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The dough surges through 26,000

breaking records and govern the

White House something to cheer

about. -- Dow. A new survey says the

financial burden is largely thanks

to Donald Trump, not Barack Obama.

This is the moment the Dow broke

records thanks to high investor

confidence. The children kept

captive in their family home in

California, some chained to their

beds. Also on the programme,

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United States isn't only worried

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There's a curious disconnect in

America today. The president has

record low approval ratings but the

stock market is hitting record

highs. The Dow Jones smashed through

the 26,000 mark for the first time

ever than the economists say

President Trump should take credit.

It took the Dow just 12 days to move

it 1000 points making it the fastest

gain on record. A group of

economists says the President's

policies on taxes are largely beyond

the market's strong performance and

Donald Trump made it clear he is

proud of that achievement.

We have

broken a lot of records and we're

breaking another one today.

Unemployment is the best it has been

in recorded history, fantastic and

the best number we have had. We have

never seen anything close and we are

very honoured by that.

The

phraseology may be odd but clearly

the president is happy with what Dow

is doing and what the level of

unemployment amongst African

Americans which is low, let's get

more on this. Let me start by asking

you about the survey done by your

former employers at the Wall Street

Journal, suggesting Mr Trump and not

President Obama after credit for the

stock market boom, with you stand on

that?

Clearly it is a stock market

boom that started under President

Obama at the depths of the last

downturn and the recovery we have

seen in 2010 was quite substantial

even before President Trump took

office but he does deserve some

credit for what we have seen over

the last year. Right after the

election stocks went on a tiered and

it is because President Trump is

getting corporate America at the two

things that really wants, lower

taxes and looser regulations, so it

is getting both of those and that is

providing the tail when that stocks

need to keep rising this quite had a

bit of scepticism that this can keep

going forever.

As Wall Street

disconnected from Main Street? Are

working men and women feeling their

stock market boom?

People who have

401 Ks are feeling it.

Pension

funds.

The stock market is heavily

tilted towards people of higher

incomes but what we haven't seen yet

as a pick-up in general wage growth.

We saw moderate wage growth over the

Obama years, one of the puzzles of

his presidency, and President Trump

hasn't changed any of the core

trajectories on figures. The figures

are all relatively somewhat of what

they were during the Obama years. I

think people are kind of surprised

about this stock market boom

continuing and President Trump

himself called it a big fat ugly

stock market bubble and he was

cheered on by quite a few sceptics

for saying that because plenty of

people believe it will come crashing

down at some point before long.

And

that is the interesting point, when

you look towards the midterms, is

the political danger of tying

yourself to what could be a bobble?

There is a huge danger. Every

presidential administration up until

now had avoided talking about the

stock market in this way and never

wanted to attach themselves to a

market that has plenty of people

scratching their heads when it keeps

going up and up and up. Where does

this leave them? The president on

average once a week has tweeted

about the stock market. He has fully

embraced it and really has lost the

ability to blame his predecessor for

anything when it comes to the stock

market or the economy, so he owns it

now and if it is to correct as

everyone expects, history shows it

will revert back to some normal

range for stocks, when that happens,

he will have to come up with some

answers and that is not going to be

comfortable for him or anybody in

the administration.

Thank you for

your thoughts.

What goes up can come down and that

is the political danger for the

president but we shouldn't underplay

the fact that when you look at

polling, the majority of Americans

are very happy with the way they

have not -- the way the economy is

going.

The polling numbers show that

Americans are looking at the stock

market and it is having an effect on

general in consumer and investor

confidence. What they hope is that

as this trickles down to the general

population and people see their

pension funds are performing better

than perhaps the approval ratings

will go up, but it is crazy the

power of investors and consumers to

forget that markets can crash as

well as solar.

But the feel-good factor is

important and we will have to see

where it goes.

That is what people are crediting

the White House with. Former White

House strategist Steve Bannon has

been subpoenaed by Robert Noor's

crash investigation and may now have

to appear before the grand duty to

answer questions on ties between the

Trump campaign and Moscow. As far as

we know this is the first member of

the inner circle to be subpoenaed by

Mueller. He will still be under oath

and what he has to say has taken on

new significance because of the book

Fire and Fury in which Steve Bannon

described the meeting between Donald

Trump's summoned Russian operatives

as treasonous. Joining us as Reid

Wilson. We don't know of course what

Steve Bannon told the committee in

the house today. How significant is

it that he has been subpoenaed?

