07/12/2017 Beyond 100 Days

This is Beyond 100 Days.

The Palestinian group Hamas has

called for a third "intifada" -

following President Trump's decision

to recognize Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel.

The UN Security Council is expected

to meet on Friday for talks demanded

by the Western powers.

GUNFIRE

There have been violent

protests in Ramallah,

Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

The leader of Hamas says the peace

process has been "buried forever."

Al Franken bows to the pressure

of his Senate colleagues and says

he's stepping down following a raft

of allegations he touched

women inappropriately.

Today, I am announcing that

in the coming weeks I will be

resigning as a member

of the United States Senate.

In California, dry weather

and gusting winds are

spreading wildfires further.

Already 100,000 people have been

driven from their homes.

Also on the programme:

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It's always been a culinary treasure

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Hello and welcome.

I'm Christian Fraser in London.

Jane O' Brien is in Washington.

The US State Department had

warned its diplomats of the likely

repercussions in the Middle East,

if Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

And sure enough there were clashes

today in Ramallah, Bethlehem

and East Jerusalem,

between Palestinians

and the Israeli security forces.

Dozens of people have been injured.

In Gaza the leader of Hamas called

for a third intifada.

The UN Security Council

will meet on Friday.

Britain, France China and Russia

have all expressed concern over

Donald Trump's announcement.

Our Middle East Correspondent

Yolande Knell reports.

Palestinians today

preparing their own message

for President Trump,

venting their anger over his

recognition of Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

Clashing with Israeli

soldiers in the West Bank.

Meanwhile in Gaza, the Islamist

Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh,

upped the ante - demanding

a new uprising, or intifada.

So far, fiery rhetoric hasn't

ignited protests on a grand scale,

but these Palestinians in Ramallah

really fear their chances

of having an independent state,

with East Jerusalem as its capital,

could now be stamped out.

He's making it only one

side, and they're taking

the opinion of the Israelis.

This has ended the two-state

solution, you know, the dream

for us as Palestinians.

Palestinians see the changes

in US policy on Jerusalem

as a huge setback.

Donald Trump may say

he is still committed to helping

them end their conflict with Israel,

but here they say he is

no broker for peace.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem the Israeli

prime minister was jubilant.

TRANSLATION:

President Trump on

himself forever with the history of

our capital.

His name will now be proudly

displayed among other names

in this city's glorious history.

Many Israelis share his gratitude

that the president has delivered on

a long-time promise,

recognising, he said,

the reality on the ground.

TRANSLATION:

Trump is a man who was

sent from heaven to say the right

things at the right time.

But there are also

concerns about violence.

On one hand I think

he needed to do that.

On the other, I am a realist.

This contested city is at the heart

of divisions between

Israel and the Palestinians

which President Trump

insists he wants to mend.

With more demonstrations planned,

hopes of that seem remote.

Yolande Knell, BBC News, Jerusalem.

For the latest we can speak

to our correspondent Tom Bateman,

who is in Jerusalem.

TOM, THE SITUATION THAT MEN ARE

PALESTINIANS FACE TODAY IN GAZA AND

THE WEST BANK IS BAD, perhaps even

worse than it was in the 1980s, but

how likely is that they could or

would even want to mount another

intifada.

Making predictions in what

is such a volatile region is

incredibly difficult, but I think

the evidence we have to go on so far

is after President Trump's

declaration yesterday, what has

happened the day have been serious

clashes. However, at this stage, we

are not at the scale of clashes that

we saw, for example, over the

summer, when there was a serious

crisis over access to one of the

very sensitive holy sites in the

city of Jerusalem. That had been

triggered after the killing of two

Israeli policeman very close to that

place. We will have to wait

particularly until tomorrow, because

Fridays are always big days when it

comes to protest here, so that will

be a key moment to watch and get a

sense of how much this is inflaming

ordinary people and see how prepared

they are to go out and protest. All

of the noise around this,

particularly from Arab and Muslim

countries in the region, has been

that this is an unacceptable

violation of international law,

something of course that the

Americans, the Israelis refute. But

of course, because it focuses on

Jerusalem, because there is that

whole issue of the key holy places

within that, we know that small

changes on the ground in those

places can lead to further violence.

Tom, how are people preparing for

tomorrow? Is never a lot of extra

security evident yet?

The Israeli

military sent extra battalions into

the West Bank today, so it looks as

though that will continue. I think

there is a sense that the warning

from how mass is being taken

seriously in terms of the

preparations that are being made,

but I think there is something, if

you like, of a ritual to the way

that these protests tend to work,

and where they tend to be focused.

