08/01/2018 Beyond 100 Days

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

It's been an extraordinary

few days in the Trump

administration with the President

defending his mental state.

And the author of a tell all book

about the White House going on TV

to defend his reporting.

Donald Trump says he's

a genius and very stable -

but as the book Fire and Fury flies

around the world, his unusual

comments raise eyebrows.

Mr Trump reasserts his

innocence on the question

of collusion with Russia -

but is the FBI investigation now

interested in interviewing him?

Also on the programme...

The not-so-Golden Globes as stars

of stage and screen wear black

to show solidarity with victims

of the Hollywood sexual

harassment scandal.

The burning oil tanker

off the Chinese coast -

rescuers are trying to reach

the ship, but are beaten

back by toxic fumes.

Get in touch with us

using the hashtag Beyond 100 Days.

Hello - I'm Katty Kay in Washington

and Christian Fraser is in London.

It is the Monday after

a particularly tumultuous weekend

in the Trump administration.

The journalist whose book prompted

the President to insist he is really

smart and a very stable genius has

defended his reporting on TV.

Michael Wolff said Mr Trump may not

have realised their conversations

were going to be included

in the book.

Mr Trump

has received an apology

from his former aide Steve Bannon,

now known by the President

as "sloppy Steve."

Mr Bannon says he regrets his

remarks to Mr Wolff but he doesn't

deny their accuracy.

I have spent about three hours

talking to the president over the

course of the campaign, the

transition, and in the White House.

But the important point I want to

make is that this book is not about

my impression of the president. I

came into this with no agenda, I

continued to have no political...

Fair enough, but there is a running

narrative.

Fair enough, but there is a running

narrative. As you say, you were a

semipermanent fly on the wall in the

White House, but it also reads like

your main source is Steve Bannon. Is

that correct?

It would be not

correct.

Meanwhile, there are

reports in NBC News that

Special Counsel Bob Mueller

is having discussions about possibly

interviewing the President himself

for the Russia investigation.

Let's get more on all this from our

North America Editor Jon Sopel.

Let me start with that Russia

investigation. I guess it would not

be surprising that Bob Mueller might

be interested in interviewing the

president, would it?

No, not

surprising, though Donald Trump has

always insisted as far as he

understands, he himself is not under

investigation. If you are conducting

an investigation into what happened

in the job campaign, it would make

sense that at some point it would

make sense you would speak to the

person on the top of the campaign.

The interesting question becomes,

what form does that interview take?

Is it a sit down face-to-face

interview with Robert Mueller and

others of his investigation team

from the special counsel 's office.

Is it a list of questions that are

given to the president for his legal

team to pore over the answers? I

imagine a bit of back and forwards

about that. I think Donald Trump was

hoping this investigation would be

over by now, it most certainly

isn't.

I have run out of ways to see

the word, unusual, unprecedented,

not normal. Maybe you have better

British linguistic skills than I do,

but I would love to get your

reaction to the tweets...

That's

because you're not a really stable

genius!

Or even, like, really smart.

Like, really smart. It was a

Saturday morning to behold. Like

you, catty, I could not quite

believe the series of tweets that

the president put out. Whether they

are effective or not is to be seen

over the long term. Two things have

happened over the weekend that are

potentially quite important. The

President's mental health has become

a legitimate subject of concern,

given the book and the fact the

president himself has responded to

the book. On Friday afternoon, the

president flew to camp David.

Journalists were waiting at the

White House for him to get on board

Marine one, shouting a pile of

questions and it was clear strategy,

do not address the book, lets get

away from the book. He gets to

merriment, and immediately he tweets

about the book in theory, then about

his own mental state. -- he gets to

Maryland. People are going to start

asking what happened, how is your

mental health? The sorts of issues

are now on the agenda as opposed to

being whispered about, which they

have been for the past year.

What

about Steve Bannon, John? Is he

still relevant?

Steve Bannon has a

start very much in the wane. I

thought this was the statement of a

man under serious pressure, that he

felt the kicks and bruises and

punches that he has received since

cooperating with Michael Wolff's

book and giving those ill-advised

quotes, because it is absolutely

falling foul of the Tron family. Now

he has expressed regret, I regret my

delay in responding to the

inaccurate reporting regarding Don

Junior. If you look at the

reporting, it looks pretty accurate.

He has not withdrawn the statement

about a banker that she is as dumb

as a brick. -- about Ivanka Trump.

Take that in combination with what

happened in the Alabama Senate seat

that Steve Bannon's preferred

candidate Roy Moore went down in

flames, and you are seeing a job

that has been done on Steve Bannon.

He is eclipsed, it doesn't mean he

can't come back, there is a history

of Donald Trump being able to bring

people back, but at the moment you

would pick up shares in Steve Bannon

for a song.

Sell, sell, sell!

For more on the Republican

agenda and diversions

we are joined now by Ron Bonjean,

who formerly served as a top press

secretary on Capitol Hill and is now

a fellow at Georgetown's Institute

of Politics and Public Service.

I looked at the tweets the president

sent out this weekend, there were

ten. Only two related to how he was

going to make things better for the

Americans. Eight were about him and

about the book and about what he has

done, the genius he is. Is that

clouding your agenda.

