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from the chart company phoned up and

asked for a quote. It was ten number

ones in a row. I don't like to make

a big deal out of it but I like to

make a really big deal out of it!

Everything I do at the moment, I get

people to mention it!

Well, I think

it is fabulous!

I think that Brexit is unstoppable.

As the Chancellor at the time of

German reunification is to say, it

will go on.

Will be bitter

aftertaste of the night, before baby

deal?

President Jean-Claude Juncker

has said that sufficient progress

had been made. Yesterday, the

British parliament overwhelmingly

voted to accept that I commend it

in.

We will have all the latest from

here in Brussels, but we will also

bring action for Britain and Germany

as it moves towards that second

phase. Also broke on the programme,

and at least four children are dead

in France after a crash between a

school bus and a train. Get in touch

with us.

But, what will win they want to hear

from Mrs May? I am guessing that

they will want to know what a deep

and special partnership actually

means.

Prime Minister may admitted

today that her Government lost an

amendment last night. Bridget MPAs

what a greater say on the deal with

the EU. Does that undermine the

Prime Minister's negotiating

position in muscles? Our political

editor has more.

Her job tonight, to get 27

countries of all political

colours on her side,

a day after failing to line up

everyone in her own party.

Will Theresa May bend

to her rebels' will?

I'm disappointed in the amendment,

but, actually, the EU withdrawal

bill is making good progress,

through the House of Commons,

and we are on course

to deliver on Brexit.

Remember last week,

President Jean-Claude Juncker,

said significant progress had been

made to move on to phase two

of our negotiations.

Do you accept that as Prime

Minister, you are going to have

to make more copper misers,

not just with the opposition party,

but with your own site?

Well, let's look at the passage

of the EU Withdrawal Bill, so far.

It has been making good progress

through the House of Commons.

We have actually had 36 vote

on the EU withdrawal bill,

and we have won 35 of those votes.

Will you compromise more?

We have won 35 out of a 36 vote

on the EU withdrawal bill.

Give and take at home?

Not quite.

But abroad, where she has

had to come from ice,

her cheery counterparts in a mixture

of sympathy, and demand.

This makes it even shorter,

for Theresa May's Government,

to make proposals, because if,

afterwards, she needs to get

an agreement in London,

that does not help a lot.

I have absolute faith in faith

and confidence in her,

that she speaks for the UK,

and that as long as that

is the case, as long

as she is Prime Minister,

we will deal with her,

and treat her as if she has

an overall majority.

She is holding her cards close

to her heart at the moment,

which I understand,

on the next phase.

And this is probably

a wise negotiating tactic.

It is now for the UK to make

up its mind and then together,

to collectively see where

we can get to.

The closest friends maybe

not quite convinced.

We have made progress

with Great Britain,

said the German leader,

but some questions are still open.

Where Brexit is being brokered,

May's promises of "Strong

and Stable" seem long ago,

some Tories furious their colleagues

sent the Prime Minister

to her seat after defeat.

But, for the rebels and their new

found friends in the opposition,

listening would add authority.

She has caused this problem

for herself, actually

what she should now do is embrace

what happened last night and say,

yes, I will involve Parliament,

and then it would be obvious

in the negotiations that

I have the support of Parliament

in what I am doing.

Barring last-minute disaster,

the rest of the EU is to agree that

Britain can move onto the next phase

of our long goodbye, but Theresa May

will enter that,

knowing that the other

countries provide 27 items

on

our list of problems,

but parliament

is perhaps the 28th,

and the

trickiest of all.

Remember, tomorrow's

expected agreement is

only a promise to move onto talks

about the long-term relationship.

That home, and here,

there are still an awful

lot to be worked out.

Laura Kuenssberg,

BBC News, Brussels.

Joining me now is Tony Connelly,

Europe Editor for Ireland's

national broadcaster RTE.

Why do you listening to data some of

EU leaders as they arrived in a

building. How do you think they will

react to treat Mac's defeat last

night. I think they will feel that

it is not ideal for her coming to a

summit, but I think earlier on in

the autumn, there was a sense that

there were such disarray in the

Conservative Party, and that she

seemed to be facing a crisis every

week, and there was real concern

that there might be a replacement,

but she seemed to ride out those

particular storms, and think there

was a consensus at the end, or a

prevailing wisdom at EU level is,

that she would probably survive for

the time being, because there wasn't

a clear challenger within the

Conservative Party, and that would

simply have to deal with her. The

whole formulation of hard being a

week but stable, is something that

people here have grown accustomed

to, and they think that she will be

around for quite some time,

afterwards.