So, I'm sure the Israeli security

forces will be focusing on the usual

areas. Today was interesting. I

mean, you know, across towns and

cities in the West Bank and on the

Gaza border, there were clashes in

the odd city. I was there around

lunchtime, and there were protests,

the armed border police dispersing

people. Again, nothing like the

scale that we saw, for example,

during the summer. If the old city

becomes more of a focus again, it

has the potential to raise tensions

and add to the sense of volatility.

Tom Bateman, in Jerusalem, thank you

for joining us.

Let's get the thoughts

of William Cohen, who served

as the US Secretary of Defense

during Bill Clinton's

administration.

Thank you for joining me. How do you

think that this decision will affect

the peace process?

Well, I'm not

sure there is a process any longer.

I had been in favour for years of

having a two state solution,

believing that the Palestinians were

entitled to have their own state

with their own form of Government

and live side by side in peace with

the Israelis. That may have been a

mirage. Whatever it is, it is gone,

in my judgment, because central to a

final solution for the status of

Jerusalem was whether or not the

Palestinians would have east

Jerusalem as their capital. That has

been taken off the table now. At

least, it appears to be, unless

President Trump has something in

mind for Jerusalem, and maybe he was

only referring to West Jerusalem. I

think it will be difficult to walk

back. I think we had put our hand on

the scale for the Israelis and not

the Palestinians, so I am not sure

they can sustain a third intifada.

You have a difference of opinion in

the Middle East in terms of the

countries who are more concerned

about Iran than they are about the

plight of the Palestinians, so for

me, it looks like a blues- lose

proposition for the Palestinians and

win- win for the Israelis, because

the more they demonstrate in a

violent way, the more the Israelis

will say, that is the reason we need

more settlements and push the

Palestinians away so they don't

threaten us. I think it is

problematic for the Palestinians,

and I think it will be troublesome

going forward with a process. I

think the recent one now.

Work about

the reaction from other countries in

the reason? Is Palestine still a

unifying force?

Less so. The

prospect of a round being a

revolutionary country spreading its

ideology and trying to destabilise

other parts of the Middle East, that

is a primary concern on the part of

many Arab countries that I travel

to. So I'm not sure that the

Palestinian cause will be for most

in their mind. I think they are

working very closely with the

Israelis against Iran.

Secretary

Cohen, we were just talking before

the programme, Jane and I come about

the last time the Western powers at

effectively called an emergency

meeting at the UN security council

to scold the Americans, probably

just before the Iraq war, right?

Does it matter and will it make any

difference, whatever they discuss on

Friday?

I don't think so. I think

the United States has made its own

policy decision. It was a political

decision, obviously, not a

diplomatic one. The president made a

promise to the Christian

evangelicals and to many of the

Jewish population in the United

States. Israel has a voice in our

political process. The American

people don't have a voice in Israeli

politics. It is clear that President

Trump is not going to be dissuaded

at this point. He said, I am in

favour of declaring Jerusalem the

capital of Israel. I don't think

there is anything that can be done

to make changes mind or to mitigate

it.

We talked yesterday about the

role that Saudi Arabia would have

played in this. Do you buy into this

theory is that is doing the rounds

that the Palestinian issue is an

inconvenient issue for the Crown

prince, and his issue is really the

proxy war with Iran?

At least

verbally, the leaders of the Arab

countries will be very much against

this decision. On a practical level,

again, the fear of a run and of the

need to modernise Saudi Arabia and

other countries is going to be the

dominant thing. The thing to be

concerned about going forward is,

what kind of state will Israel

become? Will it continue to be a

democracy? If you have one state

solution, do you have one man, one

vote? If you don't have that, does

that make you a democracy or

something to a theocracy? That is

something that will have to unfold

to see whether United States stands

in relation to Israel under those

circumstances. We have had a former

prime minister warning about having

an apartheid country. It is pretty

strong language. But you have a

division of opinion inside Israel

about what complications could be

and where the conflict could be in

future.

Thank you very much for

joining us, William Cumming. It is

interesting, as he says, this is

clearly a domestic decision. This is

the president saying, I stick to my

promises, don't follow convention.

It is red meat to his base.

It certainly is, and it begs the

question of whether or not

fulfilling a campaign promise is

what the consequences. Also, how did

the president come to this position?

Who is influencing him? We have

heard talk of a casino magnate who

is campaigning very much on this

issue, whispering in the era Donald

Trump, and he has had dinners in the

White House with him. We know he has

been very much in favour of this

decision. It raises the question.

Then he spent $35 million on the

Trump campaign, bought himself a

seat on the stage at the

inauguration?

