winter Olympics under strict

conditions in 2018. These invited

athletes will participate in

individual or team competitions

under the name Olympic athlete from

Russia. They will have the acronym,

OAR and they will compete with a

uniform bearing this name and under

the Olympic flag. The Olympic anthem

will be played in any ceremony. No

official of the Russian Ministry of

sport will be accredited for the

Olympic Winter games in 2018.

I'm

joined by a correspondent from the

BBC's Russia network, those who pass

the drugs test, presumably, they

will compete as Olympic athlete from

Russia... How will that go down at

home?

It is hard to know what will

happen. We are awaiting reaction

from the Kremlin, even though it is

quite late in Russia. I guess, if

the decision will be taken, and

there is a possibility that Russia

may decide to boycott the games, of

course there will be a lot of

pressure on individual athletes to

follow that decision. Of course, at

the same time, if you athletes

before the decision was taken have

said that they are eager and ready

to compete under a neutral flag.

Did

that at the World Championships.

Exactly, some received harsh

criticism at home, others said they

are doing the right thing, but

whichever decision is going to be

taken by the Kremlin, there will be

a lot of pressure on each athlete.

I'm just reading here, from the

president of the Russian Bobsleigh

Federation, he has told Reuters he

is shocked, Russian state television

has already said they will not show

the Winter Olympics in Russia...

Does this kind of a ruling by the

IOC to say certain amount of

embarrassment, does it leads to the

decision that we ought to change the

way we treat athlete and the doping

issue?

At the moment, I would say,

mostly, it produces outrage, people

are furious, state television uses

harsh words, describing the

situation... Actually, this was the

main active which was given by state

television over the past few months,

they have said, old allegations are

no evidence behind it, all politics.

They keep repeating those words.

Popular opinion needs to that side

rather than thinking, what would

have happened, and their reaction --

and, at the moment, the man whose

whistle-blowing taught us a lot

about Russian doping techniques, he

is called a traitor.

Thank you very

much for joining us.

One of the mysteries of the Senate

race in Alabama has been why

evangelicals are so keen

to stick with the Republican

candidate Roy Moore.

After all he's been accused by 8

women of sexually harassing them

when they were teenagers,

one of the women says

she was just 14.

So how do evangelical voters

square these accusations

with their own faith?

What's their argument for sticking

with a candidate who's accused

of molesting a child?

The BBC's Barbara Plett Usher has

been to Alabama to find out.

On a Sunday morning in Alabama,

almost everyone goes to church, and

more than half the state's

Christians are white evangelical

Christians, they see it as holding

the line against moral decay. But,

they are standing with Roy Moore,

despite allegations of immoral

behaviour. Karen is a long-time

supporter, the accusations of sexual

misconduct sound to her like a

political smear campaign, coming as

they did one month before the Senate

election.

I think people are trying

to label him as a paedophile, that

word is trying to spread like

wildfire, and I do not believe it.

Would you change your support for

him if they turned out to be true?

If there was proof.

But the way you

describe it...

There cannot be

proved. There cannot be proved,

unless he admitted it, I guess.

He

certainly has not, in effect calling

the victims liars, is using the

pulpits to issue the denials.

Let's

have a word of prayer.

They are not

looking for proof here because he's

one of their own, a champion of

their fight against issues like

abortion and sex marriage.

If you

are going to be public in your

endorsement of Jesus, expect

opposition.

-- same-sex marriage. He

believes political power is needed

to restore America's Christian

groups.

We have seen this country

going to the left, leaving things it

never did the first 200 years of

this country's existence, a lot of

that is fed by Hollywood and things

like that. He's one of the few that

I have met, that I have voted for,

that you can count on, when he gets

in there, that he will do what he

said he would do.

Roy Moore has a

loyal following here in the bible

belt, the reputation as a crusader

for traditional values, but there

are plenty in Alabama who say he is

not there are kind of question. A

diverse coalition of Christian

leaders felt compelled to speak out

in response to the evangelical

support for Roy Moore and they are

not the only ones. Colin Hansen is a

conservative evangelical who says he

cannot vote for either candidate.

The only reason we have this

conversation right now is because

both candidates are extreme in one

way or another.

He is talking about

abortion, Roy Moore's opponent, Doug

Jones, supports no restrictions at

all. But there are also damaging

combo mice is made by Roy Moore's

abortus.

