03/01/2018 Beyond 100 Days

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Beyond One Hundred Days.

North and South Korea open

communication channels

as Donald Trump launches

a twitter taunt.

In a slew of tweets,

the US President boasts

that his nuclear button is bigger

than that of Kim Jong Un.

Maybe it was just a joke,

but goading a leader

as unpredictable as North Korea's

could also be reckless.

For protestors out again

on the streets of Iran,

Mr Trump offers respect and promises

America's support.

What that means in practice

is not yet clear.

And the president has choice words

for his former chief strategist. He

said when he lost his job he also

lost his mind.

Also on the programme.

Polluting the planet -

almost all the plastic in our oceans

comes from just 10 rivers -

we report from one of

them - India's Ganges.

The first polar bear cub for 25

years in the UK is born in Scotland

although it has not yet been seen.

Get in touch with us using the

hashtag 'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'

Hello and welcome -

I'm Katty Kay in New York

and Christian Fraser is in London.

America's Commander in

Chief has no reason for insecurity.

He controls the world's

largest nuclear arsenal,

he directs the world's most

advanced military machine.

And yet Donald Trump feels it

necessary to publicly compare

the size of his nuclear button

with that of North Korea.

Mr Trump is correct that

Pyongyang is the biggest

global security threat.

Kim Jung Un is reckless

and unpredictable.

But the decision to taunt such

a leader, on twitter,

has brought wide scale condemnation.

And it comes on the very day that

South Korea has re-established

a link with the north for the first

time in two years.

Rupert Wingfield Hayes

reports from Seoul.

On Monday, Kim Jong-Un welcomed

in the New Year with a more

conventional display of fireworks

than the sort he's been firing

off throughout 2017.

But anyone who was hoping his

New Year message would carry

an offer of peace and goodwill

was quickly disappointed.

"The entire United States

is within range of our nuclear

weapons", he said, "and the nuclear

button is always on my desk".

"This is reality, not a threat".

That was all the excuse

President Donald Trump needed,

and as we have now come to expect,

his response came

in a Twitter tirade.

So 2018 has begun pretty much

as 2017 ended, with the president

of the United States

and the dictator of North Korea

hurling threats at each other,

while the rest of the world looks

on mostly in dismay.

But here in Seoul, 2018 has begun

at least with a glimmer of hope,

because as of this afternoon,

North and South Korea are talking

to each other again by telephone.

Out of the blue, Pyongyang suddenly

reconnected the hotline

between the two Koreas that

Kim Jong-Un had personally ordered

cut off two years ago.

In his New Year address,

Kim also said he was prepared

to send a team to take part

in the Winter Olympics

which begin here in South Korea

in a little over a month.

The US State Department accused

North Korea of attempting to drive

a wedge between the US

and its South Korean ally.

And it could be right.

But for the 20 million people

of Seoul who live within firing

range of North Korea's artillery,

any sign that Pyongyang is willing

to talk is a New Year

gift they will welcome.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,

BBC News, in Seoul.

For more let's speak to Vali Nasr -

former state department official

and dean of the Johns Hopkins school

of international studies.

Thank you for coming in. I have to

ask you first about the tweet on the

size of the nuclear button. Is there

any good that can come to the United

States from taunting Kim Jong-un

like this?

No and not just the

president taunting him, we've seen

King John and was able to taunt the

president. And everyone around the

world will be watching how easy it

is to get under the skin of the US

president. -- Kim Jong Un. And get

him to react in ways that will be

disruptive to US foreign policy and

could change the direction of things

on the ground. I think if Kim Jong

Un is listening he will not be

necessarily furious or intimidated

by people like what the president

said, that he elevated him to his

own level so the entire world News

today is focused on these two world

leaders essentially being treated

within the same sentence as equals.

So it is a victory for Kim Jong Un.

Meanwhile of course we see these

signs off at least an opening up of

communication channels between North

and South Korea. Where do you think

that Leeds.

I think that will not go

far but it will lessen tensions, at

least the fear that so hard that

they could be bombarded by artillery

shells from North Korea, that will

be less now. And I think they will

explore ways to create some kind of

stability in very tense

circumstances. I think they're

watching on the one hand a positive

move from North Korea and negative

moves from Washington and that will

create a certain degree of

turbulence in the and South Korean

relations and also between the US

and Japan.

I need to ask about tweet

regarding Pakistan and also

Palestine, the idea of cutting off

money. Maybe other presidents have

been complacent and Iran and the

Palestinians have been getting away

with too much but perhaps also when

these countries look at the way that

things are shaping up in Washington

they think we do not need to stick

with the United States any more.

Maybe we're better off with China or

Russia and they may be become more

radical.

