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Saying that all challenges

demand new approaches,

President Trump recognises Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel.

He says it would be folly to assume

repeating the same old policies

would produce better results.

In the past hour Mr Trump says he's

made the decision to move the US

embassy to Jerusalem in an attempt

to advance the peace process.

It is time, to officially recognise

Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The plan sparks protests -

and Palestinians, who also claim

Jerusalem as theirs, are seething.

Leaders the world over criticise

Mr Trump's announcement-

the Pope calls Jerusalem a city

sacred to Jews,

Christians and Muslims.

Also on the programme.

What is the big picture for Brexit?

The PM under mounting pressure

to explain to colleagues

and her critics the kind

of deal she wants.

An outpouring of grief

in the French-speaking world -

the man known as their Elvis,

Johnny Hallyday, dies

at the age of 74.

Get in touch with us using the

hashtag 'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'.

Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in Los Angeles

and Christian Fraser is in London.

President Trump likes

to do things differently.

As he announced his decision

to recognise Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel it appeared

to be as much about his desire

to break with former US presidents,

as about the policy itself.

Mr Trump said many Presidential

candidates had promised to move

the US embassy to Jerusalem -

but none had followed through.

There's been a lot of criticism

of this change in US policy

but Mr Trump insisted it will help

the peace process, not hinder it.

I have judged this course of action

to be in the best interests of the

United States of America and the

pursuit of peace between the

Palestinians and Israeli. It is a

long overdue step to advance the

peace process and work towards a

lasting agreement. Israel is a

sovereign nation with the right like

every other sovereign nation to

determine its own capital.

Acknowledging this is a fact, is a

necessary condition for achieving

peace.

This decision reflects the

President's commitment to an ancient

but enduring truth to fulfilling his

promises and to advancing peace. The

decision is an important step

towards peace. For there is no peace

that does not include Jerusalem as

the capital of the state of Israel.

It is in direct contradiction of the

most basic requirements of peace, it

violates international law and shows

total bias in favour of Israel. It

shows an accommodation of illegal

annexation of Jerusalem.

Let's bring in Dr Michael Oren now -

he's the Deputy Minister in

the Israeli Prime Minister's Office

and former ambassador to the US.

He joins us now from Jerusalem.

The Secretary General of the UN says

Jerusalem is still a final status

issue, it was made clear there is no

alternative to the two state

solution so what has really changed?

It is a great day for the people of

Israel and Jewish people worldwide,

it is the date we have waited 70

years since the creation of the

state and many days a day we have

waited for for the past 2000 years.

Having a sovereign state here in our

homeland and the capital, are

eternal and undivided capital

Jerusalem be recognised by the

greatest power on earth as our

capital, truly a great moment. Many

things have changed, in previous

administrations every time Israel

built a brick on a brick somewhere

in the city that had not been part

of West Jerusalem before 1967,

Israel was condemned for building

illegal settlements. I experienced

that first-hand during the Obama

years as ambassador. That will not

happen any more. One symbolic change

is for the tens of thousands of US

Israeli citizens whose children are

born in Jerusalem, their American

passports will no longer safe place

of birth Jerusalem but Jerusalem,

Israel. I listened to what the

Secretary General said and the

president was clear that the final

borders of Jerusalem would be

determined through negotiation. And

we would welcome the chance to sit

with the Palestinians but so far

they have refused to sit with us.

Well the French president said the

decision was regrettable that France

does not approve of and goes against

international law and all the

resolutions of the UN Security

Council. So he is reinforcing the

point made by the UN

Secretary-General. The building of

settlements on occupied land in East

Jerusalem will still be a violation

of international law.

Despite what

President Trump said. International

law is determined by the United

Nations which condemns Israel more

frequently than all countries

combined on earth. I do not think

the UN is a good source to quote

when dealing with Israel. It is

important as the major ally and key

mediator in relationship with the

Arab world, United States has set

down a marker. I think more broadly

the president has proven to

sometimes incredulous world that he

stands by his word. Not just in the

Middle East peace process but other

issues sets the -- such as the North

Korean nuclear programme.

Thank you

very much.

And Moustafa Barghouti -

a member of the Palestinian

Legislative Council -

joins us now live from Ramallah.

There has been a huge condemnation

from the Arab world as well as from

Palestinians to the decision by Mr

Trump but to some extent do you feel

abandoned by other Arab countries

over this issue?

No, no. I think now

Mr Trump has allied himself with

Israel. The secretary-general of the

United Nations has just rejected

what he did. The President of did.

But are they actually going to do

anything?

-- president of France.