The real question, for

Evangelicals, is there any single

thing that a Conservative or

Republican candidate could do that

would make you not vote for him...!

And I have not yet heard an answer.

The election has become a showcase

for the link between religion and

politics and the power this has two

shape Washington but it has also

forced a spiritual debate about the

essence of Christianity in America's

Conservative heartland.

STUDIO:

Mr Moore is not the only US

politician in the spotlight.

Today the longest standing member

of Congress, Democrat John Conyers,

announced he's retiring.

He is being investigated

for sexual abuse,

though he insists that's not

why he's going.

The 88-year-old is a veteran

of the civil rights movement but now

he's leaving under a cloud

of suspicion and his

legacy will be tainted

by the manner of his departure.

There have been a series

of accusations against him

from former staff members.

David Catanese

reports for US News

and World report and joins me now.

I suppose it is no surprise that

John Conyers had to go, is the

movement that happened in America's

corporate society now moving into

politics? Will we see politicians

increasingly held to account?

I

think so but it will be

case-by-case, Senator Al Franken of

Al Franken has been accused and is

not stepping down. The difference

has been that in corporations in the

media, these guys have bosses. In

politics, the only boss is the

ballot box, and in the case of John

Conyers, there was... Nantyglo see

put pressure on him, and that became

unsustainable for him, to stay in

that seat, especially because

Democrats believe they can win back

the house and he would be a

lingering distraction if he said he

was staying on.

Another exception,

Roy Moore, looks like he's getting

the support not just of the

president but the Republican Party

has decided to finance him again.

Why have Republicans who just three

weeks ago were so determined to say,

this guy is no good, he is a stain

on the Republican Party, this is not

what our values are, suddenly

falling in line.

Three weeks ago

they use that to pressure him to get

out, they said, we will not support

you, if you win, we will expel you,

that was supposed to be a threat to

move him out but it did not work...

He went underground to an extent,

got away from the media, and then...

Sort of distracted by all these

other allegations that came on with

other politicians, other men in the

media full. Now the polls look

better for him. The answer to your

question, they think he could win

and that becomes a much more

difficult question, if he wins and

is there, than to go through a

Senate and ethics investigation and

expel him, they have to deal with

that, it is very uncomfortable for a

lot of Republicans.

The Senate

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has

said, if he is elected, Roy Moore

will face a Senate ethics

investigation immediately.

A

colleague of hours were saying they

did this with Donald Trump, after

the access Hollywood takes, there

was distance, condemnation, and then

they went and rallied behind him

again.

Absolutely, waiting it out,

for the campaign of Roy Moore, they

thought they could wait this out, if

these accusations dropped yesterday

or today and it would have been a

week-long story, then I think it is

a different race and it becomes much

more difficult for Roy Moore to make

it through that storm, but because

of the media cycle, because this

happened three weeks ago, sad to

say, attention was diverted to other

things! And then you had a

Republican base have problems with

Doug Jones, more of his record got

exposed, particularly on abortion,

like your package pointed out. They

knew it was a confluence of that.

This is still a competitive race,

only a couple of points, looks

close, most Republicans now that I

speak to think why more is going to

pull this out.

This is from Michael

Steele, former RNC chairman, tweet

here, Republican, of course, he

says, or refusal to acknowledge that

you have endorsed an alleged

paedophile for the sake of a vote

tells me Roy Moore will be a trump

puppet...

He went on to say on MSNBC that they

will pay a price for this, the

Republicans, that the Democrats will

explore what they have done in

Alabama.

Yes, that is true, I have

seen press releases from state

Democratic parties around the

country asking Republican

candidates, do you stand with Roy

Moore or do you stand with Mitch

McConnell? That will be a question

that I think Democrats opposed to

every Republican, but I also think,

if he wins, you will have some

Republican voices saying he needs to

be expelled, the chairman of the

national Republican committee,

called for his expulsion, if he won

the seat, I asked his office twice

yesterday, does he stand by that

statement? They did not get back to

me. Some of these Republicans will

be pressured if Roy Moore is seeded,

to move on with the investigation

and move to expel him.

Thank you

very much for joining us, so

interesting.

