11/12/2017 Beyond 100 Days

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Countdown to the Roy Moore election

- can someone who's been accused

of molesting a child be elected US

Senator?

President Trump hopes so -

he's recorded a message urging

Alabama voters to support

the Republican candidate.

This is the deep south

and whatever Moore's record,

voting for a Democrat may just be

a step too far.

Especially as the Republican

denies the charges.

An attempt at a terror attack

on the New York subway injures four

people and the attacker

is in custody.

They accused Donald Trump

of sexual harassment

during the election campaign.

Now three women want

Congress to act.

Also on the programme...

The snow is creating

chaos across Europe.

A quarter of the flights have been

cancelled at the UK's

busiest airport, Heathrow.

Christopher Plummer

is nominated for a Golden Globe

for a role in which he replaced

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I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

In 11 hours' time, the polls open

in Alabama and voters will chose

between a Republican accused

of molesting a child and a Democrat

who is pro-choice on abortion.

Polls suggest the

Republican could win.

But Roy Moore, who also

believes Muslims should be

banned from serving in Congress

and homosexuality should be

illegal, has been shunned

by members of his own party.

The top Republican senator

from Alabama, Richard Shelby,

chose to go on national television

yesterday to say he couldn't vote

for Mr Moore because the accusations

of sexual harassment

were just too compelling.

I want to reiterate again, I did not

vote for Roy Moore and I would not

vote for Roy Moore. I think the

Republican Party can do better.

The President however

does not agree.

This weekend he recorded a robocall

- essentially a telephone

phone marketing message -

in support of Mr Moore.

Ryan Moore is the guy that we need

to pass our Make America Great Again

agenda. Roy is a conservative who

helped me steal this country back on

track after eight years of the Obama

disaster. Get out and fought for Roy

Moore.

Eight women have accused

Mr Moore of harassing them.

One of them says she was

just 14 at the time.

This weekend, Mr Moore denied

those charges again.

I do not know them. I have had known

counter with them. I have not

molested anyone. I do not know why

they are saying it that it is not

true.

Let's get more now

from Politico's National

Political Reporter -

Gabriel Debenedetti -

who's in Birmingham, Alabama.

Good to see you. What impact does Mr

Trump, the president, coming out

with this global call in support of

Roy Moore have? What about the

Republican who came out against Roy

Moore?

Roy Moore hopes the present

weighing in has a huge impact on the

one notices what Senator Shelby had

to say. The Roy Moore campaign is

trying hard to turn it whatever

voters it can who are big fans of

the President but my piece kettle of

Roy Moore and who are relying on

this endorsement from President

Trump to really win over. At the

same time, the Democrat running

against Roy Moore is really relying

on this message from Senator Shelby,

who is trying appeal to

Conservatives. And there are many in

this state. Who do not like Roy

Moore and what his dance floor. They

are to get permission for those

folks to do a write-in campaign and

getting someone other than Roy Moore

who will not allow Doug Jones to win

the seat.

The polls have been all

over the place. Some put Roy Moore

ahead, some put the Democrat, Doug

Jones ahead. To what extent are

people telling pollsters the truth

on the way that they are voting?

That is the huge question right now.

There is a lot of speculation that

this is actually affecting people on

both sides. On the one hand, there

are certainly voters supporting Roy

Moore too, because of his

accusations, they do not want to

tell pollsters this. On the other

hand, there are voters supporting

Doug Jones cannot say it out loud

and do not want to talk about it,

specifically because he is a

Democrat. Alabama has not collected

a Democrat to the Senate since the

early 1990s. Very few Democrats have

even won any state-wide office here.

There are very few Democrats here.

It is sort of attempted word,

Democrat, the first place. It is

affecting both sides. As a result,

no-one has any idea what the results

will look like tomorrow.

How

important is to make tomorrow? --

turnout.

Turnout is the entire game

tomorrow. Both campaigns are

focusing on it. For Jones, the

important thing is to turn a base

voters. African-American voters in

this state, many of them sympathetic

to Democrats but don't usually vote.

Roy Moore is trying to win over

rural voters who might not have

voted in the primary but are big

fans of President Trump. They are

both revving up their get out the

vote campaigns enormously in the

last few hours.

Given that Roy Moore

is the antiestablishment candidate,

it is quite interesting, the gamer

Doug Jones has been playing in the

last few days. He did not want to

make it national and get outside

activists coming in but he is

changed tack.

That is right. Doug

Jones got support from a number of

surrogates in the state in the last

few days. The New Jersey Senator,

the former Massachusetts Governor

gaming. But they are not names

necessarily famous and often

infuriated Republicans who hate

Democrats in Alabama. The Jones

campaign want to win over

African-American voters and energise

them enough without turning this

into a national referendum. Then

again, the end of the day, the Jones

campaign has accented calls from

Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Those

might not be the most popular

figures in Alabama but they are

betting that those calls will be

enough to win the right voters over.