That's right, he did.

And again, it raises the question of

who the president is listening to.

We know that he likes to surround

himself with informal advisers,

friends, family. Is this something

that again he has decidedd -- he has

decided to listen to?

It comes down

to the role of the State Department,

doesn't it.

Hundreds of houses have been

destroyed and 200,000 people have

been forced to flee after fast

moving wildfires continue to spread

in southern California.

The blazes have reached

the Pacific Ocean and impacted

the state's main coastal highway.

Firefighters have been working

around the clock but with winds

reaching 75 miles per hour

the flames are spreading fast.

The BBC's James Cook

is in the communities impacted

outside of Los Angeles and filed

this report.

The American west was

never really tamed.

The weather here was always wild

and dangerous, and after years

of drought it now

seems worse than ever.

This is the largest and most

destructive of the blazes, in

Ventura County north of Los Angeles.

Last night it looked

as if a volcano was erupting,

the hillside glowing like lava.

And with daylight the

damage became clear.

The tinder dry ground turned to ash.

Swathes of Southern

California now look like

this, the fire swept

through here rapidly, charring

everything in its path and turning

this area into a wasteland.

It only consumed

vegetation here, down in

the valley below now

they are worried about homes.

In the exclusive

Los Angeles suburb of

Bel-Air yesterday

they attacked the fires

aggressively, working hard

to

save scores of homes.

The house will be on fire soon,

unlike what are you

talking about?

You said it was far away last night.

He was like, don't look outside,

a whole mountain was

on fire.

Celebrities such as the musician

Lionel Richie and the

socialite Paris Hilton were among

those forced to flee.

Every firefighting

aircraft in the United

States has been summoned to

California and they are making a big

difference.

We are not quite out of the woods

yet but here in daylight

we will do everything we can to hit

it hard, fast and safely,

and then we will look to see

by the end of

the day what we can do in terms

of providing information.

In times of crisis,

extraordinary moments of

compassion.

Here, a man runs to rescue a rabbit.

He seems in distress

but one little life has

been saved.

At least four major fires

are burning across the state.

More fierce winds are forecast

and worst may be to come.

And just moments ago I spoke

with James in southern California.

James, I guess all eyes are on the

weather forecast - what forecast is

there for relief from the winds?

Actually, the weather forecast has

improved. The National Weather

Service here in the United States

has said this morning here in

California that its worst fears have

not been realised, that the

conditions that it had feared would

materialise, which would have seen

gusts of up to 80 mph in quite a

number of places where the fires

were burning, has not in fact

happened because of the combination

of air in the atmosphere. That

doesn't mean that the danger is

over. There is still a significant

danger across large parts of

Southern California, and there is

the potential for the wind to

increase later today. These dry,

gusty winds that come down from the

desert could whip up the fire

through the canyons, and those are

still forecast, just not at the same

intensity as previously forecast.

The pictures have been dramatic -

can you give us an idea of how

destructive this has been?

It has

been exceptionally disrupted. We are

on the outskirts of a town in the

valleys just north of Los Angeles,

and the roads are all but deserted.

The occasional car is coming past,

but people are not going about their

day-to-day lives. Ash is falling and

making it quite unpleasant to stand

here. You can see smoke in the sky

behind me. Not just here, but even

into Los Angeles itself, there are

several major fires burning, at

least four, in Southern California,

one of them in the very exclusive

suburb of Bel-Air in Los Angeles,

where those who have had to flee

include Lionel Richie and Paris

Hilton. We have also seen vineyards.

I watched yesterday as fire burnt in

a vineyard owned by media mogul

Rupert Murdoch. The helicopters were

very quickly on top of that and

prevented it reaching the property.

The firefighters have done really

very well, watching them over the

last few days.

James, thanks for

joining us.

Germany's SPD Party has voted

to enter into talks with Chancellor

Angela Merkel's conservatives.

They'll be looking at whether to

renew their grand coalition

that ended in September.

The party's leader - Martin Schulz -

had initially ruled out

rejoining the alliance,

but softened his stance

after Mrs Merkel's attempts

at building a coalition with two

other parties collapsed.

The first visit to Greece

by a Turkish head of state for more

than 60 years has got off

to a tense start.

Turkey's President Erdogan and Greek

prime minister Alexis Tsipras

swapped pointed remarks

about their countries relations

since World War One.

But the two have agreed

to confidence-boosting measures.

The UN Security Council has

expressed its concern about reports

of migrants being sold

into slavery in Libya.

Stories of slavery and abuse have

been emerging in recent days.

Migrants trying to reach Europe have

spoken of being held by smugglers

and forced to work for little

or no money.