On the Eurostar back

from Brussels today, I have been

following your tweets, all of the

tweets of our colleagues, and I have

also been reading BBC online. I have

picked up something that relates to

what you have been talking about,

and it is about the fear that women

who were coming forward now have

about a backlash. You can tell that

I have been on the Eurostar. Tell us

what you think is happening.

It is

interesting, quite a controversial

issue to even raise, Christian,

surprisingly so, women do not want

to look like they are appeasing

harassers in this particular moment

but there is a fear of a backlash

and a fear that full is accuses will

be publicised and that could

undermine all the other women who

come out with allegations. We saw

that with the Washington Post story

a couple of weeks ago. Also a fear

that corporations and mail bosses

could stop helping women in the

workplace, they may want to stop

having meetings alone with them or

dinners alone or stop inviting them

to meetings, I have already heard

corporate executives say this,

Frankie, it'll be to employ a man,

hire a man, than a young woman. That

would mean that women in the

workforce would be at a disadvantage

and the last thing we want is for

women to be hurt by the movement.

There is concern that there will be

a backlash against...

You think the

very weight of harmony women are

involved at the moment could

eventually get men saying, well...

Men have said to me, I am sure you

have heard this, goodness, I cannot

say you look good, I cannot come in

your appearance, otherwise I will be

done for harassment. Being said in a

jokey way but the fear is that tends

to present if there is a sense of

overreach, if men feel they are

condemned just because they are men,

that could come back to her women.

Let's move way up to space! LAUGHTER

As fresh a perspective is possible

on this programme. Christian loves

space stories, this is something

just for him.

These series of photos were taken

from the International Space Station

and show the northwest

corner of Australia.

The images were actually stitched

together into a time-lapse video.

They show the inland areas

near Port Hedland and Broome,

before heading towards South

Australia.

The pictures were taken by the

Italian astronaut, Paulo Nespoli.

Here he is in the middle.

Over the weekend he was missing

Italian food so much that NASA

sent up the ingredients

for a pizza party.

Quite literally out of this world.

You know how eet ees,

when you are away from mama.

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Must be the most inventive beliefs

pizza delivery service in the

history of the world! -- most

expensive pizza delivery service.

Having been the Italian, I think you

need to spend the doe... Maybe that

is what you need to do, going into

zero gravity!

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News,

will there be more handshakes

by the end of the week?

Can the British Prime Minister find

a Brexit deal and one

that will satisfy the EU

and her Northern Ireland partners?

And White House harmonies,

the music that's defined

the American presidency.

Looking forward to that.

Another rather grey but mild day for

many of us, here is one of the

weather watcher pictures:

pretty quiet, that is not going to

last, the reason the swell of cloud

in the Atlantic is the next named

storm on the horizon, Storm

Caroline, West effects of which will

be felt in northern Scotland on

Thursday, we will get to that in a

moment. Overnight, turning breezy

across the UK, quite windy in

north-west Scotland, wet throughout

the night. Patchy light rain and

drizzle, Wales, western England.

Away from north-west Scotland,

places will be dry and cloudy, there

is a flow of mild air coming in from

the South South West. For Wednesday,

much of England and Wales will stay

dry, patchy drizzle perhaps over the

week

hills, writer breaks to the

east, for Northern Ireland and into

Scotland, outbreaks of rain, some

spots, eastern Scotland, especially

Moray and Aberdeenshire, should stay

dry. Maybe 13, 14 Celsius. Wind

freshening all the while, gales

developing, going into Wednesday

evening and Wednesday night. Worse

to come coming in for Thursday.

Storm Caroline passes to the north.

Closer to the centre of the

low-pressure, a stronger wind,

repeatedly across northern Scotland,

where we will probably see gusts

around 80 mph. Some pretty strong

gusts can be felt elsewhere in

Scotland, parts of Northern Ireland

and northern England. We will keep

you updated. All the while, we will

see it turning colder from the

North, with a band of school e-rain

pushing its way through, showers

turning increasingly wintry in the

cold air, all the way from the

Arctic as Storm Caroline moves away.

Cold air plunging south across the

UK, Thursday night, into Friday, we

will see some snow showers around,

particularly across northern and

western parts of the UK. I see in

places as Friday begins. Blizzards

into Highland Scotland. -- icy

places. Sunshine to come, will not

do much for the temperature. -- with

a band of squally rain. We have

Storm Caroline on the way, wet and

windy weather around. Particularly

in Scotland. Snow and ice there in

the week.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories.