OK, Gabriel, thank you very much for

joining us from Birmingham, Alabama.

I mentioned that I am heading there.

Ryan Christie is coming as well. He

will join us to give analysis in

this crazy race. There has been so

much focus on the sexual harassment

allegations against Roy Moore. It is

worth reminding people that even

before those allegations were made,

he was already seen as being outside

the mainstream of the Republican

Party because of some of his more

controversial positions. Run through

some of those.

He has defied federal

law twice. He was the Chief justice

of the Alabama Supreme Court and

removed from office twice. Why? He

openly defied the US Supreme Court.

He said, I want to keep the Ten

Commandments up in my office and the

courthouse. They said, what are you

doing? You cannot have a religious

display in a courthouse. But yet to

his supporters, who think he is an

evangelical Christian, he is very

popular. These folks in Alabama

think, he is sticking up for us and

sticking it to the Federal

Government.

He thinks on sexuality

should be illegal and Muslims should

not serving the US Congress. With

those positions not put him out of

the bounds of other Republicans

supporting him already?

Here's where

to the mainstream and this guy does

not represent the party of Abraham

Lincoln, the party of freedom of

association, freedom of the press.

He wants to suppress enjoy condemn

people based on religion. That

should not be condoned in any way in

American vortex. But he could still

win with these positions and it says

a lot about the state of Alabama

that you have so many people

realising this has national

ramifications.

This is a struggle we

not see just in this election, but

the struggle between the

pragmatists, the establishment in

Washington and the evangelical wing

of the party. That goes beyond

Alabama.

It does. I think, frankly,

this could be the official that

divides is not breaks the Republican

Party apart. Alabama has really put

themselves in the cross hairs of

nominating someone who is not only

outside the mainstream, not only

someone who has been accused of

terrible sexual crimes against

children, but also someone who I

think is very racist and bigoted

views. How would the Republican

party Workers' Party if we were to

nominate and then collect someone

who represents out of the mainstream

views such as Roy Moores? There is a

lot hanging on this and am glad that

is why we are going to Birmingham to

see on the ground what the stakes

are into this will turn out.

Thank

you for joining us. It is

interesting because it has wider

national implications. It is hard

for me to imagine that Roy Moore

would be elected in another state.

It really is, because Alabama has

such resistance to electing a

Democrat at all. Particularly one

that is as pro-choice as Doug Jones

is. That is why I think you're

seeing this race is close of this --

as it is. In other states, I'd do

not believe he would even be in

contention.

We have heard from Gabriel that

Democrats stumping for Doug Jones at

the moment. The cynical side to me

wonders whether they are actually

hoping that Roy Moore Windsors.

Because he will cause all kinds of

crazy problems to the Republican

Party. They knew that before these

allegations of sexual harassment.

Throw in an ethics investigation...

It is not even clear that he will go

along with them. He is someone come

from the Steve Banning wing of the

party. He will come to Washington

and cause a lot of problems, as he

has done in Alabama.

There was a

really good article in the New York

Times this week which I've read at

length. It paints a portrait of a

president obsessed with television.

And his own image. The article says

the ammunition for his Twitter what

is television. Now one according to

this report touches the

remote-control other than President

Trump. During meetings, the 60 inch

screen might be muted, but Mr Trump

Peter Madden scrolling headlines.

What he misses, ejects it later on a

state-of-the-art system that

apparently records cable news.

It seems like President Trump might

have read this report because today

he was back on Twitter saying...

I think he has been watching his own

news headlines. What you reckon?

If

people have not read it, they should

read it. It is a fascinating read

and obviously research. Weeks. The

correspondent who has written it has

had a sit down with the present

before. Two bits stuck out to me.

One is the General Kelly is in some

way trying to control access to the

Oval Office with limited success.

The other part about it for me was

this idea that if he is not in the

news, he hates it.

Yes. Even if the

headlines are bad, according to this

report, he would rather be on

television. If he looks at the

television screens after a couple of

days he is not the, then he gets

very angry and wants to be back in

the news, which could account for

some of the more combative things

the president does. This is not a

president who shies away from

controversy. He runs to it and likes

the fact he is on television. As we

have no McDonald run, although is

yours being in celebrity television,

brand and image and being on the

front of television screens is very

important to him.

What about this

idea that he had suddenly discovered

the limits of this power? He was a

political novice before going into

office. He is found, to his cost,

after some run-ins with the likes of

Mitch McConnell, the majority senate

leader, that he is not some imperial

leader. He has to work with the

other two branches of government.

The piece makes the point that he

could do what he wanted in his

business empire because it belonged

to him and it was a shock to get

into the White House and not be able

to run the country in that way. We

discussed this before. Why is Donald

Trump attracted to strong men? It is

not necessarily strongly does, it is

the systems that they operate in.