In the end, the pressure

was too much.

Today Al Franken took to the Senate

floor and announced he's

retiring after allegations

of sexual misconduct.

But the lawmaker from Minnesota

didn't go without defending his

record and taking a swipe

at the president.

More than 30 Democratic senators -

including almost all his female

colleagues in the chamber -

had called on him to step down.

Seven women have accused him

of groping and sexual harassment.

Here's some of what he had to say.

Today, I am announcing

that in the coming weeks

I will be resigning

as

a member of the

United States Senate.

I, of all people, am aware

that there is some irony in the fact

that I am leaving while a man

who has bragged on tape about his

history of sexual assault sits in

the oval office, and a man who has

repeatedly preyed on young girls

campaigns for the Senate with the

full support of his party.

And for more on Senator Franken's

announcement we are joined now

by our political analyst

Ron Christie, who served

as an advisor to George W Bush.

Ron, thanks for coming in. He's not

admitting anything, and he's making

it very clear that he is resigning

under pressure. Is this a rush to

judgment or a turning point?

I think

it is a turning point. You found

yesterday an overwhelming majority

of colleagues saying it was time to

step aside and move beyond what has

become a distraction for the Senate.

This is all about politics. Right

now, the Democrats want to be in a

position where they can take the

moral high ground and say that John

Connors has retired, Al Franken is

leaving the Senate, and now the

Republicans have Roy Moore in

Alabama and Donald Trump in the Oval

Office, but the Democrats are

addressing these allegations

seriously.

Will it put pressure on

the Republicans? At the moment, they

can't do much about Roy Moore in

Alabama.

Not in the short term.

Listen carefully to what Mr Franken

had to say today. He said he would

retire within the next few weeks. We

have an election in Alabama on shoes

they, and Senate leadership has

indicated that if Mr Moore wins, we

will have a situation where the

ethics committee will begin their

investigation. I bet if Roy Moore

wins on Tuesday, Franklin says --

Franken says, I will stick around

and have my day if he is having his.

What do you think of Newt Gingrich's

tweet saying the other day that

Franken was voted by 1 million

people from Minnesota. They picked

him for the Senate in 2014. He's got

a point, hasn't he? Everyone is

innocent until proven guilty, why

not let it take its course through

the ethics committee?

There are the

political optics and illegal ones.

Mr Franken did not get his day in

court or get to face his accusers.

He did not have that legal momentum

to move forward one way or the

other, but this is all about

politics. The 2018 cycle is just

around the corner. The Democrats are

trying to retake the House of

Representatives and in 2018, you

begin the start of the 2020

presidential election cycle. What

the Democrats didn't need was a

political albatross around their

neck in the form of Senator Frank in

-- Senator Franken. From a legal

perspective, it looks that he was

rooted out. From a political

perspective, it was too much for the

Democrats to handle.

He didn't go

down without a fight. He talks about

the irony of Trump being in the Oval

Office, and he has faced the

allegations of Roy Moore, who could

be elected to the Senate. He has

made a point before he left.

What

you didn't hear in his farewell

speech to the Senate was an apology.

He talked about people from

Minnesota, about one of his mentors,

a former senator, but he didn't talk

about addressing the allegations

directly and apologising for the

conduct that allegedly took place

before he came to the Senate. So

what we have is a day about

politics. I would add that there was

only one Republican member of the

Senate on the floor as the speech

was going out, and who was that but

the outgoing senator from Arizona.

The Republicans are taking a victory

lap, if you will, and saying, now we

have got one of our hardest

detractors against the Republican

party out of the Senate.

Thank you

for joining us. Just reading

responses to the tweets he sent out

last night. Lots of people did not

want him to go. It was a different

situation to the Harvey Weinstein

allegations, which were of a much

more serious nature.

It is and it

isn't. There is a process to go

through here, and I think there are

two mag distinct issues. We keep

comparing Al Franken to avoid more.

Roy Moore has not been elected yet,

but Al Franken had been elected and

was in the Senate. He was

representing the institution of the

Senate, and that is why the

leadership and his colleagues had so

much say over why he should step

down, and calling on him to resign,

because at the end of the day, they

are concerned about upholding the

integrity of the Senate. That is

what makes this distinct.

OK, Al

Franken is gone. We focus on Alabama

next week. This is Beyond 100 Days

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Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News:

We'll be live in Ramallah

where there's been violent reaction

to Trump's decision to move the US

embasssy to Jerusalem.

And who's that journalist first

to a story about pizzas

getting UNESCO recognition?

Yes, that's me ten

years ago in Naples.