For Theresa May it is a

bit of a roller-coaster at the

moment. The issue is, that,

confidence was undermined, perhaps

more by David Davis who said that

the agreement they came to last

Friday was a statement of intent, it

was not legally binding. What I

heard from other leaders, was that

they want that agreement put into a

legal text.

I think there was real

concern earlier this week,

especially among French and German

officials, that the personal envoys

of other leaders, they normally come

to the party summit in advance, and,

I think they were concerned about

any sense of backsliding, and there

was language I think from Michel

Barnier, and others, really spelling

out, that while formally speaking,

the joint report last Friday is not

legally binding, yet, it is a

political commitment, as the

European Commission says. A

gentleman agreement. Sadly, the

Irish Government will quickly say,

look, this has to be legally

binding, and there is angered in the

guidelines that will be adopted

tomorrow that any commitments that

are made in phase one, such as the

financial settlement, citizen's

rights, that it will have to be

agreed at the end of March two dozen

19.

I know that you are going to

stay with us. We will get plenty

more from you through the programme.

We did CB Chancellor Angela Merkel

who arrived here this afternoon. She

has got her own domestic problems.

She is facing great difficulty

forming a Rome coalition, but she

did save that she believes that they

will move to the next phase.

Probably tomorrow, when it needs to

rubber-stamp the agreement that is

on the table. Let's get a view on

that.

Very good to have you here this

evening. Do you agree that it will

move to the next phase?

Yes, I do

expect that. I think, it will be

back even the more difficult phase.

It is a bit like a divorce. The

first is to fix the past, and is the

especially what you can do within

the financial area, and financial

affairs, but now, it is about

shaping the future, the future

relationship, and that is I think

more difficult, or can become more

difficult than the first step. But,

they should start it now.

A lot of

figures at -- on the defeat last

night, but I was here a year ago,

what a difference a year made. She

got the cold shoulder from the last

27 leaders. Today, they are saying

that she is a formidable negotiator,

she is the person they want to deal

with. Why?

Well, actually, we do

want stable and very intense

relations with the UK after they

have left the EU. So, we need a

partner, in the United Kingdom to

deal with, and Theresa May is this

partner. She is head of the

Government, and it is important. I

would say, the more concrete, the

more clear, the more strongly

mandate is there for the British

Government to negotiate in the

negotiations will develop. And, so,

of course, we would love to see a

strong position, and a clear idea,

where a challenge you to be found

out, in the next weeks and months,

what actually is, what the United

Kingdom wants the future

relationship to be.

Well, one of the

issues, about that future

relationship is going to be the

issue of immigration. I would ask

you about that. It's not clear what

the German Government's position is

going to be. You are on the more

conservative spectrum when it comes

to the issue of immigration, but

your Government is trying to get in

a coalition with the social

Democrats, and a habit it clear that

they want a more open immigration

policy. If the Germans can't even

sort this out, how was it going to

be sorted out of the other 27

European Union countries goes like

An well, if you take the bar

selections that we have seen, in

Europe, in the Netherlands, in

France, in Austria. Even the Brexit

vote, most of it was about

migration. That is one of the most

political and most important issues

we have on the table right now. If,

I think only the European Union can

fix it, and there are three areas,

one is fighting the roots, the

reasons for migration, for that, for

example the European Union Africa

summit, the recent one was very

important. Secondly, about the

securing of the Borders, we have

more power, more army there, and it

is not up to human traffic to decide

who is to entered the European

Union, and the third step is, and

that is what the current argument

about, is the solidarity within the

EU, it cannot just be the border

gates, like Italy or Greece to

actually share the burden, it should

be all of us. And that, is the

package, I would say of all these

three areas, and these to be solved

together. Let me ask you about the

secret thing, because over the next

few months, they will start to talk

about the in the meditation period

as the Government calls it. I

already see it on addiction. Theresa

May thing that the March two dozen

19, the UK will leave the single

market and the customs union, and

Angela Merkel is saying that know

you will stay in the single market

under the jurisdiction of the ECJ.

Is there any wiggle room on that?

Well, actually, we need to wait what

Theresa May is saying tonight and

what is the proposal of the United

Kingdom, for example how this

transition period shall be, how it

shall be shaped. But, as I

understand, there is still the

enforcement of European law in the

UK for these two years. And then,

The Next Step is what comes after,

how intense is the relationship

then, the one thing, if you want to

have a very intense access to the

internal market, or the financial

market you have got to accept the

freedom of movement as well. There

is much room for a compromise, and

that is what needs to be found that

in the upcoming weeks, but, first of

all, we need to know what the

British side want and what their

expectations are, and I hope he has

something to light.