When you said

ten, I thought there would be a lot

more! The tweets that he is sending

out are going directly to his base,

they see this as mental popcorn,

they love for him to speak off

message. In terms of the Republican

agenda, we have had tax bill pushed

into law, it largely has not been

sold to the American people because

of his many things getting in the

way including the book. I would

encourage my Republican colleagues

to start promoting the good things

that are happening with this tax

reform programme across the country.

House and Senate leaders met with a

president this week and go over

their agenda in moving forward,

clearly there is a lot of top shelf

issues they have two address as

well.

There is clearly a lock that

is good news, the president and the

White House could be talking about,

like the stock market, going to

records at the end of last week.

Unemployment rate is low, they had

just passed this tax agenda. But to

what extent does the president, when

he's reaching out to his base these

tweets on suck all the oxygen away

from that storyline?

Clearly it has

gotten away from the storyline, that

Republicans want to push. At the

same time, the president felt it

necessary to take on this book

head-on, and to quote bracket or

surrounded with his surrogates and

put it to bed. A lot of people have

questions about the author Michael

Wolff and his journalistic

tendencies on whether or not what he

was writing was accurate, clearly

there are some passages in the book

that seem a little more true than

others. When you look at the ones

that definitely seem to be false,

that puts a pale on the whole thing.

He has addressed it, now it's time

to move on, that's old news. We need

to focus this week on the task

ahead.

In November, the midterms.

All the polling and recently results

suggest you do face some headwinds.

What something the Republican party

could do this year to improve its

chances of doing well in the

mid-term elections and holding on to

the house?

They need to talk about

but has happened in this country

over the past year, the record they

are establishing, the fact there is

low unemployment, lots of jobs now

being created that the state of

well-being in retail sales numbers

are higher, the fact they are taking

an Isis successfully, all these

things show a good state of the

country. They will have a lot of

opportunities to do that this year.

We also have tax day coming up April

15, when people realise they are

paying less in taxes that will go a

long way.

Thanks for coming in,

happy New Year.

When we talk about

Steve Bannon, he is not the kind of

person that works things back. --

walks things back. But he has had

to, he might lose critical funding

for Breitbart, Houston ostracised,

is that a warning of the Power

Donald Trump has two others within

the administration? -- he has been

ostracised.

It's interesting he has

not denied the accuracy of what he

said, he says some of it is out of

context but he is not rowed back his

reported remarks in this book, Fire

And Fury. It is unusual for the

president to have walked away from a

former aid with the degree to which

she has. There has been a real

hatchet job done on Steve Bannon

over the course of the last 24

hours, by the president himself and

his other advisers, Stephen Mellor

who gave an extraordinary interview

on American television this weekend,

really saying he was disgusted by

what Steve Bannon said. Looking

back, all the people who left the

administration, some under a cloud,

the mooch left, John Spicer left,

and Michael Flynn the former

national Security adviser who left,

you could argue, but a much bigger

cloud over him than Steve Bannon.

After those people left, the

president tended to say they were

good people. He does not ditch the

people he has employed. He wants to

stand by his record of employing the

very best people, so it is

remarkable to see the degree to

which the White House has turned its

ammunition Steve Bannon and to what

Steve Bannon who hates the idea of

apology, saying that as a sign of

political weakness, rolling back his

position as he has done over the

last day.

You would think at the

moment it in some way quells the

wall within the Republican Party. We

shall see. -- the war within.

The red carpet of the 75th

Golden Globes was dominated last

night by one colour -

black.

The awards season kicked off

with a loud political statement

on sexual harassment.

Stars, men and women, wore black

in solidarity with the victims.

And who knows maybe we saw

the launch of a political career.

Yes, Oprah Winfrey stole

the show with an impassioned

speech on press freedom,

the rights of women to equality

and a promise of better times ahead.

Reports from multiple

sources in the US say

she is actively considering a run

for the Presidency in 2020.

Here's James Cook with more

on LA's glittering night.

The bright lights of Hollywood are

shining into dark corners, exposing

shameful secrets.

At the Golden Globes,

they turned the red carpet

black to demonstrate it

determination to force change.

There is no way I am

ever going to be in a

room and be treated like people have

been treated ever again, and not

stand up and say I don't agree.

The whole reason that was able

to take place, like any abuse of

power, is silence.

Meryl Streep was one

of a number of actresses who

arrived with an activist

as her guest.

We are drawing a thick

black line between

yesterday and tomorrow, the way

things used to be done, the way

business used to be done.

It is important in our

business and it is

important in any business that

people in power don't get to bully

people and especially not bully

them in a sexual way

and get away with it.

Do you think the

industry is changing?

Yes, it will have to.

There is no way it cannot.

Hurrah!

From the moment the

ceremony began, the

tone was set.

Good evening ladies

and remaining gentlemen.

And here are the all-male nominees.

Natalie Portman

highlighted the failure of

the Golden Globes to

recognise female directors.

And star after star gave

voice to a movement now

known as Time's Up.

Oprah Winfrey led the charge.

For too long women have not been

heard and believed if

they dared to speak their truth

to the power of those men.