That's still to come.

Storm Caroline still blowing hard in

the far north of the country, but

the winds are coming down now. We

have had gusts in excess of 90 mph

in the very far north of Scotland.

In the lowlands, closer to 50-60

mph. That storm is moving out into

the Norwegian Sea. With the wind

swirling around, on the backside of

Caroline here, we will see winds

coming out of the Arctic. This is

very cold air, and with that comes

the threat of snow. We have been

talking about snow showers all day.

Over the next few days, we will be

dealing with snow almost anywhere

across the UK. Deceiving, already

snow increasing across Scotland and

Northern Ireland, the north-west of

England, into Wales and parts of the

Midlands as well. It could be a

problem first thing in the morning.

In areas close to the coast, it is

more likely to be rain and sleet.

Take it steady first thing in the

morning first thing, particularly

across northern and western parts of

the UK. In Scotland, in the north,

which is often the case, that is

where we will see most of the snow.

All day, still blizzards across the

hills of Scotland. Out to sea, gale

force winds. You will see snow

around Belfast, the north-west of

England, Wales, parts of the

Midlands as well. In the south-west,

I think it will be mostly sleet.

Across the moors, there will be

snow. Close to the coast, Plymouth,

more likely to be rain and sleet.

Through the day, the showers will

get heavier. Notice, not too many of

them close to the east coast, the

south-east and the South. 5-10

centimetres in some spots, most of

it across northern Scotland. I won't

say which town or city will get the

snow, but is it -- because it is

virtually impossible to predict.

Those could be 10-20 miles across

town could hit -- 10-20 miles across

and could hit one town and miss

another. Barely above freezing in

the north of the country on

Saturday. On Sunday, a potentially

larger area of snow across central

Britain. Still some uncertainty

about that. Stay June. -- stay

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There's been clashes

in the Gaza Strip and across

the occupied West Bank,

following President Trump's

recognition of Jerusalem

as Israel's capital.

At least 31 Palestinians

have been injured.

Mr Trump's announcement reverses

decades of US policy on the issue.

Let's get more on this

now from Omar Shakir.

We can now crossed a Republican

congressman in Virginia, formerly a

Navy SEAL. Thank you for joining us.

With your military experience in the

middle East, really you know better

more than anybody else, is it really

worth risking the turmoil, the

potential turmoil, in order to

fulfil a campaign promise?

It's not

just a campaign promise. Past

Presidents said this too. This is

American policy. We should take

every effort necessary to protect

people, as should host nations

around the Middle East. The reality

is it is American policy. For those

who want to do harm, those who are

terrorists, they don't get a vote on

American foreign policy. We should

not be intimidated by that. Should

we take all precautions to protect

people? No question about that.

There are some long-standing folks

who agree. Some don't. I get that.

But this is the right thing to do.

This is what we believe. Folks who

want to do harm, they don't get a

vote on American foreign policy.

Is

this administration still committed

to the peace process and brokering a

deal, and more importantly, to a two

state solution?

I don't know exactly

where they are. I know they are

committed to getting a deal. It is

important to understand that right

now there is no deal. Who do you

negotiate with? You mentioned Gaza

and the West Bank. The Palestinian

Authority control the West Bank. The

fourth -- the folks in Gaza are

controlled by Hamas. It is not a

bilateral negotiation. It is

trilateral. There is no deal. Quite

frankly, something like this, an

American position that has been

taken, and I agree with the

President, I'm glad he had the

courage to do it, but this does

create a shake-up, an opportunity to

change the dynamic because the peace

process has been stagnant for

decades. We will continue to do the

same thing and get the same results.

Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, the

Minority leaders, they are going to

the White House today. This was a

meeting put off last week. Is it

possible they can avoid a government

shutdown?

There is no question. I

think a government shutdown should

be and will be avoided. I think that

is going to happen. Obviously there

was a rift the last time they were

supposed to be there. Let the

viewers decide who's fault that was.

The responsible thing to do is keep

the government going. I'm confident

we will get a deal.

The deadline is

the weekend. If it were to happen

again, it would have serious

ramifications for the Republicans,

wouldn't it? Jabri congress, you

have the White House, you were to

blame in 2013, surely you can't let

it happen again?

I don't think it is

good for anyone. In terms of who

gets the blame, who knows? Who knows

who the American people will blame?

Either way it is irresponsible. It

is not the right thing to do. I

think we will come together, the

president, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck

Schumer, they will get a deal and

continue to fund the government.

Nobody wants the government to shut

down.

Thank you. For more on the fallout

regarding Jerusalem, we can speak to

or Mercia Kear. -- Omar Shakira.