OK, thank you so

much for joining us. Christian, you

have spent an awful lot of time in

Brussels, recently. What is your

sense going there today? Is very

sense that things are moving

forward? That the you believe that

they have got Theresa May where they

want to have her in order to start

these discussions on phase two and

actually start making progress more

quickly?

Well, I think there is one

thing to say about their

relationship with Theresa May. They

are very much behind her. They don't

want her to start negotiations again

with a new leader, because, if she

goes, they could get someone more

hardline. There were two

interview, one, is that they wanted

no

Will the UK be able to organise its

own trade deals? Will they get some

deal on the EU fisheries policy?

There are a lot of things the UK

wants to do after 2019.

We now seem

to have got beyond phase one but the

message is that the ball is if

London's court and they need to move

out -- sort out what they want.

Four people have died after a train

collided with a school bus

in the south of France.

19 others have been injured -

seven seriously.

The accident happened at a level

crossing at Millas, near Perpignon.

The bus was thought to be carrying

children aged between 11 and 15.

Emergency services

are still at the scene.

Local authorities have set up

an emergency coordination centre.

Let's get the latest on this -

Lucy Williamson is in Paris.

Brass details trickling through,

someone on French media said that

they thought the youngest victim

might actually be a. A lot younger,

some of those passengers than were

previously thought. Looking at the

pictures are from the scene, there

have been some dramatic which is

coming out. Emergency helicopters

being fed into trying get those

seriously injured people to

hospital. That has now happened. The

primaries, the transport minister

making their way down to be sad, and

I think, what the voters are

starting to shift towards, what

caused this collision, we know that

the school bus was leaving the

school and driving the pupils back

to their homes when it arrived at a

railway crossing point and was hit

by the train. Officials were saying

that the weather conditions were

good, the train was not going

particular fast, and when you look

at the pictures of what has happened

the bus, and the injuries that we

are seeing, there are certainly a

lot of questions to be answered

about how this happened. With all of

the senior officials going down

there tonight, that will be the

focus for tomorrow.

Such a sad

story, this one.

Some leaders hold Christmas parties

at this time of year,

Vladimir Putin holds

a press conference.

A three-hour 40-minute

press conference.

Today he used the marathon to answer

questions from national

and international reporters

on everything from President Trump,

to Olympic doping, to his own

decision to seek

another six-year term.

Mr Putin said his opponents

in Russia were hoping

for a coup against him.

And he dismissed the FBI's

investigation into Donald Trump's

alleged Russia ties as the work

of people trying to

delegitimise the US President.

Do you want to bring it all back? I

am sure that the prevailing majority

of Russian citizens do not want that

and would not allow it to happen.

This has all been invented by the

people who oppose trump to give his

work and illegitimate character.

This is strange for me. This is

being done without understanding,

but by doing this, the people who do

this, they are dealing a blow to the

situation of the domestic politics

in the country.

And joining us now is Angela Stent,

a Russian expert who teaches

at Georgetown University.

Thank you for coming in. To some

extent these things are fascinating,

because they give you a set of the

body language of how he is doing.

What did you make of this marathon?

Well, as you have already reported,

it was an hour less than it usually

is. He is in full command of

everything full stop is looking

forward to his re-election in March.

He dealt with the opposition, he put

her in her place.

She was the

journalist who was running for

politics, but asked the question

because of the press conference.

Absolutely. He criticised her for

not having a programme, for being

against everything. As you reported,

he reached out to president Tom. He

has been consistent with this. I

would in a conference when he did

the same thing. He criticised the

American people for not allowing

President trump to do his job for

the Congress interfering with him

trying to implement his programme.

Today, he congratulated President

Trump, on not getting the...

What to

make of President Putin and his

allegations of collusion to be

president. Are the Russians nervous

about this?

I think they are

nervous. On the one hand, they did

succeed in the sense that they are

aided and abetted... We know that.

But, they did not really fully think

through the potential consequences,

so now that they have had very tough

sanctions passed by the Congress,

which President Trump cannot

unilaterally written, they have had

their conference at San Francisco

closed down, and there are other

factors pending. I think, maybe that

was not what they cultivated, with,

and think what they are trying to do

is try to get around that, but they

understand, as we know, living in

this country that Russia is a toxic

subject, and until the investigation

has completed its work, and we know

there is very little to what the

president can do to advance the

relationship.