Well Pakistan already has

been building a powerful strategic

relationship with China so this is

Pakistan that now has much more

support outside of the United States

compared to the Obama period. But it

is one thing to browbeat world

leaders in private and threaten them

but another thing to try to

humiliate them in public. And

leaders especially in the Middle

East or Pakistan have a public and

cannot be seen to be humiliated by

the president of the United States

and basically then to accommodate

whatever he's asking for. So do

anything they will feel compelled to

be more intransigent and begin and

try to react to what the president

has said. And all he might end up

achieving is to create a cycle of

rhetoric where he says one thing,

they have to react publicly and then

he will react to their reaction.

This is not the way to actually get

things done. I think President Trump

is forgotten at least in the case of

Pakistan that as uncooperative as

Pakistan may be, it could be even

more uncooperative and that would

hurt the United States and effort in

Afghanistan.

Good to have you with

us.

The President hasn't just been

tweeting about North Korea -

he's also voiced strong support

for protestors in Iran.

A short while ago I spoke

to Republican Congressman

and former CIA officer,

Will Hurd.

In the past day the president and

his ambassador to the United Nations

have both made it clear that they

strongly support the protesters in

Iran. If there is a change of

American policy towards Iran as a

result of these protests, what would

it be.

Well as you not think that

there is a change in their approach

to Iran, I think most people believe

the way to prevent Iran becoming a

nuclear power is that you have to

see a different government and the

only way to have that in Iran is if

the Iranian people will did so. I

think that is why these protests are

so important and that is why every

gives important for all of us in the

rest of the world to amplify the

message of the Iranian protesters

rather than magnifying the message

of what President Rohani was the

supreme leader are talking about.

The president, his tone is

noticeably different from those of

European leaders. Would you given

the stronger business dies of Europe

to Iran, what you expected European

leaders to step up more forcibly in

Sabre -- in favour of the

protesters?

I would hope to see my

friends in Europe be more vocal in

support of the Iranian people and I

hope they do not make the same

mistake that was made in 2009 by the

then US president in not showing

support for the movement in the way

that we should have. And some will

say that any outside force or

outside government saying anything

positive in support of the protest

is going to cause the Iranian

government to say EC, these are

outside influences. But they are

going to say that regardless and it

is important for us to make sure the

Iranian people know the rest of the

world is behind them 100%. The

Iranian people need to know the rest

of the world supports protesting as

a right, written into the Iranian

constitution and that any crackdown

by the government on people

protesting for better economic

situations, that is a human rights

violation. We are already seeing

more than two dozen deaths and this

is something that should not happen.

I wondered if I could ask you,

giving you sit on the house

intelligence committee, about this

new book from Michael Wolff, fire

and fury inside the Trump White

House. Many reports today about some

of the quotes especially from Steve

Bannon, former special adviser to

the president. And referring to the

meeting between Donald Trump junior

and Jared Kushner in Trump Tower in

2016 with the Russians. Even if you

thought this was not treasonous or

unpatriotic or bad he says, and I

happen to think it's all about, you

should have called the FBI

immediately. Does your committee

think that the meeting was

treasonous?

Well I'm a former CIA

officer and I was undercover, I was

the guy in the back alleys at four

o'clock in the morning collecting

intelligence and having that

background I would not have taken

any meeting with any officials from

the Russian government. That should

not have happened. But what we are

doing now is the number of

committees that are investigating

the Russian activity in our

elections is making sure everyone

knows what was said, when it was

said, how it was sad. And this is

something that the house

intelligence committee I sit on,

we're going to explore this area as

robustly as needs to be and follow

up every lead.

Briefly, I just want

to ask about the tweet about North

Korea and comparing the size of his

nuclear button with that of Kim Jong

Un. What do you make of that as a

Republican?

I think it was

unnecessary and I think what we

should be talking about is the fact

that the North Koreans are willing

to participate in the Olympics in

South Korea, that the South Koreans

are reaching out to have direct

talks with North Korea for the first

time in two years. And the US

Government is in talks with North

Korea as long as we are talking, we

are not shooting.

Thank you very

much. Well much being weighed --

being made in Washington about that

new book. Some choice quotes from

former special adviser Steve Bannon

about the relationship with Russia.

It did not take the White House long

to respond. Quite an extra ordinary

statement. Here it goes.

Steve Bannon has nothing to do

with me or my Presidency.

When he was fired, he not only

lost his job, he lost his mind.

Steve doesn't represent my base -

he's only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be

at war with the media,

which he calls the opposition party,

yet he spent his time

at the White House leaking false

information to the media to make

himself seem far more

important than he was.

It is the only thing he does well.

Steve was rarely in a one-on-one

meeting with me and only

pretends to have had influence

to fool a few people

with no access and no clue,

whom he helped write phony books.

Let's bring in our North

America Editor Jon Sopel

who's in Washington.