The Palestinian, Egyptian

and Jordanian leaders are warning

President Trump that moving the US

embassy to Jerusalem would damage

the Middle East peace process.

Russia is banned from the Winter

Olympics but denies any wrongdoing.

The US Special Counsel,

Robert Mueller, is reported to have

asked Germany's Deutsche Bank

to provide information on accounts

held by President Trump

and his family.

Coming up in the next half hour.

Can a president of the

United States even be tried

for obstruction of justice?

The White House lawyer has

sparked quite a debate.

Billy Bush lost his job

after the infamous Access Hollywood

tape with Donald Trump.

Now he's speaking out

on the president's comments.

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Special Prosecutor Bob Mueller has

subpoenaed Deutsche bank

for information on accounts held

by Donald Trump and his family.

Deutsche Bank is Trump's biggest

lender - and it does a lot

of business in Russia.

There is some argument that the

president is not subject to

indictment while still in office. I

think it is clear that

indictment while still in office. I

think it is clear that the president

can commit a federal crime just like

any other citizen in this country.

Well this is as much of a political

process as a criminal process and in

the case of Watergate the Republican

party was prepared to go against its

own president.

This is the ultimate

distinction between the impeachment

process, which is in the hands of

the Congress, and the criminal

justice process which is in the

hands of professional prosecutors.

Ultimately President Nixon, the

Republican support he had in the

House of Representatives evaporated

when he was required to turn over

the damning tapes that showed that

he was up to his armpits in a

conspiracy to obstruct justice. The

same might be true with respect to

President Trump because he still has

more oil Republicans in the House of

Representatives who might shield him

from the consequences of any

misconduct he is found to have

engaged in and I think the key to

this is what Mueller decides to do

with the evidence he has.

We had

Michael Moore on yesterday and he

described Mueller is the kung fu

master of prosecutions, he knows how

to apply pressure and when. So at

the beginning of his investigation

he seems to have focused on the

periphery and now he is going after

the money, looking at Deutsche Bank.

What is the president going to do

about that?

I think the president

has said that could be a red line

and that might be perhaps the

strongest demonstration of the

president being worried about what

Mueller could find in probing the

financial relationships that

connecting craps through Deutsche

Bank to some of the Russian

oligarchs. I think perhaps that is

what I would call the consciousness

of guilt and normally in this line

of work you find the more someone

complains about a line of

investigation but more likely it is

that there is something a person

does not want to be uncovered.

Where

do you stand on the tweet he sent

out at the weekend pretty much

accepting that he knew that general

Flynn had lied to the FBI, do you

think that in itself has

implications for the president in

terms of obstruction of justice?

I

think it does and the president is

his own worst enemy, in the

Washington Post a couple of months

ago after his first week in which he

admitted the reason he had fired

James Comey was he wanted to bring

an end to the Russian investigation,

now he has apparently admitted he

knew that his national security

adviser Mike Flynn had committed a

federal felony lying to the FBI

before the president asked James

Comey to give Mike Flynn a pass and

that the president then fired James

Comey when he refused to professes

loyalty and to yield to the

president and his encouragement to

drop the case. I think this latest

one makes the case of obstruction of

justice that much more clear and

compelling. And I would think under

normal standards the president would

be in jeopardy.

Obviously you're not

inside the country investigation but

you know how they work, and I'm sure

that you could read the legal team

leaves, how serious doesn't look to

you for the president from a

criminal charges point of view at

the moment?

Forgetting the politics

for the moment. Well one element is

did his conduct run foul of the

elements of the criminal federal

statutes specifically. I think the

evidence we now have suggested he

did. The second question is whether

as his lawyers say the president

really cannot commit a crime,

because he's the chief executive of

the country, I think that is nothing

short of nonsensical. As was

established in the Nixon tapes case,

the president as everyone else is

subject to the law. The trickiest

question is whether the president

may be indicted and charged with a

crime while still in office. As

opposed to having to wait until he

has left office. I think that is

where the rubber meets the road. My

own view is that a president is

subject to indictment while still in

office and that is separate from the

impeachment process.