The constraints of a democratic

process sometimes seem to chafe on

him.

It is not a hatchet job, this

article. Do go and read it. It is an

insight into the president and the

way that he works.

Efforts to contain ongoing wildfires

in southern California

are focusing on a blaze

which threatens the city

of Santa Barbara.

The Thomas Fire -

as it's known - has

become one of the largest

in the state's history.

It has damaged an area greater

than that of New York City.

Vladimir Putin has ordered

the partial withdrawal

of Russian troops from Syria,

during an unannounced visit there.

Mr Putin was met by Syrian

President Bashar al-Assad

as he arrived at the Russian Hmeimim

airbase, near Latakia.

Russian military support has been

crucial in turning the tide

of Syria's civil war

in Mr Assad's favour.

Mr Putin made a similar withdrawal

announcement last year, but Russian

military operations continued.

Police in New York say a rush hour

explosion at Manhattan's

busiest bus terminal

was an attempted terror attack.

The suspect - who had a homemade

bomb strapped to his body -

was injured along with three others.

The device was described

by authorities as "low-tech".

The plot comes less than two months

after an Uzbek immigrant killed

eight people in Lower Manhattan

by driving a truck down a bike path.

From New York, Nick Bryant reports.

It is 7.20, the height of rush-hour,

and a security camera

appears to show an explosive device

going off amidst a crowd of Monday

morning commuters.

A picture taken from CCTV

appears to show him on the

floor shortly afterwards.

It was a low-tech bomb

which left the bomber

himself with the worst injuries.

Three others were treated

afterwards for minor

injuries, including a

police officer, in what

the authorities have described as an

attempted terror attack.

Police were called to

a reported explosion,

responding units found

and injured 27-year-old male.

We have identified

him as Akayed Ullah.

He had burns and wounds to his body.

An investigation at the scene

indicates he was wearing an

improvised low-tech explosive device

attached to his body.

Coming at such a busy

time in such a congested

place, the intent appears to have

been to cause maximum destruction.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal

serves 65 million passengers a year,

this could have been so much worse.

This was an attempted

terrorist attack.

Thank God the perpetrator did not

achieve his ultimate goals.

Thank God our first

responders were there

so quickly to address

the

situation to make sure

people were safe.

What's remarkable is that within two

hours of the attack, New

York City has pretty

much returned to normal.

The subways are all open and people

are going about their business.

This attack failed

to cause death and it

failed to cause much disruption.

The speed at which this

city started moving

again not only speaks

of its

determined resilience but also

the creeping normalisation

of these kind of attacks

in the world's major cities.

New Yorkers know that

their transportation systems are

vulnerable.

Nick Bryant reporting

there from New York.

And joining us now from Philadelphia

is Jack Thomas Tomarchio -

a former Deputy Assistant Secretary

at the Department

of Homeland Security.

Thank you very much for joining us.

I want to pick up on that

normalisation factor. There were

some press reports that New Yorkers

were panicking. There was actually

no indication of that at all. Is

there a risk that this process of

normalising, that New Yorkers, like

Europeans, are realising the city is

vulnerable?

I do not think there is

a risk. New Yorkers...

Unfortunately, many others across

the world, we expect a terror attack

in almost every month. People

started to be vigilant and we have a

situation that might not be normal,

but I don't think by seeing people

say, this is not a big deal... These

are big deals. In this case, we had

a low-tech explosive, an individual

who probably was not very

technically competent and we had no

serious injuries, except maybe to

the attacker himself. I do not think

the populace has in any way become

so blase about this that they do not

feel these are important, because

they still are. In the van attack in

October in New York and in this one,

in both cases, the suspects were

taken alive.

How critical and how

useful is that for counterterror

experts?

Certainly from an

intelligence standpoint, that is the

gold standard. You do not exploit

intelligence from dead people and

you do not exploit intelligence from

a dead attacker. The important thing

now, the issue we are always

concerned about post-attack, is who

the individual was, what motivated

the individual, how do the

individual did what he did, how did

the attacker get the money and

support to do it? Were there other

individuals who were conspirators or

supporters? Was he part of a network

or a cell? All of these pieces of

information are critical for

intelligence officers to build the

whole picture of who the attacker

was and what motivated him. It is

very important for us.

This guy came

in on an immigrant Visa. He worked

legally in New York between 2012 and

2015. He had a black cab, limousine

driver's licence. Again, you have

talked to us about the markers and

social media activity that police

and agencies try to pick up but that

might not be anything in this man's

background that would indicate he

was a problem.