I think the president has just press

the button on his former special

adviser. We should wait for the

fallout!

And it is a bigger button

and more powerful than Steve Bannon

has got. That is for sure. I think

there was a sense of core blimey but

an extraordinary statement that we

have had from the president about

Steve Bannon. I guess there is some

strategy in it as well because if

the statement had not been made we

would be concentrating on the

question you just put to the

congressman about whether the

meeting that took place in Trump

Tower was unpatriotic, whether it

was treasonous. Instead we're going

to focus on this extraordinary

broadside that the president has

fired against his former chief of

strategy, his former campaign

director in which she said he lost

his job, he lost his mind and all

those other extraordinary quotes you

just read out.

Just to bring up some

of the other comments from Steve

Bannon, talks about why it is so

dangerous for the president, he's

talking about the money. Do we have

that? Let us just show you. Again

from inside this book and it is all

about money laundering.

He is going after people that are

right next to the president and his

family.

His son-in-law and his son.

And that is why it is so toxic. Any

time that I tweet or you tweet about

Trump and the Russian investigation

you will get a volley of criticism

from Trump supporters saying there

is no evidence of collusion, it is

all a lot of nonsense. Now we have

someone from the very heart of the

campaign, the very heart of the

White House saying look at this,

this is what is going to go after,

this is what it was clearly going

on. And has given I would imagine

that Mueller is thinking, that is

exactly what I'm investigating. Much

harder now to deny this is all a

load of stuff and nonsense.

And to

put this in the broader political

contest, we are making a big deal of

the statement because Steve Bannon

is not just Steve Bannon and Donald

Trump is not just Donald Trump, they

represent warring factions within

the Republican party and you could

say the future of the Conservative

movement in the United States. And

this war has now just exploded very

publicly. What happens to Steve

Bannon now?

I think we will see the

Republican establishment, the White

House, doing their absolute best to

destroy him and you know that is the

statement the White House has

issued. I would expect Sarah Sanders

to identify, intensify the attack in

the briefing in the next hour. And

some in the White House will be

dancing a happy dance today, they

wanted to purge the White House of

influence, purge the president of

the influence of Steve Bannon. And

as a result of him giving this

interview for that book I think that

part of it has been successful. But

I'm reminded of a quote about the

former head of the FBI J Edgar

Hoover, better to have someone

outside the tent looking in rather

than inside the tent looking out. I

do not think that is the exact

phrase.

Words to that effect. Good

to have you with us as ever. Thank

you very much. It is only the 3rd of

January, extraordinary Twitter -fest

from the president and now this. And

I think it points to some of the

warfare that was there in the early

days within the White House.

It is

interesting, a few hours ago just

before the revelations about the

book I spoke to someone on the

security side who said that they

wanted to know why the president had

sent 16 tweet yesterday. Fairly in

century tweets, we touched on just

some of them but there are more as

well. Why was he sending both tweeds

and in the past when the president

has sent a group of tweets that

seemed stressed, it was because

something was going on in the White

House. You have to wonder whether

this book by Michael Wolff is what

provoked the Twitter storm yesterday

because what Steve Bannon says, the

president really does not going to

like and also those committees of

course we'll look at as well. These

links to Russia are what hangs over

this presidency and Steve Bannon has

just exploded all of that and made

it public and the president can fire

him I'd better have someone I think

he used the word looking in than

looking out.

Well that is a piece in

the New York Times today from the

people who commissioned that

explosive dossier which the FBI have

been looking into and they're saying

and this goes back to the point we

were making to congressman Will

Hurd, that the Republican committee

on the hill, in their words they are

going after the rabbit instead of

the bears. Focusing on peripheral

issues and nothing to do with the

Russian issue when they should be

focusing on that meeting Steve

Bannon refers to, the meeting in

Trump Tower and the money. Are they

following the money, subpoenaing

some of the financial records. I

think this puts more pressure on

some of those committees. Let's look

at some of the other news.

The problem of plastic waste

and the impact it is having

on our planet and our ecosystems-

is a subject the BBC has been

exploring this week.

According to a recent study -

95% of plastic pollution

in the world's oceans comes

from just 10 rivers.

One of them is the Ganges in India.

Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder

reports from the banks

of the holy city of Varanasi.

This looks like a drain

carrying sewage.

But it is actually

a tributary of the Ganges.

The waste along its banks choking

and contaminating one

of the world's greatest rivers.

Every day wrappers, bottles,

cups and other plastic

waste is deposited here.

Slowly sliding into the water

and then eventually

flowing into the Ganges.

For centuries some of India's

greatest cities have been

built along its banks.

Varanasi the oldest one of them.

It's only when you come

to the ancient city of Varanasi

that you realise how this mighty

River that is so central

to the Hindu faith, that sustains

the lives and beliefs of nearly half

a billion people, is

as polluted as it is.