No doubt we

will be returning to this. Thank

you. Well if you look at the last

ten days it has been a pretty good

ten days for the president, tax

reforms have got to the committee

stage and into the Senate and then

what else, something else as well.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld

his ban on visas for Muslim

countries. It looks like the tax

reform Bill will pass. You could

make a strong case that we're

closing year on a high for the

president. Roy Moore may get elected

so they hold the Senate majority,

more good news for him. I should

point out though we have had recent

polling in the last few days and his

approval ratings, which were around

the summer around 38%, have slipped

around 34%. So those numbers not do

any better at the moment.

Theresa May is under growing

pressure to find a way forward

after Brexit talks broke down

on Monday over the future

of Northern Ireland's

border with the Republic.

A deal on this first phase

of negotiations has to be in place

before next week's summit so talks

can move on to trade.

The UK opposition Labour party has

called Theresa May's

efforts an embarrassment.

Now, former Tory leader

Iain Duncan Smith says it's nearly

time to walk away from the talks

altogether - as our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg reports.

You can shake hands

as much as you like.

Are you confident of a deal?

But it does not mean

there will be a deal,

the Spanish leader one of dozens

she has to get onside.

There are a couple of issues we need

to work on, but I will be

reconvening in Brussels

later this week.

It is this band she needs right

now, the DUP's ten MPs,

feeling their power in every step.

They refused to back Theresa May's

deal in Brussels over Ireland border

which they fear will put

Northern Ireland on a different path

to the rest of the UK.

The text we were shown late

yesterday did not translate

what we had been told in general

conversations into reality.

Would you be willing

to see the deal fail?

We do not want to see the talks fail

and we do not want to see no deal,

we want a sensible Brexit.

Yesterday's collapse provoked

arguments on all sides

with some believing Scotland,

Wales and some sectors

of the economy should get special

status but in Dublin a clear

message, no budging,

clinging to the agreement

that the North and south mirror

each other's regulations.

The ball is in London's

court, the Prime Minister

and the European Commission

and negotiating teams have

asked for more time.

Number 10 believes it could be back

on by the end of the week,

sorted by Christmas.

But the failure yesterday meant

a barrage of attacks in the Commons.

What an embarrassment.

If the price of the Prime

Minister's approach

is the break-up of the union

and reopening of bitter divides

in Northern Ireland

the price is too high.

The suggestion we might depart

the European Union but leave one

part of the UK inside the single

market and customs union

is emphatically not something the UK

Government is considering.

But there is no agreement

in cabinet about what happens next.

A former leader telling the BBC it

might be time to walk away.

It is a game played out over power

and the answer boils down

to who will call the shots on this?

Right now, we have to say not good

enough, we cannot pay this price.

You are saying to Brussels,

back off, or we will walk?

The statement is more

straightforward, you need to change

this process and to back off,

otherwise we get on with

other arrangements.

The Prime Minister and DUP are yet

to talk directly today.

Theresa May is not in total control

of her relationships

with friends or rivals.

We have been speaking

to Lord Trimble, former

First Minister of Northern Ireland

and one of the architects

of the Good Friday Agreement.

I asked him why the language

in yesterday's document outlining

a deal on the Border,

had been so important?

The Irish government behaved

yesterday and as I understood today

as if what was being discussed was

something that was going to have the

regulatory arrangements common to

Northern Ireland, Republic of

Ireland into the future and that is

not the position of the British

Government as I understand it. I

understand this regulatory alignment

is only going to apply to existing

cooperative arrangements and not any

future ones and does not have

general application. A hugely

different position. And it is that

difference that causes the problem

because the Irish brief, the

journalists who came away with the

briefing saying that this was going

to apply generally and that caused

huge difficulties for the DUP.

Some

people would say this is pretty

great stuff, regulatory alignment,

what does mean but it is fundamental

to what Brexit is all about because

the Brexiteers here in London have

not yet had a conversation within

cabinet about what kind of Brexit we

will have, what kind of future

trading relationship we will have.

So if you set the terms for Northern

Ireland before knowing whether rest

of the UK is going, you're asking

the DUP to take an extraordinary

leap into the dark.