He's the Israel and Palestine

Director for Human Rights Watch,

and joins us now from Ramallah.

Can I get your reaction to what you

have seen today in Ray Mallon and

east Jerusalem?

We have seen a

degree of frustration from all parts

of society. We have seen a

generalised strike were businesses

were shut in protest at the

declaration by Trump. We also saw

schools closed, demonstrations

throughout the West Bank and Gaza,

not just in big cities but smaller

towns and villages. We expect more

demonstrations tomorrow.

What do you

make of the call from the Hamas

leader for a third intifada?

I think

we need to look at the underlying

dynamics, what is taking place right

now. You have Israel and its 51st

year of the occupation. It has

controlled east Jerusalem and the

entire West Bank and Gaza Strip

through repression,

institutionalised discrimination,

systematic rights abuse. When you

look at Israeli policy, in Jerusalem

it has been a two-tiered

discriminatory system that treats

Palestinians separately and unequal.

What is significant about the

announcement by the Trump

administration is that for the first

time, when no other country

recognises Israel's annexation of

east Jerusalem, which is occupied

territory under international law,

you see a decision which essentially

epitomises a policy the Israeli

government has had in Jerusalem. I

think the root cause of frustration

throughout the occupied Palestinian

territory is the ongoing Israeli

occupation and the human rights

implications of its conduct in its

51st year.

As you point out, Israel

has controlled Jerusalem for a

number of decades. What could

actually change on the ground?

This

decision won't change really the

underlying status quo on the ground.

The reality you have today, while

Israeli officials talk about a

unified city of Jerusalem,

effectively you have one set of

rules for Jewish inhabitants and one

set of rules for Palestinians.

Israel explicitly set out as a

policy goal maintaining a Jewish

majority in the city. On one hand

this doesn't change the status quo.

But it does provide some

legitimisation from a major global

power for these unlawful practices.

Already today in the Israeli press

you have reports a planned expansion

of settlements, which is a war crime

under international law, within East

Jerusalem. The United States for

many decades has failed to exercise

a productive role in reining in

Israeli human rights abuses and

pressing Israeli leaders to put

forward an agenda more focused on

human rights. This may only give

more impetus for a right-wing

Israeli government to push forward

with its unlawful practices.

Thank you very much.

Vice President Mike Pence is in

Jerusalem in 11 days. It will be

interesting to see if the

Palestinians decide to meet him.

It certainly will. All eyes on that

meeting for sure. A lot riding on it

and a lot of interesting where

Donald Trump will go next with his

policy on the Middle East.

Let's talk about bitcoin.

The digital currency Bitcoin has

broken the $16,000 mark,

extending the online only

currencies record-breaking surge.

It's surged over the past week,

jumping by more than 50% in value.

The cryptocurrency began

the year below $1,000,

but continues to rise

despite warnings by one economist

who described it as a dangerous

speculative bubble -

fuelling worries there

could be a crash.

Let's talk to our business

correspondent, Samira Hussain,

who is in New York.

What is actually causing this surge?

It is interest. People are becoming

more interested in bitcoin. It is

sort of gaining a little bit more

legitimacy within the financial

community. We have indexes like the

Chicago Mercantile exchange giving

out futures, which is giving it a

bit more legitimacy. We see more

financial institutions starting to

pay attention to it. That, coupled

with the fact that we have just seen

this meteoric rise in the value of

bitcoin... Today it went to 16,000

500. At the beginning of the year it

was less than a thousand. Those

people who got it early hours pretty

pretty. -- earlier are sitting

pretty pretty.

How useful is this

currency? What can people do with

it?

Right now, in its infancy at the

beginning there were thoughts about

using it to be able to do regular

transactions. We were even in

conversation today in the office

about how some of our local shops

would accept bitcoin. But now it is

not really used for that. You're not

going to go in and buy a soft drink

with a $16,000 note. Now people are

really looking at it more as an

investment peace. And in some

instances people are thinking it is

a better investment than gold. That

said, there are some titans within

the financial community that have

expressed a lot of misgivings. One

suggests it is a Ponzi scheme,

another suggests it is another tech

bubble and it is going to burst.

I

wonder how safe it is? There was a

report today that $68 million of

bitcoin was hacked open an account

in Slovenia today. Surely

governments are looking to regulate

it and if they do surely the bubble

will burst?

Governments are looking

to try and regulated, but on the

flip side you could also say regular

currency is often act as well. Other

information is often hacked. Hacking

is certainly an issue that crosses

every single industry right now. The

big thing with bitcoin is that it is

not regulated in terms of it's not

backed by a central bank. Each

transaction actually has to go

through each individual computer. So

it's really lengthy and it's really

involved. But that is really part of

the reason why people like it. It is

decentralise. It is more of this

community idea. I think that is part

of the attraction.