The Ganges is more than a river

to Indians, it is sacred to Hindus

who pray and worship along its banks

and cremate their dead in it.

From the time it flows

out of the icy heights

of the Himalayas until it gets here,

its crystal clear waters give way

to a fetid, muddy flow.

Contaminated by the millions

who live along its banks.

Five generations of this family have

lived along the Ganges in Varanasie.

Living witnesses to its

gradual degradation.

TRANSLATION: There is an old saying

here that the Ganges

belongs to everyone.

You are free to do what you want,

throw what you want,

cremate dead bodies,

bathe, wash, and you

will achieve salvation.

But we are being irresponsible.

We do not have the right to pollute

the Ganges this way.

Three years ago the Indian

government pledged more

than £2 billion to clean

up the Ganges.

But much of the money remains

unspent and the focus in any case

is on treating sewage

and industrial effluents.

So the only people trying

to prevent plastic waste

being dumped into the river

are these scrap pickers.

TRANSLATION: Every day we pick up

about ten to 20 kilos of plastic.

We have to sift through the rubbish

and segregate the plastic.

It is estimated that every year

1.2 billion pounds of plastic waste

is dumped into the Ganges.

Much of it carried into the Bay

of Bengal where the river

eventually empties out.

A holiday maker, fed up

with delays has taken matters

into his own hands in Spain.

The Ryanair passenger,

whose flight was an hour late

taking off from London,

then made to wait thirty minutes

before disembarking in Malaga,

reportedly announced,

"I'm going via the wing",

before opening the emergency exit

and sitting on the wing.

He was later arrested

by airport security.

The US remains in the grip of some

extremely cold weather -

which is causing problems even

in some southern states.

Blizzard conditions across upstate

New York caused a multi-vehicle

pile-up which killed one person,

and injured several others.

While icy conditions also led

to dangerously slippery roads

in Hurst County in Texas.

It is so cold in America right now

that penguins in one zoo have had to

go inside. But in the UK a polar

bear has given birth for the first

time in 25 years. And the parents

both doing very well. But the cup

itself has not yet been seen. Staff

at the Highland wildlife park in

Scotland say they first heard his

cries in early December but the cup

is not expected to emerge until

March.

Up in the snowy hills

of Highlands, listen carefully.

A sound which has not been heard

in the UK for 25 years -

the cries of a new-born polar bear

cub emerged from this den the week

before Christmas.

And they have been

heard every day since.

This is dad Arctos,

he is in a separate enclosure.

He can feed and play.

For now, mum Victoria

must not be disturbed,

but the park is very excited.

We discovered the cub

when my colleague Nicky went up

there on one of my days off

and she rang me very

excitedly to tell me

that she could hear a cub

in the den.

It is a very distinctive,

very loud noise that the cubs make.

So she was incredibly excited

and then the next day I heard

the noise for myself.

Arktos and Victoria mated last year.

This footage shows a polar Bear club

born in the Netherlands.

They have a high mortality rate

in the first few weeks,

due to their underdeveloped immune

system and the mother's need

for privacy means any disturbance

risks cubs being killed

or abanoned.

Some conservationists do not

believe polar Bears should

be bred in captivity.

What we are doing here

is replicating as much as we can

possibly the natural habitats

and I think you have seen

for yourself today the conditions

that our polar Bears are in -

the space that they have

and the enjoyment and the freedom

of movement that they have here.

Male polar bears have no involvement

with their offspring.

Arktos will never actually

meet his cub and the rest of us

will have to wait until the end

of March or beginning of April

when all being well Victoria

will emerge from her den

with her baby or baby even babies.

This is Beyond 100 Days from the

BBC. Coming up for viewers

on the BBC News Channel and BBC

World News - she's married

to the most powerful man

in the world, but what does

the world make of Melania Trump

after almost 12 months

in the White House?

And getting a feel for it -

we've an exclusive report

on the bionic hand with

a sense of touch.

That's still to come.

Storm Eleanor is now far away but in

its wake it is still very windy. We

have more wind and rain on the way

but nothing the scale of what we had

last night. My two miles an hour in

Northern Ireland, 76 in Sheffield.