You're asking

the British Government then to agree

to something before they have

reached negotiations, this goes back

to something which we should perhaps

have been firmer with the beginning

because the EU proposals as to how

the negotiations would proceed were

not terribly good. And the huge

mistake was to put negotiations on

the future trading relationship

right at the end of the queue where

it should have been right at the

front of the queue because it is the

big issue. And the other issue of

how to deal with the Irish border is

secondary because until we know what

the trading arrangements are,

whether there will still be

terrorists and the nature of those

tariffs, whether they will be other

provisions, the cynic would say this

was done by the European Commission

to put maximum pressure on the

British Government. That is not a

sensible way to proceed. That has

contributed to the present

difficulties.

It is almost 20 years

since you helped negotiate the Good

Friday agreement. This issue of the

border, as raising tensions between

nationalists and unionists and

Dublin, perhaps not surprising to

you but I wonder if you think there

is a border solution that would

satisfy all the parties involved.

We

could wrap it up as soon as we know

what the trading arrangements are.

Whose fault was it then that talks

broke down yesterday?

Well

personally I think the Irish

briefing, the briefing to the press,

the British press, resulted in them

running with stories on Monday

morning which were dynamite as far

as unionists were concerned. That

was the problem. You could criticise

Downing Street in that having seen

that that was happening they should

have taken some action.

Lord Trimble

there. So reports that too May could

return to Brussels as early as

Wednesday, did that suggest to you

that she's had some kind of a

breakthrough with the DUP in these

negotiations or is she just going to

talk to EU members?

I was there last

night working for the News Channel

until a quarter past nine, Brussels

time, and she left after her meeting

with Donald Tusk around that time.

So she had been in discussions for

about eight hours. And they were not

able to find a way through. I'm sure

they've had conversations today with

the DUP. The thing this tells us,

she sets her horizons by the end of

the week, not looking at the future

of the trade relationship at the

moment but looking step-by-step. How

to get to the next phase. Exactly

and she has to keep all these

different groups onside, the EU

Commission, the DUP, her

backbenchers and cabinet and so up

until now she has had no substance

of discussion within cabinet about

what the future looks like and not

difficult to see why. And the issue

of language, it is fundamental

because whether the rules state

aligned, running on twin tracks if

you will, or whether they do not

diverge, that is absolutely

fundamental to what Brexit is going

to be about. And we have not even

have that discussion within the UK

yet so I do not know how you can set

the rules for the DUP in Northern

Ireland if you do not know where the

rest of the UK is going.

And the

clock is ticking. Some breaking news

coming in about a German train, a

passenger train that has run into a

freight train crusted Dusseldorf.

German police saying 50 people may

have been injured in that train

crash. That is the first we are

hearing about it. Train colliding a

freight train crusted Dusseldorf. We

will bring you more detail as we get

it.

Spain's Supreme Court has

withdrawn a European

arrest warrant for

the

sacked Catalan regional

leader, Carles Puigdemont

who fled to Belgium.

Mr Puigdemont and four former

ministers are wanted in Spain

on charges of inciting a rebellion.

Two wildfires in Ventura County,

on the outskirts of Los Angeles,

are threatening three cities

in southern California.

At least 150 buildings north of LA,

including a psychiatric hospital,

have already been destroyed.

And another quarter of a million

homes are without power.

The former Georgian president

Mikheil Saakashvili has been

freed by his supporters,

shortly after being

arrested in Ukraine.

There were chaotic scenes

in the capital Kiev

in the moments after his arrest.

Mr Saakashvili repeated calls

for Ukraine's parliament to impeach

President Petro Poroshenko.

This is Beyond One Hundred Days.

Still to come.

White House harmony -

the sounds through the centuries

that we associate with the American

presidency.

Here in the UK, treating type-two

diabetes costs the NHS billions

of pounds a year and can lead

to serious complications

for the patients.

The condition is normally controlled

with medication but a new trial -

carried out in Newcastle and Glasgow

- has shown that it can be reversed

through dieting and weight loss.

Our Health Correspondent

James Gallagher reports.

Isobel Murray thought she was facing

a lifetime of Type 2 diabetes,

but she's lost more than four stone

on the trial and has now completely

changed her relationship with food.

Her disease is in remission.

It's freedom to live your life again

and know that you're not in that

cycle any more and know that I can

control this, and I will

never go there again.

She spent 17 weeks drinking these.