That is absolutely

right. This individual might be self

radicalised. He might have a mental

problem. He could have other issues

that caused them to do this. We do

not know right now. But we want to

determine, digging and mine the data

to find out what the motivations

were. Again, if the individual, very

much like the killer in Las Vegas,

the shooter in Las Vegas, the

individual leaves a normal life and

may be as quiet and all of a sudden,

in one instant of rage, comes out

and commits an horrendous act, it is

very difficult to find these people

and predict them. Again, that is why

we do the forensic analysis,

psychological, psychosocial analysis

of that individual's motivation and

it's all personal history. As

associations, friendships... That is

what the meat of the post-incident

forensic investigation is.

It is

good to talk to you. Thank you for

coming on again.

Thank you.

Heavy snow, thick ice

and high winds continue

to cause trouble for

commuters all over Europe.

In Austria, winds up

to 160-kilometres-per-an-hour

rattled across the Alps,

bringing down trees and power poles.

In France, these traffic

workers had to throw

grit under the tyres of heavy

vehicles to keep them moving

on the slippery ice.

And similar conditions

on Italian roads.

Some ferries in Naples were stuck

in port due to the wind

and train travellers also

faced lengthy delays.

At Europe's busiest

airport, London Heathrow,

a quarter of flights have been

cancelled as the bad weather beds

in - as our correspondent

Sima Kotecha reports.

A blanket of snow, covering

large parts of the UK.

An ideal playground for children,

many of whom have had

the day off with hundreds of schools

closed due to treacherous

conditions.

Here in Birmingham,

the council-run schools

are closed today.

The local authority

has faced criticism

with some saying there

was

no need because roads

like this one have been

cleared throughout

the day.

The council says tomorrow it

will be up to individual

headteachers as to whether they open

or remain closed and that the

priority for them is

the safety of children.

It's not just here,

schools in Buckinghamshire,

Shropshire and Staffordshire

have also been closed.

Many roads have been

layered with ice, making

driving difficult.

Some vehicle emergency

services are claiming

they've had almost

14,000 calls today

from people struggling

on the roads.

Yesterday we did 14,000,

600 of those were vehicles stuck

in snow.

Main advice would be

take it very steady.

Pack a few extras in the car,

like a blanket, and make

sure your torch and mobile

phone is charged up.

Make sure you have your main

contacts saved in your phone.

In south Wales, a lorry

got its tyres stuck

in the snow, while in Northern

Ireland, a postcard picture emerged

on the Belfast to Londonderry route.

In the highest village in Surrey,

freezing temperatures combined with

strong winds proved challenging,

but some of the locals cannot get

enough.

Up here, we sometimes get a flurry

but it never really settles.

And this is the first time

in about three years we've had

some decent snowfall.

In the west Midlands,

an NHS trust put an appeal out for

four-wheel drive vehicles to help

stranded nurses get to hospitals.

We offered a number of them

to our NHS colleagues

because there's pressure on them

at the moment to get patients to

hospital.

We have well-trained drivers

and good vehicles that we

are happy to lend.

A quarter of the flights

from Heathrow have been

cancelled, while the Port

of Calais has reopened.

It had been closed for a few hours.

However, it says there

are still some delays to ferry

services between the port and Dover.

The Met office says it will be

an extremely cold night with some

places experiencing temperatures

of around -12 Celsius.

Much of the snow will turn

to ice, raising more

concerns about getting

out and about tomorrow.

I think, for the first time ever in

history, it probably goes into the

Guinness book of records, you and I

both had snow on the same weekend. I

got three or four inches. I do not

think it has been a news story at

all. You probably were not aware of

it. I flew into Washington from

California, in a blizzard, the

flight landed on time. No-one took

any notice, except this person. This

little animal took some notice. My

new dog, Charlie! Charlie is a

rescue dog from Tunisia who has

never seems now before in his life.

If he is from Tunisia, I can

understand why!

Random, but I have a

rescue dog from Tunisia. Charlie

loved it. He ran around like a

little snow plough.

I am submitting

this is my first piece of evidence.

It was filmed by my daughter. This

proves firstly that it snowed and

secondly that trains still run in

Britain when it snows. This is the

train back from the North yesterday.

I had a little girl sitting next to

me yet be so -- yesterday saying,

can we get off the train? I said,

when we get to London, it will be

fine. Of course, in London, there

was no snow.

In lots of countries,

trains to run on time when the snow.

It is sort of thing.

We have

mastered the leaves and seemingly

we're now getting to grips with the

snow as well. So that is good. Just

one line of news. I think this has

broken while we were only. The

Pentagon has announced transgender

recruits will be annoyed to enlist

into the military as of January the.

-- allowed. That is after Donald

Trump previously announced they

would be banned. Two judges have

overruled him.

Like with the Muslim

ban, he has to deal with the courts.

He has limited powers as president.

The interesting thing about

transgender recruits is that the

secretary of defence, General

matters, has been in favour of still

loving transgender members to serve

in the military, which has

putter-mac Dodds. It looks like

Mattis and the courts agree on this

one.