When you are speaking

to Russian officials, do you hear

any whispering? Any talk about what

they were doing gym because of the

campaign, and what they may have

been offered from the Trump campaign

during it.

That is not something

that they talk about. The only know

what we read in the press, here. I

do think that many ordinary Russians

and that we have built up President

Putin and the Russians into these

all powerful people, and they did

understand why we have done that.

So

interesting. You're right, he is

portrayed as a great strategist who

got a lot for very little money.

Thank you for coming in.

Rupert Murdoch has sold

a majority of his company 21st

Century Fox to Disney -

in one of the biggest

media deals for years.

After decades of

expanding his empire,

the 86-year-old media mogul has

taken the decision to shrink his

business by selling off

a major wing of Fox -

which also owns Sky -

for more than $55 billion.

The US Ambassador to the UN,

Nikki Haley, has put on show

what she says are missiles that

were supplied to rebels

in Yemen by Iran, and then

fired into Saudi Arabia.

Speaking in front

of the remains of a rocket,

she said the display revealed

the way Iran was fanning

conflicts in the Middle East.

Now to a White House departure

which had a lot more drama

than we first realised.

On yesterday's programme we told

you about reality TV star

turned political operative

Omarosa Manigault leaving her post

in the Trump administration.

It turns out that's

not the whole story.

It seems she was actually fired

by chief of staff John Kelly

but when she didn't like the terms

she tried to make

a high level appeal.

The problem was she tripped

the alarms in the White House

residence, angering Kelly,

who had her escorted

from the building.

Today she appeared on morning

television maintaining she resigned

and wasn't shown the door.

But she also revealed

that there were things

in the White House that

made her both unhappy

and uncomfortable.

I am happy and uncomfortable, but

they did drag me out of the office

kicking and screaming. Maybe they

should.

This is all going round the

Internet, and then she gives this

interview, in which it says that

there were things that made her

uncomfortable. She is the classic

reality TV shows star. Who knows how

to give 80s. She didn't say what was

that made her uncomfortable in the

White House, and watches all that

didn't like, but he said that she

would do that at some later date.

Two. That little nugget into the

American media. You know, this is

kind of episode 387, the reality

television presidency, in which the

Trump administration is continually

consumed in drama stories around his

personnel, it has died down a little

bit, from the summer, but it is

still there, and Kelly does not seem

to be able to impose tittle order.

Do you think the president knows

what happened. He was saying that he

was wishing her the best, that she

goes on to future success was that

sort of good riddance, or in the

dark. He didn't know that she had

been dragged out.

Trump has this

affinity with certain people, and he

collected the ball that make him

feel comfortable around him. We have

seen is in the reporting of out John

Kelly, that John Kelly has started

to try and restrict the access to

certain people, but those people

also make him feel comfortable, and

stayed in the course of the

campaign, said there is a downside

to taking them away. She was

somebody who felt that she had had a

good relationship with the

president, she had been through all

of the apprentice, and the reporting

said today, felt that she could

appeal to him directly, and that is

when the small incident happened

with the alarms. Those come over to

my house,...

Is that why you keep me

around, do I make you feel

comfortable?

No, no. Because you

keep telling me how old I am,

because I can't remember which the

first Star Wars was, but Cathy can.

OK, that's enough. This is Beyond

100 Days from the BBC.

Coming back the first London

building to need a defensive mode.

We will be finding out why. And, we

will explain why you could end up

bending more on your online

services. That is all still to come.

Good evening. A cold feel across the

country. We had some snow showers

across the Lake District. A little

bit of lying button melting snow

further east, the best of the

sunshine, here. Nevertheless, as

temperatures struggled a little. The

showers are fairly frequent to the

west, and they will continue

overnight. A wintry mix, rain sleet

and snow, we're not expecting too

many issues, but it could lead yet

again to icy patches tomorrow

morning. Here, temperatures will

fall close to freezing. Maybe a

little freezing fog, across England.

As well, we start the date slightly

quieter for Scotland. But as many

snow showers around. Most of them

should be to the north-west coast.