This is where the storm is at the

moment, across southern Scandinavia,

and parts of Germany as well. Then

the next area of low pressure comes

in but this will not be anywhere

near as bad as what we have just

had. So through the course of

tonight, the rain sweeps into

south-western areas of the UK. That

could be quite heavy across Cornwall

and Devon. And also the wind

approaching gale force is so rough

conditions around some coastal

areas. Then by the end of the night

the rain in Northern Ireland and

parts of Yorkshire, moving into East

Anglia by the rush-hour. By the time

we get to eight o'clock in the

morning, some sunshine getting into

Cornwall and Devon, Southern and

western parts of Wales. A pretty

damn picture across Lincolnshire,

Yorkshire, Northern Ireland and

south-west Scotland. But for

Inverness and Aberdeen quite cold

with temperatures barely above

freezing. So the weather front then

most of the North and turned

brighter but quite windy across many

western and southern areas. Quite

breezy inland as well. The other

side of the weather front in

northern Scotland, only around 56

degrees. Low pressure still in

charge of the weather towards the

end of the week, another low moving

across on Friday which could bring

some windy weather and possibly gale

force wind across western and

southern areas. Hard to predict

exactly what we will get precisely

on Friday. But a mixture of sunshine

and showers. By the weekend then a

complete change in the weather, the

air coming in from the Arctic and

noticeably cold with a biting wind.

Some sunshine this weekend and some

wintry showers but it is that cold

north-easterly wind that will be the

story.

This is Beyond 100 Days, with me,

Katty Kay, in New York -

Christian Fraser's in London.

President Trump accuses his

former chief strategist

Steve Bannon of losing his mind

after he reportedly accused

Mr Trump's son and son-in-law

of treasonous behaviour.

Earlier, President Trump boasted

that his nuclear button is "much

bigger" and "more powerful"

than North Korean

leader Kim Jong-un's.

Coming up in the next half hour...

It may sound like science fiction -

but thanks to medical advances

a bionic hand is now reality.

The country that's made it illegal

for men to be paid more than women

for doing the same job.

Let us know your thoughts

by using the hashtag #Beyond100Days.

Bionic limbs were until recently

things of fantasy - brought to life

by Hollywood screenwriters.

Now, they exist in reality,

allowing people wearing

them to actually feel

what they are touching.

For the first time a bionic hand

is being taken out of the lab

and tested in the real world.

Our medical correspondent Fergus

Walsh has been to Rome to meet

the woman who's been using it

and see what a difference

it makes to her life.

Here's his exclusive report.

A bionic hand with a sense of touch.

And here is the proof.

Blindfolded, Almarina Mascarello

knows whether what she's

holding is soft or hard.

She gets it right every time.

Over lunch she told me that nearly

25 years after losing her hand

in a factory accident,

it is almost like it is back again.

TRANSLATION:

The feeling is spontaneous,

as if it were your real hand.

You are finally able to do things

that before or difficult.

Like getting dressed,

putting on shoes.

All mundane but important things.

You feel complete.

The world's first feeling bionic

hand, given to this Danish man,

never left the lab.

The technology was just too bulky.

Now, nearly four years

on, it is portable.

Allowing Almarina to go back

to her hobby of car mechanics.

All the electronics

are in her rucksack.

Here's how it works.

Sensors in the fingertips

are linked to a computer.

This converts the signals into a

language the brain will understand.

The information is relayed to it

via tiny electrodes implanted

in nerves in Almarina's upper arm.

This represents a significant

advance in neuro prosthetics,

the interface between machine

and the human body.

The next patient won't need

to have a rucksack to carry these

electronics, because they're

going to be miniaturised

and implanted under the skin.

And the team here are hoping to do

the same with a bionic leg

which will have pressure sensors

in the foot.

Engineers, computer scientists

and surgeons from several countries

are involved in this

EU funded research.

A truly humanlike bionic hand

is still decades away.

But the team here

think it will happen.

We feel we are going more and more

in the direction of science fiction

like movies like Star Wars.

With Luke Skywalker,

after the amputation of the hand.

So fully controlled,

fully natural, fully sensorised

prosthesis very similar,

identical to the human hand.

Since we filmed with Almarina,

she has had to give back her bionic

hand because it is still

in the research stage.

But she says when it is

commercialised in a few years,

she wants the feeling bionic hand

back for good.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News, Rome.

Isn't that incredible? I hope she is

somewhere near the front of the

queue, so she gets her hand back. It

must be horrendous to have the

chance to feel and then have it

taken away again.

Imagine a country where it is

illegal to pay men more than women

and companies could be fined for

doing so. Iceland is already

doing so. Iceland is already doing

just that. With the New Year came

new laws in one of the world's most

equal nations.

Iceland already has

laws saying that men and women

should be paid equally. But they

still have a pay gap. It takes it a

step further, with punishment for

companies that don't comply.

We can

now speak to a representative from

the Icelandic women's rights

Association. Why is Iceland so

advanced in this field?

Well, I

think we are very lucky that we have

good neighbours. We are part of the

Nordic countries, and Nordic

countries have always been very

advanced in women's rights. In fact,

we borrow our best ideas from the

rest of the world. But Iceland is a

very small state. We are only

340,000. It is very easy to take big

ideas and make them reality and

Iceland.