They're nutritionally balanced

soups and shakes to help

trigger weight loss.

And that's it, there's 200 calories

in a glass and you're allowed

four of them every day.

That's just sweet, really,

but that's your lot,

for up to five months.

The pancreas is critical

in Type 2 diabetes.

If excess body fat is stored

around the organ, then it

reduces the production

of the hormone insulin.

That leads to levels of sugar

in the blood getting

dangerously out of control.

Losing weight makes the fat cells

disappear and the pancreas

work properly again.

Doctors say 46% of patients

on the trial put their

Type 2 into remission.

We now have clear evidence that

weight loss of 10 or 15

kilograms is enough to turn

this disease around.

It's hugely exciting that we can do

that in routine practice,

with ordinary nurses,

ordinary dieticians,

ordinary GPs and ordinary patients.

I don't feel like a diabetic because

I don't think about it any more.

I've got my life back.

She says if she can beat

Type 2, then anyone can.

James Gallagher, BBC News.

Billy Bush has again reiterated

the authenticity of the leaked

"Access Hollywood" tape,

in which President Trump is heard

to make crude comments about women.

The TV host - who was with

Mr Trump at the time -

said there was no doubt

over his remarks.

Take a look at this.

Last week for some reason he came

out with that is not my voice on the

tape. You cannot say that, I was

there, you were there, that is your

voice on the tape. 20 women do not

get together and say it would be fun

to take down a powerful guide

together. I said OK, you're

reopening wounds, enough is enough,

stop playing around with up that

upset him. -- with people's lives.

Billy Bush was fired by NBC News

after the tape came out because they

felt he had been enabling the

president in the Commons that he was

making. There is some speculation

that all the things Billy Bush is

doing at the moment, he has exposed

a lot of these sexual harassment

cases in the New Yorker magazine,

some kind of retrospective

rehabilitation going on on his part

is the allegation.

Whether it is hail to the chief

or a current day tune -

music has always played an important

role at the White House.

It can be heard accompanying

historic events and even offering

a soundtrack to diplomacy.

Now a new book is looking

at the role music has played

during each president's time

in office and how it has

developed over the centuries.

Jane O'Brien has gone to meet some

of those behind the instruments.

Founded by an act of Congress signed

by President John Adams in 1798 the

United States Marine band has

provided music for the White House

and the president ever since.

I feel

the weight of history every day,

when you set foot inside the

executive office and have the

responsibility to set the tone for

whatever event is happening at that

time is exhilarating. There is a

sense of electricity inside the

White House and many times that is

driven by music.

Music at the White

House, the title of subject of a new

book, it is shaped by more than two

centuries of tradition and the

personal taste of the Presidents.

Thomas Jefferson played violin, John

Quincy Adams played the flute, many

presidents have played the piano

from Truman and Nixon, a wonderful

story of Richard Nixon playing the

piano and we all know of Bill

Clinton and the saxophone.

Early

performances took place behind

closed doors but in recent decades

technology has ensured that the

White House is indeed the American

stage. President Harry Truman

demonstrated his musical skills in a

televised tour of the White House.

The arts were heavily promoted under

President John F. Kennedy. But it

was Ronald Reagan who began regular

televised performances in the 1980s.

And at times music has made history,

not merely accompanied it.

In 1985

Prince Charles and Princess Diana

had taken the city by storm so John

Travolta wanted to dance with

Princess Diana but did not know the

protocol. He was assured it would be

fine and then we have that beautiful

image of them dancing in the grand

foyer of the White House and the

picture went across the globe.

As

American music evolved from its

European routes so to have the range

of performances, the Marine band,

the oldest continuing music group in

the US, has more often than not

provided the soundtrack of

diplomacy.

Good to see Bill Clinton

they're playing his saxophone. I can

also play and a bit of a tingle on

the ivories!

I guess you could bring

those in if you really wanted to.

What about Donald Trump? I do not

think he plays but it is amazing,

Eisenhower, Clinton, Adams, all

played musical instruments. Perhaps

a reflection of a different era

where everyone played a musical

instrument.

If you do not have Fox

News, you have to do something!

Let's move on.

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 Sean Ley.

For now - from Katty Kay

in Washington and me

Christian Fraser

in London - goodbye.

I will be in Los Angeles tomorrow.