This is Beyond 100

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Coming up for viewers

on the BBC News Channel

and BBC World News -

the American women calling

on Congress to investigate

allegations of misconduct

by President Trump.

We hear from one of them.

And a breakthrough that

brings hope for patients

with Huntington's disease -

the biggest advance for 50

years.

That's still to come.

Thank you very much for joining me.

Real concerns in the next few hours

into the morning rush hour on

Tuesday is the extent of the lying

snow. And the

-10, -11 Russell. Let us see how you

will fare. We start the day on the

school run or the commute. Enough to

keep the frost at bay in parts of

East

keep the frost at bay in parts of

East Anglia but we will see how

those temperatures plummet, watch

out for the fog as well, but even in

the major conurbations, down 2-7d

and then afterwards Manchester and

Sheffield. Not overly warm. A

brighter day for the most part, a

crisp sort of day, that sunshine

doing nothing for the temperatures

at all, later in the day, another

band of cloud and from the Atlantic

and for a time, particularly over

higher ground, there will be some

transient snow as we bring the

moisture in from the Atlantic.

Elsewhere, there will be sunshine

but no heat. Here is the picture on

Tuesday into Wednesday, one pulse of

cloud and rain works its way across.

Some hefty showers following on

behind, ganging together to rob you

of your sunshine until the break-out

and something drier and brighter and

the temperatures are last on the up.

This is Beyond 100 Days. Our top

stories. It is almost time to vote

in Alabama. It is still too close to

call. A Bangladeshi man sets off an

explosion at a busy New York subway

station. And coming up in the next

half an hour, three women who have

accused Donald Trump of sexual

harassment say it is time for

Congress to hold an enquiry. Awards

season is here and the Golden

Globes, kicking it off, we will see

who made the short list. Let us know

your thoughts.

Three women who have accused Donald

Trump of sexual harassment have

demanded a Congressional enquiry.

They say that before he became the

presidential candidate he groped

them and forcibly kissed them. The

White House has said that those

claims are false and the women say

there was a contrast between the men

who have recently been accused of

sexual harassment have been fired

and a President who is still in

office. One of the women has been

speaking to my colleague. Speaking

out about sexual misconduct, but in

this case it is the most powerful

man in the world they are accusing.

In an objective setting without

question, a person with this record

would have entered the graveyard of

political aspirations, never to

return yet here are with that man as

President.

These women spoke out one

year ago but in the wake of the

Harvey Weinstein scandal they are

calling on Congress to investigate

the President.

This is not a

partisan issue. This is how women

are every day.

This is not a

partisan issue. Jessica who was at

the news conference said she was

assaulted by Mr Trump decades ago

while she was sitting next to him on

a flight.

The next thing I know,

Donald Trump is over me like a wet

blanket. He is kissing and fondling

and everything and the next thing I

realised was that he was putting his

hand up my skirt. I grabbed my purse

and went to the back of the

aeroplane.

It was after the release

of this tape where Mr Trump can be

heard about groping women when more

than a dozen accusers came forward

with allegations of sexual

misconduct.

All I can say is that is

totally fake news, it is fake, made

up stuff and it is disgraceful what

happens, but that happens in the

world of politics, John.

In the past

week, three members of Congress have

been forced to resign over

accusations of sexual misconduct. In

this current climate, many are

asking whether same

pressure at the gates of the White

House. But many voters simply are

not concerned. Donald Trump won the

election in spite of these

allegations which he denies. At a

time when so many women are sharing

their stories, Jessica wants to make

sure that hers is not forgotten and

that the President of the United

States is held to account.

People

who have experienced this remember

every detail. They remember when it

happened, they remember who it

happened with, they remember where

they were, they remember how they

got out of it, they remember going

home and most of them would say, and

I threw away my clothes. We don't

forget this.

Jessica leads speaking

to my colleague. In the last few

minutes the White House press

secretary was asked about those

allegations of sexual misconduct

against President Trump.

The

President has addressed these

accusations directly and denied all

of these allegations and this took

place long before he was elected to

be President and the people of this

country had a decisive election

supported President Trump and we

feel like these allegations have

been answer to that process.

That is

the response of Sarah Sanders,

wonder woman in the administration

but another senior person has seen

it another way. The American

ambassador to the United Nations

came out over the course of the

weekend, gave a television interview

and was asked about these accusers

and whether they should be believed.

Listen to her response. Women who

accuse anyone should be heard. They

should be heard and they should be

dealt with and I think we heard from

them prior to the election and I

think any woman who has felt

violated or felt mistreated and

anyway, they have every right to

speak out.

It is interesting, you

have the President saying it is fake

news, his UN ambassadors saying that

these women deserve to be heard and

Sarah Sanders, amateur what she was

saying that she seemed to be saying

that there was an election, we won,

that settles it.