Thank you very much for your

thoughts. There is a collective

dropping on heads on desks at the

moment. Why didn't I buy some

bitcoin? I was looking to the price

in July 2010, it was 8 cents. That

would have bought you, for a couple

of copy, 12.5 bitcoins. Do you know

how much they would be worth today?

$220,000.

My goodness. Why didn't

you do it?

I wish I had paid more

attention in those IT classes. That

would have done it. Move on.

The European Union has set a

deadline of Sunday, for Theresa May

to make an acceptable offer

on the Northern Ireland border ahead

of the Brexit summit next week.

In the last hour, we have seen

reports that the Irish side think

progress is being made.

The European Council President,

Donald Tusk, is to make a statement

early tomorrow morning.

The Prime Minister finds

herself between a rock

and a hard place at the moment.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has

warned any Brexit deal must

respect the promises made

during the EU referendum campaign.

I'm joined by Times

columnist Iain Martin.

It has been an interesting week. The

DUP row is really focused attention

within the party about a

conversation many people think we

should already have had?

Yes, the

incident on Monday where they were

expected to get a deal and it

collapsed at the last minute because

Theresa May had not properly

consulted the Democratic Unionists,

which depends first surviving in

government, that has provoked a

conversation in the Conservative

Party about whether she can release

arrive -- really survive, even if

possibly there may be a move before

Christmas or maybe in January. What

had been the established view that

she would be the person to see

through Brexit for all of her

floors, that political mismanagement

on Monday in Brussels, in relation

to the DUP, has met Tories think

again.

It is a tricky issue because

she has to keep the train on the

tracks. The strategy she has picked

his to keep the Cabinet together.

She has not lost a major vote, she

has not had a rebellion. In one

sense she has played it right. In

another sense she keeps moving from

crisis to crisis purely because she

has not had that conversation?

Yes,

it is very tough. Even people who

are critics of Theresa May will

admit she is a decent, honourable

person, who has inherited this and

is doing her level best to deal with

it. But I think the problem is that

if you think of politics on both

sides of the Atlantic, you think of

great deal makers like LBJ, or you

think of how Thatcher would have

handled this, Jim Callaghan in the

1970s. They have -- had political

difficulties but they had a basic

sense of political management,

curiosity and an ability for

deal-making that she doesn't seem to

have. And the operation around in

Number 10 is very depleted. Tory

morale is very low. It looks as

though they will probably progress

to the next stage and the signs to

neither optimistic, but it has once

again got people thinking in Tory

circles about whether they should

make a change. It is not easy to

make that change. They would have to

remove her very quickly. Would they

hold a Tory leadership election? All

of that is moot and unknown at this

stage.

Could you make an argument

for her that she gets all the

criticism and the European Union

gets non-? I have been banging the

drum saying, look, if the DUP, with

all the Unionist interest, wanted to

stay close to the mainland, the

European Union miss read Ed. If they

Inc you can fix the Irish issue

without sorting out what sort of

relationship you have with the EU.

They have put the cart before the

horse macro -- horse?

Yes, they

have. The Irish border is not just

an unusual border, it has been an

unusual border since 1921, 90 23. A

common travel area was agreed, then

there were the troubles and then

peace. It was an area the European

Union struggles to understand. It

will not fit a logical legal

pattern. There is gone to have to be

a compromise. I think the failure of

Theresa May was to felt -- was to

fail to communicate that. When her

officials thought he had a deal, she

didn't do the basic business of

checking that the Unionists were

squared. Ulster Unionists are very

paranoid about being sold down the

river, particularly by English

politicians that they fear do not

necessarily understand the nuances

of Northern Ireland politics. You

can understand them being jumpy. The

mishandling of it, some of the

details they learned from Twitter,

spooked them. They pulled the plug

on Monday. That is not a situation

the Prime Minister should find

herself in.

Ian Martin, thank you.

Come back and see us Maxim.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come...

Neopolitan pizza gains

world heritage status.

So next time you take that

slice, just consider it

a cultural experience.

And make sure you go for the real

deal rather than Christian's

version!

It's the the largest and most

expensive warship ever built

for the Royal Navy, and today

the Queen commissioned

HMS Queen Elizabeth

at a ceremony in Portsmouth.

It cost more than £3 billion

to build, and has become

the flagship of the fleet,

as Jonathan Beale reports.

A day of pride for the Royal Navy

and for the nation.