They will do a lot and you will see

us doing a lot. His speech was

Zionist, he was completely

anti-peace. He has just reported his

own peace initiative before it is

born. So things are clear, were not

worried and not isolated. On the

contrary I think the picture is

clear about our hands are now free

from all commitments that prevented

us from taking serious measures like

preferring Israel to the

International criminal Court,

joining UN agencies regardless of

what Mr Trump things. He can keep

the money he has given to

Palestinians, it is not important.

But we will not accept what he did,

we will stand up for our rights and

stand-up for our rights in

Jerusalem.

You may well stand up for

them and I understand you're taking

some comfort from what people are

said but the reality is that Mr

Trump would not make this decision

if he had not squared it with his

key allies in the region including

Saudi Arabia whatever the crown

prince may be saying and that seems

to be a recognition that you must

live with.

I think any Arab leader

whoever he is that dares to support

what Mr Trump has just announced

will pay a very high price in front

of his people. This is not a small

issue. This is Jerusalem. You know

what it means to millions of

Muslims. You know what it means to

millions of Arabs. They are playing

with fire. And they're trying to

destabilise the area. That is why

the UN Secretary-General said what

he did. Responsible leaders of the

world are recognising that this was

a ridiculous act and has just harmed

the peace process. It has killed the

peace process. From now on do not

talk about Jerusalem, about

refugees. So what do we talk about,

this is the end of the so-called

peace process.

There are groups in

the Palestinian territories calling

for three days of rage, a senior

Palestinian, do you encourage or

condemn that?

I encourage it very

much. What we mean by rage is

popular, non-violent resistance and

demonstrations, not violence but

peaceful demonstration similar to

what we did in July. It is peaceful,

non-violent. And it will be a

struggle such as what Gandhi did

India, Martin Luther King and the

United States. Non-violent

resistance and also boycotting with

investment sanctions against the

Israeli occupation and the apartheid

system. What President Trump did

today will harm the future of both

Palestinians and Israelis. This man

was reckless and did not care about

Israelis or Jewish people or

Palestinians but only about his own

interests. As usual.

Thank you very

much for coming on. A lot of

reaction coming in for top this is

my Mahmoud Abbas, let us listen in.

TRANSLATION:

This escalates the

struggle in our area. Our region is

now facing difficult times. War is

that I never ending. And we

confirmed our conviction that we

reject that. Brothers and sisters

during the last few days we have

been in contact with many of the

neighbouring leaders of neighbouring

countries to unite our position, the

international position, as regards

the Jerusalem situation and the

rights of the Palestinian people in

determining to have our right and

just peace based on a state of

Palestine. An independent state on

the occupied land.

Mahmood at last

there. Speaking a few moments ago.

Let's get reaction to that from the

former American envoy to the Middle

East under the Obama administration.

When the Donald Trump made the

announcement to move the American

Embassy to Jerusalem he made the

point that two decades of policy of

not recognising Jerusalem as the

capital of Israel had not worked and

so it was worth trying something

new. Does he have a point?

I do not

think that is a significant factor

in the reasons for not achieving a

two state solution. As of yet. I

think the statement was unnecessary

and unwise. I think it is heartening

that he did not rule out a

Palestinian capital of a sovereign

Palestinian state in East Jerusalem,

indeed he explicitly said no

decision has been made with respect

to boundaries in Jerusalem or on the

borders. And so while this was not a

necessary step I do not think it has

to be a fatal step. It does setback

his own policy, American policy

under several presidents, of trying

to achieve a serious direct

negotiation between Israelis and

Palestinians which will lead to an

agreement. Already very difficult as

many others have noted. This will

make it more difficult as the

worldwide reaction from Arab leaders

and other allies of the United

States have shown. But it does not

entirely preclude them.

So looking

at why the president might have

chosen to do this now in a broader

Middle East context, I'm sure there

is some speculation in Washington

that this is really about Iran,

siding with the Israelis and getting

the Saudis on board as well. In

order to provide a counterweight to

Iran. Do you accept that as a

theory?

I have no way of knowing

whether that is the reality. But

there are many other ways to

directly confront Iran than this

that I think would be much more

useful. One would be for the

president to support the US and

other allies, the nuclear agreement

with Iran and to take further steps.

I do think that this should be said,

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

It is going to be the capital of

Israel, there can be no doubt

whatsoever about that. The real

question is whether alongside Israel

there can be an independent

sovereign Palestinian state with its

own capital in East Jerusalem. That

is the issue, a very difficult

issue. The United States has

previously not prejudged major

issues because our policy is to

leave it to negotiations with the

partners. This pre-judgement makes

it more difficult in the future

because both parties will now ask

for judgment in their favour. It

makes it more difficult to get into

negotiations and it remains in my

judgment of paramount interest both

to Israelis and Palestinians that

there be a two state solution and I

think we have to keep our eyes and

interests focus on that.