I have watched

these women who have accused him

being interviewed on the American

networks only get the impression

that they remember every detail.

They are very convincing. On the

other side they say that a lot these

allegations...

Women are trying to

say this is not a political issue,

this needs to be bipartisan, we have

seen this debate. The response

should not be Republican or Democrat

despite the fact of course that the

President is a Republican and it is

easy for this to become politicised

but a lot of women want to resist

that temptation. With the terms of a

divorce agreement in place the way

is clear for the EU and the UK to

begin talks about trade but how

closely aligned should they remain

to the single market after Brexit?

One of the people whose job it is to

ensure a level playing field is

Margaret Thursday. She has been a

thorn in the side of the big tech

companies who have managed to avoid

paying corporation tax and when I

spoke to her earlier I began by

asking whether Apple has paved the

billions of back taxes she has

demanded from them for business

conducted here in Europe.

They have

not paid that. This is why we have

referred them to the EU courts. We

have seen the recovery from the

Dutch authorities,

from the Belgian authorities, they

have recovered unpaid taxes and the

Irish will have to recover unpaid

taxes as well.

When it comes to the

big companies, you have also find

Google for abusing dominance in

search, Facebook for providing

misleading information in its

accusation that rapper acquisition

of what's up. Do you think the tech

giants, particularly the tech giants

need to do more?

They need to follow

our common rule book, because it is

for everyone to do business in

Europe but we do have a common rule

book and that applies for US

companies as well as European

companies, as well as any other

company and I think it is important

for businesses to say we want to

compete on merit and not by cutting

corners.

Can I talk to you about the

Brexit negotiation because you are

at the competition commissioner and

I'm sure you have an interest in

regulations and rules, what do you

understand by full alignment?

It is

important for us as well as for the

UK businesses to have a level

playing field, so that we compete on

the quality of products, prices,

services that we attach to it and

that is what we compete on.

A lot of

people raise the example of the

chlorinated check-in. Say that the

UK does a trade deal with the United

States, we know that chlorinated

chicken is not accepted in the

European Union so what happens to

chicken farmers who might deal with

European Union, how does that work,

technically?

I don't know what to

tell you and I think that is why a

lot of people have the uncertainty

about what will happen in the future

and that is why it would be a good

thing to advance the negotiation, to

be able to give answers to people so

they know where to do their

business, where to engage themselves

in future openings and this is our

ambition, to get on with it enabled

to be able to provide answers to

that question and many others.

You

have said before that when it comes

to tax harmonisation and the

harmonisation of rules and

regulations, you're not a

Federalist, but the things we are

reading in the UK this week from

people like Martin Schulz, the

former President of the European

Parliament is that he once the

United States of Europe and when

people at the back, they think, most

people in the UK did not want that

so maybe they were right to leave.

The good thing about Europe is that

everyone can form their own opinion.

I am entitled to mine as well as

Martin Schulz is entitled to his. I

am not a Federalist, I think what we

have created in Europe is unique, it

is not a copy of something historic,

it is not out of the theory book,

what someone has just thought of, it

is concrete and develop democracy

based on European history and I

think that is a good thing. I think

we are developing according to what

people want.

The Prime Minister of

the UK said that she wanted a deep

and special partnership with the

European Union but there is a lot of

frustration at the moment directed

at Ireland because it has these

corporate tax rates at 12.5% and we

have talked about the difficulties

that has posed in relation to Apple,

are you concerned that when Britain

is a sovereign state and the

government is making sovereign

decisions that it will exist as a

low tax economy off the European

mainland?

The UK is an active part

of this tax Alliance and they see no

reason why the UK should leave that.

It comes from, I think, a conviction

from the rest of the countries that

not only many company should pay

their taxes but that all companies

should pay their taxes.

Margaret

Vestager there with some interesting

thoughts.

Theresa May promised to ensure that

no new barriers were put in place

between Northern Ireland and the

Republican to said that the UK would

be leaving the EU in a smooth and

orderly way.

I know that some

doubted we would reach this stage.

The process ahead will not be easy.

The progress so far has required

give and take for the UK and EU to

move forwards together and that is

what we have done. Of course,

nothing is agreed until is agreed.

I

think the Prime Minister has the

Christmas spirit thinking that leave

and remain above be happy about the

same thing.

The Israeli prime minister

and the EU foreign policy chief have

publicly disagreed over the US

decision to recognise Jerusalem

as the country's capital.

Federica Mogherini has said

the EU would not recognise

Jerusalem as the capital,

as President Trump did last week.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime

Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,

said the US decision

was a recognition of reality.

Critics continue to demonstrate

against Mr Trump's decision.

In Beirut today, tens of thousands

of supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah

demonstrated chanting

"Death to America!"

and "Death to Israel!".

Our Middle East correspondent

Martin Patience was there.