But their time is up.

The speech was so powerful,

that it fuelled immediate

speculation of a run for president.

The time is up.

This all began with the downfall

of the mogul who abused

his power.

The spotlight is now

on Harvey Weinstein's accusers,

standing side by side.

We have an opportunity

to lead nationally and

internationally so everyone

everywhere can work safely, earned

the same money for the same work,

and we can finally put sexual

harassment in the way past where it

should have been a long time ago.

Is it happening?

It is happening.

Four months ago you could not have

dreamed of a night like this.

Time and again on the

red carpet we have

heard the same word,

and that word is change.

The stars walking down here

are insisting that this is not just

a moment, this is a process

which they say will continue.

Oprah Winfrey made a point of saying

the movement launched by Hollywood

stars was also a movement for women

in other jobs - women

who work in restaurants

and hospitals and engineering.

So is this movement spreading

to other industries

and indeed other countries?

And joining us now from New York

is Zeinab Salbi, founder of women

for women international.

Do you see happening what Oprah

Winfrey says must happen, that

waitresses and nurses and people

working in regular office buildings

are starting to feel the impact of

the need to movement?

Absolutely.

--

the me too movement.

Are they feeling it is getting

better because of the proper

citation? -- the publicity?

It is at

the beginning, now we are talking

about race and class issues, not

only because Oprah's speech

yesterday which brilliant, but

because of her fund just created by

several actresses including Natalie

Portman about defending women's

rights across all lines, class and

race in all these things, including

waitresses and staff members at

hotels and all of these things. Now

the people who talked about it are

starting to actually be more

inclusive of a larger endemic that

it is.

You were the founder of an

organisation that helps women's

rights around the world, what is the

impact of this scandal is having in

other areas of the world, Asia,

Latin America? How do women then

look at what is happening here in

the US?

I think there are two levels

to what's happening, on the one hand

everyone is looking at America and

is reflecting, they are curious, in

the Middle East they were saying, we

don't understand, a lot of the men

saying we don't understand, we want

to know what the women are saying. I

think it's triggering a lot of men

in other countries to ask what is

this rage about sexual harassment,

and making them reflect on

themselves. A lot of women are

different, if you are a woman's

rights activists from another

country would say, that's great,

it's about time American women are

speaking up about their own abuse,

it's not only about quote unquote

third World women. It depends on all

of it, I think it is creating a

union, a unity for all women. I hope

this unity goes across, as I said,

class, race, nationality, culture,

all these things. Women's rights is

a global issue. It's not a cultural

issue and it has happened over

centuries right now. It's a moment

in history that I think I hope all

over the world will have a ripple

effect. It's a moment in history in

America, for sure.

Is it such a

moment that could propel Oprah

Winfrey to the White House?

Well,

she is the best. But I think that's

the wrong discussion right now. It's

obviously her decision whether she

runs or not. The discussion for me

right now is that Oprah opened up

the door for us to take this

discussion further. How do we send

the message we want to send two

girls and the younger generation?

How do we look at our history and

how have we tolerated this, been

complacent in allowing sexual abuse

to happen to other women, that may

have been from underprivileged areas

or underprivileged races, classes,

and we all looked in the other

direction about it. She is actually

right now opening the door for

another level of discussion beyond

what happened in the last three

months. If it happened in the last

three months, it's about the rich

and famous, now she has opened the

gate for another level of

discussion, a deeper one where we

all reflect on our realities.

Whether she runs for president or

not, I personally would love to see

that but that's ultimately her

decision and it's not the right

moment to ask that, it is the right

moment to ask what she's trying to

get us to do and how we speak our

truth and where are the areas where

we have been silenced and where do

we need to break that silence right

now.

It is an amazing speech. What I

thought was, there is an

intersection here between civil

rights which she has played a

prominent role in and also women's

rights, she brings the two together.

She talks about growing up in

Milwaukee. As you said, she is an

example to young girls, she talks

about what it was like the hair in

the 60s watching Sidney Poitier take

to the stage. She could have the

same affect on young girls today.

She is a woman who has been abused

herself, and had broken her silence

and spoke about her views in times

when no one spoke about it,

definitely not famous TV

personalities like herself. She was

really a pioneer in every aspect,

when I had the privilege of

interviewing Oprah, she said when

her lawyers knew about Herbie is

they first told her, do not say

anything about it. It took a lot of

courage for her to break her own

silence. -- when her lawyers knew

about her abuse. She is not speaking

only intellectually about the

issues, and she's speaking from an

experience of not only fitting that

violence but an experience of what

it takes, the risks you take, the

fear you have, the shame, all

feelings when you actually break

your silence and start speaking up.

She is paving the way and telling us

actually, this is not... That moment

of rage, lots of people are afraid

of this moment of anger because all

they see is women's anger. She is

telling us, we have to look at it

historically, and emotionally. We

have to look at it with grace and

passion. How to move forward, so our

younger generations will not have to

go through it, whether they are

girls or boys.