We will

continue to talk a lot about

Jerusalem through the programme but

another boldly played in Northern

Ireland, you may have been following

politics in the UK that you might be

aware the first phase of the Brexit

negotiation has unravelled because

the Irish government does not want

the border between North and South

of the DUP do not want to split away

from the mainland UK. Does that

dishearten you that after all the

work you have put into the Good

Friday agreement that suddenly some

of it is coming to the fore again?

On the day that I announced the

agreement not quite 20 years ago, I

said in the very same statement that

by itself the Good Friday agreement

did not guarantee peace or stability

or genuine reconciliation. But it

made them possible. I predicted

there be difficulties in the future.

For future leaders to deal with. I

think it is up to these leaders now

to do what those brave men and women

did back in 1998 and bridge the

differences and come to an agreement

in the interests of the larger

society. Both communities, all

people in Northern Ireland. It does

not make any sense for them to

continue to dig in their heels and

take intractable and on movable

positions. One a lot is at stake.

Not just the dynamic of Brexit but

internal relations within Northern

Ireland which are exacerbated by

that. Personally I believe a

decision by the people of the UK was

democratically taken and must be

respected. I think it will rebound

adversely on the interests of the UK

but the danger is it will also harm

the people of Ireland both in the

Republic and the North. I hope the

leaders in Northern Ireland and the

UK and Ireland will take steps to

prevent damage from spreading across

all of the people's of both of those

countries.

Good to get your

perspective, thank you.

The UK WILL pay the £50 billion

Brexit bill whether there's

a deal with the EU or not.

So said the British Chancellor

Phillip Hammond today.

Several hours later

Downing Street intervened.

"Nothing is agreed until

everything is agreed -

and that applies to the financial

settlement" - their statement said.

So what is happening?

It's pretty unclear.

There was a phone call today

between Theresa May and the DUP -

to try and get negotiations

back on track.

But no sign of a breakthrough

there either.

Our Deputy Political Editor,

John Pienaar reports.

Three, two, one...

Theresa May need some comfort

and joy, in the Cabinet

in her party, in Ireland,

north and south.

If only everyone could sing

from the same hymn sheet on Brexit.

Her message, start trade talks,

we could all get what we want.

We aim to deliver

this as part of our

overall trade deal between

the United Kingdom and the European

Union.

Labour's loving

Theresa May's troubles.

Brexit negotiations in a shambles.

This government is clearly

not fit for the future.

Tory Brexiteers are ramping

up the pressure, too.

They say no more concessions.

Will she apply a new coat of paint

to her red lines, because

I fear on Monday they were beginning

to look a little bit pink?

If we have a problem,

would it help if I came

over to Brussels with

you to sort them out?

The DUP heard Mrs May's pledge

to preserve the union but

want more guarantees Brexit means

the same deal for the whole UK.

Can you give a specific

commitment that

nothing will be done that creates

any barrier constitutionally,

politically, economically

between Northern Ireland and

the rest of the United Kingdom?

Mrs May was on the phone

to the DUP leader today

but still no sign of

an

agreement, and in Dublin a clear

threat, Ireland's leader wants a

promise of free trade and no hard

north-south border and he would veto

the start of trade talks

technically's EU summit.

If it is impossible

to move to phase two next

week because of the problems that

have arisen, we can pick it up in

the New Year.

The Prime Minister spoke to him

on the phone today as well

and still no sign of another meeting

in Brussels

this week.

The president of the

European Union, Jean-Claude

Juncker's spokesman went so far

today as to say his boss wanted to

prevent Mrs May's

government from collapsing.

So how clear if Britain's

future after Brexit?

Not at all according

to the Brexit Secretary today.

He told MPs Brexit would

have an impact on business so

great there was no

point in predictions.

Look at the chairrman's face.

So there isn't one, for example,

on the automotive sector?

No, not that I'm aware of.

Aerospace?

No.

Financial services?

I think it will be

no to all of them.

And a new cause for

Brexiteer Tories to complain.

The Chancellor says Britain

won't shirk its divorce

bill, deal or no deal.

That's just not a credible scenario.

That's not the kind

of country we are and

frankly it would not make us

a credible partner for future

international agreements.

But Theresa May's team

says there will be no

deal including cash

until

Brexit is agreed.

Tonight, goodwill is in short

supply in the Cabinet.

I am now eight time zones away from

you in Los Angeles, the other side

of the planet almost and looking at

London from here it looks like an

unholy mess. Nothing seems to be

working as it should be. I do not

know if it is political malpractice

that they cannot do it, because the

team is not strong enough or whether

it was just something that was not

doable.