The winds swing round to a

northerly, and maybe through

north-east England, just one or

two... Sandwiched in between the

two, a chilly start, but hopefully

some sunshine. That'll be the order

of the day, without wind direction

coming in from the north, we will be

dragging in some showers from the

north. Sandwiched in between the

two, it will be quieter, it will be

dry with some sunshine coming

through, temperatures not

particularly warm, three to 7

degrees at the very best. Now, that

is going to lead to a cold night,

Friday to Saturday morning. A

widespread frost is likely, so, a

pretty chilly start if you are and

of early. The cold air stays with us

for one more day. The first half of

the weekend stays cold, the wind

direction changes to south-westerly,

and mild asset to arrive for the

second half of the weekend. So, we

start cold and frosty on Saturday, a

little bit small allowed. That will

produce a view more showers, here,

but not as cold. Seven or 8 degrees,

but under those clear skies, to

which they few degrees above

freezing, so chilly. Aldridge the

Sunday, a south-westerly wind drag

in more cloud, and eventually rain.

It be milder then take out. -- it

will be milder by then. Take care.

This is Beyond 100 Days, with me,

Katty Kay, in Washington.

Christian Fraser's in Brussels.

The British Prime Minister

is in Brussels

trying to push Brexit talks

through to the next phase

despite deep divisions

within her own party.

The German Finance Minister told

this programme the next phase will

be harder.

It's a bit like a

divorce, the first step is to fix

the past and see what you can do in

the financial area but now it's

about shaping the future.

A horror crash between a train

and a school bus in southern France

has killed four children -

many others are injured.

Coming up in the next half hour:

A community comes together

to remember the victims

of London's Grenfell Tower tragedy -

six months on,

many questions remain.

Inside the new US embassy in London.

We get a look around just

as the doors are about to open.

Let us know your thoughts

by using the hashtag #Beyond100Days.

Aside from Brexit, there have been

other important discussions today,

here in Brussels, and on an issue

that is equally contentious.

The 28 leaders have been

talking about migration,

how to slow the flow of illegal

immigration, how to support

southern European countries

who face the biggest burden,

and how to disperse

and resettle those migrants

who are already here in Europe.

And it's on that particular

issue - migrant quotas -

that a row is brewing.

Eastern European countries have

refused to take their fair share

of migrants, insisting immigration

remains a national issue.

Ahead of the summit,

the European Council president

Donald Tusk said the quota system

had failed and was divisive.

The Commission says

that is "un-European".

Joining me now is our Europe

correspondent Damian Grammaticas.

You have just come back from Lesbos,

worried you have been looking at

migration and what a row is brewing

here about migrant quitters.

It's

happening about now, over dinner

this is one of the issues leaders

are discussing and it's an open

discussion, they are not reaching

any conclusions tonight because they

know this is tough and there is a

big division between countries in

the EU, the countries who have

received most of the arrivals,

Greece, Italy, Germany and they few

other countries, and they want other

nations, especially eastern European

countries, to take more. We had this

row at the height of the migrant

crisis when the EU was trying to

deal with 2 million who came in and

eastern European countries were told

they had to take a set quote. The

issue has not been resolved, eastern

European countries or against it and

there still coming into Italy and

Italy and Greece and again, should

some countries be compelled to help?

You have been to Lesbos and seen the

people who were there. Where are

they coming in from?

The Route 30,

so we were on Lesbos last week, the

numbers arriving were around 2000 to

3000 a month, that deal with Turkey

by year ago brought the numbers

down, we're fat 50,000 to 60,000

from Libya, Syria, Afghanistan,

African countries and the issue is

that the arriving, European policy

is now to contain them on Greek

islands, try to sort out their

asylum claims and then deal with

them that they are building up

there, conditions are awful in those

camps so we sought by camp on Lesbos

built for 2000 odd, three times over

capacity, people are camping on

plastic sheets and it is getting

very cold.

Thank you, Damian,

migration is a big issue in Europe.

It is a big issue here in the US as

well and they have not come to a

satisfactory conclusion but it was

into arresting listening to the

German Finance Minister revising it

is not just an issue among EU

countries but even in Germany. He is

on the conservative spectrum but

Angela Merkel is trying to do a deal

with Democrats who want to do a more

open deal, so how is it in the EU

went even countries cannot settle

this?

I think Donald Tusk has thrown

a hand grenade into the room because

he put out a statement to say the

quota system was not working and

then you got our row from EU

commissioners asking where is the

solidarity that keeps us together? I

think Donald Tusk knows this is

contentious and he is right to say

he is not working so why are we not

discussing it at the highest level,

that is why he has put the

contentious issues on the table.

Christian, you keep turning a rather

lovely shade of blue, conservative

in Europe, democratic in America, it

is very fetching but we will lead

you to sort out your blue tint.