We have to leave it

there, thank you very much. Oprah

Winfrey has very high approval

ratings in the US amongst Democrats

and Republicans but a poll in March

last year suggests only one in five

Americans think she should throw her

hat into the ring. I was speaking to

a senior Democratic women here today

and she was saying, is this the

right than the Berra? -- is this the

right standard-bearer? Is America

really looking to go from one media

starting another, neither with

experience, she has no experience in

political office, is that really the

best person for the Democrats to put

forward at the moment?

I think

Donald Trump once said he wanted her

as his vice president, didn't he?

He

has been very common entry about

her, let's see if she runs against

him. --

There are fears of an environmental

disaster in the East China Sea,

as a tanker continues to leak oil,

two days after it hit a cargo ship.

Chinese officials say

the vessel is in danger

of exploding and sinking.

One body has been recovered

but 31 crew members remain missing

since the incident happened 257

kilometres off

the coast of Shanghai.

The Sanchi had left port

in the persian gulf,

bringing 136 thousand tonnes

of oil east.

It had passed through the malacca

straits and was heading up the east

china sea to south korea

when the collision happened.

Robin Brant reports.

and Saturday nights, the fire has

burned.

Dark black smoke feeding off

the cargo, of almost a million

barrels of oil inside the Sanchi.

The intense heat and threat of an

explosion threatens the operation.

It's not clear yet at this stage how

the ships collided. All on board

were rescued, despite damage at the

bowl. Authorities now fear the oil

tanker could explode and sink.

The

Chinese government takes accidents

like these very seriously and has

already dispatched many search and

rescue teams to the scene. Even

though from what we understand, the

weather conditions are extremely

unfavourable to the rescue work. But

China is putting in maximum efforts.

Shanghai's ports on the busiest in

the world, and the coastal waters to

the east of the city are vast. But

in the last decade, China has had a

reported collisions similar to this

involving foreign ships. The Chinese

authorities are leading the search

and rescue effort but there is help

from South Korea and the United

States. The focus is increasingly

turning to the environmental threat

to the ocean, about 200 miles off

the coast of the city in that

direction. With a volume of oil on

board, this has the potential to be

the worst spill of its kind since

1991.

If it sinks, then we are

looking at an impact of seepage from

this very light crude into the ocean

which could last many months. That

would mean exclusion zones in terms

of fishing around the area, and an

impact on the local flora and fauna.

The last time a tanker lost oil on

this scale was the prestige of the

coast of Spain in 2002. This time

it's not the thick black crude oil

that is causing such problems off

the coast of China. This vessel is

carrying condensate, a refined form

of oil that is far less dense but

more explosive. Described as a

floating bomb, the cargo can be

odourless and colourless, which

means the job of trying to see the

extent of the spill and trying to

contain it is far more difficult.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge -

Prince William and Catherine have

released two new photographs

of Princess Charlotte on her first

day at nursery school.

The photos were taken by Catherine

at Kensington Palace this morning -

shortly before two-year-old

Charlotte left for her first day

at the Willcocks Nursery

School in West London.

I don't know about you, Christian,

but when my children were two years

old and went off to their first day

of nursery school they look a

complete mess, hair all over the

place. How do you get children

looking perfect?

I don't know, I

just had to buy new jumper for my

son because he had toothpaste all

the way down the front.

Exactly, and

you were frazzled, right?

Maybe only

one of those gods, the best thing to

hide the stains! -- one of those

scarves.

This is Beyond 100

Days from the BBC.

Coming up for viewers on the BBC

News Channel and BBC World News -

we find out why women are twice

as likely as men to die

after suffering the most serious

kind of heart attack.

And the BBC's China Editor Carrie

Gracie quits her role

in a dispute over equal pay -

she's accusing the corporation

of breaking the law.

That's still to come.

The great north-south weather divide

was certainly in operation today and

in evidence on the satellite

imagery.

All this as the great, low

cloud keeps things distinctly chilly

across the South. Northern Ireland

is clear, snow on the Scottish

mountains. Widespread frost

developing, a little less extensive

through the night. South easterly

winds taking the club for the North.

Still if you pockets of frost,

isolated frost in other parts of

western Scotland, north-west England

and Wales. Most frost free into a

chilly but grey start to Tuesday.

Much of Scotland and northern

England cloudy, maybe the odd snow

grain, frozen drizzle, very misty

over the hills. With the

south-easterly winds will be

sheltered from low cloud by the

mountains, particularly the

Highlands, also the likes of

Cumbrian fells, Lake District and

into north-west Wales and Anglesey.

Sunny spells here. When you get the

sunshine, the Breeze bouncing over

the hills, it could bring down

warmer air. Maybe even ten or 11

degrees in sunspots, for most

another cool day. Maybe not as

chilly as today, Devon, Cornwall and

Hamburg shares some rain in the

afternoon. A right to moving east

and north through Tuesday night and

Wednesday morning. -- dramatically

moving. Some bossed around as well,

after rains on icy conditions

potentially into Tuesday morning. A

bright start to Wednesday. Clearing

away the low cloud. Much more

sunshine. Only one or two isolated

showers. Could see some rain linger

throughout the east, but for many a

brighter day, particularly in the

West. Temperatures not too bad for

the time of year. Through Wednesday

and Thursday, low pressure with some

rain into France. Leaves us in an

area of high pressure but light

wind. Nothing much going on. That

will lead to some overnight frost

and fog patches for the second half

of the week. Still some brightness

on Thursday, particularly north and

west. A bit grey for some coastal

counties of the east, and Sunny

spells into Friday as well.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington -

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories...