There are so many

conflicting parties. I think some

people watching will say it is

unbelievable that Theresa May and

the Cabinet has not yet had a

conversation about what type of

Brexit they want. But it is not

unbelievable because not having that

conversation and allowing Theresa

May to keep the show on the road, we

know there is a yawning chasm within

the Cabinet between Philip Hammond

and Michael Gove and Boris Johnson

and what kind of Brexit Britain is

going to have, whether it will stay

closely aligned to the EU or there

will be dead virgins and it goes its

own way. So by delaying the

discussion she has delayed the

potential bust ups or chaos that may

ensue. The thing I would say is in

all the difficulties so far, she has

not been losing votes or ministers

over Brexit, she has just about

contain the rebellion. The big

question comes when they have that

discussion and everyone puts the

cards on the table.

All help may

break loose. It is simple, when you

disagree with your wife, much better

not to talk about it. Sweep it under

the carpet.

The Cabinet go to bed on

a row every night!

President Putin says Russian

athletes can still participate

in the Winter Olympics

as individuals, despite the IOC's

decision to ban Russia

from the games in South Korea next

February.

Meanwhile Mr Putin has

announced that he will seek

re-election in March 2018.

If successful, that would extend

his presidency to 2024.

Finland's celebrating

a century of statehood.

Parades are being held in cities

and towns across the country to mark

a hundred years since Finland

declared independence

from Russia in 1917.

Finland joined the EU in 1995.

France's biggest rock star

Johnny Hallyday has died

after a battle with lung cancer.

Known to many in France

as 'our Johnny', the singer sold

about 100-million records

and starred in a number of films

in a career that began in 1960.

He was 74.

Incredible. When I went to Paris I

have to confess I did not really

know who he was. I had heard of him

and my producer looked at me as

standard and then I had to put the

story together on him and there was

a quote in the American newspaper

saying he was the biggest rock star

you have never heard. And then I

realised how big this guy is in

France. He once had a concert of the

Eiffel Tower and there were 750,000

people there. And they tell me today

in France that they are treating

this like the death of Victor Hugo,

he is that big.

Of course he never

made it in America. He never managed

to break through.

Very much an icon

in the French-speaking world.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

high security for a terror plot

trial in the UK - a man is accused

of trying to bomb Downing Street

and kill Theresa May.

And a sign of the times -

the silence breakers on sexual

harassment are collectively named

as 'person of the year'.

That's still to come.

We have a stormy 24 hours ahead and

buy this time tomorrow the focus

switches from the wind to more snow

and ice. The reason why, from

Caroline tomorrow passing to the

north of Scotland, northern Scotland

having the strongest winds but windy

everywhere and as it moves away we

drag much colder air south across

the UK with snow showers going

through Thursday night into Friday

morning. So in the next couple of

days, this is the picture through

the night, Gail is developing

overnight in western parts, severe

gales in north-west Scotland by the

end of the night. Focusing on the

win tomorrow, Scotland and Northern

Ireland seeing the strongest gusts

especially in the north of Scotland.

Some in northern Scotland close to

80 miles an hour. They will cause

travel disruption and also

destructive winds elsewhere in

Scotland and parts of Northern

Ireland. The Met office has an amber

be prepared warning in force for

northern Scotland with gusts in

excess of 80 miles an hour and a

yellow beware warning for the rest

of Scotland and parts of Northern

Ireland with gusts of around 60, 70

mph again having an impact on

travel. Windy across the UK during

Thursday, outbreaks of rain for

south-east England. And a lot of

sunshine to come. But the showers

following in across the UK,

temperatures training. And turning

increasingly to snow going into

Thursday evening, blizzards in

Highland Scotland for a time and all

parts on Thursday night run the risk

of some snow showers. Going into

Friday the most frequent in northern

and western parts of the UK. It

stays windy on Friday so snow

showers, I see in places to start

the day. Factoring in the wind it

will feel bitter, feeling several

degrees below zero. Still some

wintry showers around going into the

weekend. Then an Atlantic weather

system going our way on Sunday, into

the cold air, producing sleet and

snow in places. That is one to watch

and we will keep you updated.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Los Angeles -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories: President Trump has

ignored warnings from around

the world and recognised Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel -

saying planning starts now to move

the US embassy there from Tel Aviv.

Angry Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

burn American and Israeli flags

and pictures of President Trump,

demonstrating against the move.

The Palestinian president Mahmoud

Abbas gave this response.

The Palestinian president Mahmoud

Abbas gave this response.

This

constitutes a demolition of all the

efforts which have been made to

achieve peace.

Coming up in the next

half hour: A chorus

of Democratic Senators come forward

saying their colleague Al Franken

should resign after allegations

of sexual misconduct.

Meanwhile Time Magazine

is celebrating a sign of the times -

the silence breakers on sexual

harassment are collectively named

as 'person of the year'.