Six months after the Grenfell fire

tragedy in west London,

survivors and relatives of the dead

were joined by hundreds of others -

including members of the Royal

family - for a memorial service

at St Paul's Cathedral.

71 people - 18 of them children -

died following the blaze

in the early hours of June

the 14th.

For many the disaster has come

to symbolise the huge disparity

between rich and poor in one

of London's wealthiest boroughs.

Speaking at the service the Bishop

of Kensington asked why so many

in the community have been

left feeling neglected.

Here's Mark Easton.

BELLS RING.

They came to St Paul's, to mourn

those who were lost, to comfort

those who still suffer, and to thank

those who worked to heal.

This is the family

we lost, five people.

On the 21st floor?

On the 21st floor, yes.

How important is this event to you?

Very important.

Anything to remember them

is important, for us.

Every strand of British cultural

life was woven into a service of

remembrance, community and hope.

Grenfell survivors,

family and friends,

politicians and royalty.

The Grenfell fire exposed deep

social divides in modern Britain.

This morning, here at the cathedral,

those destined to inherit a kingdom

stand beside those who have lost

everything from from highness to

homeless, together beneath

the dome of St Paul's.

So now, together, we

remember and reflect.

Some politicians

from Kensington were

asked not to come today.

Emotions are still too raw.

Don't come and look

at taking selfies.

No, we want people to

know what has happened.

Using voices from the time,

the lingering agony of the Grenfell

tragedy was dropped

into the calm of the Cathedral.

We need to feel what they have felt.

It has let us down, this borough.

So many questions and no answers.

Today we ask why warnings

were not heeded,

why a community was left feeling

neglected, uncared for,

not listened to.

In a service rich with imagery,

a commitment was made

to turn Grenfell from a symbol

of sorrow to a symbol

of the time we learned to

listen and to love.

Schoolchildren scattered green

hearts at the feet of faith leaders.

Six months after that fateful day,

the powerful were once again forced

to look directly into the eyes

of those whose trust was betrayed.

It's like yesterday.

The pain is deep...

We shall not forget.

For three centuries

and more, St Paul's

has marked the highs

and lows of the capital.

Today to that list

was added Grenfell.

A tragedy that awoke London

to the injustice hidden in

plain sight.

Six months on and remembering the

victims of Grenfell Tower.

Net neutrality is not an obscure

technicality - it is the bedrock

of American democracy.

I know that's a big

statement but bear with us.

The concept of free and open access

to communications has been in place

here for almost a century.

Until now.

In the past hour US regulators

rescinded rules that guarantee

equal access to the internet.

At the moment, under laws

originally drawn up in 1934,

decades before anyone ever thought

of the world wide web,

telecommunications companies cannot

discriminate in favour of

any internet content providers.

If you are a blogger in Sri Lanka

or YouTube in San Francisco you can

put your information on the web

at the same speed.

That will now change.

The vote took place a short

time ago in the building

of Federal Communications Commission

building here in Washington.

Our correspondent

Yogita Limaye is there.

Put yourself in my position, an

ordinary user of the internet who

doesn't understand what net

neutrality is. What will change for

me now?

Essentially that vote in

this building today has removed the

regulation that ensured an internet

service provider, so telecoms

company that gives you access to the

internet, this company cannot charge

you different prices for different

websites, so irrespective of what

you are watching, which paid you go

to, you pay the same price, and also

the company cannot determine if it

wants to give you one website faster

than another, so it has removed that

regulation. The regulators say what

they have done is removed hurdles

for the industry, they say the rules

set in 2015 were holding back the

telecom sector and say this step

they have taken will pave the path

for more investment and innovation.

To be clear, this affects America,

this vote, but the expectation is

that other countries will follow

America's lead?

The US is an

important trendsetter and it is the

place where the internet was founded

so people around the world could

look here for direction on policy as

far as internet access is concerned

but the European Union has

regulation that ensures net

neutrality, even a developing

company like India, the telecoms

regulator has said they see the

internet as a public utility, a

basic service that people should

have access to so they have backed

net neutrality. An argument could be

made that people look at the US and

say we should do that but that is

not necessarily the case.

Thank you.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come -

A moment that crossed party lines.

As Senator McCain's daughter deals

with her father's cancer diagnosis

it's Joe Biden lending his support.

Doctors say they've achieved

striking results with a new gene

therapy to treat patients

with a blood clotting disorder.