The fallout over the book Fire

and Fury continues to spread.

Mr Trump insists he's a stable

genius while former aide

Steve Bannon says he

regrets his remarks.

Rescue workers trying

to reach a burning tanker

in the East China Sea

are being beaten back

by toxic clouds.

The vessel has been

on fire for two days.

Coming up in the next half hour...

The Brexiteer-in-chief's one-on-one

with the EU's chief negotiator -

what questions does Nigel Farage

have for Michel Barnier?

Why women are more likely than men

to die within a year

of suffering a heart

attack - our medical

correspondent has the details.

Let us know your thoughts by using

the hashtag #Beyond100Days.

Last year the EU's Chief negotiator

Michel Barnier invited a number

of British politicians to Brussels,

who were not directly involved

in the Brexit talks.

In October he met with

Remainers Ken Clarke,

Nick Clegg and Lord Adonis.

Today, it was the turn of the chief

Brexiteer Nigel Farage.

Mr Farage was there in his capacity

as the co-chair of a Eurosceptic

group within the European

Parliament.

Ahead of the visit he had

asked his radio listeners on LBC

in London for suggested questions.

And these were the three

he took to his meeting.

How does Mr Barnier view mass

immigration into the EU coming

across the Mediterranean

and elsewhere?

What happens to the EU's

economy if there's no

trade deal with Britain?

Does Michel Barnier understand why

Britain voted for Brexit?

So when we talked to him earlier,

I asked Mr Farage whether Mr Barnier

does understand why

Britain voted for Brexit?

What answers did you get from Michel

Barnier to the three questions posed

by your listeners, particularly that

one as to whether he understands

by your listeners, particularly that

one as to whether he understands why

Britain voted for Brexit?

Well, he

said the British people were told a

pack of lies, they were told there

was £350 million a week for the

National Health Service. I said,

well, OK, do you not understand

that, actually, open-door

immigration was the key driver that

pushed turnout up on the day of the

referendum? The answer, very

clearly, was no. He looked at me

with some degree in convention.

Did

you talk to him about the no deal

scenario?

I did. Said, look, when it

comes to it, you sell us a lot more

wine, motorcars, cheese and

chocolate and we sell to you. There

is an annual deficit that averages

about 80 billion every single year.

I said, you know, if there is to be

a free-trade deal so that we can

continue to be one of your biggest

markets, you, in turn, have to come

to an agreement with us on financial

services. As soon as I mentioned

financial services, the idea of a

sensible co-operation, that was the

moment in the meeting at which his

body language changed. Really what

he is saying is, for there to be an

all-encompassing deal that includes

goods and financial services, it

will mean that we have to accept the

continued free movement of people,

it would mean we have to accept the

jurisdiction, on an ongoing basis,

of the European Court of Justice.

What it would mean is that we would

not actually believing the European

Union. I said, if that is the line

you stick to, what you will find

over the course of the next few

weeks and months are British

businesses saying, hey, let's not

waste our time. If a deal is totally

unobtainable, why don't we go for a

quick exit and WTO rules? I said

that wasn't my ideal scenario, but I

suggested it would be European

financial houses and European car

makers that would be far worse hit

than we would.

Far from certain we

are going to walk away with no deal

at all, there is just as strong

possibility that Britain is looking

for a soft deal, particularly on the

Irish border issue? Regulatory

alignment is effectively staying in

the single market, isn't it? You are

looking at something very different

from what you wanted?

Make no bones

about it, one of the driving forces

behind this meeting is that I do not

think that the government have

really picked up the spirit of what

17.4 million people voted for and,

in doing so, defying the entire

global order. It is very clear what

we voted for on that day of the 23rd

of June 20 16. It was to be out of

the European Union, out of the

single market, out of the customs

union and out of the jurisdiction of

the European Court of Justice. I am

very unhappy with the concessions we

have made in phase one, but I am

beginning to think that to move on

phase two, to talk about trade, if

he is not prepared to give an inch,

it begins to feel like we might be

wasting our time.

But you didn't

think you are going to go in and he

was given to say, OK, I see, I

understand what Brexit is about now,

we will give you more concessions

come that wasn't going to happen?

I'll tell you what, firstly, he will

understand a bit better that the

free movement of people in the

European Union after ten communist

countries joined, that was a driving

force. He may not believe me. But on

Wednesday this week, we have Lord

Digby Jones, the former boss of the

CBI, and John Longworth, the former

boss of the British Chamber of

Commerce, going in to meet him. He

will learn from those people

directly that what I said was not

wrong, that actually we reach a

point where we will not go on for a

deal with a transition and

everything else that ultimately is

not going to be a grown-up deal. In

terms of whether we're going to

leave the European Union or not,

frankly that is irreversible. Public

opinion is very much more strongly

behind it than it was back at the

time of the referendum. We are going

to leave, but is great. However, if

the terms upon which we leave mean,

effectively, as Cathy said, that we

would be in the single market, not

officially part of it, regulatory

alignment, following the rules, with

the European Court of Justice still

having a say over EU citizens living

in Britain, if we leave in Britain

in name only, that is not good

enough. It will be unfinished

business and will continue to

dominate British politics for

decades to come.