It

is not entirely clear and this could

be a play by Mueller's investigative

team to get him to cooperate more

than he has the past and it is not

unusual for a Sabena to be issued

even if one isn't entirely

necessary. It probably tells us that

Steve Bannon is not the target of

the investigation. It is very

unusual for the target to be

subpoenaed and an investigation like

this.

There are also a couple of

other members of the Trump campaign

who are going to appear before the

house committee, we think this week.

One of them is the chief of

communications and the White House,

interesting because she is still in

the White House.

Angie has been

worth the president longer than just

about anyone that has said so

presumably after has been talk of

obstructing justice or anything else

that Robert Mueller has been looking

into. That is what Steve Bannon has

been the focus of as well. He was

not in the room when a lot of these

decisions were made and wasn't even

working for the Trump campaign when

the meeting with the Russian

operatives happened, but he clearly

knows of what kinds of links between

the various players in the Donald

Trump world exists, and whether any

meetings involve the president

himself before he was president.

28

years old and they keep clear.

I

want to talk to you about the

immigration meeting last Thursday in

which Donald Trump used the rather

salty expression with which we are

all familiar. The man who told us

about that was a Republican, Senator

Lindsey Graham, speaking in the

Senate judiciary today. He has been

playing golf at the president and

became a lot closer, just listen to

this.

Tuesday we had a president

that I was proud to golf with, call

my friend who understood

immigration, he had to have border

security, with a wall, but he also

understood that he had to do it with

compassion. I don't know where that

guy went but I want him back.

Interesting. The problem is, he told

them to come up with the bipartisan

deal and then between Tuesday and

Thursday, the hardline conservatives

got to him and all disintegrated.

It

may even be a difference of a few

hours. He spoke with the Senator who

had been working with Lindsey Graham

Thursday morning just a couple of

hours before the meeting and that

that meeting the president brought

in a bunch of those immigration

hardliners you just referred to, so

it is clear the president is hearing

from a bunch of different people and

one person I wouldn't overlook his

chief of staff John Kelly, the

former Department of Homeland

Security secretary who is a

hardliner himself. Kelly reportedly

told the president this was not

going in his favour if you had

reached this bipartisan deal, that

it would happen with his own base,

and that is nothing that moves this

president more than hearing he might

hurt his standing with his own base.

Thank you. And read this

disintegration around immigration

and the acrimony that has blown up

between Democrats and Republicans,

we are looking ahead to Friday, the

government budget is up for renewal

and they have got to find a

bipartisan deal and that, are we

looking at a government shutdown?

We

have only had one before in 2013

when the government shutdown.

Everyone has said they would like to

try and avoid it but the whole issue

around what President Trump called

some African countries and Haiti has

caused a huge amount of acrimony

between Democrats and Republicans

and President Trump getting at

Democrats, and the chances of some

kind of deal around immigration

seems to have just gone out the

window like that, and what that is

the prospect we could have a

government shutdown. They may try

and limp along with one of these

because there are serious

consequences with the government

shutdown and people don't get paid

any more, so it has a real impact on

people's lives, but I have to say

the mood in this town as it is a bit

like preparing for the snowstorm.

Everyone is thinking it may well

happen. He will blame it on the

Democrats but as others have said it

doesn't look good when you control

three branches of government and

have shutdown.

They are the ones who

tend to get blamed.

Let's move on to a story in

California which is just so

shocking. First, imagine having 13

children and a margin torturing

them. A couple in California has

been arrested after police raided

their home and discovered brothers

and sisters ranging in age from 2-29

chained to beds and severely

malnourished. One of the kids was

able to escape and alert authorities

and she was so emaciated they

thought she was ten years of age

initially. Our colleague reports

from the scene in Perris.

In public they looked like a big

happy family, devoutly Christian,

renewing their wedding

vows in Las Vegas, David

and Louise Turpin played the part

of proud parents,

but in private, say police,

the Turpins had a dark secret.

At dawn on Sunday

a 17-year-old girl escaped

from this house and called for help.

Inside officers said

they found her 12 brothers

and sisters dirty and malnourished,

shackled to their beds

with chains and padlocks,

the home dark and foul smelling.

Neighbours now admit

there were signs that

something was amiss.

I never saw a scooter,

I never saw a bike, I saw

the infant may be three times,

maybe, I never saw the infant again.

How did they look when you saw them?

They were always pale,

like abnormally pale.