An extraordinary turnout, is

expected here in the Southern

suburbs of Beirut which is the

strong but -- stronghold of

Hezbollah are. Hundreds of

supporters turning out onto the

straight from all walks of life,

this is more of a movement than just

a political grip and they have been

denouncing the decision of Donald

Trump to name Jerusalem as the

capital of Israel. As far as they

are concerned, Jerusalem will always

be an Arab capital and the reality

is that there are plenty of protest,

they are saying we will give our

blood, our souls to the Palestinian

cause, this is about domestic

politics, about rallying support for

Hezbollah around the Palestinian

flag as well as the issue of Israel.

A fifth day of protest in the Middle

East.

Survivors and breathed families have

called for the parry into the

Grenfell Tower fire to be helmed by

volunteers. They will set out the

future of the enquiries work,

victims of the fire say they are

already being pushed to the

sideline.

Bitcoin has begun trading on a major

exchange for the first

time after launching on Chicago's

CBOE futures exchange.

The move allows investors not just

to buy and sell the electronic

currency but to bet on whether it

price will rise or fall.

It's already gone from

being valued at $1,000

at the start of the year,

to rising above $18,000

today.

The governing for Corsica Coalition

won 56.5% of votes in the second

round of polling on Sunday. The

national say they want more

autonomy, not full independence.

Saudi Arabia has announced it

will lift a ban on commercial

cinemas that has lasted more

than three decades.

The Ministry of Culture

and information said it would begin

issuing licences immediately

and that the first cinemas

were expected to open in March 2018.

The kingdom did have

cinemas back in the 1970s,

but clerics persuaded authorities

to close them.

This is Beyond 100 Days and still to

come...

The TV star Keith Chegwin -

better known to fans and friends

as Cheggers - has died

at the age of 60.

He died at home after battling

a progressive lung condition.

Chegwin became a household

name hosting shows like

Multi-Coloured Swap Shop

and Cheggers Plays Pop.

Here's our entertainment

correspondent, Lizo Mzimba.

His energy, his sheer

enthusiasm, made Keith Chegwin

into a household name.

Welcome to our very

special Christmas edition

of Cheggers Plays Pop.

From everybody here...

Merry Christmas!

Figures who worked with him have

been paying tribute.

I knew he was

very well, I spoke to him about four

weeks ago and he said he was

recovering, so I did not expect this

and it is very sad news.

Maggie

Philbin said it is incredibly sad,

he was a one-off, full of life,

generous and with a focus on things

that mattered, his family. Keith was

loved by everyone who knew and

worked with him. His career did

decline for a time and the public

was shocked to discover that he was

an alcoholic, something he spoke

about when he appeared on Celebrity

Big Brother.

I do all the tricks.

You never buy a full bottle of

whiskey because you cannot hide it,

so you by four half bottles.

In fact

reality TV gave him a new outlook,

he was able to regain much of the

fame from his early career thanks to

his honesty, his personality and his

endless ability to laugh at himself.

And fuse TV stars can claim to have

had a top-selling chart hit, to have

entertained millions while in their

teens and then to have still been

doing the same for viewers decades

later.

You're watching

Beyond One Hundred Days.

Scientists are hailing

a major breakthrough

in the search for a treatment

for the brain disease Huntington's.

A research team at University

College London has managed

to correct the defect which causes

Huntington's and now hopes

the deadly disease can be stopped.

The development has been

described as the "biggest

breakthrough in neurodegenerative

diseases for 50 years".

Here's our health correspondent,

James Gallagher.

When you've got something that's

degenerative, you know every day,

the last day was probably better

than the next one is going to be.

This family has been

blighted by Huntington's,

they have seen their mother

Stephanie, uncle Keith and

grandmother Olive all dying from it.

They describe it as Parkinson's,

Alzheimer's and motor neuron disease

rolled into one.

Frank, his sister Sandy

and also their brother

Peter's brains will all slowly

degenerate from Huntington's too but

now they have hope.

The treatment is called

gene silencing.

Huntington's disease

is the result of a corrupted

gene that leads to

the creation of a toxic

protein which destroys

the

brain.

A messenger carries the blueprint

from the corrupted gene.

This treatment sticks

to the messenger, disabling it

and lowering the production

of the toxic protein.

46 patients had to be experimental

drug injected into the fluid that

babes the brain and spinal cord.

The therapy was safe

and effective, led

by scientists at University College

London, who say the results are of

ground-breaking importance.

For the first time we

have the potential and

hope for a therapy that one day may

slow or prevent Huntington's disease

completely.

This is the experimental therapy.

It is exciting but it is not a cure.

It will require far more research

and following patients for

years to come.

This is a brain dying

of Huntington's.

Doctors are starting

longer trials to see

whether targeting the protein can

change the course of this disease

for families like the Allens.