Donald Trump Jr talks to

the House Intelligence Committee -

Let us know your thoughts

by using the hashtag.

A man has appeared in court

here in London accused of plotting

to assassinate the Prime Minister

in a bomb and knife

attack on Downing Street.

Twenty-year-old Naa'imur Zakariyah

Rahman is alleged to have planned

to bomb the security gates,

before attacking Number ten

with a knife and suicide vest

in an attempt to kill Theresa May.

Here's the BBC's, June Kelly.

Counterterrorism detectives moved

in on these two men last week.

Yesterday they were charged and this

morning, amid high security, came

their first court appearance.

One is accused of planning

to strike at the

heart of the British government

and assassinate Theresa May.

He is Naa'imur Zakariyah

Rahman on the left.

In the dock with him

was Mohammed Aqib Imran.

In court came the outline

of the prosecution case.

Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman is 20

years old and told the court he was

Bangladeshi British.

He is accused of

planning to detonate an

improvised explosive device,

in other words a bomb, here at the

Downing Street gates.

In the chaos that would

follow, it is alleged

that equipped with suicide vests,

pepper spray and a knife,

he wanted to get down

the

street to number ten

and killed the Prime Minister.

street to number ten

and kill the Prime Minister.

He was arrested last Tuesday in this

Road in west London.

It is claimed that he had two inert

explosive devices in his possession.

He is also accused of

helping his co-defendant,

Mohammed Aqib Imran,

to prepare ter Avest acts.

It's claimed he was

planning to travel

abroad to help IS fighters.

Yesterday the head of MI5

briefed the cabinet

about the security situation.

Nine Islamist inspired

plots are said to have

been thwarted this year.

The next hearing in this latest case

will be in two weeks' time.

Chris Phillips is a former

senior police officer

and counter-terrorism expert.

He warns "thousands could be killed"

in a devastating terror attack -

and wants the government

to introduce tougher measures.

Obviously that case, we can't talk

specifically about it, but we have

another alleged part in Lancashire

today, a man circulating the address

of Prince George's School, two cases

that really undermine the fact there

are so many threats. That is the

reason why the Manchester Arena

bomber slipped through the net.

Absolutely. I don't think people

around the world realise just how

big this problem is. You do if you

live in Baghdad or somewhere like

that where you are having bombs on a

regular basis, but I do not think

the West in particular quite

understand the difficulties that the

police and security services have

got to begin with, but then actually

the sheer numbers of people that

are...

How many are we talking?

In

the UK alone, 20 odd thousand people

that we are a bit worried about,

then a further two or 3000 people on

a list which is, we are very

worried. If you know police

resources, you cannot follow an

individual without using 24 to 30

police officers per 24 hours. There

are not enough police officers in

the world to do that. That's just in

the UK. In the free movement of

Europe, that's exacerbated. The

numbers in France and Belgium are

even greater.

President Trump says

we have to get tough. How do you do

that? If you are listening to a guy

an attack on his as I want to do X,

Y, see, you know his intent but he

does not get round to it, what do

you do with that person?

First, the

rhetoric. We have to get tough. The

rhetoric of what Trump is saying is

more on them focus on the people

from the border coming over to

attack us. That's not the problem we

face, the problem we have is people

within our communities, our

countries, and that's all countries

across the world, who are willing to

die and kill their colleagues and

friends and the people that are

around them. That is such a

difficult thing to deal with. We

have to go, we are a western

democratic society, we have to go by

the law of the land. You cannot lock

people up before charge. Unless you

have evidence, evidence that will

persuade a court of law to evict

someone is quite difficult.

That is

so frustrating, isn't it, when you

know the threat is there?

Look at

the numbers, Mr Phillips, the

numbers you suggest, 20,000 people

in the UK alone who police would

like to keep an eye on. I wonder if

you think this is really a question

of money. You know this, since the

attacks of 911 here in the US, the

budget by Homeland Security has

expanded enormously. It has become

the third rail of American politics

finances. Is it really a question of

money, being able to follow all the

people you'd to follow?

It's

definitely not. You have to have the

resources to deal with the level of

the threat. Talking about the UK,

the government will tell you they

have an ample funds and to the

counterterrorism units, but

generally in police across the board

there's less money. Officers have

been taken away from all sorts of

duties. You have a situation where

people will get the intelligence

that. The attacks, they are not

there any more. -- the people who

will get the intelligence that stop

the attacks are not there any more.

What you do to stop a terrorist

attack is happening is to prevent

it, that's by getting intelligence

on people, getting behind the right

people.

Control orders?

That sort of

thing, but once they've got the

bomb, the car or the vehicle to

attack people, it's too late. All

you can do is reduce the number of

casualties.