One thing that

Nigel Farage has got right, and we

don't talk about it a lot, that is

the financial head that Europe is

going to take. They have been

talking about that within the

context of the commission, the next

budget round once the UK has left.

-- the financial hit. Jean-Claude

Juncker saying, don't believe Brexit

is not going to happen, I don't

think Britain will change its mind.

The budget commission says if we are

going to put together the budget

after 2020, there has to be 50%

spending cuts and you have to put in

50% more. They have warned them

there will have to be some cuts

since a major EU programmes,

significant cuts. The European Union

and European members already facing

up to the fact that without Britain,

remember, Britain is one of the ten

member states that pay more into the

EU budget than they get out, only

France and Germany pay more, that is

a significant hit two European

finances when the UK has left.

Theresa May has reshuffled her

cabinet for the third time

since becoming Prime Minister

but the "big beasts"

in her team remain in place.

The key posts in

government are unchanged.

Philip Hammond, Boris Johnson,

David Davis and Amber Rudd

all keep their jobs.

But there are some other notable

changes.

Let's get the latest

from our chief political

correspondent, Vicki Young.

It took a long time today, there

were all sort of rumours

circulating. Was this the stealthy,

slow, careful Theresa May plodding

away through the reshuffle, or did

it reflect the weakness that she has

within her own party?

I suppose this

is the time when most Prime Minister

is have the maximum impact, the

maximum power. They can end careers,

they can promote others. They never

go quite to plan. It is not the

first time when there have been

tales of post-it notes stuck on

walls, one fellow off, the man never

got his job, the wrong name being

given, the wrong person being

appointed, all those things have

happened. This was going to plan,

mainly because there were not many

changes. And then suddenly, because

they walk up the street in Downing

Street, they go into Number 10, the

press outside and watching, you know

how long they are in there for.

There was an hour or two were two

people, Jeremy Hunt, the Health

Secretary Andy Business Secretary,

they were both in there and nobody

came out for ages. Turns out Jeremy

Hunt was arguing not to be removed

at Health Secretary, and he seems to

have won. He has stayed in that job.

It is still going on, Justine

Greening, the Education Secretary,

has been in there for almost two and

a half hours. There were rumours of

her being sacked or moved. There is

clearly something going on, a lot of

people have been tweeting with

suggestions of what is going on. One

said they are sitting down and

watching a box set, once you start,

it is one episode after another.

Eight two and a half hour job

interview sounds like my idea of

hell on earth! The question from the

side of the Atlantic and other

countries around the world would be

very simple, does the reshuffle make

the Prime Minister's Government more

stable and strong?

The fact that she

has not been able to war wanted to

move the top jobs, if you like, the

ones that affect international

affairs, Boris Johnson, for example,

the Foreign Secretary, he is still

in place. The trade Secretary is

still there. David Davis is in

charge of the Brexit negotiations.

He is still in his post. That is

partly because after the general

election were Theresa May lost the

majority for the Conservatives, she

was weakened. Her position has

stabilised a little bit. But I think

she is still not really able to do

what she wants to do. In those

terms, there is not going to be any

major policy shifts. Her idea

tomorrow is to promote younger

talent in the lower ranks, if you

like, to try to change the face of

the Conservative Party and make it a

bit more diverse. So far, not

everything has been going to plan.

Health campaigners are calling

for women, who have a heart attack,

to be given the same treatment

options as men, after a major

new study revealed differences

in care and in mortality rates.

A decade long study, in Sweden,

found that women who had the most

serious form of heart attack

were twice as likely to die than

men in the year after the attack.

It found they were less likely

to receive recommended treatments,

like bypass surgery and statins,

than male patients -

as our medical correspondent,

Fergus Walsh reports.

AMBULANCE SIRENS

Every minute counts

after a heart attack.

But too many women are being

misdiagnosed and wrongly treated.

When Jules Conjoice had a heart

attack aged just 45,

she displayed classic symptoms,

but these were initially

dismissed by paramedics.

Overwhelming pain in my chest,

the pain went up to my jaw,

and sort of spread, then

it was going down my left arm.

And then I had this overwhelming

feeling of going to be sick,

and this clamminess.

The paramedics said, oh,

have you got pins and needles?

I said, yeah.

She said, I think

it's a panic attack.

And I remember thinking,

this isn't a panic attack.

This is something more.

A new study looked at more

than 60,000 women in Sweden who

had the most serious type of heart

attack, when there is

a total blockage of one

of the major arteries.

It found that compared to men

they were roughly twice as likely

to die from their heart

attack within a year.

They were less likely to have

treatment, to clear blocked

arteries, to be prescribed statins

or given aspirin.

One statistic that may surprise

you is that women in the UK

are more than twice as likely to die

from coronary heart disease

than from breast cancer.

Often it seems women present

with unusual symptoms,

and researchers say that helps

explain why, in the UK, like Sweden,

they are not always getting

the right treatment.

Women may well present

with other symptoms,

such as breathlessness,

fatigue, palpitations or pain,

that is more atypical in nature such

as stabbing or sharp.

And these findings can be

misinterpreted, both by the patient

and health care professionals.

But if more women are to get rapid

access to treatment like this,

to clear blocked arteries,

there needs to be greater awareness

that they, like men,

are at risk of heart attacks.

Fergus Walsh, BBC News.

Angela Merkel say she is confident

she will be able to arrange a

coalition to continue to govern.

Talks between her Christian

Democrats and the social Democrats

have begun after earlier meetings

with a group of smaller parties

failed to reach a deal. It is three

months since the German election

resulted in no overall winner.

Flooding at New York's JFK

airport has created further

misery for travellers,

many of whom had already faced

delays due to recent winter storms.

The flood from a burst water main

caused major disruption with water

pouring from the ceiling and inches

of water in the arrivals

area of Terminal 4.

The Brazilian football player,

Philippe Coutinho, has completed

a move from Liverpool to Barcelona.

The deal is reported to be

worth over £140 million,

that's over $190 million.

This is the highest fee Barcelona

has paid for a player.

But fans may have to wait three

weeks before Coutinho's debut.

A thigh injury was identified

during his medical.

Lawyers have been bracing themselves

for many divorce cases. Apparently

many relationships buckle under the

added pressures of Christmas. I can

assure you that Christian are not

going to have a divorce.

That is

bringing down the tree, dealing with

all of those baubles.

Still to come,

why the BBC China editor turned down

a $60,000 pay raise to remain in the

role.

Here, some pharmacists at Boots

are worried that work pressures mean

patients could be put at risk.

A former manager, who flagged

up his concerns about understaffing

to the industry regulator before

he resigned in 2015,

has now spoken publicly

for the first time to the BBC's

Inside Out programme.

Boots says it's confident

its pharmacies have enough staff.

Marie Ashby reports.

Boots is one of the country's

best-known high street names

and the largest pharmacy chain

in the UK.

It has almost 2,400 stores

and provides a crucial NHS service.

But some pharmacists at Boots

are worried that the work

pressures they're under

could lead to mistakes.

Two of the pharmacists we spoke

to were prepared to be

interviewed, as long

as their identity was protected.

Their words are spoken by actors.

Some days, you would easily describe

the team as being at breaking point.

Because, simply, the amount of work

that has to be done can't

physically get done,

safely, and it can't physically get

done without either working

longer hours or working

after the store's closed.

Mistakes may not be picked up

on and that could ultimately lead

to somebody possibly dying.

We have an industry-leading patient

safety record. I am confident that

the resources are there to deliver

patient care that we have enough

staff.

Greg Lawton was a former manager

who was involved in patient safety

at Boots, until he resigned

more than two years ago.

He reported his concerns

about understaffing

to the General Pharmaceutical

Council.

They told me that they were going

to review their inspection

model, as a result.

They didn't interview

a single person.

And they concluded that there

wasn't any problem at all.

Just over a year ago, the regulator

also told him its investigation

found there was no systemic failure

by Boots to provide adequate

staff in its pharmacies.

Greg, his opinions and his concerns,

left the business over two years ago

and aren't relevant to Boots today.

The industry regulator is providing

more patient safety guidance

to community pharmacies

later this year.

Marie Ashby, BBC News.

You're watching Beyond 100 Days.

The BBC's China editor,

Carrie Gracie, has stepped down

from the role because of what she's

called an "indefensible pay gap

between men and women" at the BBC.

In an open letter addressed to

licence fee payers, Carrie Gracie -

who is remaining at the BBC -

accused the corporation

of "breaking equality law".

A BBC spokesperson says

there's "no systemic

discrimination against women".

Here's our Media Editor Amol Rajan.

Chinese once called Chairman Mao

the great helmsman...

Carrie Gracie is one of the most

respected international

editors of her generation.

For more than 30 years,

she has broadcast about other

people, but this time,

she is the centre of the story.

Ms Gracie resigned from her

position as China editor

because she is paid less than men

who are also international editors.

This morning, she presented

the Today Programme on Radio 4.

It's been very moving, actually...

The news of her resignation leaked

out online last night.

Six months after the BBC was forced

to reveal the salaries of some

highly paid on air staff,

Ms Gracie has been infuriated

by the response to her grievance.

She was offered a pay rise

of £45,000 but declined it,

saying equality is what she wants.

She would not be drawn

on whether she wanted male

colleagues to take a pay cut.

When I started the China job,

I said I will only do this job

if I'm paid equally.

And in July 2017, I discovered

the enormous gap, that the two men

who were international editors

were earning 50% more,

at least, than the two women

who were international editors.

The BBC has completed two

of the three pay audits it

announced last year,

and found no evidence

of discrimination.

The final one will report

in a matter of weeks.

The corporation declined to put

anyone up for an interview,

but in a statement, they said...

The BBC talks about a gender pay

gap, but what I'm talking

about is not a gender pay gap,

where sometimes men and women

are in different roles,

which explains the differences

in pay, what I'm talking

about is sex discrimination,

which is when men are paid more

for doing the same job

or a job of equal value.

That is illegal.

There is tremendous anger among many

female staff at all levels

of this corporation.

Senior figures at the BBC say

they take this issue very seriously,

but many employees have found

the process of fighting for equal

pay completely unbearable.

The salience of this

story, however, arises

from its implications beyond this

place, because it's happening

in a climate in which many women

across several

industries say they have suffered

injustice and inequality

for far too long.

Equality legislation doesn't work.

We need to make it work.

We make it work by forcing

companies to be honest,

which is still not happening,

and by forcing companies

to examine their hiring, promotion

and parental leave policies.

Equal pay for equal work

is a legal requirement.

But who decides what equal work is?

Ultimately, it's

usually the employer.

This is what makes tackling gender

pay issues so difficult,

because obviously, we want

people to be treated

equally and given equal

opportunities in the workplace,

but employers also need

to have the capacity to offer

people flexible payments,

bonuses and that kind of thing

to reward and incentivise people

to do well in their job.

The BBC's public ownership

and obligations means it has

to set unique standards

and face unique scrutiny.

With 200 formal complaints in train

and the possibility of legal action,

this story will run and run.

Amol Rajan, BBC News.

An American billionaire has

announced his redoubling his

campaign to remove Boldrin from

office. John stayer says he will

donate another $30 million to the

Democrat's efforts to regain control

of Congress. He has already called

for the management of the President.

In a news briefing, he said he would

not stand as a candidate in the 2018

mid-term elections in November.

Instead, he said he would work to

motor -- motivate voters.

Stockton California

was named the most miserable

city in the US in 2011.

But that has been changing, thanks

in part to its 27-year old mayor -

the youngest city leader

in the country.

Michael Tubbs was born

in Stockton, but went away

to Stanford University

for his education.

After graduating he travelled

overseas, and even worked

in the White House, before tragedy

brought him back home.

The BBC went to meet him.

A very violent day in Stockton.

Five people are dead...

In one of Stockton's

deadliest days on record.

Stockton stands as the largest US

city to declare bankruptcy.

There's a lot of love,

there's also a lot of pain.

My childhood and upbringing

is probably the primary reason why

I am on the path I am on today.

Sometimes I pinch myself.

Like, yo, you're the mayor!

Especially when it comes to things

like problem-solving,

why don't they do it like that?

Why aren't you doing it?

You're the Mayor!

Or you can at least call

the people that can do it.

In Stockton, I lived in four

out of five hot areas,

areas that are currently having

a lot of the city's

violent crime issues.

My father has been

incarcerated all my life.

My mother had me as a teenager.

So growing up in poverty,

a lot of the things I do policy

work on, or research,

or read about or speak about,

are things that I have lived

and felt very viscerally.

I had no intention of

coming back to Stockton

when I graduated high school.

I spent time in El Salvador,

I was in DC, working

in the White House.

There were a lot of options

available and Stockton

wasn't one of them.

One of my cousins was

murdered in Stockton.

That kind of shifted the whole

paradigm around what it

meant to be successful

and what it was I wanted to do.

Today is a really exciting

day for the city.

We have a venue around Heroes Park,

and this church has been replacing

the backboard that was vandalised

a couple of months ago.

It's a great day in the city.

It shows how in Stockton

it is regular people that

are driving a lot of the change.

Often times, it's hard

to convey the amount of work,

discipline and sacrifice it takes

to get into a position like this,

especially if you're

the first or the youngest.

Even more so, both.

What you think of Stockton now?

Stockton is a city on the rise.

I think Stockton is

the all-American city.

It's a place where you

can make an impact.

My grandmother used to always

tell me the Scripture,

don't despise small beginnings.

The Lord rejoices in

seeing the work begin.

I'm personally getting a lot

of attention, but I would be

so upset if we can't look back four

years from now and can't point

to things that are better,

but for me and my team being here.

27 years old, makes me feel like a

total underachiever! I have been out

to see the Mayor of Compton in

California, filming a documentary

coming up at the beginning of next

month. All around America, you look

at the politics of the country

nationally, it is pretty

dysfunctional. But in every city,

there are people doing that, turning

the lights on, making sure potholes

get fixed, moving their cities

forward. On big issues like climate

change, traffic, pollution, it is in

cities in America, Mayors, states

and governors, that is where

innovation is happening, not

necessarily here in Washington.

Before we go, there is something

different about you. Something that

wasn't there before. I think you can

see me?

I have had my eyes lasered.

For the first time in 17 years, I

can read the prompt without glasses.

I didn't even know that you were

blonde! It is revolutionary. I

skipped the clinic on Saturday for

my checkup. I am such a coward, I

would normally do something like

that. I got tired of wearing contact

lenses in the studio. I got on this

machine and she said, five, four,

three, two, one, I grimaced for the

pain and she said, that's done. No

pain at all. I wish I had done it 15

years ago. Coming up next, Ross

Atkins is here with Outside Source.

For viewers in the UK, we will have

the latest