The children do look pale

in pictures posted on

Facebook.

Here they are visiting Disneyland.

Police say the siblings

were so small that they were shocked

to discover that seven were actually

adults, the eldest 29.

They are now being

treated in hospital.

They are all in very

stable condition and

they are all doing very well

considering the magnitude of what's

been described.

This quiet Californian

suburb is now under

intense scrutiny.

Neighbours here are

stunned but they are also

searching their souls asking,

could we have saved

these siblings sooner?

As for the parents,

David and Louise Turpin

are under arrest charged

with

torture and child endangerment.

James Cook reporting and authorities

in Perris have just given a news

conference and medics looking after

the children say they are friendly

and cooperative and they are hopeful

their lives will get better.

One of the photographs that stood

out for me was when they were in

their red T-shirts, I notice taken

from the cat in the Hat books what

it takes on a different meaning,

that particular photo. Now, foreign

ministers from around the world are

meeting today in Vancouver to focus

on curbing North Korea's nuchal

ambitions but is is not just nuclear

threats that the United States is

worried about, biological agents and

the ability to inflict mass

casualties are also a big concern.

What would such an attack look like

and as the country prepares? Those

are questions that they occupy the

secretary of health and social

services under Bill Clinton, who

joins us now from Miami. When you

hear about something like a

biomedical attack it sounds like a

bad summer blockbuster, but to CDs

could such an attack to be? What are

we envisioning?

This is the 100th

anniversary of the Spanish flu, so

some of these could be intentional

and that is why we want a bio

defence system, but some are

unintentional or the result of

natural occurrences, as Ebola was,

where it wasn't formally introduced

by some country, so you have to have

broader view of this and at the end

of the day, we have to have the

infrastructure not only here in the

United States but around the world

to be able to detect it and contain

these bio events. They really are

biological events that are covering

and increasingly we are recognising

it as much a local issue and that is

how we are treating it in Miami,

taking a look at the local response.

We don't get a response until we

have tracked a series of local

reports, so states and counties and

stones. States and towns and

villages all over the world have to

have a reporting system so that they

can capture these events quickly and

make sure we can reduce the

opportunities for Beth. -- death.

You make the point that once a

community receives a biological

attack then it is too late to stop

planning?

It has to be done in

advance and you have to have the

infrastructure, a recording system,

a detection system, love to release

that can make quick diagnosis and

then a strategy for containing the

biological event. And this has to be

in place whether it is intentional

or unintentional or whether it is

simply the result of an archiving,

naturally occurring biological

event.

You're talking about

preparedness and I was thinking when

we talk about the international

response, we hear that UK councils

are stretched and don't have the

funding to repair potholes. How are

they going to be prepared to put in

place a bio defence system, the kind

you think would protect us?

This is

public health infrastructure. In

England, the National Health Service

has a relationship with local health

authorities and the councils in

England. Preparation costs money, it

costs training more than anything

else, and every physician and Naas

has to be trained enough that the

report as quickly and accurately as

possible. Once you have seen the

patter is, then national

organisations can make some

decisions about whether it is an

outbreak that will spread, or

certainly an outbreak that can be

contained in particular area. And of

course these biological events can

also be the result of countries

introducing. We know that North

Korea has the capacity to do this

but we know that other countries in

the world, whether Russia are Serie

A or Orion, other countries that

have the capability and have the

equipment where they could introduce

these kinds of events. -- Syria or

Iran. That is one reason why the

defence and public health prevention

people have to work together.

But

when you talk about the

decision-making process, when you

are facing a big biological threat

there will be some point at which

you stop trying to treat everyone on

an individual basis and you have to

make strategic decisions about

cutting off an entire area. The

point I am making when it comes to

local councils as I am not sure

people are prepared to make those

decisions.

If they watch what who

were able to do with Ebola when we

were able to isolate certain areas

and African countries where the

countries themselves made those

public health decisions and kept as

many people safe as they possibly

could in those local communities,

there are ways to do this, but we

also have to remember that diseases

spread very quickly and evenly

Spanish flu spread all over the

world before the delay had

aeroplanes and we certainly had

ships that carry the disease. Being

prepared this absolutely necessary

and having the capacity to contain

but you can't do the total

containment because of the world we

live in and because diseases now no

borders. We have to make sure we

have treatment protocols and that we

have well-trained people all over

the world. The Hudson Institute

which is sponsoring this event

tomorrow in Miami, this is a

bipartisan effort in the United

States with Senator Lieberman,

Senator Daschle, Secretary Tom

Ridge, it is a bipartisan effort to

look at a complex issue.