Here is the thing, in the

BBC we're having a debate at the

moment equal pay. It is in gender in

some difficult discussions. It is

bringing about some understandable

anger within the workforce. Not

everybody is honest about what they

are earning. It seems to me, from

the debate we have had in this

company, that the only way to really

get around it is to put on public

record what everybody is earning?

Yes, absolutely. We need

transparency. While the first steps

to guarantee equal pay to have waged

transparency. We have had waged

transparency for years and it was

not enough. As a society, we have

decided that we already have some

Ernie regulations that regulate

workplaces. Workplaces already have

had to fulfil regulations on safety.

We need to produce products that are

qualified as safe. We decided gender

equality as important as well, so we

should regulate our workplaces to

make sure that men and women are

being paid equally. In the end, it

benefits all of us, not just women.

That is an interesting question. How

do you keep men on board? One of the

issues we have had in the BBC is

that when there is a pay

discrepancy, the corporation has to

save money, and many companies in

Iceland have to save money, so isn't

there a risk that companies might

turn around and say, well, if we are

going to pay women equal to men, we

have to take that money away from

men and give them a pay cut, and

then you alienate men, that never

helps Corporate profit should never

be a reason for inequality. We have

this standard in effect for 2012.

What is happening now is that a new

law has come into place, making the

equal pay standard mandatory for

companies. What experience has shown

us that nobody is getting a pay cut,

people are not being fired from the

workplace. In fact, people are

getting raises across the board. It

increases prosperity in society. Of

course, it benefits society as a

whole and benefits businesses,

because people have more money to

spend.

Really good to talk to you.

Thanks for coming on the programme.

Come back and tell us how it works

out and if you get full honesty in

the corporations. One of the things

I see with that is that people pay

more to keep hold of their talent.

If they have to put on public record

what they pay people, they might

lose some of their stars?

Interesting what you're saying,

Iceland already have these laws on

the books saying that you need to

pay men and women equally, but they

still have a pay gap. They are now

introducing a stick to go along with

the carrot. If you are a private

company and you want to attract top

talent, how can the Government say,

right, you can't pay the top talent

more because they are a man? It gets

into a very complicated issue of

what talent is worth and who is

going to arbitrate, is this a gender

discrimination issue or a talent

issue? It will be interesting to

see, it is a very small country, so

maybe it is different from big

countries, so it will be interesting

to see how they enforce the

regulation and if companies have to

pay fines.

Hot topic, get in touch.

The International Trade Secretary

for the UK is in China laying

the groundwork for post Brexit

trade, but says it's too

soon to seek membership

of the TPP trade pact.

As Britain looks to re-invent itself

after leaving the EU,

China is one of the countries it

hopes to sign a free trade pact

with, but until Brexit officially

happens, it can't legally negotiate

independent trade agreements.

Storm Eleanor is causing disruption

across Ireland, the UK and parts

of Northern France and Germany.

Wind gusts of up to 160 kilometres

per hour have battered the region,

in Northern Ireland 10,000 homes

have lost power, and some roads have

been blocked by falling trees.

There are also reports of damage

to some ports and harbours

on the UK's Atlantic coastline.

A chef has received death threats

after boasting online that she'd

"spiked" a dish for a vegan customer

at her restaurant.

Laura Goodman has since apologised

and offered to resign,

and the restaurant has denied that

meat was included in the food.

Officials here in the UK

are now investigating -

as Giles Latcham reports.

Police at Carlini's in Albrighton

in Shropshire responding

to death threats made online

against Laura Goodman,

co-owner and head chef.

In the early hours of Sunday

she posted in a closed Facebook

group that she had just,

"spiked a vegan".

And that a "pious and judgmental

vegan I'd spent all day cooking

for has just gone to bed

still believing she's a vegan.".

There has been a storm online.

Her fiance and business partner

is doing his best to quell it.

We have got the possibility

of demonstrations outside

the restaurants, we've

had death threats.

You know, all I can say is to those

people who are active

vegans and vegetarians,

is listen to our side of the story.

Nothing happened here.

Nobody had anything with meat in it.

They say the "spiked" comments

relate to one of the vegan diners

ordering a pizza with cheese on it.

Which Laura duly prepared.

But the comments online include,

"your behaviour as a chef

towards vegans is sickening.".

"Disgusting behaviour

on the part of your chef...

Possibly illegal.".

"What if that vegan was allergic

to animal products?

This is fraud.".

I spoke briefly to Laura Goodman

and she looked pale and exhausted.

She said she was deeply sorry

for the comments she posted, deeply

distressed by the response to them.

Too distressed, she said,

to appear on camera.

A committed vegan from Telford says

it's a question of trust.

Your initial thought is,

oh my goodness, am I ever

going to be able to trust

a restaurant again?

But also it makes you worry

for other people who might have gone

there who might have had

an allergy or whatever.