Good to see you. Come

back and talk to us some more, good

to have you.

Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar

Gabriel says the Trump

administration increasingly views

Europe as a "competitor or economic

rival" rather than an ally.

He made the comment as US Secretary

of State Rex Tillerson

is in Brussels for meeting with EU

and Nato officials.

The EU's top diplomat

Federica Mogherini also made it

clear the European Union sees

the Trump administration's proposals

on Jerusalem as a threat

to peace in the Middle East.

We would talking yesterday about how

things are going pretty well the

Donald Trump here in the US, in

terms of economics, wages are

picking up, the stock market doing

well, his Muslim man has been upheld

by the Supreme Court and he's got

tax reform group. -- Muslim ban. But

when you take America abroad, when

it has to deal with its allies in

Europe, you get an enormous amount

of fish back. The German Foreign

Minister saying we are overturning

70 years of the status quo, or 70

years Europe and the US had been on

the same side acting as allies, now

he feels the US administration is

easier as a competitor. There is

this huge disconnect between what

the world feels about this

administration, how it interacts

with it, and the way its policies

deal with this administration, and

the way Mr Trump is betraying things

at home.

What was interesting about

the dynamics of that meeting

yesterday, and I have been to plenty

of these in the EU, is that she

treated Rex Tillerson as though he

were the Russian Foreign Secretary.

It was a very straight statement,

that we do not agree with Jerusalem

and the decision you are making, we

are not having any questions, then

she walked out. Possibly the

Europeans think, well, here is a man

who did them looks like a dead man

walking. He may not be in a job in

several weeks' time so why are we

wasting our time on this and

decisions we don't agree with? I

thought I was really apparent in the

body language yesterday. -- that was

really apparent.

16 Democratic senators

say their colleague Al Franken

should resign following multiple

allegations of sexual misconduct.

He has apologised and

acknowledged the misconduct.

But now another woman

has come forward.

Senator Franken will make

an announcement tomorrow -

though his office isn't saying

what it's about.

For more I am joined

by our North America

reporter Anthony Zurcher.

I looked at these numbers this

morning, nine Democratic senators,

know up to 23, or whatever number

questioned said. There a snowball

effect on the Democrats seem to have

decided they cannot have this in

their own camp and they want him

gone.

It was pretty remarkable how

quick it happened. A Democratic

senator from Hawaii, from your two

of the first. Then a woman after

women in the Senate, and there are

quite a few women Democratic

senators, came to say he had

resigned. Then the male joined them,

including Peres, the chair of the

Democratic National committee. This

has become a snowball. Most are

expecting now he cannot withstand

the sort of pressure, and that he

will resign. -- came out to say he

has to resign.

Do you get the sense

they want this out of the way before

the election in Alabama, so they can

claim on the high ground on this and

force the Republicans to take a

decision?

I think that's a good

point. John Connors resigning

yesterday, the longest serving

Democratic member in the House of

Representatives, Al Franken, it

makes it easier for them to

criticise Roy Moore. It was

interesting also to see Mitch

McConnell, the seventh Republican

majority leader, not to say he did

not believe Al Franken can

effectively serve the people of

Minnesota. -- Senate Republican

majority leader.

Earlier he had said that more and

more, the Republican in Alabama

facing allegations of sexually

assaulting a 14-year-old, that he

should step aside, but then after

Donald Trump came down in favour of

Roy Moore, the Republican National

committee has begun putting money

back into the campaign. We saw Mitch

McConnell back off from that and say

it's up to the people of Alabama to

decide. The Democrats are setting up

a stark contrast, saying they are

dealing with our Frank and while Roy

Moore has been embraced by

Republicans. You have to remember,

Al Franken, John Connors, is safe

Democratic seats that will be

replaced in all likelihood by

Democrats. It's an easy move for the

Democrats to say, yes, they should

step aside, because it is not

costing them a prize Democratic

seats in a closely divided Senate.

That was exactly the point I was

about to make. The Democrats can

look like they are being holier than

now over this one but let's face it,

this is Minnesota. There is no way a

Republican is going to be elected in

Minnesota, they are safe.

Right,

exactly. There is a democratic

governor of Minnesota so he will

seemingly appoint a Democrat to

replace. Let's remember this is not

over here, if we think these are the

only allegations that are going to

come out about politicians on both

sides of the aisle, I think this is

a much bigger problem than just a

handful that we've seen so far.

There is going to come a point, I'm

fairly certain, that Democrats are

going to be able to prove their

principles and show that this is not

just posturing, this is what they

really believe.

There is certainly

something bigger happening. Thank

you.

Can a hashtag be a person?

Time magazine seems to think so.