Plenty to

think about, thank you.

The government of Bangladesh has

said it hopes to repatriate all

Rohingya Muslims within two years

but reservations have been expressed

about the plans saying any return to

Myanmar must be voluntary and said

the insured.

A motorway bridge under construction

in central Colombia has collapsed

killing at least ten workers. Around

half of the suspension bridge has

fallen into the valley below.

The cause of the collapses under

investigation. The UK Government has

ordered a fast-track investigation

into the activity the directors of

the failed construction firm

Carillion. One trade body estimates

up to 30,000 firms a road money.

A lot of anger here surrounding the

collapse of Carillion. Was a

risk-taking in such of bigger

profits and bonuses? We spoke before

about the pay gap in general but now

the boss of the world's biggest

public investing firm Blackrock has

reacted to this, saying that...

It is interesting, he is threatening

to take action against companies

that don't do that.

That is the

interesting thing, he is not just

saying we should do this but he is

saying if you don't we will not

invest, and he has the lot of punch,

investing $6 trillion worldwide. He

says profit is all well and good and

you have to satisfy shareholders but

also society expects more from

corporations and we have talked a

lot about the dismay there as at

corporate greed and the way

executives are skimming of the

Prophet without putting something

back into communities.

But we

started the programme with the

record high stock market and we

spoke about tax reform and CEOs

beholden to shareholders, looking to

maximise profit, it'll be

interesting to see if they respond

to this and if he carries the

threat.

The invitation is there for

him. Here is something even the

locals don't see everyday and

Australia, eight wallaby evading

police, a low speed chase in

downtown Sydney.

The marsupial was

spotted on the nation's most famous

landmark, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

OK, kudos to the team that put that

together, they were genius making

that look like, James Bond.

Who knew that Wallabies had such

lane discipline! That was our chance

to show you a gratuitous animal

video for this week because there's

so much heavy news on this programme

that we like to give you something

to smile about well.

The Wallaby was eventually captured

and vets say he is in good health.

He was looked after at a zoo in

Sydney before being released back

into the wild.

How common is it to get Wallabies

jumping around Sydney? In Washington

we get dearer.

We always think that

kangaroos all over Sydney but

apparently that aren't many. He has

been treated by the vet and I love

his story with a hoppy ending. This

is Beyond 100 Days.

Coming up, no

more migrant camps like the Calais

jungle will be allowed says the

French president. He promises to

make Britain help out. And Americans

starred gymnasts Simone Biles

reveals she is one of more than 100

girls sexually abused by the team

doctor, that is still to come.

Good evening, strap yourselves, a

bumpy ride with plenty of whether to

talk about over the next couple of

days and the Met office have issued

amber weather warning, be prepared

for some disruption. We have seen

snow showers on and off throughout

the day in Scotland and Northern

Ireland. Elsewhere, we have showers,

he wintry mix of rain, sleet and

snow, chiefly wet further south but

some of it could settle particularly

with any elevation. The windy night

and showed a firm many others and

called for the North. That will lead

into issues first thing tomorrow

with the temperature falling below

freezing. First thing on Wednesday

morning a tricky start to the day,

frequent showers continuing across

Scotland and Northern Ireland. A

wintry mix of rain, sleet and snow

with ice and issue first thing, so

more story into Northern Ireland and

north-west England. Further south,

fewer showers around, starting off

cold with some ice in this around,

freezing if you have had overnight

showers, but never the less

predominantly Sunni. The difference

tomorrow is hopefully fewer showers

around and further between. Still

some in the far north-west still

causing issues but generally

speaking a windy day with sunny

spells. Factoring in the wind, still

not feeling warm. Still another lady

of low pressure deepening and it

arrives through Wednesday night and

into Thursday and as this low

pressure develops on the southern

flank, the isobars squeezed together

and we are likely to see severe

gales in the early hours and on the

leading edge still the risk of more

significance now in central and

southern areas. Moving into the

early half of Thursday, severe gales

could be an issue, heavy rain and

snow. Clearing away promptly on

Thursday leaving the baby generally

as a of sunny spells and a few

scattered showers chiefly along the

west facing coast, low pressure

never too far away into the early

half of the weekend keeping showers.

Things quieting down but staying

cold.