The Queen has already named her.

Today she made her first visit

on board to commission

HMS Queen Elizabeth into service.

Almost lost in the cavernous hangar,

still waiting for aircraft.

But for the Queen, this ship already

holds a special place in her heart.

As the daughter, wife

and mother of naval officers,

I recognise the unique

demands our nation asks of you,

and I will always value my special

link with HMS Queen Elizabeth,

her ship's company

and their families.

The raising of the White Ensign

means she's now legally recognised

as a Royal Navy warship.

Over the past few months,

HMS Queen Elizabeth and her 700 crew

have been testing her at sea.

She's the first of two new carriers.

Russia has already described her

as a large convenient target,

but the Government insists

she will be a potent

weapon and symbol of

British military power.

This isn't just the largest warship

ever built for the Royal Navy,

it's also the most expensive,

costing more than £3 billion.

The F-35 jets that will eventually

fly off her will cost billions more

and this at a time when the defence

budget is under severe pressure,

with the prospect of further cuts.

Today the only cuts being made

were to the elaborate cake,

made to mark the occasion,

but the Navy is having to consider

axing other ships in the fleet.

They still believe it's worth it.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

Now many of us appreciate a great

pizza, but now the pies crafted

in Naples have been given world

heritage status by Unesco.

They join a distinguished list,

which includes flamenco

dancing and the tango.

So what goes in to making

the perfect slice?

Before we came on the programme,

I joined the expert pizza-maker

Diego Liguori for a crash course.

OK.

The right shape. Kind of. Yeah.

OK.

Then you just flop it.

Like

this?

Yeah.

It has not it. How is

that? There is a hole! There is a

hole! Look!

Never mind.

Let me see

yours. OK. OK. Why is mine thinly?

Mine is oblong. -- thin.

You have

two treated like a girl, a little

bit delicate.

You Italians and the

girls! The hole is getting bigger.

It doesn't matter about the hole.

OK. OK.

One more. Put it down like

that.

OK. This one? OK.

Another one

here.

OK. OK. Shall I get some

flower this time?

Like this. Then

flip it up.

Like that? And then flip

it up.

Get it into a pizza shape.

Right. And now I spin it? OK.

Getting better now. Much better than

before.

There we go.

Hey, look at that.

That

is it.

That is pretty good. I did

quite a bit of that.

That is so much

better.

Grade. If this doesn't work

out on the show, I can come and work

with you?

Please! Don't give up the day job.

Diego is with us in the studio.

So too the owner the London

pizzeria in which he works,

Serena Sarnataro.

What does it mean to have UNESCO

recognition for the Neapolitan

pizza?

I will let Diego replies to

this. It means a lot to him.

Basically we are just very proud of

it. After 300 years of history we

made it. I do feel very happy. I

think I speak for all the pizza

chefs around the world. The

Neapolitan Anna pizza chefs made it.

They made it. It has been a

renaissance. When I was in Rome ten

years ago I went to Natalie to where

it all started in 1889, and I made a

pizza there. -- Napoli. This was ten

years ago there were trying to get

recognition. The reason was that you

get so many pale imitations around

the world. The robbery pizza.

The

pineapple!

Jane likes pizza. What is

it about the ingredients that make

it such an incredible pizza?

It is

what is at the base of the

Mediterranean food and what we

actually eat every day. It is very

simple. It is tomato, basil,

mozzarella... And it is where it is

sourced. It is in Italy, where we

grow these very simple ingredients.

Because of the sunshine, the

location, the ground, everything,

our ground is so fertile. It is so

good. It is really simple and

straightforward.

I have to go here.

I have to ask both of you as

experts, what is wrong with putting

pineapple on pizza? I believe the

world is actually divided by this

very issue.

I thought it was the

data when I first saw it on a pizza

14 years ago in the UK. It is

unthinkable because it is fruit, I

think. It just doesn't go!

Diego is

grimacing. You only serve to Peter

Senior restaurant. They queue out of

the door. -- pizzas. Do you get a

reaction from people when they come

in?

Yes, some people say, where is

the pepperoni? Can I have some

chicken? We only make margarita. The

margarita was made by a chef who

came to visit Naples.

The colours of

the Italian flag.

The marinara was

made for the sailors who came back

from the sea. That was very simple.

Put together very quickly.

When you

on mozzarella? See how puritanical I

am now that I have spent time in

Italy making one. Now I know my

stuff. I know even what sort of

cheese you put on it.

Words fail me.

Congratulations. Thank you both for

coming in. We will be back at the

same time on Monday. Thank you

DJ-ing in Washington.