13 people with Haemophilia A were

treated, none of whom now requires

medicine to control the condition.

James Gallagher reports.

Walking to work should

be simple, but it was

unthinkable for Jake Omer.

Haemophilia A meant even the impact

of his feet on the pavement led

to bleeding in his joints.

But no longer.

I think the gene therapy

has hopefully given me

a new lease of life.

It's going to allow me,

as my boys grow up, to be a lot

more active with them,

so kick footballs around,

climb trees with them,

to hopefully run around in the park

with them, and not be someone

who has got to worry

about what I'm doing.

Haemophilia A is a hereditary

condition that stops

the blood clotting.

Jake was one of 13 patients given

gene therapy last year.

All of them are now off

their haemophilia medication.

This is how it works.

Haemophilia A is caused

by a defect in patients' DNA.

So scientists made

a genetically modified virus.

It contains the healthy DNA

patients are missing.

When the virus infects the liver,

it leaves the DNA behind and it

gives the liver the instructions

for making proteins called

factor VIII that clot the blood.

If this is how much factor

VIII you or I produce,

well, this is how much is produced

in a haemophilia patient.

But you can see, after the gene

therapy trial, it's almost

up to normal.

This is huge.

It's groundbreaking.

Because the option to think

about normalising levels in patients

with severe haemophilia

is absolutely mind blowing.

To offer people the potential

of a normal life, when they've had

to inject themselves with factor

VIII every other day to prevent

bleeding is transformational.

Large studies will now take place

to see if gene therapy can replace

these regular injections and truly

transform the lives

of thousands of patients.

Christian is back with us, he is no

longer blue, which may or may not be

an improvement.

It's cost a billion

dollars to build.

The new United States embassy

in London, which has

just been completed,

opens next month.

It's a 12-storey glass cube

on the banks of the Thames,

and comes complete with a moat -

the first of its kind to be built

in England for 150 years.

The US Ambassador to the UK said

the new embassy is a "signal

The US Ambassador to the UK said

the new embassy is a "signal...

Just when we were speaking! Now you

are not just blue. Sorry about that.

Richard Lister reports.

This is what $1 billion looks like.

The new US Embassy in London is said

to be the most expensive

in the world and almost a decade

in the making.

Inside there's a garden

of American desert flora.

It's all designed to be airy

and welcoming, not words usually

associated with embassies.

I think this is a country

of great dignity and

it birthed the United States.

And this building should

be not some pop icon,

but certainly a building of great

dignity and serenity.

But this embassy is also a fortress.

It even has a moat, though they'd

prefer we call it a pond.

Some of the glass is six inches

thick, a reminder that an embassy

is the only place where one nation

intersects with another.

For decades that's been

here, Grosvenor Square.

The old embassy has been

sold to become a hotel.

But it's a place now

associated with American

triumphs and tragedies.

ARCHIVE:

At Grosvenor Square police,

warned to expect trouble, waited.

It was where British people

repeatedly protested

against the Vietnam War.

ARCHIVE:

A huge crowd waited

for them at the American embassy.

Where well-wishers greeted America's

first men on the moon,

and came to pay their respects

after the attacks of 9/11.

Now a new building

will represent America.

The US Ambassador says this

glass-clad building represents

America's global outlook,

giving form, he says,

to the core democratic

values of transparency,

openness and equality.

What's not clear was

whether President Trump will be

at the opening next month,

though he has been invited.

It would be the most controversial

visit by any American president,

a moving-in present

for the ambassador.

Trump is coming when he sets

the date for coming.

He's been invited for a state visit.

He's been invited and he's accepted

but he hasn't set a date

and for the ribbon-cutting of this

and taking a look at this embassy,

that will be announced

when he selects the date.

And, of course, the new embassy

will outlive this presidency

and many more to come.

Richard Lister, BBC News.

Now, in the current Washington

climate there was a much-needed

reminder yesterday that some things

run deeper than political divisions.

In 2008 Joe Biden and John McCain

were on competing presidential

tickets fighting it out.

But yesterday it was the former vice

president who was comforting

Senator McCain's daughter Meghan

as she deals with her

father's cancer diagnosis.

It's the same type of brain tumour

that Mr Biden's son Beau died from

nearly three years ago

so his words of support

were quite personal.

This is the hard part.

Bear with me, OK?

I couldn't get through

your book, I tried.

Your son, Beau, had the same

cancer that my father was

diagnosed with, six months ago.

Sorry...

There is a lot of hope.

I think about Beau almost every day.