This is Beyond 100 Days. The top

stories...

The US stock market hits a record

high fuelled by strong corporate

earnings and high invested

confidence. A California couple have

been arrested after police found

their 13 children had been held

captive in the family home.

A short while ago please gave more

details.

A 17-year-old girl called

911 from a deactivated cell phone

and reported that her siblings were

being held against their will and

some were chained.

Coming up... In

Calais, ahead of talks with Theresa

May, President Macron calls for

Britain to take more migrants. The

US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles says

that she was sexually abused by

Larry Nassar, the US team doctor.

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Sanctions pressure must be

maintained on Pyongyang to force it

abandon their weapons programme, say

nations meeting about North Korea in

Vancouver.

Foreign ministers are discussing

ways to keep pressure on North Korea

as he grows over the country's

nuclear ambitions but Russia and

China have not been invited.

Boris Johnson told the meeting that

he believes the crisis is getting

worse...

We have had 20 tests in the

last year, 20 missiles, two of which

flew over Japan. One testing of a

nuclear device. Everybody can see

that this isn't only proliferation

within the region but also a

transmission of nuclear weaponry to

non-state actors, to terrorist

groups, with unthinkable

consequences for the world.

Barbara

Platt usher is at the meeting and

joins us now. Barbara, China and

Russia are not there at the meeting,

how successful or meaningful can it

ever be?

I think without China here,

they cannot agree on anything

substantive because China is key to

anything that changes on North

Korea. As we know, it is this

biggest ally and has trade with

North Korea but people here are at

pains to show that they were not

deliberately excluded but they are

not part of this club. They send aid

to the UN war effort in the 1950s,

then fighting alongside North Korea

at the time, they have not been

invited the Rex Tillerson, the

Secretary of State, said that it

would take a nuclear threat from

North Korea to have enemies like us

standing shoulder to shoulder

against the threat. At the Chinese

have not been very impressed,

they've been rather annoyed. They

said, what can it achieve and why

haven't we been invited? Why are you

having the meeting anyway?

Other

nations have less experience than

others when it comes to enforcing

sanctions. Part of the focus will be

on fully implementing what has been

passed?

That is true, the point of

the meeting was looking at how to

prevent North Korea from evading the

sanctions. The meeting was called

after the last missile test when

people were anxious on what was

going on. Since then, this talk

ahead of the Olympics between them

and Korea, the climate has eased. In

the meeting we were looking to see

whether it would change the tone

here but it hasn't. The response has

been very much, we believe that

strong pressure needs to be put on

and we will not allow North Korea to

put a wedge into our resolve. The

way that we are going to do this,

according to those who were

speaking, is that we need to make

sure that the sanctions were

enforced and a way of doing that was

trying to stop the sanctions, there

have been ship to ship transfers of

fuel which have been banned from

North Korea, photographs have been

shown in the last few months. There

are talks about ways they could

increase the ability to stop and

search ships that may be ships.

Barbara Plett Usher, thank you.

Emmanuel Macron has been in Calais

today to ask the UK to increase

funding for security and the

development of the city. The

President's high-profile trip comes

two days before he is due to meet

Theresa May. The 2003 agreement

between Britain and France is at

stake which effectively moved the UK

border onto French territory. Our

correspondent Lucy Williamson

reports now from Calais.

Once the UK was a magnet for Juma,

today it was the French President.

After months of camping around

Calais, the Sudanese migrant

has decided to apply

for asylum in France.

Mr Macron's government has

promised a quicker welcome

for those it accepts,

a quicker rejection

for those it refuses.

Juma is still waiting

for his answer.

So you are our president, not

in front of you, but in my heart.

But hundreds of migrants around

Calais are avoiding asylum centres

like this in a bid to reach the UK

illegally, and Mr Macron wants more

help from Theresa May

in dealing with them.

TRANSLATION:

We need to better

manage the issue of isolated minors,

reinforce police co-operation

in Calais, with the departure

and transit countries and unblock

funds for the Calais region.

I will raise these points with our

British friends in 48-hours.

Despite big British investments

in security, migrants continue

to test border defences.

This petrol station,

its perimeter fence broken,

a new favourite for those trying

to board lorries bound for the UK.

We caught this man squeezing

through before being caught

by a police patrol.

Mr Macron is due to talk

to the Prime Minister on Thursday

about how to improve the joint

management of the border here.

France would like Britain to take

more migrants from Calais and to pay

more money towards security

and border checks.