If it works and it

stops me getting any

worse, that will be fantastic.

Personally I never really thought it

would happen, that that would

happen.

It's all about can we stop it

in other people, our children.

Toxic proteins also

build up in the brains

of patients with diseases

like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Trials are now planned to see

if gene silencing could help these

people too.

It's that time of year when Holywood

rolls out the red carpet.

Awards season is here

with the Golden Globes

announcing its short

list this morning.

Leading the pack is Mexican

filmmaker Guillermo del

Toro's The Shape Of Water,

which gets seven nominations.

Other films to watch are The Post -

This

a tribute to journalism with stars

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep.

And in the best drama category,

the British World War II tale

Dunkirk is also on the list.

Joining us is Larry Hackett, the

former editor in chief of People.

one thing that interests me is that

we always look for it seems, every

year at the Golden Globes and the

Oscars we look to see what Hollywood

is preoccupied with. In this first

year after Trump has become

President, are we seeing any trompe

type themes in this?

It is hard to

say. You can look at The Post as

being an example of the triumph of

journalism. People will look at that

as the triumph and defiance of a

free press. There may be Allagui

reason with The Shape of Water which

is a Cold War film about a strange

creatures trying to keep from the

Russians, I'm not sure what the

analysis would be, but I'm sure

something is there. You have not

only the administration and

political climate but you have the

climate particularly in the last

quarter of the year with sexual

harassment. Harvey Weinstein was

caught up in this and the crimes he

has been accused of having the most

egregious and you have seen that

reflected here in the nominations,

both transparent which had Jeffrey

Tambo as the star and he has been

accused of harassment was not

nominated nor House of Cards which

starred Kevin Spacey. Both of those

which had been at home in the

nomination categories for the past

several years, with no nominations.

That is a reflection of the way

Hollywood is reacting to what is

happening.

Just because it has been

so busy here, I have not had time to

see many of these, the one I want to

see is three billboards, just

because I love Francis McDormand.

I

have not seen it. It is a small

movie. It is a real surprise here,

it has got mixed reviews. It is a

vehicle for Frances McCartney, she

eats up the screen and is a

compelling figure. It is a surprise.

It will be interesting to see, the

Golden Globes is the first nominated

show, is what lasts into the Oscars.

The Shape of Water and certainly The

Post will be there for the

nominations. The director of the

loved Ladybird was not nominated for

Best Director nor was the director

of wonder woman. They will probably

get Oscar nominations because there

is a backlash already that all the

director nominees are all men. That

will be interesting to see how that

plays out.

Since we are talking

about themes, we have a mini British

team, we have Dunkirk that is

nominated for Best motion picture

and Gary Oldman nominated for Best

actor in the new Churchill drama,

Darkest Hour.

We are very supportive

of that idea, obviously the great

escape from Dunkirk and what

Churchill went through. I don't want

to say it is a comic book that it is

a storybook version of what the

British endured during the war and

the performance by Gary Oldman was

acclaimed and I think they will go

far. They're more like Oscar movies

than golden globe movies so I think

they will both be there.

You talked

a little bit about Hollywood moving

on, Christopher Plummer has been

nominated for a role which was Kevin

Spacey's. We saw a trailer for this

movie with Kevin Spacey in it and he

was pulled out and now Christopher

Plummer has a nomination.

There has

been a lot of media with Christopher

Plummer in there. There have been a

lot of trailers on TV with

Christopher Plummer in it. I defy

you to ask anyone who has seen the

trailer to understand what it is

about. That is not what is happening

here, this is not about John Paul

Getty. It is about Ridley Scott and

the removal of Kevin Spacey. Seth

Meyers is going to be the host, you

can be sure that there will be

plenty of comments about this, the

Golden Globes tends to be a somewhat

champagne fuelled affair when things

get a little more casual and of

script and the Oscars, so coming as

it does now right after this

election coming up in Alabama and

all that has gone on the sheer

politically, with the sexual

harassment, you can be pretty sure

it is going to be a night.

Thank you

for joining us. When I was in LA

last week, those billboards were all

over the place with Christopher

Plummer's name all over it. It was

super fast that they turn that movie

around.

Just before we go,

the United States could soon

be sending humans back

to the moon and beyond.

President Trump is scheduled

to sign a directive

instructing Nasa to start

a space mission to the moon

and eventually to Mars.

The last time the US sent

astronauts to the moon

was in 1972 on Apollo 17.

My daughter was at the science

Museum and I think she saw Apollo 12

and Apollo 14 and she is into Moon

stuff at the moment. This is

interesting because there are

scientists who have said that going

to the moon, we have learned all we

could learn from going to the moon

and it should not be the focus of

the US space budget but that the

technology now with telescopes is so

strong and that we should find out

more about our universe from

technology rather than sending

people out there and I will miss

you, Christian,