And you know, may well then

suffer from some kind

of symptom as a result of,

you know, not being given

what they thought they were having.

Food standards officials have

begun an investigation.

A new dish at Carlini's, humble pie.

French President Emmanuel Macron

says he will overhaul French media

legislation this year to fight

the fake news spread

on social media.

During his New Year Speech

at the Elysee Palace,

Macron said the legislation

would concern social media

platforms, especially

during election periods,

and deeply change the role

of France's media watchdog.

TRANSLATION:

As you know, powerful

promotion of fake news on social

media only costs a few thousand and

can be carried out in complete

anonymity. During electoral period,

platforms would be required to be

transparent about sponsored content

so the identity of the advertisers

and those that control them become

public. The amount of content on

such sites will also be limited.

He

is doing much better in the polls

now after a wobbly start. I think a

lot of it is down to what he has

been doing on the international

stage. Today he was talking about a

renaissance for France. He was

evoking JFK, ask yourselves every

morning, French people, what you can

do for the country. A lot of reforms

he has put through, particularly on

labour and tax, they went through

with only mild opposition, mild

resistance, given the union power in

France. He is turning to pensions

this year. It will be interesting to

see if he can get that through. He

has been lucky, a little bit like

Donald Trump, with the turnaround in

the global economy. They are saying

growth in France will be up near 2%

this year and unemployment, which

was so high during Francois

Hollande's time, it is coming down

to 9.4%. Things are turning in his

favour and his polls are doing

pretty well at the moment.

I bet he

gets a lot of support for this

measure to control the internet

giants. This side of the Atlantic,

it is something that they are

talking about, and we would not be

surprised to see regulations on

advertising and social media.

This is Beyond 100 Days.

Still to come - The results

of extensive research at one

of the world's largest brain banks -

what it tells us

about post-traumatic

stress and depression.

Last year was a record year

for music consumption in Britain.

Figures from the BPI,

which represents the music industry,

suggest the amount of music

streamed, downloaded, or bought

in the UK rose at its fastest rate

for nearly 20 years.

Home grown artists such

as Ed Sheeran and Little Mix

accounted for 8 out of 10

of 2017's bestselling albums.

Despite a lot of talk

about the vinyl revival,

that's still a pretty small

contributor and overall physical

sales were down more than 3 percent.

Nina Warhurst has been looking

at the sales trends.

# I have no time...

2018 is set to be big

for Francis Lung.

# Give it back...

Releasing his first album

on Manchester's buzzing music scene.

Because of the internet,

he doesn't need the backing

of a big label to be heard.

I've got the power to put it online

immediately and everybody

that is waiting for it can hear it.

Whereas before, I would have to wait

for someone to give me permission,

wait for somebody to tell me

that it is good enough

for other people to hear.

Last year we streamed more music

than ever, 68 billion songs.

The equivalent of more

than a thousand each.

Father Christmas brought it,

and that is Elbow...

Perhaps more surprising

is how the tables have

turned with vinyl records.

As some who had flirted with digital

returned to their first love.

Just the beauty of having the record

in your hand, I think.

And looking after it, making sure it

doesn't get scratched.

So you like physically holding it?

Physically holding it, looking

at the artwork on the covers,

maybe reading the song lyrics

as you are listening.

Vinyl sales were up an astonishing

26% on the year before

with 4 million records sold.

And the shape of the British

music industry was helped

by one Ed Sheeran.

For the 13th year in

a row, the number one

artist was home-grown.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

Unlocking the mysteries of the human

brain has long been an area

of scientific research -

but advances are slow.

At one facility in Baltimore,

in Maryland they are looking

at the underlying factors behind

post-traumatic stress

and depression.

With over 2,200 brains donated -

the Lieber Institute is one

of the largest brain banks

in the world.

And their research

is delivering results.

The BBC's Jane O'Brien

has the story.

Ken Gilstein remembers the happy

times, before his wife of 40 years

succumbed to mental illness.

This is a picture of our first dance

together as husband and wife.

He is still trying to make sense

of the personality changes that led

to Paula's suicide just

a few months ago.

He hopes donating her brain

to research will help

scientists find the answers.

There is so much that needs to be

known about people who have that

psychiatric illnesses

and what is going on with the brain,

that research is the only way.

And I'm hoping that hopefully

if they can find some information,

that we can prevent something

like this happening,

that people don't have to go

through not only what we went

through but we are

currently going through.

This is where Paula's

brain is being studied.

The world's largest brain bank

dedicated to finding biological

causes for mental illnesses such

as schizophrenia, depression

and post-traumatic stress disorder.

I think we are understanding

these are illnesses that

have a physical, chemical,

molecular structural basis.

And I think we take it

away from being either

a lack of character,

a defect in will, and understand

that this is a defect

in function of the brain.