Mr Macron has vowed to prevent

another jungle taking root.

Police routinely demolish the small

camps that cling on,

but aid workers say that some here,

including families, have reached

the UK in the past few months.

Discomfort no match

for that renewal of hope.

Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Calais.

So, I was wondering whether you were

surprised by Emmanuel Macron's tough

tone on immigration, he has received

a lot of pushback in the French

press. Some people say that he risks

losing his position as a humanist

and I wonder why you think he has

adopted this strategy?

His leverage

is a simple answer. In the next

round of Brexit talks, I'm sure he

would be playing up that agreement

as well as talking about Brexit. You

scratch my back, I will scratch

yours. Britain but a lot of money

in, 40 million euros into building

up those defences and it is having

an effect. The concerns are people

have spread from Calais to other

parts of the coast. A lot of

migrants are there, about 1000 from

Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea,

Ethiopia. The fear has always been

on the British side, that if they

collapsed they would move the border

from Dover to Calais and that would

create chaos on the border. I do not

think it would happen that he will

want more from the British side.

American gymnast Simone Biles one --

won four gold medals and became a

hero. She is also a victim of sexual

abuse at the hands of the US team

doctor Larry Nassar. He is accused

of abusing more than 100 girls, he

was jailed for 60 years for

possessing images of child sexual

abuse. Today is the first day of the

hearing into the assault of the

athletes. Sports correspondent

Natalie Perks was watching.

COMMENTATOR:

The final move of her

Olympic championships.

Full twisting doubleback...

But last night, Simone

Biles, the self-proclaimed happy,

giggly and energetic

girl made international

headlines as she admitted to feeling

broken.

Physician Larry Nassar was part

of the US gymnastics programme

from the '80s to 2015.

He is accused of sexually abusing

more than 130 women under the guise

of medical treatment and is serving

60 years in jail for possessing

images of child sexual abuse.

In a lengthy statement last night,

Biles said it had been impossibly

difficult to relive her experience,

but says she's not afraid

to tell her story any more.

"I love this sport too much

and I have never been

a quitter," she said.

"I won't let one man

and the others that enabled him

to steal my love and joy."

Some of her Biles' Olympic

team-mates also say they were abused

by Nassar, including Aly Raisman.

She has accused authorities

of a cover-up and believes more

should have been done to protect

the girls in his care.

What did USA gymnastics

do and Larry Nassar do

manipulate these girls so much

that they are so afraid to speak up?

USA Gymnastics said

it was "absolutely heartbroken,

sorry and angry that any

of our athletes had been

harmed by the horrific

acts of Larry Nasser."

It said its support for Biles

and others is unwavering.

She used the hashtag "Me too".

They hashtag been used to raise

awareness of sexual harassment and

abuse.

Used to making the spectacular look

effortless and disclosing the

so-called special treatment

inflicted on her has been a painful

process but by witnessing the

courage of other survivors, she

finally feels able to share her

story.

Natalie Pirks, BBC News. She said it

was difficult to speak about this

and she thought was she somehow to

blame? Could she have stopped this?

Was she being naive? Sexual abuse

stories leave a lingering feeling

with the people who have been

abused, that somehow they were at

fault. Speaking out could be a

powerful moment for her. Then at

some point this week we get the

sentencing of the Doctor at the

centre of this.

She will not be

defined by that, her story is

defined by what she did at the

Olympics and more, which is how it

should be.

Four gold medals,

amazing. The European Council

president Donald Tusk has suggested

the UK would be welcome to stay in

the EU if it changed its mind on

Brexit. You may recall last week

former Ukip leader Nigel Farage

floated the idea of a second

referendum himself. Donald Tusk said

in the European Parliament that

Britain's hearts are open and they

could change their mind on Brexit

even at a late stage and return to

the family of the EU...

If the UK

Government sticks to its decision to

leave, Brexit would become a reality

with all of its negative

consequences in March of next year.

Unless there is a change of heart

among our British friends, wasn't it

David Davis himself who said "If a

democracy cannot change its mind, it

ceases to be a democracy"? We hear

on the continent haven't had a

change of heart. Our hearts are

still open.

It is quite emotive, the

Brexiteers have had fun with that,

like a boyfriend you cannot get rid

of, last year he was evoking John

Lennon, imagine there was no Brexit?

They've been having fun with it.