And, I was told, that this

doesn't get easier.

But you cultivate the tools to work

with it, and live with it.

I know that your family have been

through tragedy that I can

barely conceive.

What would you tell people...

Not about me...

No, no, no it is about everyone.

But, look, one of the things

that Beau carried, was

John, your dad, you may remember

when you are a little kid,

your dad took care of my Beau,

your dad became friends with him.

And, Beau talked about your

dad's courage, not about

his illness, but about his courage.

Joe Biden, what a guy. It's

heart-warming to see, largely

because American politics has been

so divisive in the last year and

there hasn't been much bipartisan

bonhomie and there you have it in

spades and a lot of people saying

maybe the president could learn a

thing or two from that.

Joe Biden is

known as uncle Joe here because of

that touch she has but also the

Archbishop of Canterbury said in the

run-up to Christmas could be cool

the tensions in the Brexit debate

because it's getting better in the

UK as well. There is a lot of it

around and it's heartening to see

somebody to reach out and say he's

on the opposite side of politics to

me but he's one of my best friends.

We have wiggled all our wires, got

rid of the blue, I think we will

turn to Tony Connolly, who has been

helping us through the summit. If we

get rid of the first phase tomorrow,

where does it go? What happens next?

This is all about process and at the

beginning in April, the EU heads of

government gave Michel Barnier a

blueprint for how he should conduct

negotiations and that was where it

was spelt out that the UK had to

fulfil three criteria to get into

phase two. Tomorrow they will say

you have done those three things so

we can move into phase two. The

first thing they will talk about is

the transition, the UK has asked for

a two-year transition and they will

talk about what that will look like.

I think the EU will have strict

conditions about what shape that

transition will take, there will be

a role for the European Court of

Justice, the UK must abide by the EU

rule book including Friedman of

movement so some stuff may be hard

to swallow for Eurosceptics but the

EU are in control.

So the trade deal

is weighed down the line, we are

talking about a framework for a deal

and then when we leave in March 2019

or later after the end of the

transition, that is when we will get

a shape for the deal?

Even then they

have delayed talking about the

agenda for trade talks until March

but that is because they are

essentially saying to the British

government, tell us what kind of

precise trading relationship you

want to have with the EU, until you

do there is no point in us talking

so they have put that off until

March and then they will come back

and start the agenda for trade

talks.

So they go into the dinner

tonight, the wind is blowing, she

makes a speech, in terms of where

you get to speak in an EU summit, do

you want to be talking during the

dinner or is nobody paying

attention?

I always wondered how

they manage to conduct negotiations

while eating a Pavlova, until you

and I've become heads of government

we will never know, but I think the

nature of these summits is that it

is an intimate affair, no officials

in the room, just heads of

government and you can get through a

lot of misunderstandings and find

common ground. I think Leo Varadkar

talked in his first summit about how

enjoyable that was for him.

Tony,

thank you. It's difficult to

disagree on Brexit when you have

your mouth full of bread roll.

Or I

glass of red wine, ideally. This

seems to be an issue we come back

to, they have to sort out what kind

of relationship it is, do they want

to cohabit, is this casual dating or

will we just be Facebook friends,

and that is a difficult conversation

the government has not had.

How did

a square the circle of having full

alignment with Ireland, so all the

goods flow through and could go

elsewhere in the 26 countries, if

that happens how can you have die

virgins? A lot of people say you

cannot have both so they think if

this is a legally binding text,

Theresa May is already halfway

towards a soft Brexit.

We will see

how those conversations go in the

Conservative Party.

Now, Christmas is supposed to be

the season of goodwill.

And if you take a look at this

picture, it looks like Christmas has

well and truly arrived in Downing

Street.

Don't the British Prime Minister

and her Foreign Secretary

look united and cosy,

in their joint Christmas jumper.

Christmas means Christmas makes

a change from Brexit means Brexit!

I haven't seen that jumper before.

This is fake news, these are not

politicians but just wax figures

from Madame Tussaud's in London.

The new display is in aid

of the charity Save the Children

But I know there are two things come

one, the Prime Minister would never

be seen dead in a jumper with Boris

Johnson and look at his hair, it has

never been so well offered.

Boris

Johnson being seen in that sweater

might be the sort of prank he would

like to play.

Coming up next on BBC World News -

Ros Atkins is here with

Outside Source and for viewers

in the UK - we'll have the latest

headlines from Ben Brown.

For now, from Christian Fraser

in Brussels and me from Katty Kay

in Washington - goodbye.