It's marking the women

behind the #metoo movement

as their persons of the year.

Mr Trump was also on the short list

but fell short to the women who've

highlighted sexual harassment

The movement has now

spread beyond the US.

And it's that

collective global voice

which prompted Time Magazine to name

the Silence Breakers

as person of the year.

Susanna Schrobsdorff was one

of the Time editors who worked

on the cover story she joins us now.

Was this an easy pick?

For me

personally, it was, because I was

lobbying heavily for it. But yes, we

really did consider all the people

that are on the runners-up list, or

at least the top three, and Donald

Trump is in his own main part of the

influence that went into the

eventual choice, because his

election, I think, is one of the

first catalyst of the movement that

became Me Two, women standing up.

Just to make the point, time names

its Person of the year not with a

value judgment, this is not the best

or worst Person of the year, just

the person you feel has had the most

influence will stop.

Exactly, the

recently silence breakers are the

person of the year this year is

because you are looking at which

people have influenced most of the

world as much of world as we can

evaluate from our purchase here in

New York City. What we found is that

social norms are changing, what was

acceptable yesterday is no longer

acceptable today. It happened

because singular women stepped out,

and I think you said in an earlier

segment about Al Franken, that this

becomes a snowball effect. First one

person steps forward, then another.

More people are emboldened, and what

you have then is a tipping point.

You go back. We talked to a lobbyist

in California who said we can't all

be crazy, and we can't all be liars,

there are just too many of us.

That's what got us to this decision,

there are just too many women coming

forward into many fields with two

real a sense of urgency to it.

Apologies if I interrupted you, you

might have heard me asking if we had

Mr Trump's tweet. I wanted to refer

to it. This is the Tweety sent

before you have made your decision.

Was he on the list and was he a

serious contender?

He was, the

President of the United States is

always, could always be the person

of the year, he is one of the most

powerful men in the world is not the

most powerful man in the world. But

truth be shot, the cover for this

issue was five days before he set

this tweet.

Interesting position, wasn't it? A

sign of this moment we are in. There

is this fear of a backlash, that's

why some concern about our Franken

has about, we have to give these

accuses the benefit of the doubt but

also make sure their stories hold

water. I think that's why there's

been with our Frank and has taken a

certain amount of time, people

wanted to check out these stories,

but once we see a pattern, which is

what we have seen when all the cases

of men who've lost their job, it's

the pattern you look for. Most men

just accused of one instance of

sexual harassment, more harassment,

more and more people come forward

accusing the same man.

I was

thinking it was rather an

inauspicious start to the year for

women, that you had the first woman

candidate for either party defeated

by a man who had been alleged to

have sexually abused when, and then

you go full circle all the way

around this. It shows, as we talked

about on this programme so much,

that Twitter can be divisive and can

cause pain but can also be a form

for social good. Imagine if you had

had Twitter in the days of the civil

rights movement, imagine what you

could have done then will stop this

has snowballed in the space of two

or three months into an enormous

global movement. That is reflected

by the front cover of Time magazine

today, so that is a good thing.

I

would add to that, the number of

women who are running for political

office in the US, record numbers of

women who said they would like to.

And voting.

Here in California, more

than a thousand firefighters

are battling huge wildfires.

Hundreds of buildings have already

been destroyed and 12-thousand

homes are under threat.

The fire is burning about 80

kilometres north of Los Angeles.

Nearly 30-thousand people have been

forced from their homes.

You can smell it in the air today.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come: We talk to the former

official White House

photographer Pete Souza,

about his collection of favourite

images from his time

behind the scenes during

Obama's Presidency.

One of the oldest and most complete

skeletons of our ancestors has been

unveiled in South Africa.

Scientists have spent

20 years excavating

and preparing the skeleton,

known as "Little Foot",

and they estimate the fossilised

remains are more than three

and a half million years old.

Andrew Harding reports

from Johannesburg.

They found her skeleton in these

deep caves outside Johannesburg.

She'd been lying here

for almost four million years,

trapped in the rock.

Today, Little Foot finally emerged -

astonishingly intact,

after 20 painstaking

years of excavation.

These bones had a very,

very fragile, flaky

surface, many of them.

And it was like trying

to extract a pie with flaky

pastry out of concrete

without damaging the pie.

We had to do this properly,

we had to do it slowly.

Yes, it took more than 20 years

of my life, but I feel younger

and stronger for it!

So, these are the caves

where Little Foot was found.

The theory goes that she was walking

along the surface, fell

down into the caves,

and was covered

by sediment and rock.

Millions of years later,

scientists in the 1980s and 1990s,

in a series of extraordinary

coincidences, stumbled

across her remains and slowly

managed to piece them back together.

Her skeleton shows

she was in her 30s.