Michael Gove was questioned on it

this evening and he said that he was

listening to their close European

partners but they also listened to

the 17 million people who voted for

Brexit.

I like the idea that it is

like a bad marriage! It feels like

it's been that way for a long time!

Maybe they just need therapy! Get

them to talk it all out, have them

on the programme!

It is you!

Yes!

Serbia has condemned the killing of

a prominent Kosovo Serb politician,

describing it as an attack on all

Serbs. He was shot dead outside of

his office in the north of the

country. Where a lot of the

population is largely ethnic Serb.

President Trump's former campaign

manager Paul Manafort's trial has

been delayed. He was indicted for

money laundering and tax fraud as

part of the probe into the Russian

interference into the US residential

election. UK supermarket chain

Iceland say they will eliminate

plastic packaging from their stores,

it will be replaced with paper which

can be recycled. I think Christian

should make sure that I get the

tricky pronunciations. Thank you.!

This is Beyond 100 Days, coming

up... What these two jars of sweets

tell us about Donald Trump's

favourite treats... From Manchester

to Bradford, it is a journey of less

than 40 miles but even on the

fastest trains it takes nearly an

hour to get there. I have done it!

Today a plan to modernise transport

links in the North of England over

the next 30 years was unveiled.

Danny Savage had a look...

The hills of the north -

beautiful, but a physical barrier

between the conurbations either side

of the Pennines.

Travelling by car can be painful,

the few routes over the top

are often congested.

As for the trains, they're frequent,

but relatively slow

and can be overcrowded.

Because there's always

delays on the train.

Improving transport links

across the Pennines is nothing new.

This is the Leeds & Liverpool Canal,

built more than 200 years ago,

but instead of taking a few days

by water, the hope is, for example,

getting Leeds to Manchester by train

down to about half an hour.

After years of discussion

about improving things,

there's now a plan the northern

cities agree on.

There used to be a train tunnel

between Sheffield and Manchester,

that's long gone, but a new road

tunnel, like this one in Norway,

is proposed and could halve

the current journey

between the cities.

A new TransPennine railway

line will link Leeds

and Manchester via Bradford.

I think we also need to make sure

that we cover Hull, Sheffield,

Newcastle and Manchester of course,

so all our major city regions.

This is vitally

important for the north.

But remember, this is a 30 year

plan and it's still only

at the ideas stage.

Former Transport Secretary,

John Prescott, walked

out of the launch in

Hull today unconvinced.

It'll have no powers.

It can talk to the Treasury along

with the strategic bodies,

but it can't make a decision.

It doesn't get any money.

It's a bloody fraud.

And it's the Government that

will have to stump up the money

for these ambitious projects

to upgrade the north which,

at the moment, feels left behind

when it comes to transport.

Danny Savage, BBC News, Leeds.

You are watching Beyond 100 Days.

Tech giants like Google and Facebook

are fond of telling us that they

want to connect an interconnected

utopia. Our next guest argues they

need a history lesson starting with

the political events of 2016 when

the networks were exploited and

manipulated in ways that have pulled

their creators. In his new book the

Square and the Tower, bestselling

author Niall Ferguson says that a

world run by networks is an anarchy.

The way to avoid chaos is for the UN

Security Council to take back

control. You talk about networked

ages, the first was in 1500 with the

invention of the printing press and

then we jumped forward 500 years to

the second network age, what do we

mean by that?

Throughout most of

history, hierarchal structures like

states have been dominant, and

social networks have been relatively

weak. We called the book the Square

and the Tower because the square of

power dominates. When technology

empowered social networks relative

to authority, we mentioned the age

of the printing press, enabling

things like the Reformation and the

Enlightenment to happen. In our own

age, emanating from silicon valley,

it has become possible for giant

social networks, like Facebook for

example, to exert enormous powers

relative to established governments.

You talk about a constant tug-of-war

in history between networks or

hierarchies, let's call them the

masses. In the age of Facebook and

Twitter, how does it actually work?

How are the masses taking power from

the hierarchies?

It isn't so much

the masses. That seems like language

from another era, the era of class

conflict when the working class were

going to sweep to power but what is

characteristic of these giant social

networks is the way in which they

tend to be polarised. Liberals

retweeting liberals and

conservatives retweeting

conservatives. To speak of the

masses isn't quite right but what is

striking is the extent to which the

advent of giant online social

networks has changed the political

game in all democracies. We saw that

not only in the US in 2016 but also

the UK. During the referendum.