It all starts with the brain itself.

Almost all come from people who have

died unexpectedly, many are victims

of the opioid epidemic.

Scientists look for signs of disease

and other abnormalities and compare

them to the person's

mental health history.

And they're starting

to isolate genes that put some

people at a higher risk.

The man who started this vast

collection of brains hopes

the research will lead to better

treatments based on the genetic

causes of mental illness.

The genes for behaviour

disorders are not genes that

guarantee you a disorder.

Hot

They're not what we call fate genes.

They are risk genes.

It is like genes for heart attack

or stroke, there is no gene that

causes a heart attack.

Finding new treatments is becoming

increasingly urgent.

More veterans die from

suicide than in combat.

But PTSD affects far more civilians,

one of four of us will suffer some

form of mental disorder

in our lifetimes.

Ken's family could not be spared

the tragedy of mental illness,

but he helps others might benefit

from Paula's death.

This is a great picture.

One of the things that we tried

to do at her funeral was really

to celebrate her life.

One of the things I'm celebrating

about her life is that she's doing

something now for science and other

people in the future.

I feel in my case, I feel very

positive about that.

Jane O'Brien, BBC News, Maryland.

Donald Trump is ubiquitous,

loud and opinionated.

His wife Melania is the opposite.

She rarely speaks in public and is

seen far more than she's heard.

She always looks immaculate

but hasn't yet thrown herself

into any particular causes.

She is a very different first lady

from her recent predecessors.

Melania Trump has spent her first

year communicating support

for her husband with her

mostly silent presence.

Some are now asking what's

she going to do with her hugely

influential platform,

and does it really matter?

It's a topic Krissah Thompson has

written about in the Washington Post

and she joins us now.

the idea of a First Lady is a

particularly American concept, the

idea of a First Lady using a

position to try to do something for

the public good is relatively new.

Is Blarney trump breaking a recent

mild? -- Melania Trump.

She has

talked about looking to the past as

her influence. For the last three

first ladies, we have first ladies

with graduate degrees, who had

careers before coming to the White

House. They tended to channel the

energy into causes, using the

platform for activism, policy. And

we haven't really seen anything like

that from Melania Trump at this

point.

There is often criticism that

we comment on how women luck and not

how men luck, but it is striking the

fact that Melania Trump, a former

model, is very conscious of her

appearance. She never appears with a

hair out of place. How does that

affect her position as First Lady?

Every First Lady knows that the

public and the media is going to pay

attention to what they do. They walk

around and there is a spotlight

following them. The question is

always what do they do with it? At

this point, when we see Mrs Trump at

an event, there is very seldom

formal remarks, she is not often

behind a podium talking about a

cause or connecting the event to a

larger idea or issue, which we have

often seen other first ladies do.

The question is, how will she use

the spotlight that she has been

granted with this role, or if she

even plans to use it at all beyond

the pictures and images we have been

seeing.

Looking from over here, she

reminds me a little bit of the

former First Lady of France, Carla

Brunei. Similar model background,

was always treated in France like an

outsider, French was not her first

language. Maybe it is not easy if

English is not your first line

which?

You could be right. You don't

have her staff saying that. But

public speaking, the level of

platform that she now has as First

Lady, it is not something that she

has been accustomed to in her formal

life. The idea that it would take an

adjustment period is, quite

friendly, to be expected. But we did

also see, which was jarring for some

people in the States, her decision

not to move to the White House right

away. Her husband has been in office

for a year, and she has only been in

Washington for about six months.

That could also be part of the

reason why it seems like the

advocacy part of the role is coming

a little bit more slowly.

I think

she is right, it is quite an

American thing. I was thinking, you

know, we are going to have to get

used the fact that it might not be

First Lady, we could have been

talking about a first husband. In we

don't talk about Angela Merkel's

husband, we don't talk about Theresa

May's husband. Why should we focus

so much on the women?

It has been an

American tradition that, in many

ways, has sort of adopted to a

women's role in society, the First

Lady was the President's wife.

Initially, people looked to Margaret

Washington to fulfil that role for

the public. People have been pushing

for a long time for the idea of the

First Lady here to evolve and, maybe

by not engaging with the role in the

way that some have come to expect,

Melania Trump could be breaking the

mould.

Good to have you with us.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I

have quite enjoyed being the first

man on this programme.

You have left me speechless.

What do

you make of Melania Trump?

She is

not as well-dressed as you are.

Goes

without saying, not a hair out of

place.

No bits of breakfast on her

tie.

Don't tell them that, I changed

that before I came in!

Only just,

just because the cameraman noticed.

That would not happen with Mrs

Trump. I think she is right, she is

breaking the role, she is a

different kind of First Lady, she is

doing it the way she wants.

We will

be back the same time tomorrow.

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