She probably lived in the trees,

and crucially, she was more

like us than like an ape.

So the pictures you see in books

of our ancestors gradually getting

up off of all fours and walking

along in a stooped manner,

that's all nonsense.

They were upright when

they were in the trees,

and they were upright

when they came down to the ground.

And now they're us?

Unearthed in these caves then,

a vital addition to our own

complicated family tree.

Andrew Harding, BBC

News, South Africa.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

Pete Souza is the the man

behind this iconic photo -

featured on TV and newspapers

round the world: this

was President Obama and his security

team being briefed on the killing

of Osama bin Laden

in the Situation Room,

back in 2011.

Mr Souza captured it while he was

White House photographer.

He now has a new book out -

'Obama: An Intimate Portrait'.

I've been speaking to him.

It's a real pleasure to read the

book, and when you look at the

pictures of President Obama in it,

you see a man who was very

comfortable in himself.

Absolutely,

which made my job easier. You have a

photographic subject, if you really

the presence of me and my camera did

not in any way affect how he went

about his business. That's what

David Otunga hopes for in a subject.

It's also the people he's within the

White House. The people he's

meeting, he seems to put them at

ease. That's why you get this

extraordinary images that you

captured.

I think that's true. I

tried to be as unobtrusive as

possible, I think try to put people

at ease, not interrupt what they're

doing. Not use the flash, a major

drive, be as quiet as occurred as I

moved around.

You've worked with two

presidents, President Reagan and

Obama. What makes them different?

Probably their age, number one.

President Reagan was in his mid to

late 70s when I was photographing

him, in the 1980s. President Obama

came into office door in his 40s.

The age factor was definitely a big

part of it.

If you could pick one

picture from the book, which would

it be?

Oh my gosh, that's hard to

do. I mean, one, not sure if it's

the one, but the one with a little

African-American boy touching his

head, seeing if his haircut feels

like his. I think that one resonates

with a of people.

That moment, can

you tell us more about that?

The

little boy's Mimas jig of

Philadelphia, I think he was four at

the time, he'd come into the Oval

Office with his parents to do a

family photo. His parents was

leaving for another post. The man

had said, Jacob has a question for

you Mr President. -- the little

boy's name was Jacob Philadelphia.

It was whispered that his friend had

told him that his haircut looked

like the President's. Then the

president just leaned over and said

go ahead and touch it, and little

Jacob touched his head. It resonated

with people because here is this

four-year-old African-American kid,

touching the head of the president

of the United States, who looks like

him. It also tells you something

about President Obama, and that at

the behest of a four-year-old he

would bend over and let this little

kid touch his head.

There is another

picture which for me is a moment of

history, this picture of Elmer

Pippin, a mother of one of the

victims of a church bombing 50 years

ago. She had been given this

Congressional medal of honour. You

conscious when taking these pictures

that this is perhaps a signpost to

history?

I think the fact of the

matter is, any person who becomes

president of the United States, it's

a historical time. Certainly I was

aware of the fact that he was the

first African-American president,

but that was not in my head every

day. The picture that you referred

to, the thing I like about this

picture is, she wanted to say

something privately to the

president. Which is why he leaned

down, because she wanted to whisper

what she had to say, so it was a

private conversation, that other

people in the room did not hear.

Did

he ever tell you what that was?

No,

he didn't.

It was just that moment,

as a photographer, G spot that

moment.

You have to be aware of

everything that's happening.

-- you

are spot that moment.

What about President Obama and his

family. A lot of your photographs of

the girls, and Michelle. They are as

comfortable in your presence as...

It just seems a very normal family

environment.

Yeah, I think because

they did get to know me, I was the

de facto family photographer. I

would cover a lot of their family

events. Over time, Sasha and Milly

got to be comfortable when I was

around. -- Sasha and Malia.

There is

that picture of them playing in the

snow.

I love that picture, the girls

were still fairly young. Sure

enough, the president came outside

of one point, played in the snow

with the girls, it pictured that you

referred to is in the Rose Garden, I

think Sasha is about the girl rose

garden -- is about to throw a

snowball at him.

Do you keep in

touch?

I do, I spoke to him last

Monday. Every time a president

leaves office, the weight of the

world is off your shoulders, so I

think is a lot more relaxed than he

was when he was at the White House.

A great pleasure to talk.

Thanks for

having me.

Such a trip down memory lane seeing

those photographs, I used to go to

the Wesselingh occasionally for

interviews and they had those photos

on all the walls, they were taken

out but the one they never rotated

out was the one with the president

bending down to the little boy could

touch 's hair. That one always be

there.

The suspense in this

situation room, quite extraordinary

with Hillary Clinton with her hand

over her mouth.