If

networks can be, I'm not sure of the

phraseology, corrupted, by

individual power groups, are we

better off if traditional

hierarchies exert influence over

those networks?

That would be a bit

too facile, we cannot turn back the

clock and make Facebook and Google

go away...

But they are trying to

regulate them, would that be a form

of, not making them go away, but

controlling them?

I think there

needs to be greater regulation, it

is an anomalous state of affairs

that Facebook is now the biggest

publisher of content in history and

yet under US regulations it isn't

treated as a content publisher.

There's no liability for things that

are on the platform. In that sense

it's a position of great advantage

compared with traditional content

publishers.

We have talked about the

square through history, in the

modern day, what is the tower in the

title of your book?

I talked about

Trump Tower, making the point that

no matter how powerful a social

network May has both -- may have

become, power is invested in

governance. You can see that in

China, I've come back from a trip to

Beijing and it's very interesting

how the Chinese government can

affect the Communist party and has

affected technology companies there

like Eilidh Barbour, 10 cents, as

opposed to Fine, Facebook, Netflix

and Google, it is clear that

technology companies had to play

second fiddle to the party, if

necessary giving up data on citizens

if they have too. It's a different

state of affairs to what we see in

the US. There is minimal regulation

there. Europe is between the two,

Europe is trying to regulate tech

companies. They are mostly American

but to me it seems to be an

unresolved problem, in all

democracies. How do we content with

the fact that the public's view has

been completely transformed and we

are operating with regulations

created for a public sphere

dominated by televisions and

newspapers? That has gone and I

don't think people have finally got

their heads around it.

Niall

Ferguson, thank you for joining me.

There have always been networks and

there is a science to them and who

controls them. If you wanted to look

at this programme, you would have

the producers and the director, and

the presenters. If you looked really

closely, you would see at the help

of the network the real power, is

that right? The power structure at

the centre of the network? The

person who controls it all? Is that

what he was saying?

Absolutely! He

didn't actually say my name but he

was about to say it. The person he

is the main hierarchy on this

programme. Can I just say, if you

ever want to say that I am facile,

as Professor Ferguson did, I let him

get away with it! I found it quite

amusing. But I would put my fist

through the screen and punch you on

the nose!

I will go back and watch

the unedited version!

Yes, OK! The

White House position will go into

more detail today on the President's

health check. The White House press

secretary Sara Sanders said that

Doctor Ruaridh Jackson would give a

detailed readout and answer

questions at today's Presque --

press reading.

He does not smoke or

drink but he is partial to fast food

and a Diet Coke but his doctor has

claimed he could be the healthiest

person ever to be elected to the

presidency... What we have learned

today is it isn't only Diet Coke and

McDonald's, but also... Starbursts!

How do we know that the president

likes them? The majority leader,

Kevin McCarthy, in the house, he was

on Air Force One and he noticed when

the president went for the sweetie

jar, he started picking out the pink

and the red ones. He only likes pink

and red ones! More power to Mr

McCarthy. If you look at the

pictures from Mar-a-Lago at the

weekend, who has the stardust

sprinkled? Mr McCarthy! He is right

next to the president. It obviously

works. This is how to get to his

heart. It is also one of my five!

My

favourite is clearly the Greenlands,

I'm hoping yours aren't. We would

have to fight over them and that

would be boring -- the green ones.

Pink and red is the colour of the

day, which is why you are wearing it

today! We spent the budget of the

programme, the annual budget, on

Starbursts today. Our producer has

picked out one of the pink and red

ones. But he did send a jar with his

name on it to the president and

apparently be president smiled, he

liked it, and not!

And some

Republicans have suggested that he

has become too cosy... He has

referred to his own Gemma Fabia, --

phobia of germs, in context to the

Christopher Steele dossier, he said

that would never happen to him, he

is afraid of germs. But what has

been said on health and the issue of

being slightly obsessive. He says

that exercise is a disaster, his

friends work out a lot.

I agree with

you!

And they need hip replacements

and knee replacements. He said that

shaking hands is barbaric and more

people do it in civilised societies

and we shouldn't do it. He washes

his hands compulsively and he said

that he is "A clean hands freak".

What is interesting is the quirks on

that side of being totally

compulsive and yet eating a terrible

diet! And not exercising! How does

he stay, whatever the doctor said,

one of the healthiest people ever to

be elected to the American

presidency on that kind of diet?

Well, it clearly works. He is